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Science : Mini meteor flies in from outer space
By Jeff Hecht
A TINY meteoroid that streaked through the atmosphere on 10 January may
have come from beyond the Solar System. The meteoroid, which weighed only about
a millionth of a gram, is just one of a new class of "micrometeorites" that
appear to be specks of dust left over from the formation of the Solar
John Mathews of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and his
colleagues used the 300-metre Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to study
radar beams bounced off the hot gas that surrounds meteoroids as they fall into
Earth's atmosphere and burn up. By observing the reflected beams they picked up
the smallest meteoroids seen to date.
Unlike large meteoroids, which tend to be fragments of debris from comets
which orbit in the same plane as the planets, the micrometeorites "are coming in
from virtually all over the sky", says Mathews. At last week's meeting of the
American Geophysical Union in Baltimore, he announced that many seem to have
travelled on orbits that took them close to the Sun, suggesting that they are
made of dust rather than ice.
The micrometeorites may be remnants of the material that formed the Sun and
planets. Although they are now in short-lived orbits in the inner Solar System,
Mathews believes they originated in the distant Oort Cloud, a reservoir of
comets far beyond Neptune. "We really don't understand how they rain into the
inner Solar System," he adds.
One meteoroid spotted in January was moving so fast that it would have
escaped from the Solar System had it not hit the Earth's atmosphere. Mathews
suspects it came from outside the Solar System—perhaps from an
interstellar gas cloud or a planetary system. However, it is also possible that
it was accelerated by the gravity of Jupiter or Saturn in a close flyby.
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Q: How to design large applications with little planning experience I understand there is plenty of information on the internet about planning and implementing said solid plan in building a large software application, but I was hoping to get something a little more specific to aid my approach for this specific instance.
Some Background:
We're a web hosting company that has a team of 3 developers. My colleague and lead developer has been with the company a few years, and up until myself, and another developer were hired, he was the sole one looking after all the company's projects.
All three of us have very little experience in leading a team, or even working with other developers in a meaningful sense. We've all come from small business backgrounds where input has simply gone in our ears, and code has come out.
There's some benefits to our position as well; our team is fairly autonomous. Apart from a few directives given by management, we have total control and freedom in managing our projects, deadlines and the tools used to implement our solutions. It's a pretty great gig, but we're all around the same age (early-mid twenties) and so there's not so much team-lead experience there.
The Application:
Our current billing system is the oft maligned WHMCS - which is a plight of many other hosting companies I'm sure. As a result, we've been tasked with designing a replacement that has all of the features we need specifically for our operations.
At the start of the year, my lead developer began working on it. This was the traditional case of 'begin prototyping and see what happens'. While his code was great, and the foundation solid, there was zilch going on in terms of scoping (the designer hadn't even looked at it yet), and now the code base is starting to creak under it's own weight, and it's barely a third done.
Me:
I've come along from a small web design business where I was considered the 'go-to' guy, so I took it upon myself in many instances to attempt planning a project that more than once has saved the profit margin from dipping into the red. This has helped a little in convincing the lead developer to adopt a more careful, structured approach that allows us to work as a team, and have this quite critical piece of software not be a steaming mess of bug fixes and hacky patch-ups.
I'm a journeyman developer, so I'm not well versed in best practices, I don't know three or five or ten programming languages, but I can code. And I'm a great communicator (in real life, not when writing questions like this ~_~), so I hope what I learn here will be able to directly translate into something that benefits our small team.
The actual question:
For a big old 'TLDR;' here: What are the preferred methods of planning a large codebase? We're our own masters in this, so we have no guidance. Muchas gracias in advance!

A: The issue you are facing IMHO is a growing amount of technical debt. While usually attributed to poor design, I attribute to overall poor software engineering practices. The problem is, once you've accumulated some, you'll have to pour a bunch of resources in to get out of it before you start seeing major improvements. But in the end, I promise the work will pay off.
I'd say make sure to build it iteratively. IMHO you want to get to a usable and testable code base ASAP, so figure out the minimum set of functionality you'll need to have a product. Not even a competitive product, just a thing that works. This should help keep you focused and keep you from adding too many YAGNI features. If you get into the swing of quick iterations, you can also use them as a vehicle for slowly increasing your software control capabilities.
You didn't mention it in your post, but you had better be using some sort of version control. Make sure you have an issue tracker (its all in my head is a terrible way to track issues). Make sure you fix bugs before moving on to adding features. Implement a continuous integration and test server. Not all of these are necessary for all projects, and they come with a pretty steep cost for setup and training, but they are worth it in the end.
When possible you want to split your code into reusable modules. Got a bit of code that handles authentication? Put it in its own module. Ect. It is very possible to do this too much, but done well it can increase your code re-usability. In some build systems this can also be a mechanism for caching the build, so that you only remake or retest elements of the code that have changed.
Finally, I suggest adopting a company wide coding standard and enforce it through code reviews. One of the highlights of your post to me was "lead developer began working on it". It sounds like only one guy is touching the code...this scares the crap out of me. You need to have shared ownership of the code, else when the lead gets tired of working on this code base and moves to a different company you'll be up the creek without a paddle. Coding standards help make all the code in the company "feel" the same, which can help readibility, but I do enjoy code reviews. Done correctly, they can really be used as a learning tool and help everyone understand all of the code to some degree (done poorly they can serve to only make all your engineers hate each other.)

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M.B.B.S. [Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery], 1984, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, University of Allahabad, U.P., India.
Research Training Fellowship in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, 1996-97, Lars Leksell Center for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, USA, Funding Support Grant from Elekta AB, Sweden, India Liaison Office.
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Senior Registrar Neurosurgery [Post-Doctoral], Department of Neurological Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India, January 27, 1996 Through November 25, 1996.
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Medical Officer, Oil & Natural Gas Commission, BRBC, Bombay [Offshore Installations], India, May 22, 1990 Through November 30, 1990.
Senior Research Fellow, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, At Postgraduate Department of Surgery, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, University of Allahabad, U.P., India, December 01, 1987 Through March 30,1998.
Resident Surgical Officer, Post Graduate Department of Surgery, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, University of Allahabad, U.P., India, March 01, 1987 Through June 30, 1989.
Housemanship General Surgery, Postgraduate Department of Surgery, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, University of Allahabad, UP, India 01, 1985 Through June 30, 1986.
"Craniopharyngioma - A Ten Year Retrospective Institutional Experience"; Submitted To The Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, May 1995, For the Degree of M.Ch. in Neurosurgery.
"Role of Homologous Platelet-Derived Wound Healing Factors [PDWHF] in Treatment of Chronic Non-Healing Ulcers" Submitted to the University of Allahabad, May 1989, for the Degree of M.S. in General Surgery.
Lars Leksell Fellowship in Radiosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Lars Leksell Center for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, November 26, 1996 till Date.
Senior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, On Proposed Project "Role of Homologous Platelet-Derived Wound Healing Factors [PDWHF] In Treatment of Chronic Non-Healing Ulcers" At Post-Graduate Department of Surgery, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, University of Allahabad, UP, India, December 01, 1987 Through March 30, 1989.


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US President Donald Trump urges China to clamp down on North Korea border
China is North Korea's biggest trade partner, and Trump has called on it repeatedly to press Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear and missile programmes.
Published: 21st May 2018 07:25 PM | Last Updated: 21st May 2018 07:25 PM | A+A A-
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Trump, Moon discuss North Korea's threat to scrap summit
Dismantling of North Korea nuclear site 'well under way': US monitor
US will help make North Korea rich if it disarms: Mike Pompeo
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump today urged China to maintain tight control of its border with North Korea until he signs a denuclearization deal with Kim Jong UN.
Trump is scheduled to hold a landmark summit with the North Korean leader June 12 in Singapore, but Pyongyang recently has threatened to pull out over US demands for "unilateral nuclear abandonment." "China must continue to be strong & tight on the Border of North Korea until a deal is made," Trump tweeted, suggesting China may have eased up on enforcing economic sanctions against Pyongyang.
"The word is that recently the Border has become much more porous and more has been filtering in.", he wrote, adding he wants North Korea to be 'VERY successful,' but only once a deal has been reached on denuclearization," he said.
Besides protesting US disarmament demands, North Korea also angrily condemned joint US-South Korean military exercises, and last week pulled out of planned inter-Korean talks.
Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton also has drawn Pyongyang's ire by referring to Libya as a denuclearization model.
After giving up Libya's nuclear programme in 2003, leader Moamer Kadhafi was killed in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
North Korea's sudden shift in attitude followed a weeks-long charm offensive that saw Kim Jong Un hold a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and meet twice with China's President Xi Jinping.
As prospects for the Singapore summit dimmed, Trump offered assurances that if the summit is successful, Kim "will get protections that will be very strong.
" "He'd be in his country and running his country. His country would be very rich," he told reporters last week.
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Worcestershire pair Brett D'Oliveira and Ed Barnard have both signed new undisclosed-length contract extensions with the Midlands county.
All-rounder D'Oliveira, 25, had two years on his existing deal, while fast bowler Barnard, 21, had a year left.
After this summer's departure of Tom Kohler-Cadmore to Yorkshire, Worcestershire are keen to keep hold of their better young players.
Josh Tongue (four years) and Tom Fell (two years) signed new deals in July.
Opening batsman D'Oliveira, picked by England Lions last summer, is the son of former Worcestershire player and coach Damien D'Oliveira, and the grandson of former Worcestershire and England Test legend Basil D'Oliveira.
Former England Under-19s all-rounder Barnard, from Shrewsbury, is the son of former Shropshire seamer Andy Barnard – and began by also playing Minor Counties cricket for Shropshire.


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Linking words, also called connecting words, are words that you use to combine two different thoughts into one sentence.
Each part of the final sentence is called a clause. A clause is a part of a sentence that has a subject and a verb.
Three of the most common connecting words in English are and, but, because. Here's how to use them.
Use and to add more information.
Alan likes music. He often goes to concerts.
Alan likes music and he often goes to concerts.
Use but to show a difference.
Alan likes music. He rarely buys it.
Alan likes music but he rarely buys it.
Use because to show a reason.
Alan likes music. He grew up in a musical family.
Alan likes music because he grew up in a musical family.
There are many more linking words, some are more common than others. Here are others that you might find useful.
Use instead to show a substitute.
Alan couldn't afford to attend the concert. He watched it on YouTube.
Alan couldn't afford to attend the concert, instead he watched it on YouTube.
Use so to show cause and effect.
Alan won a contest. He went to the concert.
Alan won a contest, so he went to the concert.
Use then to show before and after.
Alan went to the concert. He met with friends for drinks.
Alan went to the concert, then he met with friends for drinks.
Using linking words to combine different thoughts also helps you avoid run-on sentences. We have some other tips for avoiding run-on sentences. You can also find out the difference between either/neither and or/nor, which are other linking words.
Can you think of any other linking words that you use? Share them with us in the comments!


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Wyss Center appoints Olivier Coquoz as COO
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GENEVA, 3 March 2020: The Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering today announced the promotion of Olivier Coquoz to Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Coquoz joined the Wyss Center in January 2017, bringing experience in new product development and project management. Over the past three years he has led one of the Center's key programs to develop a miniaturized, implantable brain-computer interface to restore communication, and mobility for people with paralysis. Coquoz is now taking on COO duties, overseeing the Center's operational activities and reporting to the Center's Director Mary Tolikas.
"This is a crucial role as we continue to pursue the Center's mission," Tolikas said. "Olivier combines deep technical expertise with strong organizational skills and attention to detail. His leadership will ensure we follow our core purpose, while executing well across all our operations, and that we are ready to take on new challenges."
In his new role, Coquoz will focus on strengthening the Center's capabilities and in-house expertise, and continue developing the state-of-the-art facilities, to ensure the Wyss Center can capitalize on new projects and opportunities.
Coquoz has 20 years of experience in industry and has been involved in growing companies in Switzerland and the USA. He holds an MS degree in Engineering Physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he also obtained his PhD, specializing in the field of Biomedical Optics. Coquoz also holds a diploma of Advanced Studies in Project Management from the University of Geneva.
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The fun thing about growing watermelon is that they GROW. You can feel like a very accomplished gardener when you see those vines shooting out and then the little pods that turn into (in my case) big 25-30-pound bubba watermelons.
One of the biggest questions that come up for people growing watermelons is when to harvest them. The first response I received when searching the university agriculture sites was often "it's very difficult to know when to harvest a watermelon." There is of course, the "thump" method, but that seems to be only for those with a very sophisticated ear who've had a lot of experience with thumping.
Want to get off to a great start as a newbie gardener? Try basil. Not only is it easy to grow, it adds incredible flavor to so many dishes.
Basil plants are happy as long as they have plenty of sun and water (and a little organic fertilizer now and then). You can grow basil almost anywhere -- in backyards, community gardens and even small pots. I have a big garden, but I still like to keep the basil close to the kitchen in big wooden planters on the deck.
Starting as early as March in warmer climates, you can find basil at nurseries, farmer's markets, and most places that sell gardening supplies and plants.
Mix in a blender with a lot of ice and you've got a simple frothy drink without all the sugar of a regular margarita.
Dave likes cucumbers. Dave likes shallots. Dave likes garlic. Read on for a recipe that combines Dave's three likes.


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Trustee for Madoff's Victims Files 40 Lawsuits
By John Sullivan | November 29, 2010 at 09:02 AM
The trustee seeking to recover money for victims of convicted money manager Bernard Madoff said he filed 40 lawsuits on Friday.
The trustee seeking to recover money for victims of convicted money manager Bernard Madoff said he filed 40 lawsuits on Friday, including several against relatives of the jailed con man.
Associated Press reports 22 of the lawsuits were filed against relatives of Madoff and his wife, trustee Irving Picard said in a news release. Eighteen lawsuits were filed against former employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, he said.
The latest flurry of lawsuit filings was made as the Dec. 11 deadline for filing looms.
Picard said his firm is seeking about $69 million in funds deposited by the company's customers and stolen in the 72-year-old's vast Ponzi scheme.
According to the wire service, Picard said the lawsuits were filed as part of an effort to recover funds from relatives and employees "who were closest to the center of the fraud and who were, in many cases, among those who benefited most from the Ponzi scheme."
Among the complaints, Madoff's sister, Sondra Weiner, is accused of having "profited for decades" from the scheme, Picard said.
Picard said the lawsuits were filed after discussions with the defendants and their attorneys collapsed. Other complaints were previously filed against relatives of Madoff and senior BLMIS employees, according to AP.
The fresh batch of lawsuits comes three days after Picard announced a lawsuit against Swiss bank UBS AG, alleging it funneled clients to Madoff and then "looked the other way." The bank called the allegation "completely unfounded."
UBS and its affiliates, "enabled Madoff's Ponzi scheme through numerous international feeder funds," alleged Picard. He claims the companies were liable for at least $2 billion of Madoff's fraud.
Also named in the lawsuit are late French financier Thierry de la Villehuchet, who killed himself some two years ago at the time of Madoff's arrest, and his associates at AIA.
As AP notes, Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison in North Carolina after confessing to the nearly two-decade scheme that ensnared thousands of victims, including charities, celebrities and institutional investors.
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When the reviews for Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy" finally came in last night, with the New York Times praising this production for its " ... relentless razzle-dazzle and its anything-for-a-laugh spirit," there was no one on this planet that was more pleased & relieved than Chad Beguelin.
After all, it was Beguelin who - 5 years ago - was among the first artists Disney Theatrical Productions reached out to when it was looking to turn "Aladdin" into a full-length stage production. More to the point, it was Chad's conversation with Alan Menken about how Disney's 1992 Academy Award-winning animated feature might possibly be adapted for the stage that suddenly turned this show into something more.
Courtney Reed as Jasmine and Adam Jacobs as Aladdin as they sing "A Million
Miles Away," a new song that Alan Menken & Chad Beguelin wrote for Disney
"Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy." Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc.
"Back then, there was absolutely no talk of taking 'Aladdin' to Broadway. Disney Theatrical had asked me to work up a possible libretto for a stage version of this film only because all of these high school & college theater departments kept writing in, asking if there was an official script available for 'Aladdin' yet," Beguelin explained during a recent phone interview. "So the original goal here was to just put together a straightforward stage adaptation of Disney's 'Aladdin.' Something that faithfully followed the storyline of the original 1992 film which could then be licensed out to all of these high schools & colleges. Maybe even a regional production or two."
But when Chad showed his first draft to Alan so that "Aladdin" 's Oscar-winner composer script could then sign off this project, Menken saw something more. A diamond-in-the-rough, if you will.
"Alan must have liked what he saw in that script. Because the next thing I know, he's talking about how we could maybe fold some of the songs that he & Howard Ashman had originally written for the animated version of 'Aladdin' into this proposed stage show," Beguelin continued. "That's when Alan hands me this file folder which is just full of Howard's original story notes for 'Aladdin.' And then what was supposed to have been this simple, straightforward stage adaptation of the animated 'Aladdin' suddenly became this whole other thing."
James Monroe Inglehart in the role of the Genie in Disney "Aladdin: The new
Musical Comedy." Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved
And why was that exactly? Well, Howard's original 40-page treatment for "Aladdin" had had a far different take on this tale from "1001 Arabian Nights." Ashman originally envisioned this animated feature as kind of a riff on Bob Hope & Bing Cosby's old "Road" pictures. Which is why -- because Howard wanted this film to have far more of a 1940s feel -- his original inspirations for the Genie were Fats Waller & Cab Calloway.
Ashman also wanted this animated feature to be a real departure for Walt Disney Animation Studios, to be the wildest, craziest, funniest film that they had ever produced. Which is why he originally saddled Aladdin with three comic sidekicks -- Babkak, Omar & Kassim -- not to mention a constantly kvetching mother.
And back in late 1988 / early 1989, WDAS did actually put this version of "Aladdin" into production. Only to then shut production after a few months because they were just trying to cram too many songs, characters and gags into a single 90 minute-long animated feature. So Jeffery Katzenberg -- the then-head of Walt Disney Studios -- pulled Ashman & Menken off of "Aladdin" and then put them to work on the then-equally troubled "Beauty and the Beast." Which -- at that time -- wasn't even a musical but more of a dark romantic animated fantasy.
Alan Menken and Howard Ashmen at a recording session for Disney's "Beauty and
the Beast." Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved
But what no one knew at the time was that Howard was HIV positive. Which meant that -- by spending his remaining time on turning Disney's "Beast" into a musical -- Ashman then wouldn't get a chance to revisit "Aladdin." Find a way to make his "Road" picture-inspired take on this material work.
But now with Disney Theatrical considering a stage adaptation of this animated feature, here -- finally -- was a chance to revisit Howard's original vision for "Aladdin." So Alan handed off that folder to Chad and asked him to consider folding this material into the show.
"So I took that folder back to Disney Theatrical. And it was full of all of these great comic songs that were cut out of the animated film. This wealth of material that could then be used to turn the stage version of 'Aladdin' into a tribute to Howard Ashman's genuis," Beguelin explained. "But in order to fold all of this stuff into the show -- Aladdin's three sidekicks, all the restored songs -- that first meant making some pretty significant alterations to the story. And given that people were going to be walking into this musical with certain expectations in their head because they already had the film version of 'Aladdin' ... That meant that the stage version of 'Aladdin' was going to be this delicate balancing act. Where we found ways to preserve the parts of this movie that audiences loved, while -- at the same time -- carving out space for all these great new characters & songs."
(L to R) Adam Jacobs as Aladdin, Brandon O'Neill as Kassim and Brian
Gonzales as Babkak with the ensemble of Disney "Aladdin: The New
Musical Comedy" as they perform "Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim."
Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved
Thus began the period Chad now somewhat jokingly calls the "1001 Rewrites." As Beguelin began trying to find just the right balance between old & new. It took a pilot production of the show in 2012 at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle -- not to mention a non-Disney produced regional production of "Aladdin" at the Muny in St. Louis last summer -- to really get a handle on what needed to stay & go. But even as a radically revamped version of "Aladdin" began its out-of-town try-out in Toronto in December, Chad & this show's creative team were still making changes to its libretto, were still moving around the placement of those Ashmen / Menken songs that had been cut out of the movie.
"That's why it was so great that we had Casey Nicholaw as the director & choreographer of the stage version of 'Aladdin.' Because Casey's completely ruthless when it comes to his own work," Chad said. "Take -- for example -- the number we used to open the show with, 'Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim.' Casey's original idea was to have Aladdin & his three sidekicks open the show performing circus-style tricks while they stood in front of the curtain singing these really funny Howard Ashman lyrics. But when that didn't wow the audience, Casey said 'Okay. We're going to move the 'Babkak' number to later in the show, restage it with the entire cast so it then has lots more energy. In the meantime, let's restage the opening so that we now have the Genie start off the show by singing 'Arabian Nights.' " So that's what we did. We moved some songs around as well as writing a new number for Jasmine. And by the time previews began in New York City, the Genie was now opening the show by leading 'Arabian Nights,' our new scene-setting opening number for 'Aladdin' ."
Truth be told, Beguelin wrote four new songs with Menken for the stage version of "Aladdin," "These Palace Walls," "A Million Miles Away," "Diamond in the Rough" and "Somebody's Got Your Back." All with an eye toward making sure that these tunes matched the style & the tone set not only by the six songs that Alan wrote for the film with Howard but also by "One Jump Ahead" & "A Whole New World." Which Menken actually wrote with Tim Rice for "Aladdin" after Ashman passed away in March of 1991.
(L to R) Chad Beguelin, Casey Nicholaw and Alan Menken onstage at the New
Amsterdam Theatre for the opening night of Disney "Aladdin: The New
Musical Comedy. Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved
And in the end, that five years of hard work paid off this past Thursday night. With critics like Charles Isherwood at the New York Times praising "Aladdin" for its " ... extravagant musical numbers" which " ... pay energetic tribute to everything from the Cotton Club and Las Vegas to vintage Hollywood and current Bollywood."
And all of this happened because -- when Alan Menken looked at Chad Beguelin's script for a stage version of Disney's "Aladdin" -- he saw a diamond in the-rough.
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What ever happened to the California Adventure version of Aladdin that I thought was worthy of an expansion to a full length production? This version would work well with high school and college productions. I can't imagine the Genie singing "Arabian Nights" after seeing the DCA version many many times.
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular" is still running at the Hyperion Theatre in the Hollywood Land section of Disney California Adventure theme park. In fact, there'll be four performances of that show presented today. One at 12:40 p.m., another at 2:20 p.m., still another at 4:45 p.m. and the final one of the day at 6:20 p.m.
It's worth noting here that -- while "Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular" and Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy" do share some story elements, characters and songs -- the show that just debuted on Broadway is very, very different from the one that's been presented at DCA since January of 2003.
Perhaps the very best way to differentiate between these two stage versions of "Aladdin" is to think of the DCA version as kind of a Cliff Notes version of that 1992 Academy Award-winning Walt Disney Animation Studios production. Which -- given that DCA's stage version of "Aladdin" is only 45 minutes long while Ron Clements & John Musker's motion picture version of this material was 90 minutes long -- is a pretty apt metaphor.
As for the show that just debuted on Broadway, Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy" is -- with intermission -- two hours & twenty minutes long and features (at the above article points out) a lot of the songs that Howard Ashman & Alan Menken wrote for the original aborted version of "Aladdin" that Jeffery Katzenberg shut done. Not to mention the four new songs that Menken wrote for this new stage musical version of "Aladdin" with Chad Beguelin.
And here's an interesting side note for all your "Aladdin" trivia fans out there: Do you remember -- back when they originally announced "Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular" -- how the Company made such a big deal about how Alan Menken had written a brand new "I want" song for Jasmine, "To Be Free" ?
Well, that written-for-DCA song is NOT in Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy." For that moment in the Broadway show, Casey Nicholaw & Co. originally tried "Call Me a Princess." Which was a comic introductory song that Ashman & Menken wrote for their first attempt to turn "Aladdin" into an animated musical back in 1989 / 1990 or thereabouts. And when that song didn't win audiences over in Seattle & Toronto, Menken & Beguelin wrote Jasmine a new song, "These Palace Walls."
But if you want to check out what "Call Me A Princess" was supposed to have sounded like in Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy" before it got cut, go check out this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPg7nE8lmP4
Just to be clear here, this version of "Call Me a Princess" is from the pilot production of Disney "Aladdin: The New Musical Comedy." Which was presented in Seattle back during the summer of 2011 at the Fifth Avenue Theater. It is not the version that was ultimately cut from this Broadway show during its out-of-town try-out in Toronto late last year.


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This year's fashion show will be taped for the first time from Miami at the legendary Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The iconic resort, originally designed by Morris Lapidus, is poised to re-open after a $1 billion renaissance and will set the stage for the sexiest night on television."
Adriana Lima is said to be the star of the night with Alessandra Ambrosio also coming back for the first time from having her child!
I cant wait, this is my favurite catwalk show of the year :) i dream to actually go to one!


I'm still thinking about the world's shortest verse that I learned in Sunday School, "Jesus wept." It not only shows that Jesus empathizes with the human condition, the story goes on to tell how compassion then caused Him to do something extraordinary at Lazarus' grave.
To feel for someone who is suffering or in need can be a powerful form of motivation. I read that Bono said one specific little boy in Africa changed his life. The sight of that little boy has sparked him to use his influence to speak up for those who have no voice and start campaigns against poverty and AIDS.


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def login(email, password):
    db = sqlite3.connect("news.db")
    user = {}
    with db:
        cursor = db.cursor()
        #user(id,email,name,password,tags)
        cursor.execute("SELECT * IN users WHERE email = ?, password = ?",(email,password))
        user_info = cursor.featchone()
    if user_info:
        user["id"] = user_info[0]
        user["email"] = user_info[1]
        user["name"] = user_info[2]
        user["tags"] = user_info[4].split(";")
    return user

def registration(email,username, password ):
    db = sqlite3.connect("news.db")
    with db:
        cursor = db.cursor()
        #user(id,email,name,password,tags)
        cursor.execute("INSERT INTO users(email,name,password,tags) VALUES(?,?,?,?)",
                       (email, username, password, ""))


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Q: How to allow the "CellFeed" of Google Spreadsheet to return the blank cells as well (using Java)? Previously, I was using the ListFeed to access the Google Spreadsheet and fetch the rows. As the number of rows increased I needed to shift to the CellFeed in order to fetch the data in batches.
I am facing problems when using Cell Feeds that the null or empty values in the Google Spreadsheet are not returned. Whereas when I was using ListFeed it used to return the blank values as well.
Following is the piece of code:
        URL cellFeedUrl2 = new URI(SPREADSHEET_FEED_URL.toString() + "?min-row=2&max-row=5").toURL();
        CellFeed cellFeed2 = service.getFeed(cellFeedUrl2, CellFeed.class);
        for (CellEntry cell : cellFeed2.getEntries()){
            System.out.println(cell.getCell().getValue() + "\t");
        }

Actual Output:
1. Row 1
Name
Email
DOB
Phone
2. Row 2
Name
Email
Phone
(No DOB because it is empty in the spreadsheet but still it should appear)
Expected Output:
1. Row 1
Name
Email
DOB
Phone
2.Row 2
Name
Email
DOB
Phone
Please suggest!

A: The solution is to add an extra parameter to the URL as follows:
URL cellFeedUrl2 = new URI(SPREADSHEET_FEED_URL.toString() + "?return-empty=true&min-row=2&max-row=5").toURL();
    CellFeed cellFeed2 = service.getFeed(cellFeedUrl2, CellFeed.class);
    for (CellEntry cell : cellFeed2.getEntries()){
        System.out.println(cell.getCell().getValue() + "\t");
    }

The parameter "return-empty=true" returns the blank values as null and thereby can be handled using try-catch block if exceptions occur.


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I Tried Recreational Mushroom Therapy and This is What Happened
byMary CarreononAugust 16, 2022
How mushrooms helped me develop tools to admit when I'm wrong and explore the roots of that issue without needing formal psychedelic therapy
My journey into adulthood has primarily involved coming to terms with my toxic traits. A lot of people shove those bones deep into the broom closet of their psyche, where the calcium and marrow ferment and transform into monsters with green eyes and fangs. I've done this. I try not to do this, but our culture enables us to. Eating psilocybin mushrooms consistently over the past decade has helped me cultivate an intimate relationship with my closet monsters, it is my personal form of psychedelic therapy. And the more I let the mushrooms mediate, the monsters seem to have less control over my actions, particularly when it comes to winning arguments.
The mushrooms acquainted me with my daddy issues. My pops is a litigator. According to Cher Horowitz from the '90s cult classic film Clueless, those are the scariest types of lawyers, the ones who argue with their daughters for free — lucky us! Growing up with my pops was fun and often supportive — he never missed a single soccer game, took me to see the Spice Girls when I was 8-years-old, and watched Aladdin with me seven thousand times. But living with a high-strung attorney was also brutal.
I was born into this life with innate authority issues, so he and I regularly sparred. But arguing with someone whose career hinges on Olympic-level arguing and who, for a long time, was undefeated in the courtroom didn't go well for teenage me. It was like David and Goliath — only Goliath won every time and grounded me for talking back. I was always grounded. And frustrated. I couldn't communicate, let alone craft arguments like him. I was always on the defense, just trying to get him to see my side or a nuance of a situation.
We had many arguments like this. Sometimes I was at fault, and sometimes I wasn't, but I was constantly on my heels and maneuvering to avoid restrictions on my life. Flashforward to adulthood, and I have a complex about always having to win arguments. I get fiery, sharp, and rude, and feel justified after harsh words pass the tongue and lip barrier into reality. Arguing for the satisfaction of being right is one of the long-lost storage bins inside my psyche's broom closet. These behaviors mostly unspool in my romantic relationships —shocking, right?
Enter Recreational Psychedelic Therapy
A 3.5 gram trip on psilocybin mushrooms at 24 years old showed me that the bin labeled "Daddy Issues: Cantankerous Shrew" was propagating into a psychic algal bloom in my soul. I couldn't see what was inside the bin, but simply knowing there was a glowing box of tumult helped me develop an awareness of how it was manifesting in my life.
Munching on .3 to 2 grams of psychedelic mushrooms became a part of my balanced diet by the time I was 25. I'd eat them at concerts, art shows, or with friends at home. One time I ate a gram with two friends and went to the beach to watch the sunset. Tears of stale frustration streamed down my face as soon as the sun began its descent into the ocean. I hit an emotional pressure relief valve. I realized I've expended gigatons of energy trying to control outcomes. Control was one of the fanged monsters inside of my "Cantankerous Shrew" box. Without mushrooms, I don't know if I'd be able to articulate that. It would have remained an ambient feeling playing in the background of my consciousness like shitty elevator music.
This was before "microdosing" entered the zeitgeist, and psychedelic therapy became the permissible way to trip. The western psychological model — with its pastel offices and zero-gravity chairs — has effectively cast a shadow over home trips, beach trips, tripping at concerts or around a fire. Basically, what most facilitators would consider "recreational" usage. But is clinical psychedelic therapy the only way to experience profound emotional breakthroughs? My "recreational" trips almost always give me deeper insights into my oozing trash bin of baggage. Does that still qualify them as "recreational?"
The Myth of Clinical Psychedelic Therapy
"Who is to say that a person taking [mushrooms] alone or with a friend is not approaching their experience with seriousness?" says Bett Willaims, author of The Wild Kindness, A Psilocybin Oddessy. She's a boots-on-the-ground expert in psychonautic travels, history, and literature, and has lectured at conferences such as Horizons, Mt. Tam Psilocybin Summit, and the Women and Entheogens Conference. And while her memoir is a whimsical ode to mushrooms, it also offers slicing critiques of the psychedelic renaissance and the characters propelling it, particularly in the psychedelic therapy movement. "Already you have a whole can of worms with the word 'recreational.' To imply that somebody doesn't have what it takes [to consume on their own] or that someone takes psychedelics the 'wrong way' is a another way to say that someone else knows better so they can ultimately sell it back to you."
I'm not saying that clinical psychedelic therapy is a scam, but taking mushrooms and marveling over the sun's rainbow sherbet descent into tomorrow is about as therapeutic as it gets. It's an expression of autonomous healing and cognitive sovereignty. Or, as Bett says, "it's recreational therapy." Why do people with PhDs get to decide that tripping with a blindfold on is better than tripping at the beach? Telling us that psychedelic therapy is the "correct" way to trip is elitist. It's another version of psychedelic exceptionalism.
Therapy hinges on opening up to a stranger. It's taken almost a decade of eating mushrooms regularly — from low to moderately higher doses — in an array of enjoyable settings to articulate that I have a cache of monsters in my psyche's broom closet. I can't afford decades of psychedelic therapy. Or the integration that we're told is supposed to follow.
"What if," Bett writes in her book, "We obsess over integration because we can't deal with the fact we are taking Schedule I illegal drugs? Framing our drug use in the context of crisis and healing centers psychedelics as a medicine, rather than the crime that it also is. What if psychedelic integration is an excuse to wallow in our trip traps, rather than put them away for a while, in order to get down to the business of living? What if spending money on therapy and other healing modalities under the guise of psychedelic integration is how we make our realizations feel legitimate in a capitalist society?"
Allowing Myself to Learn from Mistakes
I recently rolled nearly 300 joints for my best friend's wedding reception. It was an excessive amount considering no one save for the bride, me, and a handful of guests were stoners. There were significantly more joints than people attending. I put the joints in red solo cups inside of an inconspicuous cooler near a bathroom and told everyone (of age) in attendance where the joints were. By 8pm, the smell of earth skunk filled the air. I checked the cooler at 9 pm, some joints had been taken, but most were still there. In a moment of joyous cross-fade, I told one of the young preppy servers where the joints were. My boyfriend overheard me. "WHY WOULD YOU TELL HIM THAT?!"
"Why not?" I said.
"Because that guy is going to steal them," he said.
I was overcome with visions of red. I was livid at him for saying that, despite having almost 15 years of experience as a dealer before getting into legal cannabis. He's been robbed, held up at gunpoint, set up, and has an eerily accurate spidey sense about people and situations. I, on the other hand, have a pair of rose-colored lenses cemented to my entire face.
"HOW DARE YOU JUDGE SOMEONE LIKE THAT! That's a reflection of YOU, and the shitty people in your life."
Was I fiery? Yes. Rude? Extremely. Then, I called him a "fucking dick" as the cherry on top of the bitch cake. The monsters in the "Cantankerous Shrew" box were in full control. Even still, I didn't want to be that couple fighting at a wedding — my best friend's wedding where I was the maid of honor, mind you — so I backed off, but I was fuming.
An hour later, I went to the cooler to grab a joint. To my chagrin, all of them were gone. My heart dropped like an anvil into my stomach. The cups were even gone. My gut instantly discerned that the 120 attendees didn't smoke all the joints. I couldn't believe it. I closed the cooler and wandered around the party to find the server. He was gone. I don't know what I would have said to him anyway. It's probably better that I didn't find him. The party was wrapping up.
I walked up to my boyfriend. "Guess what?" I said. He looked at me curiously. "The joints are gone." He didn't say anything. He stared at me and looked away, shaking his head. "I was wrong. Likely wrong about that guy stealing the joints and fully wrong for going off on you like that. I am so sorry." I felt like my dad, and I felt like shit.
I won't ever know if the young Malibu server jacked the party joints, but it's beside the point. My level-10 reactive attack on my boyfriend was uncalled for. It didn't have to go down that way. But admitting I'm wrong in any capacity was not in my repertoire before mushrooms entered the picture. I could have said nothing to him about the missing joints — I used to do that, I would hide the truth when I was wrong. Owning the truth and not trying to manipulate reality so I'm right (another move I picked up from living with a lawyer for 18-years) is evidence that my breakthroughs on mushrooms have altered my inner workings. Mushrooms have helped me develop the skill of reflection and contemplation. Admitting fault is the integration of those realizations; it's the lived experience of those psychedelic experiences. And it's allowed me to have better relationships as a result.
Pain generally comes with mea culpa, but it begets honesty. Sometimes feeling your ego ache is the most honest expression of our humanity. The monsters in my psyche's broom closet will probably always live there, but I know them. And mushrooms have helped me confront them.
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Thank you for sharing so much honesty and translucency about your journey. Indeed, so many paths for different people and the *only requirement* is to diligently find the way right for *you* personally. Always enjoy your musings, gratefully, UW
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Below are resources that I have found to be helpful on this weird journey of mine. I am confident you will find them to be of great benefit, too. The below list will always be a work in progress. If you have a suggestion, please contact me. Would love to hear your thoughts.
For The Bible Tells Me So by Daniel Karslake – I am not putting this first because I love Daniel (because I do, he's awesome) but because this documentary is maybe the first place I would refer someone who may not understand the spiritual complexity and challenges behind LGBTQ+ issues and faith. This film does a fantastic job of defining the issues, humanizing the challenges and bringing hope in and through personal stories. It is a MUST see film and will speak to just about anyone who watches.
Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families — including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson — we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
I am also helping with and featured in Daniels sequel to this film called For They Know Not What They Do which is in production right now.
Making Sense Of The Bible by Adam Hamilton – Powerful book that put to words my learning and experience with the scriptures in a truly life-giving and liberating way. I was truly and deeply blessed by this book.
Denominations from evangelical to mainline continue to experience deep divisions over universal social issues. The underlying debate isn't about a particular social issue, but instead it is about how we understand the nature of scripture and how we should interpret it. The world's bestselling, most-read, and most-loved book is also one of the most confusing. In Making Sense of the Bible, Adam Hamilton, one of the country's leading pastors and Christian authors, addresses the hot-button issues that plague the church and cultural debate, and answers many of the questions frequently asked by Christians and non-Christians alike.
God And The Gay Christian by Matthew Vines – Amazingly approachable and relatable book. Takes the clobber passages and un clobbers them.
The landmark book exploring what the Bible actually says—and doesn't say—about same-sex relationships. As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he'd been taught, condemned gay relationships.
Affirming Churches (will be adding more as an ongoing project.)
Reverend Terri Steed Pierce of Joy MCC Church Orlando. – Love Rev. Terri and this church!
Metropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives & history. We are a movement that faithfully proclaims God's inclusive love for all people & proudly bears witness to the holy integration of spirituality & sexuality.
Personal Stories/Memoirs
Never Not Broken – Yvette Cantu Schneider – Back in our "ex-gay" days I told her more than a few times she was one of my heroes. Now that we are both "out" she still is. This story of her heartbreaking and passionate journey toward self-acceptance is stunning.
In Never Not Broken, Yvette Cantu Schneider descends into the abyss of her own psyche after her young daughter's leukemia diagnosis. Desperate for relief from ceaseless panic, she sees a psychotherapist who introduces her to guided imagery meditation to heal trauma. Over the course of her daughter's 28-month treatment, Cantu Schneider encounters in meditation, animals, goddesses and other guides who show her that it is the wounded feminine within her that pushed her to find meaning and acceptance in a rigid religious structure and to become a spokesperson for controversial socio-political causes. As Cantu Schneider struggles to heal from difficult events from her childhood, the abuses and hypocrisies of religious leaders, and the effects of her own denial of the feminine divine, she discovers her true self. In the end, she finds that life's healing power is that we are all never not broken.
Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning by Tim Rymel – really didn't have much of a friendship with Tim until after I came back out, but I have grown to love this guy over the past couple of years.
Tim Rymel, an ordained evangelical minister, served as the Outreach Director for Love in Action, one of the oldest and most renowned ex-gay (reparative therapy) ministries in the world. During the 1990's, he and the ministry staff appeared on countless television and radio shows with their message of "Freedom from homosexuality through Jesus Christ." A "success story" of the ex-gay movement, Tim's world was shattered when his wife divorced him, and his world fell apart. In Going Gay, he shares his raw and painful journey of finding self-acceptance, and coming to terms with life and faith.
Brain Bubbles: The Personal Blog of Author Bill Prickett – Love Bill, just do. He is a kind and compassionate soul who wants people to know love and freedom in this life. You can also check out his books by clicking here.
Ex'd Out: How I Fired the Shame Committee By John Smid – John, and I also knew each other well in our ex-gay days, and I am delighted to see him for who he truly is now.
John Smid was a well known national leader and spokesperson with the message of "Freedom from homosexuality through Jesus Christ." Within these pages he describes the journey that he embarked upon after he said "God, Surprise Me!" A provocative and personal journal of how John "exited" the ex-gay world and began the process of integration into an authentic life.
A Life Of Unlearning by Anthony Venn-Brown – A poignant memoir of great courage after decades of inner turmoil within the Australian Church.
On the surface, everything looked perfect. Anthony Venn-Brown was a popular, high-profile preacher in Australia's growing mega-churches, such as Hillsong, and happily married father-of-two. Behind the scenes was a different story. Believing homosexuality made him unacceptable to God and others, a secret battle was being fought. After twenty-two years of struggle and torment, a chance meeting forced Anthony to make the toughest decision of his life. Tired of feeling torn and fragmented, he confessed and came out. Abandoned by his church and Christian friends Anthony began his life of unlearning; a lonely journey that made him who he is today.
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee – I have known Justin for a very long time, and his book has helped many Christians across a broad spectrum of belief.
As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christian ministry. But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay. In this groundbreaking book, Lee recalls the events–his coming out to his parents, his experiences with the "ex-gay" movement, and his in-depth study of the Bible–that led him, eventually, to self-acceptance.
My Exodus: From Fear to Grace by Alan Chambers – Alan has been a friend of mine since 1995. His take is a bit different but his story is encouraging, and heart is loving.
In sharing his own story of being a committed believer who struggled with same sex attraction early in his life, author, husband, and father Alan Chambers will help you understand the issues from the inside. And as the former president of the largest ex-gay ministry, Alan knows all the arguments, the concerns, the scriptures, and the heartaches.
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The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs (Book) – This personally impacted me very deeply. I recommend it for all gay men and those who love us. Amazing book.
Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented, hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory, however, serious problems still exist. Substance abuse, depression, suicide, and sex addiction among gay men are at an all-time high, causing many to ask, "Are we really better off?" Drawing on contemporary research, psychologist Alan Downs's own struggle with shame and anger, and stories from his patients, The Velvet Rage passionately describes the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior. Updated to reflect the effects of the many recent social, cultural, and political changes, The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men.
No Hope: Why I Left The GOP And You Should Too by Jimmy LaSalvia (Book) – Love this guy and his incredible courage to live his truth and speak it for others to glean wisdom from.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How the GOP Is Out of Touch with Americans Today and Why More Voters Should Consider "No Party"
No Hope is for disaffected conservatives and moderates as well as liberals who are fed up with the political party system. Forty-three percent of Americans now identify as Independents. Many of them are right of center and used to be Republicans.
Focus Group Radio with Tim Bennett and John Nash – Love this podcast. It helped me when I first came back out because it was great to gain insight of LGBTQ+ professionals, is informative, and quite entertaining.
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Human Rights Campaign (HRC), GLAAD, and Equality Florida are organizations on the social/political front that I won't hesitate to recommend. They are powerful organization do what they say they are going to do and are able to get it done.
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Hardcore Superstar – You can't kill my rock'n'roll
Gothenburg rockers Hardcore Superstar are back with a new album and this time with a slightly harder and more metallic sound. But don't worry, it's still rock'n'roll with a touch of glam just imagine the tempo and the distortion turned up a notch. The album cover shows three women dressed as, what appears to be, nuns. All three smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, the one in the middle giving us a diabolical smile. All in black and white with the title "You can't kill my rocknroll" above them.
The first thing that strikes me about this album is the focus on choruses compared to verses. Hardcore Superstar has always put much focus on choruses and this album is no different. A lot of the songs feel rushed toward a big anthemic climax and because of that some of the verses seem overlooked.
The second thing is the bigger scale of the sound, it seems as if the album was written with the intention of playing in front of big crowds. I'm not sure how this will be received by the fans who like their Hardcore Superstar sounding like playing in a more intimate medium sized rock club but time will tell I suppose.
If you are a fan of rock'n'roll music then I would say there is something on this album for everyone. The brutally fast opener "AD/HD", the sad closer "Goodbye", the middle finger to the rich and powerful in "Never cared for snobbery" or the groovy "Baboon".
The track that stands out is the title track "You can't kill my rock'n'roll". The guitar on the verses remind me of ZZ top's "Sharp dressed man" and the chorus would fit perfectly on a stadium gig with thousands of fans singing along as one. On this track, it's like the soul and core of the band become exposed, and I can hear it on a few songs from older albums as well – so whatever they did to get this song done – that is the magic formula.
Band: Hardcore Superstar
Title: You can't kill my rocknroll
Lable: Gain
Date of release: 20180921
Stand out track: You can't kill my rocknroll
Tobias Engdahl
6/10 Gothenburg rockers Hardcore Superstar are back with a new album and this time with a slightly harder and more metallic sound. But don't worry, it's still rock'n'roll with a touch of glam just imagine the tempo and the distortion turned up a notch. The album cover shows three women dressed as, what appears to be, nuns. All three smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, the one in the middle giving us a diabolical smile. All in black and white with the title "You can't kill my rocknroll" above them. The first thing that strikes me about this album is the focus on choruses compared to verses. Hardcore Superstar has always put much focus on choruses and this album is no different. A lot of the songs feel rushed toward a big anthemic climax and because of that some of the verses seem overlooked. The second thing is the bigger scale of the sound, it seems as if the album was written with the intention of playing in front of big crowds. I'm not sure how this will be received by the fans who like their Hardcore Superstar sounding like playing in a more intimate medium sized rock club but time…
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Pitarul era un dregător în țările românești, însărcinat cu aprovizionarea cu pâine a curții domnești. El pregătea pâinea pentru domn și pentru slujitorii sau ostașii cu rație zilnică de pâine. În secolul al XVII-lea a devenit membru al sfatului.

Prima mențiune documentară a pitarului datează din 22 mai 1476, în principatul Moldovei, iar în Țara Românească din 25 aprilie 1489.

Bibliografie
 Ovid Sachelarie; Nicolae Stoicescu (coord.), Instituții feudale din țările române. Dicționar, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, București, 1988
 Costin Scorpan, Istoria României. Enciclopedie, Editura Nemira, București, 1997 ISBN 973-569-180-9

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"Seasons" represents a new chapter in American Authors' style, proving that they have the tools to skillfully navigate various styles of music and living up to American Authors' overall legacy.
Originally dubbed Blue Pages, the New York-based rock band American Authors was established in 2006 and skyrocketed to popularity after the release of their 2013 song "Best Day of My Life." Known for their cheerful themes and upbeat melodies, American Authors exists in the same poppy rock genre as WALK THE MOON and X Ambassadors.
As they move forward in their musical career, American Authors is cultivating a bluesier, more gospel sound, comparable to folk-rock bands such as The Lumineers and Mumford & Sons.
The album's first track starts strong. From the get-go, "Stay Around" establishes the album as moderately different to their first two, setting up the downbeat mood carried out in the rest of the songs. Track four, "I Wanna Go Out," stands out as a break to the nitty-gritty, a callback to American Authors' earlier works. Other noteworthy songs are "Can't Stop Me Now," a tribute to the arena rock bands of the '70s and "Real Place," which serves as an exemplary bookend the the album. As the last of the slower songs, it provides a contrast from the fast-paced opening of "Stay Around" and brings the album to a narrative close.


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Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska- None of Bruce Springsteen's best songs can be found on Nebraska, but it embodies of one of America's oldest folk traditions: storytelling. If you were to pick any song at random, it would be weak. It's impossible to pick just one song and enjoy it; Nebraska has to be played all the way through.
I will admit that the first time I heard the album I was underwhelmed. It was acoustic and slow.But I stuck to it and played it a hundred times over, and I became awestruck. Nebraska is bleak, raw and one of Springsteen's best kept secret.
The Boss recorded it on a four-track, alone in his bedroom, with the intention of taking the songs to his band for a new album, but it was decided to simply release the demos. So instead of a polished, eclectic album, Nebraska became a stripped-down tribute to blue-collar life. It's fitting, because each song carries a ballad-like theme of hard times; for example, the title track tells the real-life story of a teenage romance that ended with a spree-killing. Hearing Springsteen's echoing voice, backed only by himself, is haunting.
The recording process was rough, adding to the effect.The music is so distant that it forces you to listen to the words, because the stories are what matter. The Boss, a rock legend, proved to be a true folk chronicler.
This is my favorite Springsteen albums and possibly my favorite album ever. I have listened to it hundreds of times, and everytime I pick up on something new.
Nebraska is ten feature-length movies packed into one dark and frank album. It wasn't even supposed to be an album, but simply a demo tape. But that is why I love Nebraska so much. When an artist can sit down in a room with a cheap tape recorder and create beautiful stories, that is a sign of unadulterated talent.
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Up the mono block drive we step into the hallway With views through to the large lounge diner and the impressive views of the mountains beyond. We are greeted by a spacious open plan cherry wood fully fitted kitchen with access to an outside al fresco dining area. A living/dining area with an open marble fireplace fitted with a pellet stove, and access to a glassed in outdoor terrace as well as pool area.
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"Marina Jarre is an original, powerful and incisive writer … Her works—true, small-scale, essential masterpieces—have found passionate readers and critics and have an indisputable place in Italian literature of the past fifty years."
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Distant Fathers
Cover art by Alan Feltus
This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s, and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family: her elusive, handsome father—a Jew who perished in the Holocaust; her severe, cultured mother—an Italian Lutheran who translated Russian literature; and her sister and Latvian grandparents. Jarre tells of her passage from childhood to adolescence, first in a Baltic nation where she spoke and read German surrounded by the sound of many other tongues and religions, and then in traumatic exile to Italy after her parents' divorce. Jarre lives with her maternal grandparents, French-speaking Waldensian Protestants in the Alpine valleys north of Turin, where she finds fascist Italy a problematic home for a Riga-born Jew. This memoir—likened to Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov or Annie Ernaux's The Years and now translated into English for the first time—probes questions of time, language, belonging and estrangement, while asking what homeland can be for those who have none, or many more than one.
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Front plate for cross country drive??
Posting here as this is more or less technical. Early next week I'm driving solo to Dayton, OH and back. Plan to get up to I-70 heading east; drop down to I-40 coming back. Driving the Carrera which normally has no front license plate, and due to the color, does not blend into the background. I have a Rennline plate bracket the fits the tow hook opening. I'll be crossing many states as a look on a USA map will show you. A year ago we drove cross country to VA, then down to TX, and back in our MacanS and had no issues with not having a front license plate. On the other hand, a few weeks ago I got a ticket in LA for not having a front plate...car was parked. So on my mind: should I mount one just for this many-states trip? Or do without? Your experience? Opinions? Thanks.
Re: Front plate for cross country drive??
There are many states that don't require a front plate, so once you are outside CA it probably wouldn't make a difference. That said, I would put the plate on, myself. I ran all my Porsches without a front plate for many years, until I was finally cited for it. My rationale was that it made the front end of the car look bad with the plate hung on it. Practicality eventually overcame vanity in this case. If you can mount the plate without having to drill the front valence using the tow hook attachment point, what is the downside? A miniscule aerodynamic penalty? Why give any law enforcement officer a reason to pull you over, as slight as that may be? I just leave mine on all the time, now.
Good advice. I'll take it. Last thing I want is to provide coffee chat material for some bored Indiana or Utah State Trooper. If I could figure out how to import a photo I'd show you what the installed unit looks like.
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Good info Tom, thanks. The main difference for my fitting is that due to the proximity sensor I had to move the plate completely to the left (looking from the front). Removed the unit today, to be truthful. (But have it handy, plus one for our MacanS, should we drive up to LA.) Worked great the entire trip (had to retighten once...just WHY is the tow hook on a new Carrera left-hand threaded? The MacanS' is right hand threaded.). 4632 miles in 6 driving days; to Dayton OH and back: I-15, I-70, then I-70, I-44, I-40, jumped down US 95 to Blythe, then I-10 to 60 to I-215 to I-15 to 76 to home. Don't worry about toll roads; cheap. One 15+ hour day. Others 10-12+ hours in the saddle. 911 cockpits are amazing; never any aches/pains; never felt drowsy. Carrera gave 29-32 mpg running 75-80+ for most of the drive. Interstate here and there in the Midwest is so smooth I could comfortably listen to my SiriusXM radio, Pirelli P-Zeros notwithstanding. Want adult stuff? Cruise I-70 thru eastern Missouri. Want cheap gas? ANYWHERE outside of CA, not to mention 93 octane and pumps that don't ask for your Zipcode. Road Wrap lasted to western Missouri; didn't replace it for the rest of the trip. ClearPlex windshield film (installed by Modern Image) paid for itself at least twice: one huge impact on the way to Vegas and then a rock that made me literally duck hitting the windshield passing thru St. Louis. Big chips in the film; glass underneath OK. At least a dozen other dings in the film; windshield OK. Several hours driving west thru OK, Panhandle, NM, AZ in pouring rain and lightning storms. Film acted like regular glass. Last leg: Kingman AZ to home without stopping. Computer says I can go another 100+ miles. Week after next: RT to Ruidoso NM...reckon to do it in one day there; one day back. Will be fun.
Technical: Did not bother to install the front plate for the drive to Ruidoso. Did the 842 miles there in one day (left home at 0318 am). Was in AZ before the sun came up; Ruidoso about 1700. Not a gambler so notwithstanding staying at the Inn of the Mountain Gods casino resort, made local road trips to Billy the Kid country and such. Diverted on return to take two lane roads from Lordsburg to Phoenix. Good stuff. About 5 miles west of Lordsburg running 80 on I-10 I was passing a tractor-trailer when its left side tractor tire(s) blew out. Wow, was that a loud bang! Tire pieces flying everywhere; he slowed, I accelerated. Yes: damage to the 911, body and especially the front wheel. Buy hey, the point of a 911 is to take road trips! Again, windshield ClearPlex paid dividends. Tire chunks simply bounced off. Radar detector saved me running east thru NM - crawling with Troopers; probably a couple of other times as well. 1900 miles in less than 5 days (stopped in Phoenix for a night on the way back). Great stuff. Contrary to CA, in the rest of the USA Porsches are not common. In the mountains of New Mexico I had construction workers asking me if they could take pictures of the 911. Yikes. Another technical point: averaged 29-32 mph running 75-80.


Steven Van Zant spent a couple years of his youth as what he considered a "very religious" person. Then February 9th, 1964, happened… After seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, rock 'n' roll became his new religion, and there was no turning back. In this first look at The Big Interview, Van Zant reminisces on his introduction to rock music while coming to age in the '60s. He also tells Dan what exactly attracted him and Bruce Springsteen to one another, specifically their dedication to rock 'n' roll. In the end, he says what really kept them together was the fact that they couldn't do anything else. Van Zandt jokingly admits, "We were the last two guys left standing when everybody else took a job." Catch more of Dan's insightful conversation with the famed musician in the full hour-long episode of The Big Interview, Tuesday, March 5th at 8/7c on AXS TV.


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