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Evaluating Keyontae Johnson, Devin Vassell, and Scottie Lewis
Recently, I took the time to watch Scottie Lewis and the Florida Gators take on the Florida State Seminoles in a non-conference basketball game that took place on November 10th. Scottie Lewis is an athletic, young swingman that is rated as a potential lottery pick by numerous draft sites, and he was a highly touted recruit coming into college. Lewis made some very solid defensive plays in his team's loss to Florida State, but the players I came away most impressed with were Florida's sophomore guard Keyontae Johnson, and Florida State's sophomore guard, Devin Vassell. Here are my thoughts on how various prospects fared, as well as how their games may translate to the NBA.
Florida's 6-5 sophomore guard, Keyontae Johnson had a solid showing in his team's loss to Florida State. (Photo: David Bowie/Gator Country.)
Florida's 6-5 sophomore guard, Keyontae Johnson had a strong showing in his team's double-digit loss to Florida State. He's an athletic wing player that can shoot and score the basketball, and he also showed off some solid handles when the basketball was in his hands.
Johnson showed a good ability to get quick scores on drives to the basket. He is a smooth ball handler that has a variety of dribble moves, as he can get to the hoop with ease to garner scores. He can utilize a deft spin move, and he can finish with either hand to score on graceful layups. He also drove in once to score on a powerful dunk, but sometimes Johnson may not always go up strong, as he also had his shots blocked a couple of times.
He also did a good job of scoring on hustle plays, and he also can knock down jumpers to space the floor for his team on offense. Johnson was able to leap up to get a lob pass off of a cut to score on a high-flying alley-oop dunk. Plus, he also ran off the ball to score on an open, spot-up three off the catch.
However, Johnson also was quite turnover prone in this game. For the positives, he handles the ball well, and he is an unselfish player that would swing the ball to open shooters to set up scoring chances for them. However, sometimes he would tend to hasty passes that would get intercepted, as that would lead him to commit a slew of turnovers.
He also was able to haul in his fair share of boards, as he would run in to chase down balls to get rebounds on both ends of the floor, and he also pushed the ball up the floor on one occasion.
Plus, he also played adequate defense. Johnson was able leap up to tip a lob pass to force a turnover once. He also showed that he can guard opponents in the post as well as out on the three-point line to force opponents to miss shots. However, he also ended up committing a couple of fouls. He was called for a blocking foul when defending a drive in transition. Another time, he got backed down when defending in the post as he showed no resistance, which led him to have to foul his opponent. On a separate play, he over-helped by leaving his man open to rotate to an opponent in the high post, but he was late to rotate back to his man, which led him to give up a three-point basket.
In general, Keyontae Johnson played well, even though his team struggled to score and ended up losing by double digits to Florida State. He is a tough, athletic swingman that can shoot and score the basketball, and he also handles the ball fairly well. He will need to improve his ability to pass the basketball and be a more consistent defender in games, but Johnson could be a good value pick in the late first to the second round range of the 2020 draft.
Florida State's sophomore guard, Devin Vassell had several highlight-reel worthy plays, and he also played very good defense in his team's win over Florida. (Photo: Matt Stamey/Associated Press via WRUF.)
Florida State's sophomore guard, Devin Vassell put forth a solid performance in his team's win over Florida. He is an athletic swingman that would make hustle plays on both ends of the floor, and he is a skilled, versatile jack-of-all-trades type of player that was able to make positive contributions in virtually every facet of the game to help his team get the victory.
Vassell showed a strong knack for scoring on hustle plays. He would often run in to score on tip-ins, and he also managed to score on an emphatic alley-oop dunk off of a cut. Plus, he also ran the floor to score on a high-flying jam in transition.
He also flashed the ability to knock down jumpers in this game. Vassell has an adequate ability to make three-point shots, as he was able to make an open spot-up three once out of three tries. He also made a baseline pull-up, mid-range jumper another time. However, he also had a tendency to miss on pull-up jumpers and on runners, as Vassell may lack an elite foot speed to consistently get all the way to the hoop to score often off the dribble.
He also did a good job of passing and handling the basketball. Vassell is an unselfish player that would look to find the open man, as he can kick balls out to shooters off the dribble, as he well as throw long, accurate passes to set up scoring chances for his teammates. On one play, he used a behind the back dribble move prior to throwing a lob pass to set up a scoring opportunity for a teammate.
Also, Vassell did a good job of rebounding the basketball. He would run in and leap up to get multiple boards on both ends of the floor, and he also showed a good ability to provide his team with second chance points after getting offensive rebounds.
Vassell also played solid defense. He is a very good shot blocker for his size, as he was able to swat a shot out of bounds when defending on a high post drive due to possessing good leaping ability, agility, and timing. Also, he nearly collected another by coming in from the blindside to swat a shot from a post player, but that didn't count as his teammate had committed a foul just before he did so. Vassell also will play passing lanes and jump on loose balls to get steals and deflections, and he also dove on the ground to force a tie-up on a separate possession. He is a rangy defender that can cover a lot of ground, and he also has good foot speed to stay with opposing ball handlers to get them to miss shots. However, sometimes he can be out of position, which can lead him to be late on his rotations, as that can cause him to allow scores to his opponents.
In summary, Devin Vassell is an athletic, high-motor swingman that plays hard on both ends of the floor, and he may have the skills to be a shut down defender at the next level. He is an underrated prospect that could swiftly move up draft boards if he keeps playing well this season, and he could be a good value pick in the late first to the second round range for the 2020 NBA Draft.
Florida's freshman guard, Scottie Lewis has terrific defensive skills, and he did a very good job of blocking shots in this game against Florida State. (Photo: Matt Stamey/AP via WRUF.)
Florida's 6-5 freshman guard, Scottie Lewis is a rangy defender that is a surprisingly good shot blocker on the court, and he also will bring a lot of defensive intensity to get many stops for his team.
Lewis did a great job of blocking shots off of drives, as he has great recovery speed to make quick rotations, and he was able to make a nice chase down block once to ferociously swat a shot in transition, while he showed very good leaping ability, agility and timing to block two other shots late in this game. Lewis moves his feet quickly when defending opponents off the dribble, and he can get his hands on passes and poke balls away to get steals and deflections. He was able to successfully get stops when defending in the post as well as out on the three-point line, and his defensive versatility could enable him to be quite valuable to NBA teams at the next level.
On the other hand, Lewis can also be too aggressive in reaching for the basketball, as he can be foul prone at times. He also whiffed on a steal attempt when defending an opposing ball handler, which led him to be out of position when defending his man off the dribble, as he wasn't in position to defend the lob pass or to block out on a play that led to his team to allow a put back score.
On offense, Lewis excelled at scoring on hustle plays. He was able to make a backdoor cut to the hoop to get the ball, and he was able to go up strong to draw a foul on his defender to get to the foul line.
He also flashed the ability to score on aggressive drives to the basket. Lewis was able to go hard right, which enabled him to draw free throws. However, he can tend to take tough shots, as he tended not to finish plays when he wouldn't get foul calls, as he would miss on off-balanced layup attempts in traffic. He also attempted to take a couple of threes, but he missed on both outside shots from beyond the arc.
He also will need to improve his playmaking skills. For the positives, Lewis is an unselfish player that will look to find the open man. However, he can tend to be off-target on his passes, as he may not put it in spots where his teammates can be in a prime position to score off of them. He also committed a turnover as he had a ball poked away before losing it to the opposition. Mostly though, Lewis will need to improve his accuracy as a passer in order to improve his chances to collect assists on a more frequent basis.
In this game, Scottie Lewis actually did not make a single field goal, but on the bright side, he made all four of his free throws. He'll need to work on his jump shot, but that he can make his free throws consistently may be an encouraging sign for his future growth as a potential shooter in the future.
Overall, Lewis does not seem to be nearly the prolific scorer or playmaker that he was billed to be coming into college, but his strong defensive skills still may suggest that there may still be a decent possibility that he could have a bright future in the NBA. Maybe he's not superstar scoring wing player he was hyped up to be, but instead, perhaps he could find his niche as an elite defensive specialist in the future. Right now, his draft stock may be a bit high, but if he improves his jump shot, he could end up carving out a long career as an Avery Bradley type of player in the association.
Florida State's 6-7 freshman forward, Patrick Williams had his ups and downs in his team's win over Florida. He played solid defense, but he struggled to score consistently in this game.
Williams showed a decent ability to score on hustle plays. He was able to catch a lob pass to score on an alley-oop dunk off of a backdoor cut from the baseline to showcase some solid athleticism and ability to score around the basket. However, after dribbling in from the post off of an offensive rebound and despite using a strong drop step move, he ended up missing weakly in traffic that time.
He also showed a decent ability to score off the dribble. Williams was able to use a spin move to score on a smooth layup off of a drive, but he also had a shot blocked out of bounds when driving to the left on a separate play. He also attempted to take a corner three, but he ended up throwing up an airball as he missed badly when attempting his lone outside shot from beyond the arc.
Also, he displayed fairly average playmaking skills. Williams is an unselfish player that will look to find the open man, but he committed his lone turnover by stepping out of bounds before trying to handle the ball off of a defensive rebound once.
Plus, he also did a good job of rebounding the basketball. Williams would leap up to get plenty of boards, as he was able to collect numerous defensive rebounds to help his team on the glass.
In addition, Williams also played good defense. He is an active, help defender that showed a knack for rotating to block shots off the dribble, as he would tend to swat them to teammates due to possessing good length, recovery speed, and leaping ability to do so. He also would get his hands on passes to get steals and deflections. However, he also tended to commit fouls when defending in the paint due to over-aggressiveness. He also struggled to defend on drives, as he would sometimes get beat or backpedal too much, which would cause him to be out of position and allow scores.
Overall, Patrick Williams had some good moments at times in this game, as he excelled from a defensive standpoint, but he did not stand out offensively when he was on the court. He will need to significantly improve his jump shot and playmaking skills, as well as to be more assertive on offense. Most likely, if he ends up finding his way into the NBA, he could end up being a similar player to former Memphis Grizzlies' forward, Darrell Arthur in the association.
Florida's senior center, Kerry Blackshear had a fairly good showing in his team's loss to Florida State. He showed a strong ability to get to the free throw line, and he also rebounded well when he was on the court.
Blackshear did a good job of scoring in the post as well as off of hustle plays, as he would barrel his way to the hoop to draw a hoard of free throws to help his team. But sometimes he would miss shots awkwardly in traffic, and he also struggled to make threes or shots off the dribble, especially when he was not getting foul calls.
Also, he displayed fairly good playmaking skills. Blackshear is a solid passer that would throw accurate interior passes to set up scoring chances for his teammates, and he also can find cutters from the high post. However, he had a tendency to drop catchable passes in this game, which would lead his team to commit turnovers.
He also did a very good job of rebounding the basketball. He would often chase down balls to get offensive rebounds due to possessing a good motor, and he would leap up to haul in defensive boards when he was on the floor, as he can sometimes collect them amidst a crowd. On the other hand, he would also sometimes commit over the back fouls, as he would not always be in position to get those boards.
Plus, he also played fairly good defense. Blackshear was able to collect steals and blocks, as he would use his length and anticipation skills to jump passes to get steals, and he also rotated in the post to block a shot to himself. He would actively step up to defend drives to force misses, and he also would hold his ground when defending in the post to get opponents to miss their shots.
Sometimes though, he would struggle to defend opponents off the dribble, as he would get, and then would end up committing fouls and allowing scores. On a separate play, neither he nor Omar Payne communicated to Lewis that a screener was coming towards him, and no one stepped up on a drive in transition, which led their team to allow the basket that time.
Overall, Kerry Blackshear had a fairly solid game, as he was able to contribute in many different areas when he was on the floor. He is a skilled big man that can score and rebound the basketball, and he is a second round prospect that could end up being an effective role player in the NBA.
Florida State's 6-5 junior guard, M.J. Walker played fairly well in his team's win over Florida. He showed off versatile scoring skills, as he would make open corner threes on the break to show his shooting ability, and he also would get quick scores off the dribble, as he can finish shots with either hand. He also is an unselfish player that will keep the ball moving to set up scores for them, but he also struggled to handle the basketball when faced with heavy ball pressure that would lead him to commit turnovers.
He also played fairly good defense. Walker is an active, help defender that can get steals and blocks, as he managed to block a three-point shot to a teammate due to possessing good leaping ability and timing, and he also leapt up to tip a lob pass to a teammate to get a steal another time. He did a good job of playing passing lanes, and he also rotated on a drive to successfully draw a charge on his opponent on that play. On the other hand, he can struggle to defend his teammates on the move, as he can get beat on those plays, which cause his team to commit fouls and allow scores as a result.
Overall, Walker is an athletic swingman that did a good job of making shots and getting stops on the defensive end. He will need to show that he can consistently make shots to move up draft boards, but if he can, he could then project to be a 3 and D type of role player in the NBA.
Florida's 6-10 freshman big man, Omar Payne scored on a tip dunk, he also caught a lob pass to score on an alley-oop dunk, and he also rotated to block a shot off of a drive out of bounds to show off solid athleticism and inside scoring skills on offense. However, he struggled to defend drives on the defensive end, and he also didn't communicate a screen was coming to a teammate, as his team allowed an opponent to score on a drive in transition that time. Overall, Payne is an athletic, energetic big man that will need to expand his skill set offensively and be a more disciplined defender, but he could project to be a defensive specialist in the association.
Florida's 6-5 sophomore point guard, Andrew Nembhard did not play very well in his team's loss to Florida State. For the positives, he did make a couple of open, spot-up threes off the catch, but he struggled to score off the dribble, and he committed a slew of uncharacteristic turnovers on offense.
He had trouble getting all the way to the basket off the dribble, as he doesn't possess elite foot speed. He is a very unselfish player that can throw some good passes, as he was able to throw a lob pass to a cutter to set up an alley-oop dunk for a teammate, and he also can kick balls out to shooters and pass out of the post. However, he also was inaccurate on several of his passes, as it would sail out of bounds, and he also lost the ball once after trying to be too fancy when handling the ball another time.
Nembhard did an adequate job of rebounding the basketball, as he would crash the glass to haul in defensive boards for his team.
He also played decent defense. He would deflect passes to get steals, and he also would look to stay with ball handlers and contest jump shots to force them to miss shots. However, he also had a tendency to over-rotate and end up out of position, which would lead him to allow opponents to score on three-point shots. Another time, he struggled to defend an opponent on the break, and he ended up committing a blocking foul that time.
Overall, Andrew Nembhard is a tall table-setter that will look to pass often, and his team will rely on him often to get his teammates involved and going on offense. He tried to do that in this game, but unfortunately, he wasn't successful in making shots or in taking care of the basketball, and their offense stagnated for most of this contest. He had trouble consistently getting into the lane, and he had trouble creating his own offense off the dribble. Right now, he will need to show that he can excel as top-notch competition and against upper echelon athletes. He might not end up being drafted by a team in the NBA, but his ability to run an offense likely will allow him to compete for a roster spot at the next level.
Florida State's 6-4 senior point guard, Trent Forrest also did not play very well in this game in his team's win over Florida. He did not shoot the ball very well, as he would frequently miss shots off the dribble, but he did manage to draw free throws on drives as well as on a put back. Forrest didn't look to take nearly enough threes, but he did make a three-pointer in transition, and he should probably take a lot more of them moving forward.
He also showed off fairly average playmaking skills. Forrest is an unselfish player that can throw solid interior passes, as he managed to throw an accurate lob pass to a cutter to set up an alley-oop dunk, and he also passes the ball well on the break. However, he also showed a tendency to throw weak passes that ended up getting intercepted, and he also was careless with the basketball that led him to commit turnovers.
On the bright side, Forrest rebounded very well, and he also played fairly solid defense in this game. Forrest is an active, agile guard that would apply heavy ball pressure, as he can poke balls away, deflect passes, and jump on loose balls to get steals and deflections for his team. However, he also can tend to be caught ball watching and be late on his rotations, which would lead him to commit fouls, and it would also put his team in scrambling situations.
In this game, Forrest did not make shots very efficiently, and he was quite turnover prone on offense, but he showed off fairly good rebounding and defensive skills in this game. He will need to improve his jump shot and show that he can effectively run a team consistently in big games, but even still, his skill set may suggest that if he can put his skills altogether, he could potentially find a way to make a team's roster in the NBA.


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LUKOIL NAMES BEST INTEGRATED MODELLING ENGINEERS
{ 11/18/2022 5:10:15 PM }
The city of Perm hosted the first contest of LUKOIL Group organizations among engineers of field development integrated modelling. 22 engineers presenting 7 regions of the Company's operations competed for the titles of Best integrated modelling engineer and Best engineer-technician team.
Their mastery was judged by heads of LUKOIL subsidiaries and specialized departments of PJSC LUKOIL. The contest was held at the premises of the Research and Education Centre for Sustainable Management of Resources.
An integrated model is a comprehensive mathematical model that describes hydrocarbon production processes and their impact on financials of an upstream enterprise. Since 2012, LUKOIL has been successfully employing this method as one of the most high-end tools to calculate production potential, optimize extraction and devise operating performance plans.
Introduction of integrated modelling enabled the Company to implement dozens of economically efficient engineering projects in Western Siberia, Perm region, Astrakhan region, as well as its Iraqi West Qurna-2 field.
The first prize of the contest was awarded to Alexey Taybarey of LUKOIL-Komi LLC. The second place went to Artyom Beslik of KogalymNIPIneft, the city of Tyumen (a branch of LUKOIL-Engineering LLC). Vladimir Shulenin of LUKOIL-Komi LLC became the third. The contest was also held among teams composed of employees of various LUKOIL Group organizations.
LUKOIL is one of the largest oil & gas vertical integrated companies in the world accounting for over 2% of crude production and circa 1% of proved hydrocarbon reserves globally. LUKOIL enjoys a full production cycle to control the entire value chain from upstream to downstream. LUKOIL employs over 110 thousand people who join their efforts and talents to secure the Company's market leadership.
25/10/2022 - LUKOIL BUILDS NEW DORMITORIES FOR PERM POLYTECH STUDENTS
Two new dormitories were built and equipped in Perm for the students of corporate groups of Perm Tech University thanks to support of PJSC LUKOIL.
08/02/2022 - LUKOIL COMPLETES RESERVES ESTIMATE AS OF THE END OF 2021
PJSC "LUKOIL" announced today the results of the reserves assessment and independent audit as of December 31, 2021. The proved reserves replacement ratio at the Company's projects in Russia totaled 109% in 2021, including 109% for liquids and 108% for gas.
22/06/2016 - LUKOIL UNVEILS INTEGRATED OPERATIONS CENTER
President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov visited Integrated Operations Center of LUKOIL's wholly owned subsidiary OOO "LUKOIL-PERM", launched at ″Polazna″ Central Engineering and Technical Office.

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The staff of the UF Child Protection Team took a morning to re-energize. They all gathered at Painting with a Twist in Ocala to relax while taking a painting lesson and had an enjoyable lunch afterwards. Here are some pictures from the event.


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Boeung Kak Lake
Flood, sweat and tears
From our print archive: The flooding that inundated much of northern Phnom Penh has receded, but Lakeside residents now face a much greater threat
Sam Campbell
Gone fishing: parts of northern Phnom Penh became virtual no-go areas. Photo: Pring Samrang
Editor's note: Few land rights cases have been more infamous in Cambodia than the long-running struggle of the Boeung Kak Lake residents. Where once the lake provided life and livelihoods to the community that grew around it, the dry sands of Boeung Kak now sag beneath seemingly never-ending construction. And with nowhere else to drain, the water left rushing through the streets by the daily wet season rainfall is rising ever higher. In December 2009, we investigated the lakeside community's fight against the floods.
Watching the flooding in Hanoi late last year, a bemused Toul Kork resident asked: "What are they complaining about? My house is almost completely underwater and no-one takes any notice."
The man may well have a point. He is a victim of the Cambodian premier's claim that unrestrained development is better than no development at all.
In February 2007 the Phnom Penh municipality signed a $79m, 99-year lease with Shukaku Inc for 133 hectares of state land, including Boeung Kak Lake. According to government press releases, the company will turn the area into "pleasant trade and service places for domestic and international tourists" in a project that involves filling in 90% of the lake with sand dredged from the nearby Tonle Sap.
The lake, surrounded by slums and Lakeside, a favourite haunt of budget travellers, has seen better days. The water is the colour of mud, and morning glory, until recently a cash crop for locals, is no more. Between 6.5m and 8m cubic metres of sand will be needed to finish the job, according to Shukaku. Even a copy of the company's environmental impact assessment obtained by Southeast Asia Globe admits that "construction activities will cause a number of disturbances to the environment and create inconvenience to the public".
More realistically, the company says that the filling "will be a change in water level in the lake and cause flooding (water flow into the houses) of the people in that area; especially when there is heavy and long rain". But no compensation has been offered to the thousands of residents who have seen their houses engulfed by up to a metre of water, leaving many with serious structural damage.
Boat house: in November 2008 one home slipped into the lake. Photo: Nicolas Axelrod
Other concerns are more pressing, said Dan Nicholson, Asia & Pacific programme co-ordinator for the centre on housing rights and evictions (COHRE), an organisation working with Boeung Kak residents.
"Most significant is the lack of transparency about the people involved, information about the plan, the release of information about the masterplan for the area, the environmental impact and resettlement plan. This is combined with an apparent total lack of respect for the law of Cambodia in the signing of the lease," he said.
A sub-decree was needed to hand over the area, as the lake and possibly other nearby areas are state land and so cannot be leased for more than 15 years. Also, under Cambodian law, the "nature of the land" cannot be changed. "Both the term [of the lease] and the filling of the lake are breaking the law," Nicholson claimed.
Pheapimex-Fuchan cut what they like and it seems that no one has the power to do anything about it
Transparency, it seems is also not evident. Shukaku was thought to be Japanese or Korean, but both countries in official embassy releases have distanced themselves from what they say is a Cambodian company.
"We don't know much. People have gone to their registered office and no-one has come to meet them and there has been contradictory information from the government about whether they're Korean or Cambodian with money from China," said Nicholson. "The amazing thing has been the lack of information. At least in other eviction cases community members have been able to go to places linked to the eviction, for example Canadia Bank, who held meetings [with representatives]. In this case that level of accountability has not been present."
Cambodian Senator Lao Meng Kim is the director of Shukaku. He is married to Chheung Sopheap, better known as Yeay Phou, owner of the Pheapimex Group. Pheapimex-Fuchan, a Taiwanese joint venture with the Pheapimex Group, is the largest logging concession holder in Cambodia with an estimated 700,000 hectares of land.
Time and tide: a worker from Shukaku marks trees and houses for removal (above) and officials oversee an eviction. Photo: Nicolas Axelrod
Forestry watchdog Global Witness has called Pheapimex-Fuchan "an example of all that is wrong with forestry in Cambodia. They cut what they like and it seems that no one has the power to do anything about it".
The UN centre for human rights has also identified Kim as the director of Wuzhishan LS Group. Global Witness has claimed that Pheapimex is the local partner of Wuzhishan LS, a Chinese plantation company that has "secretly acquired" an economic land concession in northeastern Mondulkiri province that is 20 times larger than the legal limit of 10,000 hectares.
"Wuzhishan LS/Pheapimex has since demonstrated an unmitigated disregard for the rights of local people, which is staggering even by Cambodian standards. Months of land grabbing, bulldozing of spirit forests and destruction of crops have driven members of the Phnong minority to a series of public protests which are now being met with threats by the security forces," Global Witness reported.
With such associates it is perhaps unsurprising that repeated calls to Shukaku's unlisted office number, premises it shares with the Pheapimex Group, elicited only requests for e-mailed questions that went unanswered.
It's a combination of carrot and stick
Dan Nicholson, Asia & Pacific programme co-ordinator for the centre on housing rights and evictions (COHRE)
Hallam Goad, an adviser to Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, another organisation working with Boeung Kak residents, said Shukaku "has clearly proceeded to undertake this project in a very non-transparent manner".
According to a joint statement from the International Federation for Human Rights, Cohre, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International the compensation offered is "insufficient for families to obtain comparable alternative housing. Housing at the relocation site is not adequate: infrastructure is poor, basic amenities including clean water is lacking and access to work opportunities is very limited given the distance from the city. Moreover, offers include no formal security of tenure for those agreeing to move".
On the morning after a house collapsed near the filling station of Boeung Kak lake, 27th of November 2008. A strong military presence kept the press and NGO workers from accessing the house. Photo: Nicolas Axelrod
Worse still, it is claimed by the organisations that residents who do not cooperate with the developers have been subjected to threats and intimidation.
"Government officials and company workers have threatened residents in and around Boeung Kak lake and the non-governmental organisation supporting them," the joint statement continued. "Heavily armed police, including military police, frequently harass community leaders and NGO workers and block access to the area. Journalists face intimidation when reporting about the developments, including on November 27, 2008, when police took reporters in for questioning about their coverage of the situation."
Goad agreed that Boeung Kak residents "have been facing intimidation for many months from a co-ordinated approach by authorities – some of whom are armed – and Shukaku representatives. Those who complain and join community meetings are threatened with not getting any compensation and urged to sign compensation packages well below the market value of their land. Even NGOs have been threatened by phone."
It doesn't stop there. "We're also starting to see community leaders 'bought off' with higher offers of compensation. We think they're being specifically targeted because they are leading communities in opposing the eviction," added Nicholson. "It's a combination of carrot and stick."
People's choice: in September 2008, lakesiders took their appeal for a better deal to PM Hun Sen's home in Takmao. Photo: Nicolas Axelrod
Frequent calls to the Phnom Penh municipality offices did little to clarify the situation. One official claimed that the development had nothing to do with city hall. Such blatant obfuscation may be for nothing, though, as the world's financial woes restrict Cambodian ambition.
What is certain is that the country must do more to restrain big business if the kingdom is to avoid drowning under a murky deluge of corruption and unrestrained development.
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For other people named Andrew Lang, see Andrew Lang (disambiguation).
Andrew Lang FBA (1844–1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Lang was born on 31 March 1844 in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris on 20 July 1912 at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the south-east corner of the 19th century section.
Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor.
The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms. Lang's Making of Religion was heavily influenced by the 18th century idea of the "noble savage": in it, he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among so-called "savage" races, drawing parallels with the contemporary interest in occult phenomena in England. His Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. In the preface of the Lilac Fairy Book he credits his wife with translating and transcribing most of the stories in the collections. Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903).
Lang was one of the founders of "psychical research" and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He served as President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1911.
Lang extensively cited nineteenth- and twentieth-century European spiritualism to challenge the idea of his teacher, Tyler, that belief in spirits and animism were inherently irrational. Lang used Tyler's work and his own psychical research in an effort to posit an anthropological critique of materialism.
He collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of Homer's Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both still noted for their archaic but attractive style. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Study of Greek found in Essays in Little (1891), Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; Homer and his Age (1906); and "Homer and Anthropology" (1908).
Lang's writings on Scottish history are characterised by a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a gift for disentangling complicated questions. The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901) was a consideration of the fresh light thrown on Mary, Queen of Scots, by the Lennox manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, approving of her and criticising her accusers.
He also wrote monographs on The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902). The somewhat unfavourable view of John Knox presented in his book John Knox and the Reformation (1905) aroused considerable controversy. He gave new information about the continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy. This was followed by The Companions of Pickle (1898) and a monograph on Prince Charles Edward (1900). In 1900 he began a History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1900). The Valet's Tragedy (1903), which takes its title from an essay on Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask, collects twelve papers on historical mysteries, and A Monk of Fife (1896) is a fictitious narrative purporting to be written by a young Scot in France in 1429–1431.
Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban and Arrière Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905).
Lang was active as a journalist in various ways, ranging from sparkling "leaders" for the Daily News to miscellaneous articles for the Morning Post, and for many years he was literary editor of Longman's Magazine; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints.
He edited The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896), and was responsible for the Life and Letters (1897) of JG Lockhart, and The Life, Letters and Diaries (1890) of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886), Letters on Literature (1889), etc.
St Leonards Magazine. 1863. This was a reprint of several articles that appeared in the St Leonards Magazine that Lang edited at St Andrews University. Includes the following Lang contributions: Pages 10–13, Dawgley Manor; A sentimental burlesque; Pages 25–26, Nugae Catulus; Pages 27–30, Popular Philosophies; pages 43–50 are 'Papers by Eminent Contributors', seven short parodies of which six are by Lang.
Aristotle's Politics Books I. III. IV. (VII.). The Text of Bekker. With an English translation by W. E. Bolland. Together with short introductory essays by A. Lang To page 106 are Lang's Essays, pp. 107–305 are the translation. Lang's essays without the translated text were later published as The Politics of Aristotle. Introductory Essays. 1886.
Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880). The 1915 edition of this work was illustrated by painter George Francis Carline.
'Theocritus Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay. 1880.
Notes by Mr A. Lang on a collection of pictures by Mr J. E. Millais R.A. exhibited at the Fine Arts Society Rooms. 148 New Bond Street. 1881.
Household tales; their origin, diffusion, and relations to the higher myths. . Separate pre-publication issue of the "introduction" to Bohn's edition of Grimm's Household tales.
La Mythologie Traduit de L'Anglais par Léon Léon Parmentier. Avec une préface par Charles Michel et des Additions de l'auteur. (1886) Never published as a complete book in English, although there was a Polish translation. The first 170 pages is a translation of the article in the 'Encyclopædia Britannica'. The rest is a combination of articles and material from 'Custom and Myth'.
Modern Mythology. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1897. Retrieved 20 February 2019 – via Internet Archive.
Lang selected and edited 25 collections of stories that were published annually, beginning with The Blue Fairy Book in 1889 and ending with The Strange Story Book in 1913. They are sometimes called Andrew Lang's Fairy Books although the Blue Fairy Book and other "Coloured Fairy Books" are only 12 in the series. In this chronological list the Coloured Fairy Books alone are numbered.
^ Lang, Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1894). Andrew Lang (ed.). The Yellow Fairy Book. Longmans, Green & Co. p. 1. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lang, Andrew" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 171.
^ "LANG, Andrew". Who's Who. 59: 1016. 1907.
^ John Wyon Burrow, Evolution and Society: a study in Victorian social theory (1966), p. 237; Google Books.
^ "Online Reader – Project Gutenberg". Gutenberg.org. 9 February 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ Josephson-Storm, Jason (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-226-40336-X.
^ Andrew Lang, "Homer and Anthropology," in Homer and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford by Arthur J. Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, F.B. Jevons, J.L. Myres, and W. Warde Fowler, ed. R.R. Marett, 44-65 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1908).
^ "Review of vol. I of A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation by Andrew Lang". The Athenæum (3782): 487–488. 21 April 1900.
de Cocq, Antonius P. L. (1968) Andrew Lang: A nineteenth century anthropologist (Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands). Tilburg: Zwijsen.
Green, Roger Lancelyn. (1946) Andrew Lang: A critical biography with a short-title bibliography. Leicester: Ward.
Lang, Andrew. 2015. The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume I. Edited by Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick, and Leigh Wilson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 456 pages. ISBN 9781474400213 (hard cover).
Lang, Andrew. 2015. The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume II. Edited by Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick, and Leigh Wilson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 416 pages. ISBN 9781474400237 (hard cover).
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Lang, Andrew (1903), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (c. 79 – 1545), I (Third ed.), New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1904), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1625–1689), III, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1907), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1689–1747), IV, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co.
Lang, Andrew; Lang, John (1914), Highways and Byways in The Border (New ed.), London: MacMillan and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1902), The Mystery of Mary Stuart (Third ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1903), Charles Edward Stuart, The Young Chevalier (New ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1897), Pickle the Spy, or The Incognito of Prince Charles (Third ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1898), The Companions of Pickle, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Lang, Andrew (1902), James VI and the Gowrie Mystery, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.


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TM is a real-time, non-relocating, conservative, allocator using type- and color-segregated lists, based on Henry Baker's "Treadmill" allocator. The source code for TM is located at https://github.com/kstephens/tredmill.
TM interleaves marking, scanning and sweeping during each mutator's call to tm_alloc().
TM attempts to limit the amount of work in the collector to avoid stopping the world for long periods of time. It does not require a separate thread for the collector as all collection activities are interleaved with allocation.
An allocation unit is a tm_node. Each tm_node is allocated from a block of system memory (tm_block) sized and aligned to a multiple of the operating system's page size. Each tm_block is dedicated to a particular type (tm_type). Each tm_type represents a tm_node allocation size, thus each tm_block is uniformly parceled into tm_nodes of the same size. In general, each power-of-two size has a tm_type. However, tm_types can be created for any size.
tm_GREY: allocated, marked used, not scanned for pointers.
tm_BLACK: allocated, marked used, scanned for pointers.
Each tm_type has it's own tm_WHITE, tm_ECRU, tm_GREY, and tm_BLACK doubly-linked lists. Each tm_node is a member of one, and only one, of its type's color lists. To keep the tm_node header small, the node's color is encoded in the lower two bits of the tm_node._prev pointer.
When a tm_node's color changes, it is moved to a different colored list in its tm_type for processing in a different allocation phase.
Node types can be explicitly created for common sizes that are not a power of two, to reduce memory fragmentation.
tm_UNMARK: Allocate tm_nodes from the tm_type's tm_WHITE list until it is empty. A fixed number of tm_BLACK nodes are returned to the tm_ECRU list. Memory pressure may cause switching to the tm_ROOT phase.
tm_ROOT: A fixed number of roots are scanned for pointers into allocated space. tm_ECRU nodes with valid references are moved to tm_GREY. After all roots are scanned, the next phase is tm_SCAN.
tm_SCAN: A fixed number of node bytes of tm_GREY nodes are scanned for interior pointers and moved to tm_BLACK list. Once all tm_GREY nodes are scanned, the next phase is tm_SWEEP.
tm_SWEEP: If there are no more nodes to be scanned, sweep a fixed number of tm_ECRU nodes to the tm_WHITE list. Once all tm_ECRU nodes are sweeped, the collector returns to the tm_UNMARK phase.
In general, newly allocated tm_nodes are taken from the tm_type's tm_WHITE list and placed on its tm_ECRU list. If the type's tm_WHITE list is empty, an allocation tm_block is requested from the operating system and is scheduled for parceling new tm_WHITE nodes for the type. If the allocation tm_block becomes empty, the process is repeated: another allocation block is requested and parceled.
A limited number of new free nodes are parceled from the type's current allocation block as needed and are initialized as new tm_WHITE nodes.
New tm_blocks may be requested from the operating system during all phases, if the type's tm_WHITE list or allocation block is empty. The reasoning is the operating system should be able to allocate a new allocation block faster than a collection that would need to completely "stop the world".
All phases, except the tm_SWEEP phase, allocate nodes by moving them from the tm_WHITE list to the tm_ECRU list. The tm_SWEEP phase allocated nodes from tm_WHITE to tm_GREY, because tm_ECRU nodes are considered to be unmarked garbage during the tm_SWEEP phase and tm_BLACK nodes are considered "in-use' but are not scanned for interior pointers during the tm_SWEEP phase. Using tm_GREY during tm_SWEEP is also related to tm_BLACK node mutation, which gives rise to requiring a write barrier on tm_BLACK nodes.
The tm_SWEEP phase will always attempt to scan any tm_GREY nodes before continuing to sweep any tm_ECRU nodes.
The tm_BLACK color might seem a better choice for tm_SWEEP allocations, but this would force young nodes, which are more likely to be garbage, to be kept until the next tm_SWEEP phase. Coloring tm_SWEEP allocations tm_BLACK would also prevent any new interior pointers stored in nodes that may reference tm_ECRU nodes from being scanned before tm_SWEEP is complete.
To prevent thrashing the operating system with tm_block allocation and free requests, a limited number of unused blocks are kept on a global free list.
Aligned blocks allow determining if generic word is a pointer to heap-allocated tm_node to be computed with simple pointer arithmetic and a bit vector check.
Checking a bit vector indexed by the pointer's page number. The bit is set when tm_nodes are parceled and cleared when the entire tm_block is unused and returned to the free block list or operating system.
Mask off the insignificant page bits to construct an aligned tm_block address.
Determine the size of tm_nodes in the tm_block from the block's tm_type.
Determine if the pointer resides in the data portion of the tm_node by considering the tm_node and tm_block linked-list headers to be "holes" in the address space.
Nodes are segregated by type. Each type has a size. By default, type sizes are rounded up to the next power of two. A specific allocation type can be requested with tm_adesc_for_size(). The allocation descriptor can then be used by tm_alloc_desc(). The opaque element can be used to store additional mutator data.
Each node type has its own colored lists, allocated block lists and accounting. Segregating node types allows allocation requests to be done without scanning tm_WHITE nodes for best fit. However, since types and the blocks are segregated, and nodes of a larger size are not scavenged for smaller sise, this could least to poor actual memory utilization in mutators with small numbers of allocations for many sizes, since a single node allocation for a given size will cause at least one block to requested from the operating system.
The color lists are logically combined from all type for iteration using nested type and node iterators.
During the tm_SCAN and tm_SWEEP phase, any tm_BLACK node that is mutated must be rescanned due to the possible introduction of new references from the tm_BLACK node to tm_ECRU nodes. This is achieved by calling tm_write_barrier(&R) in the mutator after modifying R's contents.
tm_write_barrier_pure(R) can be called when R is guaranteed to be a pointer to the head of a node allocated by tm_alloc(). tm_write_barrier_pure(R) cannot be used if R might be an interior pointer or a pointer to a stack or root-allocated object. tm_write_barrier(R) should be used if the address of R is not known to be a pointer to the heap, the stack or global roots.
If R is a pointing into global roots, tm_write_barrier(R) will cause global root rescanning, if the collector is in the tm_SCAN phase.
Stack writes are not barriered, because stack scanning occurs atomically at the end of tm_ROOT.
When entering code where the write barrier protocol is not followed, tm_disable_write_barrier() can be called to put the collector into a "stop-world" collection mode until tm_enable_write_barrier() is called.
A virtual memory write-barrier based on mprotect() might be easier to manage than requiring the mutator to call the write barrier. Recoloring and marking root set pages can be done in hardware assuming the overhead of mprotect() and the SIGSEGV signal handler is low when changing phases and colors.
TM is not currently thread-safe.
TM does not currently support allocations larger than a tm_block. This will be fixed by using another page-indexed bit vector. A "block-header-in-page" bit vector marks the page of each tm_block header. This bit vector will be scanned backwards to locate the first page that contains the allocation's block header.
TM does not currently support requests for page-aligned allocations. This could be achieved by using a hash table to map page-aligned allocations to its tm_block.
This entry was posted in C, Garbage Collection and tagged garbage collection on 2008/01/14 by kurt.


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Nella geologia italiana AML è la sigla che individua la caratteristica Alloformazione di Magnoletto, che comprende due diverse zone nell'ambito del comune di Condove, in provincia di Torino che hanno avuto concomitanza temporale di fasi deposizionali, pur in ambienti spazialmente distanti.

La Commissione Italiana di Stratigrafia della Società geologica italiana ha convenuto di suddividere ulteriormente questo sintema in due subsintemi per le peculiarità di composizione, elencati di seguito:

 AML1 - Subsintema di Torre Buttigliera – nel comune di Buttigliera Alta, in provincia di Torino - subsintema stratigrafico del Piemonte
 AML2 - Subsintema di Truc della Prà - nel comune di Buttigliera Alta, in provincia di Torino - subsintema stratigrafico del Piemonte

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Playing in the Southern League Double A minors, the Ashville Tourists finished the 1968 regular season with a strong 86 wins and 54 losses record and went on to win the 1968 Championship.
Affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, the Asheville Tourists were a team that combined solid pitching, clutch hitting, sure handed defense and strong leadership from its manager Sparky Anderson.
Asheville was led by starting pitchers Grover Powell 16-6, Thomas Frondorf 9-4, Wayne Simpson 7-9, Scott Seger 11-7, Bill Henry and Aurelio Monteaguda 8-2 and strong relief efforts by John Norlega 9-3 in 62 games and Dan McGinn 6-3 in 74 games.
The pitching foundation included Steve Blateric 7-2 in 30 games, including 7 starts and Daryl Hallmark 1-3 in 11 games, 5 starts. Michael Oates was 0-3 in 3 starts, Joseph Earl 1-2 in 5 games, plus 2 starts and Kenneth Widman 1-1 in 5 games, 4 starts.
Tourists manager Sparky Anderson (later managed Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers to World Championships) had to constantly revamp the lineup as players moved up and down to the minors and up to the majors. In all 29 baseball players saw on-field action in 1968.
19 year-old, catcher Fred Kendall caught the attention of fans and media by hitting a solid .291 with 22 extra base hits in 117 games. Backup catcher Pedro Martinez played in 42 games and was strong on defense but hit just .170.
Archie Burge, 25 yrs old, led the Tourists with a .317 batting average, hit 22 doubles, 4 triples , 7 homers, scored 73 runs, in 123 games. His patience at the plate and clutch hitting were well noted by the stats department.
Bernie Carbo, 20 yrs old, the future longtime Cincinnati major leaguer, was just getting his pro baseball career started and already was a formable batter and fielder. In the outfield Bernie Carbo throw out 17 base runners, and in the batters box walked a team high 91 times in 508 plate appearances, batting .281 with a high .409 o/n base pct. He was chosen by numerous media publications and by www.baseballhistorian.com as the 1970 NL Rookie of the Year.
Rodolfo Welch, 29 yrs old, batted a solid .257 in 89 outfield games plus 14 pinch hitting at bats, and made just one error in the outfield in 1968. Rodolfo Welch lined 13 doubles, 4 triples, 8 homers and scored 44 runs.
George Lattera, 21 yrs old. Altho he was one of the younger guys manager Sparky Anderson inserted him into the outfield in 72 games and he posted a solid .948 fielder percentage. Lattera batted .187 with 8 extra base hits.
Stanley Meadows, 25 yrs old, second baseman/3B/outfielder hit .261 with 18 extra base hits and was one of the Tourists clutch batters.
Archie Moore, 26 yrs old, first baseman. One of the leading power hitters of the Southern League, in 1968 the future major leaguer hit a solid .281 and led the team with 23 doubles, was second with 20 homers and with 75 runs and led with 79 RBI. Archie Moore was born in Upper Darby, PA USA.
Darrel Chaney, 20 yrs old, switch hitting second baseman and shortstop. Chaney posted a .231 batting average, powered 21 doubles, 7 triples and led the team with 21 homers, scored 64 runs, and was second with 78 RBIs. Darrel played in the majors as a shortstop starting in 1969. Born in Hammond, Indiana USA.
Frank Duffy, 21 yrs, Shortstop. In 1968 Frank Duffy hit .249 with 20 extra base hits spanning 93 games. A sure handed fielding with quick reflexes, he made 259 assists, 51 double plays and only 13 errors. As a major leaguer during the 1970s, he was involved in trades with a few of the biggest names in baseball history, including Gaylord Perry, Sudden Sam McDowell and power hitter George Foster.
Peter Bergens, 22 years old, infielder. Played in just 14 games for the Asheville team. Batted .095 with one double.
George Runk, 21 yrs old, third baseman and pinch hitter. He batted .160 in 50 at bats, 20 games.
Sherwin Minster, 25 yrs old, infielder and pinch hitter. Minister played in 19 games and batted .103 in 1968.


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has revealed that his side would never turn down the chance to sign Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo.
However, the former Madrid boss has insisted that the transfer would never happen because it is almost prohibited for the Spanish giants to sell the attacker.
Ronaldo joined United in 2003 from Sporting Lisbon, before being sold to Real Madrid in 2009.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner has recently emerged as Manchester United target, but Mourinho believes Real Madrid cannot sell Ronaldo.
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Rick the cartoonist rabbit is growing desperate for success, while his creations—including a coke-addicted teddy bear and a broken robot—have their own plans for his career. Things start to take a sinister turn, and Rick surprises even himself with the depths of pandering to which he'll sink.
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Rick Worley is the creator of A Waste of Time, a series of autobiographical comics in which he discusses the important things in life, such as cocaine, sadomasochism, and love. He lives in San Francisco because he used to live in Riverside and, let's face it, Riverside is bullshit. He divides his time between complaining about his life and lounging around with his vast legions of sexually submissive twink boy fans. They feed him grapes.
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Take A Trip To Christmas City, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley offers the holiday spirit throughout the year. Known the world over as Christmas City, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has embraced that moniker since 1937.
A few years ago, the USPS reported that more than 250,000 pieces of Christmas mail from around the country flowed through Bethlehem to be blessed with the coveted cancellation stamp.
No matter when you visit Bethlehem, you will always be greeted by the Star of Bethlehem, which shines brightly atop of South Mountain.
Star in Bethlehem. Photo by A. Strakey/Flickr
Representing the star that led the Magi to Jesus in the manger, the 81-foot star has been illuminated year-round since first lit in 1935. It was upgraded to LED lighting in 2010.
A few miles north of Bethlehem is Evergreen Lakes Campground in Bath. Highlights of the campground include a miniature golf course and free WiFi in the main office. They have 250 sites, many with full hookups, as well as showers, laundry facilities, a store, propane, and fishing.
In addition to the town of Bethlehem, several other local boroughs and towns in Northampton County offer a Biblical connection. Nazareth Borough is named for the town in Israel where Jesus Christ resided during his youth. Allentown's Jordan Creek is a nod to the Jordan River.
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Weather permitting, Bethlehem Golf Club is open year-round. Established in 1956, Bethlehem's Monocacy course is a Par 71 that stretches to 7,017 yards and offers five sets of tees. It's one of the top courses to play in the Philadelphia area; the City of Brotherly Love sits less than 70 miles to the south.
Bethlehem's colonial history dates back more than 250 years and is well worth exploring. A good place to start is the website www.bethlehempa.org. For nearly a century, the Bethlehem Steel plant served as the economic lifeblood of the community, but it closed in 1995.
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Rather than demolish the historic mill or walk away and let it fall apart, the community rallied around the iconic plant. Today, SteelStacks is a 10-acre campus dedicated to arts, culture, family events, community celebrations, education, and fun.
The site offers more than 1,000 concerts and eight different festivals annually. There are a lot of things to see and do at SteelStacks.
Whether it's Christmastime or summertime, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania offers a wealth of holiday spirit throughout the year. You can learn more about the city on www.bethleham-pa.gov; for more information on Evergreen Lakes Campground, check out their reviews.
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Dadabhai Naoroji – 1893 Speech on East India Currency
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Below is the text of the speech made by Dadabhai Naoroji, the then Liberal MP for Finsbury Central, in the House of Commons on 8 August 1893.
I wish to offer a few observations. What was the first necessity from which this agitation began? That there ought to be a gold currency or a stoppage of coinage. There are two considerations, and India has one peculiar consideration, and that is that it has to remit to this country, whether rightly or wrongly, a certain sum of money yearly—namely, £19,000,000 in gold. Whatever you make of silver in India, as far as the people of India are concerned, they do not benefit in the slightest way in the remittances to this country, because they have to remit a certain quantity of produce, which ought to be able to provide £19,000,000 worth of gold in order to pay for the Home charges. Therefore, any effort made of changing or tampering with the currency, or any other plan devised, will have no effect whatever on the necessity of sending a certain quantity of produce according to the price of gold.
If gold rises in value, they (the Indian people) will have to send so much more produce; if it falls, they will have to send so much the less, be the proportion of silver what it may in India. In that respect the argument, and the principal argument, held out by the currency people and those who advocated the restriction of silver coinage—namely, that it would be a benefit to the people in India to restrict the coinage—is not borne out by the facts. Nothing of the kind will happen; the people of India will have to send a certain quantity of produce in accordance with the price of gold. So far, therefore, the unique political position of India, which has caused all this difficulty and the embarrassing of the Indian Government, is not in the slightest way improved by the plan the Government have adopted. The agitation began from  the loss that the Europeans in India began to suffer for their remittances to this country. No such agitation arose between China and England, or any other country which had not to make any compulsory and political remittances in gold.
The original agitation in favour of the appreciation of silver began with the European servants, who desired to have some change in order that they should receive some higher exchange for their remittances than the value of silver allowed. Now, on that point the Government of India made up its mind. The Government of India wanted to give some higher or fixed exchange to the Indian officials for their own remittances only. Now, that was bad enough, and from this place I have complained of that. The Government of India have not paid the slightest consideration to the effect it would have on the people of India. But what is the result of the new arrangement? Here is a rupee artificially made worth 1s. 4d., whereas its real worth may be 1s., 1s. 1d., or 1s. 2d. The change, or whatever the difference will be, is not merely a gain to these Indian officials for that portion of their salaries which they have to remit to this country, but it is an advancement of their whole salary.
And not only all the Europeans, but all the native servants, have a higher value rupee paid for their salary in place of that which financially the price of silver would admit. The result is, therefore, that this would-be remedy is a pure loss to the unfortunate taxpayer of India, for he will have to find so many more valuable rupees in order to pay every servant so much more than his salary is. Suppose my salary is worth 100 rupees, I would receive 100 rupees, the artificial value of which will be 110 rupees. And this will apply to all salaries. In that way, therefore, there would be an extreme disadvantage, and the wretched taxpayer will have to find the difference. Next, suppose you take a man who has to pay an assessment of 10 rupees, and to pay those 10 rupees to the Government he has to sell part of his produce. Now, in order to pay the now 10 rupees, he will have to part with 10 to 16 per cent, more produce than he formerly did.
In every way, therefore, it is the taxpayer that has to suffer the loss arising from the mistake that the Government have made in adopting this policy. The Government is fortunate in one respect: that the injury that will be done through their plans has been, to a certain extent, modified by what is now happening in America, as many mines have been shut up. In America now there is also a chance of abolishing the Sherman Act, and the result of that will be, of course, a fall in the price of silver. But, on the other hand, if the repeal of the Sherman Act stops the American miners from working their mines, that will save India from the mischief. Our fate depends on the action of the United States. You may bring forth any quantity of abstract argument on one side or the other. The common sense of the matter is that the plan now adopted will simply be an addition to the burdens of the taxpayer; and unless it fortunately happens that the price of silver rises by reduction in its production the future of the Indian taxpayer will be certainly very terrible indeed. I want to say that the chief defect of this plan is that it was not necessary at all; that even from the Government point of view it was not necessary; but that as the plan is taken the whole effect of it is that the Indian taxpayer will have to suffer a great deal of loss in order to carry it out, unless he is saved by the rise in the price of silver.
There are many fallacies running about—we heard one from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sleaford (Mr. Chaplin)—to the effect that the balance of trade is in favour of India, and that fallacy has done more mischief and harm to India than any other thing. I cannot now enter into a discussion of it, but I hope to be able to show some time that nothing is further from the fact than to suppose there is a balance of trade in favour of India. I do not want to take up more time, but I want to sum up that the result of the present system will be that the burden of taxation upon the people of India will be very largely increased, unless the silver kings of the United States diminish their production of silver, and allow the price of silver to rise. But all these artificial methods adopted by Government for raising the price of silver will only complicate the currency; and that the Front Bench should be ready to defend a tampering with the currency in India is, to my mind, a very sad thing.
I will make just one remark with reference to the position of India in connection with the Front Bench. India under the Crown, in her relations with the Governments here, whether Conservative or Liberal, has, in one respect, been very unfortunate as compared with the time of the rule of the Company. When India was ruled by the Company the Company came before the House as before an independent tribunal. Now the Front Bench and the India Office are so much associated and identified that the Front Bench is put in the false position of defending the despotic, secret, and irresponsible India Office in everything they do. The result is, India is not able to get that redress and that independent judgment of an independent tribunal which she got in the time of the Company. This is made much worse by there being no periodical overhauling of the Indian Administration, and the mischief may go on increasing, till, perhaps, a day may come when it is too late to mend. It is of the utmost importance that the affairs of the India Office and the Government of India ought to be examined periodically; for this simple reason: that the House cannot follow the business or events of India from day to day.
The House must have special occasions to study and understand Indian affairs, pass judgment upon them, and introduce necessary reforms. Why should not the Front Bench, as an independent body, sit in judgment upon the India Office, instead of always sitting there in defence of the India Office, no matter whether right or wrong? It is a false position, and injurious to India. We believe that the Government have made a great mistake in interfering and tampering with the currency unnecessarily. We know gentlemen on the Front Bench are against such tampering with it; but they are put in a false position, and they have to defend the very thing they would otherwise not defend.
There is no reason whatever why the currency of India should be tampered with while the currency of England should not be tampered with. I hope some plan may be devised by which the Government in England may become an independent tribunal in reference to the conduct of the Government of India, and may hold the Indian Government in check, and control them instead of defending them  in everything they do. The present system of Indian administration is in several respects very injurious to India, and whatever is injurious to India must and will be injurious to England.
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