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Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7) (Hardcover)
#1: Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition) (The Expanse #1) (Hardcover): $40.00
The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante tries to rally forces against the new invasion. Now a Prime Original series.
An old enemy returns.
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.
In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.
New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever. . .
"A standout tale of violence, intrigue, ambition, and hope. ... Corey cranks up the tension relentlessly in this fast-paced story of heroes and rebels fighting for freedom. With enough thrills and intrigue for three Hollywood blockbusters, the novel stands alone nicely, making it easy for new readers as well as diehard series fans to dive right in."—Publishers Weekly on Nemesis Games
"The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire...only with fewer beheadings and way more spaceships."—NPR Books on Cibola Burn
"Combining an exploration of real human frailties with big SF ideas and exciting thriller action, Corey cements the series as must-read space opera."—Library Journal (Starred Review) on Cibola Burn
"The Expanse series is the best space opera series running at full tilt right now, and Cibola Burn continues that streak of excellence."—io9
"Corey's splendid fourth Expanse novel blends adventure with uncommon decency."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Cibola Burn
"A politically complex and pulse-pounding page-turner.... Corey perfectly balances character development with action... series fans will find this installment the best yet."—Publishers Weekly on Abaddon's Gate
"It's been too long since we've had a really kickass space opera. Leviathan Wakes is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written, the kind of SF that made me fall in love with the genre way back when, seasoned with a dollop of horror and a dash of noir. Jimmy Corey writes with the energy of a brash newcomer and the polish of a seasoned pro. So where's the second book?"—George R. R. Martin
"High adventure equaling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology, and a group of unforgettable characters bring the third installment of Corey's epic space drama (after Caliban's War and Leviathan Wakes) to an action-filled close while leaving room for more stories to unfold. Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce, this superb collaboration between fantasy authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck should reawaken an interest in old-fashioned storytelling and cinematic pacing. Highly recommended."—Library Journal on Abaddon's Gate
"Literary space opera at its absolute best."—io9 on Abaddon's Gate
"[T]he authors are superb with the exciting bits: Shipboard coups and battles are a thrill to follow."—Washington Post on Abaddon's Gate
"Riveting interplanetary thriller."—Publishers Weekly on Leviathan Wakes
Publication Date: December 5th, 2017
Kobo eBook (December 4th, 2017): $11.99


A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary block on a series of laws signed by then-Governor Scott Walker in December that limited the powers of his successor, Tony Evers.
In his ruling on March 21, Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess blocked the laws, denying a request by the legislature to temporarily pause his order.
The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the laws in December 2018 in an unscheduled "extraordinary session" after Walker lost his bid for a third term in November.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters that argued the Extraordinary Session was illegitimate and therefore anything passed during it was void. Today, a state court agreed. Article IV, Section 11 of the state constitution limits when the legislature may meet to 1) times provided for by statute and 2) when the Governor convenes a special session.
Because the Governor did not convene a special session and no law provided for any "time" for an extraordinary session, the court held that the Extraordinary Session was invalid and therefore laws enacted during it are also invalid. The court granted the League's request for a temporary injunction against the laws.
"The Wisconsin Constitution does not provide for the Legislature, let alone a small subset of each chamber acting through committees, to convene itself in an 'extraordinary session,' and neither does any statute," wrote the plaintiffs, who included the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin and Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.
Governor Evers seized on the decision almost immediately, calling on the Wisconsin Department of Justice, led by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, to withdraw the state from a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Evers and Kaul campaigned on leaving the case, but one of the lame-duck laws has prevented them from following through on their pledge.
The ruling also temporarily struck down 82 appointments that former Republican Governor Scott Walker made during the waning days of his administration, all of which were confirmed by Republican state senators in the lame-duck session. If the ruling holds, Evers would now be able to make those appointments.


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Cellulose ethanol
Foundation and company earmark R$ 100 million for the study of industrial processes
Fábio de Castro
eduardo cesarFrom FAPESP Agency
FAPESP and Dedini Indústria de Base signed an agreement to finance technological research projects geared toward industrial processes for the manufacturing of sugarcane ethanol. With a five-year term, the agreement's funding amounts to R$ 100 million, R$ 50 million of which will be disbursed by FAPESP, whereas the other R$ 50 million will come from the company, which is headquartered in the city of Piracicaba, in the São Paulo inner state area. The agreement will provide support for cooperative projects to be established between Dedini researchers and research institutions and universities, whether public or private, in the state of São Paulo.
The signing of the agreement, which was attended by governor José Serra and vice-governor Alberto Goldman, took place on the first day of the 5th International Symposium and Technology Show of the Sugar and Alcohol Agroindustry (Simtec).
It is expected that the total use of sugarcane coupled with the know-how and the possibility of large scale application in innovative processing techniques will help Brazil to remain among the chief producers and exporters of fuel alcohol. "São Paulo is the second largest sugar and alcohol producer in the world – the first one is Brazil. It is a very important sector. In 2006, sugarcane products accounted for 14.4% of the country's energy supply, a percentage that is on par with the hydroelectric energy supply. This is a fantastic figure", highlighted Serra.
FAPESP president Carlos Vogt recalled that since the 90's the Foundation has given preferential treatment to the development of technological research linked to business activity. "The partnering arrangement with Dedini was a natural choice, given that it is one of the world's main companies in the field of industrial technology for the production of ethanol and that it engages in substantial in-house R&D efforts", he states.
This is the greatest partnership that FAPESP has ever entered into with a privately-owned firm. "It's about research focused on application and, in such cases, FAPESP always tries to establish an association with companies that are better able to identify market opportunities than universities or research institutions", said Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, the Foundation's scientific director. With the same objective, the Foundation has signed agreements with Oxiteno, Telefônica, Microsoft and Padtec.
According to Brito Cruz, global warming has made it critical to invest in ethanol production technologies. "Until two years ago, producing ethanol in large quantities was a Brazilian issue. Now that developed countries have become interested in these technologies, we have competitors that oblige us to incorporate far more advanced science."
The first call for proposals under the scope of the agreement should be released in August. The funds will only go to the proposals that FAPESP selects, with the participation of the Cooperation Management Committee, and will be disbursed in line with the timetable of each selected and approved proposal.
According to José Luiz Olivério, vice-president of Dedini, the call will target research projects focusing on industrial technology areas for the production of ethanol. "R$ 20 million a year will be invested during five years. We believe that this will be sufficient for many projects in these areas. The values allocated to each of them will depend on their nature", said Olivério.
It is expected that projects of the following types will be funded: improvements in technologies used in the company's acid hydrolysis demonstration plant, or discovery and development of new technologies; energy production from subproducts of the production of ethanol; ways to reduce the consumption of energy during the industrial process; and ways to increase the efficiency of the distillation and fermentation processes.
According to Olivério, one of the focal points will be the development of ethanol from cellulose. "Sugarcane is one third sucrose and two thirds cellulose. We only make ethanol from sucrose. When we develop the technology for making it from cellulose, there will be a major impact on productivity", he said.
It is also expected that the research projects will encourage the dissemination of knowledge and the implementation of innovative scientific or technological research projects whose results have potential for application in the market.
The agreement with FAPESP establishes that the intellectual property rights that may be generated as a result of the partnering arrangement or connected with the projects analyzed and selected will be settled according to terms that will be established between Dedini and the institutions of the proposing researchers; the Foundation may or may not hold a stake in these rights.
According to Olivério, the agreement will enable researchers from universities and companies to work in cooperation. "The basis is for the work to be carried out within universities with the participation of the company's research department. However, if there are projects that call for a prototype to be built, the university researchers will probably come to the plant", he states.
Established 85 years ago, Dedini is one of the chief suppliers of capital goods for sugar mills and alcohol distilleries. The company operates in several industrial segments, such as pulp and paper, energy, fertilizers, hydroelectric power stations, mining, metallurgy, oil, chemistry, steel milling, effluent treatment and foods.
According to Olivério, the company currently invests 3% of its revenue in R&D. "One of the lines of research covered by the scope of the agreement is the improvement in technology for the Dedini Fast Hydrolysis (DHR) system, developed in order to increase the production of energy while also reducing its consumption and obtaining greater process yield and efficiency", he said.
Patented in Brazil, the USA, the EU and several other countries in all continents, DHR is a process that in just a few minutes transforms through acid hydrolysis the sugarcane bagasse into fermentable material that can be used to produce alcohol. "After ethanol from sugarcane juice and from cellulose, we will be looking for the so-called third generation ethanol: the use of gasified biomass and the use of synthesis reactions to produce liquid fuels", he stated.
According to Olivério, to build and install a Process Development Unit on a larger scale, Dedini had the support of FAPESP's Technological Innovation Partnering Research program (Pite – Pesquisa em Parceria para Inovação Tecnológica). The DHR unit has been implemented at the São Luiz mill, in the town of Pirassununga, in the São Paulo inner state area; it enables higher alcohol production extracted from the same, unchanged, sugarcane plantation area.
During the signing of the agreement with Dedini, FAPESP released the publication Brasil, líder mundial em conhecimento e tecnologia de cana e etanol (Brazil, world leader in sugarcane and ethanol knowledge and technology), prepared by the Foundation's Communication Office. The document carries information about research projects that regard sugarcane, ethanol and other industrial products that the Foundation has provided support for over the last ten years, besides articles on these themes that have been published in Pesquisa FAPESP magazine from November 2000 to February 2007.

This work first appeared on Pesquisa FAPESP under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here.

eduardo cesarFrom FAPESP Agency FAPESP and Dedini Indústria de Base signed an agreement to finance technological research projects geared toward industrial processes for the manufacturing of sugarcane ethanol. With a five-year term, the agreement's funding amounts to R$ 100 million, R$ 50 million of which will be disbursed by FAPESP, whereas the other R$ 50 million will come from the company, which is headquartered in the city of Piracicaba, in the São Paulo inner state area. The agreement will provide support for cooperative projects to be established between Dedini researchers and research institutions and universities, whether public or private, in the state of São Paulo. The signing of the agreement, which was attended by governor José Serra and vice-governor Alberto Goldman, took place on the first day of the 5th International Symposium and Technology Show of the Sugar and Alcohol Agroindustry (Simtec). It is expected that the total use of sugarcane coupled with the know-how and the possibility of large scale application in innovative processing techniques will help Brazil to remain among the chief producers and exporters of fuel alcohol. "São Paulo is the second largest sugar and alcohol producer in the world – the first one is Brazil. It is a very important sector. In 2006, sugarcane products accounted for 14.4% of the country's energy supply, a percentage that is on par with the hydroelectric energy supply. This is a fantastic figure", highlighted Serra. FAPESP president Carlos Vogt recalled that since the 90's the Foundation has given preferential treatment to the development of technological research linked to business activity. "The partnering arrangement with Dedini was a natural choice, given that it is one of the world's main companies in the field of industrial technology for the production of ethanol and that it engages in substantial in-house R&D efforts", he states. This is the greatest partnership that FAPESP has ever entered into with a privately-owned firm. "It's about research focused on application and, in such cases, FAPESP always tries to establish an association with companies that are better able to identify market opportunities than universities or research institutions", said Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, the Foundation's scientific director. With the same objective, the Foundation has signed agreements with Oxiteno, Telefônica, Microsoft and Padtec. According to Brito Cruz, global warming has made it critical to invest in ethanol production technologies. "Until two years ago, producing ethanol in large quantities was a Brazilian issue. Now that developed countries have become interested in these technologies, we have competitors that oblige us to incorporate far more advanced science." Call for proposals The first call for proposals under the scope of the agreement should be released in August. The funds will only go to the proposals that FAPESP selects, with the participation of the Cooperation Management Committee, and will be disbursed in line with the timetable of each selected and approved proposal. According to José Luiz Olivério, vice-president of Dedini, the call will target research projects focusing on industrial technology areas for the production of ethanol. "R$ 20 million a year will be invested during five years. We believe that this will be sufficient for many projects in these areas. The values allocated to each of them will depend on their nature", said Olivério. It is expected that projects of the following types will be funded: improvements in technologies used in the company's acid hydrolysis demonstration plant, or discovery and development of new technologies; energy production from subproducts of the production of ethanol; ways to reduce the consumption of energy during the industrial process; and ways to increase the efficiency of the distillation and fermentation processes. According to Olivério, one of the focal points will be the development of ethanol from cellulose. "Sugarcane is one third sucrose and two thirds cellulose. We only make ethanol from sucrose. When we develop the technology for making it from cellulose, there will be a major impact on productivity", he said. It is also expected that the research projects will encourage the dissemination of knowledge and the implementation of innovative scientific or technological research projects whose results have potential for application in the market. The agreement with FAPESP establishes that the intellectual property rights that may be generated as a result of the partnering arrangement or connected with the projects analyzed and selected will be settled according to terms that will be established between Dedini and the institutions of the proposing researchers; the Foundation may or may not hold a stake in these rights. According to Olivério, the agreement will enable researchers from universities and companies to work in cooperation. "The basis is for the work to be carried out within universities with the participation of the company's research department. However, if there are projects that call for a prototype to be built, the university researchers will probably come to the plant", he states. Established 85 years ago, Dedini is one of the chief suppliers of capital goods for sugar mills and alcohol distilleries. The company operates in several industrial segments, such as pulp and paper, energy, fertilizers, hydroelectric power stations, mining, metallurgy, oil, chemistry, steel milling, effluent treatment and foods. According to Olivério, the company currently invests 3% of its revenue in R&D. "One of the lines of research covered by the scope of the agreement is the improvement in technology for the Dedini Fast Hydrolysis (DHR) system, developed in order to increase the production of energy while also reducing its consumption and obtaining greater process yield and efficiency", he said. Patented in Brazil, the USA, the EU and several other countries in all continents, DHR is a process that in just a few minutes transforms through acid hydrolysis the sugarcane bagasse into fermentable material that can be used to produce alcohol. "After ethanol from sugarcane juice and from cellulose, we will be looking for the so-called third generation ethanol: the use of gasified biomass and the use of synthesis reactions to produce liquid fuels", he stated. According to Olivério, to build and install a Process Development Unit on a larger scale, Dedini had the support of FAPESP's Technological Innovation Partnering Research program (Pite – Pesquisa em Parceria para Inovação Tecnológica). The DHR unit has been implemented at the São Luiz mill, in the town of Pirassununga, in the São Paulo inner state area; it enables higher alcohol production extracted from the same, unchanged, sugarcane plantation area. During the signing of the agreement with Dedini, FAPESP released the publication Brasil, líder mundial em conhecimento e tecnologia de cana e etanol (Brazil, world leader in sugarcane and ethanol knowledge and technology), prepared by the Foundation's Communication Office. The document carries information about research projects that regard sugarcane, ethanol and other industrial products that the Foundation has provided support for over the last ten years, besides articles on these themes that have been published in Pesquisa FAPESP magazine from November 2000 to February 2007.

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YORK, Pa. – The York College women's lacrosse team celebrated Senior Day with an impressive 21-12 triumph over Christopher Newport University on Saturday afternoon at Kinsley Field in Capital Athletic Conference competition. Seniors Melissa Meehling and Charlotte Wright put together career performances as Meehling finished with four points on three goals and an assist while Wright turned away 14 shots in net for the Green and White.
• The Captains took the early lead, scoring in just 1:01 to jump ahead 1-0. It didn't take long for York to equalize, though, as the Spartans quickly transitioned from defense to offense, sprinting down the field. Melissa Meehling carried it into the offensive zone and fed Kayleigh Phillips for the goal. Just 36 seconds later, the Captains took the lead for the second time, taking a 2-1 lead. The seventh-ranked Spartans weren't fazed, and scored six straight goals in exactly five minutes to take the upper hand for good. Devin Hursey scored on a free-position attempt, an area she has excelled all season, to level the score at 2-2. Just 43 seconds later, Meehling scored and, moments later, at the 19:03 mark, York led 7-2.
• CNU closed within four, but then York responded with three consecutive goals again, two coming from Caitlin Rankin. A lot of the Spartan success came from their dominance on draws, winning 15 of the 19 first-half draw controls. Nicole Clauter, who just broke the school record for draw controls in a game with 14 in York's last time out, scooped up 12 controls in just the first half against CNU, allowing the Spartans to control the pace. After another CNU goal, again scored by Sarah Culver, who entered the game with 53 goals, the lead was cut again. However, the Green and White answered with another trio of scores, coming from Hursey, Meehling and Phillips, to take a 13-5 lead into the halftime break.
• The Captains dug in and scored the first two goals of the second half, just 1:21 apart, but, much like the first half, York had an answer. Meehling, who celebrated her Senior Day with a career performance, scored with 23:34 to play, and then Caitlin Rankin wiggled through the defense and threw one past the goalie to extend the lead back to eight. Meehling matched her career high with four points. Despite trailing by eight, CNU put together yet another run, scoring twice in 1:08 to cut the deficit to six, but then the Spartans finally put them away. Using five goals in 7:48, York jumped ahead 20-9 with just under 10 minutes to play to seal the win. CNU added a few goals late, but it wasn't enough as York cruised to a 21-12 win. Charlotte Wright made a ton of key saves through the middle portion of the game for the Spartans, finishing with a career high-matching 14 on the afternoon.
York is now 7-0 all-time against the Captains … York defeated the Captains twice last year, including a win in the CAC Tournament semifinals … Melissa Meehling finished with a career high-matching four points on three – also matching a career high – and an assist … Baleigh Bradley dished out a career-high three assists, also setting a career high for points … Haley McCormick also set a career high with two assists … Caitlin Rankin scored a career-high four goals … her four points also matched a career high set earlier this season against Montclair St. … Meghan Fox recorded five points for the sixth time this season, but first since March 30 … she leads the Spartans with 44 points … Regan Cook continued her scoring streak, scoring a goal for the sixth straight game … Devin Hursey has 12 free-position goals, tied with Fox for the most on the team … Hursey has 41 points on 22 goals and a team-high 19 assists … Nicole Clauter finished with 13 draw controls, one off the school record she set against St. Mary's on April 11 … Charlotte Wright made a career high-matching 14 saves on her Senior Day.
The Spartans continue their three-game home stand on Wednesday, taking on Frostburg St. First draw for the Capital Athletic Conference matchup is set for 6 p.m. at Kinsley Field.


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Czech Republic Will Begin Contributing Financially to Europeana
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From the Prague Daily Monitor:
The Czech Republic will financially contribute to the digitisation of European cultural heritage within the Europeana project, Culture Minister Daniel Herman said after a meeting of his EU colleagues yesterday.
The Czech Republic has not yet contributed to the project. We want to redress this because I think that it is one of the important parts of protection of European as well as our – Czech, Moravian, Silesian – cultural heritage," Herman said.
He would not specify the contribution because the state and the ministry´s budgets for next year have not yet been approved.
"I would not like it to be but a symbolic sum, however," Herman said.
Herman said the digitisation of heritage can help the police and security forces in fighting trafficking in world cultural heritage that is sometimes also a financial source of terrorist organisations.
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Sink or Swim, Channel 4 review - the Channel awaits for these celebrities
The latest celebrity format lacks tension or conflict
by Veronica LeeWednesday, 28 August 2019
There are a few bona fide celebrities in the line-up
Is there any challenge that television producers haven't filmed celebrities doing? They won't be happy until they've followed a bunch of them snowboarding down an Alp while baking a cake, conducting an orchestra and researching their family history. And if it involves a little sob followed by a group hug, bonus!
But I can't be cynical about Sink or Swim (Channel 4) because it's in aid of the charity Strand Up to Cancer. The programme's USP is that 11 celebrities – using the term loosely – who are all weak or non-swimmers are being trained to do a sponsored relay swim across the Channel next month. Actually three of them are bona fide celebs – former Olympians Linford Christie, Tessa Sanderson and Greg Rutherford – while most of the rest you may have vaguely heard of.
The experts training them for the task in just three months are Olympic silver medallist Keri-anne Payne and adventurer Ross Edgley, the first person to swim around the British coastline.
The problem with SOS is that there's no real tension or conflict. God forbid that anyone should sink (ie drown), but if they did we would have heard about it and we certainly wouldn't be seeing this four-part series. We know everything will turn out all right, even if it doesn't go, er, swimmingly at the start. And in a show like this, any argument or dissent between participants would be really, really uncool; rather, they were quick to encourage each other and, yes, there was a lot of hugging, and indeed a few sobs as people tried to overcome their fear of water.
Last night, when the 11 were undergoing their initial assessments, we heard about the near-death experiences in water of two of the participants – singer Simon Webbe and TV presenter Diane-Louise Jordan – while another, Georgia Kousoulou from The Only Way Is Essex, had to withdraw because of her anxiety problems.
She's part of the shocking statistic that 25 per cent of adults in the UK – a nation surrounded by water – struggle to swim, so for those individuals SOS may serve a genuine purpose. And I had to stay my cynicism when I saw the immense effort that Alex Brooker (from The Last Leg) put in. In difficulty in his first open-water swim, the presenter, who was born with deformed limbs, was determined to complete the task because giving up would mean being defined by his disability.
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This was an amazing and inspirational series so sad they didn't complete it:(
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A tough weekend for Arizona's D-I football teams
All three of Arizona's Division I football teams played yesterday, and the result was the same across the board. Not a win in the bunch.
Arizona State can't keep from shooting itself in the foot. Too many scoring opportunities were squandered in yesterday's game with Illinois, as penalties (eight) and turnovers (three) kept moving the ball farther away from the goal line. The Sun Devils actually gained 112 yards more than the Illini, but the result was still a 17-14 loss.
The Arizona Wildcats, on the other hand, couldn't find their ground game last night. Junior QB Nick Foles was almost perfect in the first half against No. 6 Stanford, connecting on all 15 of his throws right out of the chute and not missing one until just before the half ended. And it's a good thing he had the hot hand, because on the ground the Cats had a minus-six yards going into the second half.
But Northern Arizona's head coach, Jerome Souers, probably did the best job of summing up the day. "We did not play well today," he told a reporter after his Lumberjacks dropped a 31-29 decision to Portland State when a game-winning field goal missed the mark with seven seconds left in the game.
"We credit the opponent," Souers added, "but there are too many details getting away from us."
Hey, we're three games into the 2011 season and these teams, one of which (ASU) was nationally-ranked, haven't been able to put together a consistently solid performance yet.
ASU, which was plagued by penalties and miscues last season, is seeing the pattern rise up again this year. The Devils were able to overcome more than 100 yards in penalties to beat Missouri in overtime in the last game, but three turnovers against Illinois was too much in a game that was won by just three points.
Arizona, meanwhile, has two significant issues to deal with right now. It has no running game, and can't rely on field goals to pull it through in the close games. The Cats are 1-for-4 on field-goal attempts so far this season.
They rushed for a total of 51 yards last night in their 37-10 loss to the Cardinal – averaging less than three yards a try – and missed consecutive field-goal tries by Jaime Salazar that would have made it a 16-16 game and given Arizona some momentum early in the third quarter.
That 51 yards rushing, by the way, is just seven under their season average of 58 yards a game. How's that for disturbing?
If Foles wasn't performing like one of the best college quarterbacks in the country right now, Arizona wouldn't have any offense. The 6'5″ transfer from Michigan State has piled up 1,049 yards in just three games, and his passing has accounted for seven TDs.
As for Northern Arizona, we might have to cut them some slack. The Big Sky team opened against Arizona in an obvious mismatch and then got to take their revenge out on undermanned Fort Lewis in their second game, beating the Division II team, 58-13, in the Jacks' home opener. NAU piled up 622 yards of offense and only had to punt once the entire game.
However, despite the score, the Lumberjacks were far from perfect. They lost three fumbles and missed two field-goal attempts.
The field-goal game improved in time for the meeting with Portland State. Matt Myers, the senior kicker from California, had already been successful on three earlier attempts, from 42, 48, and 25 yards, but the final miss from 41 yards erased a comeback effort in which the Jacks had scored 12 straight points to pull to within two.
ASU is the only one of the three getting a mulligan this time around. The Devils lost to a Big Ten team, but Arizona and NAU were both conference losses.
That will change next weekend when the Sun Devils open Pac-12 play by hosting the USC Trojans, who piled up 501 yards yesterday in taking down previously unbeaten Syracuse, 38-17.
The Devils can beat USC, but not if they keep giving up yards and giving away the ball. The Trojans will feast on penalties and turnovers, just as Illinois did.
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Star Refrigeration Sponsors 250th Anniversary Concert Commemorating James Watt
Star Refrigeration Sponsors 25th Anniversary Concert Commemorating James Watt
Strathclyde University Choir
Andy Pearson
Managing Director - Contracts
apearson@star-ref.co.uk
Industrial cooling and heating group, Star Refrigeration, sponsored a concert in commemoration of James Watt and his legacy last week.
"Weaving the Threads of Choral Tradition" marked the 250th anniversary of Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt's flash of inspiration on Glasgow Green in 1765. Watt's idea for a separate condenser improved the efficiency of steam engines and brought about the industrial revolution, changing the course of history forever. Watt realised the importance of latent heat, the "hidden" heat and power in steam, which today powers global processes and industry.
The concert was organised by the Institution of Engineers and Ship Builders in Scotland (IESIS) and The Strathchamber Trust, and featured the Strathclyde University Chamber Choir and their guests, Icelandic Choir Selkórinn. The programme included a wide range of songs from Scotland and Iceland from over the past 250 years and celebrated the effect which the industrialisation of Glasgow had on the musical life of the city, in particular through the world-renowned Orpheus Choir.
On 2nd October this year there will also be a gala dinner in honour of Watt at Glasgow's Radisson Blu Hotel to celebrate the 250 years since his innovative development.
Dr Andy Pearson of Strathclyde University Chamber Choir said, "This celebration owes its genesis to the council of IESIS. May 2015 was a significant milestone in the history of both Glasgow and engineering worldwide. The Strathclyde University Chamber Choir were happy to formulate the outline for a concert, and Selkórinn, who are currently completing a tour of Scotland, were pleased to be able to add a Glasgow date to their itinerary."
Dr Pearson added, "Star Refrigeration is proud to have sponsored such an historic milestone for the engineering industry. Not only does it show how far we have come as an industry, it also demonstrates how far we have to go."
"If it was not for the work of James Watt, Star Refrigeration and the rest of our industry may not be here today, and with that it was fitting that some of our staff were in the audience and even the choir too - bringing Star quality to the proceedings."
More information on Watt can be found in "Watt's the big occasion", an article published by ASHRAE and written by Dr Andy Pearson, which can be viewed here.
More information on The Strathchamber Trust can be found at http://www.strathchamber.org/
More information on IESIS can be found at http://www.iesis.org/


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While most of us are either at 100 Mbps or even 50 Mbps LTE only, Huawei and British carrier EE today announced to launch the world's fastest 4G LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network. As of today, the service is available in London's foremost business cluster, Tech City, and is set to expand across London throughout 2014, delivering mobile broadband speeds of up to 300 Mbps. The speeds and capacity of the network are enabled by Carrier Aggregation (CA), a fundamental feature of LTE-A, which allows next-generation of wireless broadband network with around twice the speed possible through most current LTE mobile networks. This allows for the full utilization of spectrum resources across multiple frequency bands by bringing together 20 MHz of 1800 MHz "GSM" spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz "LTE" spectrum.
As well as enabling high bandwidth, CA ensures backwards compatibility with LTE to facilitate a smooth, seamless migration. LTE-A expands and enhances standard LTE capabilities, allows for more flexible and effective spectrum utilization, and provides for a simpler network architecture; the technology empowers operators to provide high-performance mobile applications and multimedia including video conferencing, high-definition content transmissions, high-speed video downloads, and social networking.
In its press release, EE said the network, which has gone live today, will be available for an official customer trial in early December, offering mobile WiFi in offices in the Tech City area. However, while the network is now open and available, the terminals aren't. Huawei said in it press statement, that the first commercially available mobile WiFi units are expected to be introduced by Huawei in Q2-2014, with handsets to follow in the second half of the year. Huawei is already working with EE to deliver three LTE-enabled devices, which will enable the operator's customers to take advantage of superfast services running on the Huawei-built 4G network.
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No Man's Land is the seventh album by French rock singer Jacques Higelin, released in April 1978. The song "Pars" was covered by Grace Jones on her Warm Leatherette album in 1980.

Recording
Higelin was reportedly dissatisfied with the record, and wanted to destroy the tapes to avoid releasing it, but was persuaded otherwise by his friends, musicians Laurent Thibaut and Francis Moze. Higelin came later to appreciate it somewhat.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certification

Personnel

Musicians
 Jacques Higelin: vocals, keyboards, Korg, pianos, accordion, bass guitar
 Pierre Chérèze: guitars
 Dan Ar Braz: guitars
 Jacky Thomas: bass guitar
 Serge Perathoner: keyboards
 Jean Cirillo: drums
 Michel Santangeli: drums
 Christian Leroux: guitar
 Les petits chanteurs de l'école de Bondy: background vocals

Production
 Laurent Thibault, Christophe Bonno, Michel Marie: recording
 Christian Orsini, studio Translab: mastering
 Dominique Mallegni: photographs
 Bruno Ducourant: design

References

1978 albums
Jacques Higelin albums
Pathé-Marconi albums
EMI Records albums

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Book Signing featuring Rose Gordy at Didjeridoo Dreamtime Inn in Mendocino, CA on March 28, 2015
Rose Gordy will be reading from her new novel, "Adrift in Waking Dreams," which takes place in Mendocino, CA. Wine and Cheese will also be served in this historical mansion setting.
MENDOCINO, Calif. - March 28, 2015 - PRLog -- The Didjeridoo Dreamtime Inn & Meditation Center in the Village of Mendocino, CA has invited author Rose Gordy to give a special book reading on Saturday March 28, 2015 from 7-9pm. Rose Gordy will read from her new novel "Adrift in Waking Dreams," which is set in Mendocino, as well as answer questions. Wine and Cheese will be served. Please RSVP to The Didjeridoo Inn at (707) 937-6200.
Author, dream counselor and longtime teacher, Rose Gordy spent thirteen years of her early life as a nun effectively cut off from the world. After leaving the convent at 30, she made a new life for herself including getting married and having children. Through her experiences as a nun in the 1960's and later as a wife and mother, she has dedicated her life to weaving tales of perseverance and triumph.
For more information about Rose and Rosewords Books, including interviews and video trailers for all her books, please visit Rosewords.com.
"Adrift in Waking Dreams" involves a woman who, although attractive, was an insecure victim of angst. Still this woman, Laura, determined it was imperative to delve into her dreams. She had to find out why her night visions were so compelling, bothersome and somehow invigorating.
But then Ryan, a man of the road, was waylaid in town after an auspicious earthquake and her life got switched on. Their animal magnetism was palpable yet painfully unspoken. With her sex life ultimately activated, Laura's dreams only intensified, including her newly discovered "waking dreams."
(Waking Dream: A notable experience which a person has while awake that has qualities of a sleeping dream. The dreamer may realize that what happened is of consequence and potentially instructive in his or her search for meaning in life.)
Until a thrilling "waking nightmare" tragedy reared its head and brought them hand in hand, the lovebirds almost shattered each other's hearts. But will her "hush-hush" past hinder their budding intimacy? Furthermore, will the ominous other men in Laura's life sit idly by without voicing their melodramatic desires? Unlikely.
And who was that strange girl in her dreams? The one who she always tries to save from the wrath of the waves. Could it be the daughter she tragically left behind? The dreams that make her cry are the most beautiful.
"Adrift in Waking Dreams" is now available in paperback and eBook format and can be ordered through the publisher's website: http://www.Rosewords.com, which has the latest information on Rose Gordy's books and other projects. Thank you for your interest.
Rose Gordy is also a national and state workshop facilitator, speech coach, veteran secondary English teacher, dream counselor, and published poet, essayist and short story writer. She earned a Master's Degree in English and French from the University of Notre Dame and has been writing and teaching for most of her life. http://www.Rosewords.com
The Didjeridoo Dreamtime Inn & Meditation Center is located at 44860 Main St in the Village, Mendocino, CA 95460. For more information on The Didjeridoo Inn, visit http://www.didjeridooinn.com/.
All of Rose's books are available in paperback and eBook formats at Rosewords.com. On her website, there are also links to her Kindle Store, her YouTube Channel, and her Facebook page.
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New HQ – New Year and New Horizons.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) just announced that the Elastic File System (or "EFS") is a live production service. The service is provisioned out of three regions currently: US-EAST-1, US-WEST-2, and EU-WEST-1.
EFS was originally announced over a year ago at AWS re:Invent in 2015. By AWS standards, the service has been in "preview" for quite some time. I'll admit to you, I was getting a little skeptical that it was going to make it out of preview, but hey, it's good to be wrong sometimes.
EFS is essentially an NFS service for your resources inside of an AWS Virtual Private Cloud, or "VPC." It feels like interacting with a standard NFS server - you create mounts, you assign permissions via chown/chmod, and you use standard NFS mount commands on NFS compliant or enabled servers to access the mounts.
At a higher level, the service is Security Group aware, and is accessed via an endpoint - making it straight forward to secure and access. Based on AWS EBS SSD storage, it's been snappy, and consistent in my testing of the product. On the high availability side, the system is provisioned across multiple availability zones - in keeping with standard AWS best practices.
Unlike traditional NFS, there are no servers to configure or maintain. Extending access to the EFS shares/volumes is done via the command line or the AWS management console.
Many applications make use of a shared disk volume between one or more servers/systems/instances. EFS exposes a mechanism to allow that. It can also be leveraged as a file sharing solution for users, however in this Windows-heavy world we are in, some users and/or organizations will balk a bit at having to configure specialized NFS settings as opposed to simple CIFs shares.
If I can read the tea leaves for a moment, I think this may be a place we will see additional functionality from the service later on. Those of you familiar with the world of system operations know that a lot of the work needed to provide access to a NFS share is comparable with the type of work you have to put in to provide access to a CIFs share. I'm betting (or more to the point, hoping) that the EFS service will offer a CIFS mode in the future that will allow "natural" access for Windows-based systems in the future.
However, for now, those are just the musings of an outside observer... and a system administrator sick of dealing with Windows Servers!
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James Hardie® Siding and KinG'S COURT BUILDERS
BUILDER: Pete Stefani
FIRM: King's Court Builders, Inc.
Performance issues with engineered wood siding and lack of manufacturer support led this custom-home builder to search for a new siding material.
With its collection of siding, trim and soffit in various styles, textures and colors, James Hardie gives builders the diversity they need to accurately capture any design.
Pete Stefani takes pride in having built and closed more than 1,100 homes in Chicago's western suburbs since 1986. "It means so much to me that we build houses which people call their homes. More than a job, it's a passion," explains Stefani. "You really appreciate how the long-term reliability of the products you use will translate into the long-term satisfaction of the families that move in."
When starting out in the business, he used engineered wood as a cedar siding substitute. However, product failure within a couple years of installation led to unhappy homeowners. Due to a lack of manufacturer support, Stefani had to replace the engineered wood siding at his own expense. So, for the last decade he's switched to building homes with stronger, more reliable James Hardie® fiber cement siding. "We're much happier with the long-term results," says Stefani.
Beautiful James Hardie® ColorPlus® Technology products can be installed year-round, while delivering superior color consistency and performance for many years to come.
Engineered wood siding still acts like wood
To this day, Stefani sees problems with engineered wood products, "they move on the wall more than you'd like. In this climate, we go from warm, humid summers to cold, arid winters and that's ripe for expansion and contraction in wood products. It can get to the point where the engineered wood bows off the wall because of two pieces expanding against each other."
Another downside is the manufacturer's recommended 3/16-inch gap between boards to accommodate expected swelling. Homeowners complain when they inspect their newly installed siding. Stefani notes, "Those gaps don't make a real good impression and they don't build confidence with the homeowner."
James Hardie's products and support give us a competitive edge
When Stefani first met with the James Hardie rep, he sensed a real commitment. Through the years, the company has exceeded his expectations. He is especially impressed with how James Hardie continuously looks to innovate. "Everything they do is top-notch, from their products to the marketing materials to the support they give us," Stefani raves.
"The James Hardie siding lays on the wall really nice, and we know it's going to stay that way. I'm thrilled with it and so are my homeowners. The Hardie name gives us instant reliability and credibility as being a top-quality builder. And their ColorPlus® Technology has raised the bar in siding products. It's more consistent and more durable than other siding finishes."
One of the most pleasant surprises for Stefani has been the support from their James Hardie technical representative. The representative visits every one of Stefani's project sites to make sure the crews are properly trained and to answer any questions. "In my three decades of experience, no other manufacturer supports their product with service like that." This helps Stefani avoid the callbacks that followed his engineered wood siding jobs.
And Stefani plans to return the favor. "I won't even consider using a different fiber cement company or engineered wood product company because of everything that James Hardie has done to cement our relationship."
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Schist soils, old-vine Mencía on the steepest of banks of the Sil River.
Tolo do Xisto, or "Crazy about Slate", describes the passion Andrea Obenza has for the incredibly steep vineyards that bank the river Sil in Ribeira Sacra. Here you find old Mencía bush vines seemingly clinging precariously to the slate slopes. To harvest in these conditions, one has to be a bit nuts. But once you've tried these lively, wonderfully aromatic wines, you'll be glad she does.
Andrea had worked with star Catalan winemaker Toni Coca in Terra Alta during the harvests of 2010 – 2011. She told him of her dream to make a pure Mencía from her homeland in Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, on the other coast of the country. Three years later, that dream became a reality. Andrea moved home in 2012 to put the pieces into place.
Tolo do Xisto is made from grapes coming from two specific vineyards along the Sil river. The first, located in Sober, is made of pure schist soils that provide minerality and freshness, while the second site located in Vilachá de Salvador has clay and schist soils, providing a vibrant fruit profile and structure to the wine. The result is a wine that is markedly Atlantic in character: aromatic and fresh, with tart fruit and spicy notes, backed with zipping acidity typical of the varietal.


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Concert review: Iron Maiden
Posted on October 15, 2019 October 15, 2019 by Eric
2018 by JOHN McMURTRIE 2018 Copyright TALLINN IRON MAIDEN
PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA – August 17, 2019
The euphoric high that is the natural byproduct of any rock concert worth its salt lingers for an indeterminate time after, depending upon whom you just saw, how well he/she/they played, how comprehensively the house in question was rocked, etc., but it can be expected, at a bare minimum, to get you out the venue door with a smile. Anything beyond that is some degree of bonus, one that can vary wildly. I've coasted down interstates riding a magic carpet of post-performance bliss, watching three-hour, music-soaked return road trips disappear in little more than the blink of an eye. I've followed awesome dreams out of a contented sleep and awakened the morning after still wrapped in a pervasive warm and fuzzy feeling. There have been certain shows I simply wouldn't, or couldn't, shut up about days later, so intense the impression made, so deep the impact. You've possibly read about one, four, or more of them on this very website. It's far from an every-show occurrence, and, thus, well worth celebrating. I may yet be basking in the residual wake of Iron Maiden's glorious mid-August performance at Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena when my scattered familial units gather 'round their respective Christmas trees months from now – you see how long it took me to finally write about it, and with what barely diminished enthusiasm – and, if so, it'll hardly qualify as a holiday surprise, even capping off a year that has, for me, been replete with musical gifts. To the contrary. It will have been practically preordained.
Such mood-altering chemical modifiers also manifest themselves physically, of course, in the form of merchandise and memorabilia. I just look at home in an Iron Maiden t-shirt, always have. I did 114 years ago, when I was approximately a foot shorter and numerous pounds lighter, broadcasting immortal mascot Eddie the Head's alarming visage from my otherwise sunken and withdrawn chest as a signal piece of black fabric armor as well as a point of gradually rising pride, and I do now. I wore one of the three (?!) Maiden shirts I purchased in Pittsburgh to a local club show by exquisite Arkansan doomsayers Pallbearer the other night, and though you could hardly find two concerts on the metal spectrum more diametrically opposed in terms of scale and pomp, pyro and population, I still received several affirming comments of the sort that used to absently launch life-long, or at least evening-long, friendships of the like-minded back in the days back before the internet ruined everything. Though pleasant, that wasn't particularly surprising. Few bands in heavy metal's storied history have ever approached Iron Maiden's simultaneous level of relevant output and cultural cache, and nowadays, with the genre haphazardly splintered into so many not-really-piles of bloody stylistic toothpicks, they are one of if not the only bands upon whom most every fan, regardless of generation represented or poison preferred, can give a nod of recognition and unforced approval. If I had to pick one band through which to explain heavy metal to a novice, I would pick Iron Maiden, who, from their blue collar ethos to their tuneful and explosive music to their sinister yet fantastical visual image, have embodied it like no other for four decades.
That kind of ubiquity within the metalhead consciousness goes a long way toward explaining why Maiden still engenders such widespread brand loyalty and warm feeling, even four decades into its journey, but doesn't tell the whole story. Certainly, Maiden itself has done little to make fans consider straying – the Blaze Bayley Era was admittedly an ordeal – but the last component of the formula, as tends to happen for any artist with staying power, is a purely personal concern. Nobody with even a passing awareness of this site, or an attention span that allows them to acknowledge and comprehend blog titles, let alone accompanying essays of between 9,000 and 13,000 words apiece, need question my position on the matter. I've told the story twice before – privately for my father, and, years later, written here for posterity – of how the serendipitous discovery of/ravenous indulgence in the music and milieu of Iron Maiden resuscitated my moribund senses of self and self-worth, helping to forge from scratch a welcome and desperately needed identity during my theatrically bleak middle school years. That tale is comprehensive, and complete. The best this review might provide it is (yet) another happy postscript, another tacked-on, arguably necessary Return of the King-like epilogue. Normally I would think such piled-on digressions unseemly, but Iron Maiden has provided me these sorts of wonderful memories for almost my entire life, or as much life as I can comfortably recall – as much life as rings authentically true – and, even with so many miles now behind me, I am overcome with gratitude. Iron Maiden may live in the hearts of metal fans everywhere, but it is my band. Unequivocally. Mine. Deal with it.
Imagine my surprise then to return, for the first time in far too many years, to the heart of Pittsburgh's majestic, convoluted, logistically punishing downtown and discover an off-duty hockey arena absolutely teeming with Maiden fans of sizes, ages, and varieties sufficient to make a Dr. Seuss narrator blush. Well over ten thousand Whos attended our arrival in this bustling and chaotic Who-ville, the tall and the small, the young, the older, and the just plain defiantly, delightfully old, the Eddie-wearing, beer-chugging, horns-throwing, unintelligibly shouting mobilized army division of your nightmares and my dreams. Iron Maiden was the first thing, as an only child, that ever consistently made me feel the least bit connected to something larger than myself, and no matter what manner of individualist or loner you might imagine yourself, that is, of course, a crucial component of human well-being. After a decade away as a disengaged wanderer, albeit one rocking a dependably killer personal soundtrack, I stepped inside, reflexively re-embraced my tribe and, in that same instant, rediscovered my sense of place. I had observed far too many semi-permanent Cheshire Cat grins in my travels around the PPG Paints perimeter, through security, to the box office inside, cutting through swaths of humanity to the floor level entrance and beyond*, to continue the convenient fiction that Maiden was somehow mine and mine alone, although by the time recognition finally fell on me like a summer sunset, as we entered the arena proper to the dying strains of yet another anemic opener fronted by one of Steve Harris' children, I was far too happy to care.
*Including a wraparound inner hallway to apparently nowhere so austere once you moved past the beer lines that I half expected to encounter Spinal Tap circa-1984 fumbling their way towards stage and shouting, "Hello, Cleveland!" Professing fandom for golden age heavy metal in 2019, even still active, still vital, Lamborghini-class product like Maiden, requires a certain willful, almost blissful dissociation from strict reality. There was definitely a peculiar and elusive vibe in the air.
"Arena Metal" never really caught on as a musical descriptor, and thank goodness. It makes little conceptual sense, the anomaly of Metallica notwithstanding. Metal is by nature a grimy sort of music that cuts (for many, on purpose) uncomfortably close to the bone and seeks to fill the limited airspace between listeners with aural shrapnel. As a rule, it is best experienced from the nearest possible distance within the smallest possible confines. Iron Maiden takes everything you thought you knew about live metal and turns it on its head, emphasizing the visual in ways only they seem equipped to do without ever downplaying their increasingly timeless music, offering the sort of big ticket spectacle that, for other bands, would be the sole purview of your imagination, filling a cavernous, communal space with sound that hits kids on the front rail and the 60-year-old granddad in the upper bowl with equal force and zeal. There is no substitute for seeing Iron Maiden live, and no experience quite like it once you enter the arena. Ostensibly created to sell-abrate an admittedly pretty wicked turn-based mobile fantasy RPG, the "Legacy of the Beast" Tour is another of Maiden's off-album, greatest hits packages – by definition therefore unmissable – purportedly boasting their largest production yet. Memories of the last time I witnessed one of these undertakings, an unfathomable decade+ ago on 2008's "Somewhere Back in Time" tour**, lingered long enough to make me momentarily question the math, but by all indicators available to the naked eye/ear, it was all that and more, a smashing success across the board.
**You remember what I said above about how the right concert can convert good memories into hi-test fuel? "Somewhere Back in Time", which, if memory serves, I namechecked in DAE's "Iron Maiden Saved My Life" remembrance as the delirious, definitive "after" to my extended sob story "before", would be exhibit A.
When the lights went out in PPG, the resulting twenty-second trailer for "Legacy of the Beast" did a reasonable job of making me want to revisit the cutesy, colorful game I had dabbled in on a single night years earlier when blessed with both insomnia and a 5G wifi connection all over again, but it was the last and only specific mention we'd hear.*** The breathless commercial cut to black and immediately gave way to the low rumbling sound of advancing weapons of war, punctuated by far off artillery blasts and the increasingly distinct scream of dive bombers. The voice of Winston Churchill, cracked and tinny, then appeared on the soundtrack, as it has for most every traditional Maiden tour o'er the last thirty years, imparting tone-setting words of defiant wisdom before the band slammed into the classic "Aces High". With so many years separating me from the last time we'd shared the same room, I was struck at once by how young several of them looked, by how young all of them acted, and by how well they played. I was surprised to be surprised. Vocalist Bruce Dickinson vaulted out from offstage to its center as if conveyed by catapult, and sang the harrowing first-person tale of a doomed WWII fighter pilot slashing his way through a soup made of enemy planes as if his own life depended on it – which is, to be honest, the only way he seems to know – standing in the shadows of an impressive scale replica of a British Spitfire that pitched and yawed slowly but suggestively toward and away from the front row throughout the performance. This was Iron Maiden in outsized microcosm: mysterious, acrobatic, yet vividly musical music that moves and excites true believer and stationary cynic alike, paired with splendid, occasionally astonishing visuals, impeccably played by a band that reliably melds exuberance and professionalism like no other I've ever seen.
***No matter how successful the various arms – gaming, beer, clothing and collectible art of any and all description, and, oh yeah, music too – of its ever-expanding business empire might be at any given moment, Iron Maiden doesn't engage in the hard sell. It merely presents its legions of curious fans the opportunity to buy behind an implicit promise of coolness and quality and leaves the heavy lifting to us.
What exactly did you expect from this review? Impartial reporting?!
Ugh. How useless, and utterly boring.
One song in, and already I feared for my voice. My mind cast back in an instant over twenty years of sadly limited live exposure to my band, to "Somewhere Back in Time" and its all-encompassing sense of a prophecy fulfilled, and then almost another decade earlier, to an amphitheater on the outskirts of Pittsburgh in the summer of 2000, where, enveloped in an extended, white light reverie, I yelled so loud for so long that I literally felt my feet leave the floor and stay there, before snapping back into my shoes this night, heart racing, face of a loon, body not shaking per se, but still thrumming. Dickinson, grinning like a hatter, aglow in the rush of performance and so much instant, overwhelmingly positive feedback, unleashed, for the first of many times this evening, his trademark battle cry, "Scream for me, [insert city here]!" from a suggestive crouched perch on the edge of the stage. "SCREAM FOR ME, PITTSBURGH!" As if we had any choice. The stage backdrop, which is often adorned with the Derek Riggs artwork for the song in current question, then changed to something with which I had only passing familiarity, heralding the happy arrival of "Where Eagles Dare", one of my favorite ever Maiden songs, and one I'd never seen live. This kind of potential surprise is why I steadfastly refuse to read leaked setlists before attending a show, preferring to react in real time. There was a time when it seemed most every Maiden song had accompanying artwork, and their inclusion as interchangeable backdrops really helps the show move while setting it far apart from those of the band's peers. Apocalyptic favorite "2 Minutes to Midnight" yielded to the stirring, "Braveheart"-inspired "The Clansman", with Dickinson quipping, "there is no 'K' in this spelling" before doing the best song of the Blaze Bayley more justice than ever seemed possible in 1998.
The hits alternated with slight curveballs from there on out, keeping an audience primed for classic red meat at or near fever pitch even through comparative lulls like the terrific 2006 banger, "For the Greater Good of God", and atmospheric but meandering Bayley-era chestnut, "Sign of the Cross", which, despite some of the evening's moodiest visuals, should have just as well remained buried. The stilt-walking, eight-foot-tall live mascot Eddie materialized in full British Light Infantry regalia to do comical battle with Dickinson during the immortal "Trooper", while "Revelations" was a revelation indeed, dramatically unveiling the full stage setup as a gothic cathedral containing stained glass reproductions of notable Eddies through the years. Dickinson stalked the stage in Mr. Hyde trench coat and top hat, warding off the titular darkness with a handheld gas lamp, during the dependable audience singalong "Fear of the Dark", while Steve Harris locked into place wielding his bass like an M-16, classic guitar tandem Adrian Smith and Dave Murray lobbed tasty, note-perfect solos at one another in an elaborate, ongoing game of one-upmanship, personal drumming idol Nicko McBrain was rendered largely invisible, having apparently been swallowed by his massive kit, and "new kid" (circa 1995) Janick Gers galavanted around the stage, as is his wont, like a kid off his Ritalin playing contentedly in the park. The showstopper came with the reintroduction of Piece of Mind classic "Flight of Icarus", back in the set for the first time since 1986, boasting the breathtaking visual centerpiece of a giant winged angel suspended above the stage in throes of despair, as Dickinson shot off dual-wielded flamethrowers in its and other general directions as wild, cackling punctuation to the insistent chorus. Wow.
After so long off headlining European festivals or other equally obscure parts unknown, here was Iron Maiden in its utter glory, stateside, finally, in full, triumphant command of both its instrument and its audience. What more possibly needed to be said? And yet, even after the "Icarus" angel tumbled dramatically from its heights to crumple behind the drum riser, the band could not, and would not concede the last word. There was still the appearance of the giant, demonic, horned Eddie head during main set closer "Iron Maiden", and the signature gallop of the three songs that comprised the encore – the surprising "Evil That Men Do", another song I'd never borne witness to live, flawless perennial "Hallowed Be Thy Name", with Dickinson adopting the ever-affecting persona of a condemned French revolutionary as a symbolic noose swung by him in a gradually receding arc, and, finally, "Run to the Hills", the greatest singalong in metal history, and the song that, in a serendipitous moment I've talked about twice before and, thus, won't go into here, first made me realize that a band that was unequivocally my band could belong to others as well with no sacrifice involved whatsoever except perhaps that of my limited worldview. On this sublime night, on a spot made sacred by its presence and our collective will, Iron Maiden belonged to everyone. By the time Nicko finally materialized from behind/within/beneath his staggering drum riser to warmly thank us for coming, my heart was full close to bursting. We spilled out into the night and off to our homes, well satisfied. It won't be another ten years until I next see them, I promise. Until then, and for the foreseeable future, at least I've got PPG to coast on.
Tagged Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Iron Maiden, Janick Gers, Nicko McBrain, Steve Harris
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Dear Readers ~ It saddens me to think about how many of you are facing the crippling disease of Osteoporosis with hopes that a pill will come along to fix it for you.
As you know, I am not a doctor; however, I know that multiple factors contribute to the disease. Heredity is one and body acidity is another. Basically what happens when your body is acidic is that your blood will grab calcium from your bones to help alkalize things. We know that certain foods make your body more acidic (meat, grains, sugar, etc) and this acid environment is a perfect breeding ground for many diseases, including cancer.
4. Ask the person to STICK OUT THEIR TONGUE - should be straight, not to the side.
If ANY ONE of these is a problem for the person, call 911 immediately. Doctors tell us if we can get the person the proper care within 3 hours, ALL SIGNS OF THE STROKE CAN BE REVERSED!!
People die all the time because we don't know what to look for.
Another problem is that the person may trip, fall or just drop something and become embarrassed. They brush off your concern and seem to be OK. Remember - any ONE of the above signs can signal a stroke so insist on getting them to do the test. Laugh about it - tell them you are just practicing and they can be your guinea pig - whatever you need to do.
I know of a woman who tripped and fell at a party. People were concerned. She blamed it on being clumsy and brushed it off. Several hours later she was dead. She had suffered a stroke.
Remember S-T-R-S (think stress). Smile - Talk - Raise arms - Stick out tongue.


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Razorbacks To Make Announcement Today
School Officials: No Press Conference Called
Updated: 1:47 AM CDT Apr 23, 2012
An announcement relating to the Razorbacks football program will be released at around 4 p.m. today, the University of Arkansas said in a news release.Officials did not give out any details about the announcement, but they said a press conference will not likely be scheduled for today.The Razorbacks are searching for a coach to replace Bobby Petrino, who was fired April 10.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
An announcement relating to the Razorbacks football program will be released at around 4 p.m. today, the University of Arkansas said in a news release.
Officials did not give out any details about the announcement, but they said a press conference will not likely be scheduled for today.
The Razorbacks are searching for a coach to replace Bobby Petrino, who was fired April 10.


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2. Transition into a fun activity. Once that timer has beeped, having another activity lined up can ease the transition away from tech time. A trip to the park, your child's favorite craft or even a snack can make the switch a little smoother.
3. Save the tech for the road trip. Summer brings long car rides and plane trips. Save that movie your child really wants to see for when they are strapped in their seat and can't move around much anyway.
4. Take it outside. There are lots of great apps to get your kids into nature. Geocaching, photography, and insect finding can inspire them to create amazing content or become neighborhood explorers. Plus, it will likely inspire them to get into the great outdoors on their own next time without the devices.
5. Sleep. Shut down those screens at least one hour before bedtime. The blue light emitted from screens inhibits our body's production of melatonin which we need for restful, high quality sleep. And we can all benefit from a good night of zzzzz's.