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[[14.05 Nightmare Logic]] finds [[Sam]] and Dean heading to Claremore, Oklahoma after [[Maggie]] misses a check-in while on a hunt, and her body-cam shows she was attacked by a [[ghoul]]. She was following a lead from an online post where some kids were studying and were attacked by a "walker". They enter the crypt where Maggie was attacked but find no blood, meaning she is probably still alive. A gardener finds them in the crypt, and Sam tells him they're from the Historic Preservation Society and ask to speak to the owner. The gardener takes them to the main house where they talk to [[Neil]] who is excited over the prospect of the property being declared a historical site - but wonders how many people it takes, as their colleagues have already arrived - [[Mary]] and [[Bobby (Apocalypse World)]]. Mary takes Sam aside to talk, while Dean and Bobby question Neil, who tells them he's not the owner and escorts them to Mr. Rawlings - who is unconscious and bedridden, and also looks like the ghoul who appeared in Maggie's video. [[Sasha Rawlings]], the daughter, enters the room and the boys question her about her father, but she really doesn't know much because she just came down to take care of his affairs. They start to ask more questions but she asks them to leave. They meet Bobby and Mary by the [[Impala]] where Bobby briefs them on his investigation into the elder Rawling - he's not a ghoul, and the standard tests ruled out shapeshifter and demon. Bobby then argues with Sam over having sent Maggie on this case by herself before she's ready and saying he's not a real leader. Mary stands up for Sam and suggests they split up to look for Maggie. Dean and Bobby split off, and Bobby asks Dean if he thinks he was too hard on Sam, and Dean tells him Sam is doing the best he can and working his tail off. They find an old shed and Dean goes in to investigate and finds a body. He turns to look for Bobby, who has disappeared, and is attacked by the "ghoul" who turns into a cloud of dust when Dean stabs it. Bobby reappears and asks him what happened.
Dean returns to the house to find Mary and Sam talking to Sasha, who was attacked by what appeared to be a vampire while investigating noises coming from the attic. Dean tells them he found a dead guy in the shed, and Sam shows him a burned ID card - he and Mary had found a pile of ID cards in a pile in the woods, partially burned. The ID picture matches the guy Dean found in the shed - something is killing hunters. Mary, alarmed, asks where Bobby is and Dean tells her he went to get something from the truck. She rushes outside to find him. Sam wonders if the dad is like [[Fred Jones]] and is creating these apparitions, but Sasha says her dad has never shown any psychic abilities. Sam goes to investigate the attic while Dean stays with Neil and Sasha. Dean and Sasha talk about her troubles with her dad - she blames him for her mother's suicide. Dean counsels her to "let it go", that he tries to do the same every day. They walk to the room where Mr. Rawling lay where Neil is attending to him. Dean notices bags of blood attached to him and asks Neil if Mr. Rawlings is getting a transfusion. Neil stammers and says his iron is low. Dean, suspicious, asks Sasha to make him a sandwich as a ruse to leave the room, and Dean draws a gun on Neil, realizing he's a [[djinn]]. Dean asks him why he's killing hunters and Neil says it's because he asked him to - he thinks Dean is [[Michael (Apocalypse World)]] and was testing him. Michael made him a deal - kill hunters in exchange for upgraded powers. When Neil finds out Dean is not Michael, he attacks Dean and attempts to read his mind, but sees something that distracts him enough for Dean to escape and hit him with a metal bookend. Before Dean knocks him out, Neil reveals Michael has laid many traps for him and his family. Dean empties a clip into him. Later, Dean removes the IVs from Mr. Rawlings and tells Sasha he'll recover as soon as the djinn's poison leaves his system.
Back at the Bunker, Maggie is welcomed back and Dean tells Sam he was the one that did this, that he saved her and brought her home. Later, Sam and Dean make calls to all the hunters they know to warn them about Michael's traps and super-charged monsters. Sam reiterates to Dean that none of this is his fault, that Michael used him and they will find him and kill him.
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49 "Why were you looking for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" 50 But they did not understand what he meant by that.
51 Then he went back to Nazareth with them, and he obeyed them. But his mother kept all these things like a secret treasure in her heart. 52 Jesus became wiser and stronger. He also became more and more pleasing to God and to people.
But Jesus wasn't afraid at all. He was right there in the presence and company of His Father. As a mom I think about how Mary must have felt. Holy Moly I just lost the Messiah for 4 days!!!!! Seriously….you know she was in panic mode right? When she finally finds Jesus I can imagine her falling to her knees in front of him, grabbing him by both shoulders looking at him at eye level….."Son, why have you done this? We were so afraid!" That's what any good mom would do right? I have to be honest…..I am so glad I am not Jesus's mom! Hahahaha…..but seriously.
The next thing we talked about was Jesus's answer to his mother. He said in verse 49, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" Other translations say "Didn't you know I would be about my Father's business?" What does that answer mean? The passage tells us that Mary and Joseph did not understand what He meant. Now I am no Bible scholar, but my best answer at this question is that the temple should have been the first place they looked for him because the temple was the house of God, his Father, and he was doing what God wanted him to do. My question to the boys was, If you were lost, where would the most logical place be for anyone to find you, and what would you be doing? Would it be a place that God would like you to be and something that he would like you to be doing? Their answers were funny and sweet and I will just say, for now………..I hope they don't get lost anytime soon!
As I reflected on my own questions I began to wonder what my answers would be. When I am lost, separated from my community…..where do I go first? Is it to my Father's house or is it to some other comfort of the world? Now I don't think for a minute that the 12-year-old Jesus was afraid or was even lost for that matter. I believe that He knew His parents would be looking for Him and He knew the best place to go was the temple and the best thing for Him to be doing was to be around His Father's people doing His Father's work. So many times in our own lives we go through times where we feel lost or separated from those who are dear to us. I recently went through these feelings after we moved and I found myself without my wonderful church community. In the midst of this story I have heard a hundred times I found myself hearing a new lesson come out of this passage. When we feel lost, confused, unsure of where to go, the first place we should run is for the arms of Jesus and His people the church. And when we lose our sense of purpose, when we feel like we don't know what to do next….. we should set out about our Father's work. Serve. When we serve we not only help others but we find ourselves in a community of other believers, family even. It is there inside that community that we grow in wisdom, and stature, and favor with God.
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Washington Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced today that the team has signed center Ian Mahinmi, forward Andrew Nicholson and forward/center Jason Smith. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
"Ian will give us defense, rebounding and rim protection at the backup center position," said Grunfeld. "He is a physical, experienced player who proved himself last season as a starter and will provide great depth for our frontcourt."
Mahinmi (6-11, 262) is coming off a career year with Indiana. During his 2015-16 campaign, he averaged career-highs of 9.3 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.1 blocks while shooting .589 from the floor in 71 games (all starts) helping the Pacers return to the playoffs. His .589 field goal percentage set a Pacers NBA franchise record. Mahinmi has appeared in 438 games (92 starts) with has averages of 5.1 points and 4.3 rebounds while shooting .536 from the field over eight seasons with San Antonio, Dallas and Indiana. He has also appeared in 56 career playoff games, including six games during the Mavericks' 2011 title run. Originally selected by San Antonio with the 28th overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft as an international prospect, Mahinmi played multiple seasons with STB LeHavre in France prior to coming to the NBA. He was also a member of the French National Team from 2006-11.
Forward Andrew Nicholson
"Andrew is a very intriguing young talent who has shown the ability to score from both inside and outside as he has developed throughout his career," said Grunfeld. "His skill set will help bolster our frontcourt depth and we feel he has good potential to continue to improve."
Nicholson (6-9, 250) holds career averages of 6.5 points and 3.2 rebounds while shooting .473 from the field and .336 from three-point range in 247 career games (36 starts) over four seasons with Orlando. In 56 games last season, the St. Bonaventure alum averaged 6.9 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting .471 from the field and a career-high .360 (41-114) from three-point range. The Mississaugua, Ontario, native was originally selected by Orlando with the 19th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. Nicholson has also played with the Canadian National Team.
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"Jason's ability to play both forward and center increases our depth and his outside touch will allow us to use different looks off the bench," said Grunfeld. "He also provides us with toughness and more size in the frontcourt."
Smith (7-0, 245) holds career averages of 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting .466 from the field in 489 career games (98 starts) over nine seasons with Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and Orlando. Last season with the Magic, he averaged 7.2 points and 2.9 rebounds in 76 games. Over the last five seasons, Smith has averaged 8.6 points and during the 2011-12 campaign, he tallied a career-high 9.9 points per game with New Orleans. With the Pelicans in 2013-14, he averaged 9.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 0.9 blocks in 31 games (27 starts.) The former Colorado State Ram was originally selected by Miami with the 20th overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
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Android 8.1 Problems: 5 Things You Need to Know
Google's latest Android 8.1 update might fix your issues, but it could also cause issues if you own a Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, or Pixel C.
As we push toward the end of the year we continue to hear and see complaints from Nexus and Pixel users running the latest version of Android Oreo. Some of these issues have carried over from previous versions, some of the problems are brand new.
Google's latest Android 8.1 build, the December security update, have ironed out performance for some Nexus and Pixel users, but many others are running into bugs and other issues.
With that in mind we want to take a look at the most important things to know about the Android 8.1 problems plaguing the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Pixel C tablet.
This walkthrough takes you through the current list of Android 8.1 problems, some resources that might come in handy should you run into issues with Android 8.1, and a quick look at what's next from Google.
Prepare for Your Android 8.1 Update
It's tempting to install a new Android update the second it appears for your device. However, some of you (read: non-power users) would be wise to do some prep work before you start the download process. A little prep work will go a long way toward preventing Android 8.1 issues.
You can't predict how the latest Android 8.1 build will perform on your device. Some of you might see a performance boost, others might run into a host of bugs. This is precisely why you should prepare for this version of Android 8.1 and the new builds Google will release in 2018.
We recently put together a guide that will take you through the pre-installation process we use before we install Android software on our Nexus and Pixel devices. We got through the latest Android 8.1 upgrade without any major issues.
If you don't have a ton of time to spend prepping your device, just be sure all of your files are backed up before proceeding with the current Android 8.1 update build.
Pixel & Nexus Android 8.1 Problems
Some Nexus and Pixel owners are running into problems installing the software. If you're experiencing issues with the installation process, take a look at our guide. It will walk you through it all.
I swear Google is behind making my nexus 6p unbelievably slow and drains a full battery in two hours, just to confess me to buy their upcoming new phone.
WHICH I WILL PROB BUY. Nice work Google.
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Installation issues aren't the only problems popping up for Nexus and Pixel users. We're also hearing about issues with sound, problems with first and third-party apps, reboots, lag, lockups, severe battery drain, issues with the Camera, fingerprint sensor problems, and various Enterprise issues.
We expect to see additional issues popup in the near future as the current Android 8.1 roll out expands.
Where to Find Feedback
Current and prospective Android 8.1 users should keep an eye on feedback as we push into the fall.
We're starting to see feedback emerge on social media sites like Twitter and we've seen plenty of Nexus and Pixel users share their thoughts on Android 8.1's performance on YouTube.
You'll also find useful feedback emerge on Google's Pixel Help Forums, Google's Nexus Help forums, XDA-Developers, and Android forums like Android Central Forums.
Short-term feedback is useful, but make sure keep an eye out for long-term feedback from Android 8.1 users.
We've put together our impressions of the Nexus 5X Android 8.1 update and they're worth a look if you're feeling leery about the move from Android 8.0 to Android 8.1 or from one Android 8.1 build to another.
How to Fix Nexus Android 8.1 Problems
If you run into Android 8.1 problems on your Nexus or Pixel device your first instinct might be to get in contact with Google. That's certainly an option, but you should try and fix the problem on your own before getting in contact with customer service.
We've put together a list of fixes for the most common Android Oreo issues. Our list includes fixes for Wi-Fi issues, Bluetooth bugs, and abnormal battery drain and it's worth a look if you don't have any fixes of your own.
If our list doesn't have the fix you're looking for, head on over to Google's official Nexus Help Forums or Google's Pixel Help forums. There are a ton of knowledgable users over there and you might be able to track a fix down within minutes.
Google's June update arrived with improved Bluetooth performance, Wi-Fi performance, and a fix for a proximity sensor bug. The company's July's update delivered improvements to the consistency of Wi-Fi connections with certain routers. If you're dealing with those issues, and you're on an older Android 8.1 build, you'll want to upgrade.
If you haven't done so already, make sure you get familiar with Android's downgrade process. Downgrading to an older version of Android could help improve your device's performance.
At this point, if you own a Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, or Pixel C tablet you can't rely on Google to fix your issues. The company hasn't confirmed Android 8.1.1 or Android 8.2. And with Android 9.0 out for Pixel devices, we aren't expecting a surprise release.
Google's also stopped regular support for the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X. The devices likely won't get any security updates moving forward which means you'll need to be extremely proactive if and when you run into issues with your software.
If you're running into Android 8.1 issues on a Pixel or Pixel 2, Google's released its Android 9.0 Pie update bringing new features, enhancements, tweaks and fixes to these devices.
The Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and Pixel C won't get upgraded to Android Pie.
7 Things to Know About the December Nexus 5X Update
Nexus 5X December Update Impressions & Performance
Before we get into an early look at the December Android 8.1 build's performance on the Nexus 5X, a few notes about the installation process.
If you're currently running the latest Android 8.1 build, and we assume most of you are, it shouldn't take long to transition from the version you're currently running to the new build. It took us just a few minutes to get the software up and running on our Nexus 5X.
We've been using the Nexus 5X's December Android 8.1 Oreo build for short time and the update is performing well in key areas including battery life, connectivity, and UI speed.
We haven't noticed any major changes on our Nexus 5X since moving from the November build. That's a good thing. We didn't run into any major problems with last month's update.
Battery life continues to hold up nicely and we have yet to run into any horrible drain during our time on Android 8.1. If you do start to encounter battery life issues, take a look at our guide to fixing bad Android Oreo battery life.
We've been able to connect the Nexus 5X to multiple routers including eero mesh Wi-Fi. So far, the speeds are fast and reliable.
We've also successfully connected the Nexus 5X to several Bluetooth devices including headphones and speakers.
The Nexus 5X in our possession feels pretty fast with the December build on board. It's still early, but animations and transitions are smooth and we haven't experienced any lag or general sluggishness.
The December update feels stable on our version of the Nexus 5X. That said, if you're feeling leery, you should think about waiting for long-term feedback emerges.
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The problem I found with the camera is a multiple issue. It tries to render too fast or something during video recording and ends up lagging or dropping frames due to an error saying saying the file is in use. Coding error. It's also throwing parse int java syntax errors. I removed the camera completely as I am rooted and flashed a zip of an s7 edge stock camera, that resolved most of the issues. I have a custom build of 8.1 running on my s6 edge plus. Besides the camera but this is much better then nougat. Faster. My only gripe is that Samsung won't bring stock Oreo to s6. Only the 2 latest phones. The edge + variant of the s6 has almost identical specs to the s7. It can run Oreo just fine, Samsung just wants more money every 2 years. So I've started doing things myself. Surprisingly easy to compile if you know Linux and terminal. My point being nothing is wrong in Oreo that can't be fixed by a tech savvy end user. It's only the people who aren't nerds who are in trouble.
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I own 3 Nexus 5X phones. the July update killed the fingerprint scanner on one, and the August update Bricked my wife's phone, sending it into Bootloop in the middle of the security update.
My phone which is working fine at the moment just received the September update, even though I have automatic updates turned off. It will install on my next reboot of the phone.
Is there a way to kill the update before I reboot?
I honestly think Google is building a kill switch into the updates, to cause problems with the older phones and force people to upgrade.
Neither LG or Google will do anything about my wife's phone, even though the bootloop was caused in the middle of the monthly Update.
I will not buy a Pixel. I will be switching to Moto on my next upgrade.


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Out And About: Congressional Candidate's 7th District Walk Ends In Maywood
Monday, January 8, 2018 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Anthony Clark, right, with Proviso Township High Schools District 209 school board member Rodney Alexander outside of Proviso East High School in Maywood on Dec. 23. | Paul Goyette
On Dec. 23, Anthony Clark, a community activist and a Democratic candidate running for the 7th Congressional District seat, which is currently held by U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis, attempted to walk the span of the 7th District — which is shaped like a cowboy boot, with the toe facing south.
The district runs from Chicago's South Side all the way to west to Berkeley. It's one of the most racially and economically diverse (and among the most gerrymandered) districts in the country.
Clark with supporter Troy LaRaviere, a Chicago educator and potential mayoral candidate, on Chicago's South Side. | Paul Goyette
Clark started his trek at around 8 a.m., in Chicago's South Side Englewood neighborhood, ending at around 9 p.m., in Maywood, where he met Proviso Township High Schools District 209 school board member Rodney Alexander.
Alexander gave Clark his rousing endorsement while speaking strongly against Davis, who endorsed the ticket that ran opposed to Clark's Proviso Together ticket last April.
"We respect Congressman Davis's lineage and his service to our community, but like everything, change has to come sometimes," Alexander said. "You need to do your homework and get involved … Let's have some debates, let's talk about the issues."
Clark, whose hands and feet were numb by the time he got to Proviso East High School in Maywood, vowed to continue his walk across the district's westernmost portion at a later time. VFP
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The Concerned Proviso Township Resident says:
I did see the Facebook Live Walk that candidate Anthony Clark did, and I must say…I was very impressed with what he is doing, and bringing an attention of the neglect, divestment, and abandonment of the neighborhoods on the 7th District. Danny K. Davis has some major competition for the U.S. Congress. It's time for Davis to step down and retire. We thank you for your service, but…it's time for a breath of fresh air to represent the 7th Congressional District. I really think Clark will be a true vision of what pure leadership is all about. Anthony Clark has my vote!
Rosalio says:
Antony Clark has become a fresh Grassroots voice,plus he is a dedicated teacher ,I have a soft spot for teacher ,I am marry with one, Claudia Medina they have their heart on the right place ,Roney Allexander,we are with you buddy ,Antony Clark is the right choice ,thanks to be there.
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Here is Progressive candidate, Anthony V. Clark interview with TYT Politics when he was at "The Peoples' Summit" at the McCormick Place.
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Another interview from Anthony V. Clark at "The Peoples' Summit".
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One more interview that Anthony V. Clark did with Real Progressive YouTube channel.
Please watch these video clips, comment, and share this with your neighbors, friends, and everybody. Anthony V. Clark will definitely beat the Democratic political machine!
Joy Bunton says:
Davis is a former teacher too and talked Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis into running against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and then supported Jesus Chuy Garcia when Lewis dropped out. He supports labor unions, as most of his campaign contributions are from labor unions, which includes teachers. Davis is for $15/hr minimum wage, #MedicareForAll, getting money out of politics, voted against giving Bush authorization to go into Iraq, sponsored the Second Chance Act and The Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act, holds workshops to help people expunge their records, etc. I'm sticking with Davis until he's ready to step down. Davis has proven the test of time. I'm not ready to take a chance on a rookie like Clark, he could turn out like Barack Obama and compromise in areas I don't want him to. When Obama ran against Bobby Rush, he ran as a progressive. When he became President, it was a whole different story. I'd support Clark if he ran against a corporate establishment Democrat that's for charter schools and supports Rahm Emanuel and JB Pritzker. Since that's not the case, I'm sticking with Davis.
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Dallas Stars Morning Skate: Kari Lehtonen, Eddie Lack To Face Off in Goal Tonight
The Stars continue their four-game trip against the Hurricanes with no changes to the lineup that beat the Bruins.
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The Dallas Stars will try to guarantee a 0.500 road trip tonight when they take on the Carolina Hurricanes at 6 p.m. CST, and given that they are coming off of a victory on the back-end of a back-to-back, it's not surprising there appear to be minimal changes to the lineup.
Winger Ales Hemsky skated with the team for the second time in as many days, but stayed out late and with the extra players, so it appears he will be a scratch for the second consecutive game. After starting the season quickly, Hemsky has been battling some problems with his surgically repaired hip, though the team hasn't expounded upon any details.
Lindy Ruff hasn't seemed overly concerned with Hemsky's status though, mentioning it's something John Klingberg went through during his recovery last season. Klingberg didn't make his way to the NHL level until mid-November after spending 4-5 weeks getting up to game speed in the AHL.
As far as why Hesmky's struggling and double-hip-surgery man Jamie Benn isn't, that's because Jamie Benn is made of magic so far this season. It's as good an explanation as any.
Patrik Nemeth and Jamie Oleksiak also skated late as per usual. That means both the defensive and forward players should stay the same (though if the forward lines stay intact is anyone's guess at this point) coming off the 5-3 victory over the Boston Bruins.
Another thing that will be staying the same is the goalie, with Kari Lehtonen making his second consecutive start after spending several games on the bench. Lehtonen probably wants the first goal against the Bruins back, but he settled in nicely as Boston doubled-up the Stars in shots, making several nice stops to let his teammates take advantage of a Tyler Seguin hat trick.
For those of us playing the home game:
Sixth start in 14 games for Lehtonen vs. eight for Niemi, if you are keeping count. https://t.co/LHhoa1SeRy
— Mark Stepneski (@StarsInsideEdge) November 6, 2015
It's almost like they've got a rough schedule they're following for this goalie tandem thing.
On the Hurricanes side of things, Eddie Lack looks like the starter in net tonight for Carolina. The extra-tall Swede has struggled, at least statistically, this season since being acquired by the Hurricanes this summer with a 1-2 record, 0.852 save percentage and 3.60 goals against average. His last start came Oct. 29, when he made 17 saves on 19 shots for an overtime win over the New York Islanders.
The Hurricanes are playing the first night of a back-to-back set, though, with the Ottawa Senators coming to Raleigh on Saturday, so this seems like the logical time to get Lack more work while Cam Ward prepares for the conference game.
Here are some moving pictures and sound from Seguin and Ruff from this morning, courtesy of the Stars awesome video staff:
In the Eye of the Hurricanes, Stars Lose In Overtime All hail Wyatt Johnston though.
Logan Stankoven in an exclusive interview: "My time in Dallas can't come soon enough" Logan Stankoven is one of the most exciting hockey prospects in the world. So when the opportunity to talk to him came up, I took a page from his play book and immediately was all over this chance. Here's how it turned out.
Stargazing, Episode 198: The All-Star Breaks, 2023 Edition Taylor joins Wes and Mark to solve the world's problems, or at least make the All-Star Game more watchable.


Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it`s going to drive the other person away.
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.


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Q: How does Hibernate control the transaction with multiple session.update()s if you don't commit the transaction explicitly? I have inherited a system that uses Spring MVC and Hibernate that stores into a DB2 database. Recently it started having what looks like a deadlock problem reported by DB2 so I've been working on debugging it. I'm not a Spring or Hibernate expert but I know some of both.
The code is structured like this:
controller -> service -> one or more DAO classes that performs the updates

In the situation where the problem occurs the controller calls a service method annotated with @Transactional and @Override. The service goes to a DAO class annotated with @Repository and calls multiple methods annotated with @Transactional and @Override. That is the structure of code.
One controller calls one service method. The service method calls multiple DAO methods. Most of the DAO methods are marked @Transactional and @Override.  A few have REQUIRES_NEW in the @Transactional.  Also in each DAO method the Session is gotten by SessionFactory.getCurrentSession().
First question: with this approach where does the transaction start and where is the ultimate commit? And the rollback? None of this is explicitly coded.
The deadlock comes when one of the methods updates a record and then a subsequent method deletes that same record. If you are wondering why anyone wants to do this the update adds the user id of the person wanting to delete the information in the record so that it can be saved by a stored process to another table. Then the second method call deletes the record.
The original coder tried adding REQUIRES_NEW to the @Transactional thinking a new transaction would ensure the update would happen. But the deadlock still happens at irregular intervals.
I tried changing the update to a native SQL call but Hibernate won't let me start another transaction since one is already open.
Anyone have any guidance here?

A: The transaction starts when a method (which class or the method itself firstly annotated with @Transactional in the call chain) called from outside (it must call from outside of the class, because the annotation "creates" a proxy). Any other annotated class/methods in the chain with default propagation level will join to that transaction. When call a method with transactional marked as REQUIRES_NEW, the parent transaction will be suspended (if exists) and the new transaction starts. Note that if you call annotated method from other method in the same class, then it wont go throught the proxy, so it same as you delete the annotation. The commit happened right after the method who start the transaction return. Same as rollback, it will after exception is thrown. Deadlock can come from different places, it is hard to find out, even if you have code. It can for example come from update and stored procedure try to lock some rows and cyclic waiting happend etc...
I have a naive image, what happen in the background.
There are two class ui and service. The service is annotated as @Transactional.
Spring create the proxy, and all calls come from outside go through it. Before the real method will be called, it start the transaction, after that it will commit.

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Rita and Sue are two working class girls from a rundown council estate, about to finish their final year at school, they are generally disillusioned with life and their circumstances. In their spare time, they earn money babysitting for Bob and Michelle, a relatively affluent couple living in a large detached house in a more desirable part of town. Without Michelle's knowledge, Bob embarks on an affair with both Rita and Sue, who take it in turns to have sex with him in his car in the countryside. Michelle eventually finds out and leaves Bob but not before confronting Rita and Sue outside their homes and in front of their families and neighbours. When Bob later develops a preference for Rita, the two girls fall out. Rita then decides to move in with Bob, whilst Sue begins seeing somebody else. Rita and Sue then reconcile and Sue moves in with Rita and Bob and the three embark on a ménage à trois.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! was written by Andrea Dunbar who wrote her first play The Arbor in 1977 at the age of 15, which was premiered in 1980 at London's Royal Court Theatre, directed by Max Stafford-Clark. It won the Young Writers' Festival, and was later extended and performed in New York. Dunbar was quickly commissioned to write a follow-up work, creating Rita, Sue and Bob Too, first performed in 1982. Rita, Sue and Bob Too was adapted for the cinema and was filmed in 1986 by Alan Clarke. The film created considerable controversy on the Buttershaw estate, where Dunbar lived, because of its negative portrayal of the area. A single mother with three children by different men, she became an increasingly heavy drinker. In 1990 she died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 29.
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Date: Normally, Monthly on the third (3rd) Wednesday at 7:00pm in the Camp Mabry Museum building.
Camp Mabry located at 35th Street and MOPAC Blvd. Take the 35th Street exit and head West. Pass through the traffic light and proceed approximately 600 yards. There will be a large gate on your right.
Pull in the gate, travel about 300 yards and stop at the guard station. Show them a picture ID and tell them you are here for the Lone Star MVPA meeting in the museum. Ask the guard for directions to the museum. YOUR VEHICLE IS SUBJECT TO SEARCH. No Firearms!


Previous Ever seen Bleach in real life? Bleach live-action is here!
There's no denying that visual novels are a fairly niche interest, yet platforms such as Steam have them listed for as low as £1.25 (¥128 or $1.76). Last year's breakout hit Doki Doki Literature Club is free! With this in mind, we decided to explore whether visual novels can actually become profitable for their creators.
Despite their often rudimentary designs, a lot of work goes into creating a visual novel. First, the story has to be written, often with several branching narratives. Then there's art: at the very least, character designs and a few backgrounds are required. Next, you'll need music. You may also want to pay for a custom game engine or marketing before release. Once the game is complete, you might have to pay to have it listed on a publisher's platform.
Nobody can do this on their own. Even assuming you hire low-cost freelancers for content creation, you're still looking at several thousand dollars of expenses before your game is even available.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc managed to sell over 100,000 copies by offering something unique and compelling. On the other hand, it cost quite a lot of time and money to make. In contrast, there are companies like DigitalEZ that prioritize creating huge numbers of low-cost visual novels. These might not sell as well, but it drastically increases the odds of releasing a game that makes it big.
Of course, there are problems with this method. To reduce costs, some corners have to be cut. Whether it's poor translation, boring storylines, or tropey characters, there's usually something that prevents the user's experience from being memorable for the right reasons.
Visual novels that succeed financially have the potential to do very well in the long-term. Look at Clannad and Steins;Gate, two critically acclaimed anime based upon visual novels. There's even the potential for sequels and prequels later on, assuming reader interest lasts over time.
You don't even need to charge readers initially. Doki Doki Literature Club was free to play in order to maximize the number of players. Knowing it would create a buzz, the creator, Dan Salvato, included optional paid DLC. This allowed players who were particularly impressed to pay him a small fee.
If you're an indie developer, don't expect to get rich from your visual novel, at least not initially. Interest in visual novels is growing, but we're still a long way from seeing them on supermarket shelves. That said, with experience, business sense, a decent-sized team, the right audience, and functionality that puts its own spin on the genre, one visual novel may be all you need to make your first million. Good luck!


Chicagoans refer to the 110 ton work of art as simply The Bean. Thousands of mesmerized visitors every day touch it, kiss it and otherwise soil the highly polished exterior.
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The sculpture is also known to local residents as the Chicago Bean.
The Cloud Gate (aka the Bean) is one of the remarkable structures in the city of Chicago (and a popular one too).
Cloud Gate weighs in at more than 110 tons and is 66 feet long and 33 feet high.
This sculpture, which is an elliptical steel structure with a mirrored surface, was designed by the British sculptor Anish Kapoor.
Cloud Gate was the first public sculpture of Indian-born and London-based artist Anish.Artist Anish Kapoor was born in India in 1954 and has worked in London since the 1970s.Cloud gate sculpture aka the bean millennium park chicago illinois photo by msavoia cloud gate chicago bean sculpture millennium park sunrise high definition hd professional landscape photography nothing left to chance chicago s millennium park theprotocity cloud gate in millennium park photo courtesy city of chicago group of people in a park.
I have heard the bean mentioned whenever people talked about Chicago.
The Cloud Gate is in Downtown, Chicago Millennium Park. -Kapoor polished the Cloud Gate for hours just to make it perfect. -People can walk under the Cloud Gate. -Construction started in 2003. -Open to the public in July 2004. -Completed on May 15, 2006. -Called Cloud Gate because most of it.
The final product, a gleaming steel mirror that bends the Chicago sky and skyline around its surface, had a long path to fruition, from selection to development.
Cloud Gate is the name of a large public sculpture in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago in the state of Illinois.
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Bitter Tongues is an album by Ann Beretta, released in 1997 via Fueled by Ramen.

Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that "with some judicious pruning ... Bitter Tongues would be a pop-punk treasure." Reviewing a reissue, Ox-Fanzine noted: "Not that they sound particularly polished today, but back then they were a bit rougher and gruff, but they also had the melancholy, hymn-like melodies on board for which they are valued."

Track listing
Forever Family
Fuel
FM
Dirty Faces
Mr. Bowling
Wasteland
Broadway
Bottlecaps
St. Marks
MCA
Shovel
Costello
Hate Mail
Tommy Gunn
Spite
Mary
Baker Street
Efforts Wasted
Crash (Primitives cover)

References

1997 albums
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World Tourism Day is celebrated each year on 27 September and South Africa really has so much to celebrate. With its thriving tourism sector, world-renowned attractions, favourable exchange rate and value for money, a wide variety of visitors are attracted to our shores annually.
So, what makes us so special, and who is coming to the Mother City?
In a country as diverse as South Africa, the Western Cape has been ranked first out of all nine provinces in terms of growth and tourism statistics, according to Wesgro's 2016 Western Cape destination performance report.
Cape Town has cemented its status as a holiday destination for both domestic and international travellers. Cape Town International Airport saw around 891 945 international arrivals and more than 4 million domestic arrivals in 2016. The tourism sector experienced visitor-number growth in a selection of areas, including local attractions, while the V&A Waterfront saw growth of 4.6%.
The Two Oceans Aquarium is one of the V&A Waterfront's most popular drawcards with 43% of its 2016/17 visitors coming from foreign shores.
The Western Cape and the rest of South Africa respectively accounted for 32% and 25% of the visitor demographic to the Aquarium.
Aquariums often serve as an introduction to marine life and conservation. Parents bring their little ones, schools send classes on field trips and tourists have memorable experiences to take home with them.
"Researchers all over the world have widely recognised the overall impact of out-of-the-classroom learning, particularly as a result of experiences in museums and similar settings," explains Dr Adriana Briseño-Garzón of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, writing in the Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research.
Marine exhibits provide spaces for learning about aquatic life, humanity and how species coexist within the overall ecosystem. In the article, Briseño-Garzón examines aquariums as unique venues for learning and elaborates that aquariums provide visitors with experiences that include live animals, immersive habitats and staff-facilitated sessions and presentations that cannot easily be obtained elsewhere in society.
Want to know more about what you can expect on your visit to the Two Oceans Aquarium?
The Aquarium also offers a variety of packages for tourism professionals and their clients. Choose from self-guided, behind-the-scenes or front-of-house tours. These options allow you to explore the Aquarium at your own leisure, to have a look at its inner workings or to just have an in-depth tour of the different exhibits.
Tick something special off your bucket list and book an adventure with us! If you're a qualified diver you can hone your skills and get to swim among some incredible marine creatures. Not qualified? We can even help you with that.
Not interested in going "under the sea"? Then spend some quality time with our resident rockhopper penguins and find out how they came to call the Two Oceans Aquarium home.
It's easy to find us. Hop on or hop off the City Sightseeing red bus and stop right at the Two Oceans Aquarium. Visitors with a red-bus day pass also qualify for a Two Oceans Aquarium ticket discount. City Sightseeing's ticket office is located just outside the Aquarium at stop 1 on the tour route.
Once you've visited the Two Oceans Aquarium, don't forget to share your experiences with us. We love seeing your pictures! You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or use the #2oceansaquarium hashtag.


The HSE investigation focused on the pressure systems aspects of the failure and associated management issues. The incident was not considered to be a defined COMAH major accident. The investigation did however consider the wider (COMAH related) view of steam as an essential utility service to the Complex, and system vulnerabilities and knock-on major accident related consequences, as a safety report issue. These issues were also addressed by the BP report into the incident.
The HSE and BP investigation teams worked closely together, especially at the early stages, and also with the external consultant appointed by BP to assist in identifying the technical causes. The BP and HSE investigation teams compared their analysis of the causes and findings in order to check alignment and they were generally close.
The investigation immediately following the incident concentrated initially on the failed tee-piece and around the area close to the failure. Sections of damaged pipework were removed on 22nd June and sent to the Health and Safety Laboratories in Sheffield for detailed metallurgical analysis. The tests indicated that the pipework was in satisfactory condition and the cause of failure was extreme internal overpressure significantly in excess of the design pressure of the pipework.
The investigation determined that the pipework installation was around 25 to 30 years old and generally in very good condition.
Initial inspection of the section of damaged pipeline, which showed that the pipe had almost unwrapped, suggested that considerable energy was involved in the failure but the precise cause of failure was not immediately apparent.
As far as could be determined there were no process or steam generation upsets just prior to the incident and no direct activity (e.g. opening or closing valves near the point of failure) at the time of the incident.
Observation of the pipework revealed some pipe movement and damage mainly to cladding and supports and bulge distortion to the MP steam main in the West Gemec culvert. Valves in the supply system on the South Side were disassembled and found not to be providing full isolation but allowing some leakage.
The two steam traps in the section of pipework, which ran through the culvert and which discharged directly to atmospheric drain, were tested and found to be functional but that they had been isolated. Only one of these traps was identified as having been recently isolated for the purposes of the culvert inspections following the flooding. Calculations subsequently showed that the capacity of this trap, which was situated at the lowest point of the line and closest to the point of failure, should have been sufficient to cope with condensate being produced in the line, had it not been isolated.
Due to the evidence of condensate being vented (30th May) and water hammer being identified in pipework close to the rupture point the most likely cause of failure was determined at an early stage to be water hammer. However there was an absence of steam flow in the dead leg which is a critical component of conventional water hammer (i.e. steam velocity was not present).
It is not unknown, but less well appreciated however that water hammer can also be caused by the rapid collapse, or imploding, of a steam bubble and the mechanism and theory of this are referred to as "condensation induced water hammer".
This mechanism occurs when steam comes into contact with relatively cold condensate or when condensate meets a trapped steam bubble. Due to temperature differences heat transfer between the two is rapid, causing a collapse of the steam (significant reduction in volume occurs as steam vapour changes to a liquid condensate). This is followed by an inrush of more condensate at high velocity to fill the void. The nature of this mechanism is such that it inherently involves much larger volumes of water because lines need to be flooded to isolate a steam bubble. Thus when water hammer occurs a large volume, and hence mass of water travelling at high speed is rapidly decelerated. The high energy dissipated as a result of the rapid deceleration results in a pressure wave travelling at high speed back through the water column.
Due to the isolation of the last remaining functional steam trap in the West Gemec culvert for inspection purposes (the other one was already isolated) this effectively removed the ability to release condensate from this section of the steam supply system. Therefore as the steam cooled and condensed the condensate built up whilst more steam was still available from the North Side supply main to replace the steam that had condensed. As a result of the U configuration of the pipework beneath the road when the condensate built up to the point where it flooded the horizontal section the steam present on the South Side was trapped between the condensate in the culvert and the isolation valves on the South Side. This effectively created a trapped steam bubble.
Since the North Side was connected to the steam supply MP steam fed into the dead leg to the culvert continued to cool and condense and thus the condensate level in the culvert U bend arrangement continued to rise up the vertical legs whilst still continuing to cool. Due to the fact that the isolation valves on the South Side were leaking, some steam was passed back through the valves and into the leg of the steam main south of the culvert maintaining the pressure and temperature of the steam bubble.
The geometry of the system was such that eventually the condensate level rose to a point where it ran underneath the steam bubble, creating a much larger surface area in contact with the steam. By this time the condensate had cooled significantly leading to rapid heat transfer and collapse of the steam bubble. The collapsing steam bubble created a differential pressure across the accumulated condensate causing it to accelerate into the void. The mass of condensate involved was in the region of 4 tonnes and this was stopped abruptly when it reached the isolation valves. The resulting pressure wave is believed to have caused the failure of the tee-piece.
The investigation team concluded that the most likely reason for the pipe line failure was internal overpressure caused by "condensation induced water hammer".


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Kansas City Southern: Requiem for White Knights and Telephone Poles
Removal of telephone poles along railroad rights-of-way in the West has been, for me at least, an unalloyed joy. No more is the perfect shot ruined by black wires between photographer and train. No more is pristine Western landscape fouled by poles that look like dead trees.
However, the removal of poles serves a useful purpose only in areas with little or no foliage. In heavily forested areas, the removal of telephone poles has allowed railroads to decrease the width of rights-of-way that must be kept clear. Consequently, lines through heavily forested mountains have seen the number of available shots decrease dramatically in the past twenty years, as trees have encroached on areas once kept clear for telephone lines.
A case in point is the Kansas City Southern through southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. Thirty years ago, the line across Rich Mountain provided any number of good photo locations. In those days, one could chase a loaded coal train south out of Heavener, Oklahoma, and (were one so inclined) take images of the train in ten or more locations as it struggled into the grade at 15 miles per hour. Today, almost every one of those photo locations is overgrown with trees. As the telephone poles came out, the trees came in.
The image immediately above demonstrates the point. In 1982, the right-of-way beside the tracks was kept clear below the telephone lines, giving easy access to the coal train and the mountain ridge beyond. Once the poles came down, the KCS stopped clearing the right-of-way. Today (September 2016), both tracks and mountain are hidden behind new growth timber.
This loss of viewing space on the KCS was accompanied by the demise of the "White Knight" paint scheme – railroad engines painted solid white except for the red "KCS" on their flanks. Despite the arduous climb across Rich Mountain, the railroad kept the White Knights remarkably clean, in part because of the lack of tunnels on the mountain grade.
White Knights Pulling Trailers Up Rich Mountain -- Another Location Now Overgrown with Trees
This is my tribute to the loss of those two old friends: White Knights and Telephone Poles.
The Mother of All Meets
In 1972, the KCS was as sick as an old man who has smoked his entire life. Derailments were common and unremarked, occurring often when the trains reached what crews referred to as "rocking speed" – about 18 mph – when the locomotive and cars would begin swaying violently. U.S. 59, paralleling the railroad from Heavener, Oklahoma, to Mena, Arkansas, was littered with air hoses, couplers, wheels, axles and boxcar carcasses.
Management seemed obsessed with cost-cutting. To reduce crews, the railroad often ran trains in excess of 200 cars – substantially longer than the few available passing sidings. A meet of two such trains, called a "saw-by," was Byzantine and very difficult to describe.
Southbound (compass east) Coal Drag Crossing Oklahoma Border into Arkansas, with Railroad Microwave Tower in Background -- Beginning of the End for Telephone Lines
The power of the first train (headed north, we will assume) would enter the south end of the siding, its 200-plus cars rocking behind; traverse the siding's entire length; emerge back on the main line at the north end of the siding and continue rolling until the caboose was safely past the south siding switch and off the mainline.
Then this northbound train would be split so that as many cars as possible remained on the siding. Its front end power would then run backward (south) on the main line, pushing its remaining cars to the far (southern) end of the siding where it had originally entered, and then continue down the mainline far enough so that the southbound train could move forward (southward) until it had cleared that same southern end of the passing siding where the first train had originally entered.
Next the southbound train would back north onto the siding, pushing the first train's cars through the north end of the siding and onto the mainline. When the southbound train (now backing north!) had itself moved completely through the siding's north end and onto the mainline again, the front end power of the northbound train, along with its remaining cars, would then roll north and enter the siding's south end until its cars were off the mainline.
The southbound train would then move forward (south) on the mainline, pulling not only its own cars but also those cars of the northbound train originally separated and parked on the siding. When all the southbound train's cars, including the extra cars from the northbound train, were clear of the south end of the passing siding, the front end power of the northbound train would then back south onto the mainline and couple onto its remaining cars.
At this point, the cabooses of the two trains would be coupled back-to-back! Then, mercifully, the cabooses would be uncoupled; one train would roll north and the other would roll south. This procedure took one to two hours. Even though I saw it more than once, it still seems impossible.
Northbound Empty Coal Train Climbs East Slope of Rich Mountain Grade at Eagleton, Arkansas
KCS 638 North Approaching Heavener, Oklahoma, on a Cold Day in March, 1986
Loaded Southbound Coal Drag (compass east) East of Page, Oklahoma -- Another Location Lost to Foliage
Next, the railroad began removing passing sidings. The Rich Mountain siding, one of two located in the Ouachita Mountains, disappeared, though the Page siding was spared. Images of the old Page siding, however, show just how decrepit the KCS had become.
Page Siding in July, 1977
Here is Rich Mountain after removal of the passing siding. The KCS has added new ties and ballast in anticipation of increasing coal traffic. Since the removal of the poles and wires shown, the foliage has grown about 30 feet, and this image is no longer available.
The railroad has also purchased new engines and painted them white. (The previous paint scheme was dark red.) Shining white locomotives were a startling sight as they pulled long, rocking trains through the mixed pine and hardwood forests of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
KCS 676 North of Heavener, Oklahoma, Before Installation of Welded Rail
The mountains run east to west like parallel hedge rows. When one ridge is crossed, another takes its place, then another, then another, forming an almost impenetrable barrier to civilization. The first highway across the mountains was not completed until 1961.
Prior to Oklahoma's statehood, this area was part of the Choctaw Nation, created when the Choctaw were driven from their ancestral home in Mississippi – and completely off limits to federal jurisdiction. Isaac Parker, the "hanging judge" from Fort Smith, spent much of his time disposing of criminals brought back from the Ouachita Mountains by the Lighthorsemen, the Choctaw police force.
Railroads avoided this area. The Frisco, the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf and the Katy south from Kansas City all swerved west to void the rugged terrain. The last line constructed in the area was the Kansas City Southern, which went due south out of Kansas City and maintained this general direction through the Ozark Plateau of southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma, until reaching the small railhead of Heavener, Oklahoma. Had the railroad continued south, the several parallel mountain ridges would have required construction of enormous and costly tunnels and bridges.
So deep in the forest, the engineers plotted a court east between Winding Stair and Black Fork Mountains. Here the railroad crossed Rich Mountain summit, though the tracks were in the valley, continued east toward Mena, Arkansas, then turned south again through a gap toward Louisiana.
Northbound Coal Train (compass west) Beneath Blackfork Mountain -- Another Lost Location
Northbound (compass west) Manifest Beneath Winding Stair Mountain at Page, Oklahoma
Rich Mountain takes its name from the Queen Wilhelmina Lodge, a resort financed by the Dutch monarch. Around 1900, the Dutch invested heavily in the infant line, and in gratitude the railroad named several new towns after locations in Holland – such as Amsterdam, Missouri; Vandervort, Arkansas (a siding south of Mena) and DeQueen, Arkansas (an American version of DeGoeijen). The hotel, built on top of Winding Stair Mountain, was accessible only by logging roads and was never popular. When it burned, no one bothered to rebuild it until Oklahoma and Arkansas paved the road from Mena, Arkansas, to Talihina Oklahoma, across the long east-to-west spine of Winding Stair Mountain. Then Arkansas rebuilt the lodge, now a beautiful place to stay, with panoramic views of the valleys below, though you cannot see the tracks because of the heavy forest.
KCS 618 North (compass west) Coming Down From Rich Mountain Summit, Approaching Page, Oklahoma -- Another Location Now Overgrown
Southbound Loaded Coal Train Approaching Howard,
Arkansas, at Another Lost Location
KCS 668 South at a Location That was Almost Overgrown in 1986
Resurrection and Requiem
In the early 1970's, Congress passed a law requiring coal-burning electric plants to use low-sulphur coal from places like Wyoming and Colorado. Suddenly, railroads were filled with unit coal trains running over track that could barely support a local freight. The KCS was no exception.
The first coal trains through the mountains were incongruous – shiny white locomotives pulling new coal cars across decrepit track. Loaded trains crept south to generating plants in Texas and Louisiana; empty trains crept north – back to the mines. Rail joints squealed. Because many of the passing sidings had been pulled up, there was no place to put all the trains. So one by one, KCS rebuilt the sidings, placed new ballast, installed new ties and laid new welded rail. Someone who had photographed the KCS in the early 1970's but had not seen it again until the 1980's would not have recognized the railroad.
Here is Rich Mountain after the KCS re-installed the passing siding. Although welded rail has not yet been laid, more new ties have been added, as well as substantial additional ballast. Coal revenue is now flowing into the company, and the railroad is slowly clawing back from near-death.
Northbound Merchandise Freight North of Heavener, Oklahoma
Here is another southbound, loaded, coal drag at Rich Mountain. The KCS has now improved both the mainline and passing siding enormously. Even more improvements would follow in short order. This location is still available for photography and sees frequent meets, since it is only one of two passing sidings in the mountains. The other is Page.
A KCS Local Rolls Toward Heavener from the North -- Beneath Cavanal Mountain
Southbound Coal Drag in Another Lost Location
But even as new life was breathed into the railroad, some old ways were dying. The most notable characteristic of this area is the density of its foliage. A circus maintains its headquarters in Hugo, Oklahoma, south of the mountains near the Red River. Hugo is, in fact, home to the largest open-to-the-public elephant herd in North America. Several years ago, one of the elephants escaped, and no one could find it. The story made the national news, because the idea of losing an elephant in Oklahoma, which outsiders always assume to be flat and treeless, fit neatly in the "dumb Okie" stereotype. Eventually, the elephant was discovered in the forest and returned to the herd. But the reason an elephant could disappear is because trees grow so fast and so thick in this part of the world.
KCS 638 Northbound at Dawn in Eagleton, Arkansas
Another Southbound Coal Train at Another Lost Location
Southbound Coal Drag (compass east) in 1986, After KCS has Completed the Transition to First Class Railroad
Thus, the KCS's installation of radio towers to communicate with trains and maintenance crews began a process that in the 21st century has led to the elimination of most of the photographic locations at Rich Mountain. Radio communication, along with technology that allows railroads to control signaling through the rails, made telephone lines obsolete. Eventually, the Kansas City Southern began cutting down the poles and discovered that there was no longer any need to keep the rights-of-ways clear. Ever so rapidly, the forest began to encroach upon the tracks. Today, most of the line to Rich Mountain is encased in trees.
KCS 4598 South, October, 2012
I do not mean to imply that there are no longer any decent images from Heavener to Mena. On the contrary, this is still one of the most scenic railfan areas in North America. But the types of photographs have changed. As the above image shows, for a number of shots, it is now necessary to climb though the trees and shoot down the "tunnel," with the mountain in the background. In the 21st century, railroad photography at Rich Mountain is more challenging, and in many way more rewarding.
Page, Oklahoma
My favorite location in the mountains is Page, Oklahoma. I named my only son after this town, which today is little more than a passing siding, a small Baptist church and a cemetery. But the KCS keeps the area around the passing siding clear of trees and brush, and the images one can take today are virtually identical to those available in the sixties and seventies. The following images were taken from 1975 to 1986.
Northbound Manifest at Page, Oklahoma -- June 1980 -- Beneath Winding Stair Mountain
In this image, two coal trains are meeting at Page in 1983. In the early 21st century, the KCS extended the Page passing siding, creating new photo locations. Unfortunately, the above image is no longer available, because the signals have been moved about 800 yards east.
This is a northbound, empty coal train at Page. Other images of this same train can be found in this post. In fact, several trains show up multiple times. This is because chasing a train through the mountains is great sport and also necessary, since the KCS has never seen a large number of trains. In my limited experience, 10-12 trains per 24 hours is heavy traffic. Several times I have seen far less.
Here is a northbound grainer. Winding Stair Mountain towers above. The Talimena Skyline Drive (from Talihina, Oklahoma, to Mena, Arkansas) runs along the crest of the ridge.
Coal Train Meets Manifest at Page, Oklahoma -- November 1982
Beneath the silent gaze of Winding Stair Mountain, a northbound manifest waits at dawn on the siding at Page, Oklahoma. For years, I believed that Page was little more than a passing siding. But in my job as a lawyer, I take depositions from time to time. One day (in the late 1980's), I was questioning an elderly woman. I started as I always do, asking her name, date and place of birth.
"Page, Oklahoma,"she said.
"Really?" I think I said, which did not sound too lawyerly.
She said she had been born there, but that the house she lived in, and virtually every other place she remembered was now gone. "There's no town left," she said.
"But there's still the railroad," I said.
"I remember the railroad," she said. "It kept everyone awake at night."
So at least some things don't change.
Via Con Dios, White Knights
While foliage rapidly overwhelmed the right-of-way, the railroad also began replacing the White Knights with more sedate grey units. (At least they seemed more sedate to me. Others disagreed.) The Knights could be found on trains through the end of the 20th century but today (2016) finding a white KCS unit is rare. The grey units are now being replaced with "Retro-Belles" that are perhaps as beautiful a paint scheme as the KCS has ever seen. But some of us miss the White Knights – and the locations where we photographed them.
Northbound Beneath Blackfork Mountain
Southbound Beneath Blackfork Mountain -- One of my Favorite Locations Now Gone
Trailers at Same Location
So I say good-by to these two old friends: White Knights and telephone poles. I knew you in your prime.
Labels: Arkansas, Kansas City Southern, Oklahoma, Ouichita Mountains, Rich Mountain
KCS has recently cut all the brush around Rich Mountain to several miles north. I mean, there's not a twig remaining between the highway and the tracks in some places. There are vistas now that I have never seen before! I have been shooting pictures there since the '70's like you have. I don't know what's up with this - seems like they might be going to extend a siding or something.
Chris Berlin March 28, 2021 at 6:42 PM
Fantastic Pictures, thank you !


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Much to the surprise of Avalanche players, fans fill the bleachers for start of training camp
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The fans crammed into the bleachers and lined one side of the ice rink, waiting for the Colorado Avalanche to take the ice.
Maybe they were there to simply catch a glimpse of the Avalanche during their first official practice since the lockout was lifted.
Or maybe they filled the tiny facility on Sunday because it was a way to forget—at least for a moment—the Denver Broncos' stinging loss the day before to Baltimore that ended a promising season and sent the city into a sombre mood.
Either way, the players were sure appreciative. A little shocked even, when they were greeted by cheers as they stepped out of the locker room and onto the ice.
They expected maybe a handful of fans to show up. Just nothing like this.
"For us to go out there and see a full barn, wow, that's exciting," defenceman Shane O'Brien said after a two-hour practice. "It's a good feeling. The boys had a good practice today."
With time now of the essence, the Avalanche jumped right in and were put through a pretty up-tempo workout by coach Joe Sacco. They open the season next Saturday in Minnesota against a Wild team that could be a Stanley Cup contender.
For the Avalanche to have any hope of slipping into that conversation, well, they have to get on the same page in a hurry. The team has quite a few new additions, including forwards P.A. Parenteau and John Mitchell, along with defenceman Greg Zanon.
One familiar face missing from practice on Sunday was Ryan O'Reilly, who's playing overseas as he and the team try to work out a deal. The player nicknamed "Factor" for his big-play ability was the team's leading scorer last season.
"Obviously, we want 'Factor' back," centre Matt Duchene said. "At the same time, I'm only worried about what I'm going to do for the team. Each guy is worried about their role and how they're going to help this team. We're all links in the chain and have to be strong so we can win.
"We can't worry about who's not here and just who is."
Just one practice in and already Colorado's top line of captain Gabriel Landeskog, Duchene and Parenteau appears to be clicking. They had a solid morning session, scoring a few nifty goals in 5-on-5 drills.
"Feels really good to be here, actually," said Parenteau, who arrived in town after playing last season with the New York Islanders. "It took too long before I got to meet my new teammates and new city. This is a pretty good group of guys."
To speed up the learning curve, the Avalanche players are dining together. Their reasoning? Breaking bread off the ice could lead to goals on it.
"It's real important to build something right off the bat," Parenteau said.
So, who picks up the check?
"Everyone splits it," O'Brien said. "We've got a great group of guys in here. It's an easy dressing room to come in and feel comfortable. Everyone seems to be fitting in perfectly. Hopefully we can put the product on the ice and win hockey games."
The Avs are trying to get back on track after missing the playoffs last season for a second straight year. As the leader, it's Landeskog's task to quickly get them on the same page.
Not that he's too worried.
"Everyone has done a great job of staying in shape. Everyone looks hungry out there and like they're having fun," said the 20-year-old Landeskog, who's the youngest captain in NHL history. "We missed hockey so much, being around the guys, practicing and messing around after practice. We're all looking forward to this. Today was a good start—we have to build off that and get better."
As for the packed audience, well, that was a nice bonus.
Were the fans out there because the Broncos lost or excited to see the return of hockey?
"I think folks are excited about hockey," Sacco said. "I think it's time that it's back. That was a great turnout. Even though it's practice, it certainly motivates the players to some degree when they see people out there. It livens things up a little bit."
To keep the fans attending games all season will require one thing—victories.
"The fans in Denver are smart hockey fans," O'Brien said. "They've seen two Stanley Cups. They know what good hockey is. Play good hockey, win hockey games, be a playoff team—you'll see the Pepsi Center full every night. You can't blame them if we're losing game they don't come. Hopefully, we'll win some games and fill the building."
NOTES: Avs F Chuck Kobasew (illness) didn't skate Sunday. ... Asked about the tempo of the first practice, Sacco said: "It looked like we had guys that were excited to be back on the ice game. You could see that passion out there."
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It's that time of year again, gathered around our families. They all know we have that fancy camera. So, it's down to us to document the event and get portraits of everybody for history. Shooting portraits, though, isn't always that easy if it's not something you're used to doing.
Well, here's Ilko Alexandroff with 16 portrait photography tips to help get you going. It's not one of those "cram as many tips as you can into 3 minutes" videos either. Ilko goes pretty in depth on some of them, and talks about his reasons for choosing one thing over another. All in, it's a 47 minute video, and well worth the watch.
Ilko goes through a lot of information in this 47 minute long video. I'm not going to cover it all here, or there'd be no point you actually watching it, but I am going to mention a few of the things on his list.
Essentially, it doesn't really matter what camera you use or the size of the sensor. No real surprise there. You can get amazing portraits with anything. Larger sensors will offer advantages for shallow depth of field, though. Higher ISO performance tends to come with larger sensor cameras, too. But, ultimately, that boils down to personal preference and needs.
Also, it doesn't really matter what lens you shoot a portrait with. There's really no such thing as a "portrait lens". You can shoot portraits with ultrawides if you're doing something environmental. Perhaps you want to capture the entire Christmas tree, with the whole family around it. You're not usually going to be able to do that in your living room with an 85mm.
All that matters is the final look you want. A certain look might require you to use a specific lens, but that look a choice, it's not mandatory.
The lighting choices you make for portraits are usually far more important than what camera and lens you use. And good light doesn't necessarily mean you need to spend a ton of money on expensive lighting gear and modifiers, either. Ilko often uses natural light instead of strobes when it can give him the look he's after.
So, don't ignore that great big soft window light, or the open shade at the back of the house. Even with natural light, though, a 5-in-1 reflector can always come in handy. Using flashes and softboxes will let you get more control, but if you don't need them, why use them?
When you do need them, Ilko's lights of choice are speedlights. He favours the Nissin MG8000, but most of us won't need to go to that kind of expense, especially indoors. You could easily get by with a Godox or two. When you want the light a little softer, you can pop them inside a 60cm softbox or use an umbrella. Even these small modifiers can give a very soft light when used close to your subject.
One specific item that Ilko mentions in the video is the RoundFlash Ring. Some people don't like the catchlights that such a modifier provides when wrapped around your camera's lens, but personally I love it. I picked up a RoundFlash Ring earlier in the year, and it's become one of my favourite speedlight modifiers. You can also use it off-camera in a similar fashion to a beauty dish.
This is an important one. The light constantly changes if you're shooting outdoors. The sun moves, so do shadows. This time of year, for many in the northern hemisphere, it also gets dark quite rapidly early on. Artificial light sources naturally in the scene, such as the light from a store window or even a vending machine can be enough to give you a great look outside.
You'll also need to keep an eye on the environment behind your subject. You don't want things cutting through or growing out of the top of peoples heads. You don't want background your background to be too busy and distracting, either. If your lens doesn't have a wide enough aperture to blur it out, you'll want to look for somewhere with a clean background. That way your subject stands out.
There's a whole lot more tips and information packed into this video, so grab yourself a coffee, beer or preferred drink, sit back and relax for 47 minutes. This isn't specifically a holiday season video. The advice is valid throughout the year for pretty much any type of portrait you might want to shoot. But, this is the time when we're often expected to photograph our families, so the timing is rather good.
What was your favourite bit of advice Ilko mentioned? Do you think he missed anything? What other advice can you offer? Let us know in the comments.


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Tamana is a non-profit voluntary organization registered during 1984 in India, consisting of three special education centers, a training cell and a research center to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The organization's work is recognized by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, Government of Delhi, Rehabilitation Council of India and is registered with the National Trust. Tamana also has a Special Consultative Status within the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2005.

The organization's founder, Dr. Shayama Chona, was awarded the Padmashree, a Padmabhushan and two national awards for her contributions in the disability sector in India.

Aim and vision

Tamana offers an individual educational program for every student, aimed at social and economic independence, which incorporates special education, a regular academic program through the NIOS, therapeutic interventions and vocational training. Each Centre of Tamana offers speech, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, life skills training, computer education, music and dance, weight management and physical fitness, sports and extracurricular activities, counseling, behaviour modification, diagnostics and assessment facilities, and family counseling.

Under the cherished dream of seeing each child become an independent adult, the aims of the organization include:

• Providing therapy and counseling to children and their families.

• Maintaining a motivated, dedicated and quality conscious team of professionals.

• Contributing to the training and development of manpower in the field of special education.

• Providing legal advocacy services.

• Introducing relevant technology to enhance the effectiveness of special education.

• Conducting research in key areas of special education and training.

• Creating and enhancing greater public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with
special needs.

• Networking with organizations worldwide.

Special Schools

Tamana Special School

The first branch of Tamana, the Tamana Special School, was inaugurated by the late Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales, on 12 February 1992 and the foundation stone was laid by the then High Commissioner of Britain, Sir David Goodall. The Special School caters to the individual needs of 115 children coming from all strata of the society, ranging in age from 4 to 17. This school focuses on overall development of the child, depending on needs as well as potential. Functional academics are imparted with parallel intervention with allied therapies depending on the needs of the child. The regular school curriculum is a vital reference point for students who have potential to be included in a regular classroom or join the open school program.

Nai Disha Vocational Center

With the realization that the young adults at Tamana have to be equipped with skills to adapt appropriately to the needs of adulthood and thereby function as an independent whole, physically and emotionally, Nai Disha was conceived. The program aims to create an infrastructure which ensures a smooth graduation from school to the outside world, for the young adult and the family. It also aims to ensure training and placements of young adults in various vocations and organizations.

Major skills targeted include:
 Textiles printing
 Office skill management
 Paper bag and envelope making
 Paper recycling
 Clay modeling
 Baking
 File making
 Candle making
 Basic home management skills of cooking and baking
 Computer skills training
 Stationery production - making greeting cards, envelopes, writing pads, file folders
 Gardening
 Beauty culture
 Tailoring

Tamana School of Hope

Tamana was the first institution in India to recognize autism as a disability distinct from others and to start programs for autistic spectrum disorder in 1985. The Autism Center - School of Hope is India's first rehabilitation and research center for autistic individuals, providing holistic services under one roof – a special school, sensory integration clinic, early intervention center, diagnostic center, research cell and outreach cell.
 His Excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,  former president of India, inaugurated the School of Hope, a full-fledged school dedicated to children with autism, on 19 August 2003.

The highlights of the program offered are:
 A life centered approach to curriculum planning to meet the needs of child and family
 Approaches on which intervention for the autistic is based are TEACCH and ABA (with small groups of students)
 Sensory integration therapy
 Computers with latest software are regularly used for overall development of the students
 Music and dance therapy
 Yoga and sports
 The students are taught to make beds, arrange clothes in cupboards, personal grooming, washing clothes, cooking
 Vocational training for youth above 16 years of age, including jewelry design, greeting card making and gardening

Teacher Training Cell
Tamana has been recognized as a special study center by the Rehabilitation Council of India and IGNOU since 1994. The courses offered are:
 Post Graduate Professional Diploma in Special Education
 Post Graduate Professional certificate in Special Education
 B.Ed. in Special Education
 D.Ed. SE Diploma in Education Special Education (ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorders)

Research

Tamana, in collaboration with Deakin University, Australia, launched TOBY (Therapy Outcomes by You) Playpad Laboratory on 5 July 2013 at its Autism Center, School of Hope. TOBY is an iPad-based, therapist-and-parent application for early intervention therapy with children with autism.

In association with Deakin University, Australia for TOBY, Tamana won the  Victorian International Education Award for Excellence in International Education – Research Engagement in 2013.

Fundraising
Tamana organizes annual fashion shows as part of its fundraising. Leading fashion designers of the country have participated in the show, including Manish Arora, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Ritu Kumar, Suneet Varma, Mira and Muzzaffar Ali, J.J. Vallaya, Satya Paul, Abhishek Gupta and Nandita Basu, Namrata Joshipura, Rohit Gandhi + Rahul Khanna. Students from the Tamana Special Schools walk the ramp hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder with the professional models.
 The objective of the event is to create and ensure public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with special needs.

Tamana organizes its annual winter carnival for showcasing the products developed by the students with special needs and for providing a platform to market them. The aim of the event is to create awareness about the disabled and to promote their social integration.

Honours, awards and recognition

 Tamana was given the National Award for Best Institution for Child Welfare by Department of Women and Child Development, Government of India. The award was presented by Hon'ble Minister for Women and Child Development Mrs Krishna Tirath on 23 January in her office at Shastri Bhawan.
 The first Mother Teresa Award (Nov. 1997) was presented to Tamana Special School for its dedicated services to the mentally impaired.
 Dr. Shyama Chona, President of Tamana, received the National Award for the Welfare Of People With Disabilities for the year 1997. It was an appreciation of years of struggle in the field of disability at a personal and institutional level for her.
 NGO in Special Consultative Status with United Nations' Economic and Social Council, 2005.
 National Award for Best Institution for Child Welfare 2006 from the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India.
 Award for the Most Innovative Project Implementation in 2007 presented at the round table organised on Global Partnerships In Poverty Eradication and Health Care, organised as part of annual ministerial review innovation fair (Asia) - an initiative of NGO DESA - United Nations Economic and Social Council and  Mumbai Educational Trust.

References

External links
 Official Website
 Heartspring, US
 National Autistic Society, UK
 Nai Disha School
 Tamana Research
 Tamana and Princess Diana

Autism-related organisations in India
Organizations established in 1984
Disability organisations based in India
Organisations based in Delhi
Schools in Delhi
Special schools in India


Volume 8 concludes "The Shifting Sands" and takes our heroes about halfway through "Dread Mountain." As with the anime, the manga depiction of the Guardian of the Shifting Sands is no where near as terrifying as it is in the book. Lief's trials with the sands is emotionally and spiritually draining in the novel, while the anime and manga are more focused on external action. The point of the Guardian in the book was that it was mindless. It was a true Hive, an implacable enemy closer to a force of nature than anything sentient. The manga does give an interesting interpretation of the Hive, making it a collection of lost spirits that Lief cleanses with the power of the Lapis Lazuli (which is neat because the stone doesn't seem to have any active powers in the books.) So while the depiction of the Hive was not accurate to the manga nor very frightening, it was at least interesting. The events at the Dreaming Spring with the Kin are a bit condensed and the companions learn a secret about Doom a bit earlier than in the books, but it still retains its impact. On to face Dread Mountain!
After watching the anime for this series... I love it so much. Deltora Quest is absolutely amazing, and the manga does a great job of illustrating Lief's journey as he adventures to restore the belt of Deltora. I'm not entirely sure I'm ready to have my heart ripped out again by the conclusion however!
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