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After our wedding, I was whisked away to Countryside Lodging's Victorian Suite! A super romantic, adorable getaway!
Upon arrival, we find this note and a plate of strawberries on the table, and a bottle of champagne in the fridge! How cool is that?!
I totally love bathrooms! Taking<|fim_middle|> place!
We couldn't have chosen a more perfect place to spend the first two nights of being a married couple!
It was situated in the middle of Amish Country, on a quiet back road, beside a serene pond.
The next day we walked around exploring downtown Millersburg.
We found vintage stores to wander around and cause shenanigans in, and we also got to see a movie being filmed!
Those two days were completely surreal. Knowing that all the planning and worrying about the wedding was over, was trumped only by the realization setting in that we were, actually, finally, husband and wife!
If you would like to check out Countryside Lodging (which I highly recommend!), their website has all the information you need! | a luxurious bath is one of my favorite things, and I am completely obsessed with finding the perfect bathtub! And I finally found it!
I'm going to be honest, the bathroom was 95% of the reason why I booked this | 48 |
Volcanoes are mountains whose tops are opened downward. These openings reach below the surface of the earth – where the rock is molten. Volcanoes are mostly closed like a soda bottle, but below which the pressure continues to grow over time. When the pressure reaches a certain level the hot lava suddenly came out. Anybody living near the volcano will certainly become unconscious – after hearing the loud noise.
A volcano is built when magma below the surface of earth rises. The rising magma starts to form gas bubbles. These gas bubbles are already dissolved in the magma due to extreme pressures – much like a soda bottle which has carbon dioxide dissolved in it.
Bubbling magma builds-up gas pressure against the surface of the earth under the volcano. When the gas pressure grows to extreme levels – The Volcano erupts – and BOOM! When the eruption occurs, it allows the high pressurized gasses and lava to escape from magma reservoir with earth's geothermal energy. You can consider this as a way for our earth to release the excess energy.
Magma is the mixture of molten rock, semi-molten rock, and solid particles. It is found below the earth's surface. When magma is ejected through a volcano – it is called lava. Heat for melting the rock comes from the earth's geothermal energy.
Lava is the magma after the eruption – having temperatures of 700 C – 1200 C in the liquid state. It doesn't flow below the earth's surface – that is the difference between the lava and the magma. Lava is mainly composed of silicon and oxygen. It gets mixed with other elements when it flows from vent towards the ground.
There are four types of the volcanoes according<|fim_middle|> These volcanoes also explode violently and reach a height of 8000 feet.
Shield Volcanoes – These volcanoes cover very large areas, and are very wide. They erupt low-viscosity lava. The slop of these volcanoes is very shallow. As a result, the lava can reach far away. These volcanoes are less violent than other types.
Lava Domes – These volcanoes erupt very high-viscosity lava, which can't go further away from the vent. As a result, the lava solidifies around the vent and forms a dome that grows over time.
Mauna Loa is the largest volcano found on our Earth – reaching a height of 4 kilometers.
The largest volcano on our solar system is Olympus Mons – its height reaches to 27 kilometers. It is found on the Mars.
Volcanic eruption severely damages the forests around them – sometimes destroys them entirely.
Our Earth has 1500 active volcanoes from which 20 Volcanoes are erupting on the earth at any time.
Abdul Wahab, "Volcano," in Science4Fun, April 13, 2019, http://science4fun.info/volcano/. | to the geological and geographical features.
Cinder Cone Volcanoes – These volcanoes are very simple in shape. They are made from the single vent for the eruption of lava. They are very violent and builds-up into a circular cone shape over time. Volcanoes in this type never grow more than a 1000 feet in height.
Composite Volcanoes (Stratovolcano)– These volcanoes are made of many layers of lava. Volcanoes in this type have many layers through which lava can flow. | 109 |
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This was our first time shooting a wedding at Langshott Manor, an amazing Elizabethan luxury boutique hotel, hidden away in Surrey. Arriving at the door, you can't fail to be impressed by the beautiful old building and inside, it's equally as lovely. Both Zara and Ali were getting ready at the hotel, so that gave me the opportunity of capturing some fabulous shots of Alastair as well as also shooting Zara's bridal pre. Jo Irving at Love Hair did an amazing job as always, as one of our recommended suppliers we love working with her. It's not always possible to cover the grooms preparations at a wedding, but will when we can and I always like the mix of seeing both the bride and groom getting ready for their big day.
During the ceremony it was quite crowded with Carol and I in the room, plus Lee from Iconic Image shooting the wedding video too. However, we've worked with Lee before and he's very good at understanding how we shoot, so we never really got in each others way or in anyone else's way for that matter. Plus Carol and I are very used to knowing where we both are and avoiding getting in each others shots. Funnily one of my favourite photos from this wedding is the main image, which was shot through the doorway as Zara & Ali walked out of the wedding ceremony happened because I was outside the ceremony room. Lee was standing just inside of the doorway, on the left and Carol was kneeling on the floor next to him – that made me think very quickly, how could I get a shot of this scene. Placing the camera close to the frame of the window panels has given some interesting shapes and angles, plus reflections on the right hand side that I really like. While at the same time highlighting Ali's face and the Zara's beautiful wedding dress and veil, with the bridesmaids smiling in the background.
There were some really emotional moments during Zara<|fim_middle|> for us as photographers.
This is only a short collection of images from Zara & Ali's wedding day. Their final gallery included over 700 beautiful images. If you'd like to see their whole wedding please Get in Touch.
Hampshire Wedding Photographer Paul Tansley and his partner Carol are available to shoot weddings all over Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex and surrounding counties. | & Ali's wedding day, I think every guest shed a tear at one point or another. I'm glad we captured some of that feeling in the wedding photos, it's a very privileged thing to be so close to a couple during one of the biggest days of their lives and to be able to capture those emotions for eternity makes it very special | 69 |
Google blocking 18 million scam emails related to coronavirus daily
By Trevor Mogg April 17, 2020
It's not just the coronavirus that's creating havoc. Related scams and malware are causing trouble, too, with cybercriminals seemingly intent on taking advantage of what is already a dire situation for many folks.
Highlighting the extent of the problem, Google has revealed that on<|fim_middle|>rather, they're existing malware campaigns that have simply been updated to exploit the heightened attention on COVID-19."
Although Gmail and other email platforms endeavor to catch these odious emails, you should still stay alert for such content, and always take extra care when it comes to downloading attachments or clicking on links.
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On top of that, it also blocked more than than 240 million daily spam messages linked to the virus.
In an online post outlining the current situation, Neil Kumaran, a Gmail security product manager, claimed that Google's machine-learning systems have become so good at detecting the online threats that it manages to block 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching Gmail inboxes.
"The phishing attacks and scams we're seeing use both fear and financial incentives to create urgency to try to prompt users to respond," Kumaran noted in his post.
Citing several examples of how scammers will stop at nothing to trick innocent people into handing over cash, Kumaran explained how some are impersonating high-profile bodies such as the World Health Organization, which has been leading efforts to combat the pandemic. The perpetrators send the bogus emails to try to solicit fraudulent donations, or distribute malware, which, if downloaded, could give remote access to the victim's computer or mobile device.
Some criminals are imitating government institutions in a bid to trick small businesses, while others are trying to exploit people working from home for the first time, sending emails pretending to be from "the admin department" and asking the recipient to click on a (dangerous) link.
The above is just a small sample of what is likely to be a myriad of creative approaches by criminals aiming to grab dollars or data (or both) from their victims. But as Kumaran points out in his post, these online threats are nothing new, " | 344 |
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Last year I created this Hooded Scarf Knitting Pattern and I was really pleased with the way it turned out! This hooded scarf ended up being the first thing I grabbed on cold, windy days. It's so warm and comfortable. Naturally, I decided<|fim_middle|> 4 sts at the beginning and the end of every row in knit stitch until piece measures 37 inches from the cast on edge.
Knit 10 rows in Garter Stitch. Bind off.
Fold scarf in half to find the middle. Line the back seam of the hood up with the middle of the scarf. Sew the hood to the scarf. Weave in ends. Make and attach pom pom. | to make one for the little guy! This Kid's Hooded Scarf Knitting Pattern will keep little ones toasty no matter how low the temperature drops. Plus, it's really easy to knit! The entire hooded scarf is knit flat on single point needles. If you can knit a rectangle, you can make this!
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President Biden Slams Trump For Capitol Riot In Latest Speech
A year after rioters stormed the Capitol, President Joe Biden gave a speech condemning former president Donald Trump for his attempt to destroy American democracy. After blaming Trump for inciting the insurrection, Biden vowed that it would never happen again.
"For the first time in our history, a President had not just lost an election.<|fim_middle|> an announcement from the vice president that he would not aid Trump in reversing the results, a violent crowd of pro-Trump supporters rushed the building, making their way into various areas of the building including the Senate Rotunda. One rioter was shot and killed while some suffered medical emergencies. The violent riot led to Trump's second impeachment.
During his thirty-minute speech, Biden did not hesitate to throw shots at Trump, "his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution, he can't accept he lost." For the majority of his presidency, Biden has played fair and avoided addressing the former president, but his speech confronted Trump for his election lies, post-presidency behavior, and inciting a violent mob to storm the capitol.
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One of the blessings of living where we do is that we have a very long growing season for summery vegetables (March through October). However, this also means that we don't get our true autumn color in full force until much later than a lot of you. Our best colors don't happen until after Halloween and this week has been spectacular. It has really been helpful in getting in the mood for Thanksgiving.
There is something about needing to get all cuddly<|fim_middle|>. But I also felt a deep welling inside of gratitude that I am able to have a winter garden with spinach, lettuce, onions, broccoli, celery and parsley. I said a silent prayer with each transplant that we will soon be enjoying their bounty. And, yes, I was very grateful.
Lying in front of fire is very warm and comfy, I am so admiring~!
These are very very beautiful shots~!
Ah, just lying around stretching in front of a fireplace---that cat has THE life, doesn't he?
We have a gas stove in our kitchen/den area, so I know what you mean about the hearth. It's so comforting to feel the warmth, gaze at the flame, and feel the dampness going out of the room.
Sounds like you have an idyllic life in your cozy cottage with your cats and hubby and the fruits (and veggies) of your summer labor.
Thanks for sharing your blessings. I feel richer and more blessed for hearing about them!
That shot of Suzanne is an excellent idea for a photo.
Plus, Suzanne has the right attitude for this time of year. I feel like lying down beside her and petting her.
How beautiful....we came over here from Yellow Rose Arbor and we are so glad we did!
A lovely post (and Suzette reminds me its time to put more wood on the fire). A very happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from one of your Canadian friends, Cindy!
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That cat in front of the fireplace is making me feel all warm and cozy. Thanks for sharing!
White Christmasses are overrated IMO, a green one would do very nicely for me too. But alas, it will probably be a very grey and wet one, outisde that is because inside we'll be all snug and cozy.
I love being able to have a winter garden too; although of course it is Spring here now.
A day without coming to Rsoehaven Cottage is a wasted day...like an unopened VICTORIA magazine.
This is the time of the year when we are so happy to burrow deep inside of our little cottage with it's rabbit warren of rooms...each with it's own charm and dedicated use. We do like our parlor the best and I always sleep infront of the stove in my box with the heated kitty pad.
4:00...WOW...our hats are off to you! So glad you got some good bargains! | and cozy that makes me reflective and draws my thoughts inward to introspection. It is quite appropriate as Thanksgiving is upon us, as I should have thoughts of thankfulness and gratitude during this time of year anyway.
As the nights have taken on a slight chill, I've enjoyed building fires in our fireplace. Our cottage is quite homey with only one main living area where the fireplace is, so when the fire is lit we are all together enjoying the warmth. Suzette, in particular, loves fireside snoozing (photo at right). The other kitties lounge around the living room just enjoying being with us as we watch television or read. Sometimes Hubby putters on the laptop from either the sofa or chair. I am grateful for my cottage living room and its fireplace for being the heart and hearth of our home.
About a week ago, Hubby went around and put full spectrum light bulbs in all the lamps in the living room as a little I-love-you surprise for me. I really struggle with the lack of sunlight as the days grow shorter. The full spectrum bulbs help prevent me from taking off to Hawaii on a wild hair (I've been sorely tempted in years past, trust me). One full spectrum bulb is in the reading lamp over the chair. I often sit there with the shade swung over my head like a levitating glowing hat. It's absolute heaven (although Hawaii would be better). The kitties all love this lamp as well and will slip up onto the chair anytime we've vacated it. Such sneaky little furry deviants. So even though we have little armchair wars with the kitties, I am very grateful for full spectrum light bulbs and a loving Hubby that remembered them.
We've had some rain this month, but our winter rains are still to come. That's why the hill up at the end of the street is still in its brown barren cloak. The cows have grazed it down to stubble and brown dirt. But as the rains come over the next few weeks, this hill will turn a beautiful shade of green. If we're lucky, it will be green by Christmas and will stay that way until late April or early May before it turns a golden yellow. We don't have white Christmases here. We have green Christmases, and I am grateful for green Christmases.
So on Saturday, as I was transplanting the winter veggies into the raised planter boxes in the back garden I was doing so in a very reflective autumnal mood. I noted how the sun was so low in the sky and how I missed the days of summer when I could garden until 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening. I miss the dragonflies buzzing overhead in a darting canopy catching mosquitoes and gnats on the fly. I miss the hum of summer activity in the garden | 578 |
"We received it the other day and we are soooo happy with it. It made me laugh and cry all over again.
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Microsoft Widens Test of Cloud Management for SMBs
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The theme at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010 this year is that the company is "all in" when it comes to cloud computing.
Perhaps lost amid all the cloud computing announcements and demos at this year's partner event, was the news that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it has begun the second beta test of its Intune online services. Intune is designed to provide enterprise-class system management tools to small and medium-sized companies via the cloud — at a reasonable price.
Microsoft released the first beta test version of Intune back in April. At that time, Microsoft limited the number of testers to 1,000.
With the second beta test, Microsoft plans to reach out to some 10,000 more testers, comprised of both customers and partners. However, casual testers are discouraged from<|fim_middle|>11.
Anyone interested in participating in the second beta can register here.
Stuart J. Johnston is a contributing writer at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @stuartj1000.
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"The goal of this beta is to gather the feedback we need to ensure a quality final release — so we ask that you only sign up for this beta if you are able to test it on at least five PCs," Alex Heaton, group product manager for Windows, said in a post to the Windows Team blog Monday.
"Intune is an all-in-one solution that provides anti-malware, update management, software and hardware inventory, and remote assistance technology," Heaton told InternetNews.com in a private briefing.
The Intune technologies are delivered through Microsoft's burgeoning cloud computing platform — although not via Windows Azure.
Additionally, whereas beta one was limited to testers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, beta two has been expanded to include testers in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the U.K.
With Intune Microsoft is shooting to attract smaller companies, resellers, and systems integrators that focus on the SMB market. The idea is that even small businesses can afford the same sorts of management tools that enterprise IT organization have without the high setup costs and ongoing expenses that enterprises typically have to ante up.
"Because Windows Intune is built on a cloud service, customers and partners can realize the benefits of having a modern PC management and security system without the upfront software licenses, server hardware, and IT labor costs that are required to setup a traditional on-premise solution," Heaton said in his post.
Intune will cost $11 per PC, per month — and will include rights to update users' systems to run Windows 7 Enterprise as well as future Windows releases, Heaton told InternetNews.com.
Spending an additional dollar per PC, per month, will add a subscription to Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), the company's suite of management, deployment, and virtualization tools, which has been very popular with corporate customers over the past several years.
Expanding the management console for multiple customers
Microsoft also made an addition to Intune for beta two based on requests from partners who wanted to use the management console to manage multiple customers at once.
"Based on their feedback, we've added a feature in this beta called the Multi-Account Console, which is designed to help partners manage multiple accounts through the single Web-based console," Heaton's post added.
The final release of Intune is due out in early 20 | 491 |
For many people, summer means trips to the beach with family and friends. But many people fail to remember that beaches are a part of nature, and thus visiting the beach has an impact on the<|fim_middle|> the practice. No matter which beach you're visiting this summer, it's important to remember that the most eco-friendly beach souvenir of all is probably a photograph. | environment, both on shore and in the water. When you go to the beach to have a relaxing break your day-to-day, it's easy to forget about how to take care of the planet. Sadly, this may be exactly why beaches often become covered with litter, leftover food, and trash that not only disrupts the relaxation of other beach-goers, but can have a seriously negative impact on the wildlife and pollution levels of the area.
Luckily, keeping your beach routine eco-friendly is fairly simple with just a little planning ahead of time. From which beach to visit to where to stay once you get there, here are six simple tips to ensure that you have a minimal-impact, green day at the beach.
1. Research beaches in your destination ahead of time.
Before heading to the same beach you always do, or before booking your flight, if you're going away for a tropical vacation, do a bit of research on your beach's eco-friendliness. Some things to look out for: Does your beach have easily accessible recycling and trash containers for beach-goers? Are there rules about how close to the water restaurants, hotels, and other businesses are allowed to build their establishments? Do any such businesses use clean energy, or make a point to minimize energy use?
If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then your beach of choice is pretty eco-friendly! If all your answers were nos, never fear. Check out this list of the world's most eco-friendly beaches, and do a little research of your own. Chances are, you'll find a beach near your destination of choice that employs at least some eco-friendly policies.
2. Bring snacks with biodegradable packaging.
If you're planning to spend a full day at the beach, food is a must. But when planning the perfect beach picnic be sure to consider how much non-biodegradable packaging you're bringing along with your meals. Water in plastic bottles, shrink-wrapped cheeses or jerkies, and potato chips in plastic bags can have a big impact on the environment, even if you fully intend to properly dispose of all trash.
Keep in mind, not all beach litter is intentional. Beaches are unpredictable environments, where the wind can easily carry your plastic baggie far away as soon as your head is turned. The solution? Don't bring the baggie in the first place! Pack snacks, such as fruits and veggies, that don't require non-biodegradable packaging. For things like sandwiches and water, use heavier, reusable containers that aren't likely to blow away. The beach will thank you!
3. Choose an eco-friendly sunscreen.
When swimming in natural bodies of water, such as the ocean, it's important to think about what you may be bringing into the water with you. Perfumes and deodorants, for example, wash off in water and may contribute to pollution, harming marine life. For this reason, it's wise to avoid using either at the beach. However, sunscreen is something that beach-goers can't go without, as its essential to keeping skin safe. And while many sunscreens claim to be waterproof, they will all wash off eventually.
Luckily, there are eco-friendly sunscreens, made from non-toxic, all-natural ingredients, that won't do any harm when washed off in the water. Check out eco-friendly sunscreens, and don't forget to read up on all the ways your family can stay safe from the sun this summer.
4. Select eco-conscious lodging, when possible.
Unless you live near the beach, chances are you'll be planning to stay in a nearby hotel or vacation rental. When choosing where to lay your head in between trips to the shore, take a moment to consider eco-friendly establishments. Such places are growing surprisingly common, and aren't too difficult to find, if you know what to look for. Check out the website of the hotel or beach rental where you'll be staying, and see if they mention any eco-friendly policies, such as zero-waste policies or energy-saving ones.
5. Prioritize recycling and properly disposing of litter.
If you're an eco-conscious person, it's pretty unlikely that you'll spend your day at the beach heedlessly strewing litter. But that doesn't mean that there won't be any litter around. If you see litter on the beach, pick it up and properly dispose of it, even if it isn't your own. After all, nature doesn't care who threw the empty water bottle onto the sand, only that it gets picked up.
If the thought of touching other people's trash is too off-putting, bring a trash-grabber to deal with what you find. If you're traveling to the beach with children, arm them with their own grabbers and make a game of who can collect the most trash! It's a surprisingly fun way to make a very real impact, and prevent waste from ending up in the ocean, where it could harm marine life.
6. Remember to leave nature where it belongs.
Wildlife can be one of the most thrilling parts of a summer beach getaway. Sea birds swoop overhead, crabs pop out of holes in the sand, tide pools hold starfish and other small creatures, and wading just a little ways into the water can reveal a variety of colorful fish. But as beautiful as these creatures are, it's important to remember that wild things must remain wild, for the health of the environment. Animals should never be removed from their natural habitat, nor should other natural artifacts, such as shells or sand.
Around the world, popular destination beaches lose tons of coral, shells, and sand as a result of tourists taking home souvenirs. It is such a problem in some places, such as the St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, where in the past two years over one ton of sand, coral and shells have been removed from beaches by tourists, that laws have been adopted banning | 1,203 |
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We have over 2000 exercises in the ALTINA exercise catalogue, but if you still can´t find the exercise you are looking for, you can always create your own.
How much detail you want to give the exercise is up to you. All we need in the system is a name, what type of exercise it is, and which group you want the exercise to be added to.
Adding your own descriptions and pictures to the exercises is optional - but a great way to distinguish your exercises and make them more descriptive.
You might be in the middle of creating a workout or module when find out we don´t have the exercise you want use in the exercise database.
Here, I searched for an exercise called Single Leg Romanian Deadlift, and it wasn´t in the database.
I then clicked Create new exercise, and the following screen appears.
I then filled out all the information I needed in order to best<|fim_middle|> training group you selected.
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Simply click on the exercise to edit it, and click SAVE when you are finished.
NOTE: Any exercise can be edited, even the ones already in the database. This way you can customize the exercises as you wish. | identify the exercise, along with a picture I found to better visualize the exercise.
When you are done describing the exercise, click SAVE, and the exercise will be added to your workout as well as your exercise database. This way you can find and use the exercise in later workouts.
Creating new exercises is just as simple in the app - the only difference is that you can´t add pictures. So if you want to add pictures to your exercises, create or edit them in the web-client.
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By Jenna Wood | May 9, 2019<|fim_middle|> Barry weakens into a tropical depression; system continues to produce threats of flooding and isolated tornadoes
Tropical Storm Barry as of the 4 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center shows no change in strength and still has winds of 65 mph and gusts to 75 mph.
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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - The WBRC First Alert Storm Tracker is a Ford Expedition with four-wheel drive, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled, and a five-star crash rating. The vehicle is the newest WBRC First Alert Storm Tracker to join the WBRC fleet, powered by Town & Country Ford.
"When severe weather is happening, this truck is out on the roads, sending pictures back to TV station and the viewers at home so they can know just how severe those storms are," said WBRC FOX6 Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice.
It has the most advanced technology. "This truck, in many case,s may be the first eyes and ears to alert folks back home what's happening because we're going to be on the front lines of severe weather when storms roll in," said Dice. "This truck will be there to intercept that weather and give us live pictures as well as wind data, temperature data, dew point, everything you want to know about these storms as they are developing."
Gilardi is an experienced storm tracker and she's seen her share of storm tracking vehicles. She said this one is unlike any other. "In Alabama, it's a different story storm chasing because you have trees in your way," she said. "Having this vehicle and being able to spot that storm up close, we can even see maybe before the radar even sees what's happening with that storm."
"Our Storm Tracker allows us to get out there and help provide the answers to the critical questions," said Meteorologist Wes Wyatt. "Is there a tornado? Are we dealing with wind-related damage? Is this storm producing damage? And are the roads okay during winter weather situations? That's what this is all about," he said.
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The WBRC First Alert Storm Tracker is a game changer. That's why Town and Country Ford felt compelled to help us power it up.
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On<|fim_middle|>a moved to the Methmedura premises in Moratuwa in January 1972. The Methmedura land and the almost 200 years old building was donated by Mr. Meril Fernando, a renown benefactor at the time to Sarvodaya to further strengthen the services rendered by this unique people's movement, benefitting millions of underserved population. Ever since, the Methmedura premises accommodated thousands of Sarvodaya volunteers, visitors around the World and many income generation and vocational training projects including a press, metalwork and woodwork units, and some agricultural plots in the times of World food crisis in 1970s. Marking the 55th Anniversary, Sarvodaya established a Museum at the Methmedura premises to benefit the local and international crowds who wanted to know and learn the history and evolution of participatory community development in Sri Lanka.
The landmark photos in the history of Sarvodaya, as well as the historical audio-visual equipment, publications and educational material used to educate the public and create awareness decades back are displayed at the Methmedura Museum. One of the very first Mitsubishi jeeps in Sri Lanka, Dr. A. T Ariyaratne used to travel all over the country with the message of Sarvodaya is also kept as exhibit at the Methmedura Museum.
Prior to the opening of the Methmedura Museum, Sarvodaya family engaged in a shramadana activity to prepare the premises and the building for the Museum. | the first week of December 2013 Sarvodaya celebrated its 55 years of excellence and service to the humanity. Sarvodaya humbly commemorated the day with a group of Sarvodaya veterans, present day staff and volunteers who were gathered at the newly opened Methmedura Museum.
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, the Founder-President of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and his colleagues along with a group of teachers and students of Nalanda College, Colombo, initiated their very first Shramadana Camp in the remote village Kanatholuwa in Kurunegala district in North-Western province on 06th of December in 1958, paving the way to non-violent social revolution across the country. Since then thousands of communities across the country gathered around Sarvodaya guided by its unique philosophy based on the principles of Buddhism and Gandhian ideals of truth, non-violence and self-denial.
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John Cena sets a new record for the make-a-wish foundation
Written by Olivier Guiberteau September 23, 2022
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Wrestler and actor Jon Cena has cemented his place as one of the most likeable celebrities around by setting a new record for wishes granted with the make-a-wish foundation.
Cena began wrestling in 1999 and has been the WWE's champion a total of 16 times while also firmly establishing himself as one<|fim_middle|> 650 wishes granted to children with critical illnesses.
He said "It means a lot of things," adding, "It means when we engage, when a wish actually happens, it's something that someone wants. And we're the finish line, and the joy on their face.
Many children simply request that they want to 'hang out' with Cena, something the wrestler is more than happy to oblige, while they are often invited to WWE events also.
He added, "'If you ever need me for this ever, I don't care what I'm doing, I will drop what I'm doing and be involved because I think that's the coolest thing" - Who said nice guys finish last? | of the most likeable characters in the organization.
He fronted the WWE anti-bullying campaign 'be a star' and granted his first wish with the make-a-wish foundation in 2002.
The foundation aims to give children with a terminal or life-threatening illness one last wish and requests to meet John Cena have become by far the most popular over the last two decades.
Many celebrities take part in make-a-wish, but none come even close to Cena, with his nearest rival in terms of numbers all under 300 wishes.
Over the last twenty years, Cena has now racked up a staggering | 126 |
Quarterback Nick Foles held court in the Eagles' locker room on Monday and spoke at length about his time as an Eagle and about his future. Foles has a contract for 2019 that pays him a reported $20 million should both he and the Eagles opt into the contract within five days after the start of the 2019 NFL business calendar in March but there is nothing definitive about his future. So as he addressed reporters at the NovaCare Complex, Foles did so truly not knowing what's going to happen next.
"I'm proud of every single person here for giving everything they had to the team," Foles said. "It's emotional, but at the same time, getting to talk to guys, getting to talk to the coaches, talk to my teammates, I'm going to come back for a few days this week before my family and I head out and take a breath, it's emotional. It will probably set in more and more as the days go on because it's so fresh. We just played a game last night and gave it everything we had, but no matter what happens it's been a joy being here every single day, being in this locker room, wearing this jersey, being a part of this city.
Foles said that "everything is open" as far as what happens next with his contract, but it's far too early to know anything definitive. Earlier in the day, head coach Doug Pederson did his weekly appearance on SportsRadio 94WIP and discussed Foles.
Guard Brandon Brooks is taking the optimistic approach. A torn Achilles tendon suffered in Sunday's loss in New Orleans means that Brooks will spend his offseason rehabbing the injury instead of playing, for example, in the Pro Bowl in two weeks. And that is actually OK with Brooks, who vows to "attack" his rehab.
At the very least, Brooks' injury is something for the Eagles to take into account as they plan their offseason. Can Brooks be counted on to return at full strength for the start of the 2019 season? He's got<|fim_middle|> the defensive end rotation as he tallied 6.5 sacks, his highest total since 2013.
"I will look back on this year and be proud of it. I'm not going to look back ashamed. I have no personal regrets," he said.
Early next month, Long will attend the NFL Honors ceremony in Atlanta as one of the finalists for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. In March, Long will return to Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for the clean-water initiative Waterboys. Could he then return to Philadelphia?
"I have no idea. I love this city," Long said. "Coming to work every day, I feel like I have a real connection with this place. Coming here two years ago, my career was going a lot different, ups and downs, and this place accepted me, and I really love Philly. I can say that wholeheartedly. I appreciate the fans for everything this year. There wasn't a single time when it wasn't loud at the Linc even after those awful losses, and I just love this place."
Running back Darren Sproles wanted 2018 to be his final season. After ending 2017 on Injured Reserve, his daughter, Devyn, encouraged him to give it one more year.
However, Sproles missed 10 games with a hamstring injury. He scored three total touchdowns in the final five regular-season games. That opened up the possibility of returning in 2019.
"When I actually got back (from injury), I saw that I could still do it," Sproles said.
Sproles indicated that players and coaches want him to come back. But unlike last year, his family wants him home.
"I'm going to take some time away and I'll make my decision," he said. "It all depends on how I'm feeling."
Sproles ranks sixth in NFL history with 19,520 all-purpose yards. | faith and he's going to rely on that and a lot of hard work to return to form, but time is an issue here.
Wide receiver Alshon Jeffery suffered a fractured rib or a broken rib (he didn't specify on Monday) on the final drive in the win over Chicago when he took a shot to the back going over the middle, an injury that wasn't disclosed until after the loss in New Orleans. He was in physical pain as he cleaned out his locker at the NovaCare Complex.
His mental pain after the late-game mishandling of a Nick Foles pass that was intercepted by New Orleans cornerback Marshon Lattimore was healing much faster.
WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP FOR LB JORDAN HICKS?
Starting middle linebacker Jordan Hicks is one of several players scheduled for unrestricted free agency and he wasn't ready on Monday to declare any sense of knowing what's going to happen next.
All-Pro defensive tackle Fletcher Cox wore a walking boot on his right foot on Monday after an injury limited him to 44 snaps, just 52 percent of the defensive total, in Sunday's game. Cox left the field once on a cart and another time limped into the locker room, but he kept coming back to help the defense as he played through the pain.
Cox was injured on the fake punt play the Saints executed to convert a fourth-and-1 play in the second quarter as New Orleans mounted its comeback from a 14-0 deficit. He battled though, as did the entire team. The Eagles now face an offseason that will be interesting, to say the least.
"It's a sad day, especially when you have exit meetings and you're not celebrating like we did last year," Cox said. "I'm really proud of this team, the way we fought all year and proved everybody wrong. We ended up coming short, but again I'm super proud of everybody in this locker room."
WILL BRANDON GRAHAM REMAIN THE LONGEST-TENURED PLAYER ON DEFENSE?
Defensive end Brandon Graham is another player scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent and he'd love to extend his career in Philadelphia. That's yet to be determined for Graham, the team's first-round draft pick in 2010.
Chris Long wants to continue playing in the NFL. The 33-year-old defensive end will be a free agent in March. He wants the best football situation because he's "at peace with what I have at this point in my career."
"I know I had a good year and I don't feel like I'm playing old," Long said.
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My mum sent me such a fun find! A box of vintage yarn.
My favorite. My mum is an avid<|fim_middle|> end of skein.
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Next Post Welcome to the world Virginia Marie!! | collector. She hunts around at auctions and antique malls for neat finds to sell and fix up. She found this box ofnyan . Some of the skeins are from the 80's and some are as old as the 1950's!!
My oldest son snatched up the two fuzziest blue yarns and asked for a scarf. While waiting for my daughter to be born I decided to try and whip up a scarf as fast as I could during early labor!
One skein & One Day scarf.
This pattern is great for beginners or for those who started making Xmas gifts at the last minute ;). it's literally only two lines of pattern and lots of repetition.
This pattern uses the Half Double Crochet.
1.) Hdc in 2nd ch from hook and in each sp across. (11hdc).
2.) turn. ch1, hdc in each sp across. Repeat until | 188 |
Basil<|fim_middle|> YYZ Artists' Outlet, Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), Western Front, SFU Audain Gallery (Vancouver), Rodman Hall Art Centre (St. Catharines), and Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff). | AlZeri; Diane Borsato; Tanya Busse and Joar Nango; Maggie Groat; Jason de Haan; FASTWÜRMS; Jesse Harris; Kelly Jazvac; Faith La Rocque; Jimmy Limit; Tanya Lukin Linklater; Dylan Miner; Amish Morrell; Crystal Mowry; Alicia Nauta; Open Structures; Anne Riley; Walter Scott; and Kara Uzelman.
ALMANAC by Maggie Groat includes contributions by artists and writers that draw upon and subvert subjects typically found in traditional almanac compendiums, including entries pertaining to the botanical, zoological, mycological, environmental, instructional, historical, astrological, geological, edible, predictive, narrative, and sub-cultural. While a traditional almanac typically spans an annual cycle for the seasons ahead, the collected works and contained knowledge in this book favour alternative, non-linear and marginal understandings of encounters in-the-world, orders and epistemologies.
Maggie Groat is a visual artist who exhibits a range of media informed by salvage practices and collage methodologies. She has self-published several multiples and books including Studies for Possible Futures, the recipient of the Artist Book of the Moment awarded by the Art Gallery of York University in 2012. She is the editor of The Lake, an alternative guide including the work of over twenty artists and writers, published by Art Metropole in 2014. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Mercer Union, | 309 |
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'Doctor Who' Season Eight Invaded By Foxes
The British pop singer Foxes is the latest star to take her place on the special guest list for the next season of Doctor Who. The BBC have confirmed that she will not only be taking part in the on-screen drama, she'll be singing too.
Foxes joins a distinguished line of singers who've made an appearance on the show, including Kylie Minogue ("Voyage of the Dam<|fim_middle|>ley Hawes and Hermione Norris. With an extra nod to Samuel Anderson, who will be sticking around for a little bit longer.
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You may be familiar with her work from last year's Grammy-winning hit "Clarity," a collaboration with the dance producer Zedd:
In a BBC press release, Foxes said: "I can't believe I'm actually going to be in an episode of Doctor Who! Especially as it all came about from a chance meeting.
"I was playing a gig and got chatting to the show's production team who'd been watching my performance. I was telling them how much I loved Doctor Who and next thing they invited me to be on it. I couldn't think of a better place to make my acting debut than on one of the UK's most iconic shows!"
Steven Moffat added: "We are completely thrilled that the amazingly talented Foxes is joining us on board … well, you'll see. Let's just say, the Doctor is finally catching up on his phone calls."
The current tally of known special guests for Season Eight now stands as follows: Foxes, Frank Skinner, Ben Miller, Tom Riley, Kee | 236 |
Activities of the Faculty of Engineering are based on unity between educational activities and scientific-research activities.
Scientific-research activities are achieved through basic, applied and development research aimed at discovering the new products<|fim_middle|> present days, has significantly participated in cooperation with the economy and in scientific research activities for the needs of the economy. This cooperation led to a large number of scientific-research projects of fundamental, development and applied character, aimed at finding new products, technological solutions, methods and techniques of business advancement, etc. Scientific-research activities have always had significant priority in the development of the Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac. Universality of research may be seen based on the activities, programs of work, resources and results of work of 9 laboratories and 24 centres. There is a large number of realized projects that are difficult to enumerate. Therefore, in order to illustrate scientific-research activities, only current projects supported by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia are cited and recently implemented international projects and those whose implementation is under way are briefly displayed. | , technological solutions, methods and techniques for business improvement, etc.
Scientific-research activities at the Faculty are organized through working at 9 laboratories and 24 research centres.
Numerous international projects (HORISON, FP, COST, EUREKA, TEMPUS, EAR, WUS Austria, DAAD, project of bilateral cooperation, etc.), projects supported by the Ministry of science (basic research, technological development, energy efficiency) and projects of direct cooperation with economy are realized at the Faculty.
- Quality festival (founded in 2003 and organized annually).
The faculty traditionally publishes international journals €œMobility & Vehicle Mechanics MVM€œ - ISSN 0350-1027 and "Tribology in Industry€œ - ISSN 0351-1642 which contribute to the expansion of scientific ideas in the country and abroad. Since 2007, the Centre for quality of the Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac, together with the Centre for quality of the Faculty of Engineering in Podgorica, have started publishing the "International Journal of Quality Research€œ.
The Faculty annually publishes an average of 15 publications (scientific monographs, university textbooks, collections of assignments, practicums and similar).
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Kun joins BBC to teach Spanish
While football and most other activities have been suspended worldwide due to<|fim_middle|> many other celebrities and personalities – such as One Direction's Liam Payne; Danny Dyer; actor Jodie Whittaker; and London-based Spanish singer Mabel. Likewise, Sergio joined the charitable event Champlay this weekend, organised by Argentine tennis player Diego Schwartzman and football player Paulo Dybala. The event hosted a Play Station gaming tournament that raised over 270 thousand dollars for the Argentine Red Cross. Sergio has been taking part of these actions while training at home and waiting for a resolution to the continuation of the Premier League. | the COVID-19, Sergio has joined many outreach campaigns online to assist those affected by the pandemic. As a testament to his prominent role in present Britain, the BBC called for Kun to participate in an online learning program oriented towards helping parents teach their children while classes are halted. Sergio will take part of the Bitesize Daily show to give Spanish lessons to the young students. The show itself will have over 200 teachers, and Kun will be one of the guests, along | 98 |
Q: How to understand simultaneity and the lack of simultaneity? Albert is at rest with respect to the ground. Hermann is in a carriage that is moving with speed v relative<|fim_middle|> number for his two equal green pulses.
| to Albert in the direction shown. Two flashes of light are emitted from the back and the front of the carriage. According to Hermann's clock they arrive at Hermann's position simultaneously.
Explain with reference to the concept of proper time, why the arrival of the light pulses at Hermann will also be simultaneous to Albert.
I always thought this experiment is to demonstrate the lack of simultaneity? From Albert's frame, doesn't the light emitted from the back of the carriage is observed first, since the distance this light has to cover is shorter as the result by the carriage moving to the right?
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This is the answer provided? Is this correct?
A: The detection of 2 light pulses by Herman occur at the same time, and at the same place. Let's call it:
$$ E_3 = (0, 0)_{\rm Herm} $$
This is one event. An event is a single point in spacetime.
I can transform it into any frame (a primed frame, $S'$), and it will be:
$$ E_3' = (t', x')_{S'} $$
That is a single event, period. It must be simultaneous and co-located. It is by definition.
If we go to Al's frame, it can be:
$$ E_3 = (0, 0)_{\rm Al} $$
where, as with Herman, I used it to define the origin of the coordinates.
For there to be a discrepancy with simultaneity, we need a spatial separation of two distinct events.
That would fall on the emission of the light. In Hermann's frame, those events occur at:
$$ E_1 = (-L/2, -L/2)_{\rm Herm} $$
$$ E_2 = (-L/2, +L/2)_{\rm Herm} $$
where $L$ is the length of car, and $c=1$. We see that $t_1=t_2= -L/2$; the emission is simultaneous.
They cannot be simultaneous in Al's frame. A Lorentz Transformation by $-v$ shows:
$$ E_1 = \big(\gamma(-L/2-(-vL/2)), \gamma(-L/2-v(-L/2)\big)_{\rm Al}$$
$$ E_1 = \big(-\frac 1 2 \gamma L(1+v), -\frac 1 2 \gamma L(1+v)\big)_{\rm Al} $$
$$ E_2 = \big(\gamma(-L/2-(+vL/2)), \gamma(+L/2-v(-L/2)\big)_{\rm Al}$$
$$ E_2 = \big(-\frac 1 2 \gamma L(1-v), \frac 1 2 \gamma L(1-v)\big)_{\rm Al} $$
So we see that for Albert, $E_1$ occurs before $E_2$, that is, the trailing photon is emitted 1st and has to catch up with Hermann, and the leading photon is emitted second, with Hermann running into it. Hence the $\gamma(1\pm v)$ difference.
A: Since the question explicitly asks you to use the concept of proper time, let's do that.
Suppose that Hermann is carrying a stopwatch, and he will start it when the first pulse arrives and stop it when the second pulse arrives. This means that the stopwatch measures the proper time between these two events. (It is the proper time because in Hermann's frame of reference the two events happen at the same position.)
Now, in this particular case, and in Hermann's frame of reference, we know that the time between the two events was zero - the two pulses arrived simultaneously, so he started the stopwatch and then immediately stopped it, so that the stopwatch will read zero.
What will the stopwatch read in Albert's frame of reference? Well, after the experiment is complete, the reading on the stopwatch is independent of your frame of reference. If it reads zero to Hermann then it must also read zero to Albert.
Now, in Albert's frame, the stopwatch is moving, so Albert might want to correct for time dilation by multiplying the measured time by $\gamma$ - but zero times $\gamma$ is still zero, i.e., the two events are indeed simultaneous in Albert's frame of reference.
It is important to keep in mind that the two events in question are "the light flash from the left of the train arrives at Hermann's position" and "the light flash from the right of the train arrives at Hermann's position", and even though we're asking about these two events from Albert's frame of reference, it is still Hermann's position - not Albert's - that matters. We haven't even been told where Albert is standing relative to Hermann, because it doesn't matter; we're only interested in what Albert sees Hermann seeing.
In particular, the question does not assert:
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*That Albert will see the two light flashes at the same time, i.e., that they will arrive at Albert's position simultaneously.
*That the light flashes are sent simultaneously in Albert's frame of reference.
*That the light flashes are sent simultaneously in Hermann's frame of reference. (We don't know whether Hermann is standing in the exact middle of the train carriage, after all!)
A: Assume Hermann is in the middle of the carriage. He sees the light flashes emitted simultaneously.
But due to relativistic effects, Albert sees the front flash emitted first in a reddened shade, with the rear flash emitted later in a bluer shade; they are not simultaneous in his reference frame. He also sees Hermann appear to be standing in the rear half of the carriage, at the point they are opposite each other. The initial red flash takes longer to travel the longer distance, by which time the later blue flash has just travelled the longer distance.
Thus, it is simultaneity or otherwise of the spatially-separated (emission) events which vary according to the observer, it does not not vary for events which occur at a single point in spacetime.
Albert calculates that the number of wavelengths travelled by the short-wave blue pulse is exactly the same as the number of wavelengths travelled by the long-wave red light. Hermann agrees with that | 1,331 |
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This week 485 4-H youth, volunteers and professionals from 35 countries descended on Ottawa to take part in the 2017 Global 4-H Network Summit. In addition to making new friends and taking part in Canada's 150th birthday celebrations, these young leaders of the future were exchanging ideas and collaborating to build a better 4-H and a more sustainable tomorrow. Coca-Cola Canada is proud to have been the volunteer partner for this incredible event and help support the 4-H movement.
For those of us that missed 4-H growing up or thought it was just a club in rural communities, this amazing organization has a rich history across Canada and offers so much more. Since 1913, 4-H has been nurturing responsible, engaged and confident leaders that have gone on to have a positive effect on their communities. Today 4-H Canada has nearly 25,000 members that take the group's motto of "learn to do by doing" to heart by participating in a variety of engaging programs. Whether it's computers, woodworking or photography, 4-H members are learning skills and developing the leadership and communication traits they'll need wherever life takes them.
The 2017 summit's theme – "Empowering Youth. Growing Global Citizens." – was brought to life through 4-H Canada's four leadership development pillars: community engagement and communications, science and technology, the environment and healthy living and sustainable agriculture and food security. Over four days, 4-H delegates had the opportunity to take part in interactive workshops and hear from inspiring speakers, focusing on a different pillar each day. Evenings and breaks were spent experiencing some of the cultural foods and practices of the various countries attending the summit.
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Meters will stay on Kings Highway and Haddon Avenue.
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Love them or hate them, parking kiosks will replace parking meters in lots and along some streets in Haddonfield by summer's end.
Haddon Avenue and Kings Highway will keep meters, said Sharon McCullough, borough administrator. The first kiosks will be installed on Tanner Street when a repaving operation is completed.
"Tanner Street will be the test, the trial," McCullough said.
The coin-operated kiosks operate in two ways, depending on how they are programmed. Some accept coins and then print and shoot out a ticket, listing an expiration time. The ticket, after purchase, is placed on the dashboard of a car. Rates will be 25 cents for 30 minutes. There is no left-over time to be used by another driver.
The other type of kiosk allows motorists to pay for a specific numbered parking space for time he chooses. That type eliminates the need for the motorist to return to his car with the validated ticket, but it requires the motorist to make a note of the space number. A second driver may sometimes pull into the space for the duration of the time.
Frank Mazza, whose Towne Barber Shop has been a feature on Tanner Street for 44 years, said he feels the kiosks will be just another expense for people already struggling in the economy.
"Business on this street has been hurting. This is one more cost," said Mazza, who also operates a beauty salon on the second floor at 23 Tanner Streeet. "It makes it more expensive for everybody."
"What do we need something new for? It's a way for the town to make more money. With the meters someone else could pull in. Now they have to pay. It's all about money for the town.
"The jobs that were here aren't here anymore. Businesses closed and those customers moved on. Some store owners had to move because of the taxes. It's tough out here,''said Mazza.
There will be no five- or 12-minute grace period like now available on many of the borough's meters. That feature was welcomed by motorists who needed to dart into a store or office to drop off or pick up an item.
"I'll continue to keep a stack of quarters here," said Gary Okulanis, who has operated American Classic Cabinet Company, L.L.C. for 11 years at 50 Tanner Street.
"It won't hurt us. It won't have any effect," said Okulanis. "Our customers come here for an appointment. It's a destination, and they come for two or three hours," he said.
He said customers who visit his shop for two or three hours, usually to drop off samples, will adjust. "It's the way parking is today," Okulanis said.
Collette Oswald, whose photography studio is at 40 Tanner Street, wasn't so blasé about the parking fee plan. "It's confusing to some people. I don't understand the motivation behind the change, but I'm not going to get all upset about it."
Oswald said she supports the current practice of five or 12 minutes of free time, which is enough to park and drop off a package. She said she's much more concerned about the lack of progress on paving Tanner Street, now afflicted, she said, "by potholes that are enough to kill a car."
McCullough said the borough has authorized payment of $225,000 to purchase the meters. A supplier has not been chosen. The kiosks will be an outright purchase, not a lease, and the manufacturer will have to provide maintenance.
"We have the ability to partner in a consortium with Collingswood, but we want to be sure that's the best plan," she said.
The kiosks need less maintenance than meters. Each year, when the borough bags the top of meters during the Christmas shopping season for weeks of free parking, moisture builds up in the metal frame, causing condensation and often some damage. Batteries also need to be replaced regularly, McCullough said.
The borough's meters were updated five or six years ago. Parking fees in the town generate $178,000 a year.
In addition to maintenance costs, a borough employee dedicates one day a week to collect the payments, tabulate them, and deposit them. The rest of the week, that employee, Steve Collins, works as the water meter foreman.
Kiosks on the street will be placed at every seven to 10 spaces. Two or three kiosks will be installed in borough lots, depending on the size of the lot, McCullough said.
The change from meters to kiosks will not effect the borough's parking enforcement official, McCullough said. That employee now is also responsible for meter maintenance.
Once installed, the kiosks will be used for about 75 percent of the borough's parking spots, including 500 in lots. No spaces will be eliminated.
Motorists pay to park in the business district Monday through Friday until 6 p.m. Hours are shortened on the portion of Haddon Avenue near the post office because of higher traffic during rush hours.
Motorists do not have to pay to park on weekends.
Haddonfield now has three grades of parking fees. Some meters, for short-term stays, are 5 cents for 7 minutes and 1<|fim_middle|> three hours at 5 cents for 6 minutes, 10 cents for 12 minutes, and 25 cents for 30 minutes. There is a 12-minute grace period.
For long term parking, up to 12 hours, the rate is 5 cents for 12 minutes, 10 cents for 24 minutes, and 25 cents per hour.
Posted by staff at May 6, 2011 11:36 AM | 0 or 25 cents for 15 minutes. Five minutes are free with a push of a button on the meter.
Mid-term parking is available at some meters for up to | 37 |
Monroe 10u Tournament team Wins the 4th Annual Monroe Baseball Bash!
Monday, July 23, 2007 10:00:50 PM - Monroe Ohio
The 10u Monroe Hornets took first place in the 4th Annual Monroe<|fim_middle|> Hornets 5-1.
The Hornet fans started to wonder if the team would bounce back, at this point it looked like a second game would be needed to decide the championship. The hive came alive in the fifth and sixth inning scoring two times in each frame tying the game 5-5 and forcing an extra inning. One inning was all the Host team needed scoring on a steal of home off an errant throw from the Spartan catcher to the mound. As the runner crossed the plate the Hive was buzzing loud and proud!
The Hornets shut the door in the bottom of the seventh inning and the Hornet team celebrated on their Home field as Champions for the first time. (Story by: Terry Marshall) | Baseball Bash this past weekend!
It was the third time in the past four weeks that the Hornets had made it to the championship game and their first time taking home the first place trophy. The Hornets won their first game Saturday morning beating Miamisburg 7-2. Next up was Harrison who advanced to play the Hornets by beating Brookville Friday night. The Hornets played well and won the game 7-1.
The Hornets then advanced to play Valley View in a rematch of two teams that met in the previous tournament in which Valley View was victorious. The Hornets again proved to be too much for their opponents, winning the game 11-3. This put the Hornets in the Championship by way of the winners bracket for the first time.
Coming into the Championship game the Hornets had gone through their pitching rotation only once, using six pitchers for three innings each. This was a luxury for the Hornet team who in two previous tournaments had made it to the championship game by way of the losers bracket with a tired rotation. The Spartans jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning and each team scored one run in the second inning putting Valley View ahead by the score of 3-1. The Spartans scored once again in the third and fourth inning going ahead of the | 263 |
Now is the time where the snow is officially melting or melted and the showers begin to arrive. The old adage that came along of "April showers bring May flowers" now bears it's significance because with the flowing waters from the sky come the budding flowers and gardens from the ground.
We offer our classic claddagh birthstone ring for the month of April as we do for every month with the Claddagh Birthstone Ring for April. The claddagh design features a heart, crown and hands which symbolize love, loyalty and friendship. The ring is made of sterling silver and in the center of the ring is a stone made of cubic zirconia.
A little bit of history on the birthstone of April which is the diamond is in order. Those who wear the stone are purported to help those who wear these stones have better relationships and to increase their strength. Also, the diamond can possibly benefit one wearing them in the areas of balance, clarity and abundance.
It is not uncommon for people to wear diamonds in a multitude of colors besides the most common variety seen which is white. The other colors that one may encounter in a diamond are black, blue, green, pink, red, purple, orange and yellow. It is often said that when choosing a diamond it is best to consider the three c's which stand for cut, clarity and color.
The Claddagh Birthstone Pendant for<|fim_middle|> time." The second flower for April is the daisy. The daisy means innocence, purity, beauty and cheerfulness. Richard Jameson discovered this flower in South Africa however it dates back to ancient times.
Whether you decide to pick the claddagh ring or the pendant for your April birthday, be sure to pair it with a bunch of sweet peas or daisies. While you are at it, take a stroll outside and enjoy the springtime making sure to avoid the puddles while also enjoying the blooms. | April is another wonderful gift for an April birthday. It is a sterling silver pendant with a cubic zirconia stone. The stone and design is a bit smaller than that of the ring, however it still incorporates the essential elements of the claddagh.
The pendant will look ever feminine draped around the neck with a pretty sundress for a night out to eat dinner. The claddagh ring will pair well with most outfits and since the April birthstone is white there is not one outfit that it would clash with.
As long as April is a month synonymous with gardens, flowers and pretty outfits to wear out to eat, than it is important not to forget the April birth flower. There are actually two flowers for the month of April and the first one is the sweet pea. This flower comes in a variety of pastel colors and also in two tone varieties. The sweet pea signifies pleasure or farewell or a common adage that became associated with the flower which was "thank you for a lovely | 199 |
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Please, if you know of any online resources which you regard as being essential reading for emerging writers then please pass them on. Or, drop a note in a comments box offering to write a post about a resource you would recommend.
You might want to consider adding it to your lists which I'm finding very useful. Thanks for all the hard work.
Are you interested in those who publish online? I consider this method an excellent choice for writers not interested in conventional publication. My YA fantasy novel Mortal Ghost is read regularly, and I'll be serialising my new YA F/SF novel Corvus shortly.
This may not be for everyone, but I'm convinced there is a place for good self-publishing in e-format, especially in light of the growing popularity of e-readers.
Hi Mags, thanks for the tip. I'll put up a link to Backspace today. I dropped by your website the other day, in part hoping to find a blog. Enjoyed thes tory and photo re: Kirk Douglas. Regards.
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In the late 70's, parka-clad thousands took to beaches of Brighton to defend the Mod way of life, depicted in the classic film Quadrophenia. Bands like The Jam, Purple Hearts, Secret Affair, The Lambrettas, and countless others re-ignited the R&B influenced, energetic pop sound that had been missing in punk, yet still containing the intensity and emotion of the UK punk movement. Here in the United States, rock critics tend to cite this "power-pop" movement in terms of it's Chicago roots, most notably Cheap Trick, Green, Shoes, and Material Issue…..which is fine to the members of MegaSuperUltra, the 12 songs on "Power Pop Art" have been crafted from the very core of rock. The music is full of quick changes, stops, starts, and cleverly honed lyrics mingled with irresistible melody. These songs are non stop action, obviously based on the Mod styles and ideals of 1960's England but given an distinct American twist. The world is ready for this "brand" of feel-good pop again, directly targeted to the new high-paced Scooterist movement that is bubbling strong in the underground once again.
Sounds like: The Jam, The Who, XTC, and Elvis Costello all wrapped up together
For Fans of: The Strike, Teenage Frames, Œ79 UK Mod revival bands, Manual Scan, Detour Records UK, Odd Numbers
Mega Super Ultra – Power Pop Art – Jump Up. On listening to this surprisingly powerful trio first thought is that this is as good, and in some cases better than anything around during the '79 Mod Revival. Power chords abound throughout. There's not a bum track contained anywhere among the twelve. With a sound reminiscent of The Jam at their peak, other reference points being The Buzzcocks and The Chords, this power pop package is quite simply awesome full of power pop at its very best. –Scootering Magazine UK Feb 2000
MegaSuperUltra: Power Pop Art (Jump Up) MegaSuperUltra are the sound of the Mod revival era (¹79 -¹82 approx.) incarnate. Earnest vocals (reminiscent of XTC¹s Andy Partridge in a hurry) and lyrics, crisp clean production, and snappy bass and drums in support of guitarist/vocalist Tom Shover¹s power chord pandemonium. From their parkas | 516 |
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Creating segments allows you to more effectively target certain audiences in your list for communication that is most relevant to them. Leveraging segmentation translates to higher open and click rates. You can segment lists based on all kinds of things, such as geography, age, gender, industry, or engagement level.
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Phare, The Cambodian Circus and Phare Ponleu Selpak are happy to announce the return of the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival. A celebration of contemporary circus from around the world, this year's 10th anniversary edition features international artists from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Nepal, and France along<|fim_middle|> Reap
• Institut Français Cambodia
• Australian Embassy
• European Union
• Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
About Tini Tinou
Phare, The Cambodian Circus and Phare Ponleu Selpak are happy to announce the return of the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival. A celebration of contemporary circus from around the world, this year's 10th anniversary edition features international artists from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Nepal, and France along with Cambodian artists from Phare. The festival takes place from April 28 to May 10 in Phnom Penh, Battambang and Siem Reap. It includes nightly full-length performances, artist-led workshops, pop-up shows, and a public panel discussion about the business of performing arts in Cambodia.
Sponsors Silver | with Cambodian artists from Phare. The festival takes place from April 28 to May 10 in Phnom Penh, Battambang, and Siem Reap. It includes nightly full-length performances, artist-led workshops, pop-up shows, and a public panel discussion about the business of performing arts in Cambodia.
More than 4500 people attended Tini Tinou last year, which took place over eight sold out nights in three cities. "Cambodia is leading the region in contemporary circus, with three years of nightly performances by Phare, The Cambodian Circus in Siem Reap, and twenty years of regular performances by Phare Ponleu Selpak in Battambang," says Phare, The Cambodian Circus CEO Dara Huot. "Tini Tinou is a natural extension of this and we're pleased to bring contemporary performers from all over the world to see and participate in our vibrant arts scene."
This year's international troupes are: The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Australia's national youth circus, performing their new show Stunt Lounge; Collectif Open Ticket from France, performing Sans queue ni tete (Nonsense); and Cause & Effect from Canada, performing a juggling duo act. Artists from Nepal, Indonesia, and Afghanistan will perform in free improvised pop-up shows throughout the festival. Phare will perform its newest show, Influence. Each night of the festival will feature a different full-length performance.
A unique aspect of Tini Tinou is encouraging international collaboration through a series of juggling, trampoline, creation and street performance workshops. Artists are split into groups, share skills and work together to create something new. The results are shared in pop-up shows in public spaces throughout Battambang and Siem Reap during festival. "Most artists don't speak the same language and they come from very different backgrounds," says Huot. "These workshops are an extraordinary way to transcend cultural barriers,
learn new skills and form strong bonds. Giving this opportunity to our Cambodian performers and the international artists who travel a long way to take part in this festival, opens the doors to more working relationships in the future, and strengthens Cambodia's reputation as a leader in the creative and performing arts field in the region".
Pop-up shows, parades and the panel discussion are free and open to the public. Tickets for full-length shows range in price and will be available starting March 14 online or in person starting April 6 at several outlets in each city.
Tini Tinou 2016 is made possible by
• Cambodia Airports
• Smart
• Canadia Bank
• Costa Coffee
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• Angkor Village Resort
• Shinta Mani Resort
• InterContinental Phnom Penh
• Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra – Siem | 580 |
Paleontological evidence of evolution
Although the fossil record is often incomplete, either because they were not fossilized, they have not been preserved, or because they have not yet been found, in some cases it has been possible to reconstruct their phylogeny. That is, complete series, ordered from oldest to most modern species.
Studying the fossils it is possible to observe how some species have transformed into others. It is even possible to reconstruct how they adapted to the new environmental conditions of the environment.
Some fossils, transitional fossils, are intermediate forms between two groups of living things. For example, the Archaeopterys has typical characteristics of reptiles (tail and teeth) and of birds (feathers), which would show that current birds evolved from some reptiles.
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South Shields chippy offers free meals to children during half term
A South Shields takeaway is offering free meals for children who may otherwise go hungry during the half-term holidays.
By Poppy Kennedy
Saturday, 24th October 2020, 4:36 pm
Smith's Chippy, in Ocean Road, is backing Manchester United and England football player Marcus Rashford after the Government voted not to extend the free school meals during holidays.
Earlier this week, a Labour motion calling for the free meals scheme to be extended over school holidays until Easter 2021 was defeated by 261 votes to 322 in the Commons – with five Conservative MPs rebelling to vote with the Opposition.
Smith's Chippy will provide a free meal to 'any child who needs it' over the Autumn half-term break.
Smith's Chippy, Ocean Road, South Shields, is offering free meals to children in need.
Posting the news on social media on Friday, October 23, a spokesman said: "Unbelievably 322 MPs went against the vote to give school children free meals over school holidays.
"As a result of this we at Smith's Chippy will provide a free meal to any child who needs it in our community during half-term.
South Shields' Colmans Seafood Temple offers free meals for children during half...
"We're with Marcus Rashford on this one! If you know anyone that would benefit from our offer please let them know."
The meals – which include chips and sauce, and chips and sausage – will be available between 12pm and 3pm from Monday to Friday.
The Ocean Road takeaway has received a wave of praise on social media.
One use wrote: "How kind is this. Well done to you all. A great gesture."
Another said: "What a lovely thing to do. We need to support local businesses like yours."
England and Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford vowed to keep campaigning to extend free school meals over the holidays after MPs voted against the motion.
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Another OT winner for Melnick
Posted by John Lachmann (@rednblackhawks)
OXFORD, Ohio – Josh Melnick loves overtime, especially when Miami plays Colorado College.
Miami celebrates after Josh Melnick's game winner on Friday (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
The last time the RedHawks played the Tigers, MU won, 3-2 in overtime at Cady Arena, with the winner coming from Josh Melnick.
Copy and paste, as Miami won by the same score at the same venue with the same guy scoring the OT winner on Friday.
It was the third career overtime goal for Melnick.
The extra session came after a wild third period that saw the RedHawks go from up one to down one and finally even after tying it with 51 seconds remaining.
Following a scoreless first period, Miami (4-3) took the lead when Louie Belpedio juked at the blue line and whipped into the top corner of the net with 12:34 left in the second period.
It remained 1-0 until the 6:51 mark of the third period, when Trevor Gooch's tip-in tied it on the power play.
Colorado College (5-4) went ahead with 4:40 remaining when a blue-line shot snuck past Miami goalie Ryan Larkin in heavy traffic.
But with the extra attacker on, Gordie Green gloved down a puck and slid a pass across the slot to Casey Gilling for a game-tying one-timer with 51 seconds remaining.
In overtime, Ben Lown chipped a centering pass to a streaking Melnick, who was able to bat the puck past goalie Alex Leclerc and into the back of the net with 2:23 left in that stanza.
It was the third straight win for Miami and it snapped an 0-9-1 skid for the RedHawks against conference foes.
Green finished with two assists, giving him a team-best 13 points, all in the last five games.
Ryan Larkin stopped 28 shots to earn the win for Miami.
It was the NCHC opener for the RedHawks, who are in a five-way tie for first with three points.
These teams will wrap up their weekend series at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.
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Tags: 2017-18 miami gamer, 2017-18 miami redhawks, casey gilling, gordie green, josh melnick, Louie Belpedio, NCHC
Miami nets 5 late to blow out UConn
OXFORD, Ohio – For the second straight night, Miami put a game away with a flurry of goals.
On Saturday, it was a four-goal outburst over a six-minute span of a five-marker third period that lifted the RedHawks to a 7-1 win over Connecticut.
That completed the series sweep, the first for Miami since early January.
Defenseman Louie Belpedio (photo by Cathy Lachmann).
Defenseman Louie Belpedio netted two goals and tallied three points, both tying career highs, and Gordie Green finished with a goal and two assists as he extended his points streak to four games.
At 3:40 of the first period, Kiefer Sherwood put Miami on the board with a power play blast from the top of the faceoff circle that snuck in the short side off a feed from Scott Dornbrock.
With two minutes left in the opening stanza, MU defenseman Grant Hutton carried the puck the length of the ice and temporarily lost it before regaining possession and sliding it through the top of the crease to a wide-open Green for a one-timer to make it 2-0.
That score remained until the 18:45 mark of the second period when UConn (2-5-1) forward Adam Karashik emerged with the puck along the boards in the offensive zone, skated across the top of the crease uncontested and deposited the puck in the back of the net shorthanded.
It was 2-1 at the second intermission, but the RedHawks' offense awakened in the final frame.
Sherwood dropped a behind-the-back pass to Phil Knies, who skated around the back of the net and dumped it into the open side of the cage just 1:25 into the third period.
Then it was Belpedio's turn. Josh Melnick skated behind the net to the sideboards and connected with Gordie Green in the faceoff circle, and he sent a pass to Belpedio for a high wrister that snuck under the crossbar less than two minutes later.
Green next set up Melnick, feeding him at the top of the crease. Melnick tipped the puck under Adam Huska on a change-up shot, as the puck sat just across the goal line at the 6:13 mark of the period.
Belpedio struck again 1:24 later, hitting the corner of the net from the slot for an unassisted tally.
Austin Alger capped the scoring on a late power play, notching his second goal of the season as he slammed home a deflected puck thrown at the net by Conor Lemirande.
Thirteen Miami (3-3) players recorded at least one point. Melnick and Sherwood also notched two points.
The RedHawks led, 19-3 on the shot clock early in the second period and ended the night with a 44-18 edge.
It was the third time in four games Miami recorded at least three power play goals. The RedHawks were 4-for-7 in this game and are 52.4 percent during that stretch.
Miami will host Colorado College next weekend as it opens its NCHC slate. The teams will play at 7:35 p.m. on Friday and 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.
Tags: 2017-18 miami gamer, 2017-18 miami redhawks, gordie green, josh melnick, kiefer sherwood, Louie Belpedio
Analysis: Blowouts in college common
It's always tough to watch a team you root for get blown out.
In certain sports with significant parity, it does happen to even the best teams.
So in the ultra-competitive world of NCAA Division I hockey, there's no reason to panic after Miami fell behind five goals in the first period in a 6-3 loss to Maine on Saturday.
Not at all dismissing this pounding, but it's still very early in the season and the RedHawks did earn a split on the road, which is rarely a bad thing.
There were a number of positive things to take from this game for the Miami fan.
– Miami did fight back after falling behind by five early. Sometimes in hockey we see blowouts snowball, and at least the RedHawks battled down the stretch, cutting the final deficit to three.
– The power play is unreal. With Grant Hutton taking an active role on the man-advantage and Gordie Green joining the first unit full-time, Miami was 7-for-10 (70 percent) this weekend. And 3 of 5 in the finale, showing that even after the RedHawks lit the lamp four times on the man-advantage on Friday, Maine was unable to adjust.
– And I know it's not always popular to say, but the chippy-ness we saw in this game can generate momentum and galvanize a team. There were two skirmishes on Saturday, and in the first Green was targeted along the boards after a stoppage. He not only stood up for himself, Rourke Russell came to his defense and was engaged with opponents the entire time, and Carson Meyer got involved as well. The my-teammate-has-my-back mentality is a bigger factor in hockey than almost any other sport, and such an incident can only help a young team.
Miami's Louie Belpedio (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
– The other altercation: Captain Louie Belpedio ended up in a scrum midway through the third period and was tossed from the game. Sometimes captains have to get involved in these things. Again, this shows the team youngsters that the captain has everyone's back.
– And good for the officials, Jack Millea and Kevin Keenan, about whom I know nothing other than they handled the after-the-whistle antics very well. No reason to suspend anyone, instead choosing the 10-minute misconduct option to address the possibility of repeat offenders.
Other thoughts…
– So Ryan Larkin. Again, blowouts happen. At one point, Patrick Roy let nine in for the Canadiens. Admittedly, he's not exactly dominating, but let's remember that this was a player who was named team MVP as a freshman at the team's awards banquet. That's a rarity. He had a .910 save percentage in 2016-17 despite getting pelted with Grade-A chances. The smart money is on him rebounding, and soon.
– Follow up to that point: Larkin did have a .792 winning percentage for the weekend, and it's interesting that Grant Valentine backed him up on Saturday. Valentine logged nine-plus minutes and stopped 2 of 3 shots, giving up a low between-the-pads goal. Chase Munroe played the entire exhibition game in Plymouth, Mich., last weekend, and he allowed five goals. He was the backup down the stretch in 2016-17, so it looks like coach Enrico Blasi prefers Valentine as a backup at this point. But as long as he is healthy, it's obvious the net currently belongs to Larkin, and if that's the case through 2019-20, Miami will likely thrive.
– The RedHawks pulled the goalie down by four late, which typically indicates a coach thinks his team has played well enough that it deserves a chance to play on what's essentially a power play. Hutton scored on the 6-on-5 to make it a three-goal game. Really, if you're going to lose, who cares if it's 3-2 or 13-2? Coach Blasi doesn't, and I'm in agreement.
– It wasn't a great night for Chaz Switzer. He was beaten, 1-on-1, resulting in Maine's first goal, and his penalty on that play ultimately resulted in a 5-on-3 for another Black Bears goal. He was also on the ice for Maine's third goal.
– Some perspective about Hutton's scoring rate: He has 14 goals in 40 games since the start of 2016-17, and 10th place on BoB's unofficial all-time career defenseman goal leaderboard is Josh Harrold with 15. With five goals in five games already this season, Miami could be looking at one of its top-scoring blueliners of all-time.
– Veli-Antti Tiuraniemi, a Black Bears defenseman, was committed to Miami last season and appeared to be headed to Oxford this fall. Instead he had a goal and an assist vs. the RedHawks.
– Thanks to the University of Maine for its free high-quality online stream. The game experience in Orono is supposed to be fantastic, and BoB wishes the Black Bears nothing but success in the future, especially since subsequent wins by Maine will affect the PairWise!
LINEUP CHANGES: F Zach LaValle was scratched after dressing for the first three games. Alex Alger played for the first time this season in his place. F Ryan Siroky replaced Ben Lown for both games this weekend. On defense, Alec Mahalak sat for the first time in 2017-18, as Grant Frederic logged his second game of the season. Fs Willie Knierim and Carter Johnson, plus D Bryce Hatten are the only Miami players not to log ice time this season, although Knierim played in Plymouth.
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Preview: Miami at Maine
WHO: Miami University RedHawks (0-2) at Maine Black Bears (1-1).
WHEN: Friday and Saturday–7 p.m.
WHERE: Harold Alfond Sports Arena, Orono, Maine.
NOTES: Maine visited Oxford last season, and the RedHawks went 1-0-1, tying the opener, 3-3 and winning the finale, 5-0.
A Division I force through the late 2000s, the Black Bears have won 20 games just one time in the past 10 seasons, and that 23-win season in 2011-12 represented Maine's lone NCAA Tournament appearance in that span.
The past three seasons have been particularly brutal for the Black Bears, as they have failed to reach the .400 mark, averaging just 11 wins.
Amazingly, Maine didn't win a single road game in all of 2016-17, salvaging just four ties including one at Miami.
The Black Bears lost their top two scorers from last season in Blaine Byron and Cam Brown. Nolan Vesey, a Toronto draft pick and brother of New York Rangers forward Jimmy Vesey, is the team's top returning scorer with 13 goals and 10 assists for 23 points.
Sophomore Chase Pearson, a Detroit selection, finished 14-8-22 in 2016-17 and has a pair of assists already this season.
The Black Bears have two other drafted players – G Jeremy Swayman and F Patrick Shea. Swayman is a freshman who gave up four goals in a losing effort in his debut. Shea, a sophomore, has dressed for both games this campaign.
Cedric Lacroix, Peter Housakos and Mitchell Fossier are all back this season, and each found the net vs. Miami last year.
Miami was swept at home by Providence two weeks ago and beat the U.S. Under-18 team, 7-5 in Plymouth, Mich., last Friday.
The RedHawks are looking for their first non-exhibition win since Jan. 28, having gone 0-11-1 in their last 12 games.
D Grant Hutton is 1-1-2, found the net nine times in 2016-17 and scored twice in Miami's exhibition and has to be considered a credible threat to score from the blue line, which should create more space for his linemates.
The Gordie Green-Josh Melnick chemistry last week vs. the USNDT was undeniable, as Green scored twice – both times set up by Melnick, including a spectacular kick-pass-for-breakaway goal, and Melnick finished with three helpers.
Miami's Carson Meyer (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
These types of long trips early in the season can help teams bond, and Miami will have played just one exhibition in 13 days entering this series, so the RedHawks have reason to come out strong.
Miami and Maine have only played eight times, with the Black Bears leading the all-time series, 5-2-1.
Carson Meyer recorded four assists in last season's series, and Louie Belpedio netted a pair of goals.
Posted in 2017-18, preview
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Season preview III: The predictions
BoB grades forwards, defensemen and goalies after each home game.
So why not give preseason grades for each position?
Miami lost three players from 2016-17 but has added six – seven if you count reshirt freshman Christian Mohs – so BoB takes a look at each position heading into this season.
FORWARDS: C. The RedHawks were well below average in scoring last season, and they should be improved from 2016-17 overall. That said, depth beyond the team's top two lines is still a question mark.
DEFENSEMEN: C-. Again, lots of question marks after the first pairing, and Louie Belpedio has been banged up multiple times. Grant Hutton is the best shut-down defenseman on the team, and the final four spots are all up for grabs with Jared Brandt transferring to Niagara.
GOALTENDING: A. Ryan Larkin was named team MVP by the team back in April, as he faced a Grade-A chance shooting gallery much of the season. His health is key in 2017-18. Larkin missed several games due to injury and was out for the end of the team's playoff series vs. Minnesota-Duluth.
OVERALL PLACE OF FINISH: 4th. Miami finally earns a home series in the conference tournament after heading to the road back-to-back seasons. Both the offense and defense improve and Larkin is stellar in net.
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Season preview II: The lineup
Of the 23 players who dressed for Miami last season, 19 will back in the same sweaters this fall.
But that doesn't mean the RedHawks didn't lose any talent from 2016-17.
Miami's Anthony Louis (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
Anthony Louis wrapped up his college career as the team's top point producer his senior year. Also departed are Justin Greenberg, who was a solid penalty killer, and Colin Sullivan, a two-way defenseman that could also move up to forward.
Jared Brandt is also gone after a solid freshman campaign that saw him ascend to the top pairing.
Joining the RedHawks for 2017-18 will be a class of seven, consisting of five forwards and a pair of defensemen.
That's a net gain of four, so Miami should have ample depth heading into this season, which has been an issue at time the past couple of years because of injuries.
BoB breaks down how the RedHawks Version 2017-18 breaks down positionally.
Two starters are out (Louis and Greenberg) and five are in.
That means solid depth and lots of fierce, healthy competition for lineups spots each night on a team that struggled to produce offense after the first two lines.
Miami returns 11 forwards, which means at the very least one of the newbies will be dress each night.
Several of the freshmen have put points on the board in juniors, and Coach Enrico Blasi has a reputation for throwing young players into the mix immediately, so there is definitely plenty of opportunity for the newbies to carve themselves regular starting spots.
Miami forward Kiefer Sherwood (photo by Cathy Lachmann).
Four returning RedHawks recorded at least 20 points last season – Kiefer Sherwood, Josh Melnick, Carson Meyer and Gordie Green. Sherwood was second in points only to Louis (14-24-38), and Melnick went 9-18-27 as the team's top defensive forward.
Meyer admirably missed just four games while suffering through mono, going 10-16-26 as he noticably ran out of gas down the stretch. Green turned it up as the season went on, as he had seven goals and eight assists the final 18 games of 2016-17.
What Miami needs is more production from the remaining eight spots.
Zach LaValle went 2-9-11 and big Willie Knierim scored four goals and seemed to be adapting well to the college game. Karch Bachman has tons of speed and a great shot, and hopefully that will translate to more success for the talented Florida Panthers draft pick.
That's seven guys that should start for sure each night.
Of the returning forwards, Ryan Siroky has become a strong penalty killer but doesn't produce much offense. Carter Johnson played on the fourth line and managed three points in 35 games.
Conor Lemirande is huge at 6-feet-6 but has just nine points in 103 games.
Alex Alger played in 21 games and was an energy forward but finished with just one assist in 21 games.
Those five spots would appear to be less secure on a team looking to generate more offense.
It's an intriguing unit. Austin Alger, Philip Knies and Casey Gilling were all scorers in the USHL and could press all of the above for their jobs.
Miami was 45th out of 60 Division I teams in goals per game last season (2.53), and the RedHawks need to put the puck in the net more in 2017-18 if they hope to have success this season.
This was a facet of the game in which Miami struggled in 2016-17, and two mainstays from last season and gone in Jared Brandt and Colin Sullivan.
Brandt transferred to Niagara and Sullivan graduated.
Captain Louie Belpedio was limited to 24 games due to various injuries and although he was not 100 percent when he did play, he racked up six goals and 11 assists for 17 points, the best scoring rate of his career.
Miami's Grant Hutton (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
Grant Hutton is back for his junior season, and while he has been a shutdown-type D-man in his two seasons in Oxford, he scored nine goals in 2016-17.
Scott Dornbrock went 3-10-13 last season and is one of the team's best hitters.
The other three returning blueliners are all sophomores – Grant Frederic, Chaz Switzer and Bryce Hatten.
Frederic finished with three points in 2016-17 and needs to be more physical this season, as he is 6-3-201. Switzer got better as last season went on, and tallied a goal and an assist in 23 games.
Hatten dressed just 11 times and did not record a point, but a major injury in 2015-16 stunted his performance, and he could take a huge step forward this season.
The freshmen are Alec Mahalak and Rourke Russell, who should challenge for starting spots right away.
Mahalak is more of an offensive-minded blueliner, tallying 26 points in 59 NAHL games, and Russell has a reputation for shutting down opponents.
Two defensemen will have to sit each night, so that should up the ante for everyone involved each practice.
At the banquet this spring<|fim_middle|> stars in Anthony Louis, Kiefer Sherwood, Josh Melnick and Carson Meyer. Gordie Green's stock has soared the past two months, and Willie Knierim seems to be figuring it out at a steady, big guy, 19-year-old-in-D-I pace. Frustrating because the other seven forwards on the roster have a combined total of seven goals.
Close at defense, an area BoB highlighted at the beginning of the season with half of its studly blue line from 2015-16 graduating, as Grant Hutton is becoming a leader among this group and youngsters like Chaz Switzer appear to be gaining confidence. Frustrating because that progress has been too slow for some, veterans are making too many unforced mistakes and opponents are still setting up shop in front of the Miami net far too often with over 90 percent of the regular season in the books.
Well past close to "arrived" status in net, as Ryan Larkin has been a savior for this team – pun intended – as he has faced far too many A-plus scoring chances this season but still owns a .912 save percentage. Even that area is frustrating because he appears to be either tiring or losing a bit of confidence and has allowed the occasional soft goal in recent weeks that never would've gone in during December or January.
Close because this team showed a flash of excellence when it ran off five straight wins around the holidays and outscored its opponents, 18-2 in the third period and overtime during that span, with Melnick netting a pair of highlight-reel OT winners. Frustrating because the RedHawks suffered through an 0-7-3 span – their longest winless stretch in a quarter century – and are currently 1-8-2 in their last 11 during their most important games when they were given every chance to move up both in PairWise and the NCHC standings to earn their way into the NCAAs. And oh yeah, they've been outscored, 16-4 in the third period in their last seven, giving up multiple goals in the final stanza in every one of those contests.
This weekend is a microcosm of close and frustrating. Miami came back from 2-0 on Thursday to tie the second-ranked team in college hockey on the road, then after the Bulldogs (20-5-7) surged ahead again, the RedHawks again evened the score at three. Finally UMD buried a power play chance with a minute and a half left. Miami salvaged a tie on Friday and earned the extra league point.
The RedHawks have played some of their best hockey against top-ranked opponents like Minnesota-Duluth. This was probably the toughest series on Miami's entire season schedule, and even without its captain, MU hung with the Bulldogs both games.
But it's the story of the season: the RedHawks couldn't get the win either night. Close doesn't count in hockey.
Very frustrating.
– Is this series an example, like we talked about last week, of a team that is playing loose because home ice and PairWise are no longer factors? At six games under .500 heading into this weekend, these outcomes really don't matter except for NCHC Tournament seeding. That takes a lot of pressure off a team that was in a bad place after the recent St. Cloud series. The focus now is getting better next weekend and preparing for that all-important best-of-3 in two weeks.
– How much of an impact does the return of Justin Greenberg and the loss of Louie Belpedio have on this team? Greenberg's injury hurt the team on the penalty kill and in the faceoff circle, and Louie Belpedio missed this weekend after being kneed last weekend. Those changes can affect the chemistry of a team – positively or negatively – and based on where Miami was for the Denver series and where it was this weekend, it seems like the RedHawks got a boost from Greenberg and were more fired up after losing their captain.
– And on the latter, BoB wishes a speedy return to Belpedio, who is a team leader on and off the ice and a delight to talk to. He's had some struggles this year with penalties and turnovers, but captaincy on this team is very difficult. We even saw it affect Austin Czarnik, one of the best Miamians in team history and a current NHLer who could play there for the next decade.
– In fairness to the above, injuries really have played a role with this team, as Meyer, Larkin, Belpedio, Greenberg and Jared Brandt have all missed time this season, and with just three extra skaters on the team, Miami doesn't really have the depth to absorb personnel losses. Christian Mohs hurt his knee before the season even started and has been out for the season, which put the RedHawks shorthanded from Day 1.
– Miami was mathematically eliminated from home ice after failing to secure three points on Friday. Long story as short as possible, if the RedHawks won out and Nebraska-Omaha won on Saturday then was swept next weekend, and St. Cloud State was swept, that would be best albeit super-unlikely scenario, as Miami would finish in a three-way tie with whatever the Sioux are calling themselves these days and the Huskies. But the RedHawks would still be 3-4-1 against those two teams and would end up with a six seed. So much for the suspense.
– In the bizarre stats area, Hutton is now tied with Melnick for best shooting percentage on the team, as both have scored nine times on 49 shots (.184). Maybe Brandt's first career goal in Oxford last Saturday instilled confidence in him, as he had 27 shots on goal all season entering this weekend and fired six times in these two games, finding the net twice.
– Tapping the old memory banks to recall a team that was more self-strangulation inducing, the 2000-01 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks come to mind. That team had to use 12 goalies during the regular season and lost player after player to Anaheim and Detroit, that team's affiliates. They finished above .500 but took an early exit from the playoffs.
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Miami goalie Ryan Larkin (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
That's pretty much all you need to know about Miami's goaltending.
Larkin logged 1,946 minutes last season, going 8-16-7 with a 2.77 goals-against average and .910 save percentage.
Those numbers are mediocre until considering the quality of shots Larkin faced in 2016-17. Miami only won nine games last season but that number would be lower if Larkin hadn't been in net.
He was banged up a couple of times last season, most notably during the RedHawks' NCHC playoff series, so hopefully he can stay healthy in 2017-18.
Chase Munroe went 1-4 with a 4.25 GAA and .861 save percentage, but he sat much of the year and was under fire when he did hit the ice.
Small forward Louis big in the clutch
OXFORD, Ohio – Too small to succeed.
That has been the label given to Anthony Louis his entire life, but he continues to rack up the points despite his detractors' criticism.
The senior forward who is listed at 5-feet-8, 158 pounds has climbed Miami's all-time points leaderboard in his four years in Oxford and is currently 22nd in team history with 125 on 45 goals and 80 assists.
Anthony Louis with Team USA in 2012-13 (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
"I tend to use it as motivation," Louis said. "I always wanted to prove people wrong and make it to the next level."
Louis grew up in Winfield, Ill., a far west suburb of Chicago but now lives slightly closer to the city in West Chicago. He scored 60 times in 66 games between Team Illinois' Bantam Major and his Under-16 seasons, earning his way onto the U.S. National Development Team.
On the Under-17 team in 2011-12, he netted 27 goals in 49 games, and he was second on the Under-18 team with 51 points the following season, second-best on the team despite facing much tougher competition.
Anthony Louis in the NCHC Tournament his freshman year (Cathy Lachmann/BoB)
Louie Belpedio, MU's captain and junior defenseman, played and lived with Louis in Ann Arbor on the USNDT. Belpedio is also from Chicago, and with the tandem's dads being longtime friends, so too have Belpedio and Louis.
"He keeps proving people wrong – that's one of his best traits," Belpedio said. "People always told him he's too small, and he'll never made it. Every level he moves up, he gets better. He proves to people that size isn't necessarily the biggest factor, and his heart's bigger than his body is."
Louis turned those negative stereotypes into positives, and he said he developed a thick skin when it comes to dealing with negative comments surrounding his play.
"I wouldn't say I didn't believe in myself but I knew it was going to be harder because people thought I was too small," Louis said. "I definitely used it as a motivator to myself what I could do, and prove people wrong that didn't believe in me. It made me work (harder) than I would've if they weren't doubting me."
He earned a silver medal his final season prior to college with the U-18 squad, and Louis also keyed a Four Nations championship by recording five points in four games.
Despite that resume, every team in the NHL passed him by with their first six selections of the 2013 draft. That is, until the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks picked him last in that round.
Louis is named to the NCHC All-Tournament team in 2013-14 (Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
The hometown Louis was the 181th overall pick in June of 2013.
"Obviously it's a dream come true," Louis said. "It's just the first step to hopefully a few more to make the team. Growing up watching them, it was awesome, and I always wanted to play for them. Now that it's only a few steps away, it's going to be a lot of hard work but it's a pretty exciting process ahead of me."
Following in a familiar line of players from the Chicago area, Louis chose to play for Miami, where he began his career in the fall of 2013. Knowing the Wingels brothers – NHLer Tommy and brother Johnny, a current senior and student coach – helped seal his decision.
"The culture here at Miami is a big reason why I committed here," Louis said. "Everyone here has really lived by The Brotherhood – I know there's some people who think that's not true – but they really do live by it here, from the staff to the players, all around at the school, just unbelievable people here at Miami. The fans, obviously, and atmosphere are incredible."
He said the combination of playing against international competition like in the Four Nations tournament parlayed with the U.S. team taking on college teams in exhibitions prepared him for life in Division I college hockey.
But it was a slow start for the offensive whiz, as he was limited to four goals and three assists in his first 17 games wearing a RedHawks sweater.
Anthony Louis in the outdoor game at Soldier Field his sophomore season (Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
"Getting used to the system, and obviously guys are bigger," Louis said. "I don't think I was as consistent my freshman year, and I was in my own head a little bit, but as I grew as a player I obviously learned how to handle that. Once I did things started going much (better) for me."
Louis began to thrive as that season progressed. He recorded eight goals and seven assists the final 15 games, notching points in all four of Miami's postseason games.
While the RedHawks fell a goal short in the NCHC Tournament championship game, Louis earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team as he finished that event with four goals and a pair of helpers.
Louis followed up on that campaign by tallying nine goals and a career-best 27 assists as a sophomore, and once again Louis exceled as games became more important.
He scored twice and set up five more goals in six postseason games, including a 1-1-2 line vs. Providence in his lone NCAA Tournament contest.
Louis scores on this shot at Bowling Green his junior season (Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
In his junior season, Louis amassed 11 markers and 15 assists, and although Miami was limited to two playoff games – in the first round of the NCHC Tournament at Minnesota-Duluth – he scored once and dished for two helpers in that series.
That gave Louis a career 7-9-16 line in 12 postseason games his first three seasons in Oxford, as he has loved college hockey's spotlight.
"I have a lot of fun with it," Louis said. "I know a lot of guys are pretty nervous and overthink things. I just try to take it all in and enjoy the atmosphere. I think it's the most fun time of the year."
Named an assistant captain last summer, Louis' goal and points totals are career highs, as he is 13-24-37 this season. For his career, he has 45 goals and 80 assists for 125 points, ranking him 22nd all-time among RedHawks skaters.
Louis celebrates after scoring vs. UNO his senior year (Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
One more point would move Louis into a three-way tie for 20th.
"I think that's obviously a huge accomplishment for him, and I'm happy for him and everything that he's done," Belpedio said. "Obviously we're playing top teams every night, so for him to be able to do that says a lot about him."
But beyond the offensive stats, Louis has worked to become a more complete player in his four years at Miami.
"My defensive game has gotten much better – this is my first year of penalty killing," Louis said.
Louis is also proud of how much physically stronger he has become since that freshman campaign. Belpedio has been impressed with Louis' leadership this season.
"Just because I wear the 'C' and he wears the 'A' doesn't mean he's not just as much of a leader as I am," Belpedio said. "We work well with each other, and we're two guys who like to lead by example. He's a good leader, and he might not be the most vocal guy in the world, but he's got character traits about him that make everyone else around him better."
Louis is set to graduate in May, when he will earn a degree in sports management. From there it's on to the pros, and no matter how his future career in hockey evolves, he will always cherish his Miami years.
"My experience at Miami has been incredible," Louis said. "All of the people that I've met, and as a whole my teammates I've grown with – a lot of lifelong friends that I'll have. And from a hockey (standpoint), it's just been incredible playing in front of the fans here. Throughout the country, even the alumni supports us well. It's truly a Brotherhood here. It's pretty much everything I expected coming in. I've really enjoyed it. Hopefully it's not over."
Posted in 2016-17, features
Tags: 2016-17 miami redhawks, Anthony Louis, features, Louie Belpedio
Analysis: Miami still battling despite odds
Miami has not won in six weeks, but its next loss will be its last of the season.
The RedHawks lost their NCHC Tournament first-round opener in their best-of-3 series, 5-4 in overtime to Minnesota-Duluth at Amsoil Arena on Friday and now face elimination in that series.
Miami's path from here on out couldn't be more clear: Win or go home. The RedHawks would need to win on Saturday and Sunday at No. 3 UMD then run the table in the semifinal and final of the league tournament in Minneapolis.
That would earn them a berth into the NCAA Tournament, which, of course, is one and out.
An unlikely scenario made more improbable considering the first half of the opening sentence. Miami is 0-8-1 in its last nine and 1-11-2 since Jan. 14.
To Miami's credit, it took the third-best team in Division I to overtime in the Bulldogs' home building on Friday despite missing captain Louie Belpedio and losing stud goalie Ryan Larkin in the second period.
The RedHawks led three times in the game (2-1, 3-2 and 4-3) but were unable to close out the win, a common theme in 2016-17.
Backup goalie Chase Munroe had not logged a minute in exactly three months, and after stopping just three of the first five shots he faced, he turned aside 26 of the final 28. He faced a shooting gallery in the final 20 minutes of regulation and overtime, and didn't get a lot of help from his skaters defensively.
It would've been easy for this team to mail it in, considering the near impossibility of its task of winning this tournament.
But the RedHawks didn't quit, and in a season that will likely go down as their worst in a quarter century, that's an encouraging sign.
Crazy things happen in conference tournaments, and it would take a run that makes 2013-14 look tame just for Miami to return the position it was in three years when it came within a goal of advancing to the NCAAs despite a 12-19-3 regular season record.
The RedHawks have their backs against the boards but are playing with passion, and in Game 2 we'll see if that's enough to extend the season.
– No idea what Larkin's injury is or how severe, but when a goalie leaves a game and doesn't return he rarely returns the next night. Already Belpedio-less, that makes MU's chances of advancing in this round even more remote. If there is a bright spot it's that Munroe earned valuable conference tournament experience, and as we recall, Jay Williams was shaky early before finding his groove, as was Charlie Effinger before him.
Miami forward Zach LaValle (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
– Scorers' list from Friday boom: Ryan Siroky and Zach LaValle, in the bottom six of the forward list on the lineup card all season, both scored in this one. It was just their third and second goals of the season, respectively, although LaValle especially seems to have picked it up a notch recently. This is encouraging because Miami was able to hang without its go-to snipers finding the net, and also the lack of scoring from non-top six forwards has been well documented here.
– Scorers' list from Friday bust: Josh Melnick hasn't scored in seven games and Anthony Louis has been stuck on 13 goals for 13 games. Kiefer Sherwood was limited to one shot. Scoring from tertiary forwards is great, but the top players need to be top players in the playoffs for teams to advance.
– Yet another Gordie Green update. Hate to be redundant but Green has been the hottest forward on the team with seven points in four games and 11 in his last 10 – more than anyone else on the team.
– Speaking of points surges, two assists on Friday give Grant Hutton eight points in his last seven games. He picked up three helpers the first 28 games but has five in the last seven. On a team that has struggled mightily the past two months, it says a lot that a pair of underclassmen in Green and Hutton are two of the RedHawks' top points producers. Green is a freshman and Hutton is a defenseman.
– Shots were close the first two periods: 14-12 UMD. Shots after: 27-10 UMD. Miami has now been outshot in 13 straight regulation periods. The RedHawks have allowed 474 shots while generating just 320 during their current 1-11-2 skid.
Posted in 2016-17, analysis, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Tags: 2016-17 miami redhawks, analysis, chase munroe, gordie green, grant hutton, Louie Belpedio, Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, nchc tournament, ryan larkin, Ryan Siroky, zach lavalle
Analysis: Home finale still meaningful
OXFORD, Ohio – For Miami, PairWise doesn't matter, seeding has been wrapped up and the RedHawks even know their first-round opponent in the NCHC Tournament.
That means after Friday's 3-2 loss to North Dakota, Saturday's regular season finale will be little more than a glorified exhibition.
For official purposes that is. Miami can certainly conjure up reasons to take its last game at Cady Arena in 2016-17 seriously.
Trying to gain momentum heading into a brutal road trip – the same one that saw the RedHawks' season end last year – would be the most obvious.
But it's been no secret Miami would open the NCHC Tournament on the road for weeks now, and the RedHawks still went winless the entire month of February and have opened March 0-1.
Next week's opponent, Minnesota-Duluth, swept Miami to end the 2015-16 season and just went 1-0-1 vs. the RedHawks last weekend. The Bulldogs are ranked second in Division I.
There is the legacy play. Miami has won at least 12 games in every season under Coach Enrico Blasi, and his worst two seasons from a wins standpoint were Years 1 and 3 (1999-2000 and 2001-02), when the team won 13 and 12 games, respectively.
But that was with recruits from the previous administration. With his own players, Blasi has won at least 15 games each season, although two of the previous three campaigns have seen the RedHawks win exactly that many with sub-.500 winning percentages.
So Miami needs to win on Saturday and advance to Minneapolis just to tie Blasi's low-water mark in terms of wins.
To be fair, the RedHawks have tied seven times, so essentially that have 12½ wins. But the team's .379 winning percentage is 47th out of 60 Division I teams.
And hey, the NCHC's lone knock – right or wrong – is the lack of an identity and natural rivals. North Dakota was one known quantity when this league was formed. The Native-American-turned-avion-nicknamed team has appeared in more championships than any team in Division I (13) and is second in titles (8).
Oh yeah, UND won the national championship in 2016. Can Miami possibly get up to play this team on its home ice, even in a down year?
Miami's Ryan Larkin makes one of his 38 saves on Friday (photo by Cathy Lachmann/BoB).
Because the RedHawks didn't do that in their penultimate home game of the season. North Dakota had seven shots in the first four minutes, and if it hadn't been for Miami goalie Ryan Larkin, it could've been 2-0 before many found their seats at Cady Arena.
The RedHawks had their moments on Friday but there was zero sustained pressure. On the other side, the Other Hawks controlled the puck in the offensive zone for shift after shift.
Shots on goal are not the be-all, end-all of hockey stats, but when a team is outshot by a 2-to-1 margin or greater in all three periods, that's not a coincidence. The SOG by period was 16-5, 15-7 and 10-4.
There's the cliché that winning is contagious. Well, so is not winning, and Miami has failed to secure a victory in 11 of its last 12 games.
A win on Saturday won't fix the RedHawks' seed, or their PairWise or even do much to correct their anemic record, but it could point them in the right direction heading into the playoffs.
– Time to dispel the "we're young" excuse for Miami's woeful performance this season. North Dakota has eight freshman and 11 sophomores – that's 19 underclassmen, using the first two years of college definition – and five juniors and two seniors. One of those seniors is a goalie who has logged 18 career games.
– If we've learning one positive thing about a player this season, it's that Gordie Green's work ethic is top notch. It's easy to get off your game when the team you play for rivals the Jacksonville Jaguars in terms of winning percentage, but he has thrived while the team has done the opposite. Green has three goals and five assists his last eight games, and Miami only has 19 markers in that span, meaning Green has factored into 42 percent of those. He even laid a player out on Friday and was assessed a bogus charging penalty even though he neither lined his opponent up nor left his feet.
– Impressed with Carter Johnson, who made a great move and just missed the net in the second period and had another quality scoring chance in the third period. Kudos also to Zach LaValle, who has continued to work as hard as anyone this season resulting in eight points in his last 16 games.
– With Louie Belpedio out, it was Josh Melnick who met with officials and UND captain Gage Ausmus during warm-ups. Very telling.
– BoB is not big on criticizing officiating, but seriously, in this game, 7-to-2 on power plays including an extended 4-on-3 that led to the decisive goal? It was a chippy game, no doubt, but come on. That said, UND made the most of those opportunities, outshooting the RedHawks, 17-2 on the man advantage and scoring a shorthanded goals on one of Miami's chances.
– To complete the thought on penalties, Grant Hutton's cross check to the head of a player laying in Miami's crease wasn't the smartest play of the season, and Conor Lemirande took three minors, eventually resulting in him being relegated to the bench for the balance of the third period. North Dakota a was better at getting under the RedHawks' skin and watching MU get called for the retaliation.
– With this being the first time seeing the Fighting Hawks live this season, their skating and puck control stood out as two of their top attributes. They also move the puck extremely well on the power play. Hard to believe they were just two games over .500 entering this weekend. As usual, their fans traveled well, as this was the loudest any opposing fan base has been in this rink all season.
– With the regular season wrapping up, it's about time we consider hanging numbers of more recent members of the Miami hockey clique on the brick wall at Cady Arena. For now, Andy Greene and Ryan Jones certainly seem worthy of having their respective 23 and 26 mounted in the Zamboni end.
– Louie Belpedio was in the concourse wearing a knee brace. Sounds like he's just week-to-week, but unfortunately for Miami, do-or-die mode starts next week for this team. Obviously his return would help tremendously.
FORWARDS: C-. Just 12 shots from this group. The LaValle-Sherwood-Green line was undoubtedly Miami's best. Overall, this corps wasn't particularly impressive on defense as well.
DEFENSEMEN: C-. The listed pairings bore little resemblance to how these blueliners were actually implemented in game. Scott Dornbrock had a decent game overall but coughed up the puck for the decisive breakaway goal. Other than an errant turnover, Grant Frederic played one of his better games.
GOALTENDING: B+. Again, when a goalie faces 41 shots and many are Grade-A chances, three goals against is a pretty good night. Larkin kept Miami in the game by stopping the first seven shots he faced in the opening four minutes. Other than arguably the breakaway, there was little he could've done about any of his goals against.
LINEUP CHANGES: For the third straight game, it was Alex Alger (F), Bryce Hatten (D) and Belpedio sitting. Hatten has been scratched for 15 of the last 16 games, so if Belpedio returns, it would be the expense of one of Friday's starters on defense. With his forward corps relatively healthy, it appears this 12 from this game will be the group Blasi heads into the tournament with.
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Tags: 2016-17 miami redhawks, analysis, josh melnick, Louie Belpedio, North Dakota Fighting Sioux, ryan larkin
Analysis: Close doesn't count in hockey
Having watched a lot of hockey at a lot of levels, it's not hyperbole to say this is one of the most frustrating teams to watch in this lifetime.
Unfortunately, that cliché about "close" counting doesn't refer to hockey and hand grenades, or else Miami would be in much better shape after its 3-3 tie at No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth on Friday.
Because in many ways, close is what the RedHawks (9-16-7) are to being a successful team and not one mired seven games under .500, facing a brutal road series to advance in the NCHC Tournament in two weeks just to extend their season. And it's frustrating that they've not been able to close teams out too many times this season.
Close – amazingly – is what Miami is to defaulting to home-ice advantage in that round despite a 5-12-5 league record, as the team is only six points out of that elusive fourth seed. Frustrating because with Duluth and Denver running away with the top two seeds, the points threshold for that seed is lower than in any of the four seasons of the NCHC.
Close in forward depth, as this team has true offensive | 5,270 |
Four years ago, Graham French got an offer he couldn't refuse — farming a 1,050 acre rice and soybean farm in Arkansas County, Ark.
Only two years before, French had graduated from Arkansas State University with a degree in agricultural business and finance and moved back to Arkansas County to work for Arkansas rice producer Ronnie Bauman.
Under Bauman, French learned the day-to-day activities necessary for getting a crop planted and harvested. When the offer to run his own operation came up, he knew that knowledge of individual fields was critical, especially in regard to soil type, crop mix and variety selection.
French's equipment line that first year included a Caterpillar tractor, a Caterpillar Challenger 45, a Case International 7150 with front-wheel assist, a John Deere combine, a few old trucks and enough implements to get the crop in and out.
In 2006, weather "hit our operation just right," and rice yields were excellent across the farm. That first year, French went with 40 percent hybrid rice, with the remainder in Cheniere.
Today, French farms about 2,600 acres of rice, soybeans and wheat. Good friends Blake Staton and Steve Lookadoo help French run the farms, and French's wife, Britteny, handles the books.
Major weed problems in rice are sprangletop, barnyardgrass and smartweed.
French's rice lineup includes CL XL729, CL XL730 and CL XL745, Clearfield hybrids from RiceTec, which are a good fit for the farm's soil characteristics. "Several of our farms have a lot of mixed dirt, going from sand to buckshot — a collage of dirt. The hybrids seem to be more consistent across different soil types than a conventional variety." He follows RiceTec's recommendations on seeding rate, planting at 28 to 32 pounds per acre.
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Stink bugs have been a problem in years past, but this year, chinch bugs surfaced and were treated with Karate.
Although French is off to a good start in farming, he understands that each new morning and each new season brings a new set of challenges and opportunities. There's no time reflect on past accomplishments or failures. | Weather Service, rainfall in Arkansas ran from 150 percent to 600 percent of normal throughout the state. This spring, rising waters from a creek running through the farm created a lot of extra work for French.
Fields were so wet that French was not able to apply fertilizer by ground, so he flew on DAP and potash at the three-leaf | 75 |
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Northumberland Avenue
WC2N 5DE
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The address of the Playhouse Theatre is Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5DE. It's close to Embankment tube station (Northern, Bakerloo, District and Circle lines) and a few minutes' walk from Trafal<|fim_middle|> train station is also nearby. London Underground Northern or Bakerloo lines also serve this station.
If you are arriving by car or taxi you can be dropped off outside the main entrance. The nearest car park to the theatre is Q-park, Spring Gardens, SW1A 2TS. You can get a fifty percent discount on the parking fee if you validate your parking ticket at the theatre box office.
The main entrance to the theatre has three sets of half glazed wooden doors which open towards you, and once inside there are three steps up into the main foyer. The box office is now located on the far right hand side of the building.
There is an accessible toilet in the foyer, adapted for wheelchair use. Non-adapted toilets are in the Stalls Bar, Dress Circle, and Upper Circle.
Please ask a member of staff for your headset and large print or braille cast list. If you would like to listen to the introductory notes 15 minutes before the start of the performance, you should collect your headset in good time to take your seat. Staff will be able to direct you.
There is level access from the Foyer to the Stalls Right seating, 3 steps to the Stalls Left seating, 28 steps up to the Dress Circle and 82 steps to the Upper Circle. Staircases have highlights and handrails.
There are stepped aisles on all levels apart from the first 4 rows of Stalls Right (A,B,C,D). The seats are upholstered in red and flip up when not in use.
There is a stage bound walkway in the centre of the Stalls auditorium which is used by actors during the performance creating an immersive feel.
Please note that this information has been provided by the theatre and you may still have some queries. In this case, we would ask you to contact the theatre direct for clarification.
Further Information and Contact Details
At the Playhouse Theatre Guide dogs are welcome. Guide dogs are permitted in the auditorium at the end of a row in the stalls or staff will be happy to dog sit during the performance.
For these performances the theatre uses a radio system for audio description; the radio signal is transmitted across the whole auditorium. Receivers, either stethoscope models, or belt-pack models with separate headphones, will be supplied by the theatre and staff will demonstrate how to use them. You may want to bring your own headphones and request a belt-pack receiver.
If you have any queries about your visit you can call the theatre direct via the stage door, on 0207 925 7730. Alternatively you can call Customer Service 0844 871 7627. The Access Booking line number is 0800 912 6971.
The Playhouse Theatre is an ATG theatre. Further information is also available on their website: – atgtickets.com/venues/playhouse-theatre/information.
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The Canadian<|fim_middle|>30 million dollars for ten years based on mining rent. | company "Avala resources" will perform this year new field work on the project Tulare in the municipality of Medvedja in southern Serbia.
Activities will be important to define mineralization zones of gold, silver and lead on the surface, as the previous one, as it is said, "have given encouraging results".
"For now, the target area is still little explored, but new field works are planned for this year, which have aim to test the parallel zones and thus to lead to an increase of potential exploration area", said Justine van der Torn, a research manager of the company.
In an official statement, the company presented the results of the trench from the southern part of the exploration area Tulare, where previously were discovered two copper and gold deposits, "Kiseljak" and "Yellow Creek".
"Avala resources took over the project Tulare last year, after its integration with the company Danube resources in Canada, so that future activities include a detailed analysis of past works and results in a given project", said Van der Torn.
The statement also announced additional exploration work on the project of gold Timok, which is located in eastern Serbia near Zagubica, in order to extend reservoirs so far defined.
The company had previously announced that, based on previous research results and preliminary studies, the opening of the first gold mines in Serbia, would cost 177 million dollars. If the plans are realized, the mine would employ 250 workers, and the Republic of Serbia could get more than | 311 |
Though ConceptCT was designed at the Mitsubishi Motors Design Center in Cypress, California, it carries a much more Japanese flavor than American. Of course, as Mitsubishi looks to embody a style they call J-Cool (Japanese-Cool), this is appropriate for their intent. According to Mitsu's PR machine, the ConceptCT was inspired by sleek high-performance scooters popular in Japanese cities.
As the CT is also envisioned for more urban use, the concept featured a relatively long (102.4 inches) wheelbase compared with a short overall length (149.6 inches) to maximize interior space while minimizing its shadow. The rear doors opened butterfly-style, easing access to the rear of the car, and the rear hatch split horizontally both upper glass and lower tailgate ready to open.
Almost as important as the powertrain was the chance for Mitsubishi to explore interior possibilities for small cars. In this case<|fim_middle|> the main controls. The instrument panel featured wall-to-wall screen displays for everything driver and passenger need, including navigation, rear/side-view mirrors, and entertainment (in park only). The flat screen in the center handled climate control and audio information.
As has been demonstrated on many concepts over the past few years, the seats were a floating structure for more flexibility. Front passenger and rear seatbacks folded flat for longer loads, the cushions on the rear seats could be folded up to put loads in the rear passenger zone, and there was also cargo space in the nose, just like the old VW Beetle. | , Mitsubishi designers used structural elements as design elements as well, including the parallel supports for | 17 |
The purpose of monitoring, evaluation and learning practices is to apply knowledge gained from evidence and analysis to improve development outcomes and ensure accountability for the resources used to achieve them (ADS 201.3.5).
When investing in monitoring and evaluation, USAID staff and implementing partners realize the return on this investment by tying it to learning priorities. In this sense, learning from M&E means using M&E data/information as evidence for accountability and informing decision-making for management purposes, course adjustments, and future designs. For example, monitoring data are used to track the progress of a mechanism in achieving set objectives. Evaluation is used to determine how and why results are being achieved, or not, as well as discovering unintended, unexpected, or emerging results.
It is important to remember that monitoring, evaluation, and CLA are not the end goal, but rather the means by which we achieve our development outcomes more effectively. If the knowledge we are generating through monitoring or evaluation is not yet contributing to real-time decision-making about design and implementation, we may need to take a deeper look at our M&E systems. We can also assess other aspects such as the enabling conditions and decision-making process that may hinder the effective use of analysis of monitoring data and evaluations.
Where we are in our implementation of the Program Cycle can inform our approach.
What are we trying to achieve? What are the intended results? How will we know if we have achieved those?
What theories of change and assumptions do we need to test to ensure we achieve our intended results?
What do we not yet know that may affect the level of our achievement?
What do we want to learn? What additional learning activities are needed to better understand our context or development challenges?
Methodologies: household surveys, focus groups, outcome mapping, etc.
Learning activities: context indicators, evaluations, formative research, sector reviews, reflective sessions with stakeholders, etc.
Document your plan. Per ADS 201.3.5.22, document your learning plans in your CDCS's Performance Management Plan (PMP) and Project and Activity M&E and Learning (MEL) Plans.
Learn and adapt. Always remain open for any possible changes in the learning priorities or in the M<|fim_middle|> unexpected outcomes at all levels, including with implementing partners and other stakeholders.
Accountability and learning go together. You don't have to choose between accountability and learning—they go hand in hand. Both accountability and learning are necessary and we should develop our M&E efforts to support these complementary objectives.
Build collaboration around M&E. Generating buy-in from relevant stakeholders (including different offices in USAID, implementing partners, host government, and other donors) early and often can improve our ability to adapt based on learning generated by our M&E systems. Having open conversations about the findings of our monitoring and evaluation efforts can build trust and provide a foundation for stronger collaboration.
Timeliness matters. Timely M&E activities can go a long way to informing key decision-making. Plan your M&E activities so that you have the relevant information in time and current to make critical decisions.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is positively and significantly associated with achieving development outcomes when incorporated into program management and designed to support learning and decision-making. In addition, establishing feedback loops increases the likelihood that evidence will inform decision-making. | &E systems to accommodate unexpected or uncontrolled circumstances.
Does the program have the right set of indicators? Who is using them? For what purpose? Are indicator data helping to understand if higher level results are being achieved?
Are monitoring data being used to reflect performance and inform adjustments?
Are evaluations being utilized to inform current and future programming?
When was the last time a key decision was made based on M&E data? How often does this happen?
Do the data provide enough evidence to validate the theory of change or any of its key programmatic assumptions?
Determine gaps and adjust PMP and MEL Plans. Identify gaps or misalignment in the M&E systems and develop an action plan to narrow the gaps, which may include revising the PMP and Project and Activity MEL plans. We can also start fresh when we plan a new strategy or design project/activity.
Be strategic and prioritize. Our M&E systems can provide vast amounts of rich information and potential for learning, but we often do not have the absorptive capacity to take it all in. We need to make deliberate choices about what learning can contribute most to our development objectives and what data will support us in that effort.
Focus on openness. If you are experiencing barriers to learning from your M&E systems, take a step back and assess where the roadblock lies. It could be a problem with the M&E system itself, or it might arise from a challenge elsewhere in your processes (e.g., decision-making protocols). The strongest learning happens when there is openness to talking about challenges and | 309 |
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:22 PM
Lytton BC was once again the hottest spot in all of Canada on Monday. Final temp settled at 49C.
Weather tonight was talking about rain for the Northern parts of the province but it will also be bringing lighting.
There is big fire burning up in the Peace River country, outside Fort Nelson. Right now it is too hot for fire crews to even get near it.
My area of BC is looking at slightly cooler temps over the rest of the week and into early next. Hovering around 30C then dipping into the high 20s like around 28C.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:00 AM
The heat is really derailing fruit crops up here. All cherries I have seen in stores are from Washington State, Chelan to be specific and California. No Rainier cherries though.
No grapes from the Okanogan. They are being imported from Mexico this year.
Seemed to me like the cherry season was unusually short this year. Normally they get picked from up and down the coast and it extends the season somewhat.
I feel sorry for the farmers. It takes a lot of land and patience to grow fruit trees: a lot of $$$ invested, but after planting and waiting crops get obliterated by late frost, or hail or, in this case, unseasonal heat.
Too bad for the forests and wildlife, too. I hope the rest of the summer isn't as bad as it is now
I hope your experiment goes well, BRENDA!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think the grout stain marker FINALLY did the trick.
So how're things your way, KIKI?
The heat wasn't as bad a predicted (so far), at least not over here. Today was the coolest day of the last 7 days ... 77F, kind of cloudy and a bit humid but breezy. Tropical, in a pleasant way. Took the oppty to do the monthly watering for those plants that only get watered once per month.
That sacral pain I was telling you about? Is remitting. Started out with 800 mg of ibuprofen *2/day, then 600mg *2/day, now at 400mg *2/day. Was taking 150 mg lyrica b4 bed for about 4 days, now every other day. Taking it easy, avoiding the things that cause pain to shoot down my leg but doing gentle stretches seems to have helped. It's like that kinked neck that I had b4: felt like hell, lasted longer than I expected, but seems to be going away slowly but surely. Same thing with my left foot. I was beginning to wonder if it was a stress fracture in one of the metatarsals or something. So it looks like maybe I just strained/sprained somethingand it pinched a nerve.
As long as the pain goes away, I'm a happy camper. I feel more functional too! Did some digging and watering and hope to get back to the bigger chores around the house/yard.
I must have made zucchini parmagiana four times by now. WHAT a PITA!!! But family likes it, and we certainly have the zucchini!
Anyone want to come over for dinner?
It only took about 7 applications over a week!
Now hopefully the paint doesn't have a worse reaction to the grout marker than it did the stain, right?
There will be a slight elevation on that door where the marker was applied unless the paint evens it out, but that's not really that big a deal since it's at the bottom of the door and won't be easily seen. Obviously, I won't be sanding it down before paint.
And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don't let him be proud of his 'progressive' views, and don't let him boast that he is an academician or a people's artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It's all the same to me as long as I'm fed and kept warm.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 12:44 PM
I feel sorry for the farmers too.
Thanks. I will let you know.
I gotta get up soon and head out. Need something from the grocery story.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:46 PM
Well, it's cooled down some where I am. So much so that I was actually starting to find the local mall cold.
Glad it's cooler by you now Brenda. Still humid as hell here, but at least it cooled down a bit. Water everywhere for a few days, so the humidity is going to stay for a while.
Painted the fronts of the last two doors and that might be it. Looks like the stain is officially blocked and the damage to the other door is finally hidden behind paint.
Me too Jack. The heat dome BC has been sitting under over the last weekend has moved on to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Thursday, July 1, 2021 1:25 PM
Down to 19C where I am. A much more doable temperature than the last few days. Heading out for a walk in a bit. Grocery store takes back empty pop bottles and I've got a few to get rid of.
It's finally supposed to start cooling down there on the west coast, isn't it?
Crap. I just looked. It was supposed to happen Monday, drop to 85, and last for 6 days. Now it's not happening till Wednesday, and Thursday ... and then it starts going back up again. By Sunday it'll be back up to 95F which - if it works out like last time - means ~110F at my house.
Now that I've been doing a much better job of just taking a little extra time to do a bit of tidying up in the kitchen and bathroom as I use it, my "chores" have become somewhat less of a chore. If I can keep that habit up this time, the days of letting those two rooms go until they're gross to walk into and take two days to scrub clean should be over.
I read somewhere that if it takes a minute or less to do, then it's worth doing right then. I've been following that, and it really seems to help.
I'm not going to say anything about the moles because I don't want to jinx myself, but I'll just say that you haven't heard me talking about moles for a while.
My issue is with gophers. And when I get rid of them, they repopulate from the hill across the street. The coyotes are slacking off! And oh, I'd prefer moles because they only eat bugs. But gophers will eat the roots right off a large tree.
There's still two fairly small yet stubborn stains that continue to bleed through the paint on one of the doors directly below the sink. I even put an extra dab of paint around the general area of them in between coats and it's still showing through. There's also a some on the inside border of the frame on the inside of the door that won't go away either. Kind of insane considering they've now had 3 coats of (supposedly) stain sealing primer
Zinsser? oil based?
with two coats of cabinet/trim enamel paint that also calls itself a paint and primer in one.
Any idea what the stains are?
... I'll probably just hit those two doors with an extra coat or two of paint and hope that it finally seals everything in.
After I stripped the lead paint off the outside of my house, I found out the siding was made of cedar which bleeds tannins through. Aside from the Kilz (water based is all you can get here, and the ppl at Lowes told me Zinsser was better when I asked a few weeks ago) it took 4 coats of exterior paint to (mostly) get rid of the stain. If I was going to do it all over again, I'd try for Zinsser oil-based stain-blocking primer.
"Mueller Investigation Is Over / Part two are the trials that begin in 2021 / tick tock"
Are these trials supposed to be about the non-existent "Russia collusion"?
Originally posted by THG:
Back from my walk and so much more comfortable out.
Good to hear!
Thursday, July 1, 2021 10:18 PM
We seem to be on almost the same weather pattern this year.
It started out hot and muggy this morning, but the humidity that has hung over us like a dark cloud for the last week and a half disappeared by mid-afternoon and it's almost downright chilly outside tonight.
So it seems Jack. Not a real good thing.
Friday, July 2, 2021 12:25 AM
It's certainly odd.
Friday, July 2, 2021 1:22 AM
I'm expecting local temps to be in the 90-100F range for the next 10 days at the nearest reporting station. If that's anything like how it's generally been going, that's an additional ~10F+ at my house.
Friday, July 2, 2021 1:29 PM
Out for a walk in a bit. Low 20s right now where I am.
Today predicted high 88, tomorrow 87, after that 84-86 for the foreseeable future (10 days). The average high June LA temperature is 78.
Saturday, July 3, 2021 3:09 AM
Still waylaid by that pinched nerve-lower back to thigh pain. It's amazing how many things require bending down to the floor!
I hope you all are doing better than I am!
BRENDA, SIX, KIKI? How're things your way?
Saturday, July 3, 2021 1:11 PM
Laundry day then out for a bit of a walk in the sunshine.
Sunday, July 4, 2021 3:16 AM
Well dang, Signy. I'm sorry to hear about your back. What in general makes it worse or better? For example, do you wake up OK but then it gets worse during the day? Do particular things makes it worse? Is it pretty random ... ???
Hey Brenda - just saying hey. Yeah your low temps (I'm guessing roughly lower 60s) are quite chilly for this time of year!
Sunday, July 4, 2021 11:34 AM
You're telling me. When I jacked my back up late last year I was hardly able to do anything for 3 weeks. And when I pushed it one day I probably set the recovery back a week or two and made things worse. You use your back for EVERYTHING.
Hope you're feeling better.
Good. Busy. Been helping friends and family out with things and had little time to do anything on my own work that needs doing besides keeping up with the yard and a little keeping up with the inside looking at least livable.
The plan is to at least get the rest of the bottom of the cabinets trimmed out, spackled/caulked and painted over the next two days as well as putting the final coat on the last two doors today and hopefully hanging all of them tomorrow.
I also need to take photos and make some measurements and diagrams of my back porch. It looks pretty likely I can get my friend and his dad to help me put legit windows on the front in a day or two and finally get that plastic down. They've both got a lot of work coming up that they could use my help on and we should be able to barter for the work.
It would be a major upgrade to the curb appeal of the house and if I can get that porch properly framed out I can finally start working on remodeling the inside of it at my leisure once the kitchen is done.
Sunday, July 4, 2021 2:06 PM
They are in the low 60s to upper 70s are much better Kiki. Have a good day. :)
Things are slow my way because it is summer now and my boss and her husband are off on their camping trips.
SIGNYM:
1KIKI:
SIX:
I am .slowly. getting better.
It started a few weeks ago with back pain that was getting worse little by little over a period of about 5 days which I ignored/worked thru. Wrong move. Then, when it suddenly became a crisis, I took 800 mg ibuprofen and felt SOOOO much better the next day I thought it had been cured and overdid it .again. with garden cleanup.
Another bad move!
At first I couldn't sit stand, lie down or walk w/o grinding pain, or sleep comfortably without 600 mg ibuprofen plus pregabalin before bed. Then I was on 400 mg ibuprofen AM and PM and pregabalin every evening.
I'm down to 400 mg ibuprofen every other evening.
Much worse right after getting up, as spine compresses= prolly disc issue. Bending over and reaching with right hand definitely makes it worse, so I've learned to reach with my left hand. Standing up or sitting down quickly seems to wrench my back, so I don't do that either. With anti-inflammatories and gentle treatment, overall heading in the right direction with a few frustrating/scary setbacks if I accidentally wrench my back.
I'm sure that you both know the drill.
SIGNY: BRENDA, SIX, KIKI? How're things your way?
SIX: Good. Busy. Been helping friends and family out with things and had little time to do anything on my own work that needs doing besides keeping up with the yard and a little keeping up with the inside looking at least livable.
I was wondering what happened to your steady list of accomplishments.
It's good to build up social capital with trustworthy people! I hope it comes back to you reliably, because it sounds like you have Big Plans for your front porch!
BTW I like your new signature:
Well... I finished trimming out the cabs, putting the spackle on and painting the last two doors so far today.
Play my cards right, I might be able to find time to paint the bottom cabinets one final time after sanding down the spackle and putting the caulk on and giving it some drying time. (all of that needs to be done today if I'm going to hang the doors tomorrow).
Yeah. Fingers crossed.
I got it from an article the dude from Mumford and Sons wrote when he walked away from the band recently when his bandmates and their families were getting death threats from the pink haired Leftist fatty Twitter weirdos for something innocuous he posted there a little while back.
I can't remember who the quote was from, but I liked it too.
Take it easy on your back for a while, huh?
Sunday, July 4, 2021 10:20 PM
Today I celebrate my independence day from ever painting those cabinets, shelves or doors again.
Going to be hanging the doors tomorrow for sure now.
I still have other things to do, like build the wall under the cabinet next to the stove, build the two missing drawers, build the final top-cover for the under-sink cabinet, minor repairs and repaint of the curio cabinet... and I'd like to make a new shelf for a lower end cabinet that never had one, but those things can all be done later.
Eventually I'll have to tile the floor and figure out what I'm going to do about the countertop too.
But now I can finally figure out what else is going to go into the cabinets and what's going to Goodwill and no more living with half of my kitchen stuff on my living room floor and up in the attic.
ETA: Got some cleaning and re-org done. The curio cabinet is just about bare, but I have to find another way to plug in my tablet and house phone... the outlet is too high to have them on the ground. Also got all of my paper towel in the cabinets instead of in a closet upstairs. Decided to put my overflow of toilet paper in there too. I've literally got a ton of it after last year's debacle. I probably won't have to buy any for 2 or 3 years.
Can't wait to get those doors up tomorrow!
Got the kitchen sink cleaned out. Noticed it while I was doing dishes. But that's as far as I got today.
Monday, July 5, 2021 11:01 AM
Article by Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, "The Law, the Rights and the Rules", Moscow, June 28, 2021
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https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02
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The frank and generally constructive conversation that took place at the June 16, 2021 summit meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden in Geneva resulted in an agreement to launch a substantive dialogue on strategic stability, reaffirming the crucial premise that nuclear war is unacceptable. The two sides also reached an understanding on the advisability of engaging in consultations on cybersecurity, the operation of diplomatic missions, the fate of imprisoned Russian and US citizens and a number of regional conflicts.
The Russian leader made it clear, including in his public statements, that finding a mutually acceptable balance of interests strictly on a parity basis is the only way to deliver … The Russian leader made it clear, including in his public statements, that finding a mutually acceptable balance of interests strictly on a parity basis is the only way to deliver on any of these tracks. There were no objections during the talks. However, in their immediate aftermath, US officials, including those who participated in the Geneva meeting, started asserting what seemed to be foregone tenets, perorating that they had "made it clear" to Moscow, "warned it, and stated their demands." Moreover, all these "warnings" went hand in hand with threats: if Moscow does not accept the "rules of the road" set forth in Geneva in a matter of several months, it would come under renewed pressure.
Of course, it has yet to be seen how the consultations to define specific ways for fulfilling the Geneva understandings as mentioned above will proceed. As Vladimir Putin said during his news conference following the talks, "we have a lot to work on." That said, it is telling that Washington's ineradicable position was voiced immediately following the talks, especially since European capitals immediately took heed of the Big Brother's sentiment and picked up the tune with much gusto and relish. The gist of their statements is that they are ready to normalise their relations with Moscow, but only after it changes the way it behaves.
It is as if a choir has been pre-arranged to sing along with the lead vocalist. It seems that this was what the series of high-level Western events in the build-up to the Russia-US talks was all about: the Group of Seven Summit in Cornwall, UK, the NATO Summit in Brussels, as well as Joseph Biden's meeting with President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
These meetings were carefully prepared in a way that leaves no doubt that the West wanted to send a clear message: it stands united like never before and will do what it believes to be right in international affairs, while forcing others, primarily Russia and China, to follow its lead. The documents adopted at the Cornwall and Brussels summits cemented the rules-based world order concept as a counterweight to the universal principles of international law with the UN Charter as its primary source.
In doing so, the West deliberately shies away from spelling out the rules it purports to follow, just as it refrains from explaining why they are needed. After all, there are already thousands of universal international legal instruments setting out clear national commitments and transparent verification mechanisms. The beauty of these Western "rules" lies precisely in the fact that they lack any specific content.When someone acts against the will of the West, it immediately responds with a groundless claim that "the rules have been broken" (without bothering to present any evidence) and declares its "right to hold the perpetrators accountable." The less specific they get, the freer their hand to carry on with the arbitrary practice of employing dirty tactics as a way to pressure competitors. During the so-called "wild 1990s" in Russia, we used to refer to such practices as laying down the law.
To the participants in the G7, NATO and US-EU summits, this series of high-level events signalled the return by the United States into European affairs and the restored consolidation of the Old World under the wing of the new administration in Washington. Most NATO and EU members met this U-turn with enthusiastic comments rather than just a sigh of relief. The adherence to liberal values as the humanity's guiding star provides an ideological underpinning for the reunification of the "Western family." Without any false modesty, Washington and Brussels called themselves "an anchor for democracy, peace and security," as opposed to "authoritarianism in all its forms." In particular, they proclaimed their intent to use sanctions to "support democracy across the globe." To this effect, they took on board the American idea of convening a Summit for Democracy. Make no mistake, the West will cherry pick the participants in this summit. It will also set an agenda that is unlikely to meet any opposition from the participants of its choosing. There has been talk of democracy-exporting countries undertaking "enhanced commitments" to ensure universal adherence to "democratic standards" and devising mechanisms for controlling these processes.
The revitalised Anglo-American Atlantic Charter approved by Joseph Biden and Boris Johnson on June 10, 2021 on the sidelines of the G7 Summit is also worth noting. It was cast as an updated version of the 1941 document signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill under the same title. At the time, it played an important role in shaping the contours of the post-war world order.
However, neither Washington, nor London mentioned an essential historical fact: eighty years ago, the USSR and a number of European governments in exile joined the 1941 charter, paving the way to making it one of the conceptual pillars of the Anti-Hitler Coalition and one of the legal blueprints of the UN Charter.
By the same token, the New Atlantic Charter has been designed as a starting point for building a new world order, but guided solely by Western "rules." Its provisions are ideologically tainted. They seek to widen the gap between the so-called liberal democracies and all other nations, as well as legitimise the rules-based order. The new charter fails to mention the UN or the OSCE, while stating without any reservations the adherence by the Western nations to their commitments as NATO members, viewed de facto as the only legitimate decision-making centre (at least this is how former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described NATO's role). It is clear that the same philosophy will guide the preparations for the Summit for Democracy.
Labelled as "authoritarian powers," Russia and China have been designated as the main obstacles to delivering on the agenda set out at the June summits. From a general perspective, they face two groups of grievances, loosely defined as external and internal. In terms of international affairs, Beijing is accused of being too assertive … Russia stands accused of adopting an "aggressive posture"in a number of regions. This is the way they treat Moscow's policy aimed at countering ultra-radical and neo-Nazi aspirations in its immediate neighbourhood, where the rights of Russians, as well as other ethnic minorities, are being suppressed, and the Russian language, education and culture rooted out. They also dislike the fact than Moscow stands up for countries that became victims to Western gambles, were attacked by international terrorists and risked losing their statehood, as was the case with Syria.
Still, the West reserved its biggest words to the inner workings of the "non-democratic" countries and its commitment to reshape them to fit into the Western mould. This entails bringing society in compliance with the vision of democracy as preached by Washington and Brussels. This lies at the root of the demands that Moscow and Beijing, as well as all others, follow the Western prescriptions on human rights, civil society, opposition treatment, the media, governance and the interaction between the branches of power. While proclaiming the "right" to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries for the sake of promoting democracy as it understands it, the West instantly loses all interest when we raise the prospect of making international relations more democratic, including renouncing arrogant behaviour and committing to abide by the universally recognised tenets of international law instead of "rules." By expanding sanctions and other illegitimate coercive measures against sovereign states, the West promotes totalitarian rule in global affairs, assuming an imperial, neo-colonial stance in its relations with third countries. They are asked to adopt the democratic rule under the model of the Western choosing, and forget about democracy in international affairs, since someone will be deciding everything for them. All that is asked of these third countries is to keep quiet, or face reprisals.
Clearheaded politicians in Europe and America realise that this uncompromising policy leads nowhere, and are beginning to think pragmatically, albeit out of public view, recognising that the world has more than just one civilisation. They are beginning to recognise that Russia, China and other major powers have a history that dates back a thousand years, and have their own traditions, values and way of life. Attempts to decide whose values are better, and whose are worse, seem pointless. Instead, the West must simply recognise that there are other ways to govern that may be different from the Western approaches, and accept and respect this as a given. No country is immune to human rights issues, so why all this high-browed hubris? Why do the Western countries assume that they can deal with these issues on their own, since they are democracies, while others have yet to reach this level, and are in need of assistance that the West will generously provide.
International relations are going through fundamental shifts that affect everyone without exception. Trying to predict where it will take us is impossible. Still, there is a question: messianic aspirations apart, what is the most effective form of government for coping with and removing threats that transcend borders and affect all people, no matter where they live? Political scientists are beginning to compare the available toolboxes used by the so-called liberal democracies and by "autocratic regimes." In this context, it is telling that the term "autocratic democracy" has been suggested, even if timidly.
These are useful considerations, and serious-minded politicians who are currently in power, among others, must take heed. Thinking and scrutinising what is going on around us has never hurt anyone. The multipolar world is becoming reality. Attempts to ignore this reality by asserting oneself as the only legitimate decision-making centre will hardly bring about solutions to real, rather than farfetched challenges. Instead, what is needed is mutually respectful dialogue involving the leading powers and with due regard for the interests of all other members of the international community. This implies an unconditional commitment to abide by the universally accepted norms and principles of international law, including respecting the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in their domestic affairs, peaceful resolution of conflict, and the right to self-determination.
Taken as a whole, the historical West dominated the world for five hundred years. However, there is no doubt that it now sees that this era is coming to a close, while clinging to the status it used to enjoy, and putting artificial brakes on the objective process consisting in the emergence of a polycentric world. This brought about an attempt to provide a conceptual underpinning to the new vision of multilateralism. For example, France and Germany tried to promote "effective multilateralism," rooted in the EU ideals and actions, and serving as a model to everyone else, rather than promoting UN's inclusive multilateralism.
By imposing the concept of a rules-based order, the West seeks to shift the conversation on key issues to the platforms of its liking, where no dissident voices can be herd. This is how like-minded groups and various "appeals" emerge. This is about coordinating prescriptions and then making everyone else follow them. Examples include an "appeal for trust and security in cyberspace", "the humanitarian appeal for action", and a "global partnership to protect media freedom." Each of these platforms brings together only several dozen countries, which is far from a majority, as far as the international community is concerned. The UN system offers inclusive negotiations platforms on all of the abovementioned subjects. Understandably, this gives rise to alternative points of view that have to be taken into consideration in search of a compromise, but all the West wants is to impose its own rules.
At the same time, the EU develops dedicated horizontal sanctions regimes for each of its "like-minded groups," of course, without looking back at the UN Charter. This is how it works: those who join these "appeals" or "partnerships" decide among themselves who violates their requirements in a given sphere, and the European Union imposes sanctions on those at fault. What a convenient method. They can indict and punish all by themselves without ever needing to turn to the UN Security Council. They even came up with a rationale to this effect: since we have an alliance of the most effective multilateralists, we can teach others to master these best practices. To those who believe this to be undemocratic or at odds with a vision of genuine multilateralism, President of France Emmanuel Macron offered an explanation in his remarks on May 11, 2021: multilateralism does not mean necessity to strike unanimity, and the position of those "who do not wish to continue moving forward must not be able to stop … an ambitious avant-garde" of the world community.
Make no mistake: there is nothing wrong with the rules per se. On the contrary, the UN Charter is a set of rules, but these rules were approved by all countries of the world, rather than by a closed group at a cosy get-together.
An interesting detail: in Russian, the words "law" and "rule" share a single root. To us, a rule that is genuine and just is inseparable from the law. This is not the case for Western languages. For instance, in English, the words "law" and "rule" do not share any resemblance. See the difference? "Rule" is not so much about the law, in the sense of generally accepted laws, as it is about the decisions taken by the one who rules or governs. It is also worth noting that "rule" shares a single root with "ruler," with the latter's meanings including the commonplace device for measuring and drawing straight lines. It can be inferred that through its concept of "rules" the West seeks to align everyone around its vision or apply the same yardstick to everybody, so that everyone falls into a single file.
While reflecting on linguistics, worldview, sentiment, and the way they vary from one nation or culture to another, it is worth recollecting how the West has been justifying NATO's unreserved eastward expansion<|fim_middle|> too. The dog takes me for a walk every day, whether I need it or not, even if all I can do is hobble.
Yesterday I made it thru the day without any ibuprofen. Today I woke up with SERIOUS twinges and had to take 400 mg. But these setbacks don't scare me as much as they used to: I recognize it as a "three steps forward/two steps back" process. I'm definitely better than I was two weeks ago and give myself to the end of the month with conservative treatment (anti-inflammatories, pregabalin, gentle motion while avoiding sudden strain as much as possible) b4 I appeal to a medical professional- which I don't think will be necessary.
Made a bunch of tasty meals in a row, especially zucchini parmagiana and stir-fried pork with Thai red curry. The vegetables for both dishes take a lot of prep, so they are truly a labor of love.
And my ER doctor niece just had ababy girl, 8 lbs and healthy despite Covid vaccine. Very happy for her, altho it does make me grieve a bit for our dear daughter and what might have been if she hadn't had such a catastrophic birth. But life goes on. Can't be stuck in the past, and need to move forward.
Back from my walk and vacuuming done. Picked up the mail with some bad news in it. My family doc is retiring at the end of September, so I need to find a new one.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 10:11 PM
Signy,
Brenda, I had one really stellar doctor, but then he got promoted. Replacing doctors can be hard.
As for myself, I had a quite enjoyable 4th involving family, fireworks, and food.
Other than that, I'm slowly (very slowly, but I guess that can't be helped) knocking down those items that need doing. This AM I got my first Pfizer shot. Given my occasional gnarly reactions to vaccinations and medicines, I'm waiting to see if anything starts going wrong over the next 5 days or so. But so far all I have is a sore arm.
A few weeks ago I got the cheapest new front tires for my car one could possibly get. The old ones were definitely bald. But considering my car is a '95 and I barely drive 5 miles/ week I figure it'll crater before the tires wear out. Hence, the cheapie ones on the front only. The rear ones still have enough tread on them to last a good long time at the rate I'm going. Tomorrow it'll be oil and oil filter change, air filter change, and new wiper blades. And that'll be it in terms of routine maintenance for the next few years.
After that, I'll re-start my yard work.
Coming up is my once-a-month yard watering (a bit late due to other errands), especially the big trees that I don't want to lose. But I may have a valve leak outside, b/c I see standing water on the west side of the house. So I'm going to reconfigure how I water a little bit, and see if it's any of the hose fittings, or something underground when the main valve is open.
She's been my doctor for over 30 years and done a pretty good job. She treated my mom as well.
It can be hard up here too.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:16 AM
It seems that a LOT of doctors are retiring now. I got three letters from my HCP about doctors leaving. Two of them I only saw as same-day and don't really deal with them, but I really liked the cardiologist.
My allergist is retiring too, in August.
And, to my shock, we got a phone call from dear daughter's/hubby's neurologist office, telling us he had died. I REALLY liked him and trusted him a lot. He was very observant and listened carefully and sometimes dx'd things out of his specialty, like when he dx'd hubby's sphenoid sinus infection.
Too sad. He will be missed by many, I'm sure.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 1:05 PM
She wanted to keep her office open but couldn't find anyone to take over her practice. So that is where I am at.
I still remember the look on her face when an opthamologist sent a note with to see her. The note was saying that she thought I was experiencing seizures. Her eyes about bugged out of her head but she got me in to see a neurologist. First time I saw him nothing showed up on the eeg but the second time there were the lovely spikes indicating seizure activity
Back from errands and may have found a new doc by accident. I was coming out of a walk in clinic as they have to take new patients and a nurse from another doctor was walking by and heard me. She said that the doctor she works for is taking new patients and got me his card. Only down side is that the doc is male but right now I am thinking that I shouldn't look a gift doc in the mouth. I called another walk in clinic and they aren't taking any new patients.
Also cherry experiment is so far so good. I have eaten one and it has now been over half an hour and no reaction. So maybe a little bit of cherries is possible now.
Also lots of cloud cover today where I am. Only 20C. | towards the Russian border. When we point to the assurances provided to the Soviet Union that this would not happen, we hear that these were merely spoken promises, and there were no documents signed to this effect. There is a centuries-old tradition in Russia of making handshake deals without signing anything and holding one's word as sacrosanct, but it seems unlikely to ever take hold in the West.
Efforts to replace international law by Western "rules" include an immanently dangerous policy of revising the history and outcomes of the Second World War and the Nuremberg trials verdicts as the foundation of today's world order. The West refuses to support a Russia-sponsored UN resolution proclaiming that glorifying Nazism is unacceptable, and rejects our proposals to discuss the demolition of monuments to those who liberated Europe. They also want to condemn to oblivion momentous post-war developments, such as the 1960 UN Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, initiated by our country. The former colonial powers seek to efface this memory by replacing it with hastily concocted rituals like taking a knee ahead of sports competitions, in order to divert attention from their historical responsibility for colonial-era crimes.
The rules-based order is the embodiment of double standards. The right to self-determination is recognised as an absolute "rule" whenever it can be used to an advantage. This applies to the Malvinas Islands, or the Falklands, some 12,000 kilometres from Great Britain, to the remote former colonial territories Paris and London retain despite multiple UN resolutions and rulings by the International Court of Justice, as well as Kosovo, which obtained its "independence" in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. However, if self-determination runs counter to the Western geopolitical interests, as it happened when the people of Crimea voted for reunification with Russia, this principle is cast aside, while condemning the free choice made by the people and punishing them with sanctions.
Apart from encroaching on international law, the "rules" concept also manifests itself in attempts to encroach on the very human nature. In a number of Western countries, students learn at school that Jesus Christ was bisexual. Attempts by reasonable politicians to shield the younger generation from aggressive LGBT propaganda are met with bellicose protests from the "enlightened Europe." All world religions, the genetic code of the planet's key civilisations, are under attack. The United States is at the forefront of state interference in church affairs, openly seeking to drive a wedge into the Orthodox world, whose values are viewed as a powerful spiritual obstacle for the liberal concept of boundless permissiveness.
The insistence and even stubbornness demonstrated by the West in imposing its "rules" are striking. Of course, domestic politics is a factor, with the need to show voters how tough your foreign policy can get when dealing with "autocratic foes" during every electoral cycle, which happen every two years in the United States.
Still, it was also the West that coined the "liberty, equality, fraternity" motto. I do not know whether the term "fraternity" is politically correct in today's Europe from a "gender perspective," but there were no attempts to encroach on equality so far. As mentioned above, while preaching equality and democracy in their countries and demanding that other follow its lead, the West refuses to discuss ways to ensure equality and democracy in international affairs.
This approach is clearly at odds with the ideals of freedom. The veil of its superiority conceals weakness and the fear of engaging in a frank conversation not only with yes-men and those eager to fall in line, but also with opponents with different beliefs and values, not neo-liberal or neo-conservative ones, but those learned at mother's knee, inherited from many past generations, traditions and beliefs.
It is much harder to accept the diversity and competition of ideas in the development of the world than to invent prescriptions for all of humanity within a narrow circle of the like-minded, free from any disputes on matters of principle, which makes the emergence of truth all but impossible. However, universal platforms can produce agreements that are much more solid, sustainable, and can be subject to objective verification.
This immutable truth struggles to make it through to the Western elites, consumed as they are with the exceptionalism complex. As I mentioned earlier in this article, right after the talks between Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden, EU and NATO officials rushed to announce that nothing has changed in the way they treat Russia. Moreover, they are ready to see their relations with Moscow deteriorate further, they claimed.
Moreover, it is an aggressive Russophobic minority that increasingly sets the EU's policy, as confirmed by the EU Summit in Brussels on June 24 and 25, 2021, where the future of relations with Russia was on the agenda. The idea voiced by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to hold a meeting with Vladimir Putin was killed before it saw the light of day. Observers noted that the Russia-US Summit in Geneva was tantamount to a go-ahead by the United States to have this meeting, but the Baltic states, siding with Poland, cut short this "uncoordinated" attempt by Berlin and Paris, while the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the German and French ambassadors to explain their governments' actions. What came out of the debates at the Brussels summit was an instruction to the European Commission and the European Union External Action Service to devise new sanctions against Moscow without referring to any specific "sins," just in case. No doubt they will come up with something, should the need arise.
Neither NATO, nor the EU intend to divert from their policy of subjugating other regions of the world, proclaiming a self-designated global messianic mission.The North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation is seeking to proactively contribute to America's strategy for the Indo-Pacific Region, clearly targeted at containing China, and undermining ASEAN's role in its decades-long efforts to build an inclusive cooperation architecture for Asia-Pacific. In turn, the European Union drafts programmes to "embrace" geopolitical spaces in its neighbourhood and beyond, without coordinating these initiatives even with the invited countries. This is what the Eastern Partnership, as well as a recent programme approved by Brussels for Central Asia, are all about. There is a fundamental difference between these approaches and the ones guiding integration processes with Russia's involvement: the CIS, the CSTO, EurAsEC and the SCO, which seek to develop relations with external partners exclusively on the basis of parity and mutual agreement.
With its contemptuous attitude towards other members of the international community, the West finds itself on the wrong side of history.
Serious, self-respecting countries will never tolerate attempts to talk to them through ultimatums and will discuss any issues only on an equal footing.
As for Russia, it is high time that everyone understands that we have drawn a definitive line under any attempts to play a one-way game with us. All the mantras we hear from the Western capitals on their readiness to put their relations with Moscow back on track, as long as it repents and changes its tack, are meaningless. Still, many persist, as if by inertia, in presenting us with unilateral demands, which does little, if any, credit to how realistic they are.
The policy of having the Russian Federation develop on its own, independently and protecting national interests, while remaining open to reaching agreements with foreign partners on an equal basis, has long been at the core of all its position papers on foreign policy, national security and defence. However, judging by the practical steps taken over the recent years by the West, they probably thought that Russia did not really mean what it preached, as if it did not intend to follow through on these principles. This includes the hysterical response to Moscow's efforts to stand up for the rights of Russians in the aftermath of the bloody 2014 government coup in Ukraine, supported by the United States, NATO and the EU. They thought that if they applied some more pressure on the elites and targeted their interests, while expanding personal, financial and other sectoral sanctions, Moscow would come to its senses and realise that it would face mounting challenges on its development path, as long as it did not "change its behaviour," which implies obeying the West. Even when Russia made it clear that we view this policy by the United States and Europe as a new reality and will proceed on economic and other matters from the premise that we cannot depend on unreliable partners, the West persisted in believing that, at the end of the day, Moscow "will come to its senses" and will make the required concessions for the sake of financial reward. Let me emphasise what President Vladimir Putin has said on multiple occasions: there have been no unilateral concessions since the late 1990s and there never will be. If you want to work with us, recover lost profits and business reputations, let us sit down and agree on ways we can meet each other half way in order to find fair solutions and compromises.
It is essential that the West understands that this is a firmly ingrained worldview among the people of Russia, reflecting the attitude of the overwhelming majority here. The "irreconcilable" opponents of the Russian government who have placed their stakes on the West and believe that all Russia's woes come from its anti-Western stance advocate unilateral concessions for the sake of seeing the sanctions lifted and receiving hypothetical financial gains. But they are totally marginal in Russian society. During his June 16, 2021 news conference in Geneva, Vladimir Putin made it abundantly clear what the West is after when it supports these marginal forces.
These are disruptive efforts as far as history is concerned, while Russians have always demonstrated maturity, a sense of self-respect, dignity and national pride, and the ability to think independently, especially during hard times, while remaining open to the rest of the world, but only on an equal, mutually beneficial footing. Once we put the confusion and mayhem of the 1990s behind us, these values became the bedrock of Russia's foreign policy concept in the 21st century. The people of Russia can decide on how they view the actions by their government without getting any prompts from abroad.
As to the question on how to proceed on the international stage, there is no doubt that leaders will always play an important role, but they have to reaffirm their authority, offer new ideas and lead by conviction, not ultimatums. The Group of Twenty, among others, is a natural platform for working out mutually acceptable agreements. It brings together the leading economies, young and old, including the G7, as well as the BRICS and its like-minded countries. Russia's initiative to form a Greater Eurasian Partnership by coordinating the efforts of countries and organisations across the continent holds a powerful consolidating potential. Seeking to
Efforts to bring more democracy to international relations and affirm a polycentric world order include reforming the UN Security Council by strengthening it with Asian, African and Latin American countries, and ending the anomaly with the excessive representation of the West in the UN's main body.
facilitate an honest conversation on the key global stability matters, President Vladimir Putin suggested convening a summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council that have special responsibility for maintaining international peace and stability on the planet.
Regardless of any ambitions and threats, our country remains committed to a sovereign and independent foreign policy, while also ready to offer a unifying agenda in international affairs with due account for the cultural and civilisational diversity in today's world. Confrontation is not our choice, no matter the rationale. On June 22, 2021, Vladimir Putin published an article "Being Open, Despite the Past," in which he emphasised: "We simply cannot afford to carry the burden of past misunderstandings, hard feelings, conflicts, and mistakes." He also discussed the need to ensure security without dividing lines, a common space for equitable cooperation and inclusive development. This approach hinges on Russia's thousand-year history and is fully consistent with the current stage in its development. We will persist in promoting the emergence of an international relations culture based on the supreme values of justice and enabling all countries, large and small, to develop in peace and freedom. We will always remain open to honest dialogue with anyone who demonstrates a reciprocal readiness to find a balance of interests firmly rooted in international law. These are the rules we adhere to.
Monday, July 5, 2021 1:22 PM
Out for a walk in a bit. Need to do a couple of things then when I get back to vacuum.
In all the months I was looking at that opening under the sink, I never once bothered to ask the question "why did they build out the right side of the opening?"
I'm pretty sure the answer is that they replaced all the doors at some point, and couldn't find wide enough doors to fit the under-sink cabinet properly (They are the only two doors that meet in the center, with no vertical "bar" in between).
So this morning as I was getting ready to put them up I thought... Oh great. Those two doors are going to be off center. But that's not exactly what happened...
The good news is, due to the nature of the soft close hinges, I'm going to need to double up and put another 1/2" on the left side. It's good news because I have to add something instead of taking something away, and when I add this it will re-center the doors.
Not really good news though...
I got 5 of the 6 doors up today. The right side under the sink where they built it up is installed, but I can't put the left door up until I add another .5" to the cabinet, which will require gluing another piece on, caulking and/or spackling to make it smooth with the original opening and then priming and painting it first.
There's also the matter of the doors coming out from the cabinets because of the soft close hinges. This can't be helped. It doesn't look funny on the top cabinets, but since I can't put the doors directly under the drawers on the bottom, there is a visible gap at the top of the doors when looking down at them. I'm going to have to look into what I can do to fill that. I'm thinking maybe some white window insulation strips are in order.
The first door I put in was a bear. The damn made-in-China wood screw ripped apart at the top, leaving the meat in the wood. When I tried drilling a close pilot hole for attempt two, the drill bit broke off in the cabinet right next to it. Fortunately I was able to salvage that situation and use a drywall screw to get it in and it doesn't look bad.
Never got to the vacuuming but that is okay. Need to empty it before I use it anyways. I will tonight.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 1:28 PM
Out for my walk.
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Oct. 23, 2019 / 9:57 AM
'Rookie Blue' alum Missy Peregrym expecting first child
Missy Peregrym, who played Andy McNally on "Rookie Blue," is expecting a baby with her husband, Tom Oakley. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Rookie Blue alum Missy Peregrym is going to be a mom.
The 37-year-old actress announced in an Instagram post Tuesday that she's expecting her first child with her husband, actor Tom Oakley.
Peregrym shared a clip showing her and Oakley's matching sneakers. The clip ends with a pair of matching baby shoes falling in the middle.
"There's no more hiding it... our family is expanding!!! #LilOakley #Spring2020," she captioned the post.
There's no more hiding it... our family is expanding!!! ️ #LilOakley #Spring2020
A post shared by Missy Peregrym (@mperegrym) on Oct<|fim_middle|>19 at 2:09pm PDT
Peregrym's FBI co-stars Alana de la Garza and Zeeko Zaki were among those to congratulate the couple in the comments.
"FINALLY!!!! So happy for you guys!!!!" de la Garza wrote.
"Let's go!!!!!" Zaki added.
Peregrym and Oakley married in Los Angeles in December 2018. The couple's family, close friends friends and beloved dog, Carly, were present at the wedding.
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Ship: MSC Magnifica
Departure: Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Departs: Rome (Civitavecchia)
Returns: Sydney
1 Wednesday, January 4, 2023 Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy Embark 6:00 PM
Rome, the<|fim_middle|> walk in the clouds. Read more about Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
19 Sunday, January 22, 2023 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
22 Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Buenos Aires, Argentina 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Rio de la Plata, on the SE coast of South America. The birthplace of the tango, the city is as bustling with energy as the dance itself. Stroll neighbourhoods with romantic restaurants, past its architecture and parks. Read more about Buenos Aires, Argentina
23 Thursday, January 26, 2023 Buenos Aires, Argentina 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
24 Friday, January 27, 2023 Montevideo, Uruguay 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay. Situated on the River Plate (Silver River), it is also home to almost half of the nation's population, and subsequently is a modern metropolis, though with a fascinating historical old town dating back to colonial times. Described as a vibrant, eclectic place with a rich cultural life, it is the hub of commerce. Read more about Montevideo, Uruguay
25 Saturday, January 28, 2023 At Sea
26 Sunday, January 29, 2023 Puerto Madryn, Argentina 9:00 AM 7:00 PM
Puerto Madryn is a city in the province of Chubut, one of the most sheltered places on the Patagonian coast of Argentina. The town, founded in 1865 by 150 Welsh immigrants, has become an important tourist centre. This coastal city has warm summers and moderate winters all year round. Read more about Puerto Madryn, Argentina
29 Wednesday, February 1, 2023 Ushuaia, Argentina 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, is located on the Beagle Channel, where soaring mountains, ice-blue glaciers, and an historic lighthouse create an ideal backdrop. The capital of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, it was first settled by British missionaries. During the first half of the 20th C the major building of the city was a prison, built by the Argentinian government for repeat offenders and serious criminals, as the subpolar oceanic climate made escape difficult. Read more about Ushuaia, Argentina
30 Thursday, February 2, 2023 Ushuaia, Argentina 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
32 Saturday, February 4, 2023 Punta Arenas, Chile 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Punta Arenas, overlooking the Strait of Magellan in southern Patagonia, Chile, bustles with windswept trekkers en route to glacier-filled Torres del Paine National Park or an Antarctic cruise. Before leaving, be sure to take note of the mansion-lined main square, Plaza Muñoz Gamero where local vendors sell homemade crafts, the City Cemetery with its elaborate tombs, the Sara Braun Palace, and Braun Menendez Residence that presents great insight of the city's wealthy pioneer past. The city is also home to the former British Navy base and early Spanish colony of Puerto Hambre, and a popular ski centre that overlooks the Strait of Magellan. Read more about Punta Arenas, Chile
33 Sunday, February 5, 2023 At Sea
34 Monday, February 6, 2023 At Sea
35 Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Puerto Montt, Chile 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Puerto Montt is a fast growing city in the south of Chile, just north of Chiloe Island. At the southern end of the Pan American highway in Chile, Puerto Montt is not only the end of the road, but the beginning of the fabled land of fjords, canals, islands, and the snow-capped mountains of the Andes. Fertile agricultural fields and green forested hills also add to the enchantment of Southern Chile. Read more about Puerto Montt, Chile
36 Wednesday, February 8, 2023 At Sea
37 Thursday, February 9, 2023 Santiago (Valparaiso), Chile 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Santiago is the capital of Chile, 90 minutes drive from its port Valparaiso. Santiago has easy access both to ski slopes just 50 km to the Andes, and beaches 100 km to the Pacific. Chile's steady economic growth has transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most modern metropolitan areas, with dozens of shopping centers and impressive high-rises. Read more about Santiago (Valparaiso), Chile
38 Friday, February 10, 2023 Santiago (Valparaiso), Chile 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
39 Saturday, February 11, 2023 At Sea
40 Sunday, February 12, 2023 At Sea
41 Monday, February 13, 2023 Arica, Chile 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
The seaside resort city of Arica in the north of Chile lies just 18 km south of the border with Peru. Known as the City of Eternal Spring - as it is sunny virtually every day of the year - it is located on the coast of the driest desert in the world. It has a great beach where visitors can enjoy the sun and take a swim. Read more about Arica, Chile
42 Tuesday, February 14, 2023 At Sea
43 Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Lima (Callao), Peru 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Lima, although a sprawling desert city, is the capital and largest city of Peru. The Historic centre of Lima is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its large number of historical buildings dating from the Spanish colonial era. In particular, visit the Plaza Mayor with the 16th century Cathedral and the Presidential Palace. Read more about Lima (Callao), Peru
44 Thursday, February 16, 2023 Lima (Callao), Peru 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
45 Friday, February 17, 2023 At Sea
48 Monday, February 20, 2023 At Sea
49 Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Easter Island, Chile 8:00 AM 8:00 PM
Most cruise ships make a scenic pass of the island, and as few as 30% tender successfully to shore, there being no harbour and the weather is problematic. (Serious sight-seers arrive by air from Chile mainland.) One of the most isolated islands in the world, this triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific is 2,300 km off the west coast of Chile. It is intriguing, its history is as unclear as it is mysterious. Read more about Easter Island, Chile
50 Wednesday, February 22, 2023 At Sea
51 Thursday, February 23, 2023 At Sea
52 Friday, February 24, 2023 Pitcairn Island, Pitcairn 8:00 AM 8:00 AM
NOTE: Tenders to shore are infrequent. Locals from the island do come out to the anchored ship. Pitcairn Island (pop. Read more about Pitcairn Island, Pitcairn
55 Monday, February 27, 2023 Papeete, French Polynesia 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
The city of Papeete (Tahitian Pape'ete; pop. 27,000) is the capital of Tahiti, the largest of the French Polynesian Islands. With its pleasant warm tropical climate, city-lovers will enjoy Papeete's chic shops, specialist stores and boutiques, together with the lively mix of French, Polynesian, and Chinese cultures. Read more about Papeete, French Polynesia
56 Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Papeete, French Polynesia 12:01 AM 6:00 PM
57 Wednesday, March 1, 2023 At Sea
58 Thursday, March 2, 2023 Rarotonga, Cook Islands 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Rarotonga is the emerald jewel of the South Pacific. It lies midway between French Polynesia to the east, and Samoa and Tonga to the west. One of 15 Cook Islands, it is a popular tourist destination. Read more about Rarotonga, Cook Islands
59 Friday, March 3, 2023 Aitutaki, Cook Islands 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Aitutaki - aka Araura, Ararau, Utataki - is one of the Cook Islands, 250 km north of the main island, Rarotonga. Bounded by a triangular barrier reef, Aitutaki boasts one of the most famous lagoons in the world and which is home to a large number of fish, hence making it a favourite spot for snorkelling and scuba diving. The lagoon is four times the area of the main island, and inside the lagoon are fifteen islets each its own paradise. Read more about Aitutaki, Cook Islands
60 Saturday, March 4, 2023 At Sea
61 Sunday, March 5, 2023 At Sea
62 Monday, March 6, 2023 At Sea
63 Tuesday, March 7, 2023 At Sea
64 Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Auckland, New Zealand 9:00 AM 9:00 PM
The city centre of Auckland is perfect for shopping, discovering New Zealand arts, culture and challenging your adventure side. Wander through The New Zealand Maritime Museum or Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Sky Tower is a must-do, where you can experience 360 degree views on the SkyWalk or go for it and attempt the SkyJump! Read more about Auckland, New Zealand
65 Thursday, March 9, 2023 Rotorua (Tauranga), New Zealand 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Rotorua (Tauranga) is a centre of tourism and a place of extraordinary natural beauty. It is a smallish city on the shores of a lake of the same name, in the crater of an ancient volcano in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The entire area is thermally active, and the smell of sulphur, a 'rotten eggs' smell that is never far, results in the nicknames 'Sulphur City' and 'Rottenrua'. Read more about Rotorua (Tauranga), New Zealand
66 Friday, March 10, 2023 Napier, New Zealand 10:00 AM 5:00 PM
Napier is a port city in Hawkes Bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is known as the 'Art Deco' capital of the world because following the earthquake which almost levelled the city in 1931 the rapid rebuilding was strongly influenced by Art Deco architecture. The building style of clean simple lines and bas-relief decoration was not only at its height of popularity, it also suited the needs of the city. Read more about Napier, New Zealand
67 Saturday, March 11, 2023 Wellington, New Zealand 7:00 AM 2:00 PM
Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, is situated on the SW tip of the North Island, and is set on the edge of a stunning harbour surrounded by rolling hills. As the political centre of New Zealand, it houses Parliamentary buildings as well as the bulk of foreign diplomatic missions. However, it is also renowned for its cafe-culture, as there are more cafes per capita than in New York City, and they rival the world's top culinary destinations for flavour and variety. Read more about Wellington, New Zealand
68 Sunday, March 12, 2023 Milford Sound, New Zealand 3:00 PM 3:00 PM
Milford Sound is a stunningly beautiful fjord in the SW of New Zealand's South Island and lying within a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Described by Rudyard Kipling as the 'eighth wonder of the world', it has been judged 'the world's top travel destination' in an international survey, and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination. Milford Sound runs 15 km inland from the Tasman Sea and is surrounded by sheer rock faces, such as the Elephant and Lion Peaks that rise to 1200 m or more on either side. Read more about Milford Sound, New Zealand
69 Monday, March 13, 2023 At Sea
70 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 At Sea
71 Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Hobart, Australia 7:00 AM 7:00 PM
Take a stroll along the waterfront and enjoy the view of the river lined with sailing boats, whilst admiring the sandstone architecture warehouses throughout the city centre. Make your way through the iconic and most visited Salamanca market which operates every Saturday showcasing Tasmania's local artisans, designers and producers. Heading west of the city centre, Mount Wellington is a spectacular site to visit and one not to be missed! Read more about Hobart, Australia
72 Thursday, March 16, 2023 At Sea
73 Friday, March 17, 2023 Sydney, Australia 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Getting around Sydney is easy and accessible. You can jump on a train from Sydney airport to Circular Quay in approx.18 minutes, ride the hop on hop off bus around the city that offers multiple stops including Sydney Tower, Botanic Gardens, Australian Powerhouse and Maritime Museums, Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge or the Bondi bus. If travelling on the water is more your style, catch a ferry to visit Sydney's amusement park, Luna Park, visit the buzzing Manly Beach wharf which is linked to the Corso mall or cruise west of the city to join a Haunted History, Crooked Character or Convict Precinct tour at UNESCO's World Heritage Site, Cockatoo Island. Read more about Sydney, Australia
74 Saturday, March 18, 2023 Sydney, Australia 12:01 AM Disembark
MSC Magnifica Overview
Launched in 2009, MSC Magnifica at 89,600 GT carries 2,550 passengers. She is one of MSC Cruise Line's "Musica" family of ships. The interior décor of wood and marble, soft furnishings and colour reflects high Italian quality. MSC Magnifica will be upgraded in early 2021, adding two new restaurants, a new water park and kids' area, and a 23m extension that will add another 215 new cabins.
MSC Magnifica Cabins
I2, I1, SBG, BIN
Single beds that can be converted into double bed (on request) except for wheelchair accessible staterooms. Spacious wardrobe. Bathroom with shower. Interactive TV. Telephone. Availability of internet connection by your own laptop (on payment). Mini-bar and safe. Hair dryer. Size: 151 sq ft. Includes the Fantastica Experience: * Better stateroom location. * Priority choice of early or late dinner seating. * Guests can add on a pre-paid drink package for discounted beverages on board. * Free Master Chef and language classes for kids (age 3 to 11): Kids can attend a free cooking course hosted by the Pastry Chef or learn basic sentences in 6 different languages in the mini club. Both classes occur twice a week and all participants receive a chef certificate or school certificate depending on what course is taken. * 50% off all fitness and personal trainer. * Free continental breakfast delivered to your stateroom, including pastries, juices & coffee after 6am. * Free 12-hour room service delivery (from 6am to 11pm, after which the delivery fee may apply).
O2, O1, BOU
Single beds that can be converted into double bed (on request) except for wheelchair accessible staterooms. Spacious wardrobe. Bathroom with shower. TV. Telephone. Availability of internet connection by your own laptop (on payment). Mini-bar and safe. Hair dryer. Size: 183 sq ft. Includes the Fantastica Experience: * Better stateroom location. * Priority choice of early or late dinner seating. * Guests can add on a pre-paid drink package for discounted beverages on board. * Free Master Chef and language classes for kids (age 3 to 11): Kids can attend a free cooking course hosted by the Pastry Chef or learn basic sentences in 6 different languages in the mini club. Both classes occur twice a week and all participants receive a chef certificate or school certificate depending on what course is taken. * 50% off all fitness and personal trainer. * Free continental breakfast delivered to your stateroom, including pastries, juices & coffee after 6am. * Free 12-hour room service delivery (from 6am to 11pm, after which the delivery fee may apply).
B3, FLA, B2, B1, BBL
Single beds that can be converted into double bed (on request) except for wheelchair accessible staterooms. Spacious wardrobe. Bathroom with shower. TV. Telephone. Availability of internet connection by your own laptop (on payment). Mini-bar and safe. Hair dryer. Standard Balcony:199 sq ft (161 sq ft + 38 sq ft balcony).Aurea Experience includes: Priority boarding. All-inclusive unlimited drinks* including liquers, cocktails, beer, wine, soft drinks, coffee. My Choice Dining**. Spa package with Vitamin Bar cocktail, two massages per stateroom from the spa menu (up to 1 hour)***, tanning booth, private wellness consultation. Unlimited access to MSC Aurea Spa Thermal Area (adults only). Private Sundeck. *Depending on cruise destination, the drinks package may be either All-Inclusive Restaurant & Bar Drink Package or All-Inclusive Classic Drink Package. **On most ships, dinner in a reserved area of the restaurant with freely selectable My Choice Dining times. Reservation recommended. ***Please make sure you book this with MSC Aurea Spa by the second day of your cruise.
Double bed that can be converted into two single beds (on request). Spacious wardrobe. Bathroom with tub. TV. Telephone. Availability of internet connection by your own laptop (on payment). Mini-bar and safe. Hair dryer. Size: 290 sq ft (222 sq ft + 68 sq ft balcony).Aurea Experience includes: Priority boarding. All-inclusive unlimited drinks* including liquers, cocktails, beer, wine, soft drinks, coffee. My Choice Dining**. Spa package with Vitamin Bar cocktail, two massages per stateroom from the spa menu (up to 1 hour)***, tanning booth, private wellness consultation. Unlimited access to MSC Aurea Spa Thermal Area (adults only). Private Sundeck. *Depending on cruise destination, the drinks package may be either All-Inclusive Restaurant & Bar Drink Package or All-Inclusive Classic Drink Package. **On most ships, dinner in a reserved area of the restaurant with freely selectable My Choice Dining times. Reservation recommended. ***Please make sure you book this with MSC Aurea Spa by the second day of your cruise.
Deck Plans for MSC Magnifica
Sports Deck
Porto Cervo Deck
Portofino Deck
Amalfi Deck
3rd bed is a pullman bed
3rd & 4th beds are pullman beds
Double sofa bed
Stateroom with Juliet balcony (non-walkable)
Cabin for guests with reduced mobility
Staterooms with metal balcony
Staterooms with partial metal/partial glass balconies
Ship configuration may be subject to change depending on the season and on the destination
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Cruiseline: MSC Cruises Ship: MSC Magnifica Departure: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 Nights: 73 nights Departs: Rome (Civitavecchia) Returns: Sydney
Cabin Preference * Please select Suite Balcony Oceanview Inside | capital, and largest city of Italy, is full of unending possibilities. It can be reached from the port of Civitavecchia in approximately ninety minutes either by train or coach. Rome greets visitors with a multitude of faces, such as the Ancient City with ruins like: the Colosseum; the seven hills; the Roman Forum; and the Sacred Way, the path used for triumphal processions. Read more about Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy
2 Thursday, January 5, 2023 Genoa, Italy 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Genoa is an important seaport in northern Italy. It is also known as 'the Superb One' due to its illustrious past. Today it rises from the sea, with two massive towers providing striking landmarks. Read more about Genoa, Italy
3 Friday, January 6, 2023 Marseille, France 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Located on the SE coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille is France's largest commercial port, and is also the largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. It serves as a gateway to the lush fertile region of Provence and all its cultural contributions to gastronomic excellence, impressionistic art, and ancient architecture. This cosmopolitan city with 300 days of sunshine a year, clear blue skies and the down-to-earth warmth of its residents, boasts a trading history that goes back more than 2,500 years. Read more about Marseille, France
4 Saturday, January 7, 2023 Barcelona, Spain 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Barcelona, located in Catalonia Spain, is Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean coast, and one of the world's major global cities. Today, Barcelona balances itself on the cutting edge of architecture, intellectual life, and style. Indeed Barcelona won the 1999 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for its architecture, the first time that the winner has been a city, and not an individual architect. Read more about Barcelona, Spain
6 Monday, January 9, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal 12:00 PM 7:00 PM
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, lies in the western Iberian Peninsula aside the Atlantic Ocean and the Tagus River. As one of the oldest cities in the world, it is rich in Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque, Modern and Post-Modern constructions. The city is also crossed by historical boulevards and monuments along the main thoroughfares. Read more about Lisbon, Portugal
7 Tuesday, January 10, 2023 At Sea
8 Wednesday, January 11, 2023 Funchal, Portugal 8:00 AM 7:00 PM
Funchal is the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira an archipelago 880 SW of Portugal and 600 km NW of Morocco, in the north Atlantic. Funchal's harbour offers plazas lined with shops, colourful houses spilling down hillsides, due to its almost amphitheatre-like formation, and a profusion of flowers. For a fine view of the magnificent bay, take the unique downhill basket sledge ride. Read more about Funchal, Portugal
9 Thursday, January 12, 2023 At Sea
10 Friday, January 13, 2023 At Sea
11 Saturday, January 14, 2023 Porto Grande, Cabo Verde 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
The almost lunar volcanic islands that form the Cape Verde archipelago lie about 500 km off the Senegal coast. Although the isles may be African geographically speaking, they have retained a strong Latin flavour. Porto Grande, the port for the capital Mindelo, is on the windward isle of Sao Vicente and is home to over 90% of the island's inhabitants. Read more about Porto Grande, Cabo Verde
12 Sunday, January 15, 2023 At Sea
13 Monday, January 16, 2023 At Sea
15 Wednesday, January 18, 2023 At Sea
16 Thursday, January 19, 2023 Salvador, Brazil 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Salvador, Brazil's former capital and fifth largest city in the country, is situated on a high bluff that circles around the eastern side of the magnificent All Saints Bay. This intriguing city with a population of over two million has a strong African influence that derives from the slaves brought here to work in the sugar cane fields more than 400 years ago. Their rich cultural heritage is evident in their music, dance, cuisine and religion. Read more about Salvador, Brazil
18 Saturday, January 21, 2023 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 8:00 AM 11:59 PM
Rio de Janeiro is a large Brazilian city situated on the South Atlantic Coast of South America. It is perhaps best known for its carnivals and the largest art deco statue in existence, the giant Christ the Redeemer Statue that is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. While there absorb the magnificent views and you will feel as though you are taking a | 1,144 |
MISHAW<|fim_middle|>. | AKA Soccer is just a backdrop for a wonderful story about a group of girls who have learned so much about life in the last 10 months. Movie rights are pending. The ending won't be written until Saturday. The saga of the 2007 Penn girls soccer team began in a February meeting. Coach Mike Luber assembled his players to tell them Katie Aiello, a sophomore whose older sisters have been prominent in the program over the past six years or so, was diagnosed with leukemia. "We talked about how Katie was dealing with the news," Luber said. "We talked about how we could support her. We talked about how important each one of us is to everyone else." During her hospital stays in Indianapolis and South Bend, Katie was never alone. Constant e-mails from her teammates followed Katie through her treatments. A part-time varsity player as a freshman last year, Katie stands 5-foot-2. Last February, she weighed 115 pounds. Her brutal treatments took her down to 89 pounds. Now, with her sights set on playing next year, Katie weighs 105 as she's in the maintenance phase of her recovery program. "I never realized how hard it was to sit and watch other people play," said Katie, who comes from a soccer family. "There were some big games I would have loved to have been in." Katie had to be content spending this season cheering for her sister Susan, a senior. "Susan was the kind of player we planned to build Al Lesar On Preps our team around," Luber said. "We saw her as a person who would make us go." Susan only made the Kingsmen go for 15 minutes in the season-opener against Portage. She went down with what was diagnosed as a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her knee and was lost for the season. After the injury, it was discovered the ACL in both of her knees was damaged. Earlier this week, she had surgery to repair both of them. "This team learned a lot from Katie," Luber said. "They saw her out here at practice every day. She wouldn't let cancer get in the way of being part of this team, even if it meant just being there to cheer them on." "We knew how sick Katie was sometimes," senior Mallory Hart said. "But she'd be out here every day. We saw how special this was for her." The Aiello sisters, immersed in soccer since they were old enough to run and kick a ball at the same time, were relegated to being cheerleaders. And they were good ones. "Any time something good happened, they were the first to greet you on the sidelines," senior Emily Johnson said. "When something bad happened, they were the first to come give you a hug. "Seeing them standing there on the sidelines made you try harder and appreciate being able to play," said Johnson, who went through ACL surgery last season. Last Saturday, during the semistate championship battle with Lake Central, senior Alyssa Johnston shared a poignant moment with Susan. "Before the overtime, I went to Susan and said, 'This overtime's for you,'" Johnston said. "She started to cry and so did I." The tears didn't last long, and the dedication held up. Amanda Jones' goal gave Penn the win and a ticket to Saturday's state finals. Since the double surgery Monday, Susan is supposed to be bedridden until Sunday. "I'd like to see the hospital that's able to keep her there and not at our game," Luber said with a laugh. It's just another endorsement of the team spirit. "We talk to our players -- this is their team," Luber said. "It's not Penn's. It's not the coaches'. It's their team. "(The players) took two situations that could have been devastating and fought through them. I had no idea how they were going to react. "We learned that no one player was more important than the team. We also learned how important the team can be for one player." "We all saw how much it killed Susan and Katie not to be able to play," Hart said. "We learned not to take anything that happened this season for granted." Including a state championship? Hollywood's not calling yet, but maybe they could get Brad Pitt to play the guy who wrote this story | 897 |
News & Reports New Forest U16s crowned champions!
New Forest U1<|fim_middle|> took 21 off the penultimate over finishing the match before Higton had the opportunity to bowl at the death.
Havant, the only team to register a victory again the New Forest this season in the cup play-off, elected to bat opening with the impressive Charlie Dean (30 no). But wickets fell early with the run outs of Ollie Perkins with sharp reactions from Harris and Freddie Gadd by a superb direct throw from Royan, buttressed by Joshua Bailey (3-0-22-1) bowling Jonty Oliver. At 36-3 Havant looked in trouble but Morgan Cripps (25 no) and Alfie Taw (21 no) worked hard to post a total in the face of dependable bowling from Joshua Royan (3-0-24-0), Sam Presland (3-0-31-0) and Daniel Bailey (2-0-16-0).
In response New Forest opened positively, keen not to get behind the moderate rate required, with Joshua Royan (26 no) again retiring and Joshua Bailey (19) ensuring there was no danger of scoreboard pressure whilst he was at the crease. However, when Daniel Bailey (8) joined his brother both out caught the score was 67-2 and New Forest still needed to get over the line. For a while it appeared that Sam Presland (22) and Toby Mills (11) would guide the team to a comfortable victory, especially after Presland hit back to back sixes off Oliver. However, a mini wobble saw Mills unfortunate to be run out and Presland bowled by a good slower ball from Alfie Taw leaving New Forest at 102-4. Jack Harris (9 no) then came to the crease for the first time in the evening with the returning Royan. If there were any nerves Harris made light of them bringing up victory with a glorious straight six in the penultimate over and bringing the title back to the New Forest.
So the junior indoor cricketing odyssey of this group of players, who came together as New Forest District u10s from three local clubs, Bashley, Lymington & Sway, has come to a fitting finale as county champs. They decided to form an indoor team together as U11s and have since chalked up four age group league wins in the Dorset Indoor Cricket league and now both cup and league victories in the Hampshire u16 competitions at Ageas Bowl. | 6s came through tough tests against excellent South Wilts and Havant sides to deservedly take the title on Finals night.
South Wilts won the toss and batted with openers Ed Wade (31 no) and Ben Higton (29 no) building a steady platform in the face of miserly bowling from Joshua Royan (3-0-27-0), Joshua Bailey (3-0-20-1), Sam Presland (3-0-24-0) and Daniel Bailey (2-0-22-0). But South Wilts struggled to push on as first Presland took a sharp catch from the bowling of Toby Mills (1-0-12-1) to dismiss Glover and then Royan fashioned the clever run out of Brewer. Ben Howgrave-Graham (26 no) did well to provide some momentum but Jack Harris pulled off a smart stumping when Joshua Bailey turned one through Montgomery's defences and from a promising start the South Wilts innings rather petered out at 115-3.
The New Forest opened up cautiously through the competition's leading run scorer, Joshua Royan, (26 no) and the powerful Daniel Bailey (20) but they struggled for fluency and were pegged back in particular by Ben Higton (2-0-10-0), the leading wicket taker in the league this season. Joshua Bailey (13) looked as if he would provide the necessary momentum but was caught on the boundary off Howgrave-Graham (3-0-35-2) after one of his trademark sixes. At 62-2 in the 8th over the pressure was beginning to build when Sam Presland (24 no) and Toby Mills (21 no) came together to form what would turn out to be the match-winning partnership. Both boys played with impressive freedom, initially finding the gaps and running well between the wickets before Presland opened up as they | 412 |
The Milken Roar • November 9, 2010 • https://mil<|fim_middle|> Jake Fishman '11 at work in the studio. Photo by Gabe Freeman. | kenroar.com/1553/spotlight/milken-radio-station/
The Blaze radio station reborn with Jake Fishman '11
The Blaze might not ring a bell to the average Milken student. While everyone hears The Blaze twice a week, to most kids this unique Milken radio station is nothing more than some music played during lunch. However, what might seem like a simple operation involving an iPod and speakers requires hard work and much thought.
The radio station is currently run by Jake Fishman '11. With the help of Mr. Scott Perloff, Director of Education Technology, and Mr. Max Tash, Technology teacher, Fishman has been able to create an independent study in which he runs the radio station, creates playlists, and mixes music. The sole operator of The Blaze, he is content with the direction of the radio station, but he feels there is much more room for growth.
The music is typically heard on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the amphitheater. However, Fishman hopes to soon broadcast the station across the school. Also, perhaps sometime in the future, a class can be made out of his idea to teach students how to produce a radio station.
"I have a strong passion for music," Fishman said. "I like to discover new music and share it with my friends."
Fishman hopes to pursue radio broadcasting in college, as he foresees a future in music.
While most of the time Fishman DJ's live from the broadcast studio, he has recently been working on pre-recording sets, so he can enjoy the music with his friends.
As he is a senior, and the only person running the radio station, he has been talking to Greg Hershler '12 about perhaps taking over The Blaze next year.
His apprentice, Hershler, says, "He is my role model this year, and I am going take everything I get from him and hopefully next year I'll continue this legacy."
Fishman is dedicated to his passion as he hopes to create an exciting and fun radio station that plays music for kids during lunch, and ultimately add to the campus atmosphere. He has made it possible for all students to check out the music he plays on the station at his blog www.bringingthenoise.wordpress.com.
What started out for Fishman as pursuing what he loves is slowly evolving into something that could be a huge part of Milken. While the radio station is not yet well known across campus, the full potential for Fishman and his station has yet to be reached.
Jake's Radio Set 1 – Check out Jake's first broadcast of the year.
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Christie Lights Up Toronto International Film Festival Screens
World's leading visual display provider is projection partner for 13th straight year at the Festival
Christie®, a world leader in advanced cinema technologies and visual displays, is proud to serve as projection partner for the Toronto International Film Festival® , which will take place Sept. 5–15.
In its 13th year as a Festival sponsor, Christie is providing industry-leading 4K projection solutions in addition to projectors from its Christie® Solaria® CP 2200 line, as well as one HD10K-M projector and three Cine-IPM 2K image processors.
"Christie's reliable digital cinema projectors help us give our patrons the best possible cinema experience, whether for standard 2K movies or high-resolution 4K productions in 2D or 3D," said Diane Cappelletto, TIFF's director of technical production services. "For brightness, color, depth and content security, Christie leads the way. We're very pleased to work with Christie, one of our key, valued partners."
The Toronto International Film Festival is the leading public film festival in the world, screening 366 features and 146 world premieres from 70 countries this year.
"Throughout Christie's long-standing partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, we have seen the growing use of a variety of digital projection technologies," said Kathryn Cress, vice president, global and corporate marketing, Christie. "This year's strong 4K projection presence is very much in keeping with TIFF Festival's leadership in new film technologies."
As part of the Festival's industry conference, Dr. Paul Salvini, Christie's Chief Technology Officer, will be a panelist at the "Cinematography and Technology-4K: Beyond RED" discussion on Sept. 10 at 10:00 a.m., along with noted cinematographer Nick De Pencier and moderator David Leitner of Filmmaker Magazine.
Full details of Christie's involvement with the Festival, including the supply of leadership 4K technology, can be found at www.christiedigital.com/TIFF13 and followed at #tiff13.
Christie 4K DLP Cinema® Projectors Anchor TIFF Festival Showings
This year, for the first time, there will be several 4K movies screened using Christie projectors in each of the 4K-designated venues<|fim_middle|> to welcome the industry back for the 10th celebration of CinemaCon, the official convention of The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), on August 23-26, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Aug 6, 2021 Ambassador Theatres Chooses Christie Cinema Solutions for its Taipei and Taichung Multiplexes
Christie® is pleased to announce that Ambassador Theatres, one of the largest movie theatre chains in Taiwan, has chosen its state-of-the-art cinema solutions for two multiplexes located in Taipei and Taichung.
Jul 19, 2021 Christie's RGB Pure Laser Cinema Projection at Sunshine Palace, Jamaica's Newest Multiplex
Christie® is pleased to announce that the Jamaican cinema chain Palace Amusement Company has opened a new four-screen multiplex in Portmore Pines, St Catherine, featuring Christie digital cinema projection throughout, including an RGB pure laser projector, the first of its kind in the country. CES+ (Cinema Equipment & Supplies) carried out the installation.
Jul 15, 2021 CGV Opens "All-Christie" RGB Pure Laser Multiplex in Chungju City
Christie® is pleased to announce that CGV, the largest multiplex cinema chain in South Korea, has opened a new complex in Chungju city that's fully equipped with its RGB pure laser cinema projectors featuring Christie Real|Laser™ illumination technology.
Jul 12, 2021 Multicines Opens A 100% RGB Pure Laser Multiplex in Ecuador with Christie
The Ecuadorian cinema chain Multicines has just opened a new multiplex in the city of Guayaquil in which all 11 screens are fully equipped with Christie® RGB pure laser projectors. The installation was carried out by CES+ (Cinema Equipment & Supplies).
Jul 6, 2021 Christie Set for RGB Pure Laser Debut at Europe's Most Glamorous Film Festival
Christie® is once again delighted to be the projection technology partner for the Cannes Film Festival. For the 2021 festival, which runs July 6–17, Christie's RGB pure laser projectors will brighten up the screens for the first time. It will be the first in-person edition of the Cannes Film Festival since 2019, and Christie will provide installation and show support for the occasion, as it celebrates its 15th year as technical partner.
Jun 17, 2021 Christie's Professional Services Expands Services and Adds New Directors
Christie® is pleased to announce the appointments of Francois Godfrey and Maz Zaeefjou to the Professional Services team as directors of sales and business development. Christie Professional Services helps partners across the globe to prolong the life of their AV systems and get the most from their investment by proactively maintaining, troubleshooting, and resolving critical system issues.
Jun 17, 2021 Screen Set to Shine Brightly at Toronto's Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival
Christie® will be lighting up the big screen again this year at the Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival, co-hosted by the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) taking place at Toronto's Ontario Place from June 27-July 17, 2021.
Jun 15, 2021 Christie Demonstrates Leadership in PLF Projection and RGB Pure Laser Technology at Cinemas Shanghai International Film Forum and Exhibition
Christie® will be displaying its leadership in Premium Large Format (PLF) projection and RGB pure laser technology at the CinemaS Shanghai International Film Forum and Exhibition (CinemaS), to be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center from June 16-18.
Jun 15, 2021 Thirteen Years of Strong Partnership: Christie Provides Projection Support for the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival
Christie®, a leader in creating and delivering the world's best visual and audio experiences, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) for the 13th consecutive year. | . These include Roy Thomson Hall, the Visa Screening Room (Elgin Theatre), Ryerson Theatre and The Princess of Wales Theatre. Projectors from the Christie Solaria CP4220 and CP4230 series will be used at these venues, with others also installed at all screening rooms and auditoriums of the TIFF Bell Lightbox facility.
The world premiere of Godfrey Reggio's 4K movie, "Visitors," complete with a live performance by members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, will take place at the Festival in the Visa Screening Room (Elgin Theatre). Shot in rich black and white and presented in high-resolution 4K projection, Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous landscapes and, according to the movie's publicity, "even the behavior of an especially expressive gorilla."
Specially designed for larger screens, 4K projection makes the best cinematic images look even better. Through higher resolution and greater pixel density, Christie's 4K DLP® projectors provide brilliant 3D images, along with the highest level of content security, the easiest adaptability, operation and maintenance. They also provide full support for high frame rate (HFR) projection. Fully DCI compliant, and built on Christie's extensive cinema experience, Christie's 4K solution incorporates the proven design concepts of the bestselling Christie 2K projection platform, which is in use at eight Festival venues.
"Our participation in major film festivals is part of our commitment to the Canadian and international film industry," said Dave Muscat, Christie's senior director of sales for Canada. "TIFF Festival is one of the world's leading film festivals and we are very proud to help it present 4K and other digital solutions that will ensure the best projection experience for its patrons."
Christie digital projectors are used by leading film festivals around the globe, including Cannes, Shanghai and the British Film Institute. In Canada, Christie also sponsors the Vancouver, Calgary and Banff International Film Festivals, as well as Cine-Quebec.
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Oct 20, 2021 Christie Set to Mass Produce Counteract with Care222, the Safer, Filtered Far-UVC Disinfection Technology for Use Around People
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Sep 9, 2021 Christie helps Toronto International Film Festival welcome guests back to theatres as the Official Digital Projection Partner
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Aug 23, 2021 Christie CP4415-RGB and CP4420-RGB Deliver High-End Cinema Performance for Smaller Screens
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Aug 19, 2021 Christie Set to Welcome Attendees Back to CinemaCon 2021 with Lineup of New RGB Pure Laser Projectors and UV Disinfection Device for Cinema
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Art & Design|Spanning Styles and the Globe
The New Season
Spanning Styles and the Globe
Left, an 18th-century coat from the Netherlands made with Indian fabric, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Interwoven Globe" show; right, a John Divola photograph at Pomona College Museum of Art.CreditCreditThe Metropolitan Museum of Art; John Divola
By Roberta Smith
Here we go again. Another art season, another who knows how many shows. Some to look forward to, some to dread.
As always, the fall's exhibitions bring a cacophony of mediums, periods, cultures and sensibilities. There is everything from the old masterdom that is "Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting From the Mauritshuis" at the Frick Collection (opening Oct. 22 and including Vermeer's wildly popular "Girl With a Pearl Earring") to the surprises and new names (one hopes) of Performa 13, the fifth incarnation of New York's performance-art biennial, which swings into action on Nov. 1. I'll accentuate the positive.
One historical survey that will cover a wide stretch of culture and geography on its own is "Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (opening Sept. 16), which examines the international cross-fertilization in fabrics and their design that resulted when the world's primary trade routes shifted from land to sea and multiplied. Displaying some 130 textiles (many exhibited for the first time), along with a handful of garments, paintings and prints, the show will trace how ideas and patterns traveled back and forth among Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Indian subcontinent, exploring one of the most multicultural of art mediums.
"Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish-American Home, 1492-1898," opening Sept. 20 at the Brooklyn Museum, promises a similar geographical and cultural scope as well as an equally gorgeous array. It will look at the lifestyles of Spain's New World elites through a mix of American, European and Asian luxury goods. Its 160 paintings, sculpture, prints, textiles and decorative art objects will serve<|fim_middle|> front: when people stop thinking of works of art primarily as photo ops, or worse, backdrops, and start looking at them and letting the rest of us look at them, too.
5. Similarly, museum patrons and trustees regaining enough noblesse oblige to give money to their favorite cultural institutions without requiring that something be named for them.
6. The Marina Abramovic Institute becoming so successful and time consuming that it makes its founder a little less ubiquitous.
7. Art galleries everywhere refraining from organizing group exhibitions that are all but devoid of female artists.
8. Museum expansions that forgo yawning event spaces.
9. More high-end collectors and art dealers not "chasing the same artists," in the words of Marc Glimcher of Pace Gallery, and instead developing individual visions that include artists other than those approved by market, theory or both.
10. Younger artists (and museum curators) fixating on the art of some decade other than the 1970s.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section AR, Page 76 of the New York edition with the headline: Spanning Styles and the Globe. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe | as signifiers of faith, status and taste, perhaps proving that the rich, while not like you and me, may often be very much like one another regardless of time or place.
A painting from Isa Genzken's "MLR" series, appearing in a Museum of Modern Art retrospective.CreditIsa Genzken and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin
Naturally the coming season has a slew of monographic exhibitions. The historical ones include a retrospective of the French modernist Fernand Léger, opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Oct. 10. As implied by their mere titles, a battle of bygone strangeness will be joined this month when "Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sept. 25, and "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" is unveiled at the Museum of Modern Art on Sept. 28.
Another historical show I would especially like to see is "Wols: Retrospective," the first American survey of that intriguing German artist, opening at the Menil Collection in Houston on Sept. 13. Born Alfred Otto Walter Schulze in Berlin in 1913, Wols died young, in 1951, but in his last decade he put his own highly personal, if Surrealist-based spin, on Tachisme (Europe's equivalent of Abstract Expressionism) with intimate canvases that combine automatist scribbles, accidents and radiant washes of color. Like Klee's, these paintings all but announce bigger is not necessarily better, a useful lesson in this era of outsize art. Wols's vision was equally distinctive in his drawings, photographs and prints, all of which will be represented among the nearly 90 works in the show.
Perhaps signaling a trend, a survey of another German artist, the contemporary sculptor Isa Genzken, echoes the Wols show by dropping the indefinite article from its title. "Isa Genzken: Retrospective" opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 23, will feature Ms. Genzken's most recent assemblages, which sometimes make brilliant use of junk (as well as newer found materials) and sometimes simply, and possibly deliberately, look like junk. But this show of 200 works ranging across 40 years — her first comprehensive survey in the United States — will provide ample opportunity to evaluate her current efforts against the backdrop of the less-well-known paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, books and films that preceded them.
Less routine perhaps is the five-decade survey of the work of Art Spiegelman, the dexterous cartoonist, writer and magazine editor best known for his pioneering graphic novel "Maus." "Art Spiegelman's Co-Mix: A Retrospective," was organized for the 2012 incarnation of the annual comic-strip festival in Angoulême, France. The Jewish Museum version, opening on Nov. 8, will follow his development from his precocious teenage work and his underground comics to the well-known New Yorker magazine covers of his post-"Maus" years. The hundreds of preliminary sketches, preparatory and final drawings on view will include all original designs, studies and notes for "Maus II," displayed in a wraparound vitrines.
"Le Poisson" (1944), a work that's part of "Wols: Retrospective" at the Menil Collection in Houston, the first American survey of that German artist.CreditThe Menil Collection, Houston/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Another retrospective worth seeing is that of the photographer John Divola, known since the early 1970s for lush photographs of vandalized beach cabins on the coast of California. In them trashed furniture, graffiti and ocean views collude to desolate yet beautiful effect, implicating painting, installation art and Conceptualism. They certainly justify a greater familiarity with all of this artist's efforts, but that will take some commitment. "John Divola: As Far As I Could Get" has already opened at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, Calif., and will begin on Oct. 6 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and on Oct. 13 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, three institutions spread over 150 miles of driving.
We Can Always Hope
Below, a list of events, not exhibitions, that I am looking forward to — but that in all likelihood will not be happening:
1. Eli Broad resigning from the board of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, thereby releasing this ravaged institution from his deadly grip and enabling it to sink or maybe swim — and attract a viable director — on its own.
2. The Museum of Modern Art using some of the increased gate derived from being open seven days per week instead of six to increase its meager free hours (4 to 8 p.m. every Friday) by at least half.
3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art reinstating the phrase that once appeared on signs near its ticket desks, "Pay what you wish, but you must pay something."
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A Test Valley group have announced they are set to back the first Romsey Storytelling Festival.
The Romsey Festival Team will be supporting the event which will be held at various locations in the town from October 1 to October 6.
Festival chair, Liz Wagner, said: "This is one of a number of events being held ahead of the main Romsey Festival 2020 and as well as being actively<|fim_middle|> will be a variety of local venues too including King John's House, Romsey Library, on the train that shuttles between Romsey and Southampton, outdoors in the newly completed Market Place and at Romsey Signal Box.
"In Romsey Abbey 'Godly Play' storytelling will feature the environment and our impact on it. At the Methodist Church there will be stories for "Grown Ups" whilst the Town Hall will host the event launch as well as workshops.
"So there is something for everyone."
The Storytelling Festival will close with event in the United Reformed Church.
The full programme will be available at the beginning of September.
This article was first published in The Daily Echo.
© Romsey Festival 2019 | involved in the Storytelling launch the Romsey Festival Team are providing assistance with online ticketing, marketing and venue liaison."
Professional storyteller, Mike Rogers, said: "People think storytelling is just for kids, forgetting that adults listen to stories all the time, watch them on the TV, or read them in books and newspapers. The story that is heard communicates more directly than all the ones wrapped in costumes or computer graphics.
"Images are supplied, as you listen, from your own imagination, from your own life, from your own dreams.
"A story introduces you to yourself. You, as the listener, shape it."
Storytelling Festival organiser, Miss Sarah Hargreaves, said: "I am delighted that for Romsey's first Storytelling Festival we have a wide range of stories to offer.
"There are the ones offered to particular groups such as local care homes, Speaking Space, and in local schools and there are stories available to everybody too.
"These stories will include Robin Hood, taken from the old sources by Storytellers, Wendy and Michael Dacre, tales of the Middle Ages told by, the Yarnsmith of Norwich, Dave Tonge, and, on Mediaeval Saturday, two stories of love and loyalty(or the lack of it) from the edges of the Arthurian World, Gawain and the Green Knight, and Tristan and Iseult."
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Starting and building your own business is exciting and scary at the same time.<|fim_middle|> the functions of your business and integrate them. The principles of Lean Manufacturing come into play as you look to avoid waste and continually work more efficiently. Again, there are ample examples of the power of lean manufacturing, with Toyota probably being the most famous for adopting its principles to produce high quality products at scale. The principles apply no matter how big or small your company is. Finding and eliminating bottlenecks in processes will increase your productivity, profitability, and sanity. The retrospectives that were used during initial scale up should be continued and replicated at the department and team levels to encourage the same continuous improvement that was needed when the company was first starting to grow.
Additionally, the feedback loops, established when the company first started, remain vital. Collecting the data becomes more complex as your company grows. Investing in software systems to provide a complete picture of your business by collecting and aggregating data from all corners is vital. As your business continues to mature, business intelligence software, data warehouse, and even artificial intelligence could become components of your information systems.
Once you have gone through these phases, you can hardly be considered a start-up company anymore. With an established product, strong customer demand, and top-notch people and processes to connect them, you have become a mature company. Now you get to figure out what's next? New products? Acquire other companies? Sell your business and retire to a beautiful place of your choosing?
You can build a successful business! We can help! Find out more about how we can help you grow at the links below, or contact us for a free consultation! | Turning an idea into a business is full of unknowns, chances to learn, and pitfalls to avoid. Growing a business challenges you to change and grow as a leader as your business changes and grows. Fear not, you are not alone! Iconic businesses, like Apple and Ben & Jerry's, were literally just two creative people in a garage trying out an idea. As their start-ups took off, they faced the same challenge that all startup leaders face: how to evolve their leadership style to match their company's evolving needs. As a great example, read HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan's story about how he had to learn to say no as HubSpot grew from start-up to scale.
Not all businesses grow to the size of Apple, Ben and Jerry's or HubSpot, but significant growth is possible even at smaller scales. Regardless of the size you aim to be, building your growth engine involves the same progression. There are three major phases involved in starting and growing a business—start-up, scale-up, and build out. In the paragraphs below, I'll walk you through them. For each phase, I point out key tools and techniques that will help you excel at your current stage and set you up for further success as you grow. You'll see a common theme of constant learning and iterations throughout, even as the focus changes through each stage of growth. Check them out and reach out to us if you have any questions!
In the Start Up phase, designing your business model and proving out your product-market fit are your top priorities. This requires lots of experimentation and exploration. Developing a business plan is a good step, though a traditional multi-page business plan is likely overkill. Instead, try a Business Model Canvas. These single page business plans allow you to quickly outline the major components of your business, from your core value proposition to your cost and revenue structures. Our founder, Carl Lorentson recalls, "When I was starting up, these proved to be more useful than the formal business plan I put together in a class I took." We continue to use them when we are considering new services for our clients because they allow us to efficiently outline the idea and ensure we have a complete offering.
Once your expected business model is defined, you must verify it in the market place. Iteration and continuous learning are the name of the game. An excellent approach is the Lean Startup methodology's feedback loops. This process allows you to learn how your product or service is actually received in the market, adjust your approach, and observe the impact of your changes. Using iterations to develop a minimum viable product (MVP), refine your business model, or improve internal operations is one of the most powerful habits you can adopt as a business owner. It's rare that your original idea is the idea that finally sticks. In fact, many well known companies started as something else entirely. From Twitter and Paypal to Starbucks and Nintendo, big changes in business focus are common, especially when starting up a new company.
As your product-market fit solidifies and your business model takes shape, you can start to scale up. At this stage, stepping up your marketing to bring in more customers is crucial. Using social media to amplify your message, especially by using your earliest adopters as evangelists should allow you to quickly bring in more customers, more sales, and more revenue. Tesla's Elon Musk does this well, consistently using social media to communicate with Tesla customers.
As much fun as more sales and more customers are, you can easily become a victim of your own success as you are overwhelmed by a rapid increase in customers and orders. Now is the time to add feedback loops that are more focused on your internal operations. The retrospective approach, adopted from agile software development practices, is a powerful tool to organize your team. At RIS, we use these sessions internally to constantly evaluate and change how we are working, aiming for ever increasing efficiency throughout our company. Continually reviewing how the many functions of your company (e.g. marketing, sales, production, shipping, etc.) are working together is a key step to ensuring your success. Using the same iterative foundation as the lean startup model, this approach is a natural evolution of your business management toolbox to support greater scale.
During scale up, you will bring in an increasing number of customers and continuously refine how you and your team work together to serve them. As you move beyond scale up, and your company continues to grow in size and you as an owner will become more distant from the on-the-ground decisions that will be made every day. As you gain employees to coordinate and departments continue to grow and mature on their own, you will once again need to shift the focus of your organizational development to prepare for success as an established company.
Efficiency becomes the name of the game. Driving out cost and delivering to your customers quickly, effectively, and efficiently allows you to create the most value for both your customers and your bottom line. Software should be carefully selected and implemented to support all | 1,007 |
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Purchasing or selling a home in Hurst requires the gathering of specific information. For example, setting a realistic selling price that will match similar homes in the area, or when purchasing a home, evaluating homes as to | 231 |
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The Cystic Fibrosis Center at Stanford
A good overview of CF basics, management, medications, research and links, as well as information about the Center and its services.
The web site of this national nonprofit organization offers information about research, legislation, clinical trials, local services, and more.
International Association of Cystic Fibrosis Adults (IACFA)
The home page of this nonprofit, volunteer-based organization includes information about the organization, a newsletter, and a good collection of links.
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Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
This website includes a wealth of information for people with CF, parents and caregivers, and the media. Many of the Foundation's publications are available online.
This personal website by a woman with CF is an extensive, well-organized collection of CF links – over 1,500 of them | 73 |
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Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England
The Caroline Puritan Movement, c.1620–1643
Part of Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Author: Tom Webster, University of East Anglia
This book reconsiders the existence of an early Stuart Puritan movement, and examines the ways in which Puritan clergymen encouraged greater sociability with their like-minded colleagues, both in theory and in practice, to such an extent that they came to define themselves as 'a peculiar people', a community distinct from their less<|fim_middle|> of 1631
10. Juxon, Wren and the implementation of Laudianism
11. The diocese of Peterborough: a see of conflict
12. The metropolitical visitation of Essex and the strategies of evasion
Part IV. 'These Dangerous Times': The Puritan Diaspora 1631–42
13. John Dury and the godly ministers
14. Choices of suffering and flight
15. The 'non-separating Congregationalists' and Massachusetts
16. Thomas Hooker and the Amesians
17. Alternative ecclesiologists to 1642
18. Conclusion.
Tom Webster, University of East Anglia
William III and the Godly Revolution
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Godly Reading
Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720
Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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NEW to Cambridge in 2015 British Catholic History (formerly titled Recusant History) acts as a forum for the most… | faithful rivals. Their voluntary communal rituals encouraged a view of the world divided between 'us' and 'them'. This provides a context for a renewed examination of the thinking behind debates on ceremonial nonconformity and reactions to the Laudian changes of the 1630s. From this a new perspective is developed on arguments about emigration and church government, arguments that proved crucial to Parliamentarian unity during the English Civil War.
Revises substantially all existing accounts of church government in the years preceding the English Civil War
Offers a new and stimulating assessment of Puritan religion, combining theory and practice, and using anthropology
Uses a wide range of new sources to bring new understanding to the role of religion before the Civil War
' … a richly nuanced study of forms and practices of clerical sociability that helped to define Puritanism and shape its response to the changing conditions of the Caroline Church … [Webster] is a new voice in the field of Puritan studies and one that promises to be an important one'. Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Part I. Society, Clerical Conference and the Church of England:
1. Clerical education and the household seminary
2. Profitable conferences and the settlement of godly ministers
3. Fasting and prayer
4. Clerical associations and the Church of England
Part II. The Godly Ministry: Piety and Practice:
5. The image of a godly minister
6. Religiosity and sociability
Part III. 'These Uncomfortable Times': Conformity and the Godly Ministers 1628–38:
7. Thomas Hooker and the conformity debate
8. Trajectories of response to Laudianism
9. The ecclesiastical courts and the Essex visitation | 365 |
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The Gentlemen's Driving Park is currently overgrown and hidden, but will soon be restored. Photo by Elana Glowatz
Town to restore historic neighborhood horse track
Port Times Record
By Elana Glowatz
Officials are on track to restore a piece of Long Island history, bringing an abandoned and forgotten horse-racing site back to life.
The Cumsewogue Historical Society has a ticket to the Gentlemen's Driving Park from July 4, 1892. Photo by Elana Glowatz
Brookhaven Town finished purchasing a swath of wooded land off of Canal Road in Terryville at the end of 2013, after Cumsewogue Historical Society President Jack Smith discovered the faint outline of the horse track and dug up information about what was once called the Gentlemen's Driving Park. The town now owns the entire 11-acre site.
Today it's an overgrown path hidden among trees, but the Gentlemen's Driving Park used to be a place where Victorian Era bettors watched men race around the half-mile loop — counterclockwise — behind horses in carts called sulkies. It was part of a circuit of harness racing tracks in the Northeast, according to Smith, but likely fell into neglect with the rise of the automobile.
But cars have also helped keep the track viable: Smith previously reported that at least through the mid-1950s, kids raced jalopies around the track, preventing it from becoming completely overgrown.
Smith said on Monday the effort to restore and preserve the track is moving slowly, but there has been progress since the town finished acquiring the property. There are plans in place to clear the track to about 20 feet wide, although leaving larger trees in place, and to move up the southern curve of the oval, he said.
Jack Smith takes a closer look at a wrecked car on the Gentlemen's Driving Park track around the time he first discovered the forgotten historical spot. Photo by Elana Glowatz
Currently, a small PSEG Long Island facility cuts into that southern tip. Rather than moving the facility or leaving the track incomplete, the town would retrace that small section of track, slightly shortening the loop but completing the oval so as to make a walkable path for visitors.
"The town is in the process of working on the track to restore the track as closely to the original footprint as possible," Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) said in a statement this week. "There will be some adjustments needed and the town is actively working on that."
If all goes according to plan, the councilwoman said, the restored track could open late in the summer or early in the fall.
"The important thing is that it will be an oval," Smith said Monday. "We want to keep some of the historical integrity."
His goal is to put informational signs around the track that will teach people about its history.
The driving park was adjacent to well-known horse trainer Robert L. Davis' Comsewogue stables, now the Davis Professional Park. After hearing rumors of such a track in Terryville, Smith discovered it by looking at an aerial image of the neighborhood taken during the winter, when the foliage was less dense. He saw the faint shape in the woods near Canal Road and went walking in to find it. Since that visit, he has uncovered a broken pair of Victorian-era field glasses near the finish line on the track's west side, which may have been dropped and trampled. He also has a ticket from a racing event on July 4. 1892.
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For his part, the historical society president has said he would like to hold a fair in which people will re-enact the late 1800s horse races with vintage sulkies or participate in a carriage parade.
"We can't be happier that it's been preserved," Smith said.
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The other day I shared my story of how MS came into my life 22 years ago. This time I would like to share a typical day in my life with advanced SPMS. Not to scare people, but to try and show that despite the hardships, life is still worth living. I realize that most of those reading this will (thankfully) never be as disabled as me. But MS is indiscriminate, and some are affected more than others. I probably drew the short straw, but I have learnt to live with it, and I'm still learning every day.
On weekdays the morning routine starts at six, although most mornings I have already been awake for an hour or two at that point<|fim_middle|> is a pleasure that I came across your story. Thank you again and god bless you!
Thank you for sharing this glimpse into your daily life, rolly! I am glad you have a loving and supportive wife to be by your side on this journey.
I sincerely appreciate your raw honesty and your positivity. It's hard to have both at the same time, but you manage to do so!
May you have more good days than bad.
Thank you so much for sharing! I think your post will offer a lot of insight for caregivers and also some hope and frankness for others living with MS. | , mainly because of painful muscle spasms in my legs. My wife first washes me down in bed and then empties my urine and ileostomy bag. Until last year, every other day she had to help me empty my bowels, which was a time-consuming and painful process. But the ileostomy has thankfully made things a lot easier.
Then she proceeds to dress me. Depending on the level of spasticity, this can take a while and can sometimes be quite comical.
Then comes the transfer to my powerchair, with help of a ceiling lift.
I used to jump out of bed and into the shower and be ready to go to work within literally a few minutes. So the whole process of getting ready for the day has certainly slowed down a lot. But that may not necessarily be a bad thing, as it gives us more valuable time together. In the past we would often hardly see each other or have time to exchange a few words in the morning. There is always a silver lining, if you care to look for it.
Once I'm installed in my chair and ready to face the day, and my wife has readied herself for work, we share breakfast. On good days I can eat without assistance. My left hand no longer works, but I can still use my right, unless it's too weak, too shaky or it claws up, which can happen on any given day. At those times I need help, which I refused at first. I would tell my wife that I'm not a baby that needs feeding. However, after too many involuntary attempts at redecorating the dining room, I swallowed my pride and came to accept help and now think nothing of it. It's just part of life.
Either way it takes time. Gone are the days when I would gulp down my food in a hurry to get out of the house for work! With MS also come swallowing problems, and I therefore need to chew very carefully in order not to choke on my food. I have to do things much more consciously, which may not be a bad thing.
My wife leaves the house for work between 8:00 and 8:30, depending on the progress we made earlier with the whole morning routine. Thankfully her employer is flexible enough to allow her to come in later when needed. I'm grateful for those 'little things' that make our life easier.
I then spend about three hours on my own with the cat, mostly at the computer, either chatting or just surfing the Net. Or I watch some TV. If I had a rough night or am otherwise too exhausted, I recline in my chair and nap. I can no longer sit upright in my wheelchair for an entire day. I don't have the necessary upper body strength anymore, and my head tends to feel too heavy to keep it upright. In my working days I often wished I could have a nap during the day. Now I can, and nobody gets angry at me for doing so!
Near lunchtime a carer comes to the house to empty my urine and ileostomy bag and help me eating my lunch, if necessary. It also gives me someone to chat to, which is nice.
Then I'm alone again for about three hours, before another carer comes to again empty the bags, or on some days, to change them.
On three days a week a therapist comes to the house in the afternoons to stretch my limbs and do some passive exercises with me. That's meant to prevent my limbs from contracting and to keep my body flexible. I also find that it generally helps somewhat with spasticity, together with the meds I'm taking. In-between I again spend time at the computer or watch some TV, before my wife comes home between 5pm and 6pm.
We then have dinner together. This is my favorite time of the day. We can talk about the events of the day and listen to some nice music in the background. We used to have a glass of wine with dinner, and my wife still does occasionally, but it's no longer an option for me, as it interferes with my emptying of the bladder and impacts my thinking and my speech, which is slurred even at the best of times. I miss a glass of wine with the meal.
Very rarely I succumb to the urge and have half a glass, but usually regret it soon afterwards. It's just one of those things that I've had to learn to live without. It doesn't bother me too much that I can no longer walk or that I need help with most tasks. But it's the seemingly insignificant things like the occasional glass of wine or a proper bath that I find frustrating.
At the end of the day I'm usually wiped out. One might think it odd that someone can feel exhausted after a day of "just sitting in the wheelchair" and doing nothing, but that's what fatigue is doing to me. I'm sure that many with MS can relate. It's another of those things that I find so frustrating, as there is nothing to combat it.
So after emptying my bags, my wife gets me ready for bed around 9:30pm, where I usually watch TV until I fall asleep.
Weekends are much more relaxed, and my wife takes care of all my needs, without the need for external carers. She's an angel. She does all that without moaning, with humor and a smile on her face. She's remarkable!
Life is not easy, but it could always be worse. It's certainly not what I would have chosen, and it's not what I would have expected my life to be like at the age of 49. But the human mind is capable of adapting. I may hate my MS and what it has done to me (and believe me, I have plenty of crappy days), but I'm still happy to be alive and to be able to share it with my wife!
Very nicely written. I enjoyed reading your story. Glad you have figured out a way to still carry on with life despite the effects of the MS. its not easy.
Your wife is working on her qualification for sainthood. You are so right that life with this disease wasn't what we expected it to be. Just stay positive and keep fighting. Hang on to that lovely wife of yours, as well.
Thank you so much for your post! You are very right; it could always be worse… the last few days I have been getting a little frustrated with myself over certain tasks that I used to be able to accomplish in a timely manner.i was recently diagnosed with relapse remitting multiple sclerosis and im still researching about the disease and it | 1,363 |
Ekonomia - Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wroclawiu
Relacje między ekonomią a psychologią
Bożena Klimczak
Relations between economics and psychology
Economics as a science on economic activity has built an<|fim_middle|>.
Wright G.H. von, Explanation and Understanding, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1971.
Zaleśkiewicz T., Psychologia ekonomiczna, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2011.
bwmeta1.element.desklight-a6975e95-da7d-4233-af09-d3f58453ba98 | assumption about the nature of economizing man over many decades. Homo oeconomicus model is not "the only right". It has been a subject to modifications extending between the two approaches of research: psychologism and anti-psychologism. In the last few decades, psychology has expanded its scope of research on economic behavior. The aim of this study is to validate by methods of incomplete induction, if the assumption of rationality of economizing man corresponds to the real states of the human mind and cognitive capabilities. On the basis of these studies the economic psychology and behavioral economics emerged. Researchers in these areas oppose inductive method to hypothetico-deductive research program of mainstream economics on the basis of observations of irrational behavior of economizing man. The purpose of this article is, first, an overview of trends: the psychological and antipsychological in the theoretical development of the economics and, secondly, to show the weaknesses and threats of psychologism in economics and economic psychology. The paper discusses the psychological associations of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, who shaped the standard of classical economics. Then it discusses the shift towards logical empiricism and rationality postulate of Karl Popper. This turn shaped the assumption of rational economizing man, which was used in the theory of general equilibrium of markets. This theory, as static and idealizational, has been criticized in the new branches of economics in which there are lifted idealization assumptions of neoclassical economics to more comprehensive explanation of economic reality. Experiments and other methods of incomplete induction are a complementary tool to raise awareness about the economic reality. The conclusions states that inductive reasoning is unreliable and there should be used the best possible explanation of intentional human actions, such as intentional explanation. In contrast, the search for causes of economic behavior in cognitive limitations poses a risk of reduction of economics as a science of social relations in economy to natural sciences.
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Baumol W.J., Business Behavior, Value and Risk, Macmillan, New York 1959.
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11,500-Year-Old Remains of Cremated 3-Year-Old Discovered
Bone fragments discovered at the Upward Sun River site in Alaska (Image credit: Maureen McCombs, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
An archaeological dig in Alaska has uncovered the oldest human remains ever found in Arctic or Subarctic North America – the cremated skeleton of a 3-year-old.
The chlid's burned bone fragments were found in a fire pit in the remains of an ancient house near the Tanana River in central Alaska. Researchers date the cremation to 11,500 years ago. After the child's body was burned, researchers report in the Feb. 25 issue of the journal Science, the house and hearth<|fim_middle|> summer. They fished and hunted small game, either cooking it in the hearth or disposing of bones and other leftovers there. When the child died, he or she – researchers can't say for sure, though they're hoping to find out – was placed on his or her back in the hearth and burned for one to three hours.
The child's cremation site may have been a former cooking pit, but Potter and Irish don't suspect cannibalism. The child's body wasn't disturbed during the burn, they said, and no limbs were carted off to the dinner table. The house's foundation was filled in after the cremation, suggesting a respectful burial, Potter said.
The child's cause of death can't be determined, and only about 20 percent of the skeleton survived the fire (Potter first realized he'd found human remains when he uncovered a molar tooth). The teeth do provide some clues as to the child's ancestry, Irish said. He or she had shovel-shaped front teeth, a genetic trait common in northeast Asian and Native American populations.
"This child does have some affinity to native populations," Irish said.
As such, the researchers worked with native groups in every step of the scientific process. When Potter found the first molar, he immediately halted the dig to consult with local native communities and the owner of the land. The researchers plan to try to extract DNA from the bones, both to see if they can tell the child's gender and to see if they can genetically link him or her to living or ancient native populations. What will happen to the bones after that has not yet been decided, Potter said.
The find is a "very significant discovery and contribution to North American archaeology," said E. James Dixon, an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico who was not involved in the dig. The find fits a pattern, Dixon said, in that 25 percent of remains found that are older than 10,000 years are children.
"It suggests that there is a relatively high infant mortality rate across North America at the time, and this reinforces that pattern," Dixon told LiveScience.
The child's young age hit close to home for the research team, Potter said.
"We both have young children around the same age," Potter said of himself and Irish. "That was quite remarkable for both of us to be thinking, beyond the scientific aspect, that yes, this was a living breathing human being that died."
You can follow LiveScience Senior Writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. | were buried and abandoned.
"The fact that the child was cremated within the center of the house … this was an important member of society," said study author Ben Potter, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Cooking and cremation
The child's remains aren't the only thing about the find that excites Potter and his colleagues. The Paleoindian inhabitants of Alaska left few structures behind; usually, archaeologists discover outdoor hearths and specialized tools that suggest temporary work sites or hunting camps. The house that became a child's grave is the first house structure found from this time period in northern North America. The most similar site found is on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia, Potter said during a press conference.
The cremated child lived and died at the very end of the "last cold snap of the last Ice Age," Potter said. The Bering Land Bridge that once connected eastern Siberia and Alaska still may have been open, or was only recently inundated by rising sea levels. The newly discovered house sits in an area called the Upward Sun River site, which would have been well vegetated, Potter said. The inhabitants stoked their cooking fires with poplar wood.
Researchers excavate at the Upward Sun River site in Central Alaska. (Image credit: Ben A. Potter)
Within the fire pit, the researchers discovered the cooked bones of small animals, including salmon, rabbits, ground squirrels and birds. The presence of salmon (and young ground squirrels), peg the site as a summer settlement, Potter said. The presence of the child, who could have been as young as 2 or as old as 4 based on the development of the adult teeth, suggests that women were present as well, said study researcher Joel Irish, a dental anthropologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
"In prehistoric times, weaning would come as late as maybe 3 years old," Irish said. "So this child was probably still breastfeeding."
The researchers also found four used stone tools at the site, along with stone flakes left over from tool-sharpening.
Native son (or daughter)
By sifting through the layers in the fire pit, the researchers were able to reconstruct the house's inhabitants' | 457 |
Ely is a Cathedral city 14<|fim_middle|> tea in these wonderful surroundings. | miles away from cambridge. It retains many of its historic buildings some of which can be visited. It is also home to the stained Glass museum.
Complete with a haunted bedroom, Oliver Crowell's house is well worth a visit.
There are 13 churches for you to go and see in cambridge. All are in Cambridge city centre.
Enjoy a trip down the river in a narrow boat.
If you fancy going shopping while in Cambridge you won't be short of choice. There is a busy market square with markets every day of the week. There is also the Grafton shopping centre with many of shops to chose from.
Museum about cambridge peoples lives over the past 300 years.
Art museum of Cambridge University.
collection of modern art .
Fascinating look at polar explorers.
A collection of scientific instruments and models.
On top of all this there are Guided tours and walks around Cambridge. There are also various ways of finding out more information about the city, why not take a Pedicab tour of the city or even take in the sites while on a boat.
Historic former home to the cromwell family.
An english Heritage Jacobean mansion.
Henry VIII's first wife is said to haunt here.
Collection of artifacts associated with Cambridgeshire.
collection including archaeology & early history of the area. displays of decorative arts, costume & toys.
A charming little village near Cambridge. The village was home to WWI poet Rupert Brooke.You can visit the Rupert Brooke museum, however we recommend if you do go to Grantchester you take your selves off to The Orchard tea Gardens.
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Space is the final frontier for archaeologists
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The boot prints left by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong are a tangible legacy of one of humanity's greatest achievements — putting a man on the moon.
It's a technological feat easily on par with Egypt's pyramids, the Great Wall or Stonehenge — but how should the Apollo 11 mission site and others be preserved and protected for future generations?
Right now, the bootprints, rovers and hundreds of other artifacts from the Apollo missions are not protected like heritage sites are on Earth — something a small but growing number of space archaeologists want to change.
"These seminal imprints, they're not set in stone, they're set in dust. If they're not preserved — either by having a cover put over them or by declaring a national park around them — then they will go," said P.J. Capelotti, a professor of anthropology at Penn State Abington.
"These are critical sites for understanding human movement into space, and there's no reason why this can't be demarcated as space parks or have some kind of protective regime put around them," he added.
It's not an abstract concern.
With the prospect of tourists on the moon and more planned crewed and robotic missions this decade, space archaeologists worry that the footprints and other artifacts could easily be damaged or destroyed. There's also the risk that natural space phenomenon such as radiation and extreme temperatures could have already damaged them.
"All we need is a rocket to land nearby and blow dust all over of them. Or lunar vehicle to drive too close to that site and kicks all the dust up and that's it, they're gone," said Alice Gorman, an associate professor in the College of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia.
'Cool stuff up there'
It might be hard to think of the moon as an archaeological site but Gorman, who is also a member of the Space Industry Association of Australian Advisory Council, said that was based on a misperception about archaeology.
"The thing about archaeology, it's not that it has to be old, and it doesn't have to be something you can excavate. The primary aim of archaeology is to look at how humans interact with material objects and environments," she explained.
Many of the objects and traces left on the moon aren't just of scientific and technological value — they are cultural artifacts. They include family photos left by astronauts and the patch from the Apollo 1 mission, brought by the Apollo 11 astronauts to commemorate the three astronauts who died in a cabin fire during a rehearsal launch in 1967.
"That patch isn't part of any scientific or technological experiment. It's a memorial. The fact that we take our cultural behavior into space is very interesting," said Beth O'Leary, a professor emerita of anthropology at New Mexico State University.
"There's a lot of cool stuff up there."
The cool stuff includes things clearly worth preserving like the flag planted by Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin but also discarded items such as urine receptacles and wet wipes — although archaeologists would argue that litter often yields the biggest insights.
Tranquility Base, the spot where humans first set foot on the moon, isn't the only thing of interest to space archaeologists. Vanguard 1, and the upper stage of its launch rocket, are the oldest human-made objects still in space — part of a cloud of space junk that circles the Earth. It was launched in 1958 and would be a fascinating relic, Gorman said.
More historic missions are on the horizon — the first settlements on the moon or Mars for example — but it would be impossible to preserve all these sites as monuments. Gorman said a "reasoned decision-making process" was needed.
Sovereignty vs. protection
On Earth, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO, decides what deserves World Heritage status from nominations sent by countries that claim ownership of the sites.
Different rules apply in space, with the UN's 196<|fim_middle|> not true. Because it has no magnetic field and so little atmosphere, the surface is constantly bombarded. … with cosmic rays and high-energy particles, micro meteorites," Gorman said.
It's unlikely the moon would ever be excavated by archaeologists, not least because NASA says that degrees in archaeology, along with other social sciences, don't qualify under its astronaut recruitment requirements. But Gorman said it would be feasible to fly a small drone equipped with a camera over the Apollo 11 site to reimage it and see what had changed over the past 50 years.
The moon plays a huge role in many different cultures around the world, and any international moves to protect it should take into account cultural and symbolic beliefs about the moon, as well as the tangible objects that have been left there, O'Leary said.
"Humanity has been staring at the moon for the last 200,000 years. It is the common heritage of humanity. No one owns it, and everyone owns it."
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Want to Create a Culture of Innovation? Ask These 3 Essential Questions. | 7 Outer Space Treaty stating that space "is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty." However, individual objects on the moon remain the property of the nations that put them there, according to the treaty.
Leadership at NASA is taking the issue seriously, and in 2011 published voluntary guidance to protect the Apollo mission landing sites for scientific investigation and their historic significance. The guidance also catalogs all the items left behind.
The Lunar Xprize sponsored by Google had been launched four years earlier to create an incentive for private enterprises to land a robot on the moon. One of the goals was to take capture images of Apollo mission hardware left on the lunar surface. However, the competition ended without a winner, and the only successful trips to the moon have been government funded and mostly scientific in nature.
The NASA voluntary guidance suggested a 75-meter exclusion zone around the Apollo 11 landing site and advocated controlling the movements of vehicles and landing of spacecraft to prevent scattering dust.
While not legally binding, the guidelines lent weight to the idea that human sites on the moon were of value, and in December 2020 the One Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act became US law.
It requires companies working with NASA to abide by those guidelines to protect Apollo landing sites — although there is no way of enforcing them.
"As far as laws go, it's pretty benign. It requires companies that are working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on lunar missions to agree to be bound by otherwise unenforceable guidelines intended to protect American landing sites on the moon. That's a pretty small pool of affected entities," said Michelle Hanlon, a space law expert at the University of Mississippi, in an article for The Conversation.
"However, it is also the first law enacted by any nation that recognizes the existence of human heritage in outer space. That's important because it reaffirms our human commitment to protecting our history."
O' Leary said that the focus needed to be on international cooperation.
"If you think about the important sites, there are a lot more than the US: The earliest Russian site, Lunar 2 — the first human artifact on the moon in 1959, which is really quite early. There's also China's earliest missions, the first Chang'e didn't go very far but it's still there, you know, that's a very important site. Who would have thought in 1969 China would be on the moon?"
One possible model Capelotti suggested could be the treaty that gives Norway sovereignty over Svalbard, where the Global Seed Vault is located, in the Arctic. Under a 101-year-old treaty, citizens of all its signatory countries, including Russia, can settle and conduct business there.
Most archaeologists agree the artifacts should be left on the moon — any attempt to retrieve them would likely result in damage. Equally, even if they are left undisturbed by future missions, natural space phenomena such as radiation could put some of the artifacts at risk.
"We do have this idea of the moon as a dead rock but that's | 632 |
Shuanise Washington
NAMIC, Inc.
Years in Industry: More than a decade
Education: University of South Carolina, B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology
These five association leaders guide the cable industry, particularly through these troubling times. Williams makes her first appearance on our list, guiding the rebrand of human resource group C2HR. Beyond a name change, the organization launched new offerings, resources and events and attracted multiple new member companies. Lins is working to fight piracy, launching an industry-wide effort educating consumers, as well as mitigating pay-TV cord cutting. The team at the Cable Center introduced five-year roadmap Vision 2025, empowering current and future industry leaders. NAMIC and SCTE-ISBE have both had to rapidly pivot in light of the health crisis, with NAMIC reimagining its leadership seminar as a virtual, five-day event under Washington's guidance. Dzuban is helping SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo pivot to a free, virtual event for the first time. Interest seems high in the tech gathering, which drew in a record 267 thought leadership abstracts.
The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed my perspective on…
The speed of change.
How has the pandemic shaped the industry's future?
We are seeing companies develop solutions that allow for better, faster telework options that enable teams to stay connected. The pandemic has shown us that mass telework is possible,<|fim_middle|>Last show binged not on your networks:
ESPN's "The Last Dance," a 10-part docuseries about Michael Jordan and The Chicago Bulls. During a time when so many people miss watching and attending sporting events, this was a brilliant move by ESPN because it brought together everyone, sports fans and non-sports fans alike. The series went beyond basketball by providing tremendous insight into the making of one of this country's most beloved and iconic individuals and brands.
The Diversity List 2020
A. Shuanise Washington (NAMIC)
The Leaders
#41 Honoree
Most Powerful Women 2020
More Powerful Women – Supporters
CFX Diversity 2019 | and I believe telework will now become more commonplace for those whose jobs can be done remotely. The pandemic also has reinforced the need for creativity, innovation, and "thinking outside the box," in order to grow and thrive. We are already seeing some amazing examples of this when people and businesses are put to the test.
The future of broadband is…
One that will be faster and more accessible to all, regardless of whether someone lives in an urban or rural location. The broadband of today will look nothing like broadband in the future as companies of all kinds innovate at a breakneck pace to gain a competitive edge and larger market share.
Is cable recession proof?
I don't think any industry is recession proof nowadays. The world continues to change, and at a pace we have never experienced before. Technology is the biggest driver of this rapid pace of change, and it will only continue to gain momentum. But cable, like all industries, will continue to evolve with the times to meet the demands and needs of its customers.
If I launched my own personal streaming service, it would be called:
"Comfortable Being Uncomfortable." It reflects my own personal leadership style, which applied pre-COVID-19 and has been further solidified by the pandemic. This global crisis will change businesses and the way business is done in ways we cannot even begin to imagine. Some of those changes will be welcomed and embraced, others will create a lot of discomfort. But in the end, getting comfortable being uncomfortable is how real progress will be made.
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What is goofy dog or cow?
Species Anthropomorphic dog
Family Goof family
Spouse Mrs. Geef / Mrs. Goof (1950s)
What breed of dog is Pluto?
mixed-breed dog
What was the first cartoon on TV?
Why does God have 5 fingers in the Simpsons?
In the real world, many believe that based 10 came about in math due to us humans having 10 fingers. In the Simpsons world, when God or Jesus has 10 fingers, 5 on each hand, it makes them unique (as they should be as divine beings).
How did political cartoons start?
The first cartoon appeared in Ben Franklin's newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin commenting on 'the present disunited state of the British Colonies.
Who was the first Disney character?
Why does Mickey Mouse say hot dog?
In Walt Disney's own voice, Mickey solemnly intoned: "Hot dogs! Ok, so maybe it wasn't Shakespeare, but apparently it worked because Mickey's been talking ever since.
Is Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?
The Mickey Mouse comic strip, drawn primarily by Floyd Gottfredson, ran for 45 years….
Family Mickey Mouse family
Significant other Minnie Mouse
Pet dog Pluto
Why do characters in old cartoons bounce?
Rubber hose animation refers to the bouncy, rubbery way that characters were animated primarily in American cartoons during the 1920s to approximately the mid-1930s. It was not only adopted for its efficiency, but also to avoid the issue of stiffness. Theatrical cartoons were not originally intended just for childern.
Why do cartoons have 3 fingers?
According to Disney animators Dan Povenmire and Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, the animators bringing you the new Disney TV show – Milo Murphy's Law – the reason why is pretty simple, drawing hands is the hardest part of the body to draw. Drawing three fingers and a thumb speeds up the creative process.
Is Pete a cat or dog?
Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925)….Pete (Disney)
Species Cat
Spouse Peg
Significant other Trudy Van Tubb Chirpy Bird (1980s comics)
Maybe they chalk it up to tradition or didn't give it much thought, but the AV Club explains that there's a very good reason for it that goes back to the old days of animation. Before computers, you see, artists drew cartoons by hand. By sketching characters with<|fim_middle|> time. Hence, they are considered to be credible resources by historians. Political cartoons are usually regular features in newspapers and magazines, positioned prominently so as to catch the reader's attention.
What kind of dog is Goofy?
Coonhound
What are political cartoons used for?
Political cartoon, a drawing (often including caricature) made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events. Such cartoons play a role in the political discourse of a society that provides for freedom of speech and of the press.
Why do cartoons look worse?
A lot of cartoons use cheaper methods to animate. Some even use flash. Even if the method isn't cheap, it's done on a computer, which doesn't look quite as good as hand drawn stuff. More realistic animation styles don't do so well for comedies, BUT that doesn't mean that less realistic animation is worse animation.
Who are the two figures in the political cartoon?
Answer Expert Verified. Uncle Sam–leader of the country or the symbol of the country– and Lady Liberty– symbol representing the freedoms and ideals of the country. The whole country was under investigation and the cartoon suggests all people could be seen as a threat to the country.
Who invented political cartoons?
artist Thomas Nast | only four digits, it saved time — and money.
Which is the No 1 cartoon in world?
1 SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator the late Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.
Why can Goofy talk but Pluto can t?
In the Disney cartoon universe, Goofy is not a dog. He is a person who resembles a dog, just as Mickey Mouse is a person who resembles a mouse and Donald Duck is a person who resembles a duck. Pluto, however, is an actual dog, which is why he can't talk.
What are political cartoons called?
A cartoon produced primarily to entertain is called a comic strip or, in single-panel form, a gag cartoon; one used to explain or illustrate a story, article, or nonfiction book, or to form part of an advertisement, is referred to as a cartoon illustration; a cartoon used to sway public opinion or dramatize the news is …
What Disney character is a cow?
Clarabelle Cow
What is the message of the political cartoon?
Political cartoons can be very funny, especially if you understand the issue that they're commenting on. Their main purpose, though, is not to amuse you but to persuade you. A good political cartoon makes you think about current events, but it also tries to sway your opinion toward the cartoonist's point of view.
What animal is Donald Duck?
white duck
Why do old cartoons wear gloves?
The short answer as to why so many characters wear gloves is that animation is an intensive process. So this also meant simplifying features, such as hands, to make the animation process quicker. Still, in the age of black and white cartoons, separating characters' round-edge hands from their black bodies was hard.
Why are political cartoons effective?
Why political cartoons are important With the ability to distil news and opinion into a caricature, cartoons present accessible and instant commentary and analysis of current affairs. The images can cast a powerful interpretation on the day's news. They explain and explore stories in manners that articles cannot.
Who is goofy girlfriend?
Mrs. Geef
What was the first cartoon?
Are political cartoons credible?
Answer. Political cartoons show the actual state of affairs in politics at a given point of | 464 |
Time has always fascinated me. It has been the subject of a number of my poems as well as some of my columns in the past. One aspect of it that interests me greatly is the variation in how fast or how slowly it can seem to pass. For instance, if I were to be holding my breath, a minute can seem quite a long time, yet if I were to be reading an interesting book, many minutes can pass very quickly and without making any impression on me at all.
I received my first watch for my eighth birthday. I was thrilled. So thrilled that I forgot to take my new watch off that evening and climbed into the bathtub still wearing it. It was an inexpensive one and not waterproof. I was devastated. My parents were always accusing me of being careless and here again was proof. It was several years before I was given another watch. This time I was a good deal more careful with it.
Once watches were a utilitarian tool people wore–on the wrist, on the belt, on a chain, or around the neck. Most adults had two, a plain one for every day and a fancy one for special occasions. In those days they were fairly expensive. While today, there are expensive watches, they are worn more often as a status symbol. For most of us, as a result of electronic devices, watches have gone from a necessity to an ornament.
Time seems elastic. When I am driving to a destination at some distance, it seems to take longer to get there than it does to come back. How strange! The distance is the same; absent traffic jams or other problems why should one way seem longer than another? One possible answer is that I am retracing my steps on the way home thus there is no question about how to get there. Still this time disparity seems to be true whether or not I have been somewhere many times.
<|fim_middle|> that to tell me what to do next. I don't even think about how long or how short that time will take. Yet if I am pursuing a deadline, time may be of the essence and so pass subjectively.
This entry was posted in Time, Uncategorized, Watches and clocks and tagged time by pujakins. Bookmark the permalink. | The way time passes seems to be primarily subjective. Objective time is when I set the timer to remove the tea basket from the teapot, or to take something from the oven because it is done. Here there is no question of subjective time because it is ticking away on the timer and I am simply relying on | 62 |
In Florence nowadays there is by law no longer such a thing as<|fim_middle|> and Pontevecchio. It is furnished in Florentine-Victoriana style with antimacassars and lace curtains, and must have changed little since the first tourists arrived in the city armed with their Baedekers on their Grand Tour of Europe. The loggia, or terrace, overlooks the Vasari Corridor and the Arno with the Ponte Vecchio on the right and, in the distance, the Church of San Miniato on a hill overlooking the city. Breakfast is the only meal; there is a telephone in every room.
The Pensione Rigatti is farther up on the same Lungarno and is one of the many candidates for the original Pensione Bertolini in Forster's novel. There is no exact site of the original ''Room With a View,'' as - in the novelist's words - the Lungarno has been ''renumbered and remodeled and, as it were, remelted . . '' The Rigatti has been in the same family for three generations and here more than ever you have the feeling of being a guest in a private house of yesteryear. The bedrooms have high ceilings, polished tiled floors and marble-topped dressing tables, but no telephones. The dining room (breakfast only) overlooks a large courtyard with another magnolia tree, while the loggia overlooks the Arno at the point where it goes gurgling under the Ponte alle Grazie, or Bridge of the Graces.
On the other side of the river, near the Pitti Palace, is the Pensione Annalena, named for a damsel in distress whose life story reads like a medieval ''Dallas'' and who lived in this palazzo in the 15th century. In Mussolini's Italy it was known as a safe house for political refugees. There is a wood- paneled dining room for breakfast, although they will also serve it in your room. No two rooms are the same, although all have antique furniture, some have corner fireplaces and each has a telephone. The terrace and some of the rooms look onto a large plant nursery and are therefore quiet, which is fortunate, traffic on the Via Romana being highly ''characteristic,'' as Mary McCarthy rightly says in ''The Stones of Florence,'' in which the Pensione Annalena is mentioned.
All the pensiones described so far have bor-rowed much from the comfort and service of hotels, although they still retain the unmistakable whiff of the traditional pensione. The Pensione Bartolini (no relation to the fictional Bertolini) is so typical of the Florentine pensione it is like a stage set. Two steep flights of stairs - no elevator -lead up to this period piece, which has been well known among impecunious travelers for 84 years. The rooms, some of which overlook the Arno above the Ponte Santa Trinita (Bridge of the Holy Trinity), have no bathroom, but a washstand behind a discreet screen. The dining room is quaintly beautiful and looks, with its china artifacts winking behind a highly polished vitrine and its worn and waxed uneven floor, as though not even the pepper pots have changed since the beginning of the century. The patronne, incidentally, is a very peppery lady indeed! Half board is encouraged at $15 more, the food being simple home fare, pasta-meat-vegetables, fruit, with wine extra.
There are some rather special pensiones a little way out of the center of the city on the Fiesole hill that are ideal if you have a car or don't mind waiting for the somewhat infrequent No. 7 bus.
The Pensione Bencista is a family home, which, three generations ago, was turned into a pensione. It is open from March 15 until Nov. 1 and is surrounded by an enticing country garden. The terrace, which overlooks the whole of Florence, as do many of the rooms, is shaded by a gnarled and twisted wisteria creeper, and roses grow on the sheltered side of the house. Here half board is obligatory; guests must pay for one main meal a day. There is a set menu of good home cooking. Again, coffee and wine are extras.
The best view of Florence is from the pensione run by the Blue Sisters of the Convent of San Girolamo (St. Jerome) in Fiesole. As an ideal place to rest, write or meditate, the Little Company of Mary has been offering ''rest and refreshment beneath its roof to travelers and convalescents,'' as its booklet says, since the end of the 19th century. You may choose betweenbed with breakfast and half or full board, and from the dining room you can watch the sunset. There are terraces leading off some of the bedrooms and a main terrace with magnolias where guests can sit in summer. The convent garden stretches all the way up to the top of the Fiesole hill through olive groves and cypress glades. San Girolamo is especially recommended for an older person or a young student, but all are welcome whatever their age or creed.
Although pensiones may not provide the instant room service of hotels, many people prefer them and in Europe they are not in the least considered as a cheap way out. ''It is people with money who go to the big hotels,'' Mrs. Paolo Simoni of the Bencista explained, ''but we have people of quality.'' SOME FLORENTINE PENSIONES Rates include service and tax. Tornabuoni Beacci #3 Via Tornabuoni, 50123 Florence (telephone, 212.645 and 268.377).
Daily rates, which are per person, include room, breakfast and a choice of lunch or dinner. A small room with bath, $40; larger room with bath, $47; rooms without bath from $35 to $39. Bed and breakfast alone is about $5 less, full board about $5 more. Monna Lisa #27 Borgo Pinti, 50121 Florence (214.041 and 296.213).
Double room with bath and breakfast, $60; single room with bath and breakfast, $35. Hermitage Vicolo Marzio (Ponte Vecchio) 50122 Florence (287.216 and 268.277).
Double room with bath and breakfast, $45; single with bath and breakfast, $28.50. Quisisana/Pontevecchio #4 Lungarno Archibusieri, 50122 Florence (216.692 and 215.046).
Double with bath and breakfast, $42; single with bath and breakfast, $28.50. Rigatti #2 Lungarno Diaz, 50122 Florence (213.022).
Double with bath and breakfast, $32.50; single with bath and breakfast, $20.50. Annalena #34 Via Romana, 50125 Florence (222.402 and 222.403).
Double with bath and breakfast, $32.50, without bath, $27; single with bath and breakfast, $21; without bath, $17. Bartolini #1 Lungarno Guicciardini, Florence (296.452).
Double with breakfast, $15.50; single with breakfast, $10. Half board costs additional $15 a person. Bencista #50014 Fiesole, Florence (59.163).
Half board is obligatory. Rates per person: room with bath, breakfast and one meal, $28; without bath, $22. San Girolamo Villa San Girolamo, Piccola Compagnia di Maria, 12 Via Vecchia Fiesolana, 50014 Fiesole, Florence (59.141 and 599.645).
Single room with bath and breakfast, $18; single room with bath and half board, $27; double room with bath and half board, $23 a person; with bath and full board, $34.50 a person. A. M. Z.
ANNE MARSHALL ZWACK is a writer who lives in Florence. | a pensione. Pensiones, perhaps best translated as family hotels, now are in the same category as small hotels and must conform to certain hotel regulations. But this is Italy, and it would take more than a law to change the atmosphere of a typical Florentine pensione.
Pensiones are usually smaller, cozier, more intimate than hotels. They are furnished like private homes - and, indeed, many of them were. No two rooms are the same, and the antiques - some of which are not so old - reflect the taste of the patronne herself. The pensiones are almost always on one of the upper floors of an old palazzo in the historic center of the city. They therefore have, like the Pensione Bertolini in E. M. Forster's book ''Room With a View,'' now being filmed in Florence, views over the orange jigsaw of roofs, the bridges, the River Arno, the cypresses and the surrounding hills. They can be reached by clanking elevators with wood paneling and brass fixtures like a wagon-lit in the old Orient Express.
No true pensione is complete without a little dog or a large cat, together with flourishing potted plants, random statuary, family china in glass-fronted cabinets and spotless antimacassars on the backs of sunken sofas. The floors are highly polished, carefully nurtured by a maid in carpet slippers who has been with the establishment for years. The patronne herself is often a benevolent dragon who sniffs disapprovingly if you fail to wipe your feet, but will administer hot milk and honey if you catch a chill.
Usually pensiones offer only bed and breakfast, but when there is a restaurant you are expected to have at least one other meal on the premises. Your wine bottle is then corked after lunch and you can finish it at dinner, just as at home.
As a result of the change in classification, some pensiones have added more fire extinguishers and built more bathrooms. The general standard is better, but the quality of the leading pensiones has always been high. Some of the better pensiones are in fact almost indistinguishable from small hotels except for the home-away-from-home atmosphere. The Pensione Beacci and the Pensione Monna Lisa, for instance, both have air-conditioning and an outside-line telephone and unobtrusive minibar in every room.
The Pensione Beacci is on the top floor of a 14th-century palazzo in the main shopping street of Florence, the Via Tornabuoni, and is furnished like a country house in Tuscany. The smaller rooms vary in size but most have plenty of room for essential furniture, while the bigger rooms with two windows are large enough for a desk, an old-fashioned dressing table, sofa and chairs, as well as for all your shopping bags from the boutiques that await you as you emerge from the elevator downstairs. There is a terrace with a view and little tables where guests can breakfast in summer and a dining room with pale green tablecloths and flowers on every table.
Every meal offers a choice of pasta or soup, a choice of three main dishes including fish, and salad, three vegetables, a dessert and a bowl filled with fruit, which some people take to eat in their rooms. Wine and coffee are extra. You are not obliged to eat your lunch or dinner in the hotel, but priority is given to bookings that include at least one meal. About $5 is deducted from the price if bed and breakfast only is preferred. Visitors need to book well in advance, as the Beacci is always full, as indeed are most of the pensiones in Florence.
The Pensione Monna Lisa, named for Leonardo's model, who for some reason is called Mona Lisa in English, is in a palazzo that belonged to the Neris, the noble family of the 16th century's St. Phillip Neri. This ground-floor pensione is furnished with antique furniture and paintings. The dining room is enclosed behind arches and columns and looks onto a formal garden with box hedges and magnolia trees, part of which is available for parking, quite a luxury in Florence. Breakfast is the only meal served and in summer visitors can eat it in the garden, a short walk from the Duomo, Florence's Cathedral. Rooms overlooking the garden are quieter than those on the Borgo Pinti, which is a busy street in the center of Florence. T he Hermitage is a doll's house of a pensione perched high up above the Ponte Vecchio, the bridge famous for the goldsmiths' stores that elbow for space on either side of it across the River Arno. The building used to be a club for Anglo-Saxon expatriates run by an English colonel and still attracts mostly English and American guests. It, too, has all the comforts of a hotel, with a telephone in every room and old-fashioned pastel furnishings with hand-painted cupboards and cozy bathrooms. From the roof garden poised above the heart of the city it seems as though you could reach out and touch the Palazzo Vecchio (City Hall) with your hand.
On the same Lungarno, which means along the Arno and is the name given to the streets lining the river, is the Pensione Quisisana | 1,095 |
When Nike was going to launch a new range of swimwear, they asked us to consider how they could take on their major competitor, Speedo.
We focused on the product truth that the material used to construct the garments had minimal drag<|fim_middle|>'s dedication to product performance.
The result was a campaign that succinctly got the message across without compromising Nike's dedication to product performance. | , and created a campaign based around the line 'zero resistance' featuring Olympic and Commonwealth swimmers. The campaign ran in all European flagship stores, press, outdoor and online.
Sales for new Nike Swim range up 21% on previous lines. Campaign elements so successful they were translated to the garments for the following season.
Nike is synonymous with sporting performance and cutting edge technical design, but the Nike ACG range had failed to resonate with their demanding, active consumer.
To demonstrate the science within, we developed creative that allowed consumers to see the technology inside ACG products. Focusing the campaign around the idea of "Stability Within" we used x-ray technology to bring the inside, out.
The Nike ACG retail campaign was rolled out across flagship European stores and extended into press. Previous ACG sales figures were smashed.
We created a campaign for the Nike Pro range of high performance apparel which sits under the line 'Engineered to perform'.
Focusing on the technical abilities of the garments in aiding performance, we created a campaign around the line 'An athlete's secret weapon' and featured Nike sponsored professional sportsmen and women.
Campaign rolled out across 48 super-sites around the world including Amsterdam, Istanbul, Prague and Moscow.
We were asked to create a Nike Sale retail campaign for flagship store Nike Town in London.
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La Jetée & Sans Soleil – Criterion
David Brook reviews two films by Chris Marker, La Jetée & Sans Soleil. They are being released together in a Blu-ray set by the Criterion Collection.
On the Waterfront – Criterion
David Brook reviews Elia Kazan's classic drama, On<|fim_middle|>'s superb documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon. It's being released on Blu-Ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
The Heiress – Criterion Collection
David Brook reviews William Wyler's classic period drama, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson. It's being released on Blu-Ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
A Face in the Crowd – Criterion
David Brook reviews Elia Kazan's prescient drama about the perils of fame. It's being released on Blu-Ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
Au Hasard Balthazar – Criterion
David Brook reviews Robert Bresson's classic drama Au Hasard Balthazar, which is being released on Blu-Ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
Ugetsu – Criterion Collection
David Brook reviews the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release of Kenji Mizoguchi's classic period fantasy-drama.
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But struggles to match Orwell
In power and drive
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Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 – Criterion
David Brook reviews the Criterion Collection's epic 15-film Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films Blu-ray collection.
The Palm Beach Story – Criterion
David Brook reviews Preston Sturges' classic screwball comedy, The Palm Beach Story, which is being released on Blu-ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss – Criterion
Jim Whalley reviews two films by Sam Fuller, which are being released on Blu-ray as part of the Criterion Collection.
The Koker Trilogy – Criterion
David Brook reviews Abbas Kiarostami's acclaimed trilogy, which is being released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection.
Klute – Criterion
David Brook reviews Alan J. Pakula's classic thriller, which stars Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, and is being released on Blu-ray as part of the Criterion Collection in the UK.
Kiss Me Deadly – Criterion
David Brook reviews Robert Aldrich's classic noir adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Criterion
David Brook reviews the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of John Cameron Mitchell's unique transexual punk-rock musical.
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David Brook reviews the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' classic musical.
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I've just read a great article by Alan Pelz-Sharpe from Intelligent-Enterprise.So what's he talking about?
1 – They establish the specification required and construct the famous "table of evaluation." This is usually a Excel file with several sheets and hundreds of questions (if not thousands), most of which are closed and very precise.
2 – They send the list of questions to a selection of developers (often just the famous ones that come to mind straightaway).
3 – The software is scored against the technical requirements and the top couple of applications tested before purchase.
Lots of answers are very difficult to verify and so liberal interpretations are only discovered after the software has been installed. Furthermore Alan Pelz-Sharpe reports that vendors will often outright lie, skewing the results towards the less ethical developer. This leaves the honest and rigorous providers at the bottom of the pile, even when their software might actually be the most apt.
Often buyers ask "does the tool do this?" Alan argues that a better question is "how can I do this with the tool?" The success of a technology project rests upon the uptake and adoption by the end users. If a feature is technically possible but requires advanced training, then it's probably not going to be used and not worth having for most users. Ease of use should be as prominent in the buying decision as number of features.
When buying SaaS, a list of questions will result in a snapshot of the current product. As SaaS products are delivered over the internet, they can be updated seamlessly whenever the developer has built a new feature. For this reason,<|fim_middle|> our product.
The buyer should test the solution themselves, preferably on their own at first and with a demonstration afterwards. Vendors should always make their products easily available for testing to avoid both parties wasting time. Like all good information exchanges, procurement should be a discussion, not just a request for information. | buyers must know not only where the product is, but where it is going.
We recently received exactly this type of tabular software scoresheet for a huge global BI project. In accordance with our SaaS philosophy of selling people what they want and only what they want, we were strict with our response. Despite not fulfilling their requirement completely, we were short listed alongside several on-premises solutions.
Because the buyer could quickly and easily trial our application. He set up a demo account and had a go himself to see how easily it was to use. We then gave a demonstration using his own data and showed all of the features he was interested in. We answered his questions live during the demo and every time he asked about a capability, we showed it to him.
This was miles away from the formal question sheet but he came away knowing exactly what he was buying and we gained more insight into how our customers use | 183 |
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Perficient, Inc. PRFT, +0.50% ("Perficient"), a leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, announced that its digital agency, Perficient Digital, will demonstrate its end-to-end digital experience and marketing solutions expertise as Silver Sponsor at Adobe Summit 2019 – The Digital Experience Conference from March 25-29, in Las Vegas.
With rising customer expectations fueling an experience-driven world, companies must deliver relevant digital experiences across the entire customer journey. As an Adobe Premier partner with strong partnerships with both Magento and Marketo, Perficient Digital delivers unmatched end-to-end digital experience solutions to its customers – integrating business processes across commerce, order management, content, and digital marketing.
In addition to sponsoring this year's conference, Perficient Digital will host its third annual "Women in Digital" breakfast on Tuesday, March 26, at the Palazzo, celebrating the achievements of influential women leaders in the digital space. Loni Stark, senior director of strategy and product marketing at Adobe, Kathy Leeman, global head of enablement, Marketo at Adobe, Rachel Truair, director of global<|fim_middle|> the booth can see how to use the Adobe Experience Cloud to manage voice experiences, test out AI Smart Tagging with their own images, and learn how Perficient strategically partners with Adobe to deliver digital experiences, business optimization, and industry-driven solutions.
Perficient Digital comprises more than 350 digital and brand strategists, designers, marketers, data analysts, and developers who blend the strategic imagination of a digital agency with the deep technical knowledge of Perficient's established consultancy to deliver exceptional customer experiences. The firm has implemented Adobe solutions for more than 100 clients, delivering end-to-end, integrated marketing platform solutions that help them realize the full value of Adobe Experience Cloud, comprised of Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Analytics Cloud, and Adobe Advertising Cloud.
For updates throughout the event and after, connect with Perficient experts online by viewingPerficient Digital's blog, or follow us on Twitter@PRFTDigital. | enterprise campaigns – Commerce at Adobe, and Cheryl Miller, general manager of WW One Commercial Partner GTM at Microsoft, will serve as speakers. The highly anticipated event will be a platform for connecting with women who are leaving their mark across the entire Adobe organization and community.
During Adobe Summit, Perficient Digital thought leaders and subject matter experts will showcase their expertise across digital experience, digital commerce, and marketing automation solutions.
Perficient expanded its marketing automation expertise with its recent acquisition of Elixiter, an award-winning marketing consultancy that specializes in Marketo. Experts from Perficient Digital will showcase their MarTech expertise in helping B2B and B2C marketers create engaging experiences that drive revenue impact.
Dan Klco, a director in Perficient Digital's Adobe consulting practice and an Adobe Experience Manager rockstar, will present during the "Adobe Experience Manager Rockstar: The Top Tips are Here" session at 2:00 p.m. PT, Wednesday, March 27, in the Sands Convention Center. The inaugural winner of one of the top-attended Adobe Summit sessions in 2017, who was invited to serve as a judge in 2018, Dan makes his third appearance as one of the finalists to share how marketers can create, publish, track and target voice experiences across Alexa, Google Assistant and more using the Adobe Experience Cloud.
Perficient Digital's team will exhibit at booth 931, located near the main entrance to the Community Pavilion, and demonstrate the agency's expertise utilizing the latest technology solutions to drive business through experiences. Visitors to | 319 |
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside of a London crematorium to pay their final respects to Molly Lane, whom they had dated before they achieve their current eminence. Clive Linley is Britain's most successful modern composer who<|fim_middle|> meticulous word choices. The book is plot-driven, with witty repartee and scathing retort, setting multiple storylines in motion and spinning to an end with sudden ferocity. Amsterdam is chilling and cleverly wicked because, predicatbly, both men's agreement becomes murderous and the aftermath of Molly's death serves to destroy an enduring friendship. One friend's compromise to secure a higher good is at fault with another's ethics. But both men are morally ambiguous and vague, leading us to question them rather than to condemn them. The book is one continuous arc that holds my attention from beginning to end. It totally deserves the Booker Prize, which many critics said was a consolation prize since Comfort with Strangers and The Cement Garden didn't win.
I've had this one on my list to read for some time now. I like a book that presents an ambiguous situation for the reader to ponder as they are reading it.
I absolutely adored Amsterdam! I thought the final denouement was so simple, yet so effective!
I'm excited to see your post on this one, Matt. I bought it at a book sale recently because I've loved On Chesil Beach and Atonement. I'm even more excited to read Amsterdam after your review.
I haven't read any of this author's books….something I need to correct!
One of the few of his books I haven't read. Reviews were not good so . . . But now I'll check it out. I've never read Comfort of Strangers because the movie was one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.
I have to disagree with you on this one, Matt! I read this a few years ago and really did not enjoy it at all. I found the writing really plodding and uninspiring, and I found the ending of the story really predictable and obvious. To me, this novel just didn't have any subtlety. | has been commissioned to write the millennial symphony. Vernon Halliday is the editor of the newspaper The Judge. Also in Molly's love history is Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next Prime Minister. Vernon somehow obtains pictures, copyrighted by Molly, of Garmony in drag—perfect evidence to stir up a scandal that will strike him down in order to protect the country from his harsh policies.
In the days that follow Molly's funeral, the bleak circumstances of her death—the decline of memory, the loss of speech and eventually control of bodily function, unnerves the two friends, invoke such mortifying thoughts of their own mortality. What happened to Molly causes them to make a pact that in the event of symptoms that suddenly leave him helpless, the other will secure the means for a peaceful euthanasia. As Clive struggles to finish the symphony before the deadline, Vernon becomes embroiled in political scandal that costs his job. While both strive to steer clear of their impending crisis, each perpetrates a disastrous moral foul that puts their friendship to test.
Dark and comic, Amsterdam packs together love, revenge, political intrigue, and media frenzy to shines on the contemporary moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy. As befit McEwan's usual wordsmith style, each sentence is evident of his | 266 |
Air Lease Corporation announced 28 January the delivery of one new Airbus A321-200neo aircraft featuring PW1130G engines on long-term lease to Vietnam Airlines. This aircraft is the first of 12 new A321-200neos scheduled to deliver to Vietnam Airlines through 2019 from ALC's order book with Airbus.
American Airlines has taken delivery of the first of 100 A321neos on order from Airbus, powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines. The aircraft, MSN8647, departed Hamburg for the trans-Atlantic ferry flight<|fim_middle|>umen Aviation © 4 February 2019 All Rights Reserved. | to Pittsburgh where American's technicians will get the A321neo ready for customer flights.
ATR Surveys Growth Prospects in U.S.
ATR has reflected on its mixed fortunes in 2018, while highlighting that the Franco-Italian company still dominates its market segment. It believes a return to the U.S. market represents a massive sales opportunity. ATR chief executive Stefano Bortoli referenced ATR's return to the U.S. market after more than 20 years with four aircraft poised to enter operation with Silver Airways. "We have been able to go back into the U.S. market after a long period–since 1995".
Boeing has sent more of its personnel to engine supplier CFM to give the Chicago-based airplane maker more precise insight into what so-called long-lead items continue to slow delivery of Leap-1B engines for the 737 Max program, according the Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Speaking during Boeing's fourth-quarter earnings call, during which the company announced record revenues, profits, and deliveries during the period, Muilenburg singled out CFM as one of the last suppliers with which the airframer needs to work to "synchronize" workflow before executing on a planned production rate increase to 57 per month this year.
CFM International's two product lines again achieved near-record levels in 2018, with the company booking orders for a total of 3,337 engines, including 126 CFM56 engines (commercial, military and spares) and 3,211 LEAP engines (including commitments and spares). Last year marked the production transition from CFM56 engines to the LEAP product line. CFM is on track to deliver 1,800+ LEAP engines in 2019 and will reach more than 2,000 engines per year by 2020.
Embraer and SkyWest, Inc. have signed a firm order for nine E175 aircraft, with deliveries expected to begin in 2019. The order has a value of $422 million, based on current list prices, and was already included in Embraer's 2018 fourth-quarter backlog. SkyWest Airlines will operate all nine E175s, featuring a 76-seat configuration.
GA Telesis, LLC announced the consignment of four (4) Cathay Pacific 777 aircraft for disassembly. Already the world's leading independent supplier of 777 used serviceable material , GA Telesis will position the components at its global distribution centers in immediate proximity to its airline customers. The first disassembly, currently underway in the US, will be followed by additional disassembles in succession at both US and UK-based disassembly facilities.
The first Trent 1000 engine repaired at Delta TechOps' engine overhaul facility in Atlanta, Georgia is ready to return to service. Delta TechOps is a Trent Authorised Maintenance Centre. The first Trent 1000 engine was taken into the facility in late 2018. As well as completing the engine shop visit, engineers took the opportunity to learn more about the engine. The new facility, in Atlanta, Georgia, was created by converting several large aircraft hangar bays and building a new test facility. The workshop consists of areas for engine assembly and disassembly; kitting parts; engines work in progress; shop materials and supplies, life limited parts and repair and support. A new test cell will open later this year, capable of testing engines to 150,000lb thrust.
Universal Asset Management, Inc. (UAM) announced 1 February it has acquired a Boeing 747-400 airframe MSN (24053) formerly operated by British Airways. The airframe will be disassembled in the United Kingdom and UAM will remarket components to support its worldwide OEM, airline and MRO customer base.
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Bengals notebook: Rookie Michael Jordan to make second-straight start at LG this week
Rookie Michael Jordan took first-team reps at left guard on Thursday. Offensive lineman Billy Price was in for the second unit.
Bengals notebook: Rookie Michael Jordan to make second-straight start at LG this week Rookie Michael Jordan took first-team reps at left guard on Thursday. Offensive lineman Billy Price was in for the second unit. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2019/12/05/bengals-michael-jordan-to-start-second-straight-week-at-lg/2621602001/
Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 4:28 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019 | Updated 6:37 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019
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Rookie Michael Jordan is penciled in as the Cincinnati Bengals' starting left guard.
Jordan took first-team reps at left guard on Thursday. Offensive lineman Billy Price was in with the second unit.
Bengals coach Zac Taylor confirmed to The Enquirer that Jordan will make his second-consecutive start this week.
Cincinnati Bengals offensive guard Michael Jordan (60) blocks Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard (94) as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton (14) takes the snap during Cincinnati Bengals training camp practice, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at the practice fields next to Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar)
"There's good and there are things that (Jordan) can improve. That's like any rookie. He's a big guy, smart football player, so we'll give him another shot there," Taylor told The Enquirer.
A knee injury and rookie growing pains caused Jordan to miss action in Weeks 3, <|fim_middle|> week that he expects Hubbard to play in Week 14.
#Bengals Thursday injury report. DE Sam Hubbard (knee) missed his second-straight day of practice. pic.twitter.com/HMK46fn9t0
— Tyler Dragon (@TheTylerDragon) December 5, 2019
Damion Willis back to practice squad: The Bengals re-signed wide receiver Damion Willis back to their practice squad on Wednesday.
Willis and the Bengals have had an on again, off again relationship this season.
The receiver was waived by the Bengals on Tuesday. He cleared waivers Wednesday.
Willis took the vacant practice squad spot created by tight end Mason Schreck, who was recently promoted to the team's 53-man roster.
Cincinnati signed Willis as an undrafted free agent in May. He started the first two games of the season for the Bengals. The rookie receiver has appeared in 10 contests. He's registered nine catches for 82 yards.
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Cincinnati's 2019 fourth-round pick played good in 65 snaps in the team's Week 13 win over the New York Jets. Well enough for the Bengals to give him his second-straight start and build some continuity across the O-line.
Sunday will be Jordan's sixth start at left guard. He began the season at the top of the depth chart at the position.
Here's what else is happening around the Bengals:
A.J. Green update: The Bengals star wide receiver was at practice on Thursday. Green (ankle) did drills on the rehab field while the team conducted practice. The wideout was wearing cleats while he went through his workout.
ZaTaylor has already ruled Green out for Sunday. Taylor said on the Bengals Beat Podcast that he's still hopeful Green plays this year. Green hasn't appeared in a football game since Dec. 2, 2018.
Bengals Thursday injury report: Defensive end Sam Hubbard missed his second day of practice due to a knee injury. Zac Taylor said this | 219 |
How Sonic Drive-In serves up mobile ordering
Sonic Drive-In has revamped its order-ahead and drive-through delivery capabilities to create a frictionless, personal experience for its customers.
By Clint Boulton
Senior Writer, CIO Jan 2, 2019 3:00 am PST
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Reinventing the experience for consumers in the digital age is a daunting evolution for quick-service chains struggling to stay afloat in a sea of similar choices. Sonic Drive-In is taking a bite out of this challenge by pairing its core assets — drive-in stalls and carhops — with mobile and analytics technologies to build a better digital touchpoint for customers.
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Clint Boulton is a senior writer for CIO.com, covering IT leadership, the CIO role, and digital transformation. | an order through the company's mobile app and pull into any of the 25 to 40 stalls outside the company's 3,600 U.S. locations to pick up their food. The differentiating factor? People don't get stuck in a line, says Jon Dorch, Sonic's vice president of integrated customer engagement. "We like to say the customers are first in line, every time," Dorch tells CIO.com.
The mixed results of mobile ordering
It's an interesting counter to one of the chief operational bugbears of most quick-service chains' mobile ordering services. High volumes have confused employees, which in turn have bogged down services for consumers stuck at the counter who didn't elect to use the mobile ordering option. In this regard, Sonic's stalls and assortment of digital tools are a huge asset, enabling the company to create a frictionless, yet personalized service, says Dorch.
Here's how Sonic's order-ahead service works: When a customer orders from the mobile app and pulls into any of the numbered stalls, the driver hits the "check-in" button on the mobile app and types in the stall number so that the carhop knows where the customer is parked.
This is where the personalization aspect comes in. Each stall is equipped with a touchscreen that displays the customer's name and avatar, order status (for example, "in the kitchen"), and the name of the carhop delivering the food. Most order-ahead meals are delivered in two minutes or less once a customer has checked into a stall.
That service stands to get more personal over time — and with the ordering and consumption of many burgers and tater tots.
Sonic will eventually send consumers targeted loyalty offers, based on their purchase history, directly through the mobile app, Dorch says, adding that he and his team are currently evaluating rules engines with which to integrate loyalty rewards. Offers could appear as customers check in to a Sonic stall, or drivers could get an impromptu ping when they drive by a Sonic location, courtesy of GPS-based geofencing capabilities.
Behind the build
Sonic spent the past few years working with digital technology firm R/GA on redesigning and rebuilding the mobile app, implementing the touchscreens (also known as Personalized Point of Service systems, or POPS) and connecting them and other systems to various cloud services in a system it calls DIP — the digital innovation platform.
Owing to variables in its menus and pricing, Sonic couldn't leverage commercial off-the-shelf software or a white-label solution to build DIP, let alone the mobile app and POPS systems. "That won't work for Sonic because of the complexities and modifications to menu orders," Dorch says.
DIP comprises custom software and infrastructure built from the ground up, says Katrina Bekessy, executive technology director of R/GA Austin. This includes new suite of APIs, new software for the POPS screens at each drive-in stall, connectors that manage all orders for each POS system at each Sonic location, and apps to manage all menu data and customization options for menu items internally. These systems are hosted in a hybrid cloud composed of Amazon Web Services and Pivotal CloudFoundry.
Sonic eventually expects to have more than 90,000 POPS digital screens across its nearly 3,600 drive-in locations as part of this transformation. "Sonic is nothing but green field," Bekessy says. "Everything has been built from the ground up to be tailored for where they want to go."
New options for the digital menu
Expect new digital services on the DIP, say Dorch and Bekessy. Sonic is mulling interactive entertainment options to take advantage of its POPS screens. This could include music via Spotify or some such streaming services, games, augmented reality (AR), or even AR-based games, Dorch says.
And should Sonic decide one day it needs to enable ordering via virtual assistants, the programmatic, API-based nature of the DIP enables Sonic and R/GA to easily extend ordering capabilities to Amazon Alexa virtual assistants, or perhaps through text messaging or other mediums.
"There is a lot of potential to target users and personalize for micromoments," Bekessy says.
Personalized service is a tack many restaurant conglomerates have embraced at a time when sales across most U.S.-based casual dining and traditional quick-service chains have softened, thanks to shifting consumer preferences for newer, novel chains and independent restaurants.
Dine Brands Global, owner of U.S. restaurant brands IHOP and Applebees, is enabling consumers to order from their homes by speaking to Google Assistant software or from their cars via General Motors' and Chevy's head units. TGI Fridays is using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help mix drinks and target consumers with highly personalized offers.
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A solid gaming / performance option for the ~$500 price tag. Capable of doing most things without too much of an issue, so long as one of those things isn't surviving on battery for a long time. Minimal design flourishes aid its viability in a work environment, but don't expect to be blasting your way through Doom (2016) on a steady framerate.
Dell's Inspiron series works as a midway between the standard Dell and the infamous Alienware brand (Also owned by Dell). The Inspiron series straddles the line between a performance and a gaming laptop, and the design has followed suit with this: While Alienware's feature thick frames and RGB keyboards, the Inspiron series has continually iterated on a more restrained, thinner approach. There's one or two of the traditional gaming laptop flourishes on each one – the 5000 has some red mesh tilted vents over the built-in fan and a neat black/red pattern over the speakers, for example.
But the most recent frame, the Inspiron 7000, has leaned ever closer to Alienware territory: With a red/black triangle design across the entire mouth of the laptop and large, silly looking vents towards the back, designers are slowly eating away at the aesthetics that made the line so interesting. When I saw the Inspiron 7000, I knew I had to go back, and I'm glad I did – The Inspiron 5000 is almost exactly what I was looking for, at half the price of the latest model.
Battery life is less-than-stellar, which is a pretty damaging category to take hits on considering the device aims at being your working laptop in addition to your playing one. The drain isn't terrible, just a few hours short of what one might expect from a $500 to $600 laptop. 7-ish hours on a full tank is workable, but the actual lifetime ends up being something closer to 6, or 5 before you hit that 'low battery alert' mark and start getting worried. This is running nothing more than a web browser, too; for on-the-go gaming sessions, you might want to choose games with short levels or good manual save functionality, because you probably won't be in the field for very long.
One thing the 7000 does have over the older model is its high-end internal components that let you run the newest of the new for, as I said above, twice the price. The 5000 does the job for most 3D indie titles and every pixel-bit 2D thing you can lay your eyes on, but starts chugging hard when we turn to the AAA department. By lowering all the settings to minimum and the resolution to 7<|fim_middle|>00 is hitting 60-ish benchmarks on games that came out 1 to 3 years ago, like Doom and Titanfall 2, according to its official webpages. If you're buying a laptop to run high-budget titles at good framerates, just go for the Alienware. In a year or two, AAA titles will have aged out of your 7000's power, and you'll find yourself spending more and more time with upcoming indie titles the 5000 can already run.
Past the 5000, the Inspiron series seems to have misplaced its identity. Until it takes a step back to evaluate itself, the 5000 will remain my top pick for a budget work / gaming fusion. | 20p, I was able to bring Doom (2016) to a playable framerate – most of the time. Its less than optimal, but these limitations actually synergize really well with the game's lesser battery life, as smaller titles tend to encourage shorter sessions.
As far as I'm concerned, the 5000 represents the perfect point that the Inspiron line has been trying to hit since its invention. At ~$500 – $600 (Depending on whether you want a GeForce or AMD Card) its the best dual-function laptop I've seen, or heard about, for the asking price. A solid work laptop that's built to last might run at around three to four hundred, but the extra power offered by the Inspiron isn't just for gaming; If your job requires you to be able to push through any kind of intensive CAD software or Photoshop renders, performance systems become all but a necessity. The Inspiron 5000 sits right on top of that line, and the gaming functionality is just icing on the cake.
You'll also blow away your gaming brethren with how quiet and sleek your system is compared to theirs. This isn't the backpack-buster of hyper-grade portable gaming; It's an entertainment device in stealth mode, with just enough detail to show its true nature to fellow gamers but not enough to broadcast it down the hallway. Heat expulsion is good too. I've never had an issue with this device holding in – or putting out – a problematic level of thermal readings.
In my opinion, absolutely. The 7000 eeks too far into Alienware territory, making bids to run the top AAA 3D titles at workable framerates and peppering its sleek design with a tad too many vents and gadgets. Its main purchase point is its ability to run these AAA games, but the thing about AAA games is that they keep getting better and better as the years go on. The thing about gaming laptops is that their parts are very difficult (sometimes impossible) to replace, while a full desktop can do that easily. As it stands, the 70 | 433 |
JAWS helps GT bite into data back-up and recovery
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Group Telecom (GT) – a facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) based in Toronto – is slated to provide Calgary-based JAWS Technologies Inc.'s on-line data backup and recovery solutions to its small and medium-size business clients.
JAWS Secure Network Storage Division offers customers the ability, via the Internet, to automatically back up, archive and restore data easily and quickly, according to Bob Mahood, vice-president of corporate development with JAWS.
"The battle, in my mind at least, is around how do you take your bandwidth and how do you make it different than other companies' bandwidth," he said. "By adding an application like the Internet-based data backup and recovery system that JAWS has, it's an application that differentiates the product from competitors."
GT, by utilizing JAWS' infrastructure, will soon launch a network, application and hosting services offering that will provide customers the ability to back up all networks and associated PCs to a remote data storage location over their Internet connection, according to Group Telecom's vice-president of Marketing, Steven Koles.
"(JAWS is) essentially bringing us time to market, the ability for us to leverage their offering on a wholesale basis and be able to bring it to our customers quickly and before our competitors can build or create their own similar private label capabilities," he said.
Customers will be able to either manually or automatically back up their data anytime and from any workstation. And recovering data is as easy as backing it up, according to Mahood.
"I think of it as an automated, worry-free, backup system," he said.
Mahood added: "Through the launch of our data vaulting products earlier this year, we are the first to offer complete end-to-end secure information management solutions. Our agreement with Group Telecom works to increase the availability of our secure storage products to a wider base of customers."
According to Toronto-based IDC Canada Ltd. analyst Dan McLean, "They're trying to create a value-add for the telecom to offer on-line backup and storage – that's a pretty neat thing. We're starting to see a lot of this, and what's emerging are a lot of companies that are providing backup and recovery services on-line."
Citing the vulnerability of laptops being stolen or dropped and people not remembering to back up files, McLean added: "Instead of storing everything on their desktop machine, what they would do is access files from some remote and secure location, work on them and have these things be automatically backed up to those repositories."
With JAWS, data is stored at a separate location from your client system to maximize data protection. According to Mahood, the sites were designed specifically for maximum security and rapid post-disaster recovery, assuring information is always available. And, according to JAWS, for added security, the facilities meet all Dominion Fire Commission Standards as well as all current National Building Code standards, as well as security on a 24×7 basis.
"What we have is seven layers of security that are built in right from encryption through to proprietary compression algorithms through to the physical security of the data centre, challenge and response entry to the data system, the use of tokens and so on," said Mahood.
Asked to describe the need for this type of application, Mahood said, "This is an application that drives bandwidth usage and, of course, as you drive bandwidth usage and bandwidth increases, the price falls, which attracts more applications – we're part of that whole cycle. This service specifically, and other ones we have as well, are really applications that are going to drive bandwidth usage."
Koles said his company offers great service level agreements "across the board." Mahood added that "recovery on a file basis is basically within minutes."
According to JAWS, customers only pay for the services they need at any particular time and the service requires no initial capital investment or ongoing maintenance costs. JAWS provides storage needs ranging from 500MB for $69.95 to 100GB for $5,500. For more | 827 |
PSSI's response to COVID-19 and the impact on the food<|fim_middle|> through a Q&A available on PSSI's website.
"I think it is important to plan ahead and work in partnership with sanitation services to protect any scenarios that could play out," says Dan Taft, President and CEO. "We know the situation is constantly changing, so we have to be ready to adapt and change with it."
Partnering with their chemical company, PSSI Chemical Innovations, PSSI is able to provide their customers with the right chemicals and resources to combat COVID-19.
"Our team members' health and safety are always our top priority," says Taft. "To that end, we have implemented extra health and safety measures across our business."
PSSI has implemented new processes at all their partner plants to protect their customer facilities and team members. An outlined guide on their proactive and preventive measures can be found in a fact sheet format on their website at www.pssi.com.
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A recently-installed radar speed sign on Emerson Street east of Laurel Avenue.
Evanston aldermen Monday are scheduled to approve a local match for a federal safe routes to school grant that will bring 20 more radar speed limit signs to town within a few months.
The $110,000 cost of the solar-powered signs<|fim_middle|> indicates radar speed signs are generally effective in reducing speeds where they're installed, with the greatest speed reduction seen among the fastest-moving cars.
The latest signs switch from showing the car's actual speed to a message saying "Too Fast" above a specified level over the speed limit to discourage drivers from trying to see how high they can get the display to read.
Pending approval by the state highway department, the contract to purchase the signs is expected to be issued in November.
A map showing proposed sign locations indicates four will be installed on Ridge Avenue; three on Central Street; two each on Asbury, Chicago and Dodge avenues and Main and Oakton streets, and one each on Church Street, McCormick Boulevard and Sheridan Road.
Update 6:50 a.m. 8/16/16: The City Council approved the radar speed sign proposal on its consent agenda Monday night. | will be 80 percent paid for by the grant, with the other 20 percent to come from city funds.
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So we're building … again.
7 years ago when we were still in Northwest Arkansas, we custom built a house we lived in for only 5 years. The process was stressful, and as a result, I said I'd never do it again.
Our home search was going pretty rough. But then I walked through a model home from Highland Home builders and fell in LOVE with one of the layouts. It was (mostly) everything I was wanting in a home. The appeal of new and fresh seemed to make my past experience fuzzy. I finally gave in to the appeal and here we go again.
The builder is Highland Homes, which is a major builder here in Texas. This is an idea of the front elevation, though our brick and trim colors will be like the house in the picture below this. We will have some rock accents like in the model picture, though ours will be a grey that pairs nicely with our brick color of choice. (I didn't take a picture of the rock.) And we added a 3rd car garage and a master shower is in part of the area of the master closet.
This isn't the style of our home, just the brick and trim colors I chose.
This is the floor plan, except it doesn't show the 3rd car garage and master shower. It is a downsize from our current home, the difference will be in the pool and outdoor living we're planning to add! I've already imagined where everything will be. I'm so excited!
I took lots of pictures of my selections during the process, so I could show him later. As guessed, he loved them and loved not having to make them himself. I'm pretty lucky.
Because we're planning a pool, we wanted flooring that was water-resistant. I love the beautiful hand-scraped hardwood floors we have in this house, but I also like the idea of a smooth, scratch-free option. We are doing LVP floors in MOST of the house. It will look like the floor I took in a model home of a different floor plan.
This picture is when I was trying to see how my floor choice would look with my cabinet and trim/ wall color of choice. SW Pure white on walls and trim!
There will be tile in bathrooms and laundry room floors. The small subway tile will be in my master shower and around the bathtub in my master bath. The large 18″x18″ tile will be on the floors.
The only carpet in my entire house is the master closet! Yep! Still, it had to be chosen … it is the one on the top of this pile of carpets.
I decided to go with some contrasting colors in my kitchen. Since walls and trim will be white, I'm going with dark cabinets. The same color will be in the kitchen and bathrooms.
Below is the combo of counter, backsplash, backsplash grout, and floor option. The backsplash grout will be darker for some contrast.
I know this is a picture of a picture, but I'm really excited about this sink I chose!
And another picture of a picture – my front door of choice! It was actually a really tough decision. I can't wait to see how it looks.
And for fun, here is a nice quote I found in one of the model homes. I really loved it. The model homes were decorated exquisitely, so I plan to go back for more inspiration when it is<|fim_middle|> like wood = EASY to clean and makes the whole house flow super well! It's a bit $, but you will never have to replace it and you save $ cleaning carpeting!!
Set up a "charging station" for electric shaver n tooth brush, dryer, curling iron or other equip. Handy, but behind a drawer or door front so it looks neat! Save time n effort in bath: use sold surface WALLS not + solid floors n walls in shower!! You will be amazed at the time you safe!!
IF you can put in a roof with less pitch you will save a lot of $. DO put in ZONE heating n cooling in bedrooms vs most other living areas = your house will be cooler and warmer where you want it most! Slow fan speeds, too, so no major drafts just nice gentle air flow!! Both worth it!!!
If you can use solid surface doors on bedroom closets vs covered or bi-fold, you can use the inside of the doors for GREAT storage!! Do upper and lower rods in closets and only a small section for full length dresses or such. Doubles your storage! Do same in coat closet if you can. Love it!
This looks like a great project. Have you got an update for us? with some pictures hopefully.
Yes! The post is still in edit mode, but we actually found a home and didn't build. There is a lot to tell! | time to decorate!
I hope you liked this peek into this process. Would you like to see more blog posts along the process?
The next meeting is the First Builders Meeting, where we will go over plans and discuss lighting among other things. I'm very excited about moving forward with this!
Thoughts about squeezing in a half bath for guests if the kids playroom bath won't always be ready for them? Possibly, putting it near the pool door entrance to lower down on water treked through.
That is a great idea, but I'm really trying to keep the house smaller than I have. I'll probably miss that 3rd bathroom (I have 4 now), but I'm really looking forward to less to clean/maintain! Of course, it will be a trek through the house for pool guests to use the bathroom … perfect doesn't exist in a house plan without inching bigger and bigger.
You are my hero! Our semi-custom build 10 yrs ago was fine. Especially with a more simple floor plan. At this point, after 13 months of construction and no end in sight, you can literally kill me before I ever build again. Keep the excitement alive! You have a great eye for design! Someday I'm going to come visit!
But your home is going to be AMAZING! If you've survived 13 months of construction, I have a whole new level of respect for you.
I'm excited about the layout and small size of this new house. I want to spend less time on housework!
So no carpet in the bedrooms? Will that be the same kind of flooring as you show in the picture? My husband hates that we have carpet at all (just bedrooms) and would prefer to eliminate it so I'm interested in your choice to use something else.
We are still waiting on the permit to come through so we can have the first builder meeting. I'll definitely fill you in on the process!
Wow! This sounds fantastic! When will the house be ready to move in? Do you think you will be able to stay here for a while? A lot of work and stress, but if anybody can handle it, I have complete confidence that you will.
Thank you so much, Barbara! The house should be ready by the end of September (we hope!). The hope is we can be there for a long long time!
It looks like a really beautiful house and I'm sure it will be your dream home. I especially love that front door. I hope you post pictures of that when it is installed.
I was wondering why you chose carpet for your master closet? I'm kind of into closets and would love to read more about your master closet choices. I'm sure there weee plenty of decisions to make there as well.
Thank you so much. I'll definitely keep everyone posted as things progress.
To cut down total space, consider only 1 eating area since you will likely spend a lot of time outdoors.
We've done that for many, many years, love it and have 0 regrets!
Also, if a laundry and bath are off the garage, you can come in from outside or garage, shower or dump dirty clothes there and keep the dirt much more confined! You will love it!
Put a rod across the washer n dryer under shelves or cupboards to hang assorted hangers on so they are very handy for out of the dryer stuff!
Put kitchen utensils in a box and they only go in a drawer IF used within a couple months! Helps purge stuff!
Our whole house is the same porcelain tile floor that looks | 728 |
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Rotisserie chicken and a "pet recovery specialist" have played a critical role in reuniting many Southern California residents with their lost dogs.Take the case of Doctor, a mixed-breed dog who escaped from a pet sitter's home just 20 minutes after Darlene and Paul Horn dropped him off. They were packing for a trip to Alaska when they got the call that their 6-year-old pup had gone missing."As a childless couple, we consider Doctor pretty much our family," Darlene Horn, 45, told TODAY.
Darlene Horn and her husband consider their dog, Doctor, a member of the family. They take him on vacations when possible, like this cross-country trip to Maine.Courtesy of Darlene Horn
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"When they come to us from the shelter, we say, 'Today is the day that they start their new life,'" Zina Goodin, co-founder of Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, told TODAY .
Panicked, she reached out to Babs Fry, who is well known in San Diego for volunteering to help reunite owners with lost pets, particularly dogs. Fry shares photos, videos and stories of dogs lost and found on her Facebook page.The pet recovery specialist recommended they split up: One should wait at the pet sitter's house in case Doctor returned, the other at their own home — with all doors open and the lights on. Meanwhile, they spread the news about Doctor on the neighborhood social network site Nextdoor as well as Facebook and Twitter (and canceled their trip to Alaska).
Doctor smiles at his family immediately after being reunited. The 6-year-old dog had been missing for 88 hours.Courtesy of Darlene Horn
Several days later, two neighbors reported seeing Doctor in a nearby canyon. Fry suggested the Horns use her not-so-secret weapon: rotisserie chicken. So Paul Horn spread a blanket near the last place where Doctor was seen and opened the package of chicken, releasing the aroma into the air. He sat quietly and, instead of screaming the dog's name to keep from scaring him, jingled the belt that usually meant it was time for a walk.
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Minutes later, Doctor was in his arms, wagging like crazy. The couple was, of course, overjoyed.
"It had been 88 hours," Horn said. "He had lost 3 pounds, but he was happy."
Fry refused payment for her services and instead asked the Horns to "pay it forward" by helping others with lost pets.
"I've taken it to heart because this is<|fim_middle|> in her care. Thanks to advice from a friend who had experience finding lost dogs, she reunited with Prada a week later.
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"It was nothing short of a miracle," Fry told TODAY. "It made me a believer." Now Fry offers free phone consultations to "pretty much anyone" who calls about a lost dog; she fields about six calls a day. Most people are local, but some live out of state or in other countries, like Canada and Australia.
Tags: fry, doctor, dog, sitter, horn, trip, prada, chicken, family, darlene, | priceless," Horn said.
For five years, Fry, a 49-year-old realtor, has been helping people like the Horns because she can relate to the desperation of losing a dog. The longtime rescue advocate had fostered about 200 dogs when a particularly fearful pooch named Prada ran away after just 12 hours | 70 |
synTI® is a product developed by Optimal specifically for the integration of disparate inspection systems and printing systems on a packaging line –often in a regulated environment. Usually, (but not always), clients need to print batch/lot information on a product or carton together with a bard code or 2D code. They may then<|fim_middle|> all the information from the inspection devices in real time and logs this data to its database. On batch completion the information can, if required, be printed to a report, this report also being stored on the PC.
The most common application is a single printer and a single camera, however we have supplied multi printer and camera systems, and provided that your inspection device has a serial connection then we can interface to it and exchange data.
Systems can be integrated into your existing production line, else we can supply a completely separate machine for carrying out your inspection and verification actions – please see the iPass® product information in this section. | need to verify that the printed information is correct, read or write to an RFID tag and perhaps weigh the product. synTI® is designed as the framework into which all of these different devices connect, and by either remotely selecting a pre-configured product and populating the dynamic data by downloading from a central system - else by the operator selecting the product from a pull down list and entering the information just once, then synTI® automatically configures all the equipment relevant to that specific product so that the line can then be simply started. synTI then collects and stores | 113 |
The MiFi 8800L Jetpack by Inseego was released in October 2018 (our news story), replacing the MiFi 7730L as Verizon's flagship mobile hotspot device.
Even though it looks nearly identical to its older sibling, the 8800L is a major step up in terms of raw cellular capability - for the first time bringing gigabit LTE technologies to Verizon's Jetpack lineup.
With 5G technology looming on the horizon, this hotspot perhaps represents the LTE pinnacle of the pre-5G world.
<|fim_middle|>0L drops support for CDMA cellular technology - which means that it is NOT compatible with Verizon's legacy 3G network. This would have been a major red flag a few years ago, but it is growing extremely rare to find areas where Verizon has 3G and no LTE coverage.
But if you do know that you will be spending time in any of these places - do keep this in mind before upgrading.
We have a review unit in our testing line-up, an are currently doing extensive testing relying on the MiFi 8800L Jetpack versus other Verizon compatible devices.
Our in-depth review is a work in progress and is coming online as we have experience and feedback to share. Our members are also encouraged to actively share their experiences in the comments.
Currently the 8800L is only available from Verizon's online store in Verizon retail stores. Eventually we expect it will show up in third-party retailers, but based upon past hotspot launches it may take many months. | April 12, 2019 Update: Since the release of the 8800L, we have been fielding a number of reports of network dropouts and spontaneous reboots of this device. As best we can tell, not all units are impacted, as many have had no issues at all. But for those who are impacted by the issues, they can make the unit unreliable.
We have been in direct touch with Inseego on this issue since mid-November and have sent them several member's logs.
Since early March, we tested an 8800L flashed with beta firmware for Inseego. The new firmware shows substantial improvements, but we also noted a few lingering drop outs and they have made some revisions. In mid-April, Inseego has shipped us and some of our members a new 8800L to test and log potential issues. Inseego tells us they have given Verizon the firmware build - and at some point, Verizon should approve and push it to customers as an update.
Until these issues are resolved, it may be wise to hold off on purchasing this Jetpack model if you want to avoid potential problems.
8800L Issues Thread: Who Is Experiencing Reboots and/or Dropouts?
2G: GSM EDGE - Quad-band global roaming.
One difference of note compared to the MiFi 7730L is that the MiFi 880 | 299 |
FAO's latest forecast for 2015 world cereal production stands at 2 527 million tonnes, 1.1 percent (27 million tonnes) below the 2014 record, and fractionally above expectations last month, as improved prospects for coarse grains were offset by a cut in the rice forecast. The upgrading of the coarse grains production outlook mainly rests on a 1 percent (5 million tonnes) increase for maize to 1 007 million tonnes, reflecting larger than earlier-anticipated crops in Europe and South America, owing to improved weather conditions. The global 2015 wheat forecast remains unchanged from June at 723 million tonnes, but around 1 percent (8 million tonnes) lower than the record of 2014. The year-on-year decline is the result of lower expected outputs in the EU and the Russian Federation, where yields are anticipated to return to average levels, after the exceptionally high levels achieved last year. By contrast, prospects for rice deteriorated further over the past month, with 2015 production revised down by 1.2 million tonnes, largely reflecting lower expectations in Asia, in particular for India. As a result, global rice production is now forecast at 499 million tonnes, barely 1 percent<|fim_middle|>-use ratio would drop to 24.6 percent, one percentage point less than in 2014/15, but still above-average. World wheat inventories are now put at around 198 million tonnes, unchanged from their opening levels, but 4 million tonnes lower than reported in June, with the bulk of the reduction arising in the EU, India and Indonesia. As for coarse grains, global inventories are forecast marginally higher than last month, as most upward adjustments to end-of-season stocks, especially for Brazil, China and Ukraine were offset by reductions in Australia and the United States. Compared with last year, coarse grains stocks are now predicted to decline by 2 percent (5 million tonnes) to 264 million tonnes. Although the forecast for world rice carryovers in 2016 has been raised somewhat since June, they are still expected to drop by 4 percent (8 million tonnes) from last year to 169 million tonnes, with much of the load-off concentrated in major exporting countries. | above the 2014 outturn.
FAO's forecast for world cereal utilization in 2015/16 has been raised marginally since June. The most notable revision concerns the estimates of maize feed use, which have been adjusted upward in both the 2014/15 and 2015/16 marketing seasons. At 2 534 million tonnes, world cereal consumption is anticipated to grow by 1.2 percent (30 million tonnes) from the 2014/15 estimated level. More than half of this increase corresponds to coarse grains, the utilization of which is foreseen to rise by 1.4 percent to 1 306 million tonnes, underpinned by a greater maize usage for feed, especially in Brazil, China and the United States. The forecast for rice utilization in 2015/16 has been cut slightly since last month and is now foreseen in the order of 507 million tonnes or 7 million tonnes more than in 2014/15, with much of the year-to-year increase corresponding to food. The volume of cereals destined to direct human consumption is projected to rise by 1.2 percent (13 million tonnes), compared to 2014/15, which would lead to a stable cereal per caput food intake of 152.4 kg per year.
The FAO forecast for world cereal stocks by the close of 2016 crop seasons has been lowered by 3 million tonnes since the previous report to 631 million tonnes, mostly on account of wheat. Based on the latest forecast, world cereal inventories would be down 2.1 percent (14 million tonnes) from their high opening levels, with rice mainly responsible for the reduction. Based on the latest stock and utilization forecasts, the global cereal stock-to | 396 |
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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp e beside the -golden door. H 1' I P 'I N I !
Suggestions in the Nimitz Junior High School - Mast Yearbook (Tulsa, OK) collection: | 1787, the new constitu- tion was completed. ln a little more than four months, six states had ratified the new constitution. Despite the good beginning, the fight for ratification was bitter and it was not until September 13, 1788, that the necessary two-thirds majority of the states had approved the docu- ment and Congress could call for states to choose their electors and congressmen. Several of the states had ratified the constitution with the provision that it would be amended. Thus, as one of its first official acts under the new constitution, the Congress added the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Washington was un- animously elected President and a new nation was launched on a course of democracy.
"Stand Your Ground. . . If They Mean to Have a War, Let It Begin Here. U Capt. John Parker If Capt. John Parker uttered those words as the colonial militia under his command prepared to meet the British troops at Lexington. Those words and the painting-Spirit of '76-exemplify the dedication and determination of the American patriots in their fight for independence. The colonies had organized to express their grievances in an effort to resolve the differences within the framework of the Empire. Several of the colonial legislatures had instructed their delegates to the Con- tinental Congress in Philadelphia to oppose any move toward in- dependence | 280 |
Original Article| Volume 79, P120-129, November 2016
Evidence & Gap Maps: A tool for promoting evidence informed policy and strategic research agendas
Birte Snilstveit
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), London International Development Centre, London, UK
Martina Vojtkova
NatCen<|fim_middle|>i Bhavsar
Jennifer Stevenson
Marie Gaarder
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Published:July 04, 2016DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.05.015
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A range of organizations are engaged in the production of evidence on the effects of health, social, and economic development programs on human welfare outcomes. However, evidence is often scattered around different databases, web sites, and the gray literature and is often presented in inaccessible formats. Lack of overview of the evidence in a specific field can be a barrier to the use of existing research and prevent efficient use of limited resources for new research. Evidence & Gap Maps (EGMs) aim to address these issues and complement existing synthesis and mapping approaches. EGMs are a new addition to the tools available to support evidence-informed policymaking. To provide an accessible resource for researchers, commissioners, and decision makers, EGMs provide thematic collections of evidence structured around a framework which schematically represents the types of interventions and outcomes of relevance to a particular sector. By mapping the existing evidence using this framework, EGMs provide a visual overview of what we know and do not know about the effects of different programs. They make existing evidence available, and by providing links to user-friendly summaries of relevant studies, EGMs can facilitate the use of existing evidence for decision making. They identify key "gaps" where little or no evidence from impact evaluations and systematic reviews is available and can be a valuable resource to inform a strategic approach to building the evidence base in a particular sector. The article will introduce readers to the concept and methods of EGMs and present a demonstration of the EGM tool using existing examples.
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| Local arts and engineering center gets new headquarters
Isabel Bysiewicz
Local arts and engineering center gets new headquarters
Isabel Bysiewicz 11:19 pm, Aug 28, 2018
Local officials did not use scissors to cut a ribbon at the opening ceremony celebrating the expansion of MakeHaven, a local arts and engineering center. Rather, Mayor Toni Harp and MakeHaven Executive Director J.R. Logan used an electric saw to cut through wood.
Members and staff of MakeHaven, city officials and New Haven residents gathered on Monday afternoon at 770 Chapel St. to celebrate its move to a larger location, which will allow for a wider array of projects. Since 2012, MakeHaven Inc. has been a nonprofit workshop for innovators in New Haven County. The move was sponsored in part by CT Next, the city of New Haven and the Elm City Innovation Collaborative.
"I'm very excited about the prospects for this new location and the opportunity for all the more dreaming, tinkering and creative activity," Harp said at the opening event. "This expansion of MakeHaven is a significant step forward in a citywide effort that's transforming New Haven into a next-generation center of innovation and activity."
The new space features a woodshop, a CNC wood mill, a laser cutter and more equipment for other projects<|fim_middle|>'s enhanced space and programming will allow MakeHaven to broaden its impact on the community.
"It has been wonderful to see the excitement of our members and guests as they realized the amazing things that can be built in this fantastic new location," he said.
In addition the facilities upgrade, a new MakeHaven initiative — Prototype to Product Pipeline— will bring experts to New Haven to present on subjects such as building prototypes, methods of designing for manufacturing and more.
Attendees at the ceremony toured the new space and talked to owners about upcoming projects. Nicholas Souris, who has been a member of MakeHaven for more than a year, said he's excited about the expanded work space for projects.
"I'm most excited about [having] the more space, really — the ability to have a lot of different people doing different things," Souris said.
MakeHaven will host a number of events for members in the upcoming weeks — including AED and CPR certification, printmaking lessons and woodshop workshops. On Tuesday nights, the center hosts open hours in which visitors can test new equipment.
The membership fee for MakeHaven is $50 a month.
Isabel Bysiewicz | isabel.bysiewicz@yale.edu | , such as sewing, printmaking, electronics, communications, brewing, mold-making and 3-D printing. The 6,000-square-foot center is three times the size of the center's previous space, according to MakeHaven operations manager Kate Cebik.
The new location initially opened in March, but parts of the space were still under construction until the end of the summer. Cebik said MakeHaven's enlarged space will allow members — who often come in the early hours of the day before work, during lunch breaks and late into the night — more freedom in their work. The space will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Logan said in a press release that the organization | 149 |
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Elizabeth Grayson
Author of Women's Fiction
A Simple Gift
Painted By The Sun
Color of the Wind
So Wide the Sky
A Place Called Home
Bride of the Wilderness
From This Day Onward
Let No Man Divide
Portrait of a Lady
Notes to Readers
Contact Elizabeth
Advice on Writing
Point of View, Part II
Point of View, One More Time
Strategies for a productive conference experience
The ever-elusive perfect query letter
So are there rules to writing romance?
Adding that special dash of research
Synopsis writing
Synopsis writing, part 2
Plot or characters
The other half: plot
A few thoughts on introspection
With Susan Wiggs, the multi RITA winner.
Old friends – Connie Brockway & Me.
Jean Brashear, Inglath Cooper & Me – Finalists all.
Madeline Hunter and me – gone all sparkly.
With Patti Berg – Don't we look as if we could be related? (We're not!)
Tom in his tux, me, Kimberly Cates, &
Susan Carrou – Aren't we cute?
We enjoyed the sculptures in Santa Fe when we were there last March.
Visiting author, Lynn Michaels is astonished by the beauty of St. Louis's Forest Park. (The statue in the background is of Louis IX, for whom the town was named, goes back to the 1904 World's Fair.)
Photos taken at the Omaha/Lincoln Libraries' "Turning the Pages of Romance" conference:
The participating authors: Front: Ruth Schofield, Cynthia Rutledge, Lois Greiman, Cheryl St. John. Back: Victoria Alexander, moi, Jo Beverly, Deborah Raney, Kathleen Eagle, Julie Miller.
Deborah Raney, Kathleen Eagle and I spoke on a panel called "Get Thee to a Keyboard: Tricks to Getting Started."
Hope you all aren't tired of looking at my pictures of the California coast.
Tom and I at Nepenthe on the Big Sur coast. It wins the "Restaurant with the Best View" award hands down.
The falls at Julia Pfeifer Burns State Park.
At The RT convention in St. Louis. Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award recipients: Front: Elizabeth Grayson, Pam Rosenthal, Sasha Lord, Dianne Castell. Back: Anna DeStefano, Victoria Alexander, Eloisa James, Cathy Maxwell.
IN SEARCH OF A COVER ILLUSTRATION
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IN SEARCH OF A COVER ILLUSTRATION:
Bride of the Wilderness is the 6th book in THE WOMEN'S WEST series of novels set on the American Frontier. (Books 1 – 4 are currently available as e-books and will soon come out in paperback.) Since this story takes place in the 1770's at a fur trade rendezvous and in the French Colonial settlements along the Mississippi, talented cover designer Kim Killion was looking for a historical vignette to use on the cover.
Though I had taken a series of photographs at a rendezvous in Illinois at Fort de Chartres, Illinois several years ago, the images (above) weren't digital and Kim couldn't use then. That's what sent my husband and me off on a fine spring day to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri to photograph French Colonial architecture.
Did you know that there are only three areas in North America where this kind of architecture has been preserved? They are in the Provence of Quebec, Canada, in New Orleans and southern Louisiana and on the banks of the Mississippi south of St. Louis.
The earliest French settlement along the Mississippi was begun in 1707 by French missionaries and christened Kaskaskia. Later fur traders followed the missionaries' route—from Quebec, through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. Farmers in search of arable land came to Kaskaskia a few years later.
By 1750, the demand for land had grown so that the newer residents of Kaskaskia began to cross to the west side of the Mississippi every day to cultivate the rich bottomland. To this day, this area on the west bank is known as "The Big Field."
To avoid having to cross the river, the farmers eventually built houses on the western bank and named their town Ste. Genevieve. After a devastating flood in 1785, the town moved to higher ground, an area well back from the river known as "the little hills." It is here that we find the charming French Colonial buildings of Ste. Genevieve being both lived in and preserved as museums.
While makeshift housing existed for several years after the flood, once the settlers began to build lasting homes, they did it in what is now called the French Colonial style. Many house of the period were built in the poteaux-en-terre style, which is represented by the Biquette–Ribault house shown here.
With this kind of construction, the builders dig a deep trench that scribes the perimeter of the house. Once the trenching is completed, tall palisaded stakes are driven vertically into the ground and backfilled to establish the walls.
In the poteaux-sur-solle construction a cedar sill is set into the ground and the vertical pickets are erected on top of the sill to form the walls.
With both these construction methods the space between the pickets is filled with a noggin called bouzillage, made of clay, straw and woven sticks. Applied in layers, bouzillage hardens to a kind of plaster finish. That plaster is often covered with whitewash as a final layer.
Please note: What most of us have come to think of as a "traditional" log cabin, which uses horizontal rather than vertical logs, is more of an English-German building convention.
After the move to the little hills, structures like the Bulduc House, began to appear. They were built with the same Colonial French designs but of stone quarried from the "little hills" themselves. Extensive flower, vegetable gardens and orchards surrounded most of the houses in the village.
One of the most distinctive features of these French Colonial houses is the roof, which somewhat resembles a wide-brimmed straw hat. A complex Norman truss system is necessary to support this roofline, but the height and width also provided ample attic space for the storage of grain, foodstuffs or supplies. Since many of the homes in Ste. Genevieve were<|fim_middle|> stands on St. Mary's Road at the edge of town. It is known as the Beauveau-Amoreau House, and was built in 1792.
If you are interested in visiting historic Ste. Genevieve, these are some links you might find interesting:
< http://visitstegen.com>
< http://bolduchouse.org>
< https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bolduc-House-Museum/42942974051>
< http://www.ste-genevieve.com/histsite.htm>
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The roof's deep overhang also provides deep, shady porches on every side of the house. Some of these spaces were enclosed to as separate rooms, but more often the porches were used as workspace or for meals and entertaining. It is believed that this style of roof was a design brought from the Caribbean.
We returned from our fieldtrip with a nearly a hundred photographs. The house my cover designer Kim chose for Bride of the Wilderness | 102 |
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I saw this in the weekend Parade magazine awhile back, and I thought it sounded quite interesting - so I had to try it. It took me a while to remember to buy some more fresh ginger, but I finally got a chance to make some this week. I wasn't really sure what to expect, because I've never had ginger beer, but I figured it couldn't be bad with all these ingredients.
Put ginger in a food processor, adding just enough cold water to puree it. Scrape pureed ginger into a large, heatproof glass or ceramic bowl or pitcher and add boiling water, honey, cloves, cinnamon stick, zest and juice. Cover loosely with a kitchen towel and keep mixture in a warm place for about 4 hours, stir occasionally as mixture cools and skim foam off the surface occasionally if necessary.
Stir in 1 quart cold water and taste for sweetness, adding more honey or lemon or lime juice as needed. Use a fine mesh strainer to strain ginger beer and pour it into ceramic or glass bottles. Cap tightly and store in the refrigerator.
Serve as soon as it is chilled, or wait 2-3 days for it to ferment and start to fizz slightly. Dilute with ice, more cold water, citrus juice—or, for an extra jolt, dark rum<|fim_middle|> it.
This is one of the recipes I almost made for the Secret Recipe Club a couple months ago. There are always so many recipes to choose from, and it's practically impossible to choose just one. And, of course, there's nothing that says I can't make them all, right? I ended up making these yummy Frozen Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter and Banana Bites for the SRC Reveal, but I had to go back and make this Peach BBQ Pulled Chicken, too.
This BBQ sauce is sweetened with canned peaches instead of sugar, so it's even quite healthy. It's definitely tasty!
Combine all the sauce ingredients (including juice from the peaches) in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low and simmer for one hour. Transfer sauce to a blender or a food processor and pulse until the sauce reaches a very smooth consistency. Return to pot and set aside.
While the sauce is cooking, place chicken breast in another pot. Add chicken broth and enough water to cover. Bring to a boil then reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes or until chicken is very tender and no longer pink inside. Transfer cooked chicken to a cutting board and shred it using two forks (use one fork to hold the chicken steady and the other one to tear it apart). Save cooking broth for another use.
Add shredded chicken to the prepared sauce and mix well to coat. Serve on buns.
Note: You can use all broth or all water to cook the chicken if you want. I just had 1 cup of broth and only needed half of it for the sauce so I figured I'd use it for the chicken, too.
We added some sweet bread & butter pickles and shredded cabbage for a bit of tangyness and crunch, and it was perfect. I will definitely be making this again. The chicken also freezes well. Just pull it out, thaw, and heat, for a quick and simple meal. | . Chill, covered, for up to 1 week.
Since I've never had ginger beer, I'm not sure if this tastes like that or not, but it is a very refreshing drink - all citrusy with that kick of ginger, and I've been enjoying it. I usually just put it over ice and add a little water to dilute it slightly. I haven't noticed any fermenting or fizzing, even though it's been several days since I've made it.
I've been reading through some other articles and recipes (on Epicurious and Food.com to name a couple), and several of them call for yeast to encourage the fermentation, so I might try one of these next time. Or leave it out for a few days to start it. I am enjoying it enough that I definitely want to try this again. I'd love to hear any tips you have if you've ever made | 182 |
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Hologic to buy Somatex and its biopsy site marker tech for $64M
Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) announced today that it completed the acquisition of Somatex Medical Technologies GmbH for $64 million. Marlborough, […]
Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) announced today that it completed the acquisition of Somatex Medical Technologies GmbH for $64 million.
Marlborough, Mass.-based Hologic's acquisition of the company, which was previously owned by E-Med Solutions GmbH, is slated to support its strategy of providing further solutions across the continuum of breast health care and across Europe, according to a news release.
Somatex's products, which include minimally invasive devices for tumor diagnostics, biopsy and interventional specialties, are seen by Hologic as opportunities to add expertise and capabilities to its breast health care portfolio. Additionally, the company has already previously distributed Somatex's Tumark family of tissue markers in the U.S.
"The acquisition of Somatex allows us to expand our biopsy portfolio by providing a suite of market-leading solutions that not only address our customers' needs, but also improve the biopsy experience for their patients," Hologic breast and skeletal health solutions division president Jennifer Meade said in the release. "We've had a strong partnership with Somatex for several years, which along with our shared focus on innovation, will allow us to quickly integrate and begin building a pipeline that will drive profitable growth and recurring revenue for our breast health business globally."
Hologic expects Somatex to generate approximately $13 million in revenues for calendar year 2020, including the sales of Tumark markers to the company. The acquisition is expected to be slightly accretive to Hologic's non-GAAP earnings per sahre starting in the current fiscal year.
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Written by: Sean Whooley | atex has been committed to driving innovative, best-in-class tumor marker and localization solutions for our customers and their patients and to becoming a leader in our space," Somatex managing director Joerg Heise said. " We are excited to continue this journey through Hologic and their global footprint, providing so many more with access to these pioneering technologies that aid in the early detection and treatment of breast cancer."
Original Article: (https://www.massdevice.com/hologic-to-buy-somatex-and-its-b | 102 |
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