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Star Wars Battlefront Community Questions Answered, Y-Wings Non-Flyable
By Jeff Williams
Jul 14, 2015 07:02 EDT
EA has been very responsive to the questions that fans have asked them via their different means of communicating with them. But since not everyone has the time to sift through everything (and there are a lot!) on their twitter channel, they've curated the most popular questions for us.
Top Star Wars Battlefront questions from social media as answered by EA.
A lot of different questions have arisen about a lot of the footage from both officially revealed sources and the videos of alpha gameplay. EA has done a surprisingly good job helping to elucidate on some of the details. The questions below are the top most questions, so they felt they should be properly answered in a more easily found way.
Q. How do vehicles spawn in Walker Assault?
A: In Walker Assault, vehicles are tied to the power up system. When you find a vehicle power up on the map, you will need to activate it, which immediately spawns you inside the vehicle.
Vehicle power ups specifically must be used within a certain amount of time. This is a design decision to allow more equal distribution of the vehicle power ups amongst all players.
Q. Can I fly the Y-wing?
A: Y-wings are non-player controlled vehicles. They are a support vehicle that you can call into battle within certain game modes.
Q. Is Split-screen available on PC?
A: Split-screen will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One only.
Q. Does experience within Missions apply to Multiplayer progression?
A: Playing Missions does not grant you multiplayer career experience, but it does provide you with credit rewards you can spend on buying unlocks.
In the coming months EA has also promised us more information about some of the other gameplay modes that will be in Battlefront. Of course you'll be you play a 32-player conquest round vying for the independence of Sullust or even trying to stave off the Empire on Hoth, recreating that iconic battle. But there are so many more game modes that differentiate it from the first two in the series.
Very soon we should learn about Supremacy, Fighter Squadron, Blast, Drop Zone, Cargo and perhaps learn more about the classic Survival mission framework. During my play through at E3 I was able to play through a map on Tatooine that featured the Survival Mission in co-op mode. As with other games, my partner and I took down five waves of Stormtroopers with few respawns, trying to survive whilst completing the required objectives. Overall a fresh and very fun approach to survival warfare.
Star Wars Battlefront is shaping up to either be an incredibly thrilling entry into the series, or will completely disappoint. It seems that the general feeling is either/or, and nowhere in-between. EA has a lot of pressure to do Battlefront right.
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Wilhelm Homberg (Yakarta, 8 de enero de 1652 - París, 24 de septiembre de 1715), también conocido como Guillaume Homberg en francés, fue un químico holandés.

Nació en Batavia, la actual Yakarta, ya que su padre John Homberg era un oficial de la Compañía Neerlandesa de las Indias Orientales. En 1670 su familia se trasladó a Europa y Wilhem realizó estudios de derecho en Jena y en Leipzig. En 1674 empezó a trabajar de abogado en Magdeburgo, donde conoció a Otto von Guericke; y bajo su influencia comenzó a dedicarse a la ciencia natural.

Con el fin de adquirir formación en ese campo viajó por diferentes ciudades y se graduó en Medicina en Wittenberg instalándose en París en 1682. Tras un breve ejercicio de la medicina en Roma durante cinco años, entre 1685 y 1690, se instaló definitivamente en la capital francesa. En 1691 fue elegido miembro de la Academia de Ciencias y nombrado director de su laboratorio de química. En 1705 fue nombrado médico privado del Duque de Orleans.

La metodología que empleaba tenía rasgos propios de la alquimia en bastantes casos, pero también realizó contribuciones científicas en los campos de la química y la física: en 1702 descubrió el ácido bórico, que recibió el nombre de Sal Sedativum Hombergi, y posteriormente un tipo de cloruro de calcio fosforescente llamado Phosphore d'Homberg; también realizó observaciones sobre la cristalización de la sal común, sobre la saturación de bases mediante ácidos o el efecto fotoquímico que producía el oscurecimiento de sales de nitrato de plata en presencia de la luz, que demostró en 1694 frente a la teoría de Robert Boyle que lo achacaba a los efectos del aire. Gran parte de su obra se publicó en los informes recopilatorios de la Academia de las Ciencias.

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Químicos de los Países Bajos
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Champions League: Lisbon favourite to stage last-eight mini-tournament
10. junija, 2020
Updated: 13. novembra, 2020
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Lisbon is the favourite to host an eight-team Champions League knockout tournament in August, if it is given the go-ahead by governing body Uefa.
Uefa is planning to move the final from Istanbul, where it was due to be held on 30 May, for the new format.
The Europa League final, due to be held in Gdansk, Poland on 27 May, is likely to be moved to Germany.
Europe's continental cup competitions were stopped in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Uefa's executive committee will make its decision on 17 June.
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Pussy Riot Are Planning To Open A Women-Only Museum
by Maria Sofou
Speaking in an interview with ArtNet News, Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina announced the group's plans to open up a "women's-only" museum in Montenegro.
The punk activist revealed that other Pussy Riot activists and herself are planning to open the New Balkan Women's Museum in Montenegro: a museum for women, by women, about women. Apparently, the venue will employ only female curators and administrators and show only female artists, while Alyokhina says she is still consulting with fellow feminists about how it should look and function.
"Given the embarrassing lack of diversity in the art world, it's an interesting idea. Women's solo shows have only made up 14 per cent of the Guggenheim's calendar, as well as 25 per cent at the Tate Modern and 16 per cent at the Pompidou." (Source)
A date is not yet set for this well-needed museum's opening but we can't wait to see it!
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Galas murder trial set for 2016
By Alden Alayvilla - The Garden Island | Thursday, July 16, 2015, 2 a.m.
LIHUE — Nine years since the death of his wife, a Kalaheo man indicted for her murder will stand trial next March.
Darren Galas, 43, who was charged with second-degree murder of his estranged wife, Sandra Galas, in 2012, will go on trial March 16, 2016, after his defense filed five stipulations of continuance since 2013.
Relatives of Sandra Galas expressed their disappointment over the trial's drawn-out process.
"It's just frustrating with the defense asking for a continuance," said Lawrence Mendonca, Sandra's father. "The guy's been indicted for over two years now and the court date now is scheduled for March of next year."
Michael Green, Galas's attorney, did not respond to requests for comment.
Justin Kollar, County of Kauai prosecuting attorney, said courts will generally not force a defendant to trial when the defense is stating it needs more time.
"To do so could create a grounds for reversal of the conviction on appeal," Kollar wrote in an email. "We understand this is a difficult and frustrating process at times; however, these are the rules we are bound to operate under."
Because of the complexity of murder cases, Kollar said it isn't uncommon for similar cases to have multiple stipulations of continuances.
Mendonca said his faith for the legal system has diminished since Galas was indicted in 2012. Galas is out on $300,000 bail.
"I don't have any confidence in the legal system or the justice system anymore," he said. "This last nine years has been an education on my part."
Mendonca said he's waiting for justice.
"You get a case like this and it's tight-lipped on what they want to give out," he said. "They don't want to injure and damage their case."
Kollar said while the case is pending, he can't say anything that could potentially cause an issue later on.
"Our hands are tied in those situations," he said.
Before his daughter's slaying, Mendonca recalls Sandy having a promising future.
"She was initially a manager of the Beach House Restaurant in Poipu and she'd just gotten a change of job as an assistant food and beverage manager at the Grand Hyatt," he said.
Nine years since Sandra's death, her family and friends continue to mourn her.
"It was a big loss to everybody — her friends, of course us, her brother and the people who lost the most was her two sons," Mendonca said.
Sandra Galas, 27, was found dead in her car, which was parked inside the garage of her Eleele home on Jan. 25, 2006, according to reports. She suffered strangulation from a cord-like object and blunt-force trauma to the head as causes of death.
The couple were married in 1999 and separated in April 2005. Sandra filed for divorce in August 2005 and was killed while she and Darren were involved in a custody dispute over their two children.
In a 2006 KPD arrest log, Darren was arrested in connection to the case for suspicion of second-degree murder on Jan. 26, 2006, but was released after two days.
Galas was arrested as a result of evidence compiled by Ke Ahi Pioole ("the fire that never burns out"), Hawaii's first prosecutor-directed cold case murder unit, according to a previous TGI report.
Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Mr. Galas was 33.
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Fight for Kirkuk Goes Beyond the Islamic State
(MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Islamic State is not the only concern for Kurdish leaders in Kirkuk province. The Shiite-dominated Iraqi government and its backers in Iran will prevent the Kurds from consolidating control over the oil-rich province. They will do so by operating through Shiite militias that have been battling alongside the peshmerga against the Islamic State and playing off the personal ambitions of the Kirkuk governor. Such territorial competition and potential violence could help the Islamic State, destabilizing the province and the efforts against the militant group.
Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani arrived in the city of Kirkuk on Feb. 17 to show a united peshmerga front against the Islamic State. However, upon his arrival in Kirkuk, Barzani declared that only the Kurdish peshmerga will be allowed in the province, and that Kirkuk belongs to Kurdistan. His declaration was directed squarely at the Shiite militias that, after successfully beating back Islamic State positions in Diyala province, have been creeping north along the border with the Kurdistan region toward Islamic State positions in Kirkuk province. The Islamic State is positioned in the northern and western portion of Kirkuk province, while Shiite militias are encroaching into southern Kirkuk.
After Barzani ordered the peshmerga to prevent Shiite militiamen from the Iraqi Volunteer Forces from entering the province, Qais Khazali, the leader of one of Iraq's most active Shiite militias, Asaib Ahl al Haq, said that his men would enter Kirkuk if the province's residents requested it and that it was not Barzani's place to decide who enters since Kirkuk belongs to Iraq and not the Kurds. Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Regional Government has redeployed Oil Protection Forces from nearby blocks to reinforce security at the Kirkuk oil domes to prevent further encroachment by Shiite militias.
The Value of Kirkuk
The battle over Kirkuk was entirely expected. Barzani ordered Kurdish peshmerga to seize the Kirkuk oil fields and establish control over both the city and province after the Iraqi army fled during the Islamic State siege in July 2014. At that time, Stratfor cautioned that the Kurdish gains would not be permanent, because jihadists, Tehran and Baghdad would engage in an elaborate game of "keep away" to prevent the Kurdistan Regional Government from consolidating control over the Kirkuk prize.
Though the threat of Islamic State-induced cooperation between the Kurds and Baghdad, including an agreement on how to share control and revenue over northern exports, this relationship is barely working. The Kurdistan Regional Government maintains the right to unilaterally export oil from the north, while Baghdad retains the power of the purse to withhold budget allocations to the cash-strapped Kurds. A number of international oil companies awaiting payments — not to mention an overwhelming number of civil servants (including peshmerga forces battling the Islamic State) awaiting their salaries — have put significant pressure on Arbil as the dispute with Baghdad persists.
Baghdad is also feeling the crunch from $50-per-barrel oil as it wages an expensive war against the Islamic State. Moreover, it needs the cooperation of Kurdish forces to dislodge Islamic State fighters from urban strongholds like Mosul, with support from the United States. But Arbil and Baghdad are still in a largely asymmetric relationship. As long as Baghdad can maintain ambiguity over the legality of unilateral Kurdistan Regional Government oil sales, the Kurds will remain in a tenuous financial position and unable to capitalize on their own infrastructure and energy assets to divorce themselves from Baghdad.
Regardless of whether Baghdad needs peshmerga assistance, the Kurds have their own reasons for establishing a security buffer and extricating the Islamic State from the north. Moreover, the price of U.S. backing for the Kurds will entail peshmerga cooperation against the Islamic State threat and a commitment to work with Baghdad as Washington tries to preserve the authority of the central government and the territorial integrity of Iraq.
Baghdad's Options
The Shiite-run government in Baghdad has several tools other than its financial clout to undermine the Kurdish position in Kirkuk. Shiite militias have been highly effective against the Islamic State and will be a necessary component of offensives. The Islamic State threat provides a useful pretext for Shiite militias to move into disputed territories like Kirkuk, where they can then try to reshape the demographics of the province by giving abandoned Kurdish property to cooperative Arabs as people start returning to areas where the Islamic State has been flushed out. Growing local Arab resistance to Kurdish rule, along with the ethnic and sectarian violence that ensues as Shiite militias target Sunni communities in these territories, will continue to challenge Arbil's authority in the Sunni-Kurdish borderland.
Baghdad can also exploit the personal ambitions of local officials, including the eminently pliable governor of Kirkuk, Najmaddin Karim. Karim understands that he presides over an oil-rich land, and he does not want to see those riches go exclusively to Arbil. Instead, he has quietly bargained for autonomy for Kirkuk — an idea that Baghdad and Tehran have entertained and even encouraged in their private talks with the governor. Karim also works closely with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by the Talabani clan, and has used the party's rivalry with Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party to his advantage in carving out a more independent role for Kirkuk. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has a strong presence in Kirkuk province and its members have openly questioned Barzani's move to take over out of concerns that Kurdish occupation of the province could invite more problems.
Karim and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan may in fact be willing to defy Barzani's order to keep Shiite militias out of Kirkuk. Stratfor received information that in recent days, Karim held a closed-door meeting with Hadi al-Amiri, the leader of Iraq's oldest and most politically integrated Shiite militia, the Badr Organization. The details of the meeting have not been disclosed, but there are hints that both Karim and Hero Talabani, who is married to Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal Talabani and wields considerable influence over the party, are both in negotiations to allow Shiite militias into Kirkuk. We can assume Barzani had a stern message for Karim and Talabani upon learning about this meeting, but his Kurdish rivals could still openly flout his order.
The battle over Kirkuk will intensify as Shiite militias inevitably encroach on the Kurdistan Regional Government's claimed sphere of influence. This competition could result in violent clashes between peshmerga and Shiite militias, an outcome that the Islamic State would welcome as it tries to hold its position in the north. The Islamic State remains a priority threat for both Baghdad and Arbil, but that threat alone will not be enough to allow for a sustainable compromise on energy exports, much less to neutralize the territorial competition over Kirkuk.


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Interview With Masayuki (Yuki) Murata, Former President And Managing Director (2004–2012)
Insight 2019.11.01
Replacing Mr Shinichi (Shin) Hoshino who held the position for four years, Mr Masayuki Murata officially took over the role of President and Managing Director of IAL on April 1 2004.
Previous postings with Isuzu included to the Executive Support Office to assist senior management in developing strategic business alliances within Japan.
During this time Mr Murata worked closely with Isuzu Motors Limited President and Representative Director, Mr Yoshinori Ida.
Mr Murata's time in Australia was highly successful and highlighted by his tough negotiation with Isuzu Motors in Japan, where he doggedly fought for enhanced product for a diverse Australian market thirsty for fit-for-purpose and cost-effective capital equipment.
Your thoughts on three decades of market leadership in Australia?
Let me say, first and foremost, that this is certainly no mean feat and I genuinely congratulate my former colleagues at Isuzu Australia Limited on their epoch-making success. I know what sort of endeavour it entails to keep the market leadership position for such a long time, so I praise them and take great pride in the team I once worked with.
How did you find the experience of being the key liaison point between the manufacturer and local distributor?
I always interpreted the job of a liaison as one of working primarily to enhance the sales and profit of the local operation, which will then contribute to the parent company on the consolidated basis. Precisely for that reason I would often get tough with the parent company in requesting changes and improvements.
Following your tenure at Isuzu Australia Limited, you were posted to the European operations. How did this compare?
I transferred to Europe in 2012 based in Belgium, assigned to look after all the commercial vehicle distribution in Europe at large. This was a hard and complicated job to say the least. Unlike Australia, what I got confronted with was, so to speak, having to 'sell Japanese wine in France', which obviously wasn't easy!
How was IAL regarded within the Isuzu Motors Limited world?
Australia was (and still is) a market with a huge potential for Isuzu so I always believed we could significantly expand our business going forward and enhance our presence further. As a result, IAL eventually ended up among the most respected and most envied subsidiaries in the world. IAL may have kicked-off as a relatively low-profile organisation but it steadily kept growing into a robust and fully-fledged operation. As a matter of fact, in my time at IAL, I don't know how many delegates we received altogether from our fellow distributors worldwide, even including a group of Japanese dealers who wanted to learn from us.
How does the distributor/dealer relationship in Australia differ from other regions you have had experience working in?
In this regard, I can only draw a comparison between Australia and Europe, and I believe the distributor/dealer relationship can be correlative to the brand equity in each market. Isuzu is the market leader in Australia so both the distributor and its dealers have a high sense of brand ownership and recognise the social and industrial responsibility they ought to take on.
What do you see as future challenges and opportunities for commercial vehicle manufacturers and distributors?
Unless the world's economy ceases to exist, there will always be a need for CVs. But the product will need to keep abreast of the global evolution, meaning more sophisticated specifications to comply with future regulations, requiring more resources and higher cost. I personally believe that, having survived the critical phase in the early 2000s and the subsequent GFC, IAL has started anew with its financial health restored, and is equipped with the full capability to keep abreast of any future developments or changes. I trust we will prove to be the winner for sure.
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K-9s for Cops, public art campaign to memorialize Chicago Police Department's (CPD) fallen officers and support the families of police officers killed or catastrophically injured in the line of duty, is being produced by the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation (CPMF) in partnership with PAWS. German Shephard statues designed and painted by artists will be standing watch along the Magnificent Mile from July 23 until Labor Day.
With hopes to have 200 to 300 sponsored dogs, Richard "Rick" Simon, member of the Foundation's Advisory Board and Vice Chairman of the Board of The Magnificent Mile Association, is using the success of Horses of Honor, which raised over $800,000 in two years, as his inspiration.
Locally manufactured, approximately 54 inches tall, the statues are made of durable and weather-proof fiberglass and waiting to be sponsored. Local artists will be available to work with sponsors, decorating each statue with a unique design.
A Tuesday morning press conference at CPD Headquarters, launched the campaign. Sponsorship for each dog is $2,000, details and applications are on the K-9s for Cops website.
"We are honored to partner with the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, for this project," said PAWS Chicago Founder & Chair Paula Fasseas.
"We partner with police everyday. We have adoption centers, subsidized spay/neuter and dental care for people in high risk communities to help residents care and train their pets. Police are always bringing us animals they find or have been given. They know that we will heal them and get them ready for adoption."
Described by Simon as having a gun on his right hip and a paint brush on his left, Officer Peter Bucks, who painted the first dog, said "I worked on the Horses of Honor and I am truly blessed to serve the City of Chicago and to be one of these artists."
According to Simon, the Foundation is in the process of developing a contest for the best in show of the statues. "We want to 'up the game' to encourage artists to do their very best."
Many officers are depicted on the first of the painted canines. The Chicago flag along with a depiction of the downtown area are also incorporated in the statue's design by Bucks.
Representing the approximate 70 dogs in Chicago's K-9 Corp is Simon, the German Shepard.
Given a ball for good behavior, Simon was eager to accept pats and scratches as he chomped rigorously on his toy.
Officer Patrick McGrath, Simon's partner, pointed out that the black and white checkered collar on the statue and worn by Simon is a badge of service. Simon has the special collar because he has had five "finds," quite an accomplishment as he is only in his second year of service, said McGrath.
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Finding America's "Lost Einsteins"
Exposure to innovation creates equity among inventors and economic growth for all
For centuries, inventors have been the pioneers of progress. Policymakers look to harness this potential for economic growth by creating robust ecosystems for innovation and ideas to thrive. Yet, current policies, such as tax cuts and STEM investments, may be targeting the wrong solutions.
Opportunity Insights used new de-identified databases linking patent records to tax and school district records to study the lives of more than one million inventors in the United States.
By tracking these individuals from birth onward, key factors were identified that determine who becomes an inventor (as measured by filing a patent).
The results show that improving opportunity and exposure to innovation among disadvantaged groups may have greater potential to spark an innovative spirit than the traditional policy approaches.
Print Summary Brief
Large disparities exist in innovation rates by socioeconomic class, race, and gender.
Children with parents in the top 1% of the income distribution are ten times more likely to become inventors than children with below median income parents.
White children are three times more likely to become inventors than black children.
Only 18% of inventors are female. At the current rate of improvement, it will take another 118 years to reach gender parity.
Becoming an inventor relies upon excelling in STEM subjects and having a rich family.
Children at the top of their 3rd grade math class (measured by test scores), are much more likely to become inventors, but only if they come from high-income families.
Low-income students who score in the top 5 percent of 3rd grade math tests are no more likely to become inventors than below-average math students from affluent families.
The gap grows in later grades; by 8th grade, half of the gap in innovation by income can be explained by differences in test scores. Low-income children steadily fall behind their high-income peers over time
Students from low- and high-income families at the most innovative colleges (e.g., MIT, Cal Tech) patent at relatively similar rates, reinforcing the view that factors that affect children before they enter the labor market, such as childhood environment and exposure to innovation, drive much of the innovation gap.
Childhood exposure to innovation increases the chance of becoming an inventor.
Children who grow up in areas with more inventors are naturally more exposed to innovation and are more likely to become inventors themselves.
Exposure influences not just whether a child grows up to become an inventor but also the type of inventions he or she produces.
Similarly, children whose parents hold patents in a certain technology class are more likely to patent in exactly that field rather than in other closely related fields.
Exposure matters in a gender-specific manner.
Women are more likely to invent in a given technology class if they grew up in an area with many female inventors in that technology class. Growing up around male inventors has no impact on women's propensity to innovate.
Conversely, men's innovation rates are influenced by male rather than female inventors in their area.
If girls were as exposed to female inventors as boys are to male inventors, the gender gap in innovation would fall by half.
The inventors whose discoveries have the greatest scientific impact earn very high incomes.
The average patent holder earns approximately $256,000 per year in his or her mid-forties.
Individuals who make discoveries that have the greatest scientific impact (the most highly-cited patents) earn more than $1 million on average per year.
Women, minorities, and individuals from low income families are as underrepresented among star inventors as they are among inventors as a whole.
If women, minorities, and children from low-income families invent at the same rate as high-income white men, the innovation rate in America would quadruple.
What does this mean for policy?
Policymakers looking to fuel the engine of innovation by recovering the "Lost Einsteins" should consider:
Identifying female, minority, and low-income children who excel at STEM in early ages,
Increasing overall exposure to innovation in childhood through tailored mentorship programs, internships, or structural changes in schools and neighborhoods.
Improving opportunities for disadvantaged children may be valuable not just to reduce disparities in innovation but also to spur greater technological progress and growth.
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The Drinks Tray: Sherry, surely?
We must pity the latter type, for life has been unkind. The word 'sherry' conjures to his or her mind a dusty, musty and dimly lit childhood populated by well-meaning grandmothers that smelled of Lily of the Valley and lavender bags and – ever so slightly and not all the time - of Harvey's Bristol Cream.
Up where such ledgers are kept, there must be a heavy black mark by the name of John Harvey (the second), who perpetrated the latter diabolical perversion. The invention was christened (if that ain't blasphemy, what is?) 'dessert sherry', which really tells you all you need to know. They use it in 'trifle', apparently.
A chilled, bone-dry manzanilla or fino, however, is something different altogether. Accompanied by a handful of salted almonds or a couple of anchovy-stuffed olives, we submit that there is nothing better to drop into an empty stomach before lunch on a springtime Sunday when one wants, very discretely, to get a little buzz on.
With Easter in the offing, we can look forward to that somewhat bewildering but undeniably appetising dual prospect of lambs frolicking in the fields outside whilst inside their siblings sizzle away in the oven. These are, then, great days; we warmly recommend you pick up a bottle of sherry and pop it in the door of the 'fridge by way of celebration.


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Artwork Day: Top Ten Record Covers of the '00s
by James Lawrenson November 4th, 2010
Welcome to DiS is Ten's 'Artwork Day'. How are you? Well, I hope.
As the title suggests, there'll be some features on artwork: there'll be a good artwork top 10, and a bad artwork top 10. And then a couple of record label people are having their say, commenting about artwork in the past decade, as well as the future. And then lots of musicians will pick their favourite record sleeves. We are all going to have a lot of fun.
The past decade has seen the growing progression of mp3s, iPods, Spotify etc. Digital files on digital systems. Broadband killed the radio star. Physical record sales have declined, your music collection as permanent as a sandcastle, always at the whim of a finger of the delete key. Concurrent with that has been the decline of the album artwork, the physical package we hold in our hands while we give the record its first whirl. We don't read the lyrics sheet though, cos Jarvis told us not too.
Album covers have been reduced to tiny squares on a colour screen, the flood of digital blotting out the ink-on-cardboard beauty of before. Things are simpler, almost. Bands just need an image that looks good on a small screen. Artwork is dead.
Then again, there has been a reaction against this trend, as is always the case. Bands have started to innovate, to make physical albums more of keepsake, not something that you'll take to the record exchange when you need some cash. You have bands like of Montreal releasing an album on lamp format. You have Liars deluxe package of Sisterworld with its strange viewer. According to one contributor to the musician's favourite album sleeves, there's a record that folds up into a house. Labels like Constellation make a deal of having premium, high quality packaging. Claims of artwork's demise have been grossly exaggerated. And that's to ignore new trends, and the innovation that's possible with the digital age. How long before we have album covers that move, that contain GIFs or short videos?
Ultimately, artwork is always going to be needed, and necessary, as another component of the packaging of a band. Whether it's a photo of The Enemy looking tough in a grotty concrete council estate, or a high concept design of some sort of another by Liars, it's needed - even with record shops bleeding out on the high street - to have something that goes with your band, that says something about the group, what you stand for and what you're trying to do. It will always be important, and innovations should only make it more so over the coming years, whether that be in reacting against, or going with the digital grain.
The choice below represent my favourite artwork of the past decade. I will try to explain why, without resorting to "because it looks pretty" all the time. They are not in any order. Read on.
Zola Jesus - Stridulum EP
A simple idea, well executed (much like Yeah Yeah Yeah's recent egg crushing cover). Zola has a gallon of chocolate sauce poured over her head, but somehow it looks otherworldly, monstrous. The negative white background helps make it all the more stark. In an age where much artwork is 50 pixel squares, this stands out.
The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men
There's something about found images that always resonates with me, tiny pieces of social history like this, of some obscure English folk thing - the Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival. Given that the bassist was called the House of Lords (I can't be bothered to wikipedia as to why), they were clearly a band who liked to draw on that pastoral England thing. This image fitted what they were trying to do, while being bizarre enough to intrigue the mind. Why is something that looks like it should be in a straw covered field backed by modern buildings? Why is that man covered in straw? I do not know.
The Strokes - Is This It
Alright, I was 14 when this came out, and anything that featured a bit of pudenda was going to draw my eyes in, but Is This It is rather a grand sleeve. Simple, a bit kinky, black and white and soft tone. That could be used to say something about the band, but whatever. Like much of this top ten, it's a strong image. It's probably one of those album covers that'll be seen as 'iconic' for the whole decade, no doubt helped by the album being one of the most 'important' of the 00's. It's reminiscent of Helmut Newton's work...blah blah blah. I could go on, but I won't.
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Wolf's music went all major key on this record, so as good as advertisement as any for that was the decision to have a technicolour fairground ride, Wolf sat astride a deer. It's a great example of the design representing the music. He's since gone back to the moodiness of Wind In The Wires, at least artwork-wise anyway, but for one brief moment, the glitter came out. It perks you up to look at it, doesn't it? Admit it; you love it.
Hope of the States - L'Ark Pour Les Enfants Terrible
Hope of the States (one of the great forgotten bands of the noughties) worked for most of their career with type2error on their artwork, projections and videos. It created a unified image that worked magnificently. This limited edition EP was created from old tour flyers, folded up and tied with string. I could easily have given about eight other pieces of their stuff a place in this top 10 (heat reactive cover, hessian sleeve, the anatomy pictures inside The Lost Riots). A really tactile release, it was one way in which bands countered the rise of the digital age - by retreating to old fashioned design.
Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
Having as many members as the Polyphonic Spree do, there's a lot of creative possibilities for artwork. As such, Together We're Heavy represents the apotheosis of those options. The band stand far away, on a sand dune in coloured robes, with an over-saturated blue background. That's about it, but sometimes that's all you need.
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
It might all seem a bit "oh, I don't like that globalism malarkey" now, but it tapped right into a certain public mood of the time. That's kind of died away into cringing now, the anti-centralism fervour dulled into acceptance. Either way, these paintings, which reconstitute cities into blocks of buzzwords and concepts was political, intelligent and, ultimately, nice to look at. It is also good to have nostalgia for when we still had passion. Before we got eaten by the machine, man.
Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Those high concept Storm Thorgerson covers can be pretty terrible (Audioslave, Muse etc), and a lot of people would argue that this is another in his line of tiresome duds. A decapitated golden head letting out a beam of light, while someone in the background holds their head in their hands. It's pretty meaningless. Then again, it's a wonderful piece of high design, and doesn't it just suit the bands ridiculousness perfectly?
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Nothing wrong with a bit of collage.
The Research - Breaking Up
It's a good band photo, with a narrative 'n all. Down a side street, the lead singer stands sullen, watching his female bandmates depart in a taxi. What does it mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Has he been a drunken embarrassment again, and tried it on with one of them? Is he about to push that tottering luggage rack onto the car? Too many questions, too little time.
So those are my top 10 record covers of the past decade. But the question that is burning me up and plagues every one of my waking moments is - what are your favourite bits of album artwork for the ten years that DiS has been around? Please tell me below...
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Oz chronicles life inside an experimental cell block in the Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility: Level Four called Emerald City.
6 DVD's Betty Suarez is smart, sweet and hard working. The only problem is that she's not thin and beautiful like all her coworkers at Mode, the high-fashion magazine where she works. The only reason the publisher hired her to be his son's secretary, is that he thought Betty was someone who Daniel would never sleep with. Betty's hard work and determination earns Daniel's respect, as she helps him find his way through the shark infested waters of the fashion industry. Ugly Betty is based on a Colombian telenovela "Yo Soy Betty La Fea".
DVD's zijn in perfecte staat. Hoesje waar de dvd's insteken is gescheurd.
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Jamie Oliver shares gorgeous new photos of his children and wife Jools
What a lovely family!
June 17, 2019 - 20:00 BST Hanna Fillingham Jamie Oliver shared some lovely photos of his children and wife Jools, which he posted on Instagram
Jamie Oliver is a doting dad to five children, and while he tends to keep them out of the spotlight, the celebrity chef couldn't resist posting a series of pictures from his family albums as he marked Father's Day on Sunday. Taking to Instagram, the Naked Chef star shared a series of photos from over the years, including one of himself dressed up as a Stormtrooper while taking his oldest four children to school, and another of himself and wife Jools Oliver with their daughters Poppy, 17, Daisy, 16, Petal, ten, and oldest son Buddy, eight, which was taken in their garden. Jamie also posted photos of himself with his dad Trevor and his late grandfathers Ted and Kenneth.
Jools and Jamie Oliver with four of their five children
There is no doubt that Jamie is a doting dad to his children, and while he is often away during the week working, he makes sure that weekends are dedicated to his family. The famous chef previously told HELLO! about the set-up, saying: "Since Poppy was born, I just have to start at five, finish at 10 at night, Monday to Friday. have my structured holidays, my structured weekends, and I try to be a good boss and a good dad." Jools also praised Jamie on his parenting during an interview on the Made by Mammas podcast. The Little Bird designer said: "He is very good. He is den building, going on waters, rafting, with River doing all sort of things upside down."
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Jamie dressed up as a Stormtrooper on the school run
Jamie and Jools are currently juggling looking after toddlers and teenagers, with their youngest son River about to turn three in August. Next year, meanwhile, their oldest daughter Poppy will be starting university – and she is set to follow her dad in his footsteps. While Jamie is known for being a TV chef, he was in a band during his youth, and Poppy is looking at studying music. Jools was recently asked on Instagram what the teenager was hoping to read, to which she responded: "Hopefully English or music."
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Although Jools and Jamie have their hands full, the couple haven't completely ruled out having another baby in the near future. Jamie told The Mirror last year: "I've tried to shut the shop a few times and I've failed. I just don't know any more. My intention would be to not have another one, but she might have different ideas and my capacity for self-restraint clearly isn't great, I don't have a good track record. We should phone a bookie. What are the odds? Will they/won't they?"
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MANILOW'S
DEBORAH WILKER Music WriterSUN-SENTINEL
It was a small but pivotal role on Murphy Brown last season that brought Barry Manilow back into the hearts of baby boomers. Seems Murphy's new baby would only doze off to the soothing sounds of Manilow's sugary hits. This was a source of great upset to Murphy - a diehard Motown fan.
The bit became a running gag at Manilow's expense - that is until Manilow graciously appeared in the season-ending episode and blew Murphy away with a gripping ballad called I Am Your Child.
It was that televised moment more than any other that proved resoundingly that Manilow has never deserved the bad rap; never warranted the jokes about sappy hits and flowery lyrics. As if to prove it all over again, Manilow came out charging at the Sunrise Musical Theatre Thursday, with a two-hour greatest hits concert tailored to please his adoring fans. "I'm Jewish you know ... just like salmon swimming upstream, I have to go to Florida," he said of his return to the Sunrise.
Then he continued to charm with the simplest gestures. In the first of four shows (he plays through Sunday), Manilow, 47, spoke of past tours, which had focused on swing music, jazz, and show tunes, then said this one would be strictly about the hits that made him famous. He greeted latecomers with a graceful sweep of his hand, saying, "C'mon, sit down," as if he were welcoming old friends to his living room.
Opening with Ready To Take A Chance Again and Daybreak, Manilow quickly moved behind his grand piano where he always seems most comfortable. Backed by an able nine-piece band and a space-age set, the show hummed along on potent memories: Weekend In New England, I Made It Thorugh The Rain, Somewhere In The Night and on through the gold and platinum.
But it was Can't Smile Without You that had fans swooning, particularly lucky audience-member Debbie Savigliano, 26, of Fort Lauderdale who was selected to join Manilow on stage. Of course Manilow's been doing this bit for years, but it never gets old, and fans love it. Whatever it was, the more than 3,700 fans on hand made sure to let him know, chanting "Barry we love you," through much of the show.
Among the other highlights of his packed 27-song set: Somewhere Down The Road, Copacabana and Could It Be Magic. He took a break from his own stuff, only long enough to sing two songs that he had produced for pal Dionne Warwick: Deja Vu, and I'll Never Love This Way Again.
He also drew cheers for the logical set-closers Magic and Mandy, then encored with I Write The Songs and Miracle to several standing ovations.
Nothing to be ashamed of here. Just an uplifting evening of genuine entertainment. So by all means go - and go proudly.


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To be published as Wong, P. T. P. (in press). Existential theoretical framework. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (p. 0-0). New York, NY: SAGE.
Existentialism is concerned with the inescapable aspects of human existence and addresses the recurrent questions of human struggles: What am I doing here? What is the point of striving toward a goal, when death is the inevitable end? How can I live a worthwhile life? How can one find happiness is a world full of suffering? Because clients may raise existential concerns during counseling, implicitly or explicitly, psychotherapists, regardless of their therapeutic modality, need to be prepared to address these concerns.
Unlike other approaches to psychology and psychotherapy, the existential perspective focuses on the role of meaning as a pathway to survive and thrive in a chaotic and meaningless world. This perspective offers a way to explore the richness and depth of human existence and shows the possibilities of living fully and vitally through meaning making. An existential therapist does not see life as a problem to be solved but as a series of dilemmas and paradoxes to be accepted and lived with openness and authenticity.
Existential therapy is both a philosophical and a psychological way of helping individuals gain a greater understanding of themselves and the predicaments of living in a world full of uncertainties, absurdity, and suffering. It is philosophical to the extent that the insights of existential philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger provide the foundation for existential therapy. It is also psychological to the extent that psychological theories and experimental findings have both clarified existential issues and specified the psychological processes regarding the meanings of life and death. Although there are different schools of existentialism, they share some common themes, which are discussed in the following sections.
Phenomenology is the basis for both existential philosophy and psychotherapy. It allows people to be free from their assumptions and biases in order to understand lived experiences as truthfully as possible. It seeks to describe and clarify the immediate lived experience with everyday language and believes that truth about reality can be found only in lived experiences rather than in observed experiences via scientific experimentation.
The physical world (Umwelt). This is the natural world, and includes bodily sensations such as pleasure and pain, warmth and cold. The paradox is that while physical death ends life, it is only in accepting death that people can fully live.
The social world (Mitwelt). This encompasses one's social relations, community, and culture. The awareness of the need for others as well as the sense of separation from them belongs to this dimension—so does the dilemma of "getting ahead" versus "getting along," or fission versus fusion.
The psychological or personal world (Eigenwelt). This is the subjective, phenomenological world of personal meanings, such as the awareness of one's past, present, and future possibilities, and personal strengths and weaknesses. In this realm, people often face the predicament of desiring freedom and autonomy, but not wanting to take responsibility.
The spiritual or existential world (Ubenwelt). This represents the world of one's assumptions, beliefs, and values. This is where one develops worldviews and value systems, in which one's attitudes toward life, other people, and the world are established. This is also where one develops a connection with transcendental reality. Both personal and cultural myths are part of one's attempts to weave a coherent story about one's life. The quandary is that people want to believe in ultimate meaning and purpose, but at the same time experience life in a chaotic and meaningless world.
Thus, according to the existential framework, being aware of being-in-the-world means realizing that one is a bio-psycho-social-spiritual being, inseparable from the world in which one lives and operates. Thus, the dilemma is that because such awareness is anxiety producing, people either seek futile escape in distractions and a shallow existence or confront their existential anxieties with openness and courage, striving to become a fully functioning human being.
Freedom is another inevitable aspect of the human condition, according to existentialism. To French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, freedom is the foundation of all human values. Through the exercise of freedom, people transcend their existential givens and biological and environmental influences to create their own future as free moral agents. The capacity to choose how one exists determines what kind of person one becomes. Thus, as Sartre coined, l'existence précède l'essence—existence precedes essence.
However, Sartre was aware of the downside of freedom. As he also stated, human beings are "condemned to be free." At any given moment, choosing one option effectively cuts off other options. Although people are free to choose, they are responsible for the consequences of their decisions. Thus, freedom of choice entails responsibility and generates anxiety. Nevertheless, there is still an upside to freedom—life satisfaction comes from the realization that one has pursued and attained one's chosen life goals in spite of internal and external constraints.
Viktor E. Frankl, the Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, likewise makes "freedom of will" a basic tenant of his existential theory. As his well-known statement goes, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" (1985, p. 86). Hence, in his view, one always has the defiant human spirit no matter how oppressive the situation, and such freedom enables one to transform all negatives into positives, even in circumstances beyond one's control.
Frankl differentiates between responsibility and responsibleness. The former comes from possessing the freedom of will, whereas the latter refers to exercising freedom to make the right decisions in response to the demands of life. A few examples of existential questions demanding a responsible answer include the following: Do I choose to persist or do I give up? Do I intend to stay in misery or do I want to create a more meaningful life? According to the existential framework, to answer these questions, people cannot arbitrarily create any meaning but must listen to their intuitive conscience and understand the characteristics of their situation before making a responsible decision.
Authenticity is also a recurrent theme in the existential literature. Heidegger differentiates between the nonauthentic and authentic modes of living. Nonauthentic people give up their individuality and responsibility for the security of being part of "they"—the herd or the prevailing societal culture. There are benefits to conforming to society in that it provides some sense of security and meaning as buffers against existential anxiety. The drawback of nonauthentic living, though, is that people never know who they really are and what they really want in life; they may reach the end of their lives without having really lived.
In contrast, authentic people assume their responsibility to live in a way consistent with their true nature and core values. They strive to become what they were meant to be. However, this path entails confronting existential anxiety. Authenticity begins with confronting one's fear of nothingness. In other words, death anxiety serves to awaken one's quest for meaning, leading to authentic living. According to Frankl, it is the discovery of one's inner vision about one's uniqueness and singularity that endows life with deeper meaning.
To choose the possibilities for living an authentic life and becoming a unique and fully functioning human being is fraught with risk—the risk of choosing the wrong life goal, the risk of failure, and the self-doubts regarding the futility of goal striving because it ends in nothingness. The paradox is that only in confronting all these anxieties can people live an authentic and fulfilling life.
All individuals are free to choose either mode of existence. Here lies the fundamental ontological dilemma of existentialism: On the one hand, one will feel ontological regret and guilt if one chooses the nonauthentic way of existence and fails to fulfill all the opportunities. On the other hand, one will experience ontological anxieties if one chooses the authentic mode of existence. Either way, one cannot escape existential anxiety.
In Frankl's view, the real choice is between the boredom of existential vacuum and the excitement of pursuing meaning and self-transcendence. In spite of the risks and difficulties, the quest for meaning is associated with the excitement of creating a personal path and making a unique contribution to the world.
From an essentialist perspective, Frankl considers "the will to meaning" as originating from the spiritual nature of human beings—it represents the most noble and humanistic aspects of the human condition. To be fully human is to become engaged in the search for self-transcendence. This is a paradox: by losing oneself in pursuing self-transcendence, one actually finds true self identify.
Happiness and meaningfulness are the two terminal values most commonly sought after in life. According to Frankl, happiness, when directly pursued, eludes; but meaning, when pursued, ushers happiness in through the back door. Thus, an existential framework asserts that the quest for meaning should be one's top priority in a world full of suffering, because meaning not only protects people against pain and anxieties, but also sheds light on how to live a good life.
The foundational existential anxieties of death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness, as identified by American existential psychiatrist, Irvin D. Yalom. They are inherent in the human condition without any exception, regardless of whether people are aware of their presence.
The common anxieties that are contingent on sociocultural conditions, which include stress (both everyday hassle and major life events), pain (both physical and psychic pain), human foibles (addiction, greed, and lack of self-control), and human evils (oppression, exploitation, injustice and cruelty). These predicaments are more prevalent in highly developed societies, but less in primitive hunting-gathering communities because of the latter's simpler standard of living.
The existential framework offers an answer for both types of suffering: It not only makes suffering more bearable, but also beneficial. For instance, it can address suffering through methods such as accepting what cannot be changed, attributing a positive meaning to a negative experience, and learning lessons of wisdom and patience from transcending adversity. In a paradoxical way, sufferings and anxieties drive people to dig deeper into their inner resources and discover the meaning and joy beneath the surface of suffering.
Existentialism addresses the inescapable aspects of human existence through the central role of meaning. It believes that all human beings are endowed with the unique capacity for meaning seeking and meaning making, and that meaning is at the core of human existence and well-being. Meaning permeates every aspect of human life, from daily mundane activities to transcendental spiritual experiences. That is why, in this perspective, meaning is essential to both healing and flourishing.
Meaning of life is one of Frankl's basic assumptions in logotherapy. Because he believes that meaning is essential to mental health, just as air is essential to physical health, he also hypothesizes that meaning can be found in any situation until one's last breath. Basically, he recognizes three levels of meaning: ultimate meaning, meaning of life as a whole, and meaning of the moment or the present situation. All three types of meaning are important for the existential perspective.
Frankl acknowledges that ultimate meaning is beyond human comprehension. It represents a worldview that there is a grand design or ultimate end in spite of all the chaos and absurdity. Ultimate meaning may be considered a myth that is necessary and beneficial in addressing issues such as the meaning of suffering, the meaning of existence, and the meaning of death. Thus, ultimate meaning belongs to the spiritual and transcendental realm.
Meaning of the moment refers to the meaning potential hidden in everyday situations. It is available to those willing to pause and reflect before deciding on a responsible action or attitude demanded by that situation. Meaning of life as a whole requires weaving a coherent life story that integrates the past, present, and future. One's narrative represents an important aspect of the existential perspective.
Finally, it is important to differentiate cognitive meaning from existential meaning. As contemporary existential psychologist Paul T. P. Wong has maintained, people are born naïve scientists and philosophers. As naïve scientists, people have the innate tendency to ask questions and make causal attributions about the natural world. People constantly detect both connections and patterns about events around them. This associative cognitive capacity enables people to predict, control and, thus, increase their likelihood of survival.
As naïve philosophers, people also have the innate capacity to reflect on such existential questions as who they are, why they are here, and what the point of striving is. In this view, this kind of existential search is much less common than dealing with the pressing problems of modern life, because most people are too busy making a living or too absorbed in enjoying life when everything goes well. Typically, people engage in existential exploration only when they experience existential crises, such as encounters with suffering and death.
However, cognitive and existential meaning may interact with each other. According to cognitive models of meaning making, people are engaged in meaning making whenever their belief system or the cognitive consistency in their meaning system is violated by events that happen to them. The resulting uncomfortable arousal will result in meaning making, such as revising the global meaning in their belief systems.
It is supported by the existing empirical evidence of meaning research.
Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. Macquarrie & E. S. Robinson, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row.
van Deurzen, E. (2010). Everyday mysteries: A handbook of existential psychotherapy (2nd ed.). London, UK: Routledge.


The US oil-rig count climbed for a second-straight week, by seven to 414, according to driller Baker Hughes.
The gas-rig count increased by four to 92. With miscellaneous rigs unchanged at two, the total rig count rose by 11 to 508.
Last week, the oil-rig count resumed its climb after a one-week pause. The number of active rigs totaled 407, with one rig brought online.
This tally has gained in 10 out of the last 11 weeks.
In a note on Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that the recent gain in the US oil-rig count is one reason why they are losing conviction in their call for a re-balancing of the market by mid-2017. A re-balancing would bring supply, which is in excess right now, more in line with demand, which has room to increase.
"The US continues to surprise, and the market seems to be underestimating the impact of some rigs that have already been added," Adam Longson and his team wrote.
After the rig-count data release, crude oil prices remained weak alongside stocks and bonds. West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 3% to as low as $46.19 per barrel.


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Washington Nationals news & notes: Davey Martinez on Juan Soto taking three straight called strikes; Kyle McGowin & his slider + more...
Highlights from Davey Martinez's pregame Zoom call with reporters on Saturday afternoon...
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Three Straight Called Strikes To Juan Soto:
"I want to go back and look if he ever took three straight strikes before, because I can't remember that [ever happening]."
"Me neither," Davey Martinez said.
The conversation in his pregame Zoom call on Saturday was about Juan Soto's backwards K in an eighth inning at bat against New York Mets' reliever Jeurys Familia on Friday night that began with the Washington Nationals' 22-year-old slugger taking a splitter, slider, and sinker that weren't all that close, to get up 3-0, before the hard-throwing right-hander came back with a sinker, a splitter, and a four-seam fastball, at 96.8, 93.5, and 98.6 MPH, respectively, all three of them called strikes on Soto, the first two on the outside edge, and strike three low in the zone but a strike on Gameday's pitch tracker.
So was Soto, who doesn't see a whole lot of strikes, caught off guard by three consecutive pitches in the zone, or did he not think the pitches were strikes?
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"Yeah, he thought a couple pitches were borderline," Martinez said, "... but hey, when you face a guy like Familia, he's effectively wild, we know that, but you've got to be ready, because at any given moment he can throw you a ball right down the middle, and one pitch I thought Juan should have swung at, the other pitches, they were borderline, but with two strikes, for me, I often tell the guys if you think it's that close, try to foul it off, or try to do something, but don't get caught leaving it up to the umpire."
Josh Bell started up 2-0 in the next at bat, and K'd swinging at three straight pitches, and then Carter Kieboom went down swinging at a 2-2 slider.
Familia, as Martinez said, is not a fun at bat.
"He's got tremendous movement on his fastball," the manager said, "he really does. It drops quite a bit, but the biggest thing is that you have to, as a hitter, when you know he's going to throw hard, you've got to stay in the at bat. He can throw two balls way out of the strike zone and the next two pitches, as we saw yesterday, or three pitches, he can throw them right down the middle, so you've got to be ready, got to be aware of every pitch, and wait for that one that he makes a mistake on and gives you a ball to hit."
McGow-in To Keep Throwing Sliders:
While we're going all micro, and looking at specific at bats, how about Kyle McGowin's 7-pitch, 7-slider K of Dominic Smith in the seventh inning of Friday night's game. McGowin pounded the zone with sliders, mostly down, mostly in, got up 0-2, as Smith swung and missed at two, then after the Mets' slugger fouled off four, he threw a fifth, and got him looking with one of two sliders he threw middle-out-ish.
It takes some fortitude to keep going to the well like that, sticking with slider after slider.
"It's hard," McGowin's manager said after the game, and after the reliever got a hold with a 19-pitch, 15-strike, scoreless inning of work (in which he threw 16 sliders).
"The one thing that's good is that he can change speeds on his slider a little bit and it has a different shape to it. Some are harder, and some are a little slower and a little bit more — it has an up and down effect, but ... he knows who he is, which is awesome, we've often talked about, 'Know who you are,' and he knows who he is, and I was hoping — that was the pitch that we were hoping — I don't call games, but we go through reports and we talk to them about facing different guys and he stuck with it and got a big out."
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It was the third outing for McGowin in the eighth inning of a tightly-contested game since he returned from a strained right biceps which landed him on the IL back on July 11th. He made nine rehab appearances before coming back up on August 22nd, and all his trips to the mound so far have been in the eighth. So, is that his role going forward? Set-up man?
Or have the matchups in those appearances just coincidentally been ones that his manager liked?
"It was a little bit of both," Martinez said. "He's throwing the ball well, he's throwing strikes. I often talk about — as you know — about the walks, and he's shown me every time I've put him out there that he's willing to throw strikes."
On Friday night in New York, he was going up against the left-handed hitting Smith, switch-hitting Jonathan Villar, and lefty Jeff McNeil (who singled with two out to extend the inning before McGowin got the third out).
"It was a perfect — for me, I thought it was a perfect matchup for the guys he was facing, and he did really good, like I said, he came out and pumped strikes, so I think he actually did it in Miami one day too, I put him in in the eighth inning and he did well.
"So like I said, there's a lot of things to figure out in that bullpen, especially the back end of the bullpen right now, people are going to get opportunities, they're going to get put in situations, and as I try to map out the game and blocks of where I think these guys will fit, he fit perfectly in that group of hitters."
Avila Plan/Expanded Roster:
Washington Post writer Jesse Dougherty noted on Saturday that catcher Alex Avila made a rehab start in the Florida Complex League (that's actually what they call it now), going 0 for 3 at the plate. Avila, 34, landed on the IL with bilateral calf strains back in early July, and it's the first game back for the veteran catcher, who still has some work to do before he's ready to return to the majors.
"He'll stay down there for now," Martinez said on Saturday afternoon, with "down there", at the club's facilities in West Palm Beach, FL.
"He's playing some games, getting as many at bats as he needs, he's catching, so we'll keep him down there until he feels like he's ready to go."
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And when he does feel like he's ready, with rosters expanding to 28 players (from 26), can the club carry three catchers, with Tres Barrera and Riley Adams handling catching duties for the Nationals right now, with Avila injured, Yan Gomes traded, and René Rivera DFA'd?
"I think there is a scenario that we carry three," Martinez said.
"We're just now starting discussions, [GM Mike] Rizzo and I — about what we're going to do, we haven't set anything in stone yet, but yeah there is a possibility we keep three catchers."
The fourth-year skipper was asked what boxes are left for Avila to check before they have to make a decision.
"As you know, he's got to catch at least 6-7 innings in a game, go back-to-back days, want him to go back-to-back days," Martinez said.
"Want him to get up the next day and feel no pain, and get at bats. He hasn't played in a very long time, so I want him to see some pitches and get some good, quality at bats."
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In a village that seems to be doomed by the gods, there is one family that lives unafraid. A family that knows the secret hidden inside the womb of the goddess. Gold! As much gold as you can take as long as you are not touched by the beast… The brilliant scary, horrifying film is based on a couple of stories written by Marathi writer Narayan Dharap who in turn was inspired by Stephen King. The writing is practically flawless, the music is haunting and the performances jaw-droppingly good. Brilliant watch.
'Greed is good,' said Gordon Gekko, and this fantasy horror film writers and directors Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi and two other writers Mitesh Shah and Adesh Prasad take us down the rabbit hole and we watch a fabulous story unfold.
The setting is brilliant. It's like an old moralistic tale of incessant rain and thunder and all shades of black and grey. It has the reds of blood and widowhood, and the gold of greed glitters beautifully. The background music keeps you from breathing, keeps you from thinking anything other than watch the story unfold on the screen, and you begin to anticipate the pain in the belly of the beast each time Sohum Shah, who plays Vinayak Rao emerge with gold coins for his family.
Narayan Dharap wrote creepy tales of witches and cursed moons and the undead, inspired by Stephen King. Based on his tale of a witchy grandmother (and who has not thought their wrinkly grandmothers with pale liquidy eyes and gnarly fingers weren't a mutant or in the least a witch?), Tumbbad tells a tale of a village so cursed by the gods, it rains incessantly. But Vinayak's family thrives because they have found the key to the local diety's gold. The curse of greed is passed on. There is skin touched by the beast, melting and seething with pus and boils, there are hearts beating with greed even though the body has disintegrated, there is a living breathing womb and more to keep horror fans happy. There's even music that keeps you frozen to the seats. The acting by every character - Sohum Shah as the grown up Vinayak, the little kid Mohammad Samad, Dhundiraj Jogalekar, Deepak Damle, Jyoti Malshe, Anita Date - is just awesome. The period setting is crafted well, the creepy prosthetics and homes in ruins… Everything comes together to scare you into not touching the popcorn.


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Air Peace Chairman, Allen Onyema
Air Peace boss opens up on 20aircraft benchmark, high taxation
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Disagrees with AfDB President on safety in Nigeria
MORE criticism is trailing the recent statement credited to the Aviation round Table (ART) calling for government to increase the number of aircraft for attaining Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from two to 20.
This time from the Chairman / Chief executive of Air Peace Mr. Allen Onyema who said that the body cannot just seat and make statements on things they have not experienced.
Mr. Onyema, who spoke with aviation correspondents yesterday in Abuja at the just concluded World Aviation Forum (WAF) stated that there was nothing wrong with the status quo and that all over the world airlines with one aircraft on their fleet operate and that the benchmark of two was not wrong.
The Air Peace boss also decried the excessive charges and taxes imposed on African airlines by the continent's governments and organisations and condemned the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Mr, Akinwunmi Adesina for labelling the continent's airlines as poorly managed, saying that Adesina was ill-informed about the states of the airlines on the continent.
On the 20 aircraft benchmark as prescribed by the ART he said, "in the United States of America there are some airlines with just one aircraft. In fact it can be justified if you have two aircraft and choose to do only Lagos-Abuja or Abuja-Ilorin, the operator can fly around and maintain his capacity. This thing doesn't affect Air Peace because we have 21 aircraft but what is wrong is wrong. With all due respect people must not posit their old ideas and entrench it as word of authority."
He also flayed what he described as armchair punditry from individuals that are living in the lost glory of an airline no longer in existence.
He decried that certain positions were put forward to confuse government.
On a paper presentation at the forum by Adesina, which alleged that African airlines were poorly maintained, Onyema, disagreed with the AfDB's helmsman's position.
Rather, he emphasised that the continent's carriers especially airlines in Nigeria were over-regulated by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and insisted they could compete with any airline in the world.
He explained that such comments affected insurance premiums paid by African airlines, which he said were having negative impacts on their performances and financial resources.
He posited that on the average, Nigerian airlines pay at least $2.8m for C-Checks of aircraft while their competitors could carry out such maintenances for a mere $500, 000, adding that insurance premiums paid on aircraft is quadruple of what legacy airlines pay around the world.
Onyema insisted that all Nigerian airlines were as safe as their counterparts in Europe and America despite the harsh operating environment in the country.
"I don't know what President of AfDB is talking about. Let me tell you something, which you know, NCAA in fact is safety-centric maybe because of the accidents of the past. They hound the airlines into doing the right thing. We are over-regulated by NCAA. What they can allow in America and Europe, NCAA will not allow it here.
"The money we spend to maintain our fleet, the legacy airlines of this world do not spend it. I have never done any C-check that is less than $2.8m, yet all over the world, people do C-Check with $500,000 because some components that will expire in two or three months are still left on the aircraft because they are very close to source of materials unlike here that we have to do everything at a go.
"I disagree with Adesina on that statement because this is impunity the foreign countries hinge on. They tell you Nigeria is unsafe in order to add more insurance premiums for themselves. What I pay as insurance premiums on one aircraft, the legacy airlines of this world would pay it on four aircraft. They tell you Nigeria is unsafe and yet, all of them still scramble to come here. It is what I call international aero politics, which is very bad," he added.
However, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in a recent statement rated the continent's airlines very high in terms of safety and maintenance of fleet.
According to the body, African airlines had significantly improved in safety, which explains why there had not been any commercial air accidents among the carriers in the past two years.
Onyema, on high charges and taxes, warned that high charges and taxes on operating airlines in the continent would cripple carriers in Africa.
He lamented that operators on the continent especially airlines in Nigeria pay spurious taxes and charges to government agencies, State Governments and organisations, stressing that unlike in other parts of the world where their airlines were given leeway to boost their operations, the reverse was the case in the country.
He lamented that most of government officials were unfriendly with private investors in the country, saying that rather than helping businesses to grow, they contribute to their early demise by their actions.
"Excess taxation is one of the banes of our aviation industry, it's one of the things that is stunting our growth in this part of the world and except that is addressed, nothing will happen. But, in order to address that, the Federal Government set up a tax force in which I am a member to look into the issue."
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While the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams plodded down the field at Atlanta's Mercedez-Benz Stadium, the T.V. ads kept audiences entertained amidst the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever.
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Finishing first in USA Today's ad meter, the NFL's centennial commercial stole the show during Sunday's broadcast. Featuring iconic players and epic recalls from games past, the ad was veritable who's who of NFL lore. Behind this spot was 72andsunny, a full-service agency with offices in L.A., New York, and Amsterdam.
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        public string TooltipResourceName => "BankCantBeDeleted";
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