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Darts Tournament History
World Matchplay Darts Tournament History
This tournament has been played in its current format since 1994 and it takes place in Blackpool at The Winter Gardens. Its probably the best venue on tour and one that all the players look forward to due to the vociferous crowds and large prize pools. It's been sponsored by Proton Cars, Websters, Stan James and Skybet since the year 1994, and is now being sponsored by the betting exchange Betfair. It's the only tournament that doesn't have a deciding leg as all matches must be decided by 2 clear legs which leads to a lot of excitement and games that run and run.
The tournament has been won 12 times by Taylor in its 18 years and other winners are Larry Butler, Peter Evison, Rod Harrington (x2), Colin Lloyd and James Wade. The tournament takes place over the course of a week in late July and features 32 of the top players in the world. It's the 16 top players as taken from the PDC Order of Merit along with 16 players who have earned the most money in qualifying events up until the cut off point at the end of June. From there the 16 from the OOM will be seeded and drawn against the 16 qualifiers which always leads to some explosive matches in R1. As in most tournaments the format gets longer as the rounds progress and will culminate in a final that is best of 35 legs.
2000 – Phil Taylor bt Alan Warriner 18-12
2001 – Phil Taylor bt Richie Burnett 18-10
2002 – Phil Taylor bt John Part 18-16
2003 – Phil Taylor bt Wayne Mardle 18-12
2004 – Phil Taylor bt Mark Dudbridge 18-8
2005 – Colin Lloyd bt John Part 18-12
2006 – Phil Taylor bt James Wade 18-11
2007 – James Wade bt Terry Jenkins 18-7
2008 – Phil Taylor bt James Wade 18-9
2009 – Phil Taylor bt Terry Jenkins 18-4
2010 – Phil Taylor bt Raymond van Barneveld 18-12
Las Vegas Desert Classic Tournament History
This tournament is probably the one that is treated with the least amount of seriousness and prestige by the players. A lot of players tend to combine the darts with a holiday and a bit of time gambling. There's always an odd atmosphere at the venue too due to the games all taking place in the morning and very small crowds in comparison with the rest of the tv tournaments. It takes place over 5 days in early July and has been played in a legs based format for the past 2 years. A feature of this tournament is the early rounds being a very short format which always lends itself to shocks as in a race to 6 any of the top 50 are capable of running 3 or 4 very quick legs to gain a huge advantage. Phil Taylor has the best record of anyone here with 4 wins in the tournament history but one player who is worth looking out for is Wes Newton who seems to reserve his best for Las Vegas despite showing very little elsewhere.
2002 – Phil Taylor bt Ronnie Baxter 3-0 (Sets)
2003 – Peter Manley bt John Part 16-12 (Legs)
2004 – Phil Taylor bt Wayne Mardle 6-4 (Sets)
2006 – John Part bt Raymond Van Barneveld 6-3 (Sets)
2007 – Raymond Van Barneveld bt Terry Jenkins 13-6 (Legs)
2008 – Phil Taylor bt James Wade 13-7 (Legs)
PDC World Championships Darts Tournament History
The PDC World Championships – the hunting ground for Phil "The Power" Taylor. Its spiritual home is the Circus Tavern, but it's now found its home in the Alexandra Palace. It's been the tournament that has the most TV coverage, the most prize money and, most importantly for us, the most betting opportunities. 69 televised matches in 2009 gave us plenty of opportunity to find the value, especially as the bookmakers tend not to get 69 matches priced up correctly over the space of two weeks.
There are usually more markets than any other tournament for us to "play" with, from bets covering the whole tournament (number of 180s, outright winner etc.) to match betting on all 69 matches in the tournament.
It has the most famous names in darts and due to the coverage that Sky give the PDC, form lines are easy to find, especially from the TV tournaments. With a slew of knowledge helping us and with all the markets on offer, it really is Christmas for us bettors, which is apt considering the time of year that it's held.
So while the tournament has almost become the "Phil Taylor Benefit" in recent years, there is still lots of money to be made in the two weeks and even if the final doesn't throw up any value bets, you're still guaranteed a fantastic show of darts.
1994: Dennis Priestley beat Phil Taylor 6-1
1995: Phil Taylor beat Rod Harrington 6-2
1996: Phil Taylor beat Dennis Priestley 6-4
1999: Phil Taylor beat Peter Manley 6-2
2001: Phil Taylor beat John Part 7-0
2003: John Part beat Phil Taylor 7-6
2004: Phil Taylor beat Kevin Painter 7-6
2005: Phil Taylor beat Mark Dudbridge 7-4
2007: Raymond van Barneveld beat Phil Taylor 7-6
2008: John Part beat Kirk Shepherd 7-2
2009: Phil Taylor beat Raymond van Barneveld 7-1
UK Open Darts Tournament History
The UK Open, the tournament full of clichés. It's the "FA Cup" of darts, where "fairytales can happen" and all sorts of other ridiculous clichés that can be spouted over the course of four days. It's a commentator's dream, but can be a nightmare for us bettors, unless we tread carefully and know our onions, so to speak.
The reason the UK Open is the "FA Cup of darts" is because of the format. It's the only tournament where anyone can play anyone. There are no seeds and a draw takes place at the end of each round. It means once the big guns enter, they could face drawn to face each other in their first match. Qualifiers and those at the bottom end of the UK Open Order of Merit (65-96) play in the preliminary and first rounds. Since a lot of these players are unknown to most, it can be hazardous having too many bets or too big a bet. Remember, some of these players will have qualified from their local Rileys, or even through the Speedy Hire qualifiers. It's the beauty of the tournament, in some respects.
After the first round is over, those 33-64 in the Order of Merit join the draw. Now luckily for us, there are bigger names joining the field at this stage, players that have had TV or perform on a regular basis in the floor tournament, picking up good results along the way. However, since we don't know who they'll be facing (as even though the draw is made in advance for round 2, they can still play one of two players), we have a bit of a quandary. But there's money to be made as long as you're paying attention to the floor tournaments.
Then the rest of the field enter, your top 32 in the Order of Merit and usually the players that will go on to do well. However, as we've mentioned, the open draw means the players you think might do well could easily face each other in round three.
But the nature of the tournament means you usually get an outsider in the final. In recent years we've had Gary Mawson, Vincent van der Voort, and Barrie Bates competing in finals. Now, they might not have won, but an each-way backer will have had a nice lift on them, regardless.
The other thing to note about the UK Open is the short format. Best of 11 legs in the early rounds means a lot of big names and favourites can lose quite quickly. If you take a leg or two to find your throw, it can be too late. Plus, if you throw first, all you need to do is hold your throw. Now, in round three when your "favourites" enter, it's best of 17, so it does give you more of a chance to have one or two "off" legs. But it's still a short format and many top players have succumbed to defeat at this early stage in the tournament. As is evident from the results, while a lot tournaments might be a hunting ground for Phil Taylor, he isn't the Superman in the UK Open that he appears to be in so many other tournament.
2003: Phil Taylor beat Shayne Burgess 18-8
2004: Roland Scholten beat John Part 11-6
2005: Phil Taylor beat Mark Walsh 13-7
2006: Raymond van Barneveld beat Barrie Bates 13-7
2007: Raymond van Barneveld beat Vincent van der Voort 16-8
2008: James Wade beat Gary Mawson 11-7
2009: Phil Taylor beat Colin Osborne 11-6
2010: Phil Taylor beat Gary Anderson 11-5
2011: James Wade beat Wes Newton 11-8
Grand Slam of Darts Tournament History
The Grand Slam of Darts is in its infancy. It started in 2007 with a different format to the rest of the televised darts tournament. It's a style almost identical to the International Darts League, with players from both the BDO and PDC competing in a group stage (similar to things like the Champions League, although playing each other only once). After the group stage, the top two from each group go through to the traditional knock-out format.
The league takes on a short, best of nine legs format. So much like the UK Open, it can throw up some "upsets", although with the majority of players being at the top of their field, the results aren't as surprising. Still, the advantage lies with who has the darts and it's not uncommon to see slight price shifts just before the match depending on who has the throw. After the group stages, it changes to best of 19, then 31 and 35 for the final. Naturally, it gives those at the top of their game a chance to shine, giving us as bettor a bit of fairer playing field.
Due to the format, we can also bet on group winners, as well as the usual darts markets. It a welcome change and one that can pay dividends, as the field is perceived as being quite close (aside from obvious exceptions), thus meaning the books aren't lop-sided. It can be easy enough to narrow the four man group down to two possible winners and from there, finding the value shouldn't be too difficult.
2007: Phil Taylor beat Andy Hamilton 18-11
2008: Phil Taylor beat Terry Jenkins 18-9.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 My Online Visual Identity When Michele Martin changed her profile picture the other day, I realized I was a bit disoriented. Tallasiandude.you raise some essential points about privacy and anonymity.
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Q: Subtypes of Julia concrete types In order to practising with Julia, I am implementing a little module containing some fixed step ODE solvers (Euler, Runge Kutta, Bulirsch Stoer) using the iterator interface.
My idea was to use multiple dispatch to apply the correct method of the function next to the particular iterator, however the Euler and Runge Kutta iterator type (actually immutable) old the same data.
So I have to choose between:

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*create two immutable type identical except for the name or

*crate a unique immutable with an additional field (say solving_method) and use branching instead of multiple dispatch to address this issue

Both choices seem clunky to me (in particular the second, because the solving_method field is checked at every iteration).
Reading the online discussions about inheritance in Julia I understood that Julia does not have (and will never have) subtypes of concrete types, meaning that one cannot "add fields" to a parent type in this way.
But why I cannot have subtypes of concrete types just for dispatching purposes?

A: One idiomatic way to solve this flavor of problem is to create a type that stores parameters or the state of the solver and then have a second immutable to specify the method:
type SolverOptions
    # ... step size, error tol, etc.
end

immutable RungeKutta end

immutable Euler end

function solve(problem::ODE, method::RungeKutta, options::SolverOptions)
    # ... code here ...
end

function solve(problem::ODE, method::Euler, options::SolverOptions)
    # ... code here ...
end

Of course, RungeKutta and Euler need not be empty if you want to store some data in there. This isn't always the best solution (and I can't be sure that it will work in your particular case) but it can help when you are trying to prevent duplication of fieldnames.

A: Maybe try parametric types?
abstract OdeType
abstract Euler <: OdeType
abstract RK4 <: OdeType

immutable Common{T<:OdeType}
    x::Int
end

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The CMCC Supercomputing Center (SCC) is situated inside the Campus "Ecotekne" in Lecce, via per Monteroni and it was inaugurated on January 30, 2009 with the presentation conference and the participation of the President of CMCC Antonio Navarra and the Responsible of the SCC Director Giovanni Aloisio.
In order to meet the increasing needs of computational power and storage capacity in line with the "Green Computing" challenge, CMCC up-grated the Supercomputing Center. The new supercomputing infrastructure is composed of a high performance computing system based on the last generation of Intel Sandy Bridge processors. In particular, the new cluster will be equipped with 482 bi-processor computing nodes IBM DX 360M4 interconnected through a FDR InfiniBand network (56Gb/sec). The theoretical peak performance of the new system (approximately 8000 cores in total) will be 160Tflops (there were approximately 30Tflops in the old system). The new supercomputing infrastructure will be capable of responding to the growing need of computation and storage for CMCC in the coming years.


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A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
Mohamed Mansi Qandil
Translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine
Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
Combining allegory with magical realism, this epic novel takes readers on a journey through Egyptian history.
"This is an extremely well-crafted and indeed often erudite work of fiction."—Roger Allen, author of The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction
Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, this finely constructed epic traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent beyond the reach of a predatory uncle. With her English education, Aisha crosses paths with Lord Cromer, British consul-general of Egypt, and famed archaeologist Howard Carter, with whom she will trek to locate Tutankhamen's tomb. Fate briefly favors Aisha when she falls in love with the Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar, until events conspire to move her life along adarker path.
Part allegory, part magical realism, this novel is threaded with aspects of Egyptian antiquity, including semihistorical accounts of the excavations of ancient Egyptian relics and the tortured jealousies that accompanied them. A deftly written journey through momentous occasions in world history, A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore explores questions of Egypt's identity and history, and the implications—for better or worse—of European exploitation of the treasures of pharaonic civilization. Novelist Qandil skillfully allows readers to encounter complex questions of colonialism, gender, and sectarianism—all through the symbolic lens of an unlikely Egyptian heroine.
Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed Mansi Qandil was born in the Nile delta. He went to medical school and worked as a country doctor before beginning to write fiction. He has published several novels, short-story collections, and children's books, and now lives in Canada.
Barbara Romaine has translated a number of novels by Radwa Ashour, as well as Bahaa' Taher's Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery. In 2011, her translation of Spectres was runner-up for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize. She has taught Arabic at several universities for over twenty years.
6 x 9, 392 pages
Subjects: Middle East studies, fiction, literature in translation, Egyptian literature


The Only Way Is Essexmas spoilers: Why do Gemma and Bobby fall out and who's feeling lonely this Christmas?
It may be Christmas, but things are looking far from merry in Essex this December. Here is a little festive sneak peek ahead of the TOWIE Crimbo special this Sunday.
BFFs Gemma Collins and Bobby Norris have a serious falling out around the dinner table as they eat a Christmas roast with pals Lauren Goodger and Lydia Bright. When Bobby makes a dig at Gemma's crush on Jon Clark, GC is far from pleased.
Uh oh. Prepare for the wrath of GC.
Elsewhere, Danni Armstrong proves she is still very much not over James Lock after heading to Liverpool to celebrate his birthday. It all ends in tears when she hears Lockie talking about his new girlfriend and Danni begins to wonder if she'd have been better off spending Christmas back home in Essex.
Danni isn't the only one struggling to move on. Dan Edgar is also having trouble getting over Kate Wright, so he pays Chloe Sims and Megan McKenna a visit to open up about his feelings for his ex-flame. However, it seems Kate is not on the same page as she begins to enjoy her newfound freedom as a single woman.
Pete Wicks attempts a round two with Megan's family after the disastrous encounter at the end of the last series. The scandalous pair are now officially back together, but will they be able to keep the peace when Pete reveals he's off for a wild weekend in Liverpool with Lockie?
Meanwhile, Carol Wright and Debbie Douglas take some time to remember the lovely Nanny Pat, who passed away last December.
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As you read this, I am headed to Los Angeles.
For the past few years, I have been doing presentations at the annual NAMM Show. NAMM is the National Association of Music Merchants. Their annual show in Anaheim is a beast. 7000 brands are exhibiting. There over 500 sessions and networking events, with over 115,000 people registered (from over 120 countries). That's not a typo. Have you ever been to conference/trade show with over 115,000 people? The trade show floor is so big that I have never been able to walk it in its entirety. I dare say that I've only ever managed to see a small fraction of it. NAMM is the biggest (and most awesome) event for the music, sound and event technology industries. What started off as an event for the manufacturers of music instruments to show their wares for the coming year with music instrument retailers has morphed and grown into this behemoth.
NAMM is actually Bizarro World. That's what I call it.
For the non-comic book nerds, Bizarro World was the creation of DC Comics. It was a planet where everything was inverted (or, as Wikipedia defines it, "opposite to expectations"). See, in the real world, the ratio of human being to rock star is very small. At NAMM, it's inverted. Almost everyone you see is a rock star (either literally, or in their respective fields). If you follow my Instagram or Facebook feeds, you will see what I mean. Every step you take at NAMM puts you face to face with another rock star. For a music fan like me? Sounds like heaven. For a music fan like me with a podcast like Groove – The No Treble Podcast? Sounds like heaven. For a music fan like me with a podcast like Groove – The No Treble Podcast and a background in rock music journalism (which I did for over a decade)? Sounds like heaven. In short: Yes, it's heaven.
You can mix business with pleasure.
Being able to present and connect to the leaders in those industries about how they can decode the future, and understand what's next for their business is a true pleasure (and that's no humblebrag). Getting to spend my days walking the NAMM trade show floor, and talking up bass players with the crew from No Treble is a true pleasure ("where you at, Kev?!?"). I also get to see what's next in that industry's technology. For me, It's amazing to be able to say that you truly can mix business with pleasure. It's nothing that I have ever written or talked about all that much, but as I prep to give a session on what some of the best YouTube channels do to get it so right (Ultimate YouTube Hacks for Music Retailers) and a live recording of the No Treble Podcast with Van Halen's Michael Anthony, I realized that one of the main things I've done when choosing clients, jobs or even the vocation that I'm in, was based on the question, "will this be fun?" All of my work has been things that I would do as a hobby if it were not my job. From writing in the music business to fiddling with nascent technology, to helping brands do better at marketing – it wasn't money-driven or career stature-driven… I did it because I thought it would be fun. Not in a goofy/fun kind of way, but in a stimulating/"I would really enjoy this" kind of way. It hasn't always worked out. I've quit jobs. I've been fired from jobs. Some of it was my own doing, and I've been in situations where I would have stayed, but I was let go. With that, it's hard to be mad or upset, when you really do love the work that you're doing, and the industry that you serve.
Maybe that's the real happiness trick?
We hear so much about "finding your passion" or doing that "one thing," but maybe it's more about doing work that gives you pleasure. Being in an industry that you're genuinely inquisitive and excited about. That seems more like a reasonable (and possible) path for those to take who don't get that kind of satisfaction from the work that they're currently doing. Is business and hard work important? Of course it is (I'm writing this article at 9 pm on a Friday night). But just because it's work, or business or a job, it doesn't mean that it can't be a total pleasure to do. It won't always be a pleasure (that's unrealistic and impossible), but in your heart of hearts, you know what inspires you to grow and move forward. For me, NAMM is a great personal case study and the perfect microcosm of how I define success (for myself): My ability to do the work that I do, for the industries that inspire me, in front of professionals who are appreciative of my work (and I'm compensated accordingly), while being surrounded by people I work with (and for)… and they are truly friends.
If you can find a better definition for success, I'm all ears.


Nigerian born New Zealan-based Professional Mixed Martial Artist, Israel Adesanya has added another win to his UFC middleweight glory by defeating his mentor Anderson Silva, Saturday night in the UFC 234 in Melbourne, Autralia.
According to Newshub, the fight was upgraded to the main event after the fight of the night between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum was canceled due to a hernia by Whittaker.
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The middleweight fighters adopted playful jeer, making each rounds last. However, Silva could not keep up with Adesanya's pace at the third round. This made it easier for Adesanya to land bigger shot and win unanimously.


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Published by Lucinda Dordley on July 23, 2018
Is the cursed Foreshore Freeway Project on yet again? It may seem so.
Last Sunday, Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, said that the City will go back to the drawing board to find another way of making the stagnant project work. "It is disappointing that our first attempt did not work out," de Lille said in a statement. "Last week the City Manager informed me that the formal Request for Proposals for the future of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct was to be cancelled following consideration of the appeals against the identification of one qualifying bidder."
As the appeal authority, the City Manager cancelled the RPF based on the appeals he had received, and after taking legal advice.
The Request for Proposals for the development of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct was launched in July 2016, and was a bid to address the ever-growing traffic volumes going in and out of the city centre, as well as the congestion caused as a result of this.
As there are 6 hectares of prime City-owned land available, the City felt that this presented an opportunity to deliver one of the key pillars, which includes building an inclusive city, by ensuring that affordable housing is included in any development proposal.
"Our approach to addressing traffic congestion and the need for inner-city affordable housing was unique and innovative and we were excited to receive six compelling and innovative proposals. We are extremely grateful to the bidders for their proposals and their efforts," de Lille said.
The 6 hectare Foreshore Freeway Precinct is the last remaining undeveloped land in the inner city, and the response to the RPF shows that there is a market appetite for:
1. Address traffic congestion.
2. Include affordable housing.
3. Deal with apartheid spatial planning .
4. Ensure integration of different communities and income levels and establish inclusive communities as committed to in the DA's national manifesto.
5. Provide inclusive spaces to be funded by partnerships with private sponsors and leveraging City assets and optimisation these assets to drive economic benefits for the City in line with the DA's manifesto for Cape Town.
"The City Manager has agreed that the RFP will be redrafted to address concerns raised during the appeal," de Lille added. "I wish to thank the developers who participated in our first RFP. I trust that they will understand that in trying something innovative and unique we had no precedent to reply upon and I hope that they will be in a position to participate again when the new RFP is issued."
Picture: Brett Herron/Twitter
Article written by Lucinda Dordley
Lucinda is a hard news writer who occasionally dabbles in lifestyle writing, and recent journalism graduate. She is a proud intersectional feminist, and is passionate about actively creating a world which is free of discrimination and inequality.


This week, I attended The Money Show in Las Vegas, met with many of you during my presentations and fielded a number of well-thought-out questions. While there was some talk of Facebook's initial public offering, a sense of caution about the near-term direction of the stock market was in the air as many of you, as well as me, are concerned with the number of uncertainties around the globe. These concerns were fueled early this week by Greek depositors withdrawing €700 million ($898 million) from the country's banks, raising fears of a bank run amid the growing political disarray. Also this week, the Bank of England raised its short-term outlook on consumer-price inflation, and also lowered its outlook for British growth citing "the single-biggest threat to the recovery stems from the challenges within the euro area." While the Greek caretaker government eventually agreed this past week to new elections, probably on June 17, the reality is that this ongoing Greek tragedy will continue for at least another four weeks, if not longer.
Despite some improvement in domestic housing starts and factory output measured by industrial production data, the conversation surrounding the fiscal cliff we face continues to get louder. The fiscal cliff refers to the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and the payroll tax holiday, as well as the end of extended unemployment benefits and the automatic spending and budget cuts mandated by Congress if lawmakers fail to reach deficit reduction goals. This week, Goldman Sachs issued a report saying the U.S. economy could shrink as much as 4 percentage points in the first half of 2013 if Congress fails to address the expiration of $600 billion worth of tax breaks and jobless benefits by the end of this year. Reading between the lines, the Goldman forecast would put us back into a recession if a resolution is not reached. This potential situation would contrast to the moderate growth that currently is expected in 2013. The latest from Blue Chip Economic Indicators, which polls 50 forecasters, currently calls for growth near 2.5% in 2013, which is on par with 2012.
Add this situation to other uncertainties that include the fate of Obamacare, a tax overhaul and the outcome of the presidential election later this year, and I continue to see the market moving sideways, at best, in the coming weeks. That said, we could get an up day in the market here or there as traders look to capitalize on a would-be positive data point. An example of such a data point was this week's read on April housing starts. On its face, the housing starts data was better than expected, but focusing on that lone data point fails to paint the full picture. Rather, when we view the April housing starts data in the context of more than 1.3 million foreclosed homes — and more on the way according to RealtyTrac — it looks more like the housing market may be bottoming instead of rebounding.
As I always say, it takes at least a few points to draw a straight line and this reasoning also applies to investing. We need to examine a number of data points to understand what is really going on, rather than simply listening to the barrage of headline-only news reiterated and regurgitated on the TV. After all, how can we make informed decisions if we don't know what is really going on?
Living Longer Lives – Acknowledging that the growing obesity problem in the United States is real, more than 1,200 people gathered in Washington, D.C., last week for the Weight of the Nation 2012 conference. The Weight of the Nation also is a documentary series and public health campaign made in collaboration by HBO and the Institute of Medicine, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health, among others. These films that look at the severity of the obesity epidemic and its crippling effects on our health-care system can be viewed here.
New Demand, New Solutions – Last week, I touched on improving brightness for white light emitting diode (LED) as a key step in LEDs breaking into the general illumination market. This week, Washington D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray and officials from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Department of the Environment (DDOE) completed the first phase of the relighting project in which energy-efficient, long-lasting street lights have replaced old, inefficient lights. The transition should cut the district's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 719 tons. The LED-powered light fixtures are targeting to provide nearly 60% energy savings, compared to the old mercury vapor and high pressure sodium lights.
The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class – Average gas prices in the United States have fallen from $3.91 per gallon a month ago to $3.72 per gallon and that equates to a 6% fall year-over-year. With NYMEX crude falling below $95 per barrel this week, we should see further moderation in gas prices in the coming weeks.
Cashless Consumption – PayPal is hosting a media event next week where it will unveil the next batch of mega-retailers that are adopting the company's online payment network at the register.
Always On, Always Connected – The Western world may be in love with smartphones, but it's Asia and Africa that see the highest percentages of mobile web traffic compared to desktop web traffic. In fact, according to a new report by Pingdom, in the past two years mobile web use has exploded by more than 190% in Asia and 150% in Africa. For some perspective, North America only saw a 69% increase in mobile web traffic share over the same period. Across the globe, mobile web use makes up about 10% of all web traffic. But in Africa and Asia, mobile web use is 15% and 18%, respectively, of overall web traffic, and as high as 40% in India. As smartphone and tablet adoption grows in these emerging economies, web traffic growth is set to explode and that bodes well for key infrastructure players.
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A cobble (sometimes a cobblestone) is a clast of rock defined on the Udden–Wentworth scale as having a particle size of , larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder. Other scales define a cobble's size differently. A rock made predominantly of cobbles is termed a conglomerate. Cobblestone is a building material based on cobbles.

Etymology
Cobbles, also called cobblestones, derive their name from the word cob, meaning a rounded lump. The term is further related to the German , meaning head. Chester Wentworth referred to cobbles as cobble bowlders  in his 1922 paper that would become the basis for the Udden–Wentworth scale.

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Within the widely used Krumbein phi scale of grain sizes, cobbles are defined as clasts of rock ranging from −6 to −8 φ. This classification corresponds with the Udden–Wentworth size scale which defines cobbles as clasts with diameters from . On this scale, cobbles are larger than pebbles which measure  in diameter and smaller than boulders, whose diameters range from . On the Udden–Wentworth scale, an unlithified fraction of cobbles is classified as gravel while a lithified sample primarily composed of cobbles is a conglomerate. The Committee on Sedimentation of the US National Research Council has recommended that in situ cobbles be identified by their process of origination, if possible (e.g., cobbles by disintegration, by exfoliation, etc.).

In the late 1800s and early to mid-1900s, prior to the Udden–Wentworth scale's widespread adoption, size classifications tended to group all particles larger than  together as gravel or stones. Other scales have defined the size of a cobble slightly differently than the Udden–Wentworth; the British Standards Institution denotes a cobble as any clast ranging in diameter from  while the United States Department of Agriculture's definition suggests a range of  and the ISO standard 14688 names cobbles as ranging from  in diameter.

Various attempts have been made to refine the Udden–Wentworth scale, including its definition of cobbles. In 1968, D. J. Doeglas proposed subdividing the cobble designation into two fractions, small cobbles (for particles with diameters from ) and large cobbles (for particles with diameters from ). A 1999 paper by Terence C. Blair and John G. McPherson argued that the Udden–Wentworth and Krumbein scales betrayed a historical emphasis on the study of sand grains while ignoring larger gravel grains. They proposed defining fine cobbles as those with diameters from  (−6 to −7 φ) and coarse cobbles as those with diameters from  (−7 to −8 φ). In 2012, Simon J. Blott and Kenneth Pye suggested that the cobble designation be eliminated altogether, replaced by very small boulder and small boulder designations equivalent in size to Blair and McPherson's fine and coarse cobbles, respectively.

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When occurring in streams, cobbles are likely to be found in mountain valley streambeds that are moderately steep. Cobbles are also transported by glaciers and deposited as with other grades of sediment as till. If the till is water-laid, finer particles like sand and pebbles may be entirely washed away, leaving a deposit of only boulders and cobbles. The term shingle beach refers to a beach covered with small- to medium-sized cobbles or  pebbles (as opposed to fine sand). Glacially transported cobbles tend to share several identifying features including a tabular shape and downward diagonal striations on lateral facets.

Cobble conglomerates may be alluvial in origin or the product of "stone avalanches", a type of debris flow resulting from unconsolidated cobbles and gravel. In such stone avalanches, well-rounded cobbles may travel the farthest on account of their low rolling friction. When the product of alluvial processes, the cobble conglomerate's matrix consists of gravel and coarse sand. In contrast, the matrices of flow-deposited conglomerates are primarily mud.

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The LITEM research unit (EA 7363) is rooted in management sciences and economics. It is shared by the University of Evry Paris-Saclay and Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (IMT-BS), and is part of the "Law, Economics, Management" doctoral school (ED DEM, n°630) of Paris-Saclay University.
Research carried out in LITEM aims to better understand the dynamics of innovation, the functioning of markets and organisations, and their financing. Many projects focus on the digital sector as such (ICT, open source, platforms, AI, big data, green IT, …) or on its applications to other sectors (health, agriculture, industry, e-government, etc.). In addition to technological innovation, social innovation is also investigated, including in the digital sector and with a view to contribute to sustainable development goals. Methods used are both quantitative and qualitative, and mobilise fields of knowledge pertaining to economics and management sciences.
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Basiluzzo est une petite île d'origine volcanique d'environ  faisant partie de l'archipel des îles Éoliennes au nord de la Sicile.

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Elle est située à  au nord-est de Panarea. Elle est entourée de falaises, et son altitude maximum est de 165 m. C'est la plus grande des îles non habitées des îles Éoliennes. A proximité se trouve le scoglio Spinazzola

L'île de Basiluzzo apparaît dans le film L'avventura de Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Bibliographie
 The Aeolian Islands, Philip Ward, The Oleander Press, 1974

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Liens externes
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Review: Torchwood S02E13 – Exit Wounds
It's amazing how different Torchwood is right now than it was a year ago. I got through the first season through sheer force of will. There were some good moments, and Captain Jack Harkness is always fantastic, but the season overall was lacking some essential elements. Additionally, I pretty much hated all the regular characters and thought they were a bunch of inept, whiny losers. Flash forward to the season two finale, "Exit Wounds," and every bit of that has changed for the better. The review (with spoilers) is after the jump.
Previously: The previous episode had the Torchwood team blown up in a building, thanks to the handiwork of one Captain John Hart (James Marsters, in his brilliant recurring role). The last time he was on the show, Hart very nearly killed Gwen, and this time he's attacked the whole team. Everyone survived, albeit injured, to see a holographic message from Hart taunting them and showing Jack that he had captured Jack's long lost brother Grey. This episode opens directly after that scene as the team springs into action.
Synopsis: Immediately, the Rift opens in targeted spots across Cardiff–in a hospital, at the police station, and in the main server building for the city. Jack delegates the rest of the team to handle the Rift openings. Jack insists that he go to Torchwood on his own to find Hart, as he's the only one who would be able to deal with him. Gwen is able to deal with Weevils that were loosed up the police station, Owen takes down a voracious alien in the hospital, and Tosh and Ianto handily dispatch a team of reaper-like aliens in the server building.
Upon arriving at the Torchwood hub, Jack is shot and tied up by Hart, who is hard at work on some nefarious plan. Hart radios the rest of the team with a final taunt before Cardiff is rocked with a series of explosions. Mass panic descends upon the city, and it's up to Gwen to coordinate the police response. Meanwhile, Hart and Jack disappear in a flash of light. Jack and Hart reappear in a field in 27AD. We learn that this is the location of the future city of Cardiff. Jack threatens Hart, who reveals that he has a bomb molecularly bonded to his arm. It is then that Jack's brother Grey appears. Jack is astounded, having not seen his lost brother since they were children. He goes to embrace Grey, but the reunion is not about the warm fuzzies. Rather, Grey sticks a knife in Jack's gut and dumps him into a grave.
It turns out that when Jack lost Grey, Grey was abducted by a race of sadistic aliens who tortured him and kept him on the verge of death in the midst of corpses for a very long time. Hart managed to find Grey and rescue him but quickly learned that the experience had twisted Grey into a vicious and revenge obsessed man. Grey blames Jack for what happened to him and wants nothing more than to put Jack through the same torture he endured himself. He has forced Hart to act against Torchwood and to bring him Jack. Hart is obviously wracked with guilt over what is happening, and he manages to drop a tracker into the grave where Grey is burying Jack. Jack lies underground, dying over and over again, for more than 1800 years, until Torchwood tracks Hart's device and digs him up in 1901. Jack then has himself placed in the Torchwood morgue until 2008 so as not to cross his own timeline. He emerges from the morgue in the present to a baffled Grey and tells him he forgives him. Grey is not satisfied, and Jack has to knock him out before eventually cryo-freezing him in the morgue.
Prior to Jack's return, Grey has been up to no good in the present. His explosions in Cardiff have triggered an impending meltdown at the nearby nuclear power plant. Grey also has summoned the Weevils up from the sewers, and they are rampant in the city. Due to his being "King of the Weevils," Owen is the only one who is able to make it to the power plant in time to try to avert the meltdown. Tosh is back at the hub on the radio with him and is going to assist him with her remote computing. Before she can do anything, though, Grey shoots her and leaves her for dead. She manages to crawl to her transmitter and help the nuclear situation, but by the it's too late; the meltdown is imminent, and there's no way to stop it. Tosh only can contain it by flooding a chamber in the plant with the radioactive material. Tragically, Owen is now trapped in that chamber. And so it ends for the two; Owen rapidly decomposes as he is irradiated in the chamber, and Tosh bleeds to death just after Jack, Gwen, and Ianto find her.
Analysis: "Exit Wounds" had the biggest emotional impact of any episode so far in the series. As I said before, I would have said you were crazy if you had told me last year that I'd actually be caring about these characters. I'm still not too wild about Gwen, but I definitely had warmed to Owen and Tosh, and losing both of them was a surprise and a big gut check for the show.
I'm still not completely convinced that Owen is completely gone, though. When Owen died and was brought back to life earlier in the season, it was established that some sort of nebulous and mysterious energy was sustaining him. He was still dead, but he had consciousness. Basically he's been an incorporeal entity driving around a sack of flesh for a good portion of the season. The meltdown destroyed his body, but there's no reason to think that also got rid of the energy that housed his essence. I tend to think that Owen's still floating around somewhere without a body, despite Burn Gorman's IMDB entry that shows that he's already signed on for a different new TV series after Torchwood.
Tosh does seem to be a goner, sadly, but anything's possible in the Whoniverse. I didn't realize prior to this episode that Naoko Mori previously appeared on Doctor Who as Tosh. She was in the episode "Aliens of London," in which the Slitheen dropped a flying saucer on England to stage a fake alien crash while they infiltrated the government. Mori's character is credited as Dr. Sato for that episode, and she was the doctor examining the fake pig alien that was dropped off by the Slitheen when the Ninth Doctor came to investigate. Owen and Tosh mentioned the space pig just prior to their deaths, making for a neat and poignant Doctor Who connection. It's hard to guess where the series will go now.
The Torchwood team is down to just Jack, Ianto, and Gwen, so it'd be a good guess that the cast will have some additions next season. The likeliest addition would be James Marsters as John Hart. He's perfectly cast as a mix of diabolical and irresistible, much like Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The fact that he dresses like some hybrid of Michael Jackson's chimp and Sgt. Pepper. Another possible addition next season could be the return of Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones. Torchwood is down one doctor, and she did a good job subbing the last time Owen died. One more possibility is Rhys, although he'd be a long shot at best. However the third season ends up, one thing is for sure… Everything has changed.
Jack: "Now we carry on."
Gwen: "I don't think I can. Not after this."
Jack: "You can. We all can. The end is where we start from."
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If you ask my sweet 5 year old niece Isabella this was my first Mothers Day. At the end of our church service (on Mothers Day) our pastor went through the congregation, with Isa (my niece) as his helper and they passed out flowers to a few different mom's. Well when they came down the row I was sitting in Isa pointed straight at me and said, "She is a mom...practically...soon" lol So I was handed a flower (even though my pastor did not have much of a choice) haha Needless to say my little niece was determined to hook me up with a flower on my first (almost) Mothers Day!


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Global peace icon and former statesman Nelson Mandela was hospitalised Saturday for a "scheduled medical check-up", the presidency said, months after he underwent treatment for lung infection and gallstones.
"Former president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital in Pretoria this afternoon, 9 March 2013, for a scheduled medical checkup to manage the existing conditions in line with his age," said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj in a statement.
"Doctors are conducting tests and have thus far indicated that there is no cause for any alarm," he added.
The 94-year-old spent 18 days in hospital in December, when he received treatment for a recurrent lung infection and had surgery to extract gallstones.
He was discharged the day after Christmas and was last known to be convalescing under high care at his home in Johannesburg.
"We appeal for privacy both for the doctors to be able to attend to their patient and for Madiba and his family," said Maharaj, using the Nobel Peace laureate's clan name.
Mandela served one term as South Africa's first black president after winning historic all-race elections in 1994.
Having spent 27 years in prison for opposing apartheid, he is revered as the symbol of the country's peaceful shift into democracy after decades of racist white minority rule.
Mandela the man has grown increasingly frail in recent years, choosing to retire to his home village in the rural Eastern Cape.
In January 2011 he set the nation at edge when he was hospitalised for two nights for an acute respiratory infection.


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5 charged with conspiracy, some marched with Proud Boys
The photo is included in a U.S. District Court criminal complaint citing William Chrestman, who participated in the U.S. Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.
Source: US Department of Justice
Federal authorities arrested five people Thursday for conspiracy related to the January 6 uprising at the Capitol, several of whom were seen accompanied by members of the far-right Proud Boys group.
The five are accused of acting together to prevent police officers in the Capitol from controlling the crowd of Trump supporters and to impede an official congressional process that day.
A member of this group, William Chrestman, is accused of hitting a wooden ax handle or club when he yelled at Capitol police officers trying to guard the complex: "You shoot and I'll take your f —— a– out! "
The other people charged in the case are Christopher Kühne, Louis Enrique Colon, Felicia Konold and Cory Konold.
The Konolds, who are siblings, are from Tucson, Arizona while the other defendants are from the Kansas City area.
Photo contained in a US District Court criminal complaint listing Christopher Kühne as a participant in the US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.
The defendants are charged with conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction of official process, trespassing on restricted grounds, and disorderly conduct on the grounds of the Capitol.
Chrestman is also accused of threatening to attack a federal law enforcement officer.
According to a criminal complaint containing still images of the defendants during the riot, investigators believe that "there may be more people involved in this conspiracy than" these defendants, "and the investigation is ongoing."
The complaint said the five defendants were "not only close to each other during the riot, but also appeared to be gesticulating and communicating with each other before and during the Capitol to coordinate their efforts".
The complaint does not state that the five people are members of the Proud Boys.
Photo included in a U.S. District Court criminal complaint listing Louis Enrique Colon as a participant in the U.S. Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.
However, it is noted that several of the defendants were in the vicinity of Proud Boy members that day.
It is also said that Felicia Konold claimed on video that she was "recruited into a Kansas City chapter" and displayed a challenge-type coin that "appears to have markings referring to them as Kansas City Proud Boys." . "
The accused are the youngest of dozens of people charged with the riot. This disrupted a joint session of Congress that day to confirm the election of Joe Biden as president.
Former President Donald Trump is currently on trial in the Senate after being charged with incitement to insurrection by repeatedly making false allegations of electoral fraud and calling on supporters to oppose the confirmation of Biden's victory.
Photo included in a U.S. District Court criminal complaint listing Felicia Konold as a participant in the U.S. Capitol Rising on January 6, 2021.
The Proud Boys, a Western chauvinist group that supported Trump, encouraged members to take part in the January 6 demonstrations in Washington, including a Trump rally held immediately before the uprising.
Chrestman and Felicia Konold were seen marching near the Capitol with a large group of proud boys, including organizers of that group previously charged with riot-related crimes, Joseph Biggs and Ethan Nordean.
Chrestman was also featured in an open source video interacting with Proud Boys and communicating with Nordean near the Capitol before it was attacked.
The photo is included in a U.S. District Court criminal complaint identifying participants in the U.S. Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021. The participants circled in red are Christopher Kühne (L), Louis Enrique Colon (C) and William Chrestman (R).
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Mira, a portable wireless flat-panel display designed by Microsoft for home users, will not be compatible with the Windows XP Home Edition, a company executive says.
TAIPEI, Taiwan--Mira, a portable wireless flat-panel display designed by Microsoft for home users, will not be compatible with the Windows XP Home Edition, a company executive said Tuesday.
Because the consumer version of the operating system does not include a remote desktop protocol, the device will only work with Windows XP Professional.
Microsoft is working on a solution, said Eddie Wu, senior director for Mircrosoft's Embedded Systems Group in Asia.
Wu said Microsoft could either release a service pack for the XP Home edition, or consumers can upgrade to the professional version.
He was speaking at the sidelines of the Computex trade show here, where Mira prototypes were showcased. The tablet is manufactured by a string of consumer-electronics players including Philips, LG Electronics and Trigem; and Taiwanese companies such as AboCom Systems, Tatung, Winstron and First International Computer.
Although it contains software and a processor, Mira doesn't function as a standalone computer. It works in conjunction with a PC and acts as an entertainment control center to surf the Web and control TVs, game consoles and other devices.
Mira devices are slated to go on sale this holiday season in the United States and Japan, said Wu. Prices are expected to range between $500 and $800, depending on the bundle and LCD panel size, which will be determined by the manufacturer.
CNET Asia's Mandy Chung reported from Taipei.


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'A celebration of words' Annual state spelling bee offers thrilling competition
BILLINGS – The tension is clear in the uneven breaths, unsteady hands and white knuckles — and that's just the judge...
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Reba Watson of Hobson thinks through her words in the state spelling bee in Billings.
BILLINGS – The tension is clear in the uneven breaths, unsteady hands and white knuckles — and that's just the judges.
The spellers, too, take the stage at Petro Theatre on the campus of Montana State University-Billings with trepidation to face "lieutenant," "panglossian" and a slate of other challenging words at the annual Treasure State Spelling Bee.
Tension mounts, accumulates, swells
At the judge's table, round judge Lynn Schwanke is vibrating with excitement. She's among the 20 volunteers and six MSU-Billings staff members putting on the spelling bee.
"I'm always nervous for the kids and so excited," she says. "I see kids from every corner of the state. We'll have cowboys, city kids dressed to the nines and ordinary, wonderful kids. Where else do you find a competition like this? It's a celebration of words."
The state spelling bee started in Billings in 1966. For a time the contest rotated among Billings, Butte, Helena and Missoula, home to newspapers in the sponsor Lee Enterprises company. This year's competition was held March 22.
Moxley Roesier of Troy represents Lincoln County in the northwest corner of the state, while Carter County sent Laura Harrington from the three-student school in Hammond southeast of Broadus. Three home-schoolers are among the 60 competitors.
Organizers aim to make the bee similar from year to year to help returning spellers relax. Eleven students are bee veterans this year.
"This is a really cool gathering," Schwanke says. "You'll be amazed by the words they can spell."
Perpendicular to the judges' table sits sound technician Bill Schwanke, who records the spelling bee. He marks the official word list with the time at which the speller attempted it so the recording is ready to review if there are any challenges from a child's parents or teacher.
"Tension comes in how obnoxious the person wanting the review is," he says. "It's just like sports, it's the parents who can be the problem."
Challenges are rare, and he doesn't face any this year. Bill Schwanke is a good speller himself and has been a pronouncer at several bees. He's found that how much studying a speller has done is usually quickly apparent.
"We've had repeat winners but sometimes it's a total surprise, which makes it interesting," he says. "A lot of times kids miss a word because they get flustered. Going too fast is the most common problem."
An hour later, Aaron Clingingsmith of MSU-Billings is waiting for the last seven spellers to arrive. He has five spelling bees under his belt.
When Trevor Woodward arrives from Whitefish and picks up his registration packet and number, Clingingsmith tells him No. 29 "is money. You're going to win with that number."
Next to arrive, Garret Nielson yawns, more reflective of the early departure from Bozeman than a calm attitude. Clingingsmith assures him No. 22 is a lucky number.
While other students are eating lunch in the cafeteria or browsing in the bookstore, Power's Elyssa Willekes is first to the auditorium, with No. 23 around her neck and words running through her mind. She played basketball in Chester the night before and then studied the word list on the early morning drive to Billings.
The seventh-grader is "really nervous," she says. Her mom, Hendricka, says she's "probably just as nervous, maybe more."
Meanwhile Bee Director Laura Gittings-Carlson is trying to find a marker for a speller who already lost his number. It's among the last of the steps to get ready for the bee, a project she started working on last year.
"You just have to roll with the punches," she says.
"I'm nervous for the kids," she adds. "They have worked so hard for this."
Doing some last-minute studying of his own, fifth-grader Joel Kirchner of Circle fidgets in his seat with brother Cameron, a second-grader. His mom and grandma are in the auditorium to cheer him on, too.
"Mom says I should try to get to the third round," he says. "I feel good because I never made it to state before."
With just less than an hour until the competition, a television camera is set up on a landing. About 40 people are in the auditorium.
Vander Swensen, a Havre eighth-grader, stands out with his big smile, which may be the only one in the room. With a 250-mile drive ahead of them, his family assured him an early departure wouldn't be the worst possible fate.
"I'm just relaxing, trying not to psych myself out," he says. "I'm really not as nervous as I was for the county spelling bee."
A tense Sam Rockafellow of Livingston is playing a game on his phone and joking with his family — when he's not trying to hide his face in embarrassment. His four-person cheering squad surprised him with matching shirts that say "GO S-A-M."
Noah Hollenback, a Sacajawea Elementary fifth-grader, came from Great Falls with a 13-person cheering section. He wouldn't let them wear matching bee temporary tattoos for the occasion.
"I'm pretty nervous, but once it starts, my nervousness will go away," he says.
His hands are curled into fists until he forces them to relax. He's worried about the words in the final rounds that aren't on the study list.
Taylor Radonich from Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Great Falls is wearing a matching outfit with his brother Jayden, 7. They're looking at the program to see if they know anyone. His dad, Paul, figures he's more nervous than Taylor.
Anchovy, albatross and plausible
After they left the audience and took the stage, the spellers began grilling MSU- Billings Chancellor Rolf Groseth to make triple sure they understood the rules he'd just explained.
Groseth recommended deep breaths and focusing on the wall instead of the audience. He encourages them to celebrate having learned many new words as they studied.
"There is luck involved in a spelling bee," he tells the competitors. "You may know every word but the one you get."
Most students appear frozen. Noah Hollenback's arms are tightly crossed and he's hunched over them. Luke Turek of Sidney is on the edge of his seat, shaking his legs and tapping his fingers.
With the successful spelling of "albatross," Bridgette Verlanic of Colstrip gets round one launched after a practice round in which students learn the traffic pattern and pick a microphone at their height.
Quincy Balius of Our Lady of Lourdes does Great Falls proud with "anchovy," as do Noah Hollenback with "implement" and Taylor Radonich with "plausible." Taylor is a cool customer at the mic.
Gabe Eves of Hysham has the audience holding its collective breath as he screws up his face, hesitantly reciting every letter of "wiseacre." A long pause — and then he nails the last two letters.
Sam Rockafellow leaves the stage on "croquet." He's among 18 students to fall in the first round. Joel Kirchner can't get past "gondola."
"I had never heard of it," he says. "It was kinda harder, but being on stage felt fun."
In round two, Alex Doolittle's face falls midway through "acronym."
"I screwed up," the Shelby seventh-grader says.
Vander Swensen gets an early start on the drive home after he misses the second T of "regatta."
Malta's Bella Mackey manages "extravaganza," Noah Hollenback nails "gazpacho" and Quincy Balius gets "cadenza."
Pronouncer Jaclyn Terland also tosses out "subterfuge," "mole," "nebbish," "erudite" and "sashimi" as 15 spellers leave the stage. Another 11 leave the stage the next round, with "troika," "babka" and "herpetology."
Azimuth, langluf and charpoy
"Azimuth" is among the more obscure words in round three, and Terland reads the definition: "An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object." "Azimuth" came to English from Arabic via Old French.
Browning eighth-grader Preston Racine has another strong round with "metamorphosis."
Only 15 spellers are left by round four. Preston spells "eiderdown," Quincy Balius gets "camphor" and Taylor Radonich wrestles with "langlauf."
Noah Hollenback has another word of German origin, "verboten." After a long pause, he asks for the language of origin and definition. After a deep breath, he spells "v-u..." and he's out.
With "indigenous," Preston Racine is the speller to leave in round five. Sonja Severtson of Helena spelled "fuselage," Taylor Radonich got "zucchini" and Quincy Balius "charpoy."
The bell dings for Taylor in round six after "romaji," but it was an accidental ding. He stays on stage. Quincy works her way through "recalcitrant."
The bell dings for real as Taylor spells "cheka," a Soviet secret police. Only six spellers survive round seven, but they remain through rounds eight, nine and 10.
Only in round 11 does the draw end, as Mikayla Zakrzewski of Billings and Claire Britton of Butte make their bows. Quincy spells "placidity." The whews are audible when Matthew Miller of Missoula adds "cy" to the end of "intimacy" after a long pause. The girls have a spell-off for fifth place, which goes to Mikayla.
With only four on the stage, Quincy is thinking "Wow, it's going to end," she says.
At the judge's table, Lynn Schwanke's hand is shaking as she marks who spells each word on the word list. She circles words that are misspelled.
Quincy survives round 13 and three hours of competition with "impertinent" but falls in the next round with "comity." She settles for third place in a spell off that sees her spell "suppositional" and "disputatious" before ceding to Emma Peasley of Missoula with a stumble on "abactor," a term for cattle rustler.
Erik Hovland's breathing is audible and unsteady when he spells "pollards" for the win. His grin and raised arms come with the championship. In May, he'll represent Montana at the national spelling bee in Washington, D.C.
Quincy congratulates Erik before leaving with her family, which she permitted to come into the auditorium only once she was finished spelling, even though, she notes, her sister Georgia helped her study.
"I feel like I did my best, and I'm proud of what I accomplished," Quincy says. "I still don't know how to spell 'comity.'"
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With electric scooter for adults, you will no longer have to go to gas stations and pay hundreds for fuel. All you have to do is plug your scooter in and charge it when it's not in use. This will allow you to save money while reducing your CO2 emissions.
Electric scooters come at relatively affordable prices. In fact, basic models cost no more than a few hundred pounds. You will absolutely pay much less for an electric scooter than a motorcycle. Furthermore, there are online stores that offer special deals for electric scooters to help you save even more money.
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If you use an electric scooter for adults, you will almost always be allowed to park it for free. You can even just bring your ride with you. They are so small that you can bring them along as you ride the train, bus, or as you go inside stores.
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