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Il Giresunspor Kulübü, meglio noto come Giresunspor, è una società calcistica turca con sede nella città di Giresun. Milita nella Süper Lig, la massima divisione del campionato turco.

Disputa le partite casalinghe allo Stadio Çotanak di Giresun, impianto inaugurato nel 2021. In precedenza era di scena allo Stadio Atatürk di Giresun.

Storia
L'Iresunspor Club fu fondato nel 1925 come rivale dell'Hilalspor e adottò i colori giallo e blu scuro, per opera degli insegnanti Fevzi e Faruk Beyler. Il club era attivo nel calcio, nell'atletica e negli sport acquatici a livello dilettantistico, ma organizzava anche spettacoli teatrali e intrattenimento notturno (il poeta Can Akengin contribuì al sodalizio con iniziative e spettacoli). Il Giresunspor militò a lungo nei campionati locali con Hilalspor e Yeşiltepe tra il 1925 e il 1940. I club Giresunspor, Hilalspor, Yeşiltepe e Sahilspor, dovettero chiudere le attività e furono sciolti il 28 marzo 1941, con l'emanazione della legge del 29 giugno 1938.

Dopo la chiusura, l'Hilalspor e il Sahilspor fondarono lAksugençlik Spor Kulübü, che adottò una tenuta biancoverde il 3 maggio 1941. Il Giresunspor e lo Yeşiltepe si fusero a fondare lAkıngençlik Spor Kulübü, che adottò il rosso e l'indaco. Il 5 giugno 1947 fu costituito un altro nuovo club, con il nome di Güneşspor. Mentre l'Aksugençlikspor continuò le proprie attività con il nome di Beşiktaş e i colori bianco e nero dal 1952, il Güneşspor cambiò denominazione in Yeşiltepe nel 1963 per mantenere in vita e proseguire la tradizione dello Yeşiltepe, quindi, il 17 marzo 1967, cambiò nome in Giresunspor. L'Akıngençlikspor si sciolse il 18 aprile 1967 e il Beşiktaş si sciolse il 21 aprile 1967; entrambi confluirono nel Giresunspor. In questo modo tutti i principali club cittadini, il più antico dei quali era stato fondato nel 1925, si riunirono sotto un unico sodalizio e proseguirono le proprie attività.

Il Giresunspor cominciò a militare nel campionato turco di seconda serie sotto la guida di Hasan Gürel, che fu anche il primo presidente del club, nella stagione calcistica 1967-1968. La prima partita ufficiale fu giocata contro il Beylerbeyispor, un club di Istanbul, allo stadio Atatürk di Giresun il 20 agosto 1967 finì con un pareggio a reti bianche. La squadra di Giresun.

Dopo quattro stagioni nei campionati professionistici, al termine della stagione 1970-1971 la squadra salì nella massima divisione turca, divenendo la prima compagine calcistica della regione del Mar Nero orientale a competere nel campionato di vertice della Turchia, dove rimase per sei stagioni. Caduto in seconda serie nel 1977, nel 1978 retrocesse in terza divisione. Tornato in seconda divisione nel 1979, vi rimase per sette anni. Nel 1986 tornò in terza divisione, ma nel 1988 fece ritorno nel campionato cadetto vincendo il campionato di terza serie. Nel 1991 retrocesse in terza serie, poi tornò in seconda divisione nel 1993 e nel 1995 retrocesse nuovamente in terza divisione, ma dal 1997 militò nuovamente nel campionato cadetto, per poi retrocedere nuovamente nel 2000. Ritrovatasi in quarta serie, vi rimase sino al 2005, quando ascese in terza serie. Nel 2007 tornò in seconda divisione, dove rimase sino al 2012. Tornata nel campionato cadetto nel 2014, nel 2021 ha ottenuto la promozione in massima serie, dove ha fatto ritorno dopo 44 anni di assenza.

 Stadio

Il Giresunspor gioca le partite casalinghe allo Stadio Çotanak, impianto da 21 028 posti inaugurato nel 2021. In passato ha giocato allo Stadio Atatürk di Giresun, che aveva capienza di 12 200 posti a sedere.

 Organico
 Rosa 2022-2023 Aggiornata al 13 novembre 2022. Rosa 2021-2022 Aggiornata all'8 febbraio 2022. Rosa 2020-2021 Aggiornata al 24 settembre 2020.

 Rosa 2017-2018 Aggiornata al 2 settembre 2017. (capitano)

 Rosa 2015-2016 Aggiornata al 2 settembre 2015. (capitano)''

 Staff tecnico

 Statistiche
 Süper Lig: 1971-1977, 2021-oggi
 TFF 1. Lig: 1967-1971, 1977-1978, 1979-1986, 1988-1991, 1993-1995, 1997-2000, 2007-2012, 2014-2021
 TFF 2. Lig: 1978-1979, 1986-1988, 1991-1993, 1995-1997, 2000-2001, 2005-2007, 2012-2014
 TFF 3. Lig: 2001-2005

Palmarès
Competizioni nazionali2013-2014 (gruppo bianco)'''
1978-1979, 1987-1988, 1992-1993, 1996-1997, 2004-2005

Altri piazzamenti

Secondo posto: 2020-2021

Vittoria play-off: 2006-2007

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Società calcistiche turche
Sport a Giresun


S T Y L I S H . M: Weird Hijab Look..!
I came across this style show when I was flicking through the Arabic channels the other day and saw the craziest Hijab tutorial. I recorded the last bits of it showing the horrendous product of a good ten minutes of scarf wrapping: what I can only describe as the multi wrap style with two shower loofahs hanging off the side..
haha! It looks like a horse's tail with a bird's nest on top!
Can I make a request for a younger hijabifashionista. I'm fifteen and I'm having trouble finding something suitable yet fashionable for the super hot summer I'm experiencing. Thank you.
wow...that is...wow...hideous. makes her look like a bird.
Of course, the whole point of hijab is to be modest and not call attention to yourself....seems to me that this is quite the eye-catcher.
Hahahaha. Looks like a skunk attached to her head.


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The Jerusalem Circus brings together kinds of all stripes - Arab and Jewish, religious and secular.
By BARRY DAVIS
acrobat unicycle circus
There's nothing like bouncing on a trampoline, hurling yourself through a hoop or juggling four or five balls to focus your concentration. The performers at the Jerusalem Circus come from varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds, as one might expect from their multicultural city. However unlike in the rest of the Middle East these young people stay focused on each other as human beings. "When I'm performing or practicing with the circus, I don't think about the background of the other kids, whether they are Jews or Arabs, or observant or secular Jews," says 14-year-old Yair Rozenschein, who comes from an Orthodox Jewish family and has been with the circus since he was nine. "We just get on with what we're doing, and it's really fun." The Jerusalem Circus was established in 1994 by Elisheva Jortner, a Tunisian-born art teacher with a background in multicultural education. Her motives were both expansive and personal. "I was looking for something for my children to do," she says, "So I started the circus. But I also saw it as a way of bridging social and cultural gaps." She certainly has kept her four children occupied over the past 10 years, and the circus has generated a mutually dependent, creative environment for all sorts of kids. "It's quite simple really," Jortner explains. "In a circus people work together and support each other, literally and physically. They have to get along." Since its creation the circus has provided Arab and Jewish kids, aged nine to 19 and from different social and religious backgrounds, with a way to express themselves artistically and athletically. The language of instruction is Hebrew, but since so much of the work is based on movement, there is often little need for words. Jortner works with highly experienced trainers, like Russian-born Slava Oleinick and Jerusalemite Shadi Zamorad, who has taught circus arts in Tunisia, Berlin and Ramallah. Twenty-year-old Abdullah Taha (Palestinian) and 12-year-old Jamie Bregman (Jewish), for example, enjoyed a healthy and successful friendship before Taha left to start his own circus in the Ramallah. He joined the Jerusalem Circus in 1991. "I heard about the circus from a teacher at my school. I liked the idea of learning circus tricks and the interaction between Jews and Arabs appealed to me. It was also an opportunity to improve my Hebrew." The Jerusalem Circus also seems to cartwheel over the divide that often leads to misunderstandings between observant and secular Jews. "I don't think about whether the other circus performers have religious beliefs or not," says Rozenschein. "They're just my friends." The religious 14-year-old has no problems with coming into contact - literally - with members of the opposite sex either. "That's fine. When we perform publicly we wear costumes that are modest. Some of the girls wear leotards when we practice but that doesn't bother me." The 20 members of the circus are training hard for a performance at Jerusalem's Gerard Behar Center downtown. Walking into their rehearsal space at the Denmark School, one is confronted by whirling bodies in confusing configurations - people walking on their hands, jumping incredibly high on a huge trampoline and performing all sorts of dare-devil, gravity-defying feats. Fifteen-year-old Yonatan Dekel is certainly enjoying himself as he hurtles down an improvised running track and somersaults in the air onto a pile of thick mats. Dekel says he enjoys the circus for all sorts of reasons. "I enjoy the physical side of the stunts and tricks we do, and it's great meeting other kids that I wouldn't normally have contact with. I also think the circus is a good representation of Jerusalem as a city, and maybe of the whole of Israel. It feels like we're all in it together, for each other. That's a good feeling." Dekel's pride in his circus exploits shines through brightly, as does Jortner's pride in her circus. "We've performed here and in Europe and the US, and are warmly received wherever we go," she says. "The arts are a universal language and I see this when our kids meet kids from other countries. There are no language barriers or politics. They are open to each other and share their experiences in a healthy way." "Yes, we all know what we're talking about," Rozenschein agrees. "For example, there's a sort of jump which we call a 'rondat.' Everyone knows what that is, wherever you go, anywhere in the world." While the small circus clearly succeeds in teaching high-level circus arts and building bridges, there are still land mines to be navigated. "Although the circus started out well, the outbreak of the [second] intifada made things difficult for a while," says Jortner. "Some of the Arab children found it hard to come to rehearsals after someone from their village had been killed, and it was hard for the Jewish children to come to the circus on a day when there was a terrorist attack and Jews were killed." For the past few months, when political tensions were high, the Arabs stopped coming, but Jortner is sure it's only a temporary setback. "We're in touch with a community center in east Jerusalem where Arab kids train, and many of them and their families will be in the audience at the Gerard Behar Center show. Things will return to normal soon, I'm sure of that." The Jerusalem Circus will perform at the Gerard Behar Center on March 18 at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. as part of the Jerusalem Arts Festival.

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On Episode 6 of UFC 222 Embedded, athletes gather at media day for interviews and faceoffs. Bantamweight Sean O'Malley crosses paths with opponent Andre Soukhamthath beforehand, and pays the price during the staredown. Featherweight Brian Ortega enjoys the support of his family and friends. At open workouts, featherweight champion Cris Cyborg trains with a masked man who turns out to be UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn. UFC 222 Embedded is an all-access, behind-the-scenes video blog leading up to the women's featherweight championship bout at UFC 222 on Saturday, March 3 on Pay-Per-View.


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Shrewsbury Town become first English club to apply for safestanding
Shrewsbury Town are set to become the pioneers of safe standing in England.
Following the creation earlier this year by the Sports Ground Safety Authority of a formal process to enable clubs such as Shrewsbury to seek approval for the installation of rail seating for standing fans, the Shropshire club has now become the first to formally apply to do so. If the plans are given the green light by the SGSA and their local Safety Advisory Group amongst others the Oteley Road ground will become the first all-seater stadium in England and Wales to introduce safe standing.
In a move instigated by the club's Supporters Parliament, Shrewsbury Town have applied for approval to create a safe standing area in the Salop Leisure Stand with a capacity of around 500 within their 10,000-capacity all-seater ground. The plan is to fit the area with rail seats, as used successfully in the safe standing section introduced at Celtic last summer. The installation is to be crowdfunded at a cost of around £50,000 - £70,000.
"There's a clear demand from our fans for an area where they can stand safely," says Supporters Parliament Joint Chair Roger Groves. "We see that at every game with several hundred choosing to stand at their seats, which is not altogether safe. Rail seats will ensure that nobody falls over no matter how wildly they celebrate a goal and, by having a dedicated standing area, we believe that the overall atmosphere in the stadium will also be enhanced. For all those fans who prefer to sit, it will additionally mean that there will be no standing fans in their part of the ground spoiling their view."
While all clubs that have played for three seasons in the top two tiers of the game are currently required by law to go all-seater in time for any subsequent season at that level, clubs that have not played for three seasons at tier 2 or above since the legislation came into force are still able to offer their fans a choice of seated or standing accommodation. There are currently 21 clubs in the EFL, including Brentford and Burton Albion in the Championship, offer standing in the form of conventional terracing. As of this spring, a process now exists whereby clubs not governed by the all-seater legislation can seek approval to provide this option in the form of rail seats. The clubs not governed by the legislation are the 21 with conventional terraces, plus a further 8 that have in the past gone all-seater, but were not legally required to do so. Shrewsbury fall into this latter category, having built the Oteley Road based all-seater stadium 10 years ago when the club moved from Gay Meadow, where over half the crowd used to stand. This project aims to give at least some Shrews fans that option once again.
"As a Scot, I am very familiar with the great success that Celtic have had with their rail seating section," said Shrewsbury Town Chief Executive Brian Caldwell. "So when the Supporters Parliament approached me about introducing the same concept here, I was immediately keen on the idea. Our Safety Officer has also visited Celtic Park recently and is all for it. We see it as an enhancement in spectator safety and a welcome provision of supporter choice. We hope, too, that by pioneering the use of rail seating in the EFL, we will be playing a useful part in paving the way for other clubs in England and Wales to follow suit in due course."


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Q: displacement of a single HTML element at the opening of another Look at my problem:

How to make so that when you open popup window your footer shifted down?
some css here:
#advanced_search_div_body {
height: 100%;
width: 817;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
display: table;
background-color: white;
}

#foot {
padding: 30px 0px;
background-color: black;
clear: both;
position: relative;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 2;

}

A: Probably you need to tell footer to be down of the page.
So, basically change #foot position: relative to absolute. Try this:
position:absolute;
width:100%;
bottom:0px;

Or something like:
position:fixed;
bottom:0;
width:100%;

A: the trick is a pusher div:

body,html{
    height:100%;
    display:block;
}
#pusher{
    display:block;
    min-height:100%;
}

demo: http://jsfiddle.net/nLKLh/1/

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Samuel Paty: Four more students charged in France over teacher's beheading
Samuel Paty was the target of a social media campaign that revealed his name and the address of his school. (File photo: AFP/Pascal Guyot)
26 Nov 2020 06:09PM (Updated: 26 Nov 2020 06:10PM )
PARIS: Four teenage students have been charged in France over the killing of Samuel Paty, including three for allegedly pointing out the teacher to his murderer, a judical source said on Thursday (Nov 26).
Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over the beheading of Paty on Oct 16, who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on free speech.
Three of the four students charged on Thursday were suspected of identifying Paty to his killer, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, who then tracked him down and beheaded him in a street near his school.
READ: Singapore's Home Team agencies on 'heightened alert' after terrorist attacks in Europe
The three, who are between 13 and 14 years old, are being charged with "complicity in a terrorist murder", the source said.
The fourth is the daughter of Brahim Chnina, who launched a virulent online campaign against Paty denouncing the teacher's use of the cartoons published by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
She has been charged with "slanderous denunciation" of Paty after relating her version of events in the classroom, though she did not actually attend his civics lesson.
Paty's murder sparked a torrent of outrage that prompted President Emmanuel Macron to crack down on Islamist extremism and violence in a country reeling from a wave of jihadist attacks since 2015 that has killed more than 250 people.
Source: AFP/kg
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Q: User input from Pysimplegui to store in pandas dataframe I'm quite new into PysimpleGUI and Pandas dataframe
i am trying to get user input values from the GUI and store in the pandas dataframe, the data eventually will export to a excel file.
Here is my code
import pandas as pd
import PySimpleGUI as sg

rfpwra=[]

sg.theme('DarkTeal9')
pass_fail=["PASS","FAIL"]
layout = [
    [sg.Text('Please INPUT reading from Power Meter:')],
    [sg.Text('Enable "RF AMP x enable" then wait 1 minute\nPASS/FAIL?',size=(30,3)),sg.Listbox(pass_fail,size=(10,len(pass_fail)),key='-PF-')],
    [sg.Text('Read RF Amp Temp C below 60C.\nRecord the temperature:',size=(30,4)),sg.InputText(default_text='T0',size=(15,1),key='rfpwra')],
    [sg.Text("Enable 'AMOD' and write FMOD=170MHz, then adjust trimpot to until the power meter reads between 13.1 and 13.2\nPlease Input reading:",size=(50,4)) ,sg.InputText(default_text='RF_PWR',size=(15,1),key='rfpwra')],
    [sg.Text("Type at Norm.Freq 0 float '140' then click 'Write' and wait 1 minute\nthen record temperature at RF Amp Temps.C less than 90C\nRecord Temeprature Reading :",size=(50,4)) ,sg.InputText(default_text='Temp',size=(15,1),key='rfpwra')],
    [sg.Text("Measured RF power between 11W to 15W\nRecord Power Reading:",size=(50,3)) ,sg.InputText(default_text='RF_PWR',size=(15,1),key='rfpwra')],
    [sg.Submit(),sg.Button('Next',key='Next'),sg.Exit()]
    ]

window=sg.Window('ES-7521-G Report',layout,size=(500,500))

a=range(4)
df=pd.DataFrame({'rfpwrA':rfpwra},index=a)

while True:
    event,values=window.read()
    if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED or event =='Exit':
        break
    if event == 'Submit':
        print(df)
    if event == 'Next':
        break
window.close()

The error i'm getting is as below
ValueError: Length of values (0) does not match length of index (4)

what did i do wrong ?


For the longest time I believed practicing Muslims are very different from non-practicing Muslims, but I've realized I couldn't be more wrong and I think its time we talk about this.
When Muslims appear in the media we encounter the same obstacles over and over again: Who speaks for Muslims? What language and vocabulary can be used to speak about Arabic terms? Who has the religious authority and knowledge of Islam and the English skills to convey it? What cultural similarity can we share with the non-Muslim listeners? How can we attract people to us without pandering or downplaying Islam, or reducing it to superficial border issues like brown skill and smells?
The answer to all these questions is we bridge the divide between non-practicing and practicing Muslims. We cannot expect realistically for the practicing Muslims to be experts in all things. And we cannot expect Islam to survive by cutting off Muslims who are not practicing. In fact, that is when Islam is most critical, at the point where it is weakest, that we have to make sure it thrives.
Just as non-Muslims have preconceptions and presumptions about Muslims, so too we Muslims have certain presumptions and preconceptions of our fellow Muslims, whether they are practicing or not-so-practicing. Lets remedy this with some realism.
The practicing Muslim is often weak on morality, is selfish (after all being religious is for your own personal benefit) and likes to think they could easily be wealthy and successful if they really wanted to. The non-practicing Muslim, often financially successful, is confused about life, negligent about God but likes to think they could easily go to the mosque regularly and intend to do great worship in their old age. Likely both are weak when it comes to halal income but easily conceal this shortcoming. We are all equally hypocritical, albeit, in our own unique ways.
Regardless of religiosity, everyone has their own wisdom and life experience. Both practicing and non-practicing are willing to stand by their community, even in hard times. Both are indebted to each other. There is so much khayr non-practicing Muslims have done for the Muslim community and are so dedicated to the community like no other. The non-practicing Muslim is eager to help Muslims out with money and resources whenever he can and the practicing Muslim always keep the whole community in their duas, even those they dislike. Non-practicing and practicing Muslims may not communicate very much or get along always, but at the end of the day, they try.
And in each family there are practicing Muslims and non-practicing Muslims, and that too there are phases in everybody's life where they are more religious or less so, and in different ways, often due to life circumstances. We all have times when we are closer to Allah and at times when we aren't. Its internal so we can't know externally. We all have different types of personalities and our hearts are not equally soft or hard, no matter how we look.
And practicing Muslims have to accept the fact some Muslims will not become religious no matter how hard you preach. Its just how they are and you have to accept it and love them as Muslims regardless. And non-practicing Muslims have to accept the fact some Muslims will not succeed materially no matter how modernized they become and that not every practicing Muslim has a holier-than-thou attitude, they are just caring for you in their own unique way or too busy thinking about Allah and His Prophet (salallahu alayhi wasalam).
And Allah will judge us all differently based on our circumstances, chances are the ulema have a harder judgement than the unknowing average Muslim. This is not to give excuses, but to point out the reality of the human condition.
Let us talk about perspective. From the standpoint of God, we are all human beings in His care. From the standpoint of Satan, we are all just human beings who should be debased, one way or another. From the standpoint of the community imam, you are just one in a flock whose salvation is important – the imam will do your aqiqa (birth ceremony), your janaza (funeral) and pray for you when you are sick. The imam is more religious than anyone but doesn't look down. From the standpoint of the government and media, you are a citizen, with a family, health problems, jobs, community contributions or a potential criminal problem. The government is completely non-religious but does a great deal of good. From the standpoint of God, Satan, the imam and the government, we are a community and we either rise together or we fall together, there is no individual falling or individual success.
We have to remember Abu Hanifa had an alcoholic neighbour who would play music loudly all night long. And Abu Hanifa did not rebuke this person because of the right of the neighbor and interceded before the judge when he was charged with a crime. Even earlier on, there was a time when Islam was not about practice. In Islam's infancy, there was only the shahada and the prayer, not even the 5 daily prayers but the night prayer in the middle of the night. And that too only repeating the same few early surahs of the Qur'an, since most of the Qur'an hadn't been revealed yet. You can imagine Hamzah, the uncle of the Prophet (salallahu alayhi wasalam) drunk in the daytime, reciting a few verses in Surah Qaf in the night prayer. It was only later on alcohol was forbidden, 5 prayers prescribed and the Qur'an was completely revealed. In the early days, Islam was about strengthening belief and secrecy, not about external acts of worship and identity pride. Allah revealed the Qur'an slowly, because Allah wanted Muslims to become practicing in increments, bit-by-bit, year after year, whereas previous nations like the Children of Israel had to become practicing all at once. We should take solace in this and think if Allah cut us some slack from Day 1, then maybe we should cut each other some slack too?
By the time you are 40 something and if you have listened to 1 sermon every week very closely, you have probably learned an equal amount about Islam as the 80 year-old practicing Muslim who only give the sermon half their attention. Most practicing Muslims don't know much about the life of the Prophet (salallahu alayhi wasalam) and their is no kindergarten-level or high school-level of knowledge of Islam. In fact, many preachers of Islam make mistakes without realizing because of their limited knowledge and limited study of Islam. Knowledge of Islam is fragmentary in our time, not holistic; we all have pieces, but only a few have the whole picture.
There is a reason why the Prophet (salallahu alayhi wasalam) taught an Islam that isn't about maximal worship, but about optimal moderation. Because moderation is sustainable. And by moderation I don't mean doing as little as possible, but doing as much as one honestly can do. Moderation means being able to honestly say, "Allah, I am trying my best." One cannot be all things religious at all times. Its just not humanly possible. There are ups and downs. And there are times when you struggle and overcome, and then get weak and have to overcome again. But that is because it is worth it. The amount of struggle involved to just arrive at the Friday prayers on time, and then run back to work, can be a weekly test of faith for some people. The misbehaviour, the bad parking, the lengthy sermon and all that is a trial for the practicing and non-practicing Muslims. But they endure it because of Allah, because if they did it for the sake of a Muslim they like, they wouldn't do it.
We can't think of ourselves in an all-or-nothing dichotomy, be immaculate or be filthy is the binary, as if we are robots. If we were to think like this, then shaytan would win overnight. But we have to keep trying, wherever we are, how many sins or good deeds we've done or what impression we cast on the people around us. But thats false, we have to try and do what we can and we slip and have weak points. We have to bring each other up and that should be the goal because we are in the same boat together.
And if this all doesn't draw it all home, then just read about Jews during the Holocaust. In their last moments, as they were bussed to the concentration camps, young Jewish kids were fornicating next to Jews praying their kaddish prayer for the dead. At the end of the day, we are a community, for better or worse and those who hate us, hate us all equally.
Subhana kallahumma wa bihamdika ash-haduana la illa Ant astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk, ameen.
I used to follow your blog a few years ago (when I had time to read blogs) and this post shows why – full of wisdom!


In the second quarter of 2017, one of the most prevalent causes of recalls for electrical and electronic products in the EU and the United States remained to be the risk of fire.
When a big brand discovers one of its products poses a serious safety problem, the product recall will not only damage the trust of consumers but may also damage the brand's reputation. Samsung's decision to recall its highly-rated Galaxy Note 7 smartphone was a huge turning point in the modern product recall industry. Also, Toyota's recall of various models in the UAE market made major headlines around the world.
Fire in child's room caused by a faulty device.
Product recall refers to a request by a manufacturer or third-party organisation to return defective products after discovering a safety issue that may endanger consumers or expose the manufacturer to legal litigation.
Usually, the recall aims to limit the destruction of corporate image, limit corporate liability for negligence, which may result in significant legal costs. Determining the "impact" of exposing consumers to defective products is difficult, if not impossible. The recall process is costly. The expenses could include processing the recalled products, replacing them, and may be bearing the financial and legal burden of the consequences of the recalled products.
A country's consumer protection law will have specific requirements for product recalls. Such rules may include how much the manufacturer will incur, if the recall is mandatory (assessment of whether the risk is substantial enough), or penalties for lack of corporate responsibility. The company may also take the initiative to initiate a product recall. They will usually follow the same rules as if a third-party organisation mandated the recall.
Hoverboards have been the cause of many electrical fires since becoming popular. It will win the race for the most faulty appliance if there is such a thing.
If you own a hoverboard, you should have fire prevention strategies at the back of your mind at all times. Following the United States government's announcement that all Hoverboards were not safe, another eight Hoverboard brands were called back. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the latest fire caused by a hoverboard (LayZ Board) ravished one house and ruined four homes. Of course, it comes after another deadly house fire caused by a hoverboard was reported in March. Notably, the fire hoverboard was produced by the same brand - LayZ Board.
Therefore, if you have a hoverboard on your property, you may need to install a fire detection system.
Another recall which affected many people all over the world was Hotpoint, Indesit, Swan, Proline and Creda tumble dryers. These dryers were responsible for numerous fires and the product recall is ongoing. The dryers were manufactured between 2004 and 2015 which equates to millions of appliances.
Besides the infamous hoverboard, most products in your home are safe, but you should regularly check to make sure your home appliances are not being recalled.
To learn more about product recalls, visit our website. Besides, you can register your electronic product by visiting the Register Your Device website. This allows manufacturers to easily contact you if it happens that what you purchased is dangerous and being recalled.
We also recommend installing a fire detection system and taking fire prevention measures to ensure that your family is safe from malfunctioning products with a significant risk of fire.


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A poorly thought-out federal ICAC could be a band-aid on a bullet wound
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Momentum is gathering for the establishment of a federal anti-corruption commission. What structure and powers would it need to be effective? Public sector law expert John Wilson says the wrong kind of federal ICAC could be counterproductive.
Amid numerous recent findings of corruption and misconduct by public officials, the public service and federal politicians are under increasing pressure to maintain the confidence of the public they collectively serve. It is not surprising, then, that the call for a federal anti-corruption commission (ICAC) is becoming louder and louder. The tone of an event organised by The Australia Institute earlier this year was telling – the question was no longer whether, but how.
That does not mean there is consensus. Professor Adam Graycar told a parliamentary committee last year that the proponents of a federal ICAC were not even sure of the problems they were trying to solve, let alone how to solve them. What, then, is necessary to ensure such an institution can effectively curb corruption in the political and bureaucratic spheres?
Three main areas of concern have been identified, which will be considered here in turn:
The incompatibility of a federal ICAC with existing regulatory bodies;
the likely misuse of a misconduct register to discriminate against prospective employees; and
fairness and justice considerations.
Scope of jurisdiction
Firstly, the boundaries of the federal ICAC's jurisdiction must be clear to ensure the definition of corruption is not brought into question. In the 2015 case of ICAC v Cunneen, NSW Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen was accused of perverting the course of justice. The High Court ruled that her actions did not constitute 'corrupt conduct', nor did it adversely affect the police investigators' ability to exercise their official functions, as those terms are defined in the NSW legislation. The bench concluded that applying this narrow interpretation would allow the ICAC Act to operate as it was intended to, and avoid overtly criminal acts falling within the scope of the NSW ICAC's investigative powers.
However, a narrow interpretation may prove more problematic in a federal setting, where crimes such as tax evasion may not be construed as an attempt to pervert the course of justice, and would therefore not fall within reach of the federal ICAC. Establishing such an institution without causing conflict with already-existing regulatory bodies would require a genius in legislative artistry.
A misconduct register
Secondly, it has been proposed that the federal ICAC would be supplemented by a misconduct register, modelled on the one being established in South Australia. In that state, the register forms a repository for the findings of the SA ICAC, with a database on public officers who have been dismissed from public employment. The repository will also include allegations that never advanced to investigation, to ensure that records are created on those who resign before investigations commence.
But there are concerns about misuse of such a register. Misconduct findings are administrative, not judicial decisions, and for a range of reasons many never proceed beyond the initial decision. The 2016/17 APSC Annual Report indicated that only 93 of the 223 cases brought to the Merit Protection Commissioner as a second tier of review ended up being reconsidered. It may be, therefore, that these findings are ultimately given unjustifiable weight in future employment decisions as a result of the register.
Former Senator Zhenya Wang, prior Chair of the Select Committee into the Establishment of a National Integrity Commission, has voiced similar concerns. A dedicated [federal ICAC] would threaten the legal rights of individuals, as well as potentially unfairly tarnish the reputation of individuals investigated, even when they are later found not to have engaged in corrupt conduct, said Wang. Elevating the weight of an internal administrative finding to a permanent stain on someone's record has troubling implications.
Finally, the Rule of Law Institute of Australia has argued that introducing a federal ICAC may create a new system of justice without the legal safeguards entrenched in the existing one. The risk has been articulated as that of a parallel system of justice to the traditional criminal court system initially with all the credibility of a court, but without any of the protections that have been built up around the court system over many generations. Principles such as the presumption of innocence, the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt and the privilege against self-incrimination may not be embedded in this new system.
Yet none of these flaws are fatal. With proper design and a nuanced appreciation of need to balance institutional concerns with personal liberty issues, a federal ICAC can effectively address corruption and misfeasance at the Commonwealth level without unduly imposing on the rights of affected individuals. That is not to understate the challenging task facing the creators of such a body; rather, it is to accept that these concerns are real and deserve consideration, but do not represent overwhelming obstacles.
A band-aid?
It may be, as detractors are quick to point out, that the risk of corruption is already lowered at the federal level. There are more pre-existing mechanisms for transparency and accountability, and the spheres administered by federal public servants are potentially less susceptible to the development-related corruption exposed in NSW.
But there are many benefits to restoring public confidence in the federal bureaucracy through a nationwide anti-corruption commission. Like the common response to climate-change deniers (what is the detriment of a cleaner planet in any event?), if politics and administration at a federal-level are indeed free from corruption, then what harm would the added-level of accountability brought by a federal ICAC do?
Yet the creation of such an institution is attended by risks. The establishment and subsequent failure of a federal ICAC may even prove counterproductive in the fight against corruption. Unless its implementation is carefully considered and thoughtfully executed, we may end up patching a bullet wound with a band-aid.
John Wilson is the managing legal director at Bradley Allen Love Lawyers and an accredited specialist in industrial relations and employment law. His colleague Zoe Zhang assisted in preparing this article.
First published in The Mandarin.
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An improved model for the radial wave number in TGLF based on the spectral average wave number has resulted in a much better agreement between TGLF and GYRO toroidal stress and the fluxes when both a parallel and a Doppler shear are present. This new model was used in TGLF plus NEO simulations of particle, energy, and momentum transport in the XPTOR code for a DIII-D discharge with a torque scan. This is the most complete multi-moment multi-species simulation ever done with TGLF and the first time that NEO has been used in XPTOR. The predicted density, temperature and toroidal rotation profiles in the core were in good agreement with the data for the unbalanced neutral beam phase of the simulated discharge with high torque in the direction of the plasma current. The balanced beam phase of the same discharge had a predicted carbon toroidal rotation that was somewhat below the data but had a similar shape. The shear in the diamagnetic velocities has not yet been fully integrated into TGLF and is known from recent GYRO simulations to be an important source of toroidal stress.
A NIMROD simulation of an Ohmic DIII-D discharge with n = 1 magnetic perturbations applied with 1 kA of C-coil current finds amplification of the 3/1 island and a reduction in edge density. The simulation agrees with measurements made by a fast probe extending across the 3/1 island in the plasma edge showing lower density at the island O-point than the X-point, as well as reversal of the sign of poloidal electric field between the X- and O-points. Both the density and poloidal electric field responses exhibit an m = 6 poloidal mode number in the NIMROD simulation, rather than the m = 3 of the applied magnetic perturbations.
Dr. Wenfung Guo of ASIPP-Hefei arrived at GA to start a 6-month visit to collaborate on the IMFIT integrated modeling project and Dr. Srinivasan Radhakrishnan of IPR-India arrived at GA for a 1-month visit to collaborate on 3D equilibrium analysis.
A fully three-dimensional, nonlinear plasma response to an imposed non-axisymmetric field has been calculated using M3D-C1. The calculation obtained the saturated, non-axisymmetric equilibrium of DIII-D discharge #126006 with an imposed n=1 I-coil field. The plasma model included thermal conductivity, viscosity, and Spitzer resistivity. Future runs will include two-fluid plasma rotation. It is known that nonlinear effects may be important in calculations of non-axisymmetric equilibria even when the applied fields are small relative to the total field, due to the strong resonant response of the plasma, especially at high beta. This nonlinear capability, now proven, will therefore allow more accurate determination of the plasma response. Furthermore, this capability opens up the possibility of quantifying the effect of non-axisymmetric equilibrium perturbations on instabilities such as peeling-ballooning modes.
Micah Buuck, a National Undergraduate Fellowship (NUF) student working in the GA Theory Group, has significantly enhanced and generalized a collection of PYTHON classes and methods originally contributed to the GACODE project by Luc Peterson (PPPL). These tools simplify and unify the reading, plotting and analysis of data from NEO, GYRO, TGYRO, as well as profile input data as generated by the PROFILES_GEN tool. In addition to the classes and methods which can be used to make custom plots (using MATPLOTLIB and NUMPY), user-level routines are also supplied which can provide summary plots for all codes easily from the command line.


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Virginia (Dinny) Tucker passed away on August 30th 2009 at her home in Bremerton, Wa.
She was born in Bremerton, Wa on October 14, 1953 to Letcher and Eva Hurd.
Virginia married George Tucker on August 18th, 1984.
Virginia was a dedicated career woman who always offered a helping hand and was generous to a fault. She devoted her life to care for her family and will be deeply missed by us all.
Virginia is survived by her husband of 25 years, George Tucker, her two beautiful daughters, Jennifer Curry and Kristina Haynes. Six grandchildren, Sarah, Maleiya, Jordan, Austin, Joey, and Ayden. Brothers Richard Hurd (Las Vegas, Nv) and Charles Hurd (Bremerton, Wa.) Sisters, Joleen Blower (Tacoma, Wa) and Virginia's twin sister, Patricia Dawson (Bremerton, Wa.), and numerous nieces and nephews. Also her extended family at Harrison Medical Center, where she worked for the last 16 years


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Unforgettable: Bold Flavors from a Renegade Life
I'm a big fan of Paula Wolfert. She has an amazing talent for a kind of culinary cultural anthropology, exploring various cuisines, digging in deep, learning and documenting recipes like nobody's business. I have relished my time with her, especially at her home in Sonoma and subsequently in a class. I love hearing her stories, getting her career advice, not to mention having her cook for me. So I couldn't be more excited to learn of the plan to document her extraordinary life, along with some of her most important recipes. Leading the charge is former Food & Wine editor and cookbook author, Emily Thelin. The top team also includes photographer Eric Wolfinger and my friend, Andrea Nguyen who is acting as project manager.
I was planning to run this interview with Andrea in hopes of encouraging you to support the project and help it to meet its goal. Fortunately the initial goal has been reached. Now it's time to s-t-r-e-t-c-h and make this project even more special by lending your support to help reach the next milestone. Visit the kickstarter page to learn more.
1. How did this project come about?
Andrea Nguyen: Last year, my friend Emily Thelin (formerly of Food & Wine) told me she wanted to write Paula's biographical cookbook, and that Eric Wolfinger had offered to be the photographer. Eric had also suggested that they publish it themselves as an experimental project, true to Paula's renegade spirit. Emily told me she saw parallels between Paula's and my immersive approaches to our books. Given my experience writing and publishing four cookbooks, she asked if I would help.
2. Who is publishing the book?
AN: We're self-publishing Unforgettable.
3. Why did you decide to go the kickstarter route?
AN:Crowdfunding this project allows us to do meaningful, small-batch cookbook publishing. It has its challenges but it hasn't been as hard as we thought. We're lucky to be pros in our respective areas and plucky enough to get this going. Knowing people like you is invaluable.
4. What is the process for the book? Are you cooking all the recipes with Paula?
AN: Incredibly, we've met our minimum funding goal. If we're lucky to reach our stretch goal of $80,000 we'll be able to double the print run and comfortably cover costs. From now until July 11 when the campaign ends, it's full tilt boogie to garner community backing for Unforgettable.
Paula wrote nine cookbooks and as you can imagine, can come up with a recipe off the top of her head. A group of folks familiar with Paula's work will work through roughly 100 select recipes to find ones that are most suitable for the book. Vivid, doable, compelling recipes that speak to Paula's life journey are what we're aiming for.
Once we've got our short list, we'll cook through many of them with Paula at her home. Those sessions will enable us to convey the connection between food and memory, the savors of life.
Right now, with the campaign just having been launched, we're focused on making it super successful. With everybody's support, we'll cross the finish line with the ability to make a stellar publication.
5. Paula has greatly changed her own personal diet since her diagnosis, how many recipes will reflect this?
AN: Many of them will but not all of them. It's hard to pin point a number because making a book is a fluid process. We do want to incorporate recipes, ideas and techniques that speak to Paula's current lifestyle. She has ironically been ahead of the curve for most of her life. This time, she has a few companions with her.
Thanks Andrea!
Now please do watch the video above if you haven't already, and head to the kickstarter page to support this project (yes, there are thank you gifts!)


Gujjars are one of the communities of tribes inhabiting in India. Gujjars mainly inhabit in the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. These tribes can be found mainly following Hindu and Muslim religions.
It is believed that Gujjars were the original inhabitants of Gurjia or Georgia. They came across Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, Afganistan and Pakistan to Gujarat, way back in 5th and 6th centuries. Some also believe that Gujjars were earlier Rajputs and they changed their religion to Islam after losing to Aurangzeb in battle.
Gujjars come in the category of semi-nomadic tribes and their main occupation is herding of goats, sheep and buffaloes. Semi-nomadic people of Gujjar community are in the habit of migrating to upper parts of Himalayas along with their cattle during the summer season and back to the plains with the onset of chilly winters.
As Gujjars keep on moving from one place to another, they move with their families and thus have very rare permanent settlements. Wherever they go, they reside in shacks or huts made of grass, wood or bamboos as per the availability of raw materials. They sell milk, ghee and their cattle to make their living.
Gujjars, who are now-a-days mainly found in the Northern parts of India, speak Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri and Pahari. They are the tribes who strictly follow old traditions and customs. They still follow custom of early marriages, where girls are married at an age of 14 – 15 years and boys at 17-18 years. Mostly they depend on milk products as their staple food besides cereals, wheat and maize. They may be vegetarians and non-vegetarians as well.
Gujjars wear their traditional dresses. Men adorn turbans on their heads in Mughal style along with long and loose 'Kurtas' or shirts with 'Salwars'. Over the shirt they wear vest-coat called 'Basket'. They also wrap 'Chaddar' or shawl around their shoulders to save them from cold. Whereas, women wear loose 'Kurta' (shirt) having collars and cuffs along with 'Suthan' or 'Salwars' in Churidar style. They flaunt vest-coat over 'Kurta' like men . Women also wrap a 'Chaddar' around their heads which is also called as 'Neelak'. Both men and women wear 'Desi Juttis' or shoes. Gujjar women are also fond of jewelery like necklace, nose rings and ear rings mainly made of silver.
Now-a-days, there has been a change in the lifestyle of Gujjars also like other tribes, with the change of time. In the olden days where they used to be illiterate because of their nomadic life, now some of them have started dwelling in permanent settlements and impart education to their children.


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Lissa Kauppinen from World Federation of the Deaf that received 2013 United Nations Human Rights Award
Former president of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), Liisa Kauppinen will receive the 2013 United Nations Human Rights Award Prize from the United Nations on Human Rights Day on 10 December 2013 in New York, USA.
The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is an honorary award given to individuals and organisations in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights every five years.
Former WFD President Liisa Kauppinen will join a list of highly distinguished recipients of the United Nations Human Rights Award, such as the Former First Lady of the USA, Eleanor Roosevelt, US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Former President of the USA, Jimmy Carter, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and many more.
Dr Kauppinen is truly an extraordinary woman, who served the World Federation of the Deaf for more than 30 years. Dr Kauppinen became the first female president of WFD in 1995, having previously served as its Vice-President (from 1983) and General Secretary (from 1987). She was Executive Director of the Finnish Association of the Deaf from 1976-1987 and from 1991-2006. She has worked actively with leaders of international organisations of persons with disabilities both as a member, and as Chair of the governing body of the International Disability Alliance. As WFD Emeritus President since 2003 and WFD Honorary President since 2011, she has been an inspiration to Deaf Communities internationally, an articulate and intelligent 'voice' on the need to explicitly uphold the human rights of deaf people at local, national, and international levels.
Dr Kauppinen was particularly effective in securing the inclusion of references to signed languages, Deaf Culture, Deaf Community and the identity of deaf people within the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). The focus of Dr Kauppinen's human rights work, however, has not been exclusively on the rights of deaf people, but also on human rights for all. She has promoted both rights of women and women with disabilities through co-operation with other human rights activists, representatives of governments and international non-governmental organisations.
Dr Kauppinen's passion for international work led to a number of development co-operation projects in areas such as organisational development, sign language documentation, sign language interpreting service and human rights training projects with Deaf Communities in Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia, the Balkans and North West Russia. Dr Kauppinen's work with these projects resulted in the expansion of the number of member countries of the World Federation of the Deaf; an increase of 71 countries between 1983 – 2003. Deaf people in these areas now benefit from stronger deaf associations and services, increased recognition, and the ongoing support of WFD. Though she is now retired, she continues to involve herself in WFD work as a voluntary advisor at the WFD Secretariat in Helsinki, Finland, the country where she was born and raised.
The WFD's current President Colin Allen was greatly inspired by Liisa's achievement at the recent United Nations High-level Meeting on Disability and Development where he stated "Only when Governments meet their obligations under the UN CRPD, will deaf people have equality in their everyday lives." Only then will Liisa's life-long ambition for deaf people to have equality be achieved after a lifetime's work.
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Award-winning TV star, chef and author Andrew Zimmern is regarded as one of the most versatile and well-informed personalities in the food world. As the creator, executive producer and host of the "Bizarre Foods" franchise on Travel Channel, he has explored cultures in more than 170 countries and shows no sign of slowing down.
"I'm sort of a 'when in Rome' person," he tells Mediaplanet. "When trying foods in new countries, I don't have any best practices. I dive right in."
Fork and knife
From sautéed beetles in Madagascar to deep fried tarantulas in Cambodia, Zimmern believes that people can learn more about the world around them by trying local foods.
"I don't take precautions when it comes to food. If other human beings are eating it, I want to understand why and how it relates to their history, their anthropology, their sociology and their cultural totems," he explains. "[Food] is how we relate to other cultures as Americans — we inhale other cultures through our mouths first. We appreciate a country's food long before we appreciate their music or dance."
What does Zimmern look for when selecting a new destination to visit for one of his projects? "I keep a rotating list of hundreds of locations on a white board all the time, and every year we reconsider the places we haven't gone yet," he explains. In his latest series "Andrew Zimmern's Driven By Food," locals act as tour guides and introduce Andrew to culinary hidden gems. "Once we know that we have three or four good stories there, we get really serious about it. It's always about the characters and making sure we have that spirit of adventure and cultural exploration that drives the series. And if those boxes are checked, we go."
Maps and miles
According to a recent survey by the State Department, only 36 percent of Americans hold a valid passport, compared to 60 percent of passport-holding Canadians and 75 percent of the men and women of Britain and Australia.
"I hope that people can learn that if you can appreciate the food of another culture, you can appreciate [their people] even more," he explains. "When I immerse myself in another culture, its transformative. You learn things that you never would have had the opportunity to learn any other way. It constantly proves itself again and again every time I'm on the road."
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Vandersteen Model Seven Mk.II loudspeaker & M7-HPA monoblock power amplifier Page 2
These review samples were much-traveled, having been used at last fall's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, and in subsequent photography sessions and dealer demos. "We have very recently discovered that this failure is related to an issue with the crating/packaging that the amplifiers ship in," Richard Vandersteen e-mailed me. "While they are packed sturdily and rigidly fastened to the crates, they are too rigidly held to withstand the constant shaking of shipping over a period of days as shipping invariably requires."
At the time of writing, the repaired amplifiers have been continually powered up for more than a month, other than being switched into standby when I am at the office. Neither has turned itself off or suffered any repeat of the failure.
Vandersteen Audio warns that the M7-HPA takes a long time to break in—the dielectrics of the internal components and the DC-biased cables take about six weeks to fully form—after which, the amplifier will reach its full sonic potential some 15 minutes after being switched out of standby. That was my experience.
When I had auditioned the original Sevens in Michael Fremer's room, the low frequencies had a somewhat disconnected quality, with an elevated low bass. In my room, the low-frequency warble tones on Editor's Choice (CD, Stereophile STPH016-2) were a little elevated between 125 and 200Hz through the Seven Mk.IIs, compared to the levels immediately above and below that region. Overall, however, the tones were relatively evenly balanced, and were strong down to the 25Hz band. I couldn't actually "hear" the 20Hz warble tone, but was aware of a pressure on my ears that ceased when I paused playback. This suggests that Vandersteen's subwoofer has low distortion. The half-step–spaced tonebursts on this disc spoke evenly, with good articulation, which was confirmed by the evenness of the bass-guitar lines in the Commitments' version of "Nowhere to Run," from The Commitments: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA/Tidal stream).
The Seven Mk.II's excellent low-frequency extension could be appreciated not only with pipe-organ recordings—such as my as-yet-unreleased recording of Jonas Nordwall performing the Toccata of Widor's Organ Symphony 5 in Portland's First United Methodist Church (24/88.2 AIFF)—but also with the awesome synth bass line of "Royals," from Lorde's Pure Heroine (Republic/Tidal stream). Some years ago, I recorded erstwhile Stereophile staffer Ariel Bitran's band; in the mixes of those songs, I tried to re-create the low-frequency magnificence of live rock. The Vandersteen system was sufficiently transparent in the bass that I could readily hear how the dCS Vivaldi kept the intentionally phat bass-guitar lines better differentiated from the kick drum than did the PS Audio DirectStream DAC, especially when the bassist drops an octave at the start of a phrase.
Moving higher in frequency, Richard Lehnert's spoken introductions to the "Channel Identification" and "Channel Phasing" tracks on Editor's Choice sounded uncolored. Dual-mono pink noise sounded evenly balanced, though if I sat upright so that my ears were above the tweeter axis rather than level with the upper-midrange unit, a narrow band of brightness became audible. But on the optimal axis, with my ears 36" from the floor, there was delicious solidity to the sound even when the recording was mono, such as the Wilson Pickett hit "634-5789," from The Very Best of Wilson Pickett (Atlantic/Rhino/Tidal stream). And again, the evenness and weight of the bass-guitar lines in this classic recording were impressive.
The Vandersteens' high frequencies seamlessly blended with their midrange. I usually kept the rear tweeter turned off, but it did add a useful degree of air in the top octaves with naturally balanced classical recordings or old mono recordings, such as Nathan Milstein's 1951 performance of Dvorák's Violin Concerto in a, with Antal Doráti conducting the Minneapolis Orchestra (CD, Naxos Historical 8.110975), which John Marks had recommended. However, when the recording was itself a little hot in the highs, as in Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony's of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (CD, Decca), the rear tweeter was too much.
But even without the rear tweeter, the Seven Mk.II's treble transparency was impressive. The improvement offered by an expensive AudioQuest Diamond USB cable over a Belkin Gold USB cable was distressingly audible, even when the latter was helped by an AudioQuest JitterBug at one end and an UpTone ReGen USB at the other!
When I sat in the listening chair, the Vandersteen system threw a detailed, precisely positioned soundstage. The central image with dual-mono pink noise was appropriately narrow, and didn't splash to the sides at any frequencies. Equally important, the system made recorded reverberation more apparent than I usually hear it. On my 2006 recording of Cantus singing Stanford's Songs of the Sea, from Cantus's There Lies the Home (CD, Cantus CTS-1206), the image of solo baritone Kelvin Chan hung there between the speakers, but the acoustic of the Great Hall in the Washington Pavilion of the Arts and Sciences, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was more evident than I remembered when I recorded this album there.
Similarly, the inspired conversation between Jon Hassell's trumpet and Jacky Terrasson's piano in "Suite de Caravan," from Hassell's 1999 album Fascinoma (24-bit/88.2kHz ALAC file, Water Lily Acoustics), sounded more distant. I can only conjecture that the Vandersteens' time-coherent behavior on their optimal axis allows the brain to more readily make sense of the aural cues in the recording to reconstruct an internal model of the recorded acoustic.
Speakers Alone
As I'd been sent a pair of Vandersteen's passive balanced low-pass filters for use with amplifiers other than the M7-HPAs, I tried driving the Model Seven Mk.IIs with my longtime reference amps, the Pass Labs XA60.5 monoblocks, adjusting the filters for the Passes' input impedance of 17k ohms. This combination worked very well, the amplifiers preserving the positive aspects of the speakers' performance. However, the mid-treble was a little more emphasized than it had been with the Vandersteen amplifiers, and the overall sound was both a little drier and a tad less forceful. There did seem to be a certain synergy between the Vandersteen speakers and Vandersteen amplifiers.
Amplifiers Alone
Although the M7-HPAs are dedicated to the Vandersteen speakers, I did set them up with a pair of KEF LS50s, to get a handle on their intrinsic sound. The amplifier's inherent low-frequency rolloff was not too much of a problem if I chose the music carefully, and I spent a pleasant afternoon with this combination of a $52,000 pair of monoblocks driving a $1500 pair of speakers. My basic impression was that the M7-HPA sounded sweet without any attenuation of the high frequencies. The midrange, in particular, complemented the KEFs' natural presentation of female voices. Whether it was Lorde's "Royals" or the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's 1998 Wigmore Hall recital (ALAC file ripped from CD, Wigmore Hall Live 0013), there was a compelling palpability to these ladies' aural images. I would love to hear what a full-range version of the M7-HPA might sound like.
At the end of the 1980s, my system was based on Vandersteen's 2Ciloudspeaker. Priced at $1195/pair (plus $220/pair for the optional Sound Anchor plinths) in 1989, this tower speaker typified what I quoted Richard Vandersteen as saying at the start of this review: The 2Ci offered greater value than the customer would expect at its price. And it still does—last year, I spent a pleasant afternoon in Oregon listening to the pair owned by Stereophile's longtime copyeditor, Richard Lehnert.
But with the combination of the Model Seven Mk.IIs and M7-HPAs—which, at $114,000/system, cost 95 times the late-'80s cost of a pair of 2Ci's—the concept of "value" is much harder to quantify. All I can say is that I greatly enjoyed my three months with Vandersteen's flagship system. The combination of true full-range sound, superb transparency and soundstaging, and a magically palpable way with recorded voices, is hard to beat unless you spend a lot more money. Which sort of puts the system in the same category as the Model 2. Sort of.
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John, sounds like this is a highly recommended speaker?
Submitted by ctsooner on April 25, 2016 - 7:41am
What a great review of an amazing powered speaker system with what sounds like some first ever experiences, especially with some of your own recordings. I must admit though that after reading the conclusion I wondered why you withheld any recommendation for this system. I read your first paragraph and you spoke about getting more that you expected. After rereading your review, I get that same feeling you had with the original 2's. Can you highly recommend this system? Thanks I value your response.
Submitted by John Atkinson on April 25, 2016 - 4:42pm
ctsooner wrote:
After rereading your review, I get that same feeling you had with the original 2's. Can you highly recommend this system?
Yes Indeed. It broke my heart when the shipping company picked it up last week to be returned to Vandersteen. And a full-range version of the Vandersteen M7-HPA monoblock would be a wondrous amplifier indeed!
But there is a certain relief in being back in the land of audio components that I can actually afford!
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Sweet spot is affordable
John, thanks so much for responding and sharing your thoughts. The best thing about Vandersteen is that they DO have affordable for nearly anyone as they have a trickle down, signature sound. I converted to them a few years ago as a lower cost of admission and am very happy with them.
Well done, Mr. Vandersteen
Submitted by Sea Otter on August 24, 2016 - 1:12am
Good to see a designer sticking with his inordinate design criteria, and taking it to it's logical extremes. I believe he has developed what may be the best cone construction in the industry with his carbon/balsa drivers.
While his speakers aren't quite my cup of tea, I certainly respect him as one of the most diligent and talented designers in the industry.
World Class Performance!
Submitted by Alpinist on July 28, 2017 - 7:21am
I recently purchased the Vandersteen Model Seven Mk II Speakers and Vandersteen M7-HPA Mono Amps from John Rutan at Audio Connection. John positioned the speakers in my family room using laser sighting and tuned the speakers' powered subwoofers with their 11-band equalization to give an even response in my room across their frequency range.
The ability to tune the bass on these speakers has made them integrate into my room better than any of the other speakers I have previously owned. Consequently, the bass creates the perfect cohesive foundation for the midrange and treble in my listening room. John was also nice enough to loan me an Audio Research Reference CD-9 Digital Player, Audio Research Reference 6 Preamp and AudioQuest Fire Interconnects.
The synergy of the Vandersteen speakers and mono amps, combined with the Audio Research preamp and digital player, has resulted in the highest sound quality I have ever heard and it is occurring right in my non-dedicated listening room!
The Vandersteen/ARC/AQ system is producing amazing tonality. Midrange body, weight and bloom. Tremendous ease without a hint of solid state or digital edge. Vocals and instruments are holographic and float in space with wonderful separation between vocal and instrumental lines. The soundstage, depending on the recording, can be very wide and deep, extending well beyond the walls of my room. Bass is very robust and lifelike with wonderful texture and goes down to subterranean levels. Deep pipe organ notes are felt to the core. It feels like I'm in a cathedral. Female jazz vocals are as smooth as silk with zero sibilance. Trumpets really have that blatt sound. Violins sound like wooden boxes, not glass ones. Dynamics are lightning fast and powerful. The pure silver AudioQuest cabling enhances detail and nuance with no additional treble or midrange brightness.
To sum it up, for the first time ever, I am totally content with the world class sound quality I am enjoying. The system sounds so lifelike, I forget about the components and become totally immersed in the music. I often listen very late into the night, mining my music collection to rediscover old favorites. Mr. Vandersteen, you hit it out of the ballpark with this speaker/amp combo!
Submitted by JimboJumbo on June 27, 2018 - 5:33am
There's a bit of resonant activity around 4 or 5 Khz and also 18 Khz in the CSD plot.
Step response is spot on; see my comments on the Wilson audio test; https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-specialties-alexx-loudspeaker#comment-576416
Other stuff looks pretty good; but then for $62K it should be.
Slew rate?


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Vinnie Shahid heeded his teammates' advice after a rough first half, and helped lead North Dakota State back to the NCAA Tournament.
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Triston Simpson had 20 points as South Dakota defeated North Dakota State 75-65 on Thursday night.
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Morgan Taylor scored 24 points, including a 3-point basket that forced a tie in regulation and a drive in the paint with 26 seconds left in overtime as Incarnate Word battled past North Dakota State 79-78 Saturday at the Islands of the Bahamas showcase.
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Dalonte Brown scored a career-high 25 points on 9-of-11 shooting, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range, to help Miami (Ohio) beat North Dakota State 89-78 on Friday in the Islands of the Bahamas Showcase.
Rosga, Amigo lead Denver to 66-63 win over North Dakota St.
DENVER (AP) — Joe Rosga hit five 3-pointers and finished with 26 points and Daniel Amigo scored 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting to help Denver beat North Dakota State 66-63 on Saturday.
Rosga was shot 7 of 12 from the field and Amigo tied his career high with three 3-pointers.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Austin Ruder scored 18 points with six 3-pointers, including the game-winning 3 with one second left in overtime, and Oral Roberts beat North Dakota State 67-66 on Thursday night to end a two-game skid.
The teams combined to miss five shots and force six turnovers before Ruder's 3 put ORU up 64-61 with 49 seconds left in overtime. Paul Miller made two free throws and Tyson Ward's 3 with five seconds left gave the Bison a 66-64 lead. After an ORU timeout, Ruder hit his winner.
Paul Miller scored 25 points, including five three-pointers, and Tyson Ward added 17 points as North Dakota State beat Nebraska-Omaha 73-58 last night.
The Bison conceded the lead just twice. Daniel Norl led three players in double figures for the Mavericks with 13 points. North Dakota State is now 11-10 overall and 3-3 in the Summit League while UNO falls to 7-16 overall and 2-5 in the league.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Paul Miller scored 25 points, including five 3-pointers, and Tyson Ward added 17 points as North Dakota State beat Omaha 73-58 on Thursday night.
Miller became just the 12th player in NDSU history to reach 1,500 career points.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Joe Rosga scored 15 points and Denver pulled away early in the second half and cruised to a 67-61 victory over North Dakota State on Thursday night for its first Summit League victory.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Paul Miller scored 19 points and North Dakota State closed the game on a 19-2 run to beat Texas-El Paso 63-51 and win the Sun Bowl Invitational on Friday night.
Keith Frazier hit a jumper to give UTEP (5-3) a 49-44 lead with 7:53 to play. The Bison (7-6) went on a 14-0 run to take command and snap the Miners' four-game winning streak.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Paul Miller made a career-high 12 field goals in 16 attempts and scored 30 points and North Dakota State used 60-percent shooting to beat North Dakota 88-79 on Saturday.
North Dakota State (4-5) entered with just one win in five road games this season.
Tyson Ward helped the Bison start fast and made all three of his 3-pointers and North Dakota State led 29-15 on 12-for-15 shooting.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Matt O'Leary hit a career-best six 3-pointers and finished with 24 points to lead five IUPUI players in double figures and the Jaguars beat North Dakota State 86-81 in overtime on Wednesday night.
Aaron Brennan scored a career-high 18, Ron Patterson had 13 points, T.J. Henderson added 11 and Darrell Combs 10 for IUPUI (10-14, 4-6 Summit League), which snapped a three-game skid in the series and overall.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Dexter Werner scored all of his 19 points in the second half, Khy Kabellis added nine of his 12 after the break and North Dakota State overcame a 13-point, second-half deficit for an 81-71 win over Oral Roberts on Wednesday night.
Carlin Dupree finished with 14 points and Tyson Ward scored 12 with eight rebounds for North Dakota State (15-6, 7-1 Summit League), which has won three in a row.
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — A.J. Jacobson tied his career-best with six 3-pointers and North Dakota State connected on 13 of 16 long-range shots in an 89-57 defeat of Western Illinois on Saturday.
North Dakota State's 81-percent 3-point shooting is a school record. The Bison (14-6, 6-1 Summit League) made four of their first six shots for a 10-0 lead and sped away from there, taking a 48-22 lead at halftime with 7-for-9 3-point shooting.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Paul Miller hit three 3-pointers and finished with 22 points and eight rebounds, A.J. Jacobson scored 18 with eight boards and North Dakota State beat North Dakota 87-70 on Friday night.
Dexter Werner added 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting, Carlin Dupree finished with 11 points, seven rebounds and four assists and Khy Kabellis had 10 points and five assists.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Dexter Werner had 16 points and 12 rebounds and North Dakota State beat North Carolina A&T 85-67 on Friday night.
Tyson Ward and Khy Kabellis added 15 points each, A.J. Jacobson scored 13 and Carlin Dupree 12. The Bison (6-3) completed a three-game road trip after losing the other two to Missouri State and No. 7 Xavier.


In a surprising bit of news, Assamese TV serial 'Jibonor Chaknoyar..' scooped up a bronze statuette from the annual TELLY AWARDS, which is held in Kentucky in USA, making the state proud by becoming the first serial from Assam to achieve such a feet. The serial with English subtitles, produced by London-based Dr Ranen Sarma under the banner of Rondeep Production, received this award in the 'People's Choice' category. It was selected from well over 1300 applicants after it was thoroughly reviewed by a selection panel, comprising of professionals from the film and television industry. The serial must be of a certain quality and standard to be considered for selection to the awards. In a very rare instance for the Assamese entertainment industry, the serial has used the Drone camera to take aerial shots for the dance sequences. Interestingly, the award is from the same company that also manufactures the famous Oscar statuettes. It's Rondeep Production's second project after the feature film 'Ahir Bhairav' to receive an international award. 'Ahir..', directed by Siva Prasad Thakur, won awards at the New York Independent International Film Festival.
Directed by Munna Ahmed, 'Jibonor Chaknoyar..'s script is written by Prabhat Goswami from a concept and story by Dr Ranen Sarma. The serial starred artistes like Pradeep Nischith, Diganta Baruah, Madhusmita Borkotoky (Choudhury), Piku Sarma, Barsharani Bishaya, Preetisha Goswami, Papari Kalita, Pompi Deka, Priyanka Bhargav, Rubi Mahanta, Niharika Goswami, June Saikia, Swapna Goswami, Pragya Parimita, Nargis Hasnat, Debajit Senapaty, Suren Bora, Utpal Nandi, Prasanta Goswami, Pallab Borah, Jeffry Bakshi etc. The serial's camerawork is done by Pijush Choudhury. Both 'Ahir Bhairav' and 'Jibonor Chaknoyar..' are drawing in plenty of viewers on YouTube and the official web portal of Rondeep Production – www.rondeep-productions.com.
Meanwhile, Rondeep Production is busy recording a new album in Kolkata entitled 'Shraddhanjali' featuring 19 Bongeets and Goalparia folk songs, being rendered by several well-known Assamese artistes scattered in various parts of the country. The traditional indigenous music has never been of much interest to the urban populace who has grown up with Bollywood and other popular forms of music. Rondeep Production is endeavouring to change this outlook by reviving interest and strengthening people's engagement with traditional music. Its founder, noted cultural activist and physician Dr Ranen Sarma is doing his bit to preserve, promote and propagate Assamese traditional songs and tunes among the twenty-first century young generation. He has made an effort here to reach out to the public, especially the young generation. He has also ensured that the songs in this new album are rendered without detracting from the purity and integrity of traditional music. All the songs – 10 Bongeets and 9 Goalparia Lokageets in 'Shraddhanjali' are rendered in their original tune and accent. This rare album celebrates our rich and vibrant culture, heritage and tradition. Dr Sarma had previously produced the much admired audio-video album in Assamese 'A Collection of Nazrul Geeti and Rabindra Sangeet'.
Rondeep Production is planning to release 'Shraddhanjali' next year before April 15.


A nonprofit organization's success is measured in its productivity. Nonprofits that drag feet and fail to produce tangible results towards fulfilling their mission may struggle to fund their operations. There ways to improve productivity within a nonprofit, however, including the following.
Multitasking may sound like an efficient way to complete tasks, but it usually backfires by lowering workers' productivity levels. According to The New York Times, the brain is biologically wired to focus on a single task. When a nonprofit worker attempts to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, his or her concentration, memory retention and other cognitive skill markers plunge. To promote a productive working environment, nonprofit workers should avoid multitasking and, instead, focus on a single task at once.
Even if state laws don't require it, nonprofit workers should be given regular breaks. Fatigue is one of the leading causes of low productivity in the workplace. According to Safety+Health Magazine, fatigued workers cost the business for whom they work nearly $2,000 in lost productivity. If a nonprofit has five fatigued workers, that's $10,000 in lost productivity. While this report focuses on for-profit businesses, worker fatigue affects nonprofits in the same way.
It's not uncommon for nonprofit owners and executives to juggle a half-dozen or more tasks each day. An executive director, for instance, may recruit workers, manage fundraising campaigns, reach out to local communities and ensure regulatory compliance. Rather than selecting a random task, though, nonprofit owners and executive should start with the most important first, after which they work on the second-most important task. Prioritizing tasks improves productivity by making the most of workers' time.
Nonprofits should invest the majority of their time and resources towards achieving their mission statement. After all, this is the fundamental purpose for which nonprofits are created. Organizations that divert valuable resources away from their mission statement will experience lower productivity levels and less success than their counterparts.
There's no guarantee of success when running a nonprofit. Like for-profit businesses, some nonprofits will close their doors. However, owners and executives can increase their organization's chances of success by fostering a productive working environment. From prioritizing tasks and not multitasking to allowing breaks and focusing on the mission statement, there are several ways for nonprofits to improve their productivity levels.


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YOUR MONEY HAS FINISHED! TEKNO TELLS SHOW ORGANISERS @ ABUJA
Post published:21 Feb 2018
The Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Abuja was host to a number of musicians Saturday night. Popular highlife performer Flavour graced the stage alongside crowd favourite Tekno Miles and veterans of the music industry, Styl Plus.
However, when Tekno hit the stage to impress the waiting and anticipating crowd, his prformance went awry. He let his Abuja fans down with his uninspiring performance as he murmured into the mic. He was heard murmuring into the mic and sarcastically saying the money he was paid had finished, much to the disappointment of some of his fans.
Mr Emmanuel Kevin who had come from Keffi, Nasarawa State to attend the show expressed his disappointment at Tekno. He said "It was disappointing to see. I could hear him every time he instructed his DJ to change a song half way through performing it. He seemed to be rushing somewhere".
Another fan who preferred to be called Freda also expressed her disappointment in Tekno. "It was as if he did not want to be in Abuja", she said.
Tekno has been criticised in the past for his bad attitude towards his fans. This latest event will likely increase those criticisms.
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Q: Receiving a string value in in MainActivity from SecondActivity, and then counting it down In my program you set the string value for the countdown timer in the secondActivity. That value is then sent to the MainActivities textView which is then supposed to start counting down as soon as the value is fetched. Right now I have made it so you can set the value, and the value is fetched correctly, but what I don't know how to do is start Counting Down this value when It is received. I have already made a CounterClass.
Here is my MainActivity Code...
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();

    String intentString;
    if(extras != null) {
        intentString = extras.getString("TimeValue");
        timer = new CounterClass(60000, 1000);
        timer.start();
        timeSent();

    } else {
        intentString = "Default String";
    }
    textTime= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timeText);
    textTime.setText(intentString);

A: You need to start your timer. Always read the docs.
timer = new CounterClass(millisInFuture, countdownInterval);
timer.start();

EDIT

millisInFuture      ---  The number of millis in the future from the call to start() until the countdown is done and onFinish() is called.
countDownInterval  ---
  The interval along the way to receive onTick(long) callbacks.

EDIT 18-12-2015
Convert your intentString to millisInFuture and send it to the CounterClass. And then format it back to HH:MM in onTick() method.
String time = "16:54";
String split[] = time.split(":");
long futureInMillis = Integer.parseInt(split[0]) * 60 * 60 * 1000 + Integer.parseInt(split[1]) * 60 * 1000;

A: Instead of this
TextView timeText = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.timeText);
timeText.setText(intentString);

you need this
textTime= (TextView)findViewById(R.id.timeText);
textTime.setText(intentString);
timer = new CounterClass(10000, 1000);
timer.start();

As you might see timeText has changed to textTime which is a class member variable and your CounterClass uses it.

A: Lets say that you really want to implement your own class.
I think the best and clean way to do it is by interface.
First create a interface class.
AddTimes.java
public interface AddTimes  {
      void writeTime(String time);
}

Now, implement your interface in your class.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements AddTimes{

Use your class TextView variable "textTime"
   timeText = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.timeText); //remove declaration TextView and use timeText instead of textTime .

start your class
new CounterClass(5000L,500L, this).start();

At the CounterClass, add constructor.
  AddTimes addTimes;
public CounterClass(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval, AddTimes addTimes) {
    super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
    this.addTimes = addTimes;
}

Replace textTime.setText(hms); to addTimes.writeTime(hms);
Finally. At your main activity. Implement AddTimes method.
public void writeTime(String time) {
    timeText.setText("Time - " + time);
}

A: Copy the code as it is to you MainActivity.java file. Hope this might work.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

TextView textTime;
CountDownTimer timer;
int intValue = 0;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
if(extras != null) {
    String intentString = extras.getString("TimeValue"); //if this is a plain number like 20, 45, 209, 8
    intValue = Integer.valueOf(intentString);
}
textTime= (TextView)findViewById(R.id.timeText);
timer = new CountDownTimer(intValue * 1000, 1000) {
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
    intValue--;
    textTime.setText("Count Down: " + intValue);
}
@Override
public void onFinish() {}
}
}
timer.start();
}

A: You can simply use the count down timer:
  new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            textField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
           //here you can have your logic to set text to edittext
        }

        public void onFinish() {
            textField.setText("done!");
        }

    }.start();


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Una taula d'aire típica consta d'una superfície de joc llisa, una vora circumdant per evitar que el disc i les maces surtin fora de la taula, i ranures als extrems de les vores de la taula que serveixen de porteria. A sota d'aquestes porteries hi ha normalment el retorn dels discos.
Les taules tenen un mecanisme que produeix un coixí d'aire a la superfície de joc, amb el propòsit de reduir la fricció i augmentar velocitat del disc.

Actualment, les úniques taules oficials per a competicions d'hoquei taula són les aprovades per la USAA per la disputa d'un torneig, que són les taules de 8 peus fabricades per Dynamo. No totes les taules Dynamo són vàlides. Les taules aprovades (sanctioned tables) són:
 Photon
 Pro-Style
older Blue Top
 Brown Top
 Purple Top
 Black Top

La HotFlash 2 i altres models de taules comercials amb llums de neó i línies pintades no estan aprovades per a competir per la USAA però són taules en les quals es pot gaudir jugant igualment.

A Catalunya, AirHockey Catalunya és qui decideix quines són les taules oficials a les competicions catalanes, tot i que actualment se segueixen els estàndards americans.

Enllaços externs
 Relació de taules que podem trobar a Catalunya

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Devastated Doncaster dog owner searching for missing chihuahua
Doncaster mums helping others to beat post natal depression
Having your first child is supposed to be a magical time.
Monday, 21st May 2018, 6:10 pm
Three Doncaster mums l-r Claire Baigent, Louise McArthur and Helen Kerr-Higginson, have joined forces to launch the first peer support group for parents suffering with pre and postnatal depression in South Yorkshire, in affiliation with the UK's leading postnatal depression charity. Picture: Marie Caley NDFP PANDAS MC 2 Writer:
But for Doncaster mums Helen Kerr-Higginson, Louise McArthur and Claire Baigent is was far from that.
For all three, if was a time which saw them in need of help for anxiety and depression - and they are not the only ones.
Helen, from Blaxton had her son Euan nearly two years ago - but struggled to deal with motherhood. At first she refused to admit she had a problem, until she was confronted by a worried friend 10 months after her son had been born.
The 37-year-old was diagnosed with post natal depression, and after help from the medical profession, she is now a happy mum getting on with the joys of parenthood.
"My son was 10 months old before I looked for help," she said. "In the beginning I just thought 'why am I feeling this way?' Why can't I do it? I beat myself up about it. I didn't want to say I was struggling, but as time went on I was getting more and more unwell.
"I was worried that my husband and my relatives were going to take my baby away - I was irrational. I went into autopilot and thought if I sought support the services would take him away. It was irrational but I thought I was a terrible mother.
"Eventually, my best friend confronted me, and said she didn't think I was all right. She asked me if I had considered I may be suffering from post natal depression. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. I spoke to my husband and he came with me to the GPs. I was crying asking him not to take my baby away - but he was fantastic and advised me to get in touch with my health visitor."
She was put on medication and received counselling, and felt immense relief that the problem was out.
"It was not that I was a failure as a mum - it was an illness," said Helen. "As soon as I was able to open up, things started to turn around."
Six months later, she was better. She said what she thought was the tiredness of being a new mum was actually the tiredness of depression.
"Euan's 21 months old now," she added. "He is brilliant, he is fab and I love being with him now."
Though talking about the problems she had suffered, she started to realise that post natal depression is not uncommon. Between 15 and 20 per cent of women and 10 per cent of dads suffer postnatal depression, and through friends she met Louise and Claire - who had been through similar problems.
And their shared experience prompted them to set up South Yorkshire's first Post Natal Depression Advice Group. Doncaster PANDAS - Pre and Postnatal Depression and Advice and Support - meets every second Tuesday at the Rossington Family Hub on Grantham Street, Rossington.
Louise, aged 37, from Mattersey, suffered from post natal depression and anxiety, which she said arose from being an Australian with her family thousands of miles away from her in Australia.
"I felt immense loneliness after I had my daughter, Mary," she said. "That was even though I've got a great husband and a great bunch of friends. I struggled off and on for the first 10 months. My parents came out for three months, and after that I slumped into depression. I hit rock bottom and could not get out of bed. My head was so full of anxiety and worry that I physically could not look after Mary. My mother-in-law used to come in first thing thing in the morning and I would just sleep. I had the tiredness of depression, and the only way I could cope was being on my own and sleeping it off..
"I had an awful experience with my GP. He said 'you need to go on medication'. I said I was just not coping and wanted to be checked in somewhere. The doctor said 'do you think anyone enjoys looking after their baby?' It felt like I was being told I was making a mountain out of a molehill."
She said she got on with things as best she could until the medication kicked in. She was referred to Bassetlaw Talking Therapy, and five months later was almost back to 100 per cent.
"It is a tough time for a lot of women, and we want to support other people," she said.
Mum of three Claire. from Auckley, initially had problems when she struggled to breast feed her first child, Harry, seven years ago. She was living in Leeds at the time
The 34-year-old said she gave herself a hard time over the issue, which was important to her. On top of that, her husband was having to work away a lot of the time, which meant she was on her own with Harry.
She received support from the local mental health team , and was also referred to a peer support group which she found helpful.
By the time she had her second son, Leo, she was aware of the issue of post natal depression. But this time the issue was during her pregnancy.
She started to become concerned that she would not be fair on Harry because would not have enough time to spend with him. She also started to develop an irrational fear of water. If she was having a shower or bath, she would fear it overflowing, or that she would run out of water. If she was driving through rain, she would fear it was closing in on her. The doctors kept an eye on her while she was going through the issues.
By the time she had her third child, Rowan, she had moved to Doncaster. This time she suffered anxiety over how she would manage with three children.
She was sent to a self esteem workshop and a support group for people going through similar issues, which she said helped her. She was not happy with her GP, who told her she was not the only one who had more than one child, and that everyone found it difficult.
She said: "I had medication after Rowan, but I think it has to go hand in hand with talking therapy so people can open up and break the stigma that comes with post natal depression, You do feel ashamed. There is pressure to be the perfect mother.
"We want to be a really positive group for women to feel part of. Everyone's experience is different."
Helen said: "It'a amazing how many people you discover have been through this when you start talking about it."
Going forward, the group plans to have speakers from public health services, and to promote the mums' mental health and wellbeing, helping them get out of the house with walking groups and cafe trips.
The meetings at Rossington Children's Centre are from 1pm until 3pm. Dads suffering post natal depression can also attend.
For more information log onto Facebook.com/doncasterpandas.
Doncaster road closed last night due to an incident reportedly involving a car and a cyclist