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Well, fellow Goyers, here I am in week two of my Garden History College Course, and absolutely captivated by all the info being poured into this somewhat befuddled grey matter, but it's fun,and fascinating, and incredibly enlightening!!
I am enjoying being in the classroom, all over again!!
Thank you for the warmth you showed towards me in my last blog,(and the wonderful humour!) I have had several of my fellow Goyers asking if I can pass on any little nuggets of knowledge gleamed, so here goes;
I do hope you're sitting comfortably;
From what I can see, the very earliest of gardening known, was used for the cultivation of Food, and Medicinal use, ~ no surprise there, I hear you cry, but also, so much of this was to do with Power, which of course,came down to money~ doesn't it always?? lol
We like to think we are originators of design,but incredibly so much of what you and I have in our gardens today, we have just 'borrowed' from the past, I'm begining to wonder if there is anything truly 'new' out there?
It was the good old Romans,who invaded our little island in (technical bit now,so prepare yourself) AD 43, that really started the ball rolling, as it were.
From them,we gained the idea of the 'Room Outside', not good old Alan Titchmarsh, as I thought; I didn't exacally say that I was the brightest spark, now did I?
They brought in Rose Grafting,Covered Walkways,Water Features,Statues, and even Topary!! It was designed to be a real home from home experience,plus of course, the most important bit of all to us Plant Lovers, they gave us PLANTS!! So I guess really,despite having been invaded, we gained a lot from them,so it wasn't all bad……….
I can hear you saying,'Well that's all very well, but how does my garden relate to this at all??'
I bet you might have,tucked away in your border somewhere:
Crocus/ Hyacinth/ Lavender /Roses/ Lilies /Iris, the list is endless!
So, as I said,we might not have been too happy at the time by having marauding romans invade our back yards,but oh, how much we gained……
Well, fellow Goyers, that's my lot for now, before you all start to glaze over, but I hope you might have found a nugget or two from my ramblings, and catch the historical bug, as I have done, but now I have to get down to that dreaded word that puts despair in every students heart~ Homework!!
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Good blog Flori. I'm not sure I would have agreed with you when I was leaving school at 15, but now (38 years later), I couldn't agree with you more.
Learning is fun ! :-))
3 May, 2010
sounds like an interesting course~we have a lot to be grateful to the Romans for..
3 May, 2010
so glad you are enjoying your course flori, i can hear the excitment in your words, funny when we get older we love learning , think its because its not forced on us, we do it because we want to ;o))
ive learned a few things from my son as he is doing ancient history Alevel and the romans brought us a whole new life, way ahead of anyone in deisgn and technoligy, and who cares they invaded us, italians in skirts wow, wish i had been around haha ;o))
3 May, 2010
Sandra, wot are you like ! Would that be Giorgio Armani skirts ? ... lol..
3 May, 2010
lol muddy was only saying hahaha, defernatly Armani ;o))
3 May, 2010
The worlds best dressed soldiers - not very practical but very sexy ! ... lol :-))
3 May, 2010
who cares about practical muddy, very sexy,,, like russel crow, wow haha
3 May, 2010
Strictly speaking, I don't think there were any Antipodean hunks in the Roman army. But I guess you can count him in. Now, Sophia Loren - she's ALL Italian ...grrrrrrrrowlllll ... lol... :-))
3 May, 2010
lol muddy, i must say even at the age she is now , she is very beautifull
3 May, 2010
Flori, a student i cannot believe it!! Good on you florrie, lets hope you
behave yourself, and not talk too much in the class-room LOL
It all sounds very interesting, it must be great, being taught a subject, that you are very keen on....especially from the very beginning, those early days.
where it all started from...we get so much new info. we do not know about from these kind of studies, how enjoyable, it must be for you...
Will you be taking Exams Flori? After the end of your course....I wish you lots of luck, and brain-power in your studies flori LOL
3 May, 2010
Glad you are enjoying your course Floribunda.....
3 May, 2010
Hi everyone!:~)) Thanks for all the feedback on my latest blog,even if San and Muddy got a bit caught up in Roman apparel~you two always keep me smiling~!
Arlene~I had no idea how much we 'borrowed' from the Romans,and how huge an influence they have been~ I suppose I was guilty of never even pondering it till now......my eyes are open lol!
Freesia~I am one of the quietest one's there~honest!!!! Yes, there is the dreaded exam at the end (gulp!), that's usually when any knowledge that trickles in, becomes an arid desert when I need it most, :~(( lol. and thank you, Holly, have got 8 weeks to go, but love it so far lol!!!
I hope you enjoyed this, as much as I did putting it together, and the humour stops the eyes glazing over! lol Keeping the grey cells active is so important,and I am amazed at what I've learnt, even the short time I've been with you on GoY! Learning can be fun,and sharing it with you all, makes it even better!! :~)))x
3 May, 2010
We're looking forward to more Flori ! :-))
3 May, 2010
~ up in Northumberland of course, we have Hadrians wall and excavated villas etc much as Bath has the Baths~ I have walked along sections of the wall with the family ~one of the things that is still in use although now tarmac~ed is the military road which is straight as a die~no messing, going round hills etc~ plus of course they had sanitation light years ahead of anyone else..
3 May, 2010
Ah,bless you Muddy~What with your Sophia Loren, and San's, Russel Crowe, I was thinking I was in the wrong blog altogether,had to double check twice!! LOL
I did enjoy History at school,casting my mind back to those dim,distant memories of my youth, but was always hopeless on dates,can only ever remember 1066,and that was only cos I lived in Hastings for two years,so it kind of stuck! lol!
Sharing my enthusiasm with all who had asked for the odd nugget or two, is fun,and I hope brings a smile and a chuckle to those kind enough to post comments~thanks for the encouragement!!!! :~))))
3 May, 2010
They were really something, so far advanced from us,it is incredible, almost hard to believe, Arlene,but as you said,their legacy still stands today, what better proof can you have than that? It's just a pity that they packed up and toddled off back home in AD 436, and that's when Britain was plunged into the Dark Ages, as it was known.............
3 May, 2010
Flori, I was lucky enough to visit Rome a few years ago and was totally knocked out by the place. The highlight for me was walking into the cool of the Pantheon on a hot day and looking up to the ceiling.... I don't think I could speak for 5 minutes, it took my breath away. How on earth were they able to build like that, all those years ago. That was a 'moment' I will never forget.
Here's a pic http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00791/pantheon-rome-460_791022c.jpg
3 May, 2010
Very interesting. Thank you. I enjoy something historical. Gardening isn't only about flowers/veg in a bit of ground by your house.
4 May, 2010
Thanks for your feedback...
I have never been fortunate enough to travel to Rome,Muddy,but this has certainly stimulated my interest to look into it further. When I was looking at the influence they had on our planting, and how much they brought over and introduced to our native planting,it read from A to Z!
So much of our garden design originally came from Rome~I am amazed every day with what I'm discovering.
Thanks Hywel,it's always nice to hear from you,and I remember through some of your own blogs of your interest in Welsh history. I now know that the Romans brought about the gardens you and I have outside our doors today. It has changed and adapted through the Centuries,but they kick-started the whole thing from what I can see. It's fantastic that other Goyers are adding their feedback in as well, and I hope you are all enjoying this as much as I am.:~))
4 May, 2010
Great blog Flori....may you keep enjoying and sharing! :o))
5 May, 2010
Bless you, Healerwitch, I am enjoying the Course so far, just worried I might bore you all, so will try to keep it light and amusing, with just the odd nugget or two of historical fact! Lovely to hear from you! :~))
5 May, 2010
History hadn't been my cup of tea but when it comes to "gardening history", that's a different story. I enjoyed your paper, Flori. Keep up the good work!!!!!!! ;-)
5 May, 2010
Oh Tommy, you have quite made my day~thank you! Didn't know if I would enjoy this Course or not,but I am hooked! I wanted to know where the gardens that you and I have today, originated from,and the journey I've begun will help fill in all the blanks (I hope!) It's the enthusiasm this has been greeted with that has touched me most,so many wonderful people out there............ :~))x
5 May, 2010
Lovely photo of the sculpture by the way!
5 May, 2010
Ya know I meant to comment on the lady (the last pic) and forgot...she is so nice. Is she part of you garden?
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5 May, 2010
Thanks ladies! Was struggling to find a roman type statue,so this was the best I could come up with lol! Yes, she is in my garden,on the side of a large archway. It is a planter,with a sedum,'Aureum' growing in it,it blooms with little yellow flowers. It's really quite pretty :~))
5 May, 2010
Hi Flori I expect you find it strange being back in the classroom although it sounds as though you are really enjoying yourself there learning all the facts about plants and romans etc. Great blog I loved reading it -very informative :-)
6 May, 2010
Hi Rich! Thank you for your lovely comment, and I am so pleased you have enjoyed it! I did a Counseling course at college in 07,a introductory Garden design course in 09, and now this one in 2010~so am either a sucker for punishment,or I just enjoy stretching myself with something new!
I am enjoying the Garden History one so much, and by blogging it, others seem to be enjoying it too~just how wonderful are Goyers...........So good to hear from you again! :~))
6 May, 2010
You will have to keep us informed Flori and let us all know how you are getting on. Good Luck with it I am glad that you find it interesting to do :-)
7 May, 2010
Thank you Rich, yes, it is fascinating~new blog to appear later this week! Glad you are enjoying :~))
10 May, 2010
Yes Flori-look forward to seeing it :-)
10 May, 2010
Thank you Rich. :~))
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Sent you a pm, Rich :~))
11 May, 2010
Thanks Flori :-)
11 May, 2010
Hi Flori, another one I've missed and am trying like mad to catch up. Really enjoyed your blog and the 'comments' it must be lovely to be doing this course with like minded people, and, of course, a bonus of your repeating it to us..is that you will remember it all:-) The straight Roman roads such as Arlene mentions must have come as a real shock to the English as "the rolling English drunkard made the rolling English roads" so something else to thank the Romans for. It's a bit like The Life of Brian isn't it lol, you could have called your blog: What have the Romans ever done for us? I'm so glad you're enjoying it, and hope you are feeling much better now:-)
25 May, 2010
Thanks, Ba, am much better now, am glad to say, but took a while to shake off that virus! Love the 'rolling English drunkard' quote lol! I am just so pleased that other Goyers seem to be enjoying these blogs, as much as I am enjoying doing them, and a laugh and a chuckle along the way, makes it even better! lol :~)) The Romans were amazing, and Britain has much to be grateful for, when it came to introducing new plants and garden design to this country, and better road system too! I feel like a sponge, soaking all this info up~just hope I can retain it when it comes down to sitting the exam in five weeks time~gulp!!
26 May, 2010
You will, don't forget that writing something down helps you remember things:-)
26 May, 2010
Here's hoping!lol!! :~))
26 May, 2010
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|Feb 27, 2006
Nanoscale tubing assembles itself instantly
|(Nanowerk News) Making tubes useful often means joining them to other tubes and linking them together in networks. Easy enough to do with standard water pipes but on the nanoscale, joining nanotubes is hard to do.
|Efforts to link nanotubes have usually begun with the most familiar kind, cylinders whose structure is equivalent to one or more rolled-up sheets of a layered crystal like graphite. Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, have found a completely new way to form complex networks of nanotubes. The researchers describe their results in an article titled "Self-Assembled Nanofold Network Formation on Layered Crystal Surfaces During Metal Intercalation" in the February 27, 2006 online issue of Physical Review Letters.
|The new method causes extensive hexagonal networks of tubes, intricately branched and connected, to form in less than a second on the surface of a layered crystal. The tubes themselves are prismatic folds, having the cross section of a pitched roof.
|Erdmann Spiecker of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, on leave from the University of Kiel, led the team that analyzed the nanofold network phenomenon. Spiecker is a member of the group headed by Wolfgang Jäger in Kiel, where colleagues from another group first observed the mysterious networks when they deposited metal atoms on the surfaces of layered crystals of titanium telluride and vanadium selenide (materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides).
|A multilayered crystal of vanadium selenide, seen in a field of view roughly as wide as a red blood cell: after enough copper atoms penetrate the uppermost layers of the crystal, a hexagonal network of nanofold tubes appears spontaneously, each tube 30 nanometers across and enclosing an empty space 4 nanometers high. (Source: Berkeley Lab)
|The new method causes extensive hexagonal networks of tubes, intricately branched and connected, to form in less than a second on the surface of a layered crystal. The tubes themselves are prismatic folds, having the cross section of a pitched roof.
|Erdmann Spiecker of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, on leave from the University of Kiel, led the team that analyzed the nanofold network phenomenon. Spiecker is a member of the group headed by Wolfgang Jäger in Kiel, where colleagues from another group first observed the mysterious networks when they deposited metal atoms on the surfaces of layered crystals of titanium telluride and vanadium selenide (materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides).
|"Originally it was thought the structures were cracks, like cracks in the mud of a dry lake bed, which filled up with the condensed metal to form nanowires," Spiecker says. "We started to question this idea when we failed to find evidence of condensed metal anywhere in the samples."
|Other models were considered, including the networks of wrinkles that can form in layers of plastic or foil on a window pane, but there were problems with these mechanisms as well. Spiecker got support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the German Science Foundation to investigate the phenomenon at Berkeley Lab's NCEM.
|NCEM's director Ulrich Dahmen says, "We have many unique resources here including a focused ion beam facility, a custom-built low-energy electron microscope, and several high-resolution microscopes but they often tend to follow their own program tracks. To Erdmann these boundaries didn't exist. He brought the equipment and the skills together to solve an unusual scientific problem."
Barely Skin Deep
|Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of the vanadium selenide crystals, which looks all the way through the sample, revealed moiré patterns, a clue that the real nature of the networks involved altered spacings between atoms in the crystalline layers near the surface of the material.
|Like layers of graphite, in which carbon atoms are tightly bonded in two dimensions but weakly bonded between layers, vanadium selenide also consists of layers of atoms tightly bonded in the plane and weakly bonded between layers. But vanadium selenide's two kinds of atoms can combine in different lattice geometries within each layer. To discover what was going on in these layers during surface network formation, Spiecker and his colleagues turned to NCEM's low-energy electron microscope (LEEM).
|"The LEEM is made to study surfaces, using a beam with an energy of a few electron volts, which penetrates only a few layers," explains NCEM's Andreas Schmid. "Our LEEM has an ultra-high-vacuum sample chamber, orders of magnitude better than most other electron microscopes, so contaminating molecules don't affect the sample's surface."
|In the LEEM's high-vacuum chamber the researchers cleaved a vanadium selenide crystal to expose a smooth, fresh surface. Then an area some seven millionths of a meter across, about the diameter of a red blood cell, was videotaped at the rate of one frame per second while copper atoms were slowly deposited from vapor.
|For 13 minutes nothing happened. Then, between one video frame and the next, the network abruptly formed.
|Next the researchers sliced the sample crossways with a focused ion beam (FIB) to find out what the network elements looked like from the side. NCEM's Andrew Minor devised a "shadow FIB" technique that eliminated the chance of distortion. He explains, "Instead of applying a protective layer of platinum, which would have ruined what we wanted to look at, we preserved the surface layers intact by using the ion beam to shave away unwanted material from the back of the sample."
|With high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, the researchers then showed that the network was formed of hollow nanofolds in the surface layers, which had been pushed together to form roof-like structures.
|Plan views of the sample with high-resolution TEM mapped the nanofold network as well as identifying the positions of copper atoms in the layers beneath the surface. Rather than building up on the surface, the copper atoms had worked their way into the uppermost layers and lodged between them, forming what's called an "intercalation compound."
|Hexagonal networks of nanotubes appear when enough copper atoms penetrate the surface layers of the vanadium selenide crystal to change the organization of the atoms in the layers (a phase change), causing them to expand in all directions. (Source: Berkeley Lab)
|"We believe we are observing a chemical reaction, involving a phase change in the lattice structure of the surface layers," Spiecker says. "Kinetic energy is much too small for the metal atoms to penetrate into the crystal."
|As the copper atoms accumulate and change the structure of the layers they create compressive stress, literally pushing the surface layers sideways in every direction until they abruptly break free, gliding over the underlying layers and crinkling themselves into a hexagonal network.
Questions and Possibilities
|While much of the mystery has been solved, Spiecker points out that numerous intriguing scientific questions remain, beginning with how fast the networks form. "By adjusting the video frame rate we may be able to detect the interval between no network and a fully formed network with one-tenth of a second time-resolution, but we can't resolve the dynamics on the microsecond scale," says Spiecker. "We'll have to come up with new methods to do that."
|Other fundamental questions include what conditions trigger the sudden release of strain, and how the several layers of crystal that make up the nanotube roofs compensate for the different stresses experienced by the inner and outer layers where they bend.
|There are many practical questions as well. Surface nanotube networks suggest numerous applications, including networks of pipes for the storage and transport of minute quantities of materials, or templates for the fabrication of nanowire networks.
|"There are many exciting follow-ups to investigate in these systems," says Dahmen, "ranging from whether and how the tubes can be filled with liquids or with metal atoms to form wires, to controlling the sizes and patterns of the networks, to understanding the atomic structure of their junctions."
|The whole process, Minor remarks, "is an example of how NCEM is supposed to work bringing together instruments and expertise from many different specialities to address a fascinating set of problems."
|Source: Berkeley Lab (Paul Preuss)
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Bangladesh will unveil a new Test venue in the northern city of Sylhet when they host Zimbabwe there later this year, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said Sunday.
The picturesque ground has hosted seven twenty20 internationals but no Test match or one-day international.
Bangladesh and Zimbabwe will play the first of two Tests in Sylhet from November 3-7. The second Test will be held in Dhaka from November 11-15.
The visitors will also play three one-day internationals.
The Zimbabwe tour was brought forward from January 2019 to avoid any potential clash with national elections to be held in Bangladesh at the end of the year.
Bangladesh have also announced that West Indies would arrive on November 15 for their first full tour to the country since 2012.
Zimbabwe fixtures in Bangladesh
Oct 19: One-day warm-up match vs team to be arranged in Savar
Oct 21: First ODI in Dhaka
Oct 24: Second ODI in Chittagong
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Canadian Film Festival 2017 Review: "Great Great Great" (2016) ★★★
It took me a significant amount of time to think over Adam Garnet Jones' Great Great Great before reviewing it. Luckily, his previous feature film that I had the pleasure of viewing, helped me to understand his new work better. Same as Fire Song, this movie has not been made for every one, but it was never meant to.
Lauren and Tom are a young couple who are on their sixth year of relationship. As they try to decide which way to go with their life together, a man named David appears from the past, making Lauren to make wrong decisions that could tear her relationship with Tom apart…
From her point of view, she is excellent when it comes to provide the care to Tom every man wishes to have. She is patient, does everything to help him out, but there is something that really bothers her about him – Tom, already from a long time, is unable to find a job. Every interview he had failed. And the one he just had seemed won't be any different. Knowing that, Lauren is ready to give up on him – mentally and physically…
When she meets David, who returns to the city and pretty much becomes her boss, he starts showing her his interest to revive their old romance. In the beginning, she tries to resist his advances, however, does not put much effort to stop this. From that moment, the woman begins to play a dangerous game with her own life by not only committing adultery, but putting herself into a more difficult situation when a proposal to marry comes from Tom….
Sarah Kolasky as Lauren is impressive. She creates an interesting character with all her inner troubles. She breaths life into Lauren the way you have envisioned her. Lauren as a woman is very complicated. She looks for stability but fails to find it even in her own mind. When you give a closer look to her, you see that it's not Tom who creates those issues, but rather her, who is not willing to spend her life with an unemployed man. For that, the credit must go to te talented actress who goes the extra mile to convince us in so many ways.
In conclusion, Adam Garnet Jones' dramedy has an interesting and a slow-motion concept of a storyline between two people, whose life is an uneventful as it could get. It's about a couple who can be satisfied with having less, while the other one always needs something more. And it just happened that it's Lauren who should learn that one can't hold two watermelons in one hand… The question is, will she or not, and it's you, I am afraid who should find out.


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A deadly attack on the police in Egypt's Western Desert claimed by a new militant group risks opening up another front for security forces far beyond the remote northern Sinai, where they have battled a stubborn Islamic State insurgency since 2014.
A little-known group called Ansar al-Islam claimed responsibility for the Oct. 21 attack. Analysts and security sources said the heavy weapons and tactics employed indicated ties to Islamic State or more likely an al Qaeda brigade led by Hesham al-Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer turned jihadist.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has already suggested fighters from Islamic State will move into Egypt and neighboring Libya now that the group in on the retreat in Iraq and Syria after a string of losses.
Security is key for Sisi, a former military commander who presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militants, as he looks set to seek re-election next year.
Claims of a new front with possible ties to Ashmawy and al Qaeda would increase risks the security forces face in the Western Desert, where militants can already take advantage of the terrain and the porous Libyan border, security sources, analysts and residents say.
Two security sources and a medical source said evidence showed one militant killed in a follow-up raid was a former military officer and second-in-command to Ashmawy, whose allegiance switched from Islamic State in the Sinai to al Qaeda, and who has been based in Libya since 2014.
"If he has been involved with what appears to have been a heavily armed and wholly unexpected operation on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Libya border, that's of great concern," said H.A. Hellyer, an Egypt expert and senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
An interior ministry official said he could neither confirm nor deny the validity of the Ansar al-Islam claim as it was being investigated. Prosecutors are also investigating the attack.
Two Homeland Security officers said militants in the Western Desert appeared more professional than in Sinai. The officers, who work on gathering intelligence, said militants tied to Ashmawy could draw on experience of members who once were in the Thunderbolt elite army unit, or former police.
"Ashmawy and four other former officers have experience in fighting, surveillance, and planning so the group they have with them is dangerous," one officer said, referring to Ashmawy's brigade commanders.
It remains unclear exactly what happened when an Egyptian police convoy ran into an apparently well-planned ambush by a heavily armed militant group in a remote, desert area 135 km (85 miles) southwest of Cairo.
Three security sources told Reuters at the time that dozens of police officers and conscripts were killed. But the interior ministry refuted that figure the next day and said 16 police and conscripts died, including some high-ranking officers.
One part of the operation was hit by rockets and heavy weapons, officials and sources said. The lead and rear vehicles were hit first, immobilizing the convoy, security sources said.
On Oct. 28, the interior ministry replaced several senior security officials in charge of the area where the attack happened, including a homeland security chief and a Giza province security chief, though no reason was given.
On Oct. 31, the army launched air strikes against the militants it said were responsible, killing dozens and rescuing a kidnapped and wounded policeman.
The new group gave no evidence of its Oct. 21 claim, and it said the oasis attack was the start of a campaign against Sisi's government. It gave a list of grievances but no evidence on the size of its operations or its abilities.
Ansar al-Islam's statement was carried by another group with al Qaeda links, Guardians of Sharia, whose social media feeds also carry statements from al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri.
Three security sources in the Giza area said they believe the attack may have been the work of Ashmawy's militants.
Egyptian authorities believe he fled to Libya in 2014. He has strong ties in the Libyan city of Derna, where he operates an al Qaeda cell with other former Egyptian officers.
He has been blamed for high-profile attacks such as the killing in June 2015 of Egypt's top public prosecutor in a car bomb. But moving into Egypt would also raise questions about whether he had shifted his area of operations.
Both Islamic State and al Qaeda have brigades operating in North Africa, where they have competed for space in Libya, especially in Derna, and sometimes operated alongside each other in small brigades in countries like Tunisia and Algeria.
Oded Berkowitz, an intelligence analyst for risk consulting group MAX Security, said assessing the new group's capabilities or loyalties was difficult, but there could be an effort by al Qaeda to benefit from Islamic State's decline to bolster its presence and recruits locally.
"There is a strong al Qaeda presence in Libya that can support such an endeavor in Egypt. Usually, a militant group in decline (IS) and an increase in competition between two groups translates into a more aggressive stance, and attempts at larger and more quality attacks," he said.
Egypt's security forces are battling several militant groups, but have been focused on an Islamic State affiliate that has killed hundreds of police and soldiers in the northern Sinai and has now begun staging attacks outside the peninsula.
But the Western Desert, a vast region making up more than half of Egypt's territory, has always been a security headache with arms flowing across the frontier from Libya.
Militant groups have found shelter across the border in the chaos that followed the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Residents, businessmen and security sources around the area of the ambush say they have seen a heightened militant presence over the last two years, with militants sometimes openly driving along highways at night, and carrying out hit-and-run attacks.
"It's closer for them to bring the weapons from Libya and it's closer for them to carry out their operations, then flee to Libya or hide out in the desert," said one Egyptian military intelligence officer working in Farafra Oasis area near the Oct. 21 attack.
U.S. forces carried out air strikes in Libya in September – the first for almost a year – to destroy an Islamic State camp.
When Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in September urged followers to stand fast after defeats in Iraq and Syria, he mentioned Sinai and Sirte as places where they should fight.
Islamic State, which some experts had suspected was involved, included details of the Oct. 21 attack in its Al-Nabaa news bulletin, but without any claim of responsibility.
The Western Desert attack came as Egypt hopes a peace agreement between Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas on the Gaza Strip across its Sinai border can help stabilize that area and curb supplies to militants on the peninsula.
"Militants are able to move in the Western Desert easier than they do in Sinai, due to the open geographic nature," one police officer working in the area said. "It's not like Sinai, which you can cordon off."


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1. Re:How to hide a tab in a Xaas form ?NuggetGTR Jun 10, 2018 4:29 AM (in response to JeanChristopheDutoit)
Yep this is a doable but is done via the presentation layer in vRO.
You shound never use the XaaS form editor in vRA as it is rubbish and everytime you need to refresh the form you need to make all your changes again. if all the smarts are in the presentation layer most will surface up into vRA, This is how you can hide tabs or populate drop downs with actions using OGNL. And it is much much faster to load the forms. I have done a couple videos on my vblog in regards to xaas and vra https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfyTiUBwRKjB_qckVPVpcQ
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2. Re:How to hide a tab in a Xaas form ?JeanChristopheDutoit Jun 13, 2018 5:45 AM (in response to NuggetGTR)
Thanks a lot for that solution !
In fact, this is sad not to have the same tuning directly in vRA as the presentation layer in able to handle it.
May-you know if hidding a tab also disables the computing of all the fields that it hosts ?
3. Re:How to hide a tab in a Xaas form ?NuggetGTR Jun 13, 2018 6:47 PM (in response to JeanChristopheDutoit)
Yes, with XaaS it will only run the compute when navigating to the Tab, you can still reference fields on the hiden tab etc, but an action for example will only execute when navigated to. This is good for complex forms as it speeds up the loading time. If you were run the same workflow directly in vRO it does attempt to process every field at load time.
Custom forms it is all inbuilt to vRA to hide tabs.


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los angeles seo expert – Have a New App? Here's How You Can Start Marketing It
Why are apps so popular today? Maybe it has everything to do with everyone owning and using smartphones and tablets for shopping and daily tasks. Apps help us to organize our lives, increase productivity at work, get fit and shop. If your company recently built an app for your business, then marketing it is key. There are millions of different apps out there, begging for attention, but only those with an effective strategy will succeed. For one, you need an SEO strategy to help put your company and its app on the map.
There are brands making millions off of selling their app, and others that are generating consistent hot leads after giving away their app for free. Again, the only way for your app to achieve whatever goals your business has is to properly market it. The internet is the obvious platform for this, which means putting together an online marketing campaign. Local SEO companies can really help boost your app's ranking using various methods.
You can also try implementing the following techniques into your strategy.
Hire an SEO Company to Build a Microsite
You don't need a fully functioning website to market your new app. A simple microsite is perfect. This can be one page or two to three pages, showcasing the details and demonstrating the functionality. You can learn a lot from the likes of Path and Snapchat.
Another option would be to develop a teaser website, which is ideal if you've yet to launch your app. This should be created about one or two months beforehand. You can use this site to entice users and collect their emails in exchange for keeping them posted on the upcoming launch.
Blog All About it
Publishing posts on your blog and third party sites can really help build buzz for your new app. Of course, you'll need to implement keywords to help the content rank. You can hire one of the best local SEO companies to help you generate an efficient list of keywords. They can also assist with creating the content and distributing it on your business blog and third party blogs.
Use Social Media to Share Your Posts
It' not enough to simply publish your content on your blog and others' websites. You need to spend majority of your time promoting these pieces as much as possible. This is made easy with social media networks. You can use platforms like Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Focus on promoting your app a few times each week.
Have Your App Reviewed
Another option is to solicit app review websites about analyzing your app. These sites have a large audience and following, which can make or break your application. Hopefully, your app is great enough to get a high rating and review, so others will be more willing to give it a shot.
It's also a good idea to reach out to tech bloggers who cover applications. Search for bloggers within your niche and related industries. For instance, if your app is about homemade dinner recipes, then you could reach out to bloggers that write for moms.
Develop a How-To Series
It's easier to convince people to download your app when they understand how it works. You can create a simple to digest series of videos showing how the app works and how it can be applied. These videos can be posted to your blog, social media accounts and YouTube. It's also a good idea to showcase them on the app page in the download store, so browsers can easily find it.
As you can see, there are various ways you can start building buzz for your app before you launch and even afterward. It's a good idea to hire an SEO company to assist with generating traffic using both organic and paid methods.


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Eat Healthy Eat Local Initiative
A new restaurant initiative sponsored by Garnet Health Medical Center – Catskills partnering with the Sullivan County Visitors Association and the Sullivan County Department of Public Health.
Join the Initiative:
We are encouraging Sullivan County restaurants to join and support this initiative by working with our team to select menu offerings that would meet basic healthy criteria using locally sourced ingredients.
What is Locally Sourced?
Locally sourced represents an alternative to the global food model, a model which often sees food traveling long distances before it reaches the consumer. A local food network involves relationships between food producers, distributors and consumers; and in turn, supports local vendors and businesses right here in Sullivan County.
How Do I Participate?
As a Restaurant Owner:
Beginning in early 2016, our team will be accepting names of restaurants for consideration in this exciting program. Establishments that are interested in
participating and meeting the criteria will receive a designated logo to proudly display in their restaurant(s), as well as to utilize in advertising. Our Healthy Bike emblem will easily identify establishments as active participants in the program. Additionally, the Sullivan County Visitors Association (SCVA) will support the initiative by providing promotions utilizing SCVA social media. Restaurants will also be included in the 2017 SCVA Travel Guide.
As a Consumer:
Look for the Healthy Bike logo displayed in the advertising and windows of local
eating establishments. By supporting these businesses, you know that you are availing yourself of healthy dining options as well as supporting the local Sullivan County area.
For consideration and more information, please contact Patty DeVoe in the Administrative Office at Garnet Health Medical Center – Catskills at (845) 397-3514 or (845) 794-3300, ext. 2381.


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Monday, July 24th
This workshop will introduce participants to working with conductive materials like wool fibers, yarns and textiles. We will go through the process of how to sew or embroider simple circuits, how to make sensors through techniques such as felting and crocheting and how to add components such as LEDs.
We will explore the difference between conductive and resistive materials, teaching participants how to use a multimeter in the process. Along the day we are making several swatches with the different techniques. And we will finish by making a bracelet incorporating some of these swatches.
At the end we have a look at each other's work and share experiences.
Workshop Leaders:
Aniela Hoitink | NEFFA
Textile innovation, but just that bit different, is what NEFFA is all about. Through her multi- and interdisciplinary way of working Aniela is investigating how we can and will use textiles in the future. She is interested in mimicking the skin and all its dynamic, changeable and living aspects. Like the skin is taking care of us, textiles could be taking care of us. Our skin is reacting to the way we are, the way we feel and how we behave. So each textile will act differently based on the wearer, just like we all have a different skin. For Aniela skin is the ultimate form of personalisation.
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Guy is a 24 year old, Israeli Mizrahi pop singer-songwriter and composer. In the course of his career he has performed with Big bands all over the world and was chosen to represent the State of Israel on the International Jewish schools called "Alliance" at the congress building in France. He performed with famous Israeli singers such as Shlomi Shabat, Dudu Aharon and more. He was the winner of the reality television singing competition "THE STAGE". After completing his military service in Israel, he came to the United States to perform with the IAC, JCC, Jewish Federation, and of course to make bride's and groom's everywhere, happy on their special day. He is currently working on his first album.


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Sa Coma is a town on the east coast of Mallorca close to the towns of Cala Millor and Cala Bona. Its main industry is tourism, and you will understand why when you see its stretches of golden sandy beaches and the variety of bars and restaurants that cater for English, German and Spanish tastes. It is a very family orientated resort with plenty of entertainment.
In the daytime the beach tends to be very busy. In the evenings and into the night Sa Coma comes alive with several nightclubs and bars that are open most of the night.
There are also the glass-bottomed boats to take a trip on which will amaze whoever ventures out on them, and other boat trips that will take you to see many of the coves of Mallorca. Some of the coves are only accessible by boat, and a leisurely sail around the coastline of Mallorca will take you to see places you will otherwise miss.
The English seem particularly attracted to Sa Coma, and if you are staying in this area in your luxury Balearic Villas property, it is handy to know the local supermarkets import a range of English goods, as well as catering for the German visitors as well.
Just a few kilometers inland you will find Manacor, the birthplace of the Mallorcan pearl industry, as well as being famous for the furniture manufactured there. The church in Manacor was built on the site of a mosque and has a similar type of tower that can be seen for miles. It houses a statue of Jesus in a skirt with messed up hair, which pilgrims visit to kiss the feet.
It is also the birthplace of international tennis star Rafael Nadal, who still has a home there.
On Monday mornings, Manacor hosts one of the largest and busiest markets on the island. On sale you will see pottery, jewellery, clothes, freshly baked bread and fresh local produce among other things. Real bargains can be found in Mallorcan markets, particularly if you are prepared to haggle with the stallholders. Just remember, they are all morning markets that tend to start closing around lunchtime.
About 40 minutes to the south of Manacor you will reach Felanitx, where there is another great market, this time on a Sunday morning. Felanitx is famous for its wines and brandy, much of which is exported to France. It is also well known for an annual childrens dance involving eight children that were traditionally all boys. Seven of them dance in a circle around the eighth child who waves a handkerchief to match the beat of the music. These days, the centre child is usually a girl, no matter what their sex, the child in the centre has to wear a dress.
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KEY BISCAYNE (AP) — Li Na overcame three set points Sunday to rally past American Madison Keys 7-6 (3), 6-3 and reach the fourth round at the Sony Open.
The No. 2-seeded Li, the reigning Australian Open champion, won despite struggling with her second serve. She had seven double-faults and was broken four times.
Keys failed to convert her set points serving at 5-3 in the first set. She also squandered a lead in the second set, when three times she was within a point of going up 3-love.
American CoCo Vandeweghe earned a shot at Serena Williams in the fourth round by winning a match that ended at 2:29 a.m. Vandeweghe, a qualifier ranked No. 104, rallied past 2011 U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.
The match began shortly before midnight Saturday and ended with a handful of spectators in the stadium.
Vandeweghe has never previously been beyond the first round at Key Biscayne. She'll play the top-ranked Williams on Monday.
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This would be Funny…. if it wasn't Happening to Me! How to Lighten up and Laugh For Healthcare Professionals
Working in healthcare can be complex, challenging, and chaotic - especially in this age of increased regulations. Join for this motivational speech where we discover how laughing at our stress and the absurdity and intensity of our work can be the only serious way to survive it.


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Clonmel RFC lose in Limerick
After a break in league action last weekend for our senior teams, Clonmel RFC 1st XV travelled to Limerick on Sunday last for the eagerly awaited clash with unbeaten St.Mary's.
In extremely wet and testing conditions both teams lined out in front of a strong and vocal home crowd. Early points came to Clonmel after a St.Mary's infringement and Conor Cooney slotted over a penalty to take a 3 point lead. St.Mary's levelled the score five minutes before half time to go into the break 3-3. However those initial three points early in the first half were to be the only Clonmel points of the day and St.Marys dominated much of the possession and racked up an additional 15 points in the second half, during the high octane encounter. The game finished with a 21-3 home win to St.Mary's. The loss for Clonmel, the second in the campaign to date, sees the Clonmel side drop to fourth position on the table behind Newcastle West, Kanturk and St.Marys. The league takes a break over Christmas and Clonmel will host Mallow on January 19th.
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Our 2nd XV travelled to Waterpark on Sunday as they continued their Junior 2 league campaign. Waterpark took an early lead through a well worked try, however Clonmel replied with a penalty from Christopher Brown. Half way through the first half Clonmel began to get a grip on the game and a Conor Tobin try gave them a lead they would never relinquish. Christopher Brown added the extra points to make it 12-5. Some good work from the forwards saw them drive over from a lineout with Ed Flannery touching down to leave it 17-5 at half time. Clonmel conceded a try early in the second half to make it 17-10 but two penalties by Chris Brown steadied the ship at 23-10. James Keohoe got Clonmel's third try and last score before Waterpark went over with 2 minutes to play. In the end Clonmel had a 28-15 victory and a great win their group section.
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Teachers Union Unveils Instructional-Resources Website
We've written in this blog and in EdWeek about teachers' often frustrating search for instructional materials that reflect the common standards. There is more and more stuff out there, of course, but finding it and figuring out how good it is are big challenges. In that light, it's interesting to note that the American Federation of Teachers has unveiled a new website that offers lesson plans and other curricular resources.
My colleague Stephen Sawchuk has the details for you over at Teacher Beat.
The website, "Share My Lesson," is being populated by teachers, who are uploading materials they think might be of use to their colleagues. Teachers can contribute to the site, rate the materials already on it, and download anything they like for free.


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We present what we believe is a novel technique based on the moiré effect for fully diagnosing the beam quality of an x-ray laser. Using Fresnel diffraction theory, we investigated the intensity profile of the moiré pattern when a general paraxial beam illuminates a pair of Ronchi gratings in the quasi-far field. Two formulas were derived to determine the beam quality factor and the effective radius of curvature from the moiré pattern. On the basis of the results, the far-field divergence, the waist location, and the radius can be calculated further. Finally, we verified the approach by use of numerical simulation.
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By: Zongezile Matshoba
At long last, Ahmed Kathrada, 83, the stalwart himself, is coming to the National Arts Festival. Kathy – The Man behind the Public Figure is an outstanding exhibition that celebrates Kathrada's release from
in 1989 where many political prisoners were incarcerated for years. Kathrada, a staunch member of the African National Congress, was one of the Rivonia trialists that included Nelson Mandela who came out of prison to be the first black State President of South Africa. He then served in the national government as President Mandela's Parliamentary Counsellor. Robben Island
The exhibition is a personal insight into Kathrada as an ordinary person, his lifestyle, his letters from
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Kathrada will also do a walkabout of the exhibition, as well as taking part in the Think!Fest programme, presenting the ANC centenary on June 29. Many notable guests from the political and academic circles are expected to be part of the official opening, the walkabout and the Think!Fest.
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The Apple iphone – Pros and Cons
The hype surrounding the launch of the Apple iphone has been unbeleivable. Is it justifiable all this hype? That's what I am trying to do through this blog entry. I will discuss the pros and cons of this phone here.
The cons first:
1. The phone is 2G and not 3G. Graphics and picture-heavy websites will take ages to load. RSS feeds and mobile-friendly websites load quickly though.
2. In spite of the boast of being an internet communicator, the phone lacks services like Instant Messaging and VoIP.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., isn't in Washington to fight for an ideology but for the people of Pennsylvania, President Obama said Tuesday during a fundraiser.
"This is a man who has voted to raise the minimum wage 20 times because he understands if you work in this society, you shouldn't be in poverty," Obama said during an event for Specter in Philadelphia. "This is a man who's fought for workplace safety and mine safety, who stood up for the American steelworker and American manufacturer; who has voted to extend unemployment benefits time and time again."
Obama noted that Specter was one only three Republicans in the entire Congress to vote for the $787 billion economic stimulus package. Shortly after the vote, Specter switched to the Democratic party.
"You can imagine the pressure he was under from the other side," Obama said. "But Arlen knew that it was more important to answer to the people who sent him to Washington than to the party he belonged to."
Specter's fight for healthcare reform is personal, Obama said
"This is a man who courageously battled cancer, and is here today because he was able to receive some of the best health care available in the world -- and also because he's a tough son of a gun," Obama said.
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Kuroda, Jackson lead best free-agent pitchers still available
Yesterday, I looked at the best free agent hitters at each position who remain unsigned. Today, in the wake of the news that the Rangers have secured exclusive rights to negotiate with Japanese ace Yu Darvish, I turn my attention to the top pitchers available to all teams by naming the top five free agent starters as well as the best-available closer and top righty and lefty set-up men.
1. Hiroki Kuroda. Kuroda's newfound willingness to play somewhere other than Los Angeles or Japan is good news for teams in desperate need of rotation help. Kuroda's ground ball rate has eroded in his four major league seasons, with his home run rate increasing accordingly, but he's stingy with his walks and strikes out more than seven men per nine innings for a strong 3.30 K/BB ratio, and over the last two seasons has posted a 3.23 ERA (117 ERA+) while averaging 200 innings a season, showing no sign of hitting the dreaded Third-Year Wall often associated with pitchers who come to the majors from Nippon Professional Baseball.
Best fit: Red Sox. Boston's September collapse was keyed by terrible starting pitching and the Red Sox are desperate to remedy that problem. Look no further than their hair-brained scheme to move Daniel Bard (career 7.08 ERA as a starting pitcher in the minor leagues) into the rotation for proof. Now, with Tommy John surgery knocking Daisuke Matsuzaka out for the first half of the coming season and John Lackey for the whole year, Erik Bedard having signed with the Pirates and Tim Wakefield a 45-year-old free agent who posted a 5.22 ERA (82 ERA+) over the last two seasons, the Red Sox could use a healthy veteran like Kuroda.
2. Edwin Jackson. That Jackson has played with four teams and passed through five organizations in the last three years obscures the fact that he has emerged as a reliable mid-rotation starter over that span. He has posted a 3.96 ERA (108 ERA+) while averaging more than 200 innings a season from 2009-11, while keeping his once-problematic walks down around three per nine innings, and striking out a solid 7.1 per nine innings. He's not a front-end starter, but he throws in the mid-90s with a sharp slider, has made 30 or more starts in each of the last five seasons and is still just 28. He has also proven he can succeed in either league. In fact, he did his best pitching for the White Sox, an American League team in a hitter-friendly ballpark, posting 116 ERA+ and 3.05 K/BB in 30 starts between the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
Best fit: Blue Jays. The Jays just lost the Yu Darvish sweepstakes and are trying to build a contender in the AL East, baseball's toughest division. Top prospect Kyle Drabek had a disastrous 2011 season, clearing room in the 2012 rotation, and while the organization is rich with pitching prospects, none will start 2012 above Double-A. Special bonus: Signing Jackson would give the Blue Jays the two best players in this July's Colby Rasmus trade.
3. Roy Oswalt. The degenerative disc in Oswalt's lower back is a serious concern. He lost more than 60 days of the 2011 season to back problems and, at 34, isn't getting any younger or healthier. Still, when he can take the ball, and he did so 23 times in 2011 despite the back problems, he's still capable of being a front-end starter and because of his age and injury concerns, should be able to be had without a major commitment.
Best fit: Red Sox. The Sox need more than one starter, and Oswalt's combination of up-side, experience and short-term contract make him a perfect fit.
4. Javier Vazquez. Vazquez is seriously considering retiring at age 35, but over his final 19 starts of 2011, he posted a 1.92 ERA, 0.94 WHIP and 6.05 K/BB while going 10-5 for a weak Marlins team. During that 19-start stretch, Vazquez's fastball was sitting in the low 90s, averaging two miles per hour more than in his ugly 2010 campaign with the Yankees. It seems he still has a lot to offer, at least outside of New York, the site of his two worst seasons.
Best fit: Phillies. Vazquez would be well advised to stay in the National League, where he was the Cy Young runner-up in 2009, and would prefer to stay on the East coast. The Braves' rotation is already overflowing. Going back to New York seems ill-advised, but replacing Oswalt in the Phillies rotation could be the perfect spot, as it would put him on a contender and remove all pressure because he'd be at most the team's fourth-best starter.
5. Joe Saunders. Paul Maholm is equally deserving of this spot, but is reportedly in negotiations with the Cubs, so he may be off the market soon. Both Saunders, who was non-tendered by the Diamondbacks, and Maholm are league-average, pitch-to-contact lefties. The key differences are that Saunders is a year older (30 to Maholm's 29) and gives up more fly balls and thus more home runs. However, Saunders has been more reliable, making 30 or more starts each of the last four seasons while Maholm's 2011 season came to an end in mid-August due to a shoulder strain.
Best fit: Giants. As if the Giants didn't already have enough reason to burry Barry Zito in the bullpen, his 2014 option vests if he throws 400 innings in the next two seasons. Saunders would be a great fit as the fifth starter in San Francisco's home-run-suppressing ballpark.
Closer: Ryan Madson. A $44 million deal that would have kept Madson in Philadelphia for four more seasons fell through in early November. There's no way he'll get that kind of contract now that the teams most desperate for closers have them. Madson is 31 and has only saved more than 10 games in a season once, but over the past three years he has posted a 4.00 K/BB ratio to go with a 147 ERA+ and excelled in his postseason exposure, posting a 2.42 ERA, 12.5 K/9 and 3.4 K/BB in 22 games.
Best fit: Reds. Aroldis Chapman would seem like the obvious choice to replace free agent closer Francisco Cordero (who is still available, as well), but the Reds have said they are going to stretch Chapman out as a starter in spring training. Chapman seems like a long-shot for the rotation, but he could set-up Madson, or vice versa.
Righty: Dan Wheeler. With Kerry Wood reportedly only interested in pitching for the Cubs, we go to the next man on the list, who is Wheeler. Despite an ugly start to his 2011 season, Wheeler posted a 2.54 ERA, 0.92 WHIP and 4.43 K/BB after returning from a calf strain in late May. Over the last four seasons, he has posted 3.49 ERA (122 ERA+), 1.01 WHIP and 3.33 K/BB despite being a homer-prone pitcher working in the AL East.
Best fit: Phillies. After committing $50 million to Jonathan Papelbon it would be a good investment for the Phillies to spend a fraction of that (Wheeler made $3 million in 2011) to make sure their leads last until the ninth inning.
Lefty: Darren Oliver. Yes, he's 41, but over the last three seasons, he has posted 2.52 ERA (an outstanding 177 ERA+) while striking out nearly a man per inning, 3.63 men for every walk and proving as effective against righties as lefties. What's more, with the Rangers over the last two seasons, he allowed just seven home runs in 112 2/3 innings.
Best fit: Rangers. Top lefty relievers are always in high demand, and the Brewers and Blue Jays, especially, could use an established lefty in their bullpens, but so could the Rangers. Given the success Oliver and the Rangers have had together the last two seasons and the fact that Oliver has spent roughly half of his career in a Rangers uniform and makes his home in Dallas, expect their relationship to continue for at least one more season.


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Cello lessons at Vivaldi Music Academy in Houston are individually tailored for students of all ages and levels who love the rich tone of the cello. Teaching methods such as traditional, Suzuki or a blend of both are utilized in cello lessons by our faculty to help you learn classical music, fun popular songs or even your own improvisation. Beginning students start with the fundamentals of cello lessons, including proper technique in holding the cello, comfortable hand position, and holding the bow. Advanced students continue to progress in their cello lessons with gradually challenging exercises, correct intonation, position shifting, and phrasing while learning more significant repertoire. Cello lessons include theory, ear training, sight reading, technique, and history. Both our West University and Bellaire locations provide comprehensive cello lessons and music education.
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The violoncello or cello is the tenor voice in the string family. Although shaped like a violin, the cello is much larger and is held between the player's knees. The popularity of cello lessons has especially risen in recent years due to the beautiful and rich sounds the cello can produce from its lowest to its highest notes. Like all the members of the violin family, the cello first emerged in Northern Italy in the first half of the 16th century in the workshops of famous instrument makers like Andrea Amati and Gasparo da Salo.
The cello is primarily an orchestral and chamber music instrument, but it is also heard in jazz, folk, rock and pop music as well. Famous classical cello players include Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pre, Zara Nelsova, Johann Sebastian Paetsch, Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, and Maurice Gendron, to name just a few. Well-known jazz cello players include Oscar Pettiford, Harry Babasin, Dave Holland, Abdul Wadud, Ron Carter, Oscar Pettiford and many others. Rock/pop bands that have used the cello include Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, ELO, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Aerosmith.