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Fun and frolics!
Posted on April 4, 2015 by Christine Lucas
Saturday, though not as epic a day as Good Friday, was in itself an eventful day.
After shopping, gardening and preparing dinner for the evening (more roasted carrot and garlic soup), David and I took the bus into town, to the Liverpool, Everyman Theatre. We went to see the matinee of their new production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. And what a dream it was, though in places rather nightmarish. I say nightmarish in a good way, as the just under three hour production did not have me reaching for the razor blades. I mean nightmarish in the fact that the woodland scenes were less bucolic, more atmospheric. If you have ever walked in a shaded wood you will be familiar with the tense, tingling feeling of supernatural nervousness. In this Liverpool Everyman production, the faeries are featureless, clad in a black stockinged garb, looking rather menacing in fact. The mischievous Puck was like a ringmaster and it made you think that all the heightened drama between the love sick couples of Hermia/Lysander and Helena/Demetrius was all for Puck's amusement.
The last play David and I saw at the Everyman was their opening show, Twelfth Night. That was filled with music and laughter and this production was no different<|fim_middle|> Keast seated themselves merrily besides her asking whether the play had 'started yet' and it would be better once, 'the drunks had arrived!' The ad-lib nature of this scene was hilarious!
The play ended with Malvolio spitting out his curses for revenge, Viola and Sebastian were reunited and the lovers joined with their rightful partners! The finale was again very joyous with the cast dancing around the stage to party music. The audience clapped along and the culmination was streamers popping loudly and balloons falling from the heavens. One landed in my lap and as the cast walked off the stage, I reached out for another balloon bobbing in front of me. I forgot the seats retracted and fell back on my bottom laughing loudly!! David couldn't help but laugh too and we walked out of the theatre, thoroughly entertained and with two balloons!
It was the first play in the new Everyman and returning home, it was to 'our' home that we returned and not our parents. There had been many firsts that night!
With Malvolio's words ringing in my ears… 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.' I wonder whether that is the reincarnated Everyman's will, to achieve just that!
Christine Lucas 2014!
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A Date is Set and Some Musings….
The date for moving into the new house has been set… I made an executive decision (as David and I were humming and aahhing for hours!), to name the date for moving in to be the 27th December 2013! I did not want the upheaval over Christmas, so I have chosen a date afterwards.
Other news: I am overjoyed to have successfully booked seats for the forthcoming 'Twelfth Night' at the new Liverpool Everyman Theatre!
http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/show/Twelfth_Night/1031.aspx
I managed to even get front row stalls! I was amazed as I thought that people in the city would have been snapping up the seats readily! I can't wait to see the new theatre and this production of my favourite Shakespeare play!
Work wise: I did not find myself unemployed for long. Well it was exactly two days! I got a call not long after finishing work at the Royal Hospital from the agency informing me that my student from last year had asked if I could go back to work with her and help with her studies. So that is what I have been doing these past few weeks. There are only two weeks remaining of the University term and then I am looking forward to a nice long holiday over Christmas. A rest is much needed!
Animal matters: There have been many wild birds visiting the garden feeders as the autumn temperatures start to plummet and the dark nights draw in. There have been the usual numerous Goldfinches, Starlings and Pigeons and they have been joined by two Blue Tits and even a shy Robin! But there has been too much activity for the poor Robin to forage at his own pace! I even thought I had seen a brief visitation of the Dunnock, but I could have been mistaken!
My Border Collie Riley has been worrying me a bit today. He has seemed very quiet, has not eaten his evening meal and looks so sad. 😦 I hope he is not sickening for something? He still goes on his walks and wants to play, he just seems under the weather today. Let's just hope it is just a phase and he is back to his wild, energetic self tomorrow!
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged agency work, art, blue tits, border collie, Christmas, culture, degree, dunnock, everyman theatre, everyman theatre liverpool, family, festive period, festive time, front row seats, goldfinches, holidays, hospital, Liverpool everyman, Liverpool university, March 2014, matthew kelly, moving house, moving in, new house, pigeons, plans, plays, preparations, Royal Liverpool, shakespeare, stalls, Starlings, student, the new everyman liverpool, Theatre, Twelfth Night, university, wild birds, William Shakespeare, work | . The stage design, though rather austere was effective, as was the use of lighting. The forest scenes were sparse with a mirrored wall giving the impression of a '360 degree audience,' with scrunched up paper littering the floor resembling the mass of leaves and their sound as they were stepped upon.
The backdrop however is irrelevant as the performance of the cast members was foremost. On leaving the theatre the name on many a tongue was Dean (a young Brian Blessed) Nolan's Bottom, (in one scene he left the audience red with embarrassment and young children giggling with glee), however the entire cast was strong, both seasoned and young actors played their parts well.
For the spectator the three hours filled with much magic and humour flew by. I have not seen another production of this play to compare but I say if you have a ticket to this play, then you will not leave the theatre disappointed.
The Guardian's Review.
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'It's the Circle of Life!'
Posted on May 24, 2014 by Christine Lucas
After a year of waiting, today was finally the day that David and I went to see The Lion King at the Liverpool Empire Theatre!
I must say that I was not as excited as I was when I went to see the new Everyman Theatre, but we went none the less.
We went to the matinee and it was an almost full house! We had nice seats (though the seats in the Empire are rickety!) The only downside was not the children, they all seemed to be well behaved, it was the two adults in front of us that kept moving forwards blocking our view! Luckily I had the isle seat so managed to look around 'big' heads but it was annoying! 'Stay in your seat!' I wanted to say!
Before the show there seemed to be a mass 'stampede' of parents trying to obtain 'booster' seats for their children. I looked at David and said 'I need one too!' (What with being small and all!) He just laughed at that!
The merchandise I found was pretty expensive and the ushers were on guard throughout the show on the lookout for 'pirates!' Luckily I was not one of them that day!
The show lasted just under three hours, including interval. It was nice to hear Hans Zimmer's music from the original film in the show. Indeed Zimmer won his only Oscar for The Lion King and it was the first soundtrack I purchased of Zimmer's works! Today, I have numerous tracks of his, he being one of my favourite composers!
I was very impressed by the stage design and the costumes were wonderful! The first track The Circle of Life, was undoubtedly the highlight for me! I loved the representation of the Elephant and the Gazelle, and the Giraffe were by far my favourite!
There were some moments I enjoyed more than others. I liked the scenes reminiscing of the Disney film of 1994. I wondered how they would recreate the 'stampede' and the stage direction and design was top notch! The 'rotary' with Wildebeest was genius!
The use of puppets was creative. I think Liverpool will be awash with puppets this year!
There were some moments when I did not quite connect with the events on stage. I could not hear some of the actors speaking, (I missed a few jokes because of that!) and the singing was either too loud or the words of the songs were not conveyed clearly enough. There was far too much shouting over one another I thought!
I did enjoy the production of He Lives in You! The stage was awash with stars and then the face of Mufasa emerged out of the myriad, is was quite something to behold!
I did have a lump in my throat at the end of the musical when they reprised The Circle of Life with Simba's child being displayed to all and sundry! That indeed made me think of my mortality and how life is just a perpetual cycle. We come and go, and life continues endlessly.
I did enjoy my time at The Lion King, the musical. It was very much a carnival of animals! However I feel there are far better musical productions in theatres at present. I'm just hoping Les Mis does the rounds again soon!
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'If…'
'…music be the food of love, play on,' says Orsino from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; or What You Will!
This production was the much anticipated opening play of the 'new' Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.
*Spoiler Alert: If you are intending to go to see this play then don't read on…*
It also happened to be one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, so I just had to go! I had booked the tickets since November 2013 and grown increasingly excited as time drew closer to the event, the 21st March 2014!!
Alas that date has now come and gone too readily but the memory of seeing the first performance in the new Everyman leaves me feeling warm and fuzzy!
The building itself has an organic feel to it, perhaps something to do with the bare bricks featured in the walls? I read on their website that they had kept 25,000 bricks from the old Everyman and interposed them into the new building. The new Everyman looks crisp and clean and bright!!
On our arrival, (as I dragged David along with me) we were welcomed by one of the ushers who was smiley and helpful, pointing us to where we should go, (the theatre was upstairs!). I bought a programme, and at £3.50 seems to be the going rate nowadays.
We made our way into the auditorium and found that our seats were on the stage! I knew the Everyman had retained it's thrust stage, (where the audience is seated around three sides), though I thought it would be a bit like the Crucible in Sheffield, but no! The entire front row sits on the boards of the stage!! A little too close to the action for comfort? We found that that was not the case, I think we had the best seats in the house!!! 🙂 The cast utilised the space on the stage really well and we could see all that went on, not like when I went to see The Winter's Tale in Sheffield and found that a lot of the cast stood with their backs to the front!
Twelfth Night seems to have been an inspired choice for the first performance, for a reborn theatre in a city ankle deep in culture! The play's themes of love, loss and reunion is interlaced with an abundance of mirth!! I don't think I have laughed so much during a performance of a play, as I did during Liverpool Everyman's Twelfth Night! The whole cast were top notch! There were the heavy weights of TV and theatre, Matthew Kelly (Sir Toby Belch) and Nicholas Woodeson (Malvolio), but there were also, (obviously) a lot of talent from the region. With a very able Jodie McNee as a convincing Viola, Pauline Daniels as the impish Maria and Paul Duckworth who for me was arresting as the fool, Feste! Not just because he pranced around camply in heels and make-up, but because his character seemed to grow in stature throughout the play! Natalie Dew was entertaining as Olivia, her comic timing was exquisite and Adam Keast as Andrew Aguecheek reminded me of Rik Mayall in Bottom!
Photos by James Maloney.
The stage was relatively austere. I liked the shards of glass on the floor, perhaps mirroring the different aspects of the self? I think Twelfth Night looks at the self and persona and how we project that to other people. It is highlighted by Viola's words, 'then think you right: I am not what I am!' Hanging from the gantry there were orchids in flower pots and at the back of the stage there are revolving frames where foliage peeked out.
The performance even had a pool of water in the stage floor where Viola and the captain sprung out breathlessly at the beginning of the play. A nice touch, however I think for the rest of the performance the actors were aware of the perils of falling into it. (Perhaps they could have covered it up?) Even those seated in the front row, (one even with a dislocated toe) were weary when the cast members strode between them and the pool and at other times were put on guard when Sebastian (Luke Jerdy) rode around the stage on his tandem! That said tandem almost caused a catastrophe in the final scene where Viola and Orsino, riding into the 'sunset' almost careered into the pool! It spouted laughter from the cast and audience alike and highlighted the knowledge that the actors all seemed to revel in the merriness of the play.
For me the first part before the interval was more enjoyable than the second. The second being more mischievous in the mockery of Malvolio. Thankfully there were no power cuts that marred previous performances! The comic element in the first part seemed riotous at times. You could tell that this was the first production of a brand spanking new theatre! With the cast singing (the songs were given a modern lilt), The 12 Days of Christmas, throwing a big present for the audience to catch and the offering of treats! It all seemed very celebratory! Even one member of the audience was caught up in all the mirth as before him was a trolley laden with jellies! Malvolio (Woodeson) shouted to the man 'get your hands off the jellies!' The audience member took it all in his stride and even hid his head in his shirt for shame! There was much fun and laughter to be had by all and I seemed to sit throughout the three hour plus performance with a constant smirk on my face! Even Toby Belch (Kelly) and Andrew Aguecheek (Keast) joined the audience at one stage. There were empty seats next to a lady two seats from myself. Kelly and | 2,439 |
A masked hero known as the Phantom must protect the native tribes from a group of spies planning to build a secret airstrip in a lost city.
If you can get your mind around the patently absurd premise (that for years a family of white men have been protecting the native jungle tribes under the guise of the masked bejumpsuited immortal hero known as the<|fim_middle|> is one of the better serials out there. | Phantom) and the strangeness of seeing an urban-style masked hero in jungle settings, you should find this to be one of the sturdier and more enjoyable serials out there. At least one advantage of the jungle settings is that we don't have a single bail-out cliffhanger in the bunch, for one thing. Western actor Tom Tyler does a good job as the title character, and Kenneth MacDonald does one of the better jobs of playing a villain who manages to successfully cover up that role when dealing with the heroes. The plot also has enough story to avoid being repetitive, but not so much to be confusing. One of the episodes had to be redubbed due to the deterioration of the soundtrack, and you'll spot the episode right off the bat with the opening narration. The most prominent fantastic content surrounds the legend of the Phantom's immortality (which we know is faked); outside of that, it's mostly marginally fantastic in that jungle-movie sort of way. This | 200 |
Home News The Light House SHINE Station at Annapolis Town Center Now Open
The Light House SHINE Station at Annapolis Town Center Now Open
Light House Director of Community Engagement, Sarah Ryan, opening the doors to the new Light House SHINE Station at Annapolis Town Center (Photo Credit: Lara Ippolito)
ANNAPOLIS, MD — The Light House Homeless Prevention Support Center recently opened their new SHINE Station at Annapolis Town Center (ATC)—a temporary donation and information space at 1915 Suite #145 Towne Centre Blvd, Annapolis. The Light House SHINE Station at ATC is staffed by volunteers who are available to take donations of food and other much needed items, provide information about the organization, and sell baked goods made by The Light House Bistro Social Enterprise Restaurant. The space also includes an exhibit area for visitors to learn more about the work the organization is doing to break the cycle of homelessness in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Special events for individuals and families in need will also be held in the space, including a holiday gift distribution celebration.
The Light House SHINE Station space was made possible thanks to the generosity of Annapolis Town Center as part of their ongoing partnership with The Light House to offer new ways for the organization to connect with the community. The SHINE Station will be open Wednesdays through Saturday from 11:00am–3:00pm during November, December, and January. This space is open to the public and all are welcome to visit.
"This is such a fun and unique opportunity for us,<|fim_middle|>olis Town Center serves as an entertainment destination for locals, visitors, and business professionals alike, offering a relaxing, fun, and inclusive space for the Annapolis and surrounding communities. Annapolis Town Center is operated by Trademark Property Company. Trademark Property Company is a full-service real estate firm focused on investments, development, and institutional services of retail, multifamily, office and mixed-use properties. Fort Worth, Texas-based Trademark, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, has invested in, developed, or redeveloped 21 million square feet of mixed-use, multifamily, and retail assets worth $4.5 billion. Trademark's experienced team of more than 141 employees is currently responsible for a 16-property portfolio totaling approximately 8.8 million square feet of mixed-use and retail projects across the country. A three-decade leader in navigating the changing mixed-use real estate landscape, Trademark's purpose is to be extraordinary stewards, enhance communities and enrich lives. For more information, visit www.trademarkproperty.com or interact on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. | and we are so grateful to Annapolis Town Center for making this possible," stated Sarah Ryan, Director of Community Engagement at The Light House. "Our busiest time of year at The Light House is during these coming holiday months, and having this space to receive, sort, and distribute donation items is extremely helpful for us. We are also excited to use this space as an information hub where we can have conversations with our neighbors about housing insecurity, food insecurity, and the other important issues many individuals and families in our community are facing."
For those looking to support The Light House, there are many ways to get involved, including their current donation drives for holiday meals, holiday gifts, and winter weather gear. As the weather gets colder and the holidays approach, these donation drives help ensure that neighbors in need can stay safe, stay warm, and be included in the season of giving. To learn about how to participate in these donation drives and to find out other ways to get involved with The Light House, visit www.annapolislighthouse.org/shinestation.
"We are honored to partner with Light House SHINE Station and help care for the homeless here in Annapolis," said Catherine Brady, Director of Marketing for Annapolis Town Center. "We hope that hosting the SHINE Station will bring people together to support our community and spark educational conversations around issues our neighbors face every day. Our guests and residents will be able to provide families and children with needed food, warm jackets, and even toys so that those in need do not have to feel alone this holiday season."
Since its founding in 1989, The Light House has been a basic needs provider of food, clothing, shelter, and other vital services. Last year alone, the organization provided emergency and transitional housing for 189 individuals including 25 children. In addition, their Safe Harbour Resource Center staff assisted over 280 households at risk of losing their housing and successfully prevented them from becoming homeless. The Light House also distributed over 270,000 pounds of healthy pantry items and provided over 83,000 meals to individuals and families struggling with homelessness and food insecurity.
About The Light House: The Light House, located at 10 Hudson Street in Annapolis, has served the community as a basic needs provider of food, shelter, and clothing for over 30 years. Its mission is to help rebuild lives with compassion by providing shelter and services to prevent homelessness and empower people as they transition toward housing, employment, and self-sufficiency. For more information about The Light House, please visit their website at www.annapolislighthouse.org, or on Facebook/Instagram @annapolislighthouse.
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Informed consent in human subject research: A comparison of Current International and Nigerian Guidelines
Joseph O. Fadare, Corinna Porteri
Centro San Giovanni di Dio - Fatebenefratelli
Informed consent is a basic requirement for the conduct of ethical research involving human subjects. Currently, the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association and the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) are widely accepted as international codes regulating human subject research and the informed consent sections of these documents are quite important. Debates on the applicability of these guidelines in different socio-cultural settings are ongoing and many workers have advocated the need for national or regional guidelines. Nigeria, a developing country, has recently adopted its national guideline regulating human subject research: the National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) code. A content analysis of the three guidelines was done to see if the Nigerian guidelines confer any additional protection for research subjects. The concept of a Community Advisory Committee in the Nigerian guideline is a novel one that emphasizes research as a community burden and should promote a form of "research friendship" to foster the welfare of research participants. There is also the need for a regular update of the NHREC code so as to address some issues that were not considered in its current version.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
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The Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia is increasingly popular, with its varied tribal peoples living virtually untouched by modern society. Witnessing the local practices of living purely from natural resources is a humbling and inspiring experience. The landscape is equally spectacular, as it descends from the highlands, to wet forests, through open savannahs, and eventually to the searing desert lands on the shores of Lake Turkana.
The Omo and Mago National Parks are tucked along the banks of the Omo River, the life-giving waterway that runs through the Omo Valley. While traditional African "Big Five" wildlife sightings are rarely possible, many species still roam these lands.
The most interesting natives of this land are the Mursi people, known around the world for their women who wear clay plates in their lower lips and earlobes. A small incision is made into the lips of teenage girls which they stretch over time. The lip plate remains a strong Mursi identity feature, and is a symbol of a woman's maturity and reproductive potential. Women are allowed to decide for themselves if they wish to slit their lip or not.
The gracious people of the Hamer tribe offer amazing cultural experiences for the visitor. The Hamer women are easily spotted with their characteristic hairstyle – long dread-like ringlets formed by mud and butter. The nightly dance party, known as evangadi, serves as a meeting place for young Hamer bachelors and bachelorettes to mingle and flirt with each other. The most unique ceremony is the Jumping of the Bulls event, where a young man jumps over a line of bulls to officially enter manhood.
Other<|fim_middle|> in the Chamber of Columns. Not only a natural wonder, the Sof Omar caves are an important religious center for both Islam as well as local animist religions. | tribes of the Omo Valley include the Tsemai, Ari, Karo, Dassenech and Erbore, all with their own unique cultures and rituals that have stood the test of time.
Arba Minch marks the entry point to the Omo Valley. Nearby Lake Chamo is home to the "crocodile market", one of the best displays of crocodiles in all of Africa. Not far from Arba Minch are the Dorze people, living high in the Gughe Mountains with their beehive-like huts, and the Konso, known for their wooden totem-like erections placed in honor of past warriors.
The Great Rift Valley cuts through Ethiopia, beginning the in Middle East, and extending south through Africa to Mozambique. The lakes are as varied as they are plenty. From Debre Zeit to Arba Minch, these lakes dot the landscape providing a home to a variety of birds, a refreshing watering hole to diverse wildlife, and a relaxing location for those in need. Lake Langano is a popular weekend getaway from Addis Ababa, with a variety of water-based activities available. Lakes Abiatta and Shala form the Abiatta-Shala National Park. Lake Abiatta is a shallow soda lake, home to thousands of flamingos, while, in stark contrast, Lake Shala is the deepest crater lake in the country, at 250m. Lake Awassa provides a peaceful setting in the town of Awassa, and is famous on the tourist circuit for its interesting morning fish market. Lakes Abaya and Chamo in Arba Minch form part of the Nechisar National Park. The "crocodile market" at Lake Chamo is one of the best displays of crocodiles in all of Africa.
The Bale Mountains is one of the best places in Ethiopia to see wildlife. The most popular residents here are the endemic Ethiopian wolf and mountain nyala. For birdlovers, the Bale Mountains are a paradise, with over 250 recorded species living in the park boundaries, at least 16 of which are endemic to Ethiopia. The most popular areas for wildlife viewing are the Sanetti Plateau, where the Ethiopian wolf is most commonly seen, as well as the Harenna Forest, a dense, moist forest with an abundance of plant-and wildlife.
Not far from the Bale Mountains lie the Sof Omar caves. Said to be the largest network of caves in Africa, they stretch 15.1km (9.5 miles), with the Web River snaking through the cave system the entire distance. The most stunning feature of the caves are the towering limestone pillars, the most famous of which are located | 549 |
The Elgin–Franklin fields are two adjacent gas condensate fields located in the Central Graben Area of the North Sea east of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of . The joint development of the Elgin and Franklin fields is the largest high pressure high temperature development in the world, and also contains the world's hottest, highest temperature field, West Franklin, and the Glenelg field. On 25 March 2012, a gas leak occurred at the Elgin platform resulting in a shut down of production and evacuation of personnel. The leak continued for over seven weeks, and was stopped after well intervention work on 16 May 2012. Production from the fields restarted almost a year later, on 9 March 2013.
History
The Franklin field was discovered by well 29/5b-4, drilled by Ultramar in 1985, and appraised by wells 29/5b-6z in 1989/1990 and 29/5b-8 in 1991. The field was named after British Explorer Sir John Franklin, and first production was in August 200<|fim_middle|> energy
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The Elgin field was discovered by well 22/30c-8 in 1991 and appraised by wells 22/30c-10 in 1992/1993 and 22/30c-13 in 1994, drilled by Elf Aquitaine. The field was named after the Scottish town of Elgin. It is also named as a tribute to a geologist named Nigel who was instrumental in the field's discovery, Elgin is an anagram of Nigel. Production from the Elgin field began in March 2001.
The Glenelg satellite field was discovered in 1999 by well 29/4d-4, drilled by Total. It is named after the Scottish town of Glenelg, Highland. It was developed by a step-out well drilled from the Elgin platform and first production was in March 2006.
The West Franklin reservoir was discovered by Total in 2003. It was developed by a deviated well from the Franklin platform. First production was achieved in March 2007 with the second well coming on stream in September 2008. A new wellhead platform was installed on West Franklin in 2014 with three wells being drilled as of 2016. Production from the first well (29/5b-H1Z) started in 2015. A second wellhead platform Elgin B has also been installed at Elgin and is bridge linked to the Elgin A platform and PUQ to enable extra infill production wells to be drilled.
March 2012 gas leak
On 25 March 2012 a gas leak occurred at the Elgin Well head platform within well 22/30c-G4 during operations to plug and decommission the well. No injuries were reported and 219 non-essential personnel were evacuated from the PUQ and the adjacent Rowan Viking jack up drilling rig, which was performing the decommissioning work. The remaining 19 personnel were evacuated later on the same day.
At the time of the incident the fields were producing of oil equivalent, about 7% of the UK's gas production. Methane gas was released into the environment as was between two and 23 tonnes of condensate which formed a sheen on the sea surface measuring approximately in length. The HM Coastguard declared a exclusion zone for ships and a exclusion zone for aircraft. Shell E&P also evacuated non essential staff from the separate Shearwater platform located in block 22/30b from Elgin. At its peak, of gas was being released, which slowed when a relief well was drilled. The platform flare was alight till 31 March 2012 representing a potential risk of ignition for the leaking gas if wind direction should change. Total announced the flare spontaneously shut down on Saturday 31 March 2012 after exhaustion of the volatile residues within the PUQ processing facilities which it was burning. The leak was stopped following well intervention work on 16 May 2012, which involved pumping mud and cement into the well.
The cause of the incident was identified as corrosion in the casing of the G4 well, and a sudden release of gas from the Hod formation above the producing reservoir. Total identified the origin of the gas leak to be an unexploited chalk reservoir layer of the Hod formation located at a depth of , above the main reservoir, which was supported by analysis showing the absence of significant concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the gas. The Hod formation had been isolated by steel casing during drilling in 1997. On 25 February 2012 an increase in pressure was observed in the C annulus within the well and remedial operations started on 4 March 2012. Total believe that the C annulus failed and gas was observed leaking from the conductor.
An inspection team comprising eight people from Total and Wild Well Control, a specialist well control company, boarded the Elgin platform on 5 April 2012 to gather information about the state of the platform. The team left safely after four hours.
During April 2012 a diverter assembly was installed around the G4 well head to divert the leaking gas (estimated then at ) away from the platform in a controlled manner enabling well control operations to begin. In May 2012 two drilling rigs were working on repairing the leak. The West Phoenix semi submersible rig was working on the "top kill" operation. This involved pumping weighted drilling mud into the well via the wellhead assembly, a method which was ultimately successful in halting the leak. A relief well, G4-K1 was drilled to "bottom kill" the well by the Sedco 714.
Eleven monitoring overflights of the area by surveillance aircraft from Oil Spill Response Limited were made in early May, and the flow rate from the well was estimated at that time to be .
On 16 May Total announced that the leak had been stopped.
Production restarted on 9 March 2013.
December 2016 Helicopter Incident
On 28 December 2016 a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter (registration G-WNSR, serial number 920250) operated by CHC Helicopter experienced "unexpected control responses" whilst in mid-air on a routine shuttle flight between two oil installations in the North Sea. The pilots conducted an emergency landing on the West Franklin platform. The helicopter is reported to have spun on the helideck during the landing, damaging the helicopter wheels and rotor blades. The helideck also sustained damage during the emergency landing. There were no reported injuries amongst the nine passengers and two crew during the incident. The aircraft was transported back to Aberdeen via ship, at which time the Air Accidents Investigation Branch began their investigation into the incident. Sikorsky issued a notice on 9 January 2017 grounding all S-92 aircraft until the tail rotors have been inspected. The inspection work takes approximately 11 man hours to complete. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch issued an update on 11 January 2017 which reported that the tail rotor pitch change shaft bearing had seized. The bearing showed signs of severe overheating and significant wear. The failure of the bearing allowed the tail rotor driveshaft to damage the tail rotor servo. The damage to the tail rotor servo is considered to be the cause of tail rotor control. The health and usage monitoring systems had discovered the flaw the day before flight, but the maintenance crew had not.
Ownership
The fields are operated by Total E&P UK Limited, a subsidiary of Total S.A.(formerly Elf Aquitaine).
Elgin-Franklin and West Franklin
Equity in Elgin and Franklin was fixed by a unitisation agreement between three partner groups, and is shown in the table below. West Franklin is owned by the same partnership.
Glenelg
The partners in the Glenelg field are shown below.
Geology
Franklin field
The Franklin field is a tilted fault block with little internal faulting. The main reservoir is the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian Age) Fulmar Sandstone which has porosities in excess of 20%. The Middle Jurassic Pentland formation forms a second reservoir with a separate hydrocarbon pool. The reservoir is at depth. It is at pressures of and temperatures of . Originally the recoverable reserves for Franklin were estimated at of natural gas and of condensate.
Elgin field
The Elgin structure is a fault bounded high on top of a collapsed Triassic mud "pod". It is heavily faulted and split into several separate fault panels with discrete gas water contacts. The reservoir is the same Fulmar sandstone as Franklin. The Pentland reservoir at Elgin is of poorer quality than that underneath Franklin and has not been developed. The original estimate of recoverable reserves for Elgin was of gas and of condensate.
West Franklin
The West Franklin structure has a Fulmar formation reservoir.
Glenelg
The Glenelg field is a tilted fault block with a Fulmar formation reservoir.
Development
The Elgin-Franklin development is located in the Central Graben Area of the North Sea east of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of . The installation consists of three separate platforms, two of which are connected by a bridge: two wellhead platforms which house the wells, one each for the Elgin and Franklin reservoirs, and the process, utilities and quarters (PUQ) platform, which is the central processing platform. The PUQ is a pile mounted jack up design which contains hydrocarbon processing facilities, control systems and accommodation for the crew of 97. The structure was built by BARMAC in Nigg, Scotland, and installed in July 2000. The facility has a processing capacity of of gas and of condensate.
The Franklin wellhead platform (WHP) has nine well slots (seven wells on the Franklin Field and two extended reach wells on West Franklin) . It is not normally manned but has a helideck and shelter for up to 20 people. The Elgin wellhead platform has 12 well slots (11 wells on Elgin and one extended reach well on Glenelg). The platforms are linked to the PUQ by flowlines and were installed in 1999. The WHP has no installed drilling facilities (derrick, etc.). Well drilling and workover services are provided when needed by a jack up rig which operates in tender mode.
The west Franklin and Elgin B platforms were installed in 2014 in order to enable drilling of further development wells in the fields due to constraints in the existing facilities. In 2017 there were three wells on West Franklin and three wells on Elgin B)
The Produced oil is transported through the Forties pipeline system to BP's Kinneil terminal in Grangemouth while produced gas is transported through the SEAL Pipeline to Bacton, Norfolk.
Reservoir characteristics
high pressure / high temperature (HP/HT) wells
well depth:
pressure range: 600 – 1100 bar
operational pressure: 860 bar
fluid temperature:
sea floor depth:
The West Franklin reservoir is the world's hottest, highest pressure reservoir, with a temperature of and pressure of .
See also
Energy in the United Kingdom
Piper Alpha (1988)
Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010)
Sour gas
References
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Savage twins aim for another title at Anaheim Western before going separate ways
Anaheim Western receiver Caine Savage prepares for a play in the season opener against John Muir on Aug. 23.
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Caine Savage likes to work quick, whether it's his burst to try to catch a ball in the air, his ability to shake a defender trying to tackle tackle him or his opening to the 2019 season for Anaheim Western High.
Savage ran the season-opening kickoff back for a touchdown. He added 10 catches for 125 yards in that game against Pasadena John Muir and has 23 receptions for 382 yards in the three games since, according to MaxPreps.
It has been a continuation of Savage's monster junior season when he had more than 2,100 yards receiving and scored 34 total touchdowns. His 32 touchdown receptions set a Southern Section record for a season. He scored multiple touchdowns in 11 of 15 games, leading Western to its first section title.
Quarterback Anthony Munoz, who tied JT Daniels' Southern Section record with 61 touchdown passes is gone, so it took Western a little bit of time to get rolling under senior Isaiah Del Toro.
Savage's kickoff return touchdown was the Pioneers' only score against Muir, but he quickly learned getting the ball to Caine and his twin Cassius was the key to success.
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"John Muir was blitzing every play and he wasn't used to it yet," Caine said of Del Toro. "He was overwhelmed that game. The Monday we came in after John Muir, we didn't want to lose any more games throughout the season, so we came in hard, on everybody. After practice, we go out, run routes and catch balls and do whatever we can do to get better as a team."
Western (3-1) has outscored its last three opponents 104-0. Cassius is second on the team with 332 all-purpose yards and in scoring with three touchdown receptions and a two-point conversion catch.
The brothers also play important roles on defense. Cassius is a rangy, 6-foot-1 safety while Caine often takes on the opposition's best receiver at cornerback.
Caine's athleticism, versatility and big-play ability drew attention and scholarship offers from several colleges. Some schools like him as an offensive weapon. Others see the 5-foot-11, 175-pound playmaker as a future defensive back. Arizona State's coaches want the whole package.
"They said they like everything that I do, that I can play pretty much any position on the field — kick return, punt return, receiver, DB, pretty much an athlete," Caine said. "I took a visit there. I got to meet some of the coaches. All the coaches up there are cool. I had a strong connection with them as soon as I met them."
Caine committed to the Sun Devils in June, but this wasn't a decision he could quickly make like his moves on the field. He chose Arizona State over offers from Oregon State, Utah and Washington State as well as offers to five FCS and Group of Five schools.
On the same day Caine announced his commitment, Cassius chose San Diego State from a trio of Mountain West offers. The twins, who have the same classes at Western, do everything together and are always with each other, agreed to go their separate ways.
"I wanted to play in the Pac-12," Caine said. "Most of the offers he had, I had, but he didn't have any Pac-12 offers, so we kind of did it based off that. He was fine with it. He's just waiting on a Pac-12 [offer]."
While both made commitments, they are still keeping their options open on the chance that a Pac-12 school extends a scholarship opportunity to Cassius.
Caine still wants to take all five of his official visits, including trips to Utah and Washington State along with Arizona State. Cassius could join him on those trips, but per NCAA rules, the school isn't allowed to pay for the travel and lodging expenses for anyone outside of the student-athlete and his parents on the visit.
"We haven't really signed any letter of intent or anything," Caine said. "If somebody does come up and gives us a better [option], like a deal together, then that'll probably be an option for us."
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Lauret Du Conservatoire De La Region De Bordeaux, France; M.M., Woodwind Specialist, Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet, Oboe with Honors, Michigan State University; B.M., B.S., Michigan State University. Studied saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix; flute with Maurice Prouvo and Andrew Lolya; clarinet with Yves Didier, Dan Trimboli and Les Scott; bassoon with Loren Glickman, William Scribner and Dr. Edgar Kirk; oboe with Mark Hill and Marsha Heller; improvisation with Phil Woods and Eric Kloss. Former Director of Jazz Studies, and Instructor of Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon and Theory at Bemidji State University; Assistant Director and Instructor of Saxophone, Michigan State University; Adjunct faculty, City University of New York – QCC; Instrumental Music Teacher, Harrington Park and Ridgewood NJ public schools. Composer/arranger of numerous jazz fusion, new age and commercial compositions, including "Manhattan Twilight" and "Dyad." Performance credits include the Broadway orchestras of A Chorus Line, Baby, CATS, Dancin', David Copperfield, Evita, 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Manhattan Showboat, Woman of the Year and Shrek the Musical; as well as the Saxophonist "Salaire" at Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, Musique Municipal, Orchestre de Harmonie, and the Lansing Symphony. Performed on saxophone with such well-known acts as The Four Tops, The Temptations, the Mellow Kings, Gary Burton, Urbie Green, Jimmy Holmes, Arnie Lawrence, John Mahegan, Rita Moreno, Marvin Stamm, Larry Stuart, Enzo Stuarti, Clark Terry, Jerry Vale and Nancy Wilson. Appeared in the movies "Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The Juror." Radio performances on "France Inter," the French National Radio Station. Founded The Ridgewood Conservatory in 1998 after providing private woodwind instruction to more than 200 student musicians.
Jan King CaimanoASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jan Caimano holds a degree in Elementary Education from the City University of New York – Queens College, with a focus in open classroom and non-traditional teaching techniques. After teaching in both NYC and New Rochelle, she spent thirty years as the Founder, President and Chief Copywriter of King Graphic Studios, an award-winning design firm specializing in helping not-for-profit and business-to-business ventures. Co-founder of The Ridgewood Conservatory, Jan is responsible for the educational components of the instrumental, Early Childhood Music, Dance and summer programs, special events planning, program development and advertising. In addition to her role as the Associate Director of The Conservatory, Jan is a hypnosis professional certified by both the American Academy of Hypnotherapy and the International Hypnosis Federation, specializing in helping clients of all ages overcome stress and anxiety, increase confidence and self-esteem, overcome fears and phobias, and deal more effectively with issues related to health and wellness.
Warren CarrASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Warren Carr brings just the right blend of musicianship and business expertise to The Ridgewood Conservatory. With a Masters degree in Music from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, Warren is a brilliant tenor who has performed in both the operatic and musical theater genres throughout the US and Europe. As a voice teacher, he has taught students of all ages, many of whom have been awarded roles and been accepted into choral programs throughout New Jersey. Warren has also made his mark in the corporate world, holding positions of Administrative Manager at Design Strategy Inc and Sr. Staffing Agent with The Assurance Group, where he implemented his knowledge of business development, community engagement, contract negotiations and social media marketing. In addition to his responsibilities as our Assistant Director, Warren is a valued addition to our Voice/Acting faculty, and is involved in the planning and implementation of a wide range of programs and workshops at The Conservatory. (See Voice / Acting for Warren's performance credits.)
Gary HammeOboe
M.M., Juilliard, B.M., University of Central Florida. Studied with Ronald Roseman at Juilliard. Founding member of the Artists International Competition-Winning Brioso Woodwind Quintent, leading to his Carnegie Hall debut and multiple return engagements. Performed with many notable orchestras including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Chamber Symphony, New York Pops, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Choral Society, Little Orchestra Society, Opera Orchestra of New York, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony Orchestra, National Chorale, Amor Artis Chorale Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Soloisti New York, American Ballet Theatre and the American Symphony Orchestra. Affiliated member of numerous Broadway shows – including Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Aida, Miss Saigon, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ragtime, Titanic, Jekyll and Hyde, Cinderella, and Showboat.
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M.M., The Juilliard School; B.M. Eastman School of Music. Studied with Herbert Blayman (former principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra); Stanley Hasty, Leon Russianoff, and Richard Waller. Principal Clarinetist with the national tours of Phantom of the Opera and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber starring Michael Crawford. Performed with the NJ Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, Solisti NY, and Orchestra New England, as well as the Jersey Lyric, New Haven and Connecticut Grand Opera companies. As an avid chamber musician, has performed with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Mokrynski is a founding member of the critically acclaimed Palisades Virtuosi, performing in concert throughout the tri-state area as well as in Hawaii and Canada. The first five volumes of their New American Masters series has been named to Fanfare magazine's "Most Wanted" lists. Attended the music festivals of Aspen, Waterloo and Heidelberg and has recorded for Albany, Koch International, Soundstream and Elektra records.
Margaret SwinchoskiFLUTE, PICCOLO, RECORDER
M.A., Aaron Copland School of Music, CUNY-Queens College; B.F.A., B.A., Johnson State College. Studied flute with Edward Powell, Thomas Nyfenger, Sophie Sollberger, and Trudy Kane. Has taught flute privately to students of all ages and levels for over thirty years. Debut recital by Artists International at Carnegie Hall. Featured soloist at the National Flute Association Convention in the World Premiere of Leo Kraft's "From The Hudson Valley," and Richard Lane's Flute Concerto with the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra. Has appeared as a concerto soloist with numerous orchestras, and has served as principal flutist with the Westchester and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestras and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra. Has performed regularly with the NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players, and with the Broadway orchestra of Phantom of the Opera since 1991. Formed the Legacy Duo with harpist Emily Mitchell, performing in concerts and on radio and televisions stations in the NY metropolitan area. As a founding member of the Palisades Virtuosi, has commissioned and premiered over 70 works for flute, clarinet and piano from such well-known composers as Paul Moravec, Melinda Wagner, Eric Ewazen, Carlos Franzetti, Robert Manno, Dan Cooper, Frank Ezra Levy, and Allen Shawn among others, playing concerts throughout the tri-state area and in Hawaii and Canada – with Volumes 1 though 5 of Palisades Virtuosi's New American Masters series being named to Fanfare magazine's "Most Wanted" lists. Ms. Swinchoski's solo debut CD From The Hudson Valley garnered rave reviews from Fanfare magazine and American Record Guide. She can be heard on the Albany Records, Newport Classics, CRI, and High Point labels.
Louis DayViolin, Viola
M.M. and B.M., Mannes College of Music. Studied with Karen Tuttle at Mannes College of Music, Wolfgang Krist at Wofgang Hoch Orchester Schule in Germany, and Bernard Kadinoff at Boston University. Performed with numerous orchestras in the tri-state area and abroad, including the American Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Stamford and Fairfield Symphony Orchestras, New York Pops, Opera Orchestra of New York, Connecticut Grand Opera, New York Virtuosi and the Broadway orchestras of 1776, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, as well as with the Orquestra Symphonica Portuguesa'Sao Carlos Orchestra in Portugal, and the Orchestra Sinfonica de Sevilla and the New American Chamber Orchestra in Spain.
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New England Conservatory; Manhattan School of Music – Violin/Music Performance. Studied with Raphael Bronstein, Arianna Bronne, Alfredo Cavalieri, David Nadien, Glen Dictorow, and Sam Kissel. Teaching credits include The Bronx House, The Riverdale Y, Montclair State University Preparatory Dept, and Westchester Conservatory of Music; former substitute teacher at the Preparatory Depts of Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music. Critically-acclaimed violinist, has received numerous accolades in more than 40 years of performance. Appeared as a violin soloist with The Vermont Symphony Orchestra, The Amphion Chamber Orchestra, The Mohawk Trails Chamber Orchestra, and with the Capriccio Ensemble, where she is currently Artistic Director and first violinist. Has been a NYS-sponsored and featured recitalist at The Empire State Plaza on several occasions. Freelance credits include performances in Broadway shows such as Grand Hotel, Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly, Damn Yankees, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables. Has performed in orchestras such as Music Sacra, served as concert mistress for The NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players and a run of My Fair Lady at The Westbury Music Fair, has been the concert mistress for Joel Grey, Bel Canto Opera, and has performed in concert with such well-known artists as Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, Jay Black, Gladys Knight, Connie Francis, Mel Torme, Dionne Warwick, Smokey Robinson, Barry White, and Johnny Mathis. Commercial credits include performing the original string music for the Nickelodeon TV show Power Pets (later called Wonder Pets). Performed as part of a string trio at the wedding ceremony of Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Sklar, has recorded for artists such as Billy Joel (An Innocent Man) and for Kiri Tekanawa (Kiri Sings Gershwin), and is in demand as a commercial recording violinist for television spots and advertisements, including the CBS Evening News, Coca Cola, Amtrak, AMC Classics, Volvo, Nickelodeon, and many others.
Diane MichaelsHarp
B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Studied with Alice Chalifoux, Joan Holland (Interlochen Arts Academy). Faculty member, Wharton Music Center. Orchestral credits include principal harpist with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea since 1993, Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway, and performances with the Queens Symphony, Metro Lyric Opera, the New York Verismo Opera Company, RTG Productions, the Garden State Philharmonic, and the Monmouth Symphony. Has performed with Tony Bennett at Caesar's Palace in Atlantic City and was a member of the All American College Orchestra at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center, currently performs for tea at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, and has performed at New York's most prestigious hotels and restaurants, including the Plaza Hotel, the Rainbow Room, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Ritz Carlton Hotel, and the Hilton at Short Hills. On the roster of Music for all Seasons, a non-profit organization through which she performs at numerous facilities including hospitals and shelters for victims of domestic abuse. Has toured with the NY Harp Ensemble in the U.S. and Italy,and with the Paulson Harp Ensemble in NJ and Ireland. A Masterwork Music and Arts Foundation Young Artist Recitalist and a four-time gold medallist in the harp division of the United Irish Counties of New York, Inc. Feis. As a winner of this competition, she appeared in the winners' concert at Carnegie Recital Hall. Mid Atlantic Regional Director of the American Harp Society. Published arrangements for harp ensemble and a book for beginning harp students.
Hannah MinViolin
M.M., Manhattan School of Music; B.M., University of Toronto. Studied with Burton Kaplan, Annalee Patipatanakoon and Mark Fewer. Former violin faculty member of the Turtle Bay Music School, 92nd Street Y School of Music, and current faculty at the Arete Music Academy. Korean-Canadian violinist Hannah Min is an active New York freelance performer. Reviewed by the New York Times as playing a "vivid, colorful and urgent performance" with "piercing clarity," she has been heard in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and Isaac Stern Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall as well as in performance spaces throughout Europe and Asia. Orchestral/ensemble credits include performances with the New York Pops, Westchester Philharmonic, New York Chamber Players, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Distinguished Concerts International NY, Arco Ensemble, New York Opera Society, Sinfonietta of Riverdale, West Village Players and neoLIT Ensemble. Has recorded music for the film The Greatest Showman and performed on Broadway's Rocky the Musical, appeared on television's "Good Morning America," "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "Good Morning America Summer Stage."
Bill MoringElectric Bass, String Bass (Double Bass)
Indiana State University. Studied harmony and piano studies with Michael Moore, classical bass repertoire and technique with Homer Mensch (Julliard, NY Philharmonic), Gregory Dugan (Indianapolis Symphony), and Stuart Arfman (Principal, Indianapolis Symphony), jazz bass and sound reinforcement studies with Rufus Reid, jazz and classical bass with George Mraz. Currently on the faculty at Montclair State University, Sarah Lawrence College, and NJPAC's Jazz for Teens. Has hosted an assortment of student clinics at various high school and college jazz festivals in the US and abroad; has worked with students individually and in groups at North Texas State, Rutgers, The New School, Jersey City State, Long Island University, and SUNY Purchase, among many others. A versatile bassist whose scope includes gigging with the big bands of legends Count Basie and Woody Herman, jammin' jazz/funk and beyond with the Dave Stryker/Steve Slagle quartet, or stretching harmonic and rhythmic boundaries with John Hart and Chris Potter to performing in the classical vein as a freelancer or orchestra member. During his early years, played bass in cellist Hank Roberts' group, was a member of the Indianapolis Philharmonic, worked with John Von Ohlen's big band, and played with Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, and Cal Collins. Later worked with drummer Mel Lewis, toured with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and the Count Basie Orchestra, and gigged with the Village Vanguard Orchestra and the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabakin Jazz Orchestra. Has performed with such renowned singers as Joe Williams, Mel Tormé and Susannah McCorkle, and with jazz legends Frank Foster, AI Cohn, Clark Terry, Mickey Roker, Tommy Flanagan, Junior Cook, Roland Hanna and Ray Barretto. Has performed and/or recorded with many contemporary artists including John Abercrombie, Gary Bartz, Manolo Badrena, Larry Coryell, Vic Juris, Dave Kikoski, Billy Hart, John Hart, Eddie Henderson, Joe Locke, Mulgrew Miller, Chris Potter, Dom Salvador, Dave Stryker, and James Williams, as well as on nationally aired jingles. Notable concerts and festival performances include Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and Carnegie Hall in NYC; Monterey (CA), JVC Jazz (NY), Pori (Finland) and Winnipeg (Canada) Jazz Festivals. Former member of Intl Assoc. of Jazz Educators, current member of Intl Society of Bassists and Intl Federation of Musicians, Local #802.
Lanny PaykinCello
M.M., The Juilliard School; B.A., Wesleyan University. Studied with Bernard Greenhouse, Harvey Shapiro, and Lynn Harrell. Recipient of the Juilliard Alumni Award and the Paderewski Foundation Award. Taught cello at Wesleyan University, Manhattan School of Music's Precollege Division, and School for Strings; currently on the faculty of Montclair State University's summer program at Stokes Forest. Orchestral credits include the New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera, has appeared as the Principal Cellist for the New York City Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra, and as the Assistant Principal Cellist with the Adelaide (Australia) Symphony Orchestra. Member of the American Composers' Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Westchester Philharmonic. Traveled throughout Asia with the New York Philharmonic with performances in Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, as well as at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. Professional credits also include various solo and chamber music concerts, numerous summer festivals including the Bard Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, Philomusica at Dartmouth College, Aspen Festival, and the Paros (Greece) Festival, and recordings on the Premier Records, DRG and MMD labels.
Sally ShumwaySuzuki Violin, Viola
M.M., Manhattan School of Music; B.A. in Viola, University of Kansas. Studied with Karel Blaas, Michael Kimber, Karen Tuttle and William Lincer. Recipient of the Hugo Kortschak Award for Excellence in Chamber Music. Suzuki training at Ottawa Suzuki Institute in Ottawa, The School for Strings (NYC) and Hartt Suzuki Institute. Suzuki group and private violin lesson instructor at the Montessori Spring School in Tenafly; previously started a Suzuki violin program at The Learning Center of Clifton NJ. Taught beginning Strings classes to 5th and 6th graders and conducted the orchestra at the Fieldston School of the Ethical Culture Society. Currently a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bronx Arts Ensemble, and a freelancer performing with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Riverside Symphony. Previous member of the Riverside String Quartet and "Infusion," a chamber music group which specialized in music of the 20th century. Outside of New York, performed with the Colorado Philharmonic, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony, the Portland Symphony (Maine) and as principle violist with the Cedar Rapids Symphony. Broadway shows include Sondheim's Passion, Titanic: A New Musical, and Gypsy with Patti LuPone, as well as numerous others. Classical recordings include Strauss Die Agyptische Helena and Die Leibe Der Danae with the American Symphony Orchestra, and music by Carlos Surinach, Roberto Sierra, Robert Baksa, Meyer Kupferman, Soong Fu Yuan with the Bronx Arts Ensemble. Other recordings include Kristina (ABBA), Gypsy (2008 cast album), Harry on Broadway Act 1 (Harry Connick Jr.), Christmas Carol (cast album), My Favorite Broadway, Music by Allen Brings, Titanic (Broadway cast album), Sondheim's Passion (Broadway cast album), Vitamin C, Jerry Hadley In the Real World, and Gershwin's Strike Up the Band. Movie soundtracks include Two Weeks Notice, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Snake Eyes, The Notorious Bettie Page, Flawless, A Time to Kill, Wide Awake, Striptease, Ed, and The Castle.
Beverly SomachViolin, Viola
B.A., Columbia University, graduated Phi Beta Kappa at age 19. Declared a "child prodigy" at age five, Ms. Somach was called "another Heifetz" by one critic, and later became Jascha Heifetz's sole disciple. Former faculty member of Rutgers University Summer Arts Institute, Capitol University, Antioch College, Third Street and Henry Street Music Schools and the Harlem School of the Arts. International concert appearances in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Zurich, Warsaw, Cracow, Szcezcin, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Curacao, Aruba, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Toronto. Concert appearances include Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, as well as appearances throughout the U.S. and Canada including Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago. Solo appearances include Tanglewood, Woodstock, Waterloo, Music Mountain and Spoleto USA music festivals. Affiliated with the American and Rochester Symphony Orchestras.
Jacqueline SternCello
M.M. Performance, Manhattan School of Music; B.M. Music Education, Ithaca College. Formerly an Artist-Fellow with the Bach Aria Festival and a full scholarship student at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in England. Cello instructor, orchestra conductor and co-chair of the Music Committee at the Green Meadow Waldorf School. Conducts the Westchester Junior Strings of the Greater Westchester Youth Orchestras. An active orchestral and chamber musician in the tri-state area, performs on cello with the Stamford Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Camerata, and as a member of the Terzetta trio and the Spirit improv group, among other ensembles. Has performed on Baroque cello with the Artek Ensemble.
Catherine YangVIOLIN
M.M., B.M. in Performance, Manhattan School of Music; Juilliard Pre-College. Studied with Peter Winograd (American String Orchestra), Dorothy De-Lay. Faculty member at Green Meadows Waldorf School and at the Rockland Conservatory of Music. Began studying violin at age six and won multiple Gold prizes in competitions in Korea at eight years old. Entered Juilliard Pre-College in NYC at age nine, giving recitals at Paul Hall at Lincoln Center, performing as a soloist with Inter-School Orchestra<|fim_middle|> Oosting, Anastasia Swope, Karen Born Cafaro and Vivian Lord. Professional vocalist and voice teacher with over 20 years of experience in a wide range of musical styles including Pop, Rock, Musical Theater, Jazz, R&B and Classical. Well-versed in classical voice techniques, has been instructing and coaching amateur and professional vocalists since 1997. Current assistant to the band director at Lakeland Regional H.S.; former director of musical theater productions at St. Francis School. Known as "Angel Leah" in the Pop/Rock genre, has traveled with numerous professional bands since the early 1990's. Performing Pop, Rock, R&B, and Dance music, has played at such well-known venues such as The Borgata Hotel and Casino, The Hard Rock Café, and The Baker Ballroom, where she opened for Blood, Sweat & Tears, and has worked with international artists such as Constantine Maroulis (American Idol, Rock of Ages) and Ted Poley (Danger Danger). Currently lead female vocalist for Rock Kandy The 80s Experience, one of the longest-standing tribute bands to the 1980's with performances in New York, Los Angeles, Atlantic City, Met Life Stadium pregame shows, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, as well as at numerous music festivals and corporate events. In the Musical Theater genre, has been cast in musicals such as The King and I, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, and Godspell. In a more classical vein, she is Leader of Song at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Wanaque NJ and previously at St. John Kanty Roman Catholic Church in Clifton NJ. As a contributing writer to Musicplayers.com, Angelica gives in-depth reviews of musical equipment and is part of the editorial team at NAMM in Anaheim, CA.
Angel Leah (aka Angelica Sokolovic)Pop/Rock Vocals
Angelica Sokolovic is a professional vocalist and voice teacher with over 20 years of experience in a wide range of musical styles including Pop, Rock, Musical Theater, Jazz, R&B and Classical.
Known as "Angel Leah" in the Pop/Rock genre, she has traveled with numerous professional bands since the early 1990's. Performing Pop, Rock, R&B, and Dance music, Angelica has played at such well-known venues such as The Borgata Hotel and Casino and The Hard Rock Café, opened for Blood, Sweat & Tears at The Baker Ballroom, and has worked with international artists such as Constantine Maroulis (American Idol, Rock of Ages) and Ted Poley (Danger Danger). She is currently the lead female vocalist for Rock Kandy The 80s Experience, one of the longest-standing tribute bands to the 1980's, performing in New York, Los Angeles, Atlantic City, Met Life Stadium pregame shows, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, as well as at numerous music festivals and corporate events.
A graduate of William Paterson University's Music Department, Angelica has been instructing and coaching amateur and professional vocalists since 1997. With her strong pedagogical background in Vocal Performance and extensive performing experience, she has helped her students make significant strides in their vocal studies.
Richie RannoGuitar, Electric Guitar, Rock
Legendary Hard Rock and Heavy Metal guitarist, Richie Ranno, is most notable for his unique ability to "blend crisp, powerful hard rock rhythms with bluesy guitar riffs."
Richie made his early appearance on the Rock scene in the late 1960's by founding the Rock trio Bungi, recording the single Six Days on the Road and opening for many well-known acts, including Bob Seger, Fuse (later Cheap Trick), REO Speedwagon and Styx. He joined the Rock band Stories (Brother Louie) in 1973 replacing Steve Love, appearing as a headliner and as an opener for such acts as Black Oak Arkansas, Johnny Winter and The Eagles among others, as well as on the television classic American Bandstand.
Richie co-founded the now-iconic band Starz in 1975 – noted by Rock journalist, Doug Brod (formerly of Spin Magazine) in his forthcoming book as one of the Top 4 Most Influential Rock Bands of all times along with Kiss, Aerosmith and Cheap Trick. Starz recorded and released their debut album Starz, but it was their second album, Violation, that achieved fame with its two hit singles: Top 40 hit Cherry Baby and Sing It Shout It. Later albums, Attention Shoppers and Colesium Rock also received critical acclaim, featuring songs written by Ranno and his fellow band members. Richie has continued to perform with his bands Starz, Hellcats and Richie Ranno's All Starz in playing arenas and stadiums throughout the U.S. alongside a host of major acts, including ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Rush, Foghat and many more, most recently playing in London to sold-out crowds.
In addition to writing, recording and playing with his own bands, he often jams and performs
with other rock 'n roll greats, including Michael Schenker of UFO and MSG and Uli Jon Rother (formerly of the Scorpions), he received a Platinum Album award for playing guitar on Tunnel of Love on Gene Simmons' solo album, and recently performed live with Cactus.
We are so proud to announce that Richie Ranno continues to share his considerable expertise and his wealth of performance and recording experience with both fledgling guitarists and more experienced rockers here at The Rock Shop at TRC.
Crystal Ann BennettEARLY CHILDHOOD DANCE, BALLET, TAP, HIP-HOP, JAZZ/CONTEMPORARY, MUSICAL THEATER (BROADWAY)
B.F.A. – Fine Arts, Keane University. Trained and performed in workshops with Broadway veterans including: "Acting Through Song" with Thom Warren (The Lion King), "Musical Theater Workshop" with Laura Osnes (Cinderella, Bonnie and Clyde), "Shakespeare" with acclaimed actor Steven Davis. Studied voice with Sharon Reynolds and Valerie Van Hosen. Has taught many styles of dance including, but not limited to, ballet, hip-hop, modern, lyrical and jazz at the Hillsborough Dance Academy to students ranging in age from three year olds to college prep dancers. Choreography credits include co-creation of Rent the Musical and other musical reviews at Raritan Valley College, as well as many solo works. As a singer and actress, musical theater credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Carrie: The Musical, Footloose, Green Day's American Idiot, Peter Pan, and Lucky Stiff; additional theater credits include It's A Wonderful Life, Almost, Maine, Julius Caesar, and Private Eyes.
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Anna Maria FerroneEarly Childhood Music
B.A. Music Education, Rutgers University; additional studies at New York University's Graduate School of Music. Studied music composition and arranging with NYU professor, Rudolph Schramm. An Early Childhood Music Specialist, "Miss Anna" is certified in the Music Together® curriculum. Has taught music both in school and privately for several years to children of all levels and abilities. Active full-time as a Public School Music Specialist, teaching music to children from preschool through fifth grade in northern New Jersey. Member of NJEA, Nafme and the North Jersey Elementary Music Educators Association.
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LOCATED JUST OFF ROUTE 17 AND MIDLAND AVENUE (BETWEEN KIDS U AND KINDERCARE) | of NY at Alice Tully Hall and as a scholarship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall at age 12. Performed during college at the Caramoor Center, the Rosen Theater, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as a member of Chamber Sinfonia, Isaac Stern Hall at Carnegie Hall, and as associate concertmaster for The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in collaboration with the Oratorio Society of New York. As a professional chamber musician and soloist, has given solo concerts at Carnegie Weill Hall and at Merkin Concert Hall, and performs with professional ensembles at such prestigious venues as Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center, Issac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, NJ PAC, Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell, and Bargemusic in NYC. Currently serves as concertmaster of both Verismo Opera of New Jersey under Maestro Lucy Arner and New York Festival Orchestra under Maestro Hirai, and assistant concertmaster of the Symphony of Westchester.
Bill AshTrombone, Baritone, Euphonium, Tuba, Trumpet
B.A., Princeton University. Studied trombone with Jack Gale, Charles Baker; trumpet with Edward Treutel, Valery Ponomarev, Jeanne Pocius, Laurie Frink, Uan Rasey, Clint "Pops" McLaughlin, Harold Lieberman; master class with Benny Carter. Has taught lessons to students of all ages and levels privately, at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, Wharton Music Center in Berkeley Heights and at the Link School in Newark. Brass musician, band leader, composer/arranger, teacher and music journalist with over 45 years of professional credits ranging from big band, musical theater and classical performances to smaller jazz groups, pop, rock, polka and Klezmer bands. Has performed at numerous NY-area venues including Lincoln Center, NJPAC, Giants Stadium, Izod Arena, the Iridium, Fat Tuesday's and Trumpets, as well as in Las Vegas and along the East coast. Classical appearances include the New Jersey Pops and North Jersey Symphony Orchestras, Rockland Symphony, Garden State and Rockland County Concert Bands, Imperial Brass Quintet, Garden State Brass Ensemble. Performed with 18-time Grammy winner Jimmy Sturr, the Temptations, the Happenings, Marlene VerPlanck, and Bobby Rydell. Selected as one of NJ's top jazz musicians by the Newark Star Ledger in 2003. Recorded with the Jazz Composer's Workshop Orchestra (which recorded his composition Stealing Fire), Kennsington Brass (which recorded several of his arrangements), Michael Treni, Linda Torchia, the Acme Brass Co., the James L. Dean Big Band, Dick Wells with the Big Band Swing Machine, the Bensen-Scott Big Band, the Infernos, Doug Ferony, Bibi Farber, the Planet Jazz Big Band and Jimmy Sturr, among others. Led 15-piece big bands including the Princeton Swing Band, and smaller groups such as Touch of Brass and the 7-piece brass-plus-rhythm Brass Pack. His arrangements and compositions are regularly performed by a number of NY-area bands. Has written about music for Gannett Newspapers, for whom he interviewed such trumpet greats as Doc Severinsen, Maynard Ferguson, Wynton Marsalis and Arturo Sandoval.
Kathleen DitmerFrench Horn
M.A., Western Illinois University; B.M., Hartt College of Music. Studied with Paul Ingraham, William Capps, James Jacobs. Former faculty member, pre-college divisions of Manhattan School of Music and Hartt College of Music. Currently teaches privately, at the Wharton School of Music, and at select summer band camps nationwide. Well-known French Hornist with a wide variety of solo, chamber music, orchestral, brass band and jazz band credits in New York and New Jersey as well as throughout the U.S. Extensive career includes performances with the Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Long Island Philharmonic, Queens Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Broadway credits include Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. Recordings with Odyssey, Audio Media, Sound Stage Productions, LSI Studios, Nashville Sound Studios, and Opryland USA Show Orchestra.
Rick HenlyTrumpet
M.M., Northwestern University; B.M., Ithaca College. Recipient of Civic Orchestra of Chicago Scholarship, studying with Adolph S. Herseth, Principal Trumpet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Studied with Vincent Cichowicz, Herbert Mueller, Dr. James A. Ode, Armando Ghitalla, Roger Voisin, Samuel Krauss, William Vacchiano, Carmine Caruso, Valery Ponomarev. Formerly on the faculties of The American Conservatory of Music, Elmhurst College and the Preparatory Dept. at Northwestern University, continues to give solo demonstrations and clinics all around the country. Lead Trumpet on a dozen Broadway shows, including Miss Saigon, The Producers, Cabaret, The Music Man, Follies, Thou Shalt Not, 42nd Street, and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. Among a long list of big band, orchestral and chamber music credits, performed on trumpet with such notables as Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, the NY Pops, American Symphony, Brooklyn Phil.; as a soloist for the Little Orchestra Society; as Lead Trumpet for Liza Minnelli, Dennis Edwards and The Temptations Revue, Michael Amante "America's Tenor," Charli Persip's Supersound; and with a host of world-famous conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Andre Previn, Pierre Boulez, Rafael Kubelik, Lukas Foss and Skitch Henderson. Has recorded on countless jingles and film dates; numerous times with the Chicago Symphony; on the original cast recordings of Gypsy and Me and My Girl; for television shows on ABC, CBS, WNET and PBS; as well as on two of his own CDs: Christmas Present and Love Like Fire.
Kory GrossmanPERCUSSION, DRUMS
M.M., B.M., Manhattan School of Music. Studied timpani with Fred D. Hinger, percussion with Buster Bailey, Latin percussion with Frankie Malabe. Formerly taught at St. Annes School. Performs and teaches privately in a variety of genres including jazz, rock, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, and other popular styles. Prolific freelance NY-based percussionist with a wide range of orchestral, Broadway, film, television and recording credits. Current member of the American Symphony Orchestra, serves as principal percussionist with the Bard Music Festival and with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra. Performs regularly with the Stamford Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the American Composers' Orchestra, and the New York Pops. Played in numerous Broadway shows including My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Sunday in the Park with George, Follies, Les Miserables, 42nd Street, and Ragtime. Has recorded numerous albums, performed in a concert series at Carnegie Recital Hall, premiered many new works, and toured extensively as a member of the New Music Consort; played with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; worked with John Cage; and has performed with a variety of contemporary artists ranging from Chita Rivera and Sutton Foster to Queen Latifah.
Joe LicinksiHAND DRUMS, PERCUSSION
Studied Music at Rutgers University and William Paterson University; Lynn Oliver Rehearsal Studios. Private study with Ron Spagnardi Carl Wolfe, John Hvasta, Lou D'Amico, Lynn Oliver; The Drummers Collective with Hank Jarmallo, Robbie Gonzalez, Robbie Amen; as well as with Ladji Camara (Djembe), Andy White, Tony De Nicola and John Quigg. Currently on the teaching faculties of the Institute of Music for Children and Xaverian High School, in addition to teaching privately and facilitating drum circles for schools and senior centers. Performed in the orchestras of Chorus Line and Les Miserables on Broadway; in the big bands of Tito and the Blackrose Orchestra, Lynn Oliver Big Band, Bob Harris Big Band featuring Jerry Niewood, Pat Lungos' East Coast Hollywood; and jazz big bands The 3C Trio, Lynn Oliver Octet and Quintet. Other professional performance and recording credits include a wide range of musical genres such as dance music, salsa, rock, country and religious music with The Cover Girls, Columbia, (Epic Records), Lissete Melendez (Columbia Records), Corina (Atco Records), African Ensemble (Ladji Camara), The 7th Principle (Yahya Kamate), The Moreno Brothers. The Arlyn Gale Band (Railroad Records), The Watch, Joe Arminio and the Family, and Bruce Benson (Grammy Nominated CD); highland bagpipe music with The City of Washington Pipe Band, Saffron United Pipe Band, Manchester Pipe Band, St Columcille Pipe Band; as well as with popular show bands and club date agencies.
Scott W. SimpsonPERCUSSION, THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP
M.M., The Juilliard School; B.M., Hartt School of Music. Director of the NJ Youth Symphony Percussion Ensemble. Current faculty member Bergen Community College, William Paterson University, Juilliard Music Advancement Program, Music Outreach. Former faculty member, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Montclair State University, St. David's School. Performed with such notables as Leonard Bernstein, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Andre Watts and Sal Mosca. Orchestral credits include the American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera, Grand National Opera, New York Grand Opera, Korean Ballet-Lincoln Center, Canadian Brass, Musica Viva, New Philharmonic of NJ, Frank Sinatra Jr., Westchester Symphony Orchestra and Aspen Symphony Orchestra. Broadway shows include Cats, Les Miserables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show and Hercules; as well as Paper Mill Playhouse productions of Annie, A Chorus Line, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan and Singing in the Rain. Other credits include the U.S. National Tour of Starlight Express, and the Aspen and Waterloo Music Festivals.
Jack DeSalvoJazz, Electric and Classical Guitar; Ukulele, Mandolin, Banjo
B.A., Berklee College of Music. Studied classical guitar with Leonid Bolotine; theory, harmony, composition and orchestration with Ariada Mikéshina; the Lydian Chromatic Concept with George Russell; and jazz guitar with Bill Connors, Mick Goodrick and Al Faraldi. Currently an adjunct professor at Passaic County Community College. Has taught privately for over 40 years (previous students include John Flansburg of They Might Be Giants and Steve Brown of Trixter). Hailed in The Wire magazine as "masterful," has played most of the major jazz festivals and clubs in Europe on tours with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, and has performed with Miles Davis Band, Ornette Coleman, and many great jazz artists. Has performed on and/or produced more than 100 albums, and has written over 5000 compositions, mostly for small jazz ensembles. Along with his partners, runs Unseen Rain Records, a visionary record label offering jazz and improvised music by contemporary innovators.
Russ DeFilippisGuitar, Electric Bass
B.M, Berklee College of Music. Studied guitar with William Leavitt, Mark Friench, Mick Goodrick, Charles Banacos, Dennis Sandole, George Benson, and voice with Margaretta Wolfe. Has taught acoustic and electric guitar, harmony and improvisation to children, teens and adults throughout the tri-state area, and at the college level at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Rockland Community College in New York, and Bergen Community College in New Jersey. Performs professionally in a wide range of musical styles, including jazz, blues, soul, R&B, rock, funk, classical, country, acoustic folk and roots music. Worked as a musician, musical director and conductor with such well-known jazz, rock and pop groups and artists as George Benson, Chuck Berry, The Drifters, Bo Diddly, Lil Anthony, James Brown, Bobby Rydell, Lou Christie, Martha Reeves and numerous other acts. Co-founded a jazz trio with fellow guitarist John Tropea in 2002; formed the group 'rd3' in 2003, producing the CD Calculations. His most recent CD, The Sorcerer's Accomplice, on EverJazz Records was praised by George Benson as "artistry and taste combined."
Sergio Garcia-MarruzGUITAR, ELECTRIC BASS, THEORY
M.F.A. in Music, National School of Arst, Havana, Cuba. Baccalaureate, Pre-Universitario del Vedado, Saï– Delgado. Participated in Don Sebesky's "Film Scoring Workshop," the "Professional Composer's Workshop," and completed the "Paths' Electronic Music Seminars." Studied classical guitar with Isaac Nicola, Leo Brouwer and Martha Cuervo. Former lecturer-demonstrator for the Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Science, composer/sound designer for Marymount Manhattan College, Music Instructor for Fieldston Summer Performing Arts Institute. Taught workshops in composition using computers, synthesizers, and MIDI technology. Began professional career as a performing guitarist of classical and popular music, then became in-house arranger for the Musicians' National Union in Cuba. Currently composer-arranger for TV Radio commercials (SGM Music), as well as guitarist performing throughout the tri-state area.
Richie RannoGuitar, Electric Guitar
Legendary Hard Rock and Heavy Metal guitarist, most notable for his unique ability to "blend crisp, powerful hard rock rhythms with bluesy guitar riffs." Made his early appearance on the Rock scene in the late 1960's by founding the Rock trio Bungi, recording the single Six Days on the Road and opening for many well-known acts, including Bob Seger, Fuse (later Cheap Trick), REO Speedwagon and Styx. Joined the Rock band Stories (Brother Louie) in 1973 replacing Steve Love, appearing as a headliner and as an opener for such acts as Black Oak Arkansas, Johnny Winter and The Eagles among others, as well as on American Bandstand. Co-founded the band Starz in 1975 – noted by Rock journalist, Doug Brod (formerly of Spin Magazine) in his forthcoming book as one of the Top 4 Most Influential Rock Bands of all times along with Kiss, Aerosmith and Cheap Trick. Starz recorded and released their debut album Starz, but it was their second album, Violation, that achieved fame with its two hit singles: Top 40 hit Cherry Baby and Sing It Shout It. Later albums, Attention Shoppers and Colesium Rock also received critical acclaim, featuring songs written by Ranno and his fellow band members. Continued to perform with his bands Starz, Hellcats and Richie Ranno's All Starz in playing arenas and stadiums throughout the U.S. alongside a host of major acts, including ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Rush, Foghat and many more, most recently playing in London to sold-out crowds. In addition to writing, recording and playing with his own bands, often jams and performs with other rock 'n roll greats, including Michael Schenker of UFO and MSG and Uli Jon Rother (formerly of the Scorpions), received a Platinum Album award for playing guitar on Tunnel of Love on Gene Simmons' solo album, and recently performed with Cactus (subbing for their guitarist). As a teacher, Richie Ranno has been sharing his considerable expertise with both fledgling guitarists and more experienced rockers.
Jeanette AufieroPiano
M.M. and Artist Diploma, Cleveland Institute of Music; B.M. Manhattan School of Music; Juilliard Pre-College. Studied under Antonio Pompa-Baldi, James Tocco, Artur Papazian and Vladimir Feltsman, and was mentored by legendary Alexander Slobodyanik. Has performed at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the New Jersey State Theatre, Steinway Hall in New York City, PianoForte in Chicago, and the Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito de Santo Domingo. Recipient of many highly prestigious scholarships, including the Vera Blacker Scholarship, the Mary Eaton LeFevre Scholarship, the Larry Robinson Scholarship and a Gilmore Festival Fellowship; winner of numerous competitions including the New York Concert Artists' Rising Artist Competition, El Primer Concurso Iberoamericano para Jóvenes Pianistas, the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, the Jacob Flier Intl Competition, the NJSO Young Artist Audition, and the Young Pianist Competition of NJ; and Arthur Loesser Memorial Award recipient. Praised by the New York Concert Review as a pianist of "warm lyrical lines and an enormous sound" whose performances are full of "contagious energy, ablaze with passion that threw caution to the winds."
Catherine CampbellPiano
D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, M.M. New England Conservatory, B.M., Manhattanville College. A traditional, classical piano teacher, has taught in numerous music schools in the tri-state area, including the 92nd Street Y, Rockland Conservatory of Music, Dwight Englewood School, and Thurnauer School of Music, as well as maintaining a private teaching practice. Has held prominent roles in music education, including Co-Director of Piano Scape, Executive Director of the Garden State Academy of Music, Executive Director of the Turtle Bay Music School, and Board of Director's member for the Friends of Mozart, and has sat on various boards of contemporary opera, served as a freelance concert pianist, and performed lecture demonstrations on Baroque composers, women composers, American women and 20th-century composers. Received the Distinguished Leadership in Education Award from NY's Mayor Dinkins, the Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been recognized by Marquis Who's Who Top Educators for dedication, achievements, and leadership in piano education.
Ron LevyPIANO
Oberlin Conservatory; Juilliard Preparatory School. Studied with Joseph Schwartz at Oberlin, Diana Arlyck, and Leland Thompson of Juilliard. Former Exec. Director of the Bergen Youth Orchestra. President of the Professional Music Teachers' Guild. Currently chairs the Music Dept at Felician College, while maintaining active and ongoing affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Kean University, and the Juilliard Preparatory School. Regularly appears as a soloist and in partnership with many leading singers and instrumentalists, including more than four dozen artists on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera. Founding member of the Hudson Trio, Kaleidoscope, the New World Trio, the Manchester Chamber Players, and the Palisades Virtuosi; has been pianist and harpsichordist of the Oberlin Orchestra, the NJ Philharmonic and the Westchester Symphony and is currently keyboardist of the Manchester Music Festival, the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra and the Albany Symphony. Faculty and board member of the Manchester Music Festival. Composer of many works for voice and piano. Several prominent composers have written works for Mr. Levy, notably James Grant, John Lampkin, Richard Lane, Erik Nielsen, and David Sampson. Adjudicator, conductor, critic, lecturer and writer on musical subjects. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and Summit labels.
Bob RodriguezPiano, Jazz
Baldwin Wallace University, Modern Music School. Studied piano/composition with Manny Albam, Richie Beirach, Jim McNeely, Roger Kellaway; jazz piano with Hank Kaout, Bill Gidney, Phil Rizzo, Pat Pace. Has taught jazz piano at the Turtle Bay Music School in NYC since 1989, former jazz piano teacher at Houston H.S. for the Performing and Visual Arts. Worked with many famous artists, including Kenny Wheeler, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, and Billy Hart, and arranged for four hands with classical pianist Cathy Campbell. Performed at such well-known jazz venues as NY's Blue Note, Birdland, Iridium, Sweet Rhythm, The Kitano, Cornelia Street Cafe, Trumpets, Cecil's, and has played solo concerts at Gracie Mansion and broadcast performances on NPR in Texas, Maine and NY. As a composer/arranger, his catalog of work includes seven solo CDs. Recipient of 2007 commission by Chamber Music America to write a piece for Tina Marsh and the Creative Opportunity Orchestra. As an educator, Bob Rodriguez is a very much in demand clinician/instructor in the world of jazz and classical music education.
Olga SedyciasPiano
M.M. – Piano Performance, Webster University; B.M. – Piano Performance, University of Brasilia. Studied with Daniel Schene at Webster University and New Salgado at the University of Brasilia. Attended many master classes with acclaimed pianists such as Jane Solose, Ian Hobson, Cristina Ortiz and Paul Badura Skoda. Taught master class and adjudicated for piano competitions in the St Louis and Southern Illinois area. Has taught piano privately and in music schools at all levels both in the U.S. and abroad. Currently Adjunct Professor of Piano and Music Theory at New Jersey City University, formerly Adjunct Professor of Piano at Webster University. Ms. Sedycias has enjoyed a versatile musical career as a solo and collaborative pianist in South America and the U.S. As a soloist, has played with orchestras in Brazil and United States, performed solo recitals in Florida and Missouri, and accompanied opera singers in New Jersey and New York; was the featured artist in a recital in Holland (recorded live); won prizes in several piano competitions and performed chamber music recitals extensively throughout Brazil.
Pamela Ibeth VeraPiano
M.A., Hunter College/CUNY, conducting and piano. B.M., Queens College/CUNY; Post Graduate Degree, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Professor of Music at Bergen and Passaic County Community Colleges; and faculty member of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Winner of the 1995 Herbert Rogers Performance Studies Award. Varied orchestral and choral conducting experience including Assistant Conductor of the Hunter College Symphony Orchestra, and Founder, Conductor and Music Director of the Maya Chamber Orchestra. Critically acclaimed pianist with numerous live, television and radio performances throughout New York and Ecuador, including performances at Lang Recital Hall, Weill Recital Hall, First Presbyterian Church of New York Choir, Queens College Concert Hall, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Recital Hall, City University of New York and Teatro Principal Centro de Arte.
John WardPiano, Organ, Voice, Composition
Ph.D., M.M., Catholic University of America; B.M. Eastman School of Music. Additional studies at the Manhattan School of Music, George Mason University, Westminster Choir College, Lucy Moses School. Piano studies with Eugene List, Arthur Balsam, William Masselos, Bela Nagy; organ with Gerald Wheeler; singing with Leslie Luxemburg, Rosemary Houghton, Ann Mills, Marcia Gronewold-Sly. Organist, St. Peter's and St. Mary's, Haverstraw; Organist , St. John's, New City; Sub-organist, St. Aedan's, Pearl River. Representative for northern New Jersey of Trinity College London. Former faculty, Catholic University of America, Governor's Magnet School for the Arts (VA), Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Private teacher of piano, singing, organ, music theory, musicianship, and composition. A freelance performer and composer, John has been involved in 250 concert performances as pianist, conductor, organist, singer, or promoter, and in over 100 theatrical productions from children's theater to professional companies, as music director, composer or actor. Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music – Piano, Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music – Organ (with Distinction) and Singing, and Fellow of the American Guild of Organists.
Voice / Acting
Warren CarrVoice, Acting (adjunct)
M.M., Manhattan School of Music; B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University. Studied voice with Andrea Hanson, Dr. Robert Page, Mildred Miller Posvar and Mark Oswalt, acting with Tony McKay and Gregory Lehane, and dance (ballet, jazz and tap) with Buddy Thompson. Teaching credentials include private instruction in vocal performance to children, teens and adults, many of whom have been accepted to choral festivals and have been awarded roles throughout New Jersey. Mr. Carr's performances as a tenor, actor and dancer include both operatic and musical theater throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Europe. Operatic credits include: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Arturo) with the NJ Opera, Die Fledermaus (Dr. Blind), Street Scene (Mr. Buchannon and Sam Kaplan), Albert Herring (Albert), Alcina (Oronte), as well as performances with Pittsburgh Opera's Billy Budd. Musical Theater credits include: Cabaret (Earnst) with Skyline Theater, A Chorus Line (Al), A Little Night Music (Mr. Earlanson), Into the Woods (Rapunzel's Prince), Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson), and The Secret Garden (Archibald Craven). Awarded Sylvie Derdyn Scholarship for Musical and Academic Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University and Merit Scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.
Keaton DouglasVoice, Acting, Musical Theater
M.A., Seton Hall University; B.S., Georgetown University. Studied voice and vocal pedagogy with renowned tenor Dr. Stephen Oosting at Montclair State University; acting with famed actress Sandy Dennis at HB Studios in New York City, and with legendary classical actress and acting coach Francelle Stewart Dorn at Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C. Has taught vocal and performance technique to both aspiring and accomplished singers of all ages, many of whom have appeared on Broadway and in regional theater. As a singer and actress of unusual versatility, is equally adept at a Verdi aria with full orchestra, a jazz ballad with piano, a swinging chart with an 18-piece Big Band or performances with countless pop artists. Headlined in Las Vegas and beyond, and entertained at two presidential inaugurations with the inimitable Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. Performed as the principal soprano with the New Jersey Pops at the PNC Bank Arts Center and Atlantic City's Tropicana Hotel and Casino; concertized with various orchestras, performing operatic works as well as the classical Broadway repertoire. Equally well-known for her work as a swing and Big Band singer, has performed with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians at Busch Gardens in Virginia, and throughout Las Vegas. Has appeared as a jazz soloist at Birdland in New York, Trumpet's in Montclair, and various hotels and casinos in Atlantic City. Featured vocalist with the big band Somer's Dream Orchestra, performing at MUSIKFEST, the nation's most prestigious music festival in Bethlehem PA, and innumerable other venues throughout the state. Has performed on stage with Drew Carey, Nancy Wilson, Bob Newhart, Julius LaRosa, Jerry Vale, Joe Piscopo and many others. Veteran recording artist in various genres, including performing as a guest artist on "A MidSomer's Night Dream" with the Somers Dream Orchestra.
Justyna GiermolaVoice
M.M., New Jersey City University; B.A., Seton Hall University. Studied vocal performance with Josephine Mongiardo. Has taught both privately and at Y Arts 691 in New Jersey, and is currently an Adjunct Voice Professor at New Jersey City University, with private students going on to Tanglewood Music Festival, Boston Conservatory and Berkeley School of Music. In addition, she has extensive experience with children and adults with special needs, including physical handicaps, autism spectrum and Down's Syndrome. Bringing a traditional European flavor to opera, critics have called her a soprano with a "rich, velvety timbre." A versatile artist, her repertoire includes Opera, Musical Theater, The Great American Song Book, as well as newly composed Modern Works which she has premiered both nationally and internationally. Has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick's Cathedral and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as in Spain, Italy, Poland and Germany. Most notably, she has sung the roles of Auretta in Mozart's L'oca del Cairo, Violetta in La Traviata, Musetta and Mimi in La Boheme, Micaela in Carmen, Nedda in Pagliacci, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, and the title roles in Tosca, Manon Lescaut and Suor Angelica. Her other roles include Mother in Hansel and Gretel, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha and Lucy Harris in Jekyll and Hyde. Winner of the Marcella Sembrich Vocal Competition – American Council for Polish Culture.
Christine LyonsVoice, Musical Theater
M.M., Peabody Institute; B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; additional studies at the Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg. Studied voice with Denyce Graves, Helen Donath & Janet Perry. Received top awards and recognition in several competitions including the Vocal Arts DC Discovery Art Song Competition, the American Prize for Women in Opera and the Southeastern Metropolitan Opera Competition. As a voice teacher, has designed an in-depth course of study for many of her vocal students with an eye toward setting and achieving their specific goals. A dynamic soprano with impressive professional credits in concert, opera and musical theater. Concert and opera performances include singing Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Saltworks Opera, Adina in L'Elisir d'amore with ARE Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with Opera Ithaca and the title role in Suor Angelica with New York Lyric Opera; performances at Kennedy Center, and in New York City at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center; as well as performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Marin Alsop, and as the featured artist on WWFM Classical as a part of their "Celebrating Our Musical Future" live radio program. Performances on the musical theater stage include a national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, performing the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, Alice's Daughter in Big River, GiGi in Miss Saigon, and Anne in A Little Night Music with companies including Portland Center Stage, Pittsburgh Music Theater, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Theater of the Stars and Goodspeed Opera House. Member of Actors Equity and ASCAP.
Rachel MaddockActing
M.A. – Educational Theatre, NYU's Steinhardt School of Education; B.F.A. – Acting, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Additional studies at Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYU), and The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, London. Continuing and post-graduate studies in NY: Advanced Acting Technique, Improvisation and Clown at The Michael Howard Studios; Improvisation at Upright Citizens Brigade; Shakespeare with Joanne Zipay of The Judith Shakespeare Company; Classical Piano and Voice at Turtle Bay Music School; Jazz Dance and Ballet at New Dance Group, Broadway Dance Center and Musical Theatre Works. Held faculty positions in NYC at Repertory H.S. for Theatre Arts, Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, and William H. Carr J.H.S., where she taught both English and Drama and collaborated with The Creative Arts Team and WNYE Teen Talk Radio/After School Violence Prevention Program, The Roundabout Theatre, American Place Theatre and The Children's Aid Society. Currently Program Director and Instructor for the Ridgefield Park Board of Recreation After-School Drama Program. Has performed as an actress in NYC theater productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, Scrambled Eggs, Hair of the Dog, Prime Intentions, Family of Horrors, Hecuba, The Shadow Box, The Seagull, After the Fall, and Romeo and Juliet; and in film productions of Love That Kid, Melody Next Door, and Ghost Child. Other productions include: Marat/Sade, A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Skin of Our Teeth, Steps in Time at the 1840's House: Living History Museum of Baltimore, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Directing and producing credits include Bye, Bye Birdie, How the Grinch Stole the Holidays, Yo-Yo, Where the Wild Things Are and Shakespeare's As You Like It. Wrote and directed the play, I Am Esther, a student production in Teaneck, NJ. Member of Actor's Equity and Screen Actors Guild.
Angelica Sokolovic (aka "Angel Leah")Voice, Musical Theater, Pop/Rock
B.A., William Paterson University. Studied vocal performance with Stephen L. Bryant, Dr. Stephen | 7,034 |
Eco Wave Power Continues to Advance Toward Key Operational Milestones, Reports Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
November 30, 2022, 10:51 PM ·14 min read
Official Opening of EWP-EDF One Project in Israel Nears; Company Creating Strong U.S Presence Via Upcoming AltaSea Pilot at the Port of Los Angeles, While Reinforcing its Planned Projects in Europe
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) ("Eco Wave Power" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WAVE), a leading, publicly traded onshore wave energy technology company that developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity, today provided a corporate update and reported financial results as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
Management Commentary
"Eco Wave Power's onshore and nearshore technology is much simpler than legacy offshore wave energy generation technologies and is thus cost-effective, creating the potential to tap thousands of miles of shoreline and utilize hundreds of thousands of breakwaters, jetties, piers, and other marine structures to create clean, renewable, energy from the ocean. As a result, Eco Wave Power is expeditiously advancing with its core projects in Israel, the United States, and the European Union, while simultaneously operating towards the creation of legal frameworks and policies meant to accelerate the implementation and adoption of the wave energy sector," commented Inna Braverman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
"Our EWP-EDF One project in Jaffa Port Israel (in collaboration and co-investment from the Israeli Energy Ministry and EDF Renewables IL) nears completion, and on November 28th, the project was visited by the Director of Engineering Supervision of Low and High Voltage from the Israeli Electric Authority to instruct the Company regarding the final electrical inspection necessary for Eco Wave Power to receive the approval of sending electricity from the waves to the Israeli national electric grid for the first time in the history of Israel," commented Ms. Braverman.
Simultaneously, the energy conversion unit of Eco Wave Power's pioneering technology and the first floater have arrived, fully assembled, to the Port of Los Angeles, and are currently being set up as a static display by Eco Wave Power's engineering team, which arrived in Los Angeles to accelerate the process. After a pre-defined time in which the conversion unit will serve for educational purposes to all relevant entities in AltaSea in the Port of Los Angeles, the Company will produce seven additional floaters in California, to be installed on a dedicated real-conditions site within the Port, serving as the first Eco Wave Power implementation in the United States, and creating wave energy related workplaces in the region.
In Europe, Eco Wave Power is also showing significant progress. In Portugal, after obtaining the licenses for the operation and grid connection of the first 1MW in the city of Porto from Direção-Geral de Energia e Geologia (DGEG), the Company has retained the services of Efiki Partners, to produce a social-economic report for its' first 1MW, which will enable the Company to receive the final required license for the project, the Título de Utilização de Recursos Hídricos (TURH) license, which is expected to be granted by Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, SA (APDL) (the site owner) once report is completed, to the satisfaction of all parties.
In Port Adriano in Spain, as per the terms of the Concession Agreement which was entered between the Company and Port Adriano in April 2022, the Company has commenced an in-depth feasibility study in the Port. Once the study is fully completed with favorable results, the parties will enter discussions regarding the licensing requirements and financial terms of the planned 2MW project. In the interim, the Port has been awarded the prestigious Innovation Award by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands. The prize recognizes the best idea linked to technological progress that has been projected or implemented in any port of the Balearic Islands during this year.
The originality, feasibility, and the technological contribution to solving problems or inefficiencies in ports and marinas in terms of environment and safety have been the elements that were valued by the jury of the Innovation Award, which decided to award Port Adriano for its planned implementation of the Eco Wave Power's pioneering technology.
At the same time, the Company has also signed a feasibility study agreement for a potential 1MW project in Morocco, to be finalized in the next few months. The project is expected to move forward upon favorable results from the feasibility study for the selected site.
Ms. Braverman added that, "It is interesting that once Gibraltar adopted legislation and enabled implementation of our wave energy technology, it served as an immediate catalyst for neighboring jurisdictions to do the same. Portugal, Spain and Morocco are all countries that neighbor Gibraltar and have all entered different agreements with Eco Wave Power for the promotion of our pioneering technology in their respective countries. I have always commented that one of the most significant barriers for the commercialization of wave energy is lack of wave energy related regulations and legislation, and the case of Gibraltar makes me extremely optimistic, as I am seeing that a good project is 'contagious', and once we execute a project in one country, other countries will follow, thereby slowly removing this barrier."
The Company is also progressing with different R&D grants that have been secured in the past and continues to receive new grants. This includes the grant from Innovate UK in collaboration with the University of Queen Marry in London, The Green Deal grant secured by the ILIAD consortium, Eco Wave Power's participation in a grant for the production of an in-depth feasibility study for a 1MW wave energy power plant in Halki island in Greece, a grant for Eco Wave Power's participation for the planning of a project in Heraklion Port in Greece, and a new grant by ERDF (European Union Regional Development Fund) called "Ports Towards Energy Self Sufficiency" (PORTOS) that was approved for a research project in Porto, led by the University of Porto, on November 24, 2022.
"The above shows that world governments continue to embrace clean energy as key to our economic vitality," said Ms. Braverman. "Our progress in Europe and the U.S., combined with new policies that are being adopted, and new grants obtained for wave energy research and implementation reinforces the rising commitment for the commercialization of wave energy. We believe that as our technology becomes more widely adopted, it will lead to wave energy commercialization, and the acceptance of wave energy, as<|fim_middle|> Power has completed the transition to a single exchange for trading in its securities. The last day of trading for the Company's common shares on Nasdaq First North was June 13, 2022, and beginning on June 14, 2022, Eco Wave Power's only listed securities are its American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") which trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "WAVE".
Eco Wave Power's CEO Inna Braverman will host a conference call to discuss the financial results and outlook on Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
The dial-in numbers for the conference call are 877-545-0523 (toll-free) or 973-528-0016. If requested, please provide participant access code: 547341
The event will be webcast live, available at: https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2922/47163
A replay will be available by telephone approximately two hours after the call's completion until Thursday, December 15, 2022. You may access the replay by dialing 877-481-4010 from the U.S. or 919-882-2331 for international callers, using the Replay ID 47163. The archived webcast will also be available on the investor relations section of the Company's website.
Individual Meeting Information
In an effort to increase relations with institutional investors, management has dedicated time to hosting individual meetings with portfolio managers and analysts on December 1, 2022. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting with management, please contact wave@fnkir.com.
About Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ)
Eco Wave Power is a leading onshore wave energy technology company that developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power's mission is to assist in the fight against climate change by enabling commercial power production from the ocean and sea waves.
The Company is currently finalizing the construction of its grid connected project in Israel, with co-investment from the Israeli Energy Ministry, which recognized the Eco Wave Power technology as "Pioneering Technology" and will soon commence the installation of its newest pilot in AltaSea's premises in the Port of Los Angeles. The Company also holds concession agreements for commercial installations in Europe and has a total projects pipeline of 327.7MW.
Eco Wave Power received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund, Innovate UK and the European Commission's Horizon 2020 framework program. The Company has also received the "Global Climate Action Award" from the United Nations.
Eco Wave Power's ADSs are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "WAVE".
Read more about Eco Wave Power at www.ecowavepower.com. Information on, or accessible through, the websites mentioned above does not form part of this press release.
Inna Braverman, CEO
inna@ecowavepower.com
Aharon Yehuda, CFO
aharon@ecowavepower.com
Investor Relations contact:
Matt Chesler, FNK IR
wave@fnkir.com
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Federal securities laws. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For example, Eco Wave Power is using forward-looking statements when it discusses: the Company's pipeline of projects and timelines related to them, including with respect to projects located in Israel, the Port of Los Angeles and in the European Union and a potential project in Morocco and Greece; producing additional floaters in California and creating wave energy related workplaces; the granting of a license in connection with the Company's project in Portugal; that the Company's technology becoming more widely adopted will lead to wave energy commercialization and acceptance of wave energy as a significant part of the world's renewable energy mix. These forward-looking statements and their implications are based on the current expectations of the management of Eco Wave Power and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Except as otherwise required by law, Eco Wave Power undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting Eco Wave Power is contained under the heading "Risk Factors" in Eco Wave Power's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC, which is available on the on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov.
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First Nine Months 2022 Financial Overview
For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, revenues were $26,000 compared to $31,000 in the same period last year, with revenue in both periods related to feasibility study services in Asia. The Company is building out a pipeline of ancillary technology services that it may provide to its customers and other parties, such as other companies and research institutions, in addition to the Company's WEC technology. These services currently include feasibility studies for potential clients of WEC technology.
Operating expenses were $2.8 million, up 32% year-over-year.
Operating loss was $2.8 million compared to $2.1 million in the same period last year.
Net loss was $2.0 million, or $0.05 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.8 million, or $0.05 per basic and diluted share in the same period last year.
The Company ended the period with $10.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and short-term bank deposits as of September 30, 2022, compared to $14.6 million as of December 31, 2021.
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Current Events His Way
When West Hansen needs an escape from society, he just goes with the flow
By Pam LeBlanc Photos by Erich Schlegel September 2021
West Hansen negotiates boulders in the Río Gashan in Peru.
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On a warm fall afternoon, West Hansen glides a sleek, narrow racing canoe beneath a row of towering cypress trees on the San Marcos River.
He dips in a paddle, steers nimbly around a partially submerged log, then rides a riffle of blue-green water over a natural rock spillway as he makes his way from the tiny town of Martindale to the even tinier community of Staples, downstream from San Marcos.
The 6-mile, leisurely cruise takes less than two hours—barely a blip on the odometer for Hansen, 59, an endurance paddler who led an expedition 4,200 miles down the entire Amazon River in 2012 and paddled 2,100 miles down the Volga River in Russia two years later. As he pulls ashore, he tips back his cowboy hat—a trademark piece of attire for the leader of the Arctic Cowboys, who next year plan to become the first paddlers to kayak 1,900 miles through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Archipelago.
Hansen, right, and a guide navigate Mantaro River rapids in Peru.
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"As our world has gotten busier and technology has evolved and we have 24/7 news cycles, it's nice to get away," he says.
Hansen, a social worker who helps seniors navigate the ins and outs of health care through his family's home health care business in Port Arthur, is opinionated and bull-headed, traits that serve him well as an expedition leader. He tucks a notepad and pen in his front pocket, scribbling thoughts wherever he goes. In 2018 he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress in the 25th district of Texas and won't rule out the possibility of running again.
Hansen started paddling in the early 1980s when he took a whitewater kayaking class at what was then Southwest Texas State University. A few years later, he learned about the Texas Water Safari, a 260-mile paddling race from San Marcos to Seadrift on the Texas coast. Since then he's finished the event—during which sleep-deprived paddlers navigate rapids, drag their boats over bobbing logjams, endure heat and exhaustion, and dodge alligators—21 times. He is also a four-time winner of a 340-mile paddling race down the swift Missouri River. He endures miseries like chafing, sucking mud, nausea and biting insects, he says, because he enjoys the camaraderie and the escape from modern life.
"In every race, I think about quitting, even the ones I've won," he says. "But I know how bad it'll feel to pull out."
Web Extra: West fights rapids during his Amazon expedition in 2012.
Hansen funds his trips through donations and hard work, taking on odd carpentry jobs on weekends and raising money through his nonprofit organization, Worldwide Waterways.
In 2008, Hansen, who lives in Austin with his wife, Lizet, traveled to Iquitos, Peru, for the Great River Amazon Raft Race, where teams use eight 16-foot balsa logs to build a raft and sprint nearly 100 miles. Until that year, competitors lined all their logs side by side to make a wide raft. Hansen's team instead spliced two rows of logs end to end. They won and set an overall record of 12 hours and 19 minutes.
More importantly, Hansen was hooked.
"The [Amazon] river really is the biggest river on the planet. It's shocking to see that amount of anything in motion," he says. "It was just so powerful, and it really moved me."
On the flight home, one of his race partners lent him Joe Kane's book, Running the Amazon. "Before I got back to Houston, I had pretty much read the entire thing," he says. "By the time I landed in Austin, I thought, 'OK, I can do this. I can paddle the entire Amazon River.' "
Hansen paddles down the Mantaro River.
Hansen spent the next few years researching the river and lining up sponsors. He made a scouting trip to Peru in 2011. In 2012 he launched his expedition—the first to paddle the Amazon from a newly determined source high in the Andes Mountains to the sea. His wife and daughter, Isabella, who graduated from Georgetown University last spring, traveled there to watch for a few days.
"It's very shallow, just a stream [at the start]," he said.
"A lot of times we had to get out and drag our boats. A lot of times we were in whiteout snow conditions."
Web Extra: Hansen, left, follows John Maika and Rafael Ortiz, who help team member Jeff Wueste, who is suffering from altitude sickness, climb back to base camp through a snowstorm in 2012 shortly after the start of whitewater kayaking out of Laguna Acucocha in Peru.
Hansen wrote a book about the experience, The Amazon From Source to Sea: The Farthest Journey Down the World's Longest River, which details the 111-day adventure, including the day they spotted a sloth swimming across the river and other days when they saw frolicking pink dolphins. They were held at gunpoint five times, discovered floating bales of marijuana and dodged boulders as big as refrigerators that r<|fim_middle|> up the Texas coast instead.
Hansen cruises the San Marcos River with author Pam LeBlanc.
They started at the state's sandy tail on South Padre Island and chugged to its refinery-studded tip at the Louisiana border, enduring tent-wrecking storms, campsites covered in enough ooze to host a mud-wrestling competition and swells so big they lost sight of one another. Their fingernails grew soggy and loose, and they labored to find a proper rhythm, but they also paddled alongside pods of dolphins; pitched tents on small barrier islands covered in lush, lime-colored grass; and watched serene sunrises and sunsets.
Web Extra: Hansen and a raft guide move toward a blast of water released from pipes coming out of the mountain in Campo Armiño, Peru. Water from the Rio Mantaro is piped about 12.5 miles down through the mountains from Tablachaca Dam to Campo Armiño as part of a hydroelectric generating station.
When they finally pulled their 18-foot Epic sea kayaks ashore at Walter Umphrey State Park in Port Arthur, Hansen announced: "Well, that's done."
Underwater explorer and filmmaker Nancy McGee, who knows Hansen through the Explorers Club, a global organization whose members include astronauts, mountain climbers and aviators, describes him as the epitome of the 21st-century explorer.
"His goals are the stuff of dreams," she says, adding that he "has helped create a deeper understanding of the cultures he has encountered and the physical geography he has mastered."
For Hansen, who is already working on a second book, which will detail a history of Amazon expeditions, those accomplishments are only part of the motivation to explore.
"I love to be far away from everybody and the stimulus that's constantly coming at us," Hansen says. "I like doing things that haven't been done before, and that list is getting smaller and smaller."
This article appeared in the September 2021 issue
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Pam LeBlanc is an Austin-based adventure writer and co-founder of the online travel publication Austin Travels Magazine. She is also a recreational paddler and finished the Texas Water Safari as part of a three-woman team in 2019. | ained from canyon walls where crews were building a dam.
Longtime friend Jeff Wueste was part of the Amazon team and Hansen's only partner on the Volga trek. They met in 1992 and have teamed up for the Texas Water Safari several times. Wueste, who will paddle the Northwest Passage with the Arctic Cowboys, describes Hansen as determined and well prepared, someone who does the due diligence needed to accomplish big things.
Hansen makes a satellite phone call after his team's raft flipped in white water.
"He's good to the core," Wueste says. "Ultimately, he's driven to an end goal. But as many expedition leaders are, they're as egotistical as they can be. You're not going to find any wallflowers leading expeditions."
When the originally planned trip through the Northwest Passage in 2020 was postponed because of the pandemic, Hansen and four others set out to paddle 420 miles | 196 |
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From the founding of the American republic through the 19th century, the nation's environmental policy mostly centered on promoting American settlers' conquest of the frontier. Early federal interventions, whether railroad and canal subsidies or land grant acts, led to rapid transformations of the natural environment that inspired a conservation movement by the end of the 19th century. Led by activists and policymakers, this movement sought to protect America's resources now jeopardized by expansive industrial infrastructure. During the Gilded Age, the federal government established the world's first national parks, and in the Progressive Era, politicians such as President Theodore Roosevelt called for the federal government to play a central role in ensuring the efficient utilization of the nation's ecological bounty. By the early 1900s, conservationists established new government agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, to regulate the consumption of trees, water, and other valuable natural assets. Wise-use was the watchword of the day, with environmental managers in DC's bureaucracy focused mainly on protecting the economic value latent in America's ecosystems. However, other groups, such as the Wilderness Society, proved successful at redirecting policy prescriptions toward preserving beautiful and wild spaces, not just conserving resources central to capitalist enterprise. In the 1960s and 1970s, suburban and urban environmental activists attracted federal regulators' attention to contaminated soil and water under their feet. The era of ecology had arrived, and the federal government now had broad powers through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to manage ecosystems that stretched across the continent. But from the 1980s to the 2010s, the federal government's authority to regulate the environment waxed and waned as economic crises, often exacerbated by oil shortages, brought environmental agencies under fire. The Rooseveltian logic of the Progressive Era, which said that America's economic growth depended on federal oversight of the environment, came under assault from neoliberal disciples of Ronald Reagan, who argued that environmental regulations were in fact the root cause of economic stagnation in America, not a powerful prescription against it. What the country needed, according to the reformers of the New Right, was unregulated expansion into new frontiers. By the 2010s, the contours of these new frontiers were clear: deep-water oil drilling, Bakken shale exploration, and tar-sand excavation in Alberta, Canada. In many ways, the frontier conquest doctrine of colonial Americans found new life in deregulatory U.S. environmental policy pitched by conservatives in the wake of the Reagan Revolution. Never wholly dominant, this ethos carried on into the era of Donald Trump's presidency.
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Peyton Manning Conference Call
PEY<|fim_middle|> away. And not many people want to go see a game – another football game right away. But I promise you I was watching every step of the way against Green Bay and watched that unbelievable game, unbelievable win by the Giants. And just couldn't have been prouder and happier for Eli. He deserves every bit of this because of how hard he has worked and he has really earned this opportunity. But I will definitely be there on Sunday for the Super Bowl. Eli called me and told me that he wanted me to be there. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Q: Is this a week where you actually try to see Eli or do you give him a lot of space at this point?
A: Oh sure, Eli needs all of the time and space to focus on the task at hand. I think that is the one good thing – the same thing we had last year at the Super Bowl – is to have this bye week before where you can take care of all of your ticket requests and family, hotels, what not, during this bye week early on. Now the Giants are already into their preparation. So I talked to Eli a couple of times during the week. Obviously I talked to him right after the Green Bay game. I called him and he called me back and we talked for awhile that night. And you could just feel the excitement in his voice. I certainly know that feeling. It is pretty fresh in my mind from last year. I was just so happy that he got to experience that same feeling of winning an NFC Championship and going to the Super Bowl. The couple of times we have talked this week, to tell you the truth, it has been – I have been kind of helping him get some tickets. As you know every NFL player gets two tickets. And so I called all of my Colts teammates, as many as I could get, ones that hadn't given them away already, and helped collect some for Eli. And so I have been working for him a little bit. But I have been glad to do it because obviously a lot of his friends and a lot of our family all want to go to the game. It looks like we are going to give everybody a chance to go.
Q: What is the one characteristic that Eli has, more than anything else, that will help him the most in the Super Bowl?
A: Well, I think Eli has learned a lot in his four years as a starting quarterback. And he has seen a lot of different situations. I think experience is your best teacher. And the more you can draw on your previous experiences for two minute drills, or red zone situations or third-down, fourth-down conversions, knowing that you have done it before, I think you can draw on that. And what he has been able to do in these last three playoff games in as high pressure situations as you could get, on the road playing against some extremely tough opponents in Tampa, Dallas, and of course, Green Bay, facing those kind of weather conditions, I think that is just a real confidence booster for him and their team knowing that he has done it before and he can certainly do it again.
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Q: What are you plans this week? Just go through when you are going to get down there and where you plan to watch the game and all of that.
A: I don't know that I will give all of details of that. But I will definitely be there on Sunday. I was not there at the game against Green Bay mainly because I just needed a little time to get away. It has been a long season for us. And I think most players will tell you, after they finish their season, especially being in the playoffs, all players and coaches need a little time to get | 185 |
What Evacuation Does To Your Psyche
The best way to deal with displacement
by Kelly Burgess Published: Aug 16, 2013
Whether it is because of wildfires, floods, or hurricanes, getting orders to evacuate can be an incredibly traumatic experience. Leaving your home, fearing the unknown, and worrying about loved ones, pets and the future can contribute to a short term acute stress disorder (ASD) that can be debilitating.
"Being displaced from your home is a major stressor and stress reactions are very common," says Valerie Cole, PhD, manager of disaster mental health services for the Red Cross. "It can leave people emotionally and cognitively confused. Some have physical reactions, such as headaches and stomachaches. Chronic health issues may be exacerbated. Some act out, through withdrawal or anger."
Cole points out that, although disasters may seem as if they come on suddenly, in fact, people often have time to prepare. Hurricanes are usually predicted well in advance, floods can be anticipated, and if you live in an area prone to tornadoes or wildfires, you at least know that there is a risk.
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Anticipating and preparing for these events is the key to surviving them with your sanity intact, because you feel more in control and less at the whim of the winds. Cole suggests:
Rehearse. Think about how you'll react to a disaster, what you'll do, and the best steps to take. Talk yourself through it before it ever happens.
Keep a bag packed. It should include a change of clothes, a couple days' of medicine, a list of medications and a list of important phone numbers. Even if you have them memorized, you may blank out in the stress of the moment once you get to the shelter. Have one thing packed that you feel will help you cope with new surroundings.
Have a family unification plan. Everyone should plan to call and check in with an out-of-town relative. Although local cell towers may be down, those in other areas will be working. Aunt Sally in another city can keep track of everyone and send out updates.
Get out quickly. People who evacuate sooner rather than later tend to recover more quickly than those who stay longer and may be exposed to the risk of injury or death.
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Previous story Windermere Greets The World With Spring Party | 2010 at the intersection of Park Avenue and Maguire Road. This is at the Windermere Elementary School intersection. All roads in the downtown area (laid out in a grid) are dirt roads except for a few through roads:
Main Street from the northern boundary (as Maguire Road, which heads north to Ocoee) south to 12th Street; the pavement turns west at 12th Street onto Chase Road, which connects to CR 535
Sixth Avenue east from Main Street to the town line, where it becomes Conroy-Windermere Road
Second Avenue west from Main Street (serves a peninsula)
"Dirt Main Street", just west of Main Street (opposite where the railroad used to run), from Third Avenue to Seventh Avenue
Several other paved roads exist in the outskirts, in areas that have been annexed since the original town was formed.
These signs (at right —>)
Windermere Business District sign (public domain)
appear on light poles at borders of the business district at the center of downtown.
Until the 1980s, Main Street north of Sixth Avenue and Sixth Avenue east of Main Street were maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as part of State Road 439. This was given to Orange County as County Road 439 (CR 439), and Orange County eventually removed all signs and gave the part inside Windermere to the town. Signs put up by FDOT still mark the north end of CR 439 at SR 50, but no other signs exist, in part because Orange County has a general policy of not signing county roads.
The Florida Midland Railroad, part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, used to run just west of Main Street; there is now a large grassy area between Main Street and the dirt road (often called Dirt Main Street) that ran just west of the railroad. Windermere had a station on the railroad.
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Q: Flink : How to process and output two datasets in a single transformation? The join and coGroup transformation can read 2 input datasets and output one ("Y" flux) (correct me if I'm wrong).
I would like to process and update 2 datasets. To do this, I plan<|fim_middle|> coGroup transformations.
But, for performance purpose, can these both transformations be done in a single one ("H" flux)?
Also, as the datasets are updated, I would like to iterate over them. If it's not currently possible, do you plan to support this kind of transformation in the future?
A: All Flink DataSet operators support only a single output, but the output of an operator can be consumed by two or more following operators.
There are two ways to solve your issue:
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*Use a single CoGroup to compute the result for both outputs and add two Filters that filter out the records of one of both outputs. If both outputs have different data types, you need to compute return something like Tuple2<FirstType, SecondType>. This solution would look like:
input1--\ /--> Filter_output1
CoGroup
input2--/ \--> Filter_output2
*Partition and sort both CoGroup inputs on the grouping key and call two individual CoGroups. Each CoGroup computes one output. By sorting the data before the CoGroup, the partitioning and sorting can be reused. Important, all operators must use the same parallelism!
input1 --> PartitionHash --> SortPartition -\-/-> CoGroup1 --> Output1
X
input2 --> PartitionHash --> SortPartition -/-\-> CoGroup2 --> Output2
Regarding the iterations, have a look at Flink's iteration operators.
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My favorite chicken, Minerva Louise, is going to school, although she doesn't have a clue! As usual, Minerva Louise interprets things in the context of her own familiar world, exactly as a child entering school for the first time would do. She loves the nesting boxes (cubbies); one even has an egg (baseball) in it! Preschoolers love the silliness of this very silly chicken and feel so smart that they know the wooden blocks are not really a pig pen. Listeners might even realize they know a little more about what school is going to be like than they thought they<|fim_middle|> include sweet woodland animals and settings.
Chester raccoon is reluctant to go to school and leave his mother behind. Mother Raccoon has a secret to share with her son. "I learned it from my mother, and she learned it from hers. It's called the Kissing Hand." "The Kissing Hand? What's that?" asked Chester. "I'll show you." Mrs. Raccoon took Chester's left hand and spread open his tiny fingers into a fan. Leaning forward, she kissed Chester right in the middle of his palm. Chester felt his mother's kiss rush from his hand, up his arm, and into his heart. Even his silky, black mask tingled with a special warmth. Hundreds of preschool and kindergarten teachers have recommended "The Kissing Hand" to parents of young children.
I love stories set in different countries, which is why Rain School by James Runford is one of my favorite school stories! Runford's story about a classroom of children who literally build their own schoolhouse and desks from mud is eye-opening and inspiring, as is their hard work in learning English and other subjects. School ends at the beginning of the rain season, which washes away the school. Not to worry; the children and teacher will be ready to rebuild their school at the beginning of the next school year. Runford based his story on his experiences working in Chad, which adds authenticity. If you want a fantastic read aloud for elementary school aged children, this is a perfect selection. I recently read it to a group of children ranging in ages from 6-12, and everyone was enthralled. | did!
Kevin Henkes' Owen also has adjustments to make as he heads off to school for the first time. His fuzzy yellow blanket goes everywhere and does everything with him but will not be allowed at school. Nosy Mrs. Tweezers, who lives next door, has many helpful suggestions for Owen's parents including the Blanket Fairy, the vinegar trick and just saying no. Owen's mother has a positively perfect idea that satisfies everyone, even Mrs. Tweezers!
Dad's tummy doesn't feel so good on the very first day of school. Although it's son Oliver who must enter his first classroom, it's Dad who is having a problem with the idea. Oliver's dad tries to postpone the inevitable by hiding and crying. He has to be carried away, bodily, by the teacher. Dad's First Day plays role reversal for an amusing tale about a new normal, and about how much easier the transition is once everyone realizes that school can be an engaging, happy place.
Want to get in the mood for another school year? One good way is to visit Wayside School in the Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. Wayside was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. So begins the wackiness of a school with equally wacky characters.
Wayside books are written as short stories so that each chapter can stand alone. That makes them a good choice for reluctant readers, and a good read aloud promising lots of chuckles. You'll get to know Todd, who can only read upside down; Paul, whose life was saved by Leslie's pigtails; Sharie who is allowed to fall asleep in class because the teacher thinks she learns best that way; a yellow ball that will never go where it's kicked; and an orange named Fido, among others.
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a lovely book to share with a young child anxious about starting school or daycare. The illustrations | 393 |
Now that Menger has established both subjective and marginal value, he continues to unfurl the long string of implications which necessarily result. First up, there are practically infinite variations of certain goods according to quality. Every additional spot found on a banana may well knock pennies off of the likely market price (or perhaps if you're freezing your bananas, the more spots the better). Perhaps the exact right number of spots is different for every person—17 is too many for me, but you won't eat a banana with fewer than 25. It is not a question of how many bananas I want, or how much I would value one additional unit of banana; the question at hand is on the margins of quality separating individual bananas. In other words, even when selecting between units of the same good to satisfy the same need, economic decisions are still made on the margins, with marginal comparisons between choices and marginal amounts of satisfaction achieved with each adjustment to the situation.
Next, there was the somewhat thorny issue of sorting out the Classicals' theory of value. From Smith to Marx, the predominant view was that goods became valuable when individuals invested labor in the production process. But as Menger argues—and by now practically all economists agree—subjectivity must stand alone. Human beings can be amazingly bizarre sometimes, and even the starving man may prefer to go ahead dying rather than strike a trade with someone he hates. People will spend ungodly amounts of money on terrible art, bad food, boring music, and even politicians whether the beneficiaries actually labor or not. You could organize the entire population of Earth to produce the most labor-intensive invention ever devised, but good luck getting me to trade you my dog for it! The labor theory of value—on its own and divorced from subjective considerations—is simply wrong.
And with those somewhat loose ends more tightly-knit, Menger reintroduces a crucial element to his overall causal-realist approach to economics: All production, trade, and consumption happens through time. We will return to this point as our reading progresses, but for now we close with Menger's argument that investments in greater future production must be expected to satisfy a greater amount of our needs than consuming to our maximum capacity in the present. Without the expectations for greater rewards in the future, individuals will exercise a penchant to consume whatever they can in the present to reach some measure of satisfaction.
C. The influence of differences in the quality of goods on their value.
Human needs can often be satisfied by good of different types and still more frequently by goods that differ, not as to type, but as to kind. Where we deal with given complexes of human<|fim_middle|> satisfy our needs as completely as possible, and attribute the value that we attributed to goods of first order in turn to goods of second, third, and still higher orders whenever these goods of higher order have economic character. The value of goods of higher order is therefore, in the final analysis, nothing but a special form of the importance we attribute to our lives and well-being. Thus, as with goods of first order, the factor that is ultimately responsible for the value of goods of higher order is merely the importance that we attribute to those satisfactions with respect to which we are aware of being dependent on the availability of the goods of higher order whose value is under consideration. But due to the causal connections between goods, the value of goods of higher order is not measured directly by the expected importance of the final satisfaction, but rather by the expected value of the corresponding goods of lower order. | needs, on the one side, and with the quantities of goods available for their satisfaction, on the other side, the needs do not, therefore, always stand opposite quantities of homogeneous goods, but often opposite goods of different types, and still more frequently opposite goods of different kinds.
For greater simplicity of exposition I have, until now, omitted consideration of the differences between goods, and have, in the preceding sections, considered only cases in which quantities of preceding sections, considered only cases in which quantities of completely homogeneous goods stand opposite needs of a specific type (stressing particularly the way in which their importance decreases in accordance with the degree of completeness of the satisfaction already attained). In this way, I was able to give greater emphasis to the influence that differences in the available quantities exercise on the value of goods.
The cases that now remain to be taken into consideration are those in which given human needs may be satisfied by good of different types or kinds and in which, therefore, given human requirements stand opposite available quantities of goods of which separate portions are qualitatively different.
In this connection, it should first be noted that differences between goods, whether they be differences of type or of kind, cannot affect the value of the different units of a given supply if the satisfaction of human needs is in no way affected by these differences. Goods that satisfy human needs in an identical fashion are for this very reason regarded as completely homogeneous from an economic point of view, even though they may belong to different types or kinds on the basis of external appearance.
If the differences, as to type or kind, between two goods are to be responsible for differences in their value, it is necessary that they also have different capacities to satisfy human needs. In other words, it is necessary that they have what we call, from an economic point of view, differences in quality. An examination of the influence that differences in quality exercise on the value of particular goods is therefore the subject of the following investigation.
From an economic standpoint, the qualitative differences between goods may be of two kinds. Human needs may be satisfied either in a quantitatively or in a qualitatively different manner by means of equal quantities of qualitatively different goods. With a given quantity of beech wood, for instance, the human need for warmth may be satisfied in a quantitatively more intensive manner than with the same quantity of fir. But two equal quantities of foodstuffs of equal food value may satisfy the need for food in qualitatively different fashions, since the consumption of one dish may, for example, provide enjoyment while the other may provide either no enjoyment or only an inferior one. With goods of the first category, the inferior quality can be fully compensated for by a larger quantity, but with goods of the second category this is not possible. Fir, alder, or pine can replace beech wood for heating purposes, and if coal of inferior carbon content, oak bark of inferior tannin content, and the ordinary labor services of tardy or less efficient day-laborers are only available to economizing men in sufficiently large quantities, they can generally replace the more highly qualified goods perfectly. But even if unpalatable foods or beverages, dark and wet rooms, the services of mediocre physicians, etc., are available in the largest quantities, they can never satisfy our needs as well, qualitatively, as the corresponding more highly qualified goods.
When economizing individuals appraise the value of a good, it is purely a question, as we have seen, of estimating the importance of satisfaction of those needs with respect to which they are dependent on command of the good. The quantity of a good that will bring about a given satisfaction is, however, only a secondary factor in valuation. For if smaller quantities of a more highly qualified good will satisfy a human need in the same (that is, in a quantitatively and qualitatively identical) manner as larger quantities of the more highly qualified good will have the same value to economizing men as the larger quantities of the less qualified good. Thus equal quantities of goods having different qualities of the first kind will display values that are unequal in the proportion indicated. If, for example, in determining the value of oak bark we take account exclusively of its tannin content, and seven hundred-weight of one grade has the same effectiveness as eight hundred-weight of another grade, it will also have the same value as the latter quantity to the artisans using the bark. Merely reducing these goods to quantities of equal economic effectiveness (a procedure actually employed in the economic activities of men in all such cases) thus completely removes the difficulty in determining the value of given quantities of different qualities (so far as their effectiveness is merely quantitatively different). In this way, the more complicated case under consideration is reduced to the simple relationship explained earlier.
The question of the influence of different qualities on the values of particular goods is more complicated when the qualitative differences between the goods cause needs to be satisfied in qualitatively different ways. There can be no doubt, after what has been said about the general principle of value determination, that it is the importance of the needs that would remain unsatisfied if we did not have command of a particular good of not only the general type but also the specific quality corresponding to these needs that is, in this case too, the factor determining its value. The difficulty I am discussing here does not, therefore, lie in the general principle of value determination being inapplicable to these goods, but rather in the determination of the particular satisfaction that depends on a particular concrete good when a whole group of needs stands opposite goods whose various units are capable of satisfying these needs in qualitatively different ways. In other words, it lies in the practical application of the general principles of value determination to human economic activity. The solution to this problem arises from the following considerations.
Economizing individuals do not use the quantities of goods available to them without regard to differences in quality when these exist. A farmer who has grain of different grades at his disposal does not, for example, use the worst grade for seeding, grain of medium quality as cattle feed, and the best for food and the production of beverages. Nor does he use the grains of different grades indiscriminately for one purpose or another. Rather, with a view to his requirements, he employs the best grade for seeding, the best that remains for food and beverages, and the grain of poorest quality for fattening cattle.
With goods whose units are homogeneous, the total available quantity of a good stands opposite the whole set of concrete needs that can be satisfied by means of it. But in cases where the different units of a good satisfy human needs in qualitatively different ways, the total available quantity of a good no longer stands opposite the whole set of needs; each available quantity of specific quality instead stands opposite corresponding specific needs of the economizing individuals.
If, with respect to a given consumption purpose, a good of a certain quality cannot be replaced at all by goods of any other quality, the principle of value determination previously demonstrated applies fully and directly to particular quantities of that good. Thus the value of any particular unit of such a good is equal to the importance of the least important satisfaction that is provided for by the total available quantity of this precise quality of good, since it is with respect to this satisfaction that we are actually dependent on command of the particular unit of this quality.
But human needs can be satisfied by means of goods of different qualifications, although in qualitatively different ways. If goods of one quality can be replaced by goods of another quality, though not with the same effectiveness, the value of a unit of the goods of superior quality is equal to the importance of the least important satisfaction that is provided for by the goods of superior quality minus a value quota that is greater: (1) the smaller the value of the goods of inferior quality by which the particular need in question can also be satisfied, and (2) the smaller the difference to men between the importance of satisfying the particular need with the superior good and the importance of satisfying it with the inferior one.
Thus we arrive at the result that, even in cases in which a complex of needs stands opposite a quantity of goods of different qualities, satisfactions of given intensities always depend on each partial quantity or on each concrete unit of these goods. Hence, in all the cases discussed, the principle of value determination that I formulated above maintains its full applicability.
D. The subjective character of the measure of value. Labor and value. Error.
When I discussed the nature of value, I observed that value is nothing inherent in goods and that it is not a property of goods. But neither is value an independent thing. There is no reason why a good may not have value to one economizing individual but no value to another individual under different circumstances. The measure of value is entirely subjective in nature, and for this reason a good can have great value to one economizing individual, little value to another, and no value at all to a third, depending upon the differences in their requirements and available amount. What one person disdains or values lightly is appreciated by another, and what one person abandons is often picked up by another. While one economizing individual esteems equally a given amount of one good and a greater amount of another good, we frequently observe just the opposite evaluations with another economizing individual.
Hence not only the nature but also the measure of value is subjective. Goods always have value to certain economizing individuals and this value is also determined only by these individuals.
The value an economizing individual attributes to a good is equal to the importance of the particular satisfaction that depends on his command of the good. There is no necessary and direct connection between the value of a good and whether, or in what quantities, labor and other goods of higher order were applied to its production. A non-economic good (a quantity of timber in a virgin forest, for example) does not attain value for men in large quantities of labor or other economic goods were applied to its production. Whether a diamond was found accidentally or was obtained from a diamond pit with the employment of a thousand days of labor is completely irrelevant for its value. In general, no one in practical life asks for the history of the origin of a good in estimating its value, but considers solely the services that the good will render him and which he would have to forgo if he did not have it at his command. Goods on which much labor has been expended often have no value, while others, on which little or no labor was expended, have a very high value. Goods on which much labor was expended and others on which little or no labor was expended are often of equal value to economizing men. The quantities of labor or of other means of production applied to its production cannot, therefore, be the determining factor in the value of a good. Comparison of the value of a good with the value of the means of production employed in its production does, of course, show whether and to what extent its production, an act of past human activity, was appropriate or economic. But the quantities of goods employed in the production of a good have neither a necessary nor a directly determining influence on its value.
Equally untenable in the opinion that the determining factor in the value of goods in the quantity of labor or other means of production that are necessary for their reproduction. A large number of good cannot be reproduced (antiques, and paintings by old masters, for instance) and thus, in a number of cases, we can observe value but no possibility of reproduction. For this reason, any factor connected with reproduction cannot be the determining principle of value in general. Experience, moreover, shows that the value of the means of production necessary for the reproduction of many goods (old-fashioned clothes and obsolete machines, for instance) is sometimes considerably higher and sometimes lower than the value of the products themselves.
The importance of a satisfaction to us is not the result of an arbitrary decision, but rather is measured by the importance, which is not arbitrary, that the satisfaction has for our lives or for our well-being. The relative degrees of importance of different satisfactions and of successive acts of satisfaction are nevertheless matters of judgment on the part of economizing men, and for this reason, their knowledge for these degrees of importance is, in some instances, subject to error.
We saw earlier that the satisfactions on which their lives depend have the highest importance to men, that the satisfactions following next in importance are those on which their well-being depends, and that satisfactions on which a higher degree of well-being depends (with equal intensity a longer enduring satisfaction, and with the same duration a more intensive one) have a higher importance to men than those on which a lower degree of their well-being is dependent.
But what has been said by no means excludes the possibility that stupid men may, as a result of their defective knowledge, sometimes estimate the importance of various satisfactions in a manner contrary to their real importance. Even individuals whose economic activity is conducted rationally, and who therefore certainly endeavor to recognize the true importance of satisfactions in order to gain an accurate foundation for their economic activity, are subject to error. Error is inseparable from all human knowledge.
Men are especially prone to let themselves be misled into over-estimating the importance of satisfactions that give intense momentary pleasure but contribute only fleetingly to their well-being, and so into underestimating the importance of satisfactions on which a less intensive but longer enduring well-being depends. In other words, men often esteem passing, intense enjoyments more highly than their permanent welfare, and sometimes even more than their lives.
If men are thus already often in error with respect to their knowledge of the subjective factor of value determination, when it is merely a question of appraising their own states of mind, they are even more likely to err when it is a question of their perception of the objective factor of value determination, especially when it is a question of their knowledge of the magnitudes of the quantities available to them and of the different qualities of goods.
For these reasons alone it is clear why the determination of the value of particular goods is beset with manifold errors in economic life. But in addition to value fluctuations that arise from changes in human needs, from changes in the quantities of goods available to men, and from changes in the physical properties of goods, we can also observe fluctuations in the values of goods that are caused simply by changes in the knowledge men have of the importance of goods for their lives and welfare.
A. The principle determining the value of goods of higher order.
Among the most egregious of the fundamental errors that have had the most far-reaching consequences in the previous development of our science is the argument that goods attain value for us because goods were employed in their production that had value to us. Later, when I come to the discussion of the prices of goods of higher order, I shall show the specific causes that were responsible for this error and for its becoming the foundation of the accepted theory of prices (in a form hedged about with all sorts of special provisions, of course). Here I want to state, above all, that this argument is so strictly opposed to all experience that it would have to be rejected even if it provided a formally correct solution to the problem of establishing a principle explaining the value of goods.
But even this last purpose cannot be achieved by the argument in question, since if offers an explanation only for the value of goods we may designate as "products" but not for the value of all other goods, which appear as original factors of production. It does not explain the value of goods directly provided by nature, especially the services of land. It does not explain the value of labor services. Nor does it even, as we shall see later, explain the value of the services of capital. For the value of all these goods cannot be explained by the argument that goods derive their value from the value of the goods expended in their production. Indeed, it makes their value completely incomprehensible.
This argument, therefore, provides neither a formally correct solution nor one that conforms with the facts of reality, to the problem of discovering a universally valid explanation of the value of goods. On the one hand, it is in contradiction with experience; and on the other hand, it is patently inapplicable wherever we have to deal with goods that are not the product of the combination of goods of higher order. The value of goods of lower order cannot, therefore, be determined by the value of the goods of higher order that were employed in their production. On the contrary, it is evident that the value of goods of higher order is always and without exception determined by the prospective value of the goods of lower order in whose production they serve. The existence of our requirements for goods of higher order is dependent upon the goods they serve to produce having expected economic character and hence expected value. In securing our requirements for them). We therefore have the principle that the value of goods of higher order is dependent upon the expected value of the goods of lower order they serve to produce. Hence goods of higher order can attain value, or retain it once they have it, only if, or as long as, they serve to produce goods that we expect to have value for us. If this fact is established, it is clear also that the value of goods of higher order cannot be the determining factor in the prospective value of the corresponding goods of lower order. Nor can the value of the goods of higher order already expended in producing a good of lower order be the determining factor in its present value. On the contrary, the value of goods of higher order is, in all cases, regulated by the prospective value of the goods of lower order to whose production they have been or will be assigned by economizing men.
The prospective value of goods of lower order is often—and this must be carefully observed—very different from the value that similar goods have in the present. For this reason, the value of the goods of higher order by means of which we shall have command of goods of lower order at some future time is by no means measured by the current value of similar goods of lower order, but rather by the prospective value of the goods of lower order in whose production they serve.
Suppose, for example, that we have the saltpeter, Sulphur, charcoal, specialized labor services, appliances, etc., necessary for the production of a certain quantity of gunpowder, and that thus, by means of these goods, we shall have this quantity of gunpowder at our command in three months time. It is clear that the value this gunpowder is expected to have for us in three months time need not necessarily be equal to, but may be greater or less than, the value of an identical quantity of gun powder at the present time. Hence also, the magnitude of the value of the above goods of higher order is measured, not by the value of gunpowder at present, but by the prospective value of their product at the end of the production period. Cases can even be imagined in which a good of lower or first order is completely valueless at present (ice in winter, for example), while simultaneously available corresponding goods of higher order that assure quantities of the good of lower order for a future time period (all the materials and implements necessary for the production of artificial ice, for example) have value with respect to this future time period—and vice versa.
Hence there is no necessary connection between the value of goods of lower or first order in the present and the value of currently available goods of higher order serving for the production of such goods. On the contrary, it is evident that the former derive their value from the relationship between requirements and available quantities in the present, while the latter derive their value from the prospective relationship between the requirements and the quantities that will be available at the future points in time when the products created by means of the goods of higher order will become available. If the prospective future value of a good of lower order rises, other things remaining equal, the value of the goods of higher order whose possession assures us future command of the good of lower order rises also. But the rise or fall of the value of a good of lower order available in the present has no necessary causal connection with the rise or fall of the value of currently available corresponding goods of higher order.
Hence the principle that the value of goods of higher order is governed, not by the value of corresponding goods of lower order of the present, but rather by the prospective value of the product, is the universally valid principle of the determination of the value of goods of higher order.
Only the satisfaction of our needs has direct and immediate significance to us. In each concrete instance, this significance is measured by the importance of the various satisfactions for our lives and well-being. We next attribute the exact quantitative magnitude of this importance to the specific goods on which we are conscious of being directly dependent for the satisfactions in question—that is, we attribute it to economic goods of first order, as explained in the principles of the previous section. In cases in which our requirements are not met or are only incompletely met by goods of first order, and in which goods of first order therefore attain value for us, we turn to the corresponding goods of the next higher order in our efforts to | 4,317 |
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Drafts get left unpublished, emails left unanswered. Things accumulate in piles on your floor.
There's only so many times that you can talk about "you" instead of admitting that it is, in fact, me.
The reason that I plan so many things, and in consequence, the reason that I fail to follow through, is that I want my life to be full. Not just<|fim_middle|> Seeing the countless possibilities before me, I grab at them all at once. I envision myself a locomotive that forges forward into the winter night, fueled by hope and guided by determination, chugging and blazing and wondering where it'll end up. So many possibilities! So many things to do!
But in my excitement, I overextend. I take those good intentions and I spread them thin, stretching them further than their elasticity allows. I only have so many hours in my day; I only have so much focus to give. And when I overextend, I tend to snap back a little harder than I planned — therefore getting less done than I would have been capable of, therefore finding that I need more time to revitalize myself. I idolize multitasking, but in my attempt to achieve it, I become woefully under-productive.
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Spalding 19, St. Paul's 0 (5<|fim_middle|> and Ethan McCormick had three hits, including a triple, and drove in three runs. Caleb Estes was 2 for 2 with a double and drove in a pair of runs.
AACS 8, Mount Carmel 7: Corey Rhodes went 2 for 4 with a double and drove in three runs and Andrew Sowinski homered and drove in a pair to lead the Eagles. Sowinski also pitched the final two innings and struck out four for AACS.
Loyola 10, S, Mary's 0 (5 Inn.): The Saints (2-16) collected just four hits in a game shortened to five innings. | Inn.): Patrick O'Farrell, Calib Collins and Zach Powers combined on a four-hitter and the Cavaliers exploded for 17 runs over the first two innings in a five-inning win over St. Paul's.
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Justin Caesar had three hits, all doubles, scored three runs and drove in four runs. Cory Blohm had two hits, one a home run, scored twice and drove in four runs. Ethan Paige had three RBIs, Justin Bouchard doubled and drove home three runs | 133 |
The story of our 614 (Six Fourteen) Belgian Farmhouse Ale collaboration with Taylor Guitars begins deep in the heart of the Skagit Valley<|fim_middle|> Bob Taylor says that McMinn's pursuit of growing maple and the investments he has made in developing an eco-friendly sourcing paradigm for the future aligns perfectly with his own vision for developing more sustainable forestry practices in North America. McMinn's envelope-pushing work, he says, is yet another example of the symbiotic relationship between Taylor and its wood suppliers.
The Skagit Valley happens to be home to one of the largest and most diverse agricultural and environmentally conscious communities on Earth. Known for its fertile soil and micro-climate, the region is home to Skagit Valley Malting, whose eco-conscious approach embodies the region's philosophy by working with local farming communities to grow unique grains and introduce new or long-forgotten flavors to the craft beer industry. We returned home inspired and got together in the brew house with Taylor to dial in a recipe that showcased the maple wood alongside the uniquely malted barley being produced in the valley.
The result? "614"—named for the rich, warm guitar whose distinct sound helped establish the Taylor acoustic style — is a Farmhouse Ale with lively aromas and flavors of lemon zest, Belgian spice, and toasted notes from the addition of torrefied Maple wood & Alba base malt sourced directly from Skagit Valley & Skagit Valley Malting, respectively. The parallels between the beer and the guitars are found in their unique voice, as Farmhouse Ale's are known for their lively, dynamic, and effervescent character, also a stand out feature of the 600 series guitars.
Both Karl Strauss and Taylor Guitars are proud supporters of the San Diego Music Awards and we're coming together to kickoff the awards celebration by releasing "614" alongside a lineup of Music Award nominee's and Taylor artists at our Tasting Room & Beer Garden in Pacific Beach on Saturday March 11th from 3p-8p.
Nearly 2 years in the making, this beer represents the hard work, creativity and talent of both our brewing team and our friends over at Taylor Guitars, and we can't wait to share it with you, cheers!
Heading down to Carlsbad Sunday 11/13/2016 and will hopefully gulp a few 614's …! Cheers to the New Brew! | , located in the NW corner of Washington. An environmentally forward-thinking community known for its production of sustainable maple and world class malt, this Pacific Northwest hub is where San Diego's Taylor Guitars planted the seeds for their 600 Series of maple wood guitars.
Taylor has been building world class guitars in San Diego for 42 years and we've been brewing world class beer for 27, so it's safe to say we've been big fans of each other for some time. The mutual admiration we share for each other's craft stirred a desire to collaborate, but it took some time to land on an inspired idea.
When we learned of their 600 series and the focus on maple wood, as well as the fact that Skagit Valley also happens to be home to Skagit Valley Malting, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to visit our neighbors to the north and collaborate with Taylor on a release that blends elements of our different world's into a single glass.
Taylor has been working with Steve McMinn, one of the guitar industry's leading wood suppliers, to give figured maple a sustainable future in Skagit Valley. While maple has an established heritage as a tonewood for instrument backs and sides, outside the musical instrument market it has little value compared to other hardwood species that grow in the Pacific Northwest. | 267 |
Clubs: Primary: The current club selection includes Music, Football, Drama<|fim_middle|> and enable them to acquire new skills. | , PE, Arts & Crafts, Science & Discovery, Dance, Board Games, Cooking, Basketball, Table Tennis, Wall Climbing, Journalism, Creative Computing, Team Building Games and European programmes. Secondary: More than 40-afternoon clubs focusing on personal interests, career interests, community service and entertainment. Most school departments run their own clubs which encourage knowledge beyond the material taught in class. Many GCS students are also involved in various European and international programmes such as the European Youth Parliament, Model United Nations, the London International Youth Science Forum and the Oxbridge Academic Programmes.
Founded in 1973, the school provides high-quality secondary education in a supportive and disciplined learning environment. Both the academic and extra-curricular programmes encourage and guide students to excel academically, develop their critical, analytical and transferable skills, and become all-round personalities characterised by self-confidence and broad-mindedness. The achievement of this aim is ensured through continual supervision of each individual student. In 2015 the school management introduced The GCS Mathematics School and The GCS Sports School, both aiming to develop talented students' special abilities | 229 |
LIFESTYLE / Dec '2018
All the Single Lady Mums
Online dating is a contemporary hook-up option for singles, which many now consider as an alternative to traditional methods, and perhaps a new fandangle approach they have yet to try.
There is literally a whole entire universe that comprises single status people (national industry reports suggesting 4.5 million annually) covertly co-existing beneath the radars of those not looking for love, and it seems to be thriving.
Words LISA O<|fim_middle|> I move on.
"It's good for me now because I am busy with other things and don't have time for a relationship," reflects Rebecca, who is enjoying a whole new world with new experiences.
Rebecca elects not to pay for any additional services or match making data to improve her hook-up outcomes. Without spending a cent, all she need do is "swipe right" if she "likes".
Fifty-something–year-old Samantha is disgusted by one of her closest friends, who also uses Tinder and other sites to meet men.
"I don't want any part of it and have told her to stop sending me photos of her Tinder date's genitals, alongside face shots. That's just ugly," she says.
"I feel quite offended and even prudish (which I never thought I would say), violated by some of the things she has shown me."
Online dating does benefit everyone overall, according to Relationships Australia's recent research, especially those who are lonely or isolated.
Online dating is the second most preferred way to meet a new partner. The single status online universe has lost its stigma and is out in the open. While true love may not necessarily prevail, online hook-ups are happening all the time, everywhere you look, even if don't want to see.
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The year 1995 marked the official launch of the World Wide Web, followed shortly after by the registration of familiar dating sites such as eHarmony and RSVP. Social media and mobile phone technology evolved dating site capabilities further. Now there are even sites that match daters to the best dating site.
With over 680,000 single mothers with dependents in Australia, the online dating service industry is a lucrative business.
Choice offers useful, comprehensive and current comparative data on popular sites and their suitability against criteria of personal demographic, cost and privacy.
They also provide advice on how to stay physically safe and financially protect against scammers preying on lonely hearts.
Dating and romance scams account for over 30 per cent of total financial losses reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (A.C.C.C.) as arising from scams activity.
The A.C.C.C. reports less than two per cent of online dating sites provided specific information about the costs of their service before becoming a member. They are also aware of instances of online operators that have created and operated their own profiles.
Following a voluntary 18 year dating hiatus to focus on raising her two daughters, 44 year old single mother, Angela, was ready to find her Prince CharmingChar.
Meeting in a public place for first dates felt awkward, surreal and unnatural, "like the world had gone backwards," Angela says.
"My first date was with a guy that shall be known as the green Kermit. Initially there were a lot of texts followed by a bar, a dinner, and then on the third date a 'come home with me' and demands of sex. Let it be known, it is quite the online expectation by the third date!
"Kermit immediately ceased contact following my refusal and, although this bruised my ego, I realised I had dodged bullet. Then much wiser, I asked for complete honesty at the onset, with "Red wine over White Linen Shirt Man" kindly complying by saying he didn't feel anything after our first date."
Angela recognises that her online dating journey pulled her out of her comfort zone to overcome her social anxieties.
However, she has grown tired of excusing the poor behaviour of those preying on her emotional vulnerabilities.
Regardless of her negative experiences, Angela acknowledges, "There are definitely people having positive experiences, and those with already active social lives investing in this alternative phenomenon with a different lens."
"It can be a tool for people to connect, if they feel isolated or alone and provide opportunities for human connection they may otherwise not have had," says Angela wisely.
"Your experience really will depend on what you are looking for," explains recently separated 44 year old mother of three, Rebecca.
Rebecca, married at 18, is far more interested in finding herself than a companion, and so "plays" the Tinder game with her new-found freedom and the energy her recent single status has afforded.
"There was no instruction manual to start online dating, but you soon learn," says Rebecca who spends about an hour a day flicking through profiles.
"When you are my age, where do you go to meet a decent guy? Yachting? Golf? Only the youngies go to the pub and they always hunt in packs,"
Rebecca muses.
Rebecca's first experience was with Frenchy who, after eight weeks, still comes over Mondays during his lunch break in an Uber.
He coached Rebecca, telling her of a few items to prepare for his arrival and not to worry about the "small talk".
"I have needed to learn a new language. The guys all talk in acronyms and sometimes I need to guess what they mean!" excites Rebecca.
Rebecca has also trialled the geo-mapping option offered by Tinder, her online dating service of choice. This option notifies her if someone who is also registered with Tinder is in close proximity to her.
"Online dating is liberating because if someone doesn't fit my schedule | 812 |
Premier Collector #5: The Vintage Room
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Alan Keith loves his ''58 Les Paul so much, he built it a room of its own
On his way to becoming Premier Collector #5, Alan Keith learned a Premier Guitar secret -- call late enough at night, and you might encounter our hard-working CEO. Of course, a nod from the top isn''t all the caught our attention about Alan''s collection. We were first taken by his 1958 Les Paul Special (which, in our opinion, looks just as beautiful au natural as it would''ve with the original finish), and then he started telling us about his guitar room. A guy who built his own well-monitored, freestanding storage/jam room/shrine of rock in his backyard is a guy we had to get to know better.
Alan grew up in a guitar family. With five uncles who all played guitar, he grew up watching and listening to them play at family get-togethers in Texas. Now age 5<|fim_middle|> a description of your gear to rebecca@premierguitar.com
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GearGear Galleries | 0, he has been playing since he was 10 years old when one of his uncles gave him a 3/4-size acoustic guitar. "I still wonder where it is today," says Alan. Though his love of rock and roll differed from the blues and Texas Swing played by his uncles, they encouraged his interest in the instrument. "I appreciate, especially looking back, the effort and time he took to help get me started," says Alan of one of his uncles. It was through his uncles that he got a number of the guitars he has now.
"Starting out, I had the usual lower grade, almost unplayable guitars as that was all I could afford. In 1979 another uncle gave me my first real playable guitar. He got it in the late fifties. One of the other brothers got one of these guitars so he could "sound like Les Paul." It was a 1958 Les Paul Special. The body finish had been removed. Back then few people thought much about changing colors if the notion struck them. All the original parts were there, and I rubbed the body with Tung oil and put it back together. I did have the original alligator case that was falling apart, so I went to Rock World of Oklahoma City (no longer there) to get a used case. I think it is so funny looking back at that, because the store had a big banner inside that said "Disco Sucks." That certainly dates the time period! I love that guitar and over all the years that is still the one I play most."
"The Les Paul and an old Ventura acoustic were my guitars for many years. The Ventura was a very good playing and sounding guitar and I was basically satisfied. I was satisfied until sometime about ten years ago, the collecting bug began to nibble at me. I have bought and sold antiques for many years and have had several specific things I would collect, therefore I am no stranger to the research and joy of the hunt that is part of the thrill of collecting.
"One of the first guitars I looked for was to replace the Ventura with a classic. So, after checking out the options for classic acoustics, I decided to find a Gibson J-45. I found one, a 1957 model. The Ventura has now been passed to my brother.
"My original idea was to get the styles and types I saw the players use from my favorite bands -- the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Boston, Doobie Brothers, Heart, Steely Dan and many others from my definition of the Golden Era of rock.
"I decided to play the songs I loved and try to get them note for note correct and feel from the playing point of view. I watch videos of the performances when I can find them, and try to see the positions they are playing in. I also try to get the tones that I hear coming from the recordings.
"To achieve this I have a few pedals from the analog time all these were recorded in. A couple of books have helped a lot. The Beatles Gear by Andy Babiuk, and Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick."
The Guitars:
1979 Fender Strat, 1958 Gibson Les Paul Special, 1970s Yamaha FG-260
1965 Gibson ES-125 TDC, 1971 Gibson ES-320, 1983 Gibson ES-335
"I got the ES-320 one from yet another uncle. These weren''t too popular and only ran 1970 to 1975."
1957 Gibson J-45, 1963 Gibson ES-330
The Amps:
"My amps are simpler -- not enough room to collect too many. My signal first goes into a Peavey Rockmaster. The Rockmaster is a seventies, 12ax7 tube driven preamp. It has a three channel capability controlled with a footswitch. This really helps me play the different parts of a song from clean to driven with just a footswitch as I am playing with the recording. From the Peavey the signal goes to either a Fender Twin from the late seventies, MusicMan, or the Gibson GA17RVT.
1979 Fender Twin
"I use a Rockman Powersoak and a Rocktron Hush with it to drive it without too much volume."
1965 GA-17RVT
"I bought this and the ES-125 from the original owner who bought them together in the sixties. The Bigsby was original on the ES-125."
The Room:
"My collection (and noise) was outgrowing the guest room of our house, so my wife and I decided I should build a separate room from the house just for playing and displaying the guitars and equipment. So we found a place next to our house and the work began. First, a slab floor was poured; then concrete block walls were erected. A handyman and I did the rest. The room has a reinforced fiberglass door with a steel outer door, an alarm and monitor cameras for my peace of mind (we also have two 200 lb. Mastiffs). It has no windows, two small skylights and is climate controlled. Apart from the alarm and video cameras, I can also monitor the humidity, temperature and I am alerted of a fire from the inside of the house."
"I rarely play out, and really I get such pleasure from nailing one of the songs I am working on and accompanying the recording don't feel the desire to." Alan says, "I am no pro and I know my limitations'' as Clint Eastwood said in Dirty Harry. But, I couldn't be happier playing for my own pleasure and accomplishment and sometimes with or for my friends."
To join Alan as a Premier Collector, send an e-mail with photos and | 1,238 |
I just added a sign up area to the How You Can Help page that gives you an idea of when my good days are, and can have visitors and guests. I learned today that even a simple lunch can wear me out, so I'd prefer to keep the number of visitors at at time minimal, noting there are always exceptions to rules.
The time slots list 11:30am-4:30pm, but this is totally flexible<|fim_middle|>! It's supposed to rain! But I still had a good day.
Don't forget the sunscreen! 'Cuz you know….cancer.
Love you Bike Wife! See you in two days! | (in most cases), and absolutely does NOT mean the entire time. This time block is when I find I lose my steam during the day, so it's nice to have a human interaction boost. Want to only visit for an hour? Totally fine. Want to go jump around a trampoline gym for two? Also doable. The point is, HUMANS PLEASE.
In other news, I feel way better than I did yesterday. I'm definitely on my upswing to Friday's infusion. I'm curious to see if I have similar timing of sucktitude with only gemzar, versus last week's carboplastin + gemzar. Maybe it'll be less, but even if it's roughly the same timing, I'll have 9 whole days of good feelings.
My biggest issue these days is appetite. I have none and take no pleasure in eating. I've reached out to my doctor to see what he recommends as far as high caloric dense foods, but if any of you have ideas, lay 'em on me. Whole milk and real butter, and all.
Please go out and sit in the sun! I love you!
There is no sun today | 238 |
JMT, Day 22: We Did It. – Hi, Alpine.
It rains off and on all night, sometimes loudly pounding against the tent, sometimes swirling so softly that it could be the wind. We wake up around six to snow. It's not sticking, but there's ice on the outsides of our bear barrels. And it's cold. If the last couple days have felt like fall, this feels like winter.
I hide under the trees of our little kitchen one last time, and make us a quick breakfast. Our last. We throw the last little bits of our food in our bear barrels, put on all our rain gear, roll up our soaking tent, and begin picking our way up toward Donahue Pass – the beginning of Yosemite.
It rains off and on as we near the pass, and even seems for a moment like it's going to let up – there's a pocket of bright blue right above us – but then it shifts to something between hail and snow. Whatever though. I always feel invincible on the last day.
The area between Island and Donahue Passes is the only part of the JMT on the east side of the Sierra crest. Even in rough weather, it makes for nice views.
Really, the whole area's just gorgeous. Fun to see it turning autumnal. Or maybe wintry? And precipitation somehow always seems less threatening when it's the last day on the trail. Everything does.
The last mile before the pass is mostly stone steps build into massive granite fields. The pikas are out to say goodbye.
We crest the pass a little after ten, and are treated to views of our final stretch: Lyell Canyon down to Tuolumne.
The top of the pass is crowded from weekenders out of Yosemite. A middle aged white guy in jeans warns me that the weather was bad yesterday, and that it might turn bad today as well. "You never know up here." I thank him for the insight. What would we do without old white guys to tell us how to live? They do serve a sort of navigational purpose, though: they're a sure sign we're nearing a major trailhead, like birds leading ocean ships to port.
Descending into Lyell Canyon, the air feels crisp and cold, and my mind turns to the convivial pleasures of warm drinks and indoor temperature control, pumpkin patches and pies, long-simmering soups. Home.
<|fim_middle|> then finally, in the distance, the wilderness permit station and our car. It's still here!
We're back at the car and it's here untouched and I'm sitting in the trunk in disblelief. There's clean water here too – a faucet near the building – where I filled up my water a month ago before we left, and where I now fill up the Nalgene that's been waiting under the passenger seat. I drink a liter then fill up again. It'll be months before I take water this easy for granted.
Krista goes to the bathroom and comes back in her street clothes, but I decide not to change – I want to save the only clean things I have for tomorrow. I get into the driver's seat and we sit there for a while, feeling the car's electric heat and the unbelievable pleasure of seats made for bodies like ours. I kiss Krista on the cheek and just keep saying, over and over: we did it.
I know you wrote this a couple years ago and been 3 years since you completed this but it was all new to me. I didn't want your adventure to end. I've read a few blogs about this trail and yours was so well written and so poetic. The photos were magnificent. I live so close to the AT and yet this is the trail I dream about doing. I so enjoyed this whole trip (through your writing).
Oh wow, thanks so much for reading! I hope you get out there someday: we live in the Pacific Northwest, and are surrounded by an embarrassment of mountains, but the Sierra is still unlike I've ever seen.
One day I hope to! I have Shenandoah here but there's something about Muir Wilderness…. | Lyell Canyon is… long. Maybe 13 or 14 miles? For a lot of southbounders, it's their introduction to the High Sierra. Sort of magic. But we're just ready to be home. We have a small snack at the beginning of the canyon, then motor on for a few hours. For the first time in a while, the trail just feels like it's dragging. Like those old cartoons where the scenery repeats as a character runs forward.
We stop again maybe halfway down for a quick lunch aside a slow, deep part of the river. The meadows are golden and it feels like we've spent an entire summer up here. My first summer in the Sierra.
Just after lunch, we hit a sign – 5.6 miles left to go.
I put away the camera, and we just cruise. In a weird way, it feels like the whole trip has been leading up to this – basically jogging back to the car. I stop once, after maybe three miles. Krista's right behind me, and has been out of water since just after lunch. Apparently her hose has been leaking? She stoically takes a few sips of mine, and says we should move on. We decide to stay close together for the last few miles, no headphones or anything.
Soon the trail becomes so wide that we can walk side by side, and suddenly we're just out for a dayhike, walking back to our car after a short few mile jaunt to some heavily visited viewpoint. Suddenly the last few weeks are in past tense.
As we near Tuolumne, there are more and more people. Couples in jeans carrying small water bottles or hot coffees in disposable cups. Dogs on leashes. They're all so clean!
There's a tangle of trails, and of course I get us sort of lost. We end up at the housing for summer employees – a bunch of RVs and tents in an open meadow. We follow the road past a massive, expensive looking lodge, then some horse stables, | 419 |
We've "scene" it all--The SceneExchange Blog:<|fim_middle|> a car, i.e. how will the costs of oil changes or repairs change. | Saving the environment or needlessly draining the bank account?
As part of our country's push to become more environmentally aware and less fuel dependent President Obama recently announced new fuel emissions standards for vehicles. However, critics and advocates alike are questioning the overall impact this will have on our country's fuel consumption and environmental impact.
As a counter to the hybrid vehicle push, VW is promoting their clean diesels as a way for vehicle owners to get the best of both worlds: additional fuel efficiency without losing the fun-to-drive factor.
In general a lot will depend upon consumers. With gas prices once again creeping up there are incentives to "go green", but is the higher price tag associated with hybric vehicles worth it? Sites such as Edmunds.com have fuel consumption calcuators to help consumers figure out if they will actually be saving gas, and therefore money, by purchasing a more fuel efficient vehicle. Many of these same sites help consumers calculate the "real cost" of owning | 194 |
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Madeleine Baran was a reporter for the Riverwest Currents before moving on to the Daily Planet in the Twin Cities, Minnesota Public Radio, and investigative reporting for American Public Media. Today she is the host of their In the Dark podcast.
By Madeleine Baran on July 2004 in News, Politics
In the past decade, bright green storefronts have been popping up all over Milwaukee, with dollar signs and huge posters in the window advertising, "Up to $2,000 Cash Loans." Inside, long lines of low-income people wait each day to take out a payday loan — the most expensive legal form of credit. After completing the […]
Fuel Cafe to Undergo Major Renovation
By Madeleine Baran on July 2004 in Business Spotlight
Since it opened in 1993, Fuel Cafe has been the unofficial center of Riverwest. On a recent afternoon, police officers stopped in for coffee to go, visiting train-hopping punks did crossword puzzles, a middle-aged couple sat down for lunch, and Slava, a local street musician and well-known regular, nursed his coffee for well<|fim_middle|>]
McGee Brings "Organized Confusion" to 6th District
By Madeleine Baran on May 2004 in News, Politics
"People are expecting me to go down there and act like a nut… But I think totally outside the box. Everything I do is unconventional to people who are within that box. But for people who think outside the box, they're like, 'Oh yeah, that's how it should be: creative.'" | over three […]
Industry Records
By Madeleine Baran on June 2004 in Business Spotlight
by Madeleine Baran / photos by JennyMarie Farris Last year, Matt Muente dropped out of school, drove a truck out to Colorado, picked up several thousand records, came back to Milwaukee, and — at the age of 20 — opened Industry Records on Center Street in Riverwest…
Rising Property Assessments in Riverwest
By Madeleine Baran on June 2004 in News, Politics
In the past year, Riverwest property values increased faster than any other neighborhood in Milwaukee, leaving many residents surprised and concerned. In Milwaukee, residential property values increased by almost 10 percent overall. The average increase in Riverwest was around 24 percent, while in some pockets of Riverwest, average property values almost doubled. "I was shocked," [… | 184 |
Airbus and Boeing currently build the biggest passenger airplanes in the world, with the mighty Airbus A380-800 and its rival the Boeing 777-300, while Russia's Ilyushin also stands out as the only other company to make the list. Aerospace-technology.com lists the top ten biggest passenger airplanes in the world, ranked by seating capacity.
A380-800 aircraft developed by Airbus is the largest aircraft in the world to date with an 853 passenger seat capacity. Image courtesy of Airbus.
The first Boeing 777-300 aircraft was delivered in May 1998.
Boeing 747-400 is the most popular aircraft in the Boeing 747 family.
Airbus A340-600 is a super-stretched version of the A340 family. Image courtesy of Airbus.
The maiden flight of Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental was completed in March 2011. Image courtesy of Boeing.
Boeing 777-200 is the first variant in 777 series. Image courtesy of Boeing.
The A330-300 aircraft first entered into service in 1994. Image courtesy of Airbus.
The A340-300 aircraft is equipped with four CFM56-5C4 engines. Image courtesy of Airbus.
The A340-500 aircraft obtained EASA certification in December 2002. Image courtesy of Airbus.
The A380-800 from Airbus tops the list, with a massive seating capacity of 853 passengers. Rightly dubbed as the Superjumbo, it accommodates 525 passengers in a three-class configuration.
The cabin consists of main and upper decks. The main cabin deck is 49.90m long and 6.54m wide, while the upper deck is slightly narrower with a length of 44.93m and width of 5.80m.
The A380-800 was launched in December 2000 and made its first flight at Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, in April 2005. The first A380-800 was delivered to launch customer Singapore Airlines in October 2007.
The power plant of the world's biggest passenger aircraft includes either four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines or four Engine Alliance GP7200 engines. Cruising at a speed of 587mph (945km/h) or Mach 0.89, it can reach a range of up to 8,477nm (15,700km).
Boeing 777-300 offers a maximum seating capacity for 550 passengers, ranking as the world's second biggest airplane in the passenger aircraft category. It offers 368 seats in a three-class configuration.
The production of Boeing 777-300 aircraft was approved in June 1995, and the first aircraft was delivered in June 1998 to Cathay Pacific. The aircraft is the latest derivative of the Boeing 777 programme, which was initiated in October 1990.
The 777-300 can cruise at a speed of Mach 0.84 (892km/h) at 35,000ft altitude.
The twin-engine aircraft is available with three engine options, including Pratt & Whitney 4098 with a thrust of 98,000lb, Rolls-Royce Trent 892 with a thrust of 90,000lb and General Electric 90-94B, with a thrust of 93,700lb.
Boeing 747-400 is the most favourite aircraft in the Boeing 747 family worldwide. It features a seating capacity of 524 in typical two-class configuration and 416 in a three-class configuration. The cabin is spacious with an interior width of 6.1m.
Boeing 747-400 was incorporated with major aerodynamic improvements over its previous 747 models. The aircraft completed maiden flight in April 1988 and first entered into service with Northwest Airlines in 1989.
The aircraft is powered by four General Electric GE CF6-80C2B5F engines rated at 62,100lb each.
The maximum cruising speed of the aircraft is 567mph (913km/h) and the service ceiling is 35,000ft.
The A340-600 developed by Airbus has a seating capacity of 475 passengers. It can accommodate 380 passengers in typical a three-class configuration. The maximum length and width of the cabin are 60.98m and 5.28m respectively.
The A340-600 has the longest-fuselage among the A340 Family aircraft. The first flight of the aircraft was completed in April 2001.
Virgin Atlantic Airways was the launch customer, which received the first A34-600 aircraft from Airbus in August 2002.
The aircraft is powered by four Rolls-Royce Trent 556 engines, which can develop a thrust of 53,000lb to 56,000lb. The maximum cruising speed of the aircraft is 543mph (881km/h) at Mach 0.8<|fim_middle|>0 seats respectively in the three-class and two-class configurations. The aircraft has an interior cabin width of 5.86m.
Boeing 777-200 was the first variant in the Boeing 777 aircraft series. The aircraft flew for the first time in December 1994 and entered into service in May 1995.
The twin-engine jet is available with three engine options, which include Pratt & Whitney 4077, Rolls-Royce Trent 877 and General Electric GE90-77B.
The aircraft can cruise at a maximum speed of 560mph (905km/h) at Mach 0.84. The maximum range and service ceiling are 5,240nm (9,700km) and 43,000ft respectively.
Airbus A330-300 is the most economical mid-size aircraft with a fair balance between range and cost. It entered into service in 1994.
The A330-300 provides seating for up to 440 passengers with 300 seats available in a two-class configuration. It has a maximum cabin length of 50.35m and cabin width of 5.28m.
The aircraft has a range of 6,400nm (11,300km) and maximum cruise speed of 541mph (871km/h) at Mach 0.82. It is powered by two engines of General Electric CF6-80E1 or Pratt & Whitney PW4000 or Rolls-Royce Trent 700 make. The aircraft has a service ceiling of 41,100ft.
The A340-300 is a variant of the A340 family developed by Airbus. The passenger jet has a maximum passenger seating capacity of 440. It offers 295 seats in a three-class configuration. It has a maximum cabin length of 50.35m and width of 5.28m.
The first flight of the A340-300 was completed in October 1991, and the aircraft entered into service in March 1993.
The jet cruises at a speed of Mach 0.86 powered by four CFM56-5C4 engines which generate a thrust of 151kN each. The aircraft has maximum range of 7,400nm (13,700km) and service ceiling of 41,100ft.
The Il-96-400 is a Russian long-haul wide-body aircraft manufactured by Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. It is the latest version of the Il-96 family, which was designed by Ilyushin. The aircraft is based on the Il-96M/T fuselage.
The aircraft offers seating for 436 passengers in the single class configuration. It accommodates 386 passengers in the two-class configuration and 315 in the three-class configuration.
The maximum range of the Il-96-400 is 5,400nm (10,000km). The aircraft is powered by four Aviadvigatel PS-90A1 engines which generate a maximum take-off thrust of 35,274lb each. The Il-96-400 has a cruise speed of 870km/h and service ceiling of 39,370ft.
The A340-500 combines performance, comfort and capacity for highly efficient ultra long-haul operations.
The aircraft can accommodate a maximum of 375 passengers. It has a typical three-class configuration with 313 seats. The cabin has a maximum length of 53.56m and width of 5.28m.
The A340-500 completed its maiden flight in February 2002 and entered into service with launch customer Emirates in December 2003. The aircraft is powered by four RR Trent 500 engines, which generate a thrust of up to 249kN each.
The maximum operating speed of the aircraft is Mach 0.86 and the range is 9,000nm (16,670km).
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Graphene, the multipurpose miracle material first manufactured at Manchester University, has been vaunted as potentially revolutionary for the aviation industry. | 3. The range is 7,900nm (14,600km) and the service ceiling is 41,000ft.
The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (747-8I) accommodates a maximum of 467 passengers in three-class configuration. It has a maximum cabin width of 6.1m.
It is the largest passenger aircraft version in the 747 series. The maiden flight of the aircraft took place in March 2011. The aircraft entered into service with the launch customer Lufthansa in June 2012.
The passenger airplane has a maximum range of 8,000nm (14,815km). It is fitted with four General Electric GEnx 2B67 engines, which are rated at 66,500lb each. The maximum cruising speed is 570mph (917km/h) and the service ceiling is 49,000ft.
The Boeing 777-200 with a maximum seating capacity of 440 is currently the sixth biggest passenger aircraft in the world. It offers 305 and 40 | 260 |
Caroline Woznacki 3R interview
Third round lost to Maria Sharapova 4-6 6-4 3-6
Q. Maria seemed to have a good game plan, like she kept pushing you wide with the backhand and then went for winners with the forehand. Were you surprised how solid and consistent she was?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: No, I wasn't. I was expecting that.
Q. It's obviously an incredibly tough third round. How did you feel about your performance?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: You know, I did my best out there. I was fighting till the end. You know, in my head I should have won that first set. Being up 4-1, I had a chance to do that, but I didn't, and then I fought back and won the second set. Then it was a close third set.
It just wasn't enough today. I did my best. I did all I could. Just came up short. That's sports sometimes.
Q. It felt like the match really turned on the long rallies of nine shots or more. Is that your view of it? And that's usually where you shine. How do you explain?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I'm not sure. You know, I think there was a period in kind of end of the first set and kind of beginning of the second where I kind of lost my rhythm a little bit, I feel like.
I feel like, you know, because she was either making a winner or making a mistake, and then I was waiting, and then I felt like I just lost my rhythm a little bit. But then I thought from the middle of kind of the second set, I feel like we both picked it up. And I think the third set we both played well.
You know, it was just a grind out there. Yeah, what can I say? I just came up short, and it is what it is, I guess.
Q. It's been a long time since your last meeting together. Quite a lot happened off the court since then. What's your relationship with her now and whether you've spoken with her off the court before this meeting, or is it friendly terms now?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I mean, I think our terms are the same as they have always been. I think she doesn't really talk to anybody and just, you know, has her team and has her own thing. And that's that.
I do my own thing. I have my friends, and that's that. I just, we are just playing, we are on tour. We are competitors. We both try our hardest when we're out there on court and fight our hardest.
Q. I also suffer from rheumatoid<|fim_middle|> and it feels like it wouldn't happen with the men's matches so much?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I don't really know. It's hard for me to say something about it when I haven't seen the schedule. I don't know who is playing where. I'm sure they have a reasoning for it, but I don't know.
Obviously they're great players, and, you know, I think the luxury here is that you have three great big courts. You know, they're all not the same, obviously, but they're all big and good courts. It's not like you're being put somewhere outside and it's a completely different feel.
I don't really know about the scheduling. You're right. I probably won't be looking at the scheduling for the next week since I'm not on it.
Q. You know, in the past when you lost here, you didn't have a Grand Slam. You know, this year is very special, the defending champion. So is there a difference like, I'm sure it's sad both ways, but what do you take from it? Because you have your Grand Slam and you have been world No. 1.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: Yeah, you know, I think it's a little bit of a different feeling, sitting here. But at the same time, you know, I'm a competitor. I love to win; I hate to lose. I hate losing more than I love winning. Obviously you're sitting here and you're a little sad. But, you know, that's what drives you. That's what drives me to try and be better and to improve and, you know, playing the best players in the world and trying to win the big tournaments.
That's why I'm here. That's what I want to do. You know, obviously it's a luxury for me to have achieved winning a slam and being No. 1 and winning a lot of other tournaments. It's a luxury to have that and not have to stress over that.
You know, I just try and enjoy being out there and competing and trying to play my best. That's what I enjoy doing.
Q. Would it matter to you whether you're playing after 3:00pm or after 3:00am? Is there a time where it's just too late to expect athletes at even your level to put in a peak performance?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I don't know. I think sometimes matches run late. You know, that's -- playing long matches is kind of the beauty in tennis. You know, you see some of the epic matches that go long three sets or long five sets for the men. You know, I think it has history and it has charm. You know, sometimes you're just unlucky that you are behind some of those matches.
You know, I think it's equal for you and your opponent. You know, you're kind of on level playing fields when it comes to that. Obviously I would rather play a 7:00pm match than a 3:00am match. But sometimes you have no control over it and you just have to go out there and play. That's kind of my mindset. I just play when I'm put on to play, and that's it.
Q. This might seem a strange question, but do you consider yourself a better player now, considering the depth in women's tennis, than what you were when you were actually world No. 1 in the world?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I mean, if you ask me compared to last year or compared to six years ago, if you ask me compared to six years ago, I think definitely I'm a better player.
I think I have learned a lot. I think you get experience. You add to your game. Everyone kind of pushes each other, and when you're No. 1, you have to keep improving even with a faster pace, because you have a target on your back.
But if you ask me compared to last year, I think, yeah, you try and improve, but I think the difference is much smaller and you'll have, you know, a month where you may play better and a month where you may play a little worse. So it's kind of like you just keep trying to have the trajectory to keep improving and keep going this way (pointing upward) and that's kind of my thought behind that.
Q. Looking ahead, you mentioned last year that you were thinking possibly about not going back to Miami this time after the events of what happened last year. Have you had any further thoughts and made a decision on that?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: To be honest, I haven't thought about it yet. I have been focused on this tournament. But I haven't really thought about the future planning.
But I would lean more towards I'm playing than not playing.
Maria Sharapova 3R interview | arthritis and I have been in quite a bit of pain today because of the wet and storming weather. Wondered how you felt today, whether it affected you at all, and what your pain levels were like?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I'm okay. I went out there and I was feeling fine. I feel good. I gave it everything I had today, and that was that. Definitely don't want to blame it on anything else.
You know, it was just, you know, she was just a little bit better than me today. And that was really it.
Q. Is coming to a Grand Slam as the defending champion, is this one of the hardest thing, now that you look at it that you have been faced with in your career, or maybe not?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: I don't know that it's the hardest thing. I actually didn't find it hard at all. I find it kind of pleasurable. It was nice and exciting, and I think it was great.
You know, in tennis, you're one on one, and you battle and you do your best. One day you win; some days you lose.
As long as you give it your all out there, as long as I fought for every point and was really trying to do everything in my power to win, I can't really blame myself for anything.
You know, I'm sitting here and, of course, I'm disappointed that I'm not through to the fourth round. I wish I was. But, you know, I can't be too hard on myself with what I got today. I did what I could.
Q. What did your dad say to you in the hall afterward?
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: He just said, you know, Good fight. You did your best. You know, there is a couple of things that we can maybe do, so next time you can maybe get an edge on some things.
But other than that, you know, You've worked really hard and I'm really proud of you.
Q. I'm sure the scheduling for the rest of the tournament is not your biggest concern. There has been –
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI: Not really.
Q. There has been quite a lot of comments about Simona Halep and Venus Williams not being on Rod Laver tomorrow. Do you have any thoughts on that, whether the women's matches, kind of a bit strange not to see such big names on there, compared to some of the other games, | 529 |
Doesn't every child deserve to be celebrated on their birthday?
That's the question on the front of the brochure for Birthday Wishes, a Newton Centre-based group that provides birthday parties for homeless children in six states. Volunteers bring birthday joy to children in 175 shelters, including HAC's three family shelters. The children play games and do crafts projects (making paper hula skirts, building teddy bears from a kit, decorating Christmas cookies). The birthday child opens gifts donated by the group.
Birthday Wishes volunteers have been organizing parties at HAC shelters for about five years. The parties help bring normalcy and hope to the shelters<|fim_middle|> a dozen children there.
To learn more about Birthday Wishes, visit www.birthdaywishes.org. | . Last month Dawn Boulay, the Birthday Wishes volunteer coordinator for Angel House, and volunteer Nicole Myberg coordinated a party for Serenity, who was turning 1.
Maura Dankert of Bourne is the Birthday Wishes party coordinator at the Village at Cataumet, a HAC shelter for families. She recently organized an Easter egg hunt for | 72 |
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Networking Trainers Give Tips On Seeking Help in Job Search
By Joann S. LublinStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Dec. 4, 2001 12:10 am ET
ABOUT 120 well-dressed men and women look up in unison as Diane Darling holds a small zippered bag above her head. "This is your networking survival kit," she explains. She urges them to bring one to any business get-together where they might make contacts.
Stuffed inside Ms. Darling's survival kit are: a Sharpie marker pen (so her name badge will stand out), a gold case with her business cards, an empty case to hold others' cards, stamped thank-you notes, a ballpoint pen -- and breath mints.
The 42-year-old president and founder of Boston start-up Effective Networking offered her kit idea during a networking workshop last month hosted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Business is brisk. Ms. Darling, a former marketing executive, has taught 2,000 people since her first networking seminar a year ago. Her company, incorporated in August, expects to break even by spring.
Everyone knows personal contacts are the best way to find a job. But with unemployment at a five-year high, almost everyone needs to bolster his or her networking know-how. Many panicked job-seekers confess to Ms. Darling that they just haven't spent much time networking these past two years.
EVEN THOSE UNEMPLOYED individuals who maintain links with former co-workers are finding their calls ignored. "I just want to get on their radar screen," laments Craig Silverman, a 40-year-old creative director laid off in May by a San Francisco advertising agency. He has left numerous phone messages -- all unanswered -- with ex-associates in New York.
Help is on the way, thanks to the small but growing phalanx of full-time networking trainers. Ms. Darling is one of the newcomers, though she learned to feel comfortable among strangers at an early age by attending nine schools in three countries. Veterans in the field include advisers Donna Fisher of Houston, whose latest book is "Professional Networking for Dummies," and Susan RoAne of Greenbrae, Calif., a fellow author known as "the Mingling Maven." Among these specialists' suggested tactics:
Over-prepare for a networking event such as a professional association meeting.
Before you arrive, scrutinize the guest list to pinpoint<|fim_middle|> Suggest how the meeting might benefit the contact, too.
In addition, "savvy networkers always let the person who gave them the lead, information or contact know where they are in the process," says Ms. RoAne, a networking instructor for 21 years. "No one wants to give someone a contact and find out incidentally that the person got the job or promotion."
Make connections for your contacts and you're more likely to be repaid in kind.
Early last month, Ms. Fisher briefly coached a Houston human-resources manager laid off by J.P. Morgan Chase. Two days later, he e-mailed her names of two employed colleagues who might hire her to teach subordinates. She forwarded his attached resume to an employment-agency owner she knows. "That," she says, "was a great example of the ripple effect."
E-mail comments to me at joann.lublin@wsj.com
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In most cases, leave your resumes and hunger at home. Doing so "solved the issues of mechanics," says Victor Aramati, a 56-year-old product-quality director laid off by Compaq Computer in September. He used to awkwardly juggle resumes, thick notebook, pen and food during networking events. "I went and hid in the corner because I couldn't figure out which hand to shake with," he jokes.
Now he knows better. At an Effective Networking seminar in October, Mr. Aramati learned to hold his drink in his left hand so he wouldn't give a clammy handshake. Thanks to such tips, he says he is "less scared" about networking.
SPEND NO MORE than eight minutes with each new contact at the event, focusing on what help you have to offer.
Ask contacts about their thorniest work problems and outline your relevant skills or propose referrals. "As much as possible, put yourself in their lives," Ms. Darling says.
The trainer says you should be very specific when seeking help in a job search. She can imagine someone's needs when he or she says, "I'm looking for contacts at software companies that want quality-assurance experts to test products that will hit the market in three months." A well-honed request helps contacts remember you, says Ms. Fisher, who has taught networking for 12 years.
Stay in touch with contacts.
When Ms. Darling leaves a valuable encounter, she scribbles a thank-you note and encloses another business card (the contact should already have one), then mails it immediately.
A follow-up e-mail will get noticed faster if its subject line contains an attention-grabbing reference to requested information, a mutual acquaintance or a lunch offer. "Make me open my e-mail," Ms. Darling advised the Boston workshop.
Persuade your contact to attend any introductory session. The trick: | 412 |
The Monument to Electricity That Never Was
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In 1922, eccentric magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback decided that the world needed a 1,000-foot tall concrete monument to electricity. Gernsback imagined that this monument might last for thousands of years, and rather than some static behemoth stuck in time, the interior of his monument would be constantly changed to reflect the technological advances of each new generation.
Gernsback's article in the October 1922 issue of Science and Invention magazine explained why electricity was worthy of a monument. Interestingly, he saw it as a message to future generations that even if our civilization should be wiped out by war or natural disasters, we were still able to accomplish something great at one time.
In connection with our editorial of this month, we show on this page a monument dedicated to the age in which we are living. Electricity, more than anything else, has made our present civilization what it is, and if this civilization should be wiped out by war or some other cataclysm, nothing would remain to tell what Electricity did for the race during the past century.
Before the Egyptians built their first pyramid they probably foresaw that unless they built something of a tremendous size it would not stand the ravages of man and Nature. Hence the size and form were chosen in such a way as to make it last for practically all time.
Gernsback explained that this monument would look like a gigantic electrical generator, 1,000 feet tall. By comparison, the Statue of Liberty is just 305 feet tall, and the Empire State Building (which was almost a decade away from being built in<|fim_middle|> it could very well be in Smalltown, U.S.A. The illustration is by Frank R. Paul, who would help define the 1920s and '30s pulp sci-fi era's aesthetic. Four years later, in 1926, Gernsback began publishing Amazing Stories, the first magazine ever devoted solely to science fiction. Amazing Stories featured countless covers and story illustrations by Frank R. Paul, whose most famous illustration for the magazine appeared in 1927 for a reprint of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
This post originally appeared at Smithsonian.com. | 1930) isn't that much taller than the proposed monument, at just 1,250 feet if you don't count its spire.
When we therefore propose to build a gigantic monument to Electricity, we have the same objects in mind. On some plateau we could erect an electrical generator, molded in concrete, 1,000 feet high. Molded of the finest concrete, such a monument would last for a thousand years. It would probably not be affected by the weather and the climate, and it is doubted whether it could be easily destroyed by any savage race that might come after us.
In the inside passages, along the walls, could be inscribed, in diagrams and otherwise, electrical fundamentals, from the first static machine down to the latest radio developments. As new inventions come about, these can be inscibed from year to year.
If the entire electrical industry would think well of such a plan, a monument of this kind could be built without taxing any one concern a great amount. It would be a lasting tribute to our race, and to the progress that is exemplified by Electricity.
Gernsback doesn't suggest where such a monument might be built, but judging by the illustration, | 251 |
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With Long Legacy, Collectability, Electric Football Seeks Spot in Toy Hall of Fame
August 9, 2018 By Rich Mueller
Tudor Games, long-time maker of Electric Football, has announced the 70th anniversary celebration of "the world's favorite football game." They're also lobbying for a spot in the toy Hall of Fame.
Electric Football began in post-war Brooklyn, New York as a plug-in vibrating board game where chaos reigned—much to the delight of kids, football fans and the toy business who had never seen anything like it. Since then, over 40 million Electric Football games have been sold and today, "coaches" compete in leagues across the United States, Canada, and around the world. The older games are highly collectible.
"We're excited to honor this game's legacy and its future with our 70th anniversary celebration," said Doug Strohm, president of Tudor Games. Invented in the late 1940s, Electric Football made its debut at New York Toy Fair just as the NFL and college football were gaining in popularity thanks to the spread of television broadcasting.
"It was a marriage made in heaven," said Earl Shores, author of several books on Electric Football. "Electric Football was football's 'home game,' teaching football rules to generations of baby boomers who would make American-style football a sports institution in high schools, colleges and at the professional level."
Electric Football has the distinction of being one of the NFL's longest-running items, with the first officially licensed NFL Electric Football games sold by Sears in 1961. One of Shores' books has republished the pages from those old catalogs through the years.
The platinum anniversary celebration will feature a letter-writing and petition campaign aimed at inducting Electric Football into the prestigious 'National Toy Hall of Fame' at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. To date, 65 toys have been inducted, and each year, The Strong honors and showcases both new and historic versions of classic toys (you can nominate Electric Football here).
Television, press, and online outreach are also part of the campaign which will include contests for Electric Football enthusiasts, special products, commemorative packaging and more to celebrate the 70th anniversary.
"The NFL is very proud of its longstanding relationship with Tudor Games Electric Football," said Rhiannon Madden, Vice President of Consumer Products at the National Football League. "We hope the game is inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame for its impact on generations of football fans."
Actively participating in the anniversary celebration is the family of Electric Football's inventor, Norman Sas, who not only invented the game but successfully built it into a toy empire. Sas passed away in 2012 at the age of 87 and is survived by his wife Irene, her children and grandchildren, some of whom attended Toy Fair 2018 to see the industry Electric Football helped to shape. "We are so proud of Dad's iconic invention and are delighted to see the innovation that's still driving Electric Football 70 years later," said Wendy Sas Jones.
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Sharon's Salon
Sharon Urquhart's hair-dressing salon was a modest addition built to a small bungalow in Grand Anse, Cape Breton, a wide spot in the road between Port Hawkesbury and St. Peters. The salon, someone once said, looked like a Norman Rockwell painting — men getting their hair cut, women under bee-hive hair dryers, pets and kids coming and going, everybody talking.
The talk was not trivial. Sharon was a born intellectual, and she loved to talk about books and ideas, music and travel, gardening and politics, and particularly the theatre. She had a degree from Dalhousie in theatre, and she refused to be kept from theatrical experiences simply because she lived in the country and never learned to drive. Instead she would scoop up her husband and her daughter and organize a trip to see Cirque du Soleil, Peter Pan, The Rolling Stones, Ben Heppner, Les Miserables. Halifax? You bet. Toronto? Fine.
"She always knew what was going on culturally," recalls her cousin and close friend, Ken MacInnis. "And she could always get tickets to anything. She was famous for it. Speed dial was her friend."
"Sharon had an artist's soul," says her friend Denise Saulnier. "She did hair design for her clients, but she also ran a mini art gallery in her salon where the 'show' on the walls changed with the seasons. She loved painting, sculpture, music, dance. It's not surprising that she studied theatre – a field where all the arts come together at once."
Carpe Diem, said the motto from Horace painted on her wall. Seize the day! In her youth she hitch-hiked across Canada, worked in Toronto and returned with a German luthier named Johannes Sturm. A luthier in Cape Breton is as important as a farrier at the Preakness; the last time I was in Johannes' shop, he was massaging a guitar while J.P. Cormier anxiously looked on.
When their only daughter was born 12 years ago, Sharon and Johannes made sure that Ava learned to fiddle and step-dance, playing at concerts and festivals across the island. And so the little bungalow with the hair salon became a focus of another generation of gifted young people. Ken MacInnis' wife Mary remembers Sharon as a momma duck, always followed by a flock of ducklings: Ava and her friends, nieces, a sister-in-law, more friends, other children.
An intensely social woman, Sharon was an active player in the United Church and the school advisory council. She created extravagant floats for local parades, and built haunted-house sets inside the fire hall at Hallowe'en. Hair-dressing suited her perfectly, bringing her a constant stream of personalities, conversations and ideas, and she was exceptionally good at her work. My wife Marjorie, a city-reared woman with an extensive experience of ruinously-fashionable hair-dressers, never had better hair-care than she did with Sharon, who also became her cherished friend.
Sharon delighted in learning, and she was a tireless researcher. In her encounters with ideas, she had a warrior spirit, fearful of nothing, always willing to face and tell the truth. Over the sinks in which she washed her clients' hair was a big mural of Narcissus — a reminder to us, perhaps, not to be too preoccupied with our own appearances.
Her salon often doubled as a counselling office. Finding themselves alone with Sharon, people would unburden themselves in the most intimate way. Sharon listened, commented sympathetically, made suggestions, and kept her mouth shut. But if someone said something nice about you, she made a point of passing it on.
Last fall, Sharon learned that her slight cough was a symptom of lung cancer. She fought it valiantly. In March, her small community organized a spectacularly-successful day-long fundraiser for her and her family. On June 10 she died. She was only 51.
In 18th-century Paris, a "salon" was a scene of brilliant cultural conversation, "conducted" by an inspiring host whose guests strove both to amuse one another and also to refine their taste and knowledge. What Sharon really did, said Marjorie, was not to operate a salon, but<|fim_middle|> Gaelic singer respectively. The other six were Cape Bretoners. There were four fine women fiddlers, all of whom were also step-dancers: Leanne Aucoin, Rachel Davis, Beverley MacLean and Chrissy Crowley. The youngest player, Douglas Cameron, was just 13, already a veteran who described himself as an "all-purpose" fiddler, capable of handling weddings, dances, concerts or whatever other assignments might be handed to him. But when he was asked to step-dance, he resolutely shook his head.
But the most remarkable performance of the evening came from 23-year-old Jason Roach, a pianist from Cheticamp. Cape Breton pianists are superb musicians, but almost all confine themselves to "chording" – accompanying the fiddlers with pulsing rhythms, liquid runs and great sweeping chords. The only major exception I know is Dougie MacPhee, a legendary figure precisely because he is an accomplished solo performer, playing the tunes with his right hand while accompanying himself with a powerful rhythmic left hand.
Jason Roach does the same thing. He has studied with some of Cape Breton's finest pianists, notably Maybelle Chisholm, and he also has a degree in music from St. Francis Xavier. He is a dazzling performer who plays at sizzling speed, with arms and fingers of rubber. Yet he also has a musicality which serves the tunes rather than overwhelming them. I have never seen anything like him. Like J.P. Cormier on the guitar, Roach does things on the piano that I wouldn't have believed possible.
The kids just keep on coming. It's a wonderful thing to see.
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The Celtic Kids
The youngsters just keep on coming, and it's a lovely thing to see.
In 1971, when I moved to Cape Breton, I didn't realize that I was immigrating into the Canadian Gàidhealtachd – the only remaining Gaelic district outside the British Isles. I had been raised in a Scotch broth so dilute that I knew nothing of the music, the heroic legends, the poetry or any other aspect of the culture of my ancestors.
Cape Breton was a revelation. At my first Broad Cove Concert, I heard someone on stage crack a joke in Gaelic – and 15,000 people laughed. These folks were Scottish in a way I could barely imagine.
And then there was the music. Hearing Celtic music was like coming home for the first time. I didn't stop loving Bach, the Beatles or the blues – but this new music reached far inside me and plucked strings of emotion I had never known were there. In some mysterious fashion, it was my music, and it spoke immediately to my character, my temperament, my spirit.
But the music, it seemed, was in danger. A film-maker named Ron MacInnis had recently aired a documentary called The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler, and the island was reeling at the idea that the jig might be up, so to speak.
And so began a concerted effort to celebrate the music and enlist a new generation of players. Led by Father John Angus Rankin, the Cape Breton Fiddlers' Association was formed. It organized a couple of spectacularly-successful mass concerts at Glendale. The Association also encouraged a gifted teacher named Stan Chapman, and by the 1980s, a whole crowd of Chapman's young students was taking the stage at the Scottish summer concerts – Jackie Dunn, Tracey Dares, Kendra MacGillivray, Stephanie Wills, Wendy MacIsaac, Glenn Graham, Rodney MacDonald and others.
I remember being particularly delighted by two teenage players at a Big Pond concert: a slender girl with tumbling blonde ringlets and a very proper young man in white dress shirt and red tartan tie. Both of them played like angels on fire. The girl was named Natalie MacMaster and the boy was Ashley MacIsaac.
The Chapman Generation is now in its thirties, at the height of its power. This month, the Celtic Colours festival included a concert in Judique called "Wendy's World," centred on Wendy MacIsaac, and featuring many of those same young people. Mary Jane Lamond sang, Stan Chapman was in the audience, and Ashley MacIsaac delivered a blistering, passionate performance which prompted his cousin Wendy to remark that he was "simply the best fiddler in the world." At that moment, probably nobody in the hall would have disagreed.
So we're all right today. But what about tomorrow? Who's coming along now?
For me, that was the big news from Celtic Colours this year. The show in D'Escousse featured the Alberta band The McDades – and also the remarkable Jerry Holland, one of the most eloquent and melodic of all the fiddlers. But the show was opened by 16-year-old Krysta MacKinnon of Dundee, already a self-confident and accomplished performer – a fine player now, with a long future ahead of her.
The concert in St. Peter's consisted entirely of musicians 26 or younger. Two were from Scotland — Calum Alex MacMillan and Catriona Watt, a piper and | 816 |
Q: Backreferencing wildcard matches in vim substitution I have a file with three lines.
HelloStackOverflow
ThisIsMyFirstPost
OnThisWebsite
I want it to look like this.
HELLO_STACK_OVERFLOW
THIS_IS_MY_FIRST_POST
ON_THIS_WEBSITE
Is there a way to do this using Vim's substitution? I currently have this.
:%s/^\([A-Z][a-z]*<|fim_middle|>
(\1 gives the last wildcard match)
A: As you have a * after the first capture group, only the last of those repetitions will actually get in the first capture group. Moreover, this repetition will make it impossible to insert underscores earlier on in the phrase.
I would make that a ? instead of *. The idea is that you only want to capture something (one word) when it is the first word of the phrase, but for any other position in the input, you don't want to match anything here.
So a few changes are needed:
*
*Change the * after the first capture group to ?
*The ^ should move inside the capture group, so the ? applies to it.
*The $ at the end should be removed as otherwise you cannot have multiple matches on the same line.
That gives:
:%s/\(^[A-Z][a-z]*\)?\([A-Z][a-z]*\)/\U\1_\2/g
| \)*\([A-Z][a-z]*\)$/\U\1_\2/g
The first group captures all words up to the last in each line, and the second group captures the last. Can I "expand" the backreference to the multiple matches of the first group, so _ can be put after each one? Currently, it produces this.
STACK_OVERFLOW
FIRST_POST
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Interactive Map Shows Your Block's Average Rent in 1943
The Center for Urban Research at<|fim_middle|>CR Denies Bronx Landlord's Rent Hike
City, State File Briefs Supporting Rent Law with Supreme Court | CUNY's Graduate Research Center recently launched the "Welcome to 1940s New York" Web site. When you enter your building's address, the site displays 1940s Census data, Web maps, and pages from a rare 1943 book called NYC Market Analysis, found in 1997 by then-graduate student Steven Romalewski. The book has been scanned and placed onto a map of the city.
Using newspaper and Census data, the site gives you a peek into each neighborhood in 1943--a clickable description with photographs, block-by-block rental breakdowns, and population statistics. For example, Williamsburg at the time had a population of 114,598 "native white" and 61,488 "foreign-born white" residents and the majority of the rents were under $30 a month. In addition to neighborhood data, there is also borough data, such as the number of manufacturers and stores open at the time.
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"Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace…" prayed St. Francis of Assisi long ago. How better to begin a day than by saying, "Lord, make me an instrument of peace today." One of the interesting things about prayer is that very often the Almighty answers prayer by using those who pray to bring about the very answer they seek. Instead of sending an angelic being to the conference table, he prompts men to soften and negotiate and thus brings peace.
Instead of a bolt of lightning from heaven, God allows His spirit to speak to your hearts, and you lay down your verbal weapons and make peace. Whenever you pray for something, you must also realize that God may use you to help answer your own prayer. Peace is not God's changing your mate or your business partner. Peace is God's speaking to your heart so you are willing to concede your right to be heard. Peace is two talking together. Peace is two praying together. It is God on both sides of a discussion. Peace is open-mindedness. Peace is patience. It means keeping your temper as we listen to the other side of a discussion.
In the week of the Passover–His last one on earth–Jesus turned to His disciples and said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27). An acquaintance of mine is a businessman whose partner defrauded him of a large sum of money. The partner denied the wrongdoing, yet the book didn't lie. So two men parted ways,<|fim_middle|> you will have become an instrument of God's peace.
You are very much welcome Angielet. We pray that your heart will be filled with the love of the Lord and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Fell free to call us at 737-0700 we are 24/7 open. God bless you. | and bitterness filled the heart of the man who had been cheated. Finally, God began speaking to him and impressed upon him that he was to go to the man who had been his partner and ask his forgiveness. He argued, "Not me, God. He is the one who ought to be asking forgiveness! He is the one who stole from me." But the anger and bitterness wouldn't go away.
Finally, he met the business partner in a hotel lobby and immediately went over to him and said, "I have to ask your forgiveness for the way I have felt towards you. I know it was wrong. Forgive me!" And what happened? The man who had defrauded his partner burst into tears, and the two threw their arms around each other in forgiveness. What is more, restitution came out of that confrontation. A man who was willing to be an instrument of God's peace not only found peace in his heart, but the blessing of God financially as well.
Have you been an instrument of God's peace, or rather have you been the cause of hard feelings, bitterness, and perhaps even hatred? How about getting down to specifics and asking God to give you the grace to reach out to your brother in love and forgiveness? And when you do, | 255 |
04.10.17 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs
Now, an app for rainwater harvest queries
People interested in installing rainwater harvesting plants in their homes would soon be able to do so with a smart phone app. The Uttar Pradesh groundwater department will soon launch an Android-based mobile application which will enable people to easily install rainwater harvesting plants.
The app will also help people to find out if the area in which they are living is witnessing a depletion of groundwater table.
The application will not only provide assistance in setting up a rainwater harvesting plants but will also provide information about groundwater and related queries.
With the application, a user will be able to find out which water harvesting technique would be best for setting up a plant at their rooftop and calculate how much water can be harvested.
The application will also provide region-wise data about groundwater levels.
Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of gravitational waves
Three American physicists have won the Nobel prize in physics for the first observations of gravitational waves.
Rainer Weiss has been awarded one half of the 9m Swedish kronor (£825,000) prize, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will share the other half of the prize.
All three scientists have played leading roles in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or Ligo, experiment, which in 2015 made the first historic observation of gravitational waves.
· First US Crude Oil Shipment Arrives in Paradip
The first United States crude oil cargo of 1(point)6 million barrels bought by Indian Oil Corporation from the US reached Paradip Port, Odisha.
Indian Oilbecame the first Indian public sector refiner to source US crude has placed a cumulative order 3.9 million barrel from the US.
They will process the crude at its East-Coast base refineries, located at Paradip, Haldia, Barauni and Bongaigaon.
· National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) launches new website and PMIS Mobile App
The Chairman of National Highways Authority of India Shri Deepak Kumar launched a world-class, new multilingual website of the organization.
He also launched a Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) Moblie App that will facilitate close, in-house monitoring of NHAI projects on a mobile phone.
The system is now digitally monitoring them through a state-of-the-art Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) which has been developed in-house along with The Boston Consulting Group.
· Karnataka launches 'Mathru Purna' scheme for pregnant women
Karnataka Chief Minister Mr.Siddaramaiah launched 'Mathru Poorna' scheme,for the nutritional wellness of pregnant and lactating women in rural areas, at Vidhan Soudha, in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The 'Mathru Purna' scheme, aims at providing pregnant and lactating poor women in rural areas with one nutritious meal daily, for 25 days in a month.
A full meal of rice, dal with vegetables or sambar, one boiled egg, and 200ml of milk, will be given to pregnant women, through anganwadis.
It benefits around 12 lakh women.The food will be provided for 15 months, from the start of pregnancy to six months after delivery.
· Indian Railways announced No service charge on train e-tickets till March 2018
The Union Government waived service charges in November last year after demonetization to encourage digital modes of booking.
The facility had been extended from June 30 and then to September 30.
The Railway Board directedIndian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) that the benefits be extended till March next year.
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· Union Government launches SECURE Himalaya Project
The Union Government launched SECURE Himalaya, a six-year project to ensure conservation of locally and globally significant biodiversity and land.
The Himalayan ecosystem spread over four states namely Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
The system was launched by Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC)in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Ministry of Health adjudged best for 'Swachhta Pakhwada', receives award
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been adjudged as the best department for its contribution during Swachhta Pakhwada, an inter-Ministry initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
The Health Ministry observed the Swachhta Pakhwada from 1st February, 2017 to 15th February, 2017.
The award was presented to the Ministry on 2nd October, 2017, the third anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission. Shri C K Mishra, Secretary (HFW) received the award on behalf of the Ministry.
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Congratulations of the fourth anniversary, Kaapse Brouwers
Rotterdam is where the Netherlands meets the world. Schiphol airport may be the country's most visible international gateway, but for over 130-years or more passengers and goods have been arriving and departing on ships from Rotterdam, still one of the largest and busiest ports in the world. Rotterdam's port may have grown exponentially during the past 50-years, but history is still evident in certain important areas of the harbour.
The Kop van Zuid, for example, is an area of gentrification that sits on the south side of the Nieuwe Maas (a distributary of the Rhine), surrounding the historic Rijnhaven harbour, which was built at the end of the 19th-century.
Overlooking the Rijnhaven, one of the last former warehouses that remain has been given a new lease of life and is now the home of the Fenix Food Factory, a combination of food hall, artisan food market, cider bar and craft beer bar/brewery.
As befitting a building with heritage and provenance, the décor in the Fenix Food Factory follows the de rigueur fashion for industrial chicness — the old meeting the new. The utilitarian concrete, exposed pipes and external ductwork only serve to add heaps of authenticity and a relaxing atmosphere to the ad-hoc collection of distressed tables, sofas, armchairs and other disparate furniture at which a variety of great food and drink can be enjoyed.
There is a large, extensive terrace area overlooking the water<|fim_middle|> international guests tempting the spoilt-for-choice drinker with a continent-ful of beers.
Besides the international beers, there are several activities to keep people amused between drinks. Whether it's the Silent Disco, held in a sealed side-road that is almost a Secret Silent Disco, or the not-so-silent DJ. Games are available, too, and there is always the most popular activity of the day: sitting outside, drinking beer.
Today is a good omen for Kaapse Brouwers' Wood Anniversary next year, and then onwards and upwards to its Silver one.
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Cider and Perry lovers head to Rotterdam's Cider Festival | , too, from where the jewel-in-the-crown across the Rijnhaven can be admired. Directly opposite the Fenix Food Factory is the Wilhelminapier, the departure point for countless passengers leaving for the New World aboard the Holland America Line during its first 100-years — until the famous shipping and passenger line moved its HQ to Seattle.
The Holland America Line's original 1901 office building remains, thankfully, and it is towards this world-famous Art Nouveau edifice (now the Hotel New York) that all eyes drinking beer and cider on the terrace face. In a gesture of reconnection with its former home, the Wilhelminapier is once again used by the Holland America Line, and it is awe-inspiring to be sitting on the terrace, drinking a beer or cider, dwarfed by the humongous cruise ships, such as the flagship MS Rotterdam, coming and going opposite.
The Fenix Food Factory itself is a hotchpotch of businesses, all of which seem to merge into a single vision of taste, relaxation and enjoyment — it's a great mix that works well. A bakery, a bookseller, a cheesemaker, a coffee roaster, a pâté maker, a greengrocer, a Moroccan tapas bar, a food kitchen in which different chefs can operate each week, and a maker of that Dutch classic, stroopwafels. Then there are the drinks. Not only is Fenix Food Factory the home of the first dedicated cider store in the Netherlands, but it is also the home of Kaapse Brouwers, a rapidly emerging leader in the Dutch craft beer scene that has just celebrated its Fruit and Flowers Anniversary (or its Linen/Silk Anniversary if you're in the USA).
Kaapse Brouwers celebrates its anniversary each year with a small, international Beer Festival, and 2018 saw participants from Norway, Spain, Catalonia, Italy, the UK, neighbouring Belgium and right here in the Netherlands. Happy fourth anniversary.
Despite its varied and numerous businesses, the Fenix Food Factory is not huge; managing to fit ten visiting breweries into its limited capacity and leaving adequate floor-space for visitors is a challenge that was easily accomplished. However, trying to find each brewery amid the various businesses, dining families, casual visitors and hardcore drinkers is initially baffling, but each can be visited during one complete circuit of the building's interior.
Only one brewery was relegated outside, and it was Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage from Brussels who drew the short-straw. Not that they seemed bothered, despite the continual overcast weather and threat of rain. Nacim and all the team seemed pretty happy and buoyant for the entire day, delighting in serving their great beers and chatting with visitors. Beers from Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage will be imminently available in Japan, so we wish much success with that.
Also hailing from Brussels is the eponymous Brussels Beer Project, who spend the day serving their already well-known beers from a bar that sits between breweries from Italy and the UK.
North London's Pressure Drop Brewing delight in being here and confirming the brewery's name is neither related to a symptom of inadequate draught beer systems, nor is it related to a song by The Clash or any other artist who's covered the reggae classic. The name, of course, relates to the original 1969 version of the song, recorded by Toots and the Maytals.
To many visitors it is CRAK Brewery from Padova in Italy who are the star attraction. Making their first appearance in the Netherlands, Claudio and the team quash with a heavy boot the mistaken notion that Italy doesn't have a worthy beer-scene. Italy, famed for its great sense of fashion, taste and engineering, is naturally the perfect country to provide the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) with one of its most recent official beer style additions — the Italian Grape Ale. Anything made from grapes is inherently seasonal, and mid-Spring is out-of-season. However, CRAK has a Sour Italian Grape Ale available that has been maturing for a few seasons — delightful. Evidence indeed of a determination to do things well, to brew awesome beers, to 'crack' and break away from anything that is not meeting expectations. CRAK Brewery is one to watch.
Catalonia's Cerveses La Pirata are always welcome, at home and abroad. Evidence seen on Social Media suggests La Pirata is perhaps one of the hardest working breweries in Europe at the moment, constantly travelling to make collaborative brews elsewhere across the continent or inviting fellow-brewers to its base near Barcelona for the sake of beer, brewing and collaboration. Knowledge sharing and learning seemingly pays dividends for the quality of a brewery's beer, and La Pirata's beer served by Panos and Ale today is testament to that.
Many beer festival attendees in western Europe are familiar with Norway's Austmann, which today sits between the greengrocers and the cider store, serving their unique beers-with-a-twist to anticipant drinkers. Drinking Austmann beers whilst perusing the neighbouring fruit and vegetables is a unique experience.
Despite its London-centric focus, it's great to see the Kernel Brewery making the journey to the Netherlands. An appearance by the Kernel Brewery is something of a rarity, as evident by the large number of people queuing to partake of southeast London's finest craft beers. In its ninth year of operation, the Kernel Brewery is something of an old-master amongst the young upstarts of craft beer. Its longevity is a result of not only great beers, but also a dedicated and determined customer-first focus; the attentiveness and emphasis on keeping all visitors happy is ably demonstrated by Chun and the Kernel Brewery team today. The attention given to customers must be applauded.
Spain's Laugar Brewery appear somewhat at home in the Netherlands, since they're very frequent visitors — thankfully — and always extremely popular. Today is no different. With six distinct beers from their large brewing portfolio, there's something for everybody. Serge and Oscar continue to keep the visitors entertained with their charm, wit and excellent beers, in spite of a few minor technical hitches that result in one slow-pouring tap. A popular notion is that 'Good things come to those who wait', and visitors to Laugar Brewery are happy to wait patiently because they know its worth it.
Somewhat hidden-away in the centre of the Fenix Food Factory is Norway's LERVIG, a little out of sight at times. However, once fans and drinkers locate the brewery, some of the day's longest queues can be seen here. Despite the fact that LERVIG's beers are certainly some of the most recognisable and well-known beers of the day, thanks to their fairly widespread availability and frequent attendance at various beer festivals, many people are still interested and keen to taste something Scandinavian — along with beery delights from fellow Norwegian brewery, Austmann.
Brouwerij de Molen is, of course, familiar to the majority of beer-drinkers in the Netherlands and many overseas visitors, too, primarily because of its annual Borefts Bier Festival, a feast of global beer extravagance that is extremely popular and fast becoming one of the highlights of the European beer-festival season. Brouwerij de Molen is based not too far from Rotterdam, so it is no surprise that Kaapse Brouwers holds the Borefts Bier Festival after-show party here at the Fenix Food Factory, a chance for everybody to unwind with a relaxing beer after several days of dedicated drinking in the pursuit of unique, international beers. Today, Brouwerij de Molen brings a selection of its finest spring-beers, all of which are popular.
Hosts Kaapse Brouwers are fortunate enough to have their own permanent taproom, which is constantly busy throughout the day. The range of Kaapse Brouwers' beers is quite extensive, so it is no surprise that many visitors wander into the taproom to try one or more of the many delights on offer — there's something for everybody. It's not huge space, but there is a huge number of beers, and there's even a bottle-shop, too. It is worth making a journey to the Fenix Food Factory simply to visit the Kaapse Brouwers' taproom; it could perhaps be a beer festival all on its own, even when there are no | 1,732 |
A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
During WWII many paintings met the same tragic fate as so much of the art that<|fim_middle|> those stories.
Library of California Medical Malpractice Forms | was stolen or purchased under duress during the Nazi occupation. Plundered art from that era has a clouded history echoing its former owners' fate.
Publisher: American Bar Association
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums, foreign nations, and even their own family members. These stories endure because they speak to one of the core tragedies of the Nazi era: how a nation at the pinnacle of fine art and culture spawned a legalized culture of theft and plunder. A Tragic Fate is the first book to seriously address the legal and ethical rules that have dictated the results of restitution claims between competing claimants to the same works of art. It provides a history of Art and Culture in German-occupied Europe, an introduction to the most significant collections in Europe to be targeted by the Nazis, and a narrative of the efforts to reclaim looted artwork in the decades following the Holocaust through profiles of some of the art world's most famous and influential restitution cases.
On the surface, this dispute is similar to many others, but digging deeper one finds a multilayered puzzle that embodies the competing narratives often at play in restitution cases: persecution, obfuscation, the murky environment of the art market after the war, and the basic tension between legal systems and who should bear the burden of resolving the competing claims. But digging deeper one finds a multilayered puzzle that embodies the competing narratives often at play in restitution cases: persecution, obfuscation, the murky environment of the art market after the war, and the basic tension between legal systems and who should bear the burden of resolving the competing claims.
There is no simple, unifying principle to these debates of stolen art. When approached by the heirs of victims, many current possessors look for the right answer. Some are indifferent. Some see a more complicated story in which their own interests and public service are more important than what happened eighty years ago. Disputes not yet known or filed will be guided by the stories and cases that have already happened. The tactics of and choices made by the parties to such disputes many times reveal the heartbreaking struggles that began in the past and continue to affect the descendants of the original owners today.
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If you have a special occasion coming up, you might want to consider making this wonderfully-fall cheesecake. The orange-flavored cream cheese filling is poured into a ginger-snap cookie crust, baked and then topped with orange marmalade.
The marmalade didn't make the pictures, nor did the slices or crumbs. It's one of those desserts that causes you to lose some of your senses until it's too late. You all are lucky I had the where-with-all to snap this one.
There are no fancy ingredients here and while there<|fim_middle|>/2 cups sugar, the orange juice concentrate and vanilla, beating well. Add the eggs and egg whites, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Pour the filling into the prepared pan (the crust can still be warm). Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the center barely moves when the pan is bumped and when the center kind of puffs up. Let cool for 10 minutes, then carefully run a knife around the outside edge of the pan. Cool to room temperature, remove sides and refrigerate until ready to serve.
That looks and sounds wonderfully wonderful!
Can you just come and make this for me? This sounds amazing. | are three parts to the recipe, they are simple and easy to follow. If you'd like to remove the cheesecake from the bottom of the pan, scroll to the bottom of this page to see my tutorial with photographs.
Cooling before the center sunk. The center will sink a bit. That's okay. It gives you the perfect place to put the topping.
Orange-Glazed Cheesecake with Ginger Snap Crust (adapted from Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2002) Yields 12-16 servings (depending on the size of your servings).
Spray a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray thoroughly (I like to wrap the bottom of my pan with foil because it sometimes leaks. You can skip this step if yours doesn't). Combine the cookie crumbs, 2 tbsp. sugar and melted butter with a fork in a small bowl. Pour the crumbs into the greased springform pan and spread them gently around the bottom of the pan until it's covered, then press the crumbs down with your fingers. Bake at 325 degrees for 5 minutes and then set aside.
In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Add the flour, 1 1 | 255 |
USPS dedicates Wild Orchids stamps
The Wild Orchids stamps will celebrate the exotic beauty of the flowering plants and call attention to efforts to preserve them, Postal Service and horticultural community leaders said at the stamps' dedication ceremony last week.
There are more<|fim_middle|> the world. Many that are native to North America are endangered or threatened, making sightings in their natural environment increasingly rare.
"Orchids can be hard to find in a natural setting and today there is a conservation effort to preserve these beautiful flowers," said Jacqueline Krage Strako, the Postal Service's chief customer and marketing officer, who spoke at the ceremony. "Each of these stamps represents a masterpiece of nature that blossoms with color. They also continue the Postal Service tradition of showcasing the natural beauty of flowers on stamps."
The Wild Orchids stamps, which feature images of several species, are available in booklets of 20 and coils of 3,000 and 10,000 at Post Offices and usps.com.
The dedication ceremony was held Feb. 21 at the American Orchid Society Library at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, FL.
Other speakers included Georgia Tasker, a horticulture writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist; Susan Wedegaertner, president of the American Orchid Society; James A. Fowler, the photographer whose images appear on the stamps; and Lawrence Zettler, director of the orchid recovery program at Illinois College.
The speakers discussed how orchids contribute to the ecosystem and why it's vital for the unique plants to survive in an age of extinction.
Said Zettler: "I want every child here today — and those born tomorrow — to be able to see, to smell and appreciate the orchids that are part of our ecosystem and our nation."
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It will<|fim_middle|> want to give a copy to your attorney immediately. | probably come as no surprise that most people—according to one survey, as many as 90%—agree to be bound to terms they have not read. But there is no requirement that a contract be read to be enforceable. In other words, it is not a defense to a breach-of-contract action to say that you did not read the contract.
A contract is not enforceable if both parties are not giving something or giving something up, so it's a sure bet that if you're signing something, you're also agreeing to give something up. The surest way to prevent the kind of angst associated with being bound to something you didn't realize you agreed to is to read the contract before you sign it.
Not all contracts are negotiable. Those that are not are called adhesion contracts. They form the majority of contracts, including when you purchase anything online—and they're usually enforceable. But just because a contract does not look negotiable does not mean there is not room to negotiate.
A rental lease agreement, for example, typically comes in a preprinted form that leaves little doubt as to what the terms are intended to be, and they're exactly what the landlord wants them to be. But because you have leverage (meaning the landlord wants a tenant as much as you want a place to live), you likely also have negotiating power. So if there is a term you don't like (which you'll only know if you read the contract), ask for it to be changed. You may be surprised how often the other party will agree to it.
Retaining an attorney to review a contract may not always be necessary, but if it is an agreement for a large transaction (like the purchase of a home) or with extended duration (like an employment or nondisclosure agreement), an attorney's advice can become a valuable investment that could save you in the long run, particularly if you are dealing with a party you don't know is trying to take advantage of you. Contract review is typically not very expensive, and depending on the circumstances, it can more than pay for itself.
Contractual acceptance is a very broadly defined term in contract law. You don't have to sign with your exact signature, your name, or even sign at all to enter into a binding agreement. Almost any mark or sign made for the purposes of acceptance of the contract's terms will suffice. Most online transactions do not involve a signature, but a click, known as a "click-through" agreement. Click-through agreements can be enforced even though there is no signature.
If you are entering an agreement, you have a right to a copy of it. If the person with whom you are transacting business refuses to give you a copy, that should be cause for alarm. Insist on a copy and then keep it for your records. If you are accused of having breached the agreement in the future, it will save you a lot of time and anxiety if you have it for your reference. And if the disagreement turns to litigation, you will | 611 |
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Lije Sarki
William Wanek
Brendan Michael Coughlin, Dave Rodriguez, Nicole Zeoli
"Closing Doors" Review
Sometimes, the simplest stories are the most powerful.
Closing Doors is the deceptively simple story of a father (Dave Rodriguez) struggling to find his way and let go of the past in order to raise the daughter he loves.
There's something refreshing about a director who<|fim_middle|>, The Independent Critic also pledges support for the Ruderman Family Foundation's call for authentic representation of people with disabilities in film and actively commits to leverage its journalistic influence to effect genuine change in the film industry by calling for and actively promoting authentic and inclusive casting and hiring of people with disabilities.
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The Tenderness Tour | has the wisdom to trust his actors, his story and the way that it naturally unfolds. So many directors would have felt it necessary to add unnecessary conflicts or hyped up dramatics, but the power of Closing Doors lies in its deceptive simplicity as a father plays hard-ass at the front door of the family home when a punk kid (Brendan Michael Coughlin) shows up presumably for a date with his daughter.
At times, it seems as if this seemingly ordinary front door has become a domestic war zone and it's impossible to tell if this is one seriously psychotic father or if, perhaps, he's simply an overbearing father who has the best of intentions protecting his little girl. Yet, there's something about these two nameless characters as they face off with one another - it's as if both of them have arrived at this place and time with a little extra baggage and the words being spoken unfold with tremendous emotion, intensity and intentionality.
Brendan Michael Coughlin, whom some may recognize from his time as Tad on Days of Our Lives, adds a depth to his portrayal of this ordinary street punk that makes it difficult to decide as the story unfolds if this is a young man with excess baggage, a chip on his shoulder or if there's something else entirely going on here. Similarly, Dave Rodriguez is electrifying as the father whose verbal jousting only begins to reveal the tremendous depth of emotion that is going on inside him.
Penned by William Wanek, Closing Doors bristles with crisp, clear dialogue that so easily flows between our two lead characters that at times it's difficult to decide whether this is truly the written word or if an improvisational spirit has taken hold. To his credit, Wanek has managed to bring to life two vividly developed characters well within the film's less than 10 minute running time.
Director Lije Sarki clearly trusts his actors, avoiding any distractions as we watch the faces, listen to the words and wait for the story to unfold. Sarki's direction is slow and steady, a clear indication that he trusts the material and, indeed, his trust is well rewarded.
D.P. David Navarro's camera work is clear and crisp, maintaining the film's simplicity and focusing on the characters and the story as it unfolds. This is a film that doesn't need gimmicks - it needs authenticity, and Navarro's unflinching photography stares in the faces of these characters as they go back and forth. Kudos, as well, must be given for the original music of Honey Honey.
Closing Doors is the kind of short film that will leave you thinking and processing long after the closing credits have rolled on by, playing over in your mind the words that have been spoken and the scenes and images that have unfolded. Sometimes, the simplest stories are the most powerful and love, for all its strange and wondrous complexity, Closing DOors is really the simplest story of all brought vibrantly to life by a punk kid, a father struggling to let go and the little girl who brings them together.
Closing Doors is just starting its film festival run and, most assuredly, this is one film you want to check out if it arrives at a festival near you!
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South Pasadena High School Outstanding Educators
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South Pasadena High School congratulates counselor Tracy Ishimaru and art teacher Aimee Levie-Hultman, both from South Pasadena High School who received the 2021 University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Awards.
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For more information, contact: South Pasadena Unified School District, Office of the Superintendent, scarroll@spusd.net.
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The App Academy at Pasadena High School | "Outstanding Educator" thoughtfully approaches instruction, shares an infectious love for learning, and cares for students both inside and outside of the classroom. Each year, newly admitted UChicago students have the opportunity to reflect on their time in school and nominate an educator who played a significant role in their education, made a positive impact in their lives, and whose influence has brought them to where they are today. Responses were received from thousands of students in recognition of educators who have positively impacted their lives.
We are honored to recognize excellence in teaching and congratulate this year's Outstanding Educator Award winners, who are exceptional in their fields and are role models for all students. Thank you for going above and beyond the call of duty every day and leaving an impression that will last a lifetime.
All award winners receive a commemorative award, certificate, and letter that includes details from the student who nominated them. The public is invited to join a virtual event celebrating this year's winners on Monday, October 25 at 7 p.m. CDT. Please click here to register for the Zoom event.
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by Brent Powers
Sometimes just waiting does it. Someone will<|fim_middle|> a coffee and some breakfast snack flavored with anise. She adds a pinch of salt to the coffee, then milk and sugar. She goes to a table at the window and watches the dawn.
Nothing happened last night. It ended moments ago. The man will drive to his work, to his life. In the late afternoon, filled with vileness and his ears still ringing with commerce, he will sit for a moment and look out the window, down at the safe plots of the living, and wonder if he should go home.
Copyright © 2009 by Brent Powers
to Challenge 327… | show up. At the very least City Patrol asking to see your papers. Here in the predawn hours what can an unescorted lady be doing? What is she thinking? What can she possibly find of interest in public sculpture?
Yet how often there at the entrance to the école has she stepped into a car and driven away into another life? The statue does after all represent the god who shows his son the world he must enter, where he will forget himself and become entangled, perhaps lost.
She asks for a cigarette. The man does not smoke. But neither does she. The smoke, rising in a snake dance of veils and phantoms reminds her of a vanished and sad antiquity, of dry bones filled with spooks.
They are coming to the newer part of the city. It always feels colder here, and she huddles up in her parka.
"Do you want the heat?" he asks.
She shakes her head.
She wants… what does she want?
Not this, not this.
The cold lights sling by, trailing hair. There is an almost palpable dark beyond which is somehow like a muddy hand that holds the day down.
New Town always makes her swimmy and stupid. She thinks of what it would be like if her husband left her here. She knows he has done his best, all he can, and yet she feels betrayed.
The man is looking at her. He keeps turning and looking at her as he drives. Will he run into a post? She sees him compacted with his own car, folded up into the metal. When he hit the post the car tipped over the railing and fell down into an underpass.
A simple husband with two sons, one already selected for the priesthood, the other for his firm. Now he is some kind of fantastic meat roll to be fried in butter. He is food for the mutant workers.
She is dizzy with black dreams. A stream of tiny insects flies out of her mouth when she tries to speak. He doesn't notice. The man lives in ruled-off daylight, in the comforting myths of science. He will take her wherever she wants to go and leave her there. Perhaps it will be one of those cafés in the corner of a tall glass hotel. They serve distinguished coffees and wrapped food.
"Here?" he asks.
When she gets out she smiles regretfully and walks toward the café. The man drives off.
By now the dawn burns behind the city, turning the buildings briefly into silhouettes.
In the café she takes | 516 |
Pastor accused of shoplifting
Image via WikipediaPITTSFIELD — The pastor of a New Ashford church is accused of shoplifting merchandise at the Carr Hardware he worked at in Pittsfield.
Joseph D. Slonski, 53, of Windsor Road, Savoy, was charged with shoplifting by concealment after allegedly stealing a chainsaw chain valued at $25.99, according to Police Capt. Patrick F. Barry, head of the department's detective bureau.
Slonski pleaded not guilty to the charge Tuesday in Central Berkshire District Court.
The date of the alleged crime was not immediately available, and Carr officials had little to say about the incident when contacted by a reporter on Wednesday.
"I cannot comment at this time," said Bart Raser, an owner of Carr Hardware/Just Ask Rentals on North Street.
Police said Slonski was an employee of the North Street hardware store. He also is pastor of the Christian Harvest Center, "a full gospel church" located on Mallory Road in New Ashford.
"(Slonski) was an employee" of the Pittsfield store, Raser said, adding that the Savoy man no longer works there.
Slonski did not return messages left at his home and church.
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In college, I had a roommate from Boston. Excuse me....ahem....."Bahstahn." I loved getting to know her, listening to her accent and trying to figure out what she was saying. I was surprised to find out that she never even got a driver's license ~ Why? Nobody in her family drove a caah in Bahstahn. A caah? Yes, a car. Public transportation was the way to get around there.
Good mawnin' ! Wanna try a wicked chowdah?
Love, love using my bottled potatoes....saves time!
and a dash of red wine vinegah...Yum!
Hubby says this is the BEST clam chowder he has EVER had!
Or<|fim_middle|> your "accent"! I've always loved the east coast accent! That chowda looks amazing... especially with sourdough bread. I can't get enough of that. Perfect combo. | as my roommate would say, "it's Wikkid Chowdah!"
Love it... and who says YOU don't have the same great accent! Fun post!
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For many years, Anna and I have owned horses together. We have used<|fim_middle|> the more concerned we became. Now, over 90% of the meat we consume at our house was raised by us, harvest wild game, or raised by another local, small farm. This also led us to start raising dairy goats for the milk supply. We switched the family to raw goat milk and haven't regretted it at all. Since we were now eating meat from our farm, and drinking milk from our animals, we were concerned about chemical usage on the farm and the impact on our own meat/milk supply. Additionally, our garden is next to the horse area and we stopped using all chemicals in our garden.
In late April 2012, we discovered a mass on Devil (Vicki's pony). It was cancer and you can read the whole story about the surgery here. While we don't know what specifically caused it, the consideration about chemically based fly sprays became very important to us. Would you spray your own body with the chemical fly sprays every day? We did research and found the Zephyr's Garden products to be appealing.
Finally, as a barefoot horse trimmer, I frequently encountered horses with thrush problems. Previously, my only recommended solutions were chemically based, and usually contained stains and chemicals that I didn't really want to get on my own hands. Then, I had a client with a horse who had bad thrush. 4 weeks later, the thrush was gone, and she made no changes in husbandry or diet. All she did was clean the hooves and apply the Zephyr's Garden Thrush and Hoof Fungus Spray. I was sold and immediately purchase some products for our farm.
For the rest of the summer, we used only the Zephyr's Garden fly spray, and it worked. Anna and I have been thrilled with the products. They are non-toxic, we don't worry about the kids handling the spray bottles, and THEY WORK! Also, the customer service is excellent – if you send an email, you will get a prompt response from Georgette, the owner of the company. As a small business, I like to support other small businesses whenever possible, especially if the PRODUCT WORKS! In fact, we were so frequently telling everyone about how happy we were, we decided to become a local dealer for the products. We don't have plans to open a tack shop, but we support what we believe in, and in this case, it just makes sense to help spread the word.
You can view our Equine Products page to see what other products we fully support. | or investigated many different options for horse health over the year. Over the past year, a few things have occurred in our lives and on our farm that made us step back and reconsider the products we used on our animals. In the process, we became fans of and advocates for Zephyr's Garden equine products. Here is why.
In 2011, we decided to start raising meat products on the farm for our family. This decision was based on health concerns about commercial food supply chains, such as uncontrolled use of antibiotics in meat animals. There are a lot of documentaries and articles about the food supplies in the US, and the more we learned, | 135 |
The Herrett Center for Arts & Science in Twin Falls is a popular destination for travelers in Southern Idaho. Set inside the College of Southern Idaho campus, visitors can find thrilling exhibits covering astronomy, art and natural history. Be sure to visit the Jean King Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Centennial Observatory and Faulkner Planetarium. Other popular galleries include the Ancient Idaho Gallery and the nature and biology exhibits in the Roy & Verna Marie Raymond Gallery.
If you find yourself in Idaho Falls, explore The Museum of Idaho. Here, you'll see exhibits and events relating to both the cultural history and the natural environment of Idaho and the Intermountain West.
Are you<|fim_middle|>-on science center. Its goal is to engage children (and adults) with more than 150 fun and interactive exhibits meant to instill a lifelong love of science, technology, engineering and math. | visiting Boise on this trip? The Discovery Center of Idaho is a hands | 14 |
WICHITA, Kan. – June 22, 2011 – French workwear brand Bosseur® from TSD Confection is drawing attention for its products that successfully combine high protection with appealing aesthetics. The company's new range of trousers feature C<|fim_middle|> such as knees, thighs and back. Shock-absorbing material is added to pants made for work situations that involve kneeling positions.
• Practicality: Each design is equipped with multiple pockets for the specific tools the trade, but Bosseur® goes one step further in matters of ease of use by making symmetrical right and left pockets thereby offering the same practical features to left-handed and right-handed wearers. For high agility required end-uses, pockets can be detached and placed in two directions to accommodate horizontal and vertical working positions.
Beyond their functional characteristics, these new additions to the Bosseur® range also stand out for their edgy "streetwear" looks. With their intricate seaming and contrasting topstitching they have the design credentials to please many urbanites as well as those who will most benefit from their features, the workers themselves. | ORDURA® fabric panels and offer the best of both worlds—high resistance and modern looks.
CORDURA® NYCO fabrics are made from an intimate blend of 50 percent nylon 6,6 and 50 percent cotton and areengineered to provide the ideal balance of durability and comfort. The abrasion resistance of CORDURA® NYCO fabrics offers a substantially higher abrasion resistance over standard poly/cotton fabrics. Bosseur® chose a fabric made by Klopman and weighing 245 g/m2.
The French company is launching three new pant styles—Cyrrus, Volti and X-Trem—all designed to offer stylish yet comfortable designs in tough environments such as masonry androofing. Each one incorporates high tenacity CORDURA® NYCO fabrics for increased resistance to wear and tear.
• Ergonomic cuts: From shaped waists with higher back panels for added protection, to specific ergonomically functional styling, each trouser is designed with an eye for all around comfort and ease of movement.
• Durability: The garment ranges make extensive use of CORDURA® NYCO fabric, the outstanding durability qualities of which are particularly beneficial to those areas of the garment prone to the most wear and tear, | 253 |
Look: "(905) Mitochondria: central function in aging in 2018 (and how to reverse it) (<|fim_middle|> 2 of a scientific review article in the respected magazine Cell Metabolism by Valter Longo and Satchin Panda. The theme of the title is Eating with Time Restriction, but it covers the well-known science about other types of fasting, such as the fasting diet, the periodic fast and the diet 5; 2. The fasting diet 5 2 was recently popularized by Jimmy Kimmel, Beyonce and others. Enter which ones show a positive impact on which species.
About Dr. Brewer: Dr. Brewer started as an emergency doctor. After seeing too many patients dead from early heart attacks, he went to Johns Hopkins to learn Preventive Medicine. He then went on to direct the postgraduate (residency) training program in Preventive Medicine at Hopkins. From there, he made a career in the practice and management of preventive medicine and primary care clinics. His last role in this area was the Medical Director of Premise, which has more than 500 primary care / prevention clinics. He was also the Medical Director of MDLIVE, the second largest telemedicine company. More recently, he founded PrevMed, a clinic for the prevention of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. | warning – geeky) – FORD BREWER"
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Okay, it's time to check in! I was on a roll for a little while, even attempting writing everyday but got way behind. Over the last few weeks it's seems as though I've gotten busier with my candles, which is great! After Valentine's Day, I had to prep for a little "smelling party' at my place, allowing people to check out the new scents for Winter and and see some of their favorites from Fall. I had such a fun time during the party, putting it together, even making sure there was hot chocolate for everyone!
Here's a very small preview of my table with the goods! The picture doesn't do justice to how much my table was covered in my hard work! Loved it!
Last week we finally had a real snowstorm! We've seen a good amount of flurries over the season, but sometimes you just need a real snow day to stay home, be cozy, and just relax and do whatever. I sort of relaxed. I actually full fulled the rest of my candle orders that day, so I was productive…and loved every minute!
And lastly, I have to share this precious photo of my two guys (the hubby and the kitty) I snapped yesterday while the two were cuddling.
So I visited the candle shop. I'm totally lost on what the "cl<|fim_middle|>. You can find them at wal-mart, possibly target, or craft stores. | amshells" are.
Oh! lol! You break a couple off and put into a melter/warmer (some people call it either or). You can get ones that have a bulb underneath or one that uses a tea light | 48 |
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People from Terre Haute, Indiana | Edith Beebe Carhart (April 14, 1879 - April 1, 1964) was the City Librarian in Bellingham, Washington, and compiled the "History of Bellingham".
Early life
Edith Beebe Carhart was born on April 14, 1879, in Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Carhart (1849-1926) and Ida Beebe Clark (1852-1914).
She graduated from North Dakota State Teachers College and received private training in library work.
Career
Edith Beebe Carhart was the principal of grade schools in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.
She was the Librarian and Manager of the Boarding Department of the State Teacher's College at Mayville, North Dakota for 5 years and city librarian in Bellingham for more than 16 years.
Later in life she entered the real estate and insurance business.
She compiled a History of Bellingham (1926). She wrote The Angora Wool Rabbit: A Manual for the Beginner (Miller & Sutherlen printing Company, 1930).
Personal life
Edith Beebe Carhart moved to Washington in 1916 and lived at 2727 Eldridge, Bellingham, Washington.
She died at the age of 84 on April 1, 1964, in Bellingham, Washington. She was buried in Bayview Cemetery, | 323 |
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Story by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp | December 13, 2020
The media loves a good doomsday prediction, and publications from both coasts have been bashing San Francisco and Silicon Valley the past few months, gleefully speculating that we're kaput. This public exercise in schadenfreude is nothing new. What's different now is the tremendous economic impact of the pandemic. Legions of laid-off millennials fleeing the city, empty offices, a surge in crime, shuttered restaurants, and systemic inequities, most glaringly symbolized by the homelessness crisis. These dire problems are music to the ears of a growing chorus of naysayers. But for those counting us out, remember that San Francisco is a survivor with a knack for reinvention. Here are five strong reasons not to bet against America's greatest city.
1. Ecosystem
The San Francisco Bay Area boasts world leading universities in technology, science, and business model innovation. Six of the world's top ten tech powerhouses are here. The venture capital that flows from the region<|fim_middle|> the world will soon pay it forward, and a healthy chunk of that capital and knowhow will lean toward critical causes that will be led in the San Francisco Bay Area.
5. Reinvention
San Francisco was built by bold explorers brilliant at seizing an opportunity. We boom, we bust, and we reinvent. The city was almost destroyed five times, twice by fire, once by the Great Quake of 1906, and then nearly by misbegotten plans to fill in the Bay or divide the city with freeways. The pandemic is testing our mettle, but we will rise again. Our Outsider mindset is our strength. We consider Asia a neighbor, judge people by talent and ambition, and celebrate diversity. These are assets just as real as our tremendous companies and financial might. And the comeback is at the top of our playbook, Our identity is rooted in the wild gold rush days when immigrants from China, Latin America and Europe helped found the city. Trump's shameful, bad-for-business anti-immigration and anti-innovation policies will be rescinded, and the doors will swing open again. The thrilling times of less than a year ago, when the city was bustling with events and ideas, will return in time for our summer fog.
Yes, plenty of companies and families will leave for good, and our rebirth will require imagination and ambition. But a new wave of entrepreneurs, startups and financiers will help season our special recipe, and we can't think of a better place to be mid-2021, when the lights start to come back on.
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Designed by Less Is. | dwarfs any other. The greater Bay Area has the #1 and #3 top ranked metro areas in the nation for VC funding. Yes, some filthy rich VCs and tech titans bought estates in Lake Tahoe or are flirting with living in Austin or NYC, and tens of thousands of millennials ran home to live with their parents when their flaky startups tanked. This past week, the once-powerful, MAGA-loving Oracle announced the company is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas. This is old, largely fake news (and mainly about cutting costs and skirting corporate taxes). Back in 2018 Oracle opened an Austin campus to save on wages. Read the fine print: the nominal "headquarters" may one day house 10,000 staffers, less than 8 percent of Oracle's 135,000 worldwide. But these moves are snap decisions made during an uncertain time, and the suburbs and backwaters will seem awfully dull in a matter of months. With vaccines on the horizon, the spring of 2021 will attract a fresh wave of talent to SF because hundreds of promising new companies will be launched where the action has always been, and established and new giants will rehire in droves. Decades of Silicon Valley innovation, entrepreneurism and economic growth does not collapse because of a 12- or 18-month crisis. Location will matter, even as remote work and collaboration become essential.
2. Science
The Bay Area is home to nearly 1,400 life science and biotech companies, employing more than 140,000 people, the nation's largest cluster of biotech firms. They call it Biotech Bay. Genentech, the first publicly owned biotech firm, was founded in SF. The hot IndieBio incubator is here, and a slew of science-based firms. The pandemic has underscored the supreme value of science, now seen as integral to not just health but economic vitality. Our leaders promote science. They wear masks, and tout the value of vaccines. The pandemic is terrible here right now, but a high percentage of Bay Area residents will take the new vaccines and ultimately our region will manage the virus better than most in the US. Contrast that to the unconscionable backward-facing tragedy of Texas, Florida, and most of the Midwest, where derelict officials have unnecessarily doomed thousands and damaged their economies by denying the scientific value of masks and public health dictates. When this ideological divide becomes clearer by mid 2021, the Bay Area's cautionary approach will be seen as life-saving, providing a safe place to work and live, yet another compelling reason to innovate by the Bay.
3. Friends in high places
We finally have representation in the White House. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, graduated from the University of California's Hastings College of Law, and served as California's Attorney General before becoming a California Senator. That's not all, Stanford law alum Xavier Becerra will head the Health and Human Services and Janet Yellen, a former UC Berkeley professor and former head of the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, will lead the Treasury. California will no longer be enemy #1. Trump used our city and state as a political punching bag, denying the science of climate change during our deadly wildfires, withholding funding based on our "sanctuary" status, and continually bashing our homelessness problem to snipe at Nancy Pelosi. This phony, misplaced antagonism was a colossal failure in national leadership (can you imagine Emmanuel Macron railing against Paris while Notre Dame burned, or Boris Johnson booing London for leading VC investment in Europe?). That political negativity is gone, soon to be replaced by the optimism and potential of entrepreneurial ideas and startups gaining backing in the White House.
4. Karma
For every dark exposé of the tech industry's rampant greed, there's a more hopeful narrative of the character of collective goodwill reflected in SF's tech community. Media tends to paint things in black and white, presenting groups as monoliths (e.g., all tech workers are bad) and selling sensationalist stories of bad-boy executives as if they represented the norm. The reality is more nuanced. When Governor Gavin Newsom was mayor of SF he mobilized a tech community task force to help fight homelessness. Today, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a model philanthropist committed to giving back to his home city. While half of the world's billionaires live in Silicon Valley or SF, many want more than just another zero in their bank account. Just as New York once bred legions of industrialists who matured into philanthropists in their later years, we think that the founders of the biggest tech companies in | 968 |
Q: Question about definition of curvature of a regular curve In Pressley's elmentary differential geometry, curvature $\kappa$ is defined as $||\ddot\<|fim_middle|> by definition, not just $\gamma$.
Also, I don't understand how the second equal sign holds.
For the first equal sign, since $\frac{d\gamma}{dt}=\frac{d\hat{\gamma}}{ds}\frac{ds}{dt}$, so by a simple division, $\frac{d\hat{\gamma}}{ds}=\frac{\frac{d\gamma}{dt}}{\frac{ds}{dt}}$. I think the proof want to use the same trick again for the second equal sign, but I think the trick could not to be used here.
let $h=\frac{d\gamma/dt}{ds/dt}$, then h is a map having only t as variable, then to have s, need to change of variable from t to s, then can have $\frac{d\hat{h}}{dt}=\frac{dh}{ds}\frac{ds}{dt}$, then $\frac{d\hat{h}}{ds}=\frac{dh/dt}{ds/dt}$
But for the first equal sign, by definition we need $\frac{d\hat{\gamma}}{ds}$, but for the second sign, only need $\frac{dh}{ds}$ not $\frac{d\hat{h}}{ds}$. I don't know where I am wrong. Any help, thanks!
| gamma(t)||$, if $\gamma$ is a unit-speed curve, then curvature of regular curve $\gamma$ is defined to be that of its unit-speed reparametrization $\hat{\gamma}$.
Then it use those definitions to prove a proposition in the picture below, but I has some questions about the proof.
First, I don't understand why $\frac{d\gamma}{dt}=\frac{d\gamma}{ds}\frac{ds}{dt}$. I think here should be $\frac{d\gamma}{dt}=\frac{d\hat{\gamma}}{ds}\frac{ds}{dt}$, since $\gamma$ itself doesn't have $s$ as variable, we should reparametrize $\gamma$ to unit-speed $\hat{\gamma}$ to has s.
Similarly, in following 2.3, $\kappa$ should equal to $||\frac{d^2\hat{\gamma}}{ds^2}||$ | 199 |
Son of Captain America on wild goals hanging with Haaland and shrinking his laundry
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Giovanni Reyna has a pile of match jerseys neatly stacked in one of the unpacked cardboard boxes in his new apartment, located roughly 15 minutes from Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park home in Germany.
"There have been a lot of firsts for me," he says. He has the Borussia Dortmund jersey from the first time he was included in a matchday squad, then another from his debut. There's a shirt to mark his first goal and another from his first Champions League game.
"There have been cool little milestones I've hit so far." He swapped another jersey for Kylian Mbappe's shirt when Dortmund took on PSG in the Champions League round of 16. "That was pretty amazing."
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All of these events took place in the past four months, but it's no fluke. He arrived at Dortmund as a young, promising American forward in July 2019. It came with echoes of the past. His dad, Claudio Reyna, won 112 caps for the U.S. and played in the Bundesliga from 1994-99. Dortmund had just bid farewell to their beloved American Christian Pulisic. Their narratives are intertwined, but Gio is forging his own path.
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Pulisic scored his first Dortmund goal at 17 years and 212 days old. Gio was 17 years and 83 days when he opened his account for Dortmund. It was no ordinary<|fim_middle|> be conducted in person are now done via WhatsApp with his mom. "I haven't yet got a speciality," Gio says. "I mean my eggs are pretty decent, but I'm sure everybody's eggs are decent."
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His mom has also tried to talk him through the complexities of a washing machine in German — the first few attempts spat out shrunken hoodies and T-shirts. "She tells me what soaps to use, how to do the dishes and stuff," Gio says. "… It's a process right now moving into my own apartment for the first time, but I'm learning a lot. It's cool." He catches up with his younger brother and sister, Joah-Mikel and Carolina, over Fortnite and FaceTime.
"It's been challenging for sure for both of us because, you know, not being able to be around him and he's still young," Claudio says. He laughs as he hears about Gio shrinking his hoodies. And then, as he talks through Gio's goal, there are memories of the nerves he feels whenever he watches his son play.
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Claudio won 112 caps for the USMNT and enjoyed a 13-year career with Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfsburg, Rangers, Sunderland, Manchester City and New York Red Bulls. But those nerves …
"It's the worst by far now, it's not even close to when I played," Claudio says. "In management you have the nerves, absolutely … but as a dad … man! That's a whole other … it's crazy. I've talked to other parents of kids who are professional footballers and we've asked them, I said 'Is this how it always is?' They said, 'Yeah … no, actually it gets worse.'
"It's exciting to feel that excitement and tension again, but it's bad … it's tough!"
Football runs in the family — Danielle (she was Danielle Egan then) played six times for the U.S. women's national team. While Gio says he feels it was predestined that he was always going to be a professional footballer — "it's in my genes", he says — it was more chance than design, from Claudio's perspective.
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"We never set out to make that happen, but you know, he loved kicking a ball from the moment he could walk around the house," Claudio says. "From the beginning, something I remember is when he was younger, he would sit there at 3, 4, 5 years old and watch football matches live and kind of understand the movement of players and where they're going. He was trying to figure it all out.
"I remember when he was younger and he played he would cry, he would scream, he would yell if he lost … he loved competing."
Gio talks football with Claudio every day, his dad offering him feedback in an understated, interpretative way. "He knows how it works," Gio says. "Football is such a big part of his life; I don't think he really has ever left it. I love talking about it and he finds a way to tell me [feedback] in Dad mode, but also in a football mode where he understands what it takes. It's all very relaxed but putting no pressure on at the same time."
Claudio Reyna looks on with his son, Giovanni, during a New York City FC academy training session. Tom Hamilton / courtesy of the Reyna family
Claudio's advice to Gio revolves around pacing himself. Though Gio is versatile as a player, Claudio reckons he will end up being a box-to-box attacking midfielder. "He can interpret that area well in space, but you know …" Here comes the fatherly qualification: "I do think that area on the defensive side, tactically with experience, from watching some of his teammates he will continue to improve. But his strengths are being able to create, finding teammates and being able to roam in different areas."
If Claudio is good cop, then mom, Danielle, has played bad cop in the past. "She's more about effort," Gio says. "If I had a bad training and she saw me slacking off … I definitely would get an earful in the car ride home. But she's very focused on my sleeping and eating habits and the way I take care of myself. I've certainly learned from her, and so thankful to have her."
Claudio hears this account of Danielle offering the tough love. "I'm glad you're bringing this up," he says as he laughs. "She was harder on him than me! But mom knows best with all this stuff and he's certainly taken a lot of her attributes as well."
"He's on his way," Claudio continues. "I'm proud of that because he eats well and takes care of his body. Some players struggle with that, but he has good habits and is in a good place with a good foundation."
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That family unit means the world to Gio. "We are very close," he says. "They've done a lot for me to help me reach where I am now. I try to stay as close as possible." Tattooed on his right arm is "Love Jack," in memory of his late older brother who died from complications of cancer in July 2012.
When it's breakfast in the Reyna household in the U.S. Gio is propped on the end of the family table via FaceTime. It's their way of negotiating the six-hour time difference.
When he's in and around the club, he loves hearing stories from the club's staff about when they played against his dad. "A few of my coaches like [15-year Dortmund veteran] Sebastian Kehl played against my dad and said he was a great player. It's kind of all hitting me now that he was obviously a very seasoned pro and did a lot throughout his career." But there was no fatherly influence behind Gio's similar start to his career.
"The decision to go to Dortmund was Gio's," Claudio says. "But I just told him the good thing about the Bundesliga are the habits you learn in the locker room, it's very disciplined and it's physically demanding. It's a great league in itself.
"This is his path; this is what he wanted to do. He wanted this life challenge and he's on his way. He's so happy, he's learning, and we're excited for him. We just want him to be happy and he is there."
Giovanni Reyna was exposed to footballing greats like Andrea Pirlo during his time with New York City FC's academy. Tom Hamilton / courtesy of the Reyna family
The Reyna family planned to be in Eindhoven in March for what looked to be Gio's USMNT debut against the Netherlands. Despite being qualified to play for England, Portugal and Argentina, he was always going to declare for the U.S. In his own polite way, he said no thanks to other overtures and is now an active member of the USMNT's WhatsApp group.
"I want to play for the national team and kind of also carry on my dad's legacy there, so that's really cool," Gio says.
Claudio laughs at that talk of legacy in a here-we-go-again way.
"I just want to be in the background, just be his dad at any of those games and be his father throughout this journey," Claudio says. "We just crack jokes now about how I used to play. He doesn't feel any pressure, which is great. There's no … he's trying to live up to Dad or do anything like that or achieve more. He's well on his way, way further than I was at the same age.
"Everyone has their own path. It's been obviously so much fun as a dad seeing him grow and develop and become the player he is up and until now, because he's got a long way to go. For all of us in the family, we're rooting him on, and we just wish we could see him soon."
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"Gio Reyna is officially here" announced Borussia's Twitter account. But there was no chance of the young American getting carried away. "My first thoughts were, 'We have to get the ball' and go score another as we were 3-2 down. The goal was great, and people say to me, I may not score a goal like that in the rest of my career … but it was just instinct."
The last few months have been a lot for a 17-year-old to process. "I'm learning a lot," Gio told ESPN via Zoom.
After all, being away from home and his family, living through a unique time with the coronavirus pandemic changing our routines and rituals, trying to improve as a young player at one of Europe's most demanding clubs in one of soccer's most challenging leagues: Gio is taking things in stride.
"There have been some difficult times, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy. But all I need to do is keep my head looking forward, eyes on the future and hopefully I can do some more pretty cool stuff."
At the time of Reyna's Bundesliga debut on Jan. 18, the noise around Dortmund concerned another new arrival. Erling Haaland, a highly sought after striker, had signed for Dortmund that January from Red Bull Salzburg, scoring nine goals in eight games to open his Bundesliga career, and the two became close friends.
Together with Jadon Sancho, they're arguably the most exciting trio of attackers on the same team in world soccer. The partnership has already paid dividends against PSG where Reyna teed up Haaland for the winner in their first-leg victory in the Champions League last 16.
"I look up to him because he's done so many things in a young career, and he's a great guy," Gio says of Haaland. "He's encouraged me, as he sees something in me." Gio talks of how in training, if they're playing 11 vs 11, or five-a-side, if he sees Haaland with the ball in the box, he starts to head back for the restart as he will inevitably score.
Haaland has become Gio's chauffeur as the U.S. midfielder is too young to drive. He smiles a lot as he talks about Haaland, and then about Sancho — this triumvirate of promising young attacking players, with Gio the youngest of the group.
Sancho, now 20, broke through into Dortmund's first team almost immediately after arriving from Manchester City in 2017.
"I think the biggest thing for any young player is to be confident. … I'm here because I belong," Gio says of the advice Sancho gave him. "Those guys told me mistakes happen, even Messi and Ronaldo make mistakes. You make it, then put it behind you and move on. Jadon knows how I felt. He's been there for me and I could always go to him with stuff if I needed help off the field."
Giovanni Reyna broke into the Borussia Dortmund first team after the Bundesliga's winter break. Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund via Getty Images
Claudio Reyna, now sporting director at Austin FC — which will join Major League Soccer as an expansion club in 2021 — was at an MLS meeting at a ranch 90 minutes outside of Kansas City, Missouri, when Gio came off the bench against Werder Bremen. He remembers watching his son's goal on his phone.
"I kind of picked up more in the second half to start watching when there was an opportunity he could come on. It was obviously a great moment … it was great," Claudio told ESPN.
Claudio and his wife, Danielle, had planned to travel to watch Gio in the second leg of Dortmund's Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain back in March. But they cancelled their trip as the match was played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Wildwater ride at 24h race
The ADAC Zurich 24h- race is without a doubt the hightlight of the season for the private Porsche "Frikadelli- Racing" Team from the picturesque Barweiler. Only once a year the hot pursuit is taking place two times around the clock on a very special composition of the track of the Nurburgring – which is a version of the legendary and in combination with the Grand Prix track is about 25 kilometers long. A special challenge for the local hero's is the competition against the big names in the starter field due to the fact that in the 24h race nearly everyone of distinction in the field of the international touring car scene is participating. To be in the first row the crew chef Klaus Abbelen has assembled a spectacular group of drivers this year: besides himself the fastest women of the track Sabine Schmitz (Barweiler), the four time winner of the Porsche Supercup Patick Huisman (Netherlands) and the Porsche works driver Patrick Pilet (France) competed at the race. This year's operational vehicle was the new Porsche GT3 R – an especially potent implement which was only purchased this season.
Based on the special regulations of the 24h race the first training sessions were fairly relaxed. Due to the pole position of the year in the long distance championship the Frikadelli racing has automatically qualified itself for the big top 40 qualifying of the fasted vehicles at the field. While during the first training runs only the obligatory rounds were finished and the last details on the car were sorted out – the thrilling part of the race should begin at the said "Top 40" event on Saturday. For this electrifying spectacle each of the 40 fastest cars had the possibility to get two fast laps on the track. For the team from Barweiler Patrick Huisman was destined to pilot the Porsche. Already the first flying lap was promising and pushed the team far ahead – but the car showed still reserve capacities for the second round. Patrick bombed along but at the Galgenkopf – the last stretch before a long straight arm push – he unfortunately drove into the back of the car in front of him. Therefore no improvement was possible and with a 8:23.526 from the first lap a good thirteenth starting position was secured.
It was also the Dutchman who was destined to drive the beginning of the race and so the starting field of the 41th 24h- race took off on time on a still dry racing track. But what started as an almost idyllic race should become unnerving soon. From the beginning Huisman pressed on towards the competitors in front of him and improved his position already in the first laps of the race. The planned switch to Patrick Pilet worked perfect and Pilet continued the hunt for the leading positions. The young Frenchman – by now at fourth position – reported a technical defect while going through the section "Tiergarten": one of the rear damper was broken and forced an unplanned pit stop. Admittedly the defect could be located and repaired directly but it was also obvious that the same fault would occur on the other side of the vehicle at some point. Unfortunately the exact thing happened only a few rounds after the first defect appeared and the team lost 23 minutes due to the repairs of these mishaps. As the car was sent off to the track after the second defect the team has fallen back on a disillusioning 38 place. From now Sabine was driving and tried everything to get back at the leading positions. Yet the weather conditions promised not only a fight against the time but also a fight against the forces of nature. The woman from Barweiler was piloting the Porsche through monsoon- like rainfalls while in parts fog was worsening the already bad visibility conditions. "I felt like a shrimp fisherman on the Bering Sea", commented the likeable pilot about her drive through the wet. Even while she was able due to her ambitioned way of driving to get better position after position the pursuit race of the Frikadellis was brought to a very sudden end because the race organization decided a race stoppage for an indefinite period. At this point the queen of the circle Ring achieved the 25th position.
It took 9 hours until the weather conditions aloud a restart of the race. Klaus Abbelen took the wheel and made his laps on a still wet track. But Klaus too made a good job and he could deliver the car to Patrick Pilet without a scratch under these difficult conditions. While Patrick started on the track with rain tires the rest of the race was characterized by a thrilling poker for the right tires – this discipline was perfectly handled by the team which always mounted the perfect tire choosing from across all profiles of the range of Michelin tires. This made it possible that the Frikadelli- team used very few pit stops and was able to gain a few positions. The flawless stints of each pilot and the perfect executed pit stops couldn't help to reach the superb placement at the beginning of the race again. In the end the team had to be satisfied with the 16th position<|fim_middle|> an impressing time of 8:28,874 minutes. Only two other cars on the field were able to drive even faster – so the fastest meatball of the world was the fastest Porsche of the race.
But the team didn't left the racing track without a price. Thanks to the ADAC and to the event related hourly prices the Frikadelli- racing team was able to reap the price for the most popular driver which was founded by the fans. Sabine Schmitz was happy to accept the price personally – on this occasion she and the whole team gave thanks to fans and friends which endured the adverse conditions around the track and kept their fingers crossed for the team.
Klaus Abbelen:
"We showed what we can do. Car and team were able to drive in the top field. And this we will show again at the next races. Certainly we will participate in this classic 24h race at Nürburgring and try to achieve front positions."
Patrick Huisman:
"Mixed feelings. After the qualifying went very well and even as I was held up I had a very good feeling about the race. The car was perfectly prepared as always and even as we were too low regarding the tire pressure at my starting turn everything went well. We were able to work our way up and I was able to deliver the car on the fourth position. After the damper broke two times while Pilet was driving every chance for a good placing was lost. On the other hand we learned a lot concerning the tires and this gives me more confidence for the next races. In addition it was nice to see that the team did a very good job and worked hard till the end to achieve the maximum. Furthermore I'm happy that Klaus had a dry track for the first time this season. So he was able to achieve his personal best lap. "
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Shocking the Flock
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The Christians at Baltimore Center Stage by Bret McCabe
Pastor Paul (Howard W. Overshown) shocks his flock barely ten minutes into Baltimore Center Stage's production of The Christians. Standing at the pulpit of his thousand-seat evangelical megachurch, which<|fim_middle|> Journey: Stephanie Barber at School 33
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Pastor Paul admitted that he had trouble reckoning this boy's eternal damnation, and turned to his Bible to find scripture verses that support his evolution of faith that he wants to share. He now firmly believes that He will welcome everyone—and pastor Paul means everyone—into His everlasting love, because hell doesn't exist. At least, not in the afterlife. If humanity wants to know what hell looks like, they can merely take a look around.
Forty years into the Evangelical right being a national voting force in American politics, Hnath's play is a rare breed: a contemporary Christian narrative that treats its believers not as human megaphones through which to spread unyielding dogma, but as thoughtful people searching for something in which to believe.
That's an explosive line in the play and in Center Stage's Pearlstone mainstage theater, which scenic designer Mike Carnahan, lighting designer Jen Schriever, and costumer designer Michael Alan Stein convincingly transform into a contemporary megachurch, down to the soothingly bright colors, blandly inoffensive nature imagery projected onto the screens flanking the pulpit for those latecomers in the back, and the grateful spirit of the pre-show text that's projected onto those screens as you enter the theater.
"We know you could have gone anywhere tonight," one such benediction reads, "but we are so grateful the Lord has led you here."
If you've never been to a contemporary megachurch, the professionally devout tone of a Sunday celebration can feel corporate branding insincere, but it's to both director Hana Sharif and Christians playwright Lucas Hnath's credit that they understand that, for churchgoers, that attitude springs from a profound sincerity.
It can feel alien to the uninitiated—as somebody whose religious world was most profoundly shaped by an Orthodox Mexican-American congregation in Dallas where priests rocked medieval beards and wore brocade vestments, masses were chanted in Church Slavonic, and you routinely kissed icons, my first exposure to Baptist megachurches felt like a show in Vegas—but these celebrations conform to their own visual vocabularies and narrative structures, and The Christians incorporates them into its opening narrative arc.
The members of the band enter the stage first, followed by the burgundy-and-navy robed members of the choir and the band leader, who eventually gets them all to launch into the celebratory opening song. Pastor Paul, his wife Elizabeth (the superb Nikkole Salter), associate pastor Joshua (Adam Gerber), and elder Jay (Lawrence Clayton) enter, greet each other with hugs and handshakes as if they haven't seen each other in days, take their seats, and eventually pastor Paul approaches the microphone to ask everybody rise with him and pray.
Over the next few minutes, you may hear "um-hmms" and "amens" from audience members, so faithfully does The Christians adhere to church proceedings. But come pastor Paul's revelation, director Sharif and especially Overshown, whose subtle changes in body language and vocal inflection conveys just how much pastor Paul understands what he's challenging his own church to believe, push the play into impressively difficult terrains.
Kudos to Hnath's and this entire production to understand both that church is theater, and that a pastor's sermon touches people where they live—in their intimate, ordinary, day-to-day lives.
Forty years into the Evangelical right being a national voting force in American politics, Hnath's play is a rare breed: a contemporary Christian narrative that treats its believers not as human megaphones through which to spread unyielding dogma, but as thoughtful people searching for something in which to believe. The play unfolds as a series of challenges to Pastor Paul's new direction, first from associate pastor Joshua, who leaves and takes some parishioners with him; then elder Jay, and eventually even Elizabeth, charting how one man's religion can impact his peers, his job, and even his marriage.
The most moving of challenges comes from choir member Jenny (Jessiee Datino), a young mother who turned to the church during a very difficult time in her life and is graciously thankful for how it, and pastor Paul, helped her during her time of need. But she has questions about the church's new direction. Lots of them. And pastor Paul's answers, while honest and moving, aren't entirely swaying.
Believing that hell doesn't exist and that following the Bible to the letter isn't the only path to everlasting life is a glorious message of unconditional love; however, it might not be as satisfying as the more commonly held belief that how you live in this life secures your spot in the next life. The Christians convincingly argues both sides, and eventually arrives at the far more impressive conclusion that there's something disturbingly human in the uncertainty that maybe religion provides guidance for enduring this mortal coil. And maybe it doesn't.
Top Image: The Christians at Baltimore Center Stage. Pictured: (L to R) Lawrence Clayton, Adam Gerber, Howard W. Overshown, Nikkole Salter. Photo by Richard Anderson
All photos by Richard Anderson courtesy of Baltimore Center Stage
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Erica was looking for a college where she could grow in her faith—both in the classroom and in the dorm room—and she found that at Northwestern. She appreciates Northwestern's thriving community and says that even when she was visiting, she could tell this was home. A music education major concentrating in secondary vocal education, Erica hopes to become a high school choir director after graduation. She'd also like to pursue a master's degree and conduct a college or university choir. At Northwestern, Erica is involved in several music ensembles and intramural sports.
Because of my love for music, I knew I wanted to be involved in it when I got to college. However, I hadn't considered pursuing it as a major until my junior year of high school. I was leading sectionals in choir, and the substitute teacher mentioned that I should look into teaching music as a career. Looking back, I'm grateful for her words since I now get to cultivate my passion for music every day.
I really appreciate how the music department professors build relationships with each of their students. They're not concerned with just how we're doing within the department. They want to get to know us beyond our involvement in music, and that's something that drew me to this place. I would also consider the size of the music department to be an asset. I really like how we have our own community among the ensembles. The majority of my time is spent in the music hall, and it's really awesome to connect with the people who come through there.
I've made lots of great memories here, but my favorite memories come from the choir and band tours. When we aren't performing, we have the chance to do things like go spelunking and visit Niagara Falls. It's also fun to hang out with my peers outside of the classroom. Even the bus rides were entertaining every now and then! Tours<|fim_middle|> belonging. My favorite part about the people I've met here is how intentional they are when they interact with me. I know I've made lifelong friendships here because of how deep those connections are. | are definitely something I'll keep looking forward to while I'm here.
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Interested In 'World Of Warcraft'? Checking Out 'Warcraft' On The Big Screen Might Let You Play For Free!
Posted February 12th, 2016 by Stuart Conover
With 'World of Warcraft' being one of the biggest video games of all time, there is a lot hanging on 'Warcraft' and it seems that one of the perks to seeing the film will help drive new players to the game. That's right<|fim_middle|>? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover
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This came to light when people started receiving surveys about an "Ultimate Movie Edition" of 'Warcraft' which can be seen below. Due to the typo in the message it was initially thought of as an elaborate fishing hoax but Blizzard's customer service teams have confirmed that it is legitimate and that the typo was fixed before going out to everyone.
You can see the error below:
While this isn't set in stone, it does seem like the studio is considering trying to capitalize on the movie's release. From a marketing standpoint it could get a lot of new eyes on the game but it also feels a bit like a cheap cash grab attempt. While the in-game items may sound interesting to some, it should be noticed that many MMORPG's out there offer a free month to try the game so it isn't really all that special of a deal.
What are your thoughts on the 'World of Warcraft' Ultimate Movie Edition? Will you be trying out or returning to the game if you like the movie? Share your thoughts below!
From Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures comes Warcraft, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based on Blizzard Entertainment's global phenomenon.
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home.
So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.
'Warcraft' is set to be released on June 10th, 2015 and is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and written by Charles Leavitt and Jones, the film starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Rob Kazinsky and Daniel Wu is a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment production.
Source: Screen Rant
Stuart Conover
Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky | 586 |
The River Derwent
Historical images of the Derwent River at New Norfolk
Historical site
New Norfolk was the third planned settlement to be undertaken in Tasmania, after Hobart and Launceston. In 1803-4 when Hobart was first settled on the banks of the Derwent, it was considered important to explore this waterway and<|fim_middle|> State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research institutions around Australia, working together to create a legacy of Australia's knowledge for now and into the future. Best of all, Trove is ours. We have the ability to correct, comment, tag or contribute content to help build a better service for everyone.
Salmon Ponds Heritage Hatchery and Gardens
Salmon Ponds Road
The Toll House
1 Rocks Rd
St Matthew's Anglican Church
6 Bathurst St | find out the potential of the surrounding areas.
River steamers were an essential part of New Norfolk's development, among them: the SS Marana, which ended its days as a fishing trawler; the SS Maweena which was destroyed by fire in January 1929; the Emu, which sank at its moorings near the New Norfolk bridge in 1897, and; the Monarch which sank at the Lime Kilns.
The New Norfolk Bridge across the Derwent is the fourth structure in the general area where the bridge spans today. The first bridge was built in 1840-41 and opened to vehicular access in January 1842 and was subject to a toll which was payable at the Toll House which still stands in a nearby park as a remnant of bygone days.
Flooding in the lower reaches of the Derwent River had been a periodic event and New Norfolk and the original bridge was destroyed then replaced in May 1880 with much ceremony as the day was declared a public holiday and 1000 people turned out for the official opening. Bridge #3 was completed in 1930 and the current bridge replaced it in 1974 in order to carry modern-day vehicles. The images displayed on this page have been sourced from various online archive sites via Trove.
Trove is a fantastic resource for people interested in history and helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It's more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small. Trove's origins can be traced back to a project launched by the National Library of Australia in August 2008. Its aim was to build a portal for all of the Library's online discovery services, including the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, Picture Australia, Libraries Australia, Music Australia, Australia Dancing, PANDORA web archive, ARROW Discovery Service and the Australian Newspapers Beta service.
Today Trove is transformed, growing far beyond its original purpose and becoming many things to many people: a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full-text digital resources. Trove is a platform on which new knowledge is being built. It is a collaboration between the National Library, Australia's | 484 |
Ravens suffer brutal 22-20 loss on 53-yard field goal with no time left to Jaguars
Jeff Zrebiec
BALTIMORE — The Ravens tumultuous and frustrating season added another shocking and excruciating chapter.
Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Jason Myers made a 53-yarder field goal with no time on the clock to deliver a 22-20 victory Sunday over the Ravens, who thought the game had ended on the previous play.
The Jaguars had the ball at midfield and snapped the ball with one second on the clock. While several players on both teams seemed to stop playing believing the game was over, Ravens rush linebacker Elvis Dumervil had a free shot on Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles.
However, Dumervil was called for a facemask penalty on the play, moving the Jaguars into position for Myers to make the field goal. The Jaguars celebrated the end of their 13-game road losing streak, while the Ravens walked off the field dejectedly.
The Ravens are now 2-7 on the season, and their latest loss was easily the hardest to believe.
The Ravens repeatedly afforded the Jaguars chances in the second half with turnovers and penalties and Jacksonville finally made them pay. A muffed punt by Jeremy<|fim_middle|> hit Givens on a double move, but left the ball well overthrown. House had his second interception in a little over four minutes.
The Ravens forced a quick Jacksonville punt and again had the ball on the Jaguars' side of the field. But on first down from the 33, Flacco held onto the ball for too long and was strip sacked by Abry Jones. Tyson Alualu recovered the ball and the Jaguars had their third forced turnover in about nine minutes.
Their fourth of the half then came early in the fourth quarter on Ross' muffed punt.
The Ravens got off to a slow start offensively, despite continually getting good field position. On their first four drives, the Ravens started with the ball on their own 31, 32, 42 and 22 yard lines. However, three of those drives resulted in Koch punts and on the other, the Ravens were stopped on downs as Flacco's completion to Crockett Gillmore went for just one yard on 4th-and-3.
Finally, out of the shadows of their own goal-line, the Jaguars got the ball after the fourth-down stop and marched 65 yards on eight plays to take a 7-0 lead. Bortles finalized the drive by hitting Allen Hurns, who got free when Ravenscornerback Jimmy Smith fell down, for a 5-yard touchdown. It was Hurns' seventh touchdown of the season.
The Jaguars got the ball back early in the second quarter with visions of extending their lead. However, on the first play from scrimmage, Bortles tried to hit Hurns near the far sideline but Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb stepped in front of the receiver and intercepted the ball.
The turnover was the Ravens' first since the fourth quarter of the Week Three loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, a streak that spanned 61 consecutive possessions from the opposition. The Ravens needed just two plays to capitalize.
Starting at Jacksonville's 26, Flacco scrambled for 16 yards on the first play to set up a 1st-and-goal from the 10. From there, Flacco found Gillmore in the middle of the end zone for the 10-yard score.
Jacksonville ultimately regained the lead on Myers' 21-yard field goal. But holding Jacksonville to a field goal was a victory of sorts of the Ravens' defense which stiffened after the Jaguars had first-and-goal from the 3. Bortles threw the ball out of bounds on first and second down and T.J. Yeldon ran for no yards on third down.
Trailing 10-7, the Ravens got the ball back at their own 20 with three minutes, 28 seconds to play. The Ravens needed just seven plays and a little over two minutes to go 80 yards and score a touchdown. On the drive, Flacco was 6-of-7 for 80 yards. He hit Aiken on passes of 29 and seven yards, and Givens on passes of five, 10 and eight yards. Flacco then found Williams for a 21-yard touchdown pass.
Williams' touchdown, the first of his NFL career, gave the Ravens a 14-10 lead, which was the halftime score. | Ross gave the Jaguars the ball in Ravens' territory and an unnecessary roughness penalty on safety Will Hill prolonged the ensuing drive.
Bortles hit Allen Robinson for a 15-yard score to give the Jaguars a 19-13 lead. However, the Ravens answered as Flacco shook off a third quarter of frustration to hit Chris Givens for the go-ahead 14-yard touchdown pass. Givens' first touchdown as a Raven capped a 10-play, 80-yard drive that included a key third-down completion to tight end Maxx Williams and a third-down conversion run by rookie Buck Allen.
The Ravens couldn't convert the two-point conversion, leaving the score at 20-19 with less than eight minutes to play.
The Ravens carried a 14-13 lead into the fourth quarter and they were lucky to have that. On their four possessions of the quarter, Flacco turned the ball over on three of them and Sam Koch punted on the other.
On the third play of the third quarter, Flacco threw a high pass that hit off the outstretched hands of Kamar Aiken and bounced around before Davon House intercepted it. The Jaguars took over on the Ravens' 27, but had to settle for Myers' 45-yard field goal after three consecutive Bortles' incompletions.
On the ensuing possession, the Ravens were in Jaguars' territory when Flacco tried to | 297 |
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PORTLAND — Joseph A. Fortunato, 69, known by most folks as Joe, died at Maine Medical Center on Saturday, Feb. 19, with his wife and family by his side.
He was born on June 21, 1941, in Lewiston, one of three sons born to John A. and Anna (Gahagan) Fortunato Sr. He attended St. Patrick's Grammar School and graduated with the Class of 1959 from Lewiston High School. His family and church built his foundation of working hard, treating people with respect and being fair and kind in all of his business dealings. He was a family man who was deeply proud of his children and delighted with his grandchildren.
It was during his college days that he was called to serve in the Army National Guard during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Upon his discharge, he entered the business world and with his natural charm and genuine interest in people, he became a salesman at Benoit's, where he served for 25 years.
Later, fulfilling his dream of having a big-and-tall store, he managed Green Mountain Big & Tall in South Portland for 10 years. He enjoyed helping folks buy the right suit, when most of his clientele had not worn a suit in years. He had a good eye for detail and always listened to their needs and matched the clothing to fit any occasion.
He enjoyed taking classes in Portland for ballroom dancing. It was a night to remember, for as he danced with another fine lady, his eyes wandered over to his future wife and soul mate, Linda. They were both smitten with one another and shared 18 years together.
Joe then worked right along with Linda in her real estate business, Abstracts & Closing. But his true passion, antiquarianism, manifested into The Old Book Room, his roadside bookstore, which he operated for over 10 years in front of their home in south Waterboro. He would watch for customers from his living-room window and remark, "Got a live one!" and then head out to make a new friend.
In 2003, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and eventually became homebound. He played a ferocious game of online Scrabble and focused solely on his true passion of books. His disability pushed him to convince other friends to go dumpster diving, yard or library sale perusing for what he called "nuggets" — that special book that gave him such joy! MS may have taken his mobility, but never the spirit that always touched so many lives.
He was a man of integrity, wisdom, always smiling, and could tease people without being critical or hurtful. When you hear Frank Sinatra on the radio — remember Joe lived his life surrounded by people who loved him.
He is lovingly survived by his wife, Linda (Milner) Fortunato of south Waterboro; one son, Timothy Fortunato of Buxton; two daughters, Lisa Fortunato and husband, Marc Blanchette, of Lewiston and Angela Cyr and husband, Mark, of Greene; a stepson, Michael Fraser of Beverly, Mass.; three grandchildren, Anthony and Garrett Fortunato and Connor Cyr; and his two brothers, John Fortunato of Minot and Michael Fortunato of Sidney.
To leave a message of condolence for the family, please visit www.autumngreenfun | 698 |
Thorn Rigg is a spacious, detached house situated on the cusp of the historic market town of Alnwick. There is a comfortable living room on the ground floor, as well as the convenience of a separate snug too with additional comfortable seating and TV. The bright and airy kitchen/dining room has doors leading from the dining area to a raised decked area which overlooks the pretty garden. All four bedrooms (the master is en-suite) are on the first floor, along with a family bathroom, making Thorn Rigg<|fim_middle|> an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, whilst to the west, is the wild and lonely expanses of the heather-capped Cheviot Hills. Beach 4 miles. Shop, pub and restaurant 1 mile.
Gas central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi included. Cot and highchair.
Enclosed garden with decked area. Private parking for 2 cars. No smoking. | a suitable choice for the gathering of families and friends alike.
The house is situated on the eastern fringe of Alnwick. Tucked away down a small lane, where there are only three properties, the house is nestled in a surprisingly peaceful spot, yet is only around a mile away from a wide array of shops and pubs. Alnwick Castle, home to the Duke of Northumberland (and film location for Harry Potter's Hogwarts), is a popular visitor attraction. Visit Alnwick Gardens; a spectacular interpretation of a formal garden which includes a grand cascade waterfall, poison garden and a restaurant set in the largest treehouse in Europe. The train station that services Alnmouth is only 4 miles from Thorn Rigg, giving easy access to explore further afield.
This is an excellent choice for those seeking a homely base from which to visit the beautiful 20-mile stretch of Heritage coastline. The east has been designated | 187 |
Remember You're a Womble was the second album released by The Wombles. The songs were recorded by Mike Batt (vocals/keyboards) with session musicians Chris Spedding (guitars), Les Hurdle (bass), Clem Cattini (drums), Ray Cooper (percussion), Rex Morris (saxophone), Eddie Mordue (saxophone) and Jack Rothstein (violin).
After the success of the first album, Wombling Songs, Batt experimented with more character-based songs in a variety of musical styles. He described it as "really the first proper album for The Wombles as a group". The styles included pop, rock, calypso, classical (the music of "Minuetto Allegretto" was based on Mozart's Symphony No.41) and surf rock in the style of the Beach Boys.
The songs also developed the Womble characters further, for example "Wellington Goes To Waterloo" described Wellington Womble taking a rare day off and visiting London Waterloo station for a bit of train spotting.
This was the first album with a cover showing the full-size Womble costumes, worn by Batt and the session musicians. The album spent 31 weeks in the UK album chart, peaking at number 18 on 13 July 1974.
Original album track listing
All tracks credited to Mike Batt on the LP label. However, other credits do exist as detailed below (source unknown).
Side One
Remember You're a Womble (Mike Batt, Chris Spedding) - 3:07
Minuetto Allegretto (Batt, Spedding) - 3:33
Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party (Batt, Spedding, Felicity White) - 4:00
Wombling in the Rain (Batt, Spedding, Paul Peterson) - 3:54
Womble Burrow Boogie (Batt, Spedding, Ian Hawkins) - 2:58
Side Two
Wellington Goes to Waterloo (Batt, Spedding, Edward Seymour) - 3:30
The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (Batt, Spedding, Richard Kelly) - 3:06
The Womble Square Dance (Batt, Spedding, Hawkins) - 3:12
Wimbledon Sunset (Interlude) (Batt) - 1:48
Banana Rock (Batt, Spedding, Seymour) - 3:16
Cassette track listing
Side One
Remember You're a Womble (3:08)
Minuetto Allegretto (3:38)
Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party (4:02)
Wombling in the Rain (3:58)
Wimbledon Sunset (1:50)
Side Two
Wellington Goes to Waterloo (3:36)
The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (3:12)
The Womble Square Dance (3:14)
Banana Rock (3:05)
Womble Burrow Boogie (2:57)
US track listing
Wombling Summer Party (3:18)
Wimbledon Sunset (1:50)
The Wombling Song (2:26)
Remember You're a Womble (3:07)
Exercise is Good for You (2:32)
Dreaming In the Sun (Orinoco's Song) (4:10)
Banana Rock (3:05)
Wellington Womble (3:54)
Minuetto Allegretto (3:33)
The Womble Square Dance (3:12)
The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (3:08)
Singles
Four tracks were released as singles:
"Remember You're a Womble"- peaked at No. 3 in UK
"Banana Rock<|fim_middle|> recorded a version of the title track as a single in 1976 for Reprise Records as a duet between his Goon Show characters Eccles and Bluebottle.
"Minuetto Allegretto" was used in the 1977 film Wombling Free.
References
The Wombles albums
1974 albums
Albums produced by Mike Batt | " - peaked at No. 9 in UK
"Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party" (US single release only), peaked at No. 55 in US
"Minuetto Allegretto" - peaked at No. 16 in UK
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To a DIY<|fim_middle|> hammer drill feature for handling concrete and tougher materials. | er hobbyist, furniture maker or construction worker, the best investment is a power tool combo pack. Imagine having a single purchase for an impact driver and drill combo you can clip to your belt for performing a wide range of task instead of bothering about separately getting multiple tools. Some of the functions involve tightening or loosening screws, boring holes or chiseling materials away.
Amidst other producers in the power tool industry, Dewalt is a trusted and most popular name. With over 90 years in the market, they have produced and innovated new products that continuously meet the needs of their customers. Dewalt promises 90-days money back satisfaction guarantee when there is a problem with the tool, one-year free service contract, and then a three-year limited warranty.
Most of the well-known products from Dewalt is the cordless drill and driver collection. There are many power tool models to choose from, and even if the brand offers high quality and high performing products, you would always prefer one to another.
If you have narrowed your choices to Dewalt DCK240C2, DCK280C2 and DCK285C2 combo kits then you are on the right track. Even though these devices have the same impact driver, they are accompanied with different drill and accessories.
To assist you in selecting the specific Dewalt cordless drill and driver combo that best suits your function, we would be reviewing and comparing each model; we would also focus on some of their benefits and the not so beneficial features.
The charger takes about an hour to recharge batteries.
At a glance at the DCK240C2, you would notice that it is a combination of DCD771 compact drill and DCF885 impact driver. If you have basic knowledge of power tools, you would admit that this is a lot of strength put together in a small package.
Some of the benefits of this drill are the versatile two-speed option that produces up to 450 RPM with a maximum RPM of 1500, 300 watts of power, a driver pack strength of 117 in-lbs, and 16 clutch settings to give the operator freedom to choose the appropriate torque for different tasks. The accompanied drill does not come with a hammer drill feature, which already excuses it from performing heavy duty jobs.
Although this product has no problem with assisting house repairs, or basic carpentry works such as assembling cabinets, fixing shelves and installing curtains, you should note that this is not the exact package you want to get for heavy tasking function. But they have enough power and speed to do most of the required drilling and driving work.
These devices are built to be compact and lightweight (both weighing only 9.1 pounds), to be used to reach difficult angles that heavier tools would not. They also have ergonomically designed bodies and a durable rubber handle for a safe grip while operating.
For those hard to reach corners and poorly lit work site, this combo pack is your best bet. Both DCF885 and DCD771 have LED lights for those poorly lit work areas, but when the drill is not in use, the light automatically powers down.
Dewalt DCK240C2 is a complete practical kit that you can have at home. Apart from the DCD771 cordless drill and DCF885 impact driver, the pack also consist of two 1.3Ah rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, a maximal charger and a carrying bag to house it all.
A complete everyday necessity for both DIY enthusiast, carpenters, plumbers and contractors, the Dewalt DCK280C2 combo kit comes with a DCD780 drill and the DCF885 impact driver. These devices are packed with enough power, speed and useful features that can be used on a wide range of drilling and driving operations.
Slightly powerful than the previous kit, the DCD780 drill has an upgraded two-speed setting for 600 RPM and maximum RPM of 2000 with 350-watt strength. The impact drill, on the other hand, has maximum RPM of 2800 to give additional speed and enough power to ease steelworks or plumbing jobs amidst other wide range of uses.
You can determine how much torque you want to deliver with the 15 different clutch settings ranging from 200 inch-pounds to 530 inch-pounds. When you want to drill holes or drive screws into dense materials, the DCD780 drill/driver has a large chuck to allow you place heavy-duty bits.
It is built with an aerodynamic design and lights to enable the operator to use the tool anywhere even in challenging situations.
Priced at around $200, Dewalt has offered their consumers what they want in a combo kit. With a DCF885 impact driver and a DCD780 driver/drill, you also get a fast charger, two 1.5Ah 20-volt lithium-ion batteries, a carrying bag, two belt hooks, and a bit holder; we can rate this combo kit as reasonably affordable.
Just like other Dewalt power tools, the DCK280C2 is has a compact and lightweight build-up to allow for easy transportation everywhere and through tight spaces. Both devices also feature three a 20-second delay LED light to lets you use them in dimly lit places.
In case there is any problem with the package, Dewalt offers a 90-day money back guarantee, one-year free service warranty and three-year limited warranty on the DCK280C2 at any accredited center.
The impact driver gives a burning rubber small during usage.
As a workshop owner, you might think the DCK280C2 has all the needed accessories that you can dream about, but DCK285C2 comes with more extras. The DCK285C2 combo kit consists of a DCF885 impact driver, a DCD785 ½ inch hammer drill, two 1.5Ah 2-volt max lithium-ion batteries, a 30 minutes fast charger, two belt hooks, a bit-tip holder, and a hard plastic carrying and storage case.
For flexibility, the drill has a variable speed transmission of 0-600 RPM and 0-2000 RPM for both low and high speed respectively, with 14 other clutch settings. To withstand the high torque of the drill and give a better confident grip on the bit during use, the ratcheting chuck has carbide insert.
Different from the drills in the other combo kits, it has a hammer feature to perform those drilling task through concrete and bricks during a project. Additionally, it also has a lightweight of 3.5 pounds and compact size measuring only 7.95 inches in width.
Dewalt DCK285C2 has a sturdy design which makes it suitable and reliable for handling almost any drilling or driving task that you bring to it. It is built with the excellent features and durable, high-quality materials to serve you for years continuously.
The handle is made with a soft grip and a two finger trigger for comfort and better control of the device. The DCK285C2 a kit you would love to own, it is easy to use and has a power rating or 350 UWO, it is also rated for 34,000 beats per minute. The rapid charger takes only 30 minutes to get refilled, so you can be sure to have an uninterrupted work session.
Rather than just going for any brand name, every DIYer has reasons for staying loyal to a particular brand. Most Dewalt products are built with amazing torque, strength, and durability, but what separates them is their unique advantage.
Although there are different Dewalt products to pick from, when choosing the model to buy, the factors to consider including the price and a lot more, but your major consideration is the specific reason you need the tool.
Even if the Dewalt DCK240C2, DCK280C2, and DCK285C2 are equally efficient, when you need a combo kit with maximum flexibility to perform medium works, you should consider DCK240C2.
For more force with the lightest of weight, and enough power, go for the DCK280C2 pack. And lastly, the DCK285C2 which we consider the winner for this review has the | 1,774 |
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Be sure to wish Nashoba DI's hardworking team good luck before the competition. | Henderson , Else Snoonian, Charlotte Snoonian, and Colleen Henderson standing in front of their props.
The Nashoba Destination Imagination team is heading to the State competition after competing in Regionals on March 3rd. Colleen Henderson, Shannon Henderson, Charlotte Snoonian, and Else Snoonian placed first and won their second Renaissance award during the competition, and are very optimistic about going to the Global Finals competition in Knoxville, Tennessee after having gone the past few years.
Destination Imagination, also known as DI, is a organization in which students ranging from Kindergarten to college-age team up to solve difficult challenges. Some of the challenges include engineering, science, improv, and service learning. Some challenges involve constructing certain structures to solve a problem, then incorporating them into a skit. Other challenges include acting, prop-making, set designing, and being quite creative.
After a few months of planning, each team goes to a Regional competition in the hopes of being able to move on to a State competition. Teams that excel in the State competition are invited to the Global Finals competition to compete against other countries | 225 |
Money can't buy me love?!
How do I pacify an angry, upset, confused, aggressive 2.5<|fim_middle|> too much to do with her mum & dad. Thank god for grandmoms and granddads. We have tried … tried hard to talk to her, to explain to her (reason usually works with my daughter after a while) about the move. We've tried to distract her with the 25 kids she plays with everyday in our own little apartment park. We've setup a small set of things from her old home … to help bring back a few familiar elements. What more?!?
I decided to go on a spending spree. 3 hours $300 … (which I thought was pretty cheap by the way unlike most material things here) … I bought her a nice big swing, a cute slide with a basketball hoop and other fun things on the it's side for the yard, tons of other toys she didn't have and a gorgeous blue bike that she could ride with her neighbor friends. I release them one a day with a whole surprise routine. She's loooooving it. We still have tons of play doh, doctor sets, balls to go that are unopened. She's loving the initial set I've bought her. She now surprises everyone with something everyday … replaying the surprise routine. She thinks its a game! She runs over to some random thing on the floor picks it up and says "I have a surprise for you, close your eyes mom". At least we have something in common to talk about now.
She didn't cave in with her first gift. It has taken a surprise routine every day for her to realize this is fun. She doesn't ask or expect a surprise. I pull each one out at random times during the day when she least expects it or is looking a little down. I didn't given her one today and she wasn't demanding it. So the gifts themselves haven't yet become a habit. The concept of a surprise has!! That was one unexpected outcome of this routine.
The other thing I did after much advice from my mum – was to ignore her for a bit, let her be … stop trying so hard in other words. It worked wonders!! She's been all over me this past day or two. She still gets angry if I leave home during the day to get some chores done. She says before she goes to sleep "don't go anywhere". So I try to keep my chores to when she sleeps in the afternoon or plays with her friends. That still buys me 4 hours at least to step out.
Things are far from normal … but at least she's talking to us now and creating a few fun memories together with us everyday. Well – in this case, money was one of things that did help buy me some love.
Sapphire toys – awesome awesome toy store – thanks to my sis in law, I discovered this treasure. The quality of toys here are anything but close to those in the US. But they're pretty decent than most other stores in the area. There are a ton of local baby boutiques with German, Italian, Japanese made toys – especially in Indiranagar. But they are expensive and most of them don't carry play yards or big swings or slides for your yard. And for $300 bucks, the entire set of things I bought at Sapphire were a bargain for good quality stuff. | yr old?!? She's so mad at us she doesn't want | 14 |
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The pipe lining technique, also called cured-in-place pipe<|fim_middle|> Pipe lining is not a solution for orangeburg pipe, which is often found in older homes. In the past, repair projects required large-scale digging and excavation of the entire sewer line.
Trenchless pipe lining has made traditional plumbing a thing of the past. We no longer have to tear out large sections of your yard to repair your pipes. The process can often be complete in one day, causing minimal disruption to you and your family. In addition, there's no need to repair your property at the end of a trenchless pipe lining project. In most cases, sewer pipe lining comes at a fraction of the cost of conventional dig-and-replace sewer repair methods. It requires less equipment and fewer materials, and a smaller work crew, as well.
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For minimally invasive and affordable repairs that will preserve your property as well as the pipes themselves, call our team of professionals at Roto-Rooter Ventura for details. We are happy to support our customers with innovative solutions that are long-lasting and of the highest standards. | lining, relies on inserting an epoxy-saturated tube into the pipe, inflating it and letting it cure in place. Once the epoxy has hardened, it seals to the walls of the old pipe, resulting in a brand-new pipe that resists future damage and may last up to 50 years.
First, our technicians will perform an initial inspection of the pipeline using a waterproof, high-definition sewer camera. During this process, we will measure the diameter of your pipes, as well as identify and document the location of any problems such as cracks, blockages, clogs or tree root intrusion. After the inspection, we will discuss the best solutions to remedy any pipe problems we may have discovered.
Second, we will thoroughly clean the pipes with a nozzle that shoots jets of pressurized water into them. This process removes waste buildup, tree roots, dirt and other blockages in preparation for lining. This high level of sewer cleaning may be sufficient to fix smaller-scale pipe problems such as slow drains and blockages.
Once the pipe is fully cleaned and there is no excess debris in the way, it's now time to line it. We first measure and cut the liner to fit the dimensions of the pipe. Next, the liner is saturated with a two-part epoxy and inserted into the pipe. A bladder is inflated inside the epoxy-saturated liner, causing it to take the shape of the pipe while it cures in place. After the epoxy has cured, we will remove the bladder, leaving a brand-new pipe in place inside of the existing one. In the last step, our technicians will conduct another video inspection to follow up and ascertain whether the liner has fully resolved the problem.
Pipe lining is a safe and effective way to restore pipes made from cast iron, clay, PVC, plastic and concrete. | 362 |
During my last chapel talk, I reflected a bit on the experience of being back on a university campus, about the memories it triggered, and about what advice, if any, I might give my younger university self from the vantage<|fim_middle|> at Duke Divinity is an excellent resource and one of their most outstanding scholars for it, Richard Heitzenrater.
Perhaps I have narrowed the terminology too much ? and should have said Moravians or Quakers. The Mennonite role may not have been clearly established, though mentioned in regard to the holiness movement.
Thanks for connecting the inter-related dots.
Thank you, Mike. This is very kind indeed. | point that I now occupy a few years down the road. The following is a lightly edited version of some of what I said yesterday morning.
For most of my twenties, I was very concerned to think as hard as I could and read as much as I could and ask as many hard questions as I could and come to as many conclusions as I could and construct as many "defenses of the faith" as I could.
Looking back, I think that I looked at life and faith and education as something like, "whoever arrives at the most right answers at the end wins" kind of deal. My faith was kind of like an intellectual fortress that I was building, brick by brick, and I seemed implicitly to assume that each level, each brick, each piece had to be examined and scrutinized and approved, or else the whole structure would come crumbling down.
There were good things about this. Thinking and questioning and building are important things. It's important to scrutinize what we believe and why. It's important to strive for coherence and consistency in our views of the world.
But, after living a few more years, after seeing a few more things, after wrestling with a few more questions for longer periods of time, after walking with Jesus through circumstances that my university self couldn't really have imagined, my views have changed a bit.
It's not really about building anything, to be honest.
The first verse of Psalm 90 describes the Lord as our "dwelling place.
I like this image of God. It brings to mind images of safety, security, comfort, solidity. It makes me think of home—a place from which to venture out in hopes of adventure and discovery, a place to return to, a safe place to lick ones wounds, to reflect upon lessons learned, a place to be loved and to learn how to extend love outward.
It's a place (or, more precisely, a person) that is given to me for refuge and strength, rather than a fortification that I build to protect myself. It is a place and person that slowly, patiently, lovingly, inexorably wears down my defenses and teaches me the value of being instead of relentlessly doing.
What I would want to tell my younger self is that if you think that faith and discipleship are all about coming up with enough right answers to enough hard questions and enough defenses against other worldviews, than you will be chasing shadows for the rest of your life.
Your faith will become mostly about you.
Well, that's a much better, safer and more life-giving place to dwell.
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The university link was interesting. It was through studying the Wesleys that I came to give more attention to the Mennonites.
Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition | 564 |
Town beat Oxford United 3-1 on penalties following a 0-0 draw to take two points from their Checkatrade Trophy Southern Group C encounter at SN1 this evening.
Both sides had chances in the opening 45 minutes which saw the visitors reduced to ten men after Alex MacDonald was shown a straight red card.
Town were the dominant force in the second-half but were unable to make wave after wave of attack count, resulting in the game going to a penalty shootout.
Successful efforts from John Goddard, Conor Thomas and Darnell Furlong and a heroic effort from Will Henry ensured that Town secured the extra point.
Town Head Coach Luke Williams decided to use tonight's cup tie as an opportunity to give minutes to some of the club's younger players.
Six changes were made in total as Will Henry took his place between the sticks, whilst Anton Rodgers, James Brophy, Tom Smith, Ellis Iandolo and Luke Norris were all handed starts.
Lawrence Vigouroux, Nathan Thompson, Sean Murray and John Goddard dropped to the bench with Jon Obika and Yaser Kasim granted the evening off.
After a quiet start to proceedings with the two teams taking time to suss each other out, it wasn't long before there was action at both ends of the pitch.
Oxford stopper Simon Eastwood had to scramble back to seize control of Phil Edwards' header which was heading towards his own goal, before Ellis Iandolo's drive was deflected out.
Alex MacDonald warmed the gloves of Henry with a free-kick whilst Tom Smith was inches away from hitting the back of the net at the other end after seeing his effort tipped around the post by Eastwood.
Rodgers then planted a free-kick wide before the visitors began to grab a foothold on proceedings, MacDonald forcing a smart stop from Henry and the Town stopper had to be at his best moments later to deny the Oxford attacker once again.
And that proved to be the final act from MacDonald who was given a straight red card following a rash challenge on Rodgers.
That was followed by a flurry of cards with the game starting to heat up, but neither side were able to make the breakthrough before the break, despite Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill going close on the<|fim_middle|>.
TOWN –Ellis Iandolo, Conor Thomas.
OXFORD UNITED –Phil Edwards, Joe Rothwell, Joe Skarz, Dan Crowley.
SENT-OFF –Alex MacDonald (Oxford United).
ATTENDANCE –2,698 (533 AWAY FANS). | stroke of half-time.
There was little action of note in the early stages of the second-half with the hosts having plenty of possession but unable to find a way to break down the stubborn Oxford defence.
However, Town became more dangerous the longer the game went on and began to pepper the visiting goal with a flurry of efforts.
Iandolo's strike was deflected into the arms of Eastwood and the Yellows' stopper then did superbly to keep out an effort from Ormonde-Ottewill.
Smith bent a shot just around the post as the home side continued to flex their attacking muscles, before Eastwood stood firm once again to keep out a John Goddard effort, who had been thrown on moments earlier alongside Sean Murray.
Marvin Johnson broke forward with pace at the other end but was guilty of fluffing his lines after sending a tame effort straight at Henry.
Henry was having another good game for Town between the sticks and had to be alert to break down another Oxford counter-attack.
Town were continuing to hammer on the door but could not find a way through and the game ended all square, leaving the two sides to contest a penalty shootout in order to get an extra point.
And it was the Reds who came out on top following a nervous round of spot-kicks, which started with Goddard picking his spot perfectly.
Henry then did brilliantly to keep out Liam Sercombe's effort, before Murray missed his spot-kick and Ryan Taylor converted his.
Norris was then unsuccessful with his penalty but Henry responded by batting away Wes Thomas' shot and, after Thomas was on target, Ruffels fluffed his lines to present Town with the opportunity to take the extra point.
It was a chance the Robins took with both hands after Furlong kept his composure to slam home his penalty and earn Town two points to keep them on course for the knockout stages of the Checkatrade Trophy.
TOWN –Henry; Furlong, Rossi-Branco (C), Thomas; Brophy, Rodgers (John Goddard 67), Smith, Iandolo (Sean Murray 67), Ormonde-Ottewill; Delfouneso, Norris.
Subs Not Used –Vigouroux, Thompson, Evans, Twine.
OXFORD UNITED –Eastwood; Edwards, Martin, Long, Skarz (C); Rothwell (Liam Sercombe 85), Crowley (Wes Thomas 85); Roberts (Marvin Johnson 63), MacDonald, Ruffels; Taylor.
Subs Not Used –Lundstram, Hemmings, Welch-Hayes, Brown | 543 |
RACING IS BACK
HERE'S HOW WE'VE STARTED
Racing is BACK! And while it might not be<|fim_middle|> saw Andrew Balding's Berlin Tango win the Unibet Classic Trial to put himself in Investec Derby contention – although the trainer would celebrate an even higher profile victory three days later.
On Thursday June 4th the QIPCO Guineas Festival and four days of racing began on Newmarket's Rowley Mile course, unprecedented in the modern era. History was quickly made as father and son Oliver and Paul Cole became the first dual license trainers to record a winner under the new BHA arrangement. Trainer Mark Johnston also watched his impressive Eye Of Heaven win the Betway EBF Stallions Novice Stakes in some style.
On the Friday Newmarket hosted the Coronation Cup – sponsored this year by Hurworth Bloodstock – away from its usual home of Epsom Downs for the first time since the Second World War. Ghaiyyath saw off the challenge of a hugely talented field, which included dual £1 million stayers' bonus winner Stradivarius, last year's Investec Derby king Anthony Van Dyck and Defoe, who won the race 12 months earlier.
The weekend itself saw a high class QIPCO 2000 Guineas and a little more history made – Oisin Murphy's first ever Classic winner. Odds-on favourite and unbeaten two-year-old Pinatubo had been tipped to win the big race, but it was Murphy and Kameko – trained by that man Balding – who took the spoils and secured favouritism for this year's Derby at Epsom Downs on July 4th.
A scintillating four days of racing at Newmarket was then rounded off on the Sunday with a brilliant performance in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas from Aidan O'Brien's Love, ridden by Ryan Moore.
Sunday was also the first day that two Jockey Club Racecourses staged fixtures since racing resumed, with Haydock Park hosting a thrilling card which included the Betway Brigadier Gerard Stakes, traditionally held at Sandown Park but switched due to the rescheduled race programme. John Gosden's Lord North hekd off the favourite, Elarqam, in a fantastic finish.
Day two at Haydock on the Monday was dominated by a man who loves the track, jockey Richard Kingscote. He celebrated four winners to help one punter at home win £17,000.
A third consecutive fixture at Haydock on the Tuesday gave Newmarket-based trainer Tom Clover his first ever double as Rogue Assassin and Celsius greeted him in the winners' enclosure.
And on Wednesday Kempton Park was back with an evening fixture, dominated by another jockey who has high hopes for this year's Investec Derby – Tom Marquand. The talented youngster bagged a double on Quickthorn and Tintoretto on the Unibet-sponsored card.
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As we race behind closed doors, keep up with the latest news and results. | quite as we know and remember it, we've already seen some sensational action at our racecourses.
Following a suspension of horseracing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) put together a rescheduled race programme for June, July and August.
Meanwhile the Resumption of Racing Group, including The Jockey Club, the BHA and other stakeholders within the sport, worked tirelessly in the background to put together a detailed set of protocols to allow racing to restart on June 1st – the earliest date permitted by the Government – behind closed doors.
This meant that on the first day of the month Newcastle became the first racecourse to allow trainers, jockeys, horses, racecourse staff and officials inside since March.
Only those integral to a raceday taking place are currently allowed to attend and must go through a three-step procedure - an online test, a health survey and then a temperature check on arrival – just to be allowed through the gates. Anyone who fails the temperature check will be turned away, along with anyone who has travelled with them in the same vehicle.
Once inside everyone on site must obey two metre social distancing rules and anyone whose role means this cannot be guaranteed – like stalls handlers and jockeys – must wear face coverings.
There are no trophy presentations and other measures in place include one-way sign posts for getting around sites and alterations to jockeys changing rooms like partitioning around each rider's peg and a ban on showers.
Restrictions mean that racing fans and owners are among those having to watch the action on TV instead. Even media attendance is restricted, with only two journalists and two photographers allowed to attend, with their content pooled with colleagues from other publications.
Broadcast media are restricted to one interviewer and one camera person with the races being streamed back to studios for commentators to call the races from off site. Even ITV's presenters are having to make do with hosting from their spare rooms, as they did during the QIPCO Guineas Festival!
However, while there is frustration that we can't all head back to our favourite racecourses, the action on the track has been anything but disappointing.
The Jockey Club's first raceday since the suspension was lifted took place at Kempton Park on Tuesday June 2nd and saw top jockeys Franke Dettori and Ryan Moore both get off the mark with victories, the latter for Her Majesty The Queen on First Receiver.
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Third game of the season for the Whakatane Bay 1 team. On Monday we had heard reports of a multitude of teams postponing in the Bay 1 and Bay 2 leagues, and the trip to Taupo was a bit much for some with work commitments and young children. Whakatane has a tradition of staying in Taupo following our games, normally putting a cheeky grand over the bar at Urban Retreat backpackers, dusting up the foreigners at beer-pong and painting the super loo in the gardens early morning. We looked for a postponement, and<|fim_middle|>. We redefined throwing the kitchen sink at them.
Man of the Match performance to Cal Pirihi who continues to show how indispensable he is to the team.
A massive thank you to our boys, the referee, the members of Taupo's squad and club, as well as the partners and supporters who traveled with us on the day.
Whakatane Women start as they mean to continue in the W-League with a 6-2 win over Otumoetai. Well done to Sinead Doherty-Meharry for a classy hat trick. Alex Wood, Alexis Koopu and Naomi Courtney-Tennent claimed the other three with one each. Player of the day today was well deserved from the best slide tackler in the bay - Candice Bettridge. | unfortunately were turned down. Taupo are probably largely unaware, but of the 14 players we traveled with, 5 were players from our Bay 2 side.
I'm proud of the boys performance on Saturday. Midweek it was easy to get the fire burning with everyone feeling dark about the fact we weren't going to be able to postpone the game, and once I received the response "Inform the league if you intend to default" we knew we weren't walking away from the game with anything but the maximum points.
Interesting side to face for me personally. So many great guys in the Taupo team. Lots of banter being thrown around, and some phenomenal players in the team. I didn't see the game so evenhanded, and felt like Taupo's keeper kept them in it, with three great saves in the first half. Their first goal was a soft penalty, but from there they started to build a momentum and rhythm. Taupo's introduction of number 9 into the middle of the park gave them a creative spark and a conduit to play through. They also started to prod at the back-line down the left, and run at our center-backs a bit more, which while absorbed well, starts to leave you tired.
I think our boys left it all out there, and that's why we took the result. Young Sam Cox-Ellison coming in at 17 years old did fantastic in the middle of the park, not shying away from the game even after staring down Jimmy. Joseph Cairns shows why he is a step above the rest, being man-marked by three players, beaten and fouled at every opportunity; only to hit a bicycle kick from 18 yards to level the game is just legendary. I could write about every player individually, Sean Wills battling at 6, Shem at CB to fill the big shoes left by Ricky, up and down the park every player showed why no-one wants to face Whakatane. Tyler Warren is known for his conservative defensive approach, and I think it sums it up how much we wanted this result to see him crop up in the box and score a header with a minute to go | 444 |
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Willoughby-Eastlake 6th grader tests positive for COVID-19, forcing more than 70 into remote learning.
End of an era: Cleveland's I-X Center to close at the end of this year due to pandemic | Coast Ventures and KeyBank to host three-part "Venture Flicks" series exploring entrepreneurship and creativity
The series will screen startup documentaries and feature panel conversations with filmmakers
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Author: Hope Sloop
Published: 4:30 PM EDT September 16, 2020
Updated: 5:50 PM EDT September 16, 2020
CLEVELAND — North Coast Ventures is kicking off a new series with KeyBank, playing startup documentary films beginning this week.
The "Venture Flicks" series aims to inspire local entrepreneurs by highlighting the stories of how to make it in the fields of investors, technologists, and more.
After each film, North Coast Ventures will host a 30-minute panel discussion with subjects from the films.
"This is an exciting opportunity to learn from some of the most powerful startup stories out there," said Todd Federman, managing director of North Coast Ventures, "whether you lead, work for, or invest in startups, there are great insights in these movies."
The movies will be screened via Zoom starting on Thursday, September 17, at 5:00 p.m. The first film, "General Magic," covers the story of the technology giants that helped to build, and change, Silicon Valley.
To register for "General Magic," click here.
The second movie, "Something Ventured," will be streamed on October 15 and follows venture capitalists who set out to help grow iconic companies like Apple and Atari.
The final film, "Code Girl," will be shown on November 5 and will explore the story of women in STEM, and the bettering of communities through technology.
"If you are an entrepreneur, you will love these movies," Fed | 364 |
The Challenge: To create a forum to discuss key issues for BAE Systems based around The Future of Engineering.
In partnership,<|fim_middle|> representatives from other engineering companies to ensure a balanced discussion.
Each discussion was hosted by The Times business Editor and attended by a Times Business journalist and photographer.
Following the round table events, the insights and content discussed were written into a two-page focus report which ran leading in the business section.
BAE systems also ran a 10 x 7 display ad within the report.
Cyber security: are UK organisations responding effectively to the new risk landscape?
The new National Curriculum & the next generation of scientists and engineers?
Engineering & manufacturing supporting export led recovery for the UK? | The Times and BAE systems, ran a series of table breakfast discussions for between 8-12 people. Held in The Times events space, each event covered a separate topic within the field of engineering that BAE were keen to discuss.
The guests invited to attend each discussion included a Minister, thought leaders in the field, Nigel Whitehead - Head of UK Business at BAE and a selected range of | 82 |
Heathers: The Musical
The Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance Series presents "Heathers: The Musical" at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Hilarious, heartfelt, and homicidal — with its moving<|fim_middle|>Crisp Museum Presents an Exhibition from the Permanent Collection » | love story, laugh-out-loud comedy, and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, "Heathers" is one of the most popular new musicals in recent history.
Based on the wildly popular cult film classic, "Heathers," the show follows Veronica as she falls in love while climbing atop the high school food chain. When character Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bow down to demands. However, her dark and dangerous love interest has another plan.
With lyrics and book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, this rock musical is based on the 1988 film of the same name written by Daniel Waters. After opening in Los Angeles, the show moved Off-Broadway in 2014 followed by an Off-West End run. The production is certain to spark conversations, appealing to anyone who's ever been in love, trouble or high school.
The show has adult themes, but it will appeal to anyone who loved the movie. It's a dark comedy and great fun, but there's a real point to its message.
Tickets may be purchased by contacting the River Campus Box Office, located in the Cultural Arts Center, 518 S. Fountain St., weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., by calling (573) 651-2265, or online at RiverCampus.org.
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The government of Ghana is contemplating hedging the price of importing crude oil as crude prices tick up gradually in the global market, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said here on Tuesday.
According to him, as part of its regular analysis, the government has been looking at an enterprise risk portfolio and trying to do and to determine how to save money.
"It is possible (to hedge) because the prices are going back up," said the minister.
"For us when you see the Exxons (ExxonMobil) coming in then it means our production is also going to go up. But more importantly the Ministry of Energy is talking about reducing our energy mix so that we depend more on Renewable than on fuel so that is an effective hedge as we move towards solar and renewable. So the energy issue is being looked at," Ofori-Atta explained.
The minister said the intention to make Ghana a petroleum hub was still on the table for which reason the state owned Tema Oil Refinery<|fim_middle|> per day.
"But that is being restored and we expect TOR to be back in good operation from. We are even thinking about increasing that capacity to about 60,000 barrels. Also there was a trip to Asia to look at Ghana as a petroleum hub. For us, it is how to position the country as a hub in many things is being thought of," Ofori-Atta added.
The minister expressed confidence in the management of the oil refinery to bring it back on production and sustain a growth in their activities. | (TOR) was being retooled.
TOR was refurbished and provided with an increased capacity to refine 45,000 barrels per day but a fire incident in 2017 destroyed part of the equipment reducing the capacity to 2,500 barrels | 56 |
Staffs from maternity units all over Ireland have gathered in Limerick for a training and education event aimed at reducing neonatal brain injury.
The two-day CTG Masterclass was hosted by UL Hospitals Group at the CERC Building, UHL, and attracted dozens of midwives, midwife managers, consultants and NCHDs from the four corners of Ireland, north and south. This is the fifth such master class hosted by the Maternal and Child Health Directorate, UL Hospitals Group, and the event is run free-of-charge for these professionals to help improve perinatal outcomes.
This latest masterclass was led by Dr Edwin Chandraharan, Lead Consultant in Labour Ward and Lead for Clinical Governance at St. George's University Hospital, London, and by Dr Susana Pereira, Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust.
CTG (cardiotocography) allows obstetric and midwifery staff record fetal heartbeat and contractions during labour and the technique is essential in detecting early signs of fetal distress, including hypoxia, or a lack of oxygen to the brain. Brain injury during labour is among the most devastating outcomes in medicine and through its series of master classes, UL Hospitals Group, is demonstrating its commitment to reducing it.
"A primary action for meeting this priority is through multidisc<|fim_middle|>It is so important that midwives and doctors who are working together are training together. The aim of our CTG masterclass is to promote understanding of fetal physiology to ensure the best possible outcomes".
"A key component of the UMHL strategy is the CTG Master Class that the hospital runs twice a year in collaboration with Prof Edwin Chandraharan and Dr Susana Pereira. Prof Chandraharan has run the two-day course in some 30 countries and he says that UMHL is the only hospital where it is provided to the participants free of charge as a public service. The large turnout of midwives and obstetricians from all over Ireland, including Belfast, over a full Saturday and Sunday, is a testament to their professionalism and to the value they place on the course. The UL Hospitals Group is committed to making a national contribution to reducing neonatal brain injury in our maternity hospitals. The next Masterclass will be held over the weekend of August 10th and 11th 2019 at the fabulous CERC Building on the main UHL campus," Dr Burke added. | iplinary training and education events such as our CTG masterclass," explained Margaret Quigley, Director of Midwifery, and UL Hospitals Group. " | 32 |
Oak Bay eight-year-old earns local library spot
GVPL Emerging Local Authors a jump start for small publishers
Christine van Reeuwyk
Oak Bay's Isla Shaykewich
First-time author and illustrator Isla Shaykewich, 8, insists illustrations will not be part of her next book.
The Oak Bay girl still bears the annoyance of the 17 or so illustrations required to augment the tale in Runaway Mittens, a book included in this year's Emerging Local Authors Collection at the Greater Victoria Public Library.
Much as she enjoys drawing, the images required a certain amount of work.
"I couldn't just draw pictures of cats and then put them in places of the story where they wouldn't make sense," she said. "My next book's not going to have any pictures, and it's going to be thicker."
Written when she was seven, she started the project last May.
Her friend Caleigh (who merited a mention in the acknowledgements) was writing a story about cats so Isla did too. She had the storyline all laid out about kittens<|fim_middle|>PL collections and technical services co-ordinator. "We're glad to shine a light on emerging authors and illustrators in Greater Victoria."
The 2016 collection features 162 books by 127 authors and illustrators from the south Island. The books, published between 2011 and 2015, include self-published, independent and small press works, on display in the Central Branch for one year. This year, the collection also includes 68 ebooks, available for download at gvpl.ca.
"It's astonishing this book was written by such a young girl," Hadziev said of Runaway Mittens. "It is really well done – the plot is intriguing; the characters memorable; the illustrations charming. We hope the experience of having her book in the library collection inspires Isla to keep developing her craft."
A voracious reader – Isla is more than half finished Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series – she's also an avid creative writer.
"When I'm finished it makes me proud to look at what I wrote," Isla said.
She has ideas at the ready for her next book, sans illustrations of course. "I'm sure she will (keep writing), she's got an active imagination," Doner said, noting her daughter's a prolific journaler, keeping one by her bed.
"I will need to get one or two more journals," Isla said.
Get your name on the wait-list for Kittens Knitting Mittens online at gvpl.ca and peruse the rest of the Emerging Local Authors Collection.
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Then they meet this "enemy."
"They get to meet him and he's really nice," Isla said.
Mom Sue Doner helped with spelling and grammar and encouragement along the way. She offered an early incentive – when book was complete they'd publish one for her and one for her to gift to her teacher at Maria Montessori Academy. The motivation worked.
"By the time we were finished she printed copies for everybody in the family," Doner said.
Several times she flagged throughout the process and mom would remind her of the end goal. The book came to fruition last fall.
"We learned a lot about the cost of publishing," said Doner. A passing idea was to use the book to raise funds for the SPCA but the prohibitive cost of publishing made that impossible.
Cost aside, the youngster learned the value of the work that fills her bookshelves at home.
"I realized how much work it would take to make all those books," Isla said.
Through word-of-mouth Doner, learned of the Emerging Authors Collection and submitted a copy of Runaway Mittens to the GVPL just under the deadline wire.
"This is the second year of the Emerging Local Authors Collection, and the library is proud to support our thriving creative community," said Rina Hadziev, GV | 275 |
Organisms at the edge of<|fim_middle|> smallpox can only infect humans while the rabies virus can infect a variety of mammals.
Transmission of viruses can be vertical, from mother to offspring, or horizontal, from host to host. Horizontal transmission can occur via a number of pathways; transmission of body fluids such as blood or saliva, spread by coughing and sneezing, entering the body in food or water by the faecal–oral route and a range of vectors such as mosquitoes, or aphids that transfer sap from plant to plant.
Most viruses elicit an immune response in host organisms, eliminating the virus and providing immunity to future infections. Some viruses elude this immune response by constantly changing the structure of their surface proteins. Viruses are difficult to treat because they use the hosts' metabolic pathways to reproduce, drugs that interfere with viral replication can also cause toxic effects to the host. Vaccination has proven to be the most effective medical intervention, providing immunity to infection.
However, most viruses are fragile when outside a host organism. The simple act of washing your hands with soap is one of the most effective ways of preventing infection and spread. By surrounding the viruses on your skin with soap, a surfactant, the lipid envelopes enclosing the virus are ruptured, spilling essential proteins and rendering the virus useless.
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Viruses are by far the most abundant biological entities on Earth and they outnumber all the others put together. But are they a form of life or an organic structure?
Viruses contain genetic material, reproduce and evolve. However, they do not posses a true cellular structure, which is often regarded as the basic unit of life, or have their own metabolism. For this reason they are referred to as "organisms at the edge of life" and opinion is still divided on whether they are a life form, or organic structures that interact with living organisms.
Viruses are tiny, about 100 times smaller than bacterial cells. Although their pathogenic qualities were known they eluded discovery as the causative agent until relatively recently in our scientific history. Most viruses cannot be seen with an optical microscope and their structure was not described until the invention of electron microscopy in 1931.
Outside a host organism viruses exist as particles called virions. They consist of genetic material, DNA or RNA, surrounded by a protective protein coat. Some viruses also have a lipid envelope.
A virus relies on a host to replicate, they require the metabolism of the host cell to assemble copies of themselves. They infect all types of cellular life including animals, plants, bacteria and fungi. Some can only infect a limited range of hosts and can be species specific while others have a broad range. For example, | 299 |
Victory was for the fans, says Wilder
Brentford reaction
The Blades boss was delighted with the winning start as his side overcame Brentford<|fim_middle|> to overcome a talented Brentford outfit at Bramall Lane and the Blades boss says it's a moment the fans have deserved.
He remarked: "I'm delighted and its reward for our supporters really. It's not about me, the coaching staff or the players, this one is for the fans, for the passion, the love and enthusiasm they've shown throughout the last six years.
"You've got to be a special bred to be involved with this football club and what they've had to do over the last six years has been pretty tough, so it's a big thank for their effort and what an atmosphere
"It was absolutely bouncing and something very special. The players didn't do bad either I suppose!"
Wilder added: "We had a goalkeeper who has made a few vital saves, we've run about a bit, hit the post, created chances and had two goals disallowed, but that's us.
"We work hard, we leave everything out there, we were a little bit loose in possession and we didn't overload like we usually do, but we're stepping up a level against excellent opposition and we can be pleased with gaining a valuable three points."
Sheffield United vs Brentford on 05 Aug 17 | at Bramall Lane
Chris Wilder dedicated Saturday's three points to the fans.
Back in the Championship after six seasons in England's third tier, Billy Sharp's first-half header proved to be enough | 40 |
My Yak-55M<|fim_middle|> sexiest lawn darts I had ever seen.
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The Pulse Ultra Defender - Order Yours Today. | was a seasoned veteran, with three epic seasons of flying under her belt. From Russia with love, this plane was a pure joy to fly, and was no doubt the best flying aircraft I had ever flown. Powered by a T-Motor 4120-7 550kV power house that was harnessed to a 16x7 prop, endless verticals awaited. This plane was rock solid, ultra predictable and massively fun to fly.
As with all RC aircraft, somewhere precariously hidden from sight is an expiration date, equating to the utter doom of your beloved bird. I have yet to find this foreboding date stamp on the models I fly, but it's there - lurking, waiting and ready to strike with impunity. And unless you manage to unearth the ominous date of your prized models demise, a crash is going to happen, and it's going to hurt. And man, did this one hurt bad.
Poised for takeoff and ready for flight, this was going to be my 5th flight of the day, and so far the day was drama free. And then it happened. After a full power vertical climb out, I pushed the nose hard over to level out, and during this high negative G pushover, I heard a distinct "crack" emanate from above. "No worries," I thought to myself - "I'll bring her down and check her out." However, I quickly realized control was no longer mine. Instead, Sir Isaac Newton was at the sticks, and his favorite law of motion was at play - gravity. What a jerk.
Nose diving from an altitude of 100 feet into terra firma below usually isn't good for anything or anyone - especially if you're constructed of balsa. My Yak-55M had taken it right on the nose (quite literally), and she was done for. I knew it the moment I heard that ominous and sickening sound, and I was honestly heart broken to see her go. It was one of those moments that you simply just stare blankly ahead, realizing your favorite plane of all time has just been transformed into a pile of rubbish. I simply had no words but sullen defeat.
What I hadn't realized was some internal structural damage from a forced landing a season before. Inside my Yak-55M, some balsa had taken a beating, and combined with the 3D stress over the passing seasons, the structure beneath my battery tray had weakened. This caused the battery tray to break free under the rapid onset of negative G force, which subsequently unplugged my Pulse 3000mAh LiPo from the ESC in mid flight, transforming my Yak-55M into one of the | 559 |
By The Daily Dish
David Corn on Clinton, Obama, and double standards on Afghanistan:
It's true that Obama has convened no meetings of the subcommittee, but his camp counters that he became chair of the subcommittee early last year, just as he was starting his presidential campaign. Clinton is technically correct that Obama could have used the subcommittee to conduct oversight of actions and policies related to Afghanistan. But the full foreign relations committee, under the guidance of Senator Joe Biden, has held several hearings on Afghanistan that covered NATO's role there. It's not as if the foreign relations committee did nothing<|fim_middle|> Afghanistan. Key witnesses included senior officials from the State Department and the Pentagon responsible for the administration's Afghanistan policy.
Clinton attended neither of these hearings. She was on the campaign trail. | on Afghanistan because Obama did not take on the mission. Also, as happens with many committees, the chair of the full committee reserves the right to handle the big issues him- or herself, and Afghanistan counts as a big issue.
Clinton ought to be careful about hurling stones in this area.
As she always tells campaign crowds, she is a member of the Senate armed services committee. In February the committee held two hearings on Afghanistan. On February 8, it focused on appropriations for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was a witness. Eight days later, the committee zeroed in on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, holding a two-part hearing examining recent reports on | 142 |
Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures
by Chris Karlof, David Wagner - , 2003
"... We consider routing security in wireless sensor networks. Many sensor network routing protocols have been proposed, but none of them have been designed with security as agq1( We propose securitygcur forrouting in sensor networks, show how attacks agacks ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks can be ..."
We consider routing security in wireless sensor networks. Many sensor network routing protocols have been proposed, but none of them have been designed with security as agq1( We propose securitygcur forrouting in sensor networks, show how attacks agacks ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks can
by Andrea Goldsmith, Anaïs Nin , 2005
"... Copyright c ○ 2005 by Cambridge University Press. This material is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University ..."
Copyright c ○ 2005 by Cambridge University Press. This material is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University
LEAP: Efficient Security Mechanisms for Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks
by Sencun Zhu , 2003
"... Protocol), a key management protocol for sensor networks that is designed to support in-network processing, while at the same time restricting the security impact of a node compromise to the immediate network neighborhood of the compromised node. The design of the protocol is motivated by the observ ..."
shared with the base station, a pairwise key<|fim_middle|> this attack used positioning devices, synchronized clocks, or di ..."
Abstract—The nature of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks make them very attractive to attackers. One of the most popular and serious attacks in wireless ad hoc networks is wormhole attack and most proposed protocols to defend against this attack used positioning devices, synchronized clocks
Wormhole attacks in wireless networks
by Yih-chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, David B. Johnson - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 2006
"... Abstract — As mobile ad hoc network applications are deployed, security emerges as a central requirement. In this paper, we introduce the wormhole attack, a severe attack in ad hoc networks that is particularly challenging to defend against. The wormhole attack is possible even if the attacker has n ..."
attack can form a serious threat in wireless networks, especially against many ad hoc network routing protocols and location-based wireless security systems. For example, most existing ad hoc network routing protocols, without some mechanism to defend against the wormhole attack, would be unable to find
Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks
by Richard Draves, Jitendra Padhye, Brian Zill - In ACM SIGCOMM , 2004
"... Routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks have traditionally focused on finding paths with minimum hop count. However, such paths can include slow or lossy links, leading to poor throughput. A routing algorithm can select better paths by explicitly taking the quality of the wireless links into ..."
into account. In this paper, we conduct a detailed, empirical evaluation of the performance of three link-quality metrics— ETX, per-hop RTT, and per-hop packet pair—and compare them against minimum hop count. We study these metrics using a DSR-based routing protocol running in a wireless testbed. We find | shared with another sensor node, a cluster key shared with multiple neighboring nodes, and a group key that is shared by all the nodes in the network. The protocol used for establishing and updating these keys
GPS-free positioning in mobile ad hoc networks
by Srdjan Capkun, Maher Hamdi, Jean-Pierre Hubaux - Cluster Computing , 2001
"... this paper, we describe an algorithm for the positioning of nodes in an ad hoc network that does not use GPS. The algorithm provides a position information to the nodes in the scenarios where an infrastructure does not exist and GPS cannot be used. GPS-free positioning is also desirable, when the GP ..."
this paper, we describe an algorithm for the positioning of nodes in an ad hoc network that does not use GPS. The algorithm provides a position information to the nodes in the scenarios where an infrastructure does not exist and GPS cannot be used. GPS-free positioning is also desirable, when
The Elements of Statistical Learning -- Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman
Visualization of Wormholes in Sensor Networks
by W Wang, B Bhargava , 2004
"... Several protocols have been proposed to defend against wormholes in ad hoc networks by adopting positioning devices, synchronized clocks, or directional antennas. In this paper, we propose a mechanism, MDS-VOW, to detect wormholes in a sensor network. MDS-VOW first reconstructs the layout of the sen ..."
Several protocols have been proposed to defend against wormholes in ad hoc networks by adopting positioning devices, synchronized clocks, or directional antennas. In this paper, we propose a mechanism, MDS-VOW, to detect wormholes in a sensor network. MDS-VOW first reconstructs the layout
Ordinal MDS-based Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Vijayanth Vivekan, Vincent W. S. Wong
"... Abstract — There are various applications in wireless sensor networks which require knowing the relative or actual position of the sensor nodes. Recently, there have been different localization algorithms proposed in the literature. The algorithms based on classical Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) [1 ..."
Abstract — There are various applications in wireless sensor networks which require knowing the relative or actual position of the sensor nodes. Recently, there have been different localization algorithms proposed in the literature. The algorithms based on classical Multidimensional Scaling (MDS
Wormhole Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
by Zaw Tun, Aung Htein Maw
"... Abstract—The nature of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks make them very attractive to attackers. One of the most popular and serious attacks in wireless ad hoc networks is wormhole attack and most proposed protocols to defend against | 556 |
The Croajingolong National Park and Cape Conran Coastal Park are situated in East Gippsland, Victoria.These parks protect the stretch of beautiful coastline south of and between Orbost and Malacoota. Although this is an easy trip it is interesting 4wding. The warmer months are recommended so advantage can be taken of the beaches, and fishing and canoeing on the many superb rivers and inlets. Because of these attractions campsites are often crowded in the peak times. This is a great trip to combine with the High Country on the way to or from Sydney or Canberra.
This trip starts where the bitumen ends in Cape Conran Coastal Park and heads east along the Old Coast Road past Yeerung Gorge and Bemm River to the Princes Highway at Cann River. From here the Tamboon and Point Hicks Roads are followed to the Cicada Trail, passing many potential short detours to great campsites including Peach Tree Creek, Thurra Rver and Mueller River.Before the Cicada Trail crosses the Mueller River a detour to the<|fim_middle|>a which has all facilities, an enormous van park right on the estuary and many wonderful beaches. | north takes you to the Mt Everard walking trail. Continue on the Cicada trail through tall forests and then along the West Wingan, Wingan Link and Hard to Seek tracks. A detour can be made to climb Genoa Peak which is over 400 meters high and has great views. Follow the Betka Track to the scenic Shipwreck Creek campsite on the coast. From here it is a short run along the Centre Road into Malacoot | 95 |
Detailed information about the location of Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen and his distances from principal landmarks.
The Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen is well equipped and furnishes this services and facilities: Welcome services at your arrive, Our front desk is ready to welcome you 24 hours, Baggages: in the reception hall is available a careful service of luggage storage, Antitheft Video control, Air conditioner: the rooms are equipped with system for regulating the temperature, The hotel is equipped with efficient lifts, Wireless connection to internet line, stones, willows, flowers, green plants, little pagodas, In the Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen there is special attention dedicated to the guests actualized by special and numerous services, The hotel accepts credit card as payment, Master, Visa, Amex, Diners, UnionPay, Pay all costs in one time, Car with driver always ready for rent, Car parking annexed to the hotel structure, The Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen is equipped with a functional Business Center and all work services for office activities, Hall manager<|fim_middle|> Sound system in some room, Shading curtains, Voltage converter and international electronic adaptor. | available in delimited hours, Business services to facilitate your work, There are also small sized meeting rooms for work or private parties, It is available a conference room for conventions with relative services, The Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen dedicates special attentions and services to your health and your well being, In the Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen the guest can take advantage of many amenities and special entertainments, Chess Room: there is apposite hall for chess, a board game very appreciated also in China, Tea room for relaxing conversations and pleasant moments, In the Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen the guest has ideal and well equipped structure to practice many sporting activities, In the Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen there are several restaurants with Chinese and international dishes, Independent foreign restaurant, The Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen has restaurants with Dining Room: special rooms for consuming food during feast and special events, Chinese cuisine, Guandong Cuisine.
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The rooms of Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen furnish these services: In this hotel you can regulate the room temperature by individually controlled air conditioning, Internet logon in the room, Wireless connection to internet line, In the Lijing Business Hotel Shenzhen there is also these services: __hotelother__, Safe in some rooms, Room services at delimited timetable, External laundry service, Call service, Vast selection of channels by Cable TV, You can receive foreign channels by TV sat, Tv colour with LCD display, DVD player in some room, There is a phone in room, telephone in some rooms, DDD domestic: there is telephone in room enabled for national calls, IDD International: worldwide calls from the room, on tourist attraction, room view on Sea, room view on Lake, MINI BAR in some room, Tea\Coffee Boiling Pot is available in the room, small refrigerator in some room, Equipment to iron out your clothes, Umbrellas availability: to seek protection from rain and bad surprises, Free stationery for correspondence and work, Auxiliary bedding accessories, free newspapers (on request) also in english language, Slipper and other little things useful for your comfort, Sewing kit for your little travel needs, One bottled water for you without cost, shower or bath with shower nozzle,, hair dryer (on request), The Bathroom is equipped also with a comfy bathrobe, Writing desk in some rooms, | 544 |
Contemporary Learning Academy officially for<|fim_middle|> "A century and a half later, the wounds of Sand Creek are still fresh." | sale as Hentzell Park swap awaits ruling
Patricia Calhoun | June 24, 2013 | 12:50pm
Judge Herbert Stern will decide on Friday whether the city's swap of eleven acres by Hentzell Park to Denver Public Schools in exchange for a DPS facility at 1330 Fox Street can go through -- or will instead go to a vote of Denver residents on the November ballot.
Meanwhile, though, other moves are already in motion -- including the sale of the Contemporary Learning Academy at the edge of hot-hot LoHi.
And there could be a "world of opportunity" in the transaction, as befits the DPS slogan.
After all, condo and loft projects are popping up all over that part of town -- in areas that don't have the stunning view that the property at 2211 West 27th Avenue boasts.
Emily Griffith Opportunity School's Fate Unknown as New College Campus Opens
The proposed Hentzell Park deal is the most controversial part of a complicated building maneuver that started last fall with the DPS's purchase of 1860 Lincoln Street -- where employees now based on Fox will join other DPS departments if the judge signs off.
But the for-sale sign is already up at the CLA building, which once held the Farm Bureau and then a local office of USA Today before turning into an alternative high school campus. Calls to the number on the sign go to DPS "maintenance," which is collecting information on interested buyers and will send out more information on the property next month. You can learn more on this DPS website.
No matter who buys the building, students are slated to continue at the CLA through next June; if all goes as planned, they'll move to a DPS facility at 780 Grant Street for the start of the 2014 school year.
But not all has gone as planned with the Hentzell Park proposal. Mayor Michael Hancock's plan calls for swapping the land in southeast Denver to DPS, which will build an elementary school there; in exchange, the city will get the building at 1330 Fox that it wants to turn into an assistance center for domestic violence victims. The deal won city council's approval in April, despite considerable opposition from neighbors, environmental groups and even some longtime employees of Denver Parks and Recreation, which had designated the site as a "natural area" just a few years ago. A group called Friends of Denver Parks filed suit to stop the deal, contending that the city needs voter approval to transfer the land -- an argument on which Stern will rule on June 28.
And another controversial part of the package is still pending: the sale of the circa 1925 (with a 1933 addition) building that now houses both the Emily Griffith high school and technical college, and occupies the entire 1200 block of Welton Street, right by the Colorado Convention Center. The DPS plan calls for moving most of the adult-education classes from there to 1860 Lincoln, although DPS will have to find another location for the trade programs, including the auto body, auto mechanic and welding programs. There have been rumblings that some fans of the building will go for historic designation of the structure, which could affect its sales potential; DPS has been working on an assessment of that particular piece of property.
So far, though, no one is wiping a tear over the potential loss of another piece of DPS property: The current DPS administrative building at 900 Grant Street will be sold and the staff relocated to 1860 Lincoln.
And no matter what happens in Stern's courtroom on Friday, the rest of the DPS deal will proceed. "The only piece that would be up in the air is Fox Street," says DPS spokeswoman Kristen Armstrong.
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Хелен Хандшух () — криптограф. Наиболее известная разработка — симметричный блочный криптоалгоритм SHACAL. Помимо этого принимала участие в создании блочного шифра Universal Encryption Standard. С 2009 года работает в Intrinsic-ID (до этого провела 9 лет в Gemplus и 3 года в Spansion). Получила степень доктора философии в области криптографии в ENST. Является автором более 30 статей и соавтором 9 патентов по криптографии и защите информации. Член правления The IACR, The International Association For Cryptologic Research с 2005. Также читает лекции по Smart card security в Royal Holloway University of London и в Лёвенском католическом университете.
Краткая биография
Хелен получила образование в следующих университетах:
Ecole Sainte Genevieve (1990—1992, Maths & Physics)
ENSTA ParisTech — École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (1992—1995, Engineer, Networks and Communication)
École Polytechnique (1995—1996, DEA, Algorithmique)
Telecom ParisTech (1996—1999, PhD, Cryptography)
После учёбы Хелен работала в компаниях Gemplus, Spansion, Intrinsic-ID Inc., Intrinsic-ID Inc. и Cryptography Research, Inc.
Атака на SEAL
Симметричный поточный алгоритм шифрования данных, оптимизированный для программной реализации. В 1996 году Хелен Хандшух и Henry Gilbert описали атаки на упрощенную версию SEAL 1.0 и на сам SEAL 1.0. Им потребовалось 230 текстов, каждый длиной в четыре 32-битных слова, чтобы найти зависимость псевдослучайной функции от ключа. В результате, в следующих версиях алгоритма SEAL 3.0 и SEAL 2.0 были сделаны некоторые доработки и изменения. Например, в версии 1.0 каждая итерация с ключевой последовательностью завершалась модификацией только двух регистров, а в версии 3.0 — модифи<|fim_middle|>стальные фрагменты расширенного ключа K16…K79 вычисляются из первых 16 фрагментов. SHACAL-2 основан на 64 раундах хеш-функции SHA-256 с внутренним состоянием длиной 256 бит. Аналогично алгоритму SHACAL-1, 512-битный исходный ключ шифрования делится на 16 фрагментов по 32 бита, а остальные фрагменты расширенного ключа вычисляются из первых 16 фрагментов. Шифруемый блок данных делится на 8 фрагментов по 32 бит каждый.
Примечания
Литература
Ссылки
Cryptographer's World — Helena Handschuh
Executive Team at Intrinsic-ID
List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
Криптографы Великобритании | цировались все четыре. Ещё SEAL 3.0 и SEAL 2.0 использовали для генерации таблиц алгоритм SHA-1 () вместо первоначального SHA, что сделало их более устойчивыми к криптоанализу.
UES
В 1999 году Хелен Хандшух и Serge Vaudenay разработали блочный шифр Universal Encryption Standard. Предложен ими, как переходный этап для завершения AES (UES имеет такой же размер блока 128 бит и ключ 128/192/256 бит). Состоит из двух параллельных Triple DES для половин блоков, используя key whitening и key-dependent swapping of bits между блоками.
SHACAL
Симметричный блочный криптоалгоритм SHACAL разработан в 2000 году группой авторов из компании Gemplus во главе с Хелен Хандшух и Дэвидом Насашем для участия в конкурсе NESSIE. Существует два варианта алгоритма — SHACAL-1 и SHACAL-2, который и стал одним из 17 финалистов NESSIE. SHACAL-1 основан на функции компрессии хеш-алгоритма SHA-1. Выполняется 80 раундов преобразования. 512-битный исходный ключ шифрования делится на 16 фрагментов по 32 бита K0…K15. О | 367 |
This year 6 pupils were commissioned as Mini Vinnies: Violet, Oscar, Lena, Steven,<|fim_middle|> a special assembly, when they receive their Mini Vinnie Badge and confirm their pledge to the society. | Grace and Emilia.
Our Year 5 children journeyed to Leeds Cathedral along with hundreds of other primary school children within the Diocese of Leeds to be commissioned as Mini Vinnies. Congratulations childre, you will become great ambassadors for the Mini Vinnie charity.
We turn concern into action – We are inspired by Christ's message to love our neighbour as ourselves.
Our Mission is to seek and find those in need, to help them in a spirit of justice and to tackle the causes of poverty where we can.
The Mini Vinnies play a vital role in the SMSC life of the school, and are supported by the Mini Vinnie Co-ordinator.
comfort those who are sad and lonely.
and talents with those in need.
Lord, help us to care for the sick.
Pupils across school have the opportunity to serve the school as part of the 'Mini Vinnies'.
Anyone can join, and members are commissioned during | 190 |
Kathryn Lawler serves as the Executive Director for the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI). Kathryn's 20 year career has focused on cross-sector interventions to address complex social problems.
From her earliest days as a case worker in downtown Atlanta, her graduate school research and her tenure in a variety of roles at the Atlanta Regional Commission, she has worked to bring together transportation, housing and healthcare systems to support vulnerable populations. Most recently she led a large team as Manager of the Aging and Health Resources Division and Director of the Area Agency on Aging for metro Atlanta.
Kathryn holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree from Harvard University.
Kristi Fuller serves as the Impact Manager for ARCHI. Kristi has worked in several areas of community health including policies and programs for older adults and people with disabilities, the educational pipeline and licensing of the health workforce, and philanthropic investments seeking to improve health outcomes.
She currently provides support for ARCHI's strategic and conceptual planning, infrastructure development, meeting design, and evaluation. Kristi is passionate about working with the ARCHI staff, steering committee, and partners to collectively address local health disparities and share our experiences with others interested in addressing similar issues across the country.
Kristi received her Master's in Social Work from the University of Michigan and her Bachelor's in Social Work from the University of Georgia.
Robyn N. Bussey is a Community Health Strategist for ARCHI. Robyn facilitates ARCHI's community-based work in Fulton County.
She has been a part of the ARCHI team since 2012 and launched ARCHI's engagement in the Tri-Cities community of South Fulton County in 2014. Robyn has experience in community health through engaging communities to assess the health of their neighborhoods and working with residents and organizations to build coalitions that design and drive the work of community health improvement. She is committed to highlighting and addressing the persistent inequities that impact a substantial number of the residents in the Atlanta region.
Robyn received her Master's degrees in Business Administration and Health Administration from Georgia State University and her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Florida A&M University.
Mondie Tharp is a senior research associate at the Georgia Health Policy Center, currently serving as the systems change project manager for the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI). In this role, she works to advance and support ARCHI's systems change strategies, which are currently focused on improving care management outcomes, and value-based health care. She provides support to collaborating partners, provides programmatic framework for initiatives, and monitors implementation and progress.
Th<|fim_middle|> communications specialist for ARCHI. Her professional background is in marketing and communications, graphic design, web design, and film production. | arp's areas of expertise are program design and implementation, as well as monitoring and evaluation of both domestic and international programs. She also brings experience in quantitative and qualitative research and HIV research and programming.
Kimberly Bass provides administrative and strategic support to the ARCHI collaborative. She helps to manage member engagement, prepare for and execute strategic meetings and assisting core staff members in a variety of activities.
Kimberly has an extensive history supporting health systems change work through her role at GA State University's Georgia Health Policy Center. She has a BA from Mercer University and is pursuing her Masters in Public Administration at Troy University.
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Marc D. Miller
CEO and President
Marc D. Miller is CEO and President of Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS). Mr. Miller was named CEO in January 2021 after having served as President since 2009. He is a member of the UHS Board of Directors, serving on the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee. Mr.<|fim_middle|>Universal Health Services and BAYADA Home Health Care Announce Strategic Partnership
UHS and BAYADA Home Health Care announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to form a strategic partnership that will establish and operate Home Health Care services.
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Universal Health Services, Inc. Supports PA Governor Wolf's New Initiative 'Reach Out PA — Your Mental Health Matters' | Miller began his career at UHS in 1995 and over the years has held various positions of increasing responsibility at hospitals and the Corporate office.
Prior to assuming executive leadership roles at the Company's Corporate Headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Miller served as Chief Operating Officer at Wellington Regional Medical Center in Florida, and Assistant Administrator of The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He also served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Central Montgomery Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
Among Mr. Miller's regional and divisional management roles, he served as Group Director responsible for the Company's Acute Care operations in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Florida; Eastern Region Vice President of the Acute Care Division; Senior Vice President and Co-head of the UHS Acute Care Division; and President of the Acute Care Division.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE: UHT), a real estate investment trust that has investments in 65 properties located in 20 states. For 2021, Mr. Miller was selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH). Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Premier since 2015.
Mr. Miller holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Healthcare from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont. He is active with the Wharton Health Care Club and the Wharton Health Care Business Conference.
Universal Health Services, Inc. Names Mark Friedlander, MD, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Behavioral Health Division
Universal Health Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mark Friedlander, MD, MBA, has joined the organization as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Behavioral Health Division.
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NY TRENDS
Decoration trends: Contemporary design gets lighter and cleaner
September 3, 2015 by weblog
For years, design in New York and elsewhere has been dominated by the "new vintage" look, with its love of taxidermy and salvaged barn wood, its nostalgia for dark hunting cabins and 19th century gentleman's clubs.
What design insiders are seeing lately is a brighter, lighter, more contemporary aesthetic, one that still favors organic materials but with a more refined sensibility and cleaner lines.
The Contour coffee table by the Brooklyn-based design firm Bower is one sexy piece of furniture. It has a smooth curved base made of lacquered white wood, with a top of delicately veined Calacatta Paonazzo marble that's inset at one end with glass tinted peachy pink. The effect is somehow cool and warm, contemporary and retro. The Contour series (there are coffee, dining and side tables) is also one of the more striking examples of a nascent design trend.
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"Three years ago when we started, we only made things out of wood," said Danny Giannella, who founded Bower with Tammer Hijazi. "It was limiting, and we liked mixing materials. We liked the veining of this marble."
In addition to the Contour tables, the firm was showing C Lights made of curved brass tubes and opal glass globes and a series of Line wall mirrors, in silver, black and copper, created from 20 pieces of glass precision-cut by water jet. A Miami nightclub owner would love them.
Mr. Giannella and Mr. Hijazi aren't the only Brooklyn woodworkers experimenting with materials and embracing a look that's more crafted than<|fim_middle|> Modernism and Post-Vintage have been bandied about, but so far nothing has stuck. In the meantime, maybe, Taxidermy 2.0? After all, the designers working in this lighter, more sophisticated vein have retained the core values of new vintage: handmade, organic materials, a respect for heritage and designed to last.
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This value is required | reclaimed. Asher Israelow, who operates his eponymous studio out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, made his Lincoln chairs from black walnut but incorporated brass dowels. Mr. Israelow's furniture was at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in Manhattan last spring, alongside several designers whose work shared a resemblance.
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Frank de Biasi, a New York-based interior designer, said that the first time he entered Freemans, the Lower East Side restaurant stuffed with antiques and taxidermy that arguably kicked off the trend, he marveled. "I thought it was the coolest thing to have something so rough, so undone," Mr. de Biasi said. "Would I want to live there? Probably not." While it's fine to appreciate American heritage, he said, "We can move on, embrace something that's more designed."
The look is starting to show up in commercial settings, too, in places like Anthom, a women's clothing boutique in Chelsea, and the New York Edition Hotel, which Ian Schrager recently opened. Marshall Johnson, the co-owner and designer of the store, said he was influenced by Scandinavian brands like Hay and Menu and the desire to create a calm space for customers amid the commotion of New York. "I think the mentality now is simplify your life," Mr. Johnson said. "It's much more minimal." He used copper for its warmth, he said, and marble because while it is clean, it's not boring. With marble's infinitely unique veining, Mr. Johnson said, "It still feels like it has different facets to it visually."
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