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Derek Anderson
Derek L. Anderson is Naväge Nasal Care's newest Ambassador. A high school All-Star in the state of Kentucky, Anderson played college basketball at the Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky where he helped them win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. That team featured nine future NBA players under coach Rick Pitino. Anderson went on to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1997 with a degree in pharmacy.
In his professional career, Anderson was first selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers as the 13th overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft. He played for Cleveland from 1997 to 1999 and would be the last Cavalier to wear #23 before LeBron James. Anderson continued his career with the LA Clippers and the Portland Trail Blazers before landing in Miami. The Heat won the 2006 NBA Finals in six games after defeating the Dallas Mavericks to give Anderson his first championship. He finished the final two seasons of his career with the Charlotte Bobcats.
Derek is currently a Player Wellness Counselor for the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). In this role Anderson works to assist players with the unique emotional and mental challenges associated with being an NBA player as well as provide insight into the mental health services that the NBPA offers.
The Stamina Foundation
After retiring from the game in 2008, Anderson decided to come back home to make an impact on young people. The mission of the Stamina Foundation is to empower youth and young adults with the resources and life skills they need to follow their dreams.
To learn more, please click on following link: The Stamina Foundation Official Website


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December 3, 2017 December 3, 2017 Creatives Edition
Scrubbing-related pun, something something, Brendan Fraser
I've always been what you'd call an expert on the human expression, a creative genius, if you will – not that I've ever been one to blow my own trumpet.
I recall, vividly, in high school I had once again skipped history class – supposedly at brass band practice but having bribed a friend to cover – when Mr. Phakenaime caught me; there I was, hiding behind the portables with a group of older students, dealing bootleg copies of Rembrandt paintings. He'd really caught me off guard, causing me to stumble onto a still life of a tomato we were drying; it was so embarrassing – boy, was my face red.
That event could've easily deterred me from any creative pursuit, yet the Rambraccident only further strengthened my passion for artistic appreciation.
I've since dabbled in a range creative ventures, including promoting my own photography Facebook page (there's no photos, I just enjoy promoting it), being a former stand-in backing vocalist for a Baha Men cover band, and creating a dermatology themed Operation spin-off. I've invested so much of my life in the arts, so as someone with skin in the game it brings me great disappointment to witness much of society still overlooking an indisputable modern masterpiece.
The pinnacle of humankind's creative accomplishments doesn't come around that often, for millennia people said it never would, but on February 24th, 2004CE, it did. Scrubs – season 3, episode 14 – 'My Screw Up'.
Not only does this triumphant episode adhere to the evergreen separate-yet-thematically-linked-problems-tied-together-with-the-final-voiceover Scrubs formula, it also stars Academy Award Winner Brendan Fraser (he doesn't actually have an Oscar, but it's pleasing to read). The episode boasts an impressive 9.7 on IMDB; which, for reference, is more than double Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001). It's really a testament to the Scrubs episode that it can be twice as good as a perfect film.
For the record, TIME Magazine Person of the Year Brendan Fraser actually appears in two other episodes from season one and while, to quote my neck tattoo, any Brendan is good Brendan, we're undoubtedly dealing with some top-shelf Brendan in this one.
[*spoiler alert * skip ahead two paragraphs to avoid a fairly major spoiler for the episode. Remember: you can only watch it for the first time once. Although if you skip ahead, you might miss out on more low-effort wordplay – it's likeSophie's Choice]
What separates 'that Brendan Fraser episode' from the rest of the series – and any work of art ever created throughout all of history – is its meticulously crafted story leading to an emotionally jarring twist ending, playing out as an homage to The Sixth Sense.
But if its greatest strength is its homage to Bruce's death in the The Sixth Sense, then why isn't the film celebrated at the best art in universe? Quite simply, the Scrubs episode distinguishes itself with a subplot dedicated to Turk's inner turmoil about whether or not he should get the mole on his face removed (note: I've left kindly left the mole's fate unspoiled).
And why didn't I give another spoiler warning for The Sixth Sense? I didn't think this was hard to grasp, but the rule is you always give a spoiler warning – unless, of course, it's been more than 17 years and it has already spoiled in song form by The Lonely Island.
Despite the episode's obvious merits, surprisingly, there remains a small but vocal group of rogue art connoisseurs and disgruntled historians still praising pedestrian attempts at art, such as the Mona Lisa or Hamlet, all while completely ignoring scrubby Bren.
It was initially acknowledged only by figures such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and all of Mensa, however, appreciation of the episode has thankfully increased dramatically over the last decade. A study published by Cornell University found 98.9% of people who still deny the legitimacy of the Brendan Fraser episode of Scrubs are also Flat-Earthers.
Constructed more than one hundred years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza was once trumpeted as one of humanity's most impressive creations, but in this post-episode-14 world of artistic enlightenment, opinion has shifted. A three-year study from Lonely Planet revealed that, in 2013, the Great Pyramid of Giza was overtaken by the carpark where a brief section of the episode's opening was shot as the number one place to visit when travelling to Egypt. This was particularly surprising, both to lead researchers and travel agents, due to the twenty-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean required. The shift has been a humbling experience for the Egyptian people, with a recent referendum officially changing the monument's once boastful name to The Mediocre Pyramid of Giza.
In the end though, it doesn't matter whether or not everyone appreciates something, we can simply be grateful for the emotional journey we got to take with Miss Universe 2015, Brendan Fraser.
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Visa Basics: Instructor Versus Specialist in Humanities and International Services
GaijinPot investigates two common types of visas for teachers in Japan that cause the most confusion.
By Matthew Coslett Jun 19, 2018 7 min read
The differences between the Instructor and the Specialist in Humanities/International Services visas aren't readily apparent. After all, it is possible for two friends with almost identical jobs to be on two different visas. So why is this?
1. Instructor visa
Instead of looking at the similarities between the two, it's far easier instead to consider the differences between them. The most obvious difference is the limitations that each one has. Instructor visas are, for the most part, limited to work at institutions established and operated under the School Education Act such as high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools and kindergartens operated by national or local governments and private educational institutions — especially those that are run with official licenses.
So far so simple, right? However, the full list of venues acceptable for instructor visas (according to the Japanese immigration guidelines) also includes places that offer "other education" at vaguely termed "miscellaneous educational institutions" that can include "international schools" that do not have any official approval or license from the government or local governments.
This gets a little tricky, so we asked Yumiko Kasama, a specialized immigration lawyer with the Gyoseishoshi Kasama Yumiko Office, to see if she could help us make some sense of these various school types.
"These include schools called kakushu and senshu gakkou (specialized vocational training colleges) that are also officially established under the School Education Act by meeting its requirements and applying for approval from national or local governments," she said. "Also note that there are three types of senshu gakkou that may determine your eligibility: senmon (post secondary), koto senshu (upper secondary) and ippan katei (general course). Most people applying in this class fall under the senmon gakkou designation."
Therefore, according to the official definition, Instructor visas are required for work places as diverse as compulsory education schools (elementary and junior high schools), secondary educational schools (high schools), schools for children with special needs, employment-related schools and vocational schools, all of which are established with the approval of national and local governments. In addition, these visas are required to teach at "other educational institutions equivalent to vocational schools in facilities and curriculum". This can include those international schools without any "official" approval that at least meet the eligibility requirements.
To sum up:
Instructor visa holders can work at formal schools established under the School Education Act and also some international schools.
Instructor visa holders cannot work at non-formal schools, universities and colleges — teaching at these types of institutions (four-year university, college, graduate schools or technical colleges) would require a Professor visa status).
2. Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa
On the other hand, the Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa is a lot broader — as the name implies. This visa was officially rolled out in 2015 specifically to cater to the necessity in Japan for these three categories of work. The criteria for the Engineer and the Specialist in Humanities divisions are quite similar — the activities permitted require specialized skills or knowledge, just the work fields are different.
Activities permitted under Specialist in Humanities include, for example, lower-level management, marketing, sales, accounting and other general roles — these jobs are not just limited to teaching a subject. In order to be eligible, applicants must have graduated from a university, college or Japanese vocational school and the job they work at should be related to what they learned at their institution of study (or, if not based on education, applicants must have more than 10-years working experience in the field).
International Services is considered part of the Specialist in Humanities visa but this distinction is more related to jobs focused on "international" matters or "based on experience with foreign culture." Activities permitted include import/export procedures specialist, translator, interpreter or foreign language teacher, for example. In order to apply for an International Services visa, applicants must have more than three years experience working in the field — except in the case of translator, interpreter and foreign language teachers if they have a university or college degree.
So, it's for this reason that the teaching of foreign languages basically falls under "International Services" and not the "Specialist in Humanities" part of the visa.
When it comes to the types of visas available in Japan for teaching, it's always worthwhile to learn exactly which type you have since getting the wrong visa can lead to trouble down the line.
Luckily, there is a far clearer explanation later on that states that these services should be "based on a contract with a public or private organization in Japan." One of the key points about this is the "private organization" notation since private language schools usually fall under this visa type. That means places such as the big eikaiwa (English conversation schools) like ECC, Berlitz and Gaba etc.
If you are working with a private language school, immigration lawyer Kasama also says that: "These schools are not established formally with approval by national or local governments under the School Education Act. Please be careful that teaching at private schools with approval does not fall in this class."
As well as language teaching, it also covers areas such as translation, interpreting and language teaching outside of schools teaching basic Japanese education curricula.
Strangely, it can also be a useful umbrella to put other careers that don't clearly fall under any type of visa. Business people involved in international trade and specific types of designers, such as those who design foreign-related items like African clothes, Chinese art or Mexican furniture, for example, can all be given this visa.
The diverse uses of this particular visa are explained by the fact that it is really two or three visas in one. So people can either apply for the "humanities" or the "international services" part. The one clear requirement is that you able to offer services a local person would have a clear disadvantage in doing. Obviously, most language teachers will apply for the International Services visa, though those that teach at a university or college would actually apply for a Professor visa.
Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa holders can work at foreign language schools not operated under the School Education Act.
Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa holders cannot work at licensed schools such as elementary and high schools and others run with official government licenses.
When it comes to the types of visas available in Japan for teaching, it's always worthwhile to learn exactly which type you have since getting the wrong visa can lead to trouble down the line. However, if it doesn't go well on your very first applicatio permission by deciding where you would like to look for additional work, filling in the application and submitting it to immigration. Yumiko Kasama cautions, however, that "these applications will not always be permitted. Immigration officials will review them carefully on a case-by-case basis looking specifically at the reasons why you need to do additional work."
3. Extending the scope of your visa
If you already have your visa, but would like to branch out with other work (such as part-time teaching) still within your general field of expertise, you can apply for "Permission to Engage in Activity other than that Permitted under the Status of Residence Previously Granted." This would allow you to do instructor work under the Specialist in Humanities/International Services tag and vice versa, offering you the ability to work at schools defined under both types of these visas.
We're indebted to Yumiko Kasama for her help with this article. She is a specialist immigration lawyer providing services for English speakers living in Japan and is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture (though they can help in other districts if you ask). If you need more urgent or in-depth help for matters like this or any other type of visa, you can contact her at the Gyoseishoshi Kasama Yumiko Office (tel: 044 920-9521) or via email.
If you hold an Instructor or Specialist in Humanities-type visa and have any questions regarding its status — or how to change it or apply for a permit to work elsewhere — let us know in the comments!
Topics: Jobs in Japan / Living in Japan / Teaching and Education / Visas / Working Culture in Japan
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After returning from a school trip Marvin started losing his vision and his body became paralyzed. His left leg was first paralyzed afterwards he surrendered to a severe coma where he had to be hospitalized in "Hotel Dieu" a hospital in Lebanon. This hospital is not on the UN list for contracted hospitals and the UN would not admit him nor sponsor even though Marvin and his family have UN refugee papers.
He lost his vision for 3 days before regaining it, and was sent back home because the family could not afford the hospital bill for $3000 per day, he had to go back home to undergo physiotherapy at his house because of their inability to afford the hospital bill. The family is now waiting for the medical test reports that were sent to France for Analysis. The Family is in need for financial and moral support as the Father is staying home to take care of his child and is unable to get employed. Marvin's mother is also staying home to take care of her two daughters.
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The Family came from Iraq as refugees and have UN refugee papers. The UN did approve to hospitalize the child and the family is currently relying on private funds to treat her kid.
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BOOM! Studios announces Forever Home from Jenna Ayoub
Jenna Ayoub has a new graphic novel coming our way from BOOM! Studios. Forever Home is scheduled to arrive in November 2020.
Willow has had a nomadic childhood—with two parents in the military, staying put has become a pipe dream. And when the family arrives at their latest stop— the historic Hadleigh House— Willow encounters something that doesn't help her chances of finding home… ghosts!
Hadleigh House's spectral residents have been scaring off would-be homebuyers for decades, and they intend to keep the house to themselves. But Willow's not about to let some nagging spirits force her to move for the millionth time. As Willow spends time in the house and gains the ghosts' respect through her own strong will to stay in the house no matter what, they find that all of them belong there. Together, the restless spirits are finally able to find some peace, and Willow finds a home.
Then it's just a matter of convincing Willow's parents that this old house is the one for them- ghosts included.
"FOREVER HOME has been a very fun, and very personal project for me. It has given me the chance to pay homage to the spirits that I love—many of whom are actually still alive and hopefully will appreciate the little parts that they contributed to this story," said cartoonist Jenna Ayoub in a press release from BOOM! Studios. "I'm very excited to bring this adventure to life, and hope that it will bring readers as much joy as it has brought me."
Forever Home arrives in November 2020.
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Here's Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video the Week of September 20, 2021
This week, Netflix's new arrivals include the fourth and final season of Dear White People, the streamer's original where students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college. There's also My Little Pony: A New Generation, for a whole new age group to enjoy, and Melissa McCarthy stars in The Starling. Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) suffers a loss, a battle with a territorial bird (the Starling) over dominion of her garden provides an unlikely avenue for her grief and the courage to heal her relationships and rediscover her capacity for love
Hulu comes in especially handy this time of year when all the new fall series premieres that air on TV are available next day on the streaming service, or you can watch same-day with Hulu with Live TV. A few notable arrivals this week include Dancing with the Stars: Season 20, The Voice: Season 21 (with new coach Ariana Grande), new seasons of A Million Little Things, Law & Order, and and many more. And if you're looking for something brand new, check out the series premieres of Ordinary Joe and Our Kind of People.
As for Prime Video, its offering this week is a good one with season 4 of its original series Goliath premiering Friday, September 24.
Here's everything new on Netflix this week:
September 22:
Confessions of an Invisible Girl
Dear White People (Season 4)
A StoryBots Space Adventure
Ganglands (Season 1)
Midnight Mass (Season 1)
Here's everything new on Hulu this week:
Septemeber 20
9-1-1: Season 5 Premiere (Fox)
The Big Leap: Series Premiere (Fox)
Dancing with the Stars: Season 20 Premiere (ABC)
Ordinary Joe: Series Premiere (ABC)
The Voice: Season 21 Premiere (ABC)
New Amsterdam: Season 4 Premiere (NBC)
Our Kind of People: Series Premiere (Fox)
The Resident: Season 5 Premiere (Fox)
A Million Little Things: Season 4 Premiere (ABC)
Alter Ego: Series Premiere (Fox)
Chicago Fire: Season 10 Premiere (NBC)
Chicago Med: Season 7 Premiere (NBC)
Chicago P.D.: Season 9 Premiere (NBC)
The Conners: Season 4 Premiere (ABC)
The Goldbergs: Season 9 Premiere (ABC)
Home Economics: Season 2 Premiere (ABC)
The Masked Singer: Season 6 Premiere (Fox)
The Wonder Years: Series Premiere (ABC)
The Eric Andre Show: Complete Season 5 (Turner Networks)
Funhouse (2021)
Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2 Premiere (NBC)
Law & Order: SVU: Season 23 Premiere (NBC)
An American Haunting (2006)
Gemini (2018)
Here's everything new on Amazon Prime Video this week:
Goliath — Amazon Original Series: Season 4
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As it's my birthday month, I thought February would be the perfect time to launch my blog site. I decided to keep my art website and my blog separate. So this is the new home for my blog. Hope you like it! I'm planning on keeping it more updated then I did before LOL.
Well this week's been horrible! I started off at the weekend wishing for snow, hoping that I'd have a snow day from work. Only for it to fall on Saturday and me be back at work on Monday :( So I 've spent the week half cycling and half walking all the way across town to work! it's fair to say I've not been best impressed . With more snow and cold weather forecast I'm glad it 's nearly half- term woohoo!
Monday when the snow was still thick I was 10 minutes late to work. Which was annoying enough til I came face to face with 2 girls! Two little brats (about 11) saw me on the way home,walking my bike across a field, looked me up and down and said this "Who would ride a bike in the snow?" that would have been fine except they followed it up with "Stupid little girl" my blood boiled!!! Little girl??!! I'm almost 29 for fucks sake, I'm old enough to be there mother!!! I think my hat almost blew off with rage but I resisted the urge to throw a snowball in there faces!
I was so annoyed and cold that half-way home was was just thinking of dumping my bike somewhere and getting a cab! but then light a little burst of sunshine Brandon Flowers starting singing in my ear "When I offer you survival, you say it's hard enough to live....It's not so bad, it's not so bad" and I thought hey he's right, dig deep and carry on! I finally got home cold and feet soaking and mum had made me a nice hot toastie lol so all was right with the world!
By Thursday I had, had more then enough of the snow and being cold but my Mp3 just made me more miserable. Why is it then when your feeling down your mp3 can't just pick you up with a nice uplifting song? What song did my mp3 choose for me? well my legs were so achy from 4 days of sliding and tensing up and it throws up these lyrics "Twenty years it's breaking you down, now that you understand there's no one around. Take a breathe, just take a seat, you're falling apart and tearing at the seams. Heaven forbid you end up alone and don't know why" If that doesn't just kick you when you're down I don't know what does!! Yes it's more then likely I am going to end up a lonely cat women but do I need my mp3 to rub it in!!!!!
With that I will sign off now and catch ya next week.
and The Fray - Heaven forbid.
1. Cycling on this snow and ice.
2. My 25min journey to work taking 40-60 mins.
3. The fact the council has waited til Wednesday to start putting so grit on the paths too.
4. Slipping and sliding everywhere.
5. That new annoying twilight song by Cover drive- its on everywhere!
2. New girl.- I'm just a little bit obsessed with it and there's just afew similarity's between me and jess.- personalities wise.
5. The new Jason Marz song- wont give up. Quirky but beautiful.


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Q: EasyMock Testing Void With Runnable I'm trying to test the following class (I've left out the implementation)
public class UTRI implements UTR {
    public void runAsUser(String userId, Runnable r);
}

This is the way I would use it:
UTRI.runAsUser("User1", new Runnable () {
    private void run() {
    //do whatever needs to be done here.

    }
});

The problem is, I don't know how to use EasyMock to test functions that return void.  That and I'm also not too familiar with testing in general (right out of school!).  Can someone help explain to me what I need to do to approach this?  I was thinking about making the UTRI a mock and doing expectlastcall after that, but realistically, not sure.

A: public class UTRITest {

    UTRI utri = new UTRI();

    @Test
    public void testRunAsUser() {
        // Create Mocks
        Runnable mockRunnable = EasyMock.createMock(Runnable.class);

        // Set Expectations
        **mockRunnable.run();
        EasyMock.expectLastCall().once();**

        EasyMock.replay(mockRunnable);
        // Call the method under test
        utri.runAsUser("RAMBO", **mockRunnable**);

        // Verify if run was called on Runnable!!
        EasyMock.verify(mockRunnable);
    }
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Baseball in the 1960's
A Blog about Baseball in the 1960's. From the trivial to the trades to the major moments which made major league baseball in the 1960's so fascinating, this blog, issued several times a week is a must read for any boomer or just anyone who loves the game. Bob Brill is an expert and knows how to relay those tiny little details to make a good story.
When the Owner Screws Up
TRIVIA QUESTION: Who was the Chicago White Sox pitcher who won 29 games in 1919 and was portrayed in the film "Field of Dreams?"
ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMN: The 1968 All-Star Game ended with a 1-0 score with MVP Willie Mays scoring the only run of the game in the first inning. It was the year of the pitcher and while Don Drysdale was the winning pitcher, a HOF outfielder was the man who became the MVP.
In the classic baseball film "Field of Dreams" Shoeless Joe Jackson tells Ray Kinsella in response to the farmer's reasoning for adding lights to baseball fields; the owners thought it would bring in more fans and more money if they could play games at night. Jackson (played by Ray Liotta) answers back "phh, owners." He did it with a dismissive response, basically saying owners can do more to wreck the game than anyone else.
Such was the case with a rising star in Kansas City, who fell to earth way before he should have. Manny Jimenez was an outstanding hitter in the minor leagues and upon making his debut in 1962, he seemed to be on track for stardom. Jimenez batted .301 with 11 homers for the Kansas City A's.
In his first game on April 11, 1962 in front of only 4,064 fans in Kansas City, he faced the Twins Camilo Pascual and got three of the teams four hits off the all-star pitcher. It seemed he was well on his way. It should be noted the next night he did not even start. It was okay as only 854 fans remember it. That was the total attendance at game three of the 1962 season.
It was another week before Jimenez appeared again and he got a pinch hit in his only at bat. The season went on in strange fashion. When the dust settled on the A's season, they finished in 9th place out of 10 and won only 72 games while losing 90. Jimenez on the other hand capped an outstanding rookie season.
Not only did he bat .301, but slugged 11 homers and 24 doubles but he drove in 69 runs. Then in the off season owner Charlie O. Finley pulled Manny aside. He instructed him to stop trying to hit for average (he'd batted .340 in one minor league season) and to go for power. He wanted more home runs, like the Yankees asked Roger Maris to do after he was traded by the A's to New York. While Maris responded with 100 dingers over the next two years, Manny hit 12 over the next three years.
Not surprisingly, in his second year, the year after he debuted with 11 homers, he hit zero - none- nada! In addition, his average fell to .280, .225 and then .114. He was shipped off to Pittsburgh where he served as a pinch hitter and was out of baseball by the end of the 1969 season.
To take a rookie who could have been rookie of the year and turn him completely around, Finley later admitted what he did probably hurt the player more than helped. The proof was in the pudding.
Despite his devastating exit from MLB Jimenez did have some highlights. He had three 4-hit games, including 3 home runs and 5 runs batted in vs. the Baltimore Orioles (July 4, 1964), ten 3-hit games, hit a combined .492 (32-for-65) against All-Stars Eddie Fisher, Sam Jones, Ken McBride, Camilo Pascual, and Juan Pizarro and hit a combined .429 (24-for-56) against Hall of Famers Whitey Ford, Ferguson Jenkins, Robin Roberts, Don Sutton, and Early Wynn.
Take it from Shoeless Joe; "phh owners."
Thank you to those of you who purchased my book after reading this column. It has been appreciated.
Please share this blog with your friends and colleagues and leave a comment at the bottom of the blog if you have one. Thank YOU VERY MUCH!!
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The Worst All-Star Game Ever
TRIVIA QUESTION: While the 1968 All-Star Game in Houston was a washout when it came to excitement the highlight of game was not. In the year of the pitcher, who was named MVP of the game?
ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMN: In 1969 Jim Wynn, the Toy Cannon, whiffed and walked a lot. He walked 148 and struck out 142 times which means he came to the plate 290 times and did not put the ball in play. That is a season for most players today.
If there was ever a year fans would vote an all-star game as the worst, it would have to be the 1968 game played in Houston. It not only was the year of the pitcher and the game proved the fact, it almost cost one of the great Hall of Fame players the rest of his career.
In 1968 pitching was king. Bob Gibson broke out with a new best ERA (1.12) not seen since the days of Grover Cleveland Alexander, 1.22 in 1915, and Denny McLain won 31 games for Detroit. The first time in 34 years a pitcher broke the 30 win mark (Dizzy Dean in 1934). It hasn't been done since and probably never will be seen again. It was also the year Don Drysdale pitched 58 consecutive scoreless innings.
The batting title in the American League was won by Carl Yastrzemski at .301. Make no mistake about it, pitching was king. So much so, the following year the mound was actually lowered to give hitters an added advantage and we've never seen a year off the mound like 1968 again.
When it came to voting for the mid-summer classic the line-up was filled by favorites of the fans, not the best players in the game. To prove a point; Harmon Killebrew was barely batting over .200 at the break and was named as the AL first baseman. It almost doomed his career.
Willie Mays was a last minute substitute to the starting line-up and was inserted into the lead off position. Mays was definitely at the end of his career and while he did hang on for a couple more seasons, his best was behind him at 37.
The game for the NL squad started off with Mays hitting a single to left off starter Luis Tiant. When Tiant tried to pick Mays off first base, Killebrew couldn't get to it and Mays ended up on second. When Tiant uncorked a wild pitch to Curt Flood, Mays took third. Flood eventually walked and Willie McCovey banged into a double play which scored Mays.
That was it. It was the only time during the game a runner would cross home plate. NL wins it 1-0. The National Leaguers only had five hits, the AL only three. Drysdale pitched three hitless innings to start it off. Drysdale got the win, Tiant the loss and to show you how weak the hitting was; No earned runs came across the plate. The only run was scored because of two errors and a double play ball. Now that's boring. Batters struck out a combined 20 times.
The other problem was Killebrew. In the third inning he stretched for a throw and tore his hamstring and missed the next two months of the season. He did rebound the following year and was named MVP. But in 1968 he finished with .210 and 17 home runs.
The game featured many quirks including Pete Rose breaking his thumb in pre-game warm ups which is why Mays was inserted in the lead-off spot, Brooks Robinson injuring his back and lots of other stuff. Perhaps the most unusual thing was the ticket for the first All-Star Game in the Astrodome. The ticket was marked with a "Rain Check." Not likely it was going to be rained out, inside the Dome.
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TRIVIA QUESTION: When the dust settled on the 1969 Astros season one of their players came to bat 290 times and never hit a ball in fair territory . Who was that player?
ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMN: Rocky Colavito led the 1961 Tigers with 45 home runs, but he'd already crossed the 40 homer mark twice in his career before that. In 1958 he hit 41 and the following year he led the AL with 42, both with Cleveland. He finished his career with 374 homers over 14 years. In all, he belted 40 or more three times and at least 30 on four other occasions.
It took Major League Baseball to completely revamp it's alignment to give the Houston Astro's the teams first shot at finishing with at least a .500 record. In 1969, after an existence of never winning half their games, the club which redefined what a modern stadium should be, finally did win 81 while losing 81 in a season.
Starting out in Colt Stadium, the team would eventually move into the spacious and modern Astrodome. Maybe Colt .45 signified the old west and the Texas persona but the Astrodome gave the club something else. It was now Houston; the home of NASA, spaceflight, reaching for the stars and the Astrodome did that. It was huge and it was above all else; indoors. Mosquitoes were not allowed.
When the team closed out the 1964 season as the Colt .45's they only saw 715,000 fans come through the turnstiles. When they debuted in 1965 as the Houston Astros in the new stadium, attendance about tripled to 2.1 million.
It didn't make much difference on the field however. They actually lost one more game than the previous year. Every year from 1962-1968 the club finished either in 8th, 9th or 10th place. When the decade came to a close they finished in 5th. Of course there were only six teams in their division.
So what was it about this 1969 club which brought them to the brink of winning baseball? Fan Favorite Rusty Staub was gone to Montreal in the infamous Donn Clendenon trade. Shortstop Sonny Jackson was sent packing to Atlanta after the 1967 season, and a young Joe Morgan was bursting onto the scene. Ace Mike Cuellar was Traded with Tom Johnson and Enzo Hernandez to the Baltimore Orioles for John Mason and Curt Blefary. Cuellar would go onto win at least 20 games for the O's in four different seasons and 18 games twice. Blefary batted .253 in his only season with Houston before going onto the Mets.
Dave Giusti was traded to St. Louis and after one season onto Pittsburgh where he became a dominant closer in the NL. Larry Dierker did improve and won 20, while Don Wilson won 16. The team was steady with six of the starters appearing in nearly 150 games but none of them hit over .269 and Jim Wynn (the Toy Cannon) led the team by far with 33 homers. Morgan was second with 15.
So when did Harry Walker's club lock in that magical 81st win? With three games left in the season the Astros went to Los Angeles. On Tuesday, September 30th in front of 11,000 fans at Dodgers Stadium, they faced future Hall of Fame pitcher, Don Sutton. They needed to win at least one of the remaining three games to lock in that elusive .500.
In the third, after Blefary drove in a run, former Dodger Tommy Davis belted a two run homer to make the score 3-0 Houston. The Astros would go on to beat the Dodgers 6-3 but that all important fourth run in the game was driven in by none other than starting pitcher Denny Lemaster. Lemaster not only keyed the winning rally but he tossed a gem.
Lemaster pitched a four-hitter, walking two and striking out 11, giving up only two earned runs. It was his 13th win of the season against 17 losses and assured his club a non-losing season. It would be three more years before Houston would finish above .500 and complete it's first winning season in club history.
The Rare Breakout Season
TRIVIA QUESTION: When Norm Cash hit 41 homers in 1961 for Detroit, teammate Rocky Colavito led the Tigers with 45. Cash only eclipsed the 40 homer mark once. How many times did Colavito crack the 40 home run barrier?
ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMN: When the Yankees sent Roger Maris to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966 they got little in return for the man who broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record only five years earlier. The Cardinals shipped third baseman Charlie Smith to New York for Maris. Maris went on to help the Cards win two NL pennants and a World Series. Smith was little help to the rebuilding New Yorkers .
There are times when a great player has a good season and then there are times when a good player has a great season. Such was the 1961 season for the Detroit Tigers slugging first baseman, Norm Cash. He had a true break out year in 1961 but never again reached anywhere near the level of that wonderful season.
Cash came up with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 and only played in a few games. In 1959 he showed only a little promise in 58 games by batting .240 and hitting only four homers, so the Sox shipped him to the Indians along with Bubba Phillips and John Romano for Dick Brown, Don Ferrarese, Minnie Minoso and Jake Striker. Cleveland didn't think enough of Cash to keep him at the start of the 1960 season sent him to the Tigers for Steve Demeter.
He immediately showed promise in 1960 with the Tigers in tiny Tiger's Stadium where he batted .286 and belted 18 home runs. Stormin' Norman was off to a good start. He was also one of the more fun players to be around according to teammates.
As the Tigers prepared for the 1961 season, they were retooling. They added Billy Bruton from the Braves and brought up some young players who helped out including Jake Wood who starred and led the league in triples with 14. Also a couple of youngsters made their debuts and they would become Tiger stalwarts over the years. Dick McAuliffe and Bill Freehan were introduced to the fans in 1961.
Steve Boros was going strong in 1961 and with Rocky Colavito (2.90 45 HR) and Al Kaline (.324 19 HR) manning the outfield, all the Tigers needed was an improved effort from their first baseman. And boy, did they ever get it.
Cash didn't get his first home run until game five of the 1961 season when he belted a deep drive off Gary Bell, but it wasn't long before he was rivaling Colavito for the long ball and swinging past Kaline in the hit parade.
When the dust had settled on the 1961 season Cash led the league with an amazing .361 average (and he didn't get leg hits), he belted 41 homers, led the league in hits with 193, Intentional walks 19, OPS 1.148 and On Base Percentage .487 while slugging .662. He scored 119 and drove in 132 RBI. Now that's a season to remember.
The Tigers finished in second place winning 98 games and it was thought they were on their way. But that is where Cash's string ended. It wasn't that his career was a bad one. He just never came close to those numbers again. He averaged 24 home runs the rest of his career but never hit over .280, most of the time lingering around .260 in an era where batting average meant a lot more than it does today.
Norm Cash left us too soon. He was killed when he slipped and fell near Lake Michigan at age 51.
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The Dismal New York Yankee Years
TRIVIA QUESTION: When Roger Maris was sent to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966, who did the Yankees get in return for the man who hit 61 homers in 1961?
ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMN: Gil Hodges took over as manager of the Washington Senators in 1963, following two others who came before him that season. In five seasons with the Sens his clubs never finished near the .500 mark and lost 100 games in 1964. He did lead them to a sixth place finish in his final season, 1967. He of course went on to lead the 1969 New York Mets to their first World Series Title.
After losing the 1964 World Series no one expected the Bronx Bombers to begin a slide which was one of the worst in team history. After all, New York had finished in first place every year from 1960-1964. They won two World Championships and basically had the same players who made the "64 season a success.
But Father Time was catching up to the Yanks. Over the season the team would employ 13 players who were at least 29 years old and only three of them were not at least 30. The average age of the team was 28. Aging starters were very much on the down side.
Elston Howard at 36 hit .233 with nine home runs, Mickey Mantle batted .255 with 19 homers and Roger Maris at .239 with eight home runs in only 46 games. The subs were not counted on either. Johnny Blanchard, often a long ball hero, batted only 42 times and hit .147. The pitchers who were getting long in the tooth included Whitey Ford, who at 36 still managed 16 wins and 244 innings. Thirty year olds Steve Hamilton and Pete Ramos both had good years.
Other players on their final run were Bobby Richardson, Tony Kubek and Hector Lopez.
The good news however was the Yankees were a team in transition. It was just Yankee fans were not at all used to seeing their team "in transition." It would take a few years for them to develop and while they were making progress it was still a struggle.
The 1964 season saw manager Johnny Keane employ these youthful players; Joe Pepitone 24 with 19 homers, Tom Tresh 26 and 26 home runs to lead the team, Roger Repoz 24, Horace Clarke 25, Roy White 21, Bobby Murcer 19, Jake Gibbs 26, Mel Stottlemyre 23 (20 win season), Al Downing 24 and a bevy of guys in the 26-28 year old range. It was a wild mix of guys who would go on to have decent careers and guys who had a major league cup of coffee.
New York finished under .500 with 77 wins and fans were screaming for something to be done. Some of the faithful were saying wait until "the kids mature." They didn't mature fast enough. It got so bad, the following year they fell into last place. After a 4-16 start General Manager Ralph Houk fired Keane and went back into the dugout himself. Salvaging a 10th place finish in a 10 team league was not to Houk's liking.
The last time the club finished in last place was when they were the New York Highlanders in 1912, losing 102 games the same year the Titanic went down. They were led by Birdie Cree .332, Hippo Vaughn, Iron Davis and Russ Ford who lost 21 games. No relation to Whitey by the way.
Stottlemyre lost 20 in 1966, Mantle rebounded to hit 23 homers and bat .288 but was limited to 108 games as his faltering body was so banged up everyone wondered how long he could play center field. It would be the following year, 1967 when he was moved to first base permanently. There he ended up playing 144 games while still giving the fans a thrill 22 times with home runs. The "66 season also saw the debut of pitcher Fritz Peterson into the starting rotation.
Clarke and White became regulars and showed some promise but fans were not amused. Pepitone led the team in home runs with 31 and RBI with 83. It's hard to drive in big runs when there is nobody getting on base in front of you.
When 1967 rolled around White fell off while Clarke began to shine. Pepitone was on his way out failing to hit even close to 20 homers and batting only .251. Whitey Ford was limited to seven starts and a 2-4 record and the team was again a mix of undeveloped youth and aging utility players. Elston Howard was shipped off to the hated Red Sox. Houk's ninth place finish was enough to keep him in the manager's chair in 1968.
More of the same but the team improved slightly in 1968 finishing fifth with an 82-80 record. This was despite the fact three regular starting players batted no better than .229 with Tresh well below the Mendoza line at .195. Stottlemyre really rebounded winning 21 games and Stan Bahnsen picked up 17. To show what kind of team this was, the highlight of the year had to be Rocky Colavito, the long-time and former Detroit and Cleveland slugger, coming in during one game to pitch for New York. In two and two-thirds innings the Rock faced 11 batters, walked two of them, struck out one, gave up one hit and picked up the win! Now that's bizarre.
It also marked the quiet end to Mantle's career. The Mick put on his spikes for a final time. It was supposed to be Bobby Murcer's time, but Murcer went to right while a bizarre cache of players patrolled center including Ron Woods and Jim Lyttle.
The team closed out the decade back in fifth place at 80-81 with Houk still at the helm. Pepitone banged 27 homers, White hit .290 while Stottlemyre again won 20 and they debuted a young catcher by the name of Thurman Munson. It seemed New York was back on track. It was true. They started the era of the 70's by finishing in second place in the new AL East and the track was set to get them going again. Fans? They were relieved.
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Welcome to this weekly column. Baseball in the 1960s was a wonderful time. It was really the last vestige of what baseball was in the 20th century. In 1969 it all changed and some would say not for the better. I will let you be the judge.
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Corrugated boxes can be used to ship products by air, truck or rail, or by a combination of means for extra fast delivery known as inter-modal overnight. Carriers impose packaging rules in exchange for accepting liability for the articles they transport . Carriers reserve the right to refuse articles they consider inadequately packaged.
If you want your package to be insured by the carrier, you have to follow their rules.
Over the past 50 years or more, the terminology and material requirements used in the carrier rules have become de facto standards for corrugated and solid fiber boxes, even though many transportation modes may bot be specifically covered by the rules. Carrier rules address only the issues associated with their mode of transportation, not the storage, display or further distribution of boxes. When all of these factors are taken into account, boxes may not only need to meet the carrier rules, but go beyond them.
The rules for shipping products in corrugated boxes by truck are outlined into two publications: the National Motor Freight Traffic Association's National Motor Freight Classification(NMFC) and the National Railroad Freight Committee's Uniform Freight Classification (UFC) (see Recommended Reading and Sources, Associations, Government Agencies and Institutions). The publications give detailed packaging rules and name of individual carriers using these rules.
The various shipping requirements are noted in this list of different articles. For instance, the name of one product may have the words "in package" behind it, meaning the article must be shipped in some sort of package (crate, barrel, box, etc.) Other articles are followed by the words "in crates," "in barrels" or "in boxes," which mean these products must be shipped in the specified container type. There is a rule defining the container type in the respective classification.
When articles listed in the classifications contain the packaging instructions "in boxes" they mean corrugated or solid fiberboard boxes as defined in Item 222 of the NMFC and in Rule 41 of the UFC. Both Item 222 and Rule 41 set quality standards chat must be met by the box manufacturer. These rules give material specifications that vary depending on the total gross weight and the united dimensions (length, width and depth) of the box and its contents. A box that follows the rules must carry a circular box manufacturer's certificate (BMC) that precisely coincides with the instructions in the rule. Without the BMC, damage claims and rates may not be honored (see Markings, Box Manufacturer's Certificates).
A box, by the carriers' definitions, is a full, six-sided (or more) enclosure that may have an opening only large enough to insert one's fingers to rip open a flap. It must be closed by a positive means or be capable of passing recognized transport qualification drop tests. Boxes must be made of combined board (corrugated or solid fiberboard) that meets or exceeds the minimum burst strength and combined basis weight listed in Table A, or the minimum edge crush test listed in Table B per the appropriate gross weight and dimensions listed.
In 1990, the trade associations for the corrugated industry sponsored proposals to revise Item 222 and Rule 41, allowing use of edge crush test as an option to the traditional linerboard basis weight and combined board burst requirements. ECT is a characteristic of the combined board that, along with other factors, predicts the compression strength of the finished corrugated fiberboard box. Using the alternative requirements in the carrier rules, box manufacturers have more latitude to design and supply boxes that target the user's performance requirements. The alternative EeT value can be substituted for the burst strength/basis weight values specified for Numbered Packages (see below), including furniture packages.
See more: Mullen vs. ECT: Is there a difference in corrugation tests?
When the article listing includes "in Package_" (there may be multiple numbers listed), the carriers require a specific packaging system. Detailed instructions for Numbered Packages are listed in the section titled Specifications for Numbered Packages. Numbered Packages require a rectangular BMC which indicates the package number and the burst strength or ECT of the corrugated fiberboard used.
The air cargo and airline industries do not publish detailed packaging instructions except for special articles such as live animals, human remains, seafood, etc. Individual carriers-United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (FedEx), the U.S. Postal Service, and others-publish their own tariffs. Both UPS and FedEx require compliance with Item 222, including material specifications per package weight, dimensions and BMCs. Also, both require that the packages they carry are of minimum 200 burst strength or 32 ECT, and are capable of meeting appropriate International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) Pre-shipment Testing Procedures and Projects. It is best to check with the carriers themselves to determine whether there are specific packaging requirements or recommendations for shipping specific articles in their systems. Carriers often provide packaging seminars and transport package testing for their customers.


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Епископский дворец (леонс. Palacio Episcopal d'Estorga, , ) — здание, предназначенное под резиденцию епископа Хоан Батиста Грау и Байеспинос, расположенное в Асторге (провинция Леон). Одно из трёх творений Антонио Гауди, которые находятся вне провинции Каталония; оно относится к неоготическому периоду в творчестве архитектора. Ныне функционирует как музей Дорог, посвященный паломническому пути Святого Якова.

История

Созданию дворца послужил пожар (1886 год), уничтоживший прежнюю резиденцию епископа, который попросил своего знакомого мастера — Гауди — построить ему новую резиденцию. Именно в этот период Гауди был занят дворцом Гуэля, павильонами Гуэля, колледжем Дэ Лас Тересианас и Саграда Фамилией, потому и не мог приехать в Асторгу. Проект дворца был подготовлен на основе фотографий участка.

Строительство
Фундамент был заложен в 1887 году. Для строительства использовался белый гранит. По некоторым причинам строительство не продвигалось.

В начале 1893 года Антонио Гауди посетил больного друга, епископа в Асторге. В сентябре того же года епископ умер и строительство здания было приостановлено. С новым епископом произошли разногласия и архитектор отозвал своих каталонских мастеров. После устранения Гауди от строительства сменилось несколько архитекторов. Дворец состоит из 4 этажей: подвал, первый этаж для проведения служб, второй этаж для проведения приемов и третий для спален. Была установлена винтовая лестница, хотя раньше также был предусмотрен лифт. В 1915 году строительство было завершено архитектором Риккардо Гарсия Герета.

Здание не прослужило резиденцией. Во время гражданской войны здесь располагались артиллерийские казармы, а в 1943—1955 годах здание было повреждено.

В 1956 году началась реставрация здания под руководством нового епископа, но и этот священник скончался раньше. Его правопреемник превратил дворец в музей Дорог, посвященный паломническому пути Святого Якова.

Музей
Функционирует с 1963 года. Музейные экспозиции расположены на трёх этажах дворца. В основном показаны экспонаты, относящаяся к паломничеству и религиозному искусству. В зале цокольного этажа демонстрируются эпиграфическая и нумизматическая коллекции периодов Римской империи и Средневековья. На первом этаже показаны экспонаты об истории епархии, резные распятия и алтарь XV—XVI веков, кадильницы, чаши и т. д. Экспозиция второго этажа посвящена архитекторам, построившим дворец: Антонио Гауди, Рикардо Герета, дизайнер Хуан Мойя, художник Энрике Марин Игеро, скульптор Эрнандо де Вильодас, керамисты Даниэль Зулоага и Хименес де Джамуза. Третий этаж используется для временных выставок.

См. также
 Список строений Антонио Гауди

Примечания

Строения Антонио Гауди
Здания и сооружения Испании
Неоготическая архитектура Испании
Епископские дворцы

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The Stanford Census Designated Place had a population of 14,503 as of July 1, 2018. Stanford ranks in the upper quartile for Population Density when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in California. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for Stanford is located at latitude 37.4241 and longitude -122.1661 in Santa Clara County. The formal boundaries for the Stanford Census Designated Place encompass a land area of 2.73 sq. miles and a water area of 0.05 sq. miles. Santa Clara County is in the Pacific time zone (GMT -8). The elevation is 95 feet.
The Stanford Census Designated Place (GNIS ID: 2409994) has a U1 Census Class Code which indicates a census designated place with an official federally recognized name. It also has a Functional Status Code of "S" which identifies a statistical entity.
California is one of 20 states where Census County Divisions (CCDs) are used for statistical tracking of subdivisions within each county. The Stanford Census Designated Place is located within San Jose CCD of Santa Clara County.
The table below compares Stanford to the other 1,516 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in California by rank and percentile using July 1, 2018 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.


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According to Police, a Naked Man on Drugs Broke into the NBC Bureau in D.C.
By Dana EisenbergFeb 13th, 2017, 10:30 pm
According to a report from The Washington Examiner, police say that a naked man, allegedly on drugs, broke into the NBC bureau in D.C.
The police report says that the man who wasn't wearing any clothes ran into the bureau. He then hit a security guard in the face and walked down a hallway in the building. An employee of NBC reportedly spotted him, tackled him, and held him down until police arrived. The trespasser was then brought to George Washington Hospital.
A Metropolitan police department spokesperson said, "It appears the subject was under the influence of a controlled substance and was arrested for simple assault and unlawful entry."
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Then and Now: 5 Generations of Radeon Graphics Compared
Page 3 : Benchmarks: Crysis 3, BioShock
By Steven Walton on January 19, 2015
Evergreen through Sea Islands: 5 Generations of Radeon Graphics
Benchmarks: Crysis 3, BioShock
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Charted: 5 Years of Radeon Graphics
The Radeon HD 5870 averaged just 22fps at 1080p while the HD 6970 was a little over 40% faster at 31fps. The HD 7970's average frame rate of 38fps was 23% faster than the 6970 and the jump from the 7970 to the 7970 GHz Edition only yielded an 8% increase for 41fps, but the R9 290X managed to top the GHz Edition by 41%, which was the same gap between the 5870 and the 6970.
The results at 2560x1600 were considerably different as the 6970 was only 31% faster than the 5870, the 7970 was a significant 41% faster than the 6970, while the R9 290X was still around 40% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition.
At 1080p in BioShock the HD 6970 was just 26% faster than the 5870 while the 7970 was a whopping 69% faster than the 6970. The 7970 GHz Edition provided an extra 10% more performance over the standard card and the R9 290X was just 25% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition with an average of 111fps.
Again, increasing the resolution to 2560x1600 changed the margins a lot. While the 6970 vs. 5870 comparison remains much the same, the 7970 was now 78% faster than the 6970, yet despite that the R9 290X was now 35% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition.
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Lots of good entry level places today… including two "Village Towns" that are spread over three-storeys, with a small front yard, single garage, and a balcony.
Then there are two lower-priced double garages – one is smaller but backs onto greenspace, and the other is larger but with a non-premium location.
Overall, it's a pretty solid list. At least half of the nine properties are worth pursuing if they fit your criteria.


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Q: C# - Which is faster: String.Contains() or Regex.isMatch()?
Possible Duplicate:
Regex.IsMatch vs string.Contains

Which is faster, preferable and why?
What the difference in mechanisms between two?
I need to search for some values from UserAgent, most of values can be used without wildcards (e.g. if I want to catch cellular phones I search for iPhone instead of *iPhone* wildcards).

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What is faster

Try measuring. But this is the wrong question, see below.

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If I want to match a fixed string String.Contains does just what I need. If I need to pattern match, then String.Contains is useless.
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Dr. Mark Fesen Participates in National Healthcare Committee Meetings
Dr. Mark Fesen, traveled to Washington D.C. in early November for two days of healthcare meetings with staff members of five U.S. congressmen. A medical oncologist with Central Care Cancer Center who practices in Great Bend and Wichita, Fesen serves on a nationwide healthcare advisory committee, the National Physicians' Council for Healthcare Policy. He has been serving on that committee for nearly three years and is the vice chair of oncology for the council.
Dr. Mark Fesen (left), along with Texas Congressman Rep. Pete Sessions.
During his most recent visit Nov. 5 and 6, Dr. Fesen met with staff members of Kansas' two senators, Sens.
Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts. He also met with staff members of U.S. Reps. Roger Marshall, Ron Estes and Pete Sessions. Marshall represents Kansas' 1st congressional district, while Estes serves the 4th congressional district in the Sunflower state. Sessions represents the 32nd congressional district in Texas. Fesen received his invitation to serve on the panel from the Texas congressman in 2014.
The council is comprised of approximately 60 physicians from around the country who connect on a regular basis. The council's purpose is to enable physicians to speak out publicly about medical issues and government policies. The council annually selects a couple of specific areas in which to enhance the private practice of medicine and works with legislators and regulatory agencies to achieve specific goals that will improve healthcare in the United States.
Central Care Cancer Center, https://www.cccancer.com
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Tefta Cami (ur. 15 sierpnia 1940 we wsi Viçisht, okręg Dibra) – albańska polityk i pedagog, w latach 1976-1987 minister edukacji i kultury w rządach Mehmeta Shehu i Adila Çarçaniego.

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Pochodziła z rodziny chłopskiej. Była córką Ahmeta Camiego, partyzanta Armii Narodowo-Wyzwoleńczej, który zmarł z ran odniesionych w bitwie, w październiku 1943. W 1959 ukończyła szkołę pedagogiczną w Peshkopii, a w 1964 studia z zakresu języka i literatury albańskiej na Uniwersytecie Tirańskim. Kształciła się w Wyższej Szkole Partyjnej im. W. Lenina w Tiranie. Uzyskała stopień kandydata nauk w zakresie historii. Po ukończeniu studiów pracowała jako nauczyciel języka albańskiego, a także jako wicedyrektorka szkoły średniej Demir Gashi w Peshkopii. W latach 1967-1969 pracowała w redakcji pisma Ushtima e Maleve, awansując na stanowisko zastępcy redaktora naczelnego.

W latach 1970-1991 sześciokrotnie była wybierana deputowaną do Zgromadzenia Ludowego. W komitecie okręgowym Albańskiej Partii Pracy okręgu Dibra zajmowała się sprawami kulturalno-ideologicznymi. Pełniła funkcję członkini Rady Naczelnej Frontu Demokratycznego i Plenum Kobiet Albanii. W 1971 została członkinią Komitetu Centralnego Albańskiej Partii Pracy.

W latach 1976-1987 pełniła funkcję ministra edukacji i kultury, w tym czasie odwiedziła Kosowo, nawiązując współpracę z tamtejszym środowiskiem twórców. 20 lipca 1981 uległa wypadkowi samochodowemu. Leczyła się w Tiranie, a następnie w Paryżu. W styczniu 1982 powróciła do pracy. W latach 1987-1991 pełniła funkcję dyrektorki Wyższej Szkoły Partyjnej im. W. Lenina w Tiranie. W latach 1993-2006 pracowała w szkole artystycznej.

Jest autorką wspomnień, a także licznych artykułów poświęconych zagadnieniom edukacji, wybitnym postaciom albańskiej kultury, a także problemom Kosowa. Odznaczona Orderem Naima Frashëriego I klasy.

Publikacje
 2008: Doktor Mehdi Cani misionar i mjekësisë shqiptare : kujtime (Doktor Mehdi Cani misjonarz medycyny albańskiej: wspomnienia).
 2012: Katër ditë vizitë në Kosovë, 6 -10 tetor 1980 : ditar dhe kujtime (Czterodniowa wizyta w Kosowie, 6-10 października 1980: dziennik i wspomnienia).

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Bibliografia

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Tirańskiego
Albańscy ministrowie edukacji
Albańscy ministrowie kultury
Albańscy dziennikarze
Albańscy nauczyciele
Albańscy parlamentarzyści
Albańscy autorzy pamiętników i dzienników
Ludzie związani z Peshkopią
Odznaczeni Orderem Naima Frashëriego
Politycy Albańskiej Partii Pracy
Urodzeni w 1940
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Police Puzzled by "Vampire Attack"
Taipei police are puzzled by what appears to be a vampire attack that took place Friday night in the downtown area. Around 10:00 p.m. Friday, residents living near the four-hundred block of Chia-Hsing St. reported hearing a woman scream, and some even reported having seen a mysterious man fleeing down the street in the dark.
When police arrived a few minutes later, a young woman was found lying on the ground behind a row of parked motorbikes. The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, is currently under observation at Taipei Adventist Hospital.
Two circumstances of the crime have led police to talk of a "vampire attack." First, the victim was found to have four small holes in her neck resembling tooth marks. Second, the doctor's report shows that when she arrived at the hospital the woman was suffering from a lack of blood.
Speaking before city government officials, Taipei's mayor called the crime a "disgusting case of perversion" and ordered police to "solve it before the pervert attacks another innocent victim."
When asked if he thought it was possible that there was a real vampire in Taipei, Mayor Chen said: "Nobody should worry about that. Of course there's no such thing as real vampires. This guy has obviously watched too many vampire movies. We will catch him."
Susan Chow, The China Post, Sunday, February 16, 1997
Inspector Lin sat at his desk rubbing his eyes. He wasn't one bit happy with this mysterious new case.
"Why is it every time they have a pervert they need to catch, they call me?" he complained to Captain Hsu, who stood before his desk waiting for orders.
Captain Hsu was used to the inspector's complaints.
"But inspector," he said, "you are the best for the job. They give you the hardest cases because they know you're the best."
"Don't flatter me!" snapped the inspector. "Call in the first witness."
Captain Hsu left the office and came back with a tall woman in her forties. The woman sat down.
"Okay, Mrs. Lu," said the inspector. "You are Mrs. Lu, yes?"
"Yes, I am," said the woman.
"Okay, I only have a few questions, Mrs. Lu. First, what were you doing when you heard the scream?"
"I was folding clothes in the bedroom when I heard the scream."
"I see," said the inspector. "Did you see or hear anything else that might be of interest to us?"
"Yes, I did," said Mrs. Lu. "I went to the window and opened the blind, and I saw a black thing fly away in the dark. It looked like a very large bird, but I couldn't see it clearly."
"Hmm. That's very strange," said Inspector Lin. "Very strange. Did you see the woman who was attacked?"
"No, I didn't," replied Mrs. Lu. "She must have already fallen on the ground, and I couldn't see her from my window."
"Yes, you're probably right. That will be all, Mrs. Lu. Thank you," Inspector Lin said, pointing her to the door. "Captain, call in the next witness."
Mrs. Lu left the office and a young man came in. Captain Hsu announced Mr. Chen.
"Okay, Mr. Chen," said Inspector Lin. "Please tell me what you were doing when you heard the scream."
"I was watching TV when I heard the scream," said Mr. Chen.
"I see. Did you see or hear anything else that might interest us?"
"Well, I didn't go to the window right away because my favorite TV show was on," admitted Mr. Chen. "And when I finally went to the window to look, all I saw was a young woman lying on the ground and a lot of people standing around."
"A lot of people?" asked Inspector Lin. "What kind of people were they?"
"Oh, there was an ambulance, and there were some police, but mostly people who just came down to see what was going on."
"I see. So when you went to the window to look, the police were already there," the inspector said with annoyance. "And you waited so long because your favorite TV show was on."
"Yes," said Mr. Chen.
"You couldn't even get up from your favorite TV show to see what might be happening to one of your own neighbors."
"Well . . ."
"That's really disgusting, Mr. Chen. Disgusting! No wonder our job is so hard in this city. With people like you everywhere--"
"But my favorite show is only on once a week!" pleaded Mr. Chen.
"Once a week?" snapped the inspector ironically. "Once a week, you say? I'm talking about murder here, Mr. Chen! Do you hear me? Murder!"
"Inspector, I have a right to--"
"You have a right?" interrupted the inspector. "Get out of my office this minute, you dog! Out! You better hope I never see your face again!"
The inspector banged his fist down on his desk and stood up stiffly as Mr. Chen left the office. He began rubbing his eyes again.
"Captain Hsu!" he called. "Get in here right now!"
"Yes, sir?" said the captain rushing into the room.
"Can you tell me, captain, what a witness is?" asked the inspector.
"Of course, sir," said the captain. "A witness is a person who sees a crime."
"Very good, captain," said the inspector. "Then why are you bringing me people like this moron Chen who only got out of his chair and looked twenty minutes after the criminal had fled? Why!"
"Well, sir--"
"Don't give me your well, sir's, captain! I've got enough to do with these pervert cases! The least you people could do is make sure I'm questioning real witnesses in here! Do you hear me?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Call in the next witness, then. And I hope for your sake he is a witness!"
Captain Hsu announced Mr. Jordan. A very tall black man entered the room.
"Please sit down, Mr. Jordan," said the inspector, somewhat surprised. "You . . . You are Michael Jordan, the basketball star, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am," said Michael Jordan.
"Well," said the inspector. "I'm very pleased to meet you. May I ask what you're doing here in Taiwan?"
"I came here to promote my new logo shoes," replied Michael Jordan.
"I see. And why were you in the area where this strange crime took place?" asked the inspector.
"Well," replied Michael Jordan, "I met this kid named Kurt at the basketball court. And he wanted to play against me one-on-one, you know. And this kid Kurt is pretty good at basketball, but he's not so tall. I mean, if he jumps he can barely reach my nose. So when we started to play basketball, I whipped his butt."
"I'm sorry," said the inspector. "You 'whipped his butt'? What does that mean?"
"You know, I wiped up the court with him," said Michael Jordan.
"You 'wiped up the court with him.' Hmm. I don't understand," said Inspector Lin. "My English is--"
"I creamed him!" said Michael Jordan, gesturing with his big hands. "I creamed the kid."
"I see," answered Inspector Lin. "You 'creamed him.' But I still don't understand what you're actually saying, Mr. Jordan."
"Well, when we started to play basketball, I won," said Michael Jordan.
"Oh, I see! You won. What you've been saying is you won. When you say you whipped his butt, or you wiped up the court with him, or you creamed him, that means you won," said the inspector.
"Yes!" said Michael Jordan. "I won. That's what I'm trying to tell you. But then Kurt started to look sad, and I thought maybe he was going to cry. But I didn't want him to cry, so I said, 'Hey, Kurt, why don't we go get some pizza?' But he didn't want pizza. He wanted me to come to his house to play video basketball against him."
"On his computer?" asked the inspector.
"Yes! He wanted to play video basketball. So I said: 'Okay, Kurt, I'll go play video basketball with you.' And I went to his house to play. We were playing video basketball when we heard the scream."
"I see, Mr. Jordan. Did you see or hear anything else that might be of interest to us?"
"Yes, I did. I went to the window to see what was happening, and I saw a man running down the street. And then--it was very mysterious, inspector--he hopped three times, and the third time he hopped he never came back down to the ground, and I saw something flying away in the dark."
"Are you sure you saw that, Mr. Jordan?" asked the inspector.
"That's really very mysterious," said the inspector, taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes for a moment. "That is strange."
"I think it is too, inspector."
"Well, I'm very happy you came in here to answer my questions, Mr. Jordan. I just want to know one more thing."
"Did you whip Kurt's butt on video basketball too?"
"No," said Michael Jordan laughing. "No, I didn't, inspector. Kurt whipped my butt!"
"I see, Mr. Jordan," said the inspector laughing. "Have a nice visit to Taiwan."
The two men shook hands, and Michael Jordan left the office.
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A Murder-Mystery Adventure where the player is trapped in a never-ending masked ball at The Sexy Brutale casino mansion, reliving the same day over and over, surrounded by intrigue and murder as they try to uncover the truth behind the secrets of The Sexy Brutale.
Lafcadio Boone, a preacher, wakes up during the yearly party that Lucas Bondes hosts in his casino mansion. A mysterious woman, called the Bloody Girl, has given Boone a mask that has ripped him out of an ongoing time loop that the rest of the other party members are stuck in over a 12-hour period, reliving their deaths over and over again. She has also given Boone a broken watch, that when the timer reaches the hour of 5, the day resets. Boone's task is to save the other party goers from their gruesome deaths before they happen by learning different ways over the 12 hour period by discovering clues, recipes, or items. The first man he saves, Sixpence, takes the watch and fixes it so that the full 12 hours of the day become available. Boone then sets out to prevent the other deaths. Upon saving these other party goers, they remove their masks, talk to Boone to show they know him in some way. Boone then takes each mask, absorbing the powers they hold and giving him the means to save the other members and advance in the mansion.
After several party-goers have been saved, The Gold Skull, a man in a golden skull mask seemingly content on letting the actions play out, reveals himself as the instigator of the time loop. He reveals that the deaths that Boone has been preventing over the course of the 12 hour time loop, were created by the Gold Skull as a means to punish Boone. Both Gold Skull and Lafcadio are revealed to be aspects of Lucas Bondes, who previously had inadvertently caused the deaths of all at the party as part of an insurance scheme by destroying the casino. The player can choose to either relive their punishment, resulting in replaying the final scenes again, or for Lucas to forgive himself and move on, ending the game.
A secret ending can be acquired by collecting a deck of 52 cards scattered through the game and giving them to a demon at a hidden 'Old Habits' room of the casino. Doing so results in the casino going back to normal with the members alive. The player then approaches a decorated window and shatters it, bringing the party to a halt. (Credit - Wikipedia)
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President Barack Obama's December 2014 statement that the United States would reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba has many people wondering: How did the U.S. and Cuba get along before the embargo? How has their relationship changed over time?
The United States and Cuba, with their close proximity and shared history as European colonies, have been intertwined for centuries. However, after roughly two generations of U.S. embargoes against Cuba, few can remember a time when Americans and Cubans could travel back and forth freely and easily to explore their shared connections. InsightCuba has been bridging that gap for fifteen years, helping U.S. citizens travel to Cuba on people-to-people tours.
As neighbors, the U.S and Cuba once enjoyed a close relationship, Both participated in trans-Atlantic trade before and after the American Revolution. As early as 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote that Cuba would be "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States." Although this didn't come about during his lifetime, more formal ties between the two countries were established in 1898, after the U.S. defeated the Spanish in the Spanish-American War. Spain ceded the U.S. all of its territories outside of Africa, including the "Pearl of the Antilles," Cuba. Cuba became a United States territory for the next four years. In 1902, the island officially gained its independence, although the Platt Amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs. Tomás Estrada Palma, who was born in Cuba, but had lived in the United States during the Spanish-American War and even became a U.S. citizen, became president of the new republic. In 1934, the U.S. officially relinquished its right to intervene in Cuban affairs and even made changes to its own economic policy to favor trade with Cuba above other countries. [OR "…to give more of its sugar trade to Cuba than other countries" depending on meaning] Cuba became a popular destination for American tourists, who poured into the country on PanAm flights, enjoyed spectacular productions at the Tropicana, and tried their luck at the island's many casinos. By the mid-1950s, corruption in Fulgencio Batista's government, which had come into power in 1933, had sparked a strong movement against the dictator. The resulting revolution became the defining element in relations between the two countries for the latter half of the 20th century.
Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959 strained relations with the U.S. In 1960, American businesses and properties were nationalized by Cuba without compensation. In 1961, Cuban exiles, supported by the United States, invaded the Bay of Pigs, but failed to overthrow Castro, who subsequently aligned himself with the USSR.
After diplomatic relations failed in 1960, Americans followed subsequent developments on the national news: Cuban immigrants flooded into the U.S. in 1980; Elián González tugged collective heartstrings in 1999; the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 strengthened the US embargo against Cuba. In 2006, Fidel Castro handed the reins of power to his brother, Raul. By 2009, President Obama had lifted restrictions on family travel and remittances to the island, beginning a thaw between the countries. In December of 2014, he announced that the U.S. would begin to reestablish diplomatic relations.
Throughout our sometimes-tumultuous history, each country's people have continued to forge connections. Long before the Cuban Revolution, some of Cuba's and the U.S.'s greatest thinkers considered both countries close to their hearts. José Martí, hero of the Cuban fight for independence from Spain in the late 19th century, traveled to the U.S. often and even stayed in New York for a time, writing and engaging in political discourse. Famed American author Ernest Hemingway owned a residence in Cuba. His experiences there inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning novella The Old Man and the Sea. Even after formal diplomatic ties were severed in 1960, cultural and individual connections between the countries have remained.
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"Timeline: US-Cuba Relations." BBC News. BBC, 11 Oct. 2012. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. "World Policy Journal - Spring 2005." World Policy Journal - Spring 2005. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
Nadeau, Barbie Latza. "The Pope's Diplomatic Miracle: Ending the U.S.-Cuba Cold War." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 17 Dec. 2014. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
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The Hebrides (; ) is a concert overture that was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as Mendelssohn's Op. 26. Some consider it an early tone poem.

It was inspired by one of Mendelssohn's trips to the British Isles, specifically an 1829 excursion to the Scottish island of Staffa, with its basalt sea cave known as Fingal's Cave. It was reported that the composer immediately jotted down the opening theme for his composition after seeing the island. He at first called the work To the Lonely Island or Zur einsamen Insel, but then settled on the present title. However, in 1834, the year after the first publication, Breitkopf & Härtel issued an edition with the name Fingalshöhle (Fingal's Cave) and this title stuck, causing some confusion.

Being a concert overture, The Hebrides does not precede a play or opera, but is instead a standalone composition in a form common for the Romantic period. Dedicated to Frederick William IV of Prussia, then Crown Prince of Prussia, the B minor work became part of the standard orchestral repertoire and retains this position to the present day.

As an indication of the esteem in which it is held by musicians, Johannes Brahms once said "I would gladly give all I have written, to have composed something like the Hebrides Overture".

Background
Mendelssohn's first visited England in 1829 following invitations from Sir George Smart and the Philharmonic Society. Following his tour of England, Mendelssohn proceeded to Scotland, where he began work on his Symphony No. 3, Scottish. He was engaged on a tour of Scotland with his travelling companion Karl Klingemann when he sent a letter to his family with the opening phrase of the overture written on it. In a note to his sister Fanny, he said: "In order to make you understand how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me, I send you the following, which came into my head there." The cave at that time was approximately  high and over  deep, and contained black basalt pillars.

The work was completed on 16 December 1830 and was originally entitled Die einsame Insel (The Lonely Island). However, Mendelssohn later revised the score and renamed the piece Die Hebriden (The Hebrides). Despite this, the title of Fingal's Cave was also used: on the orchestral parts he labelled the music The Hebrides, but on the score Mendelssohn labelled the music Fingal's Cave. This revision of the overture was premiered on 14 May 1832 in London in a concert conducted by Thomas Attwood, that also featured Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. The final revision was completed by 20 June 1832. and premiered on 10 January 1833 in Berlin under the composer's own baton.

Description

The music, though labelled as an overture, is intended to stand as a complete work. Although programme music, it does not tell a specific story and is not "about" anything; instead, the piece depicts a mood and "sets a scene", making it an early example of such musical tone poems. The overture consists of two primary themes; the opening notes of the overture state the theme Mendelssohn wrote while visiting the cave, and is played initially by the violas, cellos, and bassoons. This lyrical theme, suggestive of the power and stunning beauty of the cave, is intended to develop feelings of loneliness and solitude. The second theme, meanwhile, depicts movement at sea and "rolling waves".

The piece is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.

Performances of the overture typically last between 10½ and 11 minutes. The autograph manuscript of the work is held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

In popular culture
 The overture can be heard in Luis Buñuel's film L'Age d'Or (1930).
 The full work provides the soundtrack for the 1941 experimental film Moods of the Sea by Slavko Vorkapić and John Hoffman.
 An extract was used for the inscrutable and seemingly indestructible hopping mynah bird in the brief Warner Bros. 1940s cartoon series "Inki and the Minah Bird".
 An a cappella arrangement can be heard in Crash Twinsanity.
 Heard in the 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell.
 The overture is used in a 1949 CSIRO video "Division of radiophysics" .
 Can be heard in the 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoon short From A to Z-Z-Z-Z.
 The opening 2 minutes of the piece featured in the PlayStation video game Colony Wars: Vengeance during selected cutscenes.
 The passages after the second theme, leading to the end of the exposition, were used for great dramatic effect on the "Lone Ranger" radio broadcasts.

See also
 Mendelssohn on Mull Festival

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Compositions by Felix Mendelssohn
1830 compositions
Concert overtures
Hebrides
1830 in Scotland
Compositions in B minor