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Haryana, state in north-central India. It is bounded on the northwest by the state of Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh, on the north and northeast by the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, on the east by the state of Uttar Pradesh and the union territory of Delhi, and on the south and southwest by the state of Rajasthan. The city of Chandigarh, within the Chandigarh union territory, serves as the capital of not only that territory but also of the states of Haryana and Punjab.
Haryana was constituted on November 1, 1966, as a result of the partition of the former state of Punjab into two separate states—Punjabi-speaking Punjab and Hindi-speaking Haryana. Although the reorganization followed demands made by the Sikh community for a Punjabi suba (Punjabi-speaking province), it also substantially met the aspirations of people in the Hindi-speaking region of Punjab for a Vishal Haryana (Greater Haryana). The name Haryana, from Hari (the Hindu god Vishnu) and ayana (home), means "The Abode of God." Area 17,070 square miles (44,212 square km). Pop. (2011) 25,353,081.
Relief and drainage
Haryana has two major physiographic regions: the flat alluvial plain covering most of the state and, in the northeast, a strip of the highly dissected Siwalik (Shiwalik) Range (including the narrow foothill zone). Remnants of the Aravalli Range, which stretches from southwestern Rajasthan to Delhi, are evident in parts of southern Haryana.
The alluvial plain lies at an elevation of 700 to 900 feet (210 to 270 metres) and is drained by only one perennial river, the Yamuna, located on the state's eastern border. Many seasonal streams flowing from the Siwalik Range pass through the area, however. The most notable of these is the Ghaggar (near the state's northern boundary), which once flowed far enough to join the Indus River, in what is now Pakistan.
The soils of Haryana are generally deep and fertile. There are some exceptions, however, including the eroded lands of the hilly northeast and the sandy areas of the southwest that fringe the Thar (Great Indian) Desert of Rajasthan. Most of the state's land is arable, but much requires irrigation.
The climate of Haryana is hot in the summer and markedly cold in winter; maximum temperatures in May and June may exceed 110 °F (43 °C), and in January, the coldest month, low temperatures may drop below the freezing point.
Most of the state experiences arid to semiarid conditions; only in the northeast are conditions relatively humid. Precipitation averages about 18 inches (450 mm) annually, most falling between July and September. Although the state has a system of canal irrigation and tube wells, there are chronic drought-prone areas, particularly in the southern and southwestern regions. By contrast, the areas surrounding tributaries of the Yamuna and the Ghaggar are subject to occasional floods.
Plant and animal life
Little natural vegetation remains in Haryana. Eucalyptus trees are planted along the highways and in wastelands. Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) trees grow along the roads and canals in the northern half of the state, while small, spiny kikar (Acacia arabica) trees and scrub are found in southern and southwestern Haryana.
Haryana is home to a variety of mammals. Larger species, including leopards, jackals, wild boars, and several types of deer, among others, are generally limited to the hilly regions of the northeast and the far south. Small mammals, such as bats, squirrels, mice, rats, and gerbils, are common in the plains. Ducks and teals of various sorts are found near the rivers. Pigeons and doves are common in the agricultural areas, as are small, colourful birds such as parakeets, buntings, sunbirds, bulbuls, and kingfishers. Several species of snakes are found in the state; among these are pythons, boas, and rat snakes, as well as poisonous kraits and vipers. Other reptiles, including various lizards, frogs, and tortoises, also inhabit Haryana.
Population composition
Hindus constitute the great majority of Haryana's population. Sikhs and Muslims each form a small but significant minority; there is also a tiny community of Christians. Most of the state's Sikh population is located in the northeast and northwest, while Muslims are concentrated in the southeastern districts adjoining Delhi. Jats (members of the peasant caste) form the backbone of Haryana's agricultural economy. They also are prominent in India's armed forces.
Settlement patterns
Roughly three-fourths of Haryana's population remained rural in the early 21st century; however, cities have continued to grow rapidly as commercial, industrial, and agricultural marketing centres. The state's largest cities include Faridabad, Rohtak, Panipat, Hisar, Sonipat, and Karnal. With the exceptions of Rohtak, which is in central Haryana, and Hisar, which is in the northwest, most of the major urban centres lie in the eastern part of the state.
An agriculturally prosperous state, Haryana contributes a large amount of wheat and rice to the Central Pool (a national repository system of surplus food grain). In addition, the state produces significant quantities of cotton, rape and mustard seed, pearl millet, chickpeas, sugarcane, sorghum, corn (maize), and potatoes. Dairy cattle, buffaloes, and bullocks, which are used for plowing the land and as draft animals, are prominent in the northeastern region.
Haryana's agricultural productivity is largely attributable to the so-called Green Revolution, an international movement launched in the 1960s to diminish world hunger. As a result of this movement, large-scale investments have been made in irrigation, fertilizers, and high-quality seeds. In the early 21st century, nearly two-fifths of the state's workforce was employed in agriculture.
Haryana has made rapid strides in the development of agriculture-based manufacturing. Among the most important of such industries are cotton and sugar processing and the production of farm machinery. Haryana also manufactures chemicals as well as a great variety of consumer goods, most notably bicycles.
Haryana has long been well connected to surrounding states and to the rest of India. A number of major highways and railway lines—including the historic Grand Trunk Road and the main line of the Northern Railway—pass through the state to converge on Delhi. State-owned bus service operates between most of Haryana's larger towns and cities. The state is served by a domestic airport in Chandigarh.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The governmental structure of Haryana, like that of most Indian states, is defined by the national constitution of 1950. The governor, appointed by the president of India, is the head of the state. The Council of Ministers, which is led by a chief minister and is accountable to the state's Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha), assists and advises the governor. Haryana's legislature is a unicameral body; members are normally elected to a five-year term. The state has a common High Court with Punjab.
Haryana comprises four divisions, each of which consists of a number of districts. Divisional commissioners oversee the divisions, while each district is headed by a deputy commissioner. The council (panchayat) system of self-government operates at the village level.
Health and welfare
A network of district and subdivisional hospitals and primary health centres provides health and medical services throughout Haryana. Since the early 1990s all villages in the state have had access to safe drinking water. The state government provides loans and grants to members of traditionally disadvantaged communities for agricultural, industrial, and business activities.
Education has been given a high priority in the state's development program, and both the government and private organizations have made a significant contribution to the promotion of education at all levels. However, while thousands of primary and secondary schools have ensured that basic education is available throughout the state, much of the population—especially rural women—remained unable to read in the early 21st century. In an effort to reverse this tendency, the state has continued to provide assistance to students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue education of all sorts.
Several universities and hundreds of smaller colleges offer postsecondary education in or near Haryana's larger towns and cities. Among the state's most prominent tertiary institutions are the National Dairy Research Institute (1923) at Karnal and Kurukshetra University (1956) and the National Institute of Technology (1963), both at Kurukshetra, in the northeastern region; Maharshi Dayanand University (1976) at Rohtak, in central Haryana; and Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (1970; including a renowned college of veterinary sciences) and Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (1995), both at Hisar, in the northwest. Of the smaller colleges, most provide general education, and many are exclusively for women.
Cultural life
Haryana's cultural life reflects both the seasonal rhythm of its agricultural economy and a treasure of traditions and legends with roots in ancient India. The boisterous spring festival of Holi is celebrated by people showering coloured powder (or coloured powder mixed with water) on each other, irrespective of age or social status. Janmasthami, the birthday of Krishna (an incarnation of the god Vishnu), is of special religious importance in Haryana because it was on a battlefield at Kurukshetra that Krishna is said to have delivered to the warrior Arjuna the teachings contained in the Bhagavadgita (a part of the epic known as the Mahabharata). Festivals in honour of other deities and saints are also an important element of the state's cultural life, as are cattle fairs, which are held at a number of locations.
Many prominent pilgrimage sites are located in Haryana. The solar eclipse bathing festival at Kurukshetra invariably attracts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from various parts of India. Pehowa, in north-central Haryana, is an important pilgrimage centre as well. Situated on the bank of the sacred Sarasvati River (identified with Sarasvati, a Hindu goddess of learning and the arts), it is considered a premier place for performing propitiatory rites for ancestors (shraddha). Rites to ensure the salvation of the souls of those who died unnatural deaths or who died in bed are also performed at Pehowa.
Haryana's traditional family homes, called haveli, are known for their unique architectural features, especially their gates and podiums. The elaborate gates of these homes ultimately impart a medieval—and aesthetically pleasing—character to Haryana's alleys, while the buildings themselves have richly decorated podiums that are used for various social and religious functions. These podiums indicate the social status of the owner of the haveli.
The Vedas, the most ancient manuscripts of the Vedic religion, stem from the area that is now known as Haryana. These Sanskrit documents were written by the Aryans, who descended into the region from the north between 2000 and 1500 bce. Haryana is also considered to be the birthplace of Hinduism, which began to take discernible shape by the 2nd century bce and had developed two distinct branches by the 4th century ce.
Lying across the route of overland incursion into India, Haryana has experienced many waves of migration over the millennia; a notable invasion was led by Alexander the Great in 326 bce. The area also has been the site of numerous decisive battles of Indian history. Among the most significant of these conflicts were the Battles of Panipat, which occurred in 1526, when the Mughal leader Bābur defeated Ibrāhīm Lodī and established Mughal rule in India; in 1556, when Afghan forces were defeated by the army of the Mughal emperor Akbar; and in 1761, when Aḥmad Shah ʿAbdāli decisively defeated the Marathas, paving the way for British control in India. Also important was the Battle of Karnal, in 1739, when Nāder Shah of Persia dealt a blow to the crumbling Mughal Empire.
The area included in the present state of Haryana was ceded to the British East India Company in 1803. In 1832 it was transferred to the then North-Western Provinces of British India, and in 1858 Haryana became a part of Punjab. The union between Haryana and Punjab was awkward, however, largely because of religious and linguistic differences between the two regions: Punjabi-speaking Sikhs of Punjab vis-à-vis Hindi-speaking Hindus of Haryana. By the first decades of the 20th century, agitation for a separate state of Haryana was well under way, led most notably by Lala Lajpat Rai and Asaf Ali, both prominent figures in the Indian national movement, as well as by Neki Ram Sharma, who headed a committee to cultivate the concept of an autonomous state.
Haryana remained part of Punjab after the partition of India and Indian independence in 1947, but the demand for separate states—supported by both Hindus and Sikhs—continued, undiminished. Indeed, the movement gained momentum, reaching its fullest intensity in the early 1960s. Finally, with the passage of the Punjab Reorganization Act (and in accordance with the earlier recommendations of the States Reorganization Commission), Haryana was separated from Punjab in 1966 to become the 17th state of India.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
India: Extent and chronology of Early Harappan culture…Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. In short, the area of the Early Harappan culture was nearly coextensive with that of the mature Indus civilization.…
India: The late 2nd millennium and the reemergence of urbanismTo the north, in Punjab, Haryana, and the upper Gangetic plain, such deterioration is less apparent, perhaps because the proximity of the Himalayas produced a higher level of rainfall. It is in this area that a new tendency emerges—the expansion of settlements associated with the pottery known as Painted Gray…
Chaudhary Devi Lal…instrumental in the formation of Haryana as a state separate from Punjab state in northwestern India. He twice served (1977–79 and 1987–89) as Haryana's chief minister (head of government) and had two brief terms (1989–90 and 1990–91) as the deputy prime minister of India under two consecutive administrations.…
Jat…the populations of Punjab and Haryana; nearly 10 percent of the population of Balochistan, Rajasthan, and Delhi; and from 2 to 5 percent of the populations of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Uttar Pradesh. The Jats of Pakistan are mainly Muslim by faith. The Jats of India are mostly divided into…
India, country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 29 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own affairs; 6 less fully empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital territory, which includes New Delhi, India's capital. With roughly…
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Nearly all of the photographs in the exhibition are from the Gernsheim Collection, the important historical archive which forms the core of the Photography Collection at the Ransom Center. Most of the printed books, pamphlets, and music are part of the extensive Warren Weaver Collection of Lewis Carroll. Bibliographical details for the items represented in the online exhibition, as well as further information about the Centers Carroll holdings, are available in Robert N. Taylor, et al. Lewis Carroll at Texas. Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1985.
Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition was on display in the Ransom Centers Leeds Gallery in the fall of 1998. A smaller version of the exhibition traveled to four additional sites in 1999 and 2000 under the auspices of Curatorial Assistance Inc.:
Equitable Gallery, New York City - 12 February-23 April 1999
Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA - 13 September-28 November 1999
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH - 29 April-11 June 2000
Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - 10 September-9 October 2000
The curators of the original exhibition were:
Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator of Photography and Film
John Kirkpatrick, Curator of Twentieth-Century British and American Manuscripts
Sally Leach, Associate Director
Richard Oram, Head Librarian
Robert Taylor, Archives and Manuscripts Librarian
The web exhibition was prepared by Richard Oram and Steve Wilson.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Aperture produced a study of Lewis Carrolls photography, featuring many examples from the Centers Carroll collections: Morton N. Cohen. Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Centennial Celebration of Lewis Carroll, Photographer. New York: Aperture, 1998. ISBN 0-89381-796-1.


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The girls went to their first show yesterday
There were so many apbts there. It was a lot of fun. The weather was a bit cold though some how I still got sunburn OOUCH.
Touche' was bored and not as thrilled as her sis to be there. She even yawned a few times in the ring.
The girls did great though and made me so proud. I wish they could have been out to socialize more but that is not allowed in ADBA
Bodacious is now ADBA pointed from her very first show. She took third in a large 6-9 month puppy class.
I got to meet people off the forums Mason and cutty, Koda's dad & Erin/Shadyridge. I saw Angus in the ring but didn't get to meet his mom.
I also saw Leslie H who I already have known for years and got to meet her little beauty. They were really fun to watch in the ring with her swinging on the lead
It was a nice day. I'll let them post their own bragging
Sorry I didn't take picts I was too busy watching & chatting
here is one of Bodacious from the other day though for those who don't know her


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VIDEO: Danilo Gallinari scored 22 points in a victory over the Bucks last season
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — The Denver Nuggets' roller-coaster season took a severe nosedive Tuesday with the team announcing that 3-point shooting forward Danilo Gallinari will miss the rest of the season after undergoing a second surgery on his left knee in nine months.
Gallinari tore his ACL during a game on April 4 against the Dallas Mavericks and had surgery on April 30. Gallinari was initially hopeful of returning to the team during the first half of the season, but he has not been able to play at all. Nuggets general manager and vice president of basketball operations Tim Connelly explained why:
"It was recently determined that the procedure that Danilo underwent on his knee this past summer was insufficient," Connelly said in a statement. "Danilo's knee required that he undergo reconstruction of the ACL, which was successfully completed earlier this morning."
The Nuggets' second-leading scorer last season and one of its top 3-point gunners, Gallinari's loss is a blow to the middling Nuggets' playoff chances under first-year coach Brian Shaw.
"It's disappointing," Shaw told the Denver Post. "The fact that we know how hard he worked rehabbing over the last few months to try to get back for this season. We feel for him, and know how tough a situation that is to deal with."
Gallinari, 25, is the second player this season to experience a setback after the initial knee surgery, joining Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Russell Westbrook, who had surgery in late April to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. He's also undergone two arthroscopic procedures in the last three months due to related issues. Westbrook's situation, however, is not as serious as Gallinari's and he is expected to return to the Thunder's lineup around the All-Star break.
That won't be the case for the 6-foot-10 Gallinari, who would have been starting his third full season with Denver and his sixth in the league. He posted career highs in points (16.2 ppg) and rebounds (5.2 ppg) and shot 37.3 percent from the 3-point line.
Without him this season, Denver's offense ranks 11th in the league and its 3-point shooting percentage ranks 15th. The team has fluctuated between extremes, riding extending losing and winning streaks to a 20-20 record. Now they know Gallinari won't be riding in to help bring a bit of consistency to the second half of the season.
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Amanita Design showed that there was definitely still legs in the point 'n click adventure genre when they released the charming Machinarium in 2009. The tale of a small robot seeking his true love both looked and sounded great and the game was a really solid old school adventure title. However, Amanita's new game Botanicula owes more to the slightly more abstract Samorost games, the last of which came out in 2005. Does Botanicula still fit into the point and click mold or is it more unique type of game?
Botanicula (PC [Reviewed], Mac, iOS)
Developer: Amanita Design
Publisher: Amanita Design
Released: April 19th, 2012
If you've played either of the Samorost games, particularly Samorost 2, then you'll have a good idea what you're going to be playing with Botanicula; beautiful artwork, lovely sounds and a much more abstract approach to a point and click game. The game relies less on traditional point and click logic and relies instead on using the environment and the creatures that dwell there to proceed.
The game starts as a malevolent spider creature makes it's way up a magical tree, consuming the life force out of the tree itself as well as the multitude of small creatures it finds on it's way. At the top of the tree is are a trio of glowing orbs, the source of the tree's life force but as the spider creature tries to take the final orb, it falls eventually being found and hidden inside a tiny acorn shaped creature. Realising the orb must be kept safe, the acorn creature summons four of it's friends and they begin a journey down the tree in an attempt to keep their home safe.
If you're wondering why I'm using vague terms for things in Botanicula, it's because there's no written or verbal identifiers used for any characters in the game. None of your team are identified in any way and aside from the menu system, there is not text in the game nor is there any English voice acting. Creatures communicate either in unintelligible grunts and growls. However, Botanicula wouldn't really be the game it strives to be with both voice acting (not needing any localisation team must be a boon for an indie developer) or big text bubbles. That being said, there's a nagging feeling of disconnection and vagueness whilst playing Botanicula that was hard to shake.
Whenever you reach a challenge or an obstacle, more often than not your merry band of tree dwellers will simply stand there as your invisible hand either manipulates the environment or interacts with other creatures. The times when your creatures get involved certainly felt like they were in the minority and in those cases, it really felt like you were simply clicking on each member of your group to eventually find who was the "correct" answer to the puzzle. The problems in Botanicula may not seem obvious or even logical sometimes but they're not unfair or overtly complicated. That being said it can feel a little frustrating when you complete a challenge and all you've really done is click three times on a random rock or leaf.
That being said, the puzzles themselves are a wonderful mix of interactive environmental puzzles and ones that rely on a combination of sound and reactions. The solution to many trials will reveal themselves with a burst of music and singing and all manner of crazy creatures dancing and celebrating. When this happens, it's hard not to get swept up in Botanicula's strange world. Almost every screen is buzzing with life with all manner of strange looking bugs and animals milling around, the branches of the tree itself almost look more like veins with tiny blood cells in them. Whilst I'm hesitant to push the visuals of a videogame too much, Botanicula is certainly beautiful.
Botanicula occupies this weird space where in many ways it's a traditional adventure game and in many others it's a more experimental art game. The fact that it straddles both sides so neatly is testament to Amanita Design's focus here. There's very little fluff or padding and while the game is not always focussed on guiding you down a certain path, it's hard to get sidetracked and lose what your goal is. Whilst a little more exposition and narrative would have been welcome, it's great to see the developers stick to their guns and make Botanicula a wonderful looking and sounding experience.
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Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant co-host The Cook and the Chef on ABC television. She is an inspired cook with an international reputation for mouth-watering home-cooked dishes, created without recipes, using only the best seasonal ingredients. He is Executive Chef at the Adelaide Hilton where he co-ordinates 34 chefs, two restaurants and room service and creates five-star masterpieces daily.
Barry McCann trained as a commercial chef and loves the program – though he now works as a full-time artist. Given the go-ahead for the portrait, he hopped in his car and headed for South Australia where the show is recorded.
"Usually the subject dictates the format and size of the canvas," he says. "But in this instance it's the exact size of the back of my station wagon as I drove from Armidale where I live."
McCann recalls Beer using the word "simpatico" on one of the shows to describe how well certain ingredients worked together. "But it's so applicable to them too," he says, referring to the title of the portrait. "They get on together so well, they are real mates."
In terms of composition, McCann decided to place Bryant on Beer's left – the opposite to the television show. "Simon is strong and thoughtful so I have him with his arms crossed, a dark shape against a light background. Maggie is always happy so she is smiling, a light shape against a dark background. But to suggest how well they work together, they are almost one shape."
Born in Armidale in 1962, McCann was originally a watercolourist but now paints in other mediums including acrylic and oil. He and his wife Lucy run McCann Fine Art. They teach art in their studio and to groups throughout the region. McCann has participated in numerous group exhibitions. He was Highly Commended in the 2007 Gold Edition Equine Prize and in the rural subject/landscape category at the 2007 Sydney Royal Arts Show. He was also a finalist in the 2005 Hazelhurst Art Award and the 2004 Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize. This is his first time in the Archibald.


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Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor (Tolkien Society Unquendor) is the Tolkien society in the Netherlands.
Unquendor was founded in 1981, on the birthday of Frodo and Bilbo, September 22th, after the example of the British Tolkien Society. It steadily grew up to its current member count of about 210 people[1] from all over the Dutch-speaking world, though Flanders has its own Society, Elanor, and South Africa, which had its now dormant Haradrim, is usually considered under the influence of the English Tolkien Society.
Members of Note
Unquendor organises a number of big events throughout the Netherlands, like:
- The "Joelfeest" (Yule party, December)
- Tolkien day (with annual general meeting, close to September 22th)
- "Slotfeest" (Castle/End (of year) Feast (same word for these in Dutch), June),
- "3-januari-diner" (Tolkien Birthday Diner, January 3rd)
- "Tolkien Leesdag" (Tolkien Reading Day, close to March 25th).
- [Has not been held in the most recent years.]
Unquendor also offers more regular meetings organised by its members throughout the Netherlands, called Herbergen ("Inns").
Unquendor's Inns are akin to the Tolkien Society's Smials. These monthly to half-yearly meetings, of which Unquendor currently has about ten, are usually frequented by about eight people who then talk about Tolkien or Unquendor related issues. Since inception Inns have come and gone in Unquendor.
- Culinaire Herberg, Amersfoort
- Lay of Leithian, Tegelen, co-innkeepers: Jan Boom, Marcel Coppers, also published a Tolkien magazine[2][3][4]
- Mellonost, Nijmegen[5]
- Nieuwe Laantje aan de Sloot[6]
- Reizende Herberg, various locations[7]
- Bij de Sarnvoorde, Assen[8]
- De Witte Zwaan, Monnickendam[9]
- Den Swarte Draeck, Leiden, innkeeper: René van Rossenberg[10]
- Zalen van Valinor[11]
- De Zingende Hobbit, Amsterdam[12]
- Ar Caras, Nijmegen
- Armenelos, Oegstgeest
- Gondolin, Venray, innkeeper: Peter-Willem Schellen
- De Schelm, Oosterbeek[15]
- De Staart van de Draak, Oss
- De Steigerende Pony, Leiden
- Fairy Tale Inn, Utrecht
- Het Praathuis, Leiderdorp
- Orobar / Oromar, Lelystad
- Praathuis, Leiderdorp
- Rivendell, Deventer
- Silme, The Hague
Lustrum Gatherings
Every 5 years, the most recent being 2011, Unquendor organizes a weekend event to celebrate an additional 5 years of the society being in existence. These events are more international in nature and usually include lectures by known Tolkien scholars and artists: Cor Blok (2006), Tom Shippey (2011), Rayner Unwin (1997), Arne Zettersten (2006).
Unquendor also publishes the five-a-year magazine 'Lembas', in which the accounts of meetings and announcements for them are made known, but it includes Ardalogical and Tolkienistical essays as well, all of which are written by members of Unquendor. Unquendor also publishes an extra book each year, called the Lembas Extra, in which all kinds of Tolkienological and Ardalogical articles, all in English, are published.
Unquendor is neo-Quenya for "Hollow Land", and is a translation of the often perceived etymology of Holland, "Hollow land". The correct etymology is of Holland, however, "Wooded land". "Hollow land" does apply to Holland in Lincolnshire, UK.
External links
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/node/22 (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/layofleithian (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.endore.it/Arretrati/5/Rubriche/biblioteca.pdf (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20031205215524/http://www.unquendor.nl/bijeenkomsten/lol/lol.html (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/mellonost (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/nieuwelaantje (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/reizende (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/sarnvoorde (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/wittezwaan (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/swartedraeck (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/zalenvanvalinor (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.unquendor.nl/herberg/zingendehobbit (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=Activities1993Netherlands (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19991114042637/http://www.unquendor.nl/byeen.html (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20031205214048/http://www.unquendor.nl/bijeenkomsten/herbergen/schelm.html (accessed 05-12-2011)


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Houston native, former Arizona/Oakland and now-free agent outfielder Chris Young said last night at Bo Porter's foundation dinner that he is interested in signing with the Astros.
Houston is definitely on the list. I have good vibes in Houston. I feel like I've always been able to play well here.
Porter was also Young's 3B coach in Arizona, so they have some history. But Young provides a lot of what the Astros already have - strikeouts and a low walk rate (he drew a walk 72 times total in 2012/13, in 738 plate appearances. He walked 80 times in 659 PAs in 2011) combined with the promise of power. And when Astros fans watched Young play at Minute Maid, he hit .333/.412/.733 in seven games, which is obviously an absurdly small sample size.
But 2013 was Young's career-low in OPS - hitting .200/.280/.379 in 107 games, the second season in a row he played fewer than 110 games. Ultimately this would be a buy-low type of deal, and hope for the best.
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Chris Young is interested in the Astros
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maybe his strong line @ MMP is just a byproduct of facing the astros..?
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Spain's disabled take to the streets to protest cutbacks
People march as they carry banners reading, 'SOS, disability' during a protest against government austerity measures affecting disabled people by reducing services, closing disability centres and forcing care workers from their jobs in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP / Andres Kudacki)
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Published Sunday, December 2, 2012 2:21PM EST
MADRID, Spain -- Disabled people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday in the latest protest against broad austerity measures, angry over government cutbacks reducing services, closing disability centres and forcing care workers from their jobs.
More than 10,000 people, many in wheelchairs or being led by guide dogs, marched in a demonstration with the slogan "SOS Disability: Save our Rights, Inclusion and Welfare."
Health care spending falls under the responsibility of regional governments, many of which are indebted. Some local administrations have failed to pay medical centres, forcing cuts in services and a slowdown in the distribution of medicine.
Protester Manuel Gonzalez said assistance had decreased and in some cases dried up completely.
"We don't want to be taken back 40 years," he said.
Luis Cayo, president of the Spanish committee representing the interests of people with disabilities, said regional governments were in arrears of around C300 million ($389.6 million) to care workers and associations responsible for looking after the needs of disabled people across the country.
"To some this sum on a national scale may not be huge, but for us it's everything. Without it, we'll simply have to shut down," said Cayo, who said one in 10 people in Spain had some form of disability.
Earlier in the day, many thousands of people held hands to form chains around several of Madrid's main hospitals to show their support for Spain's national health service, they said.
Regional government health councillor Javier Fernandez-Lasquetty said that although the action showed how much Madrid's residents cared for their hospitals, government cuts were needed to save medical institutions from the worst effects of a deep financial crisis.
Blind protester Francisco Vicente, 54, said the government was neglecting disabled people in many ways, including failing to provide a transport system and even sidewalks that were not a hazard for visually impaired citizens.
"We don't count for those in power, except when they seek our votes," Vicente said.
Spain is immersed in a double-dip recession with 25 per cent unemployment. The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is implementing harsh austerity reforms aimed at avoiding a financial implosion and a national bailout like that required by Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus.
However, the level of bad debt in the country's banks has risen to record levels and the 16 other countries that use the euro as a currency have agreed to lend Spain up to C100 billion to help support banks weighed down by bad loans and investments.
Overspent regions have found it difficult to refinance their debt through money markets and have had to turn to the central government for aid, while cutting budgets.
Spain's regions have a combined debt of C145 billion ($185 billion) -- of which around C36 billion has had to be refinanced this year.
"We know times are hard for everyone, but we who have begun life with so little are on the verge of collapse, and we can't just disappear," Gonzalez said.
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Local groups, armed with a protection plan and $5.4 million in state & federal funding dramatically improve water quality in Bear Creek
(Seattle – Nov. 18, 2010) After years of hard work by local groups and $5.4 million in state and federal investment, areas of Bear Creek watershed are showing dramatic water quality improvement. And environmental officials are crediting a recently-adopted "watershed approach" to problem solving as the key to success.
The Bear Creek watershed, covering 361 square miles, is just the second watershed after the Tillamook watershed in Oregon to see major water quality improvements by following a plan focused on reducing pollution across the watershed. According to participants, watershed-wide solutions often prescribe several small projects to help achieve a larger overall goal of improving water quality.
"These are impressive results," said Mike Bussell, director of EPA's Office of Water & Watersheds in Seattle. "Phosphorous pollution entering the Bear Creek watershed has dropped by more than 90 percent. This is a stellar federal, state and local partnership that is helping Oregon improve water quality and protect public health."
Excessive phosphorus in rivers lakes and streams acts as fertilizer and can cause explosive plant & algae growth. When aquatic plants and algae die, they rob oxygen that fish and other aquatic organisms need to survive.
Since the early 1990s, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Rogue Valley Council of Governments and the Bear Creek Watershed Council have made protecting and improving Bear Creek water quality a priority by:
- Conducting regional water quality monitoring
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- Implementing demonstration projects
- Promoting education and outreach programs
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"Energized and dedicated citizens, matched with state and federal funding have worked miracles in the Bear Creek watershed," said Bill Meyers, DEQ's Rogue River Basin Coordinator. "A shared vision, tenacity and sharp tools have combined to make this area a model for other watershed-wide partnerships."
Water quality improvement projects in the Bear Creek Watershed include:
- Upgrades to City of Ashland's wastewater treatment plant
- Implementation of storm water control practices in urbanized areas;
- Improvements in Irrigation District water delivery and transport
- Outreach and education in the agricultural community about best management practices to reduce sediment to Bear Creek.
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Taylor Swift Darkens Her Locks for New CoverGirl Campaign
Taylor Swift has been experimenting with her style recently: She strayed from her trademark sparkly dresses and cowboy boots to more glam, couture style and chopped her once-signature blonde ringlets into straight bangs. Now she's taken an even bigger leap. The singer, who previously bragged that she's never colored her natural honey blonde hair, has gone brunette!
Swift showed off her new hair hue in the beauty brand's 'See You, Be You' campaign. In her behind-the-scenes video, Swift's hair actually looks more blonde, but in the final images, whether it's PhotoShop or clever lighting tricks, it's significantly darker and richer than her usual goldilocks look.
The 'Eyes Open' singer sports a country-boho look in one of the photos, with a floppy black hat and white lace top, that's very similar to her Stevie Nicks-inspired style from her Vogue cover shoot. In another, she looks glam rock and pretty, with shiny dangly earrings, smoky, multidimensional shadow and wind blowing her newly shaded hair behind her.
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Fans Vote "Star Trek Into Darkness" Worst Star Trek Film
When you want to get fans' opinion of Football, you ask people at the Super Bowl. When you want to get fans' opinion of Star Trek, you ask people at the Creation Entertainment Star Trek convention.
The Creation Entertainment Star Trek Convention, the Mecca for Star Trek fans, took place this past weekend in Las Vegas, with panel discussion and guest speakers from across the Star Trek franchise. During one panel discussion, StarTrek.com writer Jordan Hoffman worked with the fans on-hand at the convention to compile the definitive list of the Star Trek films from best to worst. The results were...
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Star Trek (2009)
- Galaxy Quest
- Star Trek: Generations
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek Into Darkness
So why is this list interesting? Two reasons: First, a non-Star Trek film is right in the middle of the list, considered by fans to be better than half of the actual Star Trek films. And second, the most recent film is considered by the most loyal fans to be the worst. The J.J. Abrams reboot films are the most financially successful of the series world-wide, appealing to the mass audience instead of the loyal fans who have stuck with the franchise for years.
In my review of the film, I admit that its an enjoyable film, but not a terrific Star Trek movie, and apparently I'm not alone. This has been a trend as of late in Hollywood, taking long-loved geek products and rebranding it to appeal to the broader audience, and in many cases, alienating the fan base with the changes. While some directors like Christopher Nolan and Joss Whedon have made an art form out of creating something that appeals to all audiences, others like J.J. Abrams and Michael Bay have the financial success, but not the critical success from those who the films should have been made for. Unfortunately, as they don't seem to appeal to the fans in the first place, I doubt the fans speaking out like this will have any effect on the studios. The films make money, and unfortunately that's all that matters to them.
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Research Reveals Almost All Climate Science Denial Books Linked To Conservative Think TanksRead time: 5 mins
Graham Readfearn | March 20, 2013
By Graham Readfearn • Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 15:38
IF you haven't seen them on the television or come across their interviews on the radio or in newspapers and magazines, then you've almost certainly seen their work as your eyes scan the climate change section in your local book store or library.
They are the authors of books claiming to reveal the "real truth" about global warming and climate change - that it's either all a hoax, that it's overblown bad science from green ideologues or an elaborate illusion and wrongheaded nonsense.
You might have been intrigued by titles like "An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming", "The Climate Caper" or the subtle sledgehammer that was "Global Warming and Other Bollocks".
But new research into the origins and authors of more than 100 of these climate science denial books finds almost all of them - about four out of five - are largely the products of conservative-leaning think tanks.
The research finds the books avoid traditional academic peer-review and are often written by non-experts. Dr Riley Dunlap, of Oklahoma State University, and Peter Jacques, of the University of Central Florida, have published their research - Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection - in the journal American Behavioural Scientist.


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ASPEN, Colo.—A judge has issued a temporary protection order that prevents a former Aspen Skiing Co. instructor from coming within 100 yards of company-owned property and the residences of its CEO and corporate owners.
The company sought the order after Lee Mulcahy of Aspen allegedly parked a trailer that held hand-painted signs criticizing company officials in front of the company's Aspen headquarters.
Mulcahy has had a long-running battle with the company after he was fired for protesting the company's pay for beginning instructors.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the JFXtras team! While everyone else is celebrating the holiday with friends and family, we are going to be busy finishing up the 0.6 release.
In case you have some spare time between meals and celebration, you can join in the fun too by trying out the JFXtras 0.6 preview release, which can be downloaded here:
There is a whole slew of new functionality including the following under Common:
- Layouts – Changes to the Grid API in preparation for inclusion in the JavaFX Soma release, and also added animation support to all the layouts.
- Sphere – Pseudo 3D sphere created for the Groovy showdown with Andrey Almiray.
- Gear – New shape from Steve Bixby.
- ManualResizableRectangle – Very useful shape from Yannick's post.
- JXScene – Pedro's improved API for Swing integration.
- PaintUtil, HSBColor, new gradients – Liu's magic paint classes
- Custom Paints – From Jeff Friesen's excellent article on Custom Paints.
- Custom Cursors – From Jeff Friesen's excellent article on Custom Cursors.
- Wipe Library – A transition library from Simon Morris' JavaFX in Action book.
- XMap – A bindable Map implementation for JavaFX.
- XStore – David Armitage's simple persistence for JavaFX variables using dependency injection.
- ImageCache – Caching of JavaFX images for building high performance applications contributed by Joshua Marinacci.
- XEDT – Simplified event thread mangement for JavaFX infrastructure classes (Warning: Use the JavaFX Task API instead unless you know exactly what you are doing)
And the rest under a new Controls jar:
- XTableView – I am still working on this, but it is very useful already as demonstrated by Jim Weaver's SpeedReaderFX application.
- XTreeView – Jim Clarke's Tree Control.
- XCalendarPicker – Tom's excellent calendar control.
- XPane – A titled region with rounded corners developed by Dean Iverson.
- XPicker – David Armitage did some great work on this… Check out his demo on the JFXtras website.
- XShelfView – A high performance Display Shelf control implementation with support for reflection, titles, and a scrollbar as showcased on JFXStudio.
- XSpinnerWheel – A prize spinner wheel that makes use of pseudo 3D effects as showcased in the JUG Prize Spinner application.
- XMenu – Pure JavaFX Menu developed by Jonathan Giles (this version will be replaced by the official Sun Menu control when it becomes available).
- XPasswordBox – Control from Liu to create a password field.
- XMultiLineTextBox – Till's control for editing multiple lines of text.
- XSwingTable – From John Freeman, this gives you all the power of a JTable directly from JavaFX code.
For this release we decided to go with a new naming convention to differentiate our classes from the built-in JavaFX layouts and controls. Most of the classes are now prefixed with an "X" for jfXtras. This will make migration slightly more painful now, but prevent future collisions and name changes down the road.
There is also a new version of JFXtras Test. This is the final version that will be released under this name (it is being merged with FEST-JavaFX), but it required an update to work with the new naming convention and to add some much-needed JUnit Runner support (see my Devoxx Conference Presentation for more details).
I probably missed a few things along the way here. You can find the definitive list in the online JavaFXDoc:
Please feel free to download the jars and give the preview release a try. We are putting the finishing touches on several of the layouts and controls, so expect a final release in a week or so.
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Maker Party Bhubaneshwar
Posted by Priyanka Nag on 9:09 AM in Mozilla, Mozilla Community, Mozilla India, Teach the web, Webmaker
Last weekend I had a blast in Bhubaneshwar. Over two days, I was there at two different colleges for two Maker parties.
Saturday (23rd August 2014), we were at the
We kept the tracks interactive and very open ended. On both days, we did cover the following topics:
Saturday (23rd August 2014), we were at the
|Maker Party at
|Maker Party at
We kept the tracks interactive and very open ended. On both days, we did cover the following topics:
- Introduction to Mozilla
- Mozilla Products and projects
- Ways of contributing to Mozilla
- Intro to Webmaker tools
- Hands-on session on Thimble, Popcorn and X-ray goggles and Appmaker
Both days, we concluded our sessions by giving away some small tokens of appreciation like e T-shirts, badges, stickers etc, to the people who had been extra awesome among the group. We concluded the awesomeness of the two days by cutting a very delicious cake and fighting over it till its last pieces.
Bading goodbye after two days was tough, but after witnessing the enthusiasm of everyone we met during these two events, I am very sure we are going to return soon to Bhubaneshwar for even more awesomeness.
A few people who are two be thanked for making these events sucessful and very memorable are:
- Sayak Sarkar, the co-organizer for this event.
- Sumantro, Umesh and Sukanta from travelling all the way from Kolkata and helping us out with the sessions.
- Rish and Prasanna for organizing these events.
- Most importantly, the entire team of volunteers from both colleges without whom we wouldn't havebeen able to even move a desk.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's OfficeNews Media Release
|News Release Number 2008-015
|Information: Prohibited Items In Winnebago County Complex
|Date: May 5, 2008
|Time: 0800 Hrs.
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Narrative:Effective Monday, May 5, 2008, there will be some changes implemented at the security entrances to the Winnebago County complexes. The attached documents explain items that will not be allowed past the security checkpoints in these buildings. In the past, persons who possessed items on this list had an option of leaving it with security and collecting it when they left the building. THIS WILL NO LONGER BE THE CASE. Persons who possess any items on the attached prohibited item list, or any other item that may be deemed dangerous, will have to secure the item(s) in their vehicle or discard the item(s) prior to entering the secure areas of these buildings. Additionally, though they are not prohibited from the buildings, cell phones, cameras, and video recorders are prohibited from use in the court rooms. Statistics from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the U. S. Department of Justice point out 2 disturbing facts to support this action:· An average of 20 people are murdered and 18,000 are assaulted while working or on duty in the United States;· 1 in every 6 violent crimes occurs at work. By implementing this process, persons may experience a delay in entering the buildings, but by being prepared for the change, citizens can help ease the process. There will be signage posted at the entrances to the buildings prior to entry in the security screening area to provide direction to the public so they have an opportunity to be aware of the prohibited items. We appreciate the public's cooperation in implementing this process.


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Next up for HOF consideration | LeBron continues Hollywood expansion | Brooks sees no chemistry issues for Wizards
No. 1: Next up for HOF consideration? — Now that the star-studded Hall of Fame class of 2016 has been praised and inducted, it's time to look forward to next year's candidates. Our Scott Howard-Cooper takes a look at the candidates most likely to make the list for 2017 … a group that could include Kevin Johnson, Tim Hardaway and Chris Webber:
No vote-sucking automatics of the O'Neal-Iverson-Kidd variety are coming up for nomination in fall/winter this year among players with strong NBA or ABA ties, before the field is narrowed to finalists prior to All-Star Weekend in New Orleans and a second round of voting takes place in time to announce the winners during the Final Four in Glendale, Ariz. There is the interesting case for Ben Wallace, but he is the closest to anyone big-footing their way on the ballot, the way 2016 included O'Neal, Iverson and Izzo as three obvious calls and the 2018 headliners will arrive with hefty credentials. Even George McGinnis' new status breaks right for the carryovers, with McGinnis moving from the North American group, the committee that includes Johnson, Hardaway and Webber, to the veterans. That makes one less candidate in North America to draw support away, not to mention that the possible benefit for McGinnis of only needing one round of voting in for enshrinement in his new category.
While the timing issues would be relevant any year, they are especially important this time as three ex-players search for reason to hope after the letdown of the recent election cycles. If Hardaway, Johnson and Webber can't get traction when Wallace may be the biggest newcomer, after all, depending which college and NBA coaches go on the ballot for the first time, it does not say much for their chances when several marquee names are added for 2018.
Johnson needs a push after reaching the finalist stage this year, again, but failing to receive the necessary support, again. He is the lone NBA player who reached the second round of voting in 2016 without getting elected, along with college coaches Lefty Driesell, Bo Ryan and Eddie Sutton.
Hardaway, meanwhile, is going backward, from previously making finalist to being cut in the initial balloting in '16 and not even making it to All-Star Weekend despite making five All-NBA teams and five All-Star games in a career that included five seasons averaging at least 20 points and three seasons with double-digit assists.
Webber is in the deepest hole of all: two years on the ballot, two years of not making it past the first round, after 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds, five All-Star games and five All-NBA spots. Not making it just to finalist in 2017 would be the most-damning statement of all, and it might be anyway, no matter how many coaches are potentially drawing votes away.
There could also be newcomers who have been eligible but have yet to be nominated — Penny Hardaway, Brent Barry, Bruce Bowen, Robert Horry — but none would seem to have the same case as Wallace, the former center best known for patrolling the inside for the Pistons. And there is a case.


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Alistair Cook passed Geoffrey Boycott on England's all-time leading run-scorers list on Monday but the former Test opener believes the current captain is presiding over a "recipe for resignation".
England's fresh start after their Ashes misery looks set to be dramatically doused by Sri Lanka who on Tuesday will likely seal a first-ever series win in the country.
Angelo Mathews' 160 helped Sri Lanka set England a winning target of 350 at Headingley and their response was an awful one, closing the fourth day on 57 for five.
Cook chopped on to his own stumps for 17 as part of that collapse and little continues to go right for the captain, whose wet winter has turned into a shocking spring.
Questions had already been raised about his ability to captain the side - chiefly from Shane Warne - and Boycott can see why.
"Cook is in that sort of form where he'll get out in ways he couldn't dream up. That was a short long hop which he pulls well, it's one of his favourite shots, and he got an under-side edge onto the stumps," he told the Test Match Special podcast.
"It's like when you're playing well and you can plunder runs from anywhere. He cannot get a run, he'll get tenser, it'll get harder for him and I don't know how he's going to get out of it.
"We've had a very, very bad day. We thought the nightmare of Australia was over, but it's still here. This is a side... I don't know where we go. From a winning position we will lose, the captain is in terrible form and it's a recipe for resignation. I don't know if he will but it is."
Boycott was keen to add he has no problem with Cook as an individual or even as a player, but raised issues relating to how Sri Lanka were able to get into a winning position as Mathews manipulated the field at will.
He added: "I want to be fair to him because I love him, he's a lovely boy. My daughter has a boyfriend but if she didn't and went out with him, I mean when he was single, he's a lovely lad, one of the nicest people you could wish (to meet).
"He's a top batsman just in bad form, but he's a smashing lad. I have no problem with him setting that field, none at all. When it doesn't work, that's when I have a problem with it. Where's the innovation, the invention, the try-something-different?"
Outspoken Yorkshireman Boycott also laid blame at the door of James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
The duo were unable to make an impact on the Sri Lankan middle and lower orders, leaving Mathews free to do as he pleased.
"I won't say we've played rubbish but there have been moments when we have been rubbish," he said.
"I'm trying to be honest and sensible and not have any histrionics because we've had a bad day but this was pathetic. The bowling of Anderson, one of the best bowlers in the world, swing and seam... We've had two new balls this second innings and he's bowled some tripe at times. He's swung it, cut it, made it bounce, but it's either been too full, too wide and short, down leg side, there's no wonder he doesn't get wickets at Headingley.
"I'm only telling the truth, I don't take any pleasure talking about a great bowler like Jimmy, and he's a wonderful swing and seam bowler, his record is fabulous, and Stuart Broad hasn't been that much better.
"You have to use words like rubbish and pathetic at times. Two of the finest bowlers in the world, they are not young kids in their first Test matches. Stuart Broad, (Graeme Swann) Swanny says, says he believes he bowls as fast as Michael Holding, I wish he did he might have won the match for us."
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A Textbook Example: Ward Brackett
But I was used to the artist's 1950's style, as seen above. I was quite surprised when I discovered the illustrations below that Brackett did in 1970 for the Harcourt Brace textbook, "Widening Circles".
Of course, every artist grows and experiments over time... and the style Ward Brackett employed for this series sort of reflects a mood that really does feel "1970's" doesn't it?
I'm very curious about what medium the artist used for these pieces. Is it simply wet on wet watercolour? Or did he use some sort of resist technique? Some areas almost look like the result we used to get with fingerpaints on that highly coated paper the teacher gave us in grade school.
Another possibility is magic markers, believe it or not. The early magic markers, popular as artists' material around the time these illustrations were done, came in little glass bottles with screw-off tops. I've heard that it was common at the time to open them up, take out the benzine-soaked felt pad and sweep it around on your bond paper or illustration board surface. You could also buy refill cannisters of marker colour and just pour that lovely, flammable, cancer-causing stuff right down on your work. The good ol' days!
Whatever the case, Brackett achieved a pleasing effect in this series. They have a wonderful dream-like quality, hazy yet vivid, like the memory of a young boy's childhood adventure with his grampa.
My Ward Brackett Flickr set.
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Ward Brackett's loose, spontaneous, designee illustrations are a good example where the illustrator trumps the photographer. These illustrations convey mood, animation and a personal statement that is very effective in communicating the essence of the story... and in my opinion, much more imaginative and effective than a photograph.ReplyDelete
As Leif suggested, Brackett's technique could very well be as simple as wet into wet watercolors on a smooth absorbent surface paper, such as a hot press watercolor paper. It also could have been Dr. Martin's dyes (a very concentrated potent and permanent water based dye that comes in brilliant colors) on a smooth coating of Elmer's white paste on illustration board, which gives a stained glass effect, and can be worked wet into wet.
Regardless, it is defiantly characteristic of the late 60's and 70's, when photography was not only a serious challenge to the realistic illustrator, it was eclipsing most illustration.
Tom Watson
I agree with Tom. This definately trumps photography.ReplyDelete
My guess would be some sort of wet-n-wet technique. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Dr. Martins. They are quick and vibrant, and when used on smooth board they could produce such an effect.
I really like the last example. I thought of Doc Martin's dyes too but wonder. Those dyes were so strong they just seemed to oversaturate everything you used them on, and Brackett's work retains a real sense of subtley.ReplyDelete
Have u try the online bookstoreReplyDelete
I get all my textbooks for this semester from this bookstore. All are brand new textbooks and half price discount textbooks and cheap textbooks.
Good luck and wish some help.
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Organic Soup Gets a Packaging Makeover
Harvest Time Foods is reintroducing its "Anne's Old Fashioned Natural & Organic" soup base products with re-designed shrink labels from Printpack in order to update the image of the brand, enhance the graphics and eliminate excess packaging, thus enforcing Harvest Time's commitment to producing a more sustainable consumer product.
Made of heat shrink PVC, the labels are used for all 5 varieties and are printed flexographic in 5-6 colors. By offering a 360-degree image area, there is room enough for graphics, a UPC code, nutrition facts and product uses. In addition, the shrink label conforms to the shape of the container, coming over the top and sealing the cap. The combination label incorporates a tamper-evident seal with a horizontal perforation that allows the band to be released from the cap while the label remains on the container. This combination label enables Harvest Time Foods to communicate an innovative and shelf appealing new look for their product. Prior to the combination shrink label, Harvest Time used a paper label and an inner seal, thus eliminating 2 components with the use of the shrink label. In addition, the new label needed to withstand the colder temperatures of a refrigerator, since the product requires refrigeration once it is opened.


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MythBusters Star Presents Special Event at New Mexico Tech
SOCORRO, N.M. August 22, 2011 – The Discovery Channel show MythBusters has developed a home-away-from-home in New
|Grant Imahara
MythBuster extraordinaire
Grant Imahara, a star of the show and an expert in special effects, will take the stage at
Tickets for the public are free, but limited. Call Lisa Garcia at (575) 835-5646 for tickets. New Mexico Tech students can pick up their free tickets at the
MythBusters has filmed eight segments at New Mexico Tech, most of which involved dramatic explosions or high-speed impacts.
Three of the stars of the show – Imahara, Cari Byron and Tori Belluci – filmed three new tests this summer. Those three experiments will air this fall. In a new promotional video that will be shown on campus, Byron said New Mexico Tech is one of the show's favorite places.
"We come here when we need to blow something up really, really big or shoot off a rocket," she said. "Where do you go when you need to make a rocket-powered super-plow? Well,
Techies showed up in force for a similar public forum in 2010. More than 500 students and community members came out to hear Imahara, Byron and Belluci speak and peppered them with questions about the show. Techies are excited to have another chance to interact with a celebrity of science and engineering.
Camden Mullen, a graduate student in materials engineering, said he likes the show because they "do fun stuff and it's cool to see them try to prove or disprove these myths."
Mullen, a graduate of Del Norte High School in
"It's great that we have the facilities to do these tests," he said. "It shows off that we have the ability to do these experiments."


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18 June 2010
A Focus on Unit Testing and new supporting material
Unit Test Online Demonstrations
For those of you not yet familiar with PL/SQL Unit Testing or have not yet quite got to grips with this feature, we have published a number of new short online demonstrations. You can find these from the Online Demonstrations link on our main page on OTN. All the unit test demonstrations are grouped together, so you can pick the one's you're interested in or watch them all.
Unit Test Webcast
If watching the online demos is not your thing, you can watch the 30 min webcast. The latest webcast was on Unit Testing, which has now been recorded and is available on OTN for you to watch and listen to. All our webcasts are on OTN on the Webcast Series.
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- Phil R Lawrence said...
The links seem to be broken, both for the new Unit Testing Viewlets at the "Tutorials - Demonstration Viewlets" page and the two most recent Previous Recordings at the "Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler Webcast Series" page.
- Fri Jun 18, 08:30:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
This is an ongoing frustration of ours. Either try again immediately and you'll find they're not broken, or try again later. There was an issue with downloading a while back and we're told it's fixed. The links are correct and the downloads are there, it seems there is something not quite registering.
Sorry about that!
- Mon Jun 21, 09:02:00 am GMT
Please add a unit test to do a query returning 900,000 rows and then save it as csv/tab delimited. SQLDeveloper will consume all memory on my 4gb machine and then will crash. Can't the save as a file format just spool the rows to disk and then reprocess them into an CSV file instead of trying to load all of them into memory?
We get this request on a weekly basis to do one off 900,000+ row custom data extracts for our users and provide them a CSV file format.
- Tue Aug 24, 10:46:00 pm GMT
Hi Sue,
I'm using the new unit test feature in SQL Developer, but I found one critical bug. Our company has metalink access, but we cannot report bugs related to SQL Developer.
Can you help me?
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1117070&tstart=0 (ututil utility is not correctly working)
And if I scroll down in the test screen to show Test implementation, it takes 100% CPU. Tested on 3 different computers :(
I was very happy, when I found, that SQLDev includes unit test framework, but these bugs drives me up the wall...
Thanks for any answer
- Wed Sep 08, 01:17:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
If you don't have a Metalink account, then the place to post queries is the forum, as you have done. The team monitor this and should respond there.
- Wed Sep 08, 06:22:00 pm GMT
- RAJESH said...
Hi Sue:
I am just looking at the ppt (Whats New in Oracle Application Development) from AskTom.oracle.com
There it's mentioned about some features of SQL Developer 3.0. But checked in otn.oracle.com its not available. Can you provide details about when SQL Developer 3.0 will be available for use?
- Mon Sep 27, 11:37:00 am GMT
- Sue said...
It is an Oracle policy not to disclose any release dates. Watch the OTN and SQL Developer pages for news and updates.
- Mon Sep 27, 12:03:00 pm GMT
Hi Sue,
I just downloaded the SQL Developer 3.0 EA release and am trying to test the Unit Testing feature by calling a function that returns a ref cursor but keep getting an Invalid Column Index. Is there any example or a demo for this scenario? Your help is greatly appreciated.
- Wed Oct 20, 09:05:00 pm GMT
- Sue said...
You should use the forum for all your early adopter queries. This allows others to benefit from the query and response. Also the developers are monitoring the forum.
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Published January 13, 2015
American Airlines says it will do repairs on 49 more planes to prevent the seats from coming loose during flight.
That's the same problem that caused the airline to ground 48 planes last week.
Airline spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said Friday that crews will add a backup locking device to seats in most of its Boeing 767s. Those are wide-body planes used on international flights.
Seats came loose on three flights involving two different Boeing 757s earlier this month. Huguely says there have been no similar incidents with the Boeing 767s, but the airline is fixing the seats as a precaution.
Huguely says the work started Thursday and will be done by Oct. 21. She says the work will be done overnight and the airline won't have to cancel any flights.


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The bronze Gladius Tyrvaard carries has been enchanted by the Spirits to be very heavy to any but the wielder. Tryvaard (or any others who use the blade) will find the sword light and easy to wield. Those on the receiving end receive a strike as if made by a much larger and heavier blade. For such purposes (damage, ease of parry, breaching armor), it strikes as if it were a two-handed sword of great size. The blade, being spirit-forged, is also extremely durable, well stronger then normal bronze.
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Question: "Why did Jesus tell the rich young ruler he could be saved by obeying the commandments?"
Answer: To understand Jesus' response to the rich young ruler's question—"What must I do to be saved?"—we must consider three things—the nature of the rich young ruler, the purpose of his question, and the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ. At first glance, it appears that Jesus is saying that the young man, and by extension all people, must obey the commandments in order to be saved. But is that really what He was saying? Since the essence of the salvation message is that we are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), why would Jesus offer the rich young ruler an 'alternative plan'?
The story of the rich young ruler is found in all three of the synoptic Gospels, Matthew 19:16-23, Mark 10:17-22 and Luke 18:18-23. The man is described as a "ruler" which means a prince or magistrate of some sort. Since no Roman ruler would address Jesus as "teacher" or "master" it is assumed that this man was a ruler in the local synagogue. This man had "great wealth" (Luke 18:23), and the impact of wealth is the lesson Jesus was teaching to His disciples. He was using this man as an example of the corrupting power of riches and its detrimental effect on the desire for eternal life. The fact that the man was young (Matthew 19:20) and already wealthy would seem to indicate that he had enjoyed a life of riches and ease and had become accustomed to it. When he comes to Jesus asking about eternal life, Jesus uses the opportunity to teach about money, not about salvation by works.
The first thing Jesus says to the man's greeting "Good teacher," is to remind him that no one is good except God. Jesus was not denying His own divinity. Rather, He saw beneath the flattery to the man's heart which was self-seeking and self-promoting. He was attempting to curry favor with Jesus by falling on his knees before Him (Mark 10:17), complimenting Him, and ascribing to Him a divine attribute he never really believed Jesus possessed. Perhaps realizing his hypocrisy was perceived by Jesus, the man ignored His question, "why do you call me good? Only God is good." Jesus, knowing the man's heart and his self-righteousness, recited some of the Ten Commandments and told the man to obey them. This was not a refutation of His earlier teachings on salvation by faith. Jesus said this, no doubt, to try him and to convince him that he had by no means kept the commandments, and that in supposing he had he was deceiving himself. At this point, Jesus said the one thing that, knowing the man's heart, would convince him that he was, after all, a wretched sinner in desperate need of salvation. Jesus points out the young man's weak spot, his wealth.
The man's heart condition was made poignantly clear by Jesus' command that the man sell all and follow Him. His face fell and he went away sad because he could never part with his great wealth, not even in exchange for eternal life. By claiming he had kept the Law, the man was declaring that he had obeyed the first commandment to love the Lord supremely and above all things, including wealth. He was also saying he loved his neighbor more than himself. But if he loved God and fellow-creatures more than he did his property, he would be willing to give up his wealth to the service of God and of man. But that was not the case. He had made an idol of his wealth and loved it more than God. He had not kept the commandments from his youth, nor had he kept them at all. He rejected even this last opportunity to do good with his treasures and seek his salvation by obeying God, choosing to turn away from the Savior and not renew his inquiry about eternal life. He probably never returned.
By His words to the rich young ruler, Christ did not mean to say that any man would be saved by the works of the law, for the Bible teaches plainly that such will not be the case (Romans 3:20, 28, 4:6; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:9; 2Timothy 1:9). Rather, he was using the man's wealth which had corrupted his heart, as an example to the disciples and us.


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Gisele Could Be The World's First Billionaire Supermodel!
From high-fashion campaigns to branding herself, the Brazilian beauty could easily become the most lucrative model!
Not only has Gisele been the world's top-earning supermodel for seven years in a row, but she's on track to becoming the world's first billionaire supermodel — and the first female Brazilian self-made billionaire!
Sure, she stars in a slew of campaigns, but the beauty also is in the process of branding herself. While licensing her name on everything from jewelry to lingerie and cosmetics, the savvy supermodel is currently eyeing the Brazilian women's wear market. Not only does she have an uber-successful line of sandals with Grendene, but she also launched a lingerie company, Gisele Bundchen Brazilian Intimates, that's exclusively sold at Hope (the Brazilian version of Victoria's Secret). The supermodel, who owns a steak in the brand, is estimated to make $19 million per year from the venture (added on to her estimated $45 million annual income). She's also the creative director to fashion retailer C&A's Gisele Bundchen Collection — yet another money-making venture.
Aside from expanding her presence in the women's wear market, Gisele also founded an eco-friendly cosmetics company, Sejaa Pure Skincare, based in Arizona. According to Forbes the supermodel is in talks to sell a stake in the business of which she owns 100%.
While Gisele may be known as one of the most gorgeous gals around, she's also apparently seriously business savvy!


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Elite is a modern, tactical first person shooter, containing no sci-fi elements. Forcing the players to use tactics and teamwork in order to win, Elite will not be any new "Run & Gun Shooter", as seen in games such as "Call of Duty" and "Battlefield 3". Centering about modern days special forces, players can create their own characters for use in single player and multiplayer, using a very smart character customization system, where it also is possible for players to have as many characters as preferred. Having sophisticated planning stages, a very special weapon view, singleplayer campaign and a large multiplayer rank system, Elite is something different from other games. Offering both Close Quarter Battle and large out-door environments, weapon choices will be essential for the operations in both offline as well as online mode. Long assault rifles will bang against walls in room fight, and submachine guns doesn't have a very far range for long engagements.
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