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Reports Sep 6, 2019 | 1:57 PMby Colin McGourty
Chess9LX, Day 4: Nakamura completes comeback
Hikaru Nakamura started the last day of Chess960 in St. Louis a point behind Levon Aronian but went on to win the match with two rounds to spare, as Levon went an incredible 14 games without a win. Elsewhere it took Wesley So just one game to wrap up victory over Veselin Topalov, while Peter Svidler did the job against Leinier Dominguez before the final four rounds. Caruana-Kasparov had been decided the day before, but was still a hugely enjoyable slugfest between two great players.
Hikaru Nakamura crushed Levon Aronian on the final three days | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
You can replay all the Champions Showdown: Chess9LX games using the selector below:
And here's the commentary on the final day:
The final standings looked as follows, with the match winners taking home $30,000 while the losers earned $20,000:
Let's take the matches in the order of how soon they were over as a contest:
Fabiano Caruana 19:7 Garry Kasparov
A tough match, but a lot of fun | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
Fabiano Caruana's 19 points was the highest of any player, with the match decided before the final day, but that didn't stop the last eight blitz games being an intense and enjoyable spectacle. When Maurice Ashley suggested it was a heavyweight struggle, Fabiano countered:
I would say we were more like drunken boxers trying to land a blow, but not really managing to! It was not great today. The quality of the last few days was maybe questionable, but today was really not great, from either one of us, I think.
You could use that description for the first game, where Fabi had a healthy edge and pursued an interesting exchange sacrifice idea, but in completely the wrong manner. Kasparov may no longer be quite the monster with 1000 eyes Tony Miles once described, but he wasn't going to miss this:
24…Nxe3! was a deadly blow, since if 25.dxe3 Rd1+ Black wins the a1-bishop, and without a bishop pair White has no compensation for the exchange. Fabiano's 25.Rxc5 only accelerated the end after it was met by 25…Rxd2!, adding a new threat to the g2-square.
Was this finally going to be Garry's day? Well, not exactly, as things fell apart in a good position in the second game:
30.Rb2! was the solid approach for White (even if it seems it's not as winning as Kasparov thought), while the computer suggests 30.Nf4! Bxb3 31.Rb2 as the way to play, but in the game after 30.Ra4? Rb8! 31.Nf4 Bxb3 32.Ra7 Bc2 there was no stopping the b-pawn and Garry had to resign.
If Levon Aronian considered himself Fabiano's second he could claim to have had a good event! | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
He commented on the first two games:
I know my limitations. I fought hard, but it's again Game 2 today just spoilt my mood. I won Game 1, I had a bad position, but then I just tricked him and won the game, and Game 2 it's completely winning this endgame, many ways, and then all of a sudden I had another blackout and I looked at my clock and 3 seconds left! Ok, it means I still have 5 seconds, but I panicked and instead of Rb2, protecting my pawn, and it's absolutely winning, even with 3 seconds I could deliver, Ra4, Rb8 and it's all of a sudden over.
Kasparov said that game had "a very bad effect" on him and he was lost in 9 moves in the next game before resigning on move 13. He was fortunate to draw the 4th game, but after the break Garry at least got to have some fun in his games with White in the new starting position. Fabiano seemed to challenge himself to achieve the worst possible setups: in the first he advanced his h-pawn to h3 in AlphaZero style, but when Garry simply gobbled up the pawn it was soon utterly hopeless:
The game lasted 16 more moves, but there was no escape for Fabiano. That was nothing compared to the next game, however, where the world no. 2 admitted going for an early f5 was a mistake:
I didn't feel like it was very good, but then I wanted to try it, because [Garry] was trying it, Peter was trying it, everyone was trying it, so I thought alright, we'll see how this works out, and it didn't really work out!
"If he gives me everything I can win - even I can win!" confessed Garry, although he was happy that he found the plan to prepare and play 9.d5!
9…c5? 10.Ne3! saw the computer already give White an almost 5-pawn advantage, although there's no immediately material loss in sight. The black pieces on the queenside really are terrible, however, particularly the b8-bishop, which hadn't even tried to move before the massacre was completed on the kingside:
That was a 4th win for Garry in the event, and if he could have made it a 5th in the final game he would at least have taken home the bragging rights of winning the final day. Instead it was to be more pain for the 13th World Champion, who once again built up a crushing position but couldn't finish it off:
28…Nh5! was the move he regretted not playing here, since after 28…Nfg4? 29.Rxg4 Nxg4 (29…Rh5!! 30.h4 Qb1+ 31.Rg1 Rxh4+ rescues the line, but it's a tough brilliancy to find in blitz) 30.Qxg4 f3? 31.Ndxf3 it was already White on top, with Fabiano going on to claim victory in 59 moves.
Garry commented:
It's really a curse. Today, the final game, everything is winning. There's so many winning moves, I totally outplayed him and I can win the day. I let him open the game, but still, I could have found Nh5 instead of the stupid Ng4, blundering the piece, Nh5 and that could be another nice game, but ok, I didn't find it, bad luck.
The idea of a curse came from Garry's wife:
Probably, as my wife told me, "Garry, it's a curse", and it's probably a signal stop doing these things, you should stop competing with young Turks, because again it's a big effort and why, you can see it's getting worse and worse. It's not that I do not understand something and they can outplay me, I don't think that I was outplayed in any game in this match… The number of one-move blunders that shifted a position from winning to losing it's maybe the signal from there [points up], "Garry, stop doing these stupid things!"
On the other hand, Garry didn't want to make any excuses:
The other reason not to use that excuse was that Garry revealed he'd played, and won, a practice match against Peter Svidler before arriving in St. Louis.
Other players had other explanations for how the match had gone, with Hikaru pointing out how well Fabiano had defended:
I think that really speaks volumes about how much better modern players are as defenders, because Garry got everything you could ask for in that game and it still wasn't enough to win. You can say he's rusty, but I think it really shows the difference in the quality of defence of the modern players. Unfortunately for Garry, Fabiano, like many of us, is just a very, very good defender. When people don't roll over and die, and you haven't played competitively for so long, it's really, really tough.
Fabiano himself felt there was something in that:
We have one thing which Garry doesn't have, which is practical experience. We're used to getting both good positions and bad positions, and defensive skills are one of the main things in practical chess, especially in fast chess, where you have bad positions all the time. If you won all your good positions and defended all your bad positions you'd win every blitz tournament, so that's one of the main things.
Garry probably feels that back in the day he would still have overwhelmed "modern defence" | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
Wesley So 18:8 Veselin Topalov
There are two systematic drawbacks to the Champions Showdown format. One is that you invite a chess legend like Garry but we only get to see him play against one other player. The other is that the matches have a tendency to be decided long before the end, and then there's little interest in the remainder of the match. As we saw, that wasn't really the case with Caruana-Kasparov, but there was nothing to rescue So-Topalov. The match ended in the first game of the day, when Veselin missed a win right at the end and Wesley picked up the draw he needed to clinch the match. The remaining games were a formality, with Veselin picking up just one win to make it two in 20 games.
We never really got to see anything from Veselin Topalov this time in St. Louis, with Wesley So dominating the match | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
Wesley said the match, "lifted up my spirits" after his last-place finish in the Sinquefield Cup, so he's hoping it'll stand him in good stead for the World Cup next week.
Peter Svidler 15.5:10.5 Leinier Dominguez
Peter started the day with a 4-point lead, but in a bid to keep things interesting he gave up a point in the first game of the day!
Peter would later comment:
I'm honestly quite satisfied with my play - I thought my play generally made sense. I did leave some rooks en prise, but apart from blackouts, and forgetting knights move backwards and things, I thought there was a decent amount of common sense and some nice calculation thrown in somewhere, so very happy with how it went!
A crowd watching Dominguez-Svidler | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
That's a fair summary of the day, as he hit back in the very next game to smoothly outplay Leinier with Black after a somewhat dodgy opening. Peter ensured he would at least tie the match with a nice endgame win in the next game before sealing victory by surviving some dicey moments and holding on for a 153-move Rook vs. Rook + Knight draw in the final game with the first position.
The players traded wins in the remaining games and afterwards Peter's thoughts were turning to the World Cup that starts on Tuesday. In Round 1 he faces Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera, who he described to Yasser as "a Cuban child of some sort":
No disrespect to my opponent, but I think he is like two years older than my children! Combined with me just being zonked out of my skull [Peter worked out the games in Khanty-Mansiysk will start at 3am, St. Louis time] it's going to be a nice combination too.
It turns out the match with Dominguez went better than the training match with Kasparov before St. Louis! | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
If Peter survives that he plays Ruslan Ponomariov, a player he met twice in World Cup semi-finals and who he describes as, "one of the original World Cup gangsters". 2011 and almost 2015-winner Peter Svidler is of course another World Cup gangster, but he has a tough road ahead – in Round 3 he should meet a certain Hikaru Nakamura, who was displaying his best chess in St. Louis!
Hikaru Nakamura 14.5:11.5 Levon Aronian
We witnessed Garry Kasparov suffering and wearing his heart on his sleeve in St. Louis, but Levon Aronian must have been screaming inside after his collapse on the final three days.
This is as close as we could find to Levon screaming... | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
He rode his luck to reach a score of 7.5/8 after the first game of the second day, but although he still led by a point going into the final day he had gone 7 games without a win. He would double that to 14, as everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Just like Garry, Levon can reflect that it could all have been so different. He would have taken a 2-point lead if he could have converted a wonderful position in the first game:
Levon found the winning idea to sacrifice a knight and trap the queen, but instead of playing 19.Nfd5!! exd5 20.Ba6! he moved the wrong knight with 19.Ned5 and was hit by 19…Ng6! when the queen can escape with 20.Ba6 Nxf4! 21.Nxf4 Qe4. Levon fought on with 20.c6!, but it was suddenly a narrow path to victory, and Hikaru soon took over and won.
Nakamura, who described his fast if not always accurate play as "Nepo-style", felt this was the critical game:
Today I got a little bit lucky. If the first game had gone differently, which it probably should have, then it would have been very, very tight, but once I won the first game of the day I think there was really no chance for Levon to come back. A really good day yesterday, and an even better day today.
Nakamura and his training partner So | photo: Lennart Ootes, official website
But that feels too much like judging from results, since with the scores only tied any win for Levon would suddenly have transformed the match. He was doing better in the second game as well, but he went astray and then fell for a wonderful trick:
37.Rxe4!! and Levon didn't even take the rook since he realised that after 37…fxe4 38.a6 there's no stopping the a-pawn - the white bishop is covering the h8-square. Of course 37…Kd8 couldn't save the game.
Nevertheless, Levon could still have tied the match again if he'd taken another big chance in the third game of the day:
38.Nxb5 is decent for White, but if you see 38…Rg1! 39.Qxg1 Ne2+ you might just recoil in horror, but here Levon had the winning 38.Qf3!, threatening mate-in-2. Instead he went for 38…Qxb5?, offering an exchange of queens. A simple pawn count might support that decision, but it was a terrible misjudgement, since White's badly placed pieces and Black's passed f-pawn soon decided the game.
A 2-point lead really did make it look game over, with the two draws that followed providing little respite for Levon. In the second he was objectively winning the endgame until he went astray on move 72, with the game ending in a 112-move draw. He was finally put out of his misery in the third from last game of the day, when his 26.d5? was already desperation:
26…Bc5+! 27.Kf1 Rxh3! 28.Rxf6 Rh1+ 29.Ke2 Re8+ was a brutal finish:
Even with nothing more at stake Levon still managed to blunder horribly in a won position in the next game, before finally grabbing a first win in 15 games to end the match, but it was little consolation. It's been a very odd summer in America for Levon, who won the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz only to finish last in the Sinquefield Cup. His focus will now be on defending his 2017 World Cup title, or at least getting to the final and qualifying for the Candidates. As his opponent Hikaru pointed out:
During this event I was actually doing some preparation for that event, and I suspect even Levon was doing that too, so instead of really worrying or preparing for this match you're thinking about the next tournament!
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These Waymo cars are essentially beta-testers, which means they are not fail safe. (Remember Uber?) If Waymo happens to have an accident and the fault is found to be with the sensor array, it's a safe bet Waymo won't be able to blame a blizzard or pea-soup fog.
An MIT spinoff startup called WaveSense hopes to hasten the arrival of autonomy in regions with, you know, weather, by providing an additional "leg" of the environmental perception stool that is utterly weatherproof: ground-penetrating radar (GPR). There are numerous applications for this technology in use today. Law enforcement locates buried booty or bodies with it, road commissions use it to assess road-bed fitness, it helps utilities locate pipes, and archaeologists rely on it to find the next King Tut's tomb. Although most of these applications use a much lower-frequency radar than the forward-looking automotive kind—1-3 gigahertz (billion cycles per second) versus 77 GHz—WaveSense uses a frequency that's way lower still—100-400 megahertz (million cycles per second).
The higher-frequency GPR provides super-high resolution but can't measure as deep and suffers from "blur" at higher vehicle speeds. It's also more susceptible to things like trash on a roadway, "thermal drift" as temperatures change, and the inevitable variation in the height of the sensor off the road that comes with vehicle pitch, roll, and payload variation. A 100-400-MHz system avoids these problems and can detect, record, and analyze underground features buried 6-10 feet deep. It also requires just 40 microwatts total, of which only 4 "leak" into the surrounding air. Higher-frequency GPR consume 1,000 times as much power. This radar senses differences in the electromagnetic properties of objects such as pipes, roots, and rocks in the surrounding dirt—all of which tend to be extremely stable over time.
As with camera- and lidar-based positional sensing, the road network must first be mapped by vehicles using essentially the same hardware, correlating GPR imagery with GPS location data. It takes a few passes to ensure the 5-foot-wide beam generates full coverage of a lane. The raw map data can be used for location-correlation, providing lateral/longitudinal accuracy within about an inch, and it works at highway speeds. Sensors that can "see" through 10 feet of dirt are unfazed by a layer of grunge on the lens, and at scale the sensor should cost $100 per vehicle. Another bonus: They mount underneath, so they don't mar the vehicle's styling.


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Welcome to Manohari Devi Kanoi Girls' College
The Dibrugarh town has a glorious background in the history of women's education in N. E. India. It was in Dibrugarh that the first Girls' High School was established in Assam in the year 1885, which is now known as Dibrugarh Govt. Girls' Higher Secondary and multi-purpose school. Before the establishment of this school, girls had to go outside Assam to complete High School with the help of scholarship granted by the State Government.
College Started & Functioning
The college started functioning on 5th July 1963 under the principalship of Dr. Jogiraj Basu, noted Oriental scholar and classes were held in the morning in DHSK college premises. The college offering Arts stream shifted to its present campus in 1965, where classes were held in a DFO Bungalow. Starting with the total strength of 215 the college has now an enrolment of approximately 1800 students. It is affiliated to Dibrugarh University and its Higher Secondary Course is recognised by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, AHSEC. It is an UGC recognized college under section 2(f) and 12(B).
Science stream in the second campus
M.D.K.G.College embarked on a new journey with the laying of the foundation stone for a new building in the first week of July 2011 in its second campus. It was decided that in order to bridge the gap of women education in science, the college would introduce Science stream in the second campus from the academic session 2016-17. Thus, under the initiative of the present Principal, a new state-of-the-art building was constructed. Accordingly, classes started in the later part of June 2016 with 119 students.
The Dibrugarh town has a glorious background in the history of women's education in N. E. India. It was in Dibrugarh that the first Girls' High School was established in Assam in the year 1885, which is now known as Dibrugarh Govt. Girls' Higher Secondary and multi - purpose school. Before the establishment of this school, girls had to go outside Assam to complete High School with the help of scholarship granted by the State Government.
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Q: How to sort array of objects based on order of another array I have an ArrayList of Strings in a certain particular order
ArrayList<String> sortedkeys

And I have an unordered set of objects
Set<Skugroup> unsortedSet

Where SkuGroup contains a key to be used for sorting
Class SkuGroup {
   private String sortkey;
   private String name;
}

I need to copy all the SkuGroup objects into a new array in the same order of sortedSkus, where the sortedkey value is the same as the SkuGroup->sortkey
How can I accomplish this?

A: I believe the best way would be to store the set as a TreeSet, because it keeps its elements sorted by a given comparator. To make it easier, here we can implement interface Comparable on the SkuGroup class.
class SkuGroup implements Comparable<SkuGroup> {
    private String sortKey;
    private String name;

    public String getSortKey() {
        return sortKey;
    }

    public int compareTo(SkuGroup s1) {
        return this.sortKey.trim().compareTo(s1.getSortKey().trim());
    }
}

ArrayList<String> sortedKeys = new ArrayList<>();

Set<SkuGroup> skuSet = new TreeSet<>();

/** add items to skuSet **/

I need to copy all the SkuGroup objects into a new array in the same
order of sortedSkus, where the sortedkey value is the same as the
SkuGroup->sortkey

I assume you mean you want to transfer just the sortKey, and not the entire object because of the type on the ArrayList.
skuSet.stream().forEach(item -> sortedKeys.add(item.getSortKey()));

A: import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Expected order: c -> b -> a -> d");
        List<String> sortedkeys = Arrays.asList("c", "b", "a", "d");

        // Construct unsorted set (of course a Set has no order);
        System.out.println("Unsorted order: a -> b -> c -> d");
        Set<SkuGroup> unsortedSet = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(
                new SkuGroup("a", "name_a"),
                new SkuGroup("b", "name_b"),
                new SkuGroup("c", "name_c"),
                new SkuGroup("d", "name_d")));

        List<SkuGroup> sortedSkuGroups = sortedkeys.stream()
                .map(key -> unsortedSet.stream()
                        .filter(skuGroup -> skuGroup.getSortKey().equals(key))
                        .findFirst()
                        .get()
                ).collect(Collectors.toList());
        System.out.println("Sorted order: " + sortedSkuGroups);

        // In case if you need to convert this into Array:
        SkuGroup[] sortedSkuGroupArray = sortedSkuGroups.stream().toArray(SkuGroup[]::new);
        System.out.println("Sorted order in Array: " + Arrays.toString(sortedSkuGroupArray));
    }
}

class SkuGroup {
    private String sortKey;
    private String name;

    public SkuGroup(String sortKey, String name) {
        this.sortKey = sortKey;
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getSortKey() {
        return sortKey;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "{'" + sortKey + '\'' + ":'" + name + "\'}";
    }
}

Result:
> Task :Test.main()
Expected order: c -> b -> a -> d
Unsorted order: a -> b -> c -> d
Sorted order: [{'c':'name_c'}, {'b':'name_b'}, {'a':'name_a'}, {'d':'name_d'}]
Sorted order in Array: [{'c':'name_c'}, {'b':'name_b'}, {'a':'name_a'}, {'d':'name_d'}]

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All-Area: Behind the scenes
Judging from the phone calls and emails I've received over the past month or so, people seem to be eager for the Post's fall-sports All Area section. This is where we name our Players of the Year for each fall sport and select first- and second-teams based on performances from the fall season. We decided to do something a little different this year, and instead of running the sections one-by-one throughout late November and December, we will be coming out with a 14-page full-color section that includes the all-area teams for all fall sports. The section will be in the paper on Monday, December 26.
Picking the all-area teams is one of the most difficult part of our jobs. The high school writers are constantly monitoring games and statistics throughout the season and late in the season, we seek input from area coaches as to which athletes are most deserving of first- or second-team status, as well as nominations for Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. But ultimately, the decision is made by the writers, who include myself, Steve Dorsey, Jamey Eisenberg and Dunn Nugebauer. We take lots of things into account — statistics obviously play a large role, but don't always tell the whole story. The quality of competition is sometimes important, as is how an athlete performs under pressure. We look first at the regular season, but post-season competition is also considered, especially if an athlete especially excelled for his or her team at the most important time of the year.
This is where it helps to have seen area athletes in action, and between the four of us, we've traveled all over the state to watch Palm Beach and Treasure Coast athletes this fall. From Miami for the football championships, Fort Lauderdale for swimming, Port St. Lucie for golf, Lakeland for volleyball and Dade City for cross-country, we've been there and seen these athletes up close.
Some teams are obviously easier to select than others. Swimming and cross-country, for example, are timed sports, so it is easier to compare athletes objectively. But others, football especially, is much more subjective, which is why input from coaches is so important. We've spent plenty of time on the phone preparing for this section, talking to area coaches not just about their own athletes, but about the best performers they saw from other schools.
Once we have finalized our first-teams and selected our athletes of the year, we had all of these athletes come to our office in West Palm Beach for a photo shoot wearing their team uniform. We had athletes drive from as far south as Boca Raton, as far west as Pahokee and as far north as Fort Pierce for these photos — and we sincerely appreciate the effort. For many of these athletes, this is the last time we might see them before they go on to successful college, and sometimes professional, careers. Past athletes of the year include current NFL stars Anquan Boldin and Fred Taylor. Rhi Jeffery was a two-time Swimmer of the Year at Atlantic before she competed at the 2004 Olympics, and Morgan Pressel (who you'll see in our 2005 section) has just turned professional and earned a spot on the LPGA tour. And of course there are many, many others who have gone on to go great things after leaving area high schools.
I'm not going to give away our selections for Players of the Year or the first-teams just yet. You'll have to wait until Dec. 26. We're pretty happy with the way our first all-area section turned out, and we hope you enjoy it too.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on December 22, 2005 Categories Uncategorized5 Comments on All-Area: Behind the scenes
View from the press box …
… final seconds of the 2nd quarter — Palm Beach Gardens 35, Deerfield Beach 14.
Palm Beach Gardens is running at will — Emanuel Cook now has 3 rushing touchdowns (44, 24 and 2 yards). Jermaine Grandison has also rushed for one (58 yards on the 3rd play of the game) and QB Julius Harris hit Norman Nicholas for a 53-yard TD pass. That pass has been the biggest surprise of the game.
So much for our predictions of a low-scoring game.
More notes to come post-game.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on December 10, 2005 Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on View from the press box …
Live from the State FB Championships …
Just a couple of notes from the press box at Dolphins Stadium.
– Last night's crowd of more than 16,000 for the St. Thomas Aquinas-Lakeland game (Class 5A) was impressive … and much more animated than most Marlins crowds I've seen. It'll be interesting to see how many Palm Beach Gardens fans show up tonight.
– Lakeland is far and away the best team in the state — from the opening warm-ups through the final whistle. The only weakness on field seemed to be at kicker (he missed 2 extra points), but even that barely mattered in Lakeland's 39-10 win.
– Best fan sign from Friday night: King George Ousted from the Castle. It was a jab at St. Thomas coach George Smith, who was beaten in the 5A title game for the second straight year by Lakeland coach Bill Castle.
– Today's Class 4A championship game is only a quarter old, but I'm sold on Nease QB Tim Tebow — the top-rated QB recruit in the country. He's lead Nease to touchdowns on its first two drives (throwing for one and rushing for one) and has yes to throw an incompletion in the quarter.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on December 10, 2005 Categories Uncategorized
Gators win, just like Dorsey said
As I walked to my car in the Palm Beach Gardens parking lot tonight after the Gators beat Winter Park 10-7 to advance to the 6A state final, I pulled out my cell phone for an important phone call — to my colleague Steve Dorsey (who was in Sarasota at the Glades Central-Booker game) to tell him just how eerily correct his prediction was. Steve: Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket.
This is what Steve wrote Thursday and what ran in Friday morning's paper: "I've been having some fun this season predicting kickers to win close games, so why not again? I say Cook has another big night and gives Gardens kicker Ross Gornall an opportunity to hit the game-winner and send the Gators to Dolphins Stadium next week."
And that's EXACTLY what happened. Coach Kevin Fleury gave the ball over and over to Cook in the fourth quarter, and Cook got the ball inside the five to set up Gornall's field goal as time expired.
We've been saying all week that The Swamp (Gardens' version, not that big one in Gainesville) was the stadium that refused to die. Well, this was quite a fitting way for the last game played there to end.
"This one is going down in history," Gornall said.
Said Fleury: "What a game, what a team. Everyone's going to be wanting tapes of this game."
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on December 2, 2005 Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Gators win, just like Dorsey said


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It didn't come to pass.
"Every year this is going to happen a couple times," said Jon Nese, a meteorologist for Penn State and a former storm analyst for The Weather Channel. "It doesn't leap off the page to me as something that is a primary discussion item."
"Aspirationally, what we wanted to do was build in some recovery time for the players during the course of the season and try and do it in a way that was equitable," said Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, the former chairman of the oversight committee. "In the end, the 14-week season with the two byes just wasn't going to work from a practical standpoint so we moved away from it."
"For some universities it was actually before their summer school classes were over," Bowlsby said.
"Our coaches were stressed out about that," Berry said.
"Our group went to 25 and felt like that was the minimal amount," Berry said. "Just getting people's bodies ready to make safe tackles and safe blocks takes some time."
"You'd have to take a look at a really large range of time to really start to pick up on any patterns or correlations," said Lara Pagano, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service. "So at this point we really can't say one way or another, but I'm sure a lot of researchers and climatologists will be taking a look at that over the years to come."


I've been wanting to hit the alps since 2005. I had planned to go to when I was living in Rennes, but it never ended up happening. Lyon is an hour from the mountains so I've been dreaming of going skiing ever since I got here & I finally did it on Monday.
I decided to go to Chamrousse, which is 40 min outside of Grenoble. It is one of the first ski resorts in France & was built for the Winter Olympics in 1968. In order to get a full day in I took the train from Lyon at 6am (which meant leaving my house at 5am) to arrive in Grenoble in time to catch to 7:45am bus.
I got to the hill around 9am & went to Intersport to rent my skis. Ski hills here seem to be quite different than at home.
The first major difference was that there is no chalet. In fact, there seems to be nothing that is actually run by the ski resort aside from the Tourist Office & the lifts themselves. There were many little restaurants & ski rental shops, but it was quite a surprise that it wasn't all controlled by the resort like at home. This also meant that there was no where to lock your stuff. I didn't bring a small backpack with me here so all I had was my TNA bag. The guys at the rental shop were nice enough to take care of it or me for the day though.
I started the day by taking the Gondola up to the top. I did 2 runs down from the top before I decided that visibility just wasn't good enough & decided to stick to the bottom of the mountain. I skied mostly red runs which are supposed to be equivalent to our blue runs at home, but which I actually found a lot easier. Most of the black runs came down from the top though & since I'd been skiing pretty much blind up there, I decided to stick to the easier runs & have some fun finding random jumps.
Around 11:30am, I was starving. I had eating on my walk to Part Dieu at 5am so I hadn't eaten since then. I decided to head in & look for restaurant to have lunch in. There were lots of option, most of them serving regional specialities. I decided on Les Gaboureaux. They had a good deal for lunch so I had a HUGE plate of tartiflette, salade et jambon cru. For 1euro I added a glass of wine to the meal. It was one of the largest lunches I've had in a while. & so delicious! Definitely kept me going for the rest of the day.
basically a blizzard. My face got pelted with snow & the wind was freezing. I had borrowed Kate's coat & had it done all the way up. Still, by the time I got to the bottom my face was bright red from the wind & snow & so I called it a day. My legs were pretty much dead anyways from my lack of working out over here. It was just after 2:30pm & I wanted to take the 4pm bus back to Grenoble anyways. I returned my skis, recuperated my things from the lovely guys at the ski shop & had a hot chocolate in the warmth, defrosting my face.
halfway down the run: totally snow covered!
I arrived back in Lyon around 8:30 pm, exhausted & ready for bed. I have to say that my first French skiing adventure was pretty successful & I happy to finally be able to say I've skied the French alps!


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Brecht Van Kerckhove (ur. 3 maja 1976 w Gandawie) – belgijski siatkarz, grający na pozycji rozgrywającego. Od stycznia 2020 roku jest asystentem Vitala Heynena w Sir Safety Perugia.

Sukcesy zawodnicze

klubowe
Superpuchar Belgii:
  2004, 2005
Puchar Belgii:
  2005, 2006
Mistrzostwo Belgii:
  2005, 2006

Sukcesy trenerskie

klubowe
Superpuchar Belgii:
  2012
Mistrzostwo Belgii:
  2013

Linki zewnętrzne
 profil nieuwsblad.be
 profil volleybox.net
 profil cev.eu

Przypisy

Belgijscy siatkarze
Urodzeni w 1976
Ludzie urodzeni w Gandawie

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1st and 2nd grade students will begin to learn the basic Bible stories and the love of Christ for them.
In grades 3 and 4 youth will continue exploring Bible stories and begin connecting those stories to their lives and family.
Students study lessons published by Concordia Publishing House and have supplemental Bible-based activities to begin their study to become confirmed in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
When youth enter the 7th grade they enter into Catechism II with the 8th grade. Here they begin their two year journey through Luther's Small Catechism. Exploring the chief parts and explanation. At the end of the two years, upon completion of all assignments, the youth are Confirmed.
Each week the youth will go through a lesson from Concordia Publishing House "Growing in Christ" curriculum. Lessons are taught with activities and each week youth are given a leaflet to take home to continue their study.
This year the Middle School students will begin a new chapter at St. Paul's. We will be implementing a new curriculum for the middle school. Each week the students will engage in age-appropriate activities that will help them experience the lesson point in fresh, fun and meaningful ways!
Starting in the Fall of 2017 high school students will be diving deep into their Faith Formation: Lifelong and Ongoing. The high school youth will be studying Lutheran doctrine, what it means to follow Christ, and a deep study into Romans. All these wrapped into holding securely onto their faith, making their faith a lifelong and ongoing learning process.
This Bible study immediately follows the 9:30 Coffee Fellowship. Various topics are studied, with topics normally taking one to four weeks to cover. Many of these studies include small group discussions.
This group meets at 10:30 a.m. and studies a variety of topics from a Christian perspective. Topics range from contemporary issues to specific books of the Bible. The studies usually last from 4-8 weeks. Topics are chosen from suggestions offered by the group or the pastor.
Bibles are available for those who have not brought their own copy.
This is a Bible study parents can attend while their children are in Sunday school.
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.
The men select a book of the Bible and work through it.
Time: 5:45 to 7:00 p.m. every Monday of the month (Sept – May).
The format of this study varies some from year to year depending on the current resource that has been selected.
September to May on the 2nd Wednesday of the month after the Wed. morning Bible study (about 11:30 am).
Seniors bring a dish to share for lunch and have a short devotion.
To ensure that St. Paul Lutheran Church provides a safe and friendly environment for our children, youth, and dependent adults, the Board of Directors has approved the SAFE Policy and Procedures.
*All individuals (paid or volunteer, adult, or teenage) who work with children, youth, and/or dependent adults at St. Paul must attend training sessions to inform them about the SAFE Policy and Procedures.
The following applications are available for download. Please fill out forms and return to the church office.


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Will Google's Free Wi-Fi Be Paid for by Ads?
Oct. 3, 2005 -- -- Internet powerhouse Google is known for many online services, including Web searches, free e-mail, driving directions and maps using satellite imagery.
Now the Mountain View, Calif.-based company may be taking steps to ensure that people can get to those features by adding an actual online access service to its offerings.
Google filed an application Friday to help the city of San Francisco build its municipal area network, or MANs, that would allow anyone in the city free access to the Internet using wireless Wi-Fi technology.
As with many MAN projects in the U.S., about a dozen companies -- from telecom companies to traditional Internet service providers -- have submitted proposals for the City by the Bay's planned network. But Google's plan, some industry watchers speculate, could bring about a new business model: a free MAN centered around online advertising that knows where users are within the city's limits.
Money in Local Ads
Esme Vos, founder of MuniWireless.com, a Web site devoted to monitoring MAN projects, notes that Google already has many technological pieces that would make such wireless "location-based" advertising possible.
"On Google, you can type in 'pizza' and your address and you can see tens of restaurants tied to that area," says Vos. "Now, add to this Google Maps with its satellite imaging and they could target that user very locally."
Since Wi-Fi networks use radio waves, Google would be able to determine where users are within the city by noting which MAN transmitter they were using. So, when users log onto the MAN from the Moscone Convention Center, for example, only online ads for stores and restaurants in that area will pop up on the user's computer or Wi-Fi device.
Such a localized online ad approach, traditionally a rich revenue stream for local newspapers and television stations, could produce the funds needed to build and maintain San Francisco's MAN -- an estimated $10 million to $20 million project.
Will They Come?
Other analysts say the idea isn't far-fetched, given that public interest in free Wi-Fi services is still high -- and preferable to fee-based networks.
In a recent report, market research firm JupiterResearch found that use of public Wi-Fi "hotspots" has increased to 20 percent of online consumers this year. But only 9 percent of wireless online users are accessing the Net using a "paid" or subscription-based service. What's more, a full 30 percent of the online population said they were interested in free MANs, but only 6 percent said they would pay to use them.
"Right now a lot of wireless access is available on a paid basis," says Julie Ask, lead wireless analyst for JupiterResearch in San Francisco. "But people using Wi-Fi aren't willing to pay."
And while Google's ad-supported MAN might seem like an ideal answer, Ask is a bit skeptical that such a network is a surefire slam dunk for Google.
"Google could generate a lot of revenues from local ads, but they would still have to do maintenance and customer service while running the network," says Ask. "And that's something that Google doesn't have experience with and that's not a trivial thing."
Twelve other companies have submitted applications for San Francisco's request for information and proposals for its MAN project. City officials say they hope to make a decision "within weeks" and possibly offer the network to residents and visitors by next year.
Nov 02, 3:20 AM


The latest issue of Ocean Paddler magazine (#29) is on the stands now and it looks fantastic.
I love the cover photo which was shot by photographer, Geir Haukursson fromDenmark. I might be wrong but it looks like it was processed using high dynamic range (HDR) which really makes the dark and light areas of the photo stand-out.
I also love the fact that the paddler is ripping it up in the surf wearing a Tulik and using a Greenland paddle. So much for only being able to use them for rolling around on flatwater would you agree?
This issue of Ocean Paddler has several great articles to read including Jeff Allen's very informative piece about sea survival while Duncan Smith writes about what to expect when you go for your BCU 4* assessment.
Of course the magazine highlights another amazing place to paddle in their travel section. This time they write about how awesome it is to kayak around St Kilda off the west coast of Scotland.
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Cover photo posted with permission from Paddle Press Media.


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Use like this
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This should work if testFunction is available in your component.

A: You are passing an object
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onAdd: () => { this.testFunction() }


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These Votes really Did Count!
Saturday saw the Australian people elect a new government, and for the first time for many citizens who are blind or vision impaired, they were able to participate thanks to the Australian Electral Commission accessible voting strategy.
We needed 2,000 people to use the system for it to be considered a success; that figure was reached with a week to go, with the final number of votes at 2,832.
Thanks to all of you out there who made it possible, and thanks to all those who took the opportunity to use the system and take part . It has sent a strong message that removing barriers is all it takes to improve participation.


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Group of Google contractors votes to unionize
By Harper Neidig - 09/24/19 04:17 PM EDT
A group of Google contract workers voted to unionize on Tuesday, showcasing the growing tensions between tech workers and Silicon Valley giants.
Employees with the contractor HCL Technologies, who work at a Google office in Pittsburgh, Pa., decided in a 49-24 vote to join the United Steelworkers (USW) union.
"I'm honored that HCL workers chose to join our union and our fight on behalf of all working people," Thomas Conway, USW's president, said in a statement. "They deserve to have their voices heard. Together, we'll make sure that they are."
The move could embolden other Google workers, who have grown more outspoken with their criticisms of the company and have even helped to torpedo the internet giant's effort on a Pentagon artificial intelligence project.
Google said that it would continue to use HCL's services.
"We work with lots of partners, many of which have unionized workforces, and many of which don't," the company said in a statement. "As with all our partners, whether HCL's employees unionize or not is between them and their employer. We'll continue to partner with HCL."
HCL Technologies, which is based in India, is one of many contractors that Google relies on for staffing. Contractors make up about half of the internet search giant's workforce and don't receive the same benefits as Google's full-time employees.
Tuesday's vote came in the face of significant opposition from HCL that included "mandatory meetings and the use of a controversial management consultant," according to USW.
"Over the past few months, management has implied – and in some cases outright told us – that it's better to just be quiet than fight for what's right," Johanne Rokholt, an HCL employee, said in a statement. "Today we have proved that we are not willing to do that."
A spokeswoman for HCL did not immediately respond when asked for comment.
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When she was a young person, Cersei Lannister went to visit Maggy at her cabin in the forested areas, joined by Melara Hetherspoon, in light of the fact that she had heard that the witch could read individuals' prospects. Cersei entered Maggy's cabin uninvited, yet when Maggy woke and requested that she get out, Cersei haughtily called attention to that Maggy was on her dad Tywin Lannister's territories, and debilitated that she would have her eyes gouged out on the off chance that she denied her. Laughing, Maggy yielded and approached Cersei for an essence of her blood, giving her blade to cut her finger with. Cersei went along and Maggy at that point truly sucked some blood from the cut, as a major aspect of her blood enchantment. Maggy revealed to Cersei that she could make three inquiries, yet taunted the prideful young lady that she wouldn't care for the appropriate responses.


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The Caracas Metro (referred to as El Metro) is a rapid transit system operating in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. , including Los Teques Metro, the Caracas Metro is made up of 52 stations.

Below is a list of the Caracas Metro lines and the stations that they serve.

Line 1 (Red)

Line 1 of the Caracas Metro currently serves 22 stations, and has a route length of . Its initial section opened in 1983 as the city's first rapid transit line. It was extended thrice during the 1980s, reaching Palo Verde, current eastern terminus, in 1989.

Propatria
Pérez Bonalde
Plaza Sucre
Gato Negro
Agua Salud
Caño Amarillo
Capitolio – transfer: Line 2 (via El Silencio)
La Hoyada
Parque Carabobo
Bellas Artes
Colegio de Ingenieros
Plaza Venezuela – transfer: Line 3; Line 4 (via Zona Rental)
Sabana Grande
Chacaíto
Chacao
Altamira
Miranda (formerly Parque del Este) – future point of transfer to Line 5
Los Dos Caminos
Los Cortijos
La California
Petare
Palo Verde

Line 2 (Green)

Line 2 operates on much of the same route that Line 4 does. From north-east to south-west its stations are:

El Silencio – Point of transfer to Line 1
Capuchinos – Point of transfer to Line 4
Maternidad
Artigas
La Paz
La Yaguara
Carapita
Antímano
Mamera
Caricuao
Zoológico
Ruiz Pineda
Las Adjuntas – Transfer station for Los Teques Metro

Line 3 (Blue)

Line 3 of the Caracas Metro currently serves 8 stations besides the interchange to Line 1, Plaza Venezuela, and has a route length of . It started revenue service between Plaza Venezuela and El Valle in 1994; it was later extended to La Rinconada in 2006, but this section did not become fully operational until 2010, with the opening of the three intermediate stations.

Plaza Venezuela – transfer: Line 1; Line 4 (via Zona Rental)
Ciudad Universitaria
Los Símbolos
La Bandera
El Valle
Los Jardines
Coche
Mercado
La Rinconada – transfer: IFE railway station

Line 4 (Yellow)

Construction works for next phase were initiated 18 March 2007 and expected to be completed by year-end 2011. Line 4 was operates on much of the same route that Line 2 does.

From east to west:

Zona Rental – Point of transfer with Line 1 and Line 3
Parque Central
Nuevo Circo
Teatros
Capuchinos – Point of transfer to Line 2

Line 5 (Purple)

This line is still under construction.

First phase – from west to east:

Bello Monte
Las Mercedes
Tamanaco – Future point of transfer to Line 5
Chuao
Bello Campo
Miranda/Hugo Chávez (formerly: Parque del Este II) – Point of transfer to Line 1

The following stations found in the City of Caracas are under construction, as part of the project known as the Guarenas / Guatire Metro:

Miranda/Hugo Chávez (formerly: Parque del Este II) – Point of transfer to Line 1
Montecristo
Boleíta
El Marqués
Warairarepano – Point of transfer to the Guarenas / Guatire (light rail) line

Line 6 (Orange)

Most of this line is still in planning. It will connect Line 2 and Line 3.

Los Teques Metro (Cyan)

Las Adjuntas – transfer station to Caracas Metro Line 2
Alí Primera (formerly: El Tambor)
 Guaicaipuro
 Independencia

The following stations are under construction:

 Los Cerritos – projected completion date set for 2012
 Carrizal     – projected completion date set for 2012
 Las Minas    – projected completion date set for 2012
 San Antonio  – projected completion date set for 2012

Guarenas / Guatire (Teal)

This is a light rail line. The following stations are under construction, as part of the project known as the Guarenas / Guatire Metro:

Warairarepano – Point of transfer to line Line 5
Caucagüita   – projected completion date set for 2012
Belén         – planned future station
Guarenas I    – projected completion date set for 2012
Guarenas II   – projected completion date set for 2012
Guatire I     – projected completion date set for 2012
Guatire II    – projected completion date set for 2012

References

External links
Metro de Caracas, C.A. – official website
Caracas at UrbanRail.net

Buildings and structures in Caracas
Metro Stations
Caracas
Caracas Metro (List of Stations)
Metro, Caracas
Caracas Metro


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Katie O'Connor-Ballantyne is Associate Editor of Choral and Classroom Publications at Alfred Music Publishing. Her choral music is published by Alfred Music Publishing and Heritage Music Press. She is the author of Harmony Handbook: Resources and Repertoire for Developing Treble Choirs and Finding Your Teacher Voice: A Guide to Choral Pedagogy. In November 2016, her From Shale Rock We Rise was featured in her talk at the TEDxChemungRiver conference, titled "Yes, No, And: Three Words for a Creative and Purposeful Life."
An active clinician and music educator, Ms. O'Connor-Ballantyne served as instructor at the Ithaca College School of Music from 2016-2019 and is a popular guest conductor at choral festivals throughout New York State. In 2016, she was appointed as the new Artistic Director of the Ithaca Children and Youth Chorus, following the departure of founding director Dr. Janet Galvan. Ms. O'Connor-Ballantyne is also the owner/founder of Forte Music Editing, which provides music editing, engraving, and proofing services for music publishers and independent composers throughout the country. She is a frequent contributor to music education publications, including Activate! magazine.
Previously, Ms. O'Connor-Ballantyne taught choral music and theater at Johnson City High School in upstate New York, which received repeated national recognition as a Grammy Signature School and a Best Community for Music Education during her tenure. A graduate of Ithaca College and the Irish World Music Centre, she holds degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance, as well as Chant and Ritual Song.


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Cedric's story is a textbook case study of the kind of entrepreneur we want to see emerge and grow in every corner of the world: a solo entrepreneur who is a developer and a product guy capable of getting to validation while holding onto a day job. Today, Cedric has almost 50 employees spread around the world, and while it maintains a small office of fewer than 10 people in Indiana, the bulk of the company has scaled as a virtual workforce. Excellent model, and I encourage aspiring entrepreneurs to read this carefully.


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[ARCHIVED] St. Charles County Park Volunteer Honored with National Interpretive Award
St. Charles County, Missouri – The St. Charles County Parks and Recreation Department continues to offer the public the nation's best when it comes to bridging the past to the future through historic first-person interpretation. For a third year in a row, an outstanding volunteer at The Historic Daniel Boone Home in Defiance has received national recognition as a leader in historic interpretation, bringing history to life.
Congratulations to longtime St. Charles County Parks volunteer Colonel Shirley Pecoraro, Certified Interpretive Guide (CIG) at the Boone Home, who recently received the National Association for Interpretation (NAI) 2020 Outstanding Interpretive Volunteer Award, the highest honor in interpretation. This prestigious award recognizes mastery of interpretive techniques, program development and dedication to interpretation. According to NAI, which serves over 7,400 members in the United States and more than 31 nations, this exclusive award comes during the most competitive year to date, with more nominations being received than any previous year.
"Shirley's achievements in front-line interpretation at The Historic Daniel Boone Home have been more than impressive," says Ryan Graham, Director of St. Charles County Parks. "Her long-term commitment to living history, ability to portray multiple first-person characters at our historic site, and extensive knowledge and passion to teach interpretation have made a lasting impression on many visitors over the past 13 years."
Since 2007, Shirley has been a dedicated volunteer, donating hundreds of hours to serving as an advocate for historical and cultural preservation at the popular site listed on the Register of Historic Places. She brings the legacy and era of the Boone family to life through her portrayal of Rebecca Boone, 18th century frontierswoman and wife of Daniel Boone. She was presented with the 2016 Outstanding Volunteer Award by St. Charles County Parks in recognition of her dedication and years of volunteer service.
Shirley has been a member of NAI since 2008 and is a lifetime member of The Association of Missouri Interpreters. In 2008, she completed the second CIG class offered at The Historic Daniel Boone Home site and has been recognized by the Governor of Kentucky for her portrayal of Rebecca Boone. Her service as a goodwill ambassador to the visiting public and community led to her being a commissioned Kentucky Colonel, the highest honor a Governor from Kentucky can bestow, and one of a number of honorary titles of colonel conferred by U.S. states.
Over the past five years, volunteers and staff at The Historic Daniel Boone Home have received six NAI Awards; four regional and three national. CIG Colonel Robert Pecoraro, Shirley's husband, was awarded the NAI Outstanding Interpretive Volunteer Award in 2018, and CIG Colonel Barney Combs received the award in 2019. The Pecoraros and Combs also received Outstanding Interpretive Volunteer Awards from the National Association for Interpretation Region 6. William Ray, Lead Park Interpreter, received the NAI Region 6 Master/Distinguished Professional Interpreter Award in 2018.
For more information about volunteering with St. Charles County Parks, or to schedule a tour of the Boone Home, located at 1868 Highway F in Defiance, to experience these award-winning volunteer performances, visit stccparks.org or call the park at 636-798-2005.


Never Give Up: How Can We Love Others the Way God Loves Them?
People in this world need to experience the love of God.
This is not just an analytical statement of religious discourse. This matters to me, personally; as a Christian this concern has been entrusted to me as a responsibility (see e.g. Matthew 28:19-20). So what can I do?
If I really want people to know God--not just as a theory but as a Presence who changes their lives, who loves them-- then I must love them.
The God who is Love, and who became man, wants to use my humanity to show Himself to others first and above all by loving them, unconditionally, as they are, for who they are. He wants me to love them the way He loves them...which is to say, the way He loves me.
This is entirely different from the pretense to a kind of "tolerance" that in fact evades the other person and distances itself from the person. This is not a "relativism" that uses a superficial affirmation of the other as a pretext for remaining closed within myself, thus escaping the challenge of loving and being loved.
This is not any kind of activism that tries to impose a utopian ideology on people or that exhausts itself in a self-affirming display.
Loving means loving. It means giving what I have received. It means not dreaming about how wonderful love is, but actually giving myself, being a gift in this moment, to the person or persons who have been entrusted to me on the path of daily life.
And if I'm "busy" with things--if I am speaking or writing or communicating on the internet--I must ask myself, "Why am I here? Am I here to give myself, or to build up and enrich my capacity to give? Am I here for love?"
My writing is worthless unless it is an act of giving myself to those I hope will read it.
I realize that most of my readers are already Christians. But those who already know Jesus need to be reminded and sustained by His love. "Love one another as I have loved you" - this is the heart of the enduring grace that is "the Church." And I must resist the temptation to allow "the Church in the abstract" (however glorious and beautiful and wise I may conceive it) to replace my responsibility to give myself right now.
Christians are called to share this love in the Holy Spirit, and to be His loving presence in the world. However great our faults and failures may be, His love is greater, and it urges us onward to all the places where human beings live.
The whole world is starving for love. And too many people are fooled by counterfeits; they "spends their wages for what is not bread." Therefore, real love entails a communication of the truth. But love addresses itself to the person, and its witness is always a gift, a humbling of one's self, a sacrifice. This is what opens the possibility for the truth to be embraced by the other person.
Still, we find ourselves afflicted with so many obstacles: we have our own daily struggles, we are sick, we are tired, we are stressed out. We must bring all of it to the One who has loved us; entrust the whole mess of ourselves to Him again and again; keep trying, relying on the power of the Holy Spirit, not being discouraged by our own weakness.
Perhaps we feel that our love is only a poor imitation of the love we have received, that our love is all mixed up with self-promotion and vanity. And indeed it is. Let's love anyway. Let's do what we can, and also nourish ourselves continually at the places where we find Him who has loved us.
Indeed, we must let Him love us, through the Church, through the sacraments, through prayer, through our brothers and sisters, through the very truth and goodness of the joys and the sufferings of life. It all belongs to Him, and it is all the work of His great and mysterious love for us and our destiny.
In His love we will find the strength to give ourselves, and to give Him to others.


Breastfeeding has many benefits for the mother of the child. Breastfeeding leads to lower waist volumes, which are fixed for 10 years after childbirth. For example, women who breastfed for more than half a year had lower waist sizes than women who fed for less than six months.
The study, conducted by scientists, involved 678 women. They were observed for 7-15 years after the birth of children. Specialists in Pittsburgh and Michigan have identified a link between breastfeeding duration and waist size. According to experts, the body spends 500 extra calories per day for the production of breast milk.
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The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
on May 21, 2009 by Steve Simels
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A touching and often darkly hilarious documentary on the life and careers of Disney's pre-eminent songwriting team, brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (directed by sons Greg and Jeff, who never knew each other as kids despite growing up mere blocks apart), this is the story of two guys who are about as close as close can be, both professionally and personally, but on a fundamental level just don't get along. (Think a smiley-faced version of The Defiant Ones, but with better music.) Given the cultural ubiquity of the Sherman's songs—they wrote "It's a Small World After All", among scads of others equally familiar—even casual filmgoers should be intrigued, while film buffs and cineastes will find the doc's inside-show biz stories a real treat. Theatrical prospects should be solid; home video success is all but assured.
Star Wars composer John Williams pops up early on here, making the point that the sound we think of as most quintessentially American—the music of George Gershwin and Aaron Copland—was in fact made by first generation sons of Russian-Jewish immigrants. The Shermans—Robert (the oldest, born in 1925) and Richard (the kid brother, born in 1928) —fit squarely into that same cultural milieu. The children of a successful Tin Pan Alley songwriter dad and an actress mom, they were seemingly destined to work in show biz on some level, probably genetic.
The duo, who started songwriting together professionally in 1951, hit it big relatively quickly after the usual scuffling. In 1958, they wrote the rock ditty "Tall Paul" for Annette Funicello, then at the height of her Mickey Mouse Club celebrity, and Walt Disney himself quickly signed them to his studio and became their mentor. After that, the duo never looked back. They spent the next several years toiling profitably for The Mouse, achieving international fame with their scores for Mary Poppins and (as indie songwriters) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, both of which were adapted for currently running international stage hits. They continue working together successfully today, albeit at a somewhat slower pace and on different continents.
Apart from the usual talking heads stuff (celeb admirers include Ben Stiller, who helped get the project off the ground), the film benefits from excellent and extensive interview footage with the Shermans, both through recent footage—Robert is a bit frail, but otherwise sharp; Richard is still remarkably youthful—and archival (Disney saw to it they were profiled extensively early on), as well as scads of evocative clips from the pair's movies. This was clearly a labor of love for the younger producing/directing Sherman Brothers, and their affection for their distant but oddly loveable dads is palpable throughout. It's also a testament to their skill as filmmakers that when, fairly late in the film, they drop the big bombshell life experience reveal that explains the difference in temperament between the brooding Robert and the gregarious Richard—Spoiler Alert: It involves the WWII death camps—it doesn't feel shoehorned in or exploitative.
Distributor: Disney
Cast: Ben Stiller, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Haley Mills and John Williams
Director: Gregory and Jeffrey Sherman
Producers: Gregory V. Sherman, Jeffrey Sherman, Ben Stiller and Jeffrey Permut
Rating: PG for mild thematic elements, smoking images and brief language.
Running time: 102 min.
Release date: May 22 LA/NY/SF/Palm Springs


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POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS BISHOP KUKAH MEMBER OF THE DICASTERY ON INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, VATICAN CITY
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The Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed His Lordship, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto as a Member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Human Integral Development.
The appointment was contained in a letter to Bishop Kukah dated 11th December, 2020, and signed by His Eminence, Peter Cardinal Turkson, the Prefect of the Dicastery.
By this appointment, Bishop Kukah will join other members of the Dicastery drawn from different regions of the world to advise and promote the holy Father's concerns on issues of justice and peace, human rights, torture, human trafficking, care of creation and other issues related to the promotion of human dignity and development. This was disclosed in a press statement by Rev. Fr Christopher Omotosho is the Director, Social Communications Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.
The appointment, which is renewable is for an initial period of five years. The Council will be formally inaugurated on a later date.
The Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development was created on January 1, 2017, when four Dicasteries, namely, the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, Cor Unum, Pastoral Care of Immigrants and Itinerant People and Health Care of Workers, were all merged by the Holy Father.
This appointment adds to Bishop Kukah's string of national and international engagements within the universal Church.
He was first appointed a Consultor and later a Member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Vatican City and served under three Popes.
He is currently, Chairman, Dialogue Committees of both the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
He was a member of the official Delegation of the Holy See that met with the Emir of Qatar when that country opened diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 2002.
In 2016, he was nominated by the Vatican to represent Africa on the Advisory Board of the Vienna based, King Abdulazeez International Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue, KAIICID.
KAIICID is the fruit of the collaboration between the governments of Saudi Arabia, Austria and the Holy See for the promotion of worldwide Dialogue between world religions.
Bishop Kukah comes to the Dicastery on the Promotion of Integral Development with a lot of experience in the areas of human rights, justice and reconciliation.
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IndiaMart takes stock of public market
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IndiaMart, backed by Intel Capital and Brand Equity Treaty, has listed on the National Stock Exchange after raising $69m in its initial public offering.
IndiaMart, an India-based e-commerce platform backed by chipmaker Intel, listed on the National Stock Exchange on Thursday after raising Rs4.75bn ($69m) in its initial public offering. The company issued some 4.9 million shares priced at $13.40 each, the upper end of its targeted range of $13.35 to $13.40. Shares opened at $17.94 on Thursday morning…


The iconic anime franchise with a worldwide fan base returns when Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions arrives on Digital HD June 13 and on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD June 27 from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film celebrates the 20th anniversary of the global phenomenon, which remains one of the top trading-card games in the world. In this installment, Yugi Muto and his friends reunite to battle their enemies in an exhilarating fight that transcends time and space. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions features new designs and an all-new story from the original creator, Kazuki Takahashi. Including an exclusive collectible trading card, the Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.
The stakes have never been higher; the rivalries never as fierce; the risks never so great. One wrong move, one card short, and it's "game over" for good. A decade in the making, Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions features new designs and an all-new story from the original creator of the global phenomenon, Kazuki Takahashi. His masterful tale features anime's most beloved characters in their long-awaited return: Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, and their faithful friends Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Téa Gardner, and Bakura.
Title Copyright: © Kazuki Takahashi/Yu-Gi-Oh! DDMC. All Rights Reserved.
Original Japanese Run Time: 89 Mins.
English Dub Run Time: 91 Mins.
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