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Q: How to add collisions between a player sprite (image) and a simple box I am making a simple Mario game. I simply just want to have a character, obviously Mario jump into set of collision boxes that will have a answer to a math question being displayed. So far I have managed to put together the gravity and the level collisions but I can't seem to be able solving how to get my character to give me an output when colliding with a simple box/rectangle. Here is my code so far:
import pygame
from block import *
from Player import *
pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100,  -16,  2,  2048)
pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((800,  600))
pygame.display.set_caption("Super Mario Bros")
myfont = pygame.font.SysFont("Comic Sans MS", 100)
mariosound = pygame.mixer.music.load("data/sound.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play(-1)
gravity = -0.5
black = (0,  0,  0)
orange = (255,  174,  0)
blue = (11,  183,  217)
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
player = Player(0,  0)
label = myfont.render("9+10=", 1, black)

level1 = [
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
]

def printText(txtText, Textfont, Textsize , Textx, Texty, Textcolor):
    myfont = pygame.font.SysFont(Textfont, Textsize)
    label = myfont.render(txtText, 1, Textcolor)
    window.blit(label, (Textx, Texty))
    pygame.display.flip()

blockList = []
for y in range(0,  len(level1)):
    for x in range(0,  len(level1[y])):
        if (level1[y][x]==1):
            blockList.append(Block(x*32,  y*32))

movex,  movey = 0, 0

gameLoop = True
while gameLoop:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if (event.type == pygame.QUIT):
            gameLoop = False
        if (event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN):
            if (event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT):
                movex = 5
            elif (event.key == pygame.K_LEFT):
                movex = -5
            elif (event.key == pygame.K_UP):
                player.jump()
        if (event.type == pygame.KEYUP):
             if (event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT):
                movex = 0
             elif (event.key == pygame.K_LEFT):
                movex = 0

    window.fill(blue)
    window.blit(label, (275, 100))
    for block in blockList:
        block.render(window)
    player.x += movex
    player.update(gravity,  blockList)
    player.render(window)
    clock.tick(60)
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

I have a player and collision sub class in different python files, named: Block and Player which just does collisions and simple gravity etc.
Thanks for any help, as I said I'v very new so any explanation or help would be appreciated.
Here is my other pieces of code:
My Player.py:
import pygame
class Player:
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.x=x
        self.y=y
        self.width=32
        self.height=32
        self.velocity=0
        self.falling=True
        self.onGround=False

        self.images = pygame.image.load('resources/sprite.png')
        self.images = pygame.transform.scale(self.images, (35, 35))
    def jump(self):
        if (self.onGround == False):
            return
        self.velocity = 14
        self.onGround = False

    def detectCollisions(self, x1, y1, w1, h1, x2, y2, w2, h2):
        if (x2 + w2 > x1 >= x2 and y2 + h2 >= y1 >= y2):
            return True
        elif (x2 + w2 >= x1 + w1 > x2 and y2 + h2 >= y1 >= y2):
            return True
        elif (x2 + w2 >= x1 >= x2 and y2 + h2 >= y1 + h1 >= y2):
            return True
        elif (x2 + w2 >= x1 + w1 >= x2 and y2 + h2 >= y1 + h1 >= y2):
            return True
        else:
            return False

    def update(self, gravity, blockList):
        if (self.velocity < 0):
            self.falling = True
        collision = False
        blockX,blockY = 0,0
        for block in  blockList:
            collision = self.detectCollisions(self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height, block.x, block.y, block.width, block.height)
            if (collision == True):
                blockX=block.x
                blockY=block.y
                break
        if (collision == True):
            if (self.falling == True):
                self.falling = False
                self.onGround = True
                self.velocity = 0
                self.y = blockY - self.height

        if (self.onGround == False):
            self.velocity += gravity

        self.y-=self.velocity

    def render(self, window):
        window.blit(self.images, (self.x, self.y))

    def render1(self, collision):
        if (collision==True):
            pygame.draw.rect(window,red,(self.x,self.y,self.width,self.height))
        else:
            pygame.draw.rect(window,black,(self.x,self.y,self.width,self.height))

And block.py:
import pygame
class Block:
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.x=x
        self.y=y
        self.width=32
        self.height=32

    def render(self, window):
        pygame.draw.rect(window, (255,174,0),(self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height))

A: I didn't know the size of the image and the box, so i wrote down some random size. hope it will help you.
this is the code:
simplebox_width = 20 #pixels
simplebox_height = 20

image_width = 50
image_height = 250

image_x_coord = 100 #coords
image_y_coord = 200

simplebox_x_coord = 140
simplebox_y_coord = 250

image_x_side = range(image_x_coord, image_x_coord+image_width)
image_y_side = range(image_y_coord, image_y_coord+image_height)

simplebox_x_side = range(simplebox_x_coord, simplebox_x_coord+simplebox_width)
simplebox_y_side = range(simplebox_y_coord, simplebox_y_coord+simplebox_height)

for x in image_x_side:
    if x in simplebox_x_side:
        for y in image_y_side:
            if y in simplebox_y_side:
                collision = True
    else:
        collision = False

print collision

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Modeling the influence of genetic and environmental variation on the expression of plant life cycles across landscapes
Liana T. Burghardt, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Amity M. Wilczek, Johanna Schmitt, Kathleen Donohue
Organisms develop through multiple life stages that differ in environmental tolerances. The seasonal timing, or phenology, of life-stage transitions determines the environmental conditions to which each life stage is exposed and the length of time required to complete a generation. Both environmental and genetic factors contribute to phenological variation, yet predicting their combined effect on life cycles across a geographic range remains a challenge.We linked submodels of the plasticity of individual life stages to create an integrated model that predicts life-cycle phenology in complex environments. We parameterized the model for Arabidopsis thaliana and simulated life cycles in four locations. We compared multiple "genotypes" by varying two parameters associated with natural genetic variation in phenology: seed dormancy and floral repression. The model predicted variation in life cycles across locations that qualitatively matches observed natural phenology. Seed dormancy had larger effects on life-cycle length than floral repression, and results suggest that a genetic cline in dormancy maintains a life-cycle length of 1 year across the geographic range of this species. By integrating across life stages, this approach demonstrates how genetic variation in one transition can influence subsequent transitions and the geographic distribution of life cycles more generally.
American Naturalist
https://doi.org/10.1086/679439
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Burghardt, L. T., Metcalf, C. J. E., Wilczek, A. M., Schmitt, J., & Donohue, K. (2015). Modeling the influence of genetic and environmental variation on the expression of plant life cycles across landscapes. American Naturalist, 185(2), 212-227. https://doi.org/10.1086/679439
Burghardt, Liana T. ; Metcalf, C. Jessica E. ; Wilczek, Amity M. ; Schmitt, Johanna ; Donohue, Kathleen. / Modeling the influence of genetic and environmental variation on the expression of plant life cycles across landscapes. In: American Naturalist. 2015 ; Vol. 185, No. 2. pp. 212-227.
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Sami villages in Sweden worry about wolf rejuvenation in Jämtland County
Sverigesradio reports, that Sami villages Tåssåsen, Handölsdalen and Mittådalen require the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to change its decision about allowing wolves rejuvenation in Jämtland. But the authority does not intend to do so and refers to rules on the wolf's survival in Sweden.
Nicklas Johansson, chairman of Tåssåsens village, states that the problem with wolves is that you get such spread on the reindeer so that it becomes unsustainable.
Last May, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency decided that wolves rejuvenation should be allowed in Jämtland County. The Sami villages Tåssåsen, Mittådalen and Handölsdalen have in a letter to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency demanded that the decision be reviewed. The Sami villagers state, among other things, that in recent years reindeer husbandry have suffered major injuries and losses caused by predators and that the decision has meant a total disaster for the Sami villagers concerned as the damage is far above what the Sami villagers are expected to bear.
The Sami villages have not yet received a response from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Marcus Öhman, director of wildlife management, says he understands the Sami villagers' concerns and is aware of the damage the wolf can cause to the reindeer husbandry, but he refers to the rules and frameworks that one has to relate to, and the decision remains.
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Colin L Knight, Shamil D Cooray, Jaideep Kulkarni, Michael Borschmann and Mark Kotowicz
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There is not enough evidence to confidently predict the safe timing when considering total thyroidectomy in this patient cohort, and therefore it should be undertaken when attempts have first been made to safely reduce thyroid hormone levels.
Thyroid storm is frequently cited as a potentially severe complication of thyroid surgery undertaken in thyrotoxic patients, although the evidence does not demonstrate this as a common occurrence.
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Radioiodine (RAI) has played a crucial role in differentiated thyroid cancer treatment for more than 60years. However, the use of RAI administration in patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (even multifocal) is now being widely discussed and often not recommended. In accordance with European consensus, and contrary to the American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines, we recently performed RAI thyroid remnant ablation in a patient with differentiated papillary multifocal microcarcinoma. The post-therapeutic whole-body scan and SPECT/CT revealed the real and unexpected extent of disease, with metastases to upper mediastinal lymph nodes. This finding led to the patient's upstaging from stage I to stage IVa according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer criteria.
131I is a combined beta–gamma emitter, thus allowing not only residual thyroid tissue ablation but also metastatic tissue imaging.
RAI remnant ablation omission also means post-treatment whole-body scan omission, which may lead to disease underestimation, due to incorrect nodal and metastatic staging.
RAI should be considered also in "low-risk" patients, especially when the lymph node involvement is not reliably documented.
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Q: Giving Position to values in an ArrayList i'm working on assigning positions to values in an arraylist in java.
For example An ArrayList containing {5,6,3,1,9,10,0,2,6}.
How can I correctly assign positions to the numbers to have something like this {5th,3rd,7th 2nd,1st,8th, 6th,3rd}.
I have successfully sorted the arraylist containing the numbers in java.
Am now stuck at giving position to the numbers.

A: An edit after you clarified your question:
double[] grades = {10.0, 8.8, 8.7, 7.0, 6.0, 4.3}; // Mock data

for(int i = 0; i < grades.length; i++) {
    String position = numberToPositionString(i + 1);
    System.out.println(position + " with the grade " + grades[i]);
}

with the function:
public String numberToPositionString(int number) {
    String[] concatPosition = { "th", "st", "nd", "rd"};
    if(number > 3 && number < -3) {
        return number + "th";
    }
    else {
        return number + concatPosition[Math.abs(number)];
    }
}

will generate a result like this:

*

*1st with the grade 10

*2nd with the grade 8.8

*3rd with the grade 8.7

*4th with the grade 7.0

*5th with the grade 6.0

*6th with the grade 4.3

Off course you should modify it to fit your needs. You might even consider using a TreeMap instead of an array. It would enable you to match student name and grade. Hope this was helpful to you.

A: So Would something like this work?
    public static ArrayList<String> getPositions(ArrayList<Integer> list) {
    ArrayList<String> positions = new ArrayList<String>();
    String[] endings = { "th", "st", "nd", "rd" };
    Integer last = 100;
    Integer lastRank = 1;
    for (int index = 0; index < list.size(); index++) {
        int position = index + 1;
        if (last == list.get(index)) {
            position = lastRank;
        }
        int remainder = position % 10;
        String rank = position + "";
        String ending = endings[0];
        if (remainder <= 3) {
            if ((position % 100) - remainder != 10) {
                ending = endings[remainder];
            }
        }
        rank = rank + ending;
        last = list.get(index);
        lastRank = position;
        positions.add(rank);
    }
    return positions;
}

I would also like to give credit to Robert van der Spek for coming up with a more efficient way to assign the ending of the position.

A: If you just want to add the ending at the end then do:
ArrayList<String> positions = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> endings =  new ArrayList<String>();
endings.add("st");
endings.add("nd");
endings.add("rd");
endings.add("th");
for(Integer value: arrayList){
    String ending = endings.get(3);
    if(value < 4){
        ending = endings.get(value-1);
    }
    positions.add(value + ending);
}


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Mayfield: Sorry doesn't come easy for Boomers
News | February 6, 2009
Rich Mayfield
I blame Erich Segal.
For those of you of a different, less decaying, generation, Segal was a professor at Yale back in 1970 when he published a blockbuster of a novel, "Love Story," that began with a blatant lie that pretty much sealed the miserable fate of Baby Boomers forever.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry" was the opening line that wreaked such moral devastation. Can you believe several million of us, then in our 20s now in our 60s, actually bought into such claptrap? Sad to say it's true and the proof can be verified in a myriad of ways " from record-breaking divorce rates to a host of addictive activities we've foisted on future generations. Most spectacularly, I suppose, were the anti-apologetics of our last two Baby-Boomer presidents. Mr. Clinton squeaked out his sad-eyed sorry only after doing everything he could to validate Segal's lie, including lying. As for G.W., he's still convinced Segal was right. Destroying a nation's reputation, wasting billions of dollars and thousands of lives on an ill-conceived act of imperialism, ignoring natural disasters while creating a few of his own, were never enough, it seemed, for the former president to acknowledge even the slightest sign of regret.
So it is more than a little refreshing this week to find our current Chief Exec offering "mea culpas" on all the major networks and C-Span to boot. Obama's very public apologies came as something of a pleasant surprise to those of us worried that Washington was back to business as usual despite the change of administrations.
It would be nice if our president reversed the Baby-Booming reluctance to say "I'm sorry" that has bound us Boomers to lives of equal parts self-centeredness and self-delusion.
I can't say I'm all that hopeful about our prospects for change following several sorry examples of apology-demanding behavior in recent days. Take, for instance, the doctors involved with the birth of octuplets to a single mom in Southern California last week. One can't help but wonder if the fertility specialists implanting embryos in the woman's well-used uterus were even aware she'd already delivered six children in the past seven years, was without a job or a domestic partner, and lives in a small three-bedroom home with her parents who last year declared bankruptcy themselves. Hmm. The news and photos I've seen of the smiling Kaiser docs seems to indicate they hadn't even a hint of hesitancy about the whole thing. Does the pursuit of science mean never having to say you're sorry, too?
"Sorry!" certainly wasn't on the lips of the girl's basketball coach at The Covenant School in Dallas, after the Christian-based institution ran up a score of 100-0 over a team from The Dallas Academy which provides education for learning-disabled children. "Although a wide-margin victory is never evidence of compassion, my girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy," claimed Coach Micah Grimes who, it should be noted, is now ex-Coach Micah after his school had no hesitation in offering an apology to the girls from Dallas Academy, forfeiting the game to their opponents and firing their unapologetic coach. I'll bet this coach has little trouble finding another team to lead into basketball battles. After all, we all know that winning means never having to say you're sorry.
The pope came perilously close to apologizing for his appalling actions of a week ago when he welcomed a quartet of anti-Semites back from damnation. This week, the public relations challenged pontiff made it clear that a few things would have to change before the four former bishops could get their miters back … but still no official "Oops!" from the heir of St. Peter. I guess being infallible means never having to say you're sorry, either.
I, for one, appreciate the precedent our president has set. It's good to know we've got a leader who can admit mistakes and mend his ways. Of course, too many more mistakes that need to be admitted just might have us longing for the bad old days when saying your sorry was for suckers who hadn't yet read Erich Segal.
Rich Mayfield is the author of "Reconstructing Christianity: Notes from the New Reformation." E-mail comments about this column to editor@summitdaily.com.
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A pair of white and red Converse sneakers worn by Julius Erving. The sneakers are predominantly white with red stars and red chevrons on both sides. Printed in red ink on the outward facing side of the shoes is: [DR J]. The laces are white and run from the edge of the vamp to the top of the tongue. The tongue is white with red lettering that reads: [All Star / Converse].The interior is red. The back top portion of the shoe has a red background with the Converse logo in red and white. The rubber soles are white with a thatched pattern and an imprint that reads: [Converse / All Star / Made In USA].
Green military flight suit worn by Jesse E. Wrice Jr.
A green military flight suit (a) worn by Jesse E. Wrice Jr. as a US Marine Corps naval aviator captain with two Velcro patches (b,c). The sage green jump suit has a rounded collar, full-length sleeves and ankle-length legs, and is made from the synthetic fabric aramid. The jump suit closes at the center front with a sage green zipper that reaches from the front crotch to the neck, with two pulls so it can be zipped or unzipped from either direction. The zipper pull tab is sage green aramid. A self-fabric waistband is covered in the back with an additional length of fabric and attaches with Velcro™ at each front side of the waist for an adjustable fit. The sleeve cuffs have adjustable Velcro™ closures. The legs of the jump suit taper to the ankle, with a ten (10) inch concealed zipper on each front ankle. The back of the jump suit has two deep pleats, one at each back shoulder just inside the armhole seam. There are eight (8) exterior pockets on the jump suit: one (1) inset pocket on the left front side chest and one (1) inset pocket on the right front side chest, both with concealed diagonal zipper closures; one (1) patch pocket on the proper left arm just above the elbow with a concealed zipper closure on the proper right side; one small (1) pocket attached to the outside of the left arm patch pocket with a top flap Velcro™ closure and stitched borders for holding writing implements; one (1) patch pocket on the front proper right knee with a concealed zipper top closure; one (1) patch pocket on the front proper left knee with a concealed zipper proper right side closure; one (1) cargo pocket on the exterior of the left leg above the ankle, and one (1) cargo pocket on the exterior of the right leg above the ankle, both with concealed zipper top closures. Also on the proper left knee is a knife pocket with a snap closure. A length of thin white cord is wound around the snap closure of the knife pocket. The flight suit is not lined. There is a self-fabric hanger loop at the interior center back neck. Beneath the hanger loop is a manufacturer's tag with size, style, fiber content, and care instructions typed on it.
A black leather identifying badge (b) is attached with Velcro to the proper left breast of the jump suit. Stamped in silver ink on the leather is the insignia for US naval aviators above the text "J. E. WRICE, JR. / CAPT USMC".
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This dance costume consists of a dark teal hooded tunic shirt (.1) and a pair of silver leggings (.2) worn by Khalilah Amin during a spring recital for Studio A Dance Academy at Morgan State University. The shirt (.1) is made from a dark teal cotton, polyester, and spandex knit fabric. It has cap sleeves with a rolled edge sewn in place and a cowl neck with a hood. Large silver grommets are sewn around the waist band, with a black nylon tied belt. The back hem of the shirt is slightly longer than the front. A manufacturer's label with size, content, and style information is sewn at the interior proper left side seam near the hem. Black hanger loops are sewn at each interior side shoulder seam.
The leggings (.2) are made from metallic silver nylon and spandex with an elastic waist band. Lengths of the black nylon fabric of the belt on the shirt are sewn in a crisscross pattern across the front of both legs below the knees. A manufacturer's label with size, content, and style information is sewn at the interior center back waist. Black hanger loops are sewn at each interior side waist.
Albert Woodfox is a former inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Angola Prison. Woodfox is one of the "The Angola Three"— a group comprised of three former prison inmates (Robert King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace) who were put into solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary in April 1972 after the killing of a corrections officer. Woodfox is noted as the world's longest serving person in solitary confinement, and was the last member of the Angola 3 to be released from prison.
Woodfox was issued this grey sweat suit in 2010 when he was transferred to the David Wade Correctional Center in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
On November 20, 2014, Woodfox had his conviction overturned by the US Court of Appeals, and in April 2015, his lawyer applied for an unconditional writ for his release. Albert Woodfox was released on February 19, 2016, after 43 years of solitary confinement. Since his release, Woodfox has been the subject of documentary films, interviews and essays and has traveled the globe to tell his story.
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MBBCh, MSc, MD, FRCS, FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Practices at: BMI The Lancaster Hospital
Mr Naguib's career in orthopaedic surgery extends for more than 20 years. He had his basic surgical training in Egypt before moving to England in 1993. He had his higher surgical training in Yorkshire and South East Thames Training Programs. His main interests are in lower limb surgery, mainly, foot and ankle surgeries in addition to knee surgery.
He has excellent experience in the whole range of modern foot and ankle surgey from simple bunion to complex total ankle replacement.He has been to many foot and ankle courses and is a member of the British and European Foot and Ankle Societies. Mr Naguib also has wide experience in knee surgery. He uses a Computer Assisted total knee system and has many publications and presented on knee replacement in local, national and international meetings
Mr Naguib's main interests are in lower limb surgery, mainly, foot and ankle in addition to knee surgeries. He has excellent experience in the whole range of modern foot and ankle surgey from simple bunion to complex total ankle replacement.
Mr Naguib also has wide experience in knee surgery. He uses a Computer Assisted total knee system and has many publications and presentations in local, national and international meetings.
Member of the British Orthopaedic Association
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Amakhosi asked PSL to postpone their 4 matches due to 31 members hits by covid-19. Read more
By Sweetness3 (self media writer) | 1 month ago
Bad news at Naturena, Kaizer-Chiefs requested Premier Soccer League (PSL) to postpone their four games in December due to an outbreak of covid-19 cases among players and staff.
https://www.soccerladuma.co.za/news/articles/local/categories/kaizer-chiefs/kaizer-chiefs-unable-to-host-cape-town-city/709656
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Amakhosi were expected to go head-on head with Cape Town City today at First National Bank (FNB) Stadium {soccer city}. Kaizer-Chiefs was going to meet Cape Town City for the third time in this year of 2021. On 06 January 2021 Kaizer-Chiefs managed to take Cape Town City down with 2 goals and one from City. The second time on 21 April 2021 Kaizer-Chiefs lost, they managed to score one goal and City scored two goals.
Seems like the sun is hidden by clouds at Naturena, while supporters were starting to enjoy their team winning games, covid-19 destroy all that happiness by a second. The past few games of Kaizer-Chiefs were very interesting, in their previous 5 matches, they managed to win three, drew one, and lost one.
Kaizer-Chiefs announced early on Friday morning that 31 members of them tested positive of covid-19 at the club. Amakhosi said they consequently do not have enough numbers to field a team, they regarded that as a force majeure situation. Amakhosi believes that after four postponed matches they will be ready to come back to the field, at the moment they want to put their members in isolation.
This disappointed many supporters as they were looking forward to today's game. But because of the situation, supporters understand and they wished their players a speedy recovery from covid-19. Is not yet confirmed if Kaizer-Chiefs members are attacked by a new variant of Omicron. More tests are still going to be done.
On the other side, Supporters of other teams think like Kaizer-Chiefs are scared to face Cape Town City without their key players. They believe chiefs have more players to take over but because some of the key players won't be at the game, does why they requested their matches to be postponed.
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The atmospheres are completely different, but in many ways weekly racing can almost be like a trip to the casino. All the hard work, time and effort spent in the shop through the week can come down to a roll of the dice once you head onto the race track. To put things in simple, easy to understand terms, stuff happens.
After putting in some long hours in the shop – that also included a couple of trips to Chub Frank's facility in Pennsylvania – Craig Graham was able to get the #98 Pro Late Model back on the track and rejoin his son Brandt – who recently scored his first dirt racing top 10 finish – at Brighton Speedway's Fan Appreciation Night Saturday, June 9th. Craig finished 11th in the main event, while Brandt was 8th; another career best effort.
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What You Need When You're Preparing For the Future
At 18, all individuals, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, reach the legal age of majority. This means that a parent can no longer make decisions legally on behalf of their children. Most people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities can manage their own affairs with assistance and guidance from others, such as family and friends. If guardianship is necessary, it should be tailored to the person's needs.
Read more of The Arc's position on Guardianship HERE.
Guide - Guardianship of the Person: Duties and Responsibilities
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Families considering guardianship should learn more about all the options before making a final decision. For additional information read The Arc of New Jersey Family Institute's: A Guide to Guardianship & Alternative Options For People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Pro Se
Pro se means "without a petitioning attorney". The proposed guardian represents himself or herself in court. Pro Se Forms and instructions can be found HERE.
Things to think about before you represent yourself in court
Definitions of words that may be used in the pro se packet
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Department of Human Services, Bureau of Guardianship Services (BGS)
Establishing guardianship is a legal process, and many families turn to the Bureau of Guardianship Services at the Department of Human Services for help with the process. BGS is responsible for processing and tracking guardianship actions for people served by the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) who have been evaluated according to state law and determined to require a guardian. BGS is only able to serve individuals who have been determined by DDD, through its application process, to be eligible for its services.
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Government is responsible for ensuring that guardians understand the significant authority and responsibility of guardianship, and for monitoring the health and well-being along with the finances of every incapacitated person under the care of a legal guardian. It is the only way to eliminate opportunities for abuse. The New Jersey Judiciary provides guardianship support through its Guardian Essentials and the Guardianship Monitoring Program.
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The Center for Future Planning aims to support and encourage adults with I/DD and their families to plan for the future. The Center provides reliable information and assistance to individuals with I/DD, their family members and friends, professionals who support them, and other members of the community on areas such as person-centered planning, decision-making, housing options, and financial planning.
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Following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, urbanism became one of main issues in the agenda of the State. Between 1923 and 1940, 117 cities and towns in Anatolia and Rumelia were planned. After planning cities demolished during the War of Independence, in pursuit of Great Depression in 1929, Etatism and Populism principles became basis for policy-oriented development of urban space.
This study aims at examining İzmit Urban Plan in 1935 (by Hermann Jansen) in the context of urban planning approaches and 1930s' political structure of the Republic of Turkey. In this perspective, this article is divided into three main parts. In the first part, I discuss 19th Century and 20th Century prevailing approaches of Urbanism in Europe and their relevance in Turkey's Urban Planning Practice. In the second part, I manifest general structure, issues, and different periods of Early Republican Urban Planning in Turkey. In the third part, I discuss importance of İzmit Urban Plan in this period as a model in addition to analyzing basic design and planning principles of the Plan. Further, I scrutinize similarities and differences of the Plan with European urbanism models.
Keywords: 19th and 20th Century Urbanism, Early Republican Era Urban Planning, İzmit Urban Plan in 1935, Policy-Oriented Urban Planning.


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Q: Could NOT find LLVM (missing: LLVM_DIR) I'm trying to install darktable from source on Fedora 27. I've installed all dependencies, but when I run cmake I got error:
-- Could NOT find LLVM (missing: LLVM_DIR)
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:381 (message):
  Could not find LLVM 3.9+

What should be the content of this variable.
I've tried this:
$ whereis llvm
llvm: /usr/lib64/llvm
$ export LLVM_DIR=/usr/lib64/llvm
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/darktable/ ..

but got the same error that it can't find llvm. I have llvm version 5.0.2

A: Just ran into the same while trying to build darktable release-2.7.0 on fedora 29.
Was able to resolve it by installing llvm-devel
dnf install llvm-devel


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Chief Executive Officer, UI Hospital and Clinics
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students,
I am very pleased to announce that Michael Zenn, MBA, will become Chief Executive Officer of the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics effective February 1, 2018, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
The University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics is a $1 billion enterprise and requires a leader who understands our patient care, research and educational missions and is committed to the hospital's continued financial success. Mr. Zenn has served in various positions in hospital operational and financial management for more than 30 years. He has been Chief Financial Officer of the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics since 2015.
During his tenure at the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, Mr. Zenn has had proven success managing the enterprise's finances and initiatives. He led efforts to significantly improve our revenue cycle, restructure our capital planning process and develop our five-year capital plan, and has sponsored our very critical Integrated Information Infrastructure project to select and implement a new information technology platform.
Prior to joining the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, Mr. Zenn served as an engagement partner at Tatum, LLC in Chicago – a national professional services firm in the health care industry. He has additionally served in various roles in the executive administration teams of Northwest Community Healthcare and Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., and of Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Michigan. Mr. Zenn earned a bachelor's and master's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.
The mission of the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics is to advance health care to improve the health of our patients and communities, promote health equity and develop the next generations of health care leaders. I am confident that Mike Zenn has the skill, experience, and dedication necessary to lead us to advance this critical mission.
I would like to thank the members of the search committee, led by chair Jerry Bauman, recently retired Dean of the UIC College of Pharmacy, for the commitment of their time and dedication to this important process.
I hope you will join me in welcoming Mike Zenn to his new role at the hospital.
Robert A. Barish
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I discovered the great pleasure of admiring paintings and sculptures during my first stay in Italy in my early twenties.
As I had longed to draw for a long time, hence I decided to learn the craft in various Art Schools (North of France).
In the end of the 80's and the 90's, I enrolled classes for adults. starting with live models drawing and in volume- modeling (Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lille, ESSAT in Roubaix) before returning to live models drawing in 2008 (Ecole Supérieure d'Arts in Tourcoing).
This work on the human body, its shapes and forms, all led me naturally to sculpture - clay modeling work on draped bodies- fusion of clay and copper making for lighter and airier sculptures, as well as a dab in wood carving.
But above all else, I really wished to sculpt stone and carve white marble, so my love for Italy made me choose to study near Carrare.
Since 2012 , I go regularly work and exchange experiences .in an international and professional marble art studio, where sculptors and craftsmen, talented and skilled thrive together.
Some of my marble sculptures are expressions of the human body whereas others derive from free inspiration.
I use multiple canvases superimposed,layers and canvas draped.
I also used some of the sketches made during my Art School classes to paint the set " Les Nus"
© All of the images on this website are copyrighted original artworks by their author and are protected by international copyright law. No materials in this gallery may be reproduced, copied, downloaded, or used in any form without written permission of the contemporary artist Christine Lenoir.


*Repeat Repeat creates its own geography, dreaming up songs rooted in the spirits of both coasts. It mixes the sunny swoon of '60s pop with a dark swirl of Warholian garage rock. The edgy guitar, pronounced drum loops, catchy hooks and the electric energy of this album truly constitute something special. Maybe some lyrics are cliché, and maybe some songs sound a bit too similar to Cage the Elephant, but all the while, it's difficult to argue that this album doesn't contain several hits.
The volatile former lead singer of Oasis and Beady Eye is back with his debut album. This album is like a throwback of a throwback. The lens of the album is from the perspective of a '90s icon who was (and still is) obsessed with the melodies of the '60s. The years haven't worn down Liam's ability to craft catchy choruses. The songs are layered with numerous instruments and Liam's voice is controlled. With positive acclaim nearly across the board from Allmusic to NME, I recommend taking a stab at Liam Gallagher's album.


This is the Signed original Gouache painting by Roger Payne.
Front cover of Look and Learn issue 398, published 30th August 1969. Two girls in "traditional costume" dance in the panel to the left.
To the right an athlete throws a hammer. The hammer is a round metal ball (weighing 16 or 22 lb. for men or 12 or 16 lb. for women) is attached to the end of a shaft about 4 feet in length and made out of wood, bamboo, rattan, or plastic.
The most popular games in the UK are held at Braemar south of Inverness. Good early work from the inventive Roger Payne. Please note both panels are pasted onto a backing board and the hammer ball is also, strange but effective.


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A New, Looser Interpretation of Terroir
Posted in Beer, Intersections, Uncategorized by SM on August 26, 2011
Terroir comes from the word terre "land". It was originally a French term in wine, coffee and tea used to denote the special characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place bestowed upon particular varieties.
Or so says some guy on Wikipedia. Terroir is one of those things the wine world tries desperately to claim as all their own. However, I'd argue that a more nuanced, progressive interpretation of the concept allows room for many other things. Even the Wikipedia entry hints at the possibility of terroir in things such as coffee or tea. I'd argue there's terroir in everything, but for the purposes of this blog, I'll focus on the terroir in craft beer and music.
Honestly, I'm not really sure how wine can claim terroir and beer can't. In fact, local agricultural and environmental factors may play a larger role in the character of a beer than wine since beer requires so many more ingredients. Sure, in modern production, wine more often than beer sticks to regional factors in creating flavor, but there are breweries who use only local products to produce their beverage that can't be discounted.
That said, the original concept was to divide regions by the flavor profiles they produced in wine. A newer, more global take on this idea may look at the characteristics of various locales on the same product. For example, a beer produced in Colorado might use hops from the Pacific Northwest, Belgain yeast, barley from Canada, and local water to create something that recalls all of these regions. Sure, to the traditionalist, this might not be a case of terroir. However, I'd argue that the unique characteristics of each ingredient combines to make something hard to duplicate.
Maybe that doesn't work for your understanding of terroir. What about the ability of humans to import all the ingredients of a region to create something that tastes and smells just as it would had it been brewed closer to its origin? In earlier discussions on this blog, I mentioned how engineering and brewing know-how can often allow a brewery to easily recreate an illusion of terroir with little regard to location.
Lost in all of this is the idea that humans can be a part of terroir. Literally, terroir refers to the land. However, this has been generally understood to include the water, climate, and other local factors. So, why not the people? They too are influenced by local factors and bring cultural perspectives to craft that can be unique to a particular terroir. People have to be considered whether you have a strict understanding or terroir or not.
At this point, I get that my interpretation may be too loose, too deconstructed, post-modern for your tastes, but I make similar arguments for many traditions and constructs beyond brewing (and music). For example, English is an evolving language that reinvents itself constantly, inventing new words, spellings, and conventions at every turn. The ideas or art, marriage, race, or the role of government are changing constantly. So, why can't we adjust our idea of terroir to match the global times in which we live?
Now that I've cleared that up, I'd like to move on to terroir in music. Terroir, IMO, manifests itself in two ways when it comes to popular music. First, there's the scene. There was a reason all the major labels flocked to Seattle 20 years ago. They all wanted a piece of that grungy terroir. Second, bands take on the terroir of a place when they write and/or record in a particular place. Why else would bands opt to record in Memphis or Chicago?
The music scene is an indie thing. Corporate leaches try as they may to capture the excitement of a thriving rock scene, but they're often three or four years too late. Bands in scenes feed off each other, encourage one another, and often influence each other's sound. There's a reason most bands in Brooklyn sound like the Walkmen. Those aforementioned gunge bands all had a similar aesthetic even if they were decidedly different bands. I still get confused when I hear the opening bars to any Chicago band from just before the turn of the century. These scenes represent a very human, inorganically organic terroir like one can never find in wine.
Eventually, bands look to capture a sound that's influenced them or turned them on. Beirut is a perfect example of a "band" that takes the influences of the road with it. Whether it be Gypsy music, French pop, or Mexican mariachi, Beirut has adopted each of these sounds as its own. (Although, it sounds as if the new one breaks from this. Stay tuned.) Another example is when a band like Pavement (among many, many others from the era) headed down to Memphis to recorded at the venerable Easley Studios, providing a certain amount of smoked BBQ and southern comfort not usually attained in northern cities.
Anything contains a certain amount of terroir. For me, terroir is a flavor or sound that can only be produced by the necessary ingredients from various locales. I don't really care if it's all from one location or whether it comes from all over. The end result is what matters. And within that beer or between the notes of a record, you can sense the regional influence. It's that funk from Belgian yeast strands or the steel guitar from a month in Bluegrass country. Terroir is the undeniable piney character of a Northwestern hop or the grittiness of an album recorded in Manhattan.
I prefer not to be held down by tradition. Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement is about redefining the world to better grasp humanity and the enjoyment of such things as craft beer and indie rock. If this blog has a bit of terroir, that might be it. Now, you should add your terroir to the mix and give me your take. Have I bastardized a concept that should remain unchanged or have I challenged constructs that needed challenging.
Or should I write about something else? Expect another top-5 on Monday. Cheers!
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Greg (@PourCurator) said, on August 26, 2011 at 9:08 am
One of the downsides to the concept of Terroir is that it can become a source of snobbery and exlcusionism. We have to make sure we never get to the "if you're not from here, you can't possibly be as good" mindset, whether in beverages or music.
While there is undeniable geographic and cultural character that comes from certain times and places, that can also be adopted and replicated in a convincing way (in beer, think of Ommegang and Allagash's Belgian styles, or the numerous "West Coast IPAs" now being produced on the East Coast; in music, the symbol of West Coast rap, Tupac, was from New York).
builderofcoalitions said, on August 26, 2011 at 9:33 am
Excellent points. I prefer to think of terroir as character contributed by location rather than a way to exclude or create a false sense of superiority. That's why I like to challenge old ways of defining beer and music. Subverting the dominant paradigm and all that.
Mike said, on August 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I'm not sure whether I respectfully disagree with the expanded definition of "terroir" or if we're actually in accord, but I do see where you're coming from. Let me give you an example from my new home: New Mexico's biggest source of pride, it seems, is its annual crop of Hatch chiles. The state put the chiles on their license plates; we even have an official state question: "Red or green?" about which chile sauce you prefer. The state has festivals extolling the virtues of the chile. I stumbled onto a chile party earlier this year that drew a crowd of several hundred fans (many in costume), a proclamation from the mayor, and a kickass mariachi band.
But as much as New Mexico would like to think of the chile pepper is its "terroir" crop, you can grow genetically and gastronomically identical peppers anywhere with high altitude, lots of sun, and cool nights. New Mexico's climate and geography make the annual chile crop possible, but the rational part of me knows that the chile only became a "terroir" crop because of its passionate fan base.
We've had a bad drought this year, and the chile crop will be pretty meager. Additionally, foreign countries have been growing their own chiles and marketing them as New Mexico-grown. Both stories have dominated the headlines of newspapers, television stations, and public radio newscasts. The state has also been hit hard by the recession, with the highest poverty rate in the nation, one of the highest unemployment rates, and a state government only interested in cutting funding for any program that isn't an oil subsidy.
I get the idea that the residents of the state have pinned its hopes on a few farmers in the southern part of the state. If they can just pull through with a successful harvest, maybe they can turn the state's fortunes around.
The idea of "terroir" seems to be a social construct, but maybe it's a helpful one.
builderofcoalitions said, on August 26, 2011 at 12:35 pm
I think we're in total agreement, especially with your final statement. Also, the clear difference between what I'm talking about and your example is that I describe a man-made product and you're describing a crop. I think what Greg gets at above is what I'm trying to say. There's a certain amount of exclusion that happens with terroir, but with beer and music, it shouldn't be so exclusionary. Terroir should be, as you suggest, a helpful social construct. Between the lines of what I wrote, you'll find that I value the terroir of a crop such as hops, grains, water, and even the chile pepper. What you bring up is valid and really just another piece to the puzzle. This blog has consistently stood against corporate tyranny and I stand with New Mexican chile farmers as well. Or something like that.
Mike said, on August 26, 2011 at 1:15 pm
I think we're in partial agreement then.
Where we disagree (and which I failed to explicitly say in the previous comment) is that I don't think we can include man-made products in the idea of terroir. To wit: I'm reading a lot these days about how Brooklyn is somehow a magical place for authors due to the astonishing number of writers who've resided in the borough throughout history.
And while it's romantic to think that there's some kind of well of ideas that's somehow leaked its way into Brooklyn's water supply, it's clearly a case that the culture places value on literary pursuits. A high population density assures that they'll have more writers (or teachers or firemen) per capita than other parts of the country and the (relatively) lower rent compared to Manhattan cements it that you'll get more starving artist types congregating there.
But it sounds like we're in agreement on the grains and hops part, anyway. Solidarity!
builderofcoalitions said, on August 26, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I think I was making the same argument in regards to culture without going into specifics. If population were the biggest factor, just about everything would claim some terroir in NYC. However, they are not great artisanal chocolate producers, for example. However, the New York writer is a unique creature. That's a terroir I can't really argue.
That's where I'll have to pull the "apples and oranges" card, I'm afraid. Perhaps I only developed this affectation when I moved to the high desert where nothing, not even the usually prolific and apparently psychedelic jimson weed, grows without a little TLC, but I think we need a word that talks about the magic of something being of the land, and it's just not as spellbinding and magical if it comes from 200 miles to the East.
Once too many hands and brains get involved with a product's creation, then it becomes "culture."
But why can't terroir be influenced by culture?
As long as there's a conscious decision to cultivate, say, Cascade over Chinook hops, and as long as there's a growing/harvesting cycle, people will obviously have an influence, but I'd argue that that's part of the generally accepted "terroir" construct anyway. It doesn't make sense to loosen the definition of "terroir" to include human intervention any more than it makes sense to loosen the definition of "beer" to include "Jack Daniels."
Patrice said, on August 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Terroir is as real as gravity, but we'll set that aside.
You can't analyze terroir, without acknowledging commercial implications.
If I call my american-brewed beer "Belgian this" or "Belgian that", I am clearly using/abusing a widely accepted value-added status to my commercial and financial advantage.
After all, why didn't Blue Moon call it self "American White"?
So, maybe terroir is really more a marketing ploy than anything else? Sure, it's real, but what is the purpose? As Mike suggests, it's a useful construct.
Greg (@PourCurator) said, on August 26, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I'm really seeing this as two terroirs…
One, the traditional one, means things you can only get from a specific place (nutrients in the soil, combination of weather patterns, etc.). That's mostly in wine and cigars and foods where actual tastes can not – supposedly – be replicated.
The second is the one Zac is trying to carve out, a traditional culture that adds a character to a product. That's more ethereal, so it's easier to use that for commercial gain without actually respecting or following any of the traditions. I would actually disagree with Patrice about Blue Moon, since "Belgian White" is a style and denotes location no more than "New York Strip" means the cow came from Poughkeepsie, but certainly some breweries call beers "Belgian" in style when they really just mean they used a different yeast. Those beers are no more Belgian than the Budweiser Clydesdales are Czech.
I think in the end I can agree with that dichotomy. It seems language often develops as meanings change, but understanding the original meaning helps inform new meanings.
That said, certainly, beers can also have terrior, but this might be harder to produce than wine which is basically one ingredient (yeast grows on the grapes, no?. I think any of the beers produced that utilize hops, barley, water, and yeast from a single region have to contain some sort of terroir.
Mark said, on August 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm
I think the fact that Wine only has two main ingredients (grapes and yeast) and that at least one is grown on the premises is the primary difference. Because that's the case, a winery can claim that their wine is all about terroir because their biggest ingredient is grown right there. They can't import grapes from somewhere else and make the same wine… But for the most part, you can't change a beer recipe to use the same ingredients grown in different places and expect the same results either. Because the ingredients themselves are more subject to terroir than the end result, perhaps?
I'm not an expert, but hops are definitely dependent on terroir. There are only certain climates that can really support certain hops, and so on. I'm also pretty sure that if you were to take American hops and plant them in Europe, you would get a different character out of them. Perhaps not a drastic one, but maybe differences in alpha acids and flavor intensity and so on. Indeed, that happens even now when growing on the same area year to year.
There are probably similar characteristics for malted barley, but barley seems like it's always grown somewhere separate than the brewery. That's one thing that's very different about Wine, which almost always has the grapes on the premises. Right? Are there wineries that import grapes from Europe?
Water is interesting because you can spike your local water with minerals to give it a different character (there are ways to kinda/sorta replicate the famous Burton water). I'm not sure, do they add water to wine?
Yeast is an interesting one too. I believe the Wine yeast that's actually contained in the grape skin is inconsistent, so "pure" strains are used. I get the impression that there is less variability in wine yeast than there is in beer yeast, but I'm not sure about that.
They can't import grapes from somewhere else? Why not? What about blended wines? Breweries move ingredients all the time. What about the many cases of breweries moving off-site to continue operations elsewhere while remodeling projects take place?
It does seem that true terroir is limited to the individual ingredients and wine is best suited for the traditional definition. However, I wonder if a product, like beer, could have multiple terroirs. Is that even possible? I think it is and that it better reflects our current global society.
Comparing beer and cattle is not an effective premise.
The comparison is between terms that contain geographic words but that no longer refer specifically to origin. If you saw a "premise" that cattle and beer are somehow the same… I apologize for being unclear.
You asked rhetorically "why didn't Blue Moon call it self "American White"? My point was, while use of "Belgian" might give the beer some cachet to non-beer drinkers, the style of "Belgian White" is just an accepted style name at this point, and is perfectly appropriate.
There is a larger issue of labeling. In general, wine has fairly strict rules in place to guard against appropriating Terroir-conveying terms. Beer has basically no such rules. Should it?
I don't think it should, but I also think the wine industry's obsession with naming rights is silly. Look on the label to see where it's produced.
Re : beef
Who would question the "wrongness" of marketing hamburger grades as Consider Angus or Kobi beef?
These aren't examples of terroir, correct? I'm pretty certain I can get Kobi beef produced right here in Missouri.
Kobe beef is a registered trademark and requires certain arbitrary conditions to be met in order to qualify as Kobe. The beef you get from Missouri is probably Wagyu beef, which is created through similar techniques (i.e. feeding cattle beer!) They're fed with different types of grain, but my guess is that the differences between Kobe and Wagyu beef are trivial. I totally agree that this isn't an example of terroir.
re: Beer has basically no such rules. Should it?
Is "official" terroir simply a registered trademark, granted to fermenters from authentic locales?
If that is the case, the Union of Belgian Brewers already controls the trademark + terroir for "Belgian Beer".
Does anyone really believe Blue Moon could have have cracked the top 15x beers (in the US market) with no implied Belgian terroir?
quilty said, on August 28, 2011 at 10:23 am
I am a freelance headline writer. This post should be called: "Terroir Twilight". I'll email you an invoice.
Damn it! Of course a professional would show me up.


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Kelly scores 4 touchdowns as No. 14 Ole Miss rolls over New Mexico State, 52-3
Posted by Courtney Smith | Oct 10, 2015 | Football, Ole Miss, Uncategorized
The Rebels looked to bounce back from their loss to Florida with a stellar performance in front of their home crowd on Homecoming, and they accomplished their mission behind quarterback Chad Kelly's four touchdowns (3 passing, 1 rushing) and the team's 665 yards of total offense. The 14th-ranked Rebels (5-1, 2-1 SEC) rolled past the Aggies (0-5, 0-1 Sun Belt) 52-3 to improve to 30-1-2 overall against teams in the Sun Belt Conference.
RB Jordan Wilkins rushed 9 times for 42 yards and 1 TD. Photo credit: Joshua McCoy, Ole Miss Athletics
Freeze was happy to see his team get the bounce-back win, but feels there's room to get better.
"There were some good individual efforts in this game," Freeze said. "There were also some things that we need to continue to improve on. It is our job to as coaches to do that and address those things, and then hopefully demand where to make corrections if necessary."
The Rebels looked sharped on their first drive and looked well on their way to scoring the game's first touchdown; however, the drive stalled at the goal line when three straight rushing attempts failed to produce a touchdown.
Ole Miss had to settle for Gary Wunderlich's 21-yard field goal, but after that the Rebels began to roll. Jordan Wilkins ran it through the middle for an 11-yard touchdown, then Akeem Judd followed with a three-yard scoring run to give Ole Miss a 17-3 lead.
Judd rushed for 76 yards on 13 carries and his teammate Eugene Brazley hit the 10o-yard mark on six carries, following a breakout 78-yard run late in the fourth quarter.
Before Judd's touchdown run, Kelly connected with Laquon Treadwell for a 17-yard reception to New Mexico State's 37. Kelly paired with Treadwell on two of his three touchdown passes, one a 20-yard reception and the other a one-handed, 37-yard Odell Beckham-like catch that brought fans to their feet.
"It feels great, but I don't want to make this about me today; I just want to be humble about it and know we can get so much better," said Treadwell, who tied J.R. Ambrose for career touchdown receptions (13). "I left a few plays on the field and I just want to make it up," he added.
In the last two games against Florida and Vanderbilt, the Rebels weren't able to throw the deep ball; however, that changed against the Aggies. New Mexico State's defense had plenty of gaps in it for Kelly to take his chances.
Kelly, who was 24-for-33 for 384 yards, connected with wide receiver Markell Pack who went unscathed into the end zone for a 66-yard score with 5:58 remaining in the second quarter. With a little over one minute before halftime, Kelly added a 4-yard scoring run of his own through the middle.
The Rebels committed three turnovers on the day; however, none turned into points for their opponent. The Aggies finished with 239 yards of total offense.
"We had some things today we wanted to improve on going into the game," Aggies' coach Doug Martin said. "The turnover margin and third downs on both sides of the ball were the things we were looking at. When you play a team that is as talented as (Ole Miss), they'll make you better if you handle it the right way."
"I thought we did some things where we got better. I told the players after the game we have seven games left and they're all Sun Belt games. We can win any of them if we go prepare and play like we are capable of."
Chad Kelly's 384 yards passing gives him four 300-yard games for the Rebels. Photo credit: Joshua McCoy, Ole Miss Athletics
Kelly steps into elite company
Kelly completed another milestone in his first year at the University of Mississippi, throwing for 300-plus yards for the fourth time this season, which has him tied with former Rebel quarterbacks Eli Manning (2002, 2003) and Bo Wallace (2013, 2014) for most in a single season.
Kelly is in sole possession of third place in career 300-yard games behind Wallace (11) and Manning (10).
"There's a lot of smiling going on around here," Kelly said. "We just have to get better, and we did that today. The offensive line did great, receivers ran great routes, and running backs ran hard. It was a good day."
Rebels' defense steps up in big way
Senior nickel back Mike Hilton smiled after he picked off Aggies' quarterback Andrew Allen. It was Hilton's first interception of the season, and he was ecstatic about the opportunity to make a big play on defense.
"He ran a crossing route and the QB rolled out to the opposite side and threw against the body. I knew it was either going to be underthrown or thrown out of bounds," Hilton said. "I undercut it and made a play when I had the chance."
Next Up for the Rebels:
The Rebels travel to Memphis to face the Tigers at 11:00 am next Saturday. The game will be televised on ABC.
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Booker Explodes on 'Complicit' Nielsen Over Trump's Reported 'S***hole' Comments: 'I Had Tears of Rage'
David Rutz - January 16, 2018 1:10 PM
Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) tore into Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday over President Donald Trump's reported vulgar remark about African countries, shouting at her and saying he cried "tears of rage" when told of the president's comments.
Booker expressed alarm and disgust at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over the report that Trump referred to "s–hole" countries in Africa last week and also questioned why the U.S. should allow immigrants from Haiti.
Nielsen earlier testified she did not hear Trump use that term, and Booker said he had been in the Oval Office many times and had never gotten "amnesia" over comments made in that room.
"I hurt!" he yelled. "When Dick Durbin called me, I had tears of rage when I heard about his experience in that meeting, and for you not to feel that hurt and that pain and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues … when tens of millions of Americas are hurting right now because of what they're worried about what happened in the White House, that's unacceptable to me!"
Booker repeated it was "unacceptable" that Nielsen didn't recall Trump's words.
"Why is this so important? Why is this so disturbing for me? Why am I frankly seething with anger?" Booker asked. "We have this incredible nation where we have been taught that it does not matter where you're from, it doesn't matter your color, your race, your religion, it's about the content of your character. It's about your values and your ideals, and yet we have a language that from Dick Durbin to Lindsey Graham, they seem to have a much better recollection of what went on. You're under oath."
Booker quoted Martin Luther King, Jr., Elie Wiesel, and Mohandas Gandhi as he berated Nielsen over what he said was being a silent bystander to Trump's wrongdoing. When he recalled her testimony saying Norweigans were preferred by Trump due to their hardworking nature and she attempted to speak, he snapped, "Let me finish!"
"Happy to," Nielsen said.
Booker went on to cite statistics about hate crimes in the U.S. and the far-right being responsible for the majority of them.
"The commander in chief in an Oval Office meeting referring to people from African countries and Haitians with the most vile and vulgar language. That language festers when ignorance and bigotry is aligned with power. It is a dangerous force in our country. Your silence and your amnesia is complicity," he said.
Booker spoke without stopping for more than 10 minutes before Nielsen responded.
"I do clearly—and I want to be clear on this—abhor violence in all of its forms," she said. "I couldn't agree with you more that the Department of Homeland Security has a duty to stop and prevent violence in all of its forms."
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