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IN STAR-STUDDED NEW SERIES, 'FAMOUSLY AFRAID,' HOLLYWOOD CELEBS SHARE THEIR SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS WITH THE OTHER SIDE
Historian Justin Jampol Journeys Around the World to Unlock the Mysteries Buried Within Unusual Objects in All-New Series 'Lost Secrets'
FAMOUSLY AFRAID
Hollywood is no stranger to stories of the unexplained being played out on the big screen. But behind the scenes, some celebrities experience encounters with the unknown that are all too real. In the new Travel Channel series, "Famously Afraid," some of the biggest stars tell their terrifying, true tales of coming face-to-face with unexplained phenomena. A variety of superstars, from championship athletes to Emmy Award-winning actors, offer a front-row seat to the most horrifying and emotionally draining experiences of their lives. From haunted houses to real UFO sightings to demonic possessions and beyond, these stories show that even celebrities can get spooked. [Hour-long episodes]
SERIES PREMIERE: "Howie Mandel and Chloe Lukasiak" – Premieres Tuesday, November 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
"America's Got Talent" judge Howie Mandel tells the story of how a spirit in his home targeted his young daughter. Then, "Queer as Folk" actor Hal Sparks recalls how he was able to connect a childhood encounter with aliens to one of his first jobs in the entertainment industry. Lastly, former "Dance Moms" stars Christi and Chloe Lukasiak detail how a tour through the famous LaLauire Mansion in New Orleans left them both scared beyond belief.
"Tori Spelling and Steve Guttenberg" – Premieres Tuesday, November 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
"Police Academy" star Steve Guttenberg is tormented by the ghost of an eccentric royal, radio host Ed Lover makes a shocking discovery in an abandoned house and actress Tori Spelling has a lifesaving encounter from the great beyond.
LOST SECRETS
From family relics to private collections and museum displays, people often unknowingly possess unusual objects that hold hidden pasts and secret histories. In Travel Channel's new series, "Lost Secrets," historian Justin Jampol journeys around the world to unlock the mysteries of the past held within these recently discovered items, revealing covert histories that have unexpectedly, and unknowingly, changed the world we live in. Using state-of-the-art scientific testing coupled with an insatiable curiosity, Jampol's globe-trotting investigations reveal how these mysterious objects can hold the real truths behind pivotal moments in our history that we thought we already knew. [Hour-long episodes]
SERIES PREMIERE: "Nazi Dark Magic" – Premieres Sunday, November 10 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
Justin Jampol gains access to a trove of recently uncovered documents from the archive of infamous Nazi, Heinrich Himmler. Himmler's private wartime archive contains many types of military files, but one thing stands out to Justin as unbelievable: astrological wheels for Churchill, Stalin and even Hitler himself. Jampol sets out to investigate the Nazi leadership's deep fanatical belief in the supernatural and how there may have been a plot to harness these mythical forces to win WWII.
Justin Jampol, host of Travel Channel's "Lost Secrets."
"American Viking Queen" – Premieres Sunday, November 17 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
Women in the Viking Age were involved in exploration and commerce throughout the world, and women's roles in the commerce of textiles was key to Viking survival. If not for a mini Ice Age, the Vikings' continued presence in North America would have changed the course of history. In this episode, Jampol is presented with a spindle whorl that unlocks a story of America that's never been told: evidence that a Viking woman may have been the first European to set foot here – 500 years before Columbus.
PARANORMAL EMERGENCY
Police officers, paramedics and other first responders reveal their true encounters with the paranormal while on duty. Not only do these cases defy explanation, they terrify even the most seasoned of men and women who have devoted their lives to serve and protect the living. [Hour-long episodes]
"What If It Comes for Us" – Premieres Monday, November 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A police chief must save his community from an ominous entity called the Tall Man, a deputy confronts a forgotten spirit in an old prison and officers come face-to-face with an urban legend.
"It Was Angry" – Premieres Monday, November 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A campus policeman is lured into a building by the vengeful ghost of a murdered student, a UFO chases down two deputies and an officer encounters a deceitful spirit inside a courthouse.
MY HORROR STORY
Ordinary people share their chilling true tales of surviving the unknown. From hellish possessions and blood-drawing spirits to alien abductions and otherworldly creatures, these brave storytellers are shaken to the core as they recall their grave encounters with dark paranormal forces. It's a wild, horror-filled ride through the supernatural. [Hour-long episodes]
"Little Box of Horrors" – Premieres Monday, November 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
An antiques dealer opens the door to paranormal mayhem when he buys an old wine box at an estate sale. An air force medic becomes seriously ill after he's abducted by aliens during a camping trip.
"Heirloom of Doom" – Premieres Monday, November 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A young mother must save her family from the shadowy entity terrorizing them in their new home. A 12-year-old girl gets a message from beyond the grave.
PARANORMAL SURVIVOR
In this revealing paranormal documentary series, survivors of paranormal experiences recount their terrifying and life-changing stories. Each episode features three remarkable stories interlinked by a specific supernatural theme while professionals in the field give expert insight into these extraordinary events. From dark shadows to demons, violent ghosts to the grim reaper, we document the stories of very different participants with similar experiences and journey with them every step of the way, as they recount the frightening process of what they've been through. [Hour-long episodes]
"A Sense of Evil" – Premieres Tuesday, November 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Missie Hornbeck is tormented by terrifying apparitions, a teenager is horribly attacked by a demonic beast and Rocky Primiani experiences frightening encounters with the afterlife.
"Territorial Ghosts" – Premieres Tuesday, November 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Chris Houston is haunted by an evil ghost boy, a farmhouse is cursed by the presence of dark entities and something dangerously demonic lurks in Bonnie Shukofksy's home.
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, creatures both legendary and terrifying lurk among the shadows, evading capture at every turn. Season Four of the cult-classic series, "Mountain Monsters," reunites the fearless team of hard-core trappers to confirm the sightings of these fabled monsters. Calling themselves the AIMS team – the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings – this rip-roarin' group of self-proclaimed "hillbilly hunters" treks through the depths of Appalachia's mountain forests, searching for creatures of mythical origins, determined to track down proof these monsters still roam this region today. [Hour-long episodes]
"The Return of Trapper" – Premieres Wednesday, November 6 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The AIMS team meets with their team leader, Trapper, who makes them realize they have been missing a big clue. Then they head back to Ashe County, North Carolina, in search of the Cherokee Devil, which soon proves to be too much for Huckleberry.
"The Secret of the Red Shed" – Premieres Wednesday, November 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The AIMS team sets off to track down one of the cloaked figures at the heart of the mystery of Spearfinger. Willy and Wild Bill sneak down for a recon mission, and the team realizes the key to their quest is in the rock overhang and the red shed.
AMERICAN MYSTERY
"American Mystery" explores the mysteries that have never been solved – providing a deeper look into the stories and theories that surround them. Each episode will dive into the history of three different mysteries through interviews, archival footage and re-creation, as well as the theories behind each story and new facts and findings. What is the truth of what really happened? Opposing theories will be presented, letting the viewer ponder which one they believe. [Hour-long episodes]
"American Mystery: Strange Crime" – Premieres Wednesday, November 6 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
A shocking new theory could explain what really happened to Charles Lindbergh's son, experts may have finally solved one of Hollywood's biggest murder mysteries and a small Ohio town seeks answers to thousands of threatening letters.
"American Mystery: Close Encounters" – Premieres Wednesday, November 13 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
Experts investigate the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, recent new evidence could explain where Travis Walton was for five days and there may be an earthly explanation for the Mothman.
In "The Holzer Files," a dedicated paranormal team – led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza and equipment technician Shane Pittman – investigates terrifying true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America's first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer. Recognized as the "father of the paranormal," Holzer's legendary four-decade exploration into disturbing hauntings like the Amityville Horror house helped spawn legions of supernatural enthusiasts, more than 120 books and even inspired Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to write "Ghostbusters." Now, for the first time ever and with the help of Holzer's daughter, Alexandra Holzer, Travel Channel exclusively reopens Holzer's most captivating case files – digging into thousands of documents, letters, photographs and chilling audio and visual recordings dating back to the 1950s. [Hour-long episodes]
"Phantom Crew" – Premieres Thursday, November 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The team reopens Hans Holzer's investigation into a Revolutionary War-era warship in Baltimore Harbor. They discover the spirits of the ship's deep, dark past may still be manning their positions on a postmortem mission.
"The Haunting of Lambert Castle" – Premieres Thursday, November 14 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The team resurrects Hans Holzer's investigation of a mysterious castle in Paterson, New Jersey. Their exploration of the lavish mansion reveals a woman's recurring nightmares may have a supernatural source in the dwelling's dark history.
The "OG" paranormal investigators that started it all – Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango – are back for all-new adventures to the other side in "Ghost Nation." Only this time, they're not alone. The pioneers of the genre respond to urgent calls from local paranormal investigators nationwide who have reached a dead end with their harrowing personal cases, helping homeowners who are dealing with high-stakes hauntings and people whose lives have been overtaken by unexplained phenomena. Armed with brand new state-of-the-art technology and their meticulous methodology, the team, under their new banner, United Paranormal Research Organization (UPRO), will face the most challenging and dangerous paranormal mysteries the country has to offer. With the help of their local contacts, they'll embed themselves in the community, conducting robust multi-day investigations in an effort to track down the true source of these hauntings and restore peace to the living … and the dead. [Hour-long episodes]
"The Squire Street Haunting" – Premieres Friday, November 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jason Hawes' daughter, Satori Hawes, calls on the team to help on a case she can't crack in Franklin, Massachusetts. A family is fighting an unknown entity in their historic home and fear the activity is linked to witchcraft.
"The House at Deadman's Curve" – Premieres Friday, November 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango head to Dover, Delaware, to help a local paranormal investigator with her childhood home. The investigation uncovers evidence that the haunting may be connected to a deadly stretch of road just yards from the property.
In each episode of "Ghost Adventures," Zak Bagans and Aaron Goodwin, along with A/V techs Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley, travel to a different haunted destination where they meet with locals, eyewitnesses and experts in an attempt to piece together the haunted history of each site. They then begin their "lockdown" investigation, using the latest scientific gadgets and technology in an effort to obtain physical evidence of the paranormal and uncover the truth behind each haunted mystery. [Hour-long episodes]
"Cerro Gordo Ghost Town" – Premieres Saturday, November 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans and the "Ghost Adventures" crew trek a treacherous cliffside trail to investigate a former mining town haunted by the lost souls of its former residents.
"Pasadena Ritual House" – Premieres Saturday, November 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans and the "Ghost Adventures" team investigate the Pasadena, California, home of a self-proclaimed satanist. A seance conducted inside the historic Victorian house reveals an inhuman presence has attached itself to Aaron Goodwin and is trying to communicate with him.
"Destination Fear" may be the most terrifying road trip ever attempted. Paranormal explorer and documentary filmmaker Dakota Laden – who has spent the last few years investigating the frightening unknown with the "Ghost Adventures" crew – is taking his sister, Chelsea Laden, and best friend, Tanner Wiseman, across the country in an RV to spend the night in the most haunted abandoned locations in America. Pursuing paranormal evidence, the team must first overcome fear itself. In each episode, the team travels to a different destination in the United States. The location remains a surprise to all but Dakota. Not knowing the haunted horrors that await them, it's a road trip driven by suspense and fueled by excitement. The team explores each haunted location together, zoning in on areas of reported paranormal activity. But the luck of the draw determines where each one will sleep overnight – separated and alone. Armed with cameras and dread as their only companions, the team members will test the limits of their own fears in an effort to ultimately understand the paranormal. [Hour-long episodes]
"Sweet Springs Sanitarium" – Premieres Saturday, November 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Sweet Springs Sanitarium in West Virginia may be one of the darkest and most terrifying locations the team has explored thus far. The site of a horrific massacre of a Native American tribe by one of George Washington's colonels, the property has allegedly been cursed ever since. But before the team members even get to Sweet Springs, they have a haunting experience at an unusual pit stop: an abandoned amusement park in Lake Shawnee, West Virginia. The team members' visit here is so unsettling, it sets them on edge. Almost instantly upon their arrival at Sweet Springs, they come face-to-face with some of the most unusual paranormal activity ever caught on tape, including unexplained screams, voices and terrifying chanting. With such a devastating emotional effect on the team, will they make it through the night?
"St. Albans Sanatorium" – Premieres Saturday, November 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The team revisits a location they have been to before, a location so awful that Chelsea vowed she would never return. St. Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia, is a looming monument and the site of a horrific colonist massacre, a brutal Lutheran boys school and a sanatorium that tortured its patients. Considered by many to be the most haunted place on the East Coast, it is said to be filled with hundreds of paranormal entities, including something so demonic that it allegedly possesses people. Chelsea is stunned by their return to St. Albans and fiercely objects, but Dakota refuses to let the team walk away from the location without overcoming it and seeking redemption. Can they finally conquer St. Albans? Or will St. Albans conquer them?
THE ALASKA TRIANGLE
Alaska is the most sparsely populated of all the states. In a vast expanse of rugged wilderness, one area – known as "The Alaska Triangle" – has been home to so much unusual activity that it has struck fear across Alaska and the world. More people disappear in this area than anywhere else in the United States, with countless sightings of strange creatures, impossible moving lights in the sky, unexplained phenomena and even malevolent ghosts. Are lay lines and electromagnetic anomalies within the Triangle causing these bizarre events? Or is something more sinister at play? From strange reports of military personnel seeing UFOs and missing aircrafts that have vanished without a trace, to sightings of fearful monsters and an underground alien base hidden inside a mountain, each episode of "The Alaska Triangle" seeks to unlock the paranormal mysteries hidden within this foreboding location. [Hour-long episodes]
"Alaskan Bigfoot and Mysterious Forcefields of the Triangle" – Premieres Sunday, November 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A cryptozoologist hunts for scientific proof of Bigfoot in the remote Alaskan wilderness, and experts investigate a mysterious vortex of energy that may be behind unexplained disappearances and paranormal activity in the Alaska Triangle.
"The Missing Douglas" – Premieres Sunday, November 17 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Experts investigate whether an interdimensional portal in the Alaska Triangle led to the disappearance of an airplane carrying 44 military personnel in 1950.
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This very fat dog flew first class on American Airlines
Image: madeleinedoux
By Max Knoblauch 2015-10-27 19:28:35 UTC
UPDATE 7:40 p.m. ET: Mashable has learned that the dog's name is Hank and he belongs to Kari Whitman, an interior designer who founded Ace of Hearts Dog Rescue in Beverly Hills, California. Hank is Whitman's support animal and, due to an illness, can only move with the aid of a cart, which explains his weight. We hope Hank enjoys many more relaxing flights in first class.
Our original story appears below.
This picture of a very large dog being wheeled toward an LAX boarding desk deserves to be named 2015's best nature photograph.
According to Twitter user @madeleinedoux, the fat airplane dog flew first class on an American Airlines flight last night.
See also: Doug the Pug lives like Justin Bieber for the day
As of this writing, the original tweet of the dog has been retweeted nearly 3,500 times.
holy shit I just saw the literal fattest dog pic.twitter.com/bJ2iY4VYw9
— madeleine (@madeleinedoux) October 27, 2015
There is no single "greatest element" of this photo. The dog's seeming indifference, the huddled employees surrounding him to take a picture and the majestic wheeled bed all blend together to make one of the most compelling images of all time.
I shit you not, the dog is flying first class on my flight
In an interview through direct messages, @madeleinedoux told Mashable that the dog boarded the plane last and sat in the front row of first class with his owner, who'd seemingly purchased two tickets. The dog spent most of the flight lying on the ground near its seat, and didn't bark or make noise for the duration of the trip.
As is evidenced in the only known photograph of the dog, onlookers were amazed by both its size and its luxurious cart.
"Everyone, both while boarding the plane and on the plane before takeoff, was speculating as to how the dog got so fat," @madeleinedoux said. "You could legitimately hear hushed whispers of 'He's riding first class.'"
The full story of how fat airplane dog came to be is a fascinating mystery, and we will continue diligently investigating the story until more answers are found.
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Medium colour. This has quite full, sweet fruit; some strawberry and very decent acidity. Lingers quite well this – a good start – but the price is a little high.
From younger – only 70 years – south facing vines. Grégory walked by these vines and saw realy fine millerandaged berries, looked for the owner and asked to buy – et voila – four and a half barrels, one of new oak. Linear ripe fruit on the nose, even a little blue skinned fruit – it's a beauty. Like the Dominode this has super texture, this time a little wider and richer although perhaps not quite as long. Hard to criticise, it's lovely.
Nice medium cherry red colour. The fruit is literally buried under earthy notes on the nose. The palate has good fat, nice acidity and drying tannins. Not as fresh and 'now' as many 2000's, this is down to the oak on the palate – worth waiting a cvouple more years to retry – a good wine I think.


To be fascinated by the drawings and the rock engravings of the Cave of the bridge of Arc lthe space of restitution of the Chauvet cave.
Venture in the bois de Païolive. Natural labyrinth overlooking the Chassezac.
With an ULM fly over the most spectacular canyon in Europe : the Gorges de l'Ardèche Nature Reserve.
Travelling trought the natural park of the Monts d'Ardèche.
The remains of Alba-la- Romaine, the Devil's Bridge.
The most beautiful villages of Southern Ardèche : Labeaume, Balazuc, Barjac, La Bastide de Virac, Lagorce, Sainte Colombe, Voguë... and Salavas.
Rivers: the Ibie, the Cèze… the cascades of Sautadet, Ray Pic, or the hole of the Moon.
Bathing or fishing, in the Ardèche, the beach is 300 m, the Pont d'Arc 5 Km.
Go down the Gorges de l'Ardèche by canoe or stand up paddle.
Try climbing, adventure trail in the trees or via ferrata.
Discover caving in the many caves in the area.
Ride on horseback, pony or donkey..


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Materials on the history and statistics of Omsk, extracted from a one-day census of 1877: Part 1-2 / Obrab. I. Ya. Slovtsov. - Omsk: type. Akmolin. reg. 1880. - 27 cm. - (Proceedings of the Akmola Statistical Committee) .
1. Territory (collection). 2. Territory of Russia: Omsk Region (collection). 3. The people (the collection). 4. Population - Omsk, city - 19th century. - Statistical materials. 5. Omsk, the city - History.
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1. Territory (collection). 2. Omsk region: pages of history (collection). 3. Territory of Russia: Omsk Region (collection). 4. The people (the collection). 5. Population - Omsk, the city - 19th century. - Statistical materials. 6. Omsk, the city - History.


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Salt Lake Acting Company presents the world premiere of SILENT DANCER by Utah-based playwright, Kathleen Cahill, beginning April 10th. The play recieves its premiere following several developmental workshops both at SLAC (including a New Play Sounding Series reading in March, 2017) and Sacramento's B Street Theatre.
Set in the tumultuous world of Manhattan in the 1920's, SILENT DANCER is being billed as a "groundbreaking dance/play/romance about dangerous love, secret identities, criminals, silent movies, and the most famous couple in New York." In it, Cahill populates an original story about an aspiring dancer with real-life historical figures—F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, as well as infamous gangster Jackie "Legs" Diamond.
SILENT DANCER runs April 10 through May 12. Tickets can be obtained via tickets.saltlakeactingcompany.org, in person at the SLAC box office, or by calling 801.363.7522.


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Transfer News: Manchester United slap £30 million price tag on Eric Bailly amid Arsenal interest
By Keshav Awasty on May 13, 2019 7:52 pm | Leave a Comment
Manchester United have reportedly placed a £30 million price tag on out-of-favour defender Eric Bailly, who is a summer target for Arsenal.
If the exclusive report by Metro is to be believed, Manchester United are open to the idea of letting Eric Bailly join a rival club in the summer transfer window. Arsenal are interested in signing the Ivory Coast international, but will have shell out £30 million to secure his services.
Eric Bailly joined Manchester United from Villarreal as Jose Mourinho's first signing in the summer of 2016, when not much was known of him to the general football fan. But, he was hugely impressive in his maiden campaign at Old Trafford, having quickly become a regular at the back with his dogged performance and no-nonsense style of defender.
Since then, however, injuries coupled with poor form have taken their toll on the defender, who has gone sliding down the pecking order at Manchester United. The latest fitness trouble has come in the form of a knee injury and such problems have meant that he has not had the chance to impress current manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer either.
The fall in stature has ultimately meant that Bailly has become ripe for the taking in the transfer market, especially with Manchester United believed to be keen on signing a centre-back. And, Arsenal are among the clubs that are showing an interest in the 25-year-old.
Will Bailly join Ozil at Arsenal? (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
The Gunners did sign a centre-back last summer in Sokratis Papastathopoulos. And, while the Greek defender has perhaps been Arsenal's best performer at the back this term, the fact that he is 30 means that he is only a short-term solution for Unai Emery.
Add to it, the fact that Laurent Koscielny is also in the twilight of his career coupled with Shkodran Mustafi becoming a liability, and it is clear why Arsenal once again want to sign a central defender this summer. Bailly is thus, a viable target for the North Londoners, despite his recent troubles at Manchester United.
At 25, the Ivorian has the best years ahead of him and already valuable experience in the Premier League, which would help him forge a long-term partnership with the likes of Rob Holding and Konstantinos Mavropanos. But, Arsenal will have to meet Manchester United's £30 million valuation of the player to land him.
The aforementioned sum will put a huge dent in the Gunners' reported transfer budget, although if they are able to raise money through player sales, apart from adding £25 million by qualifying for next season's Champions League, a £30 million could well be formulated.
Injury problems notwithstanding, pursuing a £30 million move for Eric Bailly could make a great deal of sense for Arsenal, who can most certainly do with a solid addition at the back, considering their frailties. Whether they do launch the offensive for the Manchester United defender remains to be seen.
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Tuesday evening, November 20th at 6 pm This is a special invitation for you and your family to join us as our honored guests for a Thanksgiving Meal at Bethlehem Baptist Church. NOTE: Space is limited and RSVP for the meal is required. Email Names of those attending and a contact phone number to bethlehemoutreach127@gmail.com by Friday, November 9th. HAVE QUESTIONS? Call 919-815-2117 YOU MUST PRESENT INVITATION TO ALSO RECEIVE A THANKSGIVING MEAL BOX TO TAKE HOME.
Come out Wednesday, November 28th at 6 pm and be His hands by helping make meals that go around the world to aid families in need of food. For more info, contact the church office.
On Saturday, February 23, we will draw the 2019 Upward Basketball and Cheerleading season to a close with our annual Upward End of Season Celebration. All players, cheerleaders, parents, coaches, referees and volunteers are invited to join us for a free hot dog dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Bethlehem Fellowship Hall. At 6:30 p.m. we'll move to the gym for a time of celebration for the mighty work that Jesus accomplished through Upward this season!
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Are You Following These 5 Weight Loss Commandments?
Why is it so hard to lose weight and maintain your ideal weight?
Summertime is making many of us self-conscious about what we eat, how active we are and what steps we take to improve our well-being. Weight loss, theoretically, shouldn't be so hard to decode. The rules are very straightforward. Yet diet after diet we fail to lose weight. That's because we don't seem capable of following some simple rules.
These 5 weight loss commandments will ensure you do all you can to lose weight and improve your well-being!
Don't fall for fad diets and exercise programs others swear by. What works for your colleague might do absolutely nothing for you. Schedule an appointment with an expert nutritionist and see what diet changes you need to make to lose weight.
– Eat Wisely, Wholesome, Well.
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– Toss the calorie book and scales!
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Science Knowledge: What Is the Deadliest Virus?
What Is the Deadliest Virus?
When it comes to deadly viruses, Ebola kills in the quickest and most horrific way possible— causing massive bleeding and turning internal organs into a soup of lifeless mush. It's estimated that 90 percent of Ebola-infected people die from these symptoms. However, HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) is still more effective eventually, virtually everyone who contracts HIV will have their immune systems knocked offline, as the virus infects the very T cells that are supposed to defend the body. Without treatment, a person suffering from AIDS is unlikely to last even a few years, as hundreds of ordinarily harmless microbes ravage the body.
However, neither of these viruses can boast the highest body count through history. That dubious distinction probably belongs to influenza, the virus that causes the flu. Each year, influenza kills hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, most often the very old or the very young. But every few generations, a strain appears that is far deadlier, like the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed tens of millions of people in a single, worldwide outbreak.


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Glass In Motion
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
Motion Control & Motor Association Posted 01/12/2011
Motion control brings precision, reliability, and repeatability to glass manufacturing.
Glass manufacturing is a continuous process that involves enormous thermal masses, both in the glass melt and in the production line itself. Depending on the type of machine, once commissioned it may run round-the-clock for a decade or more. Others may go through changeovers as often as several times a week. In either case, reliability is essential, as is performance.
For much of the 20th century, pneumatic and hydraulic glass fabrication machines dominated the market. In recent decades, however, motion control technology has played an increasingly important role, ranging from performing peripheral tasks to powering entire machines. Offering accuracy, performance, smart diagnostics, and tight control, motion control is helping the glass industry achieve new levels of economy and efficiency.
Glass grouped into two basic classes based on manufacturing: float glass or hollow glass. Float glass encompasses plate-type glass such as that used for mirrors, flat screen monitors, and windows. Hollow glass refers to molded vessels and shapes such as drinking glasses, bottles, eyeglasses, etc. The two involve very different fabrication methods that present different challenges.
Float glass gets its name from its manufacturing process in which molten glass forms into a several-meter-wide ribbon atop a pool of higher density molten metal such as tin. The glass undergoes stretching, edging, and annealing prior to reaching the cool end of the line. At that point, the ribbon must be cut into useful dimensions and stacked. This is where motion control comes in.
Float glass is not cut, per se, but rather scribed to create a line of weakness, then broken along that line by elements known as snap rollers. Although it sounds simple enough, the execution can be quite challenging.
The x-axis cut, or scribe line, runs across the direction of flow. As for many web processes, the x-axis scribe line takes place at a precise angle off of the perpendicular of flow to produce a right-angle cut without stopping the ribbon. This requires precision not just in direction of cut but timing.
The y-axis cut runs parallel to the direction of flow. The scribe wheel must drop down, contact the glass for a exact period of time, then retract immediately in order to yield sheets with the right dimensions and shapes.
Although float-glass manufacturing is a web process like plastic-film or paper manufacturing, the stakes are higher with glass -- an error in velocity or synchronization produces not crumpled plastic but a pile of hot, shattered glass. The melt that forms the ribbon requires a certain percentage of recycled glass known as cullet, so broken glass that results from a line failure can still be used but the failure does represent wasted manufacturing time and squandered energy. The precision and high feedback supplied by motion control help ensure quality cuts with no interruption in the motion of the ribbon.
The ribbon typically undergoes multiple y-axis cuts, with larger plates shifted to subsidiary lines to be further split up. Indeed, fabrication machines can include as many as 16 cutting heads along the y-axis. It's a process that lends itself to modular design and control structure. "It's simple positioning but you have to look at the coordination between all these different heads as they're getting the information," says John Ryan, Glass Industry Development Manager at Siemens, (Norcross, Georgia). "The actuation of the cutting heads requires microsecond precision."
Unlike most web processes, glass fabrication is highly temperature dependent. A float glass line cannot simply be turned on and turned off. "It's not a batch process where you run some and you get a break," he adds. "You build a furnace, turn it on and then it makes glass continuously for about the next 10 to 15 years."
In other words, the automation technology that runs line needs to be highly reliable. Any faults need to be easily diagnosed and repaired. That is where today's smart motion-control components come in, offering easy diagnostics and plug-and-play operation.
Pressing Glass
Hollow glass products are manufactured by pressing gobs of molten glass into shapes such as carafes or bottles (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-_oUajNso). They are manufactured in individual section (IS) machines, which feature modular, parallel processing designs that allow sections to be selectively shut down for maintenance or changeovers while allowing glass to continue to flow without interruption. Depending on the number of sections and the size of the products, an IS machine can run as fast as 700 parts per minute.
The process starts by conditioning the molten glass in a ceramic bowl called the feeder. Glass is extruded through the orifice ring of the feeder, driven by servo-controlled needles. It's then cut into gobs that drop down into a manifold structure known as a distributor. The shape and size of gobs vary depending on the parameters of the finished product. The distributor loads the gobs into various sections of the machine in a particular order. The glass passes into blank molds which form it into precursor shapes known as parisons.Depending on the specific process, the parison will be formed into the final vessel either by mechanically creating a depression in the glass with a thimble and blowing in air to expand it out into the mold (press and blow) or by using a jet of air to create the initial depression and blowing in additional air to expand it (blow and blow). After removal from the blank molds, the parisons get transferred to the production mold where they're expanded by air.
After the two-part mold opens to release the vessels, the takeout mechanism removes them and suspends them over a "dead" plate which air cools the bottoms to ensure they don't collapse under their own weight. During the takeout process, the bottles are still hot enough to fuse together when they touch, so they must be transferred onto the conveyor belt at an exact spacing. A sweep-out mechanism transfers them to a conveyor belt where they pass into and annealing chamber known as a lehr, where they are heated and slowly cooled to eliminate internal stresses that might lead to spontaneous shattering later.
Going Servo
Through most of the 20th century, pneumatic and hydraulic technology dominated IS machine design. By the 1980s, class manufacturers found themselves pressured to further reduce prices with technology that they had already taken to peak efficiency. The question was how. "There are three elements to cost: the amount of energy they use to make the glass, the labor and capital investment in the machines, and the material itself, says Sus Datta, Business Development Manager at Cleveland Motion Controls Inc. The increased precision and repeatability presented by motion control allowed manufacturers to reliably produce lighter, thinner bottles. "If you go back to the old days when it was all mechanically done, you would see that the thickness of the bottles is much greater than today. Motion control also gave the position of the product so they could increase the speed of the process two to three fold."
Initially, machine builders began leveraging servomotors for intake and outtakes steps. IS machine builder and glass manufacture Owens-Illinois, for example, leverages servo-motors in the gob formation and take out areas but uses pneumatics for blow and mold operations. "We're looking at about 30 servo axes for peripheral functions," says Wayne Leidy, Manager of Research And Development, Process Innovation at Owens-Illinois Inc. "The machine itself has anywhere from eight to 12 sections, with probably 12 or 13 axes on each one."
In the 1990s, machine builders began expanding the use of motion control in an attempt to gain further advantages. Emhart Glass SA, for example, released an all-servo machine, the NIS, that it still manufactures today. The line consists of eight, 10 or 12 sections, each with a maximum of eight servo axes. Communications takes place at the microsecond level, over Ethernet via CANOpen. Meanwhile, Sklostroj Turnov CZ s.r.o. has teamed with Siemens to release its own all-servo machine called the ISS. This machine has from nine to 17 axes per section, all coordinated over Profinet.
The switch to an all-electromechanical design provides big benefits. The processes in IS machines tend to be highly interlaced. One arm needs to come out of the work envelope, for example, before another can move in. In this type of situation, the very nature of pneumatic actuators can pose a problem. "A pneumatic actuator has an air cushion, you really don't know where it's going stop " says Stephen Austin, Manager of Process Automation and Simulation at Emhart Glass Research Center. "You need to do a lot of tuning in a pneumatic machine to make sure things aren't going to be colliding. With servos, you know exactly where the starts and stops are. You also have better control of accelerations and jerk. It's all based on motion control in order to increase the repeatability, control, set up, and operation of the machine. It will cut your cycle time. You also will be able to eat into those collision zones, have a tighter tolerance between moving machine elements producing the container."
Another important attribute of motion control is flexibility. Although single-use machines to exist, in today's economy, companies need greater flexibility. They might find themselves making baby-food jars one day and champagne bottles the next. With a machine based on servo axes, changeover can take hours, not days. Once the machine has been tweaked to generate the right motion profiles to produce a given product, the recipe can be stored for future use.
Motion control components can provide big benefits, but first they have to survive punishing environmental conditions. Hollow-glass fabrication takes place at temperatures ranging from around 2700°C at the melting furnace to 750°C and 900°C at the take-out point, and motion control is right in the middle of the hot end. Special carbon-based lubricants and dies might help the system survive the heat but also introduce significant contamination. To compensate, design engineers use resolvers rather than encoders, and sequester drives and controllers in cooled enclosures or control rooms.
Of course, the trade-off is a significant increase in the run of cable, which traditionally constitutes a single most common point of failure in motion systems. To increase cable lifetime, machine builders protect it in cableways and restrict it to lower-temperature regions where possible. When necessary, they use structured cable with jacketing designed for high-temperature applications. "Where you're going to have some flex or expose the cable to high heat, you try to make short pigtails, connectorized both ends so that if you have a failure you can change it really quickly," says Leidy.
Indeed, avoiding failure and minimizing downtime are key. A fault doesn't just create a jam of cardboard blanks. If a line truly goes down, the cost in terms of lost production time and time spent cleaning up can be enormous. "The system can't fail," says Datta. "If a glass plant goes down the cost could be in the millions of dollars. To bring it up again takes two or three weeks, so reliability becomes a major issue."
"Mean time to failure and mean time to repair are very important parameters for us," agrees Leidy.
Power conditioning assumes a more important role, for example. Protection can range from active line modules to capacitor banks that allow the system to survive voltage spikes. Modular design and intelligent plug-and-play components also help. If module fails, the approach is to swap it out and repair the module off-line. "You don't want to do any more troubleshooting on the production floor than you have to," Leidy notes.
Fans or chillers do a fine job of extending motor lifetime in the face of high temperatures. The downside is that they represent another subsystem, increasing complexity, part counts, maintenance, and cost. A better choice is to oversize the motors. Proper heat shielding can reduce effect of ambient temperature to around 200°C, which is not all that extreme for ruggedized motors.
Brushless motors provide a more robust solution then brushed versions, which are not only inherently subject to wear but prone to arcing and electromagnetic interference. Early brushless motors suffered from torque ripple. The problem has been largely solved now with commutation control, says Lee Stephens, senior motion control engineer at Kollmorgen (Radford, Virginia). "With today's advances in both the electronics and the control system, we can have performance that rivals anything from high-pole-count brushed motors," he observes. "The lifetime of a brushless motor today is really based on the bearing life because the motor itself is not going to wear out." For an application that imposes hundred-percent duty cycles, that's an important attribute.
Providing high reliability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance, servo technology continues to reduce cost of operations and cost of ownership in glass manufacturing lines. With every passing year, motion control technology provides better performance to help glass manufacturers meet market demands and price pressures.
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Mexican Prisoner: I Was Forced To Dig From Tijuana To San Diego
More than 75 drug-smuggling tunnels have been discovered under the U.S. Mexico border in just the past six years, and one of the more intriguing cases involves 17 Mexican men who claim they were kidnapped and forced to carry out the work for months before Mexican authorities found them.
There's always been some mystery surrounding tunnels. Diggers were thought to be well-paid cartel loyalists or, as urban legend goes, built by laborers killed soon after the tunnel's completion to ensure its secrecy.
At a Tijuana prison, I met one of those 17 men who say they were kidnapped and forced to dig a tunnel last year. He says he was enslaved 35 feet below the border for months and lived to tell his side of the story.
Inside Prison
I meet him at Tijuana's infamous prison, La Mesa, one of the most overcrowded in Mexico. Built for 2,600 prisoners, it now houses more than 7,000.
He and 16 other men have been there for a year, after being caught digging the underground tunnel.
I wait to meet him in a small room next to the warden's office. Earlier, the warden warned me not to ask too many probing questions. This is a delicate case, he said. It touches a lot of powerful people in the city.
The tunnels burrowing under Tijuana are thought to be built by Mexico's most powerful drug organization, the Sinaloa cartel. The group, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is one of the few with the expertise and money — on average about $2 million — needed to build one of the underground wonders.
After about 10 minutes, the guards escort in a short man, dressed in the prison's standard gray sweat pants and T-shirt. His hair is closely cropped. His accent is thick, like most rural farmers from Mexico's northern states. He asks me if he's in any danger if he tells me his story. I tell him I really don't know; only he can weigh that risk. But I promise not to use his name.
His starts telling me his story. It begins back in the winter of 2012, just 4 miles from this prison, in Tijuana's Mesa de Otay neighborhood.
High on a bluff hugging the international border and the huge commercial crossing into San Diego, Mesa de Otay bustles with activity. Eighteen-wheelers barrel down the wide streets, packed with everything from TVs to small medical devices assembled in Tijuana's foreign-owned factories. Warehouses line the dusty boulevards — some have signs, others don't even have a street number on their door fronts.
The warehouse where the tunnel digger was found is about a quarter of a mile from the border. He says he was brought to in November of 2012. The warehouse is abandoned now, and it still has crime-scene tape and a padlock on the front door. With all the truck traffic here, you could imagine how loud noises coming from inside the building, or deep underground, would be masked.
The tunnel digger says he was tricked into going there. He was working day jobs in a border town until he had a fight with his wife. He picked up and left and decided to head north to San Diego for a while, to cool off and make some money. He had made the illegal trip many times before. He rented a room in a rough neighborhood in Tijuana, known as a reliable place to find a smuggler.
"I was drinking a soda at this little store in front of the room I was renting, and this guy, who I had talked with a few times before, drives by," the tunnel digger says in Spanish.
The other man said he had found a smuggler. He said he could show the tunnel digger the safe house so he would know where to go.
The tunnel digger climbed in the vehicle. But he says the man — identified in court documents only as Carlillos — took him to a warehouse, not a home.
"Someone rolled up the huge metal door and we drove in. A pickup truck pulled in behind us, and then I heard the door come down," he says.
He says six men with ski masks and rifles jumped out of the truck.
"They threw me to the ground and started beating me up, threatening me. I wanted to run, but there was nowhere to go," he says. "They told me what I was going to do, and if I didn't, they would kill me."
San Diego Warehouses: The Exit Door
Just over the border fence in San Diego sit hundreds of warehouses. Federal officials have found the exit doors for Tijuana's tunnels tucked into back offices and even in bathrooms,.
Joe Garcia is a federal agent on San Diego's Tunnel Task Force. His group has discovered some of the biggest underground passageways in the region, including last year's so-called supertunnel, which stretched 600 yards. Eight and a half tons of marijuana and more than 300 pounds of cocaine were stuffed inside. Garcia says the tunnels are sophisticated and quite a feat to dig without heavy machinery, which is too noisy and too big for the narrow passageways.
"It's good old-fashioned, hard manual labor," he says. "These guys are filling buckets or sandbags of earth and are moving them either completely out or putting them somewhere else in the tunnel. It is hard, hard work."
12-Hour Shifts
The tunnel digger says they worked in 12-hour shifts, from 6 to 6. He says he worked the night shift with six others.
"There was this red laser beam we had to follow, right down the middle," he says. "If we went crooked or off a bit the men with the ski masks would come down and beat us. We had to dig 3 meters every day. If we didn't, they told us we were lazy and beat us."
The digger said he never saw anyone's face except Carlillos' and that of the man who brought them food. Some days the man with the food didn't come.
After two months, they had dug about 200 yards, and it was getting harder to breathe in the tunnel. The men in the ski masks brought in tubing and pumped in oxygen.
It was nearly February. At that rate, the tunnel would reach a San Diego warehouse in plenty of time before Baja California's marijuana harvest was ready to pick.
Jose Mario Vega Hernandez of Mexico's defense department says an anonymous tip led authorities to the tunnel on Feb. 4, 2013.
The tunnel digger says he was so happy to see them. The men rushed to thank the soldiers and said they were being held against their will.
He says the soldiers told them to be quiet and forced them to the ground. They were arrested and taken to prison.
The 17 men were given one public defender. In their declarations, obtained by NPR, their stories are the same: The man known as Carlillos promised them either work or help to get across the border illegally.
In the year they've been in jail, several of the men I've spoken to say they've rarely seen their attorney, who refused to speak with NPR. His supervisor declined to be recorded, but said it is a complicated case and that the lawyer is giving the best defense possible. She added, though, that his case load numbers in the hundreds.
Like the warden of the prison, Jose Mario Vega Hernandez of Mexico's Defense Department says he's heard others accused of drug crimes claim kidnapping.
Vega said the men have a lot of evidence against them: 10 kilos of marijuana were found at the warehouse. The men face up to 35 years in prison.
The tunnel digger says he never saw marijuana in the warehouse, except on the day the army arrived.
His family members, who live hundreds of miles away, say they feel helpless. They have little money and can't visit or hire a private attorney. But they say they are glad he's alive.
The tunnel digger says in all those months underground, he was convinced the men in the ski masks were going to kill him once the passageway was complete.
In a business as risky as this, witnesses are a liability.
Now he says he thinks about how he might be in this prison for the rest of my life. He's glad to be alive, but says it's not fair and it's just not right.


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import com.omartech.spider.gen.Task;
import com.omartech.spider.gen.TaskType;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.omartech.spiderHandler.seed.ASeedWorker;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
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 * Created by chen on 15-4-11.
 * http://www.southcn.com/
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            task.setRecursive(true);
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            ASeedWorker.OnceTask onceTask = new ASeedWorker.OnceTask(task);
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            if (i < 6) {//定时抓前5页
                ASeedWorker.SchedulateTask schedulateTask = new ASeedWorker.SchedulateTask(task, 5, TimeUnit.HOURS);
                tasks.add(schedulateTask);
            }
        }
        logger.info("{} seeds is ok", category);

        return tasks;
    }

    List<ASeedWorker.SeedTask> economy(int pageNum, String channel, String category) {
        List<ASeedWorker.SeedTask> tasks = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, String> headerMap = new HashMap<>();
        headerMap.put("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8");
        headerMap.put("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
        headerMap.put("Accept-Language","zh-CN,zh;q=0.8");
        headerMap.put("Connection", "close");
        headerMap.put("Host", "economy.southcn.com");
        headerMap.put("Referer",
                "http://economy.southcn.com/");
        headerMap
                .put("User-Agent",
                        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36");

        for (int i = 1; i <= pageNum; i++) {
            String url;
            String refer;
            if (i == 1) {
                url = "http://economy.southcn.com/node_"+ channel +".htm";
                refer ="http://economy.southcn.com/";
            }else if(2 == i){
                refer ="http://economy.southcn.com/node_"+ channel +".htm";
                url = "http://economy.southcn.com/node_"+ channel + "_" + i +".htm";
            }else{
                url = "http://economy.southcn.com/node_"+ channel + "_" + i +".htm";
                refer ="http://economy.southcn.com/node_"+ channel + "_" + (i - 1) +".htm";
            }

            Task task = new Task();

            task.setType(TaskType.Get);
            task.setHeaderJson(gson.toJson(headerMap, new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>() {
            }.getType()));
            task.setRefer(refer);
            task.setName(category);
            task.setUrl(url);

            task.setRecursive(true);
            //有问题
            task.setParseRegex("ul.list li a");

            ASeedWorker.OnceTask onceTask = new ASeedWorker.OnceTask(task);
            tasks.add(onceTask);

            if (i < 3) {//定时抓前5页
                ASeedWorker.SchedulateTask schedulateTask = new ASeedWorker.SchedulateTask(task, 10, TimeUnit.HOURS);
                tasks.add(schedulateTask);
            }
        }
        logger.info("{} seeds is ok", category);

        return tasks;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        SouthCNSeed southCNSeed = new SouthCNSeed();
        southCNSeed.run(args);
    }

}

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Atheism and religion in the news VII
Here we go again, hope you are finding these links interesting.
Religious tolerance not the answer?
An op ed on teaching religion in schools.
In a nutshell, the OSCE advises that teaching about religions while taking care not to misrepresent, teach or favor any doctrine will foster a culture of mutual understanding and respect. The idea is that this will help children understand what belief systems represent real threats and which ones are innocuous. Essentially, the OSCE is hoping that its 10-point, detailed guide will enable public schools to provide religious sensitivity training that will ameliorate the range of religion-based discrimination and fighting. Haynes stated that "...ignorance about religions in religiously diverse societies is a root cause of intolerance and discrimination." It would be wonderful if the problem stemmed solely from such ignorance since it would be simple to address the problem in the manner proposed. Unfortunately, the cause is not so much pervasive insensitivity to the beliefs of others, but rather a general oversensitivity that the majority of humans harbor regarding their own religion. For that reason, the OSCE solution may actually exacerbate hostility.
Another missing link in evolution found.
Science continues its good work, hopefully one day god and jeebus will run out of gaps to hide in.
HUMANS could be closer to pond life than had been realised. Researchers have linked a raft of our anatomical and genetic features with fishy ancestors that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
They have found that the origin of human hands and fingers could lie in the emergence of a finned fish 365m years ago. Similarly, the sophisticated joints that give us the ability to run, grip and turn may owe their existence to a sea creature known as the tiktaalik that lived in the Arctic 375m years ago.
How to help my agnostic boyfriend become christian?
A christian girl ponders the above question, feel free to weigh in and answer her. J
m asking this again in another category...because it isnt freakin showing up and its very important to me...so: Well I was talking with my guy. I asked him if he believed Creation or Evolution. You know what he said? He said Evolution. That just crushed my dreams.
A history of Al Qaeda.
One mans analysis of the "war on terror".
The threat of an Al Qaeda "Attack on America" is being used profusely by the Bush administration and its indefectible British ally to galvanize public opinion in support of a global military agenda.
Known and documented, the "Islamic terror network" is a creation of the US intelligence apparatus. There is firm evidence that several of the terrorist "mass casualty events" which have resulted in civilian casualties were triggered by the military and/or intelligence services. Similarly, corroborated by evidence, several of the terror alerts were based on fake intelligence as revealed in the London 2006 foiled "liquid bomb attack", where the alleged hijackers had not purchased airline tickets and several did not have passports to board the aircraft.
Rook Hawkins gives a lecture. Click on the link for details.
Join us on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 for a presentation by Rook Hawkins, historian of Classical Civilization and comparative religious studies and co-founder of the popular internet radio shows, The Rational Response Squad and Rook's Nook. Hawkins is currently undergoing the process of Peer Review for his upcoming book, Discovering the Gnostics: A Look at the Evolution of Mystery Cults in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.
Differences between French muslims and other religions in France.
Apparently, everyone but the muslims are getting more secular.
A growing number of French Muslims say they are practising believers, according to a survey for the Catholic daily Le Croix made public on Thursday.
In the poll, 70% of respondents said that they adhered to the Islamic laws on fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. In 2001, the figure had stood at 60%.
How AL-Jazeera reported on Bushs visit.
Interesting how Bush deals with a hostile medias questions. Also, I wonder how many people realize that his comments were mostly meant for an American audience?


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How old is Rio Ferdinand, when did he and Kate Wright get engaged and why was he refused a boxing licence?
RIO Ferdinand is a well-known footballer thanks to his long career on the pitch.
Who is Rio Ferdinand? What is his background?
Rio, 40, is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre back, and is now a sports pundit.
He was born November 7, 1978, and began his playing career in the West Ham first team aged just 17, following a successful loan spell at Bournemouth.
He made his England debut as an 18-year-old and was rated as one of the best young prospects in world football by the time Leeds United paid a club-record £18m to sign him in 2000.
Following an impressive display in the 2002 World Cup, Ferdinand became the most expensive player in British football when Manchester United paid £30m to sign him from Leeds.
He spent 12 successful seasons at Old Trafford before he joined Queens Park Rangers on a free transfer for one year in 2014.
Over a 14-year international career, Ferdinand made 81 appearances for his country and was appointed the national team captain in 2010.
When did Rio Ferdinand get engaged to Kate Wright?
Rio got engaged to his girlfriend Kate Wright in October 2018 while on holiday in Dubai.
The couple has been dating since late 2016 and met in Dubai shortly after Kate split with Towie co-star Dan Edgar.
Since then Kate has become step-mum to his children - Lorenz, 11, Tate, nine and Tia, seven.
On May 13, 2018, Rio won a Bafta TV award for his documentary called Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad and he made an emotional thank you to Kate.
On November 2, 2018, The Sun exclusively revealed Rio and Kate are planning to try for a baby "immediately after their wedding".
And after being hit with thousands of congratulatory messages, Rio, 39, took to Instagram today to pay tribute to his fans and their unwavering support.
When did Rio Ferdinand's wife die? Did they have children?
Rebecca passed away after a battle with breast cancer on May 2 2015, aged just 34.
The couple had been dating for several years before they married in 2009, three years after the couple gave birth to their first son.
Though she had been fighting the disease for a short time, the couple remained private about her ill health so it came as a huge shock when her death was announced.
In a statement he released to announce the news, Ferdinand said: "My soul mate slipped away last night.
"Rebecca, my wonderful wife, passed away peacefully after a short battle with cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
The couple had three children together - aged 7, 9 and 11.
Eldest son Lorenz was born in 2006, followed by second son Tate three years later.
The couple then had daughter Tia in 2011, and the family settled back into living in London after Ferdinand left Manchester United.
What do we know about Rio Ferdinand's boxing match?
The former England international footballer announced in September 2017 he was switching sports in a partnership with bookmaker Betfair.
A source told The Sun: "Because after that boxer died two months ago he was meant to be going for his licence and it's a combination of the British board of boxing thinking it would look wrong and him also s******g it.
"But more I think because the board don't think he would be good enough and don't want to send out the wrong impression."
What is Rio's net worth?
Though he retired from football in 2015, Ferdinand has continued to increase his net worth which is now estimated at £68million.
Ferdinand was one of the most highly paid English footballers of his generation and also earned extra from lucrative endorsement deals.
From early on in his career he also invested his money wisely in property, with a portfolio in the UK and in the Caribbean.
Since retirement he has worked as a pundit for BT Sport.


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Еялет Відін () — адміністративно-територіальна одиниця Османської імперії. Існував у 1846—1864 роках. Утворився з частини Монастирського еялету. У 1864 році увійшов до складу Дунайського вілайєту.

Історія
У 1393 році було встановлено зверхність Османів над Відінським царством. У 1397 році приєднано до Османської імперії, перетворено на санджак з адміністративним центром у м. Відін. Санджак входив до складу Румелійського бейлербейства (згодом еялету). Стратегічно вигідне становище перетворило Відінський санджак на базу для наступу на дунайські князівства. В подальшому стала важливою фортецею у війнах з Австрією та Росією.

У 1769 році його захопили австрійці, а 1770-го відвоювали османські війська. Слідом за цим санджакбей отримав титул паші зі статусом трьохбунчужного візира. Таким чином утворився Відінський пашалик. З кінця XVIII ст. є місцем розташування митрополита Болгарії. У 1793—1807 роках тут існувала напівнезалежна держава на чолі з санджакбеєм Осман Павенантґлу. Згодом перетворилася на опору сербських повстанців. Лише у 1813 році тут відновлено владу султана.

У 1846 році внаслідок реформування з еялету Монастир було утворено окрему Відінську провінцію (еялет). Вона складалася з 3 санджаків — Відінського, Ломського та Тирновського (сучасна північна Болгарія). Завданням паші був захист дунайського кордону від проникнення гайдуків та революціонерів з території Валахії до Болгарії чи Сербії.

Під час Кримської війни з Російською імперією звідси рушали війська на територію Валахії та Молдавії, а міста Лом і Відін базами з постачання харчів, зброї та підкріплень. У 1864 році в рамках загальної адміністративної реформи відінський еялет став частиною новоствореного Дунайського вілайєту.

Структура
Складався з 3 санджаків: Відін, Тирново, Лом.

Джерела
 The three eras of Ottoman history
 Les éditions imprimées par İbrahim Müteferrika et la bibliothèque du waqf de Vidin, par Zorka Ivanova, Études Balkaniques-Cahiers Pierre Belon, 2009

Еялети
Османська Болгарія

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I am both honored and so excited to announce that I will be participating in a special blog circle called Letters to Our Children, along with several other incredibly talented photographers. Each month I will write a letter to my lovely daughter, as I attempt to capture her personality and spirit, while documenting this special and fleeting time of her life. As time seems to perpetually increase in its speed, I strive to find a way to articulate just how much I love her, and to hopefully make time pause, even if just for a few moments, during these moments of reflection on my sweet girl.
We have been home from our Disneyland vacation for about a week, and the pixie dust still clings to me. I already can't wait until we can get back again (although, your Daddy certainly differs from me in that respect). My girl, anyone that knows your mama even a little bit knows that Disney is ingrained into my soul. To say that I have a bit of an obsession with all things Disney is an understatement. The moment that I walk through the tunnels and emerge onto Main Street, I enter a world of nostalgia and pure magic, and when I step into Disneyland, I feel as though I am home. Disneyland has always held a special magic for me. It is my happy place. A part of me.
For this trip, it was all about the princesses. This is new territory for your daddy and me – it's been all about Lightning and Mater up until recently. But I think you still have a special place in your heart for Mater. 🙂 However, this trip to Disneyland, no ordinary clothes would do for you. Dressed head-to-toe as Alice the first day, you got to meet Alice first thing as she picked you to dance with her. Holding her hand, you skipped around, danced to the marching band, and sat down to a tea party. There is no Disney memory more special to me than watching you dance with Alice in Disneyland. Watching your face light up as she payed such special attention to you filled my heart with joy.
Oh yes, and did I mention that you met the White Rabbit too? It's a very important date!
At the end of the first night, I was so excited to watch the fireworks with you. There are few things more magical than fireworks in front of the castle in Disneyland. You couldn't wait to see them, and you stayed up so late waiting for them to start. However, the noise proved to be a bit too much for your sensitive ears. This picture is noisy and full of grain, but it preserves this moment in time for me perfectly: sitting atop your daddy's shoulders, in awe of what you see, but trying so hard to quiet the noise.
For the second day, you insisted that you had to dress like Cinderella. Your grandma and I took you to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique so you could spend your Disney "credit card" from Grandma, and you only had eyes for the Cinderella dress (and wand, and crown, and "glass slippers"…). So, day 2 was all Cinderella, and all princesses. Lunch at Ariel's Grotto and meeting the princesses at the Fantasy Faire. And although we brought a spare change of clothes for you in case you tired of wearing that poofy, sparkly dress, there was no way we were getting you out of your Cinderella dress until it was time for jammies in the hotel.
It isn't just about the princesses though. You still adore your Mater. Cars and princesses – that sums you up so well.
Route 66 needed a little more sass.
I can see that the Disney love is already within you. I am so excited to share the Disney magic with you, my girl. I can't wait to go back to Disneyland with you. I know that this will be something very special for us to share together for a lifetime. Disney is in your soul, and you are so clearly my daughter in that regard.
Next in our circle is Kristen of Kristen Elizabeth Photography. Please click on the link and head over to her blog to read her letter to her little ones.
Kimberly - Sounds like an amazing trip! I'm a huge Disney fan myself, so I was super excited to take my kids there as well.
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Q: python sendemail script expecting authenication I trying send email via python script with my company email id or donotreply@company.com.
Scripting throwing error you must authenticate.
python3 sendemail.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sendemail.py", line 99, in <module>
sendemail(from_addr, to_addr_list, subject, cc_addr_list, message,
smtpserver="mail.company.net")
File "sendemail.py", line 73, in sendemail
problems = server.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr_list, message)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/smtplib.py", line 867, in sendmail
raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr)
smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused: (503, b'you must authenticate first
(#5.5.1)', 'user@company.com')

Please suggest what exactly issue happening same step in jenkins test email works.

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Home » Facilities & Expertise » National Research Universal
National Research Universal
One of the largest and most versatile research reactors in the world
This reactor was a landmark achievement in Canadian science and technology when it went into service on November 3, 1957. Almost six decades later, NRU continued to play a key role in advancing the quality of life of Canadians and people around the world before it went offline on March 31, 2018.
The NRU reactor was built for three purposes: to be a supplier of industrial and medical radioisotopes used for the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening diseases; to be a major Canadian facility for neutron physics research, and to provide engineering research and development support for CANDU® power reactors.
NRU also housed the centre for neutron beam research in Canada and was one of the few research reactors in the world available for commercial use. Neutrons produced by the NRU were used to investigate and non-destructively study all types of industrial and biological materials. More than 200 professors, students and industrial researchers came to NRU every year to make use of this national resource. By using neutrons to probe materials, in-depth research was performed on metals, alloys, polymers, biomaterials, glass, ceramics, thin films, cement and minerals. This work lead to advances in medical, industrial and scientific fields that benefitted all Canadians.
NRU had the honour of being the workplace of Canadian physicist Dr. Bertram Brockhouse, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994. Using neutron scattering to explore materials, he invented a new, highly sophisticated neutron instrument known as a triple axis spectrometer. These are now standard instruments at every neutron laboratory throughout the world.
As one of the world's most versatile research reactors, NRU also produced the fundamental knowledge required to develop, maintain and evolve Canada's fleet of CANDU power stations. While NRU didn't produce electricity, it is Canada's only major materials and fuel testing reactor used to support and advance the CANDU design.
NRU contained testing equipment that allowed scientists and engineers to replicate a power reactor's working conditions. This allowed them to apply that knowledge to building safer and more efficient CANDU technology for use in Canada and abroad.
Since March 31, 2018, NRU has been placed into guaranteed safe shutdown state followed by storage with surveillance. The reactor will remain in that state until decommissioning, which is currently scheduled to begin in 2028.


M. Murat Kristal is an assistant professor of operations management at Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada. He teaches in the areas of operations management/strategy, supply chain management, and statistical models. Dr. Kristal received his Ph.D. from the Operations Management Department in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests focus on the areas of supply chain, operations management and strategy. His current empirical research spans from how supply chains adapt to their competitive environments to how manufacturers achieve mass customization capabilities.