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I am continuing my strategy of casting my net wide and searching the birth films starting from 1864 in the hopes or piecing together some of the nuclear families of interest in the Lissane and Tooreen areas for Granddad's relatives as well as looking at Adrigole for some of Grandmom's family. To speed things I am limiting my search to the Drimoleague registration sub-district, which will include Granddad's areas, and I want to start looking out towards Dunmanway and look at McCarthys. I'll even start looking for Driscolls in the general Drimoleague area.
Aunt Peg provided an excellent lead on McCarthy cousins when she mentioned that Granddad's maternal grandmother Mary McCarthy came from a family of schoolteachers whom she thought were from Drinagh. In the 1901 census I found the household of Daniel McCarthy, schoolteacher, who had many children. Aunt Peg recalled visiting the family when she grew up - it was a major event to go out and see the McCarthys! Bridget McCarthy married Paddy Connolly and they had a B&B in Owenahincha, where Mom and Aunt Peg stayed back in 1971. Eileen McCarthy became Eileen Daly, and I think later in life she was well acquainted with Aunt Eileen.
Unfortunately, I don't know much else about Daniel (Donal) McCarthy's origins, other than to note that his mother Kate is on the 1911 census record. I tried searching the news archives but so far have not found a funeral notice. I have searched half the relevant 1864 birth rolls, and one Daniel McCarthy with a mother Catherine turns up in Dunmanway town, but it says the father was a weaver. If this is supposed to be a family of scholarly professionals, I don't think that's him.
I did find a wonderful 1996 article about a 'Master' McCarthy family reunion in the Southern Star. It gives details about his first wife, her accidental death, and the date of his marriage to his second wife. The daughter from the first marriage is not mentioned, but the eleven children from the second marriage are.
To find out his father's name and where he lived prior to Carrigbaun, I can send away for one of his marriage records, or I can contact one of his descendants (or both). The article says he died August 8, 1945 at the age of 82, which would put his birth year as 1863, so if this is accurate then I won't find him on LDS birth film. But if he had younger siblings, I would eventually find them.
Ellen Hurley's mother was Margaret Hourihane, daughter of Owen. According the to 1867 marriage record of Margaret and John Hurley, she was from Clohane Beg. Cousin "Jo" says that Margaret had a brother Patrick Hourihane who married Ellen Daly, also in 1867. The 1901 and 1911 census records show an Ellen Hourihane, widow, with five children in Clohane Beg.
All five children are adult and still living at home in 1911. They were Bridget, Catherine (Kate), Eugene, Marty (or Morty - or Murty?), and Julia. I think this was Patrick Hourihane's family.
Griffith's Valuation from the early 1850's shows Owen Hourahan in Cloghane Beg; another in Cooradowny and another in Coolanuller (all Caheragh parish). Searches matching Owen Hourihan land me in Lurriga (Abbeystrowry), and Oughtohig (Kilcoe), and Baurgorm (Kilmocomoge). There is nobody spelled Hourihane in Caheragh parish. I think the Hourahan in Cloghane Beg is the right one.
If I look for more Hourahans in Cloghane, there is a John Hourahan. There are other Hourahans in the immediately surrounding area.
There are other variant-spelling Hourihanes out toward Bantry, in Trawlebane.
From the Family History Center I had ordered Tithe Applotment Book films. For Caheragh parish the information is dated about 1828.
Looking at the parish of Caheragh, I see there is an entry in Clahane for "Murty Hourihane and sons", and another that says "Murty Hourihane Junior and brothers." In Clahane More there are Owen, Tim, and John Hourihane. No ages are given in the Tithe Applotment books.
I have ordered from GRO a possible death record for Owen Hourahan in 1864; if this isn't it there are others to try.
This death record puts his age at 84 - meaning he would have been born about 1780. Margaret Hourihane Hurley reports her age as 64 in the 1911 census, which would put her birth year around 1847. I have ordered a death record in 1929 for a Margaret Hurley, who is listed as age 88, which would put her birth year around 1841. If this is the correct Owen and this is the correct Margaret, then Owen would have fathered Margaret around the age of 60 - which is certainly not impossible, though not a frequent occurrence. Owen would have been about 48 at the time of this Church of Ireland tithing.
The Tithe Applotment Book lists "Humphrey and Michael Collins" in Lower Lissane, and then further on down the ledger for another property just Humphrey Collins. Griffith's Valuation from 1852 shows Humphrey and a Michael Collins, whom I am pretty sure is Granddad's paternal grandfather. I think this Humphrey is the one who died in 1872. The Tithe Applotment survey is about 1828, and Granddad's grandfather was born I would estimate 1817-1822 timeframe. So who exactly is this Michael Collins in the Tithe Applotment? Could this be yet another generation further back in the patrilineal line?
The second listing of Humphrey Collins shows up with Florence McCarthy and Callaghan McCarthy.
In what was later Upper Lissane, there are Charles McCarthy, Daniel McCarthy senior and junior, Charles McCarthy senior, James McCarthy, and Charles and Con (Cornelius) McCarthy.
In Tooreen (Thureen) there is a Daniel McCarthy and a Denis McCarthy listed twice.
(Granddad's maternal grandfather Cornelius McCarthy would have been a child at the time of the survey. Given that Granddad's mother's family was in Kilmore for a time, I will eventually have to look at the Tithe Applotment Book film for Drimoleague and look for McCarthys there too.)
Cullomane entries have me confused. There *shouldn't* be a Collins in Grandmom's family there yet, so I am assuming the Denis Collins listed with Denis Donovan is unrelated. But on another separate page for Cullomane East, there is a Dan Collins listed. This cannot be Danny Larr, unless we are mistaken about the Collins line of descent.
In Castlehaven parish under Adrigole, there are a Jerry (maybe Jeremiah) Collins and a Lawrence Collins listed together. There are also listed a John Collins and a Dani Collins. Lawrence is probably "Larr" and Dani is possibly "Danny Larr." Grandmom's paternal grandfather, is another person whom I am having great difficulty placing an age on. It seems to me he ought to have been a child at the time of this tithe, but he may also have sired his family (starting around 1852) at an older age.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
mtDNA Full Genomic Sequence results came in - just in time for St. Patrick's Day!
It took over five months for Family Tree to test my sample to the lab's satisfaction. The test had to be run a number of times.
My Irish direct matrilineal line is H6a1.
CR differences from CRS = 750G 1438G 3915A 4769G 8521G 8860G 9380A 11155T 15326G
Now who out there matches that!
My Irish direct matrilineal line is H6a1.
CR differences from CRS = 750G 1438G 3915A 4769G 8521G 8860G 9380A 11155T 15326G
Now who out there matches that!
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When Brillat-Savarin, the famed French 18th century gastronome and philosopher of the culinary life called the black truffles of the Perigord region of France "the diamonds of the kitchen" he was simply following a long historical line of those who considered these tubers among the most delicate of all foods. The first known mention of black truffles is found as long ago as 20 centuries BCE when the ancient Sumerians praised the dining habits of their Amorite enemies. The ancient Greeks thought them to be a gift from the gods and Mohammed considered truffles to be the manna that God sent to the Israelites while they were traveling through Sinai. Mythology and folkore aside, black truffles, prized for their use in haute cuisine are so highly valued that they are currently selling for about 3900 Euros per kilo.
Indeed, the earthy flavor of truffles is unmatched by any other food. Grown wild only in the shade of oak trees the truffles of Perigord are so highly valued that thieves armed with the pigs and beagles that sniff them out make nighttime raids on truffle fields. With the harvest season in late December, Laurent Rambaud, a farmer and property owner is now on trial shooting and killing a suspected truffle thief.
To the great sadness of the lovers of the good life, the truffle harvest has been on a steady decline since 1900 when about 1000 tons were harvested to a mere 20 tons during the current harvest. Some go as far as to speculate that truffle will become extinct in less than 20 years. One can speculate that no one mourns this possible loss more than world renowned chef Alain Ducasse who wrote that "the charm of the truffle links spiruality with the eroticism of the senses"
No one is quite certain whether the decreasing truffle harvest is due to changes in temperature and rain patterns (truffles require light summer rains and must be harvested before the heavier rains of winter when they rot) or that a great many truffle fields are being replaced by highways ahd shopping centers. What is known is that fewer farmers follow the time honored tradition of hunting truffles with pigs or beagles and that the children of those farmers are moving from the country to the cities.
As to the truest value of the Perigord truffle, in his Las Vegas restaurant Fleur, chef Hubert Keller offers a $5000 hamburger, the burger made from kobe beef and topped with truffle slices that have been cooked in a demi-glace sauce. It should be noted that the price includes a bottle of the remarkable 1995 wine of Chateau Petrus. The price also includes a side-order of chips.
The black truffle may, like the dinosaur, make its way into history but one need not fear for the white truffles of the Piedmont region of Italy, no less highly valued and no less expensive, are doing just fine, the harvest booming at this time. As to price, the highest price ever paid for a single white truffle was paid in December 2007 when Stanley Ho, the owner of a casino on the island of Macau paid 165,000 Euros for a single Piedmont truffle weighing in at 1.5 kilograms. As to the white truffles found in the Negev dessert, most agree that these are at best poor imitations of those of Perigord or Piedmont.


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With the oncoming Cataclysm only a scant two and a half weeks away, it's high time that you start preparing for how you're planning to level up to 85, if you haven't already.
There are a lot of factors to take into consideration when thinking about this ranging from efficiency, speed and fun factor but I'll help you cover at least the broad strokes of the pros and cons of each method in the hopes that you find something that will call to you and draw you to it.
Diving right into the heart of the matter, the first method is for those that are concerned with hitting the level cap as quickly as humanly possible.
It's an undisputed fact that the absolute fastest way to level, bar none, is to get together a solid group and simply grind out instances. The reason why this works so effectively is that with a solid group, a team that you're familiar with and can trust to do their individual jobs to the best of their ability, there's little to no downtime involved. There's no one around to steal your mobs, there's no foundering around looking for new quest hubs or waiting for vital quest mobs to respawn. There's no one to gank you, no herbs or ores to mine. Just mob after mob dying, getting looted and doing it over again.
A brief pause as you gain a level or two, graduate to the next dungeon and repeat the process over and over again until you hit 85.
It's definitely the fastest way, but at its heart, it's a little boring isn't it? Just pure grinding and repetition. You miss out on any of the neat little quests that have been added, you don't get a wide variety of gear at your disposal and if you're a completionist, these quests that you could use to level up are all quests that you'll be clearing through later on anyway, so why not do them while you can get the experience for them?
On that note, questing and exploring is another way to level. It's definitely not anywhere near as quick and efficient as it is to grind out dungeons, no one can argue that point. The opening few weeks of the expansion, if the previous expansions are any indication, will feature a huge influx of players itching to try out all of the new content. There's going to be a huge demand for quest mobs, especially the ones where you need to kill a single mob on a long respawn timer. A quest here or there might be bugged and there will be a constant searching for the next quest hub as sometimes, they might not send you onto the next one once you're done with the current.
On top of all that, if you're playing on a PvP server, be prepared to be ganked.
A lot.
But through it all, you'll have more fun doing it this way, I think. You'll get to see all of the new zones, get to experience all of the fun little easter eggs that Blizzard loves to put into their games and you'll acquire a larger variety of gear that will help you prepare for the inevitable raiding experience once you max out.
Unless you're in a guild that has a good chance at server or world firsts, I'd highly recommend taking the scenic route for levelling.
Keep in mind too if you're thinking about dungeon grinding to 85; even if the five people in your group manage to make it to 85 in record time, you're still going to need a minimum of ten players to form up a raid so even if you level like a house on fire, it's going to do no good if not enough people came with you, which will lead you to have blitzkrieged through your Cataclysm experience for no reason.
But in the end, as everything is, it's all up to you.
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JREED wrote:facue420 wrote:fullmetalx wrote:TRON wrote:Having an expensive contract doesn't mean you have to give your player away. AB will be the biggest surprise of the year. Right now center's with his potential and age, get 10+ millions per year. If we let him go there will be at least 10 teams opening champagne's and drinking in our name's.
That the problem he can't get better with the Warriors, but somehow if he goes to another good team he will have an impact, because he surrounded by great players who minimize his weaknesses.
its not like we are going to be a playoff contender team by just trading Beans away. i dont mind let this current roster play through this year and see how it goes and do a move next yr. i mean we have good chemistry now with this new warriors coach and the new group of FO. AB seems like he got his confidence back in the interview video. i still believe in him!!
Why wouldn't we be? W finished 12th in the West last season at 10 games behind 7th and 8th (NO was one of those teams and will be far worse this season). We gave up the 3rd most points, the most rebounds and we finished 12th in total rebounds for ourselves. I actually believe that if we upgraded beans (it wouldn't take much), we could be a playoff team.
I still don't understand where you are seeing the chemistry, I wish I was watching the same games you were because I saw 2 PGs on the floor that are just now learning to tolerate each other. A disgruntled superstar that is on the trading block every other week, the same superstar that reportedly said he didn't want to even be around David Lee. A team that doesn't play good D - lots of good individual effort but anything but team D. A team that doesn't rebound at all, doesn't even try.
Don't get me wrong; I have NO problem with Warriors getting what they can for Beidrins. But I saw in games toward the end of last year a gelling process with Monta, Curry and Lee. However, I don't believe that (gulp) "Big 3" is good enough to compete in the West, so I guess Stef is probably gonna have to go to get a good core built and I'm afraid we are stuck with Lee for a few years
. Remember that our record would've been good enough for maybe as high as 6th (?) seed if we were in Eastern Conference. The bar is just that much higher in the West.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — The chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party has turned in his resignation, but it's unclear if party activists will accept it.
David Parker submitted his resignation to the State Executive Committee meeting Saturday in Greensboro. Hundreds of committee members were voting by ballot on whether to reject the resignation.
Gov. Beverly Perdue, Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and others wanted Parker to step down because they said he was a distraction in the wake of sexual harassment allegations at party headquarters. Many allies of Parker don't want him to leave.
Committee member Lloyd Scher of Mecklenburg County said Parker did nothing wrong in following the advice of the party's attorney in settling the allegations confidentially.
At least three candidates are interested in succeeding Parker.
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Think I'm overreacting about legacy media?
Read this. George Will cites the following statistics in "Media Meltdown":
The circulation of daily U.S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper "yesterday" are ominous:
- 65 and older — 60 percent.
- 50-64 — 52 percent.
- 30-49 — 39 percent.
- 18-29 — 23 percent.
Americans ages 8 to 18 spend an average of 6 hours and 21 minutes a day with media of all sorts but just 43 minutes with print media.
The combined viewership of the network evening newscasts is 28.8 million, down from 52.1 million in 1980. The median age of viewers is 60. Hence the sponsorship of news programming by Metamucil and Fixodent. Perhaps we are entering what David T.Z. Mindich, formerly of CNN, calls "a post-journalism age."
Writing in the Wilson Quarterly, in a section on "the collapse of big media," he rejects the opinion of a CBS official that "time is on our side in that as you get older, you tend to get more interested in the world around you." Mindich cites research showing that "a particular age cohort's reading habits do not change much with time."
This is not a good time for legacy media to simply refuse to get the fact that Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins are wrong. The universe and life forms do show evidence of intelligent design. So their views should not be treated as public truths.
Tomorrow's blogs ( or even tonight's, if I get a chance) will be about ID issues generally. I am pumped about mainstream media right now, having just done a show on its shortcomings. We never get to say all we want on a TV show, or even half. As my favorite host, Richard Landau, warns inexperienced guests, "TV is shallow." Hey, it's a great medium for starting to unpack a topic, but you have to switch to other media to go deeper.
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I heard something that theyre now trying to pry keith tkachuk out of st. louis. he has a broken knuckle or something now. What the hell is their salary level now? can they fit him in without dumping some people?
Primeau should count towards their numbers, but doesnt, correct?
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Many an illustrator reaches a point in his career when financial reward and creative reward become mutually exclusive.
Murray Tinkelman reached that point about thirty years ago. In an interview in Illustration magazine #23 he told Dan Zimmer, "My whole feeling about art and illustration changed, really very dramatically, in the '80s. Before then I used to get nervous if the phone didn't ring, because I didn't have an agent; but in the '80s I got nervous if the phone DID ring, because I didn't want to do the jobs. I wasn't interested in the subject matter anymore. I became interested in going back to where I started as a little kid."
"I became interested in rediscovering cowboys and Indians, and airplanes and baseball, and all these prepubescent male fantasies. And ...it got me more entrepreneurial with my work. I could choose subject matter that I loved."
Enter Murray's Movie Monsters. "As a kid growing up in Brooklyn," Murray tells me, "we had a theatre... it wasn't even a second run movie house; it was more like a fifth run movie house."
"And it would show three movies that were maybe ten or fifteen years old, and ten cartoons and five serial chapters and give you a comic book... and all of that for a dime. At least once a month King Kong would be featured. King Kong is one of my favourite love story/monster stories/science fiction stories - it's just one of my favourite movies in the world, and it fed my love for black and white horror and monster films.
"The Invisible Man, The Wolfman, The Bride of Frankenstein, which is one of my favourite, favourite movies of all time and, in my humble (or not so humble) opinion is one of the two sequels in Hollywood history that actually better than the first film."
"And the first was good also. Frankenstein was a brilliant movie... but the Bride of Frankensein was just a tiny bit better."
Murray explains, "I really learned many years ago to be true to the dreams of my youth. The stuff I loved as a kid I love with absolutely the same intensity as an older person. I was gonna say "grown up" but I'm not sure about that."
"It's just great fun to pay homage to the memories of my misspent youth."
I asked Murray what his goal is in producing these works. I know that many of his series have appeared in gallery shows... are they intended to be works of "fine art"? He explains, "I don't have any financial pressure - I make a great salary as an educator - so I just pursue the subject matter that I love. But the terminology is really tricky; "fine art" vs "illustration" ... I think illustration is the most democratic of all artforms. Just to do it, show it and then put it back in your closet is not a satisfactory completion. So for me, the process of creating the work isn't truly completed until it's been published."
"The Movie Monster series have been in several shows, but it hasn't yet been published. I'm making attempts to see that that happens."
* See many more of Murray's Movie Monsters at Tinkelmanstudio.com
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I am really surprised that these have never been published. Such great monsters deserve a good home.ReplyDelete
- Doug Fakkel2:38 AM
"I really learned many years ago to be true to the dreams of my youth. The stuff I loved as a kid I love with absolutely the same intensity as an older person..."ReplyDelete
Amen to that! And great classic monsters too!
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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio giant Rush Limbaugh calls the violence against American embassies and consulates in the Mideast an "absolute disaster" on the part of President Obama's foreign policy, and says the White House is coordinating with the news media to make Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney look bad.
"We're in the midst of a disaster," Limbaugh said this afternoon. "This is a full-fledged foreign policy disaster."
"What they're trying to do is make all of this about Romney. We're in the midst of a genuine second term of Jimmy Carter, anybody? 1979, anybody? We're in the middle of an absolute disaster, a foreign policy disaster. And there's a coordinated effort to make it about Romney and whether or not he should speak; whether he should say anything about it; whether or not it's presidential for Romney. We're only supposed to have one president at times like this. Well, we don't have one, unless Romney speaks up, and that's the sad reality."
Before its walls were breached, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo had issued the following statement on Sept. 11:
"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
Obama issued a statement on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, this morning saying: "I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives."
Last night, when only the death of one American was known, Romney said, "I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi."
"It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
Romney stood behind the remarks Wednesday even though the initial statement from the Cairo embassy was issued before security was breached.
Limbaugh ripped into Obama's silence on the matter until mid-morning Wednesday, and the media's spin on Romney's remarks, saying, "Obama doesn't say anything about it until about 11 o'clock Eastern time this morning. And the media is totally obsessed with what Romney's doing, and how Romney is wrong and Romney jumped the gun. They say, 'There's only one president, and Romney isn't it.'
He continued: "Folks, I remember the campaign of 1980. I remember Ronald Reagan hitting Jimmy Carter, who was the sitting president, every day for his incompetence involving the Iranian hostage crisis! Politics stopping at the water's edge, my foot! All that's happening here is that the people on the left understand that we're dealing … Isn't it funny that nobody cares about foreign policy? Remember, that wasn't a big deal in this campaign? And even if it is a big deal, Obama's the clear, clear superior leader. It would just make more people vote for Obama.
"He's just a whiz at foreign policy. He's made the world love us!" Obama gave us this! Obama gave us the Arab Spring, which has turned into what happened yesterday. Obama praised it, sanctioned it. He even tried to claim that they came about because of him. The Arab Spring and the Brotherhood were using the same tactics he used in his '08 campaign. He, at one time, was trying to make it sound like there was solidarity between him and these 'democratic freedom fighters,' the Muslim Brotherhood.
"We're dealing with Islamist supremacists, and they are the mainstream. They are not the fringe, these people that killed the ambassador yesterday. And, by the way, they were let in. You may not know this. You can't get into an American embassy. There are Marines. There are local police. You can't get over the wall, rip down the flag, and set it afire unless somebody lets you in. That's a question I have: Who let them in?"


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CONWAY, Ark.—The Birmingham-Southern men's soccer team moved to 7-4 overall and 3-1 in the SCAC today with a 3-1 victory against Hendrix College on the road.
Senior Garner Shivers recorded his sixth goal of the season in the 10th minute of the game. Leading up to the goal, senior Nicolas Reitmeier passed the ball to senior Tyler Evans, who was making a diagonal run. Evans was able to play the ball with one touch to Shivers who was breaking into the box, received the ball on his right foot and finished the goal with a shot to the far post. The first half ended with BSC holding a 1-0 lead.
BSC struck again in the 55th minute, and this time Evans finished for his seventh goal of the season. Senior Sean Head served a perfectly timed ball through the Hendrix back line and Evans received the ball headed into the box and shot the ball far post past a rushing Hendrix goalkeeper. The shot pinged off the back post and buried itself into the back of the net.
Hendrix made things interesting in the 64th minute as a shot on goal slipped through untouched and made the score 2-1.
Panther freshman Tobias Winter put the nail in the coffin one minute later and recorded his fourth goal of the season. Leading up to the goal, Shivers pressured the Hendrix defense in the corner of the field and won the ball off the defender's foot. He then dribbled the ball toward the goal line towards the goal and served a ball across the goal to an onrushing Winter, who finished the ball hard into the goal.
For the day, shots on goal were close with Hendrix leading 9-8. BSC sophomore goalkeeper Sveinbo Grimsson played 66 minutes, making four saves, and sophomore Alex Levinson finished the game's final 24 minutes with three solid saves.
BSC continues its conference schedule on the road next weekend, taking on Millsaps College, Friday at 8 p.m., and Rhodes College, Sunday at 2 p.m.


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- Circuit type Road
- Circuit Length 5.148kms
- Circuit Turns 16
- Circuit Direction Clockwise
- Capacity 290,000
- Established 1927 (rebuilt 1984)
- Designer Gustav Eichler
|First race
|German Grand Prix
|July 29, 1951
|Alberto Ascari (ITA)
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|Last race
|German Grand Prix
|July 7, 2013
|Sebastian Vettel (GER)
|full results
|Total races
The modern circuit, built in the 1980s, is a shadow of the 1920s beast that went before. Opened in 1925, the original North Loop track was 17½ miles long, no more than 30 feet wide, with 174 turns and an undulating surface. Even in those less safety-conscious times, it was deemed too dangerous and by the late 1930s the shorter 14.17-mile Nordschliefe was in use. To add to the challenge, the location was prone to rain and fog, even in the summer, and its length meant conditions could vary even on a single lap.
The old track was nicknamed The Green Hell by Jackie Stewart and is widely considered the toughest, most dangerous, and most demanding purpose-built racing circuit in the world. Many top drivers never really mastered the course and it was growing concerns over safety that led to major changes in 1970, but by the time it staged its last grand prix in 1976 - remembered for the horrific accident which almost killed Niki Lauda - it had become an anachronism.
Between 1982 and 1983 the start-finish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, and the F1 circus returned to the Nurburgring in 1984 but the venue had little in common with the original other than the name. A new circuit, built inside the old, was only 2.8 miles long and had some overly-cautious huge run-off areas. Sadly, the changes had robbed it of almost all its character and charisma, so much so that some fans protested it had no right to be called the Nurburgring.
Originally, the track featured four track configurations: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-long Gesamtstrecke ("Whole Course"), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife ("Northern Loop"), and the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Südschleife ("Southern Loop"). There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or better known as Betonschleife, around the pit area, and this is currently used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use, for racing, testing and public access.


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Directory Proxy Server provides the following distribution algorithms:
Pattern matching
Directory Proxy Server distributes the requests to data views based on the match between the parameters of the requests and one or more patterns. Set the following parameters to configure the Pattern matching distribution algorithm:
pattern-matching-base-dn-regular-expression pattern-matching-base-dn-regular-expression(5dpconf)
pattern-matching-base-object-search-filter pattern-matching-base-object-search-filter(5dpconf)
pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression(5dpconf)
pattern-matching-one-level-search-filter pattern-matching-one-level-search-filter(5dpconf)
pattern-matching-subtree-search-filter pattern-matching-subtree-search-filter(5dpconf)
All the pattern matching distribution algorithm properties are multivalued. Use PROP+:VAL to add a value, and PROP-:VAL to remove a value. For example:
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop -p port-number ldap-data-view \ pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression:value $ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop -p port-number ldap-data-view \ pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression+:value2
The order in which values are set, the priority is decided.
$ ldapsearch -D "cn=proxy manager" -w - -p port-number -b "cn=ldap-data-view,cn=data views,cn=config" \ "objectclass=*" dnMatchingRegex version: 1 dn: cn=ldap-data-view,cn=data views,cn=config dnMatchingRegex: 1:value dnMatchingRegex: 2:value2
In the above example, the value prefixed by 1 is of highest priority.
To switch back to version 6 behavior for pattern matching distribution algorithm, set the compat-flag Directory Proxy Server configuration property to pattern-matching-algo-6.
The configuration attributes that end with filter are LDAP filters, not regular expressions. These LDAP filters are evaluated against LDAP filters contained in the incoming search requests.
For example, use the following settings to configure the Pattern Matching distribution algorithm to send the requests for the users with even uid to even data view and the users with odd uid to odd data view.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop even pattern-matching-base-object-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*0)(uid=*2)\ (uid=*4)(uid=*6)(uid=*8))'\ pattern-matching-one-level-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*0)(uid=*2)\ (uid=*4)(uid=*6)(uid=*8))'\ pattern-matching-subtree-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*0)(uid=*2)\ (uid=*4)(uid=*6)(uid=*8))'\ pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression:'uid=[0-9]+[02468]' distribution-algorithm: pattern-matching
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop odd pattern-matching-base-object-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*1)(uid=*3)\ (uid=*5)(uid=*7)(uid=*9))'\ pattern-matching-one-level-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*1)(uid=*3)\ (uid=*5)(uid=*7)(uid=*9))'\ pattern-matching-subtree-search-filter:'|(uid=\2a)(uid=*1)(uid=*3)\ (uid=*5)(uid=*7)(uid=*9))'\ pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression:'uid=[0-9]+[13579]' distribution-algorithm: pattern-matching
In the (uid=\2a) expression, the \2a is an ASCII representation of * where 2 and a are two hexadecimal digits. The (uid=\2a) expression makes sure that the data view accepts the requests for all uids.
The syntax supported by the pattern matching algorithm is specified by the Java Pattern class (documented at ). This syntax is not the same as the usual regex syntax.
Directory Proxy Server distributes the requests to data views according to the numeric value of the RDN in the request. The numeric value is taken from the value of the first RDN beneath the base DN of the data view. Set the following parameters define the Numeric bounds:
numeric-attrs numeric-attrs(5dpconf)
numeric-default-data-view numeric-default-data-view(5dpconf)
numeric-lower-bound numeric-lower-bound(5dpconf)
numeric-upper-bound numeric-upper-bound(5dpconf)
For example, to configure the numeric distribution algorithm to send the requests for uid between 0 to 99 to a specific data view. Use the same syntax for the rest of the users but with a different data view.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop dataview distribution-algorithm:numeric \ numeric-attrs:uid numeric-lower-bound:0 numeric-upper-bound:99
Directory Proxy Server distributes the requests to data views according to the lexicographic value of the RDN in the request. Lexicographic bounds are taken from the value of the first RDN beneath the base DN of the data view. Set the following parameters to define the Lexicographic bounds:
lexicographic-attrs lexicographic-attrs(5dpconf)
lexicographic-lower-bound lexicographic-lower-bound(5dpconf)
lexicographic-upper-bound lexicographic-upper-bound(5dpconf)
For example, to configure the Lexicographic distribution algorithm to send the requests of the users whose name starts between A to M to one data view and the requests for the rest of the users to another data view.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop dataview distribution-algorithm:lexicographic \ lexicographic-attrs:cn lexicographic-lower-bound:A lexicographic-upper-bound:M
Directory Proxy Server distributes the requests to data views according to the role of the data view in replication. The algorithm distributes write operations to all data sources in the data source pool and read operations to a single data source. The replication role is defined by the replication-role parameter. A data view can have a master role or a consumer role.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop dataview distribution-algorithm:replication
Custom distribution algorithm can be configured for all types of data views, that is, ldap-data-view, jdbc-data-view, ldif-data-view, and join-data-view. In the following procedure the algorithm is set only for ldap-data-view.
Set the extension-jar-file-url property to contain the path of the Java Archive (JAR) file containing your distribution algorithm class.
$ dpconf set-server-prop -h host -p port extension-jar-file-url:jar file path
The jar file path can be replaced with a valid JAR file path such as file:/expt/dps/custom_plugin/myjar.jar.
Before you configure custom-distribution-algorithm, set distribution-algorithm to none.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop view name distribution-algorithm:none
Set the custom-distribution-algorithm property to your custom distribution algorithm class.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop view name \ custom-distribution-algorithm:PackageName.AlgoClassName


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Iraq Crisis: Kurds Push to Take Mosul Dam as U.S. Gains Controversial Guerrilla Ally
U.S. Jets, Drones and Bombers Pound Insurgent Positions to Ease Siege of Mosul Dam
DERIK, Syria—U.S. jets, drones and bombers pounded Sunni insurgent positions to ease the siege of the strategically vital Mosul Dam, as Washington and its Kurdish allies turned up pressure on the radical group Islamic State.
(James Foley: Islamic State claims killing of American journalist).
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JaxPort's Board of Directors have voted unanimously to inform the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it wants to dredge the harbor to no less than 47 feet deep to keep the port competitive.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had recommended Monday that the St. Johns River shipping channel be dredged from its current 40-foot depth to 45 feet deep. Port members, however, said recommended depth is not deep enough for the port to service larger cargo ships from Asia.
The JaxPort board members said they think the 47-feet depth is needed to keep Jacksonville competitive to other East Cost ports.
The federal government will pay 75 percent of the cost to dredge up to 45 feet. Anything deeper than that depth could be paid for with state, federal, local or private funds.
There were no cost figures discussed at Monday's meeting. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will release the draft results of its harbor deepening study in May.


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From our News Moms Need Blog:
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REDWOOD CITY — A prosecutor on Wednesday urged a judge to send a former Clayton councilman convicted of embezzlement to jail, saying he has shown no remorse nor taken any responsibility for his crime.
The judge, too, said former Vice Mayor Joe Medrano has described himself as the "innocent victim" and has yet to admit that what he did was wrong.
"The problem is he still feels justified in taking that money," San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Karesh said.
Medrano, a 48-year-old former insurance broker, was in court Wednesday for a sentencing hearing for his conviction in October for taking $159,000 from his client iPass and not forwarding it to Travelers Insurance. During the trial, Medrano maintained the money was owed to him as commission for his services.
Karesh heard arguments from both sides but delayed sentencing until Dec. 31 at 9 a.m. because Medrano's attorney was late, and the judge wanted additional time to read reports related to the case. The felony carries a maximum of four years in state prison. Medrano did not speak in court Wednesday.
Deputy District Attorney Sharron Lee requested that Medrano be sent to jail for two years and serve two more years of mandatory supervised probation in addition to paying $203,340 to iPass and Travelers Insurance to cover money owed to each company, plus attorney fees. An attorney for Travelers said Medrano has not been willing to repay them, or to apologize.
"Travelers has been forced to play the role of chump in this scheme — the one holding the bag," attorney David DeMordaunt said.
Defense attorney Kenneth Moyal, who asked that Medrano be put on probation, said the guilty verdict has punished his client enough. As a result of the verdict, Medrano lost his broker license, his business and his council seat. He resigned from the council in October and was not re-elected in November, effectively ending his political career.
Moyal also requested leniency based on the fact that Medrano has no prior criminal record and has partial custody of his 14-year-old daughter.
David DeBolt covers Concord and Clayton. Contact him at 925-943-8048. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.


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The anti-Common Core forces show no signs of abandoning their quest. For them, having education standards for K-12 public schools adopted by most states in the nation smacked of federal overreach.
Unable to persuade enough state lawmakers either to drop the standards Kansas adopted in 2010 or to prohibit funding for any further implementation, opponents are now focusing on the tests that need to be developed. Kansans Against Common Core do not want the state joining in with others to create the annual examinations. Rather, KACC would prefer the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas be utilized.
"Keeping our assessments local will allow local school boards to put that money back into the classroom," said Megan King, the leader of Kansans Against Common Core.
Sounds good for Lawrence, which is where KU is located and where King lives. But we fail to see the "local" connection applying to the rest of the state.
We also fail to see why even a Kansas-developed test would be less expensive for school districts than one utilized by multiple states. Efficiencies and scale come about with larger groups, not smaller subsets.
Additionally, the tests will be developed to ensure that Common Core concepts are being taught and learned. If each state develops its own examination standards, it would appear likely we still could end up with a hodgepodge similar to that which exists currently.
The whole point of Common Core was to better prepare students for college and the workplace, and to elevate the comprehension level of U.S. students. Part of the problem was having a high school diploma mean one thing in Kansas and something entirely different in Alabama. Today's mobile society demanded a different approach to setting standards, as did the country's generally poor performance compared to other nations.
Educators have spent years developing standards that not only emphasize deeper critical thinking but allows autonomy in the classroom.
Subject matter in English language arts and mathematics will be taught in different ways, but the necessary concepts to be mastered will be introduced at similar grade levels. Allowing each state or district to develop their own tests doesn't strike us as a good way to ensure the subjects have been introduced properly. Particularly when both the SAT and ACT tests are being revised to reflect the new standards.
The Kansas State Board of Education should reject the pleas of Kansans Against Common Core. It's merely another attempt to derail a worthwhile process.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Mid-century Estate Converted Into an Architecturally Diverse Modern "Crib"
Roger Ferris + Partners restored and partially redesigned a mid-century estate located in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA. The new additions include a swimming pool, a garage and a modern art gallery. According to the architects, "the concrete volumes of the pool house and garage were minimized by inserting them into the hillside. All new exterior and restoration materials were reviewed and selected on site to harmonize with the existing residence". The result is an architecturally diverse building, interesting to observe from a variety of standpoints.
The Art Gallery's sober black creates an interesting backdrop for the transparent house initially envisioned by architect Philip Johnson in 1952: "The interior is designed to be bright, simple, and clean. All lighting is adjustable to best emphasize the art; ventilation is provided by linear diffusers integrated into nearly invisible reveals at the gable ends". Displaying a variety of materials and textures, this home in Connecticut is more than a shelter for a living space and an art gallery, it is a modern artistic work in itself.


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Vibrations Tackle
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Vibrations Tackle is an American Family owned business that is excited to bring a new product to the fishing market called the Echotail® The Echotail® was designed to be the most versatile blade bait that could be utilized in multiple fishing applications. Multiple towing holes allow for different vibrations and speeds. Easily interchange other plastics on the market by simply pushing them onto the back of barbed metal tail. Cast & retrieve the Echotail® over weedbeds, snap jig over deep structure and river systems, jig them through the ice or troll them for walleye, musky, salmon, trout, pike, whitebass, and crappies. From panfish to gamefish, the Echotail® will accommodate all you're fishing needs.
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Giant (8oz)
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Custom Colors Be on the look out for a variety custom color Echotails created by some of the most talented painters in the industry including Tommy Harris. Also look for the new image technology the we have named the Aquatic Series. The Aquatic Series includes actual images of real fish!


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I got this photo of Noah the other day before Church and thought it was pretty funny. Suit and tie, check. Backback, check. Dorky parted hair, check. Bike, check. All he needs is a nametag...and about 14 more years!
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Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Leaves generally palmately compound; stipules conspicuous, partly fused to petiole; leaflets generally 3, sometimes 59, ± serrate or dentate
Inflorescence: raceme (often umbel-like), head, or spike, axillary or terminal, generally many-flowered, often involucred, generally peduncled; flowers bracted or not
Flower generally spreading to erect, often becoming reflexed; corolla generally purple to pale lavender, sometimes yellow, persistent after flower; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like
Seeds 16
Etymology: (Latin: 3 leaves)
Reference: [Gillett 1980 Can J Bot 58:14251558; Zohary & Heller 1984 Genus Trifolium]
Annual, glabrous or sparsely fine-hairy
Stem sprawling to erect
Leaves cauline; stipules short-awned; leaflets 12 cm, oblanceolate to obovate, tip generally notched
Inflorescence head- or umbel-like, 715 mm wide, 5many-flowered; axis tip often short-exserted; pedicel 12 mm; flowers becoming reflexed
Flower: calyx 3.55 mm, tube glabrous, 0.81.4 mm, lobes >> tube, ± 0.2 mm wide at base, awn-like, bristle-tipped, often with a few fine hairs; corolla 69 mm, dull yellow to pink-purple
Seeds 12
Chromosomes: 2n=16
Ecology: Open, grassy areas, oak chaparral, forests
Elevation: < 1000 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province (except High Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area)
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CFS is a cyclical disease. One important aspect of lifestyle change is how you manage your cycles. You can be "doing everything right," and you'll still have cycles, often for no apparent reason. You can, however, learn to reduce their severity, and even use them to your advantage. Here's how.
On the "Good Days"Waking up to one of those precious "good days" is like finding an unexpected$100 in your pocket. What do you do with this extra money? The temptation might be to go out and spend it all. You may want to "make up for lost time" and do everything you've been deprived of: go shopping, go for along walk, do the laundry, clean the windows, go to a movie, wash the car, shampoo the carpet, and finish those three or four other projects... knowing that this is a rare opportunity to "get a lot done."
And then, of course, you crash.
There is an alternative way to work with your cycles. You can actually use the good day to help build momentum toward healing. Think of the good day as a form of "capital" that can be invested in your healing process- rather than being spent or squandered.
I call this "the fifty percent solution," and it goes as follows: When you awaken to a good day, make an assessment of how much you feel you can do. For example, you might make a list of ten things you feel capable of doing and want to do today.
Now, instead of spending all your newfound capital, you would do halfthe things on your list, and then stop. For the next day or two, you observe your body's responses.
If you crash, your assessment is adjusted downward on your next good day. If you feel fine, you may repeat this process, each time doing just half of what you feel capable of doing. As your confidence grows, your appraisal of how much you can do may increase, but you still do just half.
What do you do with the other half of your energy? This is the key. It takes some self-discipline, but here is where you have a chance to do something clever.
The essence of the fifty percent solution is that you spend half your energy and invest the other half. What is not spent outwardly is used inwardly to support your body's self-repair mechanisms. Thus, even though you don't feel you need to, you take extra time to rest.
The rest that you get on a good day is of a higher quality than that on a bad day. By gaining extra "unneeded" rest on a good day, you are investing in a savings program that collects interest.
Your body's self-repair mechanisms are what will eventually lead to your recovery. By giving them the benefit of this extra good quality rest, you build momentum toward a higher baseline of functioning.
As you move further toward recovery, your assessment of your available energy will gradually rise. By managing your energy conservatively on your good days, eventually your periods of remission can lengthen, and the severity of your relapses can gradually diminish.
Let your wealth grow. Don't spend every penny you find in your pocket. The fifty percent solution has served as a useful guideline for many former PWC's in promoting recovery.
Reference:1 Cheney, Paul. Interview in "Physicians' Forum," The CFIDS Chronicle, March, 1991, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-17.
1 Cheney, Paul. Interview in "Physicians' Forum," The CFIDS Chronicle, March, 1991, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-17.


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The Primaria Chisinaulu (Mayor's Office) at the Bulevardul Stefan cel Mare, the main street of Chisinau build from 1898 to 1901 by Mitrofan Elladi und Alexandru Bernardazzi
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holmertz (80706) 2014-03-04 8:20
Hello Achim,
A quite nice picture from Chisinau. This must be one of the finest buildings in this unfortunately rather boring city where I spent a few days a couple of years ago.
besnard (58978) 2014-03-04 8:21
Bonjour Achim
Belle présentation de cet édifice intéressant qui se détache sur un beau ciel bleu. Dommage pour tous le fils électriques mais tu n'y pouvais rien.
Amitiés et bonne fin de journée.
danos (110395) 2014-03-04 8:25
Hi Achim,
nice the view as the presentation of the Mayor's office taken from this effective POV.The brilliant light of the day, enhance the colours and the details of the building.
jurek1951 (42198) 2014-03-04 9:48
Hi Achim,
a beautiful photo of this famous place with spectacular composition and vibrant colours,
lousat (118387) 2014-03-04 11:26
Hi Achim,very nice long perspectiv showing us this importatant moldovan building,the diagonal light is perfect to create a nice 3D effect,perfect exposure and fine details everywhere,interesting post from a town not often seen on TE.Have a nice evening and thanks,Luciano
npecanhuk (79319) 2014-03-04 11:33
Hello Achim!
Beautiful building!
Attractive urban & architecture & transportation picture!
Sharpness, exposure, colors, horizontal format, chosen pov and composition really pleased me!
TFS - congrats,
jemaflor (123589) 2014-03-04 12:45
Hi Achim,
A monument well taken, good angle and perfect light capture, interesting composition with stret and bus, tfs about this country not often presented on TE.
PaulVDV (47350) 2014-03-04 13:08
Hello Achim,
A very beautiful building in the capital of a little visited country.
Nice with the trolley bus.
Excellent sharpness and clarity.
Best regards, Paul
pierrefonds (90908) 2014-03-04 16:20
Hi Achim,
The presence of the persons is adding life to the scene. The point of view is showing a double perspective of the architecture of the Mayor's office. The good luminosity is enhancing the colours. Have a nice day.
bukitgolfb301 (52335) 2014-03-09 0:04
Hi dear Achim, how are you? Sorry for my late reply.
Another so finest postcard via outstanding sharp / clrar color / light in so nicely tight format.
All the best and habve a good Sunday! Takero
Didi (61567) 2014-07-06 9:19
Hi Mr President
Very good view on the town hall with an interesting lateral perspective
Good balance between shades and highlights
Best regards
ChrisJ (149482) 2014-07-07 11:00
Good density levels with excellent exposure on the highlights. Superb graphism and the people animate the scene and provide scale. The diagonal tram wires add dynamism. Beautiful sharpness and composition. Tfs!
Angshu (56760) 2014-07-10 23:43
Hello Achim
I have not seen many pictures from this small country. As I see the script on the bus, it appeared similar to Romanian...possibly they use the same language. The building is very interesting.
Best Regards
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- Date Taken: 2013-09-09
- Categories: Architecture
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- Exposure: f/8, 1/200 seconds
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|Double vortex at Venus South pole. Credit: ESA/VIRTIS/ INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA
ESA's Venus Express data undoubtedly confirm for the first time the presence of a huge 'double-eye' atmospheric vortex at the planet's south pole. This striking result comes from analysis of the data gathered by the spacecraft during the first orbit around the planet.
On 11 April this year, Venus Express was captured into a first elongated orbit around Venus, which lasted 9 days, and ranged between 350 000 and 400 kilometres from Venus' surface. This orbit represented for the Venus Express scientists a unique opportunity to observe the planet from large distances. This made it possible to obtain first clues about the Venusian atmospheric dynamics on a global scale, before the spacecraft got closer and started observing the planet in greater detail.
During this first orbit — called the 'capture orbit' — some of the Venus Express instruments were used to perform the first observations at different distances from Venus, for a few hours per time on six different slots between 12 and 19 April 2006.
Amazing infrared, visible and ultraviolet images of the Venusian globe already reveal several atmospheric features of great interest. The most striking of these is a huge, double-eye atmospheric vortex over the south pole, not dissimilar from the equivalent structure present at the north pole — the only one previously studied in some detail.
Only glimpses of the stormy atmospheric behaviour at the south pole were obtained by previous missions (Pioneer Venus and Mariner 10), but such a double-eye structure was never clearly seen before now.
|These two images of Venus's south pole were taken by NASA's Mariner 10 (during a Venus fly-by on its way to Mercury) and Pioneer Venus missions during the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively. The images provided the first glimpses about a stormy atmospheric behaviour at the south pole of the planet.
Credit: NASA
High velocity winds are known to spin westwards around the planet, and to take only four days to complete a rotation. This 'super-rotation', combined with the natural recycling of hot air in the atmosphere, would induce the formation of a vortex structure over each pole. But why two vortexes?
"We still know very little about the mechanisms by which the super-rotation and the polar vortexes are linked," said Hakan Svedhem, ESA's Venus Express Project Scientist. "Also, we are still not able to explain why the global atmospheric circulation of the planet results in a double and not single vortex formation at the poles. However the mission is just at the beginning and it's doing fine; we expect this and many other long-standing mysteries to be addressed and possibly solved by Venus Express," he added. Atmospheric vortexes are very complex structures that are very difficult to model, even on Earth. Thanks to these first pictures, it has also been possible to observe the presence of a collar of cold air around the vortex structure, possibly due to the recycling of cold air downwards.
Views of the southern hemisphere of Venus in visible and ultraviolet light show interesting atmospheric stripe-like structures. Spotted for the first time by Mariner 10 in the 1970s, they may be due to the presence of dust and aerosols in the atmosphere, but their true nature is still unexplained. "Venus Express has the tools to investigate these structures in detail," added Svedhem. "Studies have already begun to dig into the properties of the complex wind fields on Venus, to understand the atmospheric dynamics on local and global scales."
Venus Express also made use for the first time ever from orbit of the so-called 'infrared windows' present in the atmosphere of Venus — if observed at certain wavelengths, it is possible to detect thermal radiation leaking from the deepest atmospheric layers, revealing what lies beneath the dense cloud curtain situated at about 60 kilometres altitude.
The first infrared images making use of the "windows" show complex cloud structures, all revealed by the thermal radiation coming up from different atmospheric depths. In the colour scheme shown in the image at right, the brighter the colour (that is, the more radiation comes up from the lower layers), the less cloudy is the observed area.
|Atmospheric stripe-like features at Venus.
Credit: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA
During capture orbit, preliminary data about the chemical composition of the atmosphere were also retrieved. Venus' atmosphere is mainly composed of carbon dioxide (CO2). The incoming solar radiation dissociates this molecule into carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen in the upper atmospheric layers. In fact, Venus Express has already spotted the presence of an oxygen (O2) airglow high in the atmosphere. However, Venus Express has revealed the presence of carbon monoxide as low as the cloud-layer top.
Scientists will continue the data analysis and retrieval to understand the phenomenon, which is very important to clarify the complex chemical processes and cycles at work in the atmosphere of Venus under the influence of solar radiation.
Since 7 May 2006 Venus Express has been circling the planet in its final 24-hour orbit, ranging between 66 000 and 250 kilometres from Venus – therefore at much closer distances with respect to the capture orbit. Venus Express scientists are now analysing the new data coming in, which already show what seems to be exciting new features. "We have never seen Venus in such great detail so far. We are eagerly waiting for these new data to be available," concluded Svedhem.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. � They plan and tinker, double-check this and triple-check that. Then, they cross their fingers, stick a rabbit�s foot in their race suits, and hope the luck goes their way. That, in essence, is Talladega Superspeedway.
�My outlook is like everybody else�s,� said Jeff Burton, who will start Sunday�s Sprint Cup race on the outside of the front row. �I hope I miss the big wreck. If you make it through that part, you can be there at the end.�
By the end of the weekend, the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship could be a whole lot clearer � or just a big ol� mess. Talladega is the biggest wild card among the five playoff races left on the schedule, meaning it�s still a little too early to declare points leader Matt Kenseth or the guy in his rearview mirror, Jimmie Johnson, as the only drivers with a legitimate chance to win the Cup. For those farther back, including Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon, this might be the best chance to make a big move in the standings.
�We recognize where we are in the points and that this could be a turning point for us,� said Gordon, who trails Kenseth by a rather-daunting 36 points and teammate Johnson by 32. �We need to come out of here with a pretty solid finish and make up some of those points that we�re behind right now. This is a track that we can do it at.�
Talladega is the longest, fastest oval in the series, but horsepower-sapping restrictor plates lead to tightly bunched racing at 200 mph � putting a premium on working with others in the draft and avoiding the slightest bobble that can cause a crash that takes out a huge pack of cars. There�s a sense that good fortune is as much a part of the Talladega strategy as making the proper adjustments on the cars or getting out of the pits faster than anyone else.
Just ask David Ragan, who stunningly claimed a victory for Front Row Motorsports in the spring race at Talladega. Getting a boost on the final lap from teammate David Gilliland, who was drafting on his rear bumper, Ragan passed three of the biggest names in the sport � Kenseth, Johnson and Carl Edwards. Gilliland made it a 1-2 finish for the tiny, underfunded team. Ragan called it �a true David vs. Goliath moment.�
Nah, that�s just Talladega.
�The chances of that perfect storm happening in two consecutive races at Talladega is probably not realistic,� Ragan said. �We�re certainly not counting on any situations like that to come out thin air late in the race.�
Kenseth and Johnson dominated the first half of the 10-race Chase. The series leader won the first two playoff races, then posted three more solid finishes (seventh at Dover, 11th at Kansas and third at Charlotte). Johnson, a five-time Cup champion and burning to win another, won the Dover race and hasn�t finished lower than sixth in any of the other Chase events, a typical run of consistency for the No. 48 team when they get to this time of year.
�Certainly, I realize that we are the points leader,� Kenseth said. �But we�re pretty close to being tied with the 48. If we have a bad week any week, it�s going to hurt. The chances of having a bad race here are probably a little higher here than other tracks, because you can get caught up in stuff.�
As Ragan showed in May, there�s more drivers with the potential to win at Talladega. Adding to the potential mayhem, those 30 drivers who don�t have a shot at the season championship are likely to be more inclined to take chances that might get them a season-salvaging victory � or perhaps cause a crash that knocks out some of the title contenders.
�The folks in the Chase have to be a little more conservative,� Ragan said. �They�ve got to get through this week without a 30th-place finish or a DNF (did not finish). The guys who are not in the Chase can be a little more aggressive behind the wheel. The crew chief can take a few more chances.�
Kenseth will be keeping an eye on everyone, not just the guys closest to him in the standings.
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To get to victory lane, Almirola must overcome the loss of veteran crew chief Todd Parrott, who was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating its substance-abuse policy.
�It�s definitely something that caught us all off guard,� Almirola said. �We�re just trying to work through it and make the best of it.�


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