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I'm counting this one as a Christmas layout because Teddy is wearing a Santa hat. I love these pictures of Michael holding Ted while<|fim_middle|> Collection with a dash of the Maggie Holmes Open Book collection. The glitter chipboard frames are the best. I was pretty excited about this layout since it's a step outside of my "one 4x6 photo" habit.
Supplies: Patterned Paper (Amy Tangerine Stitched), Embellishments (Stitched, Maggie Holmes Open Book, A Flair for Buttons, Heidi Swapp, Freckled Fawn), Mist (Heidi Swapp).
This is so cute, Allie! I think Teddy has to be the sweetest dog on the planet :) I love how you made this have a Christmas feel with the colors...it's awesome, as always!
Love this awesome layout Allie! You rocked the a Stitched collection! | we were waiting to get our Christmas Card photo done. They are so adorable together!
This layout was so quick and simple! It took about 20 minutes of throwing layers together and calling it a day. I used the Stitched | 47 |
A stiff slate awaits this weekend
The latest Milwaukee Bucks Daily is here as the Bucks prepare for a strong pair of games against both the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors this weekend.
In today's edition of Milwaukee Bucks Daily, the Bucks prepare to host the defending champs as well as duel against the top team in the league this season in the Toronto Raptors this weekend, we read about the value of Giannis Antetokounmpo's astronomical volume<|fim_middle|> the Pistons had to offer from the Bucks' 16th win of the season.
Best of Bucks Around the Internet From 12/6/18
Bucks are preparing for a pair of tough tests against Warriors and Raptors this weekend (read here): The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Matt Velazquez looked ahead to the strong slate of games the Bucks have on the schedule this weekend as well gave us the latest on both Khris Middleton and Ersan Ilyasova.
The NBA's Big Greek Dunking Machine (read here): Ben Cohen over at the Wall Street Journal wrote on superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo's dunking specialities and how the arrival of head coach Mike Budenholzer has unlocked his volume at the rim to new heights.
Herd Reactivates Travis Trice, Waives Cinmeon Bowers (read here): The Wisconsin Herd announced that they have reactivated guard Travis Trice on their roster after he took part in Team USA's recent round of FIBA World Cup qualifying and have waived Cinemon Bowers as a corresponding roster move.
Next: Bucks: Filling the void left in wake of John Henson's injury
That's it for today's roundup, but we'll be back to do it all again tomorrow.
NBA scores, highlights: Kyrie Irving, Celtics continue winning streak against Knicks; Jazz blow out Rockets | of dunks and much more.
Even with the Golden State Warriors expected to be without All-Star forward and one-time Defensive Player of the Year Draymond Green, the Bucks' meeting with them as well as the Raptors ought to serve as a nice barometer for where the Bucks stand among the league's elite.
Like you can each and every day, keep on coming around here to Behind the Buck Pass to get the latest coverage, analysis and various developments that relates to the Bucks, the Wisconsin Herd and Bucks Gaming.
If you find an article, podcast or piece of news that you think should be included in the next edition of the daily, contact us on Twitter at @BehindTheBucks or by email at [email protected]
Back to the present, let's look at today's Bucks stories.
Best of Behind the Buck Pass From 12/6/18
Milwaukee Bucks: 3 takeaways from 115-92 win over Detroit Pistons (read here): I highlighted on the three biggest things that stood out in the Bucks' win over the Detroit Pistons from Wednesday night in their first meeting of the season.
Milwaukee Bucks: Player grades from 115-92 win over Detroit Pistons (read here): Robby Cowles handed out grades for the Bucks' individual performances, head coach Mike Budenholzer and what | 277 |
Charitable donations build trust, brand awareness and a positive image for shops, which can ultimately build the bottom line. Refurbishing and donating vehicles for families in need is one way to do that. There are national organizations that spearhead such efforts, including the National Auto Body Council (NABC), but independent shops can benefit from doing it on their own.
Valerie White, co-owner and director of marketing at White Auto Body, says it takes time and careful planning to implement a vehicle donation effort. She shares her step-by-step process, and why it's all worth it.
White Auto Body launched<|fim_middle|> restore the vehicle. And there aren't any costs associated with the repair. Our technicians donate their time after business hours and on weekends to make the repair. Our paint company supplies the refinishing products, and our parts vendors donate the parts needed.
The vehicle donation shouldn't cause any immediate burden on the recipient, so we offer a few other things in addition to the car itself. We fill the car with gas, pay for six months of liability insurance, and cover costs associated with tax, titling and licensing requirements. That way the recipient can use the vehicle right away. Those things cost about $500 per vehicle. And then we plan a presentation event at the shop in mid-December. | a program called White Christmas. We refurbish and donate three automobiles to community members in need of reliable transportation every December. One vehicle is donated from each of our three shop locations. A total of 29 vehicles have been gifted since the program launched in 1999.
This is a charitable effort, and that's our main purpose of doing it. But what goes around comes around. It's certainly a public relations activity, and you do get more business as a result. Following press release_notess we've put together, we have had several major TV stations and newspapers cover the program. We've received a lot of positive recognition, and good PR is an invaluable benefit. It has improved the image of our shop and brand.
Many shop operators see this type of program as an intimidating process to take on. It is a big project—planning and executing the effort takes about five months from August through December. But every shop can do it, and most already have resources at their fingertips to do it affordably.
We start accepting applications for vehicle recipients in August. Applications are available through October through an online process housed on the shop's website. It's a three-page application that includes background information about the nominee, and a narrative that explains why having reliable transportation would improve their life.
Anybody in the community can apply for the vehicle donation, either for themselves or on behalf of somebody they know. We don't work directly with any nonprofit organizations to identify vehicle recipients, although I do contact several social service agencies and churches to foster nominations.
Applicants must fulfill certain criteria in order to be considered for the donation. They must have a valid driver's license in the state, be insurable, have ability to insure the vehicle long-term, and have a demonstrable need for transportation. Our target demographic tends to be single parents who need a vehicle to obtain or retain employment.
We look for vehicles to acquire once the application process has started. Insurance companies typically donate the vehicles, ones that have been wrecked and deemed as total losses. There aren't usually any costs associated with that.
The refurbishing process starts in November after the application deadline expires. It typically takes technicians two to three weeks to | 443 |
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Sun. September 18, 10:00am - 5:00pm | A prolific actor who has travelled the stars, fought evil, and has been both a hero and a villain will share his extensive experience in film and television during the city's popular sci-fi and gaming convention later this year. ThunderCon announced actor Tony Amendola will be one of the special guests at this year's convention next September.
"We are really excited to have him. He is a pretty big name guest," said Heather Dickson, ThunderCon media director. "He is that guy everybody recognizes, he's been in amazing movies and great TV shows. He plays heroes, he plays villains, he's just a very versatile actor, voice acting, stage, the guy does everything."
"Tony was booked for last year but then he had a work commitment that changed his filming schedule on him so he wasn't able to come," Dickson added. "So we thought, ah man, we lost a really good one, but he said he absolutely he was happy to come back this year."
Amendola has more than 125 titles to his credit, including the role of Father Perez in Annabelle and The Curse of La Llorana in the Conjuring series, The Legend of Zoro, and Lone Star, as well as popular television series such as Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Seinfeld, Dexter, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Beyond his work on the big and small screen, Amendola has also voiced characters in several big video game franchises including World of Warcraft, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4, and Final Fantasy XV.
Dickson said it's really important for ThunderCon guests to offer such a diverse set of skills and experience because the convention caters to so many different people and fans of different genres.
"It just shows that we want to bring up somebody who is going to represent everybody's fan base," she said. "If you are interested in video games, this guy can talk you through it, if you are interested in movies, voice acting, he's the man. He's got all the answers."
Programming has not been finalized yet but Amendola will be participating in panels throughout ThunderCon. Dickson said there will also be more big name guests announced in the coming weeks.
ThunderCon will be held on Sept. 21 and 22 at the CLE Grounds. For more information visit the ThunderCon website.
by Doug Diaczuk
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Keenan Gehman
Keenan Gehman – West Store Manager
Keenan graduated from Marion High School in 2004 and came to Ames to attend Iowa State University. In February 2006, his brother-in-law, who was one of the original employees of Alpha Copies, mentioned that they were looking for an additional weekend employee. Within a week, Keenan was working part time on nights and weekends.
In October of that year, he went full time and became a manager shortly thereafter. He became the center manager of the East Ames location when it opened in March 2011. When Alpha Copies co-branded with FASTSIGNS in August of 2016, Keenan became the center manager of the West Ames location.
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Founded in 2005 by John and Becky Crawford, Alpha Copies started out just like many other small businesses. With hard work, many long days, and determination, we founded Alpha Copies on the belief that we should offer our services to exceed what the customer expected. >>> MORE >>> | at the age of 19. There's just something about having the owners around all the time, it motivates you to push yourself to the next level because that's what they are doing. Nobody works harder at Alpha Copies than John and Becky. Nobody. Alpha Copies has always been about more than just making copies. It's always been about a level of service that exceeds everything the customer ever expected. From 'Yes we can!' to 'Measure twice, cut once' – the philosophy that drives this business is amazing. I consider myself extremely fortunate to work here for such amazing people.
Keenan lives in Ames with his wife, Chelsea, and their children (Riley, 4; Kyla, stillborn; August, 2; Nora, 4 months).
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SchoolMint, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of mobile and online enrollment and school choice systems for PreK-12 public, charter<|fim_middle|> schools to streamline all aspects of student enrollment and registration, school choice, lottery management, fee collection, and year-round parent-school communication.
The platform is now used by more than 2,000 schools in 70 cities in 30 states and four countries, and serves more than 1.5 million PreK-12 students. | and private schools, raised $5.6m in funding.
The round was led by Runa Capital, with participation from Reach Capital (New Schools), Fresco Capital, Govtech Fund, Kapor Capital, Crosslink Capital, Maiden Lane Ventures, CSC Upshot, and individual investors Jared Kopf, Josh Reeves (Founder and CEO of Gusto), and Tomer London (Founder of Gusto). In conjunction with the funding, Andre Bliznyuk of Runa Capital, will be joining SchoolMint's board.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow operations by hiring people within the Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing teams, and expand its user base to districts and schools throughout the country.
Founded in 2013 and led by Jinal Jhaveri, CEO, SchoolMint provides a cloud-based student enrollment and school choice platform to PreK-12 independent, charter, and district | 190 |
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Clean with an appropriate stone cleaner wherever possible or non-bleach based household products. "Soft Soap" like Ecover is suitable. Do not use any products with grit that may scratch the tiles. | give them a unique aged appearance like they have been worn away over hundreds of years. These lovely charcoal black tiles are very even in colour and are particularly well suited to older properties like barn conversions or cottages. As part of our "Flagstones Range" Cathedral Limestone Tiles are extremely durable and looks beautiful against shakers style kitchens or set in warm comfy living areas with wood burning fires. See it for yourself - Get your free sample today!
Grey rapid-setting flexible adhesive is recommended. We do not recommend the use of standard setting adhesive with Limestone Tiles.
Cathedral & Brushed Limestone Tiles require sealing during installation. We recommend one coat when the tiles have been laid and are dry before grouting, then one coat after grouting. Consider re-sealing Cathedral Tumbled & Brushed Limestone Tiles every 18-24 months.
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Make Paper Soap Your Travel Partner!
Have travel plans this Holiday season? During your travel have you ever gone to wash your hands in a public restroom only to discover there's no soap? Paper soap is the perfect solution for on-the-go cleansing – anywhere, anytime. Just slip them into your carry-on luggage… No more messy surprises due to leaky containers and more room in your bag. Compact, convenient and easy to use!
They are even a great alternative when you are travelling with kids. Kids often tend to attract germs on your travel by getting in contact with many unhygenic things. So getting their hands washed before they put it in their mouth or before they eat something becomes a necessity so as to avoid infections & stomach ache.
So don't worry! Just pop out a Paper soap & get their hands washed & set them free from germs.
Paper soaps are also available in many attractive fragrances.
Rose- Roses have a fresh and natural scent, as nature intended. They have the ability to change your mood, the scent of rose can relax you and lessen your anxiety, whilst encouraging emotional well-being. It may also help you sleep better at night, so you'll awake to feel refreshed and ready to start the day.
Lemon- A wonderful scent of lemon is widely used in aromatherapy. The refreshing fragrance of lemon is claimed to stimulate the liver and lymph activity, detoxify and energize the body.
Lavender- One of the first things that comes to mind when you think of Lavender, is its signature scent. Lavender's aroma might be celebrated for is natural calming effect.
Sandalwood- In aromatherapy, sandalwood is used to reduce anxiety and stress. This makes it the perfect addition to your bath or shower time, after a hard day at work. It will help to melt away your stress and fatigue.
Jasmine- The smell of Jasmine<|fim_middle|> soap, paper soap, paper soap buy online, paper soap online, paper soap online india | Permalink. | is said to calm the nerves, and some say it is as calming as natural valium. Besides its therapeutic uses in aromatherapy, Jasmine is also has antibacterial properties.
Blue lily- You are stressed and anxious, looking for some relief? This Blue Lily fragrance will surely satisfy your needs.
Rustic Art – Paper Soap (30 pcs)– Organic soap on handmade paper, perfect for travelling. Leaves your hand clean and fragrant. Only paper soap with organic ingredients and handmade paper, completely biodegradable.
How to use paper soap– Simply wet your hands and rub them together with one sheet of this handmade paper soap, and watch as the paper transforms into sudsy lather. Rinse with water and your hands will be left clean and deliciously fragnant.
Many people use hand wash paper soap as an alternative to bar soap and/or liquid soap. Paper soaps are not only easy to carry, store and use (especially for travel), they dissolve quickly in water. If you are planning to buy one, you can buy paper soap online or you can easily make your own paper soap at home with the use your favorite soap brands and a few kitchen items.
Lift the handle of the wire slicer.
Place your soap bar on the cutting board and then align it under the wire as you would a block of cheese.
Pull the handle down and slice through the end of the soap bar. Set the first paper-thin soap sheet aside and then repeat as needed to make additional sheets of paper soap.
Line your pans with wax paper.
Cut your soap bar into 1/2-inch blocks and place the blocks in a large glass bowl.
Create a double boiler and then melt the soap. Fill a small pot with water and place it on a burner. Put the glass bowl on top of the pot so that it sits on the rim of the mouth of the pot, turn on the burner and then wait for the generated steam to melt the soap.
Pour the melted soap into your brownie or cake pans to coat the wax sheets with a paper-thin film about 1/2 mm thick.
Wait for the soap to cool. Peel the soap carefully from the wax paper and cut it into palm-sized (or smaller) sheets using straight-edged scissors to make a stack of paper soap.
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International News19 massacred near Mexican resort
By CYNTHIA L. WEBB Associated Press
EL SAUZAL, Mexico -- Gunmen apparently sent by a drug lord yanked three families from their beds before dawn Thursday, lined them up against a wall and killed at least 19 men, women and children near a popular Baja California resort.
At least one man was seriously wounded. Police have a witness in protective custody, a 15-year-old girl who hid under a bed during the slaughter, The Associated Press has learned.
The attorney general of Baja California state, Marco Antonio de la Fuente Virrarreal, said the head of one of the households grew marijuana for the Arellano Felix drug-smuggling gang, the government news agency Notimex reported.
He said the man, Fermin Castro, oversaw the Arellano Felix's marijuana plantations nearby. Castro wasn't killed in the attack, but was in very serious condition with a bullet wound to the head, health officials said.
Police said the attack took place at 4:30 a.m. in El Sauzal, a suburb of the resort town of Ensenada, a popular beach destination for Californians that's only a 1 1/2-hour drive from San Diego.
The victims appeared to be asleep when the gunmen showed up; most of the bodies were wearing pajamas -- or nothing at all -- and the beds in at least one of the houses were unmade, as if sleeping people had been pulled from them.
Television images showed the victims lined up in a pool of blood in front of a wall. A television reporter said one woman was clutching a baby in her arms; both were dead.
The director of the Red Cross in Ensenada, Eugenio Carrillo, said the victims were the residents of three neighboring houses. He said the dead included nine adults, two teen-agers, six children and a baby.
A 15-year-old girl hid under a bed and escaped notice by the attackers, and police were questioning her about what she saw, a judicial police officer told The AP on condition of anonymity. He did not elaborate and the report could not be confirmed independently.
Children's toys littered the yard outside one house, according to the television footage. The yard was filled with broken glass and chairs were overturned on the porch, indicating a struggle. Turkeys cackled in the yard.
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But Mexican authorities suspect the Arellano Felix brothers were behind the slaying of a rival last week in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Rafael Munoz Talavera, considered a front-runner to succeed deceased Juarez cartel leader Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was found shot to death in the back seat of an armored Jeep Cherokee.
Analysts said the killing might signal a shift back to the violence of the past. | Dozens of bullet casings surrounded the bodies, and the Televisa television network said most were from a Kalashnikov assault weapon, although some were from smaller-caliber weapons and shotguns.
Ensenada Judicial Police officer Jose Ramon Espinoza said the victims were members of three families: the Flores family and two families that both had the last name Castro. It was unclear whether the three families were related.
''It appears they rounded them all up, lined them up and gunned them down,'' Espinoza said. He said he had no information on suspects or a possible motive.
The drug gang led by the Arellano Felix brothers is based in Tijuana, 60 miles to the north.
The brothers, once known for the violence with which they controlled their territory, had recently been settling into a quieter, more businesslike style after | 175 |
Can cats eat chocolate? No!
Most people know that dogs shouldn't, but can cats eat chocolate? As picky eaters, cats are far less likely than dogs to seek out your chocolate stash, but some will find their way into a chocolaty treat or may even be fed one by an unwitting owner. The short answer is no, cats should never eat chocolate. But why not? And what happens if they do? For the answers, let's delve a little deeper with the help of the folks at PetMD.
Caffeine and theobromine are in all types of chocolate, but at different concentrations. Darker, purer chocolates have higher concentrations of toxic methylxanthines than milk or white chocolate. Depending on the type of chocolate and the amount consumed, reactions can range from mild to severe, and can even be life-threatening.
If you think your cat has eaten chocolate, don't wait to see if symptoms develop. Try to determine how much she has eaten and call your veterinarian for advice. To understand the level of toxicity your cat might experience, the vet's office will want to know how big your cat is and how much chocolate you suspect she ate. They will most likely suggest inducing vomiting right away to minimize the digestion of the methylxanthines and reduce the overall risk of severe poisoning.
In many cases, small quantities are not likely to be a problem, but larger quantities may require you to rush your cat to the veterinarian. If your veterinarian is unavailable or unequipped to handle the situation, call the nearest animal hospital or the Pet Poison Helpline at 1-855-213-6680. This is especially important if your cat is displaying more severe symptoms, such as muscle tremors or repeated vomiting.
While waiting for your cat to be evaluated, try to keep her cool, calm, and in a quiet place to prevent the escalation of any symptoms. The veterinarian will conduct a thorough physical examination, involving<|fim_middle|> continue to keep your cat in a quiet and cool environment. With a mild, bland diet over the following two or three days—including plenty of hydrating fluids, your cat should be just fine.
Unfortunately, food poisoning from things like chocolate happen far too frequently in cats. Now you know how grave the consequences can be, so be mindful about your chocolate stash. Keep chocolaty foods and treats guarded in firmly-closing containers and cabinets, be wary of feeding your cat anything that might contain chocolate, and take a moment to educate house guests and friends who might interact with your cat about chocolate toxicity. If you're lamenting the loss of your candy dish, keep your cat safe and put a lid on it.
Can cats eat chocolate? Now you know why the answer is no.
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Vitamin C lifts and firms your skin, neutralizes free radicals, and provides protection against the elements our skin is exposed to daily. This cleanser gently loosens and lifts away dirt, excess skin oils, dead skin cells and make-up. Rinses clean to leave skin squeaky-clean and fresh. With continued use, also helps to fade sun spots and discoloration over time, refines skin texture, and reduces wrinkle formation as well as minimizing existing wrinkles.
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InStyleNepal organized a night of Nepali cultural show featuring Deepak Bajracharya and N<|fim_middle|>i Cultural Association.
This Fashion extravaganza was first event by InStyleNepal in DFW Metroplex. | alina Chitrakar along with Fashion Show, Nepali dances and DJ Night in Irving, Texas on Friday, June 17, 2011.
The event featured popular Nepali singer Deepak Bajracharya, who is currently on US tour promoting Nepal Tourism year 2011. He performed his popular hits along with few songs from his new album "On Rush". The show also featured another popular Nepali singer Nalina Chitrakar who sang her popular hits along with some remix numbers.
Fashion show featured dresses designed by Pratikchhya Shrestha with stunning models like Bimina Ranjit (Miss ANA 2008) along other models from DFW area. DJ Prashant did the DJ for the night and everybody seemed to be enjoying the show. There were Nepali cultural dances too performed by local artists from Indren | 184 |
Listed below are specific details of all of the dive sites that are visited during our diving schedule.
Please click on the island / reef name for further details.
The Similan Islands are situated along the western coastline of the Andaman Sea. The Similans are some the world's most beautiful and unspoiled islands together with the splendor of the rich and varied marine life, stunning coral reefs and the crystal clear blue water offer a world class underwater paradise for divers!
The islands had never been inhabited. For many generations, the only human visitors were the so-called Sea Gypsies who came to fish on the teeming reefs.
The Similan Islands were formed some 100-150 million years ago. There present formation is derived from cracked granite rock which has been sculpted from the winds and waves.
They lie approximately 52 miles (90 Km) North-West from the Island of Phuket, and are 19 Km from South to North.
The word "Similan" is derived from the Malaysian word "sembilan" which means "Nine".
The Nine Islands in the similan group are: (running from North to South) Koh Bangu (No.9), Koh Similan (No.8), Koh Pabu (No.7), Koh Payu (No.6), Koh Ha (No.5), Koh Miang (No.4), Koh Payan (No.3), Koh Payang (No.2) and Koh Huyong (No.1).
The Similans were designated as a National Park in 1982. The National Marine Park take great pride in the conservation of the islands and have closed islands No.1-3. Island No.1 is turtle inhabitation. The National Park covers an area of 80,000 radius and Skin Diving Magazine rated them among the ten loveliest places on Earth. Jack Costeau has rated the Similans as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world!
The reefs are home to a multitude of tropical fish of all sizes, shapes and colours, with frequent sightings of turtles, rays and sharks. Ironwood and gum trees are among the larger trees found here. Check out the trees for langurs, squirrels, bats, lizards and a good variety of birds. The most striking feature of these islands, at first glance, are the huge boulders that litter the western and southern shores on several of the islands. Truly magnificent.
The visibility averages around 30m to a maximum of 50m+. The sea temperature is 27/29°C.
Back onshore, take a short walk through the rainforest to visit the National Park headquarters on Koh Miang (No.4). This is one of the locations where the Royal Forestry Department (Similan Rangers) reside.
But most of all the Similans has it all for divers from coral walls, big rocks, huge sea fans and barrel sponges, caves and swim-through's!!!!
Here you will find a good example of the two types of dive sites found at the Similans. In the North you can find a slopping white sand sand bank covered with soft coral bommies. In the South East corner is where large granite boulders can be found adorned with Sea fans and Sea Whips. Strange as it may seem Barracudas as seldom seen here! Generally the marine life found here consists of Pipefish, Batfish, Nudibranchs and chance to see Gray& White Tip Reef sharks. This is the only dive site in the Similans where the Jaw Fish has been found.
Location: Similan Islands - South of Shark Fin Reef near island no. 3 Koh Payan.
This site consists of four very large granite boulders that run parallel to each other. They are 40 - 50 meters in length and 10 meters wide. In between the boulders and around the boulders is white sand and smaller boulders. This is a good dive site to spot Leopard Shark, White Tip Reef Sharks. Marine life is extensive here commonly seen are Manta Rays and the occasional Guitar Shark. On the boulders a lot of different types of Nudibranchs' can be found. Big schools of Blue Dash Fusiliers, Robust Fusiliers, Unicorn Fish and Surgeon Fish frequent this site.
Here at Deep Six large boulders are found making there way into deeper water. The boulders have hard coral on top and all around them, also plentiful soft coral. The marine life to be found here are trigger fish, turtles, manta rays, the occasional frog fish and in the shallows large schools of convict surgeon fish. But watch out the currents can be strong! A great dive site.
This is a spectacular reef, to the north a gentle slopping reef can be found with a mixture of soft and hard coral. To the south there is a series of bommies, one very large which is completely covered in coral and surrounded by gorgonian fans. This bommies has been featured in a television program by National Geographic. On this dive site it is common to see the long nose emperors, travel lies, and trumpet fish hunting in a school together. Bar far one of the best reefs in the Similans are must for all divers.
This site is aptly named Elephant Head due to one of the three rocks supposedly like an Elephant's Head! This dive site is made of a pile of very large boulders making there way up from the White sandy bottom. All around this dive site, you will find swim though's and valleys especially in the north where this an extremely beautiful areas of hard and soft coral. This is a good dive site for sharks but also take a look out for the giant travel lies making there way between the boulders searching out their prey.
Here you will find a good example of the two types of dive sites found at the Similans. In the North you can find a slopping white sand sand bank covered with soft coral bommies. In the South East corner is where large granite boulders can be found adorned with Sea fans and Sea Whips. Strange as it may seem Barracudas are seldom seen here! Generally the marine life found here consists of Pipefish, Batfish, Nudibranchs and chance to see Gray& White Tip Reef sharks. This is the only dive site in the Similans where the Jaw Fish has been found.
This is a deep dive sites of large towering rocks forming valleys and swim through's. Around the base of the rocks sea fans and barrel sponges. Plentiful on this dive site are bearded scorpion fish, unicorn surgeon fish and large angel fish. Take a look out for tuna, travel lies, and barracuda which visit this site.
The Andaman Sea is plankton rich, attracting the awe inspiring manta rays and a host of other pelagic and reef fish.
We visit the best local dive sites in the local area. To the South of Phuket lies Racha Yai and Racha Noi. Racha Yai has now been developed on with a handful of small bungalows and a picture perfect white sandy beach, where Racha Noi is uninhabited but with the occasional visits from the odd manta rays hanging beneath the shores!
To the east of Phuk<|fim_middle|> great popular diving spot. The wreck is approximately 85 meters in length and just under 30 meters in width. Visibility is sometimes low but an abundance of marine life can be found here from schools of lionfish, barracudas, rare nudibranchs, octopus, scorpion fish, the occasional friendly turtle and even the odd seas horse! No attempt should be made to go into the wreck.
The name Doc Mai means flower in Thai. Therefore meaning Flower Island. On top of the island itself, there are not so many flowers here. Koh Doc Mai is huge submerged limestone rock. On the West side you can find a gentle slopping reef and on the East side is a sheer wall. Most of the diving tends to be focused on the East side of the island. There are two large caverns here one with an entrance of 5 meters. Here you will be able to find some very unusual marine life consisting off, Seahorses, Frog Fish, White Eyed Moray Eels, Sea Snakes, and Pipefish. The island just has it all. Look out for the many species of Nudibranchs' around the 5 meter mark, and excellent place to make your safety stop!
Two large outcrops stand south of Phi Phi Ley, these two large rock formations feature some magnificent bays and walls. The two islands are fringed with both hard and soft coral gardens with gorgonian sea fans, and sea whips. There is a wide assortment of marine life from parrotfish, leopard sharks, blue ringed angel fish, butterfly fish, snappers, barracudas, black tip reef sharks and even the odd eagle ray.
Maya Bay is located on the west side of Phi Phi Ley. This is one of Phi Phi Islands "Jewel" beaches predominately made famous as he filming location of one of Hollywood's top movies, "The Beach". This bay is absolutely spectacular with a hidden pure white sandy beach, and amazing coral. It is enclosed by sheer limestone cliffs and crystal clear waters. A beach certainly not to be missed!
This tropical paradise bay is home to the enclosed shelved reef with the occasional sections of wall. Here you can see an array of hard and soft corals with many various species of anemones. Check out form the schools of Moorish idols, butterfly fish, angle fish, seahorses, trumpet fish, turtle and rock painted lobster.
The fantastic dive site of Shark Point was designated "Shark Point Marine Sanctuary" in 1992. The sanctuary consists of Anemone Reef and Shark Point. A small rocky outcrop marks the spot of the main pinnacle of seven of the site, all varying in size. Most of the diving takes place on the main pinnacle no.1 and no.2. Here you will find an abundance of hard corals, large gorgonian sea fans, sea whips, mushroom coral scattered all on the sea bed and giant barrel sponges. The colourful soft coral is made up of anemones and pink and purple tree soft coral. Very beautiful. Home to an excess of marine life from, barracudas, groupers, snappers, and of course to the many leopard sharks that are found here. Look in crevices and barrel sponges for seahorses.
The uninhabited island of Racha Noi is the outermost island of the Racha group. The island is long and narrow with an array of diving sites located all around. Diving in the eastern bays is relatively easy among the many coral bombies that are found here. However most of the diving takes place around the "advanced" sites of the northern and southern tip. To the north large rock formations and pinnacles can be found. Hard and soft corals are abundant here with plenty of reef fish to name a few. The advanced southern tip should only be attempted by experienced divers. Strong currents can be found here, but once you have reached the tip it is all worth while with much to see. There is so soft coral to be found here, with a valley of gorgonian sea fans. Look out for the manta rays nd large pelagic fish which are often seen here any time of the year.
This beautiful bay consisting of a pure white sandy beach boasts good diving for beginners and all levels. The rocky formations of this bay are viable both from the surface and underwater. Here you can find, surgeon fish, Moorish idols, parrotfish, butterfly fish, rare nudibranchs and an excess of blue spotted rays. The coral found here is mainly hard, but is very interesting with octopus hiding between the rocks and cuttlefish. The best time to dive this site is in November to April.
The excellent east side of Racha Yai has so much to offer all divers. So much can been seen here to the very commonly found marine life in the Andaman Sea to the very rare. The east side of this island is quite large consisting of many bays and reefs. Here you can dive the sloping rocky face of the hard coral reefs, in the shallows small bombies can be found. Look out for moray eels, trumpet fish, bent stick pipe fish, nudibranchs, lionfish, puffer fish, parrot fish ++. It's great for diving here during May to October. | et experience the colored reefs of, Koh Dok Mai, Anemone Reef, Shark Point, King Cruiser (wreck dive) and the well know Phi Phi Islands. Here you can find a myriad seabed configurations of cliff, coves, drop-offs and the vast expanse of exotic coral gardens encompass the adventure and mysteries of diving.
The reefs are home to a multitude of tropical fish of all sizes, shapes and colours, with frequent sightings of large schools of barracuda, seahorses, an array of nudibranchs, pipefish, turtles, sharks, the odd manta ray and even the occasional whale shark in season.
The visibility averages around 20m to a maximum of 30m+ in the high season (November - April). However the sea temperature is a very warm 29/30°C all year round.
Diving in the green season, (May - October) is great. The dive sites are pretty much empty and the dive sites are easily accessible.
The local diving available here is fantastic with it's great variety from, wrecks, wall dives, reef dives, drift dives, deep diving, multilevel diving and of course shore diving. Phuket has it all, available right on the "doorstep" just a short boat ride away.
Anemone Reef is part of the "Shark Point Marine Sanctuary" it was designated in 1992. These two completely submerged pinnacles with a small valley running between are a covered with anemones on the top with hard & soft coral surrounding the base. The site itself is quite small, however this is a perfect nature jewel with an abundance of marine life, from rock painted lobsters, lionfish, moray eels, schools of barracuda to name a few.
On May 4th 1997 the King Cruiser a catamaran passenger car ferry, operating from Phuket to the Phi Phi Islands, sunk. It bottomed on Anemone Reef splitting the marine park in two. Within just one hour the ship had sunk, with no loss of life. She now lies upright and has made a | 440 |
Is work getting in the way of your relationships?
Pick up any business magazine today and there will probably be an article about work-life balance: what it means, why we don't have it, how to find it. These pieces are so common that it bears to ask: has work-life balance become another aspirational buzzword, or is it something that can be quantitatively achieved?
The word "balance" evokes an image of a tipping scale, weighted evenly on both sides. Using balance to describe our lives implies that our work life and our home life are opposing forces, each pulling at us from different directions and hindering us from investing too heavily on either side, lest we tip the entire scale.
But maybe we are measuring our balance by the wrong scale.
Thanks to technology and constant connectivity, it can feel like it's no longer clear when work ends and personal time begins. Many of us are guilty of answering work emails in bed at night or browsing for babysitters at work. Whatever the case, the technology's blurred lines don't necessarily have to force our minds into a state of unbalance.
So what happens when we allow the two to mesh? By living mindfully, our work life and our home life can actually be, indeed, one life … bringing together all pieces of ourselves into our hours, when our talents and personalities flow naturally<|fim_middle|> at work doesn't mean you can't also give the best part of you at home.
If we can stop believing the misconception that our work selves have to be lived in contrary from our personal selves then maybe we can begin to experience more balanced living. | into each of our daily goals and tasks.
Being self-aware about our needs and wants helps us manage our energy and our expectations of it. When our lives feel unbalanced, too often we are simply engaging in activities that leave us unsatisfied or wanting more, rather than those that are personally fulfilling. These activities can actually be found in abundance within all spaces of our lives—both personal and professional—if we have the awareness and ambition to seek them out and prioritize them.
Personally, I most enjoy reading with my children, and my professional preferences fall to writing, so my weeks feel most balanced and fulfilling when I prioritize these activities. On the other hand, weeks that feel draining typically involve doing administrative business tasks for work and chauffeuring my kids to extracurricular activities in my free time.
So maybe it's not the number of hours we spend on personal versus professional activities so much as what we are filling those hours with that tends to push us off balance. I could be spending what I deem the ideal number of hours both on the clock at work and with my children at home, but I'm finding that a truer feeling of balance stems from how I feel about those hours, regardless of the amount. Even if I only get to read with my children for 30 minutes, my day feels much better because of it.
Being mindful in our workplace is no different from being mindful in our home. Being purposeful at work is not separate from being purposeful at home. Giving the best part of you | 305 |
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Chief executive of Sutton Coldfield-based Auriga Services Mark Abrams has been shortlisted as regional finalist in this year's 2019 Institute of Directors (IoD) Director of the Year award.
Held annually, the awards recognise the individual expertise and achievements of those in senior levels of business.
Mr Abrams, who has been a director at Auriga for four years, is delighted to have been recognised. Prior to joining Auriga, Mark held directorships at a number of other companies and grew his own software company into being one of the largest Sage software resellers in the UK.
A specialist in customer-focused strategic thinking, he was a pioneer in founding an Internet Service Provider and Website design company in 1996, some 10 years before broadband was commonly available.
Since joining Auriga, Mark has led the company's executive team to develop and deploy a mission, vision and values and a defined culture that bolsters the skills of the team, achieves company objectives and grows potential with customers and staff.
Mark comments: "What was so imperative to me on joining the business was the need to focus concerted attention on cultural and management change to enable transformational impact on the business.
"We've an exciting vision to help two million people by 2020, and we are on track to exceed this target."
Mark's breadth of experience, knowledge and passion for West Midlands business puts him in a strong position to go on to further success with the IoD.
He adds: "The IoD is a vital source of support and development for so many people in business and one that I have received a great amount of value from over many years.
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2022 Graduation: Always #SeizeTheMoments
It takes a village to raise a child. A community to educate them. A society to teach them. And when the child succeeds, they all get together to celebrate. That was the spirit of the 18th Graduation Ceremony here at Strathmore as we gave the powers to read to the Class of 2022.
Bright and early Friday morning, parents and graduates streamed in. The otherwise busy and buzzing Students Center was quiet and deserted, but the rest of the University was alive with the excitement of the day. And oh how exciting it was! When we attend a wedding, invited guests may feel like it's all about the bride and groom. When we attend a graduation, the sense<|fim_middle|>chuodho in his speech, narrowed down to the theme of the year Freedom and Responsibility, "In exercising our responsibilities, we've grown in understanding of what freedom is. We've now come to see how our freedom demands these responsibilities, in a special way regarding what we do for others." He felt assured that as the graduates go out, each one of them carries forward to the world a commitment to make the world a truly better place.
The graduates, all dressed up, sat patiently through speeches, waiting for the big moment; conferment of the degrees. One by one, the respective Deans of each school stepped forward and read out the names of their graduates. Starting with the School of Tourism and Hospitality and ending with Strathmore University Business School, the students stood together, had their degrees conferred upon them, turned the tassel and officially became university graduates. Finally, the graduates of masters and doctoral programs had their degrees conferred upon them.
The two newest PhD holders; Dr. Albert Ochieng Abang'a and Dr, Erastus Musembi Mbithi had their much-deserved moments of glory on stage showing off their hard-earned doctorate degrees to crowds of their cheering students and proud families.
The class of 2022 now turn to face a world full of opportunities, high highs and low lows. They stand together in life just as they did the last four years. And behind them, their family, friends, faculty and staff, supporting and cheering them on in all they do next.
Congratulations Class of 2022! | of community could almost bring you to tears. Classmates who got to know each other through late nights and early mornings, parents and guardians who offered support in every way they could, and faculty and staff who dedicated themselves to providing excellent education. Everyone gets together and shares in the success of the day.
Each year, after the academic procession makes its way to the podium, the Valedictorian kicks off the series of speeches. A very appropriate place to start, because the valedictorian understands, more than anyone, the university journey. This year's valedictorian, Michelle Oguya spoke to her fellow graduates, highlighting some of the most unique aspects of the Stratizen experience. "When the gazebos came out, we dominated those spaces, with one person holding down the fort for more than 30 minutes before the whole crew came". You know those gazebos around STMB – getting a spot is a competitive experience! But more than the fun times, she recognized that her class had been through a lot, learning through COVID-19. The funny experiences of the neighbour's new goat bleating right when you got into a class, to the more serious struggles of online learning. The class of 2022 showed true resilience and grit in the face of a global pandemic. "In all that we do, may we carry forward, with the strength, diligence and fortitude of character that SU has instilled in us," Michelle Oguya.
Jane Awuor Mitch, Financial Engineering, First-Class Honours, and Chancellor's Award recipient.
Graduation is quite often considered to be the end of an era and the beginning of the rest of one's life, making it a prime opportunity to impart wisdom on graduates as they begin the adulting phase of life. Both the Vice Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor left the graduates with much to think about. "Our Founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá had a clarion call of working together towards the same aim, in spite of different backgrounds. I urge you not to depart from this as it has been your way of life for the past 4 years". Dr. Vincent Ogutu drew part of his speech from the University's motto; That All May Be One and encouraged the students to carry forward the values they have learned while on campus. The Pro-Chancellor, Rev. Dr. Silvano O | 485 |
Blazers Hover In Week 20 NBA Power Rankings
A summary of the Portland Trail Blazers' standing in various 2012-13 Week 20 NBA power rankings.
By Ben Golliver Mar 21, 2013, 12:54pm PDT
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The Portland Trail Blazers hovered once again in the latest round of NBA Power Rankings after a 2-1 home stand (Through Monday, when most Power Rankings go live) that included wins over the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons and a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
Last week, the Blazers mostly ranged from 17-20. This week, it was essentially the same.
Marc Stein of ESPN.com ranks the Blazers No. 20 (down from No<|fim_middle|> Sellers; Blazers Benefit? The Utah Jazz might be looking to gain future capital at this year's deadline rather than buy to get higher in the standings. How does this affect the rest of the West?
Blazers Making Jusuf Nurkic, Josh Hart Available For Trade? With less then two weeks from the trade deadline, the Blazers appear to have made two starters attainable. | . 17).
One more long road trip and three more national TV dates (March 27 vs. Brooklyn and April 5 vs. Houston on ESPN; April 16 at the Clips) for the Damian Lillard Show. J.J. Hickson, meanwhile, is up to 10 games with at least 15 points and 15 rebounds, tied with Zach Randolph for second overall.
John Schuhmann of NBA.com ranks the Blazers No. 20 (same as last week).
The Blazers have the league's No. 1 offense in March, scoring more than 116 points per 100 possessions over eight games. A two point guard lineup has been key, as they've committed fewer than 10 turnovers per 100 possessions in 122 minutes with both Eric Maynor and Damian Lillard on the floor. If they sustain anything close to that through five road games in seven days, it will be more than noteworthy.
Matt Dollinger of SI.com ranks the Blazers No. 17 (up from No. 18 last week). Note: this one was posted last Friday.
Inside Man. The Blazers' biggest theft came last summer when they drafted Rookie of the Year favorite Damian Lillard with the sixth pick and got their franchise point guard. But Portland's also been stealing wins all season despite one of the shallowest rosters in the league. Just for good measure, the team nabbed its new best bench player, Eric Maynor, from the Thunder when Oklahoma City decided it no longer had room for him. All in all, not a bad heist.
Kurt Helin of ProBasketballTalk.com ranks the Blazers No. 19 (up from No. 20).
Going small with Damian Lillard and Eric Maynor in the backcourt together has Portland playing some fantastic offensive ball. Five road games this week, tough schedule that includes stops in Chicago, Atlanta and Oklahoma City.
Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports ranks the Blazers No. 19 (same as last week).
The falling Blazers have split their past 10 games and have a brutal schedule the rest of March at Milwaukee, at Chicago, at Atlanta, at Oklahoma City, vs. Brooklyn, vs. Utah and at Golden State.
Matt Moore of CBSSports.com ranks the Blazers No. 17 (same as last week).
Beat Memphis and New York, lose to the Sixers. Makes sense.
David Aldridge of NBA.com did not include the Blazers in his "fine 15" this week.
John Hollinger (formerly) of ESPN.com ranks the Blazers No. 18 (up from No. 20 last week).
According to Hollinger's team stats, the Blazers ranked...
No. 10 (up from No. 12 last week) in offensive efficiency
No. 24 (up from No. 25 last week) in defensive efficiency
No. 16 (down from No. 17 last week) in rebound rate
No. 19 (down from No. 20 last week) in pace
Hollinger's Playoff odds: 2.2 percent (down from 5.5 percent)
Basketball-Reference.com Playoff Forecast: 0.6 percent (down from 2.6 percent)
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The Task Force Joins Global Effort to Eliminate One of Humanity's Oldest and Most Stigmatizing Diseases
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The Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy focuses on increasing coordination and answering critical research questions.
The Task Force for Global Health has been chosen as the secretariat or hub for a new partnership to eliminate leprosy, a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that burdens more than an estimated 200,000 people each year<|fim_middle|> a world without leprosy."
The Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy brings together organizations including the Novartis Foundation, ILEP, the International Association for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement (IDEA) as well as national leprosy programs and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The secretariat, hosted at The Task Force's new headquarters in Decatur, GA, is led by global public health expert Courtenay Dusenbury, MPH.
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The Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy will bring together multiple global organizations to develop a coordinated approach to eliminate the disease. Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a bacterial infection that, if left untreated, can cause disfigurement and nerve damage. Most persons affected by leprosy live in India, Brazil, or Indonesia. The United States sees around 100 new diagnoses of leprosy each year.
One of the oldest diseases known to humanity, leprosy has historically been hard to diagnose. If the infection is caught early, antibiotic treatment can cure the infection and prevent severe deformities. Symptoms, however, can take many years to show.
Previous efforts to eliminate the disease have focused on providing treatment for the infection and addressing the physical disabilities. Despite these efforts, the number of new cases has remained constant for the past decade, indicating that progress toward interrupting transmission has stalled.
David Addiss, MD, MPH, Task Force for Global Health senior advisor to the secretariat, said one focus of the new partnership will be to improve scientific understanding of the disease. "New treatment strategies have injected a renewed sense of optimism in the leprosy community. We now see how to finally make a dent in transmission," he said.
Pilot studies in eight countries are testing an elimination strategy that focuses on treating people who come in contact with an infected person with a single dose of medication. Initial findings show the risk of developing leprosy has been halved with this approach. Other efforts are focused on developing a vaccine to treat leprosy, and a blood test to diagnose the disease.
As secretariat for the Zero Leprosy partnership, The Task Force will support the development of an operational research agenda and increased coordination among partners working to eliminate the disease. It also will support a governance body, help national programs deploy new treatment strategies and diagnostic tools, and build a platform for effective advocacy and fundraising.
Addiss explained that The Task Force's experience and credibility in coalition building was a major factor in its selection as secretariat. "Our ability to collaborate and deliver results positioned us well to take on the role of supporting the leprosy partnership," he said. "Our job is to provide a framework that all members can get behind and to support the many partners who are doing the work."
Addiss added that The Task Force's track record and scientific expertise with other NTDs should prove valuable for the coalition as it seeks to end leprosy.
Tanya Wood, chief executive officer of ILEP, a federation of non-governmental organizations working on leprosy, said The Task Force's collaborative expertise will be helpful to the new partnership. "The Task Force is well-respected internationally and their experts bring a wealth of experience in understanding how essential collaboration is to bringing an end to diseases," she said.
Novartis Foundation head Ann Aerts, MD, MPH said The Task Force hosting the secretariat for the leprosy partnership provided an opportunity for exchange and learning. "We are keen to draw from The Task Force's expertise and experience working on some of the most neglected tropical diseases to finally achieve | 633 |
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NASA To Hold Briefing Preview<|fim_middle|> commercial space program.
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April 3, 2012 astronewsus 1 comment
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold a media briefing on Monday, April 16, to preview the SpaceX demonstration mission to the International Space Station, currently scheduled for launch April 30.
The briefing will immediately follow a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) conducted by senior NASA managers, space station partners and SpaceX officials. The review likely will conclude in the early afternoon. The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and on the agency's website.
During the flight, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will conduct a series of checkout procedures, which will test and prove its systems in advance of the rendezvous with the space station. The primary objectives for the flight include a fly-under of the station at a distance of 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) to validate the operation of sensors and flight systems necessary for a safe rendezvous. The spacecraft also will demonstrate the capability to abort the rendezvous.
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NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals
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As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a call for industry to submit proposals for the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Initiative.
It's expected that proposals will lead to Space Act Agreements that will help NASA and the U.S. achieve safe, reliable, and cost effective human access to space. NASA expects to make multiple awards this summer, with values ranging from $300 – $500 million.
To provide industry a better understanding of this initiative so that they may provide more comprehensive proposals, NASA plans a pre-proposal conference on Feb. 14, at the Courtyard Marriott in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Proposals are due March 23.
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NASA Receives Second Highest Number Of Astronaut Applications
More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the agency. After a thorough selection process, which includes interviews and medical examinations, nine to 15 people will be selected to become part of the 21st astronaut class.
"This is a great time to join the NASA family," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "Our newest astronauts could launch aboard the first commercial rockets to the space station the next generation of scientists and engineers who will help us reach higher and create an American economy that is built to last."
The Astronaut Selection Office staff will review the applications to identify those meeting the minimum requirements. Next, an expanded team, comprised mostly of active astronauts, will review those applications to determine which ones are highly qualified. Those individuals will be invited to Johnson Space Center for in-person interviews and medical evaluations.
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NASA Takes Next Step in Developing Commercial Crew Program
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NASA announced today a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency's plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to foreign governments.
Instead of awarding contracts for the next phase of the Commercial Crew Program, the agency plans to use multiple, competitively awarded Space Act Agreements. Using competitive Space Act Agreements instead of contracts will allow NASA to maintain a larger number of partners during this phase of the program, with the flexibility to adjust technical direction, milestones and funding.
This flexibility is important during a period of high budget uncertainty when NASA is receiving less funding than President Obama requested for the agency's | 1,012 |
A female student reported that a male aggressively grabbed her arm and yanked her as she walked across campus on Tuesday evening<|fim_middle|> when the suspect was on the south side of the building she quickly went down the stairwell and out the north doors.
The incident appears unrelated to the timely warning related to a male approaching women related to what he describes as modeling opportunities.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Campus Safety at (714) 484-7387. Imminent threats should be reported to 911.
Students and employees are reminded to report incidents or suspicious behavior to Campus Safety and/or Cypress Police immediately. Additionally, students are reminded that Campus Safety can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (714) 484-7387, and that it is important to program that number into their mobile phones for quick access. | . The student pulled away and was able to leave the area unharmed. She reported the incident to Campus Safety and Cypress Police were immediately notified. After follow-up investigation, the Campus Safety Department determined that the campus community would benefit knowing the details if the incident.
This series of images shows the person believed to be involved in an incident in which a female student was forcefully grabbed.
The victim stated, she continued up the stairs then the subject sped up alongside her and continued asking her, "where are you going?" The victim stated the subject then grabbed her left arm in the stairwell and tried to pull her towards him, but she jerked away quickly and commanded him: "let me go." She said she then continued up the stairs and pretended to go into the first classroom. The victim stated the subject went downstairs and she observed him on South-side of the lobby of Tech Ed 1. The victim stated | 183 |
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In-depth knowledge of international development issues with particular focus on gender, health, education, economic development or as they relate to adolescent girls as a target group.
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In-depth knowledge of organizations that work with adolescent girls in relevant sectors in Kenya and/or sub-Saharan Africa.
Strong understanding of data for program design and improvement.
Experience working with M&E teams to ensure effective implementation of the M&E plan.
Demonstrated experience working across a diverse set of partners and stakeholders, local NGOs/PVOs, and public/private agencies.
Only candidates who meet the basic requirements will be shortlisted and contacted for this position.
Offers are contingent upon receipt of funding from DF | 468 |
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Poor performance, girthing pain or loss of condition?
Your horse could have a stomach ulcers.
Gastroscopy describes a complete examination of the two lining tissues of the horses stomach using a 3.5m flexible video-endoscope. It is performed under light sedation and images are captured at specific points around the stomach and are graded and defined by type.
Equine gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS) is something we see<|fim_middle|> our head of internal medicine, Richard Hepburn BVSc MS(Hons) CertEM(IntMed) DipACVIM MRCVS (ACVIM & RCVS Specialist in Equine Medicine). | more and more frequently. If your horse is under performing, has behavioural changes, has a poor appetite, poor coat condition or pain on girthing then they may be suffering from gastric ulcers. Using gastroscopy to visualise the horse's stomach, we are able to see whether ulcers are present or not and also which type. Once diagnosed, we can offer the most appropriate treatment.
Primary squamous ulceration, which occurs in the white top half of the stomach as a result of increased acid exposure. This condition is more common in racehorses (up to 90%), and typically causes slowed eating, variable appetite, weight loss and poor performance. It is less common in sport and leisure horses (30%). Known risk factors are daytime forage deprivation, high concentrate diets, prolonged exercise on an empty stomach and recurrent transport.
Primary glandular disease, which occurs in the bottom half of the stomach and is believed to reflect a reduced ability of this tissue to protect itself from the acid that is normally there. Glandular disease is more common in sport and leisure horses (50-60%) than racehorses (<30%). Common clinical signs are behavioural change, development of girthing pain and poor performance. The cause of this type of ulceration is unknown, and is the focus of our research.
After gastroscopy, a specific treatment regime is devised based upon the location, severity and type of ulceration found, in addition targeted advice on changing management and feeding practice is given in order to improve gastric health and limit future ulcer development. Most horses are treated for 28 days, after which gastroscopy is repeated. Complete healing occurs in most cases seen at B&W, with less than 5% having long term ulcer recurrence.
At B&W we have completed around 300 gastroscopies a year since 2004 and are actively involved in researching this condition in sport and leisure horses. Most of our gastroscopies are carried out by | 400 |
A $1 million Seeding Solutions grant will go to a project to study the genetics of rice plants. The research is being led by principal investigator Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Genome Center at UC Davis.
She and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and collaborators, will develop and implement a chemistry-driven gene discovery approach to identify rice genes that influence root growth. The project targets protein kinases, enzymes that control diverse biological process in plants, such as root architecture and drought response.
"Our aim is to identify genes that alter root growth in rice, a staple food for half the world's people. Because root systems play an essential role in yield and drought tolerance, results of these studies are relevant to agriculture," said Ronald.
The FFAR grant has been matched with funding from the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Structural Genomics Consortium, AgBiome and Promega for a total $2.3 million investment.
"This project is a prime example of how public-private partnerships can advance our understanding of plant genetics to develop crops resistant to drought and other climate extremes," said Sally Rockey, executive director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
Researchers on this project also include David Drewry, co-principal investigator and professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Aled Edwards, collaborator, professor at the University of Toronto, and director of the Structural Genomics Consortium; and Rafael Najmanovich, collaborator, professor at the University of Montreal.
FFAR has also awarded $790,000 to UC Davis to test a new technology to improve the drying methods used in food production. Moisture must be removed from harvested agricultural products to safely preserve them prior to processing into food products.
Principal investigator Irwin Donis-Gonzalez (left) and assistant adjunct professor Kurt Kornbluth (right) in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering will research new advanced food-drying technology.
Researchers will test an innovative moisture-absorbing technology called drying beads, instead of relying on heated air to dehydrate foods such as grains, nuts, rice and seeds. The beads absorb water without using heat, reducing the use of energy by up to 50 percent during the drying process. The beads are reusable and can be reactivated, which would reduce drying costs over time.
The research is being led by principal investigator Irwin R. Donis-Gonzalez, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
"Drying agricultural produce is an energy-intensive process, and it is imperative to find alternative means of drying for the enhancement of food quality, safety, and economical operations, while reducing food losses and waste," said Donis-Gonzalez.
According to researchers, this technology could save more than 1.06 quadrillion kilojoules of energy annually in the U.S. This is about the same amount of energy it takes to provide electricity to residents of New York, California and Florida for one year.
The $790,000 FFAR grant has also been matched with funding from the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for a total $1.5 million investment.
"This project exemplifies how new innovations can help us produce a safe, reliable food supply that uses resources more efficiently<|fim_middle|>-principal investigator, assistant adjunct professor at UC Davis; Edward Spang, co-principal investigator, assistant professor at UC Davis; and Johan Van Asbrouck, collaborator, CEO of Rhino Research, Bangkok, Thailand.
See full release for more information. | ," Rockey said.
Researchers on this project include Kent J. Bradford, co-principal investigator, distinguished professor at UC Davis; Kurt Kornbluth, co | 33 |
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The Eagle Ford shale oil patch has seen brighter days. New well permits are down, production is low (down from its 2015 peak of 1.7 million b/d, to around 980,000 b/d this year) and producers are pulling out of the region to focus their efforts elsewhere.
Symbolic of the mood in the field, things were a little more subdued at the recent Hart Energy DUG Eagle Ford conference in San Antonio.
Many attendees were quick to notice the smaller scale of the conference this year. Lower oil and gas prices meant a lighter presence and scaled-back events surrounding the conference, which was held in conjunction with the Midstream Texas conference. Major players and past year exhibitors like Baker Hughes and Halliburton were obviously missing from the smaller-than-usual exhibition space and at least one attendee compared this year to past years by lamenting the absence of magicians and open bar at an after-hours mixer.
Attendance this year was healthy, but still was a telling reminder of the current state of the Eagle Ford. Around 1,500 people were at the conference, a more than 45% decrease from last year.
"While that's smaller than during the 'boom,' it's not down<|fim_middle|> billion barrels of oil, though just 10 billion is recoverable. The researchers estimate that there also is 462 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with 34 trillion cubic feet recoverable in the Eagle Ford.
Merger and acquisition opportunities also are attracting investments to the Eagle Ford as operators refocus on other basins, prune their portfolios or sell non-operating positions. | as much as the decline in crude oil price from the top to the bottom, or the fall in the US rig count, so we're feeling pretty good about it with the current market conditions," said Greg Salerno, vice president of marketing for conference presenter Hart Energy.
Finding the bright spots in the darkness seemed to be a theme at this year's conference.
Major operators focused their presentations on their cost-cutting prowess and efficiency milestones that they've achieved recently (including Chesapeake Energy's recent record of drilling a well in eight days).
"Records today are the normal for the future," said Jason Pigott, executive vice president of Chesapeake.
Christopher Heinson, the COO of Sanchez Energy, said the company has focused on optimizing returns in the Eagle Ford. He said the company has managed to cut per-well drilling costs from around $4.5 million to $3.5 million. They achieved this by "debundling" services and sourcing directly from providers.
All Eagle Ford operators who spoke mentioned technological advancements that have helped improve efficiencies such as automation, data management, longer horizontal reaches and other strategies that have allowed them to drill fewer wells, cheaply.
Despite the lower production numbers and languishing oil prices there is plenty of potential for the Eagle Ford basin and producers to remain optimistic.
"I'd like to think there are a few more Champagne bottles with corks ready to pop," said Dale Kokoski, regional vice president at Marathon Oil.
Eagle Ford's proximity to ports in Houston and Corpus Christi make the potential for cost-effective exports of both crude and natural gas an appealing possibility.
And there is still plenty of oil in the ground to get.
The University of Texas at Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology released new, unpublished research on the field at the conference.
Scott Tinker, bureau director, and Svetlana Ikonnikova, an energy economist there, said the Eagle Ford holds an estimated 230 | 393 |
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Moorgate was a postern in the London Wall originally built by the Romans. It was turned into a gate in the 15th century. Though the gate was demolished in 1762, the name survives as a major street in the City of London. The street connects the City to the London Boroughs of Islington and Hackney, and was constructed around<|fim_middle|> area of Moorfields, which was one of the last pieces of open land in the City. Today this region is a financial centre, and is home to several investment banks. The street also showcases historic and contemporary office buildings.
Moorgate station on the London Underground is remembered for the Moorgate tube crash of 1975. In the incident, a train terminating at the station failed to stop and crashed into a brick wall, and 43 people were killed. This resulted in systems being installed on the Underground which automatically stop trains at dead-ends, which have become known as Moorgate control. | 1846 as one of the new approaches to London Bridge.
The name "Moorgate" derives from the surrounding | 26 |
As a very busy bachelor, the microwave is possible my mostest favoritest appliance.
Don't get me wrong, I like central heat<|fim_middle|> But I suspect it's worth it.
Cooking a meal can be an expression of love. It can be a healing experience. It can take a meal from a utilitarian requirement for food to an experience with friends.
And it can be a learning experience. We can learn about nutrition. We can know what actually went into the food we're eating.
So it is with our spiritual lives. There are prepackaged spiritual meals – inspirational books, devotionals, and so on. There's nothing wrong with using a devotional – I use one too. But don't forget that the point of all of this "stuff" is a real, deep, meaningful, abiding love relationship with God.
Spend time with him. Spend time in the word. Spend time in nature. Let him into your movie-watchin' time. Let him direct you in service. Let him be your milk, bread, wine, meat, and more. | and air. And I like my stereo and hot water. The microwave comes in a close second to my iMac, but that's not a fair comparison. After all, my Mac – well, she's pretty and extremely functional. The nuker can cook, but that's pretty much it. But if it wasn't for the nuker, I would not eat nearly as well as I do.
I'm certainly not alone. As a society, there has been a radical shift over the past couple of decades. A shift towards prepared and packaged foods. As I walk down the freezer aisle at the grocery store, I see shelf after shelf full of complete meals in a box, entrees, snacks, breakfasts, family meals, and more. We want healthy. We want it to taste good. And we want it done yesterday.
But the power to cook foods quickly is not nearly the most amazing feat in life.
To be quite honest, I suspect that the way a pansy grows is more of a deep mystery of God than how little tiny bits of electromagnetic radiation can make food hot. Sure, it may take a little longer to grow food and prepare it. | 238 |
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Every year, we pick a theme for our Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards.
It's a challenging process because the theme represents many aspects of what we do. It reflects<|fim_middle|>. It's shared, not hidden. It's brave in moments of adversity and difficulty. It's pushing forward when you feel like giving up. It's the way we help other people feel powerful.
When I think of some of our most powerful leaders – leaders like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Michele Obama – I realized they all have these traits.
And so does every one of the 110 winners of this year's Top 100 Awards. They personify this kind of power, across our country and across arts, business, sports, science, entertainment, entrepreneurship, technology, the skilled trades and the public sector. They're making an impact in their industry while inspiring and empowering others to follow in their footsteps.
Thank you to KPMG in Canada, an empowering organization, for their support and leadership as the Presenting Partner for the Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards. As with everything they do, KPMG gives 100 per cent of their support to the recognition and advancement of women. They also give 100 per cent in their partnerships and we are grateful.
This year, "Powerfully Empowered" isn't just a theme. It's a call to action for all of us to redefine the word "power" itself, to change the way we think about power in our lives and help others feel powerful in theirs.
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Picking this year's theme, "Powerfully Empowered," was no different. It's about women who show their power not through their standing, but rather through the way they inspire and champion others, share their knowledge, create change and help others achieve their best. In short, it's about celebrating women who don't stand up just for themselves – they stand up for all of us.
As owner and CEO of the Women's Executive Network (WXN) and the Canadian Board Diversity Council (CBDC), I often travel across Canada to speak with leaders across roles and industries. Through those conversations, I hear one thing over and over: "I don't feel comfortable with the word power. I don't feel powerful."
In fact, for many of us, we're just plain uncomfortable identifying with the word "power" – we may even feel ashamed of it. We equate it to the car we drive, the office we hold, our physical strength, the money we have or the influence we exert. Some of us even attach negative connotations, especially when it refers to a woman.
Should we stop using the word? Quite the opposite – we should use it more, though in a different way. We need to toss out our old relationship to the word and start celebrating real power.
What is real power? It's not how we lift ourselves up; it's how we lift up everyone else around us. It's quiet in its confidence. It's unselfish and giving. It's authentic, humble and honest. It's kind and joyful | 359 |
Open cluster NGC 5822, spiral galaxy NGC 5962, and spiral galaxy NGC 5965
August 4–11, 2016: Open cluster NGC 5822 in Lupus offers small-telescope owners nice views<|fim_middle|>ae
These two galaxies were spotted mid-collision
Astronomers find 19 more galaxies missing their dark matter
Astronomers find surprisingly complex magnetic fields in a galaxy's halo
Hubble spots a galaxy brimming with young suns
Three supermassive black holes found lurking in one galaxy | , while large-telescope owners can seek out spiral galaxy NGC 5962 in Serpens Caput and spiral galaxy NGC 5965 in Draco.
By Michael E. Bakich | Published: Thursday, August 4, 2016
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You'll find spiral galaxy NGC 5962 in northern Serpens, just west of the three stars — Beta (β), Gamma (γ), and Kappa (κ) Serpentis — that form the Serpent's head.
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Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.
Targets for August 4–11, 2016
Small telescope: Open cluster NGC 5822
Large telescope: Spiral galaxy NGC 5962
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Howling with stars
This week's small-telescope target is open cluster NGC 5822 in the constellation Lupus the Wolf. You'll find it 2.6° south-southwest of magnitude 3.4 Zeta (ζ) Lupi. Easily visible to the naked eye from a dark site, this magnitude 6.5 cluster explodes with detail through binoculars or any telescope.
A 4-inch instrument at a magnification of 100x shows 50 stars. Don't look for a center because the stars are evenly distributed across 35'. That's an area 27 percent bigger than the Full Moon. Larger apertures add to the star count.
Head to Serpens
This week's first large-scope object is spiral galaxy NGC 5962 in the constellation Serpens. Specifically, it lies in the Caput — or head — section of that star pattern. It glows at magnitude 11.3 and measures 2.6' by 1.8'.
You'll find this galaxy in northern Serpens, just west of the three stars — Beta (β), Gamma (γ), and Kappa (κ) Serpentis — that form the Serpent's head. Point your scope 2.6° west-northwest of Beta Ser.
This galaxy exhibits "flocculent" spiral structure, meaning its arms appear to be broken up into many small pieces in contrast to the "grand design" spirals with well-developed arms.
At magnifications of 150x and higher, you'll notice NGC 5962's broad central concentration. A sharp, bright nucleus some 15" in diameter lies at its very center.
Dragon spiral
This week's second large-telescope target is another spiral galaxy, NGC 5965 in Draco the Dragon. This magnitude 11.7 object sits 2.6° south-southeast of magnitude 3.3 Iota (ι) Draconis.
Through a 12-inch telescope at 200x, this galaxy is a classic edge-on spiral, and it appears more than four times as long as it is wide oriented northeast to southwest. Its given measurements are 5.2' by 0.7'.
Smaller scopes don't show this length-to-width disparity as well because the spiral arms fade rapidly as they taper away from the core. The northeastern arm outshines the other by quite a bit.
And, if I may, I'd like to say a quick but heartfelt "thank you" to fans of these podcasts: This week's installment is the 200th since I began this series nearly four years ago.
I've never repeated an object on purpose, and I'm nowhere near out of them yet. So keep listening and, even more importantly, keep observing.
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When the Milky Way erupted in 100,000 supernov | 928 |
Some Christians get as sinfully giggly and giddy as a teenybopper over the latest boy band coming to town when the latest celebrity professes Christ. When a celebrity, as when any person comes to Christ, we should rejoice like the angels in heaven, but we shouldn't be so naive as to think that now the gospel will have some cred before the masses. We should rejoice when a professional athlete converts to Christ, not because they will make the gospel acceptable before men, but because the gospel makes them acceptable before God. They don't dress up the gospel; the gospel dresses them up.
When Jesus rose from the dead it was first witnessed by women. They were at His cross, they were at His burial, and they were the first to see the empty tomb and witness the resurrection. Compiling the gospels we learn that Salome and Joanna were also with Mary Magdalene and the other Mary. Matthew emphasizes only two women though. Why? The number two has a legal sound to the Jewish ear. The law required two or three witnesses to establish testimony, but women were not considered credible witnesses. If the apostles were making this stuff up, these are details they would never have fabricated. If this were a hoax, then the gospel writers would have men, strong credible men of repute, being the first witnesses. Man wouldn't make something like this up, but God would ordain it so. God chooses the weak to shame the strong.
The power of the gospel is not in those who testify, but in the One testified of. You don't have to be cool enough, intelligent enough, suave enough, convincing enough, or charismatic enough to share the gospel. You don't have to be great to share the gospel because the gospel is great enough all on its own.
A Christian seeking significance, meaning, or purpose is a contradiction. It would make more sense for Winston Churchill in the midst of the Second World War to think, "I really wish I had a task, a mission, something to do." As Christians we don't get to live where we want, we don't get to proclaim what we want or how we want, and we don't get to determine the response to our message or how we should respond to those responses. We get<|fim_middle|> here to help, and here's what I'm going to do." We are not co-redeemers. Jesus' mission was not just to proclaim the gospel, but to be the gospel. Our mission is not to be the gospel, but to proclaim the gospel Jesus is. We don't saunter up to Jesus; He comes after us, calls us out of darkness, and makes us messengers of light. He makes us ambassadors such that when we herald the gospel, the glory of Christ is set before souls calling for a response of submission or rebellion. We herald something so glorious that an opportunity for great salvation or great sin is set before them (2 Corinthians 2:14-16). When we proclaim the good news, we must also share the bad news – that they abide under the wrath of God, and that should they reject this message, the wrath they will have to endure will be even greater (Matthew 10:15). This is so because as ambassadors sent by the King they are not responding to us, rather, God is making His appeal through us (2 Corinthians 5:20).
Jesus' mission is over, under, and through ours. He is over our mission calling and sending us. He is under our mission sustaining and empowering us. And He advances His kingdom not because of us, but through us.
His mission is not ours, but our mission is His. He is over, under, and working through our mission. | something infinitely better, cosmically bigger, and eternally glorious. We don't need to find our own mission, Jesus has folded us into His.This mission isn't elective Christianity for God's nerdy children, but essential Christianity for all His children.
Contrary to any impressions you may have gained on your high-school mission trip, Jesus does not send us as an affluent and indulgent father might send his bohemian child to venture the world aimlessly in an attempt to discover himself. Jesus doesn't just send, He instructs. He tells us where to go, what to do, and how to do it. We don't make or discover our own mission, He gives us one.
His mission is not ours, but our mission is His. We don't saunter up to Jesus and co-opt His mission, saying, "I'm | 172 |
Write Moves
Throughout July, we hosted an online course, Write Moves, run by Rakhee Jasani and Vanio Papadelli, for women of all ages to come together through mindful movement, yoga and writing, supporting each other to become happier and more confident in their bodies.
Rakhee and Vanio believe that mindful movement, yoga, writing and dance are the perfect tools to find your way through the currently ever<|fim_middle|> upcoming event times. | -changing circumstances. They explored grounding; flowing and unfurling; seeing and perceiving; listening and joy and celebrating. Stories emerged through movement, visualisation, words and writing. Through the course, friendships were formed and experiences shared.
The final session exploring shape-shifting is available to everyone whether or not they participated in Write Moves thanks to support from The Mayor of London's Culture Seeds.
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About Rakhee Jasani
Rakhee Jasani is a yoga and qigong teacher, writer, and a freelance creative producer. She creates courses and writes for the yoga website Movement for Modern Life and teaches yoga across London including classes for teenagers. Rakhee co-founded and ran the multi-award winning, youth arts charity, Eastside Educational Trust, which provides creative opportunities to children and young people across London. She is an independent Assessor for Arts Council England and is on the advisory board for The Literary Consultancy.
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Vanio is a movement artist and teacher who works across the fields of dance and theatre. She has been teaching regularly at Rose Bruford College and Goldsmiths for over ten years. This spring, Vanio will be leading the module Writing The Body for the MA courses at Laban. Her teaching is inspired by yoga, Contact Improvisation, somatic movement, release dance and physical theatre. She has co-organised large scale and community events in the UK and internationally. Her performance work explores women's issues and has travelled to Greece, the UK, Germany, Egypt and Lebanon.
Write Moves is supported by the Mayor of London's Culture Seeds.
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Here are some interesting passages from another interview with Tom Robbins. You might like them –<|fim_middle|>'ve been quite outspoken in your criticism of U.S. foreign policy and the current wave of ultra-patriotism. Why do novelists such as you, Kurt Vonnegut, Sherman Alexie, and Peter Matheissen seem to get away with this criticism more so than do entertainers and political figures?
"TR: Tragically, a nation that was created by intellectuals and visionaries has been completely taken over by venal corporate gangsters, delusional Christian fruitcakes, and hopelessly shallow Texas shit-kickers. In such a dumbed-down environment, the cowboys in power probably don't feel that they need to pay much attention to the protests of the intellectual or artistic community. We're considered irrelevant. That's why when Jerry Falwell included me on the list of 'traitors' he wants rounded up and shipped back to Guantanamo Bay, I was honored. Just put me in the same cellblock as the Dixie Chicks and I'll be happy to go.
"Having said that, I must point out that I try to avoid the blatantly political both in my life and in my work. Instead, my approach is to encourage readers to embrace life, on the assumption that anyone who's saying 'yes' to life will automatically say 'no' to those forces and policies that destroy life, suppress it or reduce it to mere survival.
"Interviewer: How dangerous is the threat to independent thinking today?
"TR: Worse than it's been in a long, long while. However, independent thinking has always courted danger because it's always bolstered enlightenment in its ongoing struggle with ignorance and dogma. It's a threat both to those who fear liberty and to those who profit financially from mindless obedience and herd control. Jesus, you may recall, was an independent thinker.
"Interviewer: Are there any escape routes left?
"TR: Of course. Villa Incognito, for example, takes history, current events, and myth, braids them into a circus high wire, stretches that wire across the yawning abyss of consensual reality, and tempts us to walk across it if we dare. The wire leads inward. It's anchored in the soul, in full consciousness, in our ancient animal past. It connects us to the Mystery. It's the ultimate escape route. It's always been there. It can be obscured, but never destroyed."
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[00:00:03] So hello everyone and thank you very much for joining us and welcome to our commuter Q&A session, I'm Caitlin Neal, I'm a second year criminology and security studies student and I'm going to be hosting the session. Today we'll be covering<|fim_middle|> student bubble a bit, because sometimes when you're living in student accommodation, you're very much in that world all of the time.
[00:06:37] It's hard to separate university life. I think the actual physical travelling away from the city centre and from your campus or wherever you are. And it kind of helps, helps me mentally just to sort of decompress and have that time to. Yeah, to to study outside of the university environment.
[00:06:58] OK, thank you very much. Joanna do you have anything to add?
[00:07:02] Yeah, like I've already said, by commuting from home, it means I'm saving a lot of money and also I get to spend more time with my family as well, especially during this time we're in. And it's nice to be at home..
[00:07:18] Thank you. And finally, can you please share your top tips for commuting to university Joanna?
[00:07:23] So I'd definitely say you need to be organised. I definitely try to book my tickets in advance just to make sure I'm not spending ridiculous amounts of money. And also planning my driving routes as well as Birmingham can be a bit busy. You want to know the best time to travel into uni. Try not to get into traffic as well. So be organised.
[00:07:49] And Kate do you have anything to add?
[00:07:51] I think definitely be organised, just allow yourself extra time, I think having a bit of extra time is always helpful. So if you forget anything or if something goes wrong, you don't have to, like, panic about not being there on time. And I think, you know, use your time kind of travelling to and from university to like prepare or and to just kind of decompress from the days when you're coming back. I think it kind of sets you up, it gives you a bit more time just to set your mind up for the day as well, which is really cool. And I also would say try to travel, especially on the bus and stuff, try to travel as light as possible. Don't bring too much heavy stuff with you because it's really awkward. I know there's been a few times where I've had to bring a yoga mat in and it's always like this sort of like juggling. So try and travel as light as you can because it just makes your life a lot easier.
[00:08:43] Thank you very much, both of you,they were the generic questions, everybody seems to ask, we are sort of going to move on to uni myth busters now. So as commuting, you know, more than anyone the reservations about commuting before you go, are you going to miss out on student opportunities? So we're sort of going to get your point of view. What, do you think it had an impact commuting? And so Kate if you're happy to start, is it hard making friends with people who already know each other as they live in halls and you are commuting in?
[00:09:19] I think in terms of like people who are on your course, I think everyone's in a different situation. You know, not everyone's in halls. There's other people who commute as well. You're not like the only person who commutes in. And so those are the people who can kind of identify and understand that you are in the same situation. And I think everyone wants to get to know as much as many people as possible. So it's not like, you know, I know these people and I am not going to talk to anyone else. I also think everyone's very open to meeting new people and making friends, especially people who are having different experiences. And again, so they can get outside of their bubble. It's nice to meet other people who have different kinds of experiences.
[00:10:07] Thank you very much, it's very true, you do need people with completely different experiences. So Joanna, have you ever been late to university because you're a commuter?
[00:10:17] Yes, I actually have in the past. But when I do arrive late, it's time to apologise to the lecturer, you know, and just say what the reason was. But I try to leave in enough time just to prevent being late because it's like sometimes a distraction to everyone else who's there. But yes, I have been late before.
[00:10:38] I think everyone's been late. Even if they aren't a commuter, it's definitely a first thing as well! So these questions are a bit tentative at the moment Kate, but how do you go on a night out whilst being a commuter?
[00:10:52] I think you don't have to miss out on that experience. I mean, obviously right now it's a bit tricky to navigate and I think you can kind of plan ahead if you want to have a night out with friends and stuff and you could potentially stay with friends and also, depending on how far you have to travel, you could kind of plan it so you're not travelling to it and stuff. And then you can meet up with friends and get ready there and things before you go out. It's definitely possible still to have nice nights out and have a nice time and stuff I would say.
[00:11:31] And hopefully by the time everyone comes next year we'll have a bit more energy back. And the last myth is, is it really expensive, which I think both of you have covered? Obviously explore your options before you go, as a student you want to save the most money.Do either of you have anything to add?
[00:11:48] I think just kind of shop around and make sure you know how to save money and stuff and, you're not kind of
[00:11:58] Spending unnecessary money and things, but that's just a general thing.
[00:12:07] So thank you. That brings us to the end of the session. Thank you very much for joining us. And we hope you found this commuter video useful. If you have any more questions, please take a look at the BCU website or feel free to email. So, yeah, take care and goodbye everyone. Bye!
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© 2011-2022 Birmingham City University | a variety of useful tips on commuting to university. I'm joined by several lovely panel members. So let's go around the room for some introductions, starting with Joanna, please.
[00:00:25] Yeah. Hi, everybody. My name is Joanna
[00:00:32] For my first two years, I lived in Birmingham and I commuted to university through walking.
[00:00:38] And in my third year I live back in my hometown and I drive to uni and catch a train . Thank you very much, Joanna. And please, Kate.
[00:00:47] Hi, everyone. I'm a second year student on the BA Applied Theatre Community and Education course and I commute to uni by the bus every day.
[00:00:58] Thank you. So we wanted to get the session together on creating, as a lot of BCU students do so and there's a large proportion of people that take a variety of different transports. So as Joanna mentioned, she originally lived in Birmingham for her first three years at university, but now she commutes by train and by car. So, Joanna, do you mind telling us a little bit more about this?
[00:01:17] Yes. So I'll catch the train to Birmingham New Street most days. And because that station is not very close to City South campus, I then take another train into five ways. And from five ways it's like a 10 like 15 minute walk to campus, which is not that far for me. However, if you do go to the city centre campus, you don't have to take the train to five ways. You can just stop off at New Street and it's another 10, 15 minute walk. And I know that some of the train stations like Snow Hill and More Street, and they seem very far. I've not caught any trains into Moor Street or Snow Hill, but they're not too far. And then when I drive into uni, I normally park close by uni sidestreets, making sure that I can stay there for the full day. However, there are car parking spaces near uni but there are two hour restrictions there so you just have to be careful when parking. But yes, through commuting by the train, there are some benefits because I can revise on the train or pre read on the train, which is helpful, it like stimulates my mind before uni. And then when I'm driving, obviously I'm saving money by not staying in Birmingham. I'm staying at home. So, yeah, that's useful. It has its pros and cons.
[00:02:44] Yes. Very helpful if you're a student to dave money. So I thank you very much, Joanna. And now Kate, you mentioned you get the bus to University every day and would you mind giving us a quick overview of commute?
[00:02:55] So I live in Balsall Heath, which is kind of just outside the city centre. So it takes me about twenty five minutes to half an hour to get into university. So I usually get the thirty five bus and I have to do a bit of a walk from the bus stop into Millenium Point and that's where I'm based. And, but it's super easy as sometimes the buses can be a bit hit and miss but they usually pretty good and of course the Birmingham is such a big city, the bus services and public transport, that's really good. So if you're based at City South or another campus, it's really easy to get the bus in and the network's so big. So you never really have a problem managing to get a bus.
[00:03:39] Yeah, Birmingham's notorious for its transport links isn't it. So thank you, panel members to all that helpful information. And just to note, more information for our commuting can be found on the BCU website and definitely lots of other information about the university. Please have a look at that. So now it's all going to go into more of a generic Q&A of questions that are commonly asked by students before they arrive at BCU. And the first one would be, Where can I go for support for commuting into university? So Joanna if you're OK to start with that.
[00:04:21] The transport team at the university as well, they can LINK you with good transport links.
[00:04:28] Thank you very much. And Kate,do you have anything to add?
[00:04:32] I think Joanna said it. I Remember during fresher's that was a lot of help and ways to go around and talk to people if you needed advice and stuff on saving money and getting passes and different things like that.
[00:04:46] Yes, so I'll come to you with what can I do to save money when commuting?
[00:04:52] So there's lots of stuff available I know for me and I pay monthly for my bus pass just because it works out so much cheaper than spending money every day, buying bus passes or even weekly. So I pay about 40 pounds a month, I think, on like unlimited bus travel. It's so much easier for me because you once you have that card, you don't have to worry about, like buying tickets every day and and you do end up saving a lot of money. So that's what I do anyway.
[00:05:30] And I know there's lots of other and possible services that you can get to get reduced tickets and stuff as a student.
[00:05:38] Yeah it's definitely worth checking your options online.
[00:05:40] And there is more information on the BBC Web site. So Joanna useful apps, any such information do you use to help you commute?
[00:05:52] So when I take the train I use the National Rail Service website and I can just find my tickets easily.
[00:05:59] I can either print them out in the station or have them on my phone, which is very useful for me. And then when I'm driving, I just use driving apps such as Waze, which is very simple to use, or Google Maps.
[00:06:15] Thank you very much. And Kate, what do you think are thye top benefits of commuting?
[00:06:21] I really like having a bit of space between kind of university and where I live, I think it kind of helps you get out of the | 1,425 |
Pittsburgh has a reputation for transforming itself. Once a<|fim_middle|> art, and travel she enjoys visiting other organizations with a similar focus on conservation and education. | grimy industrialized city, we have become a network of neighborhoods with green spaces, bike trails, culturally rich attractions, and a thriving economy. The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden mirrors our transformation story.
Reclaiming land from Pittsburgh's industrial past, they transformed land and ponds into an artistic nature experience. Acres that were once farmed, logged and mined have been reinvented and now offer hiking trails, flowers, and surprising works of art. A Monet worthy pond that was once filled with acid is now alive with lotus. Barred Rock Chickens protect the plants through their natural diet of insects and also help to fertilize the crops.
The gardens offer plenty of surprises for kids from a giant bird nest that could fit a large human family to an enchanted area for reading time complete with toadstools on which to perch.
With 460 acres left to steward, it seems this impressive example of reclamation has only just begun.
Kathleen Bodenlos is the Director of Marketing at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Passionate about nature, | 213 |
I just love my grandmother's recipe for stuffed cabbage–the smell of it cooking just says 'High Holidays' to me. Because I have vegetarians at my table every year (my daughter and sil), I always make a batch that is purely vegetarian. It's really the Ginger Snaps, not the meat, that gives it a special flavor anyway. This year, I decided to eliminate a step and make my veggie cabbage a little differently and it turned out really well. This recipe makes about 16 rolls depending on how<|fim_middle|> more dense filling, place the mixture in the bowl of a processor with the steel knife inserted and pulse a few times. The mixture will tighten .
Scatter sliced onions and any leftover cabbage on bottom of baking dish. Shape veggie mixture lightly into logs and roll them in par boiled cabbage leaves. Arrange cabbage rolls on top of the sliced onions. Place thinly sliced tomato on top of rolls.
Preheat oven to: 375°F. Mix veggie broth with ground cookies, brown sugar and lemon juice. Taste. Add more sugar or lemon if needed. Pour over cabbage rolls and place in preheated oven.
For freezing: Cool completely and divide into smaller pans depending on how many you need for each dinner. Be sure to label! | large or small you make them.
Hint: The texture of the filling very much depends on the brand of veggie meat you choose. Some of them are very sticky (Gimme Lean) and need no bread crumbs or egg. They just need the onions, pepper and water to loosen up the mixture. On the other hand, some of the brands (Lightlife) are grainy and actually crumble. They need the egg and crumbs to tie them together. Both types of meat result in delicious Veggie Stuffed Cabbage. You just have to treat them differently. For this recipe, I used Lightlife.
Mix veggie crumbles, minced onion, pepper, egg, crumbs and water together with your hands. For a | 148 |
Q: What is the purpose of the ropes tied on roofs? So every interactable object I've found in the game so far has had some purpose. Ropes tied to anything means you can shoot it with a rope arrow and something will happen. Shooting at one tied to doors will allow you to break them down. Shooting at a hanging object (e.g., boxes,<|fim_middle|>.
But I haven't found the purpose of ropes tied to roofs.
Shooting it when standing on a suspended box doesn't cause you to swing (although it goes against all physics). Shooting it from the ground does nothing as far as I can tell.
What do these things do for me if I shoot at it with a rope arrow?
A: Once you reach a certain point in the game, you can freely travel around the campsites gathering any missed GPS caches, relics, documents, etc. In some of these areas, the Mountain Village specifically, there will be more enemies, as well as new, helpful objects appearing in your Survival Instincts.
More specifically, there are some grounding points for rope lines scattered about, generally with a direct line of sight on the roofs with the rope coils. You can fire a rope arrow into the roof, ground it to the pole, and enjoy some ease of travel around the once hard-to-travel Mountain Village.
Sadly, that seems to be the only use for those roofs. Minor, unnecessary rope-lines, and annoying golden glares in your Survival Instincts.
| torches, etc.) will cause it to swing. One tied to a large pillar means there's a mounting point nearby to create a rope bridge | 30 |
Bites and Brews coming to Fort Bend County Museum.
Foodies and fans of local beers and wines are invited to an evening of sampling and splendor at the Fort Bend County Museum's exciting new event: Bites & Brews, set for Saturday, September 21 at the historic<|fim_middle|>, where the paintings of Charles Weiss will be on display for a limited time only. Local musicians, HeartStrings and The Cool Tones, will be performing for this unforgettable soiree that is sure to become a favorite regular happening for Fort Bend County.
The Moore Home is located right next to the Fort Bend County Museum at 406 South 5th Street in Richmond. Festivities will begin at 6: 30 p.m. and continue through 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 each or $45 per couple, available at the gate or for purchase ahead of time through the Museum at (281) 342-6478. | 1883 Home of Congressman John M. Moore.
Bites & Brews will feature a variety of vendors including Saint Arnold Brewery, Braman Winery, Pier 36, Joseph's, Teresita's Catering, The Railroad Café, A Sweet Tooth, Fajita Pete's, and George Ranch Historical Park. These and many more will be offering light bites and samplings of wines, brews and treats of all kinds.
During the event, guests can explore the Fort Bend County Museum's gallery of exhibits | 108 |
Earth Mantra is very happy to welcome Finnish ambient composer Janne Hanhisuanto to our humble netlabel, with his beautiful new<|fim_middle|> the end of the album, to evoke the emergence of spring, as "ice melts, snow melts, water starts to run, and outside temperature is increased". A very nice touch.
Janne reports that Icescapes is the first in a series of "water movements" releases that he has been pursuing, with the second release currently under construction. He is also considering a related video installation, a collection of pictures and videos combined with the music, another work in progress. We are very excited by these concepts and hope that he shares these with us as he develops them.
We are particularly struck by the strength of the compositions. As if the sheer opulence of the sounds was not enough, this is music that one can really sink one's teeth into. The melodies are achingly lovely, the chord sequences are fresh and mature, and the evolution of the pieces combines both elements of traditional structure and modern serialism. Really, really well thought out music.
And so we are very proud to introduce Janne Hanhisuanto to the Earth Mantra audience, and are very inspired by Icescapes, his latest masterwork. An outstanding album that is a must-hear for anyone who appreciates soothing, tonal ambient music, and one that certainly should be counted amongst the top light ambient albums of 2010.
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Read the Star's End review here. Congratulations Janne! | album Icescapes. We have a real treat in store for you with this release, which is a collection of smooth and utterly gorgeous ambient tracks. Ranging from tranquil synthesized tone poems, to gentle acoustic piano pieces, to pulsing electronic compositions, there is truly something for everyone in this exquisite album.
As one might surmise from the title, the music in Icescapes was inspired by water in winter; icy cold, white and mysterious atmospheres, natural ice sculptures, and enigmatic marks in snow all inspired Janne to compose this succulent music. He also intentionally 'warmed up' the music towards | 126 |
Last week, I was looking forward to sharing an experience from my childhood with my 14-year-old son. We had the opportunity to get away, just the two of us, for a few days at our family's lake cabin. We were planning to go on a boat ride, and I was very excited. Boat rides are my love language. Being at the lake restores my soul. It's my favorite place on earth. I grew up there.
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boat ride. At all. I was so disappointed. Crushed. And I let him know it. I had been looking forward to the wind on my face, the sound of the boat splicing through the water, and being able to forget about the stresses of life for a few minutes.
When he told me he changed his mind, I was not "slow to speak or slow to anger". Quite the opposite. My words crushed his spirit. I could see the pain I inflicted in his eyes the moment my words left my mouth. But it was too late. The words had already been spoken and there was no taking them back.
He told me that when I said I was disappointed, he thought I meant I was disappointed "in him", and that's what he heard and internalized. He thought I was disappointed in having him for a son, in his character, and that I wished he was different. That was the message that was playing over and over in his mind like a recorded message.
I<|fim_middle|> our argument. He said it still bothered him a little. I asked if there was anything I could say or do to make things better. "No, I think it will just wear off in a day or two," he said.
Our words carry so much weight.
They have the power to take root in our hearts and mind. They turn into attitudes and shape the way we think about ourselves and others. Words become like a compass directing our thoughts, feelings, and actions into adulthood.
I don't want my words spoken in anger to play on repeat in my son's mind. I want my words of encouragement, love, and acceptance to be the words he remembers.
Let's ask the Holy Spirit each new day to help us be mindful of the weight of our words. | apologized and told him I was not disappointed "in him", that I was disappointed and let down at the situation. I asked him if he could forgive me, and he said "yes". The next day, I checked in with him to see how he was feeling since | 54 |
Tuesday Toss: Sizing Up the Schedule, 121 Games to Glory
By Evan Lepler
It's finally starting to feel real, and yeah, after nearly two full years of waiting, it absolutely will be spectacular. The next AUDL season, long an uncertainty that we've been waiting nearly 21 months for, is now just 52 days away.
If you haven't already done it, get your calendars out!
On Monday, the league unveiled its 2021 schedule, with plans for 114 regular season games over 12 weeks from June 4 to August 22, followed by seven playoff experiences over the following three weekends, all culminating with the title tilt under the lights in Washington D.C. slated for September 11. Many teams have already begun practicing, all with the dream of competing for that championship on one of the last summer Saturdays before the leaves turn. The journey to that eventual destination, once an abstract idea, is now a distinct path, as each franchise can begin to honestly visualize its road to success.
There's no question that it's gonna be a difficult grind, with a dozen games jammed into as many weeks, including a total of 35 doubleheader weekends (defined as a team having multiple games on the same weekend). These twin-bills are almost always Friday/Saturday or Saturday/Sunday struggles, exhausting back-to-back battles that create circumstantial hurdles in a season where fatigue and conditioning could be even bigger factors than they have been in the past.
The Madison Radicals and Pittsburgh Thunderbirds are no longer in the same division, but they are the two teams with three doubleheader weekends apiece. For Madison, they're scheduled for Friday/Saturday in Week 1, Week 5, and Week 9, featuring two Friday night games against Chicago across the three weekends. For Pittsburgh, they're scheduled for Friday/Saturday in Week 3, Week 9, and Week 11, a six-game murderer's row that includes two games with New York and also road challenges at Philadelphia, Raleigh, Atlanta, and Boston! That is, in a word, Yikes! Sure is a good thing Max Sheppard's only taken one day off from training since the 2019 season ended.
Another dozen teams have a pair of doubleheader weekends throughout the summer, though perhaps the couple corresponding byes will be important and timely. Conversely, defending champion New York Empire is the only franchise that has zero weeks off, eschewing doubleheaders for the privilege/burden of having just one contest each weekend for 12 straight weeks without a breather.
One quirk of the 2021 schedule is the rise of Friday night ultimate. Currently, there are multiple games on 11 of the 12 Friday evenings, with the third Friday in June featuring five different matchups, more than any other Friday I can ever recall. Among other minutiae, there are a season-low seven games slated for Week 5 (July 2-4), but there will be at least eight games in every other week. And get ready to begin this quest with a bang! The busiest slate of the season actually arrives on opening weekend, a 12-game barrage with every single team in action and five franchises playing two games apiece.
For a deeper dive into the breakdown of the schedule, here's an eagle-eyed view of the layout:
Week 1—June 4-5: 12 games (4 Fri, 8 Sat)
Week 2—June 11-12: 9 games (2 Fri, 7 Sat)
Week 3—June 18-20: 11 games (5 Fri, 5 Sat, 1 Sun)
Week 5—July 2-3: 7 games (3 Fri, 4 Sat)
Week 6—July 9-11: 8 games (1 Fri, 6 Sat, 1 Sun)
Week 7—July 16-18: 11 games (2 Fri, 7 Sat, 2 Sun)
Week 8—July 23-24: 8 games (2 Fri, 6 Sat)
Week 9—July 30-August 1: 11 games (2 Fri, 7 Sat, 2 Sun)
Week 10—August 6-8: 10 games (2 Fri, 7 Sat, 1 Sun)
Week 11—August 13-15: 8 games (2 Fri, 5 Sat, 1 Sun)
If you're doing the math, that's 114 games, six at home and six on the road for the 19 teams located in the United States. (Our three Canadian clubs, Montreal Royal, Ottawa Outlaws, and Toronto Rush, will embark on their own competitive tussle starting in July. We'll miss ya, MontreOttaRonto, and we eagerly await your return to the league-wide story in 2022. I'll be dreaming of my next plate of poutine every night between now and then.)
Here's the breakdown of two-game weekends for the 12-week slate and how many each team has on its schedule. Notably, the number of doubleheader weekends is equal to the number of weekend's off each team has.
Week 1: DC, Detroit, Indy, Madison, Tampa Bay
Week 2: None
Week 3: Boston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Diego
Week 4: Austin, Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay
Week 5: Madison, Seattle
Week 6: Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia
Week 7: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Indy
Week 8: Los Angeles, San Diego
Week 9: Madison, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Seattle
Week 10: DC, Raleigh
Week 11: Minnesota, Pittsburgh
Week 12: Boston, San Jose
Doubleheader Weekends
Atlanta: 1
Austin: 2
Boston: 2
Chicago: 1
Dallas: 2
DC: 2
Detroit: 2
Indianapolis: 2
Los Angeles: 2
Madison: 3
New York: 0
Philadelphia: 2
Pittsburgh: 3
Raleigh: 1
San Diego: 2
San Jose: 1
Seattle: 2
Tampa Bay: 2
The other noteworthy dynamic of the 2021 schedule is the reality that, unlike the Central and West Divisions, the (super) Atlantic's 12-game marathon is not competitively balanced. Technically, neither is the West's, but the geographic rivalries in the new West Division make it quite sensible for each team to play their primary travel partner—Dallas & Austin, LA & San Diego, San Jose & Seattle—four times apiece, while playing the other four teams twice, once at home and one on the road. In the five-team Midwest, each team plays the other four three times apiece, a relatively simple and easy arrangement.
In the expanded Atlantic, however, the eight-team battle royale—sadly, without the Royal—consists of each team having five opponents that they play twice, once at home and once on the road, and two franchises that they will only see once. Without knowing for sure how good everyone's gonna be after nearly two years without competition, it's tough to categorically state who got lucky in terms of who they only have to face one. But you don't need to be a postgraduate seeking your Masters in ultimate to predict that New York and Raleigh both should be pretty good again. Boston, DC, Pittsburgh, and Tampa all have to face the Empire and Flyers twice apiece, while Atlanta and Philly only have three total games against the presumptive top two. The Hustle will not travel to New York, and the Phoenix get everyone but Raleigh at home. Oh, and the Flyers and Empire, who gave us the game of the year when their then-interdivisional classic went to double OT in 2019, are only scheduled to see each other once in the 2021 regular<|fim_middle|> the tone for the 12-game odyssey that will arrive, unfold, and end all too quickly.
If only the 52 days between now and opening night could fly by that fast.
Seven on the Line
By this point, you have presumably heard about Chicago's huge superstar haul. Last week, the AUDL Minute revealed the signings of former Madison Radicals Peter Graffy and Pat Shriwise, former Indianapolis AlleyCat Keegan North, ultimate legend and two-time AUDL champ Kurt Gibson, and young phenom Joe White, who will be a pro ultimate rookie this summer after winning gold medals at College Nationals (in 2017) and U-24 Worlds with Team USA (in 2018 and 2019). These additions, along with the three-year commitments from returning stars like Pawel Janas and Nate Goff, have quickly reshaped the narrative surrounding 2021 expectations for a team that has averaged just five wins a year over the past three seasons. While the credit for constructing such a strong overall roster can be divvied around to many different people, Coach Dave Woods thinks one captain in particular deserves most of the praise. "Charlie Furse was a recruiting powerhouse," said Woods. "I tell him all the time, you're the reason why we have the roster that we do. Don't let anyone else take credit." Furse, who will turn 31 this June, is entering his third season with Chicago. He was named captain prior to the 2020 season getting canceled, and his efforts and energies throughout the endless offseason may end up being viewed as critical groundwork for the Union's 2021 aspirations. "I will never undervalue or underestimate the value of offseason/preseason recruiting," said Woods. "Just having conversations with people, planting seeds, revisiting the crops, however you want to use the metaphor. I would say 75 percent of the roster this year is because the efforts of Charlie Furse."
There's no doubt that top notch recruiting can be a gamechanger, but occasionally a team will just get exceptionally fortunate with high-end talent simply showing up and wanting a chance to compete. This is basically what happened recently with the San Jose Spiders and their new BYU duo, Jordan Kerr and Jacob Miller, who live in Utah but were eager to join an AUDL team for the 2021 season. "The Utah thing, I wish there was a secret or magic sauce, but we just put out our tryout form, and they just applied, they walked in off the street," said Spiders GM Jackson Stearns. "[Head Coach] Dan [Silverstein] actually thought it was gonna be a troll, cause it was just a google form, but I was like, yeah maybe it's not. Let's reply and see what's up, so we set up a call with them. They had also applied to the Growlers and to LA, and we were the only ones who got back to them in a timely manner. We emphasized that we're trying to build something in San Jose, a new ownership group, and [they're] gonna be able to learn a ton and get the reps to develop…They're both exceptional young men. They both have been incredibly responsive, humble, hard-working, and bought-in on everything we're trying to do. Really excited to have them." How good have Kerr and Miller been in college the past couple years? Since the start of 2019, their BYU men's ultimate program has become one of the most dominant juggernauts in the country, going 41-4 with landmark wins over several powerhouse programs, a spree that includes triumphs over Wisconsin, Texas, Pittsburgh, Oregon, Carleton, Minnesota, and UMass, among others.
One especially cool roster tidbit from Austin: 35-year-old Joe Sefton, whose last AUDL action came in the 2016 Championship game as a member of the Seattle Cascades, has signed with the Sol for the 2021 season. A member of the 2016 USA Men's National Team that won gold at WUGC in London, Sefton left Seattle back in October and enjoyed 'a wild ride' as he put it, making several pitstops on his way to Austin, where he finally arrived and settled into his new home about a month ago. He participated in his first full team minicamp with the Sol this past weekend, and his new coach was thrilled with Sefton's impact. "He was just an incredible teammate," said Head Coach Steven Naji. "Always led by example. He was as humble as any player could be. He brings a winning mentality, and it's already rubbed off on everyone." On his initial impressions of his new surroundings, Sefton said, "I think we have a massive amount of energy, raw talent, and egoless-ness. It's been super fun experiencing a new city with a different friz culture and practices. I think I have a lot to learn from all of them and have plenty of experience, success, and most importantly, some massive past failures to share with them and learn from."
Who knew that the 2014 Indianapolis AlleyCats' roster would produce two AUDL Head Coaches? The aforementioned Naji, who played 14 out of 15 games for the Cats (including the playoffs) seven years ago, is leading the Austin Sol. Meanwhile, Will Drumright, who suited up in 10 contests in that 2014 Indy campaign, takes over as the AlleyCats new Head Coach following Eric Leonard's decision to step down after the 2019 season, when Indianapolis advanced all the way to the final four. In fact, it was only a couple months later that Drumright was named as Leonard's successor in October of 2019, so he's been anxiously waiting seemingly forever for the opportunity to lead, something that he finally got to do at the team's rain-soaked tryout event this past weekend. "The weirdest start to a coaching tenure I think I can imagine," said Drumright, summing up his journey since accepting the job about 18 months ago. "What a daunting time to try and take over a franchise when they've had their best year ever as an organization, and then the world stood still." Outside of ultimate, Drumright is a professional mental conditioning coach, focusing on working with athletes on mental toughness and maximizing performance, a job he's had throughout the past decade. That experience, along with his ultimate background, position him well to assume the leadership reins in Indianapolis, though it's impossible to overlook the key losses that Indy has endured. They had spent months preparing for life with all-time greats Cameron Brock and Keenan Plew, who both retired in the second half of 2020. But up until about a week ago, the Cats were preparing for 2021 with an expectation that Keegan North would be returning for a third year with the franchise. Many on the AlleyCats were stunned when word trickled out that North had made the decision to sign with Chicago instead, leaving Indy without another past weapon for their upcoming season. "A week ago, Keegan was central to what we were trying to build," Drumright told me on Sunday night, a few days after it was officially announced that North would join the Union. "That hurt. There's no way around it. It's one of those things, it's kind of a gut punch…I understand why he made the move, but unfortunately we're on the opposite end of the breakup." Despite North's departure, Indy remains very optimistic about their chances to compete with the best in their division. Certainly, there's no question that Travis Carpenter, Rick Gross, and the rest of the AlleyCats will have an abundance of motivation when they match up with Chicago on the season's opening Saturday night. "We're still the defending champions of the Central, and we want to make sure we come out strong," said Drumright. "Got 53 days to figure out our plan."
While many of Chicago's new marquee signees were not yet in attendance, Union Coach Dave Woods seemed especially pleased with the effort and spirit he witnessed at his team's first practice. Of course, he still felt obliged to try and protect his players from themselves, at times. "All these players have a year of pent-up competitive energy that they're just ready to unleash," said Woods, about Chicago's initial team workout. "However, nobody's played competitive hard ultimate in a year, so you're almost hesitant to say 'go all out at practice' cause it's more like 'don't hurt yourself at practice, we only have a month-plus to get ready for the season.' But the energy and the excitement is tangible. Everyone is elated, excited, relieved almost, just to be out playing together." From the promo department, you can hear more from Coach Woods on the third episode of AUDL Weekly, which premieres tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14, at 8 PM on Facebook.
Jeff Landesman has been a huge fan of the Los Angeles Aviators since the franchise's first game in 2015. In the six years since, he's watched dozens of games, seen a new favorite player emerge—his son, Danny Landesman, scored 32 goals in 10 games as an 18-year-old AUDL rookie for the Aviators in 2019—and, most recently, became the franchise's fourth Head Coach, a role that's becoming more real with every passing day. Jeff was a great player in the pre-AUDL club days, advancing all the way to several semifinals and finals at Club Nationals in the late 80s and early 90s. Furthermore, he's coached a variety of sports throughout his life and won a gazillion games leading his son's youth soccer teams—he credits Danny's on-field skills way more than his sideline strategies—but now, leading a professional ultimate team coming out of a pandemic, is a sizable new challenge for one of the long-time stars of LA's local community leagues. "I am not too proud to ask for help and get some support and help from people who've been playing and doing it," said Jeff, who adds that his passion for ultimate has been all-consuming since the time he was 16 years old as a high school junior in New York City. "My goal in coaching is always to put a good product on the field, where the players and people who are participating and watching are having a good time. Obviously, winning too, I'm a very competitive person." The Aviators will have a very different look as franchise mainstays like Tyler Bacon, Aaron Weaver, and Zach Theodore will not be on the field in 2021. Another LA All-Star, Sean McDougall, is still deciding whether he will be able to make the commitment for the upcoming season. But Los Angeles does have the coach's son, now a sophomore at the University of Colorado, returning along with fellow youthful sensations and Cal Poly SLO students, Calvin Brown and KJ Koo, giving the Aviators an uber-talented trio of early 20-something potential that Jeff Landesman absolutely can build around. "Jeff is a legend," said Aviators captain Michael Kiyoi. "And he's been around ultimate for a long time. I respect his experience and his passion for the game. He's just a super positive fun guy. He's gonna do a great job leading us this season. I have no doubt about that."
One correction to make regarding something I've said over the past couple weeks about Pawel Janas' new three-year contract with Chicago. After asking around and conversing with many people, both at the league level along with owners and players, I believed that Janas's three-year pact was the first of that length in the league's history, but I've since been informed that the Tampa Bay Cannons quietly inked former Atlanta standout Nathan Vickroy to a three-year deal three years ago. Back on April 8, 2018, eight days AFTER he played his first game for the Cannons, the team's twitter officially welcomed Vickroy to Tampa Bay, highlighting his top-end speed, ankle-breaking cuts, and precision throws. "We look forward to seeing his athleticism and skill on full display for years to come!" said the tweet, with a non-specificity that begs the question, why not make a bigger deal about it? Whatever the reason for it, Vickroy will now be recognized going forward as the first to sign a three-year contract in AUDL history, at least until some other surreptitiously signed agreement comes to light. Regardless, I regret the error. | season, an early August affair in the Big Apple.
Here's the team-by-team breakdown of who each team only has to play once in the Atlantic:
Atlanta: @ Boston, vs. New York
Boston: vs. Atlanta, @ DC
DC: vs. Boston, @ Pittsburgh
New York: @ Atlanta, vs. Raleigh
Philadelphia: vs. Tampa Bay, @ Raleigh
Pittsburgh: @ Tampa Bay, vs. DC
Raleigh: vs. Philadelphia, @ New York
Tampa Bay: @ Philadelphia, vs. Pittsburgh
The minor competitive advantages or disadvantages are what they are, but it's safe to say no one has it easy. And certainly, the third place teams in the Central and West—divisions where only the top two will advance to the postseason—will not have a shred of sympathy for whoever comes in fifth or sixth in the Atlantic, where the top four will qualify for the playoffs and consequently be just one win away from Championship Weekend after the regular season concludes.
The last tantalizing aspect of the 2021 schedule release today is the newness of everything, especially in the Atlantic. This hit me on Monday afternoon while scrolling through Instagram and seeing the Atlanta Hustle's graphic hyping their six home games. The slate begins with the familiar Flyers, but then features four straight home games against franchises that the Hustle have never played before. That freshness has to feel super cool for both the players and fans to get these new opponents coming into their home stadium for the first time.
That feeling should linger throughout the entire season, with unprecedented matchups ready to debut alongside several old-time rivalries that are desperate to be rekindled. Who's curious to see what the expansion Boston Glory will show against Pittsburgh in the Steel City in Week 1? Can I interest you in another potential OT classic between DC and Raleigh in Week 2? How about Dallas' first ever jaunt to the west coast in Week 4 or a Seattle trek through Texas in Week 5? The AUDL's first Boston-New York tussle will highlight Week 7, and Week 8 brings the gift of San Diego's doubleheader safari through the Lone Star State, a weekend the Growlers have been thirsting for since the 2019 final four.
There's only one contest currently scheduled for the final day of the regular season on Sunday, August 22, but that could very well be the de facto first playoff game, with Madison and Minnesota each needing a victory to keep their season alive. Long before that bookending battle, though, the Radicals and Wind Chill will also clash on Friday, June 4, as the AUDL returns following a 663 day absence, with Madison and Minnesota each trying to set | 563 |
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Plagues and Peoples – William H. McNeill
Plagues and Peoples, William H. McNeill, Anchor Books Doubleday, 1977, pp. 365, ISBN 0-385-12122-9
Professor William McNeill's career spanned the latter half of the 20th century and was devoted to macrohistorical explanations of change. He is most widely known for his work The Rise of the West in which he details various civilizational encounters in history and concludes that it was "the West" alone that drove "progress." The book suffers from broad generalizations, assumptions and too facile an argument that boils down to a tautology – the West was great because the West is great.
While The Rise of the West focuses on unexplained sociocultural categories, Plagues and Peoples takes a markedly different approach in that it takes into account the physical environment. In it, McNeill likewise attempts to sketch out a history of the world, though this time as a consequence of human and microbiological interaction. As he states, the "book aims to bring the history of infectious disease into the realm of historical explanation by showing how varying patterns of disease circulation have affected human affairs in ancient as well as in modern times." Starting from the premise that a given socioeconomic and cultural system, or a historical epoch, is the result of a delicate ecological balance, Professor McNeill shows each disruption of it gives rise to new forms of social organization.
Central to the book is the idea of a host and a parasite. Interestingly, for Professor McNeill the difference between bacteria and humans is that of scale since the behaviour is largely similar. If the bacteria lives a parasitic life by attaching itself to a host, the human can live a parasitic life as well, only by attacking other life forms. This macroparasitism can take the form of military adventures, monarchical rule or rural dependency on urban constellations. Although the bulk of the book is devoted to the effects of microparasites on social forms.
In roughly 350 pages, Professor McNeill condenses history from 500 B.C to<|fim_middle|> connection is. This gives disease emergence an autonomous, consequential and largely accidental character that is akin more to a natural disaster than a sociological category. Moreover, the trouble with macrohistory is that the unit of analysis is often presented as a homogenous category which conceals differences within it, especially so with the rise of more complex social organizations, differentiated by class, sex, and origin. This leads to visibility only for a particular segment of the society, which is often not representative of the majority. Thus, could we say that infectious diseases impacted the King the same way they did a pauper? Likewise, McNeill fails to note how these particular social organizations that fostered poverty and filth were in themselves the precursors of great diseases, such as tuberculosis, for example.
Nonetheless, McNeill's Plagues and Peoples does advance an important thesis; that of the interaction between the biological and the social. Infectious diseases have caused the rise and fall of societies, and have contributed to their inequalities and intense suffering. To better understand this, we must investigate their interaction, rather than accept that one inevitably determines the other.
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The Green New Deal – Jeremy Rifkin | present, which largely determines the pace of the book and requires the author to paint with rather large brush strokes. Each new development of social organizations, such as change of habitat upset previous ecological balances by establishing new ecological niches, which in turn exposed humans to new diseases. Once the infection occurred, it proceeded until a new temporal balance was established. For example, hunter-gatherer societies tended to constantly change their habitat thereby avoiding epidemics. Once agriculture developed, new diseases emerged and developed to epidemic proportions, eliminating those susceptible and building immunity in others, which in turn decreased their virulence and allowed for the balance to be re-established.
However, each geographical location had its specific micro and macro parasitic balance, which was the product of its specific environment and forms of social organization. Therefore, in the epoch of imperial exploration, which saw societies traverse their geographical boundaries, new diseases were introduced into societies that had no immunity to them. Hence situations such as the Columbian exchange, which devastated the indigenous population of the Americas. Or the expansion of the Mogul Empire which facilitated the spread of the bubonic plague. Therefore, the way diseases influenced societies and the way societies, in turn, dealt with those diseases influenced the development of particular localities.
As Professor McNeill notes, his conclusions of developments up until the 18th century largely rely on the sparse historical record, leaving his analysis prone to overdetermination, sometimes bordering on the bizarre. While McNeill notes that there exists a connection between disease emergence and social organization, he fails to note what exactly that | 313 |
New Documentary Details KFBRP's Fight against Avian Malaria
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Former KFBRP field assistant Travis DuBridge has just released a very informative twenty-minute documentary that explains the unique challenges that Hawaiʻiʻs forest birds face, and how KFBRP staff members are helping to fight for their existence. The video details how mosquitos and diseases like avian malaria are the most challenging of these threats. Travis will take you into the remote regions of the Alakaʻi with the KFBRP field crew to give you a glimpse of the day-to-day routine of those who work to preserved these threatened and endangered birds.
The story begins before the arrival of westerners, when Hawaiʻi's forest birds were abundant. At one time, they could be found from the mountains to the sea, but many things have changed since then. Much of their habitat has been destroyed, and mosquitos, which are not native to Hawaiʻi, are now common and abundant. The introduction of mosquitos has been particularly detrimental because mosquitos carry diseases, diseases that these forest birds have not previously been exposed to and thus have little or no immunity. As mosquitos found their way into the forest, these birds retreated to higher elevations where temperatures were too cool for mosquitos to effectively reproduce. Unfortunately, climate change is now warming these areas, leaving only a small safe-haven for these birds. This area is the Alakaʻi, where KFBRP focuses on their research.
<|fim_middle|> treatment, the populations must be documented again.
BTI treatment is considered to be safe because it only targets mosquitos, black flies, and fungus gnats, and seems to have no affect on other insects, animals, or humans. The treatment works by attacking the cells in the mosquito larvae's gut after ingestion. As expected, after treating pools in the Alakaʻi, the crew finds dead mosquito larvae, but none of the other insects in the pools are affected. This treatment looks promising.
The documentary also looks at other methods of mosquito control in Hawaiʻi including the use of of a bacteria called Wolbachia. Wolbachia has been used on the mainland to help reduce the spread of Dengue and the transmission of other human diseases. In Hawaiʻi, Wolbachia is being studied by University of Hawaiʻi as a form of mosquito "birth control", but this type of treatment would require support from both government agencies and the public. Researchers are hopeful that this could be an option for mosquito control in the future. Until then, KFBRP crews will continue their mission to protect Kauaʻiʻs forest birds.
Save a Bird, Swat a Skeeter Campaign Help KFBRP Flag Transects in Koke'e on Sunday, April 8th | In this documentary, you will follow the KFBRP field crew as they brave steep hiking trails and endure chilly, wet conditions, to spend weeks at a time in the remote areas of the forest to study Kauaʻi's forest birds. Travis shows you how the crew monitors bird populations, as well mosquito abundance and the prevalence of avian malaria. You will also see how they help to control mosquito populations while in the field.
Travis and his colleagues Theo and Stephanie, must hike through slippery stream beds to set up traps near the edge of the stream in order to collect female mosquitos. These traps are checked regularly and all mosquitos that are collected are sent to a lab on the Big Island for testing. You will also learn how Travis and the rest of the KFBRP crew conducts regular stream surveys to look for mosquito larvae. While several different genera of mosquitos can be found in Hawaiʻi, the researchers are particularly interested in Culex species because these are the mosquitos that carry the parasite that causes avian malaria.
When Culex populations are found in stream pools they are treated with a bacteria called BTI. This treatment has been used and proven in many locations around the world, but the results need to be replicated in Hawaiʻi before it can be used on regular basis. The documentary explains how KFBRP field crews are helping to test these results. Before the pools can be treated, insect populations in the pool must be counted and described and after | 307 |
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by Jillian Stampher on February 27, 2017 at 2:13 pm February 27, 2017 at 2:13 pm
In its first-ever acquisition, Mozilla has purchased the save-it-later app Pocket to help grow its presence on mobile.
Pocket will bring its more than 10 million monthly active users to the internet company, where it will continue to work as an independent subsidiary. The mobile app will continue to allow people to discover, save and share content such as articles or video to view later.
Mozilla and Pocket have long collaborated. When the bookmarking service first launched in 2007, it began as a Firefox add-on. In 2015, the companies expanded their partnership to build Pocket directly into the Firefox browser. In a blog post Monday, Pocket CEO Nate Weiner said the acquisition expands on this relationship.
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"How does Mozilla fit into this equation? They're adding fuel to our rocketship," Weiner wrote. "We have worked closely with Mozilla as we partnered with their Firefox team, and established a deep trust with their team and vision. They have extraordinary resources, global scale, and reach to put Pocket in more places, and help us build an even better product, faster."
The deal will help Pocket grow its audience and compete with similar apps such as Instapaper, which was acquired by Pinterest last August.
Under the acquisition, Pocket will work as a new product alongside the Firefox browsers. In addition to growing Pocket as a discovery tool, Mozilla said it plans to use the company's technology to build a system to recommend content. It will also be part of Mozilla's open source project.
"We believe that the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content is key to keeping the internet healthy by fighting against the rising tide of centralization and walled gardens," Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said in the press release. "Pocket provides people with the tools they need to engage with and share content on their own terms, independent of hardware platform or content silo, for a safer, more empowered and independent online experience."
Jillian Stampher is a journalist based out of Seattle with a focus on breaking news reporting and digital media. She previously worked as an editor and social media manager at NBC's Breaking News mobile app and studied journalism at the University of Washington. Reach her at jillian@geekwire.com or @jillianstampher.
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This year's Tar River Food & Wine Festival another success<|fim_middle|> raise money for the endowment fund that provides grant dollars to a variety of nonprofit organizations in the Greater Rocky Mount Area. The Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation has granted more than $650,000 to local charities that provide everything from human services to education to health and wellness and the arts, to name a few.
Like all parties, this one takes a lot of work. It couldn't happen without our amazing event committee, our generous sponsors, our talented and awesome vendors and our supporters. It truly is a toast to our community. | !
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It is 12:24 a.m., technically the morning after the Tar River Food & Wine Festival, the signature fundraising event for the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount.
I've been stalking Facebook for pictures from the event … and there are some great ones! Great photos of food, people laughing and smiling, and of course, you can't get a prettier backdrop than our host venue, Rose Hill.
On the surface, the Tar River Food & Wine Festival looks like a great big fabulous party, and it is! There is food, wine, craft beer, music … but it goes so much deeper than that. This is a party with a purpose. That purpose is to | 162 |
How to Choose the Perfect Ring for You!
Congratulations! You have decided you are ready to buy yourself a ring. Rings are a great way to feminize you hands. As a crossdresser, it is important that your choice compliments and enhances your appearance, rather than drawing undo attention to you. With thousands and thousands of choices, how do you decide upon The One? How do you choose the perfect ring?
As a crossdressing male, odds are that your hands are bigger than the average female's. Because of this, larger hands are a giveaway to your maleness when dressed as a female, just as your facial features are.
It is common for a crossdresser to apply makeup to his face to lessen the impact of those facial features. The goal is to draw attention away from your maleness. In the same way, you want to do this with your larger hands.
To choose the perfect ring, the first inclination may to wear really dainty rings. These scream femininity. Despite the temptation, I recommend against it (at least in public). The reason is the smallness of these dainty rings exaggerate the larger size of your hands.
Rings are too small for the size of Sami's hand.
Here is a picture of me wearing a couple of dainty rings. One is a gold solitaire featuring a small pearl and two tiny diamond accents. The other is a narrow sterling silver band. You'll notice the size of my hand overpowers these rings. My larger hand makes these dainty rings look smaller than they would on a female hand.
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What is the one article of women's apparel that you most enjoy wearing? | at you are wondering what isn't quite right. We don't want them to start down that path, so it is better to leave those dainty rings at home.
Rings sized in correct proportion to Sami's hand.
Compare the first picture to the this one. Here I have switched the pearl solitaire with a filigree ring featuring a large amethyst stone. On the other finger I have added four more thin bands to the first, stacking them together. In summary, having the larger rings make them accessories that don't look out-of-place for the size of hand.
Many crossdressers choose the perfect ring by going with a wider band. These are much easier to find in larger sizes. Both of the rings in the picture are sterling silver. One is a band composed of smaller circles, and the other is a single band cut to look like there are three bands touching each other.
The one thing you must consider with a wider band is that the needed size is about 1/2 size larger than that needed for a ring with a small band. This is because wider bands are harder to slide over knuckles than smaller bands. Learn more about this by reading the article on how to find your ring size.
Here I am wearing a couple of rings with large stones. Both have narrow sterling silver bands. The stone on one is pear-shaped, while the other is a large faceted green stone. I had the green ring custom sized by a vendor on eBay.
Although you may not choose these exact styles, what is important here is the proportion. Although you don't need a ring as large as the one on my middle finger, you do need it large enough so that others won't see that large hand.
I don't have many rings with a large clusters of smaller stones. However, I plan to practice what I preach and get a few more rings that have clusters of stones. You can see me wearing one that has a medium-sized onyx surrounded by eight very small marcasite stones.
Some crossdressers choose the perfect ring by selecting an engagement ring that has clusters of stones around it. Wearing one on your left ring finger gives the impression that you are already married. This picture illustrates such a possibility. It has a medium-size cubic zirconia stone nestled between two smaller triangle-shaped stones. Notice the filigree heart under the larger stone. This looks very feminine but is still large enough that it looks great on the larger hands of a crossdresser.
The number one rule of buying rings is never to buy a plated or filled ring, because the thin layer of metal eventually wears thin. At that point, there is nothing between your skin and the filler metal. Often that turns your finger green under the ring.
As long as you remember the number one rule, you can use just about any type of metal. Here is a list of a few.
What Metal Should You Choose?
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Sterling Silver is a very popular choice. It is a great whitish color, and it is one of the more affordable options. On the other hand, it does have a couple of negatives. First, it tarnishes over time. Some people like the tarnished look, called patina. If you don't like it, you can buy an inexpensive silver polishing cloth to give it some shine when needed. Sterling silver also tends to bend to conform to the underlying shape of your finger. It isn't too bad, but if it bothers you, you can get the ring reshaped at a jeweler, or try using a ring mandrel and soft mallet to reshape it yourself.
Gold is a wonderful choice for a ring, especially ones that have narrower bands. This is because it is very durable and holds its shape well. You can get yellow or white gold. I recommend yellow gold over white because white requires plating with rodium. This wears well but eventually requires replating by a jeweler. Gold is also very expensive compared to sterling silver, so save it for a look you love!
Stainless steel is sometimes used for bands. It is very durable, looks like silver, and is inexpensive. It is a great metal to use for experimenting with wide bands, as they are more easily available for larger-sized fingers. I have a couple, and they still look fantastic!
Now the Search Begins to Choose the Perfect Ring!
In summary, this article should give you a great foundation for starting your search for the perfect ring. By now, you should have some ideas about the personality you want your ring to portray. First, are you choosing a dainty band with lots of gemstones, or one with a wider band? Are you looking for a large solitaire stone, or a cluster of smaller stones? Finally, will you choose the perfect ring made of sterling silver or move up to gold?
There are many choices to make. To choose the perfect ring, I recommend spending some time browsing eBay, Etsy, and Amazon for more ideas. Also, feel free to leave comments if you have further questions.
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How to Get Fit and Lose Weight this Year without Spending a Dime
Many will make resolutions on New Years, vowing to drop the additional pounds leftover from the holidays, and generally making more healthful choices starting January 1st. And while new beginnings can be a helpful motivation, we think the best time to actually get started on new goals is actually now: late winter and early spring. So, while we hope you made some good progress in the first few weeks of January, the real question is: how's it going come February 1st?
How to Pack Your Backpack Like a Pro
Turns out, getting fully outfitted is only half the battle. Once you've selected all your gear, it's important to pack it up right for both balance and ease when carrying and access when you need it.
The Best Places to Learn How to Restore Vintage Tools on YouTube
I love watching new things get made. But as equally invigorating?
Watching old things get repaired and restored.
There are plenty of reasons to fix old things: keeping them out of the landfill, learning how they're made, making a little extra jingle, appreciating the products around us that we take for granted, cultivating the mindset of taking better stewardship of our surroundings.
Thankfully for the world, there are a lot of people doing this for the love of the act, because they spend countless hours in their workshops and upload their process videos for free viewing on YouTube.
Read on for our top picks of tool (and other) restoration YouTube channels!
"Maker" Has a Whole New Meaning in Light of Primitive Technology
Some three years ago, an Australian man named John Plant started filming his hobby of spending time in nature and learning to subsist without any tools. He posted his videos on Youtube as a kind of documentation of his progress and they served as a venue for a kind of education, though only in the most minimalist sense. Taken without context, its a strange, new genre of media that has found an audience––something pretty standard for the internet. (There are now countless channels on the internet where people have ripped off Plant's original premise.)
Have You Seen this Guy who Keeps Making the Same Knife, but with Bizarre Materials?
In the sheer scope and magnitude of Youtube, I going to assume that we will one day see every conceivable thing that exists in the world. Because, we all know, that if it is weird enough for someone to try, there is someone around with a camera ready to film it. So, we can file this under, "what the hell is going on here?" But there's this guy with a Youtube channel whose entire purposes seems to be to constantly and painstakingly recreate a knife out of very different, very bizarre materials.
10 YouTube Channels Every Leather Worker Should Watch
Leatherworking may start out as a hobby, but somewhere along the way, you're going to get hooked. So whether you're just getting started or well into the craft, here are a few free content channels to give you a boost down that well-tanned road.
Watching People Harvest Cork Makes Me Feel So Satisfied
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The internet didn't intentionally invent the idea of tickling your brain by seeing things get perfectly peeled, scooped, pulled or stripped. Yet, there are whole Youtube channels dedicated to things that fit perfectly, people breaking the pristine surface of a jar of peanut butter, people peeling the thin plastic sheet that covers most electronics. Comments on these videos are part of a shared sense of deep satisfaction, and you can find some of the most mutually joyful, least acrimonious interactions on the internet among people who are just eveling in that feeling of deep gratification.
So, in the
Watch This Traditional Finnish Log Cabin Being Built...Entirely By Hand
I promise, I really do like sports.
I number among my favorite smells in this world the scent of ice rink, and I find the pop of a baseball hitting a leather glove irresistible; I show my hometown roots in my collection of Baltimore Orioles hats, and I love the thrill of victory in sports films, even ones involving sports I couldn't care less about. But I confess, I'm a lackluster sports fan. Scores, standings, and statistics bore me to tears, and my attention span diminishes to nil within 5 minutes of a televised game.
Set me in front of an artisan plying his or her trade, though, and you'd think I were a pitching scout at a showcase tournament: rapt attention, soaking in every detail, occasional grins at particularly strong displays of good craft. Are you the same? Well, you're going to love this.
Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Marvel at these Expert Craftspeople
Bon Appétit has become a paragon of food media lately with a gorgeous magazine, a wonderful podcast and some serious web content that is standing in where other outlets have stopped putting meaningful content in front of audiences. But they have quietly rolled out a series of videos on highly technical food crafts that are so well done, so well produced and so sharply executed that they serve as both educational content and an opportunity to truly marvel at people who have spent a lifetime perfecting their skills. Bon Appetite really deserves credit for providing a venue to showcase such talent and expertise.
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These Five Episodes Will Make You Fall In Love With This Youtube Series
We're living in a golden age of food media. Between exceptional print magazines like the gone-too-soon Lucky Peach and Bon Appetite, to Netflix shows like Chef's Table and PBS's Mind of a Chef, to David Chang's recent discussion of a developing food media empire, there is just so much professional-level food edu-tainment that an interested viewer need never go hungry.
And yet, even though the space is saturated with quality content, amateur programs are still finding their niche in online forums.
Looking for a Bit of Process Inspiration? Watch These Historic Pathé Craftsman Videos
If you're committed to greatness in your craft, there's no better way to improve than to mimic the masters. But if you need general inspiration to help you keep going in your pursuit of excellence, it's helpful to watch any kind of expert at work.
In 2014, the newsreel archive British Pathé released 85,000 high resolution historic films to YouTube. Among these are a fantastic collection of newsreel footage from postwar factories all around Great Britain. It's mesmerizing and, if you're a maker, a bit humbling to watch these skilled men and women exercise their trade with such aplomb. (Not to mention, the peppy English narrators, using that classic clipped 1950's news reporting style, are really funny.)
Thanks to the wizardry that is the Internet, there are hundreds of them available at your fingertips today.
Let Michael B. Jordan Teach You How to Iron a Dress Shirt Like a Pro
Actor Michael<|fim_middle|> best thing to do is simply watch other people make stuff. Like, on an episode of TV.
Sure, there's an entire channel that's supposedly about "DIY"ing, but mostly, it's about the relationship drama between people doing home improvement projects. So, I thought I'd share some of my go-to series for when I'm looking for a little inspiration.
7 Things I'm Totally Obsessed with This Month (August 2017 Edition)
Awesome Video of the Day: A Mesmerizing Journey through the Center of a Tree
Cutting open a log or thick board is one of the most rewarding feelings a DIYer or woodworker can experience. Who knows what the grain will look like? Who knows if you'll find a burl, a beautiful sapwood/heartwood transition, or a knot you'll be proud to feature, not hide? Beneath all that bark lies a world to be discovered, a geode of cellulose waiting to be explored.
Right? Well...sometimes. Or, you can split something open only to find punky, foamy wood, damage from bugs, or just boring, boring grain.
This is the Best Video You'll See All Day: Capturing the Mesmerizing Process of Hand Shaped Pottery
Hi, my name is Chris, and I'm a hopeless process nerd. Especially when that process is captured in a video with such amazing colors, sound, and cinematography.
Filmmaker Nick Bennett visited | B. Jordan grew up in a household in a military household. His father was a Marine, and valued a well-made bed with tight corners, and all fabrics needed to crisp and tight. Under his guidance, young Michael learned to iron his own clothing to spectacular results.
He recently shared his technique with Vanity Fair, as part of the press tour for his film, Black Panther. (I hear it's pretty amazing. Has anyone seen it yet?)
The Dramatically Awesome Way to Open your Champagne in Less Than a Second
I'm a life-long fan of Alton Brown. Recently, I've loved his post-cable TV Youtube videos in which he revisits topics and techniques that he was not allowed to demonstrate on network television. These have included things like "dirty steaks" where you cook a hanger steak directly on natural wood coals, the most efficient way to light a grill (spoiler: it's by using what is basically a flame thrower), and, my favorite,
This Is Definitely the Coolest DIY "Lathe" You'll See This Week
In his continued bid to take over much of the world's media channels, Anthony Bourdain has partnered with the producers of Balvenie Scotch Whisky on an online program that is truly exceptional. In the process of producing the first batch of episodes, he met with some of the most extraordinary craftspeople in the United States (and ended up walking away with some Bob Kramer knives that certainly left our mouths agape.)
If you want to watch between 7 and 16 minutes of well-produced, craft-heavy, and inspirational material, this series is for you. And lucky us, a new batch of videos just dropped in the last month or so. So if you've already caught up with the initial episodes, there's more to watch.
7 Things I'm Totally Obsessed with This Month (December 2017 Edition)
A very special holiday edition of the thoughts, artwork, news stories, tools, food, conversations, and whatever else I just can't get out of my head this month.
8 Inspiring TV Shows for Makers, Crafters, Artists, and DIYers
We all need a little inspiration. When you make something, you are producing output: a physical object or idea that draws on your inner well of creativity. And just like any set of reserves, overtapping the well can leave you with diminished resources. When that happens, the single best way to restock your inspiration stores is to simply experience other people being creative. Books are great, and listening to your favorite music is always energizing, but sometimes, the | 530 |
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Doran, John ~ Annals of The English Stage.
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10 volume set, 10.5 inches tall, 11 including slip cases. A magnificent full crushed morocco binding by Petrus Ruban, one of the greatest Parisian bookbinders of the period. With gilt raised bands, fine gilt tooled panels incorporating 'theatrical' centre tools. The boards are framed with triple fillets and 'theatrical' gilt corner tooling. Gilt dentelles and top edges and glorious goatskin doublures. Each volume has a different design on its blue goatskin doublures, a feature I've not seen before, all are exceptionally finely executed. The books have been housed in calf trimmed and kid lined slip cases. This set has been expanded from the original 3 volume set, limited to 300 copies, to a unique set of 10 volumes embellished with over 1000 extra illustrations. This set was commissioned by an English Gentleman residing in Milan who built up a superb library of Graingerised or Extra Illustrated volumes, bound by the finest bookbinders around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The history of the English stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean is here illustrated by centuries of fine engravings. 3 letters are also bound in, these are by Colley Cibber, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Barton Booth, all are very interesting. There is some minimal rubbing, but is in an excellent state having been housed in slip cases for the last 120 years or so.
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The Pioneer DJM 600 is an an advanced DJ mixer that's surprisingly easy to use. The DJM 600 is loaded with features including a sampler, a BPM counter (Auto or Tap,) and digital effects. You can even sync the effects to the BPM of the song! Other features include fader start, for the Pioneer CDJ series, 3-band EQ per channel, microphone input, and very flexible headphone monitor split functions.
This is a new DJ function that allows you to sample your favorite sources and play them back easily at the touch of a button. The BPM is measured digitally and recorded automatically exclusively for designated beats.
Single Play: Plays back the recorded sound once only when the button is being pressed.
Loop Play: Plays back the recorded sound repeatedly when the button is pressed.
Stretch Loop Play: Extends or shortens the recorded sound in accordance with the mixed track's BPM and plays back the sound repeatedly.
Delay: Repeats a sound once. The user can set the delay to their desired tempo.
Echo: Repeats a sound several times. The user can set the echo sound to their desired tempo.
Auto Pan: Automatically shifts the sound to the right and left. Also capable of short auto pan sequences that would be impossible via manual operation.
Auto Trans: Periodically cuts the sound.
Auto Filter: Periodically varies the sound color.
Flanger: Periodically reproduces a sound effect resembling a jet airplane ascending and descending.
Reverb: Reproduces a reverberating sound effect.
Pitch Shifter: Allows the interval to be freely varied throughout a range of +/-1 octave. With this, the user can compensate for interval changes when using analog turntables or for tempo changes when different makers' CD players are used. Additionally, choruses can be made by employing mix ratios.
External Effect Input (send/return): Allows the user to connect the mixer to an external effector or sampler, etc.
Auto BPM Effector: Linked to the BPM, the DJM-600 can add effects to each channel, mic, and master independently. The user can produce music that makes full use of high-level DJ techniques by performing quick setting with the Beat Unit Switch button, adjusting the precise time parameters, or controlling the balance between the effect sounds and the original sounds by varying the mix ratio. Moreover, even when using the fader it is possible to leave just the effect sounds wihtout linking to BPM. Delay - Repeats a sound once. The user can set the delay to their desired tempo. Echo - Repeats a sound several times. The user can set the echo sound to their desired<|fim_middle|>ically reproduces a sound effect resembling a jet airplane ascending or descending. Reverb - Reproduces a reverberating sound effect. Pitch Shifter - Allos the interval to be freely varied throughout the range of +/-1 octave. With this the user can compensate for intercal changes when using analog turntables or for tempo changes when different makers' CD players are used. Additionally, choruses can be made by employing mix ratios. External Effect Input (Send/Return) - Allows the user to connect the mixer to an external effecotr or sampler, etc.
Headphone Monitor Split: When the Headphone Output switch is set to Mono Split, the right channel becomes the master and the left channel becomes the channel sound. Choosing Plural with the headphone cue, the user can also hear mixed sound. Moreover, this function can perform right and left level adjustment, thereby making monitoring easier.
Get your Pioneer DJM-600 today! | tempo. Autopan - Automatically shifts the sound to the right and left. Also capable of short auto pan sequences that would be impossible via manual operation. Auto Transform - Periodically cuts the filter, Auto Filter - Periodically varies the sound color, Flanger - Period | 54 |
Police investigate homicide at Calvert and Miami streets.
SOUTH BEND Â? Friends and neighbors of Brennan Marsh say<|fim_middle|> the home to check on this individual and discovered the body,Â? police spokesman Capt. Phil Trent said at the scene.
A dark shoe and what appeared to be a pager lay on the back porch of the victimÂ?s apartment door as officers circled the scene.
Friend Rebecca Garcia, AngelicaÂ?s mother, said Marsh always took off his shoes before entering his home.
GarciaÂ?s son worked with Marsh, and she said Marsh didnÂ?t come to work Tuesday, but she figured he took the day off.
The last time Marsh was contacted was Tuesday, according to police.
Neighbors remembered hearing gunshots early morning Wednesday, but some didnÂ?t think much of it.
Â?People are shooting all the time,Â? Lee Nickens said.
Friends and neighbors couldnÂ?t believe MarshÂ?s life had been taken so violently.
The 23-year-old was a new father, Garcia said, and couldnÂ?t have been prouder of his baby girl, taking the child with him wherever he went. | the young man was a sweet guy who didnÂ?t like trouble.
Â?IÂ?ve seen him walk away from fights,Â? said friend Angelica Garcia. Â?The boyÂ?s a good person. HeÂ?s really loving.Â?
Officers later determined the distraught man was the victimÂ?s brother who had just found him.
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Fleetwood Mac has announced dates for their long-awaited North American tour which begins in October and hits more than 50 cities through Spring of 2019.
The tour arrives in Atlanta on March 3 at Philips Arena.
The announcement comes just two weeks after Lindsey Buckingham, the singer-songwriter-guitarist who joined the band in 1974, was fired.
The new line-up includes Mike Campbell, from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and Neil Finn of Crowded House to replace Buckingham.
"Fleetwood Mac has always been about an amazing collection of songs that are performed with a unique blend of talents. We jammed with Mike and Neil and the chemistry really worked and let the band realize that this is the right combination to go forward with in Fleetwood Mac style. We know we have something new, yet it's got the unmistakable Mac sound," said Mick Fleetwood in a statement.
Tickets for the tour will go on-sale to the general public at 10 a.m., Friday, May 4. For further information, visit www.fleetwoodmac.com.
American Express Card Members can purchase advance tickets in select markets<|fim_middle|> include prime seating and premium benefits such as transportation, preferred entrance and more. | from 10 a.m., Mon., April 30 through 10 p.m., Thurs., May 3. There will also be a limited number of LaneOne VIP Packages which | 39 |
he Massachusetts men's basketball team has already proven to be a much better team away from the Mullins Center this year, and with its next three games of the longest road trip of the season (four) against the Blue Devils, Cardinals and Wildcats, there is still plenty of work that needs to be done.
UMass (7-2) won't be playing Duke, but it takes on Central Connecticut State (3-5) tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Mohegan Sun Arena before heading to Louisville and Kentucky.
Anyone who gambles would be wise to put their money on the Minutemen practicing free throws and working to prevent turnovers before Saturday night. Those are the two factors that almost cost UMass the game on Wednesday over Boston University.
"The two keys are turnovers and free throws," UMass coach Travis Ford said after Wednesday night's win. "And we can control those two areas. If we cut down turnovers and raise our free throw percentages, we're a totally different team. We're going to go from being just average right now to being very, very good."
The Maroon and White outlasted a Terriers 8-0 run to end the game and squeaked by with a 56-54 win at Agganis Arena. UMass turned the ball over 22 times and missed 11 free throws on the night.
"We're doing everything in our power to work on these free throws," Ford said. "We're trying everything. But our guys are going to make them. I don't want to spend too much time talking to them about it, other than just working on them over and over again."
Ford even had his players running laps after every missed free throw during Tuesday afternoon's practice at the Mullins Center. Whether or not the coaching tactic worked remains to be seen, and Central Connecticut State is next on the schedule.
The Blue Devils are coming off a 63-60 win over Delaware on Wednesday night. They are led by senior guard Javier Mojica. He is the team's scoring leader, averaging 20 points per game and shooting 51 percent from both the field and the three-point line. He also averages a team-best eight rebounds per contest.
The Blue Devils have yet to win back-to-back games this season, and in order to keep that trend going, UMass needs a better showing from junior Gary Forbes on Saturday night.
Forbes finished Wednesday's game with only two points, and it marked the first game of the year that he had single digits in scoring. He was 0-for-4 from the field, and scored his only two baskets from the free throw line.
The Minutemen got the victory, but even Ford admits that he never thought UMass could win a game like that against BU with his star transfer scoring only two points.
"We're putting such an emphasis on putting the ball inside that I think it's taking away from Gary a little bit," Ford said. "We've got to get him the ball. We need to run some plays to get him involved, and we're going to work on some things in practice the next couple of days to get him going a little bit because he's too good.
"And it's not necessarily [Gary's] fault," Ford added. "We're putting such an emphasis on getting it to Rashaun and Stephane that for the other guys, it's kind of taking away from them a little bit. But we had to establish that because that is the strength of our team. Rashaun and Stephane are going to carry us, but we've got to get that better supporting role from everybody else."
he University of Massachusetts basketball team is trying to get on track in a place where few things have gone right for the Minutemen in recent years.
UMass coach Travis Ford said his biggest focus is to get his team playing well again as it prepares to play Central Connecticut State at 8 p.m. Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
The Minutemen (7-2) struggled in their Dec. 2 loss to Boston College and Wednesday's 56-54 win over Boston University.
The Minutemen haven't played well recently in any venue in the Nutmeg State, with five straight losses dating back to 2001. The Mohegan Sun Arena has been a particularly rough spot as the Minutemen endured hard-to-watch, bad losses to Central Connecticut 46-45 in 2002 and 53-52 in 2003.
The Minutemen stayed away from the Connecticut casino for the last two years, but they will try to reverse their luck against the Blue Devils (3-5) Saturday.
"We're not happy with the way we've been playing, starting with the Boston College game," Ford said. "Against BU, there were a lot of things that contributed to us not playing well. At the end of the game we were ecstatic we won. If you're going to have a good season you're going to win games like that. We were not excited about how we played. Hopefully we can improve and get better. We spent (Thursday's) practice just trying to get better."
The Minutemen's problems are familiar ones as turnovers and free-throw shooting have hindered them. Ford said making shots from the line is the harder ailment to fix.
"Free throws are harder than the turnovers. With free throws, even if you're trying real hard you can still miss them," Ford said. "We've tried everything I can possibly think of. We will definitely get better. I don't think there's any question. How quickly? I don't know. I went through a period not talking about it. A lot of times you don't want to get in their heads too much. But I'm trying a different approach now. We need to go up at least 8 to 10 percent."
The Minutemen are 137-for-231 (.593 percent) shooting free throws. Only senior guard James Life, who has made 9-of-10, is better than 65 percent on the team.
As far as turnovers, Ford will find a sympathetic ear in Central Connecticut coach Howie Dickenman. The Blue Devils have 30 more turnovers (126) than assists (96). They opened the season with three straight losses at the John Thompson Challenge in Ann Arbor, Mich., falling to Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Davidson. They bounced back with a win over New Hampshire before falling to St. Bonaventure at home 60-57.
Central Connecticut has won two of its last three games with wins over St. Francis and Delaware sandwiched around a 55-52 loss to Lehigh on the road.
Senior 6-foot-3 guard Javier Mojica leads the Blue Devils with 19.8 points per game, and he also averages eight rebounds. Junior point guard Tristan Blackwood joins him in double figures in scoring with 14 points per game.
Senior forward Obie Nwadike, who was projected to be the Blue Devils' best player, missed two games with an ankle injury and has had a slow start scoring at just 8.3 points per game. He has averaged 7.7 rebounds. Nwadike returned to action Wednesday and had 10 points and 11 rebounds off the bench in the 63-60 win over Delaware. He could return to the starting line-up Saturday.
"Central Connecticut State is talented. They're a lot like BU. There are going to take you off the dribble, which is a weakness of ours," Ford said. "We just need to start playing better."
NCASVILLE, Conn. - Going to its `Big' line-up in the second half, UMass used a 23-to-8 run en route to its 79-66 win over Central Connecticut State on Saturday night in the Mohegan Sun Arena. The Minutemen (8-2) exploited it significant size advantage over the Blue Devils (3-6) paced by Rashaun Freeman (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Stephane Lasme (Libreville, Gabon) who combined for 42 points and 24 rebounds. Gary Forbes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Brandon Thomas (San Antonio, Texas) both had big games as well scoring 11 and 8 points, respectively.
UMass shot 50.8 percent for the game - the fourth game this season the Minutemen have done so - hitting 32-of-63 from the floor. In the second half, UMass was on fire hitting 62.5 percent (20-of-32). UMass also protected the ball with a season-low 10 turnovers.
Freeman finished the night with 23 points and 10 rebounds for his fourth 20-point game this year. Lasme also finished with a double-double scoring 19 points and adding 14 rebounds.
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UMass fans had been happy to ignore Forbes' reputation at Virginia as a very good player who sometimes fades into the background. The hype surrounding him as the Minutemen's next great player was more fun to focus on. But they saw Wednesday what Cavalier fans occasionally experienced Forbes disappeared as the Minutemen barely beat BU.
Ford saw it too, and rather than let it continue, demoted Forbes from the starting lineup.
"I've been too nice to these guys. Playtime is over. I've been coddling them too much, trying to figure out how to play 10 or 12 guys," Ford said. "Not any more. You produce or you don't play. If you don't things right, I'm going to let you know it."
The tactic worked. The UMass fans who made it to Uncasville saw the Gary Forbes that Virginia fans were sorry to see go. In the last 14 minutes of the game, he was the best player on the floor, not just scoring, passing and rebounding, but leading. That's the player Ford hoped he'd be when Forbes first arrived.
"Coach said, 'Great teams play well in December,' " Forbes said. "We're trying not just to be a good team, but a great team."
UMass took a step toward that Saturday.
Technical fouls: Massachusetts-None. Central Connecticut-None.
Points in the paint-UMASS 48,CCSU 20. Points off turnovers-UMASS 9,CCSU 8.
2nd chance points-UMASS 23,CCSU 10. Fast break points-UMASS 0,CCSU 6.
Bench points-UMASS 21,CCSU 7. Score tied-9 times. Lead changed-5 times.
Last FG-UMASS 2nd-00:26, CCSU 2nd-00:17.
Largest lead-UMASS by 15 2nd-00:26, CCSU by 5 2nd-17:43. | .
The second half started similarly until UMass deployed its big line-up of Freeman, Lasme, Forbes, Thomas and Life. CCSU was held to just 34 percent shooting in the second half after hitting 52 percent in the first.
Tristan Blackwood of CCSU was the high scorer of the night with 25 points including 6-of-10 shooting from behind the arc. He kept the Blue Devils in the game for much of the second half despite the team shooting poorly.
Central Connecticut started the second half taking a 41-36 lead after Blackwood hit a three-pointer from the wing. UMass pulled even at 41 each on a lay-up by Lasme with 16:55 remaining.
UMass tried to pull away from the Blue Devils as Freeman and Forbes, who finished with a career-high eight assists, combined to put the Minutemen on a 10-to-3 run going up 53-48 before Blackwood hit his fourth three-pointer of the night to pull back within two.
The Minutemen extended their lead to nine 62-53 when Forbes found Freeman off the drive for the lay-in. Life and Thomas then hit back-to-back three-pointers to push the lead up to 13 after another Blackwood lay-up for CCSU.
UMass trailed early in the first half before mounting an 11-to-0 run paced by a pair of deep treys from James Life (Fort Myers, Fla.) to lead CCSU 15-8 at the 14:01 mark of the first half.
The Blue Devils rallied back to tie the game 21-21 on a three-pointer from Joe Seymour with 5:58 remaining.
The first half featured six ties including three in the final six minutes as the teams went into the locker rooms knotted at 30 each.
Freeman and Lasme led the Minutemen with nine points each. Mayben had seven assists (eight for the game) in the first half on UMass' 12 field goals.
Mass continues its best start since the 1995-96 Final Four season with an 8-2 record after 10 games.
* UMass had two players with double-doubles for the second game this season. Both Rashaun Freeman and Stephane Lasme had double-doubles at Jacksonville State on Nov. 25 and again against CCSU. Lasme had 19 points and 14 rebounds. Freeman tallied 23 points and 10 rebounds.
* It was the fifth double-double this season for both Freeman and Lasme.
* For Freeman, it was his 35th career double-double. It was also his fourth game this year with 20 points and 20th time in his career.
* Freeman has socred in double-figures in every game this season and in 74 of 95 career games.
* For Lasme, it was his 13th career double-double.
* With 14 rebounds, he was one shy of his career-high of 15 set at St. Bonaventure in 2006.
* Gary Forbes had a career-high eight assists and just one turnover. Forbes' previous high of four was done for times including twice this year.
* Forbes returned to double-figures after his first game this season without at BU. Forbes had 11 points for his ninth game with 10 or more this season and 33 in his career.
* Chris Lowe made his first start of the season in place of Forbes. It was the first time in 10 games UMass did not start the same line-up.
* UMass had a season-low 10 turnovers and shot 62.5 percent in the second half as they turned the ball over just three time in the second half.
ONTVILLE -- Leading UMass by four points early in the second half Saturday night, Central Connecticut had visions of another upset of the Minutemen at Mohegan Sun Arena.
But UMass went on a 27-10 dash to wear down the Blue Devils and seize command.
Suddenly the Minutemen - not the Blue Devils - were making shots and rebounding with authority. The result was a 79-66 UMass victory.
"They manhandled us in the paint," Central coach Howie Dickenman said. "[Stephane] Lasme and [Rashaun] Freeman were too big and strong."
Freeman (7-for-7) and Lasme (4-for-5) shot a combined 11-for-12 in the second half, when UMass (8-2) shot 62.5 percent (20-for-32).
Freeman, a 6-foot-9 center, led the Minutemen with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Lasme, a 6-8 forward, had 19 points. Most of their points came on layups or dunks.
Central's Tristan Blackwood, hitting 6 of 10 three-pointers, led all scorers with 25 points. Jemino Sobers had 13 for the Blue Devils (3-6).
That the Blue Devils were tied 30-30 at halftime and led 45-41 with 16:15 remaining was noteworthy, considering they were a significant man short. Starting power forward Obie Nwadike wasn't with the team. Dickenman said Nwadike's absence was not a disciplinary action.
"Obie's on a leave of absence," Dickenman said. "It was probably his decision."
The Blue Devils also played most of the first half without Javier Mojica - who entered the game averaging a team-leading 19.8 points - and Chris Winters because of foul trouble.
But Sobers, starting for Nwadike, scored eight points and 6-11 reserve center Ingo Beaudet refused to let the Minutemen dominate around the rim. A sagging 2-3 zone was Central's basic, effective defense.
Blackwood's nine points and Sobers' eight enabled Central to reach halftime tied.
"We were fired up to go out and win the game and play hard for 20 more minutes," Sobers said.
The Blue Devils were seeking to duplicate their impressive victories against UMass in their first two meetings at Mohegan Sun Arena: 46-45 in 2002 and 53-52 in 2003.
A Mojica steal and pass to Blackwood for a fastbreak layup got Central going in the second half Saturday night. Mojica's three-point play put the Blue Devils on top 45-41 with 16:15 remaining.
But the Blue Devils lost their momentum, shooting 1-for-9 after Mojica's three-point play. UMass responded to take a 53-48 lead on Freeman's six consecutive points.
For a 10:48 span, Blackwood's 10 were the only points scored by the Blue Devils.
"We made them start taking tougher shots," UMass coach Travis Ford said. "Now they made some tough shots, but we finally dug down and started rebounding their tough shots."
UMass widened its advantage to 69-55 and capped the 27-10 spurt on Brandon Thomas' three with 5:05 to go.
"I guess we didn't have enough muscle at the end," Dickenman said.
aul Munick has heard the naysayers before and so has Howie Dickenman.
But the two have ignored outside opposition, creating a very successful relationship between Mohegan Sun's senior vice president for sports and entertainment and the men's basketball coach at Central Connecticut. The latest installment came Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena, a 79-66 loss for the Blue Devils against UMass.
Central is now 2-2 all-time against UMass at the casino, where it's also played an exhibition game against the Harlem Globetrotters. Munick praised the school's willingness to bring the team to Eastern Connecticut -- it's about an hour drive from the New Britain campus -- and Dickenman, a Norwich native, has never been one to think there's a problem playing there just because it's a casino.
"I would say that's a bad excuse," said Dickenman, who added going to a neutral site helps schedule an opponent such as UMass for a "home" game. "This is our game day. Saturday morning, we drive down and we have shootaround at like 11 to 12. Then we go to a local hotel, we just kind of lounge around; we'll look at some tape, we'll go over scouting reports. We'll have a team meal at a local restaurant not on the grounds of the casino and then the game starts at (8) o'clock."
Although Munick said a game featuring Central isn't currently on next season's schedule, he expects the relationship to continue. Munick, who was heavily involved with college basketball during his nearly two decades working at Madison Square Garden, also has hopes of bringing in more games.
The casino issue has lost some steam -- Atlantic City hosted Saturday afternoon's game between Temple and Cincinnati, while Las Vegas drew the likes of Kansas and Florida for a tournament last month -- but there are other challenges. Of the state's seven Division I programs, UConn is the closest geographically, but the Huskies already play games off campus at the Hartford Civic Center.
"I'd like to get a little bit more national with local talent," said Munick, who is also open to potentially bringing in teams with Connecticut players, a tactic used in New York.
In the meantime, Mohegan Sun can count on Central and the school is happy to oblige.
"Why people don't want to go there? I don't know," Dickenman said. "I don't understand. That's their prerogative. We're very happy to have the opportunity to play."
NCASVILLE, Conn. - Gary Forbes went from being a bad-shooting nonstarter in the first half to savior of the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team in the second half Saturday night.
University of Massachusetts coach Travis Ford tried several combinations early as the Minutemen fumbled their way through the first 26 minutes of the game against Central Connecticut State. He used traditional and nontraditional lineups.
Running out of ideas, Ford sat down both his point guards and handed the keys to Forbes, who had struggled in the win over against Boston University Wednesday and in the first half Saturday. The move turned a four-point Minuteman deficit into a 79-66 win at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Forbes hadn't played much point guard this season before Saturday, because Chris Lowe and freshman Tiki Mayben have run the point most of the time. Ford did use Forbes there in the Minutemen's exhibition game and season opener against Dartmouth while Lowe was suspended.
After Forbes' poor performance against BU, Ford moved Lowe onto the first team alongside Mayben. That meant Forbes was running that point for the Minutemen's second team in practice. His performance then encouraged Ford to try it with just over 14 minutes left in Saturday's game and his team trailing 45-41.
"I liked the way he played there (in practice)," Ford said. "They weren't guarding Tiki or Chris Lowe out on the wing. They'd double or triple the post so I put another offensive threat in there to see what would happen. It worked."
Forbes said he was motivated by the demotion.
"I haven't played hard in the past couple games. Coach didn't start me to motivate me and it did," Forbes said. "I tried to play as hard as possible. When you play hard good things happen."
With Forbes at the point, good things did happen. Until then, he had just two points after shooting 1-for-7 in the first half. But Forbes had four points, two assists and a rebound in a second-half 12/3 run that put UMass ahead for good and overall he contributed nine points and five assists in the final 14 minutes.
Forbes finished with 11 points, a career-high eight assists and just one turnover as the Minutemen had a season low 10 turnovers, including just three in the second half.
"I told Gary he needs to be a stat-stuffer. He needs 12 to 15 points, 8 to 10 rebounds, seven or eight assists, one or two blocks, one or two steals," Ford said. "That's the type player he is. He's not one dimensional. I've been too good to him. You've got to produce from this point on."
Not willing to tamper with success, Ford didn't change his lineup from the 14:08 mark until he inserted walk-on Matt Pennie with 26 seconds left and the game wrapped up.
Rashaun Freeman turned to Ford at one point to ask for a breather and was turned down.
"You're not tired," Ford shouted at him and later said "I told them 'We were down five and you guys got us up 10, we're going to stick with you. You don't get a rest.' "
Freeman and Stephane Lasme each had double-doubles to lead the Minutemen. Freeman had 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Lasme scored 19, grabbed 14 boards and blocked three shots.
UMass (8-2) returns to action at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Louisville.
Tristan Blackwood led Central Connecticut (3-6) with 25 points.
The Minutemen led for most of the first half but never by a comfortable margin. A jumper by Chris Winters of the Blue Devils with 29 seconds left in the first half tied the game 30-30.
Blackwood converted a layup right away to start the second half as Central Connecticut took a lead and then extended it to five and held the momentum until Ford moved Forbes to point guard.
NCASVILLE, Conn. - It may have been just another game, a win over an inferior opponent that will be easily forgotten weeks and months down the road. But it didn't feel that way Saturday night.
For the first four weeks of this season, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team lost to the two teams it was expected to lose to and won the games it was supposed to win. That doesn't sound like much but it's progress. It's been a long time since the Minutemen made it through a season without a particularly damaging defeat.
The mileposts on UMass' journey into obscurity in recent years were the bad losses: Holy Cross, Fordham, Central Connecticut, Lafayette, Fordham again, Hartford, Central Connecticut again, Fordham yet again, Davidson, Richmond. There were plenty of optimism-snuffing defeats and Saturday's game had the potential to be added to that list.
Coming off a lucky-to-get 56-54 victory over Boston University Wednesday, the Minutemen were flat again for the first 26 minutes against Central Connecticut State and appeared to headed for a loss that would have deflated a lot of the season's optimism.
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Verizon (VZ) Nears Deal to Acquire Yahoo (YHOO)
By Alex Sherman, Ed Hammond and Scott Moritz Jul 22, 2016, 8:40 AM
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is nearing a deal to buy Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), beating out rival bidders, people familiar with the matter said.
Verizon is discussing a price close to $5 billion for Yahoo's core Internet business, one of the people said. The deal doesn't include the company's patents at this stage, the person said. While other assets including Yahoo's real estate were also on the block, it could not immediately be learned if they are part of the deal.
The companies may be ready to announce the deal in the coming days, the people said, asking not to be named because the deliberations are private. The two companies are in one-on-one discussions, one of the people said. The deal hasn't been finalized and may still fall apart, they said.
A representative for Verizon declined to comment. A representative for Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo<|fim_middle|>icken Loans Inc. founder Dan Gilbert, as well as buyout firms Vector Capital Management and TPG were also active in the bidding process until the end.
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The deal would end a months-long bidding process for Yahoo, which began earlier this year when Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer — after keeping investors at bay for years — said the company would explore strategic alternatives, including selling its main internet operations.
Mayer was finally bowing to rising shareholder ire that gained steam after the collapse of a plan to spin off Yahoo's stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a way that would minimize the tax impact for investors. Alibaba (BABA), the largest e-commerce provider in China, had emerged as the most valuable piece of Yahoo, and investors sought a way to realize some of those gains. After U.S. regulators failed to give prior approval for the transaction's tax status, Yahoo was forced to jettison the plan.
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Entrepreneurs hear over and over again that they need a robust financial model in order to raise capital and get the attention from investors else they risk that an investor would say, "You haven't thought through", which is the entrepreneur's nightmare.
Yet, a<|fim_middle|> two or Initial Traction Model before shifting into a full-blown Operational Model. See you in the next article. | robust financial model does not necessarily mean a super complex and cumbersome financial model. Sometimes, investors "fade away" because they just don't get the financial model quickly and they move on!
Yes, financial models need to be robust. But they need to be robust relative to the stage of the business and attuned to what we know about the product, the customer and the business today.
Based on the companies I see, the Startup Model is used in roughly years one and two. Companies in years two, three and four typically run the Initial Traction Model, and after year four is when you start getting into Operational Models. But that's just a general representation of the life of a startup.
Let's look at the first phase in more detail.
I help founders of high-growth service firms measure their performance to make wise financial decisions.
It's funny how investors, bloggers, venture capitalists and other folks use so many different words for the growth phases: startup, seed, early, MVP, first-revenue and cash-flow positive. There's also product market fit, scaling and operating.
"Strong" is then immediately misinterpreted by founders and, often, young MBA finance people as a granular, super-detailed, we've-thought-of-absolutely-everything financial model.
But the truth is, you don't need an operational model in a pitch deck. And it might hurt you. As a company grows, so should its financial models, starting from very simple.
I was recently introduced to a pre-revenue tech startup. The founder had shared his financial model with some investors to get a seed or angel round in place. But nobody was biting. And he had no idea why.
Here's what we noticed in the revenue build of this model. He showed four client sizes (small, medium, large and extra-large). To each of those clients, he offered a suite of 16 different products. Then across those 16 products, he could provide three different service levels, like silver, gold and platinum.
Multiply that out. Here is a pre-revenue company with 192 product and service configurations in their financial model, each of which required a different look at cost and COGS! And each of those 192 configurations were detailed through the entire model.
Investors want to know: What margins are going to be driving this business? In this model, nobody could tell. And investors with deal fatigue will just move on to the next one. It was also hard for investors to understand customer acquisition costs because they were mixed across a plethora of different assumptions based on customer size and sales cycle assumptions.
In the very early stages, your financial model doesn't have to be that complex. Not only does it not help, but too much complexity can actually hinder your pitch.
To make my point to the tech startup founder, I referenced some beginner math rules around "the law of significant figures." When you multiply a single decimal number times a single decimal, your answer can't be more accurate than your inputs. So 1.3 x 1.7 is 2.21, but because of the inputs, you can only credibly report accuracy to one significant figure, or 2.2.
The same thing applies here in financial modeling. An assumption times an assumption times an assumption really doesn't give you a more credible level of accuracy, especially when you're talking to an outside party.
So let's look at how you should present your numbers.
That pre-revenue tech startup should have been using more of a Startup Model. Your objective is attracting capital investment by clearly articulating to an investor the key things you believe to be true that make this an attractive business model.
You want to make this statement, with great clarity: "Here are the 10 things that are true and really drive our business model; so this is how we will make money and returns for our investors." Your model should prove that message out in a simple way.
Let's say your model shows you can sell $1,000 a week and attract customers for $X price and get this done and have that margin, at this level of scalability. When those key assumptions are presented clearly and the basis of those assumptions have merit, then it communicates a strong, clear financial model.
When investors are interested, the next part of your conversation becomes, "And here's how we're going to use capital to prove out that our assumptions are correct." You will use historical examples and comparative examples at this point. Investors are very good at sniffing out reasonable assumptions or asking about a challenge built into other assumptions. They are wary of unreasonable or too many assumptions.
The Startup Model gets you ready to battle for your key assumptions. It's not a pie-in-the-sky, back-of-the-napkin picture. Your model needs to be representative of what you're trying to build.
In the pre-revenue stage, you have a few serious hurdles to leap. You cannot tell me that you know your customer yet. You do not yet know how they buy. You do not know how long they're going to stick around. You're trying to create a core assumption around who your target (early) customer is and how long they're going to stay.
Nor do you really know your acquisition cost yet. Sure, you probably have some insights as to why that cost will be what it will be. Maybe you've run some tests. Maybe you've done a beta test with a fake product with Facebook ads. But you don't truly know, in terms of growing this business, your acquisition cost.
Your information around price and margin, too, is quite limited. You don't know the elasticity of this market for price. You get the picture.
That kind of simpler financial model, demonstrating your understanding of your current uncertainties as well as your goals and research to date, should make it easier for interested investors to start writing checks.
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The Böblingen airfield was initially built in 1915 as a military airfield. In the <|fim_middle|>thansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 160.
Mails and freight only, not Sundays to Mondays, operated by Lufthansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 52.
After the move of the passenger traffic to Echterdingen, the field was used by the Luftwaffe as an air base. | 1920s and 1930s, it served as the airport for Stuttgart, until this function was taken over by Stuttgart-Echterdingen. Then Böblingen was used by the Luftwaffe as an air base until 1945.
At the end of World War II, the field was occupied by US troops. Later a maintenance facility for US trucks was set up. This facility also included a helicopter landing field. The barracks belonging to the former air base were taken over by the Bundeswehr.
In the early 1990s, the US Army withdrew. A few years later, the buildings of the old airport were renovated and the multi-purpose area "Flugfeld" was built on the site. The Bundeswehr barracks were taken over by the police.
From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s, the field was used as "Stuttgart-Böblingen Regional Airport". After the civil aviation moved to the newly built Echterdingen Airport, Böblingen was exclusively used as an air base until 1945.
Aerial picture from 1934 - The displayed "S" can be seen on the left edge.
Good sod, shortest rolling distance 1000 m in direction southeast.
In the middle of the movement area smoke oven and "S" with ring of 8 cement segments spread evenly on a circle of 350 m radius from the center S. Landing sign is always displayed. Movement area boundary marked by red-white coated panels.
Permanent night lighting not available. On request at aviation police station Böblingen, landing lights (torches). Land between two green to a red torch.
Call sign "aet". 1 transmitter for radio communication with airplanes. 1 direction finder (under construction).
1 aircraft hangar 66 x 22 m.
The halls have lifting devices with a load capacity of 0.5 and 1.0 t.
Contain all machines and tools necessary to repair metal and wood aircraft. Electricity: 220 or 440 V three-phase current. 16 kW charging device. Spare parts for all aircraft and engine models of the Deutsche Luft Hansa in stock.
For 78000 and 92000 liters of petrol and benzene. Mixers, taps and tankers available.
Front and side ramp available.
Medical room with healing assistant available. Nearest doctor in Böblingen (1/2 km distance).
Customs office and postal service with telephone and telephone telegram transmission available. Passport inspection by police watch.
Shuttle service at times of scheduled departures and landings. Taxi cabs can be ordered in the airport hotel.
Weekdays, operated by Lufthansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 86 and by Swissair with Douglas DC-2.
Weekdays, operated by Lufthansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 86.
Weekdays and Sundays, operated by Lufthansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 52.
Weekdays, operated by Lufthansa with aircraft Junkers Ju 52.
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Larkspur, Calif. – Aug. 15, 2018 – It is with great pleasure that Koch Media today announces the acquisition of the cherished video games series Timesplitters. The agreement sees Koch Media become the owners of the intellectual property and the rights to create video games based on the brand which will be produced by the Koch Media's publishing label Deep Silver.
Largely considered as one of the most influential console games of the early 2000s Timesplitters was originally created by Free Radical Design, who later became Crytek UK Ltd and finally Deep Silver Dambuster, also part of the Koch Media family. The three-game series earned a large and passionate fan base thanks to its unique humour, art style, and pop culture references while encouraging customization and modification to give each person their own individual experience. "We are hugely excited to have acquired Timesplitters," commented Klemens Kundratitz, CEO Koch Media GmbH. "The original games gave fans a massive content offer and provided a pure and genuinely fun arcade shooter experience. We have many fans of the Timesplitters series among our own staff who are passionate about creating a product that will thrill today's gaming audience."
In addition to Timesplitters, Koch Media have also acquired the IP and the rights to science fiction action-adventure game Second Sight. Also conceived by Free Radical Design, Second Sight was originally released in 2004 and follows the adventures of an American parapsychology researcher who undertakes missions alongside a band of U.S Marines using a mix of gun combat and stealth gameplay. Forthcoming Second Site products will also be published by Deep Silver.
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Fleet managers came from far and wide to attend the GE Capital Fleet Services 2011 Ride 'N' Drive event on July 7th in Mississauga. See below for a gallery of photos from the event.
Fleet managers came from far and wide to attend the GE Capital Fleet Services 2011 Ride 'N' Drive event on July 7th in Mississauga.
<|fim_middle|>GHG) emissions. With increasing regulation in this area and eco-conscious consumers opting for the greener option, EVs offer a solution that satisfies both trends.
Third, the burgeoning EV market is offering the companies developing them a chance to create a competitive edge. Innovations in design, materials, software and manufacturing processes are creating new business opportunities. The rapid development of charging technologies is one example Frodl cited.
GE itself has committed to having 25,000 EVs by 2015. According to Frodl, more than 100 new EVs wil be coming to market in the next 24 to 36 months.
Chris Gittens, GE Capital Fleet Services commercial leader told the audience about a survey of fleet managers the company is currently conducting. Preliminary results indicate that more than 75 percent of fleet managers think they will have electric vehicles in their fleet within the next five years. Full survey results will be available in the next few months.
At the ride and drive event there were several EVs to test, along with an operational charging station. Fleet managers were eager to try the Toyota Prius v, Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Navistar eStar, Mitsubishi i-Miev, Ford Transit BEV, Ford Focus BEV and the Mercedes-Benz Smart fortwo EV.
The event was sponsored by Ford, with GM as keynote sponsor, BMW the refreshments and music sponsor and Nissan as the lunch sponsor. | A parking lot full of the latest models from all the major car makers waited, sparkling in the sun as the fleet managers gathered first indoors to learn about the latest in electric vehicles technology and adoption.
GE Capital Fleet Services chief strategic officer Deb Frodl delivered a keynote on GE's EV strategy and why GE believes the EV is ready for a breakthrough. There are three main reasons for the EV's imminent success, Frodl said.
First, they promote economic stability for the companies using them. As oil prices increase, the savings from using EVs increase, making their adoption a good risk mitigation strategy.
Second, they are a key part of the drive to reduce greenhouse gas ( | 134 |
The U.S. Supreme Court began the day with 19 argued cases yet to be decided. This included two of the most highly anticipated cases of this term involving political gerrymandering, Gil v. Whitford (Wisconsin) and Benisek v. Lamone (Maryland).
Today the U.S. Supreme Court disappointed everyone by punting on these two cases. It was an anticlimactic end to these gerrymandering cases, which are likely to return in the future with additional cases moving through the appellate courts pipeline.
The right to vote is "individual and personal in nature," Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 561, and "voters who allege facts showing disad- vantage to themselves as individuals have standing to sue" to remedy that disadvantage, Baker, 369 U. S., at 206. The plaintiffs here al- leged that they suffered such injury from partisan gerrymandering, which works through the "cracking" and "packing" of voters. To the extent that the plaintiffs' alleged harm is the dilution of their votes, that injury is district specific. An individual voter in Wisconsin is placed in a single district. He votes for a single representative. The boundaries of the district, and the composition of its voters, deter- mine whether and to what extent a particular voter is packed or cracked. A plaintiff who complains of gerrymandering, but who does not live in a gerrymandered district, "assert[s] only a generalized grievance against governmental conduct of which he or she does not approve." United States v. Hays, 515 U. S. 737, 745.
Here, the plaintiffs' claims turn on allegations that their votes have been diluted. Because that harm arises from the particular composition of the voter's own dis- trict, remedying the harm does not necessarily require restructuring all of the State's legislative districts. It requires revising only such districts as are necessary to reshape the voter's district. This fits the rule that a "remedy must of course be limited to the inadequacy that produced the injury in fact that the plaintiff has established." Lewis v. Casey, 518 U. S. 343, 357.
The plaintiffs argue that their legal injury also extends to the statewide harm to their interest "in their collective representation in the legislature," and in influencing the legislature's overall "composition and policymaking." Brief for Appellees 31. To date, however, the Court has not found that this presents an individual and personal injury of the kind required for Article III standing. A citizen's inter- est in the overall composition of the legislature is embodied in his right to vote for his representative. The harm asserted by the plaintiffs in this case is best understood as arising from a burden on their own votes. Pp. 12–17.
Normally this would result in a dismissal of the case, but not here.
Where a plaintiff has failed to demonstrate standing, this Court usually directs dismissal. See, e.g., DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U. S. 332, 354. Here, however, where the case concerns an un- settled kind of claim that the Court has not agreed upon, the contours and justiciability of which are unresolved, the case is remanded to the District Court to give the plaintiffs an opportunity to prove concrete and particularized injuries using evidence that would tend to demonstrate a burden on their individual votes. Cf. Alabama Leg- islative Black Caucus v. Alabama, 575 U. S. ___, ___. Pp. 21–22.
We express no view on the merits of the plaintiffs' case. We caution, however, that "standing is not dis pensed in gross": A plaintiff 's remedy must be tailored to redress the plaintiff 's particular injury. Cuno, 547 U. S., at 353.
Justice Kagan wrote a concurring opinion joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg and Sotomayor which is a "how to" guide for the plaintiffs to establish standing and to get their case back in front of the Court.
And at some points in this litigation, the plaintiffs complained of a different injury — an infringement of their First Amend ment right of association. The Court rightly does not address that alternative argument: The plaintiffs did not advance it with sufficient clarity or concreteness to make it a real part of the case. But because on remand they may well develop the associational theory, I address the standing requirement that would then apply.
[P]artisan gerrymanders inflict other kinds of constitutional harm as well. Among those injuries, partisan gerrymanders may infringe the First Amendment rights of association held by parties, other political organizations, and their members. The plaintiffs here have sometimes pointed to that kind of harm. To the extent they meant to do so, and choose to do so on remand, their associational claim would occasion a different stand ing inquiry than the one in the Court's opinion.
By placing a state party at an enduring electoral disadvantage, the gerrymander weakens its capacity to perform all its functions.
And if that is the essence of the harm alleged, then the standing analysis should differ from the one the Court applies. Standing, we have long held, "turns on the nature and source of the claim asserted." Warth v. Seldin, 422 U. S. 490, 500 (1975). Indeed, that idea lies at the root of today's opinion. It is because the Court views the harm alleged as vote dilution that it (rightly) insists that each plaintiff show packing or cracking in her own district to establish her standing. See ante, at 14–17; supra, at 3–4. But when the harm alleged is not district specific, the proof needed for standing should not be district specific either. And the associational injury flowing from a statewide partisan gerrymander, whether alleged by a party member or the party itself, has nothing to do with the packing or cracking of any single district's lines. The complaint in such a case is instead that the gerrymander has burdened the ability of like-minded people across the State to affiliate in a political party and carry out that organization's activities and objects. See supra, at 8–9. Because a plaintiff can have that complaint without living in a packed or cracked district, she need not show what the Court demands today for a vote dilution claim. Or said otherwise: Because on this alternative theory, the valued association and the injury to it are statewide, so too is the relevant standing requirement.
But nothing in the Court's opinion prevents the plaintiffs on remand from pursuing an associational claim, or from satisfying the different standing requirement that theory would entail. The Court's opinion is about a suit challenging a partisan gerrymander on a particular ground—that it dilutes the votes of individual citizens. That opinion "leave[s] for another day consideration of other possible theories of harm not presented here and whether those theories might present justiciable claims giving rise to statewide remedies." Ante, at 16. And in particular, it leaves for another day the theory of harm advanced by JUSTICE KENNEDY in Vieth: that a partisan gerrymander interferes with the vital "ability of citizens to band together" to further their political beliefs. 541 U. S., at 314 (quoting California Democratic Party, 530 U. S., at 574). Nothing about that injury is "generalized" or "abstract," as the Court says is true of the plaintiffs' dissatis faction with the "overall composition of the legislature." Ante, at 16. A suit raising an associational theory complains of concrete "burdens on a disfavored party" and its members as they pursue their political interests and goals. Vieth, 541 U. S., at 315 (opinion of KENNEDY, J.); see supra, at 8–9. And when the suit alleges that a gerrymander has imposed those burdens on a statewide basis, then its litigation should be statewide too — as to standing, liability, and remedy alike.
Courts have a critical role to play in curbing partisan gerrymandering. Over fifty years ago, we committed to providing judicial review in the redistricting arena, be cause we understood that "a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection." Reynolds, 377 U. S., at 566. Indeed, the need for judicial review is at its most urgent in these cases. For here, politicians' incentives conflict with voters' interests, leaving citizens with out any political remedy for their constitutional harms.
So the plaintiffs in Gil v. Whitford are going to go through another evidentiary trial and the appellate process again, which means it may be at least another two years before this case will return to the Supreme Court.
The<|fim_middle|> mov- ant has shown "that he is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief, that the balance of equities tips in his favor, and that an injunction is in the public interest." Id., at 20.
Plaintiffs made no such showing below. Even if we assume — contrary to the findings of the District Court — that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims, the balance of equities and the public interest tilted against their request for a preliminary injunction.
First, a party requesting a preliminary injunction must generally show reasonable diligence . . . In this case, appellants did not move for a preliminary injunction in the District Court until six years, and three general elections, after the 2011 map was adopted, and over three years after the plaintiffs' first complaint was filed.
But [this] does not change the fact that plaintiffs could have sought a preliminary injunction much earlier. See Fishman, supra, at 1330. In considering the balance of equities among the parties, we think that plaintiffs' unnecessary, years-long delay in asking for preliminary injunctive relief weighed against their request.
At the time the District Court made its decision, the appeal in Gill was pending before this Court. The District Court recognized that our decision in Gill had the potential to "shed light on critical questions in this case" and to set forth a "framework" by which plaintiffs' claims could be decided and, potentially, remedied. 266 F. Supp. 3d, at 815–816. In the District Court's view, "charging ahead" and adjudicating the plaintiffs' claims in that fluctuating legal environment, when firmer guidance from this Court might have been forthcoming, would have been a mistake. Id., at 816. Such a determination was within the sound discretion of the District Court.
In these particular circumstances, we conclude that the District Court's decision denying a preliminary injunction cannot be regarded as an abuse of discretion.
The order of the District Court is Affirmed.
So this case is remanded back to the district court to determine whether injunctive relief is warranted when the case is fully completed.
In addition to these cases from Wisconsin and Maryland, there are gerrymandering cases moving through the appellate courts pipeline from Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia. | Court made short shrift of Benisek v. Lamone (.pdf) in an unsigned per curium opinion affirming the lower court. "This appeal arises from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction in the District Court," not a decision on the merits of the case.
On August 24, 2017, the District Court denied plaintiffs' motion and stayed further proceedings pending this Court's disposition of partisan gerrymandering claims in Gill v. Whitford, No. 16–1161. 266 F. Supp. 3d 799. The District Court found that plaintiffs had failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits sufficient to warrant a preliminary injunction. Id., at 808–814. The District Court also held that it was "in no position to award [p]laintiffs the remedy they . . . requested on the timetable they . . . demanded." Id., at 815.
Plaintiffs ask this Court to vacate the District Court's order and remand for further consideration of whether a preliminary injunction is appropriate.
As a matter of equitable discretion, a preliminary injunction does not follow as a matter of course from a plaintiff's showing of a likelihood of success on the merits. See id., at 32. Rather, a court must also consider whether the | 285 |
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Well, I made it… I got each and every one of my many projects completed on time this week. I had so many projects<|fim_middle|> course, I still have to finish this essay for my class that was cancelled yesterday. Fingers crossed that it's not too difficult!!
I thought I'd also include a picture of some of the cookies I made and the cake I did…. let me know what you think! | going on that I was hiding them from my mom for as long as possible, because she was having anxiety about me finishing everything.
I was actually getting paid for the cake and string art board, because I was doing them for other people, so that was nice… it also meant that those had to be perfect though. My mom was relying on me for teacher gifts being done on time. The Christmas lights were my own little project, and didn't actually have to be done by today, but everything that I could do without my dad's help was finished by tonight.
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Students not satisfied with food options for dietary restrictions
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Sodexo provides food service to USM students across its campuses, offering a range of food options for students with dietary restrictions and allergies. However, several students with dietary restrictions or food allergies report having a difficult time ensuring they get proper nutrition while maintaining their health.
Residential students living on the Gorham campus, except those in the Upperclass dorm, are required to purchase a $<|fim_middle|> write suggestions on the notecards it doesn't seem to change much, no matter how many people write," says Kathleen Rattazzi, a tourism and hospital major with a food studies minor. Rattazzi lives with a condition called ulcerative colitis. Last year, in order to manage her symptoms, she needed a specific carb and elimination diet. Many meals consisted of boiled chicken, plain rice, broccoli and spinach. She frequented the 'Simple Servings' station last year, but often went to the Portland campus for meals because of how meals can be customized. The Myzone refrigerator in Brooks Dining Hall contains gluten-free, peanut and tree nut free options but has slowly decreased what it carries, she adds.
"So many people say 'I wish we knew what was on the menu,'" Rattazzi says.
Brooks Dining Hall lists its daily menu on the Bite app, which shows each item offered for breakfast, lunch and dinner, listed with icons explaining whether the dish is vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free. It also lists any allergens contained in the dish. By selecting certain allergens in the search, students can filter the daily offerings to find what works for them.
Rattazzi believes that a main divide is communication and knowledge. She says that students "feel that their concerns aren't usually addressed" and often are unaware of the resources at their disposal, such as the Bite app containing each day's menu offerings.
Champagne notes that avenues of communication, such as the Community Culinary Council meeting held monthly meeting that is open to USM staff and students, are greatly underutilized by students.
Sodexo's staff is preparing for large-scale renovations to Brooks Dining Hall scheduled for completion before students move in next fall. Rattazzi is hopeful about the expanded range of options and cooking methods the changes promise.
The next Community Culinary Council meeting will take place Thursday, April 11 from 1-2 p.m in the Woodbury Campus Center on the Portland campus. Champagne can be reached at [email protected] and the Bite app is available for free at the App store.
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I am not being snarky here. Students with concerns should go to the meetings. If not, directly contact Chelsea. The more the better. | 2250 meal plan per semester. For $4,500 an academic year, students can choose between several combinations of meal swipes and dining dollars.
Four students interviewed reported that they preferred dining on the Portland campus instead of Brooks Dining Hall on the Gorham campus. They agree that the "food quality is better," for students with specific dietary needs because the food is a 'la-carte. This makes it easier to ensure that their needs are being met.
Bella Collins, a vegan second-year nursing student, jokes that "contrary to popular belief I do not just eat lettuce." She says she must search each of the separate food stations to construct a full vegan meal. Additionally, there is a "feeling of being an afterthought in Brooks," during special food nights that feature items such as surf and turf, hot wings, milk tasting and burgers.
Coral Fuller, a sophomore psychology and art double-major, says she has similar struggles in finding enough vegan options within her meal plan. She notes some bright spots, such as the recently added burrito bowls in Lower Brooks and a vegan Holy Donut offering. Like many students, Fuller says, she "prefers eating at the Woodbury Campus Center because they always serve falafel and burrito bowls." In Brooks, on the other hand, the food is pre-prepared and she cannot ask the chef to hold certain ingredients.
Chelsea Champagne, Sodexo's district dietitian based at USM, works with students seeking accommodation with medical or dietary needs. As a registered dietician, Champagne has a medical background and knows how to manage an individual's condition through their diet. In her role, she works with student's doctors and "serves as an in-between for students and the dining services."
Student feedback is critically important to Sodexo, Champagne says. Sodexo solicits feedback a number of ways. Students are encouraged to complete a biannual survey on their experiences that Sodexo uses to make decisions about food options and operations. In Brooks dining hall, students can leave notes on a magnetic bulletin board as well as texting 'usmfeedback' to 82257.
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The next generation of construction technicians have had their skills tested at a special Design and Construction Challenge held at Cardiff and Vale College.
More than<|fim_middle|>r pupil Corey Baldwin. | 70 pupils from eight schools from across Cardiff and the Vale took part in the challenge which was held at CAVC's Cardiff Construction Training Centre and its Barry Campus. Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr won the Cardiff competition and a team from St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School were the winners in the Vale heat.
The teams of Year 10 pupils were split into contractors with a Project Manager then given a plot in which they each had different tasks, from paving the floor through to designing and creating a tile mosaic and putting up fencing. The competition is designed to give school pupils a taste of the various tasks involved in the construction industry and to show the value of vocational education.
Mr Bright, a Product Design Teacher at St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, said: "The experience, which included a traditional builder's breakfast, gave pupils a fantastic insight into the world of construction and the range of potential career opportunities that are available in industry.
"We didn't really know what to expect from the day," St Richard Gwyn pupil Molly Gunney said. "No-one in the team had any previous experience of brickwork, carpentry, wall and floor tiling or being a Project Manager and it was the first time our school had entered the competition.
"I had now idea I could tile and certainly didn't think I would enjoy it, but I did," fellow St Richard Gwyn pupil Charlotte Adams added.
St Richard Gwyn pupil Connor Club said: "I really enjoyed the event. I was the Project Manager and got to oversee all the different trades working.
"It was very interesting and I enjoyed the experience of gaining an insight into the world outside school and what the College can offer," said Ysgol Plasmaw | 349 |
A Curious Stew
Teresa Conboy
Silver Lake was a circus when I moved here in '92. By day it was old buildings with peeling paint set against lush hillsides with hidden graffitied cement stairways and morning glories everywhere. School kids walked to and from the middle school on one end and Marshall High tucked in off of Griffith Park Boulevard on the other. And every evening at dusk, like the flip of a coin, Hyperion Avenue became a sea of leather-clad men as the neighborhood merged into its nightly free-for-all leather-bar scene. Leather caps, leather vests, leather pants, studded leather belts, leather chokers, and leather underwear — I saw it all parade past my window.
Occasionally, when the evening parade was in full swing the marchers fell out of line and snuck into my roofless cement garage. Built in the 1920s, its walls were slowly caving in with each seismic shift of the earth, and it served less as a garage than a place to park the city-issued trash cans. But that didn't matter to the boys who ran the streets at night back then, as they<|fim_middle|>boy is working on a collection of short stories about her two decades in the Hollywood area of Silver Lake, but from the new vantage point of Altadena, which she hopes will be a little slower to gentrify. You can find Teresa on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Always a pleasure reading Teresa's stories. Keep them coming!
I love Teresa's stories. They always make me feel in that moment. Descriptive & real. The characters are always with interest. I love the visual of the graffiti & peeled paint–awesome. And the coffee cups strewn along the sidewalk & bushes..So L.A. I've watched the transitions of areas that were exactly as she writes. KEEP WRITING. | 'd slip in – and slip it in.
And when the sun rose, the buildings of nighttime delights were tucked back into their anonymous shells intertwined between auto body and mechanics shops, small theatres, old houses and apartments, Casita del Campo restaurant, and the local plumber.
All part of the charm of Silver Lake life back then — rent a cottage, live on the hillsides, and watch the wild life. Hemingway may have called Paris "a moveable feast," but Silver Lake was a curious stew.
And out of this concoction a different flavor emerged when the young urban professionals started to move in and reshape the neighborhood to look more like the areas they came from. One weekend a 30-something gay man asked me to sign a petition to close the bars; the following weekend a couple of cute older queens, who owned the notorious and anonymous King of Hearts bar, pleaded for me to sign theirs. "You can see how nice we keep the building and garden out front!" But newcomers can be relentless in their pursuits to make an area fit their vision, and the parade was eventually forced to move on as the bars were made over into other businesses. Even longtime stud bar Cuffs – the only building to sport its name on the outside – was shuttered, gutted, repainted inside and out and revived as a "tavern." The new tavern owners, as if in an effort to cover up the saloon's outlaw past, installed floor-to-ceiling bookcases of old law books over Cuffs' mascot: a mural of a man in crotchless leather chaps that displayed his rather large erection. I only knew about this notorious gentleman when an ornery friend took me into the bar after I'd lived in the neighborhood a dozen years. "See, it's not so bad," said Jeff, while the leather-chapped daddies stared at me in not quite a welcoming fashion, as I hid under a baseball cap, downed a drink, and he called me "Bob," which I'm quite sure didn't fool any of them.
I'm not sure how I found out that the bar had become Hyperion Tavern as a new sign was never posted. Only a revolving striped barber shop light pole at the doorway pointed the way for the new breed who sipped their beers and leafed through the endless rows of law books, marveled at the tavern's rustic-like interior and charming scent of "old wood." A cherry wood decor, in this case. And even though the new owners had accomplished getting the longtime Cuffs' bar smell out, its former ghosts came back to haunt in the form of knee-high pee stains that started showing through the black paint outside –right where the men in chaps used to line up every evening as they waited to get in. Stains aside, the Tavern's speakeasy facade screamed loud and clear that bohemian-hipster gentrification had arrived, and the new party was in full swing.
Banking on the busy thoroughfare of Hyperion Avenue and new incoming traffic a hair salon replaced the feed store; an art gallery was gutted out of a former antiques shop that had replaced a small market, which at one time had been a boy bar. All of it was a welcome change, though maybe not the rise in rents and real estate, depending on which side of the fence you stood on. It was also noticeably quieter at dusk, now that the boy bars were gone, and along with it their hoots, hollers, and catcalls. And from this newfound silence, early one evening emerged Miles, or a version of him, as trumpet notes echoed through the corridor lending a mysterious atmosphere to the air. As if purposely footnoted into the play that was this neighborhood, the notes seemed to be signaling a scene change.
I found the budding player a couple of buildings down from the Tavern, standing in an open doorway as the light from inside shone onto an otherwise dark stretch of sidewalk that was shaded over by trees. The space had long been vacant, since it was last inhabited by an architect photographer, his miniature cut-out of the downtown L.A. skyline still fading on the windowsill.
High school senior, if a day, Maya was practicing familiar phrases from "Round About Midnight," her trumpet pointed towards the sky. It wasn't smooth as silk, but I could still hear the passion behind each note and wondered what it would have been like to have lived down the street from Miles Davis.
"Ah, thanks," she blushed. Seated behind her on a well-worn couch next to a stainless steel bar was a man wearing an extra-large faded Hawaiian shirt, with a long thin salt and pepper ponytail that went down his back. "Would you like a cappuccino? It's free!" said Navarro, with a big smile and a twinkle in his eye that made him look like a happier version of Sitting Bull.
"Maya, make her a cappuccino!" Navarro's booming voice startling me out of my haze.
She put down her trumpet, grabbed a carton of milk out of a big stainless steel frig, and dutifully went behind the bar to whip up, what was to be, the house specialty.
Navarro's business partner, Marco was perched on a stool and smiled: "You know what I like about her coffees? I never have to add anything to them, because they're perfect!" I had to admit she created something that was also considered a work of art in L.A. – a great foamy coffee drink.
Navarro and Marco were still working on the soon-to-be opened Java Kava coffee house that hadn't much floor space to spare with everything else that was already in there, including the one wooden chair I sat on.
"Oh we're replacing all of this and getting some nice tables and chairs," said Navarro, though it really seemed only big enough for a small table or two.
"It's going to be great when we finally open!" he boasted. "Hello, free cappuccino!" Navarro yelled out from his perch on the couch to couples walking by.
Equal parts couch philosopher and music lover, Navarro was easy to talk to over those delicious lattes. And over the next few weeks I became a regular customer of the house specialty – conversation and free coffees. We talked about the changing face of the neighborhood, as he played old rock and blues on his old school boombox. He'd owned a local pet store and watched the kids grow up in the neighborhood, the graffiti increase, sales go down during the recession, and rents go up as new businesses moved in. "Man, there was a time when that store was always busy."
His new business was in a prime location as tavern-goers or art gallery visitors passed by Java Kava to-be, either on their way to or stumbling back from the latest party. The mixture of spirits, courtesy of the tavern or the art gallery's monthly art openings and Navarro's free coffees were the perfect elixir, as everyone effortlessly conversed. And Navarro always made introductions: "Hey, he lives right up the street from you."
This was a different offering from the latest crop of coffeehouses and diners inhabiting Sunset Junction that lacked the character of the greasy spoons they had replaced, where you could sit for hours as the waitresses kept refilling your cup. In the new coffee world, if you wanted another cup you had to ante up.
Walking up to Java Kava on any given evening, I could hear Navarro's booming voice, "…it's free!!" Seated on the couch, he'd get up just long enough to turn up the volume of some old '60s blues. "I met a lot of these guys when I worked concerts in Hawaii," as he'd share his endless stories of days on the big island.
"Ahhh, Paul Butterfield," said Navarro, as he sat back down and kept a steady beat tapping his foot, and slapping high fives, this night, with his friend Dean. "This is the shit!" It seemed the perfect soundtrack as Navarro's eyes had more than a hint of marijuana happiness.
"Yeah, it is!" said Dean who announced, "I'm not going to the Silver Lake street fair this year," as he scratched his elbow that sported a tattoo of a 45 record. "I've seen the Buzzcocks, and I don't care about Morris Day & The Time," he said.
On the hillside across the way we heard a backyard band playing – one of the many parties going on in anticipation of the weekend street fair. The vocalist was shout-singing a Bob Marley tune — his voice losing steam as the drummer barely kept up.
"All right!" Dean yelled.
"Come on in! Welcome!" Navarro yelled out to anyone who looked inside as they walked past, the offer of a free cappuccino from the Deadhead-looking-man causing them to double back.
"When are you opening?" was the familiar question.
Neighbors also stopped in to say hello. "Navarro, listen, I've got these old prints from the Walt Disney studio days – maybe we can work something out. Permanent loan, once you open," an older gentleman offered.
And, when necessary, Navarro was an expert at feigning sincerity, if it would gain him a customer.
"Have you read my book yet?" asked Kevin, who lived in the apartments over the auto repair shop. One of those neighbors I had sort of ignored when I saw a strand of toilet paper floating out his bathroom window.
"Yeah, I'm really enjoying it!"
"What's his book about?" I asked when he left.
"I have no idea. I only got through a few paragraphs. I guess he has some idea to save the world from itself," said Navarro.
Outside a presumably bussed-in 20-something hipster recited into his phone: "You gotta come to this place. On High-peer-e-awn. It's on High-peer-e-awn."
"You smoke WEED?!" Navarro asked me one day as we sat at the table outside his "we'll-be-open-soon" coffee bar, watching neighbors walking their dogs or stopping in at the Thai Tofu Café. I noticed that he couldn't help but smile when he said, "weed" and seemed to draw the double ee's out.
"No? Then how about a beer?" he offered. And he immediately produced one in a coffee cup, its foam on top resembling a latte, and who would be the wiser?
I relaxed as my thoughts became colored from this late afternoon inebriation, and the Hyperion rhythm was settling into a mosaic pattern of persons, who didn't look much different from their '70s counterparts I'd hung out with back in the day. "This spot has some special vibe to it," Navarro offered.
Indeed it did. But, like every dream, that included free cappuccinos, different characters started showing up, and the opening scene morphed into something else, as I realized there was a more literal buzz going on and not just from the complimentary coffee.
The update from Navarro was always the same: "Man, we worked all day on this thing."
"Are you sure you're going to be able to open on time?" I asked.
"Yeah, we just got to get the plumbing fixed. Almost."
Dean's girlfriend Maria usually stopped in before she had to open the Tavern for her evening shift at the bar. Some nights, when Maria also had to close the bar, she and Dean would sleep in the soon-to-be-opened coffee lounge. And it started to look like they lived there with Dean's Doc Marten's sitting in the corner, her overnight bag on the floor and a rumpled blanket tossed in the corner.
"Dean won't let Maria see his place," said Navarro.
He claimed to live, "Oh, somewhere around Virgil and Fountain," but never described it much beyond than that.
"Los Feliz Ledger said they'd interview me the moment we're ready to open," said Navarro. "Hello! Free cappuccino!" to a couple passing by.
And then a new kind of customer started coming around — the kind with a car waiting outside — and they only stayed long enough to follow Navarro behind the counter as he reached into his pocket, they reached into theirs, and he'd hand them something out of view.
"See ya!" and out they'd go.
"Didn't they want a free coffee?" a lady asked one night as she sipped hers.
"Sorry no coffee tonight," said Navarro when I came back a couple of nights later. "We're out."
"Yeah, we had a busy day today," chuckled Dean.
More people were hanging out on the couch, including the kid, I recognized, from the Korean-owned liquor store up the street. He ran the cash register and spoke to the customers for his parents, who could only manage a few English phrases.
When the guy with the waiting car outside ran in, Navarro motioned him to the bathroom – "Hey, check out the work we did on the plumbing today."
Marco would stop in now and then to see how things were progressing, bringing a fresh supply of coffee cups and milk. He was usually happy, until they discussed the day's events involving the plumbing.
I started seeing their coffee cups up and down Hyperion Avenue. People would finish their free capps and toss 'em it appeared.
The plumbing problem never seemed to get fixed. "We're working on it. Soon." And more of those visitors came by who never stayed for a free cappuccino, but then they were in a different dream than mine. And when Dean and Navarro started talking in choppy sentences, I'd take that as my cue to leave.
"So, yeah, I got that, you know…"
"He's coming by for it later."
"We'll have to go out to the storage unit tomorrow."
I was trying to ignore it, because I liked the conversation as much as the free coffees. But, it no longer felt like a cozy new place for coffee once the younger patrons dangling around high school age started hanging around, switching the radio to hip-hop whenever Navarro had left to go "run an errand." Maya seemed shy to play trumpet when they were around. The neighbors also started complaining about "all the activity" going on at the coffeehouse, well into the evening.
"I don't know where he is," said whatever kid was holding court on the couch, when I had stopped in again.
And then one day the door wasn't open, nor the next night or the week after that.
A few weeks later, I ran into Marco at Trader Joe's. "Yeah, I had to get rid of those guys."
"I thought it was Navarro's place."
"My money mostly. He was supplying that great contractor who could never fix anything. That place is a mess. I've got to start over."
I wonder if he won't lose whatever momentum they had at the beginning, but he assures me, "No, no, we're good."
Eventually the only thing that remained of the Java Cafe coffeehouse, coffee bar, coffee lounge, pick-me-up joint was their store-bought coffee cups peering out of the bushes and weeds up and down Hyperion Avenue. And it was soon forgotten as that space again came to a standstill. Occasionally I'd peer into the sideways mail slot on their door and peek inside. It was all in a disarray, and silent. No music, no whirring of the blender, and most notably, no aroma of coffee or happy Navarro keeping time, waxing philosophically, spinning yarns.
Face it, I told myself, it was all a dream that included free cappuccinos. If it really existed the perfect name for the place would have been The Coffee Pot.
Teresa Con | 3,278 |
Guidebooks may be packed with pretty pictures and fast facts, but they're not going to take you off the beaten path and they're certainly not going to help you avoid the crowds. (Especially when every other traveller has the exact same guidebook.) If you've had your share of average holidays and your photo album is packed with run-of-the-mill pictures, it could be time to consider hiring a guide for your next adventure. Not only do tour guides uncover hidden gems in any destination, but they're also passionate about what they do and they'll help you get the most bang for your buck. But don't just take our word for it; we asked half a dozen guides from across the globe to share their thoughts on why guides have a hand up on travel books. Here's our list of the top 10 benefits of hiring a guide.
As the saying goes, you can make more money but you can't make more time. So when it comes to those precious holiday hours, you want to make the most of what you've got. According to Jenny Phillips from Murder Mystery History Walks that's where tour guides come into the picture. "Guides are mindful of economizing time whenever possible so tourists don't have to waste valuable time getting lost and trying to find their feet in a new destination," she says. Gary Scott from Right Path Adventures says guides also turn average holidays into awesome adventures by showcasing the best of what's on offer in a fraction of the time. "I have done all the research to make sure that my clients can see the best of what is on offer in just a couple of days without making all the mistakes I have," he says.
Not all tours start in front of a crowded bus with a driver barking out boring facts – most guides will bend over backwards to suit their client's needs. Michael Fox from Boyne Valley Tours says one of the biggest bonuses of small group tours is that you can set the pace to suit your style. If museums aren't your thing or shopping isn't your bag, give it a miss. Most guides will tailor tours to suit your interests if you let them know what you have in mind. "Most guides operate at<|fim_middle|> you with directions. A language dictionary may help find you a bathroom, but a tour guide will make your life a lot easier when you don't know a lick of the mother tongue. And if you need to purchase climbing permits or fishing & camping licenses on your holiday, things can get hairy if you don't parlez the language. Tour guides not only break down the language barrier, but they also have a better understanding of how local systems work and they're less likely to be cheated.
Holidays are all about escaping the daily grind, but between flights, hotel bookings and transfers, they can quickly become more stressful than work. By hiring a guide you can sit back, relax and enjoy the views as they take care of the rest. Michael Fox from Boyne Valley Tours says this is where tour guides are worth their weight in gold. "Guides can provide the full package, including transport, guiding, local knowledge and companionship for solo travelers and family groups," he says. Meanwhile, Captain Tom says guides not only take the guess work out of your holiday, but they are passionate about what they do and they want to show you a good time. | a pace that suits the customer, and no two tours are exactly the same. I find out what people like and suggest changes to the tour as we go along," he says.
A bit of research and planning can go a long way when you're preparing for a holiday, but it ain't going to get you behind the scenes access. Many tour leaders work alongside major attractions to provide exclusive customer access, meaning that guides hold the key to some spectacular sites that are closed to the general public. In fact, there are a number of destinations which are completely off limits without a guide — check out our list of the Top 10 places you can't see without a guide. Whether you're after a city tour or an adventure getaway, tour guides can take you there. You'll also experience sites that you wouldn't otherwise see, and bring home better photos to show off to your pals.
Guidebooks provide a great overview if you're traveling to a new destination, but there's only so much a book can do. Jenny Phillips says tour guides know the best picks from the bunch and they'll help to "fill in the blanks" where guidebooks fall short. Meanwhile, Crystal Langford from Kootenay Horse and Carriage says guides provide a more personal and authentic experience because they often have a connection with the place they operate their tours. "Historical and geographical facts are good to know, but stories from locals make guests feel like they're part of the community, even if only for a day," she says. Crystal also points out that guides aren't in it for the pay cheque. "They do it because they love what they do and they want to share it with others," she says.
You can have too much of a good thing on any holiday, but safety isn't one of them. You'll never regret having too many safety precautions up your sleeve if anything goes belly up on your next adventure. Captain Tom with BC Whale Tours says traveling with a guide provides customers with piece of mind that they're safe, even if they are completely out of their comfort zone. "If sh*t is about to hit the fan, a guide is going to be a lot more effective than a book," he says. Gary Scott says hiring a guide is worthwhile if you're planning to try adventure activities like climbing, trekking, scuba diving and rafting. Not only are they familiar with the terrain and weather conditions, but they are also aware of danger zones and are equipped with the knowledge to get you out of trouble if things turn sour.
It's not much good traveling with a guidebook from the 1980's, and even the latest resources can have outdated information which may cause a few hiccups in your holiday plans. Captain Tom says teaming up with a guide will minimize your chances of being thrown off course, as they are privy to the latest information and insider knowledge. "I wouldn't rely on a guidebook as my only source of information, as it is usually just one person's opinion who explored that area for a brief time. They can also be out of date as things are always constantly changing," he says. Whether you're looking for concerts, opening times, restaurant info or venue locations, guides will keep you in the loop.
One of the easiest ways to chew through your valuable holiday time is to wait in queues and jostle crowds. But don't despair; this one is easily avoided by hiring a tour guide. Many guides can provide VIP access to popular tourist attractions, meaning you save time and cover more ground. For instance, the Vatican Museums have a separate entrance for tour guides, and visitors to the Palace of Versailles can shave up to two hours off waiting times by traveling with a guide. Tour guides also know the quickest ways to get around town so you can avoid elbowing your way through the throngs.
A smile goes a long way when you're traveling in a foreign country, but it won't order you dinner and it won't help | 810 |
Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor
Hannu Myllykallio, Francis E. Jenney, Carolyn R. Moomaw, Clive A. Slaughter, Fevzi Daldal
During the photosynthetic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatus, electrons are conveyed from the cytochrome (cyt) bc1 complex to the photochemical reaction center by either<|fim_middle|>asm.
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JF - Journal of Bacteriology | the periplasmic eye c2 or the membrane-bound cyt c(y) Cyt c(y) is a member of a recently established subclass of bipartite c- type cytochromes consisting of an amino (N)-terminal domain functioning as a membrane anchor and a carboxyl (c)-terminal domain homologous to cyt c of various sources. Structural homologs of cyt c(y) have now been found in several bacterial species, including Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In this work, a C-terminally epitope-tagged and functional derivative of R. capsulatus cyt c(y) was purified from intracytoplasmic membranes to homogeneity. Analyses of isolated cyt c(y) indicated that its spectral and thermodynamic properties are very similar to those of other c-type cytochromes, in particular to those from bacterial and plant mitochondrial sources. Amino acid sequence determination for purified cyt c(y) revealed that its signal sequence-like N- terminal portion is uncleaved; hence, it is anchored to the membrane. To demonstrate that the N-terminal domain of cyt c(y) is indeed its membrane anchor, this sequence was fused to the N terminus of cyt c2. The resulting hybrid cyt c (MA-c2) remained membrane bound and was able to support photosynthetic growth of R. capsulatus in the absence of the cyt c(y) and c2. Therefore, cyt c2 can support cyclic electron transfer during photosynthetic growth in either a freely diffusible or a membrane, anchored form. These findings should now allow for the first time the comparison of electron transfer properties of a given electron carrier when it is anchored to the membrane or is freely diffusible in the periplasm.
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Myllykallio, H., Jenney, F. E., Moomaw, C. R., Slaughter, C. A., & Daldal, F. (1997). Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor. Journal of Bacteriology, 179(8), 2623-2631. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.179.8.2623-2631.1997
Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor. / Myllykallio, Hannu; Jenney, Francis E.; Moomaw, Carolyn R.; Slaughter, Clive A.; Daldal, Fevzi.
In: Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 179, No. 8, 1997, p. 2623-2631.
Myllykallio, H, Jenney, FE, Moomaw, CR, Slaughter, CA & Daldal, F 1997, 'Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor', Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 179, no. 8, pp. 2623-2631. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.179.8.2623-2631.1997
Myllykallio H, Jenney FE, Moomaw CR, Slaughter CA, Daldal F. Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor. Journal of Bacteriology. 1997;179(8):2623-2631. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.179.8.2623-2631.1997
Myllykallio, Hannu ; Jenney, Francis E. ; Moomaw, Carolyn R. ; Slaughter, Clive A. ; Daldal, Fevzi. / Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor. In: Journal of Bacteriology. 1997 ; Vol. 179, No. 8. pp. 2623-2631.
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title = "Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor",
abstract = "During the photosynthetic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatus, electrons are conveyed from the cytochrome (cyt) bc1 complex to the photochemical reaction center by either the periplasmic eye c2 or the membrane-bound cyt c(y) Cyt c(y) is a member of a recently established subclass of bipartite c- type cytochromes consisting of an amino (N)-terminal domain functioning as a membrane anchor and a carboxyl (c)-terminal domain homologous to cyt c of various sources. Structural homologs of cyt c(y) have now been found in several bacterial species, including Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In this work, a C-terminally epitope-tagged and functional derivative of R. capsulatus cyt c(y) was purified from intracytoplasmic membranes to homogeneity. Analyses of isolated cyt c(y) indicated that its spectral and thermodynamic properties are very similar to those of other c-type cytochromes, in particular to those from bacterial and plant mitochondrial sources. Amino acid sequence determination for purified cyt c(y) revealed that its signal sequence-like N- terminal portion is uncleaved; hence, it is anchored to the membrane. To demonstrate that the N-terminal domain of cyt c(y) is indeed its membrane anchor, this sequence was fused to the N terminus of cyt c2. The resulting hybrid cyt c (MA-c2) remained membrane bound and was able to support photosynthetic growth of R. capsulatus in the absence of the cyt c(y) and c2. Therefore, cyt c2 can support cyclic electron transfer during photosynthetic growth in either a freely diffusible or a membrane, anchored form. These findings should now allow for the first time the comparison of electron transfer properties of a given electron carrier when it is anchored to the membrane or is freely diffusible in the periplasm.",
author = "Hannu Myllykallio and Jenney, {Francis E.} and Moomaw, {Carolyn R.} and Slaughter, {Clive A.} and Fevzi Daldal",
doi = "10.1128/jb.179.8.2623-2631.1997",
journal = "Journal of Bacteriology",
publisher = "American Society for Microbiology",
T1 - Cytochrome c(y) of Rhodobacter capsulatus is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane by an uncleaved signal sequence-like anchor
AU - Myllykallio, Hannu
AU - Jenney, Francis E.
AU - Moomaw, Carolyn R.
AU - Slaughter, Clive A.
AU - Daldal, Fevzi
N2 - During the photosynthetic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatus, electrons are conveyed from the cytochrome (cyt) bc1 complex to the photochemical reaction center by either the periplasmic eye c2 or the membrane-bound cyt c(y) Cyt c(y) is a member of a recently established subclass of bipartite c- type cytochromes consisting of an amino (N)-terminal domain functioning as a membrane anchor and a carboxyl (c)-terminal domain homologous to cyt c of various sources. Structural homologs of cyt c(y) have now been found in several bacterial species, including Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In this work, a C-terminally epitope-tagged and functional derivative of R. capsulatus cyt c(y) was purified from intracytoplasmic membranes to homogeneity. Analyses of isolated cyt c(y) indicated that its spectral and thermodynamic properties are very similar to those of other c-type cytochromes, in particular to those from bacterial and plant mitochondrial sources. Amino acid sequence determination for purified cyt c(y) revealed that its signal sequence-like N- terminal portion is uncleaved; hence, it is anchored to the membrane. To demonstrate that the N-terminal domain of cyt c(y) is indeed its membrane anchor, this sequence was fused to the N terminus of cyt c2. The resulting hybrid cyt c (MA-c2) remained membrane bound and was able to support photosynthetic growth of R. capsulatus in the absence of the cyt c(y) and c2. Therefore, cyt c2 can support cyclic electron transfer during photosynthetic growth in either a freely diffusible or a membrane, anchored form. These findings should now allow for the first time the comparison of electron transfer properties of a given electron carrier when it is anchored to the membrane or is freely diffusible in the periplasm.
AB - During the photosynthetic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatus, electrons are conveyed from the cytochrome (cyt) bc1 complex to the photochemical reaction center by either the periplasmic eye c2 or the membrane-bound cyt c(y) Cyt c(y) is a member of a recently established subclass of bipartite c- type cytochromes consisting of an amino (N)-terminal domain functioning as a membrane anchor and a carboxyl (c)-terminal domain homologous to cyt c of various sources. Structural homologs of cyt c(y) have now been found in several bacterial species, including Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In this work, a C-terminally epitope-tagged and functional derivative of R. capsulatus cyt c(y) was purified from intracytoplasmic membranes to homogeneity. Analyses of isolated cyt c(y) indicated that its spectral and thermodynamic properties are very similar to those of other c-type cytochromes, in particular to those from bacterial and plant mitochondrial sources. Amino acid sequence determination for purified cyt c(y) revealed that its signal sequence-like N- terminal portion is uncleaved; hence, it is anchored to the membrane. To demonstrate that the N-terminal domain of cyt c(y) is indeed its membrane anchor, this sequence was fused to the N terminus of cyt c2. The resulting hybrid cyt c (MA-c2) remained membrane bound and was able to support photosynthetic growth of R. capsulatus in the absence of the cyt c(y) and c2. Therefore, cyt c2 can support cyclic electron transfer during photosynthetic growth in either a freely diffusible or a membrane, anchored form. These findings should now allow for the first time the comparison of electron transfer properties of a given electron carrier when it is anchored to the membrane or is freely diffusible in the peripl | 2,608 |
Mama Kin
"Mama Kin's music exists in the soulful place where art meets the world"
– The Sydney Morning Herald
ARIA nominee, Mama Kin is part raconteur and all-out entertainer. Created at the junction where strength meets vulnerability, Mama Kin's music oozes soulfulness.<|fim_middle|> Ani di Franco, Katy Perry, Gurrumul, The Waifs and John Butler Trio. As mischievous as she is charming, Mama Kin is renowned for her stirring live shows, where storytelling, intimacy and community reign. | Unafraid to mine the depths of the human condition, Mama Kin taps raw emotions and fears, pushing the boundaries of self- expression. Her critically acclaimed sophomore album The Magician's Daughter followed on from the war-cry that was her debut Beat and Holler, firmly solidifying Mama Kin's reputation as a purveyor of foot-stomping bass lines and ballads of open-hearted tenderness. Winner of the West Australian Music Award for Folk Act of the Year and named Artist of the Year at Port Fairy Folk Festival this year, Mama Kin was also shortlisted for Australia's most prestigious songwriting award, the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition. Mama Kin has shared stages nationally and internationally with the likes of The Cat Empire, | 148 |
Ely-Bloomenson Nursing Home Becomes Boundary Waters Care Center
HDG has formally assumed operations for<|fim_middle|>ly-Bloomenson Community Hospital (EBCH), the 58-bed skilled nursing facility has transitioned to be a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation and has been renamed Boundary Waters Care Center (BWCC).
"We have greatly appreciated the enthusiastic support from the board of directors during this transition process," said HDG Regional Director of Operations Mark Pederson. "We're delighted and honored to be a part of the Ely community, and we look forward to serving the Northland with the highest level of care, programs, and services."
The separation of the nursing home from the hospital will improve the financial viability of both organizations and allow BWCC to remain an essential component of Ely's support for area seniors. Patti Banks, who will remain in her current role as the facility's administrator, explains that the transition will not impact residents.
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Playoff-bound LAFC won't ease up vs. San Jose
There are nine regular-season matches remaining for Los Angeles FC and the squad already has clinched a playoff spot.
Just<|fim_middle|> be looking for its fifth straight victory when it battles the Earthquakes (11-9-5, 38 points).
Vela had one of his best performances of the campaign with a season-best three goals and also added one assist when LAFC drubbed the Earthquakes 5-0 in San Jose on March 30.
San Jose doesn't need much reminding of the result even thought it was nearly five months ago.
"I think all opponents are hard for us and this opponent is the one making the biggest difference in the league," Earthquakes coach Matias Almeyda told reporters. "We'll try to do the best that we can."
San Jose has lost its past two games and is winless over its last three.
Veteran striker Chris Wondolowski had the goal in Saturday's 2-1 road loss to Sporting Kansas City. It was Wondolowski's team-best 10th goal of the season and marks the 10th straight season that he has recorded a double-digit goal count.
"It's pretty cool," Wondolowski said after the setback. "I really wish it came on a win but I'm very proud of that and hope to keep it going." | as impressive is that leading league MVP candidate Carlos Vela has been involved in the most goals (39) in MLS history.
Vela and his teammates look to continue their fabulous season when LAFC hosts the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday.
LAFC (18-3-4, 58 points) has outscored its opponents by an astounding 67-25, easily leading the league in both goals scored and fewest allowed.
Vela is convinced nobody will be letting their foot off the pedal even though a playoff spot is already assured.
"Every time we come to the field we want to win," Vela told reporters. "We want to do good."
Vela leads the league with 24 goals and is tied for second with 15 assists. And he has a surplus of time to build on his goal-involvement record as well as make a run at the MLS-record 31 goals scored last season by Atlanta United star Josef Martinez.
"It is a good thing, always, to have a record," Vela said. "It's important for myself but then for the team because without the team, the record is not possible. We are really happy to have it."
LAFC will | 252 |
EPA announces grants to replace old diesel buses
Sophie Bird
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced approximately $10 million in grant money to help public schools replace older school buses, which can emit more air pollution.
Older diesel bus models are known to emit particulate matter and nitrogen oxides<|fim_middle|> health agenda and commitment to ensure all children can live, learn, and play in healthy and clean environments."
Applications for the grants are available through Oct. 30. | , which can cause respiratory disease and aggravate asthma and other conditions.
Replacing older models with more efficient ones improves air quality, reducing pollution output by more than 90%.
The funds are offered as part of the Diesel Emission Reduction Act, which has already provided funds for nearly 30,000 cleaner buses across the United States.
The grants were released at the start of Children's Health Month as part of the EPA's effort to protect and improve the health of America's children, according to a press release.
"Children's health is a top priority for EPA, and these grants will help provide cleaner air and a safer, more reliable ride to and from school for America's children," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "This DERA funding reflects our broader children's | 158 |
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Poems of John Keats (Popular Penguin)
Author(s): John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers includes the six great odes, 'The Eve of St Agnes', the<|fim_middle|> younger sister and friends - for although his life ended untimely, he was a high-spirited young man who enjoyed jokes and relished the pleasures and beauties of the world. Claire Tomalin has also included extracts from Keats's letters, in which he shows how deeply he pondered the nature of the poetic mind and the processes of poetry, and how entertainingly he could express complex ideas. To this she adds a short biographical section. Keats wrote to his brother in 1818, 'I think I shall be among the English poets after my death'- his generosity of spirit and the beauty of his poems have ensured that he is.
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This year, organizers of the Summerland Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Sharing Stand are calling on local gardeners to help provide fruits and vegetables. (Stock photo)
Summerland's sharing stand asks gardeners for help
Seeds, starter plants and labour will be provided to participating gardeners
Organizers of the Summerland Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Sharing Stand are calling on local gardeners to help provide produce this year.
Linda Van Alphen, coordinator of the sharing stand, said the organization will offer free seeds, starter plants and garden preparation labour to those interested in joining a "Summerland Community of Gardeners" to grow food.
She said the community of gardeners members will be registered to support the sharing stand with a portion of their produce.
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At the same time, she has noticed more people in Summerland growing large gardens this year.
"This is the time that people are wanting to step up," she said.
The sharing stand began in June, 2018. It operates each Tuesday afternoon during the late spring into the fall at the Summerland United Church.
The stand's hours coincide with the Summerland Food Bank's pickup hours, but the stand is not used exclusively by clients.
Users were invited to share, trade or take what they needed from the produce bins.
Last year, the stand took in more than 2,700 kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetables.
To contact Van Alphen about this initiative, email vanalphenl@shaw.ca or call 250-486-3488.
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The sharing stand operates in cooperation with the Summerland Food Bank and Resource Centre.
This year, there is an increased demand for fruits and vegetables, Van Alphen said | 59 |
Features, Meet The Buyer May 13, 2019
Farmers Menswear
Apparel Magazine got the chance to sit down with Wade Hawkins, the head of menswear buying for Farmers department stores. Hawkins has had an eventful career in the fashion industry, which started on the shop floor of Barkers. Hawkins moved his way up in the industry as he rose to the head office of Barkers, and then to a buying position at Hallensteins in the year 2000. When the position of menswear buyer for Farmers came his way, it was a job Hawkins said he could not refuse.
At Farmers, Hawkins oversees the operations of the menswear department, which is split into five categories: underwear and socks, formal, classic, contemporary and modern. "I am responsible for challenging the buyers of each sector and helping them to make the right decisions," explained Hawkins. "The great thing about this division is that everyone here is so knowledgeable, it's like having five businesses under one roof." Each of the five departments in Farmers' menswear contributes to appealing to the department store's extensive variety of consumers. "The Farmers consumer covers a broad spectrum," said Hawkins. "We are fundamentally a family store, we are not high end, and our range has to cover the whole of New Zealand so we can't just focus on one thing." To meet the needs of this diverse consumer, Farmers has an extensive mix of house brands and third-party designers to maintain a good balance of appeal.
When it comes to choosing which brands make the cut for their department, Hawkins expressed the straightforward direction of their decision making. "Quality, price point and style," asserted Hawkins. "At the end of the day it's got to be commercially viable, we would not be going down a road that isn't going to sell." Hawkins continued that with the scale of their organisation, Farmers' buyers look for collections that are able to fit in with their diverse range of consumers, as well as the ability to meet logistical targets. "Scale comes into it a lot. It's all very well and good that you can make 20 garments. But can you make 600 that are all within the same level of quality?" He told Apparel Magazine that Farmers, like any other business, have margins and price targets that they have to hit and a brand's ability to help them reach those targets is one of the biggest draws for their company.
At the end of the day it's got to be commercially viable, we would not be going down a road that isn't going to sell.
In terms of style, Hawkins discussed the way menswear has changed throughout his time at Farmers, and the new directions the department sees their aesthetic moving toward. "Menswear has certainly become more adventurous. Before everything had to be black<|fim_middle|> stated Hawkins. "We are pretty excited by what we are seeing at the moment, and we hope it continues."
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Australian swimwear brand Funkita and its male counterpart Funky Trunks have collaborated with Bardi artist Ashley Hunter to create a striking print named Barnamboo,… | or grey. However, this year our bolder and brighter aesthetics were more popular, and made up eight of our ten bestselling shirts for the season," Hawkins stated. To fit this new trend, Farmers is looking at third-party designers to pad out the spaces between the aesthetics of their house brands. "We are not looking for the same thing from every designer, we are looking to fill the gaps in order to look after each of our individual consumers," he added. It is much harder for niche brands to find a place in stores like Farmers, with such a mass market appeal. Brands need to comply with the stores existing image, rather than expecting the store adjusting to theirs. "We are not a boutique, and we don't have the size to do mini capsules," Hawkins asserted. While this call to adjust to Farmers image may be seen as stifling to some designers, the menswear buyer communicated the immense potential the department store has to sustain a brand. "Getting into a department store means you are looking at a 400 or 500 order as a minimum, and for a small brand that is significant," he said. "We can be a designer's bread and butter."
We are open to everything, but it needs to make sense and be done justice because everything takes up space, so you've got to earn your keep on the wall and on the shop floor.
Due to the scale of their organisation Farmers has the ability to tier their stock, giving a broader range of opportunities to designers. "We do a bit of exclusive stock to certain stores. House labels basically go everywhere, but some of the third-party brands are distributed differently," reported Hawkins. "The good thing about Farmers is that we have the capacity to tier in this way, not all of our designs have to go to every store." With outlets from Kaitaia to Invercargill, Hawkins related the great potential that is held for stores such as Farmers in areas outside of central cities. "There is a lot of power in the regions. Auckland or Christchurch, that is where big international players come to set up shop," he explained. "The pie is only so big, and when these internationals come it only slices it up more. Whereas internationals aren't going to open up in smaller regions." The absence of international powerhouses in smaller regions give New Zealand stores like Farmers the monopoly in these areas, thus providing greater exposure for their brands.
For designers who are looking to become involved with Farmers, Hawkins' advice was simple. "Get yourself known, get yourself out there and go from there. Every brand starts out somewhere," he assured. "We are open to everything, but it needs to make sense and be done justice because everything takes up space, so you've got to earn your keep on the wall and on the shop floor." There is a great deal of potential for new brands to enter the Farmers team particularly as the store looks to embrace the new, more fashion-conscious male buyer. "Guys are buying more and more and realising that it is ok to look good. To provide for them, we need to present ranges that are new, giving them a reason to buy. Hence menswear is currently dropping a lot more products, a lot more often," | 664 |
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Brookwood West Homes for Sale: Livonia, MI
Brookwood West: Livonia, MI
Approx Price Range: $120,000 to $270,000
Square Ft Range: 1600 to 2500
School District: Livonia
Brookwood West homes for sale in Livonia, MI are located off Merriman Rd and north of 6 Mile Rd. The subdivision is in 48152 zip code. There are 38 homes in the subdivision and they are colonial and ranch in style. Homes are located on a quiet, low-traffic cul-de-sac street lined with trees. Homes feature formal living room, dining room and spacious eat-in kitchen that flows into family room. Homes have at least 1 door wall to deck with views of private yard. Large great room has skylight and fireplace. Homes offer 3 to 4 bedrooms and 1.2+ baths. Master bedrooms have large closet and private bath. Homes also have a basement for additional storage or recreation area. Garages are attached and can accommodate 2 cars. Brookwood West is close to parks and shopping. It is also a close drive to major freeways. Nearby subdivisions are Binder and Lark Estates and Thomas F Oconners Merriman Park.
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Brookwood West Subdivision Location
Homes in Brookwood West, Livonia, MI are located south of 7 Mile Rd and west of Merriman Rd.
Livonia Marketplace is 1.5 miles from the subdivision. It is a shopping mall in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. Opened in 2010, the center is anchored by Sears and Wal-Mart. It occupies the site of the former Livonia Mall, which was an enclosed mall built in 1964. Livonia Mall lost the majority of its tenants in the 2000s, including its previous anchor stores of Crowley's (later Value City), Mervyns and Children's Palace. The mall was closed in May 2008, with only the Sears remaining from the original property.
Secretary of State Office is 1.5 miles west. Baskin Robbins, Pan Pan and Papa Johns are within the same property. Walgreens is across.
2 miles south is Livonia Plaza Shopping Center. It is anchored by Kroger an T. J. Maxx. Red Wing, Starbucks, Red Wing and Wild Bill's Tobacco is also in the area.
Rotary Park is<|fim_middle|> and high-quality education allowing students to grow and develop as a whole person.
Ladywood High School is 5 miles southwest. It's a Catholic college-preparatory school for young women, committed to providing an outstanding educational environment within the Felician-Franciscan tradition and the mission of Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska, foundress of the Felician Sisters.
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university that was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Located 4.5 miles west, it offers degrees and programs at the bachelor's, master's, specialist's and doctoral levels. There are more than 200 majors and minors at the undergraduate level, and more than 170 graduate programs. EMU has six Academic Divisions and eight University Sites which include satellite campuses. Just like many other large universities EMU does offer online courses and degrees. Currently, EMU comprises seven colleges and schools: College of Arts and Sciences, College of business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Services, College of Technology, an Honors College, and a Graduate School. The university's site is composed of an academic and athletic campus spread across 800 acres with over 120 buildings. EMU has a total enrollment of more than 23,000 students. The school is a culturally diverse learning and teaching community set in a small city environment, amid a major metropolitan area. Students, attracted by the school's atmosphere and location, come not only from the Metro Detroit area but from the entire state of Michigan; EMU is well known both nationally and internationally.
South University in Novi is 11.5 miles northwest. Established in 1899, South University is a private academic institution dedicated to providing educational opportunities for the intellectual, social, and professional development of a diverse student population. The Novi, Michigan campus offers focused and balanced curricula at the bachelor's degree level in the areas of business administration, criminal justice, healthcare management, and psychology. Other degree programs offered include a Master of Arts in professional counseling and a Master of Business Administration. South University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
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Brookwood West Subdivision Photo Gallery | a mile from the subdivision. It's a big park with tennis courts, 5 pavillons, volley ball courts, a 1/2 mile paved walking path, baseball diamond, and a play structure. A great green space.
Founders Sport Park is 4 miles northwest. It's a 101-acre park with a variety of active recreation facilities including 6 soccer fields, 8 baseball/softball fields, 4 sand volleyball courts, 2 half-court basketball courts, 1 bocce ball court, and 1 shuffle board court. Farmington Hills Ice Arena is beside Founders Sports Park. It's a 70,000 sq ft arena with 2 ice surfaces and can accommodate up to 1200 people. The arena offers concession facilities, locker rooms, lockers, meeting and party rooms as well as, administrative offices. The facility provides both recreational and competitive skating opportunities. It is home to the Farmington Hills Hockey Association.
Brookwood West Subdivision Freeway Access
Brookwood West is 3 miles south of M-5 and 4 miles east of I-96 & I-275.
There are some 4,000 businesses in Livonia. Major local employers include Ford Motor Company (6 miles south), United Parcel Services (UPS) (3.5 miles south), Roush Enterprises (5 miles southeast), NYX Inc., Phillips Service Industries, Inc., McLaren Performance Technologies, and St. Mary Mercy Hospital.
Brookwood West Subdivision School District
Brookwood West students attend Livonia Public Schools. The school district serves most of the city of Livonia and the northernmost portions of Westland.
Webster Elementary School is 2 miles from the subdivision. The school houses 2 very special programs: Alternative Classrooms for the Academically Talented (ACAT) Program and the Northwest Wayne County program (MoCI) for students who have cognitive impairments. Webster Elementary School is located within a quiet, residential neighborhood between 7 Mile Rd. and 8 Mile Rd., and bounded by Farmington and Merriman.
Coolidge Elementary School is also 2 miles from the subdivision. 484 children attend Coolidge Elementary School and identify mostly as White, non-Hispanic; Asian/Pacific Islander; and Black, non-Hispanic. 22% of the 484 students here have subsidized lunches. The ratio of students to teachers at Coolidge Elementary School is 19:1. Coolidge has an Autistically Impaired center program with 4 classrooms ranging from grades one through four, organized by student grade level, servicing students with autism certifications.
Riley Upper Elementary School is 2 miles south. The school is a safe environment in which students will learn. Collaboratively, the Riley staff, parents, and community works to create a positive and productive learning climate for all. Students are encouraged and taught to problem solve and make decisions that benefit themselves and others. Student achievements are assessed continually to monitor progress and drive instruction. Teachers and students are held accountable to high standards, not only academically, but in conduct as well.
Adlai E. Stevenson High School is 2 miles west. Adlai E. Stevenson High School was built in 1965 to accommodate the rising population of Livonia during the turbulent 1960s. Since 1977, Stevenson has featured a unique school-within-school program called Global education. The program is the only national and internationally recognized curriculum in Livonia. The program, accredited by the North Central Association, mixes English and Social Studies courses for all four years of High School. The goal of the program is to help students understand what is going on in their world from Livonia to China, and to prepare students for the challenges of living in an age of globalization.
St Edith Catholic School is 4.5 miles southwest. It provides a Catholic Christian environment nurturing children in mind, spirit and body, providing faith-filled worship experiences | 827 |
Paul Arthur Napoléon Roinard, né le à Neufchâtel-en-Bray et mort le à Courbevoie, est un peintre, librettiste et poète libertaire français.
Biographie
Après avoir passé son enfance jusqu'à douze ans à Neufchâtel, Roinard fit ses études au lycée de Rouen où il se faisait un peu gloire d'être mauvais élève au possible. À vingt ans, après une lutte opiniâtre avec sa famille, il monta à Paris, où il arriva au milieu d'un orage épouvantable, après un tamponnement dans le tunnel des Batignolles, circonstances où il vit encore un présage à tous ses malheurs. Élève à la fois à l'École des Beaux-Arts et à l'École de médecine, il se mit en même temps à écrire des milliers de vers qu'il détruisit ensuite, au nombre desquels un drame : Savonarole et un proverbe : En tout il faut considérer la fin, qu'il offrit alors sans succès au Théâtre-Français.
Brouillé avec sa famille, après un an de service militaire au de ligne, il mena alors pendant sept années une vie de misère, manquant de tout, même de logement. Grâce à sa santé robuste, il s'en sortit, et finit par vivre tant bien que mal en utilisant ses talents de peintre dans de la peinture pour l'exportation, ses talents de poète à rimer des devises pour papillotes de confiseurs, et toute sa bonne volonté dans diverses besognes, comme un emploi à la Société générale, d'où de formidables erreurs dans ses comptes le firent congédier dès le premier mois.
La peinture pour l'exportation allait si bien qu'il put bientôt se remettre à la poésie et publier, en 1886, son premier recueil de vers : Nos Plaies, livre de révolte intellectuelle et sociale, satire amère et dure. Ce livre l'introduisit dans les milieux littéraires. ll fréquenta le Chat Noir, fonda avec quelques amis la Société La Batte, d'où devait sortir le mouvement libertaire et qui donna son concours à la première représentation du Théâtre-Libre. Il dirigea la Revue Septentrionale, collabora à divers quotidiens et revues, notamment à l'Écho de France. On le sollicita même un jour d'écrire un ouvrage en vers pour lequel on s'engageait à le faire décorer, mais la croix, le moindre ruban, était pour lui l'enrégimentement dans le bataillon commun et il ne put que refuser.
Retiré à l'écart de 1889 à 1891, Roinard s'appliqua à retirer de la circulation tous les exemplaires de Nos Plaies qu'il put rencontrer, et conçut l'idée de son livre : la Mort du Rêve, dont les premiers fragments parurent dans la seconde Pléiade. Il reparut dans le monde littéraire en , pour fonder avec Zo d'Axa le journal anarchiste l'Endehors. Il donna, en , au Théâtre d'Art une adaptation, représentée avec la musique de Flamen de Labrély, du Cantique des Cantiques, dont il avait lui-même composé la décoration. Le résultat ne fut pas au rendez-vous de cette tentative : l'idée de Roinard, qui avait voulu faire intervenir les parfums comme moyens d'évocation scénique, parut si nouvelle qu'on le traita de fou.
Roinard prit ensuite la Direction des Essais d'Art libre, où il organisa, en 1894, l'Exposition des Portraits du prochain siècle, qui eut lieu dans la galerie Le Barc de Boutteville. Les Portraits du prochain siècle consistaient en portraits des jeunes écrivains et artistes qui devaient être un jour de grands artistes et de grands écrivains. Roinard compléta même le sens de cette exposition en publiant un volume de biographies de tous ces futurs grands hommes, au nombre desquels lui-même figurait. Cette nouvelle tentative ne fut pas moins bien accueillie que l'introduction des parfums sur la scène. On se moqua, on ridiculisa, et Roinard dut garder en carton deux autres volumes consacrés aux musiciens et aux savants de l'avenir.
Roinard pensa, un moment, revenir définitivement à la peinture pour l'exportation mais, persévérant néanmoins quelque temps, il fréquenta le Club d'Art Social, avant de se retirer de nouveau à l'écart, pour écrire un grand drame de synthèse révolutionnaire, dont l'idée le hantait, intitulé la Légende rouge. Au moment où il allait le commencer, les revers reprirent : saisi, expulsé, il se vit jeter à la rue, dépossédé de tout, et obligé de chercher un autre toit. Il eut pourtant lieu d'éprouver, dans ces infortunes la consolation comme poète de voir un brocanteur acheter en bloc à la vente tous les exemplaires de Nos Plaies qu'il avait si patiemment soustraits à la curiosité du public, pour en garnir toutes les boîtes des quais, au point qu'il n'était pas un bouquiniste qui n'en eût sa part.
Lors du procès des Trente, intenté par le gouvernement aux anarchistes, Roinard se sentit compromis par sa participation à la Société La Butte, sa fréquentation au Club d'Art Social, sa collaboration à l'Endehors et son empressement à répandre les listes de protestations contre l'expulsion de Alexandre Cohen et l'arrestation de Jean Grave. Il pensa que le premier devoir d'un homme passionné pour la liberté était de la conserver, et sans attendre le verdict, la nuit même, il s'exila sans raison sérieuse à Bruxelles : il n'était nullement compromis ; jamais on n'avait pensé à lui ; son nom n'avait même pas été prononcé ; son imagination de poète avait seule tout fait.
Arrivé dans la capitale belge avec cent sous en poche, Roinard vécut là au moyen de dessins au Petit Bleu, d'articles dans des revues, faisant de l'aérostation, de la littérature et de la peinture, jusqu'à des affiches qu'on lui commandait et qu'on lui laissait pour compte, manquant une fois d'être expulsé comme anarchiste, une autre fois jouant Joad dans une représentation d'Athalie avec le comédien Raymond, trouvant encore le temps, au milieu de cette vie active, de flâner, de rêver, de bavarder avec des artistes et des écrivains, et même de travailler à sa grande œuvre Les Miroirs, pièce en cinq actes et en vers. Au bout de deux ans, jour pour jour, il revint à Paris. L'exil ne l'avait changé en rien. Sa fortune s'était seulement un peu augmentée. Parti avec cinq francs, il revenait avec cinq francs dix.
Aussitôt rentré à Paris, Roinard songea à faire représenter Les Miroirs. Il ouvrit dans ce but une souscription. Mais là encore le poète avait compté sans sa chance. Tout était prêt et on allait jouer, quand, sous l'effet de l'affaire Dreyfus, les souscripteurs s'éclipsèrent, laissant le rideau baissé sur l'œuvre et ses interprètes. Ce revers, où huit cents francs avaient été dépensés en pure perte, fit presque regretter sa bonne vie pittoresque en Belgique à Roinard. La revue La Phalange ouvrit cependant une souscription pour la publication de ce drame, mais Roinard se décida à revenir exclusivement à ses poèmes. Il se remit à travailler à son livre la Mort du Rêve, qu'il publia en 1902, et à l'occasion duquel un banquet lui fut offert, le de la même année, par des artistes et des écrivains, sous la présidence de Rodin. La presse garda le silence le plus unanime sur cet important événement et dès lors, Roinard ne travailla plus guère : « découragé, malade, retiré, blotti à Belleville dans un coin de grand air et sous un nid de feuilles, rendant à Paris silence pour silence ».
Roinard a collaboré à L'Avenir de Rouen, La Pléiade, le Mercure de France, la Revue encyclopédique, L'Humanité, le Journal de Paris, Le Réveil, L'Endehors, La Hève, La Revue septentrionale, L'Alceste, Le Parisien, L'Écho de France, les Essais d'art libre, La Plaine, le Petit Bien et Le Public de Bruxelles, la Revue des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres, le Beffroi, La Phalange, la Revue de Paris et de Champagne, etc.
Opinions
Œuvres
Nos plaies, poésies, couverture dessinée par l'auteur, Paris, Soc. typographique,<|fim_middle|>, 1894, in-16.
Félicien Fagus, « P.-N. Roinard », La Revue des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres, ; Sur le même, Revue blanche, .
A.-M. Gossez, Poètes du Nord. 1880-190S, morceaux choisis, accompagnés d'un essai bio-bibliographique, etc., Paris, Ollendorff, 1902, in-18.
Julien Leclercq, « Roinard », notice dans les Portraits du prochain siècle, Paris, Girard, 1894, in-18.
M.-C. Poinsot, Anthologie des poètes normands contemporains (Portraits de P.-N. Roinard), Paris, Floury, s. d., in-16.
Anonyme, « Banquet à Roinard » La Plume, .
Anonyme, Échos. Les Fêtes Cornéliennes de Rouen, Mercure de France, .
Iconographie
Louis Anquetin : Portrait à l'huile, 1885 (appartient à M. Roinard) ; Portrait à l'huile [Exposition des Portraits du prochain siècle, chez Le Barc de Boutteville, 1893] (appartient à M. Roinard), reprod. dans la Revue Encyclopédique, .
A. Brière, « Croquis », La Plume, .
F. Courché : Dessin à la plume, reprod. dans le Messager Parisien, 1888.
Notes et références
Liens externes
Poète français du XIXe siècle
Poète français du XXe siècle
Dramaturge français du XIXe siècle
Dramaturge français du XXe siècle
Peintre français du XIXe siècle
Peintre français du XXe siècle
Librettiste français d'opéra
Traducteur français
Traducteur depuis le grec ancien vers le français
Anarchiste français
Poète normand
Dramaturge normand
Peintre normand
Procès des Trente
Poète libertaire
Naissance en février 1856
Naissance dans la Seine-Inférieure
Décès en octobre 1930
Décès à Courbevoie
Décès à 74 ans | 1886, in-18 ;
Chanson d'amour, poésie, musique de Louis Hesse. Paris, Durdilly. s. d., en feuille ;
Six étages, récit en vers, Paris, Ed. Girard, s. d., en feuille ;
Berceuse, poésie, s. 1. n. d. [Paris, Ed. Girard], 2 ff., la couverture sert de titre (50 exempl.).
À Dieu, s'il existe, Paris, chez l'auteur, 7, rue Pixérécourt, s. d., en feuille, ;
La Mort du rêve, poèmes, Paris, Soc. du Mercure de France, 1902, in-8° ;
Sur l'avenue sans fin, poème, Paris et Reims, Revue de Paris et de Champagne (et chez l'auteur), 1906, in-8°.
Portraits du prochain siècle (1894) ;
La Poésie symboliste. Trois entretiens sur les temps héroïques, période symboliste, au Salon des artistes indépendants, 1908. Nos maîtres et nos morts, par P.-N. Roinard. Les Survivants, par Victor-Émile Michelet. La Phalange nouvelle, par Guillaume Apollinaire (1908) ;
Les Miroirs, moralité lyrique en cinq phases, huit stades, sept gloses et en vers, Éd. de « La Phalange », 1908 introuvable œuvre majeure ;
La Légende rouge, synthèse d'idées et de caractères révolutionnaires, suivi d'un débat sur Le nombre et la rime et d'un ballet-mimodrame, La Ronde des fleurs (1921) ;
Chercheurs d'impossible. Contre-partie du Donneur d'illusions, féerie tragique, 5 actes, 11 tableaux, en vers, 1929.
Préfaces et notices
Portraits du prochain siècle, Paris, Girard, 1894, in-18.
Œuvres posthumes de Paul Audricourt. Paris, Mouillot, 1902, in-18 ;
Soirée d'Art social. Programme illustré par Deluermoz.
On trouve, en outre, des poèmes de P.-N. Roinard dans les ouvrages suivants : Poètes du Nord, 1880-1902, morceaux choisis publiés par A.-M. Gossez. Paris, Ollendorff, 1902, in-18 ; Anthologie des Poètes normands contemporains, par M.-C. Poinsot. Paris, Floury s. d., in-18.
Sources
Adolphe van Bever, Paul Léautaud, Poètes d'aujourd'hui, t. 2 Paris, Mercure de France, 1908, 178-82.
L'Éphéméride anarchiste : notice biographique.
Références
Léon Bloy, Léon Bloy devant les cochons, Paris, Chamuel, 1894, in-18.
Léon Bloy, Le Mendiant ingrat, Bruxelles, Deman, 1898, in-18.
Léon Bocquet, « P.-N. Roinard », Le Beffroi (Lille), .
Jean Court, Le Cantique des Cantiques au Théâtre d'Art, Mercure de France, .
Georges Docquois, Le Congrès des Poètes, Paris, Bibliothèque artistique et littéraire | 855 |
May 3, 2017 / 9:02 PM
Salsa star Marc Anthony performing at El Clásico Miami
Alex Butler
Latin artist Marc Anthony shares a laugh with NBA star Chris Bosh while standing next to Related Group CEO and co-founder Jorge Perez Wednesday at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Anthony will perform on July 29 at the 2017 International Champions Cup presented by Heineken match of El Clásico at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Fla. Photo by Alex Butler/UPI
May 3 (UPI) -- Latin sensation Marc Anthony will perform on July 29 at the 2017 International Champions Cup presented by Heineken match of El Clásico at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
The Real Madrid vs. Barcelona clash will take place outside of Spain for the first time since 1982 and second time ever. El Clásico has also never had a halftime show.
Yes, plenty of firsts will take place at the American edition of the matchup, set in the home of the Miami Dolphins.
On Wednesday, Anthony took the stage of the Perez Art Museum Miami [PAMM] to announce he would be singing at halftime. That week, festivities begin with a matchup on July 26 between Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain. There will also be a legend's game, skill competitions, and other events.
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"I'm accepting the responsibility of standing up here," Anthony said Wednesday. "...To speak when I prefer singing. That being said...this honor that has been bestowed upon me. There is no surprise, with this group, with everyone involved, with what is coming in July...that they are thinking outside the box. I'm not surprised that there is a first time halftime show in the middle of such an important encounter between these two master teams."
The game is expected to sell out. But don't worry about not seeing the stars from both teams. Barca's president and Real's president have each confirmed that their best players will participate, according to the Miami Herald.
That means you can expect to see Neymar, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Luis Suarez, among others.
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— Al Butler (@ALaboutSports) May 3, 2017
Barca edged Real 3-2 on Messi's extra time goal on April 23. The score was Messi's 500th. Barca leads the La Liga standings after that victory. The Spanish sides tied 1-1 on December 3.
Tickets for the matchup are currently going for $350 and up.
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From an outsider's perspective, pulling off a halftime gig might not seem difficult. After all, event producer David Saltz has organized halftime shows for Super Bowls including artists like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreak<|fim_middle|> Stephen M. Ross and Matt Higgins founded RSE Venture in 2012. It is a multi-national sports and entertainment venture firm with a focus on new technologies. The venture also owns and operates Catalyst Media Group, VanynerMedia, Vayner/RSE, Ascendant Sports Group, and the International Champions Cup.
Ross serves as managing general partner and chairman for the Dolphins. Perez is a vice chairman for the franchise, while Anthony serves as a partner in the Dolphins' ownership group.
Anthony's performance will also mark the first time that any International Champions Cup match will have a halftime performance. Previous champions cup matches have included: Real Madrid vs. Manchester United at Michigan Stadium, Real Madrid vs. Chelsea at Michigan Stadium, and matches featuring Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain.
Anthony, 48, has more than 30 million followers on social media. He is a five-time Grammy award winner and holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling salsa artist.
Real Madrid also faced Barcelona outside of Spain when the two sides met 35 years ago in Venezuela. Real Madrid won that match 1-0. Real's next game is Saturday on the road against Granada. Barca hosts Villarreal Saturday at Camp Nou. | ers, Paul McCartney, and Prince. But to put it in perspective, the events can feature 10 music artists, 300 youth cast members, and 100 people moving equipment for a 5 to 7 minute performance. All of that work must be done in a 15-minute window, explained Saltz.
Billionaire real-estate developer Jorge Perez and Miami Heat star Chris Bosh also attended the event. Perez is the CEO and co-founder of Related Group Miami and an ambassador of El Clásico Miami. Bosh is among several stars, including Flo Rida, Serena Williams, and Dan Marino to also serve as ambassadors for the event.
Several hundred million worldwide viewers are expected to tune into the game.
"Appealing to my ex-wive's was enough as it was," Anthony said Wednesday. "What you have to do is keep it local. I do what I do and what I would say is that I'm in great hands. This is what we do. it is unprecedented in many, many ways...So we are looking at it with special eyes. I'm still in the middle of trying to make it as spectacular as it could be. Everyone involved is best in class. I'll be trying to figure out how to do my thing. This is surreal to me. I'm sure that when the day comes, I will wake up bright and early and be ready for the responsibility. I'm going to do what it is that I do."
Anthony declined to say which team he was pulling for in the match. When asked what position he would play if he played professional soccer, Anthony said "owner."
The event is presented by Relevant Sports, a division of RSE Ventures. | 351 |
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The temptation to give up when things get difficult or when you fail to succeed at your goals follows you throughout life. I felt this temptation recently. After working hard at my writing all summer, it was defeating to get a number of rejection notices from magazines and journals that I felt sure would accept my work. But the other day I was reminded that I write for more reasons<|fim_middle|> in Chicago into a talk for our college's Resident Assistants about how we can and should foster communities of respect and prophetic welcome. I also know that the work I have put into my writing over the past few years has not only made me a better writer, but a better thinker and communicator. Oftentimes what I begin here on my blog finds its way into a sermon or a program or a conversation with a student I am counseling. Is all this writing work hard? Yes. But is the hard work worth it? Most definitely. I just need to remember this when the next rejection notice hits my inbox.
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Portimonense vs Famalicao PREDICTION<|fim_middle|> that compete in the Primeira Liga. The colour of their home kit is white, with the team wearing blue shirts and blue shorts when playing on the travels.
Famalicao welcome their rivals at Estadio Municipal 22 de Junho Vila Nova de Famalicao, the venue with the capacity of 5,307 people. The stadium was opened in 1952 and ever since has been serving as the team's home ground. Famalicao are owned by Quantum Pacific Group, the company which has a 32% share of famous La Liga side Atletico Madrid as well.
The Azuis e Brancos secured promotion to Primeira Liga for the first time in the 1946/1947 season and they returned to the Portuguese elite division in 2019. Famalicao recorded a 2-0 win over Santa Clara on their return to the Portuguese top flight, with Toni Martinez and Anderson finding the net for the visitors. | & BETTING TIPS - 18/12/2020
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Portimonense vs Famalicao Prediction was posted on: December 15, 2020
Our prediction for this Portugal Primeira Liga match:
Estadio Municipal de Portimao will host Friday's football game between Portimonense and Famalicao. Portimonense aim to bounce back from a 1-0 loss to Vitoria Guimaraes, and a win over Famalicao could see them escape the relegation zone. Paulo Sergio's troops did well to beat Nacional thanks to Fabricio's late goal in their last home game, which is surely giving fans a reason for optimism ahead of the visit of Famalicao.
The visitors, on the other hand, have been having their ups and downs in the 2020/21 Primeira Liga season, and, as a result, they sit in the middle of the table ahead of the trip to Portimao. Famalicao aim to regain their spot in the top half of the table, but this match will be anything but a walk in the park for the visiting team. A close encounter is on the cards, and we are tempted to put our money on draw.
This match will be played on 18/12/2020 at 03:30 PM
Highlighted Player (Lucas Possignolo ):
Lucas Possignolo is a Brazilian footballer who started his youth career at Sao Paulo, but he did not make his senior debut with the Tricolor. Possignolo moved to Portimonense on loan in 2014, and after scoring four goals in 57 appearances in the league, he signed a permanent deal with the Primeira Liga club in 2017.
The Brazilian defender made his debut in the Portuguese top flight on August 17, 2017, in a 2-1 home win over Boavista. Possignolo scored his first goal in the Primeira Liga in a 5-1 home defeat to Porto on February 25, 2018. His primary position at Portimonense is a centre-back, and his preferred foot is right.
Lucas Possignolo was born in Piracicaba, Brazil, on May 11, 1994. The 185-cm-tall defender, who wears the number 3 jersey at Portimonense, joined Sao Paulo at the age of 17.
Highlighted Team (Famalicao):
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Ground transportation narrows again - Groundlink sells to Marcou Transportation
By Kevin May | February 6, 2017
Another noteworthy move in the ground transportation sector this week as Marcou Transportation Group buys two parts of the ecosystem to bolster its position.
GroundLink and Limo Anywhere will both become part of the Boston, US-based group, joining Marcou's existing business Dav El-Boston Coach.
Both deals have been carried out for undisclosed fees.
Limo Anywhere was created in 2004 as a technology provider for limousine and black car operators, including tools for reservations, payments and flight tracking for pick-ups.
It has around 4,000 businesses on its books and claims to be handling more than ten million rides on an annual basis.
Groundlink was founded a year earlier and picked up a $20 million investment round in 2008 from Emigrant Capital.
The consumer-facing booking service has use of a fleet of 45,000 vehicles in around 110 countries worldwide.
Dav El, an operator of limos, corporate vans and buses in more than 500 cities in six continents, says all existing management teams and staff will remain in place within the group, with the brands continuing to run as standalone operations.
CEO Scott Solombrino claims the deals will be a "game-changer for the industry".
He adds:
"These companies provide us the opportunity to directly compete with the TNCs, as they try to infiltrate the corporate travel market, and will allow the industry to compete in the on-demand market faster than originally anticipated. "The implementation of auto dispatch and geospatial pricing can now be integrated into our already existing product to roll out the industry's first on-demand service in the corporate market."
The Groundlink and Limos Anywhere acquisitions comes at the same times Limos.com, another chauffeured vehicle player, is acquired by iCars, again for an undisclosed fee.
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Featuring contributions from J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Ronald D.Moore, Damon Lindelof, Bill Prady, Hart Hanson, Jane Espenson, Jonathan Nolan and many more!
Scriptwriter, Journalist and Broadcaster Andrew Collins will be chairing this screening and it will be followed by a Q&A with the film's director Des Doyle and special guest showrunner Ronald D.Moore (Outlander, Battlestar Galactica,Carnivale, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
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Almaty Arena Ice Complex is the Palace of Sports and Culture in Almaty which was built in 2016 for the <|fim_middle|> softening system and maintains the required temperature. The ice surface is leveled by special machines to achieve the desired thickness of 5 cm after complete freezing. The Ice Palace was the final point of the 16th stage of the Universiade fire relay race, which ended before the opening ceremony of the student games. The opening and closing ceremonies of the Universiade were held at the arena. The multi-functional ice complex Almaty Arena is a legacy of the Universiade, meets all international standards. The complex is equipped with all necessary equipment for international and national events, as well as for everyday training in all sports. The ice complex has two large skating rinks, which allows for mass skating at the same time as sporting events. The Almaty Arena Ice Complex is the pride of the city of Almaty and contains a large number of free sections for children, the purpose of which is to identify and educate talents among wrestlers, figure skaters, hockey players, volleyball players and soccer players. | 2017 Winter Universiade. The facility is intended for sporting events in hockey, boxing, futsal, figure skating and other sports. This is the largest sports facility in our country. It is the second largest among the same facilities in the CIS and is the largest covered ice platform in Central Asia. The ice palace was at the time of opening the second largest in the CIS with an area of 9.96 hectares, similar to the Minsk Arena and smaller than the Bolshoi Ice Palace in Sochi. The complex consists of three parts: an ice arena with 12,000 seats, an ice rink with a health center and a swimming pool. The location of the ice arena allows it to function as a universal platform for figure skating, ice hockey, boxing, basketball, volleyball, as well as a concert hall with 5000 seats, if thermal insulation is installed, covering the entire area of the ice field with an area of about 1800 m2. Particular attention is paid to the technology of freezing ice. For each layer of filling the roller requires 120 cubic meters of water. Water is pre-treated from various mechanical impurities, iron, chlorine and salts, and then gets into the | 260 |
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Students ready for midterm elections
October 27, 2010 by Meiqi Zhang
Midterm elections will take place Tuesday, giving Americans the opportunity to choose who will represent them.
Charles Brazell, senior history major from Tyler, said he is looking forward to the upcoming election because he believes it carries particular significance.
"It is how we elect the people that represent us, and we elect people that make decisions that affect us, so it is very important that I get the person<|fim_middle|> position as students about to go out into the real world and get jobs, I think voting for governors is something we really need to look into," Stewart said. "We need to see who can help our state and can help us with employment opportunities."
Meredith Stearns, junior chemistry major from Dallas, said she believes voting is part of civic duty. She said this is her first time to vote in a gubernatorial election.
"I have voted in some local elections before, but never voted for the governor," Stearns said. "I think voting is important because it is part of civic duty – being pro-active in your government, trying to affect change that way."
Wilson White, sophomore history major from Ozona, said he likes to pay attention to what happens in the news and keep up on current events.
"I get to play a part in deciding what's happening in my government," White said. "I like to pay attention to what happen in the news, current events and issues that I stand for. So I will follow closely the candidates that represent me the most."
James Keeton, senior bio-chemistry major from San Antonio, said candidates he votes for in an election often align with his personal values.
"Voting allows me to elect representatives who exemplify the same views I have," Keeton said.
A complete list of voting locations can be found on the Taylor County election's Web site at at www.taylorcountytexas.org/election1.html.
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Brazell said he knows some students who are still undecided on who they are going to vote for, but others are researching the candidates and getting prepared to make a good decision.
Tate Stewart, senior sociology major from Lubbock, said he does not know which candidates he is going to vote for yet, but he intends to research the election to make good decisions.
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Local High School Sports Roundup: Orland…
Local High School Sports Roundup: Orland wrestling wins Corning title
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Orland High's Victor Raigoza won the 220-pound division at the Corning Invitational on Saturday, and he earned the tournament's outstanding wrestler award as he helped the Trojans take home the team title among 42 squads.
Orland had five wrestlers win weight classes as the Trojans totaled 240 points. Henley High had 230 for second place. Pleasant Valley was also at the event, which featured several teams from the north state. The Vikings finished seventh.
In addition to Raigoza's big day, Orland's Hugo Punzo won the 108-pound division, Lorenzo Landeros won at 148, Mitchell McClough won at 170 and Dylan Hill won at 182.
Also for Orland, Layne Embrey took second at 122, and Taylor Enck was third at 126.
Orland won 37 matches as a team and lost only five.
PV had strong performances from Michael Briscoe, who took second in the 108 class, and from Cody Young, who was second in 220.
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In 1996 the company took a monumental step in purchasing a local Hardware/Building suppliers, Noone's of Maghera. This has given the company an edge in sourcing and purchasing materials.
On the 5th April 2002 P&K McKaigue Building Contractors became a Limited company.
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DNV uses Abaqus finite element analysis to study blowout scenarios.
Image 1. Deepwater Horizon oil rig before April 20, 2010.
On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform caught fire, 11 crewmen were killed, and two days later the rig sank. Numerous attempts were made to seal the well, but oil continued to spew into the Gulf until July 15, when a temporary cap was put in place. Relief wells then pumped concrete into the area underneath the wellhead, and the well was deemed permanently sealed in mid-September.
Deepwater Horizon was a semi-submersible, dynamically positioned drilling platform, or mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU). In layman's terms, it was a huge floating oil rig, capable of adjusting position under its own power, and designed to operate in water up to 8,000 ft and drill wells nearly 6 miles deep.
Blowouts occur when pressurized oil and gas flow uncontrolled up the drill pipe or riser to the rig, posing extreme risk to the people operating the rig, as well as possible damage to the environment and the platform itself. To prevent this situation, modern rigs are equipped with blowout preventers, or BOP stacks, huge structures that sit on the sea floor directly over the wellhead (see Image 2). The drill pipe passes through the BOP stack, which contains a number of mechanisms -- shear rams, bore rams, annular preventers, and a host of electronic and hydraulic assemblies -- that are supposed to shut the well down safely in the event of a blowout.
Image 2. Schematic view of the BOP stack seen from Deepwater Horizon's port side.
During the initial event and in the weeks after Deepwater Horizon sank, numerous attempts were made to activate the BOP stack --<|fim_middle|> a half an hour later.
DNV's analysis, supported by FEA data, indicates that the primary cause of failure was the BSR, or blind shear ram's inability to cut the drill pipe and seal the wellbore. The BSR is like a big pair of scissors, with opposing blades designed to cut the drill pipe and seal its end in a last-ditch effort to kill the well. FEA clearly showed that the shear ram should have been able to do its job. The required force was in the middle of the test and calculated data range for a nominal, centered pipe model, and there was nothing out of the ordinary with the strength of the drill pipe itself. The BSR would likely have worked, except for one thing: the pipe wasn't where it was supposed to be.
When activation of the blind shear rams occurred during ROV intervention, the annular preventers were already sealed around the drill pipe at the top of the BOP stack. The variable bore rams were sealed around its lower half. The pipe should have been in the center of the well bore, which is where the blind shear ram expected it to be. However, physical evidence from the markings on the recovered portion of the drill pipe indicated that the pipe was at the side of the wellbore instead.
The DNV engineers postulated a reason: One of the pipe's tool joints was positioned just below the upper annular preventer, which was closed on the drill pipe. When upward pressure became high enough due to the forces caused by the blowout, the pipe had nowhere to go and the upward forces (compression forces on the drill pipe) caused the drill pipe to buckle -- pushing the pipe to the side of the wellbore. The blind shear ram tried to cut the pipe off-center, unsuccessfully. This jammed a portion of the drill pipe between the ram block faces, preventing the rams from fully closing and sealing the wellbore.
As DNV's investigation into the proposed sequence of events deepened, FEA continued to support the team's theories. They started with a buckling analysis to determine what the necessary load would have been to move the pipe to the edge of the casing. The FEA models indicated that the applied pressures would have been sufficient to force it out of position (see Image 5).
Image 5. Abaqus FEA models affirm pressure-caused pipe displacement within the wellbore, predicting both pipe deformation and resulting stresses due to buckling.
From there, it was necessary to determine two other things: would the pipe have sheared had it been in the correct position, and what forces were needed to shear it off-center? Once again, FEA models provided the needed insight (see Image 6). "First, using a combination of the shear damage parameters, in conjunction with the known elastic and strength values of the material, our FEA data validated the estimated pressures needed to shear the pipe under a center-load condition," says Finneran.
Next, the engineers simulated the situation seen on the Deepwater. "Our shearing analysis showed that, with the pipe off-center, the rams would have been prevented from closing fully," says Finneran. "This allowed flow past the blind shear rams and caused significant erosion of the blind shear ram components and wellbore."
Image 6. Abaqus FEA models showing the interaction between the drill pipe and the blind shear ram (BSR). Top image shows the complete shearing of the pipe when properly centered. Bottom image shows what happened when the blade did not fully engage the pipe because the pipe was not centered in the wellbore. The lateral forces due to buckling below the BSR pushed the pipe off center and caused the closing rams to deform the pipe rather than shearing it.
"We determined that, under blowout conditions of this well, it was possible for the drill pipe to buckle between the UA (Upper Annular Preventer) and U-VBR (Upper Variable Bore Ram)," says Finneran. The DNV hypothesis was supported by their off-center BSR shearing FEA model, which provided results consistent with those damaged pipe segments, as well as the erosion damage seen between the rams, wellbore, and recovered drill pipe.
Now that FEA has been shown to be highly useful in helping identify the causes of the Deepwater Horizon failure, Finneran would like to see it used to lessen the likelihood of such events re-occurring in the future. "I believe finite element analysis can be a valuable tool in validating the capabilities of both new designs and existing equipment," he says. "It allows you to incorporate a number of scenarios and situations that are difficult, if not impossible, to analyze through experimental testing."
Finneran points out one challenge still to be overcome: incomplete raw material data. Because some of the material damage parameters of the actual materials used in Deepwater's BOP stack were unavailable, he and his team had to substitute equivalent materials with known values in their analyses.
"The industry as a whole would benefit from developing material-specific data that could help them to further fine-tune the FEA of their designs," he says. "This could enable the development of models that can verify the ability of existing and future BSRs to shear drill pipe under high-pressure blowout conditions. Given the appropriate material data, this kind of numerical modeling definitely has the ability to assess the extreme pressures and conditions that may be seen during a blowout event."
The DNV report makes numerous recommendations to the oil industry, including further studies to determine efficacy of back-up systems and ROV effectiveness, as well as additional FEA modeling to more fully understand buckling stresses and fluid dynamics in a blowout situation.
"Whatever the outcome of this testing, regulations are expected to change," says Finneran. "Several alternatives are being considered within the industry, such as including redundant BSRs as a secondary backup, and pursuing more robust designs capable of cutting and sealing under most any situation presented."
"FEA can incorporate real-world data into highly accurate predictive models," Finneran says. "Given the right material data, fluid flow characteristics, and downhole pressures, we could then simulate what would happen under those conditions, giving you a reasonable amount of certainty that your design will function under well blowout scenarios."
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a widely accepted computer simulation methodology for modeling, evaluating, and/or optimizing a product's mechanical and structural design. The technology has a long history of effective use within the energy industry as well as the aerospace and automotive sectors.
Engineers generally start with a 3D CAD model -- perhaps of an oilfield pipe installation, an airfoil, or the chassis of a car -- and then use FEA software to transform that model into a 3D mesh of geometric units, which are the 'elements' in finite element analysis. Each element is assigned a distinct size and shape mathematically representing a finite section of the model. Linked together by nodes that quantify their interrelationship, the elements (which can number in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) are further constrained by boundary conditions, material characteristics, and a host of other inputs dictated by what type of product or structure is being modeled.
Once an FEA model is set up, any number of static, dynamic, linear or nonlinear events, including contact, collisions, buckling and/or collapse scenarios, and even multiphysics analyses (thermal-structural, fluid structure interaction, and/or computational fluid dynamics), can be simulated and analyzed. Feedback from the FEA solution ('virtual testing') can then be used to evaluate and modify the CAD design, repeatedly if necessary, until the desired product functionality and durability are reached.
Alternatively -- as in the case of the Deepwater Horizon accident -- FEA can be employed in a retroactive way to forensically examine computer models derived from scans of damaged oil well components in order to identify what kinds of events may have caused the damage.
Want more information on what Abaqus can do? Click here. | initiation of the emergency disconnect sequence from the failing rig, automated dead-man circuitry on the BOP stack, even remotely operated vehicles working directly on the stack's "autoshear" function, 1 mile down. Nothing stopped the flow of oil.
The U.S. government moved quickly. Even while the oil industry was working to shut down the well and contain the spill, the Departments of Interior and Homeland Security signed an order to begin an investigation. In August, they released a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) for an analysis of the BOP operation and failure to seal the well. On September 1, DET NORSKE VERITAS (U.S.A.), Inc., Columbus, Ohio, office was awarded a contract to determine the performance and possible failure modes of the BOP stack. DNV pulled together an expert team of 40 individuals in forensic investigation, materials specialists, BOP operation, systems controls, and computer modeling from its Columbus, Ohio, Houston, Texas, and Hovik, Norway, offices to address all issues involved in this multidisciplinary investigation.
DNV had a tall order. Their contract charged them with "determining the performance of the BOP system during the well control event, any failures that may have occurred, the sequence of events leading to failure(s) of the BOP ... ." To meet this challenge, the DNV team assembled a base of operations at NASA's Michoud facility in New Orleans. The intervention vessel Q-4000 raised the BOP stack and delivered it to a temporary enclosure there. The investigation was underway.
Shane Finneran, project engineer and team lead in the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Group at DNV's Materials and Corrosion Technology Center, Dublin, Ohio, was a key player in the investigation. His team was involved throughout the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventer Forensic Examination, leading the 3D laser scanning and computer modeling initiatives and assisting with materials evaluation and damage assessment.
FEA provided DNV with a rapid, accurate methodology to simulate and evaluate the likelihood of proposed scenarios, many of which would have been difficult and impractical to assess with physical testing.
"It would be extremely difficult and generally cost prohibitive to run physical tests under the same conditions that exist two miles under the ocean, re-enacting a blowout scenario," says Finneran. "Typical physical testing involves shearing pipe with no backpressure and no product flow. You're proving that the blind shear ram can shear pipe and that the rams close properly. However, FEA can provide the means to perform extensive simulations of many types of damage -- ranging from simplified deformation and buckling to post-buckling deformation and shearing -- with realistic pressure and force measurements built into those simulations."
A 200-page report published by DNV for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) explains in great detail the reconstruction process and test methodology used by DNV, as well as their findings.
The BOP stack, together with several pieces of drill pipe, was raised from the well site (image above) and transferred to a holding facility at NASA-Michoud.
The team cleaned, photographed, and cataloged the stack, disassembling where necessary to get at its inner workings.
Hydraulic fluids and metal samples were taken for analysis; the stack's control mechanisms and their batteries, actuators, and solenoids were tested; and the casing and blind shear rams, variable bore rams, and upper and lower annular preventers were all visually inspected and 3D laser scanned.
DNV then used the laser scans to construct as-is 3D CAD models of the damaged equipment, especially in the area of the BSR, the blind shear ram, which was the only ram on the BOP designed to cut the drill pipe and seal the well bore (see Image 4).
Image 4. Photograph (top) and laser scans (bottom) of damaged blind shear ram (BSR).
SolidWorks software, also from Dassault Systemes, was used to convert the original CAD files of the ram components into simplified surfaces for use with Abaqus FEA, enabling the team to simulate and virtually test their theories of what happened.
Simply put, a drill pipe is a tube within a tube. The outer tube is the bore of the well, and the inner tube the drill pipe, which in turn contains the drill head. As the drill head rotates and moves down within the well bore, pumps aboard the drill platform force a viscous fluid called mud down with it. The mud lubricates and cools the drill head, while simultaneously flushing dirt and cut bits of rock out the bottom into the ring-shaped 'annulus' space between the drill pipe and the outside tube, or casing.
Mud can also be pumped from other locations -- choke and kill lines, for example -- so debris and mud may flow back up the drill pipe. However it gets there, the debris is eventually sent back to a separation manifold on the drilling platform for cleaning and reuse.
The huge BOP stack sits on the sea floor directly above the wellhead. Its two halves together are as tall as a six-story building and weigh over 400 tons. The top half, called a Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) contains two electronic control pods together with a pair of donut-shaped sealing devices called the Upper and Lower annular preventers. The preventers seal around the drill pipe and regulate upward fluid flow.
The lower half of the BOP stack contains a series of shear and bore 'rams,' and the valves and hydraulics that actuate them. Depending on the circumstances, these rams serve to 'choke' the well, or 'kill' it if necessary. The BOP stack is a complex device, and its job is critical: control pressure within the well, keep the drill pipe centered, and sever and seal the pipe in the event of an uncontrollable blowout. The Deepwater Horizon's BOP stack failed on all three counts.
On the night of the accident, shortly after a routine "leak-off" test of the Upper Annular Preventer, manifold pressures on the drilling platform increased five-fold. Oil and gas then began spilling onto the platform deck, and the rig caught fire. Personnel aboard the Deepwater Horizon activated the Emergency Disconnect Sequence (EDS) in an attempt to shut down the well, but they were unsuccessful. The rig was abandoned | 1,330 |
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