It's just a few miles up the road but this is Flock Comedy's first gig in Witney.
We're bringing a stellar line up to The Corn Exchange with four pro comedians: Harry Stachini, Tony Cowards, Marti and Rob Deering. We also have a turn by the enigmatic celebrity poet Lawrie Hurt always a favourite with the local populous.


Tony Kart came out on top in the battle for the Manufacturers' Cup at the Giltrap Group 2018 National Sprint Championships contested at KartSport Rotorua's Century Batteries International Raceway over Easter Weekend.
Tony Kart's inaugural win ended a two year reign by SodiKart.
The Tony Kart points were boosted with wins in 125cc Rotax Max Heavy (Zach Zaloum), 125cc Rotax Max Junior (Jaiden Pope) and Vortex Mini ROK (Louis Sharp. NOTE: subject to appeal).
SodiKart finished a strong second with wins in three classes; 125cc Rotax Max Light (Daniel Kinsman), KZ2 and Rotax DD2 (both Mathew Kinsman).
The points were close for a number of other brands including Kosmic, Praga and FK.
Congratulations to Tony Kart importers Maurice and Kane Frost at Supreme Kart Supplies.
NOTE: Subject to an Appeal in the Vortex Mini ROK class, however this will not affect the positions of the top two brands.


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Halt and Catch Fire season 2, episode 10 airs Sunday on AMC.
In the season 2 finale, Gordon aids Joe as the Clark family descends into crisis. Meanwhile, Cameron envisions a new future for Mutiny that may not include everyone.
Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM and all but corners the market with the release of its first major product—the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a great engineer whose unrealized dreams of creating a revolutionary product have created tension in his marriage to Donna (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it's like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work toward it, no matter the risk.
Halt and Catch Fire season 2, episode 10 airs Aug. 2 at 10 p.m. EDT on AMC.
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Decreasing the maternal mortality rate in Ghana
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This past summer, students from the College of Life Sciences Department of Public Health worked to lower the maternal mortality rate in Ghana by developing a new app that connects pregnant women with their healthcare worker, tracks their pregnancy schedule, and provides information on prenatal and postnatal care.
Maternal mortality rates across the world are staggeringly high, especially in developing countries. In 2015, the maternal mortality rate in developing countries was 239 per 100,000 live births with numbers increasing in rural communities, versus 12 per 100,000 live births in developed countries. These numbers have decreased in the last several years, but there is still a long way to go.
Naomi Rhondeau, a recent College of Life Sciences graduate from the Department of Public Health, was interested in maternal health as a student. When she learned about the maternal health disparities across the globe, she decided to do somethings about it. Rhondeau and a team of students created an app for Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) to assist in lowering Ghana's maternal mortality rate, a task the country has been tackling for the last four decades.
CHWs work in clinics and travel to rural communities to provide care. In most cases, one CHW oversees the care of 200-300 individuals, 40 to 50 of whom are pregnant women—a tall order for just one individual.
Rhondeau and her team were brought together through the Social Venture Maternal Health Challenge at the BYU Ballard Center. Rhondeau's team began working on a project involving Ghana Health Services and Medic Mobile, an SMS text system that connects CHWs to their patients. The team first traveled to Ghana in the summer of 2018 to implement the pre-existing Medic Mobile service to assist CHWs in providing care for pregnant women. The project was successful, but the service could not run offline, which was critical as they were often visiting areas with no available network. This was a problem!
"We came back after that summer and we didn't want to quit," Rhondeau said. "We really loved the community that we had worked in ... so we wanted to come up with our own app [that addressed the problem]."
With insights gained from their first trip and existing mobile health solutions, Rhondeau and her team created Maame, an offline app that allows expectant mothers to track their pregnancy schedule.
Maame aims to reduce maternal mortality rates in rural communities and acts as a resource to provide proper prenatal and postnatal care. The app allows CHWs to upload and store a woman's information and then sends notifications for appointments and visits. Not only does the app seek to make scheduling more convenient, but it also acts as a guide and supplement for educating expecting mothers on topics related to their prenatal and postnatal care.
After months of collaborating and creating the app, the students returned to Ghana this past summer to test the app and tailor it to the CHWs' needs. The following week, Rhondeau and her team led two different trainings with over 70 healthcare workers. The remaining time was used for follow-up and implementation.
Reflecting on the project and her trip to Ghana this past summer, Rhondeau described her and her teammates hope for the future: "We would love to expand the app to other areas. So, this really was a pilot program for the next six months. Depending on how the healthcare workers like it and how much it actually helps them in their work, we are looking to expand it to other communities in Ghana."
Rhondeau encourages students to take opportunities that might be out of their comfort zone. Traveling to a foreign country was daunting, but working with healthcare workers and implementing an impactful resource in Ghana was an opportunity that she will never forget.
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Adducts of Mitomycin C with Nucleotides
Tomasz, Maria
Hunter College, New York, NY, United States
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Mitomycin C (MC) is an antibiotic and antitumor agent widely used in clinical cancer chemotherapy. Its mode of action has been the subject of intensive study and speculation for more than 20 years, since the discovery that it induced covalent crosslinking of DNA. Recently we elucidated the basic chemistry of the activation of MC and its ultimate reaction products with DNA including the MC-DNA crosslink. Our objective is to relate each of the three major reaction products to the biological effects of MC, i.e. to determine (a) which is more effective for antitumor and cytotoxic activities, (b)-why is it more effective and (c) how to enhance the formation of such effective reactions in the cell. The broad and long-term objective is to understand the molecular basis of the antitumor activity of the mitomycins and make this knowledge applicable to new drug design and treatment protocols in cancer chemotherapy. First, the three adducts of MC and DNA will be examined for their location at specific DNA sequences, using footprinting techniques as well as Ba131 digestion as a tool. Effects of each adduct on DNA conformation will be assessed by examining the conformations of oligonucleotides modified at a single site by each of the three adducts, as models. Assay of adducts formed in cell cultures will be used as probe for (i) effect of intracellular 02 on crosslinking efficiency of MC, (ii) relative cytotoxicity of the three adducts, (iii) kinetics of removal of adducts by cellular repair. Excision repair of adducted DNA will be studied in an in vitro system, using single-site adducted DNA fragments. Two MC analogs, more effective than the parent MC will be examined for the molecular basis of their greater effectiveness by comparing their activation and DNA- reactivity with those of MC.
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Schools of Arts and Sciences
R37 CA Adducts of Mitomycin C with Nucleotides
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Boamah, Ernest K; White, David E; Talbott, Kathryn E et al. (2007) Mitomycin-DNA adducts induce p53-dependent and p53-independent cell death pathways. ACS Chem Biol 2:399-407
Paz, Manuel M; Kumar, Gopinatha Suresh; Glover, Mark et al. (2004) Mitomycin dimers: polyfunctional cross-linkers of DNA. J Med Chem 47:3308-19
Abbas, Tarek; Olivier, Magali; Lopez, Jaqueline et al. (2002) Differential activation of p53 by the various adducts of mitomycin C. J Biol Chem 277:40513-9
Palom, Yolanda; Suresh Kumar, Gopinatha; Tang, Li-Qian et al. (2002) Relative toxicities of DNA cross-links and monoadducts: new insights from studies of decarbamoyl mitomycin C and mitomycin C. Chem Res Toxicol 15:1398-406
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Hey, there's a creative title. Vol. 2 is a Japan-only release, much like vol. 1, but this one is much harder to find, and substantially more expensive, if you can find it. 9 of 12 tracks are instrumentals, 8 of which range from good to great. There are some really solid tracks on here. The ones with vocals do very little for me (including a really unfortunate "Misty" cover). Those tracks notwithstanding, this disc goes toe-to-toe with anything else Jazz Jamaica released. It is well worth tracking down.
Here's another effort hiding under a different name. This one has the same "half Jazz Jamaica" lineup that we found on "You Must Be Crazy" above. It originally came out as a CD and LP in Japan. The CD got re-released at some point, but the LP is a really tough find. It was also released as a French CD as Rico's Message in 1997. The biggest standout on here for me is the version of "Work Song" that they do (which you may know from various places, but kicks off the Slackers' first album). They do a great version of Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World" on this disc – possibly the only Rico song with vocals that I really like. Good stuff.
Now, things get tricky. I happened upon this album totally by chance. In 1997, I was desperate to find the first album by the Japanese instrumental ska band, The Sideburns (a different post…hmm…maybe I'll do that one soon). That CD was on a Japanese label called Olive Disk & Record. It was totally impossible to find at that time. As a last ditch effort, I wrote to the label to see if they would sell me a copy of the Sideburns disc (possibly invoking the name of the radio station where I ran a hosted a ska show at the time…you can prove nothing…). Well, they gave me one instead, and sent the Michael "Bammie" Rose CD along with it. I completely ignored it at first – singularly ska-focused as I was, I honestly never got much into reggae, so I tended to ignore most things with "reggae" in the title.
Eventually, I figured I should give it a listen. It grabbed me instantly. Kind of blew me away, to be honest. After a few tracks, I started reading through the insert, and saw that Rico had played on it. Then, I broke out my Jazz Jamaica CDs to compare, and realized that this was actually the entire band. A Jazz Jamaica album in disguise! And only available in Japan! Ridiculous. Now, it definitely does feature Mr. Rose and his flute a bit more than a normal Jazz Jamaica title. Make no mistake, though: this is a Jazz Jamaica album. And it's really good. There are several standouts here, but "The New Orleans Connection" makes me happier than most other songs in the world. Buy this. I would totally try to give this record a U.S. release if I thought there were any chance that I would not lose money on the endeavor. Of course, the label is long defunct and in Japan, so…all easier said than done. And not really easily said.
Finally…an easy one. Double Barrel was the last Jazz Jamaica album. It just crushes from the opening intro line, as they launch into the title track, a Dave & Ansel Collins classic: "We are Jazz Jamaica. We've come here to boom-shock-a-rocker- your soul!" The second half of the album gets a little jazzier than the first half, but it's still excellent. Start to finish, Double Barrel is a fantastic instrumental album. It closes with a badass instrumental cover of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" that you must hear. The CD was/is readily available in the U.S.
These two CDs need to be addressed, as they use the Jazz Jamaica name, and…quite frankly, are a different band. The bass and guitar players from Jazz Jamaica were in this band. No one else. No Rico. These two discs sound nothing like any of the ones above. They were really just trying to capitalize on the Jazz Jamaica name. It fooled me enough to buy the first one. It's fine…but it's not Jazz Jamaica.
So, there you go. A convoluted, meandering jaunt through the '90s path of Jazz Jamaica, one of the best instrumental ska bands of the time. Hopefully, there is something in here you have not heard. If you like any of the above, the rest are worth tracking down.
Great list documenting Rico's recorded work with this important band. For a long time they were primarily known as a live concern as they had several live European tours that received rave reviews. You also might want to check out Rico's work during that same period with Swiss band the Madlighters. More of a Two Tone sound but excellent.
Interesting…I have not heard that material at all. Thank you!


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The design responds to its specific location on the site. Along the banks of the river is open park that includes a kayak launch, a protected "swimming hole" and a natural rock and water play area cleansed by bio filters. A village green at a higher elevation is the central gathering area for the life science hub and between the two is a natural buffer of a woodland with paths and slides. A belvedere promenade constructed of heavy pine timber reaches out above the park, capturing the spectacular views of the river and the surroundings.
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South Africa & Safari Adventure 2023
Small Group Adventure
Featuring Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park, Stellenbosch Wine Country and Cape Town. Experience history in Cape Town and amazing safari adventures in Kruger and Chobe National Parks. Stand in awe at nature's supreme masterpiece – Victoria Falls, and relax on a spectacular sunset cruise on the Zambezi River.
23 Meals: 11 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 8 dinners
Airport transfers on tour dates when air is provided by Mayflower Cruises & Tours
Visit three African countries: South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana
Services of experienced local and safari guides throughout
See historic landmarks in Johannesburg
Experience game-viewing drives on a private reserve and in Chobe National Park
Get up close to elephants at a local sanctuary
Visit nature's awe-inspiring Victoria Falls
Cruise on the Chobe River
Discover the wine country of South Africa and sample local vintages
Witness breathtaking views from atop Table Mountain
Encounter Jackass penguins on Boulders Beach
Visit the Cape of Good Hope
Day 1 Depart the USA
Depart the USA on your overnight flight to Johannesburg, the wealthiest province in South Africa.
Day 2 Johannesburg, South Africa
Welcome to Africa – a land as diverse as its scenery and people. Upon arrival, you'll be met by a representative of Mayflower Cruises & Tours and transferred to your hotel. The remainder of the day is at leisure to begin getting acquainted with the unique culture of South Africa.
Day 3 Johannesburg – Pilanesberg
Your South African adventure begins with an orientation tour of the country's largest city. See some of the major landmarks and important areas during this panoramic excursion. Continue on to Pilanesberg Game Reserve, where amazing animal adventures await! This afternoon, experience your first game-viewing drive as you traverse the reserve in open safari vehicles with your driver/guide. Meals: B, D
Day 4 Pilanesberg
Today you have more opportunities to witness the majestic wildlife of Africa on your morning and afternoon open-vehicle, guided, game-viewing drives. Keep an eye out for the "Big 5" - lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and rhinoceros, and have your camera ready!
Over 7,000 animals and 360 bird species can be found on the reserve. Lions basking in the sun, elephants roaming the vast expanse of the land, and perhaps an elusive leopard…your driver/guide will do his best to track them so you can witness these majestic creatures in their natural habitat! Meals: B, L, D
Day 5 Pilanesberg – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
This morning, return to the Johannesburg airport by coach to board your flight to Victoria Falls. Upon arrival, after clearing Zimbabwe customs and immigration formalities at the airport, you will be transferred to the hotel. Enjoy the remainder of the day discovering the amenities of the hotel. Meals: B, D
Day 6 Victoria Falls
The day begins with an up-close and personal interaction with some "locals"…the great African elephants! Visit the sanctuary where rescued and resident elephants live. Meet with their caretakers and learn all about the elephants' behaviors and the amazing bonds formed between the keepers and these gentle giants. After free time back at the hotel for lunch, a remarkable experience is in store as you visit the spectacular Victoria Falls this afternoon and witness the awe-inspiring beauty of one of nature's supreme masterpieces.
A local guide will accompany you through the rainforest, detailing the history of the falls and the flora, fauna, bird and wildlife that abounds. After the tour, return to the hotel for relaxation and an included dinner. Meals: B, D
Day 7 Victoria Falls – Kasane, Botswana
It's time to depart Zimbabwe and journey by coach across the border to Botswana where you'll arrive in the town of Kasane and check in to the lodge. After an included lunch, depart on an afternoon cruise on the Chobe River.
You're sure to see elephants refreshing themselves in the water, hippos peeking out to see you, and perhaps crocodiles sunning themselves on shore. Return to the lodge for a relaxing dinner and evening at leisure. Meals: B, L, D
Day 8 Chobe National Park
Experience the native wildlife of Chobe National Park on a morning safari in open vehicles. The reserve is home to giraffe, elephant, zebra, impala, sable, wildebeest, warthog and so much more. Keep an eye out for their predators which can include lion, hyena, jackal, bat-eared fox, the elusive cheetah and wild dog.
After lunch at the lodge, your afternoon safari can be by land in an open vehicle or by boat on a cruise. Gather with your traveling companions for the final dinner at the lodge. Meals: B, L, D
Day 9 Botswana – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – Cape Town & Stellenbosch, South Africa
The safari experience comes to an end as you travel to the Victoria Falls Airport by coach for a flight to Cape Town and return to South Africa where a new experience awaits. After a short drive from the airport, arrive in Stellenbosch, the country's second oldest town.
Enjoy your free time to stroll along the oak-lined streets where Cape Dutch architecture, wine shops, cafés, and art galleries can be found. Known for its wine production, this area of the county is filled with wine farms. Sample the local product during a wine-tasting before this evening's included dinner. Meals: B, D
Day 10 Franschhoek
On today's excursion, relax as you discover the country's winelands. After a morning refreshment stop, visit the charming village of Franschhoek, showcasing another of the area's scenic treasures. Located in a breathtaking valley, surrounded by vineyards and mountains, it's the perfect setting for your lunch.
During an afternoon winetasting, you'll have the opportunity to learn about the wines, how they are made, the various grapes, and of course sample plenty of vintages. After a lovely day in the country, return to the hotel in Stellenbosch. Meals: B, L
Day 11 Stellenbosch – Cape Town
Departing the wine country, return to Cape Town where the local guide gives an orientation and provides details of the city's history during the panoramic tour. See the highlights including historic monuments, landmarks, and buildings. Visit Cape Town's most iconic destination…Table Mountain.
Ascend to the summit via the aerial cableway and be rewarded with stunning views of the surrounding oceans and city below. Returning to ground level, drive by the Malay Quarter and Milnerton Lighthouse before ending at the hotel for an evening at leisure. Meal: B
Day 12 Cape Peninsula
While visiting the famous Cape of Good Hope, the most southwestern point of the African continent, discover the rich biodiversity of life – both flora and fauna. Baboons, Cape Mountain Zebra and other small animals and birds can be found, along with beautiful scenery. A highlight of the day may be the visit to Boulders Beach where you won't find a better combination of beach and wildlife.
Hundreds of Jackass penguins waddle freely amongst the human "visitors" on their white sand beach and are happy to pose for the camera! This evening, dinner is included at a local restaurant along the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. Meals: B, D
Day 13 Cape Town / USA
Enjoy a final morning at leisure before transferring to the airport for your flight home. Memories and photographs of the special moments and unforgettable experiences are sure to last a lifetime! Meal: B
Arrival at your home city may be on Day 14 depending on flight schedule.
Itinerary subject to change.
Days 2 Garden Court Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
Days 3 & 4 Bakubung Lodge, Pilanesberg, South Africa
Days 5 & 6 Ilala Lodge, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Days 7 & 8 Chobe Marina Lodge, Botswana
Days 9 & 10 Protea Hotel Dorpshuis by Marriott, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Days 11 & 12 Portswood Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
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Passport & Visas: Each U.S. citizen must have a valid passport. Expiry date of passports should be at least 6 months after the return date of tour. If you don't have a passport, call our office and we'll tell you how to apply for one. Some countries require visas for entry by U.S. citizens. We will send visa applications and instructions if a visa is required for your tour. Holders of non-U.S. passports should contact their nearest consulate and inquire about the necessary passport or visa documentation required for entry into the countries visited.
NOTE: Due to airline security measures, your passport name must match your airline ticket name and your tour reservation name or you may be denied aircraft boarding.


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Title: From Here to Maternity
By: Shanan Custer and Joshua English Scrimshaw
Created by: Custer and Scrimshaw
Location: Illusion Theater
Summary: A comedy about what it means to become a parent.
Highlights: If you've seen Shanan's Ivey Award winning show 2 Sugars, Room for Cream, this will seem familiar to you - it's a similar concept except the subject is pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood, rather than coffee (and if you haven't see it, you should check it out at Park Square in January). The through-story is series of scenes about Meg and Charlie as they journey through the decision to have children, pregnancy, and childbirth. In between we see related sketches, including a fight between a midwife* and a doctor, a reading of "Curious George Goes to Day Care," a song from Shanan, and an interpretive dance to "Cat's in the Cradle" from Joshua. Individually Shanan and Joshua are hilarious (see also Our American Assassin and Kafka Nuts), and together they're comedy gold. Although they're married to other people, their real-life friendship makes them a very believable married couple. The scenes and situations are real and natural, and it's just plain funny, even if you're not a parent.
*There are several jokes about hairy legged or pitted women, about which I refer you to a Fringe show I saw last week, Natural Novice.
Labels: Fringe Festival, From Here to Maternity, Illusion Theater, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Shanan Custer


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The 2019 Dodgers Could Become The Best Home Run Hitting Team in Franchise History
We're talking about a lot of dingers…
by Clint Pasillas 08/28/2019, 7:00 AM
The other day I took to Twitter to point out some simple Dodgers home run numbers, for anyone willing to take 30 seconds to look them up…
Most Homers In A Season – Dodgers Franchise History
2018 Los Angeles Dodgers: 235
It's August 26. Wow.
— Clint Pasillas (FRG) (@realFRG) August 27, 2019
…so I won't take much credit there. Where I will take the slightest amount of credit is looking at the extremely balanced slugging attack of the launch angle friendly offense.
The Dodgers now have 9 dudes with 10 or more home runs in 2019. Two more (CT3, Freese) are sitting at 9 home runs.
With 2 more home runs on Tuesday night in San Diego, the Dodgers stand at 231 for the season, 4 behind last season's total — which just so happened to be the most in franchise history.
Where this story gets fun is that with AJ Pollock's 10th homer of 2019, LA now has 9 batters with 10 or more bombs this season. Of course, Cody Bellinger paces the club with 42 (and is likely to best Shawn Green's single season record of 49 from 2001), but the rest of the club is ready to hit one out at any given time.
So we know that the 2019 Dodgers will be the home run hittingest club in franchise history. But assuming that Chris Taylor and eventually David Freese add at least 1 HR each, that would give the team 11 batters with double digit home runs.
The 2018 version of the Dodgers featured 10 batters with 10+ home runs, which is the most in franchise history. The 2015-2017 clubs each had 8 with 10+ (along with several more seasons dating back through the Dodgers' time in Brooklyn). Most recently — beyond 2018 — the 2004 club featured 9 batters with 10+.
All those numbers are a long way around to the point that, not only can the 2019 Dodgers become the all-time franchise leader in team home runs (they will), but they can also set the mark when it comes to batters with double digit home run totals.
Chris Taylor will hit his 10th; David Freese should eventually hit his 10th; and therein will be franchise history for the Dodgers.
If we want to be greedy, with enough playing time, Matt Beaty can pick up 3 more dingers and further cement this team's legacy as the home run hittingest team in franchise history.
Of course, that all doesn't really mean all that much without a World Series title to button up the loose ends. But still a cool and fun note to help you enjoy the final month+ of the season.
Written by Clint Pasillas
Clint is the lead editor of Dodgers Nation, and a host and analyst on Dodgers Nation's own Blue Heaven podcast live stream.
He's been writing, blogging, and podcasting Dodgers since about 2008. He was there for Nomar, Greg Maddux, and Blake DeWitt, and he'll be there for Walker Buehler, Alex Verdugo, Dustin May, and any Dodgers of the future.
He's also a sandwich enthusiast, a consummate athlete, and a friend.
Clint, correct on your last part of this post. Nobody will care that much about a franise team HR record if Dodgers were to lose a 3rd WS in a row. CT3 should be able to hit another HR, but it depends upon if Freese gets enough opportunities once he finally returns. And Beaty? If teams throw a lot of LHP at the Dodgers from here on out, Beaty won't start against them, what with his .154 BA against them.
Ya know what is too funny? In 1968 the Dodger team hit a TOTAL of 67 HR's for that entire year! A former Giant, Len Gabrielson led the team with 10 of them for that year. It was no wonder at all that before the following year, 1969, home plate was moved up by 10 FT. closer to CF and before the 1973 season they lowered the fences and moved them in an additional 5 FT.
OH, and one other thing about that 1968 season… Dodgers were not even last in that HR department. The Cardinals that year hit a total of 66. Can anyone imagine those HR totals for an entire season in this day and age?


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2. Top with peanut butter, granola and fruit compote.
3. Enjoy immediately or as soon as you get to work!
A tasty breakfast easy to prepare in advance and ready to enjoy at sunrise.
Homemade bread that tastes like heaven.


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Each time a team collects $1000, each individual on the team will get 10 extra raffle tickets. Go teams go!


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The hooks are silver-plated. Nickel-free. These earrings come in two sizes.
XS = lenght 3 cm / 1.18 inch (excluding the hook) Both Snorkmaidens look the same.
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Q: Inadvertent overconstraint: A downside of all declarative styles of description? Page 163 of the book Software Abstractions has this remarkable statement:

The declarative style of description is very powerful, but it has a
  downside: inadvertent overconstraint.

Wow!
Is "inadvertent overconstraint" a problem that occurs in all declarative languages? For example, does inadvertent overconstraint occur in XML Schema? Does inadvertent overconstraint occur in SQL?
In other words, is the "inadvertent overconstraint" problem peculiar to Alloy, or is it widespread and applicable to all declarative languages? If it's the latter, I would be most grateful for an explanation.

A: It's the flipside of the benefit that conjunction brings. In a programming language, you can't write a sort by saying "the output is a permutation of the input and the elements are in order", but you can say that in a specification language that allows and. This gives a lot of power, especially by enabling separation of concerns, and it lets you start with minimal constraints and then grow them. But there is a downside: add too many constraints, and you might end up at false (or worse, something just a bit stronger than you intended). Alloy's unsat core facility is helpful at dealing with this, but doesn't solve the problem entirely.

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An electrical device, often a resistor, that maintains the current a circuit required to operate fluorescent lamps.
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Components (copy/letters) of the sign that can be changed out.
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Fabricated or formed three-dimensional letter that may accommodate a light source. Channel letter bending is typically done using one of two methods—automated bending and hand bending. It is important to note that only the return of a channel letter is bent, and the letter return is what gives a channel letter its recognizable shape. Both the channel letter face and the back are either routed by automated equipment or cut with hand tools. Once cut, they are then affixed to the bent letter return.
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Neon which uses an electrode with a large metal mass to emit electrons. Neon tubing is large. Also a generic term employed to specify custom interior lighting produced through the use of larger diameter cold cathode tubing.
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A sign that is legally installed in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.
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The difference or degree of difference between things having similar or comparable natures, such as light and dark areas, colors, or typefaces.
The words or message displayed on a sign.
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Areas that enclose the actual copy on a sign.
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A background that raises and lowers on regular intervals.
Custom Sign:
A uniquely designed sign that is manufactured and installed to meet the requirements of a specific location.
Daily Effective Circulation (DEC):
The average number of daily potential exposures to a display or group of signs determined by counting only those vehicles traveling toward the face of the sign, and then multiplying that number by the average number of people per car during the hours the sign is visible. Pedestrian and mass transit circulations are not included. This is the basic measure in establishing cost per thousand exposures on signs. The basic traffic numbers can usually be obtained from your Province Department of Transportation.
Dimensional Letter:
A 3D letter, logo or symbol, either cut out, cast, molded or fabricated in material such as metal or plastic to create demension.
Directional Sign:
Provide direction to pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
Directory Sign:
A sign that identifies the names and locations of tenants in a multi-tenant building (such as a mall) or in a development made up of a group of buildings (ie: condominiums).
Discrete or push-through LEDs:
a cluster of red, green and blue LEDs forming a single pixel, discrete LEDs have been used in most outdoor displays installed over the past 10-15 years.
Double-Faced Sign:
A sign with two opposing faces.
Electric Sign:
Any sign containing or using electrical wiring.
Electronic Message Center:
A sign that utilizes computer-generated messages or some other electronic means of changing copy or images. These signs include displays using LEDs.
Embossed:
To raise above the background.
Exterior Illuminated Sign:
A sign that is illuminated by a light source that is directed towards, and shines on the face of a sign. Also called direct illumination.
Extrusion:
The process in which material is and then pushed thru a die to make a shape
Face (The Letter Face):
The letter face is upper-most part of the letter which is meant to be seen. It may be made of a translucent white or colored acrylic material that allows internal illumination through, or, in the case of halo channel letters, it may be opaque.
Fascia Sign:
A building mounted sign.
Flat Cutout Letter:
A dimensional letter cut from sheet or plate stock – usually aluminum or plastic.
Fluorescent Lamp or Tube:
Electric-discharge lighting utilizing glass tubing manufactured to standard lengths.
A set of letters, numerals, and shapes, which conform to a specific set of design criteria and are quite often regulated by licensing.
Formed:
To take shape. See vacuum formed.
Freestanding Sign:
A sign that is not attached to a building.
Front Lit Letter:
An illuminated channel letter with translucent face.
Gussets:
A Reinforcing plate used in a sign. A plate (very often in the shape of a triangle) welded to a pole may have gussets welded to both to insure that the plate can't break away from the pole.
Incandescent Bulb:
A lamp that produces light through the application of electrical energy to a wire filament, which glows as it is heated.
Interior Signs:
Signs that are located inside a building or other facility.
Internally Illuminated Sign:
A sign that is illuminated by a light source that is contained inside the sign.
ISA:
International Sign Association.
Light Emitting Diode.
The characteristics of letters, numbers, graphics, or symbols that make it possible to easily differentiate one from the other.
Letter Back:
The letter back, as the name implies, is the back of the letter. The return and illumination modules are attached to the letter back.
Lexan:
General Electrics brand name for their Polycarbonate plastic. UV protected. Very durable
A design that represents goods, identity or service in the form of an image or item.
Lux: A measurement of the amount of light transmitted to a one-square-meter of surface.
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A low level free standing sign. Normally all evidence of poles are covered or hidden.
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Any sign that is not tied/related to the use of the property, a product sold, or the sale or lease of the property on which it is displayed, and that does not identify the place of business as purveyor of the merchandise, services, etc., advertised upon the sign.
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Does not allow any light to transmit thru. The opposite of translucent.
Open Channel Letter:
A dimensional letter that has no face and if illuminated, the light source is visible. A clear face for physical protection of internal components may be used.
Pan Channel Letter:
A dimensional letter that is constructed with side walls, back and a face making the letter a solid integral unit with the side walls and back having a pan-shaped cross section.
Pan Face:
A plastic sign face molded into a three dimensional shape. Also called molded face, molded and embossed face, molded face.
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A sign attached to a building, structure, or the ground in a manner that enables the sign to resist environmental loads, such as wind, and precludes ready removal or movement of the sign.
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A switch that automatically turns on when the environment is dark and off when there is daylight.
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Signs that advertises a product at its point of sale, or "point of purchase" location.
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An unlighted sign fabricated by using one or more visible posts to support the sign body.
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A building mounted sign with the faces of the sign perpendicular to the building fascia plane.
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Pylon Sign:
A freestanding sign with visible support structure or with the support structure enclosed with a pole(s) cover.
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An electrical enclosure that doubles as a mounting structure for the sign.
The quality that enables the observer to correctly and easily read the message. In transportation engineering, this word is being replaced by the word "conspicuity".
Regulatory Sign:
A sign having the primary purpose of conveying information concerning rules, ordinances or laws.
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The framing retainer mounted around the perimeter of a sign face, and attached to the sign cabinet structure.
The sides of a channel letter. Channel letters are manufactured from several components, and one of the primary parts is the return. The return is the side of a channel letter, and it typically ranges in depth from 3″ to 8″, with 5″ being the most common return depth. This is the component of a channel letter that is bent. Returns begin as simply a piece of aluminum coil.
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An indented detail on a sign.
Reverse Channel Letter:
A fabricated dimensional letter with opaque face and side walls usually illuminated to create a halo effect on the adjacent surface.
Roof Sign:
A building mounted sign erected on the roof of a building.
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A moveable sign not secured or attached to the ground or surface upon which it is located, but supported by its own frame and most often forming the cross-sectional shape of an A.
Any visual display with words or symbols designed to convey information or attract attention.
Sign Face:
The area of a sign on which the copy or image is intended to be placed.
Single-Face Sign:
A sign with only one face plane.
The outer surface of an angle iron steel sign frame, normally a aluminum sheet, formed to fit (can be referred to as cladding)
SMDs-Surface Mount Devices:
one red, one blue and one green led in a single package to form a pixel, were mostly used in indoor displays but newer technology means they are now available for some outdoor applications too.
Stationary Sign:
A sign with a power-cord for attachment to a source of electrical power that is not readily moveable or portable.
The profile of the most desired consumer prospects for a product or service, listed by characteristics such as demography, lifestyle, brand or media consumption, purchase behavior, etc.
Temporary Sign:
Any sign not intended for permanent installation, such as banners and signs at construction sites. They may be incidental or miscellaneous in nature, such as political and real estate signs.
Time and Temperature Display:
An electronic message sign which displays current time and temperature in a stationary or alternating manner. Some also display simple messages.
A name, symbol, word or combination of those, used by a business to distinguish itself and its products from the competition. These are protected by the federal government and considered to have financial value. The circled "R" or "Reg. T.M." printed with the mark indicates that it is a registered trademark.
Traffic Count:
The recording of the vehicles and pedestrians passing a given point, usually in a day.\
Transformer:
Electrical equipment that converts input voltage and current to a different output voltage and current.
Translucent:
To allow light to transmit thru.
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UL or ETL listed:
Underwriters Laboratory, A private Listing company that inspects Electrical Devices and their construction. Many cities require signs to be listed (inspected and approved by UL.).
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A sign designed to be mounted underneath a canopy.
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The quality of a letter, number, graphic, or symbol, which enables the observer to distinguish it from its surrounds or background.
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A sign that is displayed in a window.
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package com.github.nmorel.gwtjackson.profiling.client;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import com.github.nmorel.gwtjackson.client.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;

/**
 * @author Nicolas Morel
 */
public class Profiling implements EntryPoint {

    public static class Person {

        private String firstName;

        private String lastName;

        private List<Person> childs;

        public Person() {
        }

        public Person( String firstName, String lastName, Person... childs ) {
            this.firstName = firstName;
            this.lastName = lastName;
            if ( null == childs || childs.length == 0 ) {
                this.childs = Collections.emptyList();
            } else {
                this.childs = Arrays.asList( childs );
            }
        }

        public String getFirstName() {
            return firstName;
        }

        public void setFirstName( String firstName ) {
            this.firstName = firstName;
        }

        public String getLastName() {
            return lastName;
        }

        public void setLastName( String lastName ) {
            this.lastName = lastName;
        }

        public List<Person> getChilds() {
            return childs;
        }

        public void setChilds( List<Person> childs ) {
            this.childs = childs;
        }
    }

    public static interface PersonMapper extends ObjectMapper<Person> {}

    @Override
    public void onModuleLoad() {
        PersonMapper mapper = GWT.create( PersonMapper.class );
        Person input = new Person( "John", "Doe", new Person( "Jane", "Doe" ), new Person( "Billy", "Doe", new Person( "Lily", "Doe" ) ) );

        for ( int i = 0; i < 10000; i++ ) {
            String json = mapper.write( input );
            Person person = mapper.read( json );
        }
    }
}

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It's hard to explain exactly how I ended up in Chiatura, Georgia.
I'm pretty sure it all started when I was scrolling through Atlas Obscura, one of my favorite travel websites, looking for off-the-beaten-track destinations in Georgia.
I stumbled across the entry for Chiatura and was instantly intrigued. According to Atlas Obscura, the town was home to seventeen aging Soviet-era cable car stations that were still in daily operation.
Being a huge lover of many things Soviet-related, including Brutalist architecture and weird modes of transportation, I decided to add the Chiatura cable cars to my Georgia travel itinerary.
My journey to Chiatura started in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.
I was staying at Envoy Hostel, where I called a a taxi to the Didube Bus Station (3 GEL), which is located on the north end of Tbilisi's city center. As soon as I arrived I was swarmed by local men trying to entice me into their own taxis or onto their buses to more popular tourist destinations. I repeated my own destination a few times until someone took me to the bay where the Chiatura marshrutkas depart.
Marshrutka – A form of public transportation such as a share taxi, from the former Soviet Union countries.
Technically, the bus to Chiatura isn't a bus, it's a marshrutka. You'll see these all over Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russia – vans (large or small) that have been converted into public transportation. Although they sometimes follow a schedule, it's more common for a marshrutka simply to depart when the driver thinks it's sufficiently full.
When you're traveling by marshrutka in Georgia it can be helpful to have a local write down the name of your destination in the Georgian alphabet. This way, you can look at the signs on the marshrutkas to confirm that the bus you've selected really is going to your destination. In the photo above, the word for Chiatura is written on the top line of the bus' sign.
I'd read online that buses from Tbilisi to Chiatura depart every hour starting at 8:00 am, but I'm not entirely sure that's correct. I waited almost two full hours for the bus to leave. It was a slow, four-hour ride to Chiatura. Along the way the landscape changed dramatically, from the scorching hot, dry area around Tbilisi to a cooler, mountainous climate with evergreen trees and fast-flowing rivers. The bus stopped twice so that we could use the (rustic) toilet, buy snacks and refresh with ice-cold spring water.
The bus dropped me off in the Chiatura town center. I had used my favorite offline maps app, maps.me, to plan out the route to my guesthouse. Unfortunately, the app didn't have the most up-to-date information about the state of the roads in Chiatura, and it actually sent me and my forty-pound backpack straight up the mountain in the photo above.
After twenty minutes of trudging up the mountain I encountered a woman, who communicated in a combination of Georgian, Russian and hand gestures that although she had no idea where my guesthouse was, she was damn sure it wasn't any further up the mountain. Back down to the town center I went, soaked in sweat.
A few very confusing conversations with locals later, I found my guesthouse.
When I visited in 2017, there were no hotels in Chiatura, Georgia.
And to be honest, I'm pretty sure there were no operational guesthouses either.
Somehow, I managed to check myself into a defunct guesthouse that apparently hadn't seen a guest in a decade or so. Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust, and there were personal items (including used tissues and a half-eaten lollipop) spread around my room. The door to my room didn't lock properly, and there were loud banging sounds on the roof above my head throughout the night.
Now, cleanliness, comfort and hospitality aside, the woman running this guesthouse was an amazing cook. I think I consumed three times my body weight in vegetables, bread and cheese during my short stay in her home. And to top it off, the entire family sat in a semi-circle and watched me eat every last bite of food. Yes, I was the afternoon, evening and morning entertainment for three generations of Georgians.
Although the ingredients were very similar in every meal, the preparation was unique every time. In one meal the potatoes were fried as a side dish, but later they appeared boiled in soup. The fresh bread soaked up bean stew for lunch, and became a tomato and cheese sandwich with dinner. That was some good eating, and it's worth noting that there weren't any real restaurants operating in town during my stay, so I was lucky that my guesthouse served such amazing food.
However, I really can't recommend my guesthouse. It was uncomfortably dirty and I don't believe the family running it is currently prepared to accept guests. Even though I had a native Georgian-speaker call to make the reservation several days in advance (after I found their contact information online), they didn't seem ready to host visitors at the time of my visit.
So, where can you stay in Chiatura today?
Well, it appears that there are some new Chiatura hotels opening their doors to travelers, including proper Chiatura hotels and some new Chiatura guesthouses.
The most promising appears to be Hotel on Pirosmani, which is located close to the city center and even closer to some of the cable car stations. If I was going back to Georgia, I would definitely stay at this Chiatura hotel.
If you have a private vehicle, you could also consider staying at Hotel Nikolai. It's about two kilometers from the city center along the main road. During the day it's a safe and scenic walk, but it would be dangerous to be walking along this unlit stretch of road in the dark.
Chiatura's main attraction is its network of rusty cable cars, originally built in the 1950s to transport workers to the manganese mines in the mountains.
Unfortunately, during my visit, and as of the time of this post (April, 2018), the main cable car station was completely closed. This is the most central station, from which four different cable car routes depart for the mountains above.
Fortunately, I was able to access the two Chiatura cable cars departing from Station #1, including the rusty grey car shown at the top of this post and the blue car shown above.
Interestingly, the cable car system seemed to be a female-dominated organization. In addition to having a female operator at the station at the base, women worked on the cars themselves and at the stations at the top of the mountains. The women were very friendly and operated the cars whenever I wanted to go up – there was no formal schedule and, unlike the marshrutkas, they never waited for the cable cars to be full.
I rode the available cable cars a few times, and each ride somehow seemed more harrowing than the last.
The windows can be fully opened, so you can hang outside and take photos of the town below.
The floors of some cable cars were so worn that they had developed quarter-sized holes through which you could see the ground below.
And, in a truly terrifying moment, I learned that when the winds pick up, the cable cars stop halfway down and rock in the wind until the operator feels it is safe to resume motion. On one trip, we were hanging in the air for almost ten minutes. Fortunately, the cable car attendant has a calm and confident attitude, and never looks worried!
All of the people involved in operating the cable cars were very friendly and open to sharing their community's transportation system. In fact, when I went to ride the cable cars in the morning, the men working at the station offered to share some of their beer with me. At 10:00 am.
As well, they never charged me any money for any of the trips that I took, and they even rolled their eyes when I tried to buy a ticket. I don't know if the system is always free, or if they might charge again when more lines open, but it was a pleasant surprise to be able to ride the cars freely without ever having to pay.
The only time there was some friction was when I tried to take a photo of the internal workings of the "engine room". Photos of everything else seemed to be acceptable, and there were no restrictions about standing away from the cable cars as they departed from or arrived at the stations, but the mechanical rooms at the base seemed to be no-photo zones (even when you could clearly see inside them through the wide-open doors).
What's At the Top of the Chiatura Cable Cars?
At the top of one cable car, there was an operational mine. The workers thought it was absolutely hilarious that an English-speaking girl arrived at their mine, all alone. They invited me to come into the working area and take a look, but I didn't go in very far because I was wearing flip-flops (don't tell OSHA).
I'm pretty sure that if I asked, they would have let me ride in the roller-coaster actual mining carts.
At the top of the other Chiatura cable car there was an area that looked a little bit residential, although it was hard to tell for sure whether or not the Soviet-style apartment blocks were occupied. I heard some sounds coming from inside, but the main doors appeared to be blocked off.
Some places had a fresh coat of paint, which made me think the area was more occupied than it appeared.
Both of the stations I visited had loosely-marked viewpoints with clear views of the city below. The viewpoints were not fenced or paved, so be careful in slippery weather and keep an eye on any children you take up with you.
I've heard there are other cable cars with bases outside of the city center. I believe there is one in the direction of Hotel Nikolai, and a few others in the more forested surroundings. You would need a private vehicle to access them, or you might be able to hire a taxi (or a guy with a car and nothing to do) in the center of Chiatura.
Some of the other cable cars appear to be tiered, in that you take one cable car from the base to an initial mountain station, and then you can continue higher up on a second cable car. However, it's hard to know exactly which parts are operational at any time.
What's Else is in Chiatura, Georgia?
I went to Chiatura expecting to be able to ride seventeen different cable cars, and found that only two were accessible and operational. So, I had a lot of free time on my hands.
I spent a few hours exploring the town itself. It's one of the most poorly located towns I've ever visited, with mountains immediately on either side of the city center and a river splicing in the city in two. There aren't very many river crossings (especially for vehicles).
Most of the city center was filled with more Soviet-style apartment blocks. Often, their entrances were unlit and the ground floor windows were boarded up, but people were still living on the upper floors. I got caught in a sudden downpour and ducked into an open entrance – I could hear families going about their lives in the units inside. Some sources estimate that the town's population may have been over 50,000 people during the heyday of the mining industry, but today fewer than 20,000 people live in Chiatura.
The edges of the city center are full of remnants of construction projects and other machinery left over from the bustling mining era.
One thing that's super-cool about Chiatura is its market. Every day a street market sprawls across the streets on the west side of the city center (near the police station and the water fountain). The market is literally carved into the space underneath an abandoned cable car station.
The fresh fruits and vegetables at the market are absolutely amazing, and huge quantities are sold for pennies. If you rent an apartment with a kitchen you'll be able to feast off the local produce for every meal.
Behind the street vendors there is also a small, Soviet-style indoor market. This closes earlier than the sellers on the street, so visit in the morning if you're wanting to pick up meats, grains, legumes or homemade packaged products (like the pickled vegetables shown above).
Chiatura actually has a real tourist attraction, which is the Mghvimevi Monastery, located in a mountain cave about half a kilometer east of the center of Chiatura. The cave is thirty-five meters deep and is noted for the decorative details on its doors. It closed for the day before I had a chance to enter, unfortunately.
Chiatura also isn't too far from the Katskhi Pillar, a forty-meter pillar of rock with a tiny monastery on top. The monastery is so tiny that it is only home to one monk, and he prohibits women from climbing the pillar. The accessibility of the pillar for men seems to be flexible – sometimes men have been able to climb up (via ladder or personal rock-climbing gear) while other times the site has been totally closed to visitors. You'll need a private car or a taxi to visit the Katshkhi Pillar.
Chiatura's main bus station is a few doors up from the police station. From here, there are infrequent buses to the neighboring villages, and more frequent buses to Tbilisi and Kutaisi (the latter requires a change in Zestaphoni, which is worth it just for the cool name). From Kutaisi, you can also transfer to the daily train heading to Batumi, on the Black Sea coast.
My own next destination was Mestia, so I took the bus to Kutaisi, stayed overnight in town and then caught the 10:00 am marshrutka to Mestia. This particular route is one of the most popular bus routes in all of Georgia and the 10:00 am marshrutka is often full by 8:00 am, so arrive very early.
Visiting Chiatura was a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience for me. I definitely saw parts of Georgia that few foreign tourists will ever explore, and I saw an interesting way of living that was very different from what I'd experienced before. I don't know what will happen when all of the cable car lines re-open again. Maybe Chiatura will become a popular tourist destination, or maybe locals will continue their relatively isolated lifestyle, just with better transportation. If you're interested in visiting Chiatura, you might want to go now (while it's still unknown) or wait a few years (until all the cable cars are working again).
Would you travel to Chiatura just to ride the crumbling cable cars? Let me know in the comments!
Fascinated by Georgia? Check out my Tbilisi City Guide and my recommendations for the best day trips in the region!
Have a bizarrely unhealthy love of cable cars? The Caucasus is also home to the world's longest reversible cable car, in Tatev, Armenia.


I have been doing alot with Office 2007 documents. Specifically PowerPoint and Word, basically I am dynamically generating them for all kinds of applications! Using my Database class builder tool, I have generated an object model around the Office XML schema!
I will be releasing this later in March anyway, so figure I would post about it now! Maybe some of you will find it helpful!
SharePoint Designer Workflow with Content Types?
A student asked me this question today, wouldn't that be nice? Create a workflow with SharePoint Designer and attach it to a content type! Maybe a change that can be worked into SharePoint 14???
Yikes! Three cheers for validation!


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Catwoman (2004)
Catwoman Review
Catwoman attempts to deliver some Prince of Persia-like acrobatics, but it's dragged down by bad control, weak voice work, and shoddy gameplay.
By Jeff Gerstmann on July 28, 2004 at 1:36PM PDT
It used to be that you'd have to wait awhile to see games based on the big summer movie releases. But these days, the simultaneous movie-video game release seems to be rapidly becoming the norm. Electronic Arts, which has done some great work recently with its games based on the Lord of the Rings movies, is now delivering a game based on the upcoming Halle Berry movie, Catwoman. Catwoman attempts to deliver some Prince of Persia-like acrobatics, but it's dragged down by bad control, weak voice work, and shoddy gameplay.
Halle Berry turns in a weak voice performance in Catwoman.
Catwoman puts you in the role of the former Patience Phillips. After a brief tutorial-like sequence that demonstrates Catwoman's moves, you're shown a brief cutscene that is meant to reveal the mystical origins behind Patience's transformation into Catwoman. This noninteractive sequence isn't really clear, but it's still probably the easiest part of the story to follow. From there, you're never really given much in the way of motivation. You're on a revenge mission to take down the people responsible for your death (and subsequent rebirth as the cat lady), though most of the cutscenes consist of enemies running through doors to stop you or Catwoman gyrating around a bit while making a horribly hackneyed comment about her surroundings, like, "Working the night shift? So am I." The dialogue doesn't even qualify as campy. It's just dumb.
Playing Catwoman is a mixture of bad combat mechanics and a series of climbing and jumping puzzles. Catwoman can climb some walls, she can hang and swing from poles, and she has a whip that can be used to press buttons or grab onto distant poles for swinging purposes. She puts all of these moves to a lot of use, because most of the level layouts focus on Prince of Persia-like acrobatic puzzles. While this style of gameplay worked very well in Ubisoft's Prince of Persia, Catwoman's control isn't designed as well, resulting in a lot of frustrating moments where you know what to do but have to get the controls to cooperate. This problem is present in the console versions of the game, but it's especially exaggerated on the PC. The keyboard controls aren't sharp enough to handle many of the game's tasks, and portions of the game that require you to hit three keys at once can cause chording problems. These problems vanish when you use a gamepad, but even here, Catwoman's gamepad support isn't as responsive as the console versions' support.
Also adding to the frustration is an in-game camera that goes for stylish-looking shots instead of usable ones. This makes combat a hassle since you'll get attacked by characters you can't see very well. Furthermore, these camera issues occasionally make some of the levels--usually parts that you need to interact with somehow--harder to see than they should be. This, combined with the sometimes confusing level layout, means you'll be spending a lot of time in the game's first-person-look view, which lets you scan around a level in search of what to do next. The proper path through a level is marked by a scent trail that is only viewable in first-person mode.
The fighting in Catwoman is weak. Attacks are executed in any of eight directions. The combat is rarely intense enough to require a 360-degree attack ability, so this scheme just seems wasteful. If you're holding the crouch button, you'll kick. If you're standing, you'll whip or punch, depending on how close you are to your target. You earn points after each of the game's levels. These points turn into diamonds, and you use these diamonds to purchase new moves. Some of them, like a disarm move that lets you whip guns and nightsticks from your enemies' hands, are very necessary. However, most of them aren't really interesting or useful. Domination mode, for example, is yet another Max Payne-style slow-motion effect. If the combat was challenging in any way, a slow-motion move might be useful. But here, it isn't.
Another weird thing about Catwoman's combat is that it seems to go out of its way to illustrate that none of your enemies ever dies from your attacks. When an enemy is defeated, he'll continue to stand around, but he'll glow and stop attacking you. And if you knock an enemy off of a high ledge, the game will often cut to a view of the enemy landing--and then sitting up and holding his head.
The gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. The graphics are a bit better than the gameplay, but weird lighting effects and some heavy aliasing prevent Catwoman from looking great. The feline fräulein's model animates very well, and the game's environments all look decent. In what can only be described as a creepy touch, letting the game idle for a while shifts it into a series of weird close-ups of Catwoman, who writhes around like a bad stripper and occasionally licks her hands and winks at you. These close-ups are dumb, but Catwoman is animated well and does a good job of showing off her model quality. However, if you stare at her too long, you might find yourself trying to stick dollar bills in your monitor.
The combat in Catwoman isn't interesting at all.
Like the movie, Halle Berry plays Catwoman in the game. Her dialogue is sparse, and what is there is bad. Berry's attempt at sultry instead comes off as silly, because practically every one of her lines is completely over-delivered. Some will get a campy thrill out of it, but after you hear the same tired phrases repeated a few times, it just gets lame. The rest of the game's sound is passable, although pretty standard. Musically, Catwoman plays a different short clip of tense music throughout each level, which might fit for combat but doesn't really mesh well with the climbing and jumping that represents a majority of the game's action. The music occasionally fades down, though some more-suspenseful tunes would have fit the gameplay better.
Catwoman is a mediocre game. The graphics are passable, and the rest of it has the feel of a bad attempt to duplicate the acrobatic gameplay that made last year's Prince of Persia such a success. But sub-par control and annoying camera work get in the way of this goal, making Catwoman a game you'll certainly want to skip.
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I am working on a custom home automation solution that combines several different systems in a single easy to use control panel. The design is to have a Raspberry Pi 3 B running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS become a hub device that can control all the devices that have automation built in.
The first item on my list is to get my WeMo setup responding to basic commands, to do this we will be installing ouimeaux. The first step is to install the the prerequisites.
Next we will run the installer, we will install the server version so that we can use the default web interface and use the REST API in a later project.
We will need to open a port on the firewall or we will not get any response from any device, I am using ufw. We need to port 54321 for discovery of devices, 5000 for the rest api for the server, and 80 if you will be running the web app.
Now we will want to see if everything is working properly by running the following command to detect and list any devices found.
If everything worked properly we should see a list of devices returned like the example below.
, if you wanted to keep the server running in the background it would be best to launch with the server with screen or a cron job. you can now open your browser to http://localhost:5000/ to use the page control page provided with Ouimeaux.
This entry was posted in Home Automation, Scripting, Ubuntu and tagged Ouimeaux, Python, Scripting, Setup, Ubuntu, Wemo on May 12, 2016 by nightred.


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Germany awards Order of Merit to German-Yezidi journalist, activist
Journalist Düzen Tekkal (center) poses with her parents after receiving the German Order of Merit award for her contributions to German society. (Photo: Düzen Tekkal/Social Media)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Germany on Thursday awarded Kurdish-Ezidi (Yezidi) journalist Düzen Tekkal with Germany's highest honor, the Order of Merit, or Bundesverdienstkreuz, for her contributions to German society.
"I was awarded the Order of Merit due to my activism regarding the Yezidi genocide, my advocacy for the women who survived ISIS captivity, and bringing more visibility to the fate of the Yezidi community," she told Kurdistan 24.
"The Bundesverdienstkreuz is awarded by the Bundespräsident and it's the highest order that can be awarded in Germany. I'm beyond happy and grateful to have received it today!"
She added that she was also chosen to receive the honor "because of my educational initiative German Dream, which focuses on promoting democratic values and dialogue between different generations."
The Order of Merit Bundesverdienstkreuz was instituted in 1951 by German President Theodor Heuss and is the highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals for notable achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellectual, or honorary fields.
"I would like to thank everyone for their trust in my work and everyone who has made it possible for me to stand up for civil society," she said in a tweet today. "This medal belongs not only to me, but also to my parents and many others who supported me."
Tekkal was born in 1978 in Hannover, Germany, and has become a well-known journalist and human rights activist, as well as the current chair of the HAWAR organization.
A documentary she made, called "Hawar (Help): My Journey to Genocide," grapples with the Yezidi genocide, in which thousands of people were brutally murdered, kidnapped, and trafficked at the hands of ISIS, beginning in August 2014.
For the film, Tekkal was one of the first journalists to interview Yezidi ISIS survivor and Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad. As a result, she was also invited to the United Nations for the appointment of Murad as UN Goodwill Ambassador in 2016.
Source https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/25745-Germany-awards-Order-of-Merit-to-German-Yezidi-journalist,-activist


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Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America. He served in the office from 1929 to 1933.
His Presidency is famous for being the time when USA was hit by the Great Depression, which turned out to be the worst economic crisis in the history of USA.
Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1874.
Herbert Hoover had a hard childhood. Both his parents died while he was still a small child. He later moved to live with his uncle in Oregon.
He gained formal education at an early age and developed the quality of hard work. Later, he gained admission at the Stanford University for further education.
He completed his university studies by earning a degree of geology. Then he started working for different mining companies. This career took him to different parts of the world.
During the World War I, Herbert Hoover played a very important role in helping the Americans in Europe. He was in England at the time and he helped to rescue 120,000 Americans who were stranded in different parts of the war-torn Europe. He also created a large organization to feed millions of refugees throughout Europe.
His excellent work during the World War I was noticed by the American government. So when Warren G. Harding became the President, Hoover was appointed as the Secretary of Commerce.
As the Secretary of Commerce, Hoover undertook many important public works, including the construction of dams. He became known as a hard working and honest member of the cabinet. When Harding died and Calvin Coolidge became President, he kept Hoover on the post.
When Coolidge decided not to run for Presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover was nominated by the Republican Party. Thanks to his good reputation, he easily won the elections and became the next President.
Although Herbert Hoover was an honest President, his Presidency turned out to be a period of great turmoil in American history. This was primarily because of the Great Depression that took place during his Presidency. The economic crisis began only a few months after Hoover took office. It began with the stock market crash of 1929.
Herbert Hoover was not to be blamed for the crisis. But he couldn't play an effective role in helping the millions of people who were severely hit by the economic crisis. This was partly because Hoover believed that the government shouldn't interfere much in the economy.
Although the Great Depression was not Hoover's fault, he was blamed for it. So when he ran for a second term in the office, he was defeated by his opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Herbert Hoover lived another 31 years after completing his term as the President. During the World War II, he once again launched large-scale efforts to help the people affected by the war.
He later worked as a sort of adviser for different American Presidents. He died on October 20, 1964 in New York, New York. He was 90 years old at the time.
Learn More about American President Herbert Hoover at Wikipedia


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Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly — from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma — nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through twelve documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.
Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.
Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of thirteen books, including John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, Founder's Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, and James Madison. He lives in New York City.