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Ski or Die for NES
Sport snowboarding skiing snowball
Ski or Die
Online version of Ski or Die for NES. Ski or Die is a 1990 winter sports game by Electronic Arts for the Amiga, NES, DOS and Commodore 64. It consisted of 5 minigames which could be played individually or in a set sequentially. Up to 6 players could compete against each other via hotseat in 4 of the minigames, and semi-hotseat in 1 of them (up to two players at a time). The sports and activities depicted in the minigames are halfpipe-snowboarding, inflatable sled racing, aerial skiing, downhill skiing and snowball fights...
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screenshot Gameplay
Amiga, Commodore 64, PC DOS, NES (1990)
Ski or Die downloads & info
Ski or Die is currently playable only in version for NES.
Online emulated version of Ski or Die was originally developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), an 8-bit third-generation home video game cartridge-based console produced by Nintendo, first released in Japan as the Family Computer (commonly known as the Famicom) in 1983. The NES, a face-lifted version, was released internationally in the following years. The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the platform game Super Mario Bros, the action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda and the action game Metroid. As one of the best-selling gaming consoles of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983.


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ICE Raids Will Force Long-Needed National Immigration Debate
Americans' steadfast adherence to the rule of law separates the United States from almost every other country, even other free societies. There is nothing more contrary to the rule of law, however, than the current lack of control over our southern border, across which thousands now pass illegally every day.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the young French diplomat who toured America extensively in 1831 then wrote De la démocratie en Amerique, the most celebrated portrait of the young nation's society, marveled at the operation of the rule of law here.
He wrote that "in America one man never obeys another man, only justice or the law." And Tocqueville observed: "I doubt whether crime evades punishment less often in any other country … During my stay in the United States, I saw the inhabitants of a county where a major crime has been perpetrated spontaneously form committees with the aim of arresting the guilty man and handing him over to the courts."
That spirit is why the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that began days ago against thousands of illegal aliens who have been served final deportation orders from the courts are a political loser for the Democrats so convinced of the opposite.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, rising in the polls in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, last week unveiled "a sweeping plan to change the country's immigration system" and decriminalize illegal immigration, while giving away $1.5 billion "to fund programs targeting crime, poverty, sexual violence, and trafficking in Central America" – the operative principle being that if you can't end a crisis, normalize it.
Warren's rival for the nomination, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, also rising in the polls, last week expressed the left's perspective on illegal entry with perfect elegance. "We have to have a secure border," she told ABC, "but I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented [and] cross the borders as criminals, that is correct."
So illegal immigration becomes akin to a traffic ticket.
Instead, Harris said, "we have got to have policy that is about passing comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway toward citizenship."
A Pathway Toward Permanent Socialist Rule
That pathway is a yellow brick road to amnesty, on which perhaps as many as 20 million illegals are off to see the wonderful ballot box as final destination, the vast majority of them certain to vote for liberal Democrats. Those who broke the law get away with it. They begin their legal residency here, after years of illegal residency, laughing at our system and knowing that crime pays.
As much as most of the Democrats running for the White House want to depict them fantastically as Gestapo-like round-ups, ICE's raids are delivering a message that is exactly the opposite from "pathway to amnesty." As Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, remarked on Fox last month, "if you can't deport an illegal alien who has a valid and final order of removal that's adjudicated by an immigration judge, who can you deport?"
Until our federal law enforcement system proves it can deport large numbers of aliens with final orders to, paraphrasing President Trump referring to the wrong people, "go back to where they came from," all will see that our laws are made to be broken, not respected.
But we can't wait until authorized deportations are routine, a wall is completed and functioning effectively, and the U.S. government has full control of who establishes residency here, before embarking a long-overdue debate over the level of legal immigration.
Democrats far nearer to the center than "The Squad" consider even launching such a debate to be racist. But the fact is that lily-white legal immigrants from socialist-oriented Europe, boasting high-level professional skills coveted by American business, will as Americans vote left-of-center as often, or nearly so, as the invaders from the south, supposedly feared and loathed for their brown skin.
Ethnicity is not what the debate must address but the permanent turn to the left America will take only a few years down the road if the present high levels of immigration continue. The public must become aware that this trend will nullify the U.S. Constitution's limitations on the powers of government – even if the text of our Constitution remains formally intact.
"America was founded on liberty and independence, not government coercion, domination, and control," President Trump told Congress in February. "We are born free, and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country."
Unless immigration is reduced, in just a few years a future president will look back upon this affirmation of America's founding principles as famous last words.
— Written by Thomas McArdle
border security Constitution deportations elizabeth warren Featured ICE illegal aliens Immigration Kamala Harris Socialism State of the Union Tocqueville Tom Cotton Trump
Why Isn't AOC Taking Blame For Violent Attacks On ICE?
Plan B: Impeach Trump For Fighting Illegal Immigration
Theeaglehaslanded says:
ICE raids? where are the raids? All I see is projecting what you say your going to do. Then set back and do nothing. This is the same BS that is done with everything. We are going to do, do do, then nothing.
democrats think that once the 20M or so illegal immigrants become citizens of the united states they all will vote D and by doing so assuring democratic supremacy for the next 100+ years !
There are however a few kinks in this equation , first off historical data derived from the Reagan amnesty back in the 1980s show that the majority of illegal aliens that were eligible to take advantage of the amnesty failed to do so and decided to rather stay undocumented !
This is not all too hard to understand , first off there is no real incentive for them to do so, the current system of rewarding and protecting illegal aliens in fact provides no incentive for anyone to become a US citizen or even attain legal status, as long as you can work without paying payroll taxes , file a tax return to take advantage of child tax credits while never aving to worry about having a tax liability using your ITIN , why would you want to become a citizen and give it all up ?
The second problem is that even if democrats were to manage to control all branches of the government and pass a law giving citizenship to all 20M illegals , it would take years for the naturalization process to complete , the current wait time for a legal permanent resident to become a citizen is about 2 years , now imagine how this timeline will change if the number of applicants increases by a factor of 100 ? many voters including people who came here legally and went through the process would be so disgusted and angry that democrats would suffer a monumental defeat at the ballot box for years to come
Last but not least there also is another factor democrats overlook , what if Hispanics including the ones who received amnesty don't follow the historical pattern of African americans by voting democrats en bloc ? what if – supported by the Mexican government and revisionist organizations like ra raza – a latino party emerges effectively draining votes from democrats in blue states just enough to make CA red again ? what if this party aligns closer with the GOP ?
And of course there always is the possibility of ballot initiatives in CA to reconnect the state to mexico , maybe once this takes place and polls find that 52% of latinos support the move maybe once CA reverts back to mexico than democrats will wake up
Matt Graves says:
Wow, what a totally unbiased story! Will you be first in line for the cool-aid?! What garbage, and I dont mean this propaghadist manifesto you wrote. You may now commence with your braying of 'libtaaaard'
Biden's COVID Plan: Close The Economy, Open The Border
President Trump's Case For Excluding Illegal Aliens From The Census Is Stronger Than You Think
Robert Romano
Trump's Immigration Policies And Border Wall Are Working

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/**
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Q: на minSdkVersion падает приложение Писал приложение и оно нормально работало на Android 8.0
Решил протестировать на минимальной версии (Android 4.1)
и у меня просто приложение падает
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.util.Objects
        at retrofit2.Retrofit$Builder.baseUrl(Retrofit.java:491)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule.provideRetrofit(NetworkModule.kt:24)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.provideRetrofit(NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.java:35)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.get(NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.java:26)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.get(NetworkModule_ProvideRetrofitFactory.java:10)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule_ProvideApiServiceFactory.get(NetworkModule_ProvideApiServiceFactory.java:27)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.modules.NetworkModule_ProvideApiServiceFactory.get(NetworkModule_ProvideApiServiceFactory.java:10)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.components.DaggerAppComponent.getAlbumRemoteDataSource(DaggerAppComponent.java:56)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.components.DaggerAppComponent.getAlbumRepository(DaggerAppComponent.java:59)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.components.DaggerAppComponent.getMainViewModelFactory(DaggerAppComponent.java:68)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.components.DaggerAppComponent.injectAlbumListFragment(DaggerAppComponent.java:89)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.di.components.DaggerAppComponent.inject(DaggerAppComponent.java:82)
        at ru.ddstudio.simpleitunesapp.ui.album_list.AlbumListFragment.onCreate(AlbumListFragment.kt:36)
        at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.performCreate(Fragment.java:2684)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.create(FragmentStateManager.java:270)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1173)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.addAddedFragments(FragmentManager.java:2222)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.executeOpsTogether(FragmentManager.java:1995)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.removeRedundantOperationsAndExecute(FragmentManager.java:1951)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1847)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchStateChange(FragmentManager.java:2621)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchActivityCreated(FragmentManager.java:2569)
        at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.performActivityCreated(Fragment.java:2722)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.activityCreated(FragmentStateManager.java:336)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1186)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1354)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveFragmentToExpectedState(FragmentManager.java:1432)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1495)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchStateChange(FragmentManager.java:2617)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchActivityCreated(FragmentManager.java:2569)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentController.dispatchActivityCreated(FragmentController.java:247)
        at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity.onStart(FragmentActivity.java:541)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onStart(AppCompatActivity.java:201)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1163)
        at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:5018)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2032)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

Но я так и не пойму в чем проблема

A: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37778644/java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-java-util-objects
Вот тут ответ на ваш вопрос есть. Ищите эти методы и обрамляйте if-ами

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The lovely pool is the perfect spot from which to soak up the Spanish sunshine! Trees ring the property, apart from the balcony on one side where it overlooks the local farmer's fields. This property is a beautiful example of a modern villa, and any family or group that comes to stay is bound to miss on the way home.
- Two separate bedrooms, one en-suite and the other with seperate bathroom shared with the apartment.
Villa Conde is located right next to a beautiful stretch of agricultural land that runs down with you towards the town; just 15 minutes walk away. It is easy to make your way into the beautiful resort town on foot, though a quick drive will prove equally pleasant if convenient.
Though a resort town, Moraira takes great pride in its maintained connection to its roots as a quaint fishing village. Great care is taken to maintain a whimsical and tasteful feel to the otherwise well-equipped town that can provide easy access to all necessary commodities, and several unnecessary (but enjoyable) ones. The surrounding countryside is also breathtaking and highly accessible, with plenty of scenic walks and vineyards just waiting to be explored.
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Activities for adults include art galleries, local shopping, Jet Ski hire, water skiing, deep sea fishing, diving tuition and equipment hire, tennis courts, a golf course and mountain bike hire. However, the town is also truly child-friendly. Specially designed parks are situated throughout the town along with mini-golf and funfairs. The beaches are safe, well kept and accessible from the main town through a lush series of parks that negates the need to cross any roads. If you need to travel further afield, it is also an easy drive to Gudalest, Benidorm, Calpe, Javea, Valencia, Alicante and Denia.
Villa Conde is truly family friendly; separate space for teenagers or grandparents, a heated child safe pool, a play station and plenty of space for keeping younger kids or infants closeby at night after a hard days run around. And thats before you get in to the wonderful town itself, an easy walk away that offers everything you need to entertain and delight younger family members.
We stayed at this villa in September 2018. The party included 8 adults and 3 kids. The villa had an apt downstairs which 4 adults staying in, It was perfect with 2 beds, ensuite, bathroom, kitchen and living area. Perfect for Granny and Grandad's. The villa upstairs was fab, so clean, spacious, all bedrooms spacious, great area for kids to play outside, with gates so no climbing up steps. Pool area class, toddlers pool great and adult pool so big. great bbq area and covered area to sit in the shade. Its about a 10mins walk to the town of Moraira all down hill, thou uphill going back so takes a little longer. Road grand to walk on with pushcahirs, think we counted about 20 cars the whole visit on it. Moraira itself a beautiful town, would recommend.
We had a lovely holiday. It was our third visit to Moraira and we are definitely planning to return again. The pool was lovely, and location great for wandering into town.


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Vind financiering
State of the Belgian Impact Investing sector
The world is facing significant social and ecological challenges, as reflected by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations has set out to achieve global goals such as "zero hunger," "no poverty," and "affordable and clean energy" by 2030. Among developed nations, Belgium specifically still faces significant challenges such as income poverty, availability of social housing, and access to renewable energy. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), governments, foundations, and social-purpose organizations are currently trying to address these issues, but not always at the scale or to the extent they would desire. In order to further scale and increase their impact, more funding is needed and more stakeholders must be engaged. Corporations and investors alike are showing an increased willingness to play a part in tackling these global challenges, but there is still an opportunity to do more. It is important to note that impact investing is ultimately a means to an end, where investments are seen as a tool to unlock positive impact to be generated by multiple businesses and organizations.
This report serves as a baseline to map the current state of the Belgian market of impact investing, which is defined as "investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable and beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return."1 Furthermore, the report studies and identifies the opportunities for growth, with the aim of increasing the amounts invested and the effectiveness of impact investors. This study has investigated the modus operandi of the current Belgian impact investing ecosystem and has produced a first-ever estimation of its market size. It provides a methodological foundation that future research can build on to measure the growth of the overall market. This has been accomplished through primary research (including surveys and more than 60 interviews) as well as secondary research of publicly available data, existing research, and best practices of other countries.
The result of the market sizing reveals a total current impact investment market size ranging from roughly €6 billion to €16 billion, which represents 1.0 to 2.5% of Belgium's total assets under management (AUM). Depending on the range and assumptions considered, the majority (around 45 to 75%) of this amount originates from investors who are mainly dedicated to impact, while private financial institutions (around 0 to 14%), family offices (around 14 to 15%), institutional investors (up to 2%), private equity and venture capital firms (around 1 to 4%) and other investors (around 10 to 16%) account for the remaining part.
The impact investing market in Belgium still has high growth potential, especially through attracting more investments from traditional investors, who have currently only invested a small fraction of their total AUM toward societal impact. Compared to neighboring countries, it is estimated that the Belgian market size for impact investing could more than double, up to total AUM of more than €30 billion within the next three to five years.
You can now read our whole report on the state of the Belgian impact investing sector.
The full report is available to download here
The executive summary will be available to download here: soon
Sevan Holemans, Managing director of Solifin
Belgium Market sizing Impact investing Growth potential
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After taking a load of photos for #24HrsToots I was invited to take photos of Rob, the chef currently residing at Unwined in Tooting, and his wonderful food. He runs Back Door Kitchen and is their first guest chef.
They were both delicious and I left feeling very contented. I certainly recommend a visit to anyone who enjoys good food and wine in a unique setting.


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On 28-11-1950 Ed Harris (nickname: Ed) was born in Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.. He made his 20 million dollar fortune with The Abyss, Apollo 13 & The Rock. The actor & director his starsign is Sagittarius and he is now 71 years of age.
Ed Harris Facts & Wiki
Where does Ed Harris live? And how much money does Ed Harris earn?
Birth Date 28-11-1950
Heritage/origin American
Religion - believes in God? Other
Residence He owns a house in Malibu, California, U.S..
Ed Harris Net Worth, Salary, Cars & Houses
Ed Harris is an American actor, director and screenwriter who has a net worth of $20 million. He is best known for his performance in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss and Apollo 13.
Estimated Net Worth 20 million Dollar
Highest Grossing Movies Gravity, National Treasure: Book of Secrets & Apollo 13
Colleagues Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly & Gary Sinise
Ed Harris: Wife, Dating, Family & Friends
In 1983, Ed Harris married actress Amy Madigan. The couple has one daughter, Lily Dolores Harris.
Who is Ed Harris dating in 2022?
Relationship status Married (Since 1983)
Current Wife of Ed Harris Amy Madigan
Has any kids? Yes, father of: Lily Dolores Harris
Will the marriage of American actor & director Ed Harris and current Wife, Amy Madigan survive 2022?
He might have befriended Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly & Gary Sinise, but what about family? Names of father, mother, kids, brothers & sisters:
Robert L. Harris (Father)
Margaret Harris (Mother)
Spencer Harris (Brother)
Robert Harris (Brother)
Lily Dolores Harris (Daughter)
This talented actor & director originating from Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. has a athletic body & square face type.
Hair color Regular blond
Hairstyle casual
Eye Color Blue
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Q: How to delete the Windows directory from an old hard drive? I recently installed a new faster hard drive on my computer, and I am using the old drive as a secondary.
I am running Windows 7 Professional, and it won't let me delete the Windows directory off of the old secondary drive.
I even tried using RMDIR /s E:\Windows from an elevated command prompt. Same problem: access denied.
How do I fix it?

A: Download and burn an Ubuntu LiveCD http://www.ubuntu.com/
Then boot into that LiveCD (usually place the CD in the drive, restart your computer while holding down F12 )
The Ubuntu Distribution will take a little while to load, once it does it should recognize your internal hardrives. You can find more info here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows
Just remove these folders through Linux.
rm -rf <path to directory to remove>

if this fails because of privileges try
sudo rm -rf <path to directory to remove>

Be warned, you should be absolutely sure you do not need these directories.

A: Windows 10 how to steal a full ownership of protected folder
I just deleted Windows,Program Files, Program Files(x86) folders from the old hdd disk.

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*Select a folder in a file explorer

*2nd mouse button/Properties/Security tab

*Advanced button, Click on the Owner: xxx (Change) hyperlink

*Type in the your username or use Advanced to search for user object.

*Click [x]Replace owner on subcontainers.. field

*Click on the Apply button

*Click on OK to close all permission windows

*2nd mouse button/Properties/Security tab, second time

*Advanced button

*Click on the Add or select your own username row in a listbox.

*Apply [x]Full control and everything else to your username object, if doubt apply a generic all users group to have a full control as well.

*Click [x]Replace all child object permission entries.. field

*Click on the Apply button

*Click on OK to close all permission windows

Delete a windows, program files or any protected folder you took.

A: You must take ownership and then grant yourself Full Control permissions to the folder.
Taking ownership only gives you the ability to change ACLs.
Granting yourself permissions then gives you the ability to delete the files/folders.

A: I ended up reformatting the drive from an elevated command prompt, which effectively wiped out everything on the drive, including the Windows directory.

A: At least following worked for me:
takeown /f x:\windows /r

added full rights to the folder in properties -> security
icacls x:\windows /reset /T

A: I installed a new solid state drive (SSD) pre-loaded with Win 7 Home Edition OS and my program files in the primary bay of my laptop .  I plan to use  the original HDD in the second bay of my laptop for data files. I had to clean out all the OS-related files and folders from this HDD and leave my existing data files intact.
I installed the HDD in the second bay of my laptop (it could be left outside and connected via a USB port) and tried to delete the OS files with Windows Explorer. The running Windows OS would not let me delete the system files. I tried several ways of changing permissions and none of them worked for me.  So, I used a program called "PartedMagic",. The PM program gets loaded via a CD on power-up, before Windows boots, so Windows cannot invoke it's rules against deleting System Files.
Here's the short procedure:  Download the PM program, save it, and burn it to a CD.  Insert the CD and reboot the computer. Set the BIOS to boot from the CD. Among many other things, PM has a "Windows Explorer" like feature.  Open it, navigate to the correct HDD and delete all the files and folders related to the OS.  While you are there, delete any other unwanted folders and files.  Defrag the HDD and your done.
Details left out of the short procedure:
Insert the CD created above into the CD tray and close it. Restart the pc. When the pc starts to boot up, press the ESC key (or f10 key) repeatedly to enter the BIOS. Set the BIOS to boot from the CD.  Select "1", the default setting, on PM.  After the program has loaded, click on the "Explorer" icon.  Select the HDD you want to work on and start deleting.  When you think you have removed all of the "undeletable" files and folders you "might" be done.  Restart your computer.  It should boot to the installed OS. If not, remove the CD and try again.  Take a look at the HDD contents with Windows Explorer.  You can delete unwanted non-OS data with WE.
OR,
I used another neat program that runs in Windows called WinDirStat to do a final clean up.  Download and run the program.  Select the drive you are working on. This program presents a great visual display of the HDD contents.  Note: be patient, it takes WinDirStat a few minutes to crunch the contents and display it.  Navigate around the colorful display and, when you are done deleting, run a defrag program.  You are set go with lot's of space to store your data.
P.S.  Please don't interpret anything in this procedure as disparaging toward Microsoft products.  I like Windows 7.

A: Change the ownership of windows folder,
Right click on windows folder, security tab, advanced button , change principal , type your user name, then ok,, add ur user name again on secuirity , then go back to advanced button, enable inherit, and check small box below inherit then ok,, u will able to delete that folder now

A: As I recall you can do that using a boot disk


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Give Me A Moment – Pt. 2
I might be taking quite a few moments. Because there are so many, I actively hunt these cards out and have amassed a decent amount. This particular grouping is part of a large lot from 2011 that helped kick off this adventure. It contained 40 different cards and I'm positive I paid quite a bit less than $1 each at the time, which is my per card limit for this set (at least when buying singles).
Ready for some box score summarizing skills?
Don't expect quality captions
Win #2
September 29, 1986 – Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies
Maddux earned his second win in his last start of the 1986 season and his 6th appearance (5th start). That gave him a 2-4 record with a 5.52 ERA. He allowed runs in every game, including 3 over 7 2/3 innings in this winning effort. Of course, things would get better.
I guess the scan quality was poor in 2011
July 24, 1987 – Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers
Our second card is for his last win of the 1987 season. Funny how that works out. It wasn't his last start, however, as he pitched in 9 more games after this, recording the loss in 6 of them. This win almost didn't happen. Maddux exited after 6 innings and the Cubs took the lead at the top of the 7th, breaking the 4-4 tie. This would be his last losing season until 2005.
About 1/1oth of his career total
Win #37
July 29, 1989 – Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets
The 11th win of the year was also his 3rd complete game of the season. The 10-3 final came courtesy of home runs by Damon Berryhill and Ryne Sandberg along with 16 other hits by the Cubs. Maddux (hitting .255 for the year at that point) was 0-4.
Jackie Robinson win
September 2, 1989 – Chicago Cubs vs. Atlanta Braves
Another 10-3 win. The Cubs scored 6 runs in the first to support a 7-inning outing with only 1 earned run by Maddux. He probably could have completed the game, since he only had 84 pitches at that time, but with the playoff potential, he likely got some extra rest in the blowout.
Fast pace to 45
September 26, 1989 – Chicago Cubs at Montreal Expos
What are the odds? Another win that is the last start of the season. Maddux helped lead the Cubs to the post season in 1989 and notched 19 wins. They would lose to the Giants in the NLCS, but let's focus on 3-2 win against the Expos that featured 6 strikeouts by the Professor. Oh, he also ended the season batting .210 (going 0-3 in this last game). He almost didn't get the win this day, as that third run didn't arrive until the top of the 8th.
Seen this picture before
July 27, 1990 – Chicago Cubs at Montreal Expos
Maddux gets his 3rd win in a row and 7th of the year in a much needed zero earned run day. His ERA had run up to 4.74 just a few starts prior, but this two-hitter knocked him down to 4.06. He went 9 innings, but didn't get the complete game because the first (and only runs) came in the top of the 10th.
About 1/5th of the total
May 6, 1991 – Chicago Cubs at Houston Astros
Maddux improved to 4-1 on the year, but only managed 3 strikeouts in 7 innings. Still, the Astros only managed 4 hits against him. Future Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies gave up a home run to George Bell and Greg helped his own cause with an RBI stemming from an error in the 4th.
78 wins in one year would be, like, a record
April 20, 1992 – Chicago Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies
Three starts and three wins for the season that saw Topps introduce parallels and indirectly cause this set to live. This was also his third quality start, giving up 3 over 7 innings with 8 K's and only 1 walk. The Cubs scored 8 and Maddux was one of those with his solo home run off Kyle Abbott. This would be the second homer of his career (out of 5).
We've crossed into Braves territory
Win #115
October 2, 1993 – Atlanta Braves vs. Colorado Rockies
Another last win/start of the season card. Win #20 of the year came against the lowly and brand spanking new Rockies. It was a 10-1 trouncing that gave Mad Dog a 2.36 ERA on his way to the playoffs. He also had 2 hits in the game, raising his average to .165 with that last RBI single in bottom of the 7th.
Can you believe that this is less than 1/4th of one lot I bought? Can you also believe that I've bought several smaller lots and one larger lot since then? I'll need a few more moments — and some more binder space.
September 14th, 2016 | Tags: 2008, 2008 Moments and Milestones, baseball, collecting, Greg Maddux, Moments and Milestones, parallels, Player Collection, serial #'d | Category: Lots, Player Collections


Refugee Camp in Portland | Ross Gale is a writer and editor from the Pacific Northwest.
If you're in downtown Portland on Thursday between 10am-8pm I recommend spending some time in the PSU park blocks for the Roots Festival.
I'll be there with Camp Darfur where we'll be talking about genocide in our mock refugee camp while providing opportunities for everyone to send hand written letters to local government officials about the Darfur genocide.
Wednesday night at 8, we'll also be showing the movie Screamers at the 5th Ave. Cinema for free.
that is awesome. if i wasn't busy every Thursday night i would definitely join you. sorry man.


Setting sail on a dream voyage can potentially drain your wallet. However, you don't need to sink further into debt paying for transportation to the cruise terminal. If your embarkation point is Port Canaveral, Fla., there are ways to preserve your bottom line as you prepare to hit the high seas. Hotels near the cruise ship mecca offer deals which include accommodations and essentially free shuttle service to Port Canaveral.
Comfort Inn and Suites Cocoa Beach offers package deals featuring virtually free shuttle service to Port Canaveral. The hotel -- situated 8 miles from the cruise terminal -- has a "No Parking" pre-cruise promotion, which is ideal if you are without a car in Cocoa Beach. It includes overnight accommodations, a welcome cocktail and one-way transportation for two directly to Port Canaveral. Itemize the package's expenses and the shuttle service is practically free.
The "Park & Cruise" combo includes lodging in a standard room, parking in the hotel's lot for the duration of your trip and shuttle rides for two guests to and from Port Canaveral. The total cost of the package is less than you'd pay if you were parking your vehicle at the cruise terminal for a week.
If you're traveling by air to embark on your voyage, consider the hotel's "Fly, Snooze & Cruise" package. It features round-trip transportation from the Orlando International Airport, overnight lodging, a beverage at check-in and shuttle service for two to Port Canaveral. The package's price is less than you'd pay for a bus ride from the airport to the cruise terminal.
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Book La Quinta Inn Cocoa Beach-Port Canaveral's "Park & Cruise" package and you and a guest will be chauffeured to and from Port Canaveral for free. You can also park your vehicle at the hotel for the length of your trip at no extra charge. The promotion is offered year-round and includes overnight lodging at the budget hotel, plus free breakfast. Basically, you score the shuttle service and parking for the price of a standard room. Another bonus: The hotel's location -- less than 10 minutes from Port Canaveral -- makes for a swift commute.
Get more bang for your buck when you take advantage of Courtyard by Marriott Cocoa Beach-Port Canaveral's "Park & Cruise" package. Pay the rack rate or best available rate on a room, plus a flat fee, and receive free parking at the hotel for the duration of your vacation at sea and round-trip shuttle service to Port Canaveral for two. Skip the package and you'll have to pay for hotel parking, as well as a taxi to the terminal. The "Fly, Snooze and Cruise" deal features lodging, ground transportation to and from Orlando International Airport and round-trip shuttle service to the cruise terminal. The price is based on room availability for a single occupant, plus a one-time fee. Despite the fee, the total package price is still less than what you'd fork over if you were paying for overnight accommodations and ground transportation individually.
Michele Wanke is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has been writing and reporting about travel and garden trends since 1996. Her work has earned her multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association National Max Karant Journalism Award. Wanke holds a Bachelor's of Arts in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wanke, Michele. "Hotels With Free Shuttle Service to Port Canaveral." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-shuttle-service-port-canaveral-110697.html. 09 October 2017.
Park & Fly Hotels in Washington, D.C.
Tugboats at dock in Port Canaveral, Florida, is owned by MSC Cruises.
The Ms Msc Divina At Dock In Port Canaveral, Florida, Is Owned By Msc Cruises. It Was Christened In 2012.


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Brow Head () est un cap constituant le point le plus méridional de l'île d'Irlande et de l'État d'Irlande situé sur l'île principale.

Il est situé à proximité de  dans le comté de Cork.

Voir aussi
 Liste de points extrêmes de l'Irlande
 Mizen Head

Point extrême de l'Irlande
Point extrême de l'Irlande (pays)
Cap de l'océan Atlantique
Cap en Irlande (pays)

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It's the beginning of 2016 and a great time to make some resolutions for the new year! If staying healthy is one of your resolutions this year, make sure to add "excellent oral health" to the list as well. Dr. Nathan Pfister, a biological dentist in Alabama, claims that dental health and overall health influence each other in many ways.
Dr. Pfister recognizes the fact that dental bacteria and oral inflammation are connected to many medical conditions such as memory disorders, Alzheimer's, heart problems, diabetes, and stroke. Therefore, he connects the diet and oral health habits of his patients by observing plaque samples with a microscope. This way, Dr.Pfister can determine whether dental issues are caused by poor oral hygiene habits, an unbalanced diet, or a medical problem.
There is even further evidence of the strong connection between dentistry and medicine in a study published in the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. According to this study, there is also a link between periodontal or chronic inflammatory gum disease (which can vary based on smoking habits) and an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Professor Jo L. Freudenheim, PhD, of the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions adds that this common disease is associated with heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other cancers.
Out of the 73,737 postmenopausal women (none of whom were previously diagnosed with cancer) who participated in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study led by Professor Freudenheim, 26.1% had periodontal disease. 6.7 years later, the women with this disease had a 14% higher risk of breast cancer.
Possible explanations for the connection between breast cancer and periodontal disease include the effect of inflammation on breast tissues and oral bacteria entering the circulatory system. Professor Freudenheim claims that more studies need to be conducted in other populations in order to determine if there is a causal relationship between oral bacteria and breast cancer.
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Louise Gluck
"The Poet and the Poem at the Library of Congress"
An interview with Louise Gluck by Grace Cavalieri
Louise Gluck was the 12th Poet Laureate Consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress. This interview was conducted by Grace Cavalieri for the radio program "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress," during the Library's bicentennial celebration in 2000. The program was distributed via NPR satellite to public radio stations.
Louise Gluck holds the Pulitzer Prize for her book, The Wild Iris; She is the author of eight other books of poetry, most recently The Seven Ages (Ecco Press.). She holds the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for Poetry, The National Critics Circle Award, and The Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. Her book of essays won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for nonfiction. She teaches at Williams College. She recently taught at Harvard and at Brandies University, where she was Hurst Professor. In 2003, Louise Gluck accepted a five-year appointment as Judge for The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.
To begin our discussion, I want to refer to a poem in your new book, the poem "Time." That poem is very interesting because it has many of the elements that I know throughout your work. Even that tiny thread of humor 'The dog slept through it' that is very typical Louise. And, I will say, that poem raises some important philosophical questions. . I was wondering if your work is used in other places besides literature classes, perhaps philosophy classes.
Louise:
Well, I have no idea. But it would indeed be wonderful, were that true
I could teach a course on philosophy using your work, a question like: why love what you will lose. There is nothing else to love."
That would delight me.
When you wrote that poem, I'm sure there were fifty drafts behind it.
No, well one of the things that?s very curious is that I seem to have two methods of writing. One is the crafts person method, which now seems, because I haven?t done it a while, very dear to me, in which the words are labored over; and a sense of agency is created by that process. You actually have a sense of yourself as making the poem. When you write very rapidly, when I write very rapidly, I lose that sense that the poem is mine. I can?t think where it came from. But it?s usually done quite quickly, and altered very little. The poem "Stars," in that same book, it is an example of the last process. This new book, The Seven Ages, is like that. There are poems here that were over and over and over revised; taken apart, put together again, but in a very compressed period of time. And then there are poems in which there are recalcitrant words, phrases, things that I feel could be better.
Well, the reason I asked about your process is because, the vowels are so musical. That is either from years of hard work, or something that actually could not have been constructed. The vowels in that poem are extraordinary, and it is the motion in the poem. Of course I?m on the other side of the table, I have the opportunity to listen. And I was just thinking how one gets into such a space of comfort, to use vowels that way, and that?s a very musical poem. Also, it has, one of your characteristics, the direct address in the middle, which jettisons where you have been, And as I always say, you?re very mischievous, you lull us along in the poem and then you do something quite unusual. The last lines, with your adverbs, are unusual for you too-- "softly," "fiercely," now that?s interesting. I see they?re in parens. I heard them in parens.
That interests me.
I have often said you do something no other poet does as well, and it?s not fair to leave you there. You can take the emotion, the very fragile feeling, and you build a scenario around it. You build a house around the feeling. Now that sounds like something everyone does, but no one does it exactly as you do. It is misunderstood as autobiography sometime, but it is fiction, except for the feelings. Where did you get your confidence in story,
Well, that?s a quite curious question.
It?s like fairy tales for adults,
It?s actually a rather profound question, and I fear I will not do it justice. It?s immediately starting my thought. But, I think that it?s, in saying to write, you?re going to write that which most concerns you, which most quickens your mind, and then to turn those subjects over with as resourceful and complex a touch as possible. I am endlessly irritated by the reading of my poems as autobiography. I draw on the materials my life has given me, but what interests me isn?t that they happen to me, what interests me is that they seem, as I look around, paradigmatic. We?re all born mortal. We have to contend with the idea of mortality. We all, at some point, love, with the risks involved, the vulnerabilities involved, the disappointments and great thrills of passion. This is common human experience, so what you use is the self as a laboratory, in which to practice, master, what seem to you central human dilemmas.
In your essays Proofs and Theories, you do have one discussion which I thought was going to answer that, and you call writing a search for context,� and so that seems in keeping with what you?re saying. So you come with the content, but the whole trick is to find, to build the house, the story, the context for it, and I thought that was a very simple statement, but a very important one.
Well, it?s true. I mean I remember once, a poem I wrote when I was very, very, very young, in my teens that I thought was, at the time, sublime. It was a poem about a dying deer, and indeed it did have some quite beautiful language. The problem was that the beautiful language was harnessed to this deer, about which I knew nothing, so that the poem was sentimental and grandiose. Well it was foolish, it was a, you know, young person?s ardent effort. But, it was clear that the lines had about them an authority, and a sense of what the nature of loss was, and the problem was to give them a home, to put those lines in the mouth of the person who should be saying them, at the moment when they should be said, and it took me many years to figure out the proper setting for the lines. And then it was a persona poem, but it worked much better.
What was the general response of readers to The Wild Iris?
After The Wild Iris, I got a great deal of mail from people who were in the religious life, asking me to write little columns on the deity.
And flowers.
And flowers. I got a lot of horticultural inquiries, and I?m not a horticulturist.
Although we have to admire your knowledge of the natural world. There is knowledge in Wild Iris, which is admirable.
It all comes from White Flower Farms Catalog. And it also comes from growing flowers.
How do you describe that book?
The Wild Iris was a book suffused with awe, and is deeply lyrical. It was very clear to me afterward I could not do anything more of that kind. I don?t think that that?s how you grow as an artist. I wanted to do something very different. I wanted to write something comic in the largest sense, with the spacious comedy of Mozart?s Marriage of Figaro,. That was my model in which the shrug that forgives human foibles somehow was the informing impulse. The book in which I undertook to do this was a book that was written at a time when a very long marriage was beginning to seem not likely to continue, and one of the problems of the book was that my life was giving me materials that were desolating, and what I felt as an artist was an imperative to do comedy. One of the horrors of the divorce was that I kept thinking it was going to take me decades to write my book, and it did take a while, because it was very clear to me that I had no wish to write a lacerating book about divorce. I had no wish to embody it in verse. I wanted to write my genial, forgiving, tolerant book of adult love. And I had a very elaborate sense of what its structure was supposed to be, which was subsequently set aside, though it delighted me endlessly. What the book ended up by being, was a double narrative, in which the dissolution of a contemporary marriage, which is elaborated in a series of petulant, comic conversations, and private bickerings, alternates with, is threaded through, with the story of Odysseus and Penelope. And the last thing that was added to the manuscript was a group of poems. Let me backtrack and say that it was clear to me for a very long time that though I thought I had done everything I knew how to do, the book was not finished. It was clear that it was not done. And when something is a single undertaking, as was this book, if it isn?t done, it?s a failure. It?s like a novel that hasn?t worked out. It isn?t that you have ten poems instead of twenty, you have nothing. And I kept thinking, well what?s missing is a sort of somberness, maybe, or a deep sorrow that should be running through this. I had shown the manuscript, in part, to a friend of mine who?s a classicist, and I asked her if she noticed something that she would like to see embodied, or if she noticed an absence, and she said, Well, you have no Telemachus,� and I said, Oh, there's no room for Telemachus�(the child of Penelope and Odysseus. And all of a sudden I thought, well, why don?t I try Telemachus. And this was after I had had some good luck with executing an assignment that my friend Robert Pinsky had given me. We do that for each other.
And Telemachus ends up being the major figure in this book.
I love Telemachus. I love this little boy. He saved my book, and the poems in his voice were written very, very, very quickly, over a period of about ten days or two weeks, in busses, and in guest room beds, and elevators. Once I had the sound of his voice, which is to say the sound of his mind, I knew how to finish my book, and I did the poems in an exultant rush, and then got bronchitis for about three weeks, but it was worth it. Anyway, one of Telemachus? poems, regards his parents' sufferings and ordeals, and offers his point of view. His guilt.
Bronchitis was enough of a price to pay, but I was going to ask you what price you paid for the kind of writing you do, because I think you are the bravest poet I know, and you stop at nothing; you strip veils off, and you do not, you let the chips fall where they may. But because you believe in story, you have a safety net. And it is probably what entitles you to go on.
Bronchitis seems like a small thing. It seemed horrible at the time, but even then I thought, well, alright, if this is payback, fine, fine; if this is what I get for not sleeping for ten days, fine.
Your book of essays is a spare, eloquent book; it certainly has less verbiage per page than any other book of essays, you talk about the courage in writing. Well, that sounds like a very obvious thing to say for a writer. I mean we teach courage, we don?t teach language in the classroom. And it seems an obvious thought, but you seem to live it. I imagine that you don?t think about this much when you?re writing, how much courage it summons to get to where you go, to your source. But it is a fact, isn?t it?
It seems to me that there?s no other way to live. I mean, it doesn?t seem courageous. It seems what drives me is interest. I want to be interested. I want to feel my thoughts alive. That doesn?t seem to take courage. It seems fortunate, when that?s permitted. When for some reason or other, I have, I?m in the grip of an idea. That just seems the most blessed and remarkable state, I don?t enter all that often.
You?ve been treated very well by the critics, I think. Pretty well.
And I must say, better than I gave them credit for. Because sometimes I want to say, oh, you?ve got that all wrong,� you know, to some critics. But I think that you have been received as a flawless writer; as a writer with very great care given to each word placement. I think that they?ve noticed your diction. I think that every bit of work that you?ve put into it has been surprisingly noticed. And so you must feel okay about that.
I try to stay apart from it, because you?re always appalled, and it?s astonishing to me the degree to which the human ego can feel slighted, even when it?s being praised, if somebody gets something a little bit wrong, and I don?t want to be distracted by my response. My power ends when I get the poem on the page, and after that it belongs not to me, but to someone else, and I can?t control what?s made of it, and I do not want to travel around America telling people how to read my poems. I hope that they will find readers who will read them with perception. I hope that they will be worthy of perception, which is even more crucial.
Well, the thing which you give us is reason to go on, because it is a transcendence, and you can take, the ugliest things that we have to endure to be mortal--betrayal, loss, greed, even -- every human attribute you change, so that you make it work for us, and say: aren?t we lucky that we can go here after we?ve been there. And you make a song, a high lyric song, of all of these really very crude and rude qualities we were born to. And I think that?s enough to do in one lifetime.
Well, I hope.
I want to go back to The Wild Iris. It?s been called one long poem by some people, but I?m not sure I go along with that.
Well, I think I meant it to read as a single entity.
At a single sitting, right?
Didn?t you even say that once?
I say that repeatedly. This is giving the lie to my idea that I don?t want to tell people how to read my books, but in fact I do. The books since Ararat -- The Wild Iris, Meadowlands, Vita Nuova, and the new one -- all of them, I think, in different ways, are wholes. I always work very hard on organizing groups of disparate lyrics into a shape that would give some indication of a larger ambition than might otherwise be apparent, and then after Ararat, I started writing these book length sequences. Well, at least that?s how they appeared to me. The Wild Iris takes its form from the arc of a summer in a garden. There are three types of speakers. The natural world speaks, and the poems spoken by the earth have the names of flowers; The Silver Lily, The Wild Iris, Field Flowers. Then there are poems in which a human speaker addresses, occasionally the earth, I think, but mostly, whatever- I have no word to describe this divinity, or celestial presence, has animated its life.
Some people call it God.
Yeah, they do, don?t they. Well, I don?t. It?s shorthand. It?s shorthand for whatever is not included in the human, and the natural. Something is left out. And then there is the voice in which that presence responds, usually with impatient disappointment, to the human being. Occasionally with tenderness exhausted tenderness it became clear to me at a certain point that the sound of that voice became very like the sound of my mother. Not in its elevations, but in its substance. I should also say that my mother was a great partisan, even very early, of my work, and gave me great encouragement. But she also set a very high standard. And the book is shaped by the failure of these voices always to meet the natural, which addresses the human; the human that addresses the natural, and the Divine, and the Divine that looks at it all and says, I had better hopes for you than this.�
Life with conditions.
For instance the poem The Silver Lily is toward the end of the book. If you are gardeners, you know that this comes, the lily usually -- not the daylily, but the Asiatics and so on -- bloom toward the end of summer, and in Vermont, where this garden was, at the very end of summer. And oftentimes they don?t even get to bloom because the snow falls first.
You have a title, which says it?s either a remark or title, Art in Service of Spirit�. Whether you like to think it or not, you are one of our leading forces in poetry, and I don?t know if that makes you uncomfortable. First of all, you ask the question, or the poems ask the question, do we need a creator? The poems needed a creator. So, is that the answer?
I don?t know the answer!
OK, you just ask the questions. But, it is spiritual work, and everything you say about decay and growth and I have a quote from another source. Well, actually it?s from Wild Iris Then white light no longer disguised as matter,� which sums up quite a bit of what you write about. The moving through, the moving through the temporal to the eternal. And I?m sure it?s another one of those things you wouldn?t want to stop and think about as you did. But the spiritual lessons there are very interesting and difficult questions that are raised. In Wild Iris, would it bother you if somebody read it and didn?t know that there were three different personas there, that God was not an element? If they just read them as poems without those three faces?
I think they would be very confused. I don?t know how they would manage to negotiate the book but...
I tried it both ways, as a matter of fact. And the poems work both ways. Much richer as designed. But as poems, single poems, without the subtext, they live. Which I thought was very interesting, it was just an experiment I did. And I did read where you were compared with George Herbert and Dickinson for their attachment to flowers, which I thought was just something to say. You know, critics will say anything. I?ve written reviews, and you can say anything you want. You can twist anything to work.
Yes, I?m aware of that.
We?ll just let that one stay right where it is, okay? Wild Iris is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. And it?s a milestone in American letters. Yes. When you read something that?s worth remembering, you liberate a human voice. You release into the world again a companion spirit.� That?s from Death and Absence, which you wrote. Very nice idea, that the reader?s important too.
Well, I think that that was my experience early on as a reader. I was a lonely child. My interactions with the world as a social being were unnatural, forced, performances, and I was happiest reading. Well, it wasn?t all that sublime, I watched a lot of television and ate a lot of food, too. But, when I read, I felt that especially when I read poems I felt that the voices on the page, Blake and Eliot and Yates, were my companions. I felt that they were my not just my teachers I felt, these are the people I would be able to talk to. They?re talking to me. My early writing was an attempt at communication with them, a response to them.
That?s nice.
And I think that most writers feel some sense that dialogue with the dead. And when people ask, what do you want, what kind of response do you want to your work, what I want is for Blake to come down from heaven and say, Louise, you did a very good job.� That?s what I want. And fortunately, I have Blake surrogates who are alive, and they?re fastidious attention helps me - proves that effort is not wasted, that there are ears that receive. And you want to be such an ear yourself. I think it?s not possible to be a writer without being that kind of instrument for other people.
Consciousness attracts like-consciousness, and you want to be the company of those people who you understand, and who understand you, that is just logical.
And who hold you to a high standard.
Which apparently your friends do. They give you assignments.
They do.
Talk a little about your past publications.
Ararat, was the first book that I saw as a whole, and when I began writing it, it was clear to me that either it was going to be a book-length mosaic, or it was a failure. The first poems were little poems about my father?s death, and suburban Long Island. I had struggled for a long time to discover a tone a voice that was colloquial, I seem to have no gift for it. My earlier work is filled with Delphic distances, and it?s not to say that these are not worth something, but it was very plain to me after four books that the way in which I spoke was never present in the way in which I wrote, and it troubled me that I had no access to that other voice. I could imitate other people?s vernacular, I could do an imitation of William Carlos Williams, but that?s what it was, it was a literary act. And finally in Ararat, I learned how to do it. The book was, overall, deeply disliked, though I?m still very attached to it it?s one of my favorite of my books. But the poems are almost without figure, without beauty, without metaphor.
That is a good book. Ararat.
I like Ararat too.
In your book of essays, the chapter "On impoverishment," you talk about the terror of hopelessness, and how, I know I?m paraphrasing this you plug into a deeper source, where your recurring themes, eternal themes can renew, and you find your force in that. So, the yearning is the hydraulic system under your work. The yearning to write even. In one poem you say, what do I wish for? I wish for another poem. And that?s it, isn?t it?
It sure is.
And when that goes away -- We are cold and naked when that goes away. But having accomplished this pile of books, you know that it will come back.
Most writers say when they sit down to write, I do not know how to do this thing.�
Well, in fact, you don?t. Because you don?t want to do anything you?ve already done, and you are not any longer the person who wrote those books. I look at those poems, or read them, and think, how odd, that I wrote them.� I have no sense of having done so.
Alice Walker said, when she finished The Color Purple, she did not recognize it. The characters just walked through her and walked away, she?d never realized she did it.
This is true
When you look at something you wrote a long time ago, is there ever a sense of embarrassment, because you?re not in that same place now?
Yes. There are poems I don?t like anymore. That?s different. My first book, I feel - the firstborn embarrassed by, though I was enormously proud of it at the time. I thought it was just perfectly great. Now I look at it and I think it?s thin and unformed, and filled with the wish animated by the wish to write. It took me about six years to write the following book, The House on Marshland, and I think from that point on, I?m willing to sign my name.
Would you be surprised if some people liked that book better than any other?
No, because they?ve told me so. I wish they wouldn?t, but they do!
What does that mean? It means that it reverberates differently for everyone.
Oh, I think it means that this book is it?s impeccably pretty everything in it is artful, compact, delicate. There?s none of the assonance that Ararat is made of. It?s not my favorite, but it?s one of my most likeable, crowd-pleasing books.
People like the truth to be pretty. But I think there?s some strong stuff in there.
Oh, I think it?s a good book. I think it?s a good book. I?m glad it?s not the book I had...
.. The last book you had written?.
Yes, I?m glad of that.
We are at the Library?s bicentennial. This is a repository for the world?s treasures, What was your role as consultant to the Poet Laureate? Were there official duties, or are you just a wonderful guide?
I think Robert Pinsky would not want to think of me as a wonderful spirit guide. It?s not clear what the duties are. Well, let me put it this way. The duties were outlined, and they seemed so appealingly few, that one could hardly credit it. I?m supposed to appear in Washington twice in November and April, and that seems to be the list. And that seemed to be something I was willing to take on.
May I say that we are very happy about that.
Grace Cavalieri is an author of several books of poetry, the latest What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press, 2004.) She holds the Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, a Paterson Prize for Poetry, the Bordighera Poetry Award for 2005, plus others. She is producer/host of "The Poet and the Poem," now in its 30th year on public radio.


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El Footscray JUST fue un equipo de fútbol de Australia que jugó en la National Soccer League, la desaparecida primera división nacional, de la cual fue uno de los equipos fundadores.

Historia
Fue fundado en el año 1950 en la ciudad de Melbourne por un grupo de inmigrantes de Yugoslavia por iniciativa de Ivan Kuketz, un empresario hotelero local y presidente del Brighton Soccer Club luego de ver el nivel de los futbolistas provenientes de Europa luego de finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fundó al equipo con el nombre Jugoslav United Soccer Teamcon Kuketz como su primer presidente, aunque el club adoptó el acrónimo JUST para simplificar el nombre.

Primeros Años
Hizo su debut en la Victorian Division Three South en 1950. Tranquilamente logra el ascenso a la Victorian Division One luego de ser campeón de segunda división en 1951. JUST tuvo un exitoso año al lograr ganar la Dockerty Cup con victoria por 1–0 ante el Brighton. JUST luego falló en lograr el título de liga en 1952 y 1953 al terminar en tercer lugar en ambas ocasiones, y en quinto lugar en los siguientes tres años antes de ganar su primer título de liga en 1957 y terminar el dominio de las últimas cinco temporadas del Juventus. Al año siguiente el JUST cayó al intentar mantener el éxito en la nueva Victorian State League en la que terminó en décimo lugar, la peor participación del club desde su ingreso a la liga.

1961–1977
El JUST fue la entidad dominante luego de unirse con los de ascenddencia italiana Footscray Capri en 1961, por lo que el equipo pasa a llamarse Footscray Jugoslav United Soccer Team y localizados en la Reserva Schintler en Victoria, Australia. La llegada de Zvonimir "Rale" Rasic y Aleksandar Jagodić como nuevo entrenador en 1962 provocaron un impacto rápido logrando ganar la Victorian State League en y la Dockerty Cup en 1963 al vencer 4–2 al Marabyinong Polonia. Al año siguiente el JUST estuvo cerca de lograr el bicampeonato, que perdió por un punto ante el South Melbourne Hellas (empatado con el George Cross), y terminó subcampeón al perder 0-1 ante el Port Melbourne Slavia en la final de la Dockerty Cup de 1964.

El club iba en la mitad de la tabla antes de finalizar la temporada de 1968 y finalizó en el undécimo lugar, la peor ubicación del clujb en una década. La crisis fue una advertencia para el entrenador Rale Rasić, quien llevó al JUST a ganar el campeonato de 1969 antes de dirigir a  al año siguiente. El JUST también llegó a la final de la Victorian State League Cup en 1969 pero fue derrotado. Al finalizar la década de los años 1960 marcó una era dorada en el club, y el JUST logra ser campeón de liga por cuarta ocasión en 1971. El club también llegó a la final de la Dockerty Cup de 1971 pero perdió 0-2 ante Juventus. El éxito en la liga fue creciendo al ganar su quinto título, y fue el último que ganó el club en 1973. El Plavi ganó la Victorian State League Cup en tres ocasiones consecutivas en 1974, 1975 y 1976. La última ocasión que ganó la Dockerty Cup fue en 1976 al vencer en la final 2–0 al Marabyinong Polonia.

National Soccer League & Desaparición (1977–1990)

En 1977 el JUST se convirtió en uno de los equipos fundadores de la National Soccer League en la que estuvo en casi todas las temporadas en la zona baja de la clasificación excepto en la de 1986, cuando perdió ante el Adelaide City en la gran final de la Conferencia Sur. En ese Footscray contrató a la leyenda del Red Star Belgrade Dragoslav Šekularac como jugador y entrenador, y con el llegó Vlada Stošić, quien ayudó a llevar al equipo de la parte baja de la clasificación a pelear por los primeros lugares.

Sin embargo, las pobres actuaciones regresaron en su última temporada como miembros de la NSL en 1989, luego de que el equipo cambiara su nombre por el de Melbourne City JUST y que la Reserva Schintler estuviera bajo varias remodelaciones, el club fue bajado a la Victoria State League con el equipo de Melbourne Heidelberg United FC al terminar en penúltimo lugar, en donde solo ganaron cinco partidos.

Su último partido en la NSL fue el  ante 1830 espectadores en la Reserva Schintler en un empate 1–1 ante el Sydney Olympic.

El club fue relegado de la Victorian State League Division 1 en 1990 luego de terminar en el lugar 15. El club posteriormente fue tomado por la comunidad argentina, dando por finalizado la histórica conexión Yugoslava/Serbia y el fin del original Footscray JUST.

El club fue tomado por el equipo subvietnamita Footscray City y el Melbourne City que jugarían en la Reserva Schintler, pero la dejaron vacante en 1994 y ahora es un almacén. (no tiene ninguna relación con el equipo de la A League del mismo nombre).

Seguidores y Rivalidades
El club era seguido mayoritariamente por comunistas que llegaron e Melbourne. El JUST recibió un particular apoyo fuerte de la población de origen serbio, así como simpatizantes croatas y macedonios en torneo a ambas comunidades y establecieron equipos rivales. El JUST mantuvo relaciones con equipos de Sídney como SSC Yugal, al notar que sus rivales tenían vínculos con las autoridades comunistas yugoslavas y la UDBA. El club también incluía miembros de la comunidad australiana.

A través de la historia el JUST mantuvo una fuerte rivalidad con el Croatia, fundado en 1953 por inmigrantes croatas. La rivalidad tenía claras razones políticas mostradas por el nacionalismo croata y la libertad del comunismo.

También tuvo una rivalidad en menor medida con el Preston Makedonia, formado por otros miembros de ascendencia yugoslava. Fue fundado en 1947 por inmigrantes macedonios con un fuerte nacionalismo propio.

Palmarés
Victorian Division 1/ Victorian State League (5): 1957, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1973
Victorian Division 2 (1): 1951
Victorian Division 3 (South) (1): 1950
National Soccer League (Southern Conference): Finalists 1986
Dockerty Cup (3): 1951, 1963, 1976
Victorian State League Cup (3): 1974, 1975, 1976
Victorian Ampol Night Soccer Cup (6): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1965, 1975

Temporadas

NSL

Jugadores

Jugadores destacados

  Jim Milisavljevic
  Angus Drennen
  Minh Tri Vo
  Billy Rice
  Branko Buljevic
  Doug Utjesenovic

  Peter Ollerton
  Jamie Paton
  Vlada Stosic
  Oscar Crino
  Gary van Egmond
  Warren Spink

  Ernie Tapai
  Frank Micic
  Josip Picioane
  Mehmet Duraković
  Vlado Bozinovski
  Brian O'Donnell

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Equipos de fútbol desaparecidos de Australia
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1950
Equipos de fútbol desaparecidos en 1990
Equipos de fútbol que se han fusionado y fusiones
Deporte en Melbourne
Australia en 1950
Australia en 1990
Equipos de fútbol que han cambiado de ciudad


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Matteo Vagelli at the Seminar of Historical Epistemology (SHE)
Seminar of Historical Epistemology (SHE)
Matteo Vagelli
(Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
"The Manipulative Hand and the Attentive Eye"
The historical epistemology of lab-science from Bachelard's applied rationalism to Hacking's experimental realism
When: Wednesday, May 31, h 14.30
Where: University of Milan, Aula Enzo Paci
Historical epistemology is nowadays a widespread but controversial umbrella term, especially in Anglophone domains, where it is used to name a growing number of different case studies and distant, when not outright incoherent, methodologies for combining history and philosophy of science. My contention is that the field of historical epistemology can be stabilized by means of an a posteriori confrontation with the French tradition of épistémologie historique, better referred to as the "French style in epistemology" (Braunstein 2002). In this presentation, I offer an example of such a stabilization through a comparative analysis of Gaston Bachelard's basic concept of applied rationalism, phenomenotechnique (Bachelard 1932), and Ian Hacking's experimental argument from Representing and Intervening (1983) for the realism of unobservable theoretical entities. Despite important differences between their work, both philosophers emphasize that theoretical entities like the electron are the result of scientific « realization » and, more generally, that the sciences progress by producing new phenomena and accumulating ways of reasoning about them. My analysis will highlight how this original account of science, and of technoscience in particular, despite apparent similarities to constructivist histories, fundamentally departs from other contemporary proposals within science studies (especially Latour-Woolgar 1979).
Seminar of Historical Epistemology
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PETA Says American Humane's 'A Dog's Purpose' Report Akin To Tobacco Industry Investigating Itself
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UPDATE with PETA statement: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is taking issue with the claim made by American Humane that no animals were harmed on the set of A Dog's Purpose. PETA said today that the report "must be received with skepticism" given the track record of the animal watchdog group.
PETA is asking AH to release the actual report written about the day of the incident involving a German Shepard who was seen on video being forced into the water and also slipping under water for what the producer says was a total of four seconds during the shoot of the movie. PETA also has asked to see the full video that filmmakers said they saw.
In a statement just released from PETA SVP Lisa Lange, she states:
The new report commissioned by American Humane (AH) only confirms that there were at least two incidents in which a dog was terrified and forced into churning water and that during one of them, he was submerged.
AH is funded by the Screen Actors Guild and is the same agency that allowed 27 animals to die during the production of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, so this study must be received with the skepticism that AH's longstanding failures warrant—in the same way that one would be cautious about a "third-party" study of the link between cancer and cigarettes commissioned by the tobacco industry.
As we've been doing since the day the video came out, PETA is calling on AH to release the report that was written on the day of the incident.
Also, American Humane also was monitoring the HBO series Luck on which three horses died.
PREVIOUS, February 4, 12:20 PM: American Humane announced that an independent, third-party investigation found that no animals were harmed on the set of A Dog's Purpose and said that the video broadcast by TMZ showing a German Shepard being forced into the water and the later slipping under water "mischaracterized the events on the set." They have not released the full video as yet to the public, but did acknowledge "that the handling of the dog in the first scene in the video should have been gentler and signs of stress recognized earlier."
Here is what American Humane said the investigation found, according to its website:
The findings of the independent investigation confirm that no animals were harmed in those scenes and numerous preventative safety measures were in place.
The investigation and eyewitness reports have brought to light the following facts:
–The video was deliberately edited for the purpose of misleading the public and stoking outrage. In fact, the two scenes shown in the edited video were filmed at different times.
–The first video scene was stopped after the dog showed signs of stress. The dog was not forced to swim in the water at any time.
–A full spectrum of preparation and safety measures were in place, including the following:
–Prior to shooting the scene, safety meetings were held to go over and reinforce safety precautions and protocols.
–The dog was selected for his love of the water, and had been professionally trained and conditioned for the water scenes over the course of six weeks, using positive training techniques.
–In addition to one of American Humane's Certified Animal Safety Representatives, five experts—including safety specialists and animal handlers—were present to supervise and safeguard the dog throughout the water scene.
–During the last scene, handlers immediately assisted the dog out of the water, at which point he was placed in a warming tent and received an examination that found no signs of stress. Eyewitnesses report that the dog wanted to go back in the water. Still, out of an abundance of caution, American Humane stopped filming of any more scenes with the dog.
–A veterinary checkup was performed last week at the request of American Humane, which confirmed that the dog is healthy.
Further, they said that eyewitness reports and the investigation both "affirmed" that during the shoot "the dog was treated with great care, attentiveness and respect." They said that although the dog was stressed, "based on studying additional footage not included in the video, body posture, and the fact that he quickly and willingly went into the water and performed the scene soon afterwards, a separate, independent, board certified Veterinary Behaviorist brought in to examine the events concluded that there was 'no lasting stress response or conditioned fear of the water as a result.' "
"American Humane is at the forefront of combating cruelty to animals through our rescue efforts, support of anti-cruelty raids, and work to improve conditions for animals around the world," said Dr. Kwane Stewart, the veterinarian who heads American Humane's "No Animals Were Harmed" program. "It is disappointing that the public was misled by a manufactured controversy promoted by a radical organization like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with a mission to remove animals from films and other parts of our lives. We are the first to address and fight cruelty and abuse, and no such things happened on the set of A Dog Purpose."
This article was printed from	https://deadline.com/2017/02/a-dogs-purpose-investigation-american-humane-says-investigation-result-no-animals-harmed-1201902611/


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Accommodations options range from soaring glass skyscraper lodgings to grand boulevard hotels to converted row houses.
Stylish inns and boutique hotels are appearing in increasing numbers, especially in Old Montreal, and several of them are recommended in this chapter. Except in bed-and-breakfasts, visitors can almost always count on discounts and package deals, especially on weekends, when the hotels' business clients have packed their bags and gone home.
Though they don't usually offer discounts, B&Bs boast cozier settings than many hotels, often at lower prices than comparable hotels. Plus, B&Bs give visitors the opportunity to get to know a Montrealer or two. By the nature of the trade, bed-and-breakfast owners are among the most outgoing and knowledgeable guides one might want. For information about downtown B&B's, contact Bed & Breakfast Downtown Network, 3458 av. Laval (at rue Sherbrooke), Montreal, PQ H2X 3C8 (tel. 800/267-5180 or 514/289-9749; www.bbmontreal.qc.ca. As a referral agency for homeowners who have one or more rooms available for guests, this company represents about 30 properties with 46 guest rooms. Doubles are typically C$60 to C$75 (US$43-US$54). Rooms with private bathrooms are more expensive than those that share facilities. Accommodations and the rules of individual homeowners vary significantly, so it's wise to ask all pertinent questions up front, such as if children are welcome or if all guests share bathrooms. Deposits are usually required, with the balance payable upon arrival. American Express, Visa, and MasterCard are accepted.
Quebec's tourist authorities have drawn up a six-level rating system (zero to five stars) for all establishments offering six or more rooms to travelers. No star is assigned to hotels or inns meeting only basic minimum standards and five stars are reserved for establishments that are deemed exceptional in terms of facilities and services. An ochre-and-brown shield bearing the assigned rating is found near the entrance to most hotels and inns. Most of the recommendations listed below are in the three- or four-star categories. The stars that you will see in the reviews in this section are based on Frommer's star system, which assigns between zero and three stars. The Quebec system of rating is based necessarily on quantitative measures, while the Frommer's star ratings are more subjective, taking into account such considerations as price-to-value ratios, quality of service, location, helpfulness of staff, and the presence of such facilities as spas and fitness centers.
Note: Nearly all hotel staff members, from front-desk personnel to porters, are reassuringly bilingual.
Rates -- The rates quoted in the listings in this section are "rack rates" -- the maximum rates that a hotel charges for rooms. I've used these rack rates to divide the hotels into four price categories, ranging from "Very Expensive" to "Inexpensive," for easy reference. But rack rates are only guidelines, and most people end up paying less than the rack rate.
You'll find the highest hotel rates during Montreal's busiest times, from May through October, reaching a peak in July and August. High rates also pop up during the frequent summer festivals, during annual holiday periods (Canadian or American), and when Montreal and Quebec City hold their winter carnivals in February. At those times, reserve well in advance, especially if you're looking for special rates or packages. Most other times, expect to find plenty of available rooms.
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Taxes -- The provincial government imposes a 7.5% tax on accommodations (TVQ) in addition to the 7% federal goods and services tax (TPS). Foreign visitors can get most of the hotel tax back, assuming they save their receipts and file the necessary refund form. Unless specifically noted, prices given here do not include taxes -- federal or provincial.


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Alaska's small glaciers on the way out
Gulkana Glacier, here seen from Summit Lake off the Richardson Highway, is shrinking back into the mountains of the Alaska Range.
Glaciers worldwide are withering. Half of them will disappear by the end of this century, and much of the lost ice will vanish from mountains in Alaska, scientists say.
Authors of a recent cover story in the journal Science used high-performance computers to predict the fate of 215,547 glaciers on Earth. They excluded the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
Their conclusions: Goodbye to Bird, Crow, Daisy, Dogshead, Polychrome, Prospect, Red, Rex, Shakespeare and Spoon glaciers by the year 2100. If not earlier.
True, most of us won't be here in 77 years either, but warmer air temperatures will probably erase those Alaska glaciers and a few dozen more — including an Anchorage water source named Eklutna Glacier — before then.
UAF Geophysical Institute scientists, including David Rounce (now at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh) and Regine Hock, are the lead authors on the study.
Using supercomputers at UAF, they forecast the future of the world's glaciers under a few different warming scenarios, each of which humanity is currently speeding past.
A visitor stands on the shore of a lake near Worthington Glacier, which is accessible by the Richardson Highway not far from Valdez.
"Even under the very optimistic scenario corresponding to the goal of the Paris agreement, about half of the glaciers are expected to be lost by the end of the century," Hock said.
In their data set, the scientists looked at glaciers all over the world, in regions they called Arctic Canada North, Central Asia and Russian Arctic, among a dozen others. Alaska is one of the places with the most ice to lose. Alaska's glaciers have already shrunk in elevation 3 feet each year during the past two decades.
Alaska glaciers are huge contributors to global ice loss because there are so many of them, and a lot of them are huge. Many Alaska glaciers are also at low elevations where gravity conveyor-belts their ice into the melting zone.
If the planet's temperatures continue on this trajectory, favorite roadside glaciers will slip out of sight. This will likely play out in most Alaska glacier towns, including Juneau, by the end of the century.
Visitors take images of Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau in summer 2022 from inside the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.
"Mendenhall Glacier may not disappear completely, but it will certainly retreat so much that it won´t be visible from the visitor center, even for the (most optimistic) scenario," Hock said.
Aside from aesthetics, why does the disappearance of glacier ice matter? Hock said that all that fresh water now dumping into the Gulf of Alaska will affect ocean circulation and ecosystems.
Also, worldwide seas could rise half a foot from the loss of glacier ice by 2100.
Rounce compiled a list of more than 200 named Alaska glaciers that will be gone by the end of the century if the planet's average yearly temperature rises 4 degrees Celsius from what it was before the Industrial Revolution. That's a lot of goodbyes.
Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.