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Gifted June 23rd, 2017
Gifted is released in UK cinemas on 16th June 2017, the film is directed by Marc Webb who brought us (500) Days of Summer. To see the trailer visit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI01wBXGHUs7
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The film stars Chris Evans (our magazine cover), who is most famous for playing Steve Rogers/Captain America in The Avengers & Captain America movies, so this film is a bit of a departure for him. Mckenna Grace plays one of the main roles, and it is a lot to ask of such a young actress to be in nearly every scene, but despite her tender age she already has a lot of television and films under her belt. You may recognise Jenny Slate from popular television shows like House of Lies, Parks and Recreation and Girls to name a few. Lindsay Duncan you will know as a stage, television and film actress, you might have seen her in the film Birdman, Alice in Wonderland or the television show Dr Who and last but by no means least award winning actress Octavia Spencer, who played in films The Help and Hidden Figures.
Frank (Chris Evans) and Mary (Mckenna Grace) live a simple life with plenty of routine in a friendly community in a coastal town in Florida. She is growing up with Frank (her uncle) following her mother's premature death.
Mary's mother wanted her to live a normal life as possible, and have a proper childhood. But this comes under threat from her grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) who believes that Frank is holding back the child, who is a child genius – a great mathematician talent.
A custody battle ensues with Frank and Evelyn going head to head…Threatening Frank and Mary being separated and their normal life coming apart.
Thankfully Frank has two other people on his side, Bonnie (Jenny Slate), who is Mary's teacher, whose concern for Mary later develops into a personal connection with Frank, and Roberta (Octavia Spencer), his landlady and best friend who turns into a formidable opponent of Evelyn.
"Gifted is its own gift to family audiences looking for something other than typical animated fare or broad comedies usually aimed at the demographic."
"This film, from a script by Tom Flynn, does not talk down to its audience, but instead offers a heartwarming and lovely look at the meaning of what a family really is."
http://deadline.com/2017/04/gifted-review-chris-evans-family-film-marc-webb-1202061602/
"Evans underplays to fine effect as the emotionally conflicted Frank; Slate is winsomely appealing as the teacher who finds herself drawn to her student's hunky guardian; and Duncan displays a droll, deadpan humor that makes the grandmother surprisingly sympathetic."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gifted-review-989971
Jenny Slate and Chris Evans were dating for just under a year, unfortunately they broke up in February, just one month before the press junket for the film Gifted, causing some potentially awkward 'red carpet' moments. Jenny has been very honest about the break-up, stating the fact that life for her and Chris Evans was very different, given his level of fame for playing 'Captain America'. Apparently they had not had a need to speak much since the break-up and Jenny did tell 'Vulture' – http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/jenny-slate-gifted-chris-evans-breakup.html "I think it's probably best. I'd love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever."
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Q: Can I run Ubuntu OS on a Android 4.0 tablet? I have a cheap Chinese made tablet from Dubai called the Crony Dubai (www.cronydubai.com). It has a micro B, mini HDMI and a USB labeled as "Host" as well as a micro SD slot. It came with a micro B to USB adapter in box, and its running Ice Cream Sandwich. Is there a way to load Ubuntu on it? Also the tablet is very buggy and crashes often, would that be due to the tablet or the OS?

A: I am assuming you are looking for something like Ubuntu for Android.

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*http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
Canonical is also working on a Ubuntu for Phones (including tablets) which is going to be available for download anytime soon

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*http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone

*What hardware does Ubuntu Touch support?

*When is Ubuntu Phone/Touch coming to the U.S.?
its all work in progress though and it does not guarantee that it will work on your tablet.
Neither of those solutions are available to the public yet! and the first one is explicitly is for OEMs (thanks to Uri Herrera for pointing it out).

A: There are different ways of running Ubuntu on Android tablet. therefore you can go for the safest way:

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*Download Limbo PC Emulator

*Create a virtual PC

*Download Ubuntu minimal

*Install Ubuntu minimal on the virtual machine with the command line interface. More here on Ubuntu help - Installation.
You should be up and running. This worked on my Ainol Novo 7 Crystal.

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London, UK – February 8, 2016: The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future by Paul Miller and Elizabeth Marsh shortlisted for tonight's prestigious CMI Management Book of the Year 2016.
The "Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future" by Paul Miller, CEO and Founder, Digital Workplace Group (DWG) and Elizabeth Marsh, DWG Director of Research, published in November 2014 will tonight be one of those shortlisted in the "Management Futures" award category for 2016.
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In April 2006, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – the federal appellate court covering Texas – in Medrano v. City of San Antonio, Texas, vindicated an employer's rights to enforce its seniority system over an employee's right to an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodation.
The plaintiff, Christopher Medrano, worked as a part-time parking attendant at the San Antonio airport while suffering with cerebral palsy. Although he lacked seniority, Medrano was given a referential first-shift assignment that accommodated his dependence on a special bus system. The bus system was available to San Antonio residents, with qualifying disabilities under the ADA. Medrano eventually applied for a full-time parking attendant position after the City eliminated the position of part-time parking attendant. Medrano was denied the full-time position after the interview because he requested the preferential first shift as an accommodation.
The ADA prohibits employers with fifteen or more employees from discriminating against an individual with an actual or perceived disability that substantially impairs that individual's ability to perform major life activities. Further, an employer, in certain circumstances, must provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Medrano's case was analyzed to determine if his request for accommodation under the ADA was reasonable when it conflicted with the employer's seniority system.
Medrano relied heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. Airways v. Barnett. In U.S. Airways, the Court held that if an employer's seniority system conflicts with an employee's request for accommodation under the ADA, the mere existence of the seniority system usually will be enough to show that the accommodation is unreasonable. However, U.S. Airways created an exception to this general rule that permits a court to find that "special circumstances" trump a seniority policy in certain cases.
Medrano attempted to establish "special circumstances" by arguing that his employer made the accommodation during his employment in the part-time position and thus, should make the same accommodation for the full-time position. The Court disagreed and held that the job classifications (Part-time Parking Attendant/Full-time Parking Attendant) constituted separate job classifications under the City's seniority policy.
This ruling reinforces the rule that an employee has the burden of showing "special circum-stances" that establish the reasonableness of making an exception to an employer's seniority system. Medrano would have prevailed if he had presented evidence that the City frequently deviated from its policy for full-time employees.
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David French of National Review Online assesses the latest evidence of then-FBI Director James Comey's job performance in 2016.
In one hour of television, Comey and [George] Stephanopoulos inadvertently reaffirmed what we already knew: In 2016, the entire American political system cracked, including — in crucial ways — the FBI. …
… [L]et's pause for a moment and ponder the immense challenge that the Bureau faced. The two major political parties nominated candidates who had long histories of ethically, morally, and legally problematic behavior. Neither possessed a character fit for the presidency. But the Democrats went so far as to nominate a candidate who was known to be under active, credible FBI investigation. …
… {W}hen placed in the middle of an extraordinary, high-stakes investigation, James Comey applied the wrong legal standard, and he's still applying the wrong legal standard today.
While applying the actual law to the relevant facts may be politically difficult, that happened to be Comey's job. Comey very ably outlines various types of pressure and "inappropriate" conduct from the Obama administration (from the attorney general's insistence that Comey call the Clinton investigation a "matter," to her tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, to President Obama's own pronouncements about Hillary's conduct), but in the end it appears that he couldn't withstand the heat. …
… With the first move — applying the wrong legal standard to the case — he cleared the way for Hillary's candidacy. With the second and third — issuing unusual statements that highlighted Hillary's misconduct — he may have fatally undermined her campaign. And all the while, he was not considering the proper legal standard but pondering polls and public perception.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner (left) with Helland, Comptroller candidate Darlene Senger, Treasurer candidate Jim Dodge and Attorney General candidate Erika Harold at Benedictine University in Lisle on Nov. 6. None of the Republican candidates for statewide office won.
When he first decided to run for Illinois Secretary of State, Grundy County State's Attorney Jason Helland planned to run a fiscally responsible campaign. He purchased a used Ford Crown Victoria from the Elgin Police Department for $600 with every intention of driving it until it died.
And it did die, at the Love's Truck Stop in Utica, one night in January as he was heading out to a State of the Union watch party in Henry County. Helland said he opened the hood to see a spark plug sitting on top of the engine.
"I wanted to prove to the taxpayers of the state of Illinois that you need to live within your means and government needs to live within its means and I was driving that car to prove that," he said.
He was stuck, not even his wife would pick him up. He soon bought a new Ford Fiesta, but even that broke down by election night.
Helland was the first person from Grundy County to run for a statewide office since Republican William G. Stratton was elected governor in 1952, succeeding Adlai Stevenson to the position.
He got into the race in 2017, before it was clear incumbent Jesse White, one of the most popular politicians in the state of Illinois, was running for reelection. But when White decided to run again at the eleventh hour, Helland said he knew it would be a suicide mission.
The entire process was nearly a year and a half long. Helland said he met with representatives of Gov. Bruce Rauner, and the governor himself, and discussed expectations and plans for the race. If he ran, he told them, his job as state's attorney would still be a priority and campaigning would be done on nights and weekends.
"In July of 2017 we had an agreement I would run for secretary of state," he said. Then things went on pause after the Illinois General Assembly overrode Rauner's veto of a tax increase and there was a shake-up in the governor's staff. "There was a state of flux and we didn't know who was actually calling the shots."
So rather than announce his candidacy at the Illinois State Fair that year, Helland attended the fair as a citizen.
"It was a disappointment for me," he said.
By October 2017, however, the shifting staff changes in the governor's campaign office had settled and Helland was again running for secretary of state, and able to announce it.
What followed was 13 months of working 80-hour weeks, more than 70,000 miles behind the wheel traversing the state and being in as many locations as possible to campaign for his office and push the Republican ticket. If the candidates at the top of the ticket couldn't be at an event, Helland made sure he was there. At events in Grundy County, Rauner and Attorney General candidate Erika Harold both called him the hardest working man in the race.
Helland described it as an adventure, with having to sometimes travel the length of a state in the span of a day. He spent time at Lincoln Day and Reagan Day dinners throughout the southern part of the state.
His own campaign was run on a shoestring budget, what he called a "gas money campaign." With White a candidate, Helland said he was realistic about his own chances.
"We knew right from the start if Jesse White was a candidate, I was going to lose," Helland said. "I spent less money on this campaign than I did my last state's attorney race."
He said he called it a year ago he would only get 30 to 35 percent of the vote. He ended up with 29.5 percent and while he won 40 counties, Grundy County wasn't one of them, Helland losing it by about 1,200 votes.
"I spent absolutely no money in Grundy County," he said. "I didn't have billboards. I didn't have radio ads. I didn't have mailer pieces. I didn't walk doors. I had nothing in Grundy County ... I was way stronger than I expected to be in Grundy County."
Although he'd been running for almost a year, Helland's campaign didn't really receive statewide attention until he spoke at the 2018 Illinois State Fair, and then again in the late summer when he spoke before editorial boards. Then he received a lot of attention for comments he made in front of the Chicago Tribune editorial board about White's age, which some accused of being examples of ageism.
Helland said it was a small part of the debate that was taken out of context.
"They asked me the question and I gave them an honest answer," he said. "One minute out of an hour interview was focused on his age ... I picked apart his traffic safety plans, what was wrong, what would I do and they just wanted to say age."
His take on other candidates was that Illinois will see Harold again, that her story is one that will take her far in politics.
"Rauner was not a good politician. Rauner was the businessman that he was," Helland said. "But I think he will fund some serious Republican candidates."
Helland said this run for statewide office was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Will he run for other higher offices in the future?
"Absolutely not," he said. At this point in his career, he wants to focus on spending time with his family. He said he was focused on the 2020 race for state's attorney.


Former Burundi president, Rtd Colonel Jean Baptist Bagaza has died in Belgium at the age of 70.
Bagaza passed away on Wednesday morning at the St. Elizabeth Brixelles hospital in Brussels, Belgian media reports.
Bagaza came to power in a coup in 1976 and ruled until he was deposed in 1987.
He was replaced in 1987 by Pierre Buyoya, and went into exile in Uganda. He later went to Libya where he lived until 1993.
A year after his government was toppled, thousands of Hutus were massacred and others fled the country.
Much of the country's infrastructure and industry was built up during his term in office which is also considered as one of the most stable periods in the country's post-independence history.
Since 1994, Bagaza led the Party for National Recovery (PARENA). He was a Senator for life as a former head of state.
Current President Pierre Nkurunziza tweeted his "condolences to his family and all Burundians" in French.


Opera Mini: the Nokia browsing experience, now on iPhone.
Essentially, Opera Mini doesn't feel at all like an iPhone app. The gestures are all wrong to varying degrees, the interface is jarring and detracts from the pages you're trying to view, and it's not fast enough (its main selling point) to justify using it over Safari (particularly given the myriad interface oddities).
Let's start with the most basic interaction we have on iPhone: scrolling. Scrolling on iPhone is fun. iPhone uses inertial scrolling; it employs real-world physics to make scrolling feel like you're interacting with something physical with weight and friction. People sit and endlessly scroll back and forth through their lists on iPhone because it's so tactile.
I have to admit, I spent about five minutes simply scrolling around in Opera Mini. Not because it was fun, mind you, but because it felt so badly wrong. In Opera Mini, scrolling doesn't accelerate or decelerate in the same way as elsewhere on iPhone, or bounce back when you hit a boundary.
But then again, sometimes it doesn't do that: sometimes, it slides at a constant rate until it stops and then jumps in the opposite direction to your gesture and scrolls a little bit in that direction. Not because it hit a page edge, though (those stop scrolling dead, mostly): these reversals tend to happen just when you think you've got the measure of scrolling in Opera.
Then there are the invisible pseudo-boundaries Opera puts into the page: if you're within a column in the page you're looking at (the sort that double-tapping in Safari would fill the screen with; more on that later), Opera will put a scroll boundary around that so that flinging the page across hits that boundary and stops or, more likely, scrolls a little further vertically. I suspect these boundaries are what cause the aforementioned changes in direction, come to think of it.
So what about the other most common gesture in Safari? Zooming in Opera is a little like scrolling: it feels like a first-cut demo that you'd get if you described how an iPhone does it to someone who had never used one, then had them build their own.
Opera Mini has two levels of zoom: in, or out. In Safari, if I want to zoom in just a little, I can zoom to exactly the level I want. I have full control. In Opera, if I'm zoomed out and pinch in either direction, for any distance, I get zoomed right in. If I'm zoomed in and pinch at all, I get zoomed out fully.
For a time, I thought that double-tap-to-zoom (in both directions) didn't work in Opera Mini. As it happens, it does but you have to tap in exactly the same spot for both taps, or Opera considers it a scroll instead of a zoom. Unlike Safari, double-tap doesn't zoom in on the content you tapped to fill the screen's width, though: it simply zooms you all the way in where you double-tapped.
But that's OK because you can single-tap to zoom in. Yes, you read that right: single-tap when zoomed out zooms you in. Know the site you're visiting well enough that you know exactly which link you want to click on as soon as you see it? Well, tough: you have to zoom in and then click the link.
What if I want to focus on a picture that takes up two thirds of the page? I either have to look at it one bit at a time, fully zoomed in, or as a thumbnail when zoomed out.
Also: since when is zooming a browsing operation? If I'm zoomed in, why does pressing 'Back' zoom me out? Why can't I just navigate back to the page prior to the current page?
Remember the days when iPhone didn't have copy and paste (or text selection), and how Apple's solution seemed to fit into the OS so naturally?
Opera doesn't. If you try to select text by pressing and holding when zoomed out, you get zoomed in (or maybe scrolled). If you try to select text when zoomed in, a spinning cursors orbits your fingertip for a few seconds and, sometimes, presents you with a popup menu. Unless you've lost your internet connection since loading the page, in which case it doesn't.
Typically, this menu offers simply 'Select Text'. If you press-and-hold on, or near, an image, the popup menu offers, in addition to text selection, the option of opening or saving the image, as you'd see in native image selection popover dialogs.
So you click on 'Select Text', and a serifed bar cursor (rather than iPhone's native slab bar cursor) is inserted where your finger was. You then have to click at the beginning of the text you wish to select, and drag to the end.
Sounds like iPhone text selection, right? Wrong: you get no insertion-point loupe like you would elsewhere on iPhone, making precise selection impossible. Made a mistake in your selection? You have to deselect (by clicking away from the popover offering to copy, search, etc.) and start again.
Opera Mini really seems to have an inferiority complex.
Whenever you're using it, the interface screams 'you're using Opera!', detracting from the web pages you're trying to read. For starters: I know I'm using Opera Mini. I clicked on the app icon on my home screen, so I really don't need to see Opera's logo for my entire browsing session. Sure, this is subtle and in the title bar, but it's another un-iPhone-like touch. Worse, this title/branding bar is fixed and never leaves the screen , regardless of where you scroll.
The branding, though, pales in comparison to the 'look at me!' colour scheme. If I'm using a web browser, I'm using it to look at web pages. This means browser chrome should be kept to a minimum, fade into the background, and be relatively low-contrast.
It does not mean that you should make the browser chrome black and red stripes around the web page I'm trying to use. Red and black is high-contrast and, thus, attracts the eye to it. If I'm using Opera, this means my eye is drawn away from the sole reason for me using the app.
This, of course, is ignoring the fact that Opera commits the ultimate faux pas: it uses iPhone's light status bar instead of the black status bar, despite most of the app's chrome being black. Whilst we're looking at visual faux pas, the settings interface is awful, using completely custom controls for everything.
All that said, there is one piece of Opera Mini's interface that is quite nice: the tabs. Where Safari shuffles you off to a full-screen tab switcher, Opera Mini slides a pane up from the bottom of the screen with small snapshots of your tabs stacked on top of one another, with the active tab frontmost. It's not worlds ahead of Safari's implementation, granted, but it's a nice differentiator.
I mentioned at the outset that Opera Mini isn't fast enough to justify using it over Safari. That's not to say it's not faster than Safari in terms of raw page rendering speed. The problem is that the difference in speed isn't significant enough to justify using it over Safari, particularly when you take into account the cognitive dissonance required to use it on iPhone. Sure, the page renders a second or two faster but, if it takes you an extra half-second to second-guess everything you do, what's the point?
This speed-boost is achieved by Opera's servers downloading, rendering, and compressing the requested page into one bundle, then passing that back to the user's browser. On older phones this was a boon because they were underpowered enough that rendering HTML and CSS was a significant overhead. On iPhone, sufficient processing power makes performance increase from offloaded rendering moot, but the connection-and-compression optimisation can still be a significant benefit over slow EDGE and GPRS connections.
On top of that, there's the matter of privacy: with all the data going through Opera's servers, you have to trust Opera. If you're just checking the news or weather, that's no big deal. The idea of checking email, or doing mobile online banking, through Opera Mini and, thus, Opera's cache servers (even if nothing is cached) concerns me.


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MLS Cup playoffs 2012: Mike Magee comes up big for LA Galaxy in knockout round win
Mike Magee has made a habit of stepping up in the postseason and he did it again on Thursday night for the Galaxy.
By Ryan Rosenblatt Nov 2, 2012, 4:19pm PDT
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Mike Magee spends every MLS regular season looking like a capable but hardly exceptional player. He is the ultimate role player. But as soon as the playoffs come around, Magee finds a new level. He revels in the postseason pressure and it shows as he bags goal after goal to lift his team.
Last season, Magee was the LA Galaxy's leading scorer in the postseason, helping them to the MLS Cup title. In their playoff opener last night against the Vancouver Whitecaps, Magee did it again, scoring in the 69th minute to get LA level before Landon Donovan's penalty kick pushed the Galaxy to a 2-1 win.
That Magee came through again is no surprised to his teammates, who saw him step it up a notch in last year's playoffs.
"It's what Mike does," midfielder David Beckham said. "He gets into positions. He's a clever player, you know, he's a really intelligent player. We were putting a lot of balls in the six-yard box and I saw [Juninho] for the short corner and obviously [Juni] put it in a position just under the penalty spot and Mike was there."
Magee's finish was a tricky one too. Juninho's ball was high and left Magee with an awkward volley that most would have put over the bar, but some fantastic technique on Magee's part kept the ball under the crossbar and netted him the all-important equalizer.
The win eliminated the Whitecaps and sent the Galaxy on to play the Supporters' Shield winners San Jose in the Western Conference semifinals. With several LA players battling injuries and the short turnaround before Sunday's first leg of the two-legged tie, the Galaxy will need Magee to continue his playoff heroics if they are going to take down the Earthquakes and continue their run towards a second consecutive MLS Cup.


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 14. Februar: James Cook wird auf seiner dritten Weltumrundung von Einheimischen auf den Sandwich-Inseln getötet, als er mit seinen Leuten versucht, den König als Geisel zu nehmen.
 21. März: Intervention Russlands auf der Halbinsel Krim.
 13. Mai: Im Frieden von Teschen wird zwischen Preußen und Österreich der Bayerische Erbfolgekrieg beigelegt.

 6. Juli: Die Seeschlacht von Grenada im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg endet zwischen Großbritannien und Frankreich unentschieden.
 11. September: Rede des preußischen Königs Friedrich II., des Großen, zur Gleichheit aller Untertanen in Küstrin
 15. September: Rivalitäten zwischen spanischen Siedlern und Briten auf der Halbinsel Yucatán führen durch einen spanischen Angriff zur Zerstörung der britischen Holzfäller-Siedlung Belize Town. Doch geben die Briten die Region, das spätere Britisch-Honduras, nicht entmutigt auf und besiedeln den Ort neu.
 Spanien greift auf Seiten der Amerikaner in den amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg ein.

Wirtschaft

 Charlotte von Hezel beginnt mit der Herausgabe ihres Wochenblatts für's schöne Geschlecht, das in Ilmenau erscheint. Sie ist damit die erste Frau, die eine Zeitschrift herausgibt. Hezel behandelt in der Zeitschrift nicht nur Themen wie Mode und Hauswirtschaft, sondern will zur Frauenbildung beitragen und veröffentlicht Texte über Kunstgeschichte und Literatur, über Medizin und andere naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge. Im gleichen Jahr bringt die Hamburgerin Ernestine Hofmann anonym das Blatt Für Hamburgs Töchter heraus.

Wissenschaft und Technik

Im Januar 1779 versuchten zwei preußische Spione, auf dem Gelände der Fabrik von James Watt die Funktionsweise der Dampfmaschine auszuspionieren.

Architektur

 2. Juli: Der erste Bogen der Iron Bridge, der weltweit ersten aus Gusseisen konstruierten Bogenbrücke, überspannt einen Fluss, den britischen Severn.

Astronomie

 23. März: Der britische Astronom Edward Pigott sieht als erster Mensch die Blackeye-Galaxie im Sternbild Haar der Berenike.
 11. April: Johann Gottfried Köhler findet im Virgo-Galaxienhaufen die Galaxien Messier 59 und Messier 60.
 15. April: Charles Messier entdeckt im Sternbild Jungfrau eine Galaxie, die er in seinem Verzeichnis als Nummer 58 aufnimmt.

 5. Mai: Der italienische Astronom Barnaba Oriani entdeckt im Sternbild Jungfrau die Galaxie mit dem späteren Namen Messier 61.
 14. Juni: Der französische Astronom Pierre Méchain spürt im Sternbild Jagdhunde die als Messier 63 registrierte Galaxie auf.

Lehre und Forschung

 Einrichtung des ersten deutschen Lehrstuhls für Pädagogik, eingenommen durch Ernst Christian Trapp an der Universität Halle.
 Das Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel wird gegründet.

Kultur

Architektur und Bildende Kunst

 Der Bau des Fridericianums in Kassel als erstes öffentliches Museum auf dem europäischen Kontinent wird fertiggestellt. Es nimmt unter anderem die 1580 gegründete hessische Landesbibliothek auf.

Literatur

 Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Ideendrama Nathan der Weise erscheint als Druck. Eine erste nichtöffentliche Aufführung erfolgt am 15. Oktober in Mannheim.

Musik und Theater

 17. Januar: Die komische Oper Das Grab des Mufti oder Die beiden (zwei) Geizigen von Johann Adam Hiller hat ihre Uraufführung.
 14. Februar: Die Uraufführung der Oper Gli astrologi immaginari (Die eingebildeten Astrologen) von Giovanni Paisiello findet in Sankt Petersburg statt.
 23. März: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vollendet die vermutlich für die Osterfeierlichkeiten am 4. April im Salzburger Dom geschriebene Messe, die Jahre später unter dem Namen Krönungsmesse Bekanntheit erlangt.
 6. April: Die Prosafassung des Bühnenstücks Iphigenie auf Tauris von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wird am herzoglichen Privattheater in Weimar uraufgeführt.
 25. April: Die Uraufführung der Oper La vera costanza (Der flatterhafte Liebhaber) von Joseph Haydn erfolgt in Esterház.
 18. Mai: Die Oper Iphigénie en Tauride von Christoph Willibald Gluck hat ihre Uraufführung an der Pariser Oper.
 20. September: Uraufführung des Melodrams Pygmalion von Georg Benda in Gotha
 6. Dezember: Die Uraufführung der Oper L'isola disabitata (Die unbewohnte Insel) von Joseph Haydn erfolgt in Esterház.
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart beginnt mit der Arbeit an dem Singspiel Zaide, das jedoch unvollendet bleibt. Erst 1866 erfolgt die Uraufführung des Fragments.

Religion

 18. August: Das Bistum Chambéry wird gegründet.
 10. Oktober: Die von Stadtbaumeister Johann Andreas Liebhardt neu erbaute spätbarocke Johanniskirche in Frankfurt am Main wird geweiht. Sie hat als erstes Gebäude der Stadt einen Blitzableiter.
 7. November: Die neue Seiffener Kirche wird geweiht.

Geboren

Erstes Quartal
 2. Januar: Gerhard Friederich, deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Schriftsteller († 1862)
 4. Januar: Robert Henry Goldsborough, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1836)
 4. Januar: Alexander von der Mark, illegitimer Sohn König Friedrich Wilhelms II. von Preußen († 1787)
 5. Januar: Stephen Decatur junior, US-amerikanischer Marineoffizier († 1820)
 5. Januar: Zebulon Pike, US-amerikanischer Offizier und Entdecker († 1813)
 13. Januar: William Badger, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1852)
 14. Januar: Joseph Kent, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1837)
 15. Januar: Jean Coralli, französischer Tänzer und Choreograph († 1854)
 17. Januar: Maria Christina von Neapel-Sizilien, Königin von Sardinien-Piemont († 1849)
 18. Januar: Peter Mark Roget, englischer Arzt und Lexikograph († 1869)
 23. Januar: Isaac C. Bates, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1845)
 24. Januar: Elisabeth Alexejewna, badische Prinzessin († 1826)
 27. Januar: Franz Philipp Aull, deutscher Politiker († 1850)
 5. Februar: François (Frans) Van Campenhout, belgischer Opernsänger, Dirigent und Komponist († 1848)
 9. Februar: Anne-Françoise-Hippolyte Boutet, besser bekannt als Mademoiselle Mars, französische Schauspielerin († 1847)
 14. Februar: Nathaniel Pearce, britischer Abenteurer, Afrikareisender und Reiseschriftsteller († 1820)
 20. Februar: Augustus Wall Callcott, britischer Maler († 1844)

 21. Februar: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, deutscher Rechtsgelehrter († 1861)
 22. Februar: Joachim Nicolas Eggert, schwedischer Komponist und Dirigent († 1813)
 23. Februar: Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, deutscher Komponist und Kapellmeister († 1867)
 24. Februar: Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, österreichischer Hofbeamter, Grundbesitzer und Militär († 1849)
 2. März: Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn, preußischer Staatsmann, Kultusminister. († 1856)
 6. März: Antoine-Henri Jomini, Schweizer Militärtheoretiker und General († 1869)
 9. März: Johann Melchior Schuler, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher und Heimatforscher († 1859)
 10. März: Frances Trollope, britische Schriftstellerin († 1863)
 11. März: Philipp August Friedrich, Landgraf von Hessen-Homburg († 1846)
 15. März: William Lamb, 2. Viscount Melbourne, britischer Innen- und Premierminister († 1848)
 18. März: Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher und Heimatforscher († 1866)
 21. März: Alexis de Garaudé, französischer Musikpädagoge und Komponist († 1852)
 29. März: Christian Heinrich Zeller, deutscher Pädagoge und Kirchenliederdichter pietistischer Richtung († 1860)
 31. März: Georg Lankensperger, bayrischer Erfinder der Achsschenkellenkung († 1847)

Zweites Quartal
 11. April: Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler, deutscher Mediziner († 1843)
 20. April: Gottlob August Krille, deutscher Komponist und Kreuzkantor († 1813)
 4. Mai: John Adam, britischer interimistischer Generalgouverneur († 1825)
 7. Mai: Johann Georg Florschütz, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher († 1849)
 8. Mai: Konstantin Pawlowitsch Romanow, Großfürst von Russland († 1831)
 12. Mai: Giambattista Torricelli, Schweizer römisch-katholischer Geistlicher und Schriftsteller († 1848)
 13. Mai: Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy, preußischer Diplomat († 1825)
 15. Mai: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Weise, deutscher Beamter und Politiker († 1851)
 19. Mai: Pepita Tudó, Geliebte Manuel de Godoys, des ersten Minister unter Karl IV. von Spanien († 1869)
 1. Juni: Christoph Johann Jakob Arnold, deutscher Architekt († 1844)
 3. Juni: Marie von Clausewitz, Ehefrau des preußischen Generals und Militärtheoretikers Carl von Clausewitz († 1836)
 7. Juni: Franz Joseph Freiherr von Arens, deutscher Jurist und Politiker († 1855)
 11. Juni: Bernhard von Lindenau, sächsischer Astronom, Regierungschef und Kunstsammler († 1854)
 16. Juni: Samuel D. Ingham, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1860)
 23. Juni: Johann Baptist Schiedermayr, deutscher Komponist und Kirchenmusiker († 1840)
 28. Juni: Daniel Elliott Huger, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1854)
 29. Juni: Rudolf von Salis-Zizers, Schweizer Offizier († 1840)
 30. Juni: Adam Heinrich Müller, deutscher Philosoph und Staatstheoretiker († 1829)
 30. Juni: Daniel Steinmann, Schweizer Kaufmann und Politiker († 1839)

Drittes Quartal
 4. Juli: Heinrich Arnold Huyssen, deutscher Industrieller und Politiker († 1870)
 13. Juli: William Hedley, englischer Grubendirektor († 1843)
 15. Juli: Samuel Bleichröder, deutscher Bankier († 1855)
 17. Juli: José Bernardo de Tagle Portocarrero, von 1823 bis 1824 Präsident Perus († 1825)
 18. Juli: Gottlob König, deutscher Forstwissenschaftler († 1849)
 18. Juli: Christian Gottlob Hammer, deutscher Landschaftsmaler und Kupferstecher († 1864)
 20. Juli: Ignaz Schuster, österreichischer Schauspieler und Komponist († 1835)
 22. Juli: Edward Lloyd, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1834)
 1. August: Karl Otto Ludwig von Arnim, deutscher Schriftsteller († 1861)
 1. August: Francis Scott Key, US-amerikanischer Rechtsanwalt und Amateurdichter († 1843)
 1. August: Lorenz Oken, badischer Naturgeschichtler und Naturwissenschaftler († 1851)
 6. August: Henry Moore Ridgely, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1847)
 7. August: Louis de Freycinet, französischer Entdecker († 1842)
 7. August: Carl Ritter, preußischer Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Geographie († 1859)

 15. August: Joseph Widmer, Schweizer römisch-katholischer Theologe und Hochschullehrer († 1844)
 20. August: Jöns Jakob Berzelius, schwedischer Chemiker († 1848)
 22. August: Johann Gottlieb Kreyßig, deutscher Pädagoge und Philologe († 1854)
 24. August: Dietrich Georg von Kieser, deutscher Mediziner und Psychiater († 1862)
 28. August: Antoinette Ernestine Amalie, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1824)
 31. August: Anton Viktor Joseph Johann Raimund, Erzherzog von Österreich († 1835)
 4. September: Ernst von Bernuth, deutscher Jurist († 1847)
 5. September: Franz von Sonnenberg, deutscher Dichter († 1805)
 8. September: Mustafa IV., osmanischer Sultan († 1808)
 10. September: Louis Alexandre Piccinni, französischer Komponist († 1850)
 14. September: Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, deutscher Schriftsteller der Romantik († 1819)
 17. September: John Campbell, 1. Baron Campbell, britischer Politiker und Jurist († 1861)
 18. September: Ludolph Christian Treviranus, deutscher Botaniker († 1864)
 19. September: Valentin Sibbern, norwegischer Offizier und Politiker († 1853)
 19. September: August von Preußen, preußischer Prinz und General († 1843)
 21. September: Hermann Wedel-Jarlsberg, norwegischer Politiker († 1840)
 26. September: Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson, französisch-armenischer Mongolist († 1851)
 29. September: Frederik Meltzer, norwegischer Kaufmann und Politiker († 1855)

Viertes Quartal
 4. Oktober: Pamphile Léopold François Aimon, französischer Komponist († 1866)
 6. Oktober: Nathan Appleton, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1861)
 6. Oktober: Franz IV., österreichischer Erzherzog, Herzog von Modena und Reggio († 1846)
 10. Oktober: Magnus Björnstjerna, schwedischer General, Diplomat und Schriftsteller († 1847)
 18. Oktober: Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola, Miniaturmaler und Kupferstecher († 1852)

 4. November: Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich Leo, deutscher Beamter († 1840)
 5. November: Washington Allston, US-amerikanischer Maler und Dichter († 1843)
 14. November: Adam Oehlenschläger, dänischer Nationaldichter der Romantik († 1850)
 20. November: Franz Haniel, deutscher Unternehmer († 1868)
 22. November: Toussaint von Charpentier, deutscher Geologe und Entomologe († 1847)
 27. November: Aimé Marie Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre, französischer General und Minister († 1865)
 2. Dezember: Pjotr Iwanowitsch Turtschaninow, russischer Komponist († 1856)
 5. Dezember: John Sergeant, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1852)
 12. Dezember oder 13. Dezember: Sophie Barat, französische Gründerin des katholischen Frauenordens der Sacré-Cœur-Schwestern († 1865)
 17. Dezember: Fanny Tarnow, deutsche Schriftstellerin († 1862)

Genaues Geburtsdatum unbekannt
 Johannes Bückler, genannt Schinderhannes, berüchtigter Serienstraftäter († 1803)
 José María Gruesso, kolumbianischer Lyriker († 1835)
 George Poindexter, US-amerikanischer Politiker († 1853)

Gestorben

Erstes Halbjahr

 3. Januar: Claude Bourgelat, französischer Tiermediziner und Autor, Gründer der ersten tiermedizinischen Schule (* 1712)
 6. Januar: Alexander Georg von Humboldt, preußischer Offizier und Unternehmer, Vater von Wilhelm und Alexander Humboldt (* 1720)
 20. Januar: Johannes Burman, niederländischer Arzt und Botaniker (* 1706)
 20. Januar: David Garrick, britischer Schauspieler (* 1717)
 21. Januar: Christoph Traugott Delius, deutscher Bergbauwissenschaftler (* 1728)
 26. Januar: Thomas Hudson, britischer Porträtmaler und Kunstsammler (* 1701)
 28. Januar: Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl, deutscher katholischer Geistlicher und Ökonom (* 1721)

 3. Februar: Louis de Jaucourt, französischer Schriftsteller (* 1704)
 12. Februar: Henrik Filip Johnsen, schwedischer Komponist (* 1717)

 14. Februar: James Cook, britischer Entdecker und Seefahrer (* 1728)
 18. Februar: Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim, Fürstbischof von Bamberg (* 1708)
 23. Februar: Carl Julius Wilda, preußischer Jurist (* 1710)
 24. Februar: Paul Daniel Longolius, sächsischer Redakteur (* 1704)
 27. Februar: Johann Georg Sulzer, deutscher Philosoph (* 1720)

 2. März: Karim Khan, Herrscher von Persien (* um 1705)
 4. März: Heinrich Leopold Wagner, deutscher Schriftsteller (* 1747)
 13. März: Roman Benedikt Nollet, in der Region Trier, in Luxemburg und im Saarland tätiger Orgelbauer (* 1710)
 28. März: Woldemar Salomo Hausdorf, deutscher evangelischer Theologe (* 1731)

 6. April: Tommaso Traetta, italienischer Komponist (* 1727)
 7. April: Hilaire Marin Rouelle, französischer Chemiker (* 1718)
 9. April: Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, spanischer Offizier, Kolonialverwalter und Vizekönig von Neuspanien (* 1717)
 10. April: Grigori Nikolajewitsch Teplow, russischer Komponist (* 1717)
 23. April: Friedrich Samuel Zickler, deutscher lutherischer Theologe (* 1721)
 26. April: Eleazar de Mauvillon, deutsch-französischer Schriftsteller, Historiker und Hochschullehrer (* 1712)

 11. Mai: John Hart, Delegierter für New Jersey im Kontinentalkongress (* um 1713)
 13. Mai: Heinrich XXIV., Graf Reuß zu Ebersdorf (* 1724)
 16. Mai: Johann Paul Reinhard, deutscher Hochschullehrer und Historiker (* 1722)
 30. Mai: Johann Friedrich Hahn, deutscher Lyriker (* 1753)
 16. Juni: Francis Bernard, 1. Baronet, Gouverneur der Province of Massachusetts Bay (* 1712)
 21. Juni: Hermann Werner Franziskus Gottlieb Freiherr von der Asseburg zu Hinnenburg, Kurkölnischer Premierminister (* 1702)
 23. Juni: Michael Sehul, äthiopischer Adeliger, Gouverneur von Tigray (* um 1691)
 29. Juni: Anton Raphael Mengs, deutscher Maler (* 1728)

Zweites Halbjahr

 14. Juli: George Ross, Delegierter von Pennsylvania im Kontinentalkongress (* 1730)
 21. Juli: Michael Adelbulner, deutscher Mathematiker, Physiker und Astronom (* 1702)
 26. Juli: Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Biefer, deutscher Pietist (* 1706)

 22. August: Abol Fath Khan Zand, Schah der Zand-Dynastie (* um 1755)
 22. August: Charles Clerke, britischer Seefahrer und Entdecker (* 1741)
 24. August: Christian Friedrich Herold, deutscher Porzellanmaler (* 1700)

 5. September: Edward Biddle, Delegierter von Pennsylvania im Kontinentalkongress (* 1738)
 7. September: John Armstrong, schottischer Arzt und Dichter (* 1709)
 30. September: Diego José Abad, spanischer Jesuit, Schriftsteller, Pädagoge und Humanist (* 1727)

 9. Oktober: Johann Georg Dirr, bayrischer Stuckateur und Bildhauer (* 1723)
 11. Oktober: Kazimierz Pułaski, Anführer der Konföderation von Bar in Polen und General im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg (* 1745)
 18. Oktober: Leonard Offerhaus, deutscher Historiker in den Niederlanden (* 1699)
 23. Oktober: Franz Fridolin Weber, deutscher Bassist, Souffleur und Notenkopist (* 1733)

 10. November: Joseph Hewes, Delegierter von North Carolina im Kontinentalkongress (* 1730)
 12. November: Helfrich Peter Sturz, deutscher Schriftsteller der Aufklärung (* 1736)
 13. November: Thomas Chippendale, englischer Möbeldesigner (* 1718)
 16. November: Robert Maxwell, 1. Earl of Farnham, irischer Politiker und Peer
 25. November: François Dom Bédos de Celles, französischer Benediktiner, Orgelbauer, Gutachter und Schriftsteller (* 1709)
 27. November: Gioacchino Martorana, sizilianischer Maler (* 1736)
 27. November: Wacław Rzewuski, polnischer Militärführer und Staatsmann (* 1706)
 28. November: Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling, preußischer Husarengeneral (* 1719)

 5. Dezember: Herman Antonín Jelínek, böhmischer Komponist und Violinvirtuose (* 1709)
 6. Dezember: Jean Siméon Chardin, französischer Maler (* 1699)
 11. Dezember: Alessandro Albani, katholischer Kardinal (* 1692)
 16. Dezember: Go-Momozono, Kaiser von Japan (* 1758)
 20. Dezember: Johann Philipp Burckhard Asbrand, deutscher Theologe (* 1722)
 23. Dezember: Franciscus Volckland, deutscher Orgelbauer (* 1696)

Genaues Todesdatum unbekannt

 Joseph Angerer, österreichischer Bildhauer (* 1735)
 Louis-Roch-Antoine-Charles Arnauld, französischer Autor und Enzyklopädist (* 1703)

Weblinks

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St. Joseph-Ogden players slap hands as they are introduced before their IHSA girls' state quarterfinal basketball game at Redbird Arena in Normal on Friday, Feb. 23, 2007.
SJ-O cheerleaders perform on the floor in the first half of their IHSA girls' quarterfinal basketball game at Redbird Arena in Normal.
St. Joseph's Lindsey Barron (25) tries to move around Breese Central's Leann Voss.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ashley Runck (33) works her way to the basket against Breese's Lauren Budde (32).
SJ-O's Hanna Allen (40) drives past Britni Holtmann of Breese Central.
St. Joseph-Ogden coach Kathy Wiesen gives instructions to her team in the second half.
SJ-O coach Kathy Wiesen shouts instructions to her team in the first half.
SJ-O fans cheer on their Spartans in first half.
Ashley Runck of SJ-O brings the ball up the floor in first half.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ashley Runck works her way to the basket against Breese's Lauren Budde (32).
St. Joseph-Ogden's Taylor Freeman (12) takes a shot over Breese's K.C. Root in the second half. Freeman finished with 10 points in the game.
St. Joseph-Ogden coach Kathy Wiesen congratulates players Taylor Freeman (12) and Lindsey Barron (25) as she takes them out for the last time as time winds down in the game.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ashley Runck works her way through a double team in the second half. Runck led the Spartans with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
Toni Duval of St. Joseph-Ogden gets tangled up with Breese Central's Jessica Hemann in the second half.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Hanna Allen brings the ball up the floor in the second half. Allen scored five points in the Spartans' 56-39 quarterfinal defeat.
Toni Duval of SJ-O is called for a blocking foul as Breese Central's Jessica Hermann drives to the basket in the second half.
SJ-O coach Kathy Wiesen gathers her team around to start the second half of their IHSA quarterfinal game.
SJ-O breaks their huddle to begin the second half of their state quarterfinal game.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ashley Runck (33) reaches down the bench to congratulate teammate Hanna Allen after they were taken out late in second half.
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ashley Runck (33) and Toni Duval lead the Spartans off the floor. SJ-O finished the season 29-4.


text:
The Corioxenidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. Species in this family are parasites of heteropteran bugs including the Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae, Cydnidae, Coreidae, and Lygaeidae. The males lack mandibles. Three subfamilies within this family are recognized. The subfamilies are separated using morphology of the males, particularly on the basis of the number of tarsi and the presence of tarsal claws.

Corioxeninae Kinzelbach, 1970
Corioxenos Blair, 1936
Floridoxenos Kathirithamby and Peck, 1994
Loania Kinzelbach, 1970
Perissozocera Johnson, 1976
Australoxenos Kathirithamby, 1990
Blissoxenos Miyamoto & Kifune, 1984
Malayaxenos Kifune, 1981
Mufagaa Kinzelbach, 1980
Viridipromontorius Luna de Carvalho, 1985
Triozocerinae Kinzelbach, 1970
Triozocera Pierce, 1909
Dundoxenos Luna de Carvalho, 1956
Uniclavinae Kathirithamby, 1989
 Uniclavus Kathirithamby, 1989
 Proceroxenos Pohl, Katbeh-Bader & Schneider, 1996

References

Strepsiptera
Insect families


Описание: Коллекционное ограниченное издание книги The Antique Bowie Knife Book, это уникальная коллекция охотничьих ножей с описанием и цветными высококачественными фотографиями нескольких сотен ножей. Книга для антикваров, тех кто делает ножи и тех кто ими пользуется.
552 page knife book that was issued in 1100 copies and apparently sold out on publication. Definitive and darn scarce. Fancy knives- some have highly-decorated hilts, silver and jeweled decoration, and ivory, fine wood, horn or mother-of-pearl grips. Some had memorable labels engraved on them like "Texas Ranger Knife," "Arkansas Toothpick," "Patriot's Self Defender," "Death to Abolition," "Death to Traitors," "Americans Never Surrender," "Rio Grande Camp Knife," and "I'm A Real Ripper." 90% of Bowie knives were made in Sheffield (not a lot of people know that.). A bloody good business until the rise of the Colt revolver. Idle question:Did David Bowie take his name from the knife?


It's no secret that stuffed animals can provide comfort and bring happiness to people living with Alzheimer's. Well how about combining the soothing reassurance of a soft, plush bear or dog with the therapeutic benefits of aromatherapy?
The folks at Sootheze are doing just that with their line of Sootheze Pals. Plenty of research has shown the benefits of lavender and other herbal scents as far as helping reduce agitation in Alzheimer's patients. The Sootheze plush animals are filled with a blend of nine herbs including lavender, rose hips, and cinnamon. Their "stuffing" consists primarily of all-natural flaxseed.
Sootheze pals are available in a variety of animals including cats, dogs, bears, and bunnies. The company also offers a "collar" style that can be draped around the neck and shoulders. Adding to their versatility, the plush pets can be cooled in the freezer or heated in the microwave if desired. What a cozy addition to a cold winter day or night.
I realize some challenge this idea, supporting the notion that dolls and stuffed animals are demeaning to adults. However, I truly believe it depends on the individual and how far along they are in the disease. This goes hand in hand with the concept of joining our loved ones in their world when they can no longer make it back to ours. We have to stop and think, does the idea of a stuffed animal feel demeaning to our loved one, or are we just uncomfortable with it?
For the last couple of weeks, one of the dear ladies I visit in memory care has told me she's very afraid – a common occurrence in Alzheimer's patients. I sit and hold her hand, which seems to help, but we know we can't always be there.
This coming week, I'll be taking the sweet Vanilla Bear I received from the nice folks at Sootheze, to his new home in the unit. My hope is that he will bring smiles, joy, and a sense of security to my friends when they're sad, lonely, or just need a hug.
Visit the Sootheze website to learn more or shop for a Sootheze pal for your loved one.


Within the EFB research project "Fast Wear", the scientists developed a novel testing methodology with which wear of deep-drawing tools can be modelled much faster and more cost-efficient than with conventional model tests.
Using wear-initiating particles, the researchers were able to create within 50 strokes a wear pattern similar to the one of a specimen without wear initiator after approx. 94,000 strokes.
Further investigations showed that the new method is principally transferable to be able to compare the wear resistance of various sheet materials with different hardness values and wear-resistant coatings. An economic feasibility study also showed the possible savings compared to conventional wear testing characterized by high cost of material and labour.


Blue is The New Black is practical, detailed, full of examples, anecdotes from the practice of the author, illustrations, and a insert foldout Key Dates Calendar with the steps and deadlines from the start of development to the end of production of a collection.
Blue is the New Black is written for people who want to know what a range plan is, how you deal with factories, how you review a prototype and for everyone who needs to know the steps that are needed to turn a designer's sketch into a piece of garment. Must-read for design students, professionals and fashion entrepreneurs.
Mariette Hoitink was sparring partner and proofreader for the book, HTNK organized workshops for designers & emerging labels.


care. It also discusses the use of patient-controlled analgesia and how this may or may not be effective and useful.
Raymond S. Sinatra is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.


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The Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) is the operator of mass transportation  in the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and portions of surrounding Luzerne County.  Services provided by the LCTA replaced previously offered services of the White Transit Company and Wilkes-Barre Transit Corporation, under a purchase-of-service agreement in 1972.

The LCTA is governed by a nine-member board, appointed by the Luzerne County Council. On August 1, 2019 LCTA was renamed the Northeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Routes
The LCTA operates 15 routes weekdays and Saturdays, serving the urban area of Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding Luzerne County in Pennsylvania.  An additional route serves as an inter-city route between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.

As of July 6, 2010, LCTA routes originate at the James F. Conahan Intermodal Transportation Center on Washington Street near Public Square. The LCTA shares the bus boarding platforms with Martz Trailways. Before the move, the LCTA began trips at Public Square, as it had since its inception in 1972.

  1 Miners Mills
  3 Grove & Brown/Heights
  5 Parsons
  6 Dallas
  7 Georgetown
  8 Swoyersville
  10 Wyoming Valley Mall
  11 West Pittston
  12 Larksville
  13 Ashley/Sugar Notch
  14 Nanticoke via Glen Lyon
  15 Nanticoke via Middle Road
  16 Old Forge
  17 Wilkes-Barre - Wyoming Valley Mall - Steamtown Mall (Scranton)
  18 Shoppers Delight
  22 Plymouth via Old River Road

LCTA buses connect in Pittston Township and Old Forge to County of Lackawanna Transit System buses.

Operating Fleet
LCTA operates 38 transit buses in its fleet.  The fleet is a mix of Gillig coaches, in 30, 35 and 40 foot variations; and in their Phantom, Advantage and BRT models.

References

External links
LCTA Home

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Transportation in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Paratransit services in the United States
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Music Of The Group (1982-1987) - Wolfgang Tillman's Compilation
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Music Of The Group (1982-1987) - Wolfgang Tillman's Compilation - CD
Celebrating Colourbox and their music's inspiration on German artist, Wolfgang Tillmans, the first non-English winner of the Turner Prize back in 2000, Music of the Group (1982 - 1987) opens in Berlin Saturday Sept. 13th. Taking place at his gallery space, Between Bridges, the exhibition is the first in the Playback Room series, running until the 25th of October.
Speaking of the show, Wolfgang said, "Brothers Martyn and Steven Young together with Ian Robbins, Lorita Grahame and Debian Curry were pioneers of experimental pop music. They created an eclectic sound drawing from reggae and soul influences, beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial. Using montages of analogue magnetic tape pieces and experimenting with tape machines, Colourbox were at the fore-front of sampling, which in it's digital form would become ubiquitous in the course of the 1980's. The band worked in a seeming contrast of pure artistic research in the studio and an anti-intellectual stance towards the outside world.
It is considered normal that in order to see original works of visual art one can visit a museum. However there is no dedicated space or place where one can go to to hear the works of musicians with the studio sound quality that the original recording was made in. Live music has dedicated spaces, whereas recorded music has none. This does not do justice to the fact that to many musicians the very essence of their work is the recorded final version of a song or album. Months of studio time have gone into creating a work with optimum sound quality. Undoubtedly music is a huge inspiration to visual artists, and many hold pieces of recorded music in the highest esteem. When attempts are made to bring music into art galleries, it is often done by using visual by-products, rarely by 'showing' the music in dedicated spaces equipped with the highest standard speaker systems.
The Between Bridges project Playback Room is hoping to encourage a critical discussion of this divide. For Colourbox, Music of the Group (1982 - 1987), the larger space of Between Bridges will become a playback room equipped with a high-end hi-fi sound system. A sequence of 16 songs will be played. The actual carriers of the recordings will be on show in the entrance space of Between Bridges: a display of original mastering tapes, 2", 1/2" and 1/4", and the records with artwork created by the highly acclaimed designer Vaughan Oliver, will be available to be handled by visitors. A list of transcripts of the original sound samples used by Colourbox will be displayed at the entrance on the gallery walls."
To accompany the exhibition, a CD of Colourbox tracks has been compiled by Wolfgang himself. A limited number of copies have been made and they will be on sale at the gallery. The cover art for the record is from an unseen photograph series of Wolfgang's comprising his prized Canon Colour Laser Copier, being dismantled after a decade of service; "80ies technology has influenced me a lot. When I won the Turner Prize I bought this copier with the money. Ten years later it was no longer repairable and I made this 'deconstruction' of it."
Colourbox Music of the Group (1982 - 1987)
1 - Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out
2 - Sleepwalker
3 - Just Give 'em Whiskey
4 - Baby I Love You So (7" version)
5 - Edit The Dragon
6 - Hipnition
7 - We Walk Around The Streets
8 - Nation
9 - Justice
10 - Sex Gun
11 - Shotgun
12 - The Moon Is Blue (7" version)
13 - Keep On Pushing
14 - Fast Dump
15 - Arena I
16 - Hot Doggie


ANKARA, Turkey: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Turkey to "confront" comments made by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the killing of at least 50 people at mosques in Christchurch.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday following a terror attack at the two mosques during Friday prayers.
Speaking at a campaign rally in the northern town of Eregli, Erdogan criticized New Zealand and Australia for sending troops to Turkey in the World War I Gallipoli campaign, claiming their motive was anti-Islam-oriented.


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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoko Matsushita. The story revolves around shinigami. These Guardians of Death work for Enma Daiō, the king of the dead, sorting out the expected and unexpected arrivals to the Underworld.

An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired on Wowow from October to December 2000.

Plot

Asato's catchphrase:

Series introduction:

Asato Tsuzuki has been a 'Guardian of Death' for over 70 years. He has the power to call upon twelve shikigami, mythical creatures that aid him in battle. The manga portrays Tsuzuki's relationship with the shinigami in much more detail. Tsuzuki is the senior partner of the Second Division, which watches over the region of Kyūshū.

In the anime, the story begins when Chief Konoe, the boss, and the other main characters discussing recent murders in Nagasaki. The victims all have bite marks and a shortage of blood, which leads to the case being known as "The Vampire Case."

After some food troubles, Tsuzuki travels to Nagasaki with Gushoshin, a flying creature/helper who can speak, and together they do a bit of investigating. The rule is that Guardian of Death are supposed to work in pairs, and until Tsuzuki meets up with his new partner, he needs someone to watch him. However, Gushoshin gets held back by groceries, and Tsuzuki is on his own.

While exploring Nagasaki, Tsuzuki hears a scream and has a run-in with a strange white-haired woman with red eyes, who leaves blood on his collar. Taking this as is a sign that the woman might be the vampire, Tsuzuki tries to follow her. He comes to a church called Oura Cathedral, where he meets the story's primary antagonist, Muraki.

Doctor Kazutaka Muraki is initially portrayed as a pure figure, with much religious and color symbolism. He meets Tsuzuki with tears in his eyes and Tsuzuki, thrown off, asks if Muraki has seen a woman recently. Muraki says no body has been in the church, and Tsuzuki leaves. Tsuzuki later learns that the woman that he encountered is Maria Won, a famous singer from China.

From there Tsuzuki continues through Nagasaki into the area of the city known as Glover Garden, where he is held at gunpoint from behind. His attacker tells him to turn around, and when he does, he discovers a young man glaring at him. He suspects this man is the vampire. Tsuzuki is then saved by Gushoshin. Afterwards Tsuzuki learns that the boy is Hisoka Kurosaki, his new partner, and the rest of the story is heavily based on character development and the relationships between characters.

Later in the Nagasaki Arc (the first fourth of the anime series, and the first collection of the manga), Hisoka is kidnapped by Muraki, and the truth about his death is revealed. Tsuzuki rescues him after his "date" with Muraki, and the series follows the relationship between these three characters, supported and embellished by the rest of the cast.

Media

Manga
The manga was serialized in Hakusensha's semi-monthly shōjo manga magazine, Hana to Yume from the 14th issue of 1996 until the author decided to put the story on hiatus in the 2nd issue of 2003. The published chapters have been collected in 12 volumes with the 12th volume published on January 19, 2010 with revisions that differ from the chapters originally serialized in the magazine. The series resumed serialization in Hana to Yume magazine in the September 2011 issue. The English-language version is published by Viz Media that originally released the first volume on September 14, 2004, and the eleventh on May 2, 2006. From volume 10 onwards the English edition adjusts the chapter enumeration, giving the Japanese and English editions different chapter numbers.

Anime
An anime adaptation of the manga aired on WOWOW beginning on October 10, 2000, to June 24, 2001. The anime was directed by Hiroko Tokita and was animated by J.C. Staff. The series was divided by four story arcs. Central Park Media had licensed the series and released them on DVD in 2003. The series initially aired on AZN Television in 2004. In 2008, the series, along with a few other CPM titles, was aired on Sci-Fi Channel's Ani-Monday block in 2008 and then on their sister network Chiller in 2009. In Canada, the anime series was shown on Super Channel 2 beginning on December 8, 2008. Discotek Media has since licensed the anime and will re-release the series in 2015. The series opening theme is "Eden" by To Destination, while the closing theme is "Love Me" by The Hong Kong Knife.

References to poetry

 The insert song for episode two, Amethyst Remembrance, is based on the poem "I held a Jewel in my fingers" by Emily Dickinson.

Reception

Descendants of Darkness has been called "a gateway drug into shōnen-ai and yaoi" despite it not really being as such. Anime News Network praised the TV series' humor.
Descendants of Darkness sold 10,000 copies in its first few months on the English-language market. Volume 5 of the series ranked 6th in the week ending of May 22, 2005, according to BookScan's Graphic Novel List.

References

External links

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1995 manga
2000 anime television series debuts
Anime series based on manga
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Hakusensha franchises
Hakusensha manga
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Mystery anime and manga
Shinigami in anime and manga
Shōjo manga
Supernatural anime and manga
Viz Media manga
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Troligen beställer mindre affärer bara 1 kr och 5 kr mynt inte 2 kr och 10 kr. The beauty of this mechanism is that it is very easy to understand as well. For example, you can even take loans by pledging this precious metal. Now, where is this gold? After the Union Budget, there were some modifications made to the excise and other duty changes that were done.


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La iglesia Saint-Ambroise es una iglesia situada en el 11.º arrondissement de París.

Historia

Construida entre 1863 y 1869, fue un proyecto del arquitecto Théodore Ballu y mezcla los estilos neogótico y neorrománico. Está catalogada como Monumento Histórico desde 1978. El 18 de marzo de 1996 fue ocupada por trescientos inmigrantes africanos en situación irregular que reclamaban su regularización; estos fueron desalojados por la policía el 22 de marzo.

Véase también
 XI Distrito de París

Referencias

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My Visit To A Medicine Woman On Siquijor, The 'Mystic Healing Island' Of The Philippines
Keri Jones April 20, 2016
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"I was frightened before I first visited Siquijor. My friends warned me about the island." Amy had heard the scary stories of sorcery and supernatural activity. I was having a coffee, chatting to this confident, intelligent woman on the island that many Filipinos are too scared to visit. Aren't I brave?! I had travelled to the Philippines' 'witchcraft island' to learn more about the myths and meet a traditional medicine woman, reputedly with special healing powers.
Amy moved to Siquijor (pronounced sik-ee-hor), the third smallest province in the Philippines, 10 years ago. Now she knows that stories of spells being cast when you look a local in the eye are just folklore and fantasy. In fact, you could argue that the infamy of being one of 100,000 Siquijornians brings advantages. When Amy returns to see her family in Cebu, her friends are especially nice to her because they're worried she's learned sorcery skills in her new home!
Like all gripping folklore tales, these stories have been shared for generations. They started in the time of the Spanish conquest. Siquijor was on a major sea-trading route and sailors who became ill during their voyage were put ashore. Some men defied the odds and recovered. That possibly fuelled gossip about islanders' special powers. Locals were also keen to spread these stories to deter would-be invaders and pirates. Who would want to attack the island if supernatural forces were at large?
But Amy is 30 years old. Why does her generation still believe that the island is dominated by the dark arts? She told me that most Filipinos have seen the 2007 horror movie Siquijor – Mystic Island that dramatizes the history of the place. Now, you might think that this mystical reputation would be a good tourism marketing tool, like the Loch Ness Monster or Dracula's Transylvania, but the island's Vice Governor, Dingdong Avanzado, believes the tales are harmful and they dissuade domestic travellers.
Dingdong Avanzado
He joined me over coffee to discuss the island province he represents. In his trendy Panama hat, white shirt and shorts Dingdong looked more like a boy band singer than a statesman. And that shouldn't have surprised me. He's one of the Philippines biggest musical stars. Three years ago, this household name pressed the pause button on his pop career to move into politics.
Dingdong says he has never experienced supernatural activity in his time in Siquijor, a place that he has been visiting since childhood. But he does believe that the island has special qualities, which should be the focus of tourism promotion. "This is Asia's healing island," Dingdong said. "I mean that in a holistic sense. People need somewhere to relax, to get away from the stresses of city life." Dingdong believes the island's attributes of good air, a relaxed vibe and exceptional fruit and veg from fertile volcanic soils combine to create a better experience for the body and soul. "Have you tasted our mangoes?" Dingdong enquired through an engaging smile.
This all made sense to me. Already, after 24 hours on the island, I'd appreciated the slower pace of life, the safety and lack of congestion. I'd noticed the friendly waving and hellos of locals as I passed by too. But Dingdong thinks that Siquijor offers more than just a chance to 'chill out.' He told me, "Local healers have been able to concoct 'so-called medicines' to aid the body to heal."
Johnnie Karstensen
The joint-owner of the Danish Lagoon resort was living proof of some islanders' understanding of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs. 60-year-old Johnnie Karstensen told me that he'd been hospitalised for ten weeks in Norway with crippling psoriasis. The doctors' prognosis wasn't good – he'd been warned that he'd end up in a wheelchair. It was Dingdong's dad, Ling, who suggested that Johnnie visited an island medicine man, known locally as a manambal, for a 'bola-bola' diagnosis. It was the best advice Johnnie ever received and had given him what he described as his "second chance." He was clutching a mineral water bottle containing a bright orange liquid when he joined me at the table. Johnnie explained that it contained a solution to tackle psoriasis made from the bark of a local tree. The medicine man had 'prescribed' it and Johnnie was now cured.
Personally, I'm very open to people pursuing any alternative avenues when science has failed to find a solution. If it works for you, why not? After all, aspirin is derived from a compound found in the bark of willow trees and ginger settles upset tummies.
Another local joined us. The impressive, long mahogany table in the Danish Lagoon's bar and restaurant had become the most crowded spot in Siquijor! I shook hands with Ling Avanzado, Dingdong's dad. He looked like a man who commanded authority even though he was dressed down for our Sunday morning meeting. The former island mayor grew up in a household that embraced both modern and traditional medicine. His father started the island's first medical practice in 1949 and opened the first hospital. But Ling had a stronger belief in the power of the local medicine men.
Ling Avanzado
He believes the size of the convent at Lazi, on the south of the island, shows that the priesthood had put faith in Siquijor's healing men back in the 19th century. He told me that most Roman Catholic convents would have offered ten rooms at the time, whereas the impressive structure in the islands' interior, which I visited, was built in 1857 with a 134-room capacity, making it the largest in Asia. Ling said the church knew Siquijor was "a healing place." When questioned about the choice of location for this significant building, Ling said a church spokesman had stated, "There's something in your pueblo that makes priest get well."
Ling also explained how the wife of a prominent Filipino politician had defeated the doctors' diagnosis of terminal illness following a bola-bola consultation. And then our discussion skipped from the healing powers of herbs towards what many people would consider witchcraft. Ling spoke about a local who sustained a spinal injury in the United States. The patient was repatriated but he was paralysed from the neck down. The medicine men buried him each day in the white sands to the left side of the Siquijor town ferry terminal pier. Apparently, the man has regained movement and now rides a motorbike again.
It seems that there's a bit of a generational divide over how much of these witchcraft stories people accept. Dingdong wanted to promote herbs and holistic holidays. His father Ling expressed a strong belief that some islanders can achieve things that cannot be explained by science. And sorcerers can still sort out anyone who conned or cheated locals, he told me. It's called 'barang paktol' but this practice was generally used for good or to send back spells to hex any outside sorcerer who tried casting them.
I was keen to find out more by visiting an island manambal for a bola-bola 'cleansing.' You don't find them in Yellow Pages and the two established practitioners of this craft who had lived nearby had died recently, said Johnnie. It took some detective work by Danish Lagoon staff in locating one. Because of the potential for communication problems, Jess from the hotel accompanied me on our hired tricycle – a small Honda motorbike with a covered sidecar bolted on.
After riding for 40 minutes into the countryside we reached a simple wooden bungalow set back from the road amongst deep, thick undergrowth and tall palms. An old woman came to the door of the shack and told Jess that the medicine woman was away. But she knew the location of another practitioner. We continued down the road for a few more miles and pulled off the highway again. It was a similar scene, a cluster of breezeblock cottages with plywood patches and corrugated roofs. But there were signs of the 21st century – a TV was blaring away on a music channel in the background. Outside the cottage was a makeshift waiting area of benches. Two tall, fair-haired twenty-somethings, possibly Swedish backpackers, were leaving after their consultation. It felt almost like an alfresco doctor's surgery – minus the out-of-date magazines.
Jenny-Loo
Jess explained that some locals went for a check-up, others wanted cleansing or had specific problems that they hoped could be remedied with potions or healing power. The doctor will see you now. A 30-year-old woman emerged from the house carrying a glass jar, water jug and bamboo straw. Jenny-Loo greeted me in perfect English. I suspect she honed her language skills from watching US TV imports, if her accent was anything to go by. She said that she'd been doing this since she was 14. Her grandfather had chosen her to carry on the tradition and she deputised for him when he was tired. It was the weekend, so I guess I should have expected to see the locum.
Jenny put a special, round, black stone, her granddad's, which she called a 'luggig', into a jar of water. She then rubbed the jar of water around my back, face and head whilst continually blowing into the straw. The noise from the bubbles reminded me of my childhood misbehaviour with a straw and a can of fizzy pop. But the motion of the cool jar massaging my back was quite soothing. On three occasions Jenny-Loo stopped and showed me that the water was clear. "That is good," she said. When it turns cloudy it indicates a problem. She emptied and refilled the water twice between more bubbling – the clarity remained. I'm going to live forever. Clearly.
It wasn't such good news for the tricycle driver. During his treatment, the water in the jar turned opaque. Jenny-Loo spoke to him in local dialect. I assume she wasn't advising him not to drive, because minutes later we were on the road again.
You'll have your own views on whether there's any substance behind claims of special powers or potions. What I can tell you, and I'm not a scientist, is that Siquijor is an oasis of calm in a country that can be chaotic and confusing. And when you factor in the scenery, genuine warmth of welcome, delicious food and wonderfully comfortable accommodation you'll find at the Danish Lagoon, you'll probably agree that there is something quite magical about this island.
Getting to Siquijor:
You can take a ferry from nearby Cebu, Dumaguete or Tagbilaran, which are all accessible by domestic flights from Manila.
Go for the business class or aircon ferry ticket if available. It won't cost much more, but there's space for your legs and you won't feel like you've been in an oven for the one to two-hour crossing. It is best to buy tickets beforehand, as you'll queue amongst chaos if you turn up just before your departure.
The Philippines love bureaucracy and travel operators are neither professional nor organised by Western standards. Be aware of this. You'll also have to queue to buy a port departure ticket – less than 25p – after you buy your travel ticket. There's no concept of European health and safety practices. As you board the ferry watch out because lorries reverse into the hold approximately a metre from where the queue is standing. Hold your breath if you don't like diesel fumes!
From 2017 it is hoped that smaller 60 seat aircraft will fly direct from Cebu Airport to Siquijor.
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The moat is almost finished draining for work that is to be done on the front area of the castle(below left and right).
Windows around the Emporium are now featuring Disney characters without the Christmas theme (below left). A Mickey and Minnie display stands in the Emporium (below, right).
It's 345 days until Christmas! (below, left). Mickeys house in what is likely to be it's last Christmas in Mickey's Toontown Fair (below, right).
Blizzard Beach is undergoing refurbishment through March 20th (below left and right). Both Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach close in winter during different times so there is always one water park open – as long as the weather is good. Typhoon Lagoon just reopened for guests after it's rehab.
Summit Plummet goes unused (below, left). Ice Gator (the Blizzard Beach mascot) is welcoming visitors to the park (below, right).
The Coronado Springs Dig Site is closed for rehab, including the jacuzzi and pool bar (below, left). Have you ever seen the Hidden Mickey on the side of the Mayan Temple? (below, right).
The Dig Site is scheduled to reopen on January 31st (below, left). The slide is shown (below, right).
The Uzima feature pool at the Animal Kingdom Lodge is also under rehab, although both jacuzzi's are open (below left and right).
The slide is seen covered (below, left). The jacuzzi's were empty but open (below, right).
Bonus Video – Epcot Entranceway, January 14th 2010 (Post-Christmas) – The entrance to Epcot after the Christmas music was switched back to the regular. The topiaries have been down for a week or so.
The photo of the covered plants (below, left) was taken last week – it looked like snow! You can see that the plants seemed to have fared well with the covering (below, right).
Unfortunately, many plants didn't do well around the Walt Disney World resort (below, left). There is a sign saying that Jack Frost had visited and there will be replanting soon. The Christmas tree at Epcot is now gone, and Epcot will soon be gearing this area up for the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival (below, right).
A new facade has gone up at Cantina de San Angel (below, left) as well as higher walls. This work is scheduled through fall. Spaceship Earth is seen in the background (below, right).


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Josh Hart has profane message for Eric Bledsoe haters
by Steve DelVecchio
Eric Bledsoe has had a tough first season with the New Orleans Pelicans, and Josh Hart is tired of the criticism his teammate has faced amid the struggles.
Bledsoe has seen his role increase as of late, but he is still averaging just 11.4 points, 3.8 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game. After the 31-year-old scored 13 points in a 115-109 win over the Boston Celtics on Monday night, Hart told the media that Bledsoe's critics can "shut the f— up, because we believe in him," according to ESPN's Andrew Lopez.
Hart then retweeted his own quote on Tuesday and wrote "That's my guy" with two heart emojis.
Bledsoe came to New Orleans as part of a deal that sent Jrue Holiday to the Milwaukee Bucks. He was on the trade block prior to the deadline, but the Pelicans were unable to move him. That mostly has to do with the fact that Bledsoe is signed through the 2022-23 season and owed more than $40 million.
The Pelicans are 21-25, but they remain in the playoff hunt. They decided not to trade Lonzo Ball at the deadline, and Ball seems like he is optimistic about what the team is building. Hart's animated defense of Bledsoe is a sign that Stan Van Gundy has quickly created a solid locker room foundation in New Orleans.
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Q: WCF without service contract interface is possible i was searching google to know that how we can easily convert asmx service to wcf and there i saw people write code like
this is my old asmx service
[WebService(Namespace="http://kennyw.com/sampleservices/")]
public class MyService : System.Web.Services.WebService
 {
[WebMethod]
public string Hello(string name)
  {
   return string.Format("Hello {0}.", name);

  }

}

convert to wcf
[ServiceContract(Namespace="http://kennyw.com/WCFservices/")]
[WebService(Namespace="http://kennyw.com/sampleservices/")]
public class MyService : System.Web.Services.WebService
 {
[WebMethod]
[OperationContract]
public string Hello(string name)
   {
    return string.Format("Hello {0}.", name);

   }

}

i saw when converting then people is not using service contract interface.  how it will work because i know that when we develop wcf service then i have to write one service contract interface for single service. so looking for discussion that how possible to develop wcf service without service contract interface. thanks

A: The above will not work in case you do not specify a correct contract naming in your web.config.
In case your class without an interface is in the following namespace:
namespace Foo
{
    [ServiceContract(Namespace="http://kennyw.com/WCFservices/")]
    [WebService(Namespace="http://kennyw.com/sampleservices/")]
    public class MyService : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {
        [WebMethod]
        [OperationContract]
        public string Hello(string name)
        {
            return string.Format("Hello {0}.", name);

        }
    }
}

In this case the web config service configuration should look like
<services>
    <service name="YourServiceName">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="httpBehavior" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="Foo.MyService"/>
    </service>
</services>

A: Because the programming against interfaces is a good thing for several reasons:

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*For example one of the very important reasons is that you can easily use it in unit test in a way that you can easily mock or stub it (and set expectations on it).
IYourInterfaceMethods stub = MockRepository.GenerateStub();
IYourInterfaceMethods mock = MockRepository.GenerateMock();
If you are in the big company, when you are not coding just for yourself and to get the JIRA task getting done, you are usually in a position to program for others, for your colleges. You are creating APIs for them, which they can use and reuse (so lower the costs for the company). In this case you should put the implementation of a service in a separate library and expose only the interfaces which they can then call, and reuse your master piece. But what happens in this case is that when someone is starting to use your service (which for example can send SMS, which costs money, or for example runs a 5 minutes long processing of some complicated calculation), he will need to be able to mock or stub it, if he wants to have a unit test for it. So your code must be testable and you can achieve it by exposing your functionality thru the interface. That way the user of your API can use simple frameworks that do not cost money (since you still can use other unit test frameworks that do not need to work with interfaces, but they are not free).

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*If you put your interface in to a separate library, the users of your API can have only this library with interfaces that they use. And in case your interfaces are stable (do not change very often), they do not have to recompile their code and rarely have to redeploy their application (mobile, web, etc). In big companies the deployment of a new version can be dangerous. They love to stick to a golden plan: Do not fix it if it ain't broken. And what is the benefit for you? You can play with a concrete implementation as much as you like, fix bugs, fix this and that, refactor, delete…have fun in general, but not hurt anybody:)…

*There are also many other reasons to use interfaces, safety for a programmer etc.. But I think the above are the most important 2.
I hope I helped.


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Sad to hear. Really like and respect Kenseth with FMC and Roush.
I hope he'll sign with Penske, at least he would be driving a Ford.
Really. WTF . They are letting go a champion. A stealthy racer who even with a crappy car can manage to come home with a decent finish. Figures after Jarrett left ford and I switched to Matt he would be going. nothing really against Biffle or Edwards but come on. I pissed.
Have you ever thought that maybe Matt didn't want to stay with Roush?
Why wouldn't he? He's been with the team since 2000.
I'm sure he's not happy about sponsor problems, but I don't think that's the main reason. I mean, Jack Roush still has to find a sponsor for that #17 team since Stenhouse will be driving it next year.
Not all relationships last forever.
and Stenhouse has sponsorship? If he does he shouldn't. He's nothing but another David Regan, he will be around for a year or two then they will sign someone else that can win.
I think Stenhouse needs to drive in the Cup for a year or two before being named "the next David Ragan". He only drove 2 races in the Cup so far.
Sources say Kenseth met with Jack Roush early this week and informed him that he will move to JGR in 2013, driving the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota currently piloted by Joey Logano.
So according to a friend of mine within JGR Matt has a deal to drive the Home Depot car next year. Whether or not it is the #20 they haven't sorted that out. But JGR will be running 4 cars and Joey Logano will either keep the #20 or take a new number. They think Dollar General will be moving from NW to sponsor Joey's Cup car, #20 or otherwise.
Seeing Matt in Stewart's old car is going to be all kinds of messed up.
It's a good move for Matt. He was getting stale at Roush. I'm sure he gets a better deal at JGR and can basically start over again. He's got a few years left in him for sure.
Good for Roush, too. Save some money and move Stenhouse up to see if he can cut it.
I'm sure he gets a better deal at JGR and can basically start over again.
Happened with me and Jarret, sorry loved the guy followed him from his start at yates. Met him in person at pocono a few times but I just couldn't root for him in a Toyota, no way no how. I moved on to Matt, pretty much the same racing style.
I watched Matt's interview on speed, I'll wait for the official word on where he is going vs the rumors, but I said to my wife before reading any of this. I said I bet it will be either with Joe Gibbs or Penske since he may switch to Fords. I'm hoping it is the latter.


For a new yoga teacher, subbing can be a great way to gain experience, meet new students, and establish a relationship with a studio. But let's face it. The word "substitute" doesn't conjure up images of greatness. The prefix 'sub' literally means under, beneath, nearly, secondary, or subordinate. It's no wonder that students don't always share the enthusiasm of the substitute teacher.
For a student, there can be a lot wrapped up in taking a class. Maybe the regular teacher has established a strong bond with the class, understands a student's injuries or limitations, and has a certain balance of speaking and silence. Maybe the predictability of the class and the regular teacher is soothing.
Subbing can also be hard for the teacher. Recently I was substituting and as I sat down in front of the room, I all of the sudden felt overwrought with nerves. What would they think of me? Would they wish they hadn't come? Would my sequence be too hard or too easy? Would they think that my admittedly bad jokes and sarcasm were too much? EEK! Panic!!
1. Contact the regular teacher. Get to know more about how he or she approaches the class. Does the regular teacher typically chant, or read, or incorporate philosophy into the opening of the class? What is the pace of the class (especially if it is a class for all levels!)? Are there any regular students who have special needs and require extra help or adjustments?
3. Meet and greet every student. Even in large classes, make an attempt to meet each student. Try, try, try to remember their names but most importantly, find out if they have any injuries or things about their body you should know. You can also ask if they feel comfortable being adjusted. Side note – do your homework to figure this out. When I'm not teaching yoga I work with survivors of trauma. Some people do not want to be touched, even thought you are the "yoga teacher". Or maybe they have had bad experiences with adjustments before. Do your best to give verbal encouragement and clear instructions throughout the class.
4. Welcome the entire class together. As my friend Michi says, 'Humble Up'! Thank them for coming and letting you into their class and their practice. Express your enthusiasm and let them know that class is a partnership between you and them. If they want to make modifications throughout the class, you don't have a strict agenda. You want the class to meet their needs, and you are offering poses as a way to assist them in achieving their intention for the class.
5. Be yourself and smile. Even though I want the students to feel continuity between their regular teacher and me as a substitute, I think it is important to bring my personality into the class. I laugh at myself, a lot, and encourage the students to laugh too. I love talking about the 8 limbs of yoga and the Yoga Sutras, and try to weave a small excerpt throughout the class. And the smile part? It'll put you at ease and will encourage others to do the same. Don't believe me? Try it when in line at a coffee shop on a Monday morning. I can't think of a tougher crowd.
6. Follow up. After class is over, invite students to offer feedback and ask questions about the practice, certain poses, or you as a teacher. Let them know if they think of something later, they are always welcome to contact the studio, too (gives them an out if they don't want to bring something up with you directly).
Subbing can be a last minute request but if you take the time to take as many of these steps as possible, your students will appreciate it. You as the teacher may also save yourself from going down a rabbit hole of self-doubt both before and after class. Better yet, you will probably get invited back!


Tonight Joanna had a voice recital at Orange Coast College along with three other students of Dr. Susan Ali, her teacher. Of course, Joanna did a fabulous job!
Joanna sings Sweeter than Roses by Henry Purcell.
Joanna sings Batti, batti o bel Masetto from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Here's a photo when the group took a bow. Josiah led a standing ovation!
Terry, Jill, Audrey, Joanna, and Maggie after the recital. Click photo for full size.
Most of the family went to the recital and then Souplantation afterwards. Justin's leg and back didn't allow for him to go. Two of Joanna and Sarah's friends, Katherine and Summer, were able to attend the recital and join us for supper.
The guys at one table.
Tim, Jeffrey, Jason, and Josiah at Souplantation. Click photo for full size.
Here's another group of four.
Victoria, Nicole, Jeri, and Lizzie at Souplantation. Click photo for full size.
Here are Joanna and Sarah joined by Katherine and Summer.
Joanna, Katherine, Summer, and Sarah at Souplantation. Click photo for full size.
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