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'You can't have the edge without the middle'
Jason Manford, comedian
BY KERN<|fim_middle|> was funny enough."
Jason shares a few stories with me about the kind of scrapes his family got up to in the 1970s, starting with 'liberating' a cooker from a neighbours house. "Any chance of getting something free you'd take, as you couldn't afford a new cooker," he says. "I remember having to go with my dad and get the cooker out of this guy's house, and we took some shoes as well. He was a friend of my mum, and he'd died, so it was 'Oh great, let's go get all this stuff.' Well, it wasn't great. It was a free for all. That's what it was like back then!
'I sold 120 more records than Shania Twain - bet that didn't impress her much!'
"I remember one Christmas, we couldn't afford a tree. Dad thought it was a waste of money to get a tree that year. I remember being woken up at two o'clock by my two uncles, who were hammered drunk, throwing stones at the window to let them in the house. I looked out the window and they were out in the garden, holding up an eight foot tall conifer. They'd just been in someone's garden and robbed it! It was too tall to get into the house, so part of it had to be cut off, and I could see my dad out in the garden, sweeping up the trail of pine needles and soil leading out of the house, giving away who nicked the tree!"
Aside from comedy, Jason's other great passion is musicals, and he enjoyed some success last year with his debut album, A Different Stage, featuring songs from Les Miserables, Chess, Sunset Boulevard, and The King and I. There was also a nod to his Irish heritage with a version of 'Carrickfergus'.
"It wasn't something I begged for," he says of the album's genesis. "The marketing people saw 'he's popular, he likes musicals', but I was excited to do it, it was fun, it was an absolute dream, what songs to pick, what versions to do, and standing in front of a 60 piece orchestra…ahh!…there's no sound like it. It got amazing reviews, got into the Top 10, and sold 120 more records than Shania Twain - bet that didn't impress her much! I'm glad I'm not in the music industry though. I don't know how, in this era of Spotify, they make money, unless they're Ed Sheeran. I've not seen a cheque yet."
Jason has appeared in the musicals Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Producers, and Sweeney Todd, and last month it was announced he would star in a major new production of Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall, playing Nathan Detroit, a man with a very particular gambling problem.
"He doesn't necessarily have a gambling problem," says Jason, "he organises games for people with gambling problems. His problem is that he can't find anywhere to hold a game as the police keep moving him on. I watched the film again recently and I'm thinking, 'I'm going to be playing the role Frank Sinatra did in that film!' Sometimes when dipping my toe into this world, I get this sense, 'Am I here only because I'm on the telly?' That's part of it, but if you can't do it you get found out pretty quick. Getting re-booked is a pretty good sign."
Jason is long time Manchester City supporter. For many years, that was an unhappy furrow to plough, but since Pep Guardiola become manager, the blue half of Manchester has never known an era like it. "You can look at football and think, it's soap opera and 'Oh money is ruining the game'," he says, "but when it happens to your club you think, 'I'll take it!', and you think back to the days when you were beaten by Swindon Town on a Tuesday night in winter, and you'd be hiding your Man City shirt under your coat, or else you wouldn't wear it, because you'd be be picked on at school because your team was crap. United are having a slump now, so that adds to it."
Jason Manford plays a 'Róisín Dubh presents…' show at the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday September 25 at 7pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall Theatre (091 - 569777, www.ht.ie ), www.roisindubh.net; the Ticket Desk at [email protected], Shop Street.
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Jason Manford.
Jason Manford had a realisation. His origins are as a working class lad from Salford in the north of England, the child born to an Irish emigrant and English family, but his children, thanks to their dad's success as a comedian, actor, writer, singer, and broadcaster, means they are very much middle class.
That confusion and realisation, where Jason himself is no longer sure which class he belongs to, has produced a new term for those who fall in-between the established socio-economic stratum, as well as the title of the show he brings to the Black Box Theatre later this month - Muddle Class.
"The show is about my background, and where I'm from, and the realisation my kids will have a different upbringing to you," Jason tells me during our Friday morning conversation. "It makes me wonder, if I was a teenager now, would I even be their friend? How many things would I have in common with them? They did a taster session for horse riding recently. That was never an option when I was a kid. I thought when I first started this show, it was just me, but I've found it's a thing a lot of people feel, that they're raising kids who are posher then them. People's lives have moved on and that change is very funny. 'Muddle class' is where the two classes meet - the kind of person who eats olives while watching Jeremy Kyle."
While Jason may be 'muddle class', when it comes to his comedy he makes no apologies for being 'middle of the road'. In July this year, in response to a review in The Guardian, he declared he was "not 'stubbornly' 'middle-of-the-road'", but was proudly so. "I like it here" he said.
"I always read reviews, but don't common on them," he says. "You get a thick skin as a comic, but I felt I had to reply to that one. There was a bit of snobbishness towards the audience. I felt they were having a pop at my audience. Just because you're edgy or pushing boundaries doesn't make you better. Look at the numbers, a sitcom that gets a one and half million viewers is called a cult hit. Mrs Brown's Boys gets 10 million views and gets slagged off. That's what amazed me about that review. You can't have the edge without the middle. I've worked with Jimmy Carr and Jim Jeffries. The edgy comics all know you need people like me, Michael McIntyre, and Peter Kay propping up the edge."
Jason's Irish connections come through his grandparents, Ryans from Dublin, who moved to Manchester in the 1950s. The showbiz and performing gene was certainly inherited from that side of the family. "They were brilliant singers," says Jason. "There were eleven children, one of them was my mum. They were all in an Irish showband playing folk and country and western in pubs loads of weekends."
Jason is continuing that family tradition of performance, alongside his sister, who is a musician, and two uncles, one of whom is a Neil Diamond tribute act, and the other, a Michale Bubelé impersonator.
"There was no shock when I wanted to do media and performance in university," he says. "It wasn't as if we were from a long line of accountants, and 'You've got to go into the family firm!'. The Manfords are all quite straight and 'normal'. The Ryans are a hodge lodge of crazy characters. There'd be afternoons in pubs that would stretch into the early hours of the following morning, there'd be fights at christenings. It gave us all a sense of performance, and it fed into my comedy. The first gigs I did were me telling stories about my family and that | 823 |
9 ways to get more out of your audio interface
By Computer Music (Computer Music) 2014-07-30T08:00:00Z Tech
There's more to it than just recording and playback, you know…
Wring every last drop of functionality from your sound system.
It's<|fim_middle|> musicians are experimental on stage and they leave their ego behind" | tempting simply to plug your audio interface into your computer, make the relevant input and output connections and then just leave it to do its thing.
There can be more to these anonymous-looking boxes than meets the eye, though, as you're about to discover.
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1. On my own
Believe it or not, although they're primarily designed to work whilst connected to a computer, a number of audio interfaces can also operate in standalone mode. If you're interested in this feature, then interfaces from major players such as M-Audio, MOTU, RME and Focusrite are all worth checking out. Naturally, features do vary from one unit to the next; however, interfaces typically either retain their most recent settings when they're powered down, or allow you to save a specific 'standalone' patch to their internal memory. The latter should load automatically if the interface is powered up when not connected to your computer.
2. I/O silver lining
Stuck for ideas on what to actually do with your interface's newfound standalone capabilities? First up, interfaces that include integrated software can be configured to flexibly route inputs to outputs, so at the simplest level, you can use your interface as a mixer. This could be to subgroup signals or - if it has headphone outputs - to create headphone mixes. If you regularly practice with a band using the same setup, once you've dialled in the mix once using the mixer software, you can just bring the interface without the computer next time around. You may also be able to route analogue to digital and vice versa, which will turn your interface into a standalone AD or DA converter. Finally, there may be the option to route one type of digital connection (optical, say) to another type (coax, perhaps).
3. More is more
Even the most high-spec audio interfaces tend to include no more than eight mic preamps, limiting things a bit if you're recording a band. However, they often supplement the audio connectivity with S/PDIF and ADAT connections. So, if you can grab an ADAT- or S/PDIF-equipped mic pre or converter with standalone mic pres, you can increase your available input streams.
4. On aggregate
One way to increase physical connectivity is to add another interface. Some manufacturers allow you to combine multiple interfaces - excellent if you have the budget. However, you may also be able to aggregate interfaces from unrelated manufacturers. In the picture above, we're using OS X's Audio MIDI setup to combine two interfaces into one aggregated one.
5. Effects onboard
More and more audio interfaces are including some form of integrated DSP effects, either for processing signals as you record them, or to provide onboard monitoring effects such as reverb. Here, we're using the king of them all - Universal Audio's mighty Apollo - to add reverb and delay to our guitar signal, and we can opt to record either that or the dry signal.
6. Desk jockey
Although integrated mixing software is now commonplace with interfaces, it isn't the only option for managing your ins and outs. For simplicity, flexibility and to keep things tactile, a small mixing desk can be the perfect sidekick. Use it for monitor control, headphones routing, and quickly routing in any hardware device.
7. The best of both
If you work solely in-the-box but like real-world analogue processing, connect your interface outs to outboard gear and route the processed signals back into your inputs. Many DAWs include features to make it a cinch to integrate external effects into your projects; for instance, Logic has its I/O plugin, while Ableton Live has its External Audio Effect.
8. Integrate to accumulate
It's not unusual to find audio interfaces integrated with other devices such as keyboards and even guitar processors (Digidesign's Eleven or Line 6's Pod, for example). Sometimes this combination will be ideal, particularly if you're on the move and need to keep your system simple, or if you need it tailored to your particular needs.
9. Take it outside
The most obvious way to expand your interface is to invest in an external mic preamp or channel strip. External preamps include much better circuitry than your typical interface, and a channel strip includes other tone shaping options such as EQ and compression. A quality digital audio converter - aka DAC - is the icing on the cake. Decent channel strips can be had for reasonable money these days, so don't fee
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Coventry City's song book: A must read for all fans travelling to Wembley
A look at the Sky Blue Army's songs and chants and their origins
Andy TurnerSky Blues Reporter
Coventry City are expected to hugely outnumber Exeter City supporters when the two sides meet in this year's League Two Play-Off Final.
The Sky Blue Army have already purchased over 33,500 tickets of their 40,000 allocation for the trip to Wembley.
The Grecians on the other hand have sold around 10,000 tickets so far, meaning the Sky Blues will have a significant advantage from the stands.
Coventry fans have always been pretty inventive and used plenty of humour when it comes to thinking of songs and chants, with this season seeing a number of new ditties added to their repertoire.
Here we take a look at the origins of some of the City faithful classics from their back catalogue and some of the latest to make their song book ahead of the club's visit to the National Stadium:
The Sky Blue Army in fine voice
This is a fans' favourite. The origin of how this Beatles classic became associated with the Sky Blues is not completely clear to many City supporters, but according to urban myth some fans have pointed to a fellow supporter named 'Twister'.
It is understood that in the late 80's fans in the Highfield Road Kop would sing, 'Twister, give us a song' to which he would reply with the famous tune.
Lifelong City fan Juggy Chima, meanwhile, believes that the Fab Four's cover hit from the '60s was a regular on the Highfield Road pre-match playlist but not adopted by the Sky Blue Army until the mid-90s at an away game at Crystal Palace when it was played and the supporters started singing it.
He believes the fans made it a regular in their repertoire when the club moved to the Ricoh Arena in the mid noughties.
One squeaky Robins
A new song that has come about this season. It derives from the away fixture with Mansfield Town in which following the game, ex-Stags boss Steve Evans referred to Sky Blues gaffer Mark Robins as 'squeaky little Robins'.
Mark Robins saw the funny side of his 'One Squeaky Robins' ditty
In a humorous dig at the Scotsman, City fans began this chant just days later along with its spin-off, 'Squeaky, what's the score?'
Ain't nobody, like McNulty
Sung to the tune of Chaka Khan's famous 80s hit, this chant began mid-way through the campaign when Sky Blues striker<|fim_middle|>80s tune from Depeche Mode has been sung from the terraces from time to time in recent years.
Anti songs
There have been plenty of foul-mouthed chants over the years, the most famous of which, of course, is '**** on the Villa' and 'Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo, we hate the ******** in claret and blue!'
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Despite the gulf in divisions, the fans never tire of having a pop at their Midland rivals and still occasionally dust it off to this day.
Up the football league we go!
Finally, a song we all hope to be singing come full time at Wembley. A song in which the City faithful hail manager Mark Robins as their king.
If the 48-year-old can guide the Sky Blues to their first promotion since 1967 then he'll be a whole lot more than just their king.
Highfield Road
Mark Robins
Jordan Ponticelli
Jordan Shipley
Maxime Biamou | Marc McNulty began to hit a rich vein of form.
The tune has since grown in popularity as the season has developed with the Scotsman's goal tally now standing at 28 in all competitions.
Ain't nobody like McNulty... (Image: EMPICS Sport)
We're the City boys, making all the noise
This fairly basic chant is often sung at away days to demonstrate to the home crowd just how well supported City are on their travels, having outnumbered the home side on several occasions this year.
Play Up Sky Blues
Easily the most iconic of all of City's songs, this chant was first penned way back in the 60s. It derived from the Eton Boating Song and was inspired by the one and only, Jimmy Hill . While the lyrics have been updated as the years have gone on, the song remains a huge part of Sky Blue folk law.
Jimmy Hill leads a chorus of Play Up Sky Blues during the unveiling of his statue at the Ricoh Arena
Jordan Shipley, he's one of our own
A song made popular by Tottenham Hotspur fans when they began singing it to goal hero Harry Kane when he burst onto the scene. After an impressive breakthrough season under Mark Robins, the City faithful have adapted the chant in favour of 20-year-old Academy graduate.
Local lad done good - Jordan Shipley
In our Coventry homes
Another immensely popular chant. Originally sung by Liverpool fans, the Sky Blues adapted it to include the cathedral reference '...if you want a cathedral we've got one to spare, in our Coventry homes...' and it has been a regular on the terraces ever since.
We've got Michael Doyle, with Kelly in the middle
Comfortably the song of the season. Sparked to life upon the return of fan favourite Doyler and his strong midfield partnership with summer signing Liam Kelly.
Captain Fantastic Michael Doyle
The tune has grown in popularity throughout the season but in recent weeks has reached its peak, with the players even singing along to it following victory at Notts County on Friday.
Come on Ponticelli, score some goals for City
Originating from the song 'Cum on Feel the Noize' made popular by Slade in the 70s, this chant is aimed at teenage sensation Jordan Ponticelli and his goal scoring exploits.
The tune was sung with much pride recently when the 19-year-old bagged a brace away at Crawley Town to seal a vital 2-1 win which steered the side on their way to securing a play-off place.
JP in full knee slide celebration
We had a wheelbarrow and the wheel fell off
A pointless song believed to have started in the 90s to annoy and confuse rival fans. Sung on repeat, it had many an opposition fan scratching their heads wondering what on earth it was all about.
Big Fat Sully's Icecream Van
This popular ditty from yesteryear harks back to the days at Highfield Road when well known fan Paul Sullivan, who operated an ice cream van at the Speedway for many years, used to regularly arrive late on the old Spion Kop, at which point his mates began singing 'Big Fat Sully's Icecream Van' and it caught on. Sadly, Paul passed away aged just 48 this year, but his name lives on.
So here's to you, Maxime Biamou
Despite not grabbing the headlines with the amount of goals he has scored, when he has hit the net they have been spectacular!
The Frenchman has won over fans with his eye for a worldie and his hard-working attitude and, as a result, supporters have rewarded him with an adaptation on the famous Simon & Garfunkel hit, Mrs Robinson.
Max Biamou has grown in popularity as the season has progressed
He heads it, he kicks it, he heads it, he kicks it
While not being the most popular song in the Sky Blues hymn book, this comedic tune originates with from an interview involving the die-hard centre half Tom Davies .
When asked about his playing style, the defender simply replied, 'All I do is kick it and head it', and that was all that needed to bag himself a new song!
Tom Davies gets up to head the ball against Carlisle
Just Can't Get Enough
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Last Sunday I woke with a desperate need to take my family for a hike. It had been 4 weeks since our last hike and I was feeling it. I had high hopes of getting out into the woods each weekend this fall, but have been stymied by head colds and sore throats — all the germs that school brings home! Fall<|fim_middle|> you but you know it will be worth it. That beaver pond will be there next time. The fire lookout is still calling, too, if anyone wants to join me. | is perfect hiking weather in the PNW. Perfect temperatures, changing leaves, and the long dark rainy days haven't come yet. It's a short window of perfection though, so I've been feeling particularly antsy to not waste any of it.
Finding a destination to please everyone can be daunting. Someone doesn't want to drive very far or be gone too long, or someone else doesn't want a steep hike, or someone wants a long hike or an amazing view. For sheer expediency, I crossed a drive over the mountain pass or the hike to a fire lookout off the list for this weekend. I compromised with a 40 min drive to Lord Hill Park. More people, no dramatic vistas, but still a nice drive and a good walk in the woods. Family outings can be a minefield of compromises so we must keep a positive outlook or it'll never happen, right?
With ten miles of looping trails and several ponds, Lord Hill Park near Snohomish, WA was an easy day outing. My hope was to make it to one of the larger beaver ponds. Roughly halfway along the trail to the beaver pond, we veered off onto a smaller side trail — much narrower, darker, and clearly more interesting. Immediately it became quieter, enabling us to hear birds, frogs, and the wind rustling the leaves. This side trip, though not taking us where I had initially planned to go, allowed me to see the excitement of my son over discovering mushrooms. I had no idea he was so captivated by mushrooms, but he would exclaim loudly for all to come see each new type seen.
He asked if he could have my phone to take pictures and proceeded to take upwards of 30 photos of at least a dozen different species of mushroom. He was continually amazed by each new type of fungus he found. Delicate white frilled mushrooms, spikey orange globes, white-tipped black spikes. Our final find, just before our small, heavily wooded trail joined a much larger, open path, was a truly unique coral fungus. These mushrooms are named because they look like tropical coral, not terrestrial organisms. They look so completely out of place amongst the decaying logs and soil, that one half expects to see a beetle resembling a tropical fish scurry by.
I suggested we print out his photos, ID each species, and create his own fungus field guide. Who knows if that project will ever materialize. Such moments of inspiration often evaporate once we get home. Somehow they manage to get lost in piles of laundry and hours of video games, but they are still great ideas to aspire to.
We never did make it to that beaver pond, but I got to witness an 8-year old's excitement at discovering and documenting an aspect of the natural world that ignites his interest. It was an ever-important reminder to take time and let the kids lead. You never know where they'll take | 596 |
The wonderful, versatile, tasty, low-calorie celery now comes in bright red. Soon to be released on the West Coast in December 2010, red celery is expected to decorate many tables this holiday season. It has the same great taste and fabulous crunch that celery-e<|fim_middle|> fitness blog, developed especially for women. A mother of three, Karen knows how hard it is to fit everything into a busy schedule. A fitness author, personal trainer, Pilate's instructor, sports nutritionist, fitness model, wife and mom, Karen is passionate about helping other women reach their fitness goals. | aters love; the only difference is the vibrant color.
Of course, we all know that food color affects us in many ways. Bright colorful foods have a great impact on most people's appetites; this is especially true for children. That's why the new red celery is expected to be a hit. Every bit as good for the body as the green variety, red celery is certain to attract attention wherever you use it.
Celery is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, but it is high in vitamins A, B and C along with healthy minerals. A good source of dietary fiber, it also contains calcium, potassium and manganese. It is excellent as a snack with peanut butter or with a number of condiments. Celery, green or red can be used in salads, or sautéed with onion for a number of healthy dishes. Soups, meats and vegetable dishes come alive when accented with the healthy, tasty celery.
Some believe that celery can actually help a woman to lose weight. That's because celery is so low in calories that it takes as much energy to eat it and digest it than the calories contained in the celery. One cup of celery contains about 27 calories, but most women eat it with a protein, like cottage cheese or peanut butter. Since each meal should contain protein, it's best to complement it with something healthy and low in saturated fat such as celery. With its many health benefits and low-calorie count it's an excellent choice to pair with just about any protein source.
The new red celery is expected to be a hit and produce markets and grocery stores are planning for its arrival. If it goes well in the test market, it won't be long before it shows up in food stores across the country. Just in time for the holidays, the red celery mixed with the green is sure to brighten and dazzle any food presentation.
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Rudbeckia is probably one of the most popular and well-known wildflowers - and it is not hard to see why. The large, cheery yellow blooms are a welcome addition to any backyard or wildflower planting. Rudbeckia seeds are fairly easy to germinate and grow, and will tolerate a wide variety of lighting and soil conditions. Bees and butterflies love them for their pollen, and there are not many natural pests for these beauties. They are classed as a biennial, but can bloom in their first year, and can live for a few years. They produce a lot of tiny seeds that look like black needles, that have no problem ensuring the ongoing success of the species. These wildflower seeds for sale are good for ordering in bulk and planting en masse.
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Legend has it that the name of this flower comes from popular poem "Black-Eyed Susan" by 19th century poet John Gay. In the poem, pretty Susan loved a sailor boy named William. Interestingly, this flower and Wild Sweet William always bloom at the same time. The genus name "Rudbeckia" honors a family of renowned scientists and professors, the Rudbecks of Sweden, who taught Carl Linnaeus at the University of Uppsula. The species name "amplexicaulis" means "stem-clasping," in reference to the growth of the leaves.
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Though similar to the common black-eyed susan, this native plant is set apart by its "clasping" leaves. The genus name "Rudbeckia" honors a family of renowned scientists and professors, the Rudbecks of Sweden, who taught Carl Linnaeus at the University of Uppsula. The species name "amplexicaulis" means "stem-clasping," in reference to the growth of the leaves.
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Also known as Black-Eyed Susans, the common name of this flower comes from a popular poem of the same name by 19th century poet John Gay. In the poem, pretty Susan loved a sailor boy named William. Interestingly, our Black-Eyed Susan seeds for sale bloom at the same time as Wild Sweet William seeds. The genus name "Rudbeckia" honors a family of renowned scientists and professors, the Rudbecks of Sweden, who taught Carl Linnaeus at the University of Uppsula. The species name "amplexicaulis" means "stem-clasping," in reference to the growth of the leaves.
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What Does A Prize Worthy Vineyard Have To Do With Your Marriage?
This is a guest article by Michelle Lozano. Her way of communicating how wine is relatable to marriage is captivating. I hope you enjoy her words as much as I do.
I watched a video recently about the wines of Oregon and how specific regions recently yielded some of the best wines in the state's history. Certain perfect combinations of drainage in the hills, rock layers of the earth beneath the vineyards, the weather cycles, the rain cycles, and fermenting processes have created immense complexity and depth of what defines a<|fim_middle|> is a magnificent thing. Only a Creator who knits with hands far above creation itself can weave together the deep complexities of a vineyard the way I see it being created now. A winemaker merely bottles what has been hand-crafted for him by a very generous God. And someday, when the season is right, I hope the rains of what we have endured in this season is the water chosen to be turned into the next magnificent wine of the Creator's hands. | great wine. Reading of all these things taught me just how artistically beautiful a glass of wine can be and how most people overlook the ocean of time and history corked within a bottle of Pinot Noir.
This is the same light beneath which I now look at marriage after an extremely difficult season my husband and I recently endured together. I have deeply resented every second of the past 13 months of our struggles. I have hated the turmoil, storms, flooding, and volcanic activity tearing up every corner of the world we've built together. Neither of us are the same people with the same perspective or the same faith anymore. Unlike a passing storm that can be tolerated with the kindness of friends or the comfort of family, there was no amount of kindness or comfort that helped us through the brutality of the past year, even with each other. I am not even sure, in retrospect, how we survived. But we did. And we are still here, left with a very uncomfortable, unfamiliar landscape where nothing is the same and never will be again.
I've challenged myself to always find a positive at the end of each day, no matter how small or how insignificant. In that challenge, I have begun to unearth a deeper side of life that I so often overlooked before this trial began. In my reaching, I found the story of the wines to be a beautiful thing so familiar to where we are now. It is said that certain areas of soil in the prized vineyards of Oregon are rich with mineral deposits and volcanic basalt from ancient lava flows, and in some places closer to the surface than others. The grapes are smaller and more concentrated due to the drainage. This combination, along with the right weather cycles, air funneling through the proper channels in the hills, and sun baths in the right amounts on the right days, has created grand works of art.
I have grasped the idea of volcanic soil being a rich heritage to a vineyard, instead of a dark era of its history. And perhaps this is the idea I have been missing during the burning, searing destruction of what has felt like lava flows right through the middle of the life we worked so hard to build. Perhaps what I missed during all those dark days and sleepless nights was the mineral richness it would bring to a new land we would soon walk on and are treading upon now.
No, it isn't comfortable. No, there are no flowers in our midst or beautiful shade trees casting shadows and windows of light in perfect harmonies. There is only soil, as far as our eyes can see. There are no grapes to bottle yet, only hope of what may grow in the seasons ahead of us. And in this season, perhaps this is who we are called to be – winemakers full of hope. Perhaps the only mindset we are supposed to be in now is hope for the next rain to drench us in encouragement, hope for the next sun to pull us out of the soil and reach for a new day, hope for the next wind current to breathe upon us bouquets of gifts we may one day give to the world, and hope for the next harvest to be the richest, most treasured part of our story together. That is the hope I carry for us today, tomorrow, and the next day, that someday, someone will want a drop, a cup, or a bottle of our lives, and their lives will be richer and more blessed because of the vineyard of this grand story we have lived through.
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This post is a review of The Eco-nomical Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways for Parents to Save Money and the Planet by Joy Hatch and Rebecca Kelley.
There are many books about how to be greener with baby. But do any give more than a cursory nod towards thriftiness? Other books that help you save money have little to say about earth-friendliness or avoiding toxins. Learning new ways to save green and be green works for me!
If you have read any parenting books or infant care guides, you know that many of them try to persuade you that if you do not follow their advice, your child will be emotionally scarred and/or mentally impaired. These overbearing self-important books made my insecure, impressionable, new-parent self even more stressed out and overwhelmed. This book is not like that! One of the book's mottos: progress, not perfection! They even admit their own eco-sins.
I spent the first months of my first child's life obsessively researching greener alternatives. I have also read the Green Baby Guide (the authors' blog) pretty faithfully for a few years. I still learned many new things from reading this book.
Their green product recommendations include "Heirloom Picks," "Midrange Options," and "Economy Picks." I like that. They also give advice on where to splurge and where to save on baby gear, baby food, and other stuff. They also present a huge range of options on each topic. On the topic of diapering, for example, they discuss the cheapest disposables to the easiest cloth diapers to infant potty training!
You could read this book in little snippets and get a whole lot out of it. As a parent of young children, I appreciate this.
If someone accuses you of being a tightwad, cheapskate or miser, after reading this book you will be able to explain to them how really you are just doing your part to save the earth.
Does your mother-in-law thinks you're ridiculous for worrying about Mother Earth or environmental toxins? After reading this book you will be able to explain to her how really you are just being frugal so you can deposit more money in her grandchild's college fund.
I've read several books on how to be a greener parent when I had my first child. These books tell you all about the horrible stuff in everyday household products, toys, bedding, etc. As a new parent, there was no way I could immediately make all the changes these books recommended due to a lack of money and time. Thus, the information mostly tended to make me overly paranoid and anxious about the evil toxins lurking all around my children. This book addresses some of the worst toxins (in a non-scary, practical and frugal manner) and then points you towards additional information if you want it.
This book is by 2 moms with young children. It includes tales from the authors' lives, many humorous asides and comments from regular folks who are readers of the Green Baby Guide.
Additional information on baby gear, cloth diapers, disposable diapers, crafts, green companies, breastfeeding, recipes for cleaners, household toxins, and more.
You can enter more than once!<|fim_middle|> 31st so I think it's still okay to add another entry. I brought my best friend to the site today, so I suppose that counts for a second entry.
Totally counts! I am entering another comment/entry for you, Hawk!
I'm entering another comment for Lindsay, since she's a follower (the multiple comment stuff took me a while to figure out). | Each way listed below gets you one entry. All comments have to be posted by May 31, 2010. This contest is for U.S. Readers only. The winner will be randomly selected and announced June 1, 2010 on the Eco-novice homepage.
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Full disclosure: I was sent a free copy of this book (which I am now offering to YOU in this giveaway) by the publisher. I am also a devoted fan of the authors' blog, Green Baby Guide.
Pick me, pick me! Love the blog Betsy!
Sounds like a good book--I like any book that just gives you info and not judgement! Thanks for linking up!
pick me - I'm family!
I emailed a whole google group!
I joined the page on facebook.
I'm a follower of the blog.
I'd love to win this so I can give it to my sister in law! She's going to have a baby.
Sounds like a great books!
You're in my riggsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com blogroll.
I recommended this blog to my cousin Heather. She'd love your blog!!
This looks like a great book for my sis-in-law who is due in Oct. I also have a 19 month old and 4 month old so I would also like a copy!
I'm a follower - pick me!
I'd be interested in reading this book.
I love resources like this!
I need to go greener, but it's gotta be easy and cheap. I'd love to win, thanks!
Totally entering this one! Planning for baby is hard enough, nice to have a guide!
I wish I had this book for the first one. Great post! I'm starting to go greener and it's truly an amazing experience.
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Gallery: Scenes from the Cannes Film Festival
Scenes so far this week at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.
Actress Ana De Armas, left and actor Edgar Ramirez pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Hands of Stone at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Lionel Cironneau
Actor Usher Raymond IV poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Hands of Stone at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Actor Chris Pine poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Hands of Stone at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Joel Ryan
Model Natasha Poly poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Julieta at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actresses Emma Suarez, left and Inma Cuesta pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Julieta at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Model Barbara Palvin poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Julieta at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Model Lara Stone poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Julieta at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Model Eva Herzigova poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Actors Jeremie Renier, Louka Minnella, director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Adele Haenel, director Luc Dardenne, Nadege Ouedraogo and Olivier Bonnaud, from left, pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Model Adriana Lima, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and model Liya Kebede pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Actress Laetitia Casta poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Model Eva Herzigova poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. ( (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Actress Helen Mirren poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown<|fim_middle|> 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Model Toni Garrn poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Loving at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Jury member Kirsten Dunst poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Loving at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actress Riley Keough poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Personal Shopper at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Actors Lars Eidinger, director Olivier Assayas, Sigrid Bouaziz, Kristen Stewart, Nora Von Waldstatten and Anders Danielsen Lie, from left, pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Personal Shopper at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actress Chloe Sevigny poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Personal Shopper at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actor Ryan Gosling poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Nice Guys at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actors Matt Bomer, left and Ryan Gosling pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Nice Guys at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actors Angourie Rice, left and Russell Crowe, pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Nice Guys at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actors Ryan Gosling, left, and Angourie Rice pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Nice Guys at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Actress Geena Davis poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Nice Guys at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Commission on Children and Youth honors Reagan, Ramirez-Calderon
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Model Jourdan Dunn poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Jury member Vanessa Paradis poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) at the | 139 |
You can tell summer<|fim_middle|> lately that you weren't expecting to like, but surprisingly enjoyed?
I hate admitting this, but I'm currently having a love-hate relationship with Fifty Shades of Grey. The writing is awful, but I've read the first two books in about a week and a half.
The wild mountain blueberry K-cups are my favorite! I'm always super excited when we get that kind at the office. I think they're best with at least cream, though, instead of black.
Lol I tried those K-cups and didn't like them. Granted, I don't really like any flavored coffee…. Haha. And I'm glad you got some one-on-one time with your coach! You are going to rock the swim section of this triathlon!
I made a spinach frappuccino yesterday… well at least my version of a frappuccino, I was more than a little skeptical but to be honest I preferred my version which is great for 2 reasons: healthier and cheaper, win win!
I recently made Overnight Oats and I thought I was going to dislike the consistency, but they are so good and so easy to make. Happy Friday!!
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Red cabbage!! I was SO hesitant to try it, now it's pretty much a daily staple. I love grilling it with the rest of my veggies for lunch/dinner.
YAY for getting it down-you're almost there!
Something new I tried recently–sleeping IN during the week! 😉 LOVE it.
I watched a YouTube video yesterday in order to help me with my stroke. At the beginning of my swim workout today, I felt like it really slicked and I was swimming some pretty fast splits. By the end, I was tired and resorting back to my lazy ways and slowed down. Sigh. 🙂 Swimming is such a different sport than running for me.
I was the same way with the blueberry cups… Thought it would be weird, but ended up loving them!
Ive seen those K-Cups and have been curious about them- Just afraid to spend the $$ on a box and not like them. :/ Right now Im having a love/hate relationship with coupon-ing!!
I bought Green Mountain coffee when we were in VT. LOVE IT! I haven't had the blueberry thought; sounds interesting! | is almost over when you arrive at the pool at 6:30am and it's empty. The afternoons are another story, high school swim practice and the fall masters' teams have taken over the pool, making it impossible to find more than two lanes for our group to swim in. However, all of the rec leagues that the high schoolers swam in over the summer no longer have their early practices and triathlon season is winding down for all the early morning triathlete swimmers. The pool was shockingly empty when we pulled up – enough for all 6 of us to have our own lanes if we wanted.
I ended up sharing with Mary in case any new swimmers did come and wanted a lane of their own. We started with a 400 warm-up, then 10 x 100s with a full pull kit (paddles, pull buoy, foot strap) and 15 seconds rest. After the pulls, Mary and Marcus had to go, so while Courtney helped out our new teammate Chris, our coach (Felipe) took me on as his special project of the day.
The one-on-one with our coach was actually pretty sweet. He swam 50 yards at a time with me and pointed out a few things that I was doing wrong. He's pointed those things out before, but now that it was just the two of us – and he could really take the time to explain what each of the corrections meant – a lot of the stuff actually started to make sense. I could feel myself improving with each set and about 4 50s in, he said I was 95% there.
Of course, after I reached that 95% perfect stroke point, he jinxed me. He told me I had almost nailed it and if I could do it one time, then I could keep doing it over and over again. Telling me I was on the edge of perfection and that it should be a piece of cake to repeat that, caused me to think too much and I lost it. Grr… That ALWAYS happens, I get so close to something, then someone tells me I'm great, and I lose it. Don't tell me I'm great. Keep telling me I need to work harder – I seem to respond better that way.
I'm going to be sad when peaches go out of season, I've really been enjoying them lately. Especially on top of toast with almond butter, flax seed, and walnuts.
Something that surprised me today – the Wild Mountain Blueberry K-cups are actually delicious.
Green Mountain had sent me the K-cups earlier this month to try. I'll admit I was really nervous to try them. I've never had a fruity coffee and wasn't sure I was going to like it. In fact, I had pretty much already determined that the coffee would be bad. The k-cups had been on my countertop for weeks and I hadn't been tempted to try them at all.
I'm not sure why I was feeling extra brave today, but I decided to give it a go. You know what? It wasn't bad. I would actually go as far to say that it was pretty good. I'm not sure I would buy them on my own, but I have no problem finishing the rest of the package of K-cups or drinking a cup at a friend's house if offered. Huh. I guess the saying really is true – don't knock it, 'til you try it.
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I'm not good at breakups, if that's a skill someone can have. I've ended things, sure, but more often than not,<|fim_middle|> breakup, it is crucial to respect the other person's feelings and try not to negate them. It may have never been your intention to hurt them, but if they got hurt, their feelings are valid all the same. | I find myself ghosting and falling out of favor with people instead. In some cases, I've replaced breaking up with running away — from feelings, from confessions, from those who hurt me. I've never had the screaming match, the falling-out, the smashing of dishes — or any other stereotypical breakup scene.
Tallying it in my head, I "broke-up" with one of my exes four times. We kept fighting and getting back together, breaking up and resurfacing when boredom blew back into our lives. When we finally realized that in harboring an unhealthy relationship, we were only hurting each other, we resolved to both walk away. I knew that my most recent breakup wasn't going to be the same way.
I started dating a boy this summer, and he seemed like everything I could want. He was sweet, attentive and we always had a lot to talk about. He even had two adorable dogs he would send me pictures of. I didn't know what I wanted when we first met, but I liked the thought of having something new. But, the more we met up, the more unsure I was about my feelings. What did I want? What did he want? Could I commit emotionally to a relationship? When I finally understood the answers to those questions and what they meant, I realized I had to breakup with him.
I broke up with him knowing that if I drew it out, it would hurt more in the long run. I couldn't be everything that he wanted — I'm not at a point in my life where I could be that for him. I had enjoyed our time together, but in terms of relationship pace, he was running miles ahead while I was just trying to walk.
I wanted him to know that as much it was going to hurt, it would have hurt a lot more if I waited longer than I did. I was ending the idea of hope and possibility. I was walking away from all the things that could have been. I even waited to do it, weighed down by the knowledge of how much this was going to hurt him. The knowledge of how hurt and disappointed he would be was beginning to really weigh on me. I wanted to wait for the right time to tell him how I felt, but I realized there is no such thing as 'the right time.' It was hard to make the conscious decision to hurt him, because I knew exactly how that feels.
When you break up with someone — or the equivalent depending on your situation — you never want to be the villain. But the truth is, you can't predict or dictate how someone is going to react. You cannot determine which emotions they're allowed to feel. A persisting pet peeve of mine is the negation of my feelings by someone telling me I shouldn't feel them. After feeling foolish or embarrassed, being told "don't be embarrassed" is counterproductive. The same goes for when you tell someone they hurt you, and they say they haven't. The result is the same, regardless of your intention. Out of self-preservation, I didn't want his perception of me to change when we broke up, but of course, it would. In his eyes I wasn't making an effort and giving up too soon, but in mine, I was trying to save him from heartbreak down the road.
Breaking up is never going to be easy to do. Knowing that you're going to hurt someone and/or get hurt yourself is a hard thing to deal with. It is scary, as I have learned, to end things, even when it's the right thing to do. Sometimes relationships end because no one is fighting for it to continue, sometimes they end because the timing isn't right. Sometimes relationships end because they have to, sometimes they end because they can't go on.
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Drones Over the Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is formed by three points on the South Atlantic Ocean: Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. The area is also known as the "Devil's Triangle" due to an unusually large number of mysterious ship and aircraft disappearances. The likely explanation for these disappearances is in fact much more prosaic - by virtue of geography, the area sees extremely heavy sea and air traffic as well as the unpredictable weather patterns, as evidenced by its many shipwrecks. Nevertheless, these mishaps have done nothing to dent the allure of places such as the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos to say nothing of Miami, as you will see from these amazing drone videos. Aerial photo: "Old San Juan, Puerto Rico" by AirVuz contributor and drone pilot Monrock.
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Bermuda: Tip of the Bermuda Triangle
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Bermuda is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Located about 650 miles (around 1.3k km) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, it forms the northeast corner of the so-called Bermuda Triangle along with Miami to its southwest and San Juan, Puerto Rico to its south. In this stunning drone video, award-winning AirVuz contributor and pilot Majestic gives us a stunning aerial tour of this British-administered territory, including footage of Horseshoe Bay, Warwick Long Bay, and Jobson's Cove.
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Check out the spectacularly blue waters and snow-white sands of the Bahamas in this drone video by top contributor and pilot msember. The video was shot in the northern part of Eleuthera, one of the east-central islands in the archipelago. The island is situated a bit to the east of Freeport. It's a long, thin island - 180 km (about 110 mi.) long and barely a km wide in parts. The shots near the 10-second mark are particularly stunning, the blues and whites blended in a way only nature on a tropical island can be.
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Award-winning contributor and pilot Majestic used a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to create one of the most epic aerial tours of Miami, the great city on Florida's Gold Coast. He captured some stunning day and night shots of the skyline along Brickell Avenue, the towers of South Beach, and a massive powerboat cruising the waters of Biscayne Bay. He then stitched it together with some highly creative editing and timelapses to create a memorable portrait of what may be the USA's most photogenic city.
DJI Phantom 4: Old San Juan Puerto Rico, Over Castillo San Felipe del Morro
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San Juan is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, sitting on the northern coast of the country. It was one of the oldest European settlements in the Western Hemisphere. Due to its strategic importance, the most prominent landmarks in the city are a series of fortresses built by the Spanish to defend their prize territory. In this video, contributor Sikview used a DJI drone to create this unforgettable aerial tour of the San Felipe fortress; known as El Morro, it was built between the 16th-18th centuries.
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Award-winning AirVuz contributor Ty Poland brings us this outstanding "behind the scenes" look at a drone video filming session on the fabled South Atlantic island of Bermuda. The drones used included the DJI Mavic Pro 2 as well as the DJI Inspire 2, the latter flown in "dual operator" mode. Follow them along as they aerially capture some of the stunning scenery on the island The video includes footage of Bermuda's beautiful beaches, luxurious estates, and active boating scene, including some epic sailboat footage.
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ISLAND TIME - A Tribute to the Bahamas
In stunning drone video, top AirVūz content creator msember provides sweeping views of the Bahamas, the tropical paradise which was tragically hit by Hurricane Dorian in September, 2019. The storm, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded, caused immense damage throughout the northern parts of the Bahamas. This moving video tribute reminds us all of the pristine beauty of this coral-based archipelago, prior to its storm devastation. This video was a DVOW finalist in September, 2019.
Bahamas Shipwreck
Sugar Wreck, Bahamas
The roughly 700 islands of the Bahamas archipelago, which sit inside the Bermuda Triangle area of the South Atlantic, have always presented a navigational challenge to the many ships operating in the area. Contributor and pilot msmember flew his drone over a Bahamas shipwreck, this of a molasses carrier which sank in the early 1900's. The crystal-blue waters of the South Atlantic Ocean allow the aerial observer to clearly see the outline of the ship, making for an outstanding bird's eye perspective.
Cruise Ship in Grand Turk
DJI Mavic Pro Drone Fly over of a Carnival Cruise Ship in Port on Grand Turk.
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The Caribbean Sea and the area to its north represents the largest cruise market in the world. Every day, dozens of these massive ships ply these waters with hundreds of thousands of passengers on board, departing en masse at various ports of call around the region. In this aerial video, contributor Bud's Eye flew his DJI Mavic Pro drone over a Carnival Cruise Line ship at berth in Grand Turk Island. Grand Turk is one of the more popular berthing spots for these floating cities.
Drone Tour of Bermuda
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Bermuda is a British-administered island that sits in the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly 1100 km (700 mi) from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The island was settled in the early 16th century. In this video, contributor Majestic uses a drone to give us a beautiful aerial view of this island, which forms the northern point of the Bermuda Triangle. You will be amazed by how many different shades of blue in which the Atlantic Ocean appears from a bird's eye view.
After Maria: Isabela, Puerto Rico
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Contributor Gerald Lizaro traveled to Isabela, Puerto Rico in the months following Hurricane Maria to create this remarkable video of showing the island's slow recovery from the devastating hurricane. Isabele is one of the principal cities on the northwestern coast of the island. It's considered part of the Aguadilla–Isabela–San Sebastián metropolitan area, which covers the northwestern corner of the island. The town is named after Isabele I, the Queen of Castile (Spain) in the late 15th century.
Northern Puerto Rico: Barceloneta and Arecibo
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For a first upload to AirVuz brand-new contributor and drone pilot PJ Mala brings us this excellent aerial view of the northern coast of the US island territory of Puerto Rico. The video was filmed on the stretch of Atlantic Ocean coastline bounded by Arecibo to the west and Barceloneta to the east. Barceloneta is located about 35 mi. (around 60 km) west of San Juan, the territory's capital city. Arecibo is located about a half hour drive further west. The video was filmed with a DJI Air 2S drone.
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New contributor and drone pilot ashhmonster brings us this fantastic drone video of the South Atlantic Ocean island of Bermuda. A British Overseas Territory, Bermuda is located about 1k km (around 630 mi.) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Unoccupied before the arrival of Europeans in the early 16th century, Bermuda went on to become an important center for shipbuilding and later for the salt trade. Famous for its blue waters and pink sand beaches, Bermuda is a popular alternative to the more tropical islands to its south.
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Msember is one of the top content creators in the AirVuz community; he has multiple videos that have won or been chosen as Finalists for the Drone Video of the Week contest. While his videos cover over a dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, but he has a special place in his heart for the Bahamas. In this beautiful drone video, you'll be treated to some spectacular aerial views of the South Atlantic archipelago, where our talented contributor visited to deliver supplies following the brutal Dorian hurricane strike.
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Check out this drone video of Bermuda, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot Drift Away Production, who was able to fly extensively over this Atlantic Ocean island during a honeymoon trip in 2019. The video features footage from the following locations: Horseshoe Bay, on Bermuda's southern coast; the tiny "satellite" Castle Island; Grotto Bay Resort, on the northeast part of the island; Royal Naval Dockyard; Jobson's cove; Elbow Beach; Coopers Beach; Clearwater Beach, and Grotto Bay Beach. Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory.
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The New York Lizards, originally the Long Island Lizards, were a Major League Lacrosse (MLL) team based in Hempstead, New York, located on Long Island. They are original members of the MLL. They lost the league's inaugural game on June 7, 2001 to the Baltimore Bayhawks (now Chesapeake Bayhawks), 16–13.
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In the MLL's inaugural season in 2001, the Long Island Lizards split their home games between Hofstra Stadium, now James M. Shuart Stadium, and EAB Park (now Bethpage Ballpark). For the 2002 season, they used Hofstra Stadium as their home field. As of 2003, the Lizards played all home contests at Mitchel Athletic Complex, in Uniondale, New York until 2008. The team returned to James M. Sh<|fim_middle|>-finals and the game resulted in a dramatic overtime victory for the Lizards(16-15). The tension of that game continued into the 2016 MLL season when the Cannons came to James M. Shuart Stadium, which resulted in another intense over-time victory for the Lizards(13-12).
General managers
Joe Spallina was the head coach and general manager of the New York Lizards.
Coaching staff
Current coaching staff
Head coach – BJ O'Hara
Assistant coach – Ted Garber
Assistant coach – Mike Gongas
All-time head coaches
Current roster
(C)- captain
MLL Award winners
Most Valuable Player
Jay Jalbert: 2003
Greg Gurenlian: 2015
Rob Pannell: 2018
Rookie of the Year
Matt Gibson: 2012
Rob Pannell: 2013
Coach of the Year
John DeTommaso: 2001
Jim Mule: 2010
Joe Spallina: 2012
Offensive Player of the Year
Rob Pannell: 2016, 2018
Defensive Player of the Year
Nicky Polanco: 2005
Joe Fletcher: 2015
Goalie of the Year
Brian Dougherty: 2003
Drew Adams: 2010, 2011, 2015
Most Improved Player
Stephen Peyser: 2011
Retired numbers
2 – Greg Cattrano
9 – Tim Goettlemann
10 – Jay Jalbert
29 – Pat McCabe
21 – Brodie Thoms
Season-by-season
* August 17 game against Baltimore canceled due to rain
2001 Long Island Lizards season
2002 Long Island Lizards season
2003 Long Island Lizards season
2004 Long Island Lizards season
2005 Long Island Lizards season
2006 Long Island Lizards season
2007 Long Island Lizards season
2008 Long Island Lizards season
2009 Long Island Lizards season
2010 Long Island Lizards season
2011 Long Island Lizards season
2012 Long Island Lizards season
2013 New York Lizards Season
2017 New York Lizards season
2018 New York Lizards season
2019 New York Lizards season
MLL collegiate draft history
First round selections
2001: Eric Wedin, Johns Hopkins (4th overall)
2002: None
2003: None
2004: None
2005: None
2006: None
2007: Matt McMonagle, Cornell (10th overall)
2008: None
2009: Zack Greer, Bryant (3rd overall)
2010: Peter McKee, Duke (4th overall)
2011: Zach Brenneman, Notre Dame (5th overall)
2012: Rob Pannell, Cornell (1st overall)
2013: None
2014: Joe Fletcher, Loyola (3rd overall); Luke Duprey, Duke (4th overall)
2015: None
2016: None
2017: None
2018: Joel Tinney, Johns Hopkins (5th overall)
2019: None
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Lacrosse clubs established in 2001
2001 establishments in New York (state)
2020 disestablishments in New York (state)
Lacrosse teams in New York (state)
Sports teams in New York City | uart Stadium for their home games in 2009. The Lizards have won American Division championships in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and Major League Lacrosse titles in 2001, 2003 and 2015. The team made the playoffs in 2005 as a wildcard despite a losing record. The team's name and logo are based on the Italian wall lizard, a small reptile that was imported to Long Island (which has no native lizards) in the 1960s and which populate areas of the team's hometown of Hempstead in Nassau County.
On December 14, 2012, the Lizards changed their name to the New York Lizards.
Prior to the 2015 season, the Lizards made a trade with the Boston Cannons for Paul Rabil. In exchange for Paul Rabil and Mike Stone, the Cannons received Max Seibald, Brian Karalunas and three draft picks. That season, the Lizards won their third Steinfeld Cup and first in 12 years by defeating their instate rival Rochester Rattlers 15–12. The Lizards won the game at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia before a Steinfeld Cup-record 8,674 fans.
Prior to the 2019 season, Rabil and his brother Michael formed the Premier Lacrosse League, which would compete directly with Major League Lacrosse. With the launch of the PLL, 140 players from Major League Lacrosse migrated to the upstart league. In the Lizards' first season after the pro lacrosse landscape changed vastly, they lost a franchise worst 11 games in 2019, and posted their second-worst winning percentage (.313). After two MLL teams and one went on a hiatus (Charlotte), New York finished last out of six teams that season. After Rob Pannell finished out his contract that season, he too bolted for the PLL. So in 2020, a season shorted and compacted into a week-long, quarantined tournament thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lizards joined the 2006 Chicago Machine as the only two teams in league history to post a winless season; albeit the 2020 Lizards' 0–5 record was not as bad as the Machine's 0–12 season. Additionally, the Lizards led in all five games and only finished with a -8 goal differential (-11 score differential).
Rivalry
Chesapeake Bayhawks
The Lizards' main rival were the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Between them, they hold 8 of the 15 MLL league championships awarded through the 2015 season. The two teams have played in the championship game five times, with Chesapeake winning 3 of those 5.
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Home PRESS RELEASES Alliant Energy: EEI recognizes Alliant Energy with a 2007 emergency recovery award
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MADISON, WI – January 9, 2008 – The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) presented Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT), with a 2007 Emergency Recovery Award at a luncheon ceremony in Scottsdale, Arizona earlier today during the winter EEI CEO Conference and Board Meeting. The award recognizes IPL's exemplary effort in recovering from the worst storm in company history.
"I am delighted to accept this award and I could not be prouder of our company's employees and their response to the adversity created by the destruction of the winter storms that hit Iowa and southern Minnesota this past February," said Bill Harvey, Chairman and CEO of Alliant Energy. "The devastation caused by this storm to our electric transmission and distribution system was unprecedented in the history of our company. Yet, the team effort to restore power that included customers, employees, contract crews, workers from neighbor utilities, as well as state and local government, was simply amazing."
On Saturday, February 24, 2007, a severe winter storm hit the State of Iowa and southern Minnesota paralyzing the region, closing major roads and highways, and leaving more than 269,000 of IPL's electric customers<|fim_middle|> Winners are chosen by a panel of judges following a national and international nomination process, and awards are presented during EEI's winter CEO meetings held every January.
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Despite challenging work conditions and continued flare ups from Mother Nature, IPL launched an aggressive and organized restoration effort. Crews were mobilized and set to work rebuilding the majority of the company's delivery system. They were soon joined by fellow workers from Alliant Energy's sister utility Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) as well as workers from Northwestern Energy (South Dakota), American Electric Power (Ohio), Xcel Energy (Minnesota) and Westar Energy (Kansas). Contract workers also pitched in from Iowa and several surrounding states. At the peak of the restoration effort, more than 1,500 crew members were on site working to restore power to customers as safely and quickly as possible.
Behind the scenes, employees worked to procure supplies, serve meals, set-up shelters, meet with customers, contact city officials, answer customer calls and conduct media interviews. For more than a week, people worked around the clock to rebuild, restock and restore the electric system. IPL's customers pitched in with support and great patience as well. There was also cooperation and assistance from the Iowa National Guard, Iowa Homeland Security, Emergency Management Division, American Red Cross and more. Permanent repairs and rebuilds – especially to large transmission systems – continued through July 2007.
"When the magnitude of the storm was realized, we immediately implemented our emergency preparedness plan, including setting up an emergency operations center and field emergency procedures," Harvey said. "Through our plans, we mobilized all available employees and put them on the ground to begin the arduous task of restoring power to more than 50% of IPL's customers. Training, experience, instincts and advance planning pulled it all together for us."
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Greco Olympic Team Leaves for Azerbaijan This Weekend
As has been talked about, the US Greco Olympic Team is in the midst of its full-scale preparation for the Rio Games. The four wrestlers – Jesse Thielke (59 kg); Andy Bisek (75 kg); Ben Provisor (85 kg); and Robby Smith (130 kg) have all had a busy go of it since the 2016 Olympic Trials in April. Thielke, along with RaVaughn Perkins (NYAC, 66 kg) and Joe Rau (Minnesota Storm, 98 kg), had to endure two grueling qualifying tournaments during a period that stretched from mid-April to early May. The three athletes stayed in Mongolia ahead of the 1st OG World Qualifier before heading to Hungary for further training. After that, it was onto Turkey for the 2nd (and last) OG World Qualifier where Thielke exploded through a stacked bracket to reach the finals and clinch the US's berth at 59 kg.
Bisek and Smith have experienced adventures of their own. Both wrestlers instructed at a camp in Alaska in April following the Trials. They then traveled to Europe for training in separate locations – Bisek got work in with the Austrian team while Smith shored up parts of his game in Hungary. Of course, Bisek also wrestled in May at the Beat the Streets Gala where his partner-in-crime Smith acted as the event's emcee.
But the four Greco Olympic Team members converged as a unit for the first time last month at the Community Youth Center in Concord, California for the start of their pre-Olympic training. The camp in Concord was recognized as the initial step into serious preparation for Rio and it hasn't tapered down since. The athletes arrived back home Memorial Day weekend and have been continuing their work in Colorado Springs. And while their base conditioning program is a necessary part of the squad's overall training regiment, it has been specifically geared to account for what is going to happen in Azerbaijan.
"We're talking high intensity live stuff", says US National Team Head Coach Matt Lindland. "Like a lot of 'shark bait' or 'bull in the ring', or whatever people call that. I just call it 'groups', one man stays in kind of stuff. Maybe you're only going a six minute match, but every minute it's a fresh guy." A lot of the training the wrestlers have been through as of late is based on complete conditioning, fortifying both their cardiovascular and anaerobic thresholds in advance of the camp in Azerbaijan, where they will be spending most of their time wrestling with international partners. "It's wrestling-based, threshold stuff", explained Lindland. "We'll be working in a completely different zone in our threshold."
The camp in Azerbaijan is not a short one, either. The US contingent will be departing on June 11th and not arrive back home from overseas until July 4th. That is three weeks of training with members of the Azerbaijani team as well as athletes from other nations. It is also a good way to get some looks they normally do not see stateside while appraising their current conditioning levels. In other words, it's more than just three weeks in Azerbaijan ahead of the Rio homestretch: There are other concerns at play.
"We're going to have a solid base going into this camp, so I'm comfortable with that", Lindland says. "We're going to get a chance to work our higher-end threshold training system for three weeks and get in a lot of good wrestling, the feel of wrestling international opponents and training partners."
If Concord represented the first leg of the Greco Olympic Team coming together as a collective and their subsequent time back at the OTC as a continuation of that initial push, then Azerbaijan can be looked at as a further indoctrination into what is awaiting them going forward. The four Olympians will not be traveling alone, however. Perkins, Geordan Speiller (Florida Jets, 75 kg), Rau, and G'Ang<|fim_middle|> Hancock (NYAC, 98 kg) will be making the trip, as well. It's time to come together, it's time to turn things up a little bit. It's time for them to see what they have been doing is not only working, but will also hopefully lead to greater heights come August.
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В конце XVIII века усадьба принадлежала Головиным, жившим в этом районе многими домами.
Следующими владельцами здания были Ермоловы: Петр Леонтьевич Ермолов (1738—1793) купил его в конце 1780-х годов, затем владение перешло к его сыну Александру Петровичу Ермолову (1754—1834) — одному из фаворитов Екатерины Великой, флигель-адъютанту.
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С конца XIX века усадьбой владел купец-хлеботорговец Иван Михайлович Саргин, затем его сын Давыд Иванович Саргин, историк шахмат и шашек, шахматный и шашечный общественный деятель, журналист. В 1912 году он выстроил в усадьбе гараж для сдачи автовладельцам (строение 3).
После Октябрьской революции здание было национализировано. В советские годы здесь был «гараж особого назначения».
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Усадьба Саргиных состоит из главного дома, построенного на основе палат XVIII века в 1802 году и надстроенного одним этажом в середине XIX века, хозяйственной постройки-конторы (1847) и гаража (1912). Здания неоднократно перестраивались. Тем не менее, в главном доме сохранились своды; древность памятника выдают также Г-образный план и постановка торцом к переулку.
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По состоянию на 2017 год усадьба находится в федеральной собственности, отселена и ветшает. В 2010 году была проведена историко-культурная экспертиза, вопрос о статусе здания предполагалось решить до конца 2016 года.
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Directors; Vicky Coddling/Simon Peck, Choreographer; Vicky Codling, MD Sarah-Jane Lumley, Producer / Script; Steve Burton.
Always open with a "Wow" ..and here we had a real energetic ensemble song and dance number ending with an uncompromising well timed Trolley trick as Rosa (Maureen Larkin) ended up bottom first in a supermarket trolley!
Our two Fairies Blue (Ruth Dunning) and Pink (Pauline Mason) led us into the good versus evil with some natty rhymes as they confronted the Bad vibes of the nasty Griselda (Gina Buntock) who<|fim_middle|> careful scripting, which we have come to expect from Steve Burton, as the real villain of the piece is undoubtedly the dastardly scheming Stromboli (Christian Lovick) played with tremendous zeal and clearly a rival for arch "Baddy"!
His was a strong well delivered role continuing from last years successful debut as Pantomime Dame.
But, and with no apologies needed, as the irrepressible Dame to match all dames, and playing Nora Cricket, we welcome back (Anthony Bunting) "to the manor born", as he makes a grand entrance ... applauded by the audience ... totally as if he had never been away and complete with that lovely laconic Norfolk brogue and the OTT frocks and make up, plus the inevitable shopping trolley!
Not the biggest of "Dame" roles but one which showed his prowess as he works with the aforementioned Rosa (Maureen Larkin again!) also an essential ingredient in Loddon Panto and his "son" Jimmy Cricket (Graham Orpet) also "on the bench" as far as Loddon Dames are concerned.
This trio made a fine pair if ever I saw one!...with humour, double entendre and just enough local jokes to please the "home" audience!!
I would just have liked Jimmy to dress as an over grown schoolboy for the classroom sketch! But a small point as they continue to please their audiences each year!
Now, oh yes, the story .... most will know that the poor, and nicely portrayed as the understated carpenter, Geppetto (Peter Samain) craves a son and here we had a real star of the future as the Puppet of the title Pinocchio (Mia Cuskeran), who from her introduction, almost 10 mins totally static as the "boy puppet", was every inch the star of the show with dialogue, singing and dancing of the highest order.
He/she was totally believable and will be in the running for my NODA Young performer of the year for 2017 nominations.
She was outstanding and is one to watch. As is Lampwick (Poppy Collinson) who, as the cheeky and slightly bossy child kidnapped by Stromboli, also showed excellent stage presence and confidence as she works first with and then against the evil Stromboli.
We had more comedy moments from Dilly (Harry Browne) and Dally ( Shane Baxter) who were destined to receive the necessary custard pie in a well worked and short slapstick episode!
Figaro the cat with a great outfit and (C)attititude was well portrayed with her penchant for fish ... or any food (jointly played by Katie and Maddie Hamilton).
I was particularly pleased to see the integration in the whole panto of the "Funky Feet Dancers" and the ensemble including Panto Babes as they added so much more to the whole package with some outstanding routines and costumes and particularly in the Circus scene to end Act1.
They were brilliant and I am sure their involvement will continue as they are a highlight and bring much needed razzle dazzle to the show.
Review by: Terry Rymer (NODA Rep East Dist). | was keen to elicit our boos and hisses!
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North Houston, TX -- A collision between a tow truck and a pedestrian claimed the life of an unidentified pedestrian in the area of Aldine Mail Route and Northwood Forest in North Houston, TX.
The report claims a Chevy tow truck, driven by an unidentified woman, failed to see a pedestrian walking across a parking lot. The front of the vehicle struck the unnamed pedestrian, subsequently running over him with the back tires. Officials say the man died when his head made contact with the pavement.
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Kennedy Center branding a big job for a busy baker
By Shinan GovaniColumnist
Sat., Jan. 28, 2017timer3 min. read
"As a Roman Catholic, Harvard-educated Democrat from Massachusetts, this isn't simply a design project," Hunter Tura says. "It's personal."
An impresario of branding — one who could easily add "honorary Canadian" to his bio reel — Tura is reflecting on the mission he's working on these days, which comes bearing the most dynastic of names and arrives at a time of extraordinary regime change in the U.S. capital.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — a beacon for sophisticates — is in the middle of a massive, $100-million expansion and it's the Toronto-based Tura, CEO of the local outfit Bruce Mau Design, who has been enlisted to generate all its new messaging and visual hocus-pocus.
Calling it "the most ambitious project I've ever worked on," the 44-year-old Tura — with his '50s-style slicked-back 'do and a preppy geniality right out of a Whit Stillman flick — makes the point that the D.C. institution is not only an arts haven, but "a living memorial."
Moreover, he points out, JFK "spoke so amazingly about the role of an artist in a democratic society and the importance of the performing arts": a message amply illustrated, for example, in the recent Natalie Portman movie Jackie and yet, something not exactly in vogue in American politics these days.
Tura himself remains much in vogue: an invitation "get" in his adopted town (when he's in town, that is, given the breadth of his commitments around the world).
A resident of Toronto for the last seven years — where his local bona fides extend to being a hockey dad to the two sporty young daughters he co-parents with his ex-wife — his company's design tentacles extend to the new museum going up soon in Shenzhen, China, in partnership with London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and clients ranging from Samsung to Sonos. With a background that's included stints at AMO/Rem Koolhaas and the Rockwell Group, he is also active now on the speaking circuit.
It doesn't hurt that he has the gift for chit chat and the engine for schmooze.
Talking to Tura is a winding road, one that leads to an anecdote about the old New York nightclub, Nell's, which was made famous thanks to Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, and then to a tale about being seated next to Monica Lewinsky on a plane recently (a red-eye from L.A. to New York). He tells me about a documentary he just watched about Hub<|fim_middle|> American, Tura says it's helped to clarify the project in many ways.
"The Canadians are able to articulate the promise of America in a much greater way . . . it's fascinating," he says. "The outside view has been a real asset to us."
Conversely, being an American in Toronto also informs his point of view. On one hand, he lauds the level of development he's witnessed since he's lived here — "it feels more global" — but also finds it worrying.
As he elaborated to the Urban Toronto blog, "On one hand, there are a lot of wonderful new buildings . . . well-built by thoughtful developers and architects who are really trying to create a new, responsive kind of urbanism. On the other hand, there are a lot of schlockey developments that really are not resolved in terms of how they are integrated into the larger urban situation."
These two realities, he says now, "will take a generation to resolve."
Tura, meet Toronto. Toronto, Tura.
Correction -March 1, 2018: This article was edited from a previous version to update the photo caption that misspelled the name of Bruce Mau Designs. | ert de Givenchy then riffs on the legacy of urban deity Jane Jacobs.
At one point, he shows photos of some popovers because the subject of popovers is never far away when we speak. It's his thing, making popovers every Sunday. Yes, that's right: the man bakes.
But back to branding: the D.C. project is interesting not only because of the composition of the board at the Kennedy Center (its members count JFK's granddaughter, Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, and Teddy's widow, Victoria Kennedy), but also because of its scope (renowned American architect Steven Holl has created a design that preserves the silhouette of the current building, but with three new pavilions visible above ground).
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It reminds me of the Six Million Dollar Man episode with big foot.
I rode through that thing when they still had it at Universal Studios in CA. Had to close my eyes because it almost made me vomit from vertigo.
I believe the tunnel was thought when TSR acquired the building.
We BUILT the dam' building, Jolly.
Really? My understanding it was Q-Tip headquarters. Or did that happen after TSR moved out?
You are both correct. The upper part of the structure was a cotton company and then Steve (cousin of the Blume family) was the Building Manager and built a structure that aided in TSR having at one time around 369 employees and systems furniture that later was unloaded at pennies on the dollar.
No wonder TSR went out of business.
Musta been the late 70s or early 80s by the looks of that space age Buck Rogers decor!
What is the TSR building now? As in what is it used for.
in 2008, Loopnet wrote: "The second portion of the asset is a vacant, two-story 48,000 SF office building that is the former headquarters of TSR, Inc<|fim_middle|> and still is, strange.
That tunnel makes her appear ready for Carousel. | ., the manufacturer of Dungeons & Dragons. This section of the asset is in move-in condition, already built-out for a corporate tenant."
I deleted the original submission, in which I said building 1 or 2; I think there's just two parts to this building and not 2 buildings. Not sure, never been there. Just piecing the puzzle together from what I can find.
Maybe she'll be quietly mourning her husband. After all, at the end of the day, most of the fans just care about Gary the gamer or about the material he created.
She lost her spouse. For all the mocking of her calling herself "Mrs. E. Gary Gygax", that's the absolute truth.
You must have forgotten the beginning of this drama.
I had Facebook messages Gail disavowed by claiming she never signed anything as Mrs. E. Gary Gygax.
Then she claimed she didn't think I'd share them,but they were from her.
It was, | 199 |
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P<|fim_middle|> I cannot wait to see who takes him home! He's ready to make friends!
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I wanted to point out that, in the video, he sticks his paws out of his cage a lot to interact. And no, he's not declawed. Not ONE did he use his claws when we were with him; he's gentle, playful, and loves to cuddle.
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Tags: game analysis, Green Bay Packers, Mark Sanchez, Philadelphia Eagles, Shawn Slocum
Five More: Packers 53, Eagles 20
It's been two weeks since the Green Bay Packers had their bye. In the two games since, they've laid the wood to a bad Chicago Bears team and a pretty solid Philadelphia Eagles team. The Packers have scored 50-plus in both games and both were pretty much<|fim_middle|> this year, look out, it is dynasty time!!! | over by halftime.
Stomping teams is fun.
So here are five more thoughts on the latest beatdown.
Well, this is impressive
The victory itself was impressive, yes. However, this stat that was being bandied about is a little bit more so. The 53 the Packers put up on Philadelphia is the second week in a row they've scored 50. They put up 55 on Chicago the week before. That's the first time in franchise history the Packers have put up 50 points two weeks in a row. Think of all the great teams the Packers have had since they were formed in 1919. None have scored 50 two weeks in a row. But this one has.
The NACHO! Effect?
You probably noticed that Mark Sanchez, AKA NACHO!, AKA Buttfumble was starting at quarterback for the Eagles because Nick Foles, AKA Napoleon Dynamite has a broken collarbone. Could that have contributed to the Packers' dominance? We're going to go with no. There have been rumors floating around that the Eagles were considering replacing Foles with NACHO! before Foles got hurt. NACHO! was great the week before against Carolina. On Sunday, he threw for 346 yards. Yes, he threw two interceptions, but the first didn't come until the third quarter. By then, the game was, for all intents and purposes, over. Sanchez was not the reason the Eagles got worked. Their inability to pressure Aaron Rodgers and thus, stop the Packers from scoring, was why they lost the way they did. In other words, we're chalking this win up as a quality victory, "backup" quarterback or no.
Speaking of pressure, or lack thereof…
Hey, in case you haven't noticed, the offensive line has been playing out of their collective ass, particularly in pass protection. The line gave up only one sack on Sunday. They gave up no sacks to the Bears the week before. There were times on Sunday when Rodgers seemingly had all day to throw. And when that happens, he's going to pick the defense apart. The offensive line's play is at the heart of all of this scoring the past couple games. The Packers have rushed for more than 100 yards in both games as well.
Moving Clay Matthews to inside linebacker gets a lot of credit for helping the defense. We still like that move a lot, but it's not the only thing that has contributed to that improvement. The defensive line is playing a lot better as well. The Packers had eight tackles for loss on Sunday. Three of those were sacks, two of which came from defensive lineman (Mike Neal and Letroy Guion). Of the remaining five tackles for loss, three were by defensive linemen. Defensive end Datone Jones was responsible for two. It isn't just Matthews and Julius Peppers out there making plays up front. In fact, Peppers only had one tackle on Sunday. It appears the defensive line is really starting to come together.
Still the same
That's a good Seger song. It's also a way to describe the Packers special teams units. The units coached up by the incomparable Shawn Slocum. The same week they produce a punt return for a touchdown, they also blow two PATs and have a punt blocked. That's two punts they've had blocked this year, by the way. It's almost comical how year after year Slocum's units can be responsible for boneheaded mistake after boneheaded mistake and he still has a job. We're not even going to bother talking about his job anymore. Clearly, he will be the Packers special teams coach for eternity, just like A.J. Hawk will be one of the team's starting inside linebacker. Those two guys will be on the Packers' payroll as zombies.
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Skinny November 17, 2014
Eagles were the guy who got bitch slapped by his wife after she found that she got cheated on. He just gathered his belongings and headed out the door to start over, nothing else more had to be said.
Packer Bob November 17, 2014
"It isn't just Matthews and Julius Peppers out there making plays up front. In fact, Peppers only had one tackle on Sunday. It appears the defensive line is really starting to come together."
Nothing about Dom Capers role? You blame and point the finger but never give credit when credit is due. You only mention his name when this same defense shits the bed.
jtmax November 17, 2014
When we play at home, Rodgers can change plays at the line easily. That's how he kills defenses. He's always 5 steps ahead of the defense mentally.
Phatgzus November 17, 2014
Sure, let's rip on the STs because of one part of the unit. What about Hyde's PRTD? which had some of the best ST blocking I've ever seen (including his PRTD last years). Or the fact that the coverage units were spectacular, as they have been most of the season sans 2 or 3 big returns (Including a TD in garbage time)? Yeah, the FG/XP teams had one of the worst games I've ever seen it have, but it had been stellar prior to this game. Our STs unit has been one of the better ones in the league this year and Slocum and Zook deserve some credit.
Phillthy November 18, 2014
lol @ payroll zombies.
Fritz November 18, 2014
hey, it looks like the rejuvenated D is making the pack a threat to win vs. anybody in lambeau this year. finally, if those west coast pansies have to come into GB for a sub zero playoff game like last year, they won't survive, and i was getting tired of losing all those early round playoff games at home like we did the last 3 years. maybe our luck with injuries is also turned around. also love it when the refs are too frostbit to call anything but the most blatant infractions, LOL. if peppers plays his 3 contract seasons like he is | 1,316 |
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If Blanch led a charmed life, it was one of her own determined making. She was born in Chiswick to parents who were vaguely perturbed by her arrival. "I don't think we are quite used to you yet," they would sometimes remark. But from earliest childhood, she was captivated by the notion of an exotic beyond: "I never remember a time when I was not obsessed by a longing to travel, to reach some remote horizon," she wrote.
Blanch trained as an artist at the Slade, and worked as an illustrator and theatre designer. But it is for her writing, especially The Wilder Shores of Love (1954), an impressionistic account of four glamorous female travellers, that she is best remembered.
Blanch published 12 books on subjects as various as the courtesan Harriette Wilson and imperialist Russian rule in early-19th-century Georgia. The sensibility she brought to her subjects was so distinctive that all her writing was essentially autobiographical, but her only book-length memoir was Journey into the Mind's Eye, a highly scented account of distant travel and lost love.
In her last years, Blanch began to write about her Edwardian childhood, and also produced an account of her marriage to the novelist Romain Gary, who left her for the actress Jean Seberg. These substantial fragments of memoir, together with a selection of her travel writing and journalism for Vogue magazine, have been assembled into an account of her life by her god-daughter and friend Georgia de Chamberet.
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Blanch's great passions were travel, exotic objects (preferably in combination – "travel heavy" was her motto), and a mysterious figure, identified only as "The Traveller". His real identity – he was the Russian theatre director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky – is hidden in plain sight in Journey into the Mind's Eye, and de Chamberet confirms it: "I asked Lesley about Komisarjevsky the last time I saw her in 2007. She answered: 'Peggy Ashcroft took him off me.' "
Komisarjevsky was a friend of Blanch's parents and a beloved visitor from her earliest childhood. His unpredictable appearances brought a whiff of the steppes to suburban Chiswick, and his extraordinary gifts, including a Fabergé egg, fuelled Blanch's lifelong passion for singular possessions.
When she was 17 and "The Traveller" was 39, he invited her to Paris and, under the eye of her inattentive chaperone, seduced her, to the intense satisfaction of them both – while it lasted. That love affair left her with a taste for dramatic, interesting, unreliable foreign lovers. (Shirley Conran once asked her, by way of research, what it was like having an Arab lover, and was briskly told to get her own.) Blanch was 40 when she married Gary, who qualified on all counts, and her memoir of their marriage is a nicely acidulated contrast to the crème Chantilly narrative of Journey into the Mind's Eye.
Observing that "like all good storytellers, Lesley plundered her life and her passions and turned tragedy into beauty", de Chamberet compresses into a lengthy footnote the melancholy episode of Blanch's teenage pregnancy and the daughter given up for adoption to family friends: " 'I don't want to dwell on it,' she said with a closed, distant expression."
For a generation raised on therapy and the assiduous pursuit of emotional "truth", there is something disconcerting about the contrast between Blanch's intensely sexy femininity and her quasi-masculine ability to compartmentalise emotion. Sooner or later, no doubt, a formal biography will dismantle the rococo stage set on which she chose to present herself, to reveal a reality that is bleaker, but not necessarily closer to the truth.
Blanch wrote that "learning how to deal with pain is the most important thing in life", and this volume, edited with affection and grace by de Chamberet, is a deliciously readable monument to a writer who combined a steely resilience and capacity for hard work with an elegant frivolity and a voracious appetite for love, beauty and adventure.
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Def Leppard's Rick Allen, Billy Idol, Bret Michaels & More To Perform For Musicians In Need
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Def Leppard's Rick Allen, Billy Idol and Poison's Bret Michaels are among the stars set to perform at an upcoming global streaming event for Musicians In Need.
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Allen and singer/songwriter Lauren Monroe are set to host the virtual benefit concert, with all proceeds going to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund which provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.
Allen said, "We endeavor on a daily basis, through our music and through our 501C3 Raven Drum Foundation Project Resiliency, to serve, educate and empower people and communities recovering from crisis, We cannot envision a more important and useful way in which to give back than this benefit concert."
The musicians in need show will stream globally on nugs.net. For tickets and more information, check out the event's official website.
Elsewhere in Def Leppard news, the legendary British rockers have revealed that their new 'Def Leppard Vault' is set to open on January 13.
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Wimbledon QF Preview and A Rant
On 11 Jul 2017 11 Jul 2017 By MattIn Andy Murray, Commentary, Djokerfan, Fanboy, Fangirl, Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic, Rant, Roger Federer, Wimbledon
1. Murray (3 set R16) v Querrey (5 set R16)
My numerology is fantastic! Everyone who played a three-set R16 match raise your hand. You are going to win your QF match and advance to the SF! Congratulations! This is a conspiracy and we've let this one go a little too far. You are all part of a grand chain of events beyond your control. If your R16 match went 5 sets, sorry. Better luck next time!
Actually my Rant is below, but I'm really feeling it right now. Sorry. Thought that pattern nonetheless is pretty funny and does probably work to determine the SF match-ups. Ha ha.
Murray should advance here and wear-and-tear will be a part of that. Plus, Murray has more leverage across the board, starting with he's a better tennis player. But the intangibles are speaking-up, as well. He's the defending champ at his home major. Lendl is in the house. Murray looks untroubled so far and we know he's been getting good reps. That RG SF wasn't all for nought. What's not to like about Murray?
Of course, Querrey isn't just an empty pint. Querrey made the QF last year after beating Novak (the supposed beginning of Djokollapse) and lost to Raonic. He can play grass and his big serve makes him relevant (as it does Muller and Raonic and even Berdych). Andy's ROS will partly neutralize the American's big weapon, but stranger things have happened. And what's the status on injuries? I have heard Andy is injured. Novak looked injured today, yet the talking heads around SW19, who have better access than we do, don't seem to be talking much about any of this. This could be Andy in 3 or 4, but if gets into the land of TB, the contest could get tight, go either way; and Murray, we know, is still chasing that lion. But you have to favor Murray here.
2. Cilic (3) v Muller (5)
These two played a tight SF at Queen's Club that Marin won 63 57 64. Muller may be rested and feeling really confident from that win over Nadal, so we could be in for another tight match. I have been big on Cilic and I think he over-powers the lefty; at the same time, the big serve can neutralize a dangerous opponent, too. Can Muller tap into a big day on serve and keep things going for another round? Probably better to surmise that Gilles is pretty taxed, and Marin will continue to march towards another final-four showdown (remember, he was up 2-0 sets on Roger in last year's WB QF. He had MP at Queen's two weeks ago in the final. This is a guy with major championship range and he's probably pretty motivated). Jonas Bjorkman doesn't hurt either. We like Cilic here but an energized and stoic Muller would be gift for us fans, again (that Nadal match is still ringing in our ears).
3. Fededer (3) v Raonic (5)
Federer is rolling, and Raonic has had a less than good year on tour; but we better understand that Milos will not be an easy match for Federer. Of course, last year's SF plays into that. But even more so: his run here at these Championships. A win like that in the R16, against a young hot-shot who's been playing better and more (consistently), has to bring Raonic out of his slump a bit. And the serve is just enormous. We think back to the role a big serve can play on these lawns, even the slower manifestations of the grass. The Zverev match is a big win for the Canadian.
But, the taxman did collect, Raonic needing five big sets (though he breadsticked Sascha in the fifth) to compile the victory. That was a tough battle, so some fatigue would be expected and Federer has been pretty light on his feet, flowing, seems ready for this revenge match.
A reader asked about my commentary last year where I called Roger out a bit for failing to close-out Raonic. I have not re-read my post on that SF, but like most matches, there are a few big moments in the exchange that will determine the big shifts in score and momentum (clutch). I remember that being the case with that match, that Federer, whether it was injury, the Ljubičić-project still in its infancy, who knows, but Federer couldn't handle the big Raonic at that point. Raonic had a better year in 2016, had McEnroe in his box during the fortnight, etc. He was a better player then.
And Federer has that clear re-interpretation of tennis at the business-end. 2017 Federer, understatement of the era, has been remarkably more efficient, lethal. Before, all of that lethality would dull in those critical breaths of huge games and points. He's closing now; the BH being a good tangible example of this new approach; but the intangibles seem as palpable, as well. Federer's variety, sorcery, and talent are now polished with that more efficient gamesmanship, match management, etc. You know what I mean.
Federer should win this (on the 5 v 3 numerology) but also on the arch of their careers (ironically); Federer is looking to continue an historical year, playing well. Raonic seems to be struggling just a bit and might have expended a bit too much getting to the QF.
Lastly, on this match; that serve and ROS equation. If Federer can serve well here, then the Canadian has to have a mammoth day on serve. Federer's ROS is much better and will, most likely, get a look at some BP – of course, he has to cash-in, unlike Nadal yesterday. But if Federer is serving like he did against Grigor, how does Raonic pressure Federer?
4. Djokovic (3) v Berdych (5)
I will write this analysis tomorrow, but as you can see, based-on my sophisticated numerology, I can predict that Novak will win in 3 sets (follow the pattern there?).
I wrote that sentence yesterday, so another prediction fulfilled! I know, I'm being pretty silly, but the match (I watched bit toward the end) looked off. Novak had a MTO and seemed to be wincing through out his service games. That did not look good. I saw highlights of the first set and Novak looked solid, running Mannarino side-to-side at will; Novak looked to be hitting the ball well.
But he looked off closing-out the match, unhappy, uncomfortable. After the match, Gilbert and Goodall didn't say much about the injury. Is he injured? Was that an inappropriate MTO? I'm referring to my back-in-forth with Wilfried in last night's comments. Novak looked legitimately uncomfortable in that right shoulder/elbow/etc.
As for Berdych, he can play grass and he's a big boy with a big game. He does struggle playing these top guys; he is 2-25 against Novak overall. But, he's also 1-1 at WB against the Serb, the win coming in the 2010 QF.
We'll see. I still don't know the status of Novak. I've been anticipating his return for a few months now. He didn't really prove too much at Eastbourne, his draw here has been a joke (again, Mannarino looked completely over-matched out there. Looked like a bad ticket to watch Wimbledon), and now he looks to be battling injury with another match tomorrow against a big hitter?
You got me on this one.
Berdych has been playing well this year; I keep going back to the QF at Miami where he played 2017 Federer to a stand-still. He's under the direction of Ivanišević. But he just played 5 v Thiem and he's 2-25 against the Djoker. I'm not calling upset though this would not surprise me; would validate this mystery form and health that the shitty draws perpetuate. Instead, I'm calling BS on the Serb – if he's healthy, and he probably is, he routines the big, tired Czech underachiever (you hear that, Tomás? Prove me wrong, big guy).
Is there any pressure on Djokovic? You bet there is. He has to prove to someone, anyone (himself, his coaches, Pepe, his fans) that he is in major championship winning form. This isn't Novak, #1 in the world, with a seasoned box including Wimbledon great Boris Becker on staff. This is Novak, clawing his way out from under the Djokollapse, who's hired Agassi and Mario Ancic, a decent player back in the early to mid aughts, but left the game to go to law school and become a banker.
Brad Gilbert, referring to Djokovic's R16 match today getting postponed (and finally moved to July 11), suggested that both Djokovic and Agassi must have been pacing back and forth like Agassi used to do during his playing years, anticipating the start of his match (Gilbert coached the American for a time). These two have to be somewhat nervous since there's a lot on the line – more so than for any other player (an argument I have been making all year, which I started in 2016). This is more important for him than it is for Fedal, Andy, Cilic, Mannarino, yo mama, etc.
Don't be fooled.
And Agassi is not messing around. He's doing this coaching gig pro bono. He's going after people even somewhat critical of Novak, including John McEnroe; according to reports, McEnroe likened Djokovic's fall to that of Tiger Woods'. Hmmm. We might have to consider the context here like was necessary with his comment about Serena's relevance on the ATP. Agassi told Johnny Mac to shut-up.
So, from the nervous pacing to the mafia-like public relations, the Novak camp has to know that tomorrow had better be a smooth three-setter.
If you recall, I joked about the upset alert in my last post regarding Djokarino. Instead we got Muller Time (another t-shirt). I don't think Novak has much difficulty tomorrow, but then again I don't have much on which to base my confidence in Novak.
I will fill-out the QF preview tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Djokerfan is suggesting that there's a conspiracy in putting Djokarino on Court 1 today, knowing full well that they would never get that match in, so moving the match to 7/11 is part of, again, some conspiracy to undermine Nole. Djokerfan is wrong again. The conspiracy, rather, is that this unrepentant mass needed something about which to hiss and piss; it's not a meaningful tournament unless the Djokergirls and boys are crying. Alas, we have a complaint! Couldn't cry about the draw. But they got something to piss on, after all. Only the Djokes on them. 😀
Good luck, Novak. Just play good tennis.
Berdych is waiting and playing like it's 2010 😉
Folks, you and I read and watch a lot of tennis. The fact that you're reading this right now makes me very happy, by the way – might even add a little motivation in the morning to get out of bed 😀
I grew-up listening to many of our great tennis narrators add so much layer and depth to matches, tournaments, championships, and their players. I'm getting side-tracked here; this is not a recollection of some of the sport's great voices – that would be a fun post to write for sure.
This is about some of the garbage out there that I want to say a few quick words about. Indeed, some of the less qualified "voices" in our super-charged social media environment decorate this glorious tennis landscape like wads of senselessness that I guess at least provide some of us fuel for discourse. But you know of what I speak.
Let me paraphrase the sentiment that I have been torpedoing for awhile here lately. It's pretty much the Djokerfan. Separate this discussion from the discussion about tennis and their hero. He's an all-timer, one of the very best ever and watching him struggle to get out of this collapse is a little disturbing; I can go into that more later, but let's just say that the world isn't quite right when a 30 year-old Novak Djokovic is struggling. As I've been saying, get your shit together, bud. Shit or get off the pot. What is this? Seems very personal, emotional.
Of course, Andy last year and now Fedal have moved to fill the void; so it's not like we're abstinent from genius competitive professional men's tennis. In other words, the sport we love is better when people are healthy and playing their best. All players.
Do you hear that, Djokerfans? Your pissing and moaning about the conspiracy against your player is a bad look, a really bad look. You believe Novak has been singled-out because he's a threat to Fedal, the sport in general, whatever. You believe others (a vague "they") perpetrate an historical crime (perpetuated) against Djokovic. If that's the case, and it is, then the spirit of your complaint implies you would prefer to see bad fortune brought upon others. If you believe there is ill-will toward your player, then you naturally (we all assume this if you're too dumb to realize this) invite ill-will on your opponents.
You recall my exposé on CindyBlack3 (look her up on Twitter) and that fog horn of fanatical garbage. She blocked me finally when I asked her how her argument that Novak is the greatest HC player of all time jives with Roger's and Pete's 5 USO majors, or Lendl's eight straight USO finals. That's the land of hard courts, folks, where the men separate themselves from the pretenders. Federer has as many of those titles as Novak, Nadal and Andy have combined. Get your saber metrics toilet paper out of the building. She and her cohorts have all kinds of statistics that argue the corruption of draws designed to undermine Novak, historically.
The Djoker conspiracy around 2017 Wimbledon has finally landed, as of yesterday (tough to bring too much attention to the draw in which their player has played a bunch of top-50 players). I touched-on this extra-terrestrial encounter yesterday, as the alien ship landed only because there was nothing acutely, of note, for them to sink their teeth into until that Muller v Nadal match.
Because Djokarino played today, the scheduling of a Djokovic match is now under protest; the calendar was altered, moved to today because the court it was scheduled to play on yesterday, Court 1, happened to be occupied by one of the great matches of recent memory.
One popular strain of the conspiratorial virus reads along these lines: "They" (whoever the fuck that is) want a Federer-Murray final. They'll go on to say crap like Federer's scheduling has never been subject to so much "bad luck."
The Fan will look past the pure manner of scheduling and the coincidence that Nadal and Muller would play a ~5 hour classic. Are Muller and Nadal in on the conspiracy, too?
Or is it that you want to play on Centre Court? Part of this complaint might be that because the Nadal/Muller went so long, Agassi and Djoker were upset that the last R16 match wasn't moved to Centre Court on the fly. They were upset, apparently. But can't you all see how/why that seems a little more complicated than you'd all like it to be? A lot of pieces, quickly, and confusedly, have to move. Sorry to break it to you, but the entire planet doesn't just revolve around Djokovic. But isn't that ironic, because you think the tennis planet revolves around Federer (and Nadal?). Actually, clarify that for me; is Nadal part of the bad guys? Is it Djokovic v Federer or Djokovic v Fedal? I haven't heard if Nadal was upset that he was on Court 1 for the R16. Perhaps we should look into that…
If you're bummed that Djokovic wasn't originally scheduled for Centre Court, what's your point? That your player is being de-valued, you're insecure that he's not "liked" or as popular as other players? That sounds ridiculous. But is it possible that there is some truth to that? Would such a sentiment be totally unfounded?
If you can't possibly see the rationale for Murray playing on Centre Court and/or Roger Federer playing on Centre Court (from a fan's point-of-view, the role of marketing, the pulse of business enterprise, the growth of the tournament and the sport, not to mention the quality of the match – your draw stinks, Novak), I can only encourage you to keep reading my blog, because I believe that will help.
What about your draw?
If you think the tournament really wanted Federer v Murray, why wouldn't they just switch Federer's draw with Djokovic's? Your QF opponent has a 2-25 record against you. You played a guy today in the R16 that looked way out of his league and the guy he beat in R3 is best known for tanking matches. You get the most favorable draw in the tournament, yet you think we're all coming for you?
Did you see the move that I made in that last sentence? I changed the pronoun from "they're" to "we're."
Your irrationality does see it as the world is after you. And people like me will come after you because your hysteria taints an ordinarily decent event (Is the sport totally void of corruption? No. But we can certainly utilize our crap-detectors to determine what and when something is really worth some kind of investigative discussion).
The only thing, of course, that will cure this disease is for Novak to start winning; then again, we know humanity well enough to gauge that even that won't curb the conspiracy enthusiasm. 😉
Carry-on.
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Rant on my captain, rant on.
For Querry, could Zverev the elder's s&v AO display against Murray provide the blueprint for Sam to follow in order to switch it up from aggressive ground strokes.
11 Jul 2017 at 8:04 pm Reply
If Querrey had that, yes, but he's not the classic S&V like Zverev. He'll come-in, but not aggressively. Watching Zverev befuddle the Scot at AO was wild.
Murray I recall routined Sam in Melbourne, but Sam has had decent year since then. Sam should be better on grass than on the AO HC. He's confident. Beating a hot Kyrgios, Nadal this year, Novak at WB last year. . . he shouldn't lack confidence.
But Andy will be tough on Centre Court.
Incondite
Wow, Yank into semis! 🙂 I couldn't watch, but I wonder if Murray's hip was slowing him down.
12 Jul 2017 at 7:56 am Reply
The Novak/Andy injuries seem under-reported. Novak went into "confessional"/defensive mode in his post-retirement PC. Wow. Take a year off, pal and get that elbow healed.
14 Jul 2017 at 12:02 am Reply
Pierrotsz
Looks like Federer is on course to win without dropping a set, the state of the ATP field is worrisome.
The inability for other/younger players to end this oligarchy of the big 4 is pretty astonishing.
Then again, hang onto your hat and watch what unfolds here.
snambi2014
I am late on reading rants, but you are spot on…Not sure you came into twitter today, but they are going over on the top crying for whole conspiracy against Novak….Ruins after Nole had to retire….but pity for Novak though, not the end we wanted to see….seems that's long time going on, hopefully he and Andy get things sort out for longer term beneficial…. More and More evidence for your HRFRT series…
Waiting for QF write-up…Roger Vs Tomas, Clic vs Sam….Fun Friday it would be…
Sorry for the delay, Nambi. Thanks for the comment. Talk to you on Twitter tomorrow during the SF perhaps.
People are already announcing Wimbledon 2017 is Federer's.
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/828014/Wimbledon-2017-Roger-Federer-THE-champion-Andy-Murray-Novak-Djokovic-copy
While he's the heavy favorite, the games are played because there might just yet be something to happen…such as Murray & Djokovic both ousted today. Champions won a title because they played and won, not just because they played well and they became favorites.
Admittedly, I really wish for #8 for Federer. But there are still players that can upset this, especially Cilic. And before Cilic, Federer must get through Berdych. In his prime, Federer always had 1-2 lower standard matches in a<|fim_middle|> was already dealing with an elbow problem one and half year ago ?
Why give your entire team the gate if your still dealing with that physical problem ?
And how could Agassi accept to coach him and declare in a recent interview with Cahill and Gilbert that Djokovic is for him a thirty old guy with the body of a 25-year old one. Did Agassi know Djocovic was struggling with an elbow injury for a year and a half ?
There is some pieces of the puzzle that are lacking here.
I agree 100%.
My p19asure, Incondite! Cyber drinks on me if it happens😀 Anti-jinx😜 My thoughts on the 3 remaining Musketeers/Pretenders V The Grass Maestro. If Raonic had snatched the 3rd set, and Federer hadn't played an absolutely brilliant tb at 0/3, it could have gone to 5 and anything could have happened. 2017 Federer is definitely making better decisions and playing better at crunch moments. Berdych is playing into great form and seem more confident and calmer than his usual Tomas the choke engine. The first set he won against Doker was impressive despite a hampered Djoker. And we all know what hot Cilic pepper is capable of. But….this is where it gets interesting…..Anyone saw Raonic's presser where he almost in "grudging awe" talked about Federer's confidence; very sure of his shots, mentally very sharp and physically very fast? That is Federer 2017! Which is why 2010's defeat by Berdych (where Federer was at a downslide), USO 14 by Cilic (Cilic not quite up to that form yet and Federer was already fried from 5 setter with Monfils previously) where everyone is pointing to, do not qualify as comparisons. Federer said he is so free mentally and physically that he can concentrate on tactics now! Wow! I feel he has never really fully exploited tactics/strategy, which a player of his caliber with every shot in the book would surely be unbeatable. Also, anyone following his winners to unforced errors ratio? Incredible. If I'm not wrong, I don't think he has produced such clean stats before; usually trending to high ufe coz of his aggressive style. What we can hope for now is no let down. You never know. These players are human. They can wake up one day and don't "feel it" and that's all it takes……I'm a bit wary of Cilic's confidence (ironically boosted by Federer's confidence in him!) and that can potentially bring him home. I hope Sam plays the spoiler! But Berdy first…
Good stuff – remember in Melbourne the story was Federer's ability to win all of those 5 setters. He seems quite a challenge at this point, in 2017 😀
Wilfried, I don't think for one moment Djoker is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth….As you said, the claimed period of injury don't quite tally with his wins (however injury could have been slight at the start and he could still play well). All these drama (maybe to distract? Or he is too lost to think straight?) sacking team, engaging high profile coaches while he is actually suffering from and should be looking at injuries ( and high profile doctors rather than coaches!!) just don't make sense. Add to that his exhibiting a love/hate relationship with tennis on court. Nothing seem to make sense anyway for Djoker since Wimby last year. When something don't make sense and a person does illogical things, it often means trouble at home.. …Also the injury could be excerbated by emotional stress or vice versa. That's my theory and I don't think I'm far wrong…
This was my along the lines of my reaction to his Rome antics and inconsistency. Something is rotten in Belgrade/Monte Carlo, it seems.
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Cilic straight-setted Federer in 2014 USO. It will be an interesting proposition if Cilic can get to this 2014 form, even if Federer does not drop from his current level. Too much of media hype usually concludes in a massive upset. I just hope this doesn't happen to Federer.
12 Jul 2017 at 10:50 pm Reply
You are so right Jason; the contest has definitely concluded yet, and everyone still in the draw is very dangerous. The worst thing Roger could do right now is start taking things for granted. But I'm sure he won't do that!
Berdych has beaten him on grass before, at this tourney – as I'm sure you know – and I could be wrong, but I think that might be Berdych's only grass victory over Roger. But in any event, that should prevent him from overlooking the Berdych threat.
Cilic beat him on hard court in 2014, but Roger was starting to show the wear at that point. However, fortunately or not, Cilic seems to be playing the best tennis of his career so far.
So I'm a little worried about both players, and there aren't many guarantees in life, etc., but I think we have to like Roger's chances.
Yes, Incondite. Federer has probably the greatest chance to win here given how the field sets up. He still has to keep his game tidy. High 1st serve % has been paramount to his progression.
There are 2 big upsets after the field cleared up for him. 2 GS that Federer should have won — ok, maybe 1 if it was a wear & tear as you said at USO 2014. The biggest upset was USO 2009. He destroyed the field, even straight setted Djokovic in SF. In the final though, he got sloppy on patches of the game and finally succumbed to DelPo. That was disappointing. To add to this…on paper Cilic's present strengths are similar to DelPo's strengths then.
I mentioned this because IIRC, he didnt have a low standard match in the prev 6 rounds in that USO 2009. Whenever he wins a GS, he must always expend this share of low standard match in the earlier rounds – 1 or 2 of them. I dont know if the 2nd & 3rd round matches can be categorized as such, but if they were…then it should be good for him.
Mental sharpness will be his key to bring home #8. I hope he owns this in abundance.
13 Jul 2017 at 10:48 am
Well said, Jason, in its entirety. Specifically, that 2009 USO was a colossal miss.
Agree completely about the need for mental sharpness.
So I was encouraged by Raonic's remarks after losing to Roger, to the effect that his mental game was the most difficult thing about playing him.
Something I don't know about the other three is how good their return game is, so if Roger serves well then he'll be hard to beat.
And on another, completely unrelated, note, I see that Djokerfan is taking all this very hard… Maybe Matt can offer him some sympathy in his next post.
Good stuff, JB. For Cilic to be in total 2014 USO mode, I think he needs to make a statement tomorrow. Although he did put Muller away in the 5th, I thought he might make quicker work of a seemingly fatigued 34 year-old, but who knows. He got really into a zone in the QFs in NYC. Became unplayable.
Tennisisthebest
Yes! Matt! RANT ON! And please continue to eat up the fanblogs😋Your analyses and predictions have been spot on. It's a joy reading your blog. At the start of the Championships, I pointed out 2 things : Injuries (which very few talked about) and Cilic, being the only real threat. Well, seems like those 2 things have been the "highlight" of these championships; with Djoker being the latest succumbing to injury. Only surprise for me has been Gilles and Sam. They have saved the Championships which I thought lacked a bit of fire this year. I love Muller's game; and Sam; boy! Can he win it all?!! Didn't think old man Federer would be able to hit higher form. Djoker can thank his broken elbow. Federer would have wacked him….and I would have been contented not to watch another tennis match again in my life just to experience fangirls' inconsolable woes😂 Still it is not a given that Federer's gonna win it all now. There is a reason why serve bots do well in Wimby. But then there is also a reason why Federer is the greatest of them all…He Eats big servers for breakfast…..at least he used to… Cilic V Federer final.
Good work, TB, as usual. Lots to discuss tomorrow!
Hey Tennisisthebest,
I think you left a note a few days back, kindly encouraging me to BEL19VE.
Just wanted to get back with you, to let you know I'm starting to do that now.
clint grike
Agree that it's way too early to proclaim federer the champion. We shouldn't forget just how unprecedented and crazy it is for a guy who's almost 36 to maintain the level roger has been playing at. But if he keeps it up then tennisisthebest is right: djokovic dodged a bullet.
Novak's withdrawl in the QF's and his press conference declarations afterwards with regard to his elbow injury leave me perplexed and a bit unsatisfied.
How the heck could he win last year 2 slams and 3 masters if he | 1,303 |
The pair were unveiled on The One Show.
BBC News anchor Kate Silverton and comedian Seann Walsh are the 10th and 11th celebrity contestants confirmed for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.
The announcement was made on BBC One programme The One Show.
Silverton, 48, told hosts Alex Jones and Rory Reid she had no talent for dancing.
Walsh, 32, said he was "as shocked as everyone else" that he was taking part.
He described his previous dancing experience as "jumping up and down until two in the morning".
Explaining why he chose to do the show, he added: "I just thought it<|fim_middle|> were also joined on The One Show sofa by another former contestant, Paralympic sprint champion Jonnie Peacock.
Peacock reassured them the show was "like a big family". He described the show's professionals as great people who will coach them into great dancers.
Silverton follows in the footsteps of fellow TV anchors former BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull and Naga Munchetty.
Turnbull took part in the show's third series, finishing sixth with professional dancer Karen Hardy.
Munchetty and partner Pasha Kovalev were voted out in week four in the 2016 series.
Silverton and Walsh join the already-announced line-up of celebrities comprising Pussycat Dolls star Ashley Roberts, documentary presenter Stacey Dooley, This Morning's Dr Ranj Singh, former cricketer Graeme Swann, TV presenter Katie Piper, Steps singer Faye Tozer, Red Dwarf actor Danny John-Jules, YouTube star Joe Sugg and DJ Vick Hope. | would be nice to do something where I can hopefully come out the other end with a skill and maybe able to dance.
Silverton joked that they felt like a couple coming to a dinner party to make the announcement.
Former Strictly contestant Jones advised them to "do nothing and relax, eat loads and just wait for that professional to get hold of you".
The duo | 73 |
3D printed mammoth
Alicia Miller July 25th 2016 - 5:26pm 0 0
We all know about the power of DNA, and expect that in the future, scientists will be able to clone extinct animals, like the sabre tooth tiger. But currently, science is not quite able to deliver that; Jurassic Park is still some way off. However, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture has come up with a different idea along similar lines: it intends to break down traditional museum barriers by 3D-printing mammoth skeletons for a new exhibition.
As you may be aware, the mammoth was a majestic animal, as much as 13 feet long and weighing between 18,000 and 22,000 pounds. It lived about 5 million years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. As with dinosaurs, palaeontologists rarely find complete mammoth skeletons – the Burke Museum, for example, has a mammoth skeleton which is only 20 per cent complete. So staff there have enlisted the help of engineering students from the University of Washington, who are skilled in 3D printing. 3D scanning not only makes it possible to print replicas of missing bones and incomplete fossils, but the scans themselves can also provide valuable information about the mammoth's anatomy.
For this project, the student engineers and the Burke Museum staff will start off using a giant Columbian mammoth skeleton discovered near Richland. The museum only has the mammoth's mandibles, limb bones and part of the skull, so it wants to make replicas of the missing parts. To do that, the class is scanning other mammoth bones from the Burke Museum's collection, and making mirror-image copies of the bones that it already has.
The University of Washington College of Engineering's VIP program,<|fim_middle|> market | in collaboration with Burke Museum staff, has laid down plans for a multi-year 3D printing project which will allow students to learn and apply additive manufacturing technologies to the museum's collection-management and exhibition. Undergraduates and graduates will work together on the project.
Depending on how big the bones are, it can take up to five hours to scan them, and then they need to be printed. For large objects, the students have been using a prototype called Big Blue: a large-scale 3D printer with a 1.5 cubic metre capacity.
The collaboration between the Burke Museum and the University of Washington's College of Engineering will continue to evolve over the next few years, until the Richland mammoth is put on permanent display.
3-D printing is an amazing opportunity for the future. This allows two separate branches of one Co-operation the possibility to implement other ideas, in other areas.
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Alicia Miller
Alicia Miller is a culture writer from New York dedicated to all things creative. Her studies in media have immersed her in the digital world, although she prefers to spends her free time reading classic literature.
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newsletter for faculty and staff | spring 2019
Interesting times & another passage to India
It's official: Sheila Ager, our next Dean of Arts
Bill Chesney reflects on more than a decade of ADing
Arts 3 Minute Thesis heat was hot indeed
MPS Policy Datafest: 60 students hack for better policy making
Two more Distinguished Teacher Awards (makes it 70!)
Nature of Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human (a conference for everyone)
» Doug Peers, Dean of Arts
I might be tempting fate writing a lead in to the so-called Spring Issue while continuing to defer switching over to summer tires, but this has definitely been one of the more unpredictable winters I can remember. There are not too many nights in late March when my dog takes a decidedly dim view of heading out on our customary midnight ramble, but recently we have had a number of reluctant forays.
These swings and uncertainties are certainly mirrored in our political situation, especially as far as Higher Education is concerned. While we were all expecting some kind of cut to university funding once the Ford government was installed, none of us thought it would come in the form that it did. And now we have turbulence at the Federal level as we head into a fall election. Interesting times some might say, but I am growing weary of interesting<|fim_middle|>Arts Undergraduate Office:
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The Faculty's finances, like those of the University as a whole, took a hit when the tuition cut was announced. Ten per cent cut to all domestic tuition with effect this year, and then a one year freeze. While domestic tuition is only part of our revenue – international tuition and the provincial operating grant are safe (at least for now), the impact is in fact larger than 10 per cent as we had been modelling, as we have in the past tuition increases, to try and keep step with inflation. The Board of Governors at its meeting on 2 April approved a budget which saw the tuition cut absorbed across the university, including a one-time 1 per cent contribution from each Faculty. Going forward we can expect further pressures to constrain costs while we seek new revenue streams. Over the next couple of months we will be delving more deeply into our Faculty's finances, retrieving and analyzing data to enable us better to respond to these challenges.
On the plus side, in a few days I will be part way to India. Bill (Chesney) and I are joining colleagues from Environment, Science, and Marketing and Undergraduate Recruitment on a whistle stop tour of four Indian cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengalaru) which I had visited on two previous recruitment trips (see photo), and where our particular approach to a 21st century Arts education had struck a responsive chord.
Doug Peers (right) takes a group selfie in India with colleagues (left to right) Brendon Larson (Environment), Kathy Acheson (Assoc. Dean Undergraduate Programs), Nalini Kidambi (host/agent), Shoufa Lin (Science).
Applications from India are up nearly 150 per cent and these prospective students are interested in programs right across the Faculty. They are drawn to the many joint honours combinations we offer, Arts and Business, and the range of career focused and interdisciplinary minors on our books. Interestingly, and I will admit somewhat surprisingly at first, we do not find as much interest in co-op. This may be due to the fact that it adds time to the degree, but is more likely due to our as yet undiscovered way to make co-op comprehensible in an Indian context.
Our unique blend of disciplinary depth, interdisciplinary opportunities, and real-world applicability is just as evident at the graduate level. The Datafest and the Arts 3MT heat detailed later in this issue are perfect examples of how our students learn and apply knowledge and skills in innovative and engaging ways. The only problem was that these two events were scheduled at the same time. Despite having the Institute for Quantum Science on campus, I was not able to discover the secret of Schrödinger's cat and so was forced to dash between the two.
Interesting times these might be, but I take comfort from the fact that despite the turbulence outside, there are many more interesting and encouraging things happening within the Faculty.
It's official: Sheila Ager to be our next Dean of Arts
If you have not heard, where have you been? The final stamps of approval were given by the Senate and the Board of Governors in late March, and so we're now very pleased to confirm that Professor Sheila Ager will be the next Dean of Arts, commencing July 1.
Sheila is a full professor in the Department of Classical Studies and currently serves as interim chair for the Department of Fine Arts. For over 30 years she has served her department, Faculty and the University in a variety of roles, including chair of the Department of Classical Studies (2009-17), Associate Dean of Arts, Undergraduate Studies (2001-07), two terms as a member of Senate, and one term as a member of the Board of Governors. She is currently Director of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, and, since 2016, has been Director of the University of Waterloo's Academic Leadership Program.
Sheila completed her BA and MA degrees at Queen's University, and earned her doctorate from the University of British Columbia. She is a scholar of Greek history, specializing in the Hellenistic age – the years between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Often engaging interdisciplinary approaches, much of her research has centered on interstate relations in this period, including peaceful dispute resolution.
On Sheila's appointment, Vice-President, Academic & Provost Jim Rush said: "Over her years at this university, Professor Ager has clearly proven her excellence and dedication in both academic and administrative leadership roles. I'm pleased and confident that her collaborative leadership style, combined with a deep institutional knowledge, will serve the Arts and University community very well."
» Bill Chesney, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Students
When I started working at Waterloo in 1993, the Arts undergraduate population was significantly smaller than it is today. The landscape has changed a lot since then, and the student experience along with it. Even in the 11 years since I started as Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, there have been big changes: for one, we admit almost twice as many students now. That increase means our student body is far more diverse — in every sense. They arrive at university differently prepared, and they have greater expectations for their overall student experience.
The world has changed. Young people have changed as well, in some respects; in others though, they are as they have always been: excited to be on their own, anxious about making friends and doing well, curious about the world and their evolving sense of their own path in it. What's different now, however, is that undergraduates start university in the context of a world that delivers consistent messages of doom and gloom: an impending climate change crisis that is unstoppable; evident economic and social inequality; a strong sense that things in the world are getting worse, not better. As are we all, students are drowning in an ocean of information. What they need are tools to help them chart their own path to make a positive difference, large or small. Allegedly, those tools are what they are here to acquire.
No wonder they are stressed!
I sympathize; I really do. When students wind up having a Policy 71 meeting with me, 9 times out of 10 I can see that they are not "cheaters" in the way we used to understand the word; they are young people who ran out of time, and out of options, and who have made a bad or sloppy decision. My job in that moment is not to pass judgment on their characters; my job is to try to protect the integrity of the credential, and the work of other students who have also struggled, but without resorting to such desperate measures. At the same time, I take into account, as I can, the individual situation that presents itself. It's been endlessly interesting, and by no means the most difficult part of the job.
The work has challenged me to strike that balance over and over again: imposing a fair disciplinary outcome that reflects the gravity of the situation, while still making evident my own reading of the individual circumstances. It has taught me to make decisions based on something more than "trusting my gut" or my own "common sense," which, as we all know, can be biased if not examined carefully. It has taught me to weigh evidence in a more formal way – very different from the kind of creative decision-making in the theatre with which I am familiar.
And while I have had my decisions appealed a number of times, and not always upheld, those of course are also the most important learning opportunities.
Bill tosses a pie or two for United Way, fall 2018.
What I have found harder is knowing how to combat an environment where any question can seemingly be answered with just a few keystrokes with the rising tide of online services that "help" students make their studies "easier." Ultimately, every undergrad must come to terms for themselves with what mastery actually represents to them, in the context of the academic path they have chosen and the outcomes they are seeking. It's our privilege and responsibility to model the myriad ways they might do so.
More than anything else, it is the people in our Faculty and beyond – like the wonderful, dedicated staff in the AUO and the Registrar's office – who make our convoluted and imperfect systems actually work for students. These colleagues have taught me the most about paying attention, and inspired me to do my best to add value and improve things, whatever the project. The comprehensive knowledge and measured thoughtfulness that everyone offers so willingly is a resource I have relied on again and again. Any initiative of which I am proud, like plan standardization, could only succeed because of the good will and hard work of all of them – all of you, colleagues. Thanks for everything!
The Arts 3 Minute Thesis heat was hot indeed
» Kaitlin O'Brien, Graduate Recruitment Officer
On March 1, graduate students from Accounting, Anthropology, English, French, Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies convened for the annual Arts Three Minute Thesis (3MT) heat. All the 3MT competitors offered the full-house audience thoughtful and engaging presentations.
The event serves as a great opportunity for students to share their research ideas with their peers and a rapt audience, perfect their 'elevator pitch', and convey the significance of their work. This year we were excited to have 16 graduate students present their research, and from that group, the top two Arts 3MT heat winners advanced to the University 3MT competition on Wednesday, March 20.
We're proud to announce the 2019 Arts 3MT winners:
1st place: Kathryn Morrison, Applied Philosophy PhD candidate – The Right to Die for Mature Minors. Watch Kathryn's 3MT on YouTube.
2nd place: Emily Grant, Cognitive Neuroscience PhD candidate – Exploring the restorative effects of… greenspaces? Watch Emily's 3MT on YouTube.
3rd place: Michelle Ashburner, Cognitive Psychology PhD candidate – Saving Lives Through Charitable Donations. Watch Michelle's 3MT on YouTube.
People's Choice: Andriy Struk, Cognitive Neuroscience PhD candidate – Of Fruit Flies and Men: The Role of Genes in Human Foraging. Watch Andriy's 3MT on YouTube.
2019 3MT winners, from left to right: Kathryn Morrison, Emily Grant, Michelle Ashburner and Andriy Struk.
» Wendy Philpott, Communication Manager
While much of the world is talking big data, the story in Canada seems to be our shortage of it. Recent media reports about our country's data deficit may be true to an extent, says Anindya Sen of Economics, but there are actually good datasets available through open government portals. The challenge is fully utilizing them to make informed policy decisions that improve people's lives.
That's why Sen organized the Master of Public Service (MPS) Policy Datafest. The event brought contemporary policy questions faced by different levels of government to Faculty of Arts graduate students, challenging them to use their analytical skills to mine datasets and extract meaningful insights to inform policymaking.
While hackathons and other data mining competitions certainly aren't new, what makes this data hacking event unique is that all 60 hackers were from humanities and social science fields.
"Much of the data deficit could be addressed by ensuring people have the skills to not only know how to look for data, but how to interpret it," says Sen, who is the current director of Waterloo's MPS program.
Datafest is a great experiential learning opportunity for students in the social sciences and humanities because they are the ones who go on to work on policy questions in government or private sectors.
Wendy Philpott
Sen collaborated with federal, provincial and regional government departments and agencies to develop the hacking event. Datafest was held over two days with 14 teams of students from six arts graduate programs, including MPS, Economics, English Language and Literature, Global Governance, Psychology and Sociology. Teams were provided specific datasets and questions about Canadian social, economic and environmental conditions. Then it was up to the students to dive into the data to find answers and develop policy recommendations. [...] Read the full story in Waterloo Stories.
This MPS team won 2nd place at Datafest for their work on correlations between education level and gender pay gaps.
MPS Policy Datafest graduate student competitors from MPS, Economics, English Language and Literature, Global Governance, Psychology and Sociology.
Two more Distinguished Teacher Awards
» from the Centre for Teaching Excellence
The 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award were announced at Senate and we're proud to say that once again two Arts professors are among the four recipients! In case you didn't know, 70 Arts professors have been recognized for their achievements since the awards started in 1976 - more than any other faculty.
Congratulations to this year's recipients!
Steve Balaban, Accounting and Finance
Steve Balaban, a lecturer in the School of Accounting and Finance, has received many praises from not only his students and his fellow colleagues in the Faculty of Arts, but also from his colleagues in other faculties. Balaban influenced the careers of several of his students, and continues to be a mentor to them long after their graduation.
His peers admire the efforts he has made to incorporate new and interactive learning techniques into his lesson plans, such as problem-based learning and experiential learning. His students also really appreciate his efforts, as one student noted: "His lectures never felt like lectures, but rather interactive discussions."
Balaban shows genuine interest in seeing his students succeed, and many have commented on the integral role he has played in their professional and academic success. His lessons are known to emphasize "the importance of personal development, teamwork, communication, and relationship building." Balaban has been described as "passionate," "engaging" and "humble."
Additionally, it is noted that his most admirable quality is "his constant desire to improve his teaching abilities and the learning environment."
Andrew Houston, Communication Arts
Professor Andrew Houston is widely known in the Theatre and Performance program as an "inspiring mentor," a "gifted teacher" and a "generous collaborator." Students have described Professor Houston as "warm, welcoming and eccentric." They also appreciate the "consistent care, compassion and support" that he provides them with; which follows them well beyond graduation. His dedication and passion for theatre arts has had lasting impacts on several of his former students; including those who have since moved on to pursue occupations in different fields.
Additionally, he uses his strong network of contacts to provide them with opportunities to further their careers. It is noted by many students that his most outstanding quality is his ability to engage diverse learners in his lessons. As one student commented: "He makes sure to teach each concept by explaining it in multiple different ways, so that everyone understands." One of his peers noted that his dedication to collaborative pedagogies "enriches and strengthens the department, the work of his colleagues, and the university as a whole."
Houston is highly regarded by students, alumni, colleagues and local artists in the community.
The Nature of Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human (April 8)
» Profs. Fraser Easton, Alice Kuzniar, John Savarese, James Skidmore
Mary Shelley's famous invocation of human experimentation gone wrong is more than 200 years old, but remains as vibrant an analysis of the human implication of scientific insight as it did when it was first published; perhaps more so in an age on the verge of breakthroughs in both AI and bioengineering.
What are the consequences of experimentation? How has experimentation changed since Shelley wrote Frankenstein? These are just the preliminary questions to be explored at The Nature of Experiment interdisciplinary conference, April 8 here on campus.
The conference will approach the intersections of intelligence, life, and the human from a unique perspective: the concept and practice of the "experiment," both today and in the past. Contributors include researchers from UWaterloo German, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Computer Science, and Kinesology - as well as visiting scholars.
Read the full conference schedule.
The Nature of Experiment is sponsored by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the Faculty of Arts, and the departments of Philosophy and English Language & Literature.
The conference is free and open to everyone. Please register online.
Global Engagement 2019 Summit: Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of Artificial Intelligence
April 3 - 4
Caesura// Fine Arts 4th year undergraduate exhibition
Open until April 6
MFA Thesis One: Lauren Prousky & Patrick Allaby
Opening reception April 11
Celebration of Arts, featuring 2019 Arts Awards presentations
Arts Convocation
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* Banner image graphics inside "ARTS" from Welcome to the Tree Museum promotional image, designed by William Innes (BA '14). The Theatre and Performance program produced this original play March 18 - 23.
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For his new coffeetable tome, renowned lensman Craymer chose subjects close to his heart—including supermodel Niki Taylor. Of his comely subject he explains, "I have had the pleasure of working with Niki for a few years now, and from the start, I was immediately struck by how her inner beauty reflects her outer beauty. For me, she epitomizes someone who is truly beautiful inside and out." See the full excerpt below—From the Heart is on sale now.
An excerpt from 'From the Heart:' Photographing Niki Taylor could be considered a daunting experience. In doing so I am putting my work up against previous covers of Vogue, Elle, Allure, Marie Claire, Shape, and Self (when Niki was twenty-one she was on all of those magazines in the same month – titled "The Niki Six") not to mention campaigns for Cover Girl, Liz Claiborne, Gap, and L'Oréal. Niki is often thought of as the quintessential all-American girl—sweet, confident, open and energetic—but I am intrigued by her as a woman whose life has been full of huge career accomplishments and extreme personal challenges. She has navigated marriage and motherhood at a young age; the death of her beloved younger sister; a divorce and car crash that almost killed her; the reality of addiction and getting clean. I believe that some people are born with it all together, and nothing much ever changes that, while others encounter tremendous setbacks and never get righted. But I'm most moved by people who face huge struggles and persevere, through force of personality and will and strength.
Success as a model came early for Niki, at the tender age of thirteen. She grew up in Florida, with a mother who was in the business: "My mother was a model/photographer and loved taking pictures, and I remember I was going to Mexico and she shot some pictures of me, and I was like, 'I think this is what I want to do.' I used to take my allowance and buy fashion magazines and practice poses. I re- member I said I want to be one of these girls." Niki's mother took her to a number of agencies in Fort Lauderdale, all of which turned Niki down. But on a second visit, after just getting her braces off<|fim_middle|>, and global brands. Previous publications include "Romance" and "In London", both published by Bene Factum Publishing. | , one of them signed her, and before long she was modeling in New York and Paris. Niki did her first cover for Seventeen, at the age of fourteen. Although she found it surreal to be sitting next to Helena Christensen and Christy Turlington one day, and back in high school geometry class the next, Niki stayed grounded because she "always went home. I never moved to New York. I never moved to L.A. I was a tomboy and always went home to go to school, play sports and be normal. Family kept me rooted to who I really was."
Life started to change as Niki married at eighteen and became a mother at nineteen to twin boys; after a difficult delivery she was sent home with "a big old bottle of Percocet. That changed my life for several years," she tells me, "because I was like, 'Wow! Oh my gosh, I can do everything on this." Simultaneously her marriage was unraveling, and in the midst of this one of the worst moments in her life was about to occur. When she was twenty and her babies were six months old, Niki found her younger sister Krissy, who was seventeen at the time, collapsed on the floor one evening. It turned out that Krissy had died from an irregular heartbeat, a condition called ARVD, which could have easily been diagnosed and treated, except that no doctor had discovered it. I am wary of asking Niki to recall this traumatic time, but she talks about it openly and with love for her sister, even while the pain is clearly still with her. "My little sister, she was my best friend. We did everything together. She was starting a career in modeling. Beautiful, six foot, an amazing figure, she was doing really well."
"Nothing's by accident. I believe that people come into your life at a certain time and a certain point to teach you something."
In the wake of Krissy's death Niki says, "I've done every single emotion." But mostly at the time she "wanted to be numb," turning again to the prescription pills. "When you rely heavily on a substance to get you through you are left addicted to them and reliant on them, which I was."
Just when it seemed like she was getting back to normal again—Niki says she was "trying to get healthy and just be Mom"—her car accident occurred in 2001. A friend was driving her home from a club on a rainy night when "he hit a utility pole going maybe twenty-three miles an hour. Not going fast at all, and I thought I was fine until I got out of the car and had terrible pain in my stomach and was taken to the hospital. Doctors determined the seat belt had torn my liver in half and I was bleeding internally." She had a grade five laceration of the liver, and was operated on three times in the first twenty-four hours. "I did die on the operating table twice," she says. She would have over fifty surgeries in the next three years, including one that implanted steel rods in her back. Again she was given multiple pills to manage her pain in the recovery process, and again she had a horrible time getting off them. "It was because really prescription pain medicine is synthetic heroin, and so it was like going through a heroin detox. Being one hundred-seventy pounds, I lost fifty pounds."
"Everything is for us to better each other, I think. There's a lot to say about love."
Niki is forty now, and I am continually inspired by how she has rebuilt her life. She has a great marriage to a man "whose strengths are my weaknesses for sure, and vice versa." She meditates, takes care of her body and is sober—"I don't do or take anything," she says, mentioning coffee as her only weakness.
Niki describes the new freedom she has found: "For me I just got to a place where it was like I stopped concentrating only on what people thought. Life is not about just me anymore. I lost my CoverGirl contract after ten years," she says bluntly, "I was getting ready to have my own line with Liz Claiborne, and they were going to put it in Target, and I lost twenty million dollars just like that. I've learned a lot over the years, like how it is important to laugh a lot and have a great support system around you. But now life is about my kids and family. Being able to raise them the best that I can, loving on them, loving on other people. Being present is my motto." It seems fitting that a woman who has endured so much would look for a greater truth in life, and I can't imagine a more profound one than the words she leaves me with. "Nothing's by accident. I believe that people come into your life at a certain time and a certain point to teach you something. Everything is for us to better each other,I think.There's a lot to say about love."
Chris Craymer, a native Londoner, is a photographer and director internationally known for his fashion and lifestyle photography. He has exhibited his work in London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong. Chris captures the dynamic stories of real people, models, celebrities | 1,082 |
author: Thurai Vinayagalingam
Nine Lives – In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India
By Thurai Vinayagalingam –
The author, William Dalrymple, is a much admired travel writer and historian. He was born in Scotland, but now lives in India with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
Nine Lives is a collection of nine true short stories, with each story representing a different form of devotion, or a different religious path. The main characters in the stories live in self-contained moral universes of their own religious and ethical systems.
Noting that "Much of India's religious identity is closely tied to specific social groups, caste practices and father-to-son lineages, all of which are changing very rapidly as Indian society transforms itself at speed," the author poses the question: "Does India still offer any sort of real spiritual alternative to materialism, or is it now just another fast developing satrap to the wider capitalist world?" and concludes "Yet, for all the changes and development that have taken place, an older India still endures in the small towns and villages, and many of the issues that the present day holy men discussing and agonising about remained the same eternal quandaries that absorbed the holy men of classical India or the Sufis of the Middle Ages, hundreds of years ago."
Brief outlines of three of the nine stories are given below:
1. The Nun's Tale
This is the story of a present day Jain Nun as told by herself. The author, Dalrymple, joins a group of pilgrims to Sravanabelagola, an ancient hilltop shrine in Karnataka state in South India. Among the pilgrims is a 38 year old Jain nun, Prasannamati Mataji. The author persuades Mataji to tell her own life story to him.
Sravanabelagola has been sacred to the Jains for more than 2000 years. It was here, in the 3rd century BC, that the first emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya, embraced the Jain faith and died through self-imposed fasting.
Jainism is similar to Buddhism in many respects. It emerged from the same Gangetic basin in the early centuries BC. Like Buddhism, it was partly a reaction to Brahminical caste consciousness and their readiness to slaughter animals for their rituals. The faith of the Jains is more ancient and much more demanding than Buddhist practice.
The nun was a tiny, slender, barefoot figure in white sari bounding up the steps. She climbed quickly with a pot of water made from a coconut shell in one hand, and a peacock fan in the other. As she climbed, she gently wiped each step with the fan in order to make sure she didn't stand on, hurt or kill a single living creature on her ascent of the hill – one of the set rules of pilgrimage for Jain ascetics.
"We believe that all attachments bring sufferings," said Mataji. "This is why we are supposed to give them up. This is why I left my family, and why I gave away my wealth."
"People think of our life as harsh, and of course in many ways it is. But going into the unknown world and confronting it without a single rupee in our pockets means the differences between rich and poor, educated and illiterate, all vanish, and a common humanity emerges. This wondering life, with no material possessions, unlocks our souls. There is a wonderful sense of lightness, living each<|fim_middle|> told that we would train for a few months and then be sent back to Tibet to begin a revolution."
But the promise was never realised. Instead, after many years, Passang and his brethren were sent to fight in the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh. "I had to shoot and kill the Pakistanis, even as they were running away in despair. They would make us drink rum and whisky so that we would do these things without hesitation and not worry about the moral consequences of our action."
"Despite all this, we tried to behave as much like monks as we could. We brought our short Buddhist texts with us and recited our mantras in between the fighting. If anything, I prayed more in the Army than I did as a monk. But within my heart, I knew I was going against ahimsa, and the most important Buddhist principles."
Passang has now retired from the Indian army and lives in a small wooden hut in Dharamsala, intent on spending his last years atoning for the violence he had committed as a soldier. He had once again taken up his old monastic vows and robes, a full 30 years after he first renounced them.
This story highlights the tragic blight of Tibetan people and their efforts, against all odds, to preserve their way of living and to live true to their faith.
7. The Maker of Idols
Sri Kantha Stpathy is an idol maker, 23rd in a long hereditary line stretching back to the great bronze casters of the Chola empire. The Stpathys had been sculptors of stone idols in Vellore before being called to Tanjore to learn the art of bronze casting at the time of Rajaraja I (AD 985-1014). After assisting in the construction of the two greatest Chola temples, one at Tanjore and the other at Gangaikondacholapuram, they settled in Swamimalai in the 13th century. The bronze idol business had now kept them in work for nearly 700 years. These days, he said, most of the orders were no longer from the Kaveri Delta, their traditional market, not even from Tamil Nadu, so much as from the new temples springing up wherever the Indian – and especially Tamil – diaspora had settled around the world.
Sri Kantha regards creating gods as one of the holiest calling in India – but now has to reconcile himself to a son who only wants to study computer engineering in Bangalore.
Nine Lives focuses on the diverse traditional religious systems of South Asia, particularly the deeply embedded pluralist religious and philosophical folk traditions which continue to defy efforts to systematise Hinduism and Islam into relatively centralised and uncompromising faiths.
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I thought Colombo Telegraph is dedicated to information and opinion about Sri Lanka. Who the F**k cares about the spiritual problem of Indians. Indians seem to think that we have some connection to India. We F**king don"t. That's Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Nepal. Sri Lanka is an Island. We have no connection to Indians. Indians did invade the Island from time to time ,but they gradually adopted the culture and language of the Natives. And why is the Government permitting Indians, Maldivians and Muslims to come to settle and get jobs. Do we need more third world riff-raff
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Spirituality knows no boundaries, and boundaries know no spirituality.
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"But I still had one attachment, my friend and fellow nun for twenty years, Prayogamati. She fell ill – first with TB and then malaria – her pain was so great she decided to take Sallekhana. It is a ritual fast to death. We Jains regard it as the culmination of our life as ascetics. Not just nuns – even my grandmother, a lay person, took Sallekhana."
Through this story, the author brings out to the reader many salient features of Jain philosophy and practice: what does it actually mean to be a Jain nun, the extreme self-inflicted pain they subject themselves to condition their mind (such as plucking out their hair one by one to become completely bald), and the extraordinary persistence of the faith in a fast changing world.
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Tashi Passang was a teen age monk when China invaded Tibet in the 1950s. He was among the many monks who renounced their monastic vows to fight the Chinese army, but ended up later in India as refugees.
"It felt awful," said Passang. "We hoped that someone will arm and help us, so that we could recapture Tibet, but nothing happened. Our only hope was in following His Holiness."
"However, the fortunes changed radically in 1962. China attacked Indian positions, seizing the disputed border region linking Kashmir and Tibet. It was realised in India that the Tibetan refugees contained a large body of potential troops who would willingly fight against China." Along with many of his former monastic brethren, Passang was persuaded to join a Tibetan unit in the Indian army known as the Special Frontier Force. This secret force was jointly trained by India and the CIA. "We were | 363 |
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What's your favorite song on Reach Beyond the Sun?
Really tough to pick favorites from this record, but I'll go with the title track again, "Reach Beyond the Sun." Second place might be "To Suffer Fools, but "A Human Failing" is high up there as well. "At Least a Plausible Case for Pessimism" is also in my group of favorites from this record.
Last question: Is Shai Hulud a metalcore, hardcore, or a metal band?
I think the most accurate way to classify us would be as a progressive hardcore band.
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I've been having fun putting together the site's Album by Album interviews as of late. While I definitely have some cool ones in the works, I'm excited to share today's entry to the series.
Matt Fox of Shai Hulud is an old friend and one of the nicest people I've ever met from the hardcore/metal community. I previously interviewed him on No Echo back in 2016, but I wanted to dig further into Shai Hulud's full-lengths, and get his thoughts about each.
Shai Hulud had planned to do stuff together this year, but COVID-19 put a halt on all of that. They're currently working with vocalist Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme, Full Contact), so fingers crossed for new music in 2021.
For now, enjoy the latest Album by Album installment!
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Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion (1997)
Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion came out through Crisis Records, an imprint of Revelation Records that Rob Moran of Unbroken had reactivated while he worked there. How did you guys land on the label's radar?
We were put in touch with Rob after we sent our demo to a Rev employee, Jeanne, who I became friendly with through phone calls while working at a record store in South Florida. Jeanne was kind enough to pass our demo along to Rob who in turn was kind enough not to hate it. I then received a phone call from Rob from Crisis/Revelation.
I was certain someone was playing an elaborate joke on us — like our band had any business talking to Revelation Records about anything.
Working with Revelation during that time was quite easy; they were a great, enthusiastic, and proactive team who treated us very well and made us feel valued — like we were special or something. We've never had any issues working with Revelation; we are still strongly affiliated with the label as a band, and, more importantly, maintain lasting friendships, some that span over 20 years. Jordan Cooper and I like to chat about the '60s Batman show, old-school video games (see our Space Invaders themed below), and pinball machines upon occasion.
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It's always refreshing to hear about a band/record label relationship that doesn't go sour.
Following the A Profound Hatred 7 inch, everything was quite smooth — there was that slight hiccup on Profound with our name spelled incorrectly (shai hAlud) on the spine of the first 5000 copies of the CD, of course, but after that, all smooth saliing. As we had absolutely no visual ideas or concepts in mind, all artwork and the layout on Hearts Once Nourished… was created entirely by Revelation.
Rev did a great job capturing the tone and mood of the album in photographs, especially having been given no direction by us whatsoever. Regarding the production aspects of the album, things went very smoothly with Hearts Once Nourished… all thanks to Rev.
<a href="https://shaihulud.bandcamp.com/album/hearts-once-nourished-with-hope-and-compassion">Hearts Once Nourished With Hope And Compassion by Shai Hulud</a>
A lot has been made about vocalist Chad Gilbert's age during his time in Shai Hulud. What do you remember about working with him in the studio on that first album? You guys were tracking at the legendary Morrisound Studios in Tampa, a hallowed place for people like me who worship '90s death metal.
Even though Chad is nearly a decade younger than the rest of us, we were all young kids back then; just a bunch of goofs. Truth be told, either my memory of recording Hearts is just completely gone or it was as uneventful as I currently remember.
There was, however, a story about Glen Benton, singer/bassist of Deicde, who was recording in Studio A while we were in Studio B or C, doing a chicken dance around the table we were eating at as some of our members ate Chik-Fil-A. I wish I, myself, remembered this encounter.
Regarding Chad, specifically, what I do remember mostly is worrying about him losing his voice, screaming as hard as he was. Chad was giving it his all; I even recall our engineer, Steve Heritage (Assück, Jud Jud), looking at me incredulously, saying, "He's screaming his lungs out."
In one of our previous chats, you said the following: "[Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion] is an album rife with flaws and uncertainty, it is as equally sincere, and a true document of young men doing their best to create something lofty with only fragments of clues as to how to do so." Can you explain what you meant?
To put it simply, we didn't know what the hell we were doing — at least I didn't. We all wanted the album to be unique and special, but really had no clue what components made for such a record. Appropriate planning could have helped. Not throwing together a couple songs at the last minute would have been a step in the right direction as well.
Alas, there was little to no planning, and we built two songs out of leftover riffs only days before we leaped headlong into the studio.
Of course, it's not just pre-production and planning that makes an exceptional album. A lot of my favorite records are merely full of heart and soul and good ideas. And in our defense, we had the heart and soul. We may have even had a couple good ideas here and there. Some planning wouldn't have hurt, however.
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Since it's Shai Hulud's first full-length record, how do you feel about it today?
When listening back, speaking only for myself, I distinctly hear our attempts at creating something different. The result, to my ears, but touches on ideas that are full of potential — moments Matt Fletcher, Geert, and I wanted to broaden, expand upon, and bring to full fruition when writing our second album — but more about that in just a bit.
I'm genuinely ecstatic Hearts resonated with people as it has. I just wish I could hear it the way others do; I hear the attempts, lack of preparation and practice, and many missteps.
Like I've said in numerous interviews, after my first listen to the mixed version of the album on cassette in my Walkman in 1997, I thought to myself, "Well, whatever 'career' we have is over now." Given those feelings I had, the fact Hearts has the life it has with others is truly gratifying.
What is your favorite song on Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion?
"Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life" might be a close second, but probably "A Profound Hatred of Man."
That Within Blood Ill-Tempered (2003)
Since we're only covering full-lengths for this piece, I'll skip over the splits Shai Hulud released with Indecision, Another Victim, and Boy Sets Fire. That said, I'm curious to find out what your creative mindset was going into making the That Within Blood Ill-Tempered album and how the previous releases informed the material.
We were at a creative spike during the writing of That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. We had more of a sense of how to create better melodies, and really learned the magic and depth of emotionality harmonies bring. Structurally speaking, we were adventurous and took many progressive turns.
Back then, our friend, Jay, then the drummer of When Dreams Die, who now sings for Mindforce, upon hearing a few of the pre-preproduction recordings called us "Legacycore," which really was an accurate description based both on the more "epic" nature of the songs we were writing, and how intent we were in obliterating any limitations and boundaries put upon us having come from the hardcore scene.
As pretentious as it sounds, the truth of the matter is we really were on a musical journey.
Without A Profound Hatred and Hearts Once Nourished there would be no That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. That Within Blood Ill-Tempered was quite literally born of the nascent and burgeoning ideas from all the releases that preceded it. Every progressive musical idea and/or lyrical concept not fully fleshed out or realized on everything before Blood Ill-Tempered became solidified, resulting in content we were genuinely proud of.
While Blood Ill-Tempered is not my favorite Shai Hulud release, it is the one I, and I believe I speak for Matt Fletcher as well, take most pride in. It was a breakthrough in personal creativity, exploding parameters, and exploring ideas that were certainly not traditionally embraced by hardcore.
<a href="https://shaihulud.bandcamp.com/album/that-within-blood-ill-tempered">That Within Blood Ill Tempered by Shai Hulud</a>
The vocalist in the band for this time period was Geert van der Velde, a European musician you met during a Shai Hulud tour. What unique touches did he bring to the table and the songs on That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. Was he comfortable in the studio or did you have to help him a lot through the process?
Geert was always seemingly confident, and I don't recall him ever showing any hesitation in the studio on any of our recordings. He definitely did not ask for our help, but I'm sure that didn't stop us from giving it to him [laughs]. As I recall, he took the reins of his vocal ideas while recording, while Fletcher and I surely offered plenty of ideas of our own, ad nauseam most likely.
Geert brought a lot of personal touches to the songs on That Within Blood Ill-Tempered, actually. In fact, the very first melody you hear on the album, in the song "Scornful of the Motives and Virtue of Others," was written by Geert, who is truly a very creative person with a lot of good ideas.
Aside from contributing musically, Geert was also always quick to offer up ideas lyrically as well. Whereas I tend to write a lot and generally orchestrate everything, Geert certainly put his stamp on quite a few songs, particularly "Willing Oneself to Forget What Cannot Otherwise Be Forgiven," which not only did he title, but the song's concept is his, as it relates to something he was going through in his personal life at the time.
Geert is also responsible for one of the album's most popular lyrics, "Only thunder gives me rest'" in the song "Whether to Cry or Destroy." Neither last nor least, adding the idea to reference both Camelot and Atlantis, which I personally love, in the song "Let Us at Last Praise the Colonizers of Dreams" was Geert's. He definitely brought a good bit to the table of That Within Blood Ill-Tempered.
Shai Hulud during the That Within Blood Ill-Tempered era (Photo courtesy of Revelation Records)
What's the story behind the amps not working correctly on this album? You briefly mentioned that to me before. Are you not happy with the overall sound of the album?
Simply put, the amps hadn't been serviced in quite some time before recording. I can't say now exactly what was wrong with them, but I do recall they needed a lot of work and new tubes, all of which we learned after recording the album. This was no one's fault but our own. I can only imagine freshly serviced amps would have made us at least somewhat happier with the overall sound of the record — which I think we all think is generally lacking in quality.
In terms of touring the album, did people embrace Geert as the singer and the newer material?
Geert was definitely warmly accepted as a front man, and we played quite a few songs of the album to mostly decent response. We were certainly grateful for that.
What's your favorite song on That Within Blood Ill-Tempered?
That's a tough call as I am really proud of all the songs. That said, I'll go with "Given Flight by Demons' Wings."
Misanthropy Pure (2008)
Another album and another vocalist. This time you had a singer by the name of Matt Mazzali in the band. How did he come to join Shai Hulud and what was it about his vocal style that you knew would be a great fit for the band?
We had a mutual friend that knew Matt. That friend thought Matt had a voice that would fit Shai Hulud, and we agreed once we saw Matt play his last show with his then band. To this day I think Matt has a killer voice; heavy and very pissed, in theory, exactly what Shai Hulud has always sought after for its vocals.
There's a directness about the material on Misanthropy Pure album that I really enjoy. I also love that Andrew Gormley (Rorschach, Kiss It Goodbye) plays drums on the record. What was the writing process like for this one?
Working with Andrew was awesome. He had killer ideas of his own, and could execute whatever we asked of him. I can't speak for Andrew, but I had a lot of fun writing the record with him.
As far as our writing process went, it was similar to what we had always done, either Matt Fletcher or I would come to practice with an overall concept for a song, and we would piece it together with Andrew, who would usually write his own drum parts, and make suggestions on the song's structure. I remember it working very well during the initial song structuring/writing process.
This was the first album Shai Hulud went with a cleaner, more ProTools-friendly approach during the recording process and you said because of that, you think Misanthropy Pure sounds "too perfect" for your liking.
All the guitars on Misanthropy Pure were played slowly by me and sped up digitally. The result is somewhat inhuman sounding; I certainly don't play that cleanly. The recording approach was admirable in theory, but in hindsight I don't think it ultimately worked for Shai Hulud's sound.
We went the route we did because the co-producer really wanted all the rhythms and leads to be heard clearly as opposed to how muddied some parts were on That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. Like I said above, the concept was admirable, in the end though, a bit of a misfire.
<a href="https://shaihuludofficial.bandcamp.com/album/misanthropy-pure">Misanthropy Pure by Shai Hulud</a>
Misanthropy Pure was the first record Shai Hulud did with Metal Blade Records. Outside of that being a dream come true for a former teenage metalhead, what was the reasoning behind going with a label in that arena over a more hardcore/punk-leaning company?
Aside from Metal Blade just being a great label generally speaking, they were doing so well with so many of our friends' bands at the time; The Black Dahlia Murder, Into the Moat, The Red Chord, and Unearth to name a few. We felt Shai Hulud signing with Metal Blade was taking the band to the next level.
Having been somewhat stagnant in the hardcore scene for a while, it seemed like the logical next step for us to try to bring our music to a broader audience.
What's your favorite song on Misanthropy Pure?
It would be the title track "Misanthropy Pure," with "Venomspreader" as a follow up. Bringing up the rear in third, "Cold Lord Quietus."
Reach Beyond the Sun (2013)
The big headline on Reach Beyond the Sun was the return of Chad Gilbert to the vocal department. Now, by that point, he had already had massive success as a member of New Found Glory. Since he also produced the sessions, it must have been a trip to work with him again, especially in that capacity. What are some memories that stick out about the recording sessions?
Chad coming back as both producer and singer was a turn I don't think many saw coming, not even myself. Working with Chad again was really like working with him for the first time because when we last recorded together he was so young. The Reach Beyond sessions marked the first time I worked with Chad as an adult, and as a seasoned producer and recording artist.
Overall we had a blast. Don't get me wrong, it was hard work and there were of course some bumps and disagreements along the way. Like the Hearts Once Nourished sessions, the tracking was mostly uneventful, and again I was worried about him losing his voice; I think that expressed fact annoyed Chad a bit.
Did Metal Blade get involved with the pre-production/recording process at all? You know, the whole A&R thing and all that stuff?
Metal Blade was mostly hands-off during pre-production and tracking, though Vince Edwards from the label did come to the studio a few times to grab some promotional content. Outside of Vince quietly videotaping some of the proceedings, there was no interference from Metal Blade at all. Working with Metal Blade on our two records was quite easy. No trouble at all.
Since you knew Chad was committed to New Found Glory and he wouldn't be able to become a full-time member of Shai Hulud, were you apprehensive to bring him in to handle the vocal duties for Reach Beyond the Sun? I imagine he would have still be down to produce the sessions even if he wasn't singing on the record.
We weren't apprehensive about bringing Chad in at all in that regard. I think the fact he was in New Found Glory made it pretty obvious he wasn't rejoining Shai Hulud. People knew this was just a special one-off event, and that Chad would not be seen touring with Shai Hulud again. I'd go as far to say Chad agreeing to sing on Reach Beyond saved the record.
Initially, Chad signed on to produce the album when we had a singer so, yes, he would have produced even if he wouldn't have sung on the record.
I've told you this before, but Reach Beyond the Sun captures every sonic aspect of what I love Shai Hulud better than anything else in the band's discography. If I were using typical rock critic speak, I would say it's the Shai Hulud album where "you're firing on all cylinders."
Thanks, Carlos, I appreciate that. And I agree with you 100%. I feel we were indeed "firing on all cylinders" on Reach Beyond. It only took us 4 full-length albums to reach that hallowed place. [laughs].
Reach Beyond the Sun is indeed my favorite Hulud record to date. I think it features all of the best aspects of the band, and finally on a record that hit the sweet spot as far as production goes.
Everything came together nicely on Reach Beyond Beyond the Sun. The songs and their structures are (mostly) coherent and cohesive, rather than overwritten and overcomplicated — a tendency I have to actively work at to keep in check; Chad surely helped in that respect.
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Rome: 1513–1516
France: 1516–1519
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"Designe" is an Italian term closely related to our modern word "design." It describes the composition and perspective of a painting; in other words, the way in which the artist has arranged shapes and figures to represent a given scene or personality on a flat surface.
During the Renaissance, an artist might work as part of a workshop, which would receive commissions for artworks from various sources, or he might work as an individual, under a patron. A patron would provide for the artist financially while the artist worked on projects for him.
The technique in painting of representing three-dimensional forms on a two dimensional surface. When a painting is done in perspective, forms in the distance appear smaller than forms in the foreground, and the eye focuses on a single point.
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An Italian word which in English refers to the fifteenth century, especially Italian art and literature of the fifteenth century. This period saw the flowering of the Italian Renaissance.
A technique in painting in which forms are not given a definite outline. Instead, colors are carefully blended. (The word is the past participle of the Italian sfumare, meaning "to tone down," or literally, "to smoke out"; it is related to the Latin fumus, "smoke," and our English word "fume.")
Many critics maintain that Leonardo was responsible for the background vista in this picture and no more. Others suggest that he also painted the painting's angel; and indeed the sleeve of the angel matches some sketches from one of Leonardo's notebooks. The wings are oddly realistic; and such eccentricity is easily attributed to a genius like Leonardo, especially given his interest in birds. However, some point out that the head of the angel is too flat to be the work of Leonardo. Whether or not Leonardo was very involved in the painting's actual execution, he most likely was responsible for the design of the picture; he could have sketched the composition and let others do the painting. Although the angel fills a much greater space than the Virgin, the painting still contains a unity characteristic of a great artist like Leonardo. The angel is moving towards the Virgin, and she is responding. The four pine trees in the background form a unity with the building.
Portrait of Ginevra de Benci
The authorship of this portrait is also contested. Some suggest that the symmetry of the hair and the flatness of the face could not be the work of the masterful da Vinci. On the other hand, the angle of the sitter evokes that of the Mona Lisa, and the dark, shadowy background is characteristic of Leonardo in general and his beloved sfumato technique. The large tree framing the sitter's head is a juniper tree, in Italian "ginevra" or "ginepra" (thus a visual pun on the model's name; such puns were more appreciated then than now).
Benois Madonna
Leonardo wrote in his journals, "I have begun the two Virgin Marys." Critics agree that the Benois Madonna is one of them. Originally believed lost, it appeared out of the blue in the nineteenth century when a traveling musician sold it to a Russian in southern Italy, and was confirmed as a work of Leonardo in 1909. On Mary's lap the Christ Child plays with two small flowers; yet his aspect is serious. The shadows are such that it appears that the painting's light source<|fim_middle|> Paradoxically, Leonardo often got anatomy completely wrong in his paintings, even as he was making perfect anatomical sketches in his notebooks. Perhaps he was trying to make a distinction between science and art. Other critics complain that Leonardo is rather boringly recycling the upward-pointing finger and the smile of Mona Lisa.
Popular pages: Leonardo da Vinci | shines from above the viewer's shoulder, as if from heaven. Both have halos; as his career progressed, however, Leonardo was less likely to endow his religious subjects with such ornamentation. The Virgin has a rounded, glowing face–this, too, is typical of Leonardo's earlier work. Her expression exemplifies part of what set Leonardo's work apart from that of his contemporaries: she looks winsome and fresh, and has none of the stodginess of other artists' madonnas from the time.
Leonardo received the commission for this painting shortly before he left Florence for Milan, and thus it remains unfinished. Nonetheless, critics consider it a masterpiece. It shows Leonardo's ability to endow a familiar scene–here, the three wise men's adoration of Christ–with a fresh and lively spirit. The traditional manger has been removed to the rear side, to make room for a crowd of people reacting with emotion to the Child's Epiphany. Leonardo famously noted, "A good painter has two subjects of primary importance: man and the state of man's mind. The first is easy, the second difficult, since it must be conveyed by means of the gestures and movements of the various parts of the body." Here we see these "gestures and movements" in brilliant vibrancy. It was common for religious paintings to feature figures who stood placidly by, as if they, too, were separated from the scene's focal point by a gap of centuries. But Leonardo insists on realism, and the result is eminently more entertaining. His composition constitutes a pyramid with Mary at the apex; around it the crowd stands in a semi-circle. Anchoring the crowd stand two figures whose peculiar calmness at this miraculous sight may betray some lack of religious fire on Leonardo's part. The dueling men in the background could symbolize myriad things; most likely they are intended to contrast the calm of the coming Christian order with the vice and waste of the past.
Saint Jerome
This painting was lost for a long period and then found, cut in two, in two different workshops in Rome, by Napoleon's uncle, Joseph Cardinal Fesch. One half was serving as a cupboard-backing, the other as a table top. Or so Fesch's story goes. The painting is remarkable for its portrayal of Jerome in the wilderness, emotional and half naked–quite unlike the typical painting of him in his study. Also, Leonardo's Saint Jerome may contain the first realistic lion in the history of painting. The head of Jerome also reflects an expert and experienced anatomical eye: most likely Leonardo had begun his graphic anatomical studies by this time.
Virgin of the Rocks, or Madonna of the Rocks
Perhaps the most striking aspect about the Virgin of the Rocks is the Virgin's placement on rocks. A precipitous chasm separates the viewer from the holy scene, as if it were taking place on some unattainable plane of being. The rocky caves in the background, opening up onto a hazy landscape, contribute to the sense of otherworldliness. Leonardo often used hazy, rocky background, and this provides the extreme example. The Virgin herself is the most mature woman we have seen him paint at this point in his career. Her head is longer and more natural than the round, stylized faces of earlier paintings. An angel sits to her left, an infant John the Baptist toddles at her right, and the Christ Child rests at her feet. They form a triangle reminiscent of the Adoration of the Magi. The angel points at John the Baptist, and just above her hand hovers Mary's hand, open yet domineering. In the same vertical line, Christ lifts two pudgy fingers in benediction.
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Lady with an Ermine
This relatively simple portrait depicts Cecilia Gallerani, mistress to Ludovico Sforza. The animal is an ermine, the species of weasel whose fur European royalty favored for use in their robes. The animal and the hands are rendered with masterful touches.
The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa are easily Leonardo's most famous paintings. Of the millions who have seen reproduction of the The Last Supper, few realize that it is not only a masterful painting, but also a cheap optical illusion! Painted on the wall of a refectory (or convent dining room), it was in fact intended to appear an extension of the room itself; the effect is achieved by the painting's perspective, which matches the lines of the room. Thus the table of Christ floated above the heads of the dining monks. The perspective serves other purposes as well: its lines focus on Christ's head, which is cleverly framed by an open window–a kind of circumstantial halo. The pious would say that Leonardo wanted to show that Jesus's natural grace provided him with this divine framing, that Leonardo eschewed painted gold discs because they were artificial. The German writer Goethe, however, suggests that Leonardo left out halos as a gesture toward secularizing the myth of Jesus. At any rate, Leonardo took special care to follow scriptural details; the seating arrangement reflects the Bible's description, though to achieve this Leonardo flew in the face of traditional quatrocento arrangements, which had Judas sitting on the opposite side of the table. Here he is the third man to Christ's right; he clutches a moneybag. Christ forms a regal triangle with his body, like the Virgins of Adoration of the Magi or Virgin of the Rocks; his disciples form rippling waves. He has just announced that one of them will betray him, but he has not yet indicated that it is Judas. Each disciple is eager to acquit himself or identify the future traitor. Grouped into threes, the disciples on the far right recoil in surprise, while the next group leans toward Christ with curiosity; each group has a slightly different reaction to the news. Generally, the hands of the disciples contradict the movement of their bodies, giving the whole composition a flowing circuit that always leads back to the center. As in the Adoration of the Magi, Leonardo shows his ability to animate a scene that had become clichéd through countless previous depictions.
La Sala delle Asse
Greenery spreads throughout the ceiling of this great painted room ("sala" is Italian for "room,") with a single knotted ribbon running throughout. The knotted ribbon is a signature–"vinci" means "knot." This meticulous decoration must have pleased the mathematical playfulness in Leonardo. He often drew similar doodles in his notebooks, filling up circles with various geometrical shapes.
Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Although incomplete, this painting achieves a beauty that its completion might have ruined. The Virgin, bending down, sits with her mother St. Anne, who was becoming a popular figure at the time, as the Church was spreading the notion that Mary was conceived by Anne through immaculate conception. Anne's face is dark and mysterious, as if she is going to tell the fate of Jesus, while Mary remains warm and content. Mary seems anxious to keep the Child with her, although the child seems already more interested in tending his "flock."
Battle of Anghiari
Leonardo's original version of this painting, which he abandoned in 1505, quickly deteriorated, but many contemporaries drew copies of it. This drawing by Rubens is one such example. Rubens's style shows through in the copy; and thus it should not be taken as a completely accurate representation of Leonardo's original. Even though Leonardo often designed machines of war, he often spoke of war's beastliness; he meant the Battle of Anghiari to illustrate its horrors.
Not only has the Mona Lisa been damaged by darkening layers of dirt and varnish, but it has been practically ruined by its own fame: who today can approach that famous smile with a fresh eye? Yet one gains much from a closer look. First, the head is round and full of flesh, in contrast to the flat, misshapen head of the Portrait of Ginevra de Benci of 1474. Leonardo's painterly career can be described as a quest for the perfect female head. The Mona Lisa is also relatively mute in its coloration–that is, its light coloring is due not only to fading, but due somewhat to the artist's intentions. Leonardo's preference for the shadows, veils, and sfumato possible in oil painting reaches its culmination in this portrait, where color and light are in perfect subservience to volume. The background here is typical of Leonardo's work: rocky crags and mists. The subject of this painting has been long and famously debated. Some have used computer technology to compare the portrait with Leonardo's own self-portrait, suggesting that the Mona Lisa is Leonardo's female version of himself; other, more reasonable arguments hold that it is the wife of Francesco del Gioconda.
Saint John the Baptist
Although this was one of Leonardo's last paintings, it is one of his least famous. The androgynous look of the Baptist has upset prudish critics for centuries, and no one can deny that the figure is not anatomically correct. | 1,890 |
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The on-site system I saw installed by Tom Montalbine of Roman Stone Construction Company in Bayshore stated that in volume the Norweco Singulair could reach $12000 per, and that is with all the manufacture being done on Long Island. We are as a county on a mission to bring the very best in waste water treatment technology to Stony Brook's Clean Business Incubator Program and to the world.
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There are literally millions of people on Long Island who do not know how to help, do not know what is causing our environmental crisis, do not know that every little action impairs our drinking water for future generations. I think I speak for my directors and a number of people in Save The Great South Bay -- call upon us, we will come. Ask us to meet you and your neighbors. We are there. We now have people independently offering to hold dinner parties so that they and their neighbors can learn more about this crucial issue and how they, locally and individually can help.
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As the bill in Albany died, a plan on Long Island was born. Now it is truly up to Governor Cuomo's 'task force' on Water Quality and Coastal Resiliency to hold the last of its four public meetings and offer its recommendations. Will Governor Cuomo have the vision and drive to move past the Albany nonsense to protect and restore the water sole source supply of drinking water for 3 million Long islanders, and the $5 billion dollar per year cash cow coastal economy of New York State? Will Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone step up and make the sweeping agency reforms recommended by the expert panel from IBM Smarter Cities Program? If so - then best of times indeed. Between IBM and the many dozens of experts in consultation now on water quality issues, we have the very best science in the world at hand to address our problems. We need to leverage this fact. "We have to."
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he die offs of vegetation (marshes, eel grass, sea grass) and wildlife (fish, shellfish, birds, insects, amphibians and reptiles) have been stunning. Whole habitats are vanishing before our eyes. At the same time, that nitrogen is seeping ever more deeply into our drinking water into the aquifer that sits below us, with water deposited there by glacier melt eons ago.
Not only are nitrogen rates rising, but the rate of the rise is too, as the plume of nitrogen created by the explosive population growth on Post War Long Island, much unsewered, has generated a plume of nitrogen that is now making its way downward into our drinking water.
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Can Long Island Be Saved? Part II — Public Forum on Water Quality and Resiliency May 12th, Theodore Roosevelt Executive Offices
The first of four public meetings scheduled this month on Long Island's water quality crisis was held Monday, May 12, 12-4 p.m. in the Nassau County Legislative Chambers which are appropriately enough in the Theodore Roosevelt Executive Office Building at 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola. The next meeting will be at Stony Brook University May 19, time and place TBD.
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The numbers are staggering – 500,000 septic tanks on Long Island. An estimated 2000 outfall pipes pouring runoff into our lakes, streams and bays with each rain. 100+ small dams and spillways blocking the way for ocean fish that would otherwise spawn. Clam harvests in the Great South Bay down well over 90 percent. Scallops in Peconic Bay all but wiped out by rust tide. Fish populations a small fraction of what they were not too long ago.
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So what will the county do? What will Long Island do? Clearly, it will take billions to address the septic tank issue. That's where the IBM Smarter Cities award will come in handy. Suffolk County won $500,000 worth of consulting from IBM to study the issue of sewer and waste water treatment planning. Rest assured, when it comes time to remove and replace the 100,000 septic tanks with something green, they will have a full, complete and accurate inventory, and a process. Beyond that, everyone -- the governor, our senators -- agree that we need sewer systems and modern waste water treatment technology and the funding to make that possible.
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When It Comes To Long Island's Ground Water Pollution Problem, The Facts Are Now Speaking For Themselves
Ever since the release of The Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan, January 23, 2014, County Executive Steve Bellone has been on a mission to focus attention on the need to address our septic tank and water quality issues. He kicked off matters with a 9500 person conference call on water quality in. He has since then called for funding and for extending sewer districts. Most recently, Suffolk County won an IBM Smarter Cities Award, which will be used to study how best to address the septic tank issue in the county. Bellone worked with Senator Gillibrand to advocate for this. We are thankful to both for working on behalf of Long Island.
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10-7-13 Save The Date: Toxic Tides, Pesticides and Sewage Oh My! A Water Worries Community Forum From The Citizens Campaign For The Environment
Scientists have determined that increasing pollution from sewage, pesticides, and toxic chemicals threatens Long Island's water. Aging sewer and septic systems leak nitrogen into our underground supply of fresh drinking water, which flows into our creeks, bays, and harbors. This leads to "red tides" and other environmental problems that choke sea life, kill fish, and poison shellfish that people eat.
Fortunately, we can fix it. Citizens Campaign for the<|fim_middle|> all the great work being done on the Bay.
© 2018 Save the Great South Bay | Environment, Group for the East End, Long Island Pine Barrens Society, and The Nature Conservancy have been working together for over a year to form the Long Island Clean Water Partnership—a grassroots initiative to restore and protect Long Island's water resources on a comprehensive level. But action by local, county, and state officials is needed right now if Long Island's water quality is to be protected and restored for our children and grandchildren. We all have good reason to make sure our water supply is clean and healthy, and we each have a part to play in protecting it for the future.
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Via SCERP: HIGH LEVELS OF NITROGEN PROMOTE RUST TIDES ON LONG ISLAND
August 27th 2013 – Last week, Rust tides caused by the dinoflagellate, Cochlodinium, emerged on eastern Long Island and have since spread east through the Peconic Estuary and Shinnecock Bay. A recent study performed more than two dozen experiments over a four year period in five different Long Island estuaries and found that the loading of nitrogen during significantly increased the growth of Cochlodinium relative to other phytoplankton groups, demonstrating that nitrogen promotes rust tides (1; see figure). In south shore bays, the primary source of nitrogen is septic tanks (2). Recent investigations of the Peconic Estuary found that septic tanks, cesspools, and fertilizers were all important nitrogen sources (3).
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Apart from being a bunch of people who like to play trains. The Grandchester Model Live Steam Association is a not for profit organisaton set up by a group of like minded people for the purpose of providing a venue for people interested in model engineering, steam locomotives and miniature railways to operate and enjoy the fruits of their hobby. Originally founded in 1994 the club operated on a portable track<|fim_middle|> Yarongmulu Signal Cabin, a significant steel bridge crossing the gully which divides the site and a small concrete tunnel.
Future plans include additional track and raising the the signal/points box above flood level for centralised control of all points and signals.
grandchestermodeltrains.com.au | until the current site was leased from the then Moreton Shire council in 1997.
Over the next 12 months the club members laid the first 365 metres of track including a short timber bridge in time for the official opening on Sunday 1st August 1998.
Since the time the club has continued to grow with the track length tripling and the addition of numerous buildings on site including workshops, steaming bays, picnic shelters, the refurbishment of the old | 104 |
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When I saw Alp Sagnak of Atelier Minyon at the Jewelers of America show in July, he was, as always, eager to show me his latest work: the Dangerous Flowers collection was new, as were several skull styles. But it was the oxidized silver framework of a wristwatch—a half complete commission for a pair of collectors who found the artist a year and a half ago in his Manhattan shop—that he was most excited to talk about.
With just that vague idea in mind and a request for a Rolex mechanism—plus a sense of other pieces, including crocodile and piranha motifs, the woman already had in her collection—Sagnak went to work on the design, which took three weeks to formulate. Then he took one week to make the rendering, specially appointed with details like arches, vaults, and buttressed effects commonly<|fim_middle|> one might wonder, why a bat watch? Why not a flower, or something more feminine? Sagnak says he has no idea, but that the client knows what she likes when she sees it, including the "detail we make in the living objects we emulate," he says.
Closeup of Atelier Minyon's Bat Watch features an artistic nod to the Rolex logo in the spindly fingers of a fruit bat. | found in medieval churches, but on a microscopic scale, to appeal to the architect husband.
"I put on architectural details so he might buy a second one for himself," says Sagnak. A second sale did not occur, but the couple was keen to order the original for the wife.
The finished model is a mind-boggling sight: hard to look away from, and inspiring an instantaneous desire to know how the heck it came into being. Two vampire bats in 18k yellow gold embrace a silver dial with a design that mimics the pergola above that is crowned with a rose-cut diamond, while a silver fruit bat perches on the winder. The buyers also wanted to take the Rolex idea a step further by having Sagnak feature an interpretation of the brand's logo on the watch—a move that many in the industry would undoubtedly shy away from for trademark purposes—but a challenge that the wily Ankaran transplant took up with gusto, turning out an über discrete impression: the spindly fingers of the fruit bat clutch the watch sides in a manner that hints at the silhouette of the crown. "It's my humor, my joke, " says Sagnak wryly.
The final retail price of $32,000 is no joke, and the new owner received the piece two weeks ago during the couple's most recent trip to the States.
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The truth is, being a mother is a lot of work. At the height of my mothering of 4 children at home I cleaned. Every day. I did 4 loads of laundry. Every day. I cooked the meals and loaded the dishwasher and and found missing shoes while not missing school or practice schedules and unloaded the dishwasher in order to do it all again. Every day. Those who wondered what I did with my time only had to look at a day I didn't do it to understand how the work piled up. Because<|fim_middle|> right to tell it was upheld by the 1971 Supreme Court ruling that "the press was to serve the governed, not the governors". Supremely relevant, still today, as the governed have become part and parcel to the media with devices for our truth telling in our hands. It should be our aim, as parents, to make sure that our children's growth includes an accurate portrayal of larger societal truths more than our personal social media-based fictions.
Just as the snow and the laundry and the penchant for power mongers to manipulate the truth are relentless, so are those of us who are governed and galvanized and willing to pick up a shovel and dig. And its a good thing I am willing because it is snowing again, much to the delight of my dogs and my 10-year old daughter, who just learned of another day off of school. So they will play and undo all I have just done… but the truth is, I wouldn't have it any other way. Not today, anyway. For she will see me working every day to dig us out and hold us up. Her history will include my relentless quest to live and love the truth of who I am — with a little grace, some humor, and a whole lot of awkward. Because if, as Diller once said, "comedy is tragedy revisited", the more we can tell our truths and retell our tragedies, maybe, just maybe, we will be able to undo some of what has been done. | blips in the routine and vacations out of town didn't provide a break in the work — it just shoved it to another day. Kind of like the snow I am battling today. The snow that I am about to put a shovel to for the 3rd time in 24 hours.
My dogs "helping" me clear my driveway… again.
This particular snowstorm is not epic for one who was a midwestern teenager during the blizzard of '78 and it is even somewhat welcome given the relatively mild winters of late. But, just like the laundry and cleaning of raising my children, every time I think it's done I look around and it's been undone. As a single mother with one school-age child still at home and household and work commitments to take care of, I have no choice but to tackle it, as it comes, in order to stay on top of it, whether I want to or not.
As I was working on my driveway this morning, the above quote came to mind from comedienne Phyllis Diller, whose self-deprecating stand up routines of the 60's and 70's are woven into my same-era childhood memories. Recalling her eccentric persona and raucous laugh I couldn't help but link her observations about culture and current events to the The Post movie that I saw over the weekend. Like Diller, Meryl Streep's portrayal of Katherine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, The Washington Post, seemed awkward at first, and almost bumbling, but as the story unfolded, it became obvious to me that that was part of the point. Because the truth, itself, is very often awkward and even if told with humor and grace, is as welcome a female in the misogynistic Washington Post board room.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and headlined by Streep and Tom Hanks, The Post is a story that is as much about women's struggles in the workplace as it is about the Pentagon Papers. Its relevance to these times is obvious and is worth the retelling because if we don't keep up with the process of sorting the information, it will overtake us. We will be covered by piles upon piles of the dirty laundry and polluted slush that those who wish to bury the truth continue to churn out. It is not news that those in power wish to cover up the truth. This is especially true when the truth teller is a woman who gets talked over and looked past and put down.
But here's the thing — no matter who is saying it or how it is told, time is the one thing that always tells the truth. This movie is historical. And fact based. The facts are the facts and they now speak for themselves and they will continue to do so if we let them. If we continue bring them to light. Just like the facts underlying the struggles that both women and media still face. We work every day cleaning things up and clearing the path only to wake up and do it all again. But we are undaunted. And just like Streep's characterization of Graham, as she steps into the power of the truth she becomes steadier, straighter, taller and firmer.
Telling the truth, like being a mother and being a feminist, is hard work but it gets easier with practice. As Streep-as-Graham states to Hanks-as-editor Ben Bradlee near the end of the movie, "We don't always get it right. We're not always perfect, but I think if we can just keep on it, you know? That's the job, isn't it?" That is the job. Keeping on it. Because if you let the snow sit, it gets heavier. If you let the laundry pile up, it gets stinkier. Just like the lies. So we must continue to be willing to dig to find the path even when it is awkward and bumbling and hard to hear amidst the other voices.
There are days when I want to just stay inside and let it all pile up — this every day work — knowing that come springtime, the snow will melt and the kids will move on to another part of their closet where the clothes are clean and neatly put away, already. But the truth, like a good snow-shoveling — gets my heart pumping. It has become a blunt-force objective for me to stand in my truth and receive it from others, even when it hurts. Especially if the lies hurt others. Because even when the half-truths that people believed I wanted to hear were as beautiful as a new blanket of snow, they left me just as cold.
There is a path under there — cleared by women like Phyllis Diller, who understood the power of being a court jester, of sorts, to challenge audiences with truths on gender and sexuality and Katherine Graham, a town crier who held court in a public forum. Truth — our right to know it and her | 1,008 |
'Hu tieu' stall in Vietnam's Mek<|fim_middle|>00 nurses | ong Delta best in SE Asia: tour organizer
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A tour organizer believes a food stand in the Mekong Delta city of Sa Dec serves up the best 'hu tieu' in all of Southeast Asia.
'Hu tieu' is the Vietnamese name for a noodle soup made with rice noodles, pork stock, and other toppings, popular in southern Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Singapore, and Thailand, though the recipe may differ by country.
Nguyen Van My, a tour operator who has traveled to ten Southeast Asian countries, praised a 'hu tieu' shophouse he dined at in Sa Dec City in Dong Thap Province as the best across the region.
My's criteria consisted of two categories – for the 'hu tieu' to take the top spot it had to be "cheap and delicious at the same time." He noted that some restaurants might serve more delicious food at a higher price and vice versa.
In the 1950s, 'hu tieu' was sold on just about every corner in Saigon.
Everyone from big fancy restaurants to small portable street stalls was serving bowls of the steamy noodles, typically filled with pork, pig innards, chicken, or venison. Broth was either included or set aside, depending on the style.
"I have tasted all imaginable styles of 'hu tieu' and, though each person might enjoy a different type of 'hu tieu' depending on their appetite and personal preference, Ba Sam's stall in Sa Dec City serves the cheapest and most delicious bowl I have ever tried," My wrote to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
Nguyen Van My (in black) exits Ba Sam's 'hu tieu' stall in Sa Dec City, Dong Thap Province. Photo: By courtesy of Nguyen Van My
According to My, the shop's history began in 1968, when a Chinese-Vietnamese woman, nicknamed Ba Sam (Lady Sam), started running a 'hu tieu' business out of her house on Tran Hung Dao Street in Sa Dec.
The stall gained traction among local diners for its cheap price and good quality. The business has since been passed on to her daughter and granddaughter.
Since the stall's inception, My wrote, Ba Sam has always reminded her successors to keep in mind such simple yet effective business philosophies as "profit from hard work," "serve the working class," "be honest and attentive," "make just enough," and others.
To prepare for a day of business, the family wakes up at the crack of dawn to ensure they will have time to stew the broth for one hour with a host of ingredients including bones, dried squid, and pork. Everything is fresh and supplied by the same merchants that have worked with the shop for many years.
Dinh Xuan Linh, granddaughter of Ba Sam, slices the pork to serve diners at Ba Sam's 'hu tieu' stall in Sa Dec City, Dong Thap Province. Photo: By courtesy of Nguyen Van My
Even with inflation having hit most of the country, Ba Sam has not let the economy affect the way her business is run. In fact, a bowl of Ba Sam's 'hu tieu' still costs what it did ten years ago - VND6,000 (US$0.27) for a regular bowl and VND10,000 ($0.45) for a special bowl. Extra meat only costs VND1,000 ($0.04).
My said the quality of Ba Sam's 'hu tieu' is a far cry from its deceptive price and people from all over the country flock to the stall throughout the year for a taste of the dish.
The broth of the 'hu tieu,' My described, has a sense of natural sweetness from the bones and the dried squid, the meat is tender and fragrant, and the noodle is typical of Sa Dec.
The 20m2 shop opens from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm and is only attended by four family members, each with a seemingly permanent smile.
"I'm addicted to its rustic bustle, its idyllic smell of labor, and its Sa Dec-ish taste of a sentimental countryside. Just imagine slurping a bowl of Ba Sam's 'hu tieu,' sweating like a dog and contemplating unique business philosophies," My wrote. "Those are experiences you don't get at school or when traveling to a foreign country."
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Harnessing Information Technology: CIC is the principal NSTC committee responsible for pursuing the goal of "Harnessing Information Technology." Because of the pervasive importance of this enabling technology, CIC's leadership and strategic directions support all of the other societal goals.
Job Creation and Economic Growth: The information technology industry constitutes one of our country's most rapidly growing economic sectors. However, it is also transforming every other sector. Rapid processing of information on a global scale, in an increasingly interconnected world, for better and more informed decision making and for more agile manufacturing and efficient transportation will be a critical contributor to our competitive advantage. Traditional hierarchical corporations are being transformed by virtual enterprises and accelerated by electronic commerce technologies. Built upon information systems incorporating high reliability and security, these new technologies will enable new and more efficient businesses that are able to exchange services and perform transactions over global scale communications networks. Virtual corporations will link skilled workers from anywhere in the country into project-specific teams.
Enhanced National Security: Information dominance through an integrated Defense Information Infrastructure is a key element of America's future military and crisis management capabilities. Timely, world-wide, reliable access to complete and accurate information will quickly seize the advantage in any conflict. This access, together with the ability to rapidly process and exploit information to facilitate swift command and control decisions based on reliable, comprehensive knowledge of the current situation, will greatly enhance the autonomy and survivability of individual units. Declining intelligence budgets dictate that a decreasing number of analysts be augmented with the best information processing tools. National Security continues to depend on our nation's information- and communications-enabled preeminence in defense science, technology, weapons design, and simulation-based training.
World Leadership in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics: The new modality of computation has joined theory and experimentation as a fundamental enabler of scientific advancement. Complex systems and physical phenomena are analyzed and simulated on computers. Continuing improvements in information and communications technologies will continue to bear fruit in improved understanding of the physical world, new mathematical methods, virtual experimental methods for solving complex problems, more powerful techniques for environmental control and prediction, and enhanced product design for reduced cost, longer service life, and increased safety.
A Healthy, Educated Citizenry: Information Technology is crucial for improving the quality of medical care through telemedicine, new medical diagnostic and visualization tools based on computationally intensive methods, information systems for universal patient care records, computationally based discovery and engineering of new drugs and medical procedures, and exploitation of advanced modeling and simulation to gain a more fundamental understanding of the human organism. Education can be<|fim_middle|> by non-experts, visualization and simulation-based education and training tools as well as access to virtual communities of experts and fellow learners.
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Learning more about the differences and unique qualities of data science and data analytics degree programs, as well as the career opportunities, can help you determine which path is right for you.
A Master's degree in Data Analytics prepares students for a career collecting and studying different types of data.2 While enrolling in a data boot camp can deliver a dose of analytical skills in a matter of days, an advanced education at an accredited institution will help students develop a wide range of sought after skills, while also providing support and career assistance upon graduation.
A Data Science Master's program involves most of the same courses offered through a data analytics program plus much more. Lewis University's online Data Science Masters program offers unique concentrations in Computer Science and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, as well as specialized courses in subjects like data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning, says Dr. Piotr Szczurek, an Assistant Professor at Lewis University and the Director of the Data Science program.
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Though both fields continue to rise in popularity, interest in data science programs is currently growing at a faster rate. "Data | 91 |
Why is Auburn's Bryan Harsin worried about hotel beds, smoothie temps before Penn State game? | Toppmeyer
Blake Toppmeyer
It's almost as if Bryan Harsin wants Auburn's team bus to get a flat tire on the way to Penn State's Beaver Stadium on Saturday, just so he can say: I told you so!
Auburn's coach took multiple opportunities during his Monday news conference to stress that this nonconference showdown (6:30 p.m. CT Saturday, ABC) between the No. 20 Tigers (2-0) and No. 12 Nittany Lions (2-0) will test how his team handles adversity.
"Something happens to the bus. … The plane's late. The rooms aren't ready. You didn't have the bed that you wanted," Harsin said, rattling off the ways a road trip can go sideways. "Whatever it is, there's always something.
"Being resilient and being able to respond, I think<|fim_middle|> games remaining against opponents ranked in the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll. No other SEC team will face such a challenging remaining schedule.
Of the four SEC head coaching hires last offseason, Harsin was most intriguing. He had the most polished résumé, but the Idaho native had never coached east of the Mississippi River. As compared to fellow first-year coaches Josh Heupel (Tennessee), Shane Beamer (South Carolina) and Clark Lea (Vanderbilt), Harsin inherited a well-stocked roster.
But he also faced the highest expectations among the SEC's newbies after his predecessor was fired despite not posting a losing record in eight years on the job.
It's a testament to Auburn's hot start under Harsin that ESPN's "College GameDay" will broadcast from State College, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning. It's also a testament to Penn State's program.
The Nittany Lions returned nine starters on offense and seven on defense. They're allowing 11.5 points per game after wins over Wisconsin and Ball State. Coach James Franklin is a proven winner, and quarterback Sean Clifford is a third-year starter.
Happy Valley will be rocking in a game designated as a White Out.
"Embrace it. Be a guy that embraces that," Harsin said of the environment. "Enjoy the opportunity to play in somebody else's house and to go in there and play good football."
Win this game, and we can label Auburn as a legitimate threat in the SEC West.
Win this game, and the Tigers will show their coach that they can handle the adversity of life on the road.
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Like any first-year coach at this point in the season, Harsin is still establishing his culture, so it wasn't unusual to hear Harsin lean into buzzwords like adversity, attitude, leadership and resiliency.
But for those of us who aren't college football coaches, the real intrigue Saturday won't center on how the Tigers adapt if their pregame smoothies aren't the right temperature – yes, Harsin mentioned this as possible gameday adversity – but whether Auburn is actually good.
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The early results are promising. A 122-10 margin of victory after two weeks is impressive, no matter how lackluster the opponents.
The offensive line looks first-class. Freshman Jarquez Hunter's two-game outburst indicates that an Auburn backfield that was supposed to feature the one-two punch of Tank Bigsby and Shaun Shivers instead might be a triceratops.
Bo Nix has never gone this deep into a season without throwing an interception.
And Harsin's tapping of Derek Mason as his defensive coordinator is looking like the hire of the offseason.
But it's also possible that these first two results revealed little, because Akron and Alabama State don't resemble what Auburn will face the rest of the way.
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Second-place awards went to Brian Biggane, Writing: Sports Feature Writing; Hiram Henriquez, Illustration: Info-graphic Presentation; and Willie Howard, Writing: Environmental News.
Third-place awards went to Ron Hayes, Writing: Light Feature; Mary Hladky, Writing: Business reporting; Dan Moffett, Writing: Public Safety Reporting and Writing: Government News; and Stacey Singer, Writing: Environmental News and Writing: Health Writing. | the 66th annual Excellence in Journalism Competition sponsored by the Florida Press Club.
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The Making of a Daredevil CEO: Why Stock Options Lead to More Risk Taking
July 6, 2011 • 10 min read
Stock options are a critical element of CEO compensation -- making up one quarter of total pay for executives these days. But what does that mean for the risk profiles of the companies those CEOs lead? A recent paper by Wharton professor Todd A. Gormley studied this issue by examining what steps CEOs took when hit with a sudden increase in business risk. The finding: Stock options do have an effect on risk taking -- which, Gormley argues, "should be factored into compensation structure by boards of directors."
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Stock options are a critical element of CEO compensation — making up one quarter of total pay for executives these days. But what does that mean for the risk profiles of the companies those CEOs lead? At the heart of that question are two opposing forces: There is a risk-tempering aspect to options, because when those options are "in the money" — meaning the exercise price is less than the current market price — the value of those options moves in line with the stock price. That tends to dampen risk taking because CEOs want to preserve the value of those options.
At the same time, however, the downside of risk taking is limited because once the options are worth zero, they do not decline further in value if the stock price falls. And that limited downside increases the tendency to take on risk. A recent paper co-authored by Wharton finance professor Todd A. Gormley studied this issue by examining what steps CEOs took when hit with a sudden increase in business risk. The finding: The overall impact of options is an increase in risk taking by company leaders.
The research is laid out in a new paper, "CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," by Gormley, David Matsa, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and Todd Milbourn, a professor at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. "Options do have an effect on risk taking," Gormley says. "That is something that should be factored into compensation structure by boards of directors."
To definitively answer the question of how options impact risk taking, Gormley and his authors had to control for one issue. If companies that relied heavily on options to compensate top managers had higher risk, there are two possible explanations. One is that the options created a greater appetite for risk. But the other possibility is that the boards of companies facing heightened risk tended to rely more heavily on options-based payouts for CEOs. To strip out this possible factor, Gormley and his co-authors decided to look at a universe of companies with set compensation arrangements that were hit by an unexpected increase in their risk profile. Having the introduction of a major new risk eliminated the question of whether riskiness caused heavy reliance on options.
The new risk the researchers examined was the federal government's decision to label a specific material — one handled by company employees — as a possible carcinogen. That sort of hit can be catastrophic to a firm's bottom line, according to Gormley. Consider asbestos. After the substance, which was used for decades in many professions related to the construction and building materials industry, was determined to be a cancer causing agent, the resulting litigation, insurance claims and damages bankrupted some 85 firms, with the total bill to defendant companies estimated at nearly $265 billion. "The concern for companies would be if some chemical they used was the next asbestos," Gormley notes. "That would bring significant legal liability and costly regulatory changes."
While asbestos is an extreme case due in part to its proven link to cancer and its widespread use, the estimated potential legal liability from a new carcinogen label averaged 5% of assets for the companies that Gormley and his colleagues studied. At the same time, the firms faced the possibility that use of a newly listed chemical would be restricted by the government, a step that could disrupt manufacturing operations and increase costs as the companies scrambled to find a substitute. Those hits posed a real threat — the affected firms faced a 30-fold increase in the probability that they would become financially distressed. As the authors note in the paper, "workplace exposure to carcinogens can significantly increase a firm's risk of future financial distress and bankruptcy."
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes a report roughly every two years that looks at all compounds that may be cancer causing in humans and to which a significant number of Americans are exposed. Gormley and his colleagues zeroed in on chemicals that were added to that list in 1985, 1989, 1991, 2000 and 2004. "I had not heard of most of these substances, and it's not clear to me that investors would be aware of them, either," Gormley says.
At the same time, all the potential impacts of a new carcinogen labeling were long-term: Regulatory changes and payments to injured employees typically play out over years. Thus, the risk to the company's financial position was not immediate, giving managers the time to come up with a strategy for mitigating the blow. As their next step, then, the authors examined the strategies the companies chose to employ. When the risk to a firm's core business increases, a common tactic for managers is to reduce the volatility of their cash flow. The question was whether the use of that risk-reducing strategy would differ depending on whether the CEO had an options-heavy compensation package or one with relatively little in the way of options-based pay.
To find the right pool of companies, Gormley and his co-authors scoured a federal study called the National Occupational Exposure Survey, which documents workers' exposure to some 13,000 chemical, physical or biological substances. The authors then identified companies in industries with observed exposures to newly listed carcinogens for which they could find detailed CEO compensation figures. In the end, they concentrated on 69 firms. The researchers found another group of firms — 207 in all — that were in similar industries but unaffected by any new carcinogen labels.
While not all instances of substances being labeled carcinogens make front page news, they clearly pose a real risk to the companies involved. Trichloroethylene was labeled a possible cancer causing agent in 2000, for example. The chemical is used often by semiconductor "clean rooms." By examining the 10-K and 10Q filings of semiconductor companies, Gormley and his co-authors noted a marked increase in concern about the chemical. Between 1994 and 1999, for example, only one quarter of those filings mentioned both "exposure" and "liability," while nearly two thirds did so between 2000 and 2005.
The group studied the impact of a newly labeled carcinogen, like trichloroethylene, a number of ways. First, they looked at companies in industries where employees had been exposed to a chemical recently tagged as potentially cancer causing versus firms in industries that did not have exposure. The question was whether firms with a potential exposure would try to cut their risk by stabilizing their cash flow. "The volatility of cash flow went down for those firms with a potential exposure," says Gormley. "They were trying to reduce their risk." The firms in industries that did not use the chemical tended not to make those cash flow stabilizing moves. A further analysis of mergers and acquisitions activity during the period revealed that the key mechanism for slashing cash flow volatility was diversifying into new businesses.
Given that the typical response to a major new headache was to eliminate nasty swings in cash flow, the researchers then asked whether options-based compensation changed that equation. They cut the group of companies where workers were exposed to a potential carcinogen into two segments: Those where the CEO received a lot of options, and those for which CEO compensation had a below-average use of options. In the first case, where the CEO had an options-heavy package, cash flow volatility did not change and was similar for firms that had no exposure to the chemicals. Those CEOs did not try to cut risk in response to the new potential liability<|fim_middle|> contracts can cause meaningful differences in corporate decisions," the authors write.
Who Wins?
If options tend to increase risk taking, the next question is whether that is better for shareholders. The answer is unclear, Gormley says. "When firms get into financial distress, it can be very costly," he notes. "In 2009, when the U.S. auto companies were struggling, they began losing customers because people didn't want to buy a car from a company that might not survive. And morale was very low. Even without [firms] going into bankruptcy, those financial problems can destroy a lot of value. In that kind of situation, diversifying into other businesses may offset some of that. But in other cases, when those additional pressures are not present, diversifying may mean moving into businesses where you have little expertise — something that can hurt shareholders."
Gormley points to the case of defense contractor General Dynamics as an example of risk paying off. When the defense industry was in decline in the 1980s, General Dynamics bucked the trend of diversifying into new businesses. Though a diversification strategy would have cut risk, General Dynamics instead downsized and remained focused on defense. Not surprisingly, the company's management had options-heavy compensation. In the end, the riskier strategy paid off, with General Dynamics generating a 550% return to shareholders over a two-year period, far outstripping its rivals.
According to Gormley, the research also sheds some light on the recent financial crisis. One question that has loomed large in the aftermath of the recession is whether the way financial firms structured compensation helped to drive some of the reckless behavior that led to the economic meltdown. Research has shown that senior executives at financial firms have a large part of their compensation in the form of restricted stock — securities that, like straight equity, tend to reduce risk taking. But at the lower levels of those firms — areas like sales and trading — a large chunk of compensation is tied to bonus pools. Like options, those bonus pools have a large upside and limited downside. After all, once the pool is worth zero, managers have little to lose. That sort of compensation does, in fact, encourage risk taking, Gormley notes.
The research provides important information for the boards of directors of U.S. companies, he adds. "There is some evidence that boards aren't aware of the impact options have on risk," says Gormley. "If you want to encourage more risk taking, you would want to give managers more options. But if you want to discourage risk taking, you would give fewer options and more stock."
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Upon digging deeper, the co-authors found that firms where executives had options that were in the money — or options more akin to straight equity — took steps to cut risk more than those whose executives had options that were out of the money. "Our results provide tangible evidence that variation in compensation | 90 |
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This Sunday, September 29th is World Heart Day. As most of you are aware, heart disease is the world's leading cause of death, claiming over 17 million lives every year. The reality is that well over 80% of all these deaths could be prevented by practising healthy lifestyle habits.
A recent study out of Holland showed clearly that the combination of a good quality diet, regular exercise, not smoking, moderate alcohol and having a healthy sleep habit, reduced rates of cardiovascular disease somewhere between 70-80%.
If you throw in the best drug on the planet, i.e. happiness, on top of that, we would be seeing the rates of cardiovascular disease plummet.
See World Heart Day as a reminder to reinforce or commence your preventative health strategies. Why not take the opportunity to have a full preventative check with your doctor, having a fasting blood test for risk factors such<|fim_middle|> regularly, develop a regular exercise habit. Regardless, ensuring these healthy habits are part of your day-to-day life, will ensure you are taking the road to a healthy heart and a healthy body. | as cholesterol, blood sugar and also, of course, to have your blood pressure checked. If you are a smoker, see World Heart Day as a good time to stop. If you don't exercise | 40 |
This year DHDC was awarded a grant through Best Buy to build a "<|fim_middle|> giving youth access to tech education opportunities, relationships that help to build confidence, and a foundation for school and career success. A partnership with The Clubhouse Network connects members to a global community of over 100 clubhouses in 20 countries. The Best Buy Teen Tech Center's Grand Opening at DHDC is set for March 2019. More info on Grand Opening coming soon! | Best Buy Teen Tech Center" . Best Buy inspires people of all ages to connect, learn, innovate, and improve their lives. They believe that technology can empower people to dream big and accomplish great things. Across the country, many communities lack support and access to the tools and training that can unlock a better future and prepare youth for the challenges ahead.
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Saying "Yes" whenever we can is the attitude that has made Tim's and my nomadic life possible. First, we said "Yes" when we came up with the idea of selling our house so we could hit the road free of obligations. Saying "Yes" to readers who want to meet us on our travels has allowed us to embrace a marvelous group of new friends who are scattered all over the world; and saying "Yes" to the challenge of writing an article for the Wall Street Journal sent our life into a new, exciting direction, with thousands of new friends on the Internet and ultimately a book about our adventures which will be published in April 2014.
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Last year we discovered a marvelous way to meet people when we were in Paris, so we've said "Yes" three times to spending an evening at Jim Haynes' Sunday evening social gatherings. I read about these parties in the New York Times, made the first booking, and each time we return, his tiny apartment is full of jovial, interesting people from around the world. Each guest pays 30€ for a so-so dinner and some boxed wine. But of course the cuisine is immaterial because the evening's purpose is to provide a gathering place for people who are excited to hear new stories about travel and share their own tales with fellow explorers. We always meet new friends whose itineraries intersect with ours, and we never fail to get lots of ideas and helpful information.
This time, we met Gerlinde Schulte at the soiree. An attractive, smart, lively, Berliner, she invited us to look her up when we arrived in her city in August. Surely you know by now what our answer was!
When we arrived in Germany we phoned Gerlinde, and she invited us to lunch at her apartment. We were delighted to say "Yes," and the next Sunday we were whisked by the S-Bahn (the Berlin train system) to her beautiful treelined neighborhood.
Gerlinde, Andreas and me enjoying a lovely luncheon at her apartment.
Gerlinde's apartment was amazing. It was very large, comfortable and welcoming. Its high ceilings and hardwood floors, its generous proportions and comfortable furniture made us feel right at home. Andreas, a Brazilian friend who was working and living in Portugal, and was visiting Berlin for meetings, joined us. After a sumptuous breakfast and lively discussions about the state of the world, during which we tried valiantly to explain the mysteries of American politics, (we failed utterly, of course, because no one can explain it) we departed with several pages of excellent notes. They told us how to enjoy the best of Berlin, giving us tips it would have taken us months to accumulate on our own. We soon discovered that Gerlinde is not an anomaly; Berliners are among the most welcoming, generous people we've encountered in our home free experience, and meeting her started a small avalanche of opportunities to get to know other people and see special places that would have been unavailable to us if we had not met her!
We had been so busy swapping stories that we'd never even asked her what she did for a living, and we were surprised to find out that she worked as a journalist for the Berliner Morgenpost, the popular morning newspaper in Berlin. As we talked about her work, she said, "Say, if my editor agrees, I'd really like to do an article about you two and your fascinating life." If you don't know how we responded, you're simply not keeping up!
Gerlinde phoned the very next day to say that her editor loved the story idea, that she'd like to come to see us and bring a photographer. She also invited us to a dinner party her friend was hosting on that Saturday evening. Naturally, we said , "Yes, yes, yes," to all of it!
Gerlinde's big article surprised us all, and Reto's photos made us look like aging rock stars. Right On, Man!
The next day Gerlinde sent us an email confirming the interview/photo date, and we spent the next few days enjoying Berlin, learning the transportation system, discovering grocery stores (more on those adventures in a subsequent entry.) When she appeared along with her photographer from the newspaper, they had already chosen a park across the street to serve as the background. He Reto Klar was charming, efficient, and before we knew it, we had photos that made us look like aging rock stars!
A few days later, Gerlinde phoned to say that the small article she had anticipated had become a half-page story and had been picked up by Die Welt, the national newspaper. Wow! Another demonstration of the power of "Yes." We thought that was amazing news, and we hoped that perhaps Germans, who are great travelers, would enjoy hearing about what we are doing. Here's the story that ran. No, we don't speak German, but friends gave us the general drift!
Now, here's where the power of "Yes" really kicked in. Gerlinde sent an email with the name and contact information of a woman named Heidi Hetzer, whom she said we would really enjoy knowing. She is a woman everyone in Germany knew about – a fascinating personality.
I sent Heidi a note saying that we would be delighted to meet her, and within a few minutes, she phoned to invite us to dinner. She was such a force of nature that her energy practically leapt through the phone. We could hardly wait to meet her. Surely you know how we answered her invitation. We agreed upon a day and time, and, of course, the minute I hung up we Googled her.
Heidi Hetzer really IS a force of nature. At 76, she is planning a driving trip around the world in a 1930 Hudson, with her mechanic as her companion. No follow cars, no TV crews, just the two of them. We were utterly fascinated. She will follow the route of Frauline Stinnes Fahert who, in the 1930's was the first woman to circumnavigate the world in a car. Heidi's family owned three Opel car dealerships in Berlin, so she was wealthy enough to travel the world on the rally driving circuit. During our evening together, she regaled us with wild stories like having been in a Turkish prison after a car accident during one of her rallies! She was absolutely fascinating, and we will be following her progress as she prepares to set off across Siberia and begin her journey in 2014. Please note the purse she is holding in the picture. It's shaped like a car. I know for a fact that she has another like it in red, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she has a closet full of them in every color. It was a memorable encounter, and we parted company vowing to stay in touch and find each other again as we move around the world. She's definitely a person who knows how to say "Yes" to life's adventures.
Once set in motion, the positive energy continued to bring us the best Berlin had to offer. Our dinner with Gerlinde, her sister, Kerstin with her two darling children at the home of her friend, Gabi Becker-Smith, was delicious (she served Caribbean food that was the best meal we found in Berlin), and alive with fascinating conversation. Everyone at the table, including 13 year old Nick and 15 year old Alessandra, was well traveled. In fact, when I asked Mr. Personality, Nick, what was favorite place in the world, he replied immediately, "Singapore." The boy had a very sophisticated view of the world and kept up with the adult conversation flawlessly. It was exciting to meet such a young person who has several languages to his credit and the confidence to fully participate in a rapid-fire grown-up exchange!
Our wonderful dinner group enjoying Berlin's great fall weather.
and we're planning to meet up with them next summer when we are all in Paris.
As I write this, we are sailing back to the United States for a few months, and I'll be making new entires very soon about the other fascinating people we met in Berlin: the man who invited us to visit The China Club, the exclusive enclave of the rich and famous, our TV debut with a film crew from Germany's public<|fim_middle|> your Berlin adventure. We hope to make it to Berlin too — for a home base as we continue traveling in Europe. Next up Croatia, Montenegro, Ireland – hopefully Berlin before we take a break next summer and head back to NYC for a few weeks. Enjoy your cruise back to the States. Virginia and Michael, Verona, Italy.
You two just continue to "figure it out" and see more and more of the world. Berlin is a wonderful city as it is, but, you managed to tap in to the culture and meet the locals. Keep it up.
What a terrific story in Die Welt! You're an inspiration to us all, Lynne!
Lynne, Yes! Yes! Yes! you make me smile. Thank you for sharing your life experiences. What a wonderful, fun time. And I am sure there are some not so wonderful experiences as well, such as losing each other in an unfamiliar city. Can't wait to hear the tale. In the meantime I plan to keep this smile on my face during my time at the daily grind. Your stories make my life better. You are ROCK Stars!! Honestly can't stop smiling over this article.
Very exciting! So, while I'm reading all the places you're suddenly invited to in Berlin, I'm wondering what clothes you're wearing to the various functions, how dressy/non-dressy, etc. These are the things that would trip me up before I went on a vacation, which is one of the many reasons I don't "get out much." Thanks!!!
Once again, I'm envying your life – Berlin sounds wonderful. I've been to Jim Haynes' dinners several times when I've been visiting Paris and your description of the evening is perfect! It's a wonderful way to meet others, whether they are tourists or expats or Parisiens. I'll be in Paris for several months in Fall 2014, beginning in September – if you're there, I'd love to meet you and Tim to talk about the joys of being an expat (even if only temporarily).
This sounds like a wonderful journey you are both on. I love hearing about the beautiful places you visit, but more about the people you meet. Thanks for sharing. Wishing you continued good travel.
Lynne, this is a wonderful article! I see why you said you LOVED Berlin. It's making me love it too. My friend Patty visited Berlin several years ago and had the same reaction. You guys make everything fun, and I am sure all the folks you met enjoyed you just as much. Enjoy the U.S.! | television, and yet another visit with our dear friend and fellow traveler, Judy Butcher. Germany was the fifth country in which we've managed to see one another! I'll also share some spectacular views and photos from some locations that only a few lucky people get to see in that vibrant city!
month in Berlin and all the great people we met very soon!
Meantime, I'm going to say "Yes," to a lovely shipboard dinner and a great big glass of Malbec to go with it!
17 Responses to "Just Say Yes!"
Hi…Have you guys used airbnb.com? I'm wondering if you think it would be a good idea to include staying at places where you're renting a room at a home occupied by the owner. Seems like a good way to get the local flavor and meet other locals (not that it seems you have any trouble with either of those!).
Oh, we appreciate your responses so much, and I've tried to answer each one individually, but I will just say for all who look at this that the reason we were able to stay so long in the EU this year was because we applied for and got a long term French visa. We chose to ask France for this since we had planned to be there for many months and could provide a rental document that proved our intention. If you want to stay legally in the EU for more than 90 days, you'll have to go through the process BEFORE you leave for Europe. My best suggestion is to go to the website of the country in which you wish to apply and start right there. Be advised that it's neither quick nor cheap to accomplish! Wish I had an easier way to suggest.
Again, thanks so much to everyone for responding!
Off to California on Monday!!!
What a wonderful tribute to the power of YES! I can't wait to read your book.
I'm also very interested in your answer to Brandon's question above. How have you managed to navigate the Schengen rules that limit Americans to 90 days in most European countries? Could you please provide your loyal readers with some insight! We want to be able to do what you're doing!
Okay Tim and Lynne…….let me get this straight.
If you say "yes" to everything does that make you "easy"?
No…..wait, I know the answer.
Being open to all things new will bring you all things positive. I love travelling with you vicariously. Please come back soon to the Number 1 Best City in the World on CNN's most recent list: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
I remember when we first met because I said yes.
It's great to read about your adventures. We did somewhat the same thing as you in 2009 and have spent the past four years mostly in Europe. I'm wondering if you have found a way around the Schengen regulations that limit Americans to only 90 day stays within the entire EU? If so, please resond to us privately. We 're trying to make this work, but this has become a major bureaucratic obstacle. We must meet sometime and share stories. Cheers!
You guys are Rock Stars!! Never mind the aging thing.
It's been fun keeping up with the Martin's "Magical Mystery Tour" of 2013.
To the power of yes!
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The Key Principles of Animation in Video Games
It's not a secret that high-quality graphics and top-notch video game animations make a video game more attractive to players. If a game allows players to immerse themselves in the gameplay and forget about their problems, this means the game is worth attention. The main goal of any video game developer is to think over each character's movement in advance. This is where animation for games is used!
Animation is the process of creating an illusion of motion with the help of a sequence of static images that slightly differ from each other. There are several basic principles of game animations every animator must know. The combination of these principles will definitely make the objects of animation look realistic.
By 2021, the number<|fim_middle|> certain direction. The best example that illustrates the use of this tool is a bouncing ball, when the ball has the original form at the peak of the bounce and changes the form after touching a surface. Or it is also used when you need to animate a jumping character.
This principle is widely used in animation video games. Its main goal is to let the gamer know that something is about to happen. In other words, it is preparation for an action: when a character is going to jump, shoot, run, etc. In such a scenario, anticipation is the bending of the knees or the stretching of hands. To achieve a bigger effect, longer anticipation should be done. We at Melior games always use this technique to achieve a more immersive effect.
Staging as the Key Game Character Animation Principle
Essentially, staging means keeping the gamers' attention on what is important to the scene, without any distracting elements. In other words, the main goal of a designer in this case is to present an idea in a way that is completely understandable. In gaming animation, this principle is very important when it comes to level design or when the attention of a player should be brought to a certain element.
Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose
The main goal of these techniques is to make the animation more real. Straight ahead action means demonstrating a scene from beginning to end. Pose to pose means only showing certain poses.
Both techniques have their benefits and disadvantages. The main goal of a game developer is to find the happy medium when drawing an animated game character.
Slow In and Slow Out Game Animations Idea
Modern animation and gaming developers widely use this tool when they want to show slow movements of the object. It is used for designing level maps or for easing the player into a level. For example, you need to show a falling ball, weapon, or rock. First, it slows down and then it gains speed. Simply put, this type of animation in video games allows you to grab the players' attention and make them focus on certain objects.
Overlapping and Follow Through Actions
The technique when various parts of a character's body move at various rates is called an overlapping action. The main goal of a follow-through action is to show what happens after another action. Both are closely related and follow one another. In video game animation, they are used to create a smooth screen transition.
Video games animation is a complex project, but if you want to make animation believable and more real, you need to add animated movement follow arcs. Here are a few benefits of arcs:
Arcs enable developers to make the action more precise;
They "polish" the correctness of the action;
They also allow making transitioning from one level to another smoother.
Secondary Action
Animated video games can't do without this technique. The main goal of secondary actions is to support the main action without distracting the attention of players from it. For example, a walking person sways their arms, or a talking person uses some gestures to explain what they mean. Clouds moving, birds singing, trees moving – all these movements are secondary actions that make the gameplay more immersive. High-quality animation for games is impossible without secondary actions.
Timing as a Powerful Animated Video Game Technique
Timing means the number of frames between poses and main actions. How long should a character spend on performing this or that task? How long does this level take? How long does the cool-down period last? All these questions are about timing and should always be considered in animating game characters.
All these techniques are widely used by professionals in game animation. We at Melior games always monitor and follow the latest trends in gaming animation and do our best to meet the needs of our clients! | of video gamers is expected to be more than 2.7 billion. The gaming market is expected to be worth 138 billion. This means that this niche is at the pinnacle of success. Let's review the main principles of excellent video games animations and learn how to make animated game characters that people will love.
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Squash and Stretch as the Main Animation Video Game Principle
The main goal of this principle is to give the illusion of weight and pressure. It is used in animations games to exaggerate movement in a | 120 |
The<|fim_middle|> relating to the material. We encourage parents to continue to be involved with their children's educational process. | Classes at Town North is a college preparatory co-op focusing primarily on high school literature, writing, science, math and history. Teachers in the co-op have degrees and/or real world experience in their chosen subject areas. All classes meet on Thursdays and currently, there are approximately 160 students attending The Classes at Town North. We are often referred to as the "Green Roof Co-op" in reference to the color of the roof tops on the buildings at the Town North Presbyterian Church campus where we meet.
The Classes at TNPC (Town North Presbyterian Church) was founded in 1999 by six veteran homeschooling families. Courses were originally designed to provide a high-caliber of college preparation and academic enrichment for our oldest children, who were in high-school and junior high. While teaching duties were initially assigned by need, we each gradually discovered our own individual giftings and callings in the classroom.
Although TNPC was initially formed as a private co-op, we opened our science classes to families outside our core group in 2001 to meet a need in the homeschooling community. Since that time, we have gradually expanded and opened additional classes each year. We are now pleased to offer a variety of science, literature, writing, math and history classes with additional classes such as economics and geography. We have a core of 15 teachers and the participation of approximately 160 students.
The emphasis of TNPC is still primarily on high school courses, with some junior high classes additionally offered. Our intent is to broaden student's horizons, encouraging them to think beyond their immediate circumstances, and preparing them for the next stage, whether it be the next grade, college, or the working world.
Since we only meet once per week, the majority of the work is done at home. Class time is used to prepare students for this work, and to allow for lecture and discussion | 385 |
Different Types of Computer Mouses
By: Fred Decker | February 15, 2019
A sleek, modern wireless mouse is visibly more advanced than the boxy pioneering models from decades ago. All types of mouse do the same basic job, regardless of the technology that goes into them, but differences in design and technology have led to many different computer mouse varieties. Another thing they have in common, besides function, is grammar: The Oxford Dictionary says the plural can be mice or mouses, and either one is perfectly correct.
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Conception of the Computer Mouse
The history of the computer mouse goes back farther than you might think. It was originally demonstrated by Stanford engineer Douglas Engelbart in 1968, well before personal computers arrived on the marketplace. The underlying idea of a mouse was simple enough, though, and clear even in the mainframe computer era. Navigating around a computer screen with keystrokes is clumsy and complicated, but pointing at what you want is a skill simple enough even for infants. The mouse provided a practical way to do that.
The Basics of How a Mouse Works
A computer mouse has to do three things:
It needs some way to detect the motion of the mouse as you move it.
It must recognize the click when you press a button.
It needs to communicate that information to your computer.
In the five decades since Engelbart's demonstration, mouse designers have found several different ways to achieve those three goals. The result has been many different types of computer mice, even though their primary function remains the same.
Types of Mouse by Mechanism
One of the most fundamental changes over the years has been in how mouses detect your motion. Engelbreit's original mouse was a wooden box with two large wheels to translate its motion into electrical signals. That basic idea has since been replaced by several newer technologies.
Electromechanical Mouses: When the mouse first became an essential accessory in the 1980s, it used a refinement of Engelbart's mechanical mouse. Instead of wheels, the mouse had a heavy rubberized ball which could roll in any direction. Two rollers inside the mouse recorded the ball's motion and transformed it into electrical signals, while a third roller provided tension to keep the ball pressed firmly against the other two.
Optical and Laser Mouses: More modern mouse designs use light, in the form of high-resolution LEDs or lasers, to track the movement of the mouse. They've proven more reliable than mechanical mice because of their lack of moving parts to break or need cleaning, and improvements in both the hardware and software have made it possible for mice to be much more accurate and sensitive.
Specialty Mouses and Mouse-like Devices: In some specific situations – while you're at a screen giving a presentation, for example – you may not be able to use your mouse on a flat surface. Manufacturers have evolved various mouse-like devices using accelerometers that can be used in these situations, translating the motions of your arm through the air into movements of your on-screen pointer. Because it's a niche scenario, these aren't widely known or used.
Differences in Connection Options
There's been a similar evolution in how the different kinds of computer mouse attached to the computer itself. Before the IBM PC made personal computers a business tool, the mouse was often designed to connect to a joystick port. The PC didn't come with one of those, so manufacturers came up with a range of alternatives.
Serial Mouse: The IBM PC didn't have a joystick port, but it did have an RS-232C or serial port for communicating with other devices. When the mouse first became mainstream in the 1980s, early models from Microsoft and Mouse Systems were often designed to attach to this port. Serial ports came in 9-pin and 25-pin versions, but a serial mouse would work on either of those connections with an appropriate adapter.
Bus Mouse: The problem with connecting through the serial port was that it was often used by other devices, such as external modems. One way around that issue was to use a bus mouse, which came with its own controller card. The card was installed into a slot on the computer's expansion bus – hence the name – and then the mouse was plugged into it. These often had a proprietary interface, so they couldn't easily be moved between computers.
PS/2 Mouse: When IBM introduced its PS/2 series of personal computers, it introduced a new, standardized port for the keyboard and mouse. These so-called PS/2 ports were small, round connectors, usually color-coded so you knew which device to install where.
USB Mouse: When the USB interface was first defined in the 1990s, one of its design goals was to provide a single port that could be used for any peripheral device including a mouse. Any types of mouse that still use a cord typically continue to use a USB connector.
Wireless Mouse: Cords can be messy and inconvenient, so wireless mice were an obvious next step. Some conventional designs plug a small wireless dongle into the USB port and use that to communicate between the mouse and the computer. An alternative approach uses the Bluetooth wireless protocol to communicate between the mouse and the computer. Modern laptops and tablets typically have Bluetooth built in, so a Bluetooth mouse doesn't require a dongle.
Switches, Buttons and Wheels
The third task a mouse has to carry out is the click, which is how you position the pointer and how you select or move things on the screen. The switches need to differentiate between clicking and letting go, or holding down on the button to drag items on the screen. The switches themselves have improved over the years and now typically require only the gentlest of touches.
The number and function of the mouse's buttons evolved as they became more widely used. In the 1980s, Apple's Macintosh used a one-button mouse, Microsoft sold a two-button mouse, and Logitech marketed a three-button mouse. Added buttons translated to more versatility: Windows users could use the second button to right-click and open up context-sensitive menus, and Logitech's three-button system allowed users to set up custom combinations of buttons that could be programmed to act as shortcuts or to do specific functions.
Most mainstream computer mice settled on a hybrid design by the mid-90s, with left and right buttons and a scroll wheel mounted between them. The scroll wheel made it possible to scroll up and down the screen rapidly, and when pressed, it worked as a Logitech-style third button. Specialized mice for gaming and other demanding uses may provide additional buttons, which can be programmed for specific tasks.
The Question of Sensitivity
One crucial detail with any mouse is how far it moves for a given amount of motion on your desk. That's usually measured in dots per inch (dpi). It's not a straightforward thing to get right. On a big, modern high-resolution screen, ideally, a small movement of the mouse would still be enough to move your cursor from one side of the screen to the other. Unfortunately, that's counterproductive if you need fine, accurate control of your pointer, in which case you want a relatively large hand motion to make a small on-screen motion.
The usual solution is a control your mouse driver or operating system calls acceleration. If you make a slow movement, your mouse gives you fine, accurate control. If you make a fast movement, it speeds up and crosses a much larger portion of your screen. That's fine for general use, but gamers, engineers and other demanding users need better control. High-end mouses address that need by providing one or more buttons that switch between high- and low-dpi modes as needed.
The Question of Ergonomics
Ergonomics, or human-friendly engineering, is another ongoing issue in mouse design. Using a mouse all day can cause repetitive stress injuries, and there's no easy fix available. The simplest answer would be changing the mouse from left to right periodically, but that's not easy for users to do.
Most brands offer their various types of mouse in large and small sizes to fit users' hands comfortably, but that's just a starting point. Wrist rests to improve hand posture are sold separately, and some brands build them into the design of the mouse itself. Gaming mice often come with adjustable weights, letting users tailor the mouse's heft and balance to suit their personal taste. Manufacturers have also experimented with other radical designs, like vertical configurations, but those haven't found wide acceptance in the market.
Mouse Alternatives Bring Ergonomics, Versatility
A number of other pointing devices can take the place of a mouse, whether you're looking for better ergonomics, improved control or just simple convenience.
Trackball: You could think of a trackball as an old-school mechanical mouse turned upside down, so the ball is on top. You control your cursor by rolling the ball with your finger or thumb, and then you click with buttons built into the base. Because you use your thumb rather than your wrist, it's a good option for users with carpal tunnel issues.
Trackpoint: The trend from desktop<|fim_middle|> keyboard. You can move it with the index finger of either hand without taking your hands away from their normal typing position, which makes the trackpoint highly efficient. Clickable buttons are at the bottom of the keyboard, below the spacebar, where your thumbs can reach them. A trackpoint is mostly found on IBM and Lenovo computers.
Touchpad: The touchpad is the most common mouse replacement for laptops. It works much like a touch screen, with your finger moving the on-screen cursor. You click by tapping the screen or using a physical button, depending on the design of the touchpad. Modern versions support a range of tapping and swiping gestures using multiple fingers, making them arguably even more versatile than the mouse itself.
Stylus or Pen: A stylus or pen takes the place of a mouse when it's used on a touch-screen device, such as a tablet, touch-screen laptop, convertible laptop/tablet devices, and high-end mobile phones. It's more precise than a fingertip, and some devices add special features by measuring how hard you've pressed against the screen. You click by tapping the stylus on the screen, and some models have built-in buttons as well.
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Cathy Skipper
Workshop Aromatherapy and Souls Healing
April 20, 2016 at 4:28 pm (Aromatherapy and soul healing, Uncategorized)
AROMATHERAPY & MEDICINE OF THE SOUL: "THE WOUNDED HEALER, THE ALCHEMICAL JOURNEY AND THE SACRED UNION"
So what is all this about, you may well ask. Well first to fill you in on a little bit of background:
Dr. Florian Birkmayer is a psychiatrist who has spent the past years offering holistic person-centered psychiatry and addiction medicine to patients from his private practice in New Mexico. Steering away from conventional drugs, he works with essential oils and other plant based medicines as well as equine therapy. He also holds seminars and workshops on a wide range of holistic topics to facilitate self transformation and continued self development. His approach has been inspired by C.G Jung's ideas about Individuation, which is the journey of the limited ego to the higher self.
Cathy Skipper is a French-trained herbalist and aromatherapist and practicing member of the Association of Master Herbalists in the UK. She spent the last ten years teaching a wide range of plant related classes such as field botany and wild crafting, healing plants with plants, practical herbalism, aromatherapy and healing the healer in both France, the UK and the States. All her work stems from the importance of reconnecting with the natural world, the healer healing themselves and reestablishing balance and vitality through alignment with the self.
Florian and Cathy have a very strong bond and their approach to life and 'the healing arts' is both similar and complimentary.
Says Cathy: 'I had always been intrigued by alchemy, although I knew absolutely nothing about it until I met Florian who inspired me to explore it within the context of my own personal path. As I began to learn, I loved the freedom from religion and doctrine that it offered and the way it helped me to understand and structure my inner world. Gradually the combination of alchemy and aromatic medicine helped me develop a stronger vessel with which to explore deeper within myself. A feeling of fully living my journey towards individuation emerged, the synergy of aromatics and alchemy provided the tools I needed. I am not saying I am anywhere near arriving at a destination but I have definitely embarked on a voyage'.
Florian says: 'My interests in both aromatherapy and Jungian Depth Psychology are longstanding, but I only started exploring their synergy recently. Aromatherapy has been a portal for me to explore the themes of plant intelligence and human-plant communication. Jung's Red Book and his other works, especially his last great work 'Mysterium Conjunctionis' have profoundly shaped my view of reality and the metaphysical realms. To me essential oils and hydrosols are the unseen forces that communicate within and between our souls, a class of archetypes and a realm of the collective unconscious. I consider bridge-building one of the main themes of my work and life and this class is the culmination of many bridgebuldings, between aromatherapy and Jung, between me and Cathy, between the soul and the world and in this way another alchemical mystical marriage.'
We are both excited about sharing our passion for essential oils within the context of the alchemical journey. During the course we will explore the seven alchemical steps using exercises with essential oils and hydrosols to find our way. We will cover the following principal steps
Looking at how each alchemical stage relates to a different part of the healing cycle.
Identifying the different emotional/energetic states that arise in each stage and the essential oils and hydrosols that may help work through them.
Exercises and experiential work to deepen the understanding of each stage and the action of certain essential oils and hydrosols.
Looking at ways this work can be used with clients in an aromatherapy or psychotherapy practice.
This workshop is intended to:
Help develop a deeper and more personal relationship to essential oils and hydrosols.
Offer a model that can be used to assist healers on their own journeys and those of their clients.
Highlight the importance of soul healing in achieving a state of 'vitality' and optimum health.
We are teaching this class in May 2016 in New York and Detroit, September in Ireland and October in Utah. We are happy to teach it all over the world. Please contact me for information about already scheduled classes or hosting a class.
Marjoram or oregano
March 6, 2016 at 1:53 am (Oregano or Marjoram?, Uncategorized)
These two plants are among those that I use often in herbal teas, as essential oils and hydrosols, grow in my garden or harvest wild. However I have noticed that there is often confusion between the two, it is not uncommon to read about Origanum majorana commonly known as Marjoram and see a photo or drawing of Origanum vulgare, commonly known as oregano, next to the text. Nor is it uncommon to go on a guided tour around a herb garden and hear the guide calling marjoram, oregano… but why and what makes it so difficult to get these two plant's identities clearly sorted out? Well for one, they are both from the Origanum genus
(belonging to the Lamiaceae
family), a large genus
containing several different
sections and a huge number
of species, subspecies and
hybrids and a complicated
taxonomic history. Linnaeus
first classified it as a single
genus and then over the
years the plants were ordered
under various botanical names
including Amaracus, Origanum and Marjorana. For the purpose of this article I will be concentrating on the two aforementioned plants and their differences botanically, ecologically and medicinally. The genus Origanum contains plants that are rich in essential oils and have been used for thousands of years as condiments and medicines. The word origanum comes form oros in Greek, meaning mountain and perhaps ganousthai meaning 'delight in', which probably refers to the fact that the origanum species that have the highest essence content grow wild in the mountains.
Let us begin by looking at the botanical differences in the two plants;
Origanum vulgare is a thermophile, woody perennial, which grows to an average of between 20 to 60 cm's high but can grow higher in certain conditions. It has a woody rhizome and quadrangular, reddy- purplish stems, the simple, oval, dark green leaves are arranged opposite each other and have short stalks, the upper leaves are sometimes sessile, the whole plant is covered with soft hairs and has a pleasant, recognizable odor. It flowers between July and September and the inflorescences are densely inserted at the extremities of the plant's stems on small branches. The flowers (typical of this family) have an upper and lower lip, and a bell shaped calyx with more or less equally sized teeth. They are purple, pink or white, the buds being a deeper color than the flowers themselves, here where I live they are always purple, I have in fact never seen them in another color and they are also most commonly depicted in books with purple flowers. The stamens are prominent and the oval, leaf-like bracts are often tinted a reddish purple.
origanum vulgare (1)
Origanum majorana is a perennial but often considered an annual when grown in Northern climates, as it is indigenous to Mediterranean areas and does not survive harsh winters (half hardy). It grows to a maximum height of 60cms and tends to be bushier than the Origanum vulgare. The stems are woody and greeny-brown rather than purple and not as rigid as the former meaning that rather than growing completely upright, marjoram has a tendency to grow in low mounds. Its pubescent leaves are arranged opposite each other and are grey-green, the flowers appear at the extremities as in the Origanum vulgare but are much smaller and white (sometimes slightly pinky). It is the flower buds in this genre that are very noticeable as they look like neat knots; this is where the name knotted marjoram came from. The fruit are brown, tear-shaped nutlets.
Origanum marjorana
Native to the Mediterranean Eurasia, both plants like warm, sunny environments, Origanum vulgare, which grows wild next to my home here in Southwest France, quite happily gets through the harsh sometimes snowy winters and the Origanum majorana, which is not found wild here as it prefers a warmer climate, growing wild for example in Cyprus and Turkey did actually survive as a perennial in my medicinal plant plantation.
Although Origanum vulgare prefers slightly alkaline soil, it can quite easily be found living happily along the roadsides on more acid terrains as long as they are well drained. It grows in most of Europe and to north and western Asia up to 1500 to 2000m altitude.
So as we have seen, these two plants do have similarities but are NOT in anyway the same plant, they are visually different, have different requirements in terms of where they grow and although some of their medicinal uses overlap, they have very different properties and constituents. What is for sure is that they are both great allays to the herbalist.
Some of the earliest records of origanum use date back to 1600-1200BC when images of the plants were inscribed on tablets by the Hittites of Asia Minor/Syria. (1) As the two plants in question have so often over history been called by the same name, it is necessary to view any historical descriptions in a broad sense.Origanum (probably marjoranum) was a symbol of love for the Greeks and Romans. It was woven into the floral headband that couples wore for their marriage and was also one of the ingredients in the many available love elixirs and balms. One of the warming herbs used to heal broken hearts, it was also planted on tombs to help the dead find peace. Both the plants in question were considered to be protective against magic spells and bad spirits, marjoram scattered in doorways kept the devil away from the house.
Origanum majoranum and Origanum vulgare have both been used historically and are still used in different parts of the world for cooking. In my experience both plants taste better in cooking when used young, that is to say before flowering, where I find their taste becomes a little more bitter. Oregano is known as the '<|fim_middle|> wrong way. I was surprised when I did eventually make the connection to find that it was a lot more subtle and gentle with a certain finesse to its action that I was not expecting.
I use valerian root for people who are mentally all over the place, people who cannot sleep because their mind is running or who are overly nervous or even hysterical with uncontrolled thoughts and panic. It gently brings a person back into their body, gathering up dispersed consciousness and calmly bringing it down to a safer place within (antispasmodic action on the solar plexus region), where the phase of deeper sleep is increased and an appeasement is found.
Wilhelm Pelikan in his work called 'Man and medicinal Plants' based on his studies with Rudolf Steiner states 'Valerian brings the cosmic down into earth and not the earth into the cosmic'.
The roots are the part used and my experience is that they connect us very much to our own roots (both in the sense of physical grounding and our genealogical roots) enabling us to contact a deeper, more solid sense of 'ancrage'.
Tincture of the fresh roots;
5 to 10 drops in the morning (to be repeated during the day if necessary) for depression and stress.
5 to 30 drops before bed for insomnia.
Angelica (Angelica archangelica, Angelica sylvestris)
Although most people talk about Angelica archangelica when talking and writing about this plant, I use the latter for making tinctures and hydrosols (Angelica sylvestris)as it grows wild around my home and the former I buy as an essential oil. Angelica has similarities with valerian in that it has a long hollow stem that leads us down to the roots, the signature for plants with this structure is often considered as plants that help in 'journeying'. I see them as plants that help align, making the connection between the lighter part of ourselves connected to our original source (essence) and our roots or material grounding. Like valerian, angelica helps those people who have difficulty coming into their physical bodies, I use the essential oil of the roots for this, a drop every morning for 21 days, rubbed into the sole of the foot and one drop rubbed between the hands. The grounding effect is more or less instant, as if suddenly the body recognises the connection (the plug has been put back into the socket) and at the same time it seems to strengthen both the physical body and the spirit, bringing vitality back to the organism!
Angelica root tincture or hydrosol can also be used internally.
*Do not use the essential oil on the skin before going out in the sun, as it can be photosensitive. Read the rest of this entry »
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Using clay as medicine | Pizza' herb and it does marry very well with tomatoes and Italian style dishes. I use it as one of the ingredients in my herby salt, where I find it adds a certain peppery sharpness and retains its flavor.Marjoram has a milder, sweeter flavour and is considered as the 'meat' herb, it is better to use fresh as being milder, it tends to loose its depth of flavour when dried.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, Oregano grows wild where I live, on slightly acid, very draining soils at 600metres altitude. I have taken a few examples from the wild and replanted them in my teaching gardens and funnily enough, they grew without really prospering as if they were cross with me and trying to tell me that I could wild-craft them nearby so why was I trying to grow them – probably to do with less draining soils as well. As for marjoram, I had a few hundred plants in my plantation a few years ago, it grew very well on the poor, sandy soils of the Beaujolais region of south-east France, surviving winter and providing two crops per season. Probably due to the dry, harsh growing conditions, the essential oil content was lovely and high, this was made evident when distilling it for its hydrosol as it also provided enough of a lovely yellowy- orange oil on top of the hydrosol to take off with a pipette and use…exciting!
I dry both plants and use them regularly in my herbal tea mixes but not for the same reasons, although as I said they they can overlap.
I use Origanum vulgare in digestive blends, especially when digestion is slow and difficult, like thyme it has an anti-putrefying action on the digestion helping to relieve gas and abdominal swelling. I also use it in respiratory blends for its strong antiseptic qualities when there is infection.
I look at Origanum majoranum's principal quality as being its ability to help bring balance and healing through its action on the nervous system by both relaxing and toning at the same time. Its antispasmodic and toning/ relaxing action helps relieve anxiety and stress without making the person sleepy. It also has an important role to play in respiratory tract problems where its calming action helps with the uncomfortable spasms linked to coughs and asthma for example and its toning qualities help strengthen the respiratory system as well as having an expectorant action on mucus. Its terrific calming capacity also helps with problems such as spasms and colitis in the digestive system and like its cousin oregano, helps eliminate putrefaction.
Both plants are high in essences and their essential oils provide valuable tools to the herbalist and aromatherapist. Although some of their virtues may cross over, they are generally used very differently. O. vulgare is great to have on hand at the first signs of flu or bacterial infection, a drop or two taken internally in a teaspoon of honey or in aromatic capsules can actually stop the bacteria in their footsteps so to speak. It has yielded one of the most potent antibacterial agents on its activity against a wide range of microorganisms including E.coli, Streptococcus and Salmonella, thanks to its high thymol and carvacrol content (2) , this coupled with an immune stimulating and antiviral action make it an excellent flu deterrent. It is also a powerful antifungal and anti-parasite useful in Candida albicans amongst other fungal infections. It is used in agriculture and gardening pulverised in a dispersant against parasites. Due to its high phenol content however, this oil is irritant to the skin and should not be used externally, dilute carefully and respect the doses for internal use as it is also irritant to mucous membranes, avoid its use in young children and pregnant women.
Marjoram's soothing action is very evident in its essential oil, helping one release negative feelings and tension and get back into balance. Linked to these calming, re-balancing virtues is a hypotensive action making it a great oil for stressed, overworked business people with high blood pressure – 'a wind down at the end of a busy day oil'. Use a 20% dilution when using externally and avoid its use with pregnant women.
Its calming effect can also be handy with children, who have worked themselves into a tantrum and are bordering on hysterical, in these cases Patrice's homeopathic granules of essential oil of Marjoram are very practical combining both the safety of a homeopathic dilution with the powerfulness of an essential oil. Use a 20% dilution when using the essential oil externally and avoid its use with pregnant women.
To keep this article short and simple, I have looked at the two most commonly used Origanum species, this is however just a starting point. For anyone wishing to go further, there are many interesting species from this genus, certain endemic to specific places such as Origanum sipyleum from Turkey or Origanum dictamnus from Crete, there are also several other essential oils available such as Origanum onites, although less commonly used, none the less very interesting.
(1) Kitiki, Ayse. 1997. Status of cultivation and use of oregano in turkey. in oregano: proceedings of the iPGri international workshop on oregano 8-12 May 1996, CIHEAM, Valenzano (Bari), Italy. edited by s. Padulosi. rome: international Plant Genetic resources institute.
(2) The biological/pharmacological activity of the origanum Genus
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Depression cuts the ground from under one's feet!
January 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm (Depression cuts the ground from under one's feet!, Uncategorized)
(I wrote this article originally for Herbgeek.com)
Through my work as a herbalist, I have noticed that many of my patients and especially those suffering from depression, anxiety and stress seem to lack what we call in France 'ancrage'. Literally translated this means anchoring, which I prefer in a way to the word 'grounding' as anchoring conjures up more than just a connection to the earth but the feeling of being nestled deeply and securely in oneself, the solar plexus is the home to the centre of one's being, the place of inner calm, peace and centeredness. Having one's feet firmly on the ground and living in the physical body seems to be harder than it looks for people today, there is a general disconnection with oneself and nature…we are part of the natural world are we not? This disconnection results in a loss of self that is highlighted in many forms of depression, vital life energy, that which 'animes' or in English, 'brings to life', dwindles and the depressed person has trouble finding enough of this energy to dress and feed himself, let alone create his life.
An extreme case of this lack of 'ancrage', that I witnessed in one of my patients was a thirty year old woman who just wasn't there, she was unable to take hold of anything that was said to her, I could feel her absence it was palpable, as if she was hovering above her body, when asked a question her replies were off the subject as she was so not there she wasn't able to really hear what was being said to her. This person had lost her mother in an accident at the age of fourteen and the shock had pushed her out of her physical body, a survival technique that had its use at the moment of the shock, however sixteen years later, she was still disconnected from herself and the world in which she lived, what had been a survival technique at the time was now preventing her from 'living'. This is a severe case, where the person was completely removed from her physical self, however many people live out their lives in their minds. I would say we are all to some extent suffering from this disconnection to ourselves as our lives move further and further away from nature and evolve more and more around virtual communication, stationary activities, sterile environments, we look for sense outside ourselves and forget to hear that inner, unique resonance that is 'I'.
"The more we stay in our minds the more we think, the more we think the more we stay in our minds, the more we are in our minds, the less grounded we are, the less grounded we are, the less happy we are."
The feeling of being 'anchored' in oneself is not as 'subtle' as it may appear, once grounded and reconnected there is a real and tangible feeling of being in one's rightful place, at home in oneself and really here on earth. This feeling brings about a more positive outlook and more confidence in life. A distance appears from what is 'oneself' and the thoughts, actions, noises and stresses of life, a distance that helps one to let go of things and thoughts more easily and at the same time accept life, there is less resistance and as we all know 'what resists persists'.
So, how to go about helping a depressed person to feel more grounded and centred within themselves?
There are many different techniques for 'grounding', such as dance, gardening, walking in nature (preferably bare footed), meditation, yoga, Tai chi, massage, swimming in rivers or the sea, to name but a few. These are things that can be slowly integrated into work on lifestyle changes with someone recovering from depression.
However the depressed patient, who hasn't yet got to the stage where he or she is ready to take on new activities (low motivation) but may greatly need to feel that base foundation of connection with self, could benefit from plant medicines that help to ground, centre and align. Plants that stimulate and re-activate adrenal action are also recommended as adrenal exhaustion is often linked to a lack of grounding in the physical body. The adrenal gland's contribution to our physical health and general vitality is very important, they are connected to the root chakra, a lack of grounding means that the natural energy cycle that triggers the adrenals into action lacks conviction and there is a gradual depletion and imbalance of adrenal energy.
These propositions would of course be part of a long-term treatment that addresses the different aspects that make up this complex state of imbalance, known as 'depression'.
Plants that ground and align
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
The name valerian comes from the Latin word 'valère, 'meaning"I am worth".
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AB - In typical construction, the slab is made of normal-strength concrete (NSC) and is cast in a continuous fashion through the slab-column joint. For the case of high-strength concrete (HSC) columns, this results in a layer of lower-strength concrete between the upper and lower columns at the floor levels. Since this lower-strength concrete layer can limit the capacity of the column, it is necessary to provide alternative design or construction strategies for the transmission of column loads through slab-column connections. The current paper presents the structural characteristics of slab-column connections by using full-scale tests and non-linear three-dimensional finite-element analyses. Finite-element analyses considering material non-linearity were performed to investigate the axial load plotted against average column strain responses, the type of failure, the principal stress distribution and the reinforcement yielding conditions for various slab-column members. The puddled HSC in the joint, the HSC core, the use of high-strength steel for the column longitudinal reinforcement, and the additional vertical compression reinforcement through the joint were investigated. The alternative reinforcement methods in the slab-column joints significantly improved the performance of the joints - that is, higher axial compressive strength, greater loading stiffness and higher ductility.
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J. H. Lee, J. M. Yang, Y. S. Yoon
In typical construction, the slab is made of normal-strength concrete (NSC) and is cast in a continuous fashion through the slab-column joint. For the case of high-strength concrete (HSC) columns, this results in a layer of lower-strength concrete between the upper and lower columns at the floor levels. Since this lower-strength concrete layer can limit the capacity of the column, it is necessary to provide alternative design or construction strategies for the transmission of column loads through slab-column connections. The current paper presents the structural characteristics of slab-column connections by using full-scale tests and non-linear three-dimensional finite-element analyses. Finite-element analyses considering material non-linearity were performed to investigate the axial load plotted against average column strain responses, the type of failure, the principal stress distribution and the reinforcement yielding conditions for various slab-column members. The puddled HSC in the joint, the HSC core, the use of high-strength steel for the column longitudinal reinforcement, and the additional vertical compression reinforcement through the joint were investigated. The alternative reinforcement methods in the slab-column joints significantly improved the performance of the joints - that is, higher axial compressive strength, greater loading stiffness and higher ductility.
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The safety of our visitors, members, staff, and volunteers is our top priority. As a preemptive measure to protect our community from the spread of COVID-19, we have made the joint decision to temporarily discontinue public admissions to our exhibit halls and suspend public programming and events until further notice.
There have not been any reported cases of infection or exposure at our institution, but we are compelled to follow the science and the best practices for social distancing as outlined by government agencies and the World Health Organization to ensure the well-being of our community. We will continue to work with local and state health officials and one another to coordinate our efforts.
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Breaching the Carbon Threshold Means Mass Extinction
If we keep emitting carbon, as usual, our planet may get past a certain threshold that could trigger another mass extinction.
Earth's long and tumultuous past has been rocked by many significant events that changed the course of history.
In the global fossil record, our planet has experienced five mass extinctions. As to what caused these cataclysmic events, there's not a single and definite culprit to blame. But in almost all cases, scientists found evidence suggesting rapid climate change.
It took Earth millions of years to recover from each of these major extinction events, which caused millions of species to die off.
Many scientists believe that we're heading to a sixth mass extinction event by the turn of the century if we continue our "dirty" business as usual. And a new MIT study adds weight to these warnings.
Mass Extinction Event A-Brewing: Watch for the Carbon Threshold!
Extinction risk is real, and it's threatening humans and millions of plant and animal species.
According to Daniel Rothman, a professor of geophysics and co-director of the Lorenz Center in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Earth is sending feedback, and we should pay attention.
Per Rothman's findings, if a certain carbon threshold in the oceans is crossed, Earth could react with a "runaway cascade of chemical feedbacks." If we keep releasing carbon dioxide into the oceans at current rates, we will get past this threshold, "whether as the result of a sudden burst or a slow, steady influx."
With increasing carbon concentrations in seawater, pH levels decrease, while acidification — the evil twin of climate change — increases substantially.
After going through 540 million years worth of geologic records, Rothman observed a recurring pattern in Earth's carbon cycle. He found that near the time of the fourth mass extinction event that<|fim_middle|> get over it, you're dealing with how the Earth works, and it goes on its own ride."
It's professor Rothman who, in 2017, rang the alarm bell about the sixth mass extinction mentioned above. The cascade of events triggered by ocean carbon rising levels would culminate in a mass extinction event by 2100.
In his new efforts, he developed a mathematical model to represent Earth's carbon cycle in the upper ocean and what would be the consequences if this carbon threshold is breached. This is how Earth responds to rising ocean carbon by environmental stress that would stretch to the land.
Rothman's model suggests that below a certain threshold, the ocean may experience mild acidification, but the carbon cycle would always return to a stable state.
At higher rates, however, the carbon cycle would respond differently.
"A cascade of positive feedbacks that magnified the original trigger, causing the entire system to spike, in the form of severe ocean acidification. The system did, eventually, return to equilibrium, after tens of thousands of years in today's oceans — an indication that, despite a violent reaction, the carbon cycle will resume its steady state."
Rothman will publish the results of his study this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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How Bioplastics Will Solve our Plastic Epidemic | Earth witnessed, the carbon cycle was dramatically disrupted.
In 2016, professor Rothman was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for his work on Earth's carbon cycle.
Previously, scientists assumed that the scope of the event depends on the changes in ocean carbon. They thought it should be proportional to the initial trigger, which means that the bigger the trigger, the bigger the environmental disruption.
However, Rothman says "It didn't matter what initially caused the events; for roughly half the disruptions in his database, once they were set in motion, the rate at which carbon increased was essentially the same. Their characteristic rate is likely a property of the carbon cycle itself — not the triggers because different triggers would operate at different rates."
Earth's Carbon Feedback
Volcanic eruptions and other large-scale disturbances take tens of thousands of years or more to excite a major carbon cycle disruption. Humans can do it in a matter of a few hundreds of years. In fact, we are doing it right now, pumping carbon into the air at a "magnitude faster than the worst case in the geologic record — the end-Permian extinction."
"Once we're over the threshold, how we got there may not matter," says Rothman."Once you | 262 |
8.30.2018 New Music
New Music: Russ – 'Serious'
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Following her "Gucci Flip Flops" collaboration with Lil Yachty, Bhad Bhabie connects with another one of Quality Control's signees, City … | Flute Song," Russ gets "Serious" on his latest single.
The R&B jam, which premiered as Zane Lowe's World Record on Beats 1, finds Russ confronting a complicated relationship. "Baby, take me serious," he pleads.
"Serious" is the second release from Russ' sophomore album, Zoo, the follow-up to his platinum debut There's Really a Wolf. "This album, as far as like a theme and a mood, it's really more personal than I've ever gone. I really dug deep. It's really reflective of everything right now," he told Beats 1. "It's really telling of what it's like to be famous. It's not all glamour and a lot of it is really stressful and really high paranoia at times."
The music is reflective of his current life and feeling like an outsider. "It's like experiencing the best aspect of your life, while also experiencing some of the most negative aspects that have happened," he explained. "It's a really weird balance of living your dreams and all of these amazing things are happening, but then some of the most negative things that have ever happened to your life."
Zoo arrives Sept. 7. Listen to "Serious" below.
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Automation Anywhere Wins 2021 AI Breakthrough Award for AARI Smart Digital Assistant
San Jose, Calif.
The company's AI innovation designed to improve employee productivity for everyone earns designation for leading smart digital assistant
Automation Anywhere, a global leader in robotic process automation (RPA) today announced it has been named a winner in the 2021 AI Breakthrough Awards for its AARI smart digital assistant designed for a new era of work, bringing consumer experiences to the enterprise.
AARI, which stands for Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface, allows employees to automate day-to-day business processes connecting people and processes across an entire organization. The AARI assistant is an easy-to-use, bot-to-human interface that simplifies everyday tasks, improves collaboration between teams, and provide best-in-class customer service – either on-premises or in the cloud.
"Scaling automation across the enterprise has never been easier with AARI, which leverages the power of AI and RPA to enable employees with newfound speed and accuracy by providing easy to access intelligent automation," said Prince Kohli, Chief Technology Officer at Automation Anywhere. "It is an honor to receive an AI Breakthrough award that highlights our smart digital assistant as we continue to innovate for the evolving needs of organizations in a shifting environment."
All award nominations are<|fim_middle|>60, and AARI are trademarks/service marks or registered trademarks/service marks of Automation Anywhere, Inc. in the United States and other countries. | fully analyzed, evaluated and scored by an expert panel of judges, representing a mix of technical, business, academic and marketing expertise within the industry. The evaluation criteria for the AI Breakthrough Awards program are focused around the concept of innovation.
The AI Breakthrough Awards recognize the best companies, technologies, products and services in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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How Do I Learn to Use a Cane?
The cane tip either slides along the ground ("constant-contact technique") or touches the ground at each end of the arc and remains no more than an inch above the ground ("touch technique").
Although the correct cane technique can easily be demonstrated to you by anyone familiar with the technique, it will not provide you with effective protection until you've reached the third or fourth stage of learning, achieved with training from a Certified Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Specialist.
In this stage, you are just beginning to understand how to move and use the cane, and you will need prompting from your O&M instructor to maintain the recommended technique.
In this stage, you can move the cane correctly, but only when you are concentrating on your technique. If you are distracted<|fim_middle|> correctly even when you are distracted. At this stage, the cane will provide you with protection and information in most circumstances.
Nevertheless, you can still trip or fall because you may continue to move forward after your cane drops down over a step or curb or makes contact with an obstacle you didn't expect. This is more likely to occur if you have low vision.
or the ground looks flat and clear.
At this stage of orientation and mobility learning, the cane provides you with reliable protection in all situations. | by anything, such as a question, another task, or being lost in thought, your cane technique will deteriorate and not provide full coverage and safety.
In this stage, the cane has become a natural part of you and you can move it | 49 |
THE LAST LAUGH: I HELPED CRACK THE DAVINCI CT. CODE by Toe Knee Weighed
The early morning call I received last week from Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon was shocking for three reasons.
First, he said there was a bomb threat that could destroy Fairfield. Secondly, he'd called me for help. Finally, I was pretty sure he was a fictional character.
Still, the voice on the phone seemed real enough. Langdon said he needed my help because I knew the Fairfield area plus he thought my column last week on Justin Bieber was funny.
Langdon was at my house in five minutes and when I climbed in his car I started repeating "You're Tom Hanks!" But Langdon kept insisting he was Langdon.
He told me that an encrypted email had been intercepted which was sent from the Starbucks on Travis Boulevard next to the old Holland Dairy.
The inc<|fim_middle|> they are flying in a small plane to a gig, hit major turbulence and it appears the plane is about to crash.
Getting a little scared, one of the band members makes a blanket "if anything should happen I love all of you guys" statement, but when it actually appears they are in mortal danger, they get more real.
The band manager admits that he once hit a man with his car and kept going and was sorry. Then the floodgates open and revelations about intra-band infidelities, declarations of love from one band member to another's girlfriend and resentment over the self-centeredness of the lead singer fly around the cabin along with anything not nailed down.
Finally the drummer yells out that he is gay and suddenly the plane straightens out and the band realizes that not only will they live, but they now have to live with the truths that hang in the air.
What I like about the scene is that it shows how so many of us hold on to our true feelings and secrets until we think death is imminent. The thing is, death is always imminent. As far as I know, no one knows the exact hour when they will draw their last breath.
This column isn't about death however; it's about telling people what we think while we still can. Unlike the movie, I'm not suggesting that it necessarily be negative things either.
My parents' generation didn't open up and talk about feelings and motivations. It just wasn't done. Consequently many of their children sought affirmation, approval and love and needed it to be verbalized and not just shown through actions.
It's kind of like "Fiddler on the Roof" when Tevye asks his wife Golde if she loves him and she replies that she has cooked and cleaned and raised a family with him for 25 years.
I had a complicated relationship with my father growing up. We were just so different. I think what helped open up or relationship was me growing up and not seeing him as just an extension of my environment, but an actual human being with needs, desires and cares like anyone else.
I'm very thankful that before both of my parents passed away any resentment that I had allowed to fester when I was younger was cleared away.
Compared to my parents' generation which played their cards close to the vest, the current one just shows their hand all the time.
It seems nowadays we've swung too far the other way with people sharing way too much stuff about themselves on TV talk shows and social media internet sites. I don't think everybody needs to know all of your business.
However I think it's definitely beneficial to have someone, even if it's just one person, you can be open and honest with.
I think like a lot of people and men especially, when I was younger I both craved and feared true intimacy. I now know that that's what life is about—connecting with people on a deep level.
While it would be really great if you could just read other people's thought balloons, as far as I know there is no shortcut to true intimacy. And from my experience, it's so much better to try to achieve it before you think you only have seconds to live.
Posted at 07:42 AM in Books, Current Affairs, Film, Music, Religion, Television, Travel, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | riminating words deciphered thus far were "Clinton", "atomic", "bomb" and "Travis." As it happened, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scheduled to land at Travis Air Force Base later that afternoon.
As ominous music played when Langdon said this, I knew it was serious.
I remembered that Tom Hanks is an old friend of Solano College Theatre's Artistic Director George Maguire and to make small talk, I suggested that if we lived through this crisis he should definitely check out their wonderful current production of "Eurydice."
That was a mistake because Langdon then launched into a really boring history of Greek mythological symbolism.
As he droned on, I feigned taking notes on my cell phone but actually checked the web for Charlie Sheen updates.
We went to the Starbucks and questioned a barista who was cooperative but also thought Langdon was Tom Hanks. The barista kept trying to get Langdon to drawl "life is like a box of chocolates" but he refused.
I then stuck out my bottom lip and began rattling off the different ways to cook shrimp, but Langdon told me to knock it off.
The barista said that at approximately 7 pm the previous night a strange looking young man was there who might be a suspect. He'd sat in the corner using the free wi-fi on a beat up laptop and drank his iced venti half-caff Americano in, of all things, an In and Out Burger cup he'd brought.
Langdon explained that In and Out cups have the Bible verse John 3:16 on the bottom of them and said it's the same verse people hold up on signs at football games.
Langdon asked if there was a football field nearby. I say yes, my alma mater Armijo High's Brownlee field. We screeched down the road and once there, he picked up blades of grass which somehow Langdon connected to the Chief Solano "smiling-and-waving-in-my-thong" statue which in turn somehow lead to the Jelly Belly factory.
Langdon explained how each clue led to another but to me it kind of sounded like maybe he had been bangin' those seven gram rocks with the aforementioned unemployed Tiger-blooded "winner."
The clues with various symbols came fast and furious then and included the Fairfield city logo, the illuminated county seat sign, and a Doublemint chewing gum wrapper. We zipped all over town with me acting as tour guide and Langdon furiously piecing together the mystery.
We ended up on Da Vinci Court near Solano College, where the perpetrator lived. Langdon smiled broadly as he figured out all the clues. When the soundtrack music reached a crescendo, I suspected we were at a dramatic turning point.
It turned out the encrypted email wasn't encrypted at all but just had really terrible spelling. The perp's name was Travis and he didn't want to blow up Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but turn up funk pioneer George Clinton, the creative genius behind the 1970s groups Parliament and Funkadelic.
"The bomb" was a reference to a greatest hits album called "Parliaments' Greatest Hits—The Bomb" and George had a solo hit called "Atomic Dog."
With the crisis averted and Fairfield safe from funk enthusiasts, Langdon drove me back home where I offered to make some dinner for us and gave him plenty of options.
"There's shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew…"
Reach Fairfield freelance shrimp cap'n Bubba Wade at kelvinsbrother@sbcglobal.net
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I NOW HAVE BIEBER FEVER by Toe Knee Weighed
My daughter attends a private Christian school and I have sometimes led their Chapel sessions they have every day. While I am serious about my Christian faith, I enjoy singing fun so-called children's songs. I wrote a parody song with accompanying PowerPoint slides called "The 10 Plagues on Egypt" about Moses and the Israelites from the Bible book of Exodus.
It uses the tune from the "The 12 Days of Christmas" and the slides are hilarious. I led it last year and once we were done I told the students that I had recently discovered an eleventh plague and started the song again. Number 11 was revealed as…Justin Bieber.
The whole school erupted in laughter when the slide was revealed. Well, except for a few diehard fans who were near tears.
Now, I don't actually look upon Justin Bieber as a plague. In fact I don't really want to know about him at all, but that has become impossible.
Growing up it was relatively easy to ignore teen heartthrob artists that only girls liked such as Leif Garrett, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman and Andy Gibb. Unlike DR columnist Brad Stanhope, I never subscribed to Tiger Beat or Seventeen magazine and there's no way you would catch me listening to any of their songs.
I was aware of later acts like New Kids on the Block, New Edition, Hanson, and most recently Aaron Carter, but they did not invade my space.
But I cannot escape the Bieber. With today's massive interconnected media I happen to know that
he was bested by Esparanza Spalding for the Best New Artist Grammy which triggered angry outbursts from fans, some of whom repeatedly vandalized the talented jazz artist's Wikipedia page
that he was voted the MVP of the NBA Celebrity All-Star game
and that March 1st was his 17th birthday.
Then there was the "Glee"episode. And a reference on "The Office." And the Best Buy commercial with Ozzy. Enough!
The Justin Bieber overexposure is too much to take. I'm not a hater, but it would be pretty easy to be one. I mean, the only song I knew by him was "Baby" and I have visions of the 1950's Steve Allen routine where he would read rock and roll song lyrics as poetry with lilting piano in the background as the audience howled.
And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh
Like baby, baby, baby, no
Like baby, baby, baby, oh
I thought you'd always be mine
Not exactly Paul Simon ("Who?" just thunk the three teens who read this column)
I was also aware of a hilarious website called "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber" which allows gay young ladies to upload pictures of themselves and quite a few of them do look remarkably like the You Tube phenom. Evidently he co-opted their look and not vice-versa.
My 13-year old daughter Kaci of course likes the Biebster, but has played it cool. She really wanted to go see his movie "Never Say Never" but I put my foot down. I couldn't see spending you know, actual American dollars on such claptrap.
Then I remembered something I always tell her and that's the danger of practicing contempt prior to investigation. I've showed her great films like "12 Angry Men" and "Malcolm X" and "Amadeus" and she balked at them at first but soon discovered that dad was right (as always).
So I asked Kaci about other Justin Bieber songs and she said I should listen to the song "Pray." I watched the video on You Tube and was genuinely touched at the images of sick and hurting people and especially those of the Bieb visiting Make-a-Wish children in hospitals and praying.
So I'm a fan now. The only thing is I have way too much bass in my voice for all that high-pitched screaming that is expected.
I also nixed the idea of getting a Bieber tattoo, but I am getting hair extensions so I can more closely resemble a lesbian.
Reach Fairfield freelance writer Tony Wade at kelvinsbrother@sbcglobal.net
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TOBY MAC BRINGS 'FUNKY JESUS MUSIC' TO DAVIS by Tony Wade
DAVIS - When many people think of Christian music, they picture the Bill Gaither Homecomings with people sitting around a piano singing gospel songs in four-part harmony.
Toby Mac's Winter Wonder Slam Tour, which touched down Sunday at UC Davis's ARC Pavilion, featured screaming guitars, phat beats and freestyle rap battles.
What the two have in common is who they sing about.
The opening act on the three-band bill was alternative rockers House of Heroes. Their brief, loud set convinced me that I am not their target demographic.
I later discovered they had recorded an extended play album (fewer songs than an actual album) of Beatles covers and I would've loved it if they had done, 'It Won't Be Long' or 'Can't Buy Me Love.'
Brandon Heath was next up to bat and connected with the crowd on favorites such as 'I'm Not Who I Was' ,' 'Give Me Your Eyes' as well as the title track from his newest release, 'Leaving Eden.'
Heath's band featured chiming, driving guitars and tight vocals.
After Heath's performance, the stage was literally set for the former member of legendary Christian rap/rock trio DC Talk.
The twin video screens above the stage displayed a clock counting down from two minutes, which the crowd joined in at 10 seconds like the ball was about to drop in New York on New Year's Eve.
What dropped was the beat as Toby Mac and his band Diverse City took the stage -- with some bouncing on trampolines -- and led off with the title track from their 2010 album 'Tonight.'
The Diverse City band consists of guitarist Tim 'T-Rose' Rosenau and trumpet player on 'No Ordinary Love;' bassist Todde 'Toddiefunk' Lawton; drummer Brian 'Da Bomb' Haley; keyboardist Dave 'D-Dub' Wyatt; Byron 'Mr. Talkbox' Chambers, who does the monster voice, keys, electric guitar; and turntables, DJ Maj.
The singers/rappers/beatboxer/dancers include Gabe 'GabeReal' Patillo, Deshon 'Shonlock' Bullock and Nirva 'Nirva Ready' Dorsaint-Ready.
The high energy show jumped into gear with snippets of crowd favorites including the raucous rocker, 'The Slam,' the infectious, 'The J Train,' and the funky, 'Welcome to Diverse City.'
Toby then tapped on the brakes and slowed it down with the breezy rap/ballad 'Lose My Soul' from his 2007 album 'Portable Sounds.' The original featured Kirk Franklin and 'American Idol' contestant Mandisa, but there was no drop off as the Diverse City vocalists handled their respective parts.
The Winter Wonder Slam concert suddenly morphed into an impromptu worship service as Toby led the crowd in singing the chorus of the Christmas classic 'O Come All Ye Faithful.' Hands were raised and eyes were closed as the refrain 'O Come let us adore him' was repeated.
The bouncy 'Made to Love' was followed by a freestyle rap battle between Diverse City band members, which lead in turn to an explosive version of 'Boomin'. '
The stage had a long runway jutting into the middle of the choice seats. Mac, along with guitarist Rosenau and vocalist/beatboxer Patillo, went to the edge of the runway and performed a wonderful acoustic set that included, 'Catachafire (Whoopsi--Daisy)' and 'Gone.'
They then threw what Mac called a 'California curveball' and added a version of last year's best known song from 'American Idol,' 'Pants on the Ground.'
Patillo produced a Bible,(which got a huge ovation) and Mac read I John 1:5-7 and then launched into the DC Talk cover of Charlie Peacock's song about those verses, 'In the Light.'
Two songs from 'Tonight' followed: 'Get Back Up,' with Brandon Heath helping out on the bridge, and 'Funky Jesus Music.' Then, the band retreated backstage.
The encore featured the powerful ballad 'City on Our Knees,' which was punctuated by images of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. The show closed with Mac's signature tune, 'Jesus Freak,' and with the band flinging bottled water on the crowd and then sliding down the doused runway.
When the house lights came up signifying the show was over, the song playing on the public address system was Huey Lewis and the News's, 'The Power of Love.'
While not a Christian tune, it summed up nicely what the songs on the Winter Wonder Slam show were all about.
Reach Fairfield freelance writer Tony Wade at over40rocker@sbcglobal.net.
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Q & A WITH TOBY MAC By Tony Wade
Christian recording artist Toby Mac was one-third of the influential rap/rock group DC Talk before they took an extended intermission 11 years ago. He then launched a successful solo career which has garnered acclaim, a Grammy award and fans around the globe.
Toby Mac recently took some time to answer a few questions via telephone.
Q: You're usually called a Christian hip-hop artist or Christian rapper, but how do you describe your sound?
TM: The short version is I call it urban rock. The longer is something I call hiprockfunksoul. It's a melting pot of everything I grew up loving.
Q. What is the difference between Christian artists and secular? I mean, what are your goals and motivations?
TM: It all comes back to my faith. Sometimes I stumble, sometimes I fall, but my desire is that God be the center of my life. Real artists, Christian or secular, want their experiences poured into their art so it can inspire people.
Q. Your songs are all over pop culture –movies, television, video games—but not the overtly Christian ones. How would someone know you are a Christian?
TM: I think there are many songs on my records that the whole world can enjoy. I want my music to be out there. I love that my song "The Slam"
was used in "Transporter 2." Some Christians say "that's a rated R movie."I think sometimes we stay inside the building too much. We need to get out there as long as we are delivering something that's passionate and real and uncompromised.
Q: "Wonderin'" on your last album "Tonight" seems to be talking about DC Talk rather wistfully.
TM: It's a smiling glance back at the past. There's always days when I look back and think "man, those were some good years. I wonder if we'll ever do that again?"
Q: What would it take for a reunion to happen?
TM: Well, I've been working with the Diverse City band for as long as I was with DC Talk and these people are near and dear to me—we're a family. I'd be turning my back on them if I went in that direction. The timing would have to be right for all three of us. We're all still friends, and the relationships are healthy. It's just a matter of when.
Q: In "Yours" on your first album you reflect on your younger days in the lyric: "Simple-minded little punk, thought I was the junk, nobody ever told me that my doo-doo stunk." Now that you are a Grammy winner and very successful who tells you that your doo-doo stinks?
TM: (laughs) A lot of people, starting with my wife and moving onto one of my best friends who is my manager. Then there's my band. Trust me, my band will let me have it instantly. As a matter of fact, they did this morning. They called me out on a few things. I tend to walk with great men and great women who are willing to be honest with me even when it hurts and I love that about them.
Q: How do you stay grounded spiritually on the road?
TM: We have Bible studies and prayer time before the show and sometimes we often share what we're learning. It's a real thing out here, not just something we say on stage. We are the body of Christ and try to use our time wisely and go deeper.
Q: What can concertgoers expect in Davis?
TM: It's definitely a diverse lineup. House of Heroes is an incredible rock band, Brandon Heath is a great singer-songwriter performer and me and Diverse City are gonna offer up a big pot of soulful gumbo. We want everyone to come out and have a good time and maybe leave thinking more deeply about a lot of things--from your neighbor to God to who you are. __________________________________________________________
Reach Fairfield freelance writer Tony Wade at getthelowdown@sbcglobal.net
THE LAST LAUGH: AN OPEN LOVE LETTER TO MY LOVELY WIFE by Tony Wade
Whenever someone asks me how I met my wife Beth I usually give the standard to-the-point ultra-brief guy answer: "at church." While I won't go into the detail Beth would which includes several parenthetical asides and way more paragraphs than the Daily Republic allows, here's the story of how I met the woman who won my heart.
I noticed Beth at my church in December of 1993 and thought she was cute and smart. I had gone through a major change in becoming a Christian and was not looking for a relationship, but wanted to work on myself. I was determined not to be a Sunday-Wednesday night Christian as I had done when I was a teenager, but wanted to live my life by spiritual principles.
One of those principles was honesty. I liked Beth for months and there were a couple of times when she was stressed out from dealing with the second graders she taught and asked for prayers from the church. I was tempted to comfort her as a "loving Christian brother" but didn't because I knew I was carrying the ulterior motive of wanting her to like me.
Finally I heard she was moving to a different state to accept a teaching position and so I confided to a mutual friend that I liked her knowing he would relay it to her. It was a little junior high-ish in retrospect, but it worked. Beth and I really talked for the first time at a youth function we both worked at and I agreed to come the following Tuesday and help her grade papers.
We talked for a long time that day and I was determined that she not place me in the dreaded "Friend" box. I mean, I knew from past experience that once you get stuck in that box there is no escape.
The following Saturday we had a breakfast at church and afterwards Beth and I went to Lake Berryessa and talked and talked. That was the thing that impressed me the most—how easy she was to talk to.
Nothing is real to me unless I can compare it to a movie and this paraphrased quote from "Sleepless in Seattle" is most apropos: "It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, meant we were supposed to be together. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic."
We had our first kiss that night and soon were having long telephone calls about everything under the sun. She eschewed the teaching job and stayed here because of me. I usually exaggerate and say she gave up a tenured position at Harvard to make the story better, but the best part was that she stayed.
We were married by John Gibson, an elder from my church, at my brother Orvis and Patty's home in Suisun City. Many of the pictures of me reciting my vows aren't that good because I was crying grateful, joyous tears and could barely get through it.
Beth and I celebrate 16 years of marriage this Wednesday and I have learned so much about commitment. The initial infatuation of falling in love was exhilarating and dizzying but simply couldn't be sustained. I mean, I was so gaga I could barely function. As time goes on our love has deepened and matured.
I love the scene in "Good Will Hunting" when Robin Williams tells Matt Damon his late wife used to have flatulence and one night a particularly loud blast woke herself and their dog.
"She's been dead for 2 years, and that's the [stuff] I remember: wonderful stuff you know? The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too; she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff."
I am certainly not perfect and neither is my wife, but we are perfect for each other. Happy Anniversary Beth.
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THE LAST LAUGH: SEEK TRUE INTIMACY NOW, NOT LATER by Tony Wade
(warning: the video contains some profanity)
My brother Kelvin's recent harrowing flight and his resultant gratitude when it was over which he detailed in his column last Thursday, sparked a memory of one of my favorite scenes in a movie. The flick is "Almost Famous" by director Cameron Crowe ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High". "Jerry Maguire").
It is a semi-autobiographical tale about a 15-year old who is writing a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band. The budding rock journalist witnesses all the band's backstage issues including drugs, groupies, and personality conflicts. The relevant scene is when | 4,595 |
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Partnership International, Inc. - Copyright © 2016, All Rights Reserved. | ) construction. With respect to the impact of privatization, the task included a focus on poverty-reduced analysis and study the impact on consumer benefits and whether privatization was pro-poor or not, whether there were any measures introduced to protect the poor, whether these measures were effective, more specifically, to assess to what extent specific pro-poor regulatory policies (e.g. tariff cross-subsidies, access subsidies,) have been effective.
Under the Privatization Program in Algeria. 2004- 2006 EU project, the consultant was the team leader on the legal component of the project. Legal aspect of privatization, trade policy, investment promotion, one stop shop and land access, ESOP, BOT, BOO, airport, Port concession, water services with Public private partnership for theses activities. The consultant was one of the Ministry advisers regarding the legal aspect of the program. He reviewed regulation regarding privatization, Investment promotion, One Stop Shop and training program and he's implementing new policy. The consultant negotiated the term of the agreement and drafted contracts, such as PPP, concession agreement, shareholder agreement and by-laws.
The consultant developed an optimal business start-up process and workflow for Mali, taking into consideration the recent Law of Single Identification Number. He had to assess the capacity of the institutions that had been associated with the implementation of the business start-up process then he developed an implementation plan of the recommended business start-up process. He did a summary of the current business start-up system in Mali and recommended a new business start-up process, he established the budget for this new entity and he evaluated the required technical assistance needed for the implantation of this project. The consultant is now in charge of reviewing the consulting firms working for FIAS on; 1) Investment promotion; 2) One Stop Shop; 3) Commercial registration; and 4) OHADA's code reform.
Under the supervision of the Officer in Charge of the Policy Review section, division of Investments, the Consultant carried out the following functions: Drafted specified input for technical paper and analytical studies on foreign direct Investment trends, national investment policies, the assessment of the policy and regulatory framework, investment strategy and investment opportunities. Identified and analyzed policy proposals for policy actions. Drafted a new regulatory framework on FDI for the Government of Benin.
The consultant conducted a study of the overall cultural sector in Lebanon for the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He identified the obstacles and constraints for this specific sector and presented the lack of vision and initiative. Then he proposed new strategies to enhance cultural activities and develop tourism activities based upon the country heritage and cultural diversity to enhance revenues for the country and allow the tourism sector to growth.
Member of the EU team to evaluate and provide recommendations on the harmonization of investment and export incentives in Kenya.
World Bank, Conducted competitive benchmarking, market assessment, analysis of the legal framework as part of a feasibility study for a free zone in Antanarivo in Madagascar to promote export development. Study included a location audit and competitive benchmarking of the site vis-à-vis competitor locations in the region; the identification of target industries for investment. Furthermore organized seminars and workshops with all ministries involve and private sector to streamline procedures and cut red tape in order to attract foreign investors. An institutional roadmap was done to identify bottleneck and procedures.
Under the Services Group, Inc for the World Bank, Algeria. Cyber Park, Free Zone. Legal & Regulatory Component Leader, on a feasibility study for a new cyber park in Algeria. Mr. Galant assessed fiscal and economic impact of the project on identified stakeholders in Algeria; Mr. Galant drafted new regulations on e-commerce, electronic signatures, and investment promotion to allow IT sector companies to operate in business-friendly environment. In addition, he created an action plan to reengineer legal procedures investors complete to establish and operate a company in Algeria. Mr. Galant also facilitated a workshop in Algiers to validate the feasibility study findings and to launch the Cyber Park's final phase.
Under the Services Group, Inc for USAID, Morocco Investor Roadmap and Free Zone "Phase III", Morocco, (Senior Consultant, Interim Chief of Party, and Legal Reform Component Leader. Managed Legal Component government process re-engineering pilot exercise, and legal & regulatory reform effort. Mr. Galant participated in designing project action and implementation plans. He also set up and launched a fully operational field office, identified and assessed regulatory bottlenecks, and recommended reforms to streamline investment start-up and implementation in Morocco. Mr. Galant personally drafted industrial and Free Zone zones legislation, and reviewed numerous laws and regulations on land use, and suggested relevant reforms and amendments. He designed the framework for a new regional investment agency. Mr. Galant designed investment promotion strategies for the investment agency and developed techniques for executing successful marketing missions. Moreover, he provided extensive formal and informal training on investor friendly techniques, marketing strategies, and aftercare services for agency staff.
Member of the World bank team sent to Saudi to reviewed and made suggestions for changes to laws, decrees and regulatory directives for business establishment and operating requirements in Saudi Arabia from the vantage point of international "best practice" standards. We established a model to restructure SAGIA (the investment promotion agency) and designed a client service system. We Suggested changes that could help the country to become more attractive as a location for foreign investment and provided best practice reviews of the process of instituting and pursuing a commercial claim via the courts, national arbitration, and/or other national or international dispute settlement mechanisms against individuals or the Government. Mr. Galant clarified how the Sharia and secular legal systems interact to affect the quality of the legal regime from the point of view of a foreign investor. We precisely determined the legal basis for administrative procedures dealing with corporate taxation and incentives, customs, investor entry (visas), labor, forming and registering a company, land ownership and development.
USAID, Algeria Investor Roadmap, Mr. Galant co-authored a report detailing the steps necessary for a business to become legally established in Algeria. He also identified regulatory bottlenecks and recommended reforms to streamline investor start-up by comparing business start-up delays in Algeria with international best practices. Mr. Galant also assisted the agency in establishing a one-stop-shop and in streamlining licensing and permitting processes. The Report focused on Algeria's telecommunications deregulation, intellectual property TRIPS-compliance, legal dispute settlement, banking & financial law, tax & investment incentives, competition law, labor and social security law, public procurement, and trade regimes.
Designed and carried-out UN-funded Balkan-Youth Entrepreneurship Training & Mentor Program with UNVs to help youth successfully start and run a Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Balkans.
Developed a SMEs Balkan Web Portal comprising: regional business news, e-government forms, information resource database, local advisors and consultants, regional and international trade, and investment and financing resources.
Developed overall promotion for Investor relations communication strategy (web, print and annual report) for USAID-funded Bosnia Microfinance for Women small businesses | 1,431 |
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Featuring a discussion with Ziggy Marley, Ras Michael, Lloyd "Bread" McDonald, and Carlton "Santa" Davis
Date Sep 13 , 2016 Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8:00PM
Join Scott Goldman, Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares, as he explores the history of reggae through a panel discussion featuring GRAMMY-winning reggae artist Ziggy Marley, Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi drummer Ras Michael, Lloyd "Bread" McDonald of Jamaican reggae vocal group The Wailing Souls, and Carlton "Santa" Davis, who played drums for bands including Bob Marley & The Wailers. The panelists will discuss a range of topics, including early Jamaican pop music, the creation of reggae as a genre and its early pioneers, and its continued evolution with increasing politically charged lyrics reflecting the social injustices happening in Jamaica. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.
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Parkland students close summer tour in Newtown, Conn.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Natalie Barden<|fim_middle|> the country on a bus, visiting more than 50 cities in an effort to register and mobilize voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Throughout the tour, students from Florida have been meeting with communities affected by gun violence, including Chicago; Columbine, Colo.; Sutherland Springs, Texas; Charleston, S.C., and now, Newtown, where nearly 2,000 people turned out on a sweltering late-summer day at a park about 2 miles south of Sandy Hook Elementary to hear young activists and their message of gun reform.
Matt Deitsch, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduate who has helped lead the March for Our Lives organizing efforts, says Newtown and Parkland are now part of a "club" that no one wanted.
"We are ending our summer in a place that is too much like our home," Dietsch says.
Deitsch and Lemy say that seeing the turnout of young people, most not yet old enough to vote, has energized them and that they are confident their movement will continue regardless of who is leading it.
"We have built a coalition," Deitsch says.
At the end of Sunday's rally, students from Parkland and Newtown took the stage behind three of the youngest speakers, two of whom needed to stand on a milk crate to be seen by the standing-room-only crowd.
Each child activist dismissed critics of their age.
Langston Saint, a fifth-grader from Sioux City, Iowa, was next.
Yolanda Renee King, the eldest granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., then led the crowd in a call-and-response. | was in fifth grade at a nearby middle school when her 7-year-old brother, Daniel, was killed along with 19 of his classmates and six educators in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School here on Dec. 14, 2012.
"We were on lockdown all day," Natalie recalls, rather matter-of-factly.
When she got home from school, Natalie's parents broke the news to her and her other brother, James. "My parents had to sit us down and tell us our brother had been murdered in his first-grade classroom," she says.
Her father, Mark Barden, later co-founded the gun violence prevention group Sandy Hook Promise with Nicole Hockley, the mother of 6-year-old Dylan Hockley, who also died in the massacre at Sandy Hook.
That was more or less the extent of her activism — until Feb. 14, 2018, when 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida.
Natalie told Yahoo News she was inspired by the students in Parkland, Fla., to speak out against gun violence.
Natalie met some of those students for the first time on Sunday in Newtown, the last stop on the Road to Change summer tour. The organizers of the March for Our Lives demonstration in Washington, D.C., have been touring | 283 |
M. David Stone Epson BrightLink 450Wi The Epson BrightLink 450Wi projects a large image at just a few inches away from the screen, and adds interactive features without needing an interactive whiteboard.
Ultra-short throw, with 98-inch-diagonal image at 13 inches from the screen. Turns any surface into an interactive screen.
Doesn't handle video as well as it handles data images. Low volume for a 10-watt speaker.
The Epson BrightLink 450Wi projects a large image at just a few inches away from the screen, and adds interactive features without needing an interactive whiteboard.
Ultra-short-throw projectors—which can project, or throw, a large image at just a few inches from the screen—are still rare beasts, but there are significant differences from one model to the next. The Epson BrightLink 450Wi ($2,200 street), represents the latest evolution of the breed. It combines its ultra-short throw with an interactive feature that turns any surface into what amounts to an interactive whiteboard. The combination is a lot cheaper than buying a projector and whiteboard separately, and a lot less limiting in the size of the image you can project.
There have never been many ultra-short-throw projectors available. One of the few current models, and also one of the best, is the Editors' Choice<|fim_middle|> toggle between pen and mouse modes, and more. I found the program easy to use with essentially no learning curve.
I measured the 450Wi at 2,452 lumens, or about 98 percent of its 2,500-lumen rating. Most projectors don't even come close to their ratings. I measured the CP-A100, for example, at only 85 percent of its 2,500-lumen rating, and most projectors score even lower than that. The Casio Green Slim XJ-A145U ($999.99 direct, ) that I recently reviewed is much more typical, at 1,927 lumens, or just 77 percent of its 2,500-lumen rating.
The projector also scored well on image quality for data images, running through our standard DisplayMate tests with only minor problems. Screens with large black areas had a misty appearance, because of a slight glow across the entire screen, but most data screens aren't primarily black, so that's not much of an issue for real-world use. Colors were vibrant and fully saturated, and the image offered sharp focus across the entire screen, which is harder to get with an ultra short throw projector than with projectors with longer throws.
Image quality for video was far less impressive, a shortcoming the 450Wi shares with the CP-A100. Among other issues, I saw motion artifacts, with moving objects showing tearing on their edges, and posterization in skin tones, with shading changing suddenly where it should change gradually. The image also had a slightly hazy look that indicates a low contrast ratio. I'd call the video usable for the sort of short clips you might use in a classroom or business presentation, but not suitable for anything more than that.
Note too that the 450Wi's built-in audio system is strictly mono. The 10-watt speaker offers reasonably good sound quality, and it's loud enough for a small to mid-size conference room or classroom. If want stereo, however, you'll need an external sound system. You'll also need one if you want to make sure the sound is loud enough for a large room.
Epson's warranty is also worth mention, at two years for business customers or three years for educational customers. In either case, if the projector needs replacement during the warranty period, Epson will ship the replacement overnight for the next business day, with Epson picking up the cost of shipping in both directions.
If you're thinking about combining a projector and an interactive whiteboard in a conference room or classroom, the BrightLink 450Wi should be one of your prime candidates. It's impressive enough, in fact, to be our new Editors' Choice for short-throw projectors. Not only is it a highly capable short-throw projector, it's fully equivalent to getting a projector plus a whiteboard, without having to spend money on a whiteboard. In fact, it's hard to imagine why anyone would still want an interactive whiteboard, when they could get the 450Wi instead.
Check out the Epson BrightLink 450Wi's performance test results.
Compare the Epson BrightLink 450Wi with several other projectors side by side.
Bottom Line: The Epson BrightLink 450Wi projects a large image at just a few inches away from the screen, and adds interactive features without needing an interactive whiteboard. | Hitachi CP-A100 ($2,495 street, ) that I reviewed more than two years ago. When I reviewed the CP-A100, Hitachi also supplied an interactive whiteboard for testing, because one of the big advantages of an ultra short throw is that you can mount the projector just a few inches from the whiteboard and then interact with the image without casting a shadow.
The combination of the CP-A100 and whiteboard worked nicely, but it also helps illustrate one of the 450Wi's advantages. The image size for the CP-A100 is necessarily limited by the size of the whiteboard, which translated in my tests to a 43-inch-diagonal, or roughly 34-inch-wide, image. You can get bigger whiteboards, but they cost more. The image size for the 450Wi, in contrast, is limited by the projector. At the native 16:10 aspect ratio, Epson recommends a maximum 96-inch-diagonal image, which works out to about 81.4 inches wide and is roughly the size I used in my tests.
Aside from the ultra-short throw, the 450Wi offers a fairly common set of features for business or educational use. Built around an LCD-based engine with a WXGA (1,280 by 800) resolution, and rated at 2,500 lumens, it's a good potential fit for a small to medium-size conference room or classroom.
One of its less obvious benefits is that it saves money in several ways compared with its competition. Not only do you not need to buy an interactive whiteboard, but there are no other hidden costs. The projector comes with literally everything most people will need, including two interactive pens and a wall mounting kit, as well as the usual remote control. (At least, this is true in the U.S. and Canada. According to Epson, it comes with only one pen in some countries. Additional pens are $70 street.) Note too that Epson offers a ceiling mount ($99.99 direct) for those who prefer it.
The projector itself is a fairly hefty beast, at 6.1 by 14.5 by 19 inches (HWD) and 14.1 pounds. That's not really an issue, however, since it's meant for permanent installation. For my tests, since I wasn't installing it permanently, I set it up at coffee-table height and projected the image up at the screen, but for most installations you would mount it on the wall at the top of the screen and project the image down at the screen.
Although I didn't actually install the included wall mount, I took a careful look at it, and was suitably impressed. It's a sturdy piece of hardware, with precise, separate controls for the projector's position for pitch, roll, and yaw, so you can adjust each easily and lock it into place. I was also impressed with the detailed instructions for setting it up. If you follow them step by step, you'll have to work hard not to get it right the first time.
In addition to letting you adjust the projector's orientation easily, the mount also lets you vary the image size by adjusting the distance from the screen, with a range of 2.8 to 14.6 inches between the screen and the front of the projector. (The image is projected from the back of the projector rather than the front.) At the native WXGA resolution, the 2.8- to 14.6-inch range translates to an image size of 59 to 96 inches diagonally, or 50 to 81.4 inches wide.
Once you get the projector positioned in the mount, setup is otherwise easy, consisting of little more than plugging in the right cables, turning it on, and adjusting the focus control, which is unusually hard to get started moving, but offers sure control that makes focusing easy. The ports and power connector are all hidden under a plate on the side of the projector, so you don't have a lot of ugly connections showing when the projector's in use. For setup, the plate comes off to make the connectors easy to get at.
The connection choices include two VGA ports that can also double as component video ports, an S-Video port, and a phono plug for composite video. The two VGA ports are each paired with a miniplug stereo input, and the S-Video and composite video ports share a set of two phono plugs for stereo input. When you change the source for the image, you automatically change the audio as well.
The connection panel also offers two USB connectors—one to let you connect to a computer to use the projector's interactive feature and one meant primarily for a document camera. In addition, there's a microphone input, a pass-through monitor connector, and a miniplug stereo audio output. Finally an RS-232 port lets you turn the projector on and off through a third-party controller, and an Ethernet port lets you manage the projector from a computer on your network.
The one additional step for the 450Wi is installing a driver on your PC for the interactive pens. According to Epson, the driver should let the pens work with any interactive whiteboard software. If you don't already have a program, however, you can also install Epson's own software, which lets you draw on the screen, highlight areas, | 1,136 |
Midcoast breaks bad: Meth lab raided in South Thomaston
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency searched a house in South Thomaston for a suspected methamphetamine lab Feb. 26. The resident of the home, Paul Mahonen, 36, was at the property when agents arrived. He was arrested and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine and is being held at the Knox County Jail on $5,000 cash bail. Agents armed with a search warrant arrived at the house, located at 542 St. George Road ...
By Beth A. Birmingham
Members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency gather potentially hazardous materials during a raid Feb. 26 in South Thomaston. The residence had been under investigation. One person was removed during the raid. Beth A. Birmingham
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency searched a house in South Thomaston for a suspected methamphetamine lab Feb. 26.
The resident of the home, Paul Mahonen, 36, was at the property when agents arrived. He was arrested and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine and is being held at the Knox County Jail on $5,000 cash bail.
Agents armed with a search warrant arrived at the house, located at 542 St. George Road (Route 131), in the late morning, according to a news release from the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Assisting agents were representatives from federal, state and local agencies.
Agents and a team chemist wearing protective suits searched inside the house and collected evidence of methamphetamine production, including chemicals and plastic bottles, according to the release. The lab team finished their work at about 2:30 p.m.
James Pease, a supervisor with Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, was the lead contact on the scene.
"It has gone very smoothly," he said. "Due to the nature of the process and its potential dangers" the<|fim_middle|> Drug Enforcement Agency agents, state troopers and Knox County Sheriff's deputies arrested Leonard D. Wells Jr., 53, of Greenbush on judicial arrest warrants from Penobscot County for burglary and violation of conditions of release.
Agents found Wells hiding out at the South Thomaston home during a routine probation check at the residence.
Once arrested, agents seized about 20 grams of what is believed to be bath salts from him. Wells was arrested and charged with possession of synthetic hallucinogenic drugs. Wells was arrested on felony drug charges in Penobscot County Jan. 18 and posted bail.
Agents were assisted at the scene by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, South Thomaston Fire and EMS, State Police and the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
The investigation will continue and additional arrests are possible. | South Thomaston Fire Department and Ambulance Service were on the scene as well.
On Feb. 19, multiple law enforcement agencies arrested a man at the same South Thomaston home and seized drugs believed to be bath salts.
Maine | 48 |
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In the revolutionary musical atmosphere of the second half of the 1960s, no artist embodied the era's spirit of creative freedom and freewheeling self-invention more strongly than Donovan.
Born Donovan<|fim_middle|>, jazz and Eastern music. Embracing an optimistic sensibility that exemplified the era's most idealistic hopes and dreams, Donovan was one of the few '60s artists who managed to make consistently inventive and popular albums while also scoring regularly on the singles charts, and his unique body of work remains as compelling today as when it was first created. Now, Sundazed presents three of Donovan's classic '60s albums in their original LP configurations, featuring high-quality vinyl, definitive mono mixes and complete original cover art. | Philips Leitch, the multitalented Scottish troubadour rose from the U.K. folk scene and was initially hailed as Britain's answer to Bob Dylan. But he quickly transcended his original folkie image to adopt a more distinctive and expansive vision that put him in the vanguard of the psychedelic/flower-power explosion, while also exploring his interest in blues | 72 |
Impact and options of the "coronavirus": Three phases for advertising strategies
advertising opportunities, brand safety, Blog / By Mario Diez
The outbreak of coronavirus and its pandemic status have had an abrupt progression in the news. Since January, we've seen the topic evolve from regular updates on news about somewhere else in the world to become the overwhelmingly dominant story in every country.
This massive growth in volume of coverage has created a backlash among advertisers who are responding by creating comprehensive block lists of terms related to the virus or, in more extreme cases, ceasing all ad spend on publishers.
This kind of extreme reaction is meant to prevent the kind of damage to their brand's reputation that can occur if their ads are served on pages alongside articles about the tragedy and economic impact of this global crisis.
It's understandable that advertisers are wary. Every brand seeks to be seen in an environment that offers brand-suitable content that is also brand-safe: No business wants to appear to be capitalizing on a global crisis or damage their brand as a result of negative association.
Over the past few weeks, along with everyone else, we've been watching the story unfold. What we've seen emerge can be explained in phases relating to an increasingly prominent world-wide threat affecting every person and business across the globe.
We're seeing three distinct phases to the<|fim_middle|> them context, sentiment, and relevance. As an example, there is content highlighting recipes to make with your children while we're all confined to our homes, or tips on how to work efficiently from home for those navigating being remote for the first time–because of coronavirus, not about it.
What to do now: Suggestions to align goals and content suitability strategy
Take a fresh look at their keyword blocking strategy. Having coronavirus in a keyword list will keep you off of any page with a single reference to the keyword "coronavirus" or related terms you've included in your list. Use only if the goal is to avoid and not be anywhere near these keywords or terms, which are essentially everywhere right now, and may limit reach and delivery. Understandably, most buyers are still using this tactic because of the rush to ensure they're message was protected prior to making any messaging decisions.
Build a layered contextual plan for phase two and start thinking about phase three: Think about adjacency by way of categories. For example, an advertiser may be ok with all coronavirus-related content in parenting, but not want to be next to coronavirus references in politics. Working with categories and advanced suitability tactics will enable buyers to be on the right suitable content with the multiple layers of targeting needed.
Make sure to connect your pre-bid with post-blocking tactics. When advertisers begin moving out of phase one and low risk-tolerance settings, such as keyword-only block lists, they should ensure their pre-bid contextual targeting strategy is aligned with their post-bid strategy. If their verification post technology maintains more low-risk tactics, such as blocking the keyword "coronavirus," yet their pre-bid targeting is based on more suitable targeting, they risk blocking your advertising on the back end after they buy the impression.
As advertisers adjust to the new normal brought on by this coronavirus pandemic, building an advertising strategy that provides agility for the fast changes that are happening is an important opportunity to leverage.
Contact us today for your complimentary custom strategy recommendations to start implementing new and enhanced Peer39 categories for coronavirus. Reach out to PeerAM@Peer39.com | coverage as the situation develops:
Phase One: Awareness of the "coronavirus" problem
During the first phase, there was news and reporting focused on the facts around the virus and precautions. As it evolved to a global challenge around how to stop coronavirus from spreading, agencies and advertisers' mindset was 'oh sh*t.' The initial belief and corresponding response was that coronavirus = bad, and is to be 100% avoided, adding Covid-19, pandemic, epidemic, MERS, SARS, etc. to custom keyword blocklists at lightning speed.
Phase Two: Reacting to widespread impact
The second phase brought the reaction: closing down schools, gyms, restaurants, businesses, borders, canceled events, travel bans and the resulting financial crisis. The coverage of the coronavirus pandemic is the top story globally, extending beyond news, facts and government actions.
Helpful and practical stories are emerging around working from home, homeschooling, use of technology, tips on social distancing or managing life during these stressful times where coronavirus is merely a reference, pointed to as a root cause.
This is the kind of content that is relevant and useful to its reader and can provide advertisers a meaningful environment to advertise.
The mindset of advertisers is starting to shift as they acknowledge that coronavirus is everywhere and they need to change up their messaging and approach to reflect the new reality.
However, while the blunt-instrument strategy of keyword block lists is intended to keep a brand safe from any of the tragic pieces of coronavirus content, there's an unintended result of blocking these words outright:
Advertisers are essentially blocking themselves from the vast majority of content, and stories like these, where their brands and messages are relevant, simply because a single instance of coronavirus is identified within the page.
Phase Three: The humanity of the crisis
A third phase will start to emerge. It will bring stories of hope, compassion, community and humanity as events continue to unfold and the new 'normal' of life begins. We will learn of how businesses stepped up with crowdsourced solutions for the global medical supply chain shortages, of heroes during a time of great uncertainty, changing behaviours, communities coming together in ways that less than a month ago would have been unfathomable and more stories about when humanity is faced with its greatest challenge.
This is the phase where we see that people bring out their best when they see a need. And in this phase, agencies and advertisers will want to find brand-safe and suitable content related to the "good" aspects of coronavirus while avoiding the "bad."
This is why agencies and their advertisers like you need better tools that enable them to be part of those conversations, stories, and content in ways using keywords alone are failing them. The quick response of advertisers to create manually updated keyword blocklists deprive advertisers of reaching an audience in the right context alongside any relevant content.
With keywords and a blocklist, one single reference to coronavirus on a page results in it being blocked 100% of the time. With contextual targeting strategies, the approach is more refined and precise through the understanding of the entire page–not just the epicentre.
Contextual targeting understands the words in relation to one another, sentences, paragraphs, the density of occurrence and more. Coronavirus and other keywords are just words. It's the content around these words that give | 669 |
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rsa.PublicKey.load_pkcs1_openssl_pem(cls, keyfile)
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print(type(self.publickey["pubkey"].encode("utf-8")))
key = rsa.PublicKey.load_pkcs1_openssl_pem(self.publickey["pubkey"].encode("utf-8"))
print(type(key))
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key = rsa.key.PublicKey.load_pkcs1(self.publickey["pubkey"].encode("utf-8"), "PEM")
ERROR HINT:
ValueError: No PEM start marker "-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----" found
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Córrego Danta é um município brasileiro do estado de Minas Gerais. Localizado no Centro-oeste mineiro, na região do Alto São Francisco, Córrego Danta possui cerca de 3.391 habitantes e seu município tem uma área de 65,88 km².
História
Sua história conta que em 1868 a pequena aldeia foi elevada a dist<|fim_middle|> Rio Indaiá
Todos fazem parte da Bacia do São Francisco.
Córrego Danta possui diversas belezas naturais, como cachoeiras e a Serra do Bueno, que rodeia a cidade.
Rodovias
BR-262
BR-354
LMG-891 - Rodovia Márcio Cardoso Leão
Ligações externas
Municípios de Minas Gerais
Fundações em Minas Gerais em 1949 | rito, com o nome de São José do Córrego da Anta. Recebeu o nome de Córrego Danta em 1923 e se tornou município em 1948. Sua denominação vem da existência, na época da colonização, de manadas de antas que viviam às margens do córrego que banha a cidade.
A religiosidade é intrínseca à sua população. Tem São José como padroeiro, mas é a festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, que acontece todos os anos em agosto, o principal evento festivo, onde a beleza e as tradições do congado são os principais atrativos.
Geografia
A vegetação é composta pelo cerrado. Diversos animais silvestres habitam a região, como o lobo-guará, o tamanduá e a onça-pintada.
Hidrografia
Córrego Danta
Ribeirão das Araras
Rio da Perdição
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After over a decade living in California, Lissie Maurus is leaving L.A. to set up home on her newly-purchased smallholding in the Midwest. We caught up with Illinois-born folk-rocker to hear how a bout of soul-searching inspired both the move and her third studio album, My Wild West.
Thematically, this album is rooted in your decision to leave California to move back to the Midwest. What inspired the move?
In my 20s I really didn't wanna be in the Midwest, and I loved the sunshine in California and all the exciting people and culture. I think into my 30s it started to be like, "Well, I've had a lot of fun but I miss the seasons and the rainstorms, and I want to buy some land and be close to my family." It was time to go home.
How long were you living in California?
12 years. I didn't really think I would leave. It was just a bizarre thing that happened earlier last year, where I suddenly wanted to take a little more control of my life. And part of that puzzle was moving to Iowa and buying some land.
You're living on a farm now, right?
I don't really live there yet, but I've camped out. My house is under construction, and I've got 10 acres, five of which are tillable, so I rent those to my neighbor and he is growing corn and soy for the time being. But by spring of 2017 I'm going to just turn it all over to wild flowers, give the land a chance to heal, and I think I'm going to turn the barn into a recording studio. So I won't live there 'til May, but I can't wait.
Where was My Wild West written?
Well, a couple of songs were older songs, which never felt like they really fit on my other albums. But early in 2015 I wrote "Wild West" and that kicked everything off. I feel like "Wild West" predicted that I needed to set off on a new course. It was subconsciously telling me as I was writing it, you know?
I vaguely knew that I wanted to include my band in the record, and I was probably going to be working with Phil Reynolds from Band Of Horses, who I'd worked with in the past. I'd written "Wild West" with Curt Schneider in Los Angeles, and then I had gone to Nashville and written some other songs, and Martin Craft and I had written "Don't You Give Up On Me". So I had some songs I was feeling, but then when we went into the studio it just seemed like it was this forced thing, like, "You have to make an album now." It wasn't flowing, and that was when I was like, "I'm not gonna make an album, and I'm moving." I wanted to get back to the joy of music, because it was starting to become a bit of a pain, really. Subjecting yourself to rejection and criticism and other people's expectations: that's not why I started. I've been singing my whole life because it makes me happy, and I wanted to get back to that.
So how did you end up writing an album?
I was telling all these great stories that were very personal. My Wild West is basically about the last 12 years: the acts of experience and growth. It's almost a way of closing one chapter and starting another, so it was kinda cathartic in that way. I definitely think having the pressure taken off helped me make it. If too much is expected while you are working, you can never really loosen up.
It must be difficult trying to create under pressure.
Yeah, and I think one thing I'm working on – even with relationships or romance – is trying to really just enjoy the process of anything, without needing to know what the outcome's gonna be. That's really hard because people like having control; I know I do. It's not about what could come of doing something: it's the doing that matters. Life's so short and if you're<|fim_middle|>ee. There was terrible civil war in Liberia for years and years – just violence and horror – and this social worker got together a group of women that she was working with, to dress in white and peacefully protest. By the value of 30,000 local and Christian women marching down the street, they were able to get the President and these warring wannabe leaders to all get together and have some negotiations. And these women held their hands around the building where the negotiations were happening and would not let them leave until they came up with a solution. So they were able to kick out the troublemakers and get rid of the President and then they had a woman President and they had peace.
Were there any other experiences that inspired the songs?
I think that most of the songs are personal, whereas my old albums were more about boys. Now I'm a little more interested in the idea that maybe some of the problems I have with boys is because I have some problems of my own I need to work out. (Laughs) Recognizing the things in myself that are holding me back inspired a lot of my writing on this album, I think.
With "Hollywood", I think Hollywood is this magical place where people make the most incredible things happen, and I had such a fun time there, but I was always aware of the cruelty of the place: western standards of beauty, and playing a song for someone that's about your heart and your soul, and having them say, "That's crap." You have to have a really thick skin.
I definitely left Hollywood having had some career successes, but some of the people I would encounter seemed phony to me. Authenticity and realness and friendliness is important to me. This business, it's hard for me, because there'll be people who want nothing to do with me, and then as soon as they see me up onstage talking to someone famous, they want to suddenly hang out with me. It's just so obvious that they're social climbers, and it makes you feel like you lose a little bit of faith in humanity. But now I'll just go hang out with my family and friends when I'm not on tour.
Is there anything you've learned about yourself in the making of the album?
One thing I find that I'm paying more attention to is how powerful our thoughts about ourselves and about reality are. Nobody has any power over me: there's nothing I have to do. And if I'm going into something with an anxious mind, or feeling like I'm struggling against someone, it's just going to manifest itself in a bad, frustrating way. So on this album I really took it a day at a time and stayed positive. So I guess that really seemed to come out, because this album ended up being fun and easy to make. | always wondering what's going to happen you're missing everything that is happening.
With previous albums, were you always focused on the outcome?
Well, yeah because it was a big production involving so many people, whether that's from the label, or people who do radio and TV for you, or your publicist. You want to honor everyone's efforts and have success, but someone else's definition of success might not really be mine. A lot of that pressure was in my own head, I think. I'm just hard on myself. But that's all part of growing up and learning things about yourself.
That's one of the great things about getting older – you care less about other people's opinions.
Totally! Or you've just been through something enough times that you don't have the energy to bother about it.
Even though My Wild West wasn't planned as an album, sonically was there any goal for these songs?
I noticed that I didn't want to over-think the production. I love a polished piece of music. Like, I love that "Trap Queen" song, and I really like pop music. But I was coming at it stripping things back a little, like, "Let's just have a guitar and a vocal." "Hero" was written pretty fast and I brought it to Curt Schneider and he had session musicians come over. We just tracked it live, and we didn't really add a lot of overdubs. So I think that, moving forward, I may make a super-poppy album with a friend under another name, but in terms of what I'm feeling right now, I'm not putting a bunch of music over music unless it really needs to be there.
And you mentioned, My Wild West was produced by Curt Schneider. What attracted you to work with him?
I mean, all the producers I've worked with are really smart, creative, great people. But sometimes you get paired with a producer and you have to give up a certain amount of control, because they know what it is that's going to get you on the radio, maybe. But this time I didn't want to team up with someone where they were in charge.
That's not an insult, because I loved making those records with Jacquire [King] and Jacknife [Lee] - they're at the top of their game. It was just finding someone who would let me be like, "These are the songs I wanna do, and this is how I want them to sound. And maybe they're gonna sound like sh*t and no-one's gonna like 'em, but will you just bear with me, and help me make them." It was my own money and I think being independent freed me up to do whatever I felt like.
The song "Daughters2 is part-inspired by a documentary, right?
Yeah. There's this amazing documentary called 'Pray The Devil Back To Hell' about [Liberian peace activist] Leymah Gbow | 603 |
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TRI Pointe Group, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE:TPH) today announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017 and full year 2017. The Company also announced that its Board of Directors has approved a new stock repurchase program authorizing the repurchase of up to $100 million of Company common stock through March 31, 2019 (the "Repurchase Program").
Net income available to common stockholders was $74.0 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, compared to $57.9 million, or $0.36 per diluted share. In the fourth quarter 2017, the Company recorded a $22.0 million tax charge related to the re-measurement of the Company's net deferred tax assets as a result of the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as a pretax charge of $13.2 million related to the impairment of an investment in an unconsolidated entity. Excluding these items, adjusted net income available to common stockholders was $107.4 million, or $0.7<|fim_middle|> The following factors, among others, may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements: the effect of general economic conditions, including employment rates, housing starts, interest rate levels, availability of financing for home mortgages and strength of the U.S. dollar; market demand for our products, which is related to the strength of the various U.S. business segments and U.S. and international economic conditions; levels of competition; the successful execution of our internal performance plans, including any restructuring and cost reduction initiatives; global economic conditions; raw material prices; oil and other energy prices; the effect of weather, including the re-occurrence of drought conditions in California; the risk of loss from earthquakes, volcanoes, fires, floods, droughts, windstorms, hurricanes, pest infestations and other natural disasters, and the risk of delays, reduced consumer demand, and shortages and price increases in labor or materials associated with such natural disasters; transportation costs; federal and state tax policies; the effect of land use, environment and other governmental regulations; legal proceedings or disputes and the adequacy of reserves; risks relating to any unforeseen changes to or effects on liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenues, expenses, earnings, synergies, indebtedness, financial condition, losses and future prospects; changes in accounting principles; risks related to unauthorized access to our computer systems, theft of our customers' confidential information or other forms of cyber-attack; and additional factors discussed under the sections captioned "Risk Factors" included in our annual and quarterly reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The foregoing list is not exhaustive. New risk factors may emerge from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors or to assess the impact of such risk factors on our business.
_____________________________________ (1) Homes under construction included 60 and 65 models at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.* See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures"
__________ (1) As of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, lots controlled included lots that were under land option contracts or purchase contracts.
In this press release, we utilize certain financial measures that are non-GAAP financial measures as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We present these measures because we believe they and similar measures are useful to management and investors in evaluating the Company's operating performance and financing structure. We also believe these measures facilitate the comparison of our operating performance and financing structure with other companies in our industry. Because these measures are not calculated in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), they may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The following tables reconcile homebuilding gross margin percentage, as reported and prepared in accordance with GAAP, to the non-GAAP financial measure adjusted homebuilding gross margin percentage. We believe this information is meaningful as it isolates the impact that leverage and non-cash impairments and lot option abandonments have on homebuilding gross margin and permits investors to make better comparisons with our competitors, who may adjust gross margins in a similar fashion.
The following table reconciles the Company's ratio of debt-to-capital to the non-GAAP ratio of net debt-to-net capital. We believe that the ratio of net debt-to-net capital is a relevant financial measure for management and investors to understand the leverage employed in our operations and as an indicator of the Company's ability to obtain financing.
__________ (1) The ratio of debt-to-capital is computed as the quotient obtained by dividing debt by the sum of debt plus equity. (2) The ratio of net debt-to-net capital is computed as the quotient obtained by dividing net debt (which is debt less cash and cash equivalents) by the sum of net debt plus equity.
The following table contains information about our operating results reflecting certain adjustments to income before income taxes, (provision) benefit for income taxes, net income, net income available to common stockholders and earnings per share (diluted). We believe reflecting these adjustments is useful to investors in understanding our recurring operations by eliminating the varying effects of certain non-routine events, and may be helpful in comparing the Company to other homebuilders to the extent they provide similar information.
__________ (1) Includes a charge related to the impairment of an investment in an unconsolidated entity. (2) Includes a tax charge related to the re-measurement of the Company's net deferred tax assets as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted in the fourth quarter of 2017, net of the impact of the charge related to the impairment of an investment in an unconsolidated entity.
The following table calculates the non-GAAP financial measures of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA and reconciles those amounts to net income, as reported and prepared in accordance with GAAP. EBITDA means net income before (a) interest expense, (b) expensing of previously capitalized interest included in costs of home sales, (c) income taxes and (d) depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA means EBITDA before (e) amortization of stock-based compensation, (f) real estate inventory impairments and lot option abandonments, (g) impairments of investments in unconsolidated entities and (h) restructuring charges. Other companies may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA (or similarly titled measures) differently. We believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful measures of the Company's ability to service debt and obtain financing. | 0 per diluted share.* No similar adjustments existed in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Ended fourth quarter of 2017 with total liquidity of 875.2 million, including cash of $282.9 million and $592.3 million of availability under the Company's unsecured revolving credit facility* See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures"
Net income available to common stockholders was $187.2 million, or $1.21 per diluted share, compared to $195.2 million, or $1.21 per diluted share. Adjusted net income available to common stockholders was $220.6 million, or $1.42 per diluted share, after excluding the $22.0 million tax charge related to the re-measurement of the Company's net deferred tax assets and the $13.2 million pretax charge related to the impairment of an investment in an unconsolidated entity.* No similar adjustments existed in 2016.
Repurchased 8,994,705 shares of common stock at an average price of $12.48 for an aggregate dollar amount of $112.2 million in the full year ended December 31, 2017* See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures"
"We ended 2017 on a very strong note," said TRI Pointe Group CEO Doug Bauer. "Fourth quarter home sales revenue grew 46% year-over-year, thanks to a 23% increase in new home deliveries and an 18% rise in average selling price. We also posted solid year-over-year operating margin expansion, as both homebuilding gross margins and SG&A as a percentage of revenue improved during the quarter, culminating in an 81% increase in pretax income. New home orders during the quarter also surpassed last year's comparable quarter total, as our average sales pace per community was a healthy 2.8 homes per community per month compared to 2.5 in the same period last year."
"For the full year 2017, we posted double digit gains in new home orders of 19%, home sales revenue of 17% and pretax income of 13%, and we ended the year with a backlog dollar value 56% higher than the prior year," said Mr. Bauer. These results are a testament to the ongoing strength of our homebuilding markets, the quality of our land positions and the value created by our unique operating strategy."
Net income available to common stockholders was $74.0 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2017, compared to net income available to common stockholders of $57.9 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2016. The increase in net income available to common stockholders was primarily driven by higher home sales revenue and homebuilding gross margin, partially offset by a $22.0 million tax charge related to the re-measurement of the Company's net deferred tax assets and a pretax charge of $13.2 million related to the impairment of an investment in an unconsolidated entity. Excluding these items, adjusted net income available to common stockholders was $107.4 million or $0.70 per diluted share.* No similar adjustments existed in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Home sales revenue increased $352.1 million, or 46%, to $1.1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2017, as compared to $770.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2016. The increase was primarily attributable to a 23% increase in new home deliveries to 1,757, and an 18% increase in average selling price of homes delivered to $639,000 compared to $540,000 in the fourth quarter of 2016.
New home orders increased 17% to 1,063 homes for the fourth quarter of 2017, as compared to 909 homes for the same period in 2016. Average selling communities was 127.5 for the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 122.8 for the fourth quarter of 2016. New home orders per average selling community for the fourth quarter of 2017 was 8.3 orders (2.8 monthly) compared to 7.4 orders (2.5 monthly) during the fourth quarter of 2016.
The Company ended the quarter with 1,571 homes in backlog, representing approximately $1.0 billion. The average selling price of homes in backlog as of December 31, 2017 increased $103,000, or 19%, to $657,000 compared to $554,000 at December 31, 2016.
Homebuilding gross margin percentage for the fourth quarter of 2017 increased to 21.7% compared to 20.0% for the fourth quarter of 2016. Excluding interest, impairments and lot option abandonments in cost of home sales, adjusted homebuilding gross margin percentage was 24.2% for the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 22.2% for the fourth quarter of 2016.* The increase in homebuilding gross margin percentage was largely due to the mix of homes delivered during the quarter, with 225 more homes delivered from our California assets, which have gross margins above the Company average.
Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A") expense for the fourth quarter of 2017 decreased to 7.2% of home sales revenue as compared to 9.2% for the fourth quarter of 2016 due to increased leverage as a result of the 46% increase in home sales revenue.
"We continue to be at the forefront of homebuilding innovation, both in terms of community planning and new home design," said TRI Pointe Group COO Tom Mitchell. "We strive to create a unique home buying experience for our customers, one that takes into account the distinct aesthetic of our local markets and the lifestyle wants and needs of each buyer segment. We believe that this emphasis on design and innovation played a key role in our strong financial performance in 2017. We are in the process of rolling out several communities with new home concepts that we expect will appeal to two of the largest home buying segments - Active Adults and Millennials - and we are excited about their prospects."
For the full year 2018, the Company expects to grow average selling communities by 5% compared to 2017 and deliver between 5,100 and 5,400 homes at an average sales price of approximately $610,000. The Company expects its homebuilding gross margin percentage for the full year 2018 to be in the range of 20.5% to 21.5% and expects its SG&A expense as a percentage of home sales revenue to be in the range of 9.9% to 10.3%. Finally, the Company expects its effective tax rate to be in the range of 25% to 26%.
For the first quarter of 2018, the Company expects to open 8 new communities and close out of 11 communities, resulting in 127 active selling communities as of March 31, 2018. In addition, the Company anticipates delivering approximately 55% of its 1,571 homes in backlog as of December 31, 2017 at an average sales price of $630,000 to $640,000. The Company anticipates its homebuilding gross margin percentage to be in a range of 21.5% to 22.5% for the first quarter of 2018. Finally, the Company expects its SG&A expense as a percentage of home sales revenue to be in the range of 13.0% to 13.5% for the first quarter of 2018.
On February 16, 2018, our Board of Directors cancelled the share repurchase program approved in 2017, which had approximately $37.8 million remaining in authorized repurchases, and approved the Repurchase Program, which authorizes the repurchase of up to $100 million of Company common stock through March 31, 2019. Purchases of common stock pursuant to the Repurchase Program may be made in open market transactions effected through a broker-dealer at prevailing market prices, in block trades, or by other means in accordance with federal securities laws, including pursuant to any trading plan that may be adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We are not obligated under the Repurchase Program to repurchase any specific number or dollar amount of shares of common stock, and we may modify, suspend or discontinue the Repurchase Program at any time. Our management will determine the timing and amount of any repurchases in its discretion based on a variety of factors, such as the market price of our common stock, corporate requirements, general market economic conditions and legal requirements.
The Company will host a conference call via live webcast for investors and other interested parties beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. The call will be hosted by Doug Bauer, Chief Executive Officer, Tom Mitchell, President and Chief Operating Officer and Mike Grubbs, Chief Financial Officer.
Interested parties can listen to the call live on the internet through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.TRIPointeGroup.com . Listeners should go to the website at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to download and install any necessary audio software. The call can also be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-3982 for domestic participants or 1-201-493-6780 for international participants. Participants should ask for the TRI Pointe Group Fourth Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call. Those dialing in should do so at least ten minutes prior to the start. The replay of the call will be available for two weeks following the call. To access the replay, the domestic dial-in number is 1-844-512-2921, the international dial-in number is 1-412-317-6671, and the reference code is #13675667. An archive of the webcast will be available on the Company's website for a limited time.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, TRI Pointe Group, Inc. (NYSE:TPH) is among the largest public homebuilders in the United States. The company designs, constructs and sells premium single-family homes through its portfolio of six quality brands across eight states, including Maracay Homes ® in Arizona; Pardee Homes ® in California and Nevada; Quadrant Homes ® in Washington; Trendmaker ® Homes in Texas; TRI Pointe Homes ® in California and Colorado; and Winchester ® Homes in Maryland and Virginia. Additional information is available at www.TRIPointeGroup.com. Winchester is a registered trademark and is used with permission.
Various statements contained in this press release, including those that express a belief, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our strategy, projections and estimates concerning the timing and success of specific projects and our future production, land and lot sales, operational and financial results, including our estimates for growth, financial condition, sales prices, prospects, and capital spending. Forward-looking statements that are included in this press release are generally accompanied by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "future," "goal," "guidance," "intend," "likely," "may," "might," "outlook," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "strategy," "target," "will," "would," or other words that convey future events or outcomes. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, and we disclaim any obligation to update these statements unless required by law, and we caution you not to rely on them unduly. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks, contingencies and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. | 2,753 |
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One of the benefits of activities shifting to virtual settings in 2020 is that people can gather together from anywhere. Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has given warriors the chance to connect with one another through virtual cooking classes.
Learn more about WWP events that connect warriors to each other.
German Rivera-Caballero, a National Guard veteran, is a huge fan of these classes. "I've participated since the first one. I feel like this is a valuable tool for us and our recovery. The meals we prepare are sometimes fun, sometimes healthy, and sometimes they are just savory. We have a great time."
Navy veteran Heather Vicioso's interest stemmed from the ability to explore other cultures through cooking. "The first class I did, we cooked with a Moroccan mother and daughter. I thought it was amazing that we were cooking with people from Morocco."
Savory and healthy meals were not all that Heather enjoyed. "We also do baking. One class we made biscotti with coffee. Even these small treat classes, I signed up for all of them. There was<|fim_middle|>. There is always a connection when you meet another warrior. It is an instant bond."
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Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers — helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more. | no geographical barrier, and I was able to learn dishes from all over the world. That sparked an interest in me."
Turning a chore into a pleasure
Since taking these classes, Heather said she can now enjoy a part of life that used to feel mundane. "Cooking was a chore before. We started the cooking classes, and it opened doors to cooking new dishes. I have never been disappointed in a dish, and that repeated success has sparked a desire to want to cook more and become more adventurous in the kitchen. I've really enjoyed that part of it."
German stated that while he is no stranger to cooking, these classes are helping him better embrace changes. "I have a background in cooking, but I still enjoy these classes a lot. The thing about cooking is that even though everything is written, nothing is really written. What I mean is that you can change the rules every time. Cooking is one thing that really helps with change and trying new things."
He explained how cooking is not only a joy, but a valuable tool. "Learning how to cook is the best thing you can learn. It's like that saying — if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you learn to cook, it's one of the best skills you can have in your toolbox. The way these cooking events happen provides a secure place to veterans while also being fun and empowering. I'd encourage anyone to join us, even the caregivers."
This skill and joy are exactly what WWP teammate Katiuska Pabon-Beauchamp envisioned when she planned the classes. "I wanted people to understand you can use cooking as an art and provide for your family in a different way. I wanted to give these warriors an experience that they can use time and time again."
Connecting through shared interests
While the skills gained are valuable, Heather appreciates the interaction with other warriors the most. "What I really enjoyed about these classes is how I feel even more connected. They have helped me build relationships through the private chat and keep up with how the others are doing. This is more of a connection that is larger than just the New York City area," she said. "In between steps during the cooking classes, you get to share your story and find connections with other warriors that have common interests. It's not just about the fact that we've all served, it's the experiences we have from all serving. If you hadn't been there or done that, you just won't get it | 507 |
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Jerky Snob is an artisan jerky monthly subscription box that sends artisan jerky from small-batch producers across the US. All the jerky is free of MSG, nitrates, nitrites, and high-fructose corn syrup.
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What you get: 3-4 bags of artisan jerky in the 1/2 lb box. 6-8 bags of artisan jerky in the 1lb box.
I bought the 1/2 lb box of this jerky for my husband and I to try out. He's been trying to eat a higher protein diet and I thought this would be a good snack.
In the box there were 4 bags of artisan jerky. 3 beef jerky and 1 turkey jerky. The two featured artisans in this box were Sweet Meat Jerky based out of Nashville TN. and Chef's Cut Real Jerky based out of Naples, FL.
When you sign up for Jerky Snob you get to choose either 1/2 lb or 1 lb of jerky, a mix of mild and medium jerky flavours and you also get to choose if you get all gluten free jerky or a mix of regular and gluten free. My choices were 1/2 lb , a mix of mild and medium and a mix of regular and gluten free jerky.
This Classic Beef Jerky turned out to be my favourite one this month. The flavour was perfect (a blend of teriyaki, soy and black pepper) and the jerky was tender and not too chewy. The one thing I hate is jerky that hurts my jaw to eat! This was some of the best jerky I've had.
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Never have I ever had real steak jerky before it's really tasty. The flavour was chipotle cracked pepper and this was definitely the spiciest flavour in the box. The jerky pieces were small which I liked and thick just like real steak. I'd love to try out some of their other flavours.
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I really enjoyed this Jerky Snob subscription box. I think for what you pay you get a great assortment of quality jerky. I'm sure that you will notice a huge huge difference in the flavour and textures of these premium jerkys when you compare them to the regular grocery store brands. If you are a jerky fan you should definitely check | 114 |
Bernanke Vows to Continue Greenspan Policies
By Jim Zarroli
Published November 15, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST
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He's a tough act to follow, but the man tapped to replace Alan Greenspan was on Capitol Hill today. Ben Bernanke went before the Senate Finance Committee, which has to approve his nomination to head the Federal Reserve. Bernanke said he was committed to both price stability and economic growth, and he reiterated his desire to have the Fed start telling the public exactly what inflation rate it's going for. NPR's Jim Zarroli has that story.
JIM ZARROLI reporting:
Bernanke is a mild-mannered, bearded academic who might actually lose to Alan Greenspan in a charisma contest. Speaking to the committee, he thanked President Bush for appointing him, but also said he would perform his duties in a non-partisan manner.
Mr. BEN BERNANKE (Federal Reserve Chairman Nominee): I assure this committee that if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences and will be guided solely by the Federal Reserve's mandate from Congress and by the public interest.
ZARROLI: Bernanke stressed that he would continue the policies of the Greenspan Fed. He said in recent years, recessions have become less frequent and less severe, and the labor market has become more stable.
Mr. BERNANKE: I believe that the Federal Reserve's success in reducing and stabilizing inflation and inflation expectations is a major reason for this improved economic performance.
ZARROLI: He said the fact that the financial markets have confidence in the Fed's commitment to inflation-fighting is one reason that this year's energy price spikes haven't hurt the economy more. But Bernanke also said the Greenspan Fed has shown a willingness to be flexible and entertain new ideas when necessary. Among other things, it has become much more transparent about how decisions are made, a policy he said he hopes to continue. And one possible step in that direction would be to state explicitly the range of inflation rates Fed officials will tolerate, a practice known as inflation-targeting. Bernanke said the targets shouldn't be applied rigidly; the point is simply to give the markets a better sense of what's guiding interest rate policy.
Mr. BERNANKE: I would certainly not try to return inflation to a target within a short period of time. I would simply try to assure the markets that--over a long period of time, that the Federal Reserve was committed to price stability as a central point of its monetary strategy.
ZARROLI: If publicly setting an inflation target helps keep prices under<|fim_middle|> stories by Jim Zarroli | control, Bernanke said, it will be good for the economy and promote job growth. Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland noted that the policy was used in countries that have weaker economies than the United States.
Senator PAUL SARBANES (Democrat, Maryland): If inflation-targeting has worked so poorly in Europe compared to our performance, why should we go down that path here?
ZARROLI: Bernanke replied that European economies are suffering for reasons that have nothing to do with inflation-targeting, like an inflexible job market. But Bernanke repeatedly tried to send a message that he was anything but a radical. He said he would only use inflation-targeting if a consensus existed at the Fed that it was a good idea. And he said his concern for price stability would in no way overshadow the Fed's other mandate, which is to pursue policies that promote full employment. Jim Zarroli, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Film Diary / 20.12.2017
Mark, Lumart, Jaap and I had our hands full with a wide variety of critters in MacDonald National Park. I filmed a skink, a house centipede on a leaf, which stood out from its background far more than the previous specimens in my footage. I also filmed a moth, a juvenile carpet python in a tree, a pie dish beetle, a moulting cockroach and a male wasp belonging to a sub-family whose males are winged and carry around the females during mating. We found the most spectacular subject, new to all of us, on our way out – a batwing gum moth caterpillar. It is one of Australia's biggest. I estimate it was more than 12 cm long and was nearly as thick as my thumb. At first it was still, but then began to move and gyrate.
We succeeded in getting a full night's filming in MacDonald National Park at the third attempt. On the first occasion two weeks ago Jaap and Lumart were driven crazy by mosquitos and we had to abandon the walk. Last week was bitterly cold and windy. To-night was comparatively balmy, though we continue to experience below average daytime temperatures. I filmed a small, roosting bird on a low branch next to the path, some fascinating white fungi which poked above the earth like ghostly fingers and an owl chick resting on the ground. It would have been between two and three weeks old. Jaap, who is overseas, would not have been pleased to have missed it
The 2017-18 night filming season began with a walk in The Knoll. Jaap, Mark and Lumart were the crew. I filmed a very hairy caterpillar which I had previously filmed in Palm Grove; a large hunting beetle crawling on a tree near a huntsman spider; and for the second time, a flatworm with a yellow and brown stripe down its back.
DOUBLE WHAMMY
Website / 20.10.2017
Calamity struck twice in recent days. My computer died of what most likely was heat exhaustion and the hard drive proved to be irretrievable. I thought I had backed up in August. It turned out that I was months out; the date was April 6. I have lost all my contacts information and the 1,300 words I had written about my magical time with Simon on Easter Island and in Buenos Aires. 1,300 words had only taken us to day two on the island.
For many weeks the website had been under attack from evil forces to the point where we have had to close it down. This at last provides an opportunity to update the system, but the site developer is unable to say when this is likely to happen because of his workload and the amount of work needed to restore the site. Ghastly!
My Travels / 08.10.2017
In 'Double Whammy', (<|fim_middle|> – '10 = 13 '10 –'11 = 26 '11 – '12 = 19 '12 –'13 = 16 '13 – '14 = 13 '14 –'15 = 16 '15 – '16 = 16 '16 – '17 = 19. You will notice that in the second season we doubled the number of walks of season one and in the fourth, we doubled the number of walks in season three.
I next tallied how many walks we had done in each of the national parks. Joalah topped the list with 47, followed by The Knoll with 43, MacDonald with 31, Palm Grove 25, Witches… Read Complete Text
Back to Main Blog | 20 October 2017) I lamented the loss of my original write-up of the trip (which lasted from September the 23rd to October the 8th) because my computer died and the hard drive containing the first 1,300 words, proved to be irretrievable. I am not game to attempt to recreate the original account, partly because of the other disaster mentioned, namely having to close down the website, which only came back on line two weeks ago (24 February 2018). Instead, I shall try and communicate the essence of the journey. It is a relief and a delight to be able to upload blog posts again.
It took me nearly 76 years to visit every continent other than Antarctica, having touched down in Santiago on Sunday September 24. I was travelling with my son Simon, whose announcement earlier in the year that he wanted to go on holiday with his Dad was as unexpected as it was heart-warming. His wife Nicole, stayed home to look after their newly acquired cattle dog puppy, Pepper. Simon had never been to South America either. I happened to glance out of the window of the rear door of the 747… Read Complete Text
It is a month ago to the day since I last filmed, having been engaged on a pet project, of which more in due course. This morning I filmed a broken strangler fig in MacDonald National Park whose trunk mysteriously snapped off some thirty feet above the forest floor. The fig was old and vast, one of a pair standing side by side. The fallen trunk generated an immense clearing, bringing down lesser trees, including palms.
8 YEARS LATER
Other / 21.07.2017
An email arrived from the Queensland Museum entomologist who has identified numerous species over the years. He was unable to offer a firm verdict on any of the four images of insects I sent him three weeks ago. But he confirmed that the leg being pulled up a large rainforest tree at night by a lone ant we uploaded on vimeo 8 years ago, was not that of a cricket, but of a spider. I have corrected the video settings and the website.
Today I uploaded the 70th Gallery Page. One challenge is trying to limit the preponderance of insects. The new page contains a bird, a mollusc, a reptile, a grass, a cycad, an aerial shot of the plateau and six insects. For once, none of them are lepidopteran.
Looking back through the blog, I notice that I first filmed the Cotton Harlequin Bugs on the 8th of April. On the 17th I filmed a female with her newly laid eggs, discovering that she would stay and guard them until they hatch. On various subsequent visits there she was, a marvel of maternal constancy. This morning I filmed the nymphs scrabbling in a clump on the egg casings a day or so after emerging, with the by now rather wan-looking female, on an adjacent stem.
NIGHT FILMING
Film Diary, Other / 28.05.2017
Having just completed our 150th walk I thought it might be interesting to delve into the history of the walks and tally how many we did per season (broadly, October to May). In doing so I discovered I was one walk short in the total to this season's end. We have actually completed 153. The 150th occurred a week earlier than the 'official' date. I didn't start numbering the walks until a few seasons had passed. And then, I didn't number every walk. The tally per season is: '07 –'08 = 5 '08 – '09 = 10 '09 | 793 |
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2017-- General Cable Corporation (NYSE: BGC) reported today results for the third quarter ended September 29, 2017. For the quarter, reported loss per share was $0.28 and reported operating income was $1 million inclusive of $27 million in non-cash charges primarily related to the sale of operations in China. Adjusted earnings per share and adjusted operating income were $0.25 and $43 million, respectively, for the quarter. See page 2 of this press release for the reconciliation of reported to adjusted results and related disclosures.
North America – Unit volume was up 12% versus prior year driven principally by stronger demand for aerial transmission cables and industrial, construction and specialty (ICS) products.
Europe – Unit volume was flat<|fim_middle|> core geographical markets, and has sales representation and distribution worldwide. For more information about General Cable visit our website at www.generalcable.com.
(2) Adjusted operating income (loss) is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company is providing adjusted operating income (loss) on a segment basis because management believes it is useful in analyzing the operating performance of the business and is consistent with how management reviews the underlying business trends. A reconciliation of segment reported operating income (loss) to segment adjusted operating income (loss) is provided in the Appendix of the Third Quarter 2017 Investor Presentation, located on the Company's website. | versus prior year as stronger demand for electric utility products including land-based turnkey projects helped to offset the easing performance of the subsea turnkey project business and continued weakness in industrial and construction markets throughout the region.
Latin America – Unit volume was up 11% versus prior year driven by the shipment of aerial transmission cables in Brazil. The region continues to experience uneven spending on electric infrastructure and construction projects.
At the end of the third quarter of 2017 and the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, total debt was $1,091 million and $939 million, respectively, and cash and cash equivalents were $72 million and $101 million, respectively. The increase in net debt was principally due to investment in working capital, partly due to higher metal prices, and payments totaling $52 million related to our FCPA resolution through the first half of 2017.
These Company-defined non-GAAP financial measures exclude from reported results those items that management believes are not indicative of our ongoing performance and are being provided herein because management believes they are useful in analyzing the operating performance of the business and are consistent with how management reviews our operating results and the underlying business trends. Use of these non-GAAP measures may be inconsistent with similar measures presented by other companies and should only be used in conjunction with the Company's results reported according to GAAP. Historical segment adjusted operating results are disclosed in the Third Quarter 2017 Investor Presentation available on the Company's website.
(6) Project settlements represents losses associated with claim settlements related to the Company's German submarine power cable business. The Company adjusts for these losses as management believes they are one-time in nature and will not occur as part of the ongoing operations.
(7) The adjustment excludes the impact of operations in the Africa and Asia Pacific segment which are not considered "core operations" under the Company's strategic roadmap. The Company is in the process of divesting or closing these operations which are not expected to continue as part of the ongoing business. For accounting purposes, the continuing operations in Africa and Asia Pacific do not meet the requirement to be presented as discontinued operations. Third quarter of 2017 principally reflects the loss on the sale of the Company's business in China of $19.9 million.
General Cable (NYSE:BGC), with headquarters in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a global leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of aluminum, copper and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy, communications, transportation, industrial, construction and specialty segments. General Cable is one of the largest wire and cable manufacturing companies in the world, operating manufacturing facilities in its | 548 |
Bingen is a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany at the southern end of the Middle Rhine Valley (Mittelrheintal), located at the junction of the Rhine and the Nahe. It came into being as a strategically important to the Romans.
Bingen was the home of one of the most incredible women in history, Saint Hildegard von Bingen. It was here on the northern banks of the Nahe, that the Benedictine Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) founded her cloister upon the grave of the holy Rupertus. It is remarkable to note that in her "Physica", Hildegard von Bingen includes more than 250 plants and many folk remedies and "natural" medicinal methods of treatment. A<|fim_middle|> the most dominant and influential women of the Middle Ages (if she had been a man, she would have rivaled the Pope in influence). The Historisches Museum am Strom (Museumsstr 3 Ph: 06721 990654) has an impressive display on her or you can also visit the Hildegard Forum (Ph: 06721 181000), which has additional displays on Hildegard, including a restaurant that serves foods reflecting her nutritional teachings.
For bike riders, Bingen is the starting point of the Radweg Nahe, a 37 mile posted bike route that follows the Nahe River southwest to the town of Kirn. Bingen is also the site of an eleven-day festival every September, when the city hosts the Winzerfest.
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Google Cloud Pairs Up With AT&T to Capitalize on the 5G Rush
Google and AT&T are in a pilot program with "a leading retailer," who they declined to name.
Bloomberg | Mar 05, 2020
Matt Day and Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) -- Google's cloud arm is partnering with AT&T Inc. on a suite of business products to be delivered over 5G networks, the latest tie-up between tech giants and wireless carriers hoping to capitalize on the rollout of faster connectivity.
The Alphabet Inc. unit and AT&T said Thursday they were testing products designed to bring software and data services to fifth-generation, or 5G, customers, an initiative targeting sectors including retail, manufacturing and transportation. The deal, which will see Google cloud offerings delivered by AT&T's network in major metropolitan areas around<|fim_middle|>.
Google executives have recently cited a focus on winning cloud partnerships that extend to other parts of its business, like ads and YouTube. That's not happening here yet. AT&T has withheld its ads from YouTube for more than a year over concerns about inappropriate content.
"Until Google can protect our brand from offensive content of any kind, we are removing all advertising from YouTube," AT&T said in a statement.
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Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount | the U.S., is part of a set of services Google is unleashing that the company said will give telecommunications providers more computing power and better margins.
Related: Edge Computing: Where's the Edge Moving to Now? Nokia Offers Clues
Cloud sales are central to Google's strategy to expand beyond its core ads business. Last month, the company released cloud unit revenue for the first time -- $8.9 billion in 2019 -- while rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have continued to show impressive growth.
Thomas Kurian, the chief executive officer for Google cloud, has picked communications companies as an area of focus in an attempt to lift Google from its distant third place in the cloud market. "It's one of our fastest growing industries," Kurian said in an interview. Kurian and AT&T officials declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal.
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The introduction of 5G is just beginning, with test projects from carriers like AT&T generally limited to select big cities. Nationwide coverage may take years. But tech giants and telecom industry incumbents angling for a slice of the market for edge computing are announcing plans to pool their resources to go after big corporate customers. The White House has made 5G a linchpin of its tech policy, particularly as it tries to suppress the global expansion of China's Huawei Technologies Co.
Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of cloud computing services, in December announced a push with Verizon Communications Inc. to sell cloud-based edge computing services, which let clients process information closer to the source rather than at far-away data centers. Microsoft, No. 2 in the cloud market, also has a strategic alliance with AT&T.
Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer for AT&T Business, says the partnership with Google isn't exclusive. "When we think about edge compute, we think it's going to take an ecosystem to bring this to life."
Kurian said the flurry of recent deals "is reflective of customers in specific industries needing solutions to problems. A single company cannot deliver the solution."
Google and AT&T are in a pilot program with "a leading retailer," who they declined to name. The companies hope to develop new applications for businesses that require faster response time from their rented cloud-computing power for services like automated quality control in a manufacturing plant, or point-of-sale systems managed over a wireless network.
Kurian said the pitch for the edge computing strategy was similar to that of Android, the operating system Google used to gain sway over much of the smartphone market.
Google also announced deals with telecommunications software makers Amdocs and Netcracker to build versions of their programs designed to run on Google's cloud. Both companies will continue to support customers who want to use other clouds, too | 578 |
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Jake Soberal, CEO and co-founder of Fresno-based Bitwise Industries, joins the company's other co-founder, Irma L. Olguin Jr., by video link as they announce an expansion into Bakersfield.
John Cox / The Californian
Bitwise's planned expansion into Bakersfield seen as taking the city to 'the next level'
BY JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com
Anticipation was in the air as dozens of Bakersfield business and political leaders jammed into a small room on the second floor of the Padre Hotel Wednesday morning for what was sure to be a big announcement.
Once things got going, levity<|fim_middle|> reasons. The Bakersfield financial advisor and managing partner at Moneywise Guys noted that downtown has added positive amenities in recent years that could be attractive to tech companies and the kind of people they employ.
Bringing Bitwise into the mix, he said, "takes downtown to the next level."
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The day's big news, as The Californian reported Wednesday morning, was that downtown Fresno-based tech hub Bitwise Industries had raised $27 million that, among other things, would help pay for the company's expansion into Bakersfield.
Bitwise's plans call for coding classes, shared office space and other forms of local investment. Initial operations are expected to begin by early next year, followed by the purchase of a permanent space downtown for Bitwise's new second home.
There were questions from the audience, naturally. Someone asked why the company chose to expand into Bakersfield as opposed to some other "underdog" city.
"The answer is, we were terrified of what you'd do if we didn't" come to Bakersfield, quipped Jake Soberal, Bitwise's CEO and co-founder.
There's truth in his jest: The company has talked for about two years with local leaders anxious to bring Bitwise's brand of tech culture to downtown Bakersfield. By now, anything less would have been a big disappointment. Instead, people in attendance saw the news as cause for celebration.
"My initial feeling is this is literally game-changing for the community," said Kern County's administrative officer over workforce development, Teresa Hitchcock.
She linked workforce development, a key focus for Bitwise, with local economic development. Her prediction was that local companies will quickly recognize the value of having a training entity come to Kern, and that other individuals will see the value later as they begin to benefit from expanded opportunities.
Bakersfield businessman Morgan Clayton saw substantial promise in Wednesday's announcement.
"Bitwise has validated we have a starting point," he said. "We are now connecting to the millennials," he added, referring to 20- and 30-something-year-olds who have largely embraced digital innovation and its associated business opportunities.
Local economic development chief Richard Chapman, president and CEO of Kern Economic Development Corp., traced the news to a tour he and others involved with KEDC took to Fresno in 2017. That's when Bakersfield leaders learned how tech hubs can spark new businesses and good-paying careers.
He expressed hope Bitwise will attract other tech companies, which will, in turn, offer internships for local youth with computer programming talent.
David Anderson was optimistic for different | 506 |
Musicians & Social Media: Who Makes the Grade?
But, I digress, which is easy to do in this weather. Our topic was advanced social media strategies as they pertain to musicians and music businesses, and several interesting points came up during our discussion, which you'll see in a couple posts from me and TV.
While we agreed that Lady Gaga owned YouTube (you can't swing a cat without hitting one of her videos), we also agreed that she wasn't very engaged with her audience. OK Go! are successful because of their incredibly creative and original viral-on-steroids videos that have led to a big community of fans and followers who are championing the band just waiting to see what they'll come up with next.
Tony mentioned Run DMC's Rev Run who has an honest extension of his reality show brand in his @RevRunWisdom Twitter feed<|fim_middle|> is that other celebs learn, improve and stay engaged with fans.
Last, but not least, Ben Folds brings home the recent honors of ballsiest user of SM by engaging his live concert fans with the ever-growing in popularity of Chatroulette. His piano improvisations of the people he "nexted" on the site take the trophy for risk vs. risque experiment.
Which musicians, artists, bands, etc. do you think are using social media well? Who is missing the point in your opinion?
This entry was posted on Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 2:22 pm and is filed under MEIEA, music and social media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | . He broadcasts rather than converses, but his use of the platform is original and certainly makes my day a lot.
Disappointments by celebs who were at the forefront of social media, but who have disengaged (Miley Cyrus) or have not used SM to its best potential to help in crisis management (John Mayer) were mentioned, as well. Our hope | 76 |
Hundreds of people a day reaching out to JCCEO for help paying rent and utilities
JCCEO working overtime to help those in need
By Joshua Gauntt | December 5, 2020 at 9:36 AM CST - Updated December 5 at 9:58 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Many people are struggling right now to make ends meet.<|fim_middle|> a glitch with the phone lines this week, but Johnson says everything is working now.
Earlier this week, a gentleman reached out to us for help after not hearing from the JCCEO.
Johnson says hundreds of people were in front of him, but luckily his situation with his utility bill has been taken care of.
If you need help, you can call JCCEO at 205-327-7500 or you can visit jcceo.org/coronavirus
For utility assistance, email your information to liheap@jcceo.org
For rent assistance, send an email to csbg@jcceo.org
Joshua Gauntt
Birmingham, Ala.
Josh joined the WBRC FOX6 News team in July 2013 as a reporter covering Tuscaloosa and other parts of West Alabama. Now, Josh serves the community as an On Your Side Investigator. He hopes to be able to continue telling stories that make a difference.
Deputy state health officer, Dr. Karen Landers with The Alabama Department of Public Health said the plan was to have a vaccine sign-up online portal in use by the end of January.
One man we spoke to this afternoon said he felt a personal responsibility to get the vaccine.
Young victim has life-threatening injures after shooting in Birmingham
ADPH responds after 4 Alabama senators release letter on COVID-19 vaccine distribution issues | We saw that Friday in applications for help to pay rent and utilities.
Hundreds of people a day are reaching out to the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity. Using CARES Act money, the JCCEO says it's doing the best it can with a staff of about five people to help as many people as possible.
"We're probably getting three times the amount of requests that we have in the past," Hollis Johnson, the JCCEO Director of Community Support said.
Johnson tells us many people are being evicted from their homes. Their power bills are past due.
The agency works closely with utility companies and landlords to try and help, but with so many reaching out for help right now, Johnson says it's putting them behind.
"Someone has to sit and sort those. We have to make sure we have the right documents because the grant requires that we have certain documents," Johnson said.
Johnson wants to assure the community, JCCEO will help you. It's just taking time.
"If you'll be patient with us, we will get to you. Let us know if we need to contact a landlord to let them know where they are in the process. We'll be happy to do that. Give us a little time to call you back because we have a lot of phone calls coming in," Johnson said.
The agency did have | 267 |
It certainly wasn't perfect softball, but Batavia will take it.
The Bulldogs made 5 errors Tuesday at Geneva, yet overcame them for a 7-3 Upstate Eight Conference River Division win.
Jaelen Lisberg pitched around those mistakes, stranding 11 runners -- 8 in scoring position. Geneva (13-5, 6-3) left at least 1 runner on base in every inning.
"My changeup was working great," Lisberg said. "My plan was to mess with their heads, throw a lot of change-ups, mess with their<|fim_middle|>estrand's double to the left-center gap.
The Bulldogs broke the game open with a 4-run fourth, chasing starter Rachel Fanella. Ashley McNamara, Breiann Cruz and Jessica Kleist all singled. Galas drew a bases-loaded walk, courtesy runner Lauren Wencewicz scored on an illegal pitch, Lisberg delivered a sacrifice fly, and Lovestrand made it 7-2 with a run-scoring single.
"It was huge we got those two runs right off the bat," Batavia coach Lupe Castellanos said. "We kept positive and we continued to hit the ball hard. We didn't get down on ourselves. Yes there was some plays we could have made there but we didn't allow that to affect us."
After Fanella's web gem at third base ended the seventh, Geneva finally got on the board again in its last at-bats on Annika Radabaugh's third hit of the day, a double, and Molly Wrenn's single.
It was too little, too late, as Lisberg again stranded 2 more runners to end the game.
"Just about every inning they had runners on base and our defense did a nice job making plays," Castellanos said.
The Vikings will try to rebound Wednesday against St. Charles East.
"We've got a tough week here," said Dierks, whose team is missing Kaitlyn Plocinski (knee). "If we come out and win tomorrow it will go a long ways to forgetting today. Too many at-bats we gave away." | timing."
Like Batavia (10-6, 7-2), Geneva's defense was shaky, especially early. The Bulldogs capitalized with 2 unearned runs in the first, a rally started by a Toni Galas single and Lisberg drawing a walk.
"We didn't get a good start defensively," Geneva coach Greg Dierks said. "We got what we deserved today. They outplayed us. Jaelen pitched well. She made pitches to strand runners. She earned the win for sure."
After Geneva tied the game 2-2 after one, Batavia took the lead for good in the third 3-2 on Lisberg's single and Rachael Lov | 139 |
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