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StL--B.Cunningham 1 run (G.Zuerlein kick), 7:05.
StL--L.Kendricks 22 pass from A.Davis (G.Zuerlein kick), 14:07.
SF--B.Lloyd 80 pass from C.Kaepernick (P.Dawson kick), 14:46.
SF--A.Boldin 11 pass from C.Kaepernick (P.Dawson kick), 5:02.
SF--M.Crabtree 32 pass from C.Kaepernick (P.Dawson kick), 14:47.
SF--D.Johnson 20 interception return (P.Dawson kick), 14:07.
SF: F.Gore 16-38, C.Kaepernick 3-37, C.Hyde 11-14.
STL: T.Mason 5-40, B.Cunningham 7-21, Z.Stacy 8-17, T.Austin 3-16, A.Davis 1-(-1).
SF: A.Boldin 7-94, S.Johnson 5-53, M.Crabtree 3-49, V.Davis 3-30, B.Lloyd 1-80, V.McDonald 1-21, B.Miller 1-15, C.Hyde 1-1.
STL: J.Cook 4-74, T.Austin 4-35, K.Britt 3-39, A.Pettis 3-15, Z.Stacy 2-17, B.Cunningham 2-12, L.Kendricks 1-22, T.Mason 1-12, B.Quick 1-10.
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2019-04-20T22:29:19Z
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http://www.jt-sw.com/football/boxes/index.nsf/f6ee048790aaf7ac85256a9900018ca9/eb90140f1dd0e0a485257d7100094a7a?OpenDocument
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Jacques Duyver and Charlie Hollings have been confirmed as United Autosports third driver pairing in the inaugural Prototype Cup round at Snetterton in October.
Duyver has raced GT machinery in the Gulf 12 Hours, British GT, GT Cup and the Dubai 24 Hours. He has also raced in the Ferrari Challenge Europe and Ferrari Challenge World Final but has never raced a prototype.
Hollings is no stranger to prototype racing as he has raced LMP1, LMP2 and LMP3 sports prototypes as well as notching up numerous races in GT3 cars in the UK, Europe and overseas. In 2015, Charlie was crowned GT Cup champion in a 458 Ferrari.
Both will attend United Autosports’ exclusive test day at Snetterton on 3-4 October in the lead up to the race weekend.
The Prototype Cup race weekend at Snetterton will feature a 20-minute practice session and 20-minute qualifying on Saturday, followed by a 10-minute warm up and 60-minute pit stop race on Sunday. There will also be a full calendar of British Prototype Cup races for 2017, with the dates to be confirmed soon. The British Prototype Cup has adopted the rules and regulations from the Automobile Club De l’Ouest, who organise the European Le Mans Series.
“It’s great to be joining United Autosports for the first British Prototype Cup race. I have know Richard [Dean] and many of the team since I started racing but never had the opportunity to drive with them, so now it’s nice to finally be part of the team,” said Hollings. “United Autosport have been the stand out team this year in LMP3 in ELMS and have already clinched the LMP3 title with a race to spare, so this is without doubt the best place for Jacques and I to be.
“Having won the overall GT Cup Championship last year and also leading the first ever LMP3 race in ELMS, it’s nice to team up with Jacques, who I know very well from racing and coaching together, and join the new Prototype Cup event. I’m sure the Prototype Cup will continue to grow and be a big part in British Motorsport.
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2019-04-26T10:08:38Z
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http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/09/29/duyver-and-hollings-signed-for-uniteds-prototype-cup-lineup.html
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"Thermal Behavior and Geometry Model of Melt Pool in Laser Material Pro" by Lijun Han, Frank W. Liou et al.
Melt pool geometry and thermal behavior control are essential in obtaining consistent building performances, such as geometrical accuracy, microstructure, and residual stress. In this paper, a three dimensional model is developed to predict the thermal behavior and geometry of the melt pool in the laser material interaction process. The evolution of the melt pool and effects of the process parameters are investigated through the simulations with stationary and moving laser beam cases. The roles of the convection and surface deformation on the heat dissipation and melt pool geometry are revealed by dimensionless analysis. The melt pool shape and fluid flow are considerably affected by interfacial forces such as thermocapillary force, surface tension, and recoil vapor pressure. Quantitative comparison of interfacial forces indicates that recoil vapor pressure is dominant under the melt pool center while thermocapillary force and surface tension are more important at the periphery of the melt pool. For verification purposes, the complementary metal oxide semiconductor camera has been utilized to acquire the melt pool image online and the melt pool geometries are measured by cross sectioning the samples obtained at various process conditions. Comparison of the experimental data and model prediction shows a good agreement.
L. Han et al., "Thermal Behavior and Geometry Model of Melt Pool in Laser Material Process," Journal of Heat Transfer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jan 2005.
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2019-04-20T18:42:43Z
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http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/mec_aereng_facwork/1882/
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The week (26 - 30 November) is part of a unique pairing scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s national academy of science, with support from the Government Science & Engineering (GSE) profession.
During his visit, Luke will shadow local MP for Oxford East, Anneliese Dodds, whilst Deborah will shadow Tony Whitney, senior policy advisor for Public Engagement with Science for the Department of Business, Innovation and Strategy.
As well as attending seminars and panel discussions about how evidence is used in policy making, the two researchers will also attend a mock Select Committee.
The visit will provide the Oxford academics with a behind the scenes insight into how policy is formed and how their research can be used to make evidence-based decisions. It will also give the politicians the opportunity to investigate the science behind their decisions and improve their access to scientific evidence.
"I'm very grateful to the Royal Society for pairing me with a scientist, for a second year. It has been really interesting to spend time with Dr Jostins-Dean, in order both for him to find out more about how parliament works but also for me to find out more about his life as a scientist! It is very important that we build more links between science and politics, and I think the Royal Society scheme is an excellent way of doing that. I am looking forward to getting some hands-on experience of Dr Jostins-Dean's work when I do the reciprocal visit with him back in Oxford.", added Anneliese Dodds.
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2019-04-24T20:08:36Z
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https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/luke-jostins
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Ken - here in Schenectady, NY I had a newly fledged, wing-fluttering, juvenile with a still completely black bill being fed by daddy on 9/26 which is the latest I've seen here. Cardinals can be double- even triple-brooded. Perhaps something this year prompted early breeding that led to another try (or two), or conditions during the summer prompted further breeding. Hard to tell.
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2019-04-21T16:25:07Z
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https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1510&L=VTBIRD&P=2483
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Hank opens 1 Diamond, which is usually unbalanced (with diamonds) or 6+ Diamonds. I bid 1 Spade, and Hank rebids 2 Diamonds. I fudge a force with 2 Hearts and after Hank’s preference to 2 Spades I see no reason not to just check on key cards with 4 No Trump. Hank admits to 2 Aces, so I bid 5 No Trump, confirming all the important cards (the Aces and K/Q of trump). Hank bids 6 Hearts, which shows the heart king and denies the minor kings.
I think that’s likely good enough for a grand. If Hank has 3 spades and six diamonds, no matter how his hearts and clubs divide it’s cold. If Hank had 5-4 in the minors (either way, I suspect I’d have heard two clubs. And with 3=4=5=1, he’d have raised spades.
My LHO leads the queen of clubs and dummy is not a delight.
I have to win the club ace. With any other lead I could try to ruff out the diamonds, but now I only have one entry. The only two times ruffing out works is if RHO has a stiff or doubleton King. (Finessing works anytime LHO has the diamond king. I guess I’m 50-50. I play the spade to my ace, RHO playing the jack. I run all the spades and then the hearts and take the finesse, but it losses and I’m off.
It’s only after the game that I notice that because RHO played the spade jack on the first round, I could have ruffed out the diamond king! I play diamond Ace, ruff a diamond high, my small spade to the seven, ruff a diamond high, and the heart king is an entry. This works anytime diamonds are 3-3 (as was the case) or if the diamond king is in the short hand.
Overall there’s a lot not to like on this hand.
Bidding seven was greedy, but it’s a tune up game.
I had a better bid than 1 spade. We play that a jump shift of 2 Spades (after 1 diamond) is a strong bid. It comes up so rarely I forgot. This would have been perfect.
I missed the fall of the jack meant I had another entry.
LHO opens 1 Diamond, Hank passes and RHO bids 3 NT. I pass and contemplate my lead, but LHO isn’t done. He bids 4 Clubs (Gerber), RHO bids 4 Spades. I could double this in case they get to six diamonds, but I wouldn’t hate a heart lead, and I think I’d just be telling the opponents how to play the hand. LHO bids 6 No Trump and that gets passed around.
3N was showing 13-15, so opener has 18 or 19. That leaves Hank with … bupkis. Maybe a queen. If he could have 3+ points an attacking heart lead would be tempting. But on this auction I should find the safest lead. That gets rid of a major. A diamond could pickle Hank’s Jxxx. A club could also do that. Hank could have doubled four clubs, but if he’s broke (maybe with Qxxx of clubs) would he?
In the end I settle on a diamond, and dummy is not what I expected.
Good news. I haven’t given up a trick. Bad news. LHO shot out a slam on a running suit. If I had known that ….
LHO wins the diamond on the board and after a bit of fussing runs the spade ten. Gross. I win but the hand is over. I flash my heart queen with a raised eyebrow. Partner flashes the heart king in response and shrugs.
Neither Hank nor I correct him. Sometimes bad bidding is it’s own reward, but I guess the lesson (as always) is don’t trust opponents at the club.
Roxie is second to act and opens 1 Diamond. I have an easy 1 Heart response and when Roxie bids 1 Spade I invite 2 NoTrump. (2 Clubs by me would be an artificial game force, but even if it wasn’t I think there’s no point). That buys the contract and LHO leads the 6 of clubs.
I win the ace and think. (RHO follows with the 5). I could play for 3-3 diamonds, and unblock AK and get back with a heart and lead a diamond out. But if they are 4-2 I’ll lose 2 diamonds, two aces and two clubs (at least). I think I am going to attack hearts first. I could cross to my hand in diamonds to lead low towards the QJ. This will gain if LHO has a stiff ace or Ax. But with Axx or Axxx it won’t matter, and if RHO has the ace it doesn’t, either. And I don’t want to give up my diamond entries. I will want to lead spades towards dummy. So, I play the queen of hearts and it wins.
I play the jack of hearts and it wins. OK, that’s odd. If LHO has ducked twice from Axxx, I’ll pay off. I lead a third heart and RHO wins, LHO following.
RHO leads the ten of clubs, I cover with the jack and LHO wins the queen and then … cashes the king, RHO following with the 8. I pitch two diamonds from dummy.
LHO leads the club 7. I pitch a spade from dummy as does RHO (the 8).
I lead the heart king and pitch the spade. LHO pitches a club and RHO pitches a spade. I lead a spade to the queen and both follow (RHO with the jack), so its worked. Back to the diamond king and lead my spade five which is good.
I’ve no idea why RHO throw the spade stopper instead of a worthless diamond, but 2N+1 is a cold top, and after the last hand I’ll take it. And even thought it wasn’t on, at least I saw the possibility.
Playing the two-session qualifier for the North American Open Pairs, and it’s been rough. I joke that the NAP state finals are the toughest game I play but the city finals is usually easy. But today, we’re in danger of missing the cut.
I’m not playing particularly well, but also the hands are breaking against our system. Partner opens 1C with a 20 point hand that will normally open 2N and shut the opponents up. As I have nothing, he’ll go down. But by the time the auction gets back to him at four hearts, so he doubles, and it’s making with an overtrick. We have multiple times where our opponents have a serious disagreement as to the meaning of a bid, one side thinking its forcing and slammish, and the other invitational … and the opponents always land on their feet. (Our qualifier is small enough so that its a mixed field, not strictly flight As. And as you only need to be in the top half … like I said, it’s easy).
It’s that kind of day when I pick up.
(K&R lists it as 21.5 HCP). But … I’m going to open 1 Club. Part of the reason to play the system is to handle hands like this. If I catch partner with 7 points we’ll have a much smoother auction. In particular we’ll might be able to agree diamonds much easier. If he’s broke, I can end in 1NT. If he has a hand that would go to game opposite 21, well, its matchpoints. Also, a minor consideration is that the field may open 1 Diamond and if I miss a game they will certainly miss it, and I’ll play in 1N instead of 1 Diamond for a better score.
I get the seven of hearts lead and partner puts down an interesting dummy.
Fascinating. If I had opened 2N we’d play it either in 2N or 4H. But that’s an “after the hand” thought. I have an easy play of covering the seven and it goes ten – king – ace.
Entries to dummy are scarce. I could try a swindle if my LHO has the king of clubs by leading low the queen. Even if the queen lost to the king the opponents may decide I have long clubs and break another suit. It could work out well. But I decide to just cash my heart ace, and lead another heart, losing to the jack but setting up a heart winner (and entry) in dummy.
When I cash the heart ace RHO follows with the jack. This is good news. I now have two heart entries. Which means that I can take the double finesse in diamonds twice. I cross to dummy in hearts and RHO discards a (presumably discouraging) club four. When I lead the diamond it goes 9-ten and LHO wins the diamond queen.
I have a ridiculously good score already, but may as well try for a final swindle, even though I don’t imagine it will work. But as I’ve shown, these opponents are not flight As.
I play my diamond, pitching the spade eight, and then lead a heart, crossing to dummy. When I play the heart LHO appears to be in some distress and decides to pitch the spade queen, keeping her club King and small. If I had AJ of clubs left she was legitimately squeezed, but then the only hope is to bear the club king and hope I get it wrong instead of pitching the spade queen and hoping I don’t notice.
This feels like a gift-wrapped top but as I’m walking away I reconstruct LHO’s Hand.
If the auction goes 2N-(stayman sequence)-4H …. woof. What do you lead? LHO is practically endplayed at trick one. Either lead a trump and solve that for me, or lead an honor or away from an honor with a likely broke partner. The more I think about it, the less sure I become. On a spade lead declarer can win and shoot back a spade and now she’s endplayed again. A spade gives me access to hook the hearts (for no losers!) and a club pitch. A club switch is death and a diamond switch leads to ace of hearts, heart, win the club switch pitch my losing club on dummies spade jack. Now I lose a spade, a heart, and a diamond + 420. An initial diamond lead is more complex, and I think I’m down, but its easy for it to make. (Of course four hearts played by my partner should go down easily, but most of the field will right side it, if they open 2N).
Maybe its not a top. Hard to gauge. We have a few minute before the next round but I’m not at all sure. Eventually, the round is called.
At the end of they day, we barely qualify. I come back to this board and look at it. One pair was in 4 hearts (making five!) and one pair went down in four hearts, but the field is mostly split between playing in one diamond and 2 NT (with one confusing pair playing in … one heart. How did that happen?) so I picked up 16/17 on this one.
I have another weekday off (for much the same reason) so I arrange another game with Roxie. This is a full 16 table game with a few strong pairs, but as in any matchpoint game, a lot of winning is simply getting the right hands against the right people and avoid mistakes. It helps that we both usually on the same wavelength as signalling.
With declarer holding the queen of spades (unless Roxie has led from QJ tight) I think my signal is suit preference. I don’t really love a heart, but I can stand it and I would hate for Roxie to lead a diamond away from anything. But Roxie may also take my spades as “Eh, just continue spades.” I’m hoping not. I play the 9 of spades (the highest card I can afford, since I’ll still have the 8). Declarer misplays the hand. He wins the spade queen, leads a diamond to the king, then the jack of hearts, queen, king ace. At which point Roxie thinks for bit, cashes the AQ of spades and leads a heart to my ten. Down one.
Later I confirm that Roxie does play suit preference in those “this suit is hopeless” situations (with a middle card indicating no preference, or suggesting a passive defense). Perhaps I should have played the spade 8, to show that hearts weren’t great, but that’s too subtle for us.
Later I pick up an unremarkable opening balanced twelve count and open. Roxie drives to 6NT, and was clearly thinking about a grand. After the opening lead I table my hand and claim all 13 tricks. (We were missing a king, and lacked the tools to figure out which king because we play number of kings). I figure this is an average … a few pairs will miss the slam, a few will have the tools to find the grand slam. (In fact, it’s a touch above average, the exact same number missed the slam as found the grand, but a few pairs played in 6 Clubs, which scores less).
I open 1 Spade, and my LHO bids 2 Clubs. Roxie makes a negative double (showing 4 hearts and some values). RHO bids 3 Clubs and I decide to bid 3 Hearts only. Roxie may have wasted points in clubs, and I’d make a negative double with some 8 counts. At IMPs I’d bid game, but at matchpoints there’s a lot to be said for going positive. But if LHO bids four and Roxie passes, I’ll probably take the push. (Hank calls this the “San Antonio Gambit.” Don’t bid game, get pushed into it, and then make it. That’ll learn ’em).
LHO passes, but Roxie bids 4 Clubs.
RHO passes. Well, having already denied being able to bid game, I have a pretty good hand. Sure, I wish I had a control in … well, either diamonds or spades, but I have the AK of trump and a club void. Roxie may be looking at Kxxx of clubs and hoping it’s a control.
I bid 6 Hearts on the theory that my hand is pretty amazing for a hand that bid 3 only hearts. In any case I can’t really ask about aces with a void, and even if I’m off two fast tricks they have to cash them first. I’d probably love the ace of clubs lead.
Full marks for aggression. Roxie can place the club shortness in my hand, she has diamond shortness. The extra trumps are tricks. If I had the spade king instead of the diamond QJ, this would be a fantastic 22 HCP slam, needing only a nice trump break.
And, I note that on a spade lead I would indeed be down. As it is, I still look like I’m going down. I play a diamond from dummy and RHO plays the diamond Ten. LHO switches to the club king. I win the ace (pitching a spade from hand), cash two rounds of trump (breaking) and play the queen of diamonds. LHO covers and I ruff and claim. I can pitch my spade loser on the jack and the one club I can’t ruff on the 9 of diamonds, so dummy has no more unaccounted losers.
RHO is saying that the diamond ten asked for a spade switch (just like Roxie and I agreed on the prior hand) and LHO counters that it wouldn’t matter, since I could fly with the ace and get the same result. But she states that she understood that the signal showed spades.
My opponents were good enough to be on the same wavelength. But that’s the second rule of signalling.
The first is to never give away a trick. If LHO had played the eight from her T8764, I would have ended up with a slow club loser (as long as she tenaciously kept her diamond Ten guarded). Making an impossible slam is a near top which, along with a few other gifts and no gross errors on my part — (A few “pushy bids” don’t count) give us a nearly 70% game and first overall.
Towards the end of a practice game with Hank, I pick up S:Jxx H:AQ D:KJ9xxx C:QJ in fourth seat.
Both Vul, my LHO opens 3 Clubs. It is passed to me. Despite my 14 HCP and long suit my hand has a number of negatives.
Lack of diamond intermediates, and in general most of my points are speculative.
But I’m in balancing seat, and it’s matchpoints. It may be wrong, but I’ve bid with worse. I bid 3 Diamonds and buy the contract.
LHO leads the 9 of spades without much thought and I buy a mixed dummy.
I really wish that spade queen were the diamond queen, because its looking worthless. The opening goes to RHOs Ace, and he snaps down the king and a small one, which LHO ruffs. She switches to a medium club.
If RHO has the stiff king, there’s nothing I can do. I mean, I’d rise with the ace if he showed it to me, but a ruff is more likely than a stiff king, and if my ace gets ruffed out its a disaster. I play small and win RHO’s 9 with my jack.
I now wake up from my imperfect thinking, and realize a few things.
I should have played the Jack of spades at trick one. RHO shouldn’t have gotten it wrong, but its a weak club game. I’ve seen much worse already.
I didn’t notice the spot RHO led to ruff. I assume it was low, since LHO led a club, but maybe not.
All of that is in the past ….
So, let’s think about the future. There are three trump left, the Ace, the Queen and a low spot. Can I do anything if all three are in one hand? Nope. If LHO has them, I’m boned. If RHO has them, I can’t get to dummy to finesse, since LHO certainly has six clubs for her bid. (In fact, she’s got exactly six clubs, exactly two spades, and at least one diamond).
Can I do anything if they are 2-1 with both honors in the same hand? Nope, same reasons.
OK, so assume one person has a stiff honor. That’s likely LHO, but let’s not worry. Can I do anything about it?
If it’s a stiff queen I obviously want to play the king. Whoever wins the ace will win, but can’t give their partner a ruff.
If it’s a stiff ace then I play low and knock it out and can eventually play the king and drop the queen. But I realize that’s an illusion. If I play low, then whoever wins can give partner a ruff and knows it. If LHO wins the stiff ace, the club king will smother my queen (she knows RHO doesn’t have it), I play the ace, and RHO gets his queen. I’m down one and have to take the heart hook to avoid down two. If RHO has the stiff ace, he can lead a spade. If I ruff low LHO overruffs with her now stiff queen, and if I ruff high the queen is set up. And I’m again taking the finesse for down two.
Down one will likely be below average, but should salvage some matchpoints. I double check my thinking (I’ve probably spent at least a minute considering it) and I think I’ve got it right. One quick consideration — if a player has a stiff ace, will they maybe not give partner a ruff by mistake? I think LHO will always try the club ruff. RHO may be worried about giving up a ruff and sluff. I can’t really gauge this, so after some consideration I decide to not count on it.
I play the diamond king and it goes ace-small-small.
LHO plays a small club and I play small and RHO ruffs with his queen, and when a heart comes back I am reduced to the heart finesse. It fails.
-200, the matchpoint kiss of death.
It’s only later on that I realize that I’d fallen asleep again. LHO didn’t exit with the club king, she played small. That mistake means that I took a practice finesse.
I could have played my heart ace, a small diamond to the ten, then pitched the queen of hearts on the club ace.
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2019-04-20T16:22:31Z
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I haven’t written much lately. There are lots of behind-the-scenes things going on, including the start of the disability-filing process. It has been extremely depressing filling out the papers and answering questions about my health and worth—like I don’t battle with these questions everyday all by myself. Writing out the details on an official document is a painful smack in the face. It’s a reminder of all the chaos I’ve gone through since being diagnosed with myasthenia gravis (MG) three years ago.
Today has been a battle against a nasty MG flare. The day started out okay. The weather isn’t even too bad (humidity ~47%, temperature in the 80s). I had to go to the grocery store for a couple of items earlier today. As I walked through the store for the second item, the dreaded heavy, lead-filled legs took over. I was struck with fear that I was going to end up falling. I had an immediate flashback to May 2013 when I fell and ended up breaking two toes! I had no choice but to walk slowly like I was trying to sneak up on someone. I made it to the checkout lane and leaned on the counter. I was grateful, for once, that the person in front of me was taking forever with checking out. It gave me time to rest before attempting to walk to my car, which seemed to be five miles away.
I made it to my car and sat for quite a while to catch my breath and collect myself for the drive home. I made it home and immediately crawled into bed. I slept for three hours! I felt better when I woke up until I started moving around and then I started going downhill again. Many myasthenics in this situation would check in with their neurologist to share their flares or see if there’s anything more that can be done to help minimize the number of episodes—I’ve been having more than my fair share of flares for several weeks now. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to see my neurologist since October/November last year. I was scheduled for a six-month followup in April but I’ve had to keep postponing my appointment due to lack of funds to pay for a doctor visit. I’m supposed to have labs done every four to six weeks since I’m on Imuran (azathioprine) and I have one of the world’s most sensitive systems. I’ve not been able to have any labs done since January of this year due to lack of funds. I had to drop my so-called “affordable insurance” because I can’t pay for it. I don’t have 10 kids from as many different men and I’m a legal citizen so I have to pay more for my insurance and receive zero help from The System. Oh, and let’s not forget that I’ll be punished by said System for not being covered.
I’m still trying to make a go at building a business that would allow me to control my hours, allowing me the flexibility to stop and rest when I need to. It’s taking way longer than I hoped it would take thanks to unpredictable flares and not having the help I need when I need it. I’m trying my best to not let it all get to me, but I have to admit I’ve had some mighty meltdowns over the last few months—the latest one yesterday morning.
I’ve been doing some small contract work in my career field. I enjoy it but it isn’t paying nearly enough to help me pay all the bills. Yes, I’ve cut out all miscellaneous expenses. I don’t have cable. I don’t have a subscription to Netflix or any other such services. I have the cheapest Internet plan. I don’t go out. I buy only what is actually needed in groceries. I took myself off of my anti-arrhythmia meds since they were too expensive even on insurance to maintain (no, my heart doctor doesn’t know this). I have a prescription discount card, which cut the price of my Imuran in ~ half, but it doesn’t cut the other medicine enough for me to be able to pay for it at this time.
I must keep some sort of roof over my head. I’m in a “cheap” apartment—well, cheap for my city. I’m still paying on my car. I’ve fallen way behind on several bills and I have zero ability to negotiate with the collectors since I’m not bringing in enough to pay them and maintain the absolute necessities.
With all of that said, I’m mentally gearing up for being denied disability since it seems to be the norm that people are turned down the first time. Also, since I’m still doing some work, they will not see me as disabled. It’s quite the challenge having a disability that, if you work, requires an extremely flexible schedule and limited tasks that aggravate my muscles. That type of job, as far as I know, doesn’t exist under any known employers, which is why I’m trying to create the setting for myself. My mind is too active to allow me to curl up in a ball and live in someone’s spare bedroom until I die. I have to make this work one way or another. I’m willing to die trying to set up the most ideal conditions for myself. What can I say? I’m stubborn.
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2019-04-23T22:43:11Z
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Provides links to the various RSS/Atom feeds of a website.
Indeed, websites do not always provide a direct link to the RSS feed. It is then necessary to look in the source code of the website and find the URL of the feed.
This extension makes it possible to avoid this manipulation because the URLs of the RSS feeds of the website are displayed directly!
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2019-04-20T14:32:53Z
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-rss-feed-url/kfghpdldaipanmkhfpdcjglncmilendn
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Level in front then steep slope down to the river. House should be situated toward the top of the slope. Wooden steps may be constructed down the center of this lot to reach the boat dock. * see wooden steps next door * Boat dock is sound but needs wood stain and two pieces of 1x6x10 for storm damage. Very nice neighborhood.Site Preparation: Pile trees at top of slope and burn. Haul away stumps. Grade out top of slope for basement. Drain field and backup area for drain field will go below basement. Boat dock area can be leveled off with a backhoe. John Ed - heavy equipment operator.
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2019-04-24T14:40:47Z
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https://realestate.tennessean.com/property/tn/friendsville/37737/-/1056-chula-vista-drive/5c0849e0a78e925386000045/
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Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic is an international hub, engaging more than 150 people annually in research and training programs including: visiting scientists, postdoctoral students and medical fellows, graduate and medical students, undergraduate students and high school students. The Institute hosts visitors for educational courses and workshops; collaborative studies and meetings; informative clinic and laboratory tours and special lectures, events and demonstrations.
Register here to learn more about the latest news and events at Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic.
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2019-04-23T02:04:09Z
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http://www.bli.uci.edu/education-outreach/
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1:22 Shot by Castleton Gabriella Hunt, Hit Post.
4:12 Penalty corner by Castleton Cydney Jeffrey [4:12].
4:31 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
5:45 Shot by Castleton Sarah Wells, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
9:14 Substitution!Western Conn. St. substitution: MiaShea Schumey for Jordan Campbell.
11:13 Shot by Castleton Gabriella Hunt, Hit Post.
11:21 Substitution!Western Conn. St. substitution: Jacalyn Doerwald for Sara Reseska.
11:53 Shot by Western Conn. St. Kimberly Brower, Save (by goalie) Tashia Pashby-Rockwood.
12:43 Shot by Castleton Gabriella Hunt, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
12:48 Shot by Castleton Loretta Blakeney, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
12:54 Shot by Castleton Loretta Blakeney, Defensive Save by Lili Dickey.
13:13 Penalty corner by Castleton Cydney Jeffrey [13:13].
13:42 Penalty corner by Castleton Megan Ryan [13:42].
14:09 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
14:15 Substitution!Castleton substitution: Raven Payne for Allison Lowell.
17:00 Substitution!Western Conn. St. substitution: Stephanie Clapp for Melissa Krim.
17:26 Substitution!Castleton substitution: Olivia Trevisani for Loretta Blakeney.
18:20 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Kimberly Brower [18:20].
19:05 Shot by Western Conn. St. Carly Matasavage, Blocked.
23:40 Substitution!Western Conn. St. substitution: Amanda Spano for Jacalyn Doerwald.
24:44 Shot by Castleton Olivia Trevisani, Wide.
25:35 Shot by Castleton Megan Ryan, Blocked.
27:04 Penalty corner by Castleton Gabrielle Ryan [27:04].
27:18 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Blocked.
27:32 Penalty corner by Castleton Megan Ryan [27:32].
27:53 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
31:30 Shot by Castleton Sarah Wells, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
36:28 Penalty corner by Castleton Allison Lowell [36:28].
37:03 Penalty corner by Castleton Cydney Jeffrey [37:03].
37:31 Penalty corner by Castleton Megan Ryan [37:31].
37:48 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
38:30 Shot by Castleton Sarah Wells, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
39:59 Shot by Western Conn. St. Morgan Matthews, Save (by goalie) Tashia Pashby-Rockwood.
40:04 Shot by Western Conn. St. Melissa Krim, Save (by goalie) Tashia Pashby-Rockwood.
44:12 Shot by Western Conn. St. Morgan Matthews, Wide.
45:33 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Lili Dickey [45:33].
46:01 Shot by Western Conn. St. Carly Matasavage, Blocked.
46:13 Shot by Western Conn. St. Carly Matasavage, Blocked.
46:54 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Kimberly Brower [46:54].
47:25 Shot by Western Conn. St. Lili Dickey, Blocked.
53:45 Penalty corner by Castleton Allison Lowell [53:45].
54:04 Shot by Castleton Loretta Blakeney, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
55:52 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Jacalyn Doerwald [55:52].
56:25 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Jacalyn Doerwald [56:25].
56:44 Shot by Western Conn. St. Allie Noteware, Blocked.
56:54 Shot by Western Conn. St. Jacalyn Doerwald, Wide.
58:46 Shot by Castleton Megan Ryan, Blocked.
59:47 Penalty corner by Castleton Cydney Jeffrey [59:47].
60:01 Shot by Castleton Allison Lowell, Save (by goalie) Neve Manion.
60:34 Penalty corner by Castleton Megan Ryan [60:34].
61:55 Penalty corner by Western Conn. St. Jacalyn Doerwald [61:55].
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2019-04-26T12:48:40Z
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Film festival chiefs have announced more talent to their line-up of stars ahead of an opening night gala in Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival event on 20 June will include Trainspotting star Kelly Macdonald, comedian Ben Elton and former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston.
Others include Grey’s Anatomy’s Melissa George and Dracula’s Sadie Frost.
Natalie Dormer of Game Of Thrones and members of Travis will also be there. Read More via BBC.
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2019-04-23T14:09:01Z
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https://anthemculture.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/film-festival-brings-more-talent-to-its-opening-gala-in-edinburgh/
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2019-04-20T04:46:05Z
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Police have arrested 39 suspected Taliban fighters hiding among refugees from a military offensive against militants from Pakistan's Swat Valley region, a senior officer said Friday.
The arrests, made in the past few days, were the first of alleged militants among more than 2 million people who have fled the fighting.
The military says it has killed more than 1,100 militants in a month of heavy clashes and has the Taliban on the run. The offensive is strongly backed by Washington and viewed as a test of the Pakistani government's resolve to quell Islamic extremism.
Officials had previously warned that insurgents may try to flee among civilians.
One dozen of the suspected Taliban were arrested in refugee camps south of the Swat region, while the others were picked up in houses where refugees were staying with relatives or were renting, said Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, the police chief in Mardan, a town that hosts some of the roughly one dozen camps.
"These Taliban have mixed up themselves among the refugees," Shah told The Associated Press by telephone.
They had cut their hair short and shaved their beards in a bid to disguise themselves from authorities and blend in with civilians, he said. Many conservative Muslims believe men should grow their hair and beards long as a sign of piety.
A sea of wailing mourners filled the streets of Seoul for the funeral Friday of former President Roh Moo-hyun, whose suicide six days earlier amid a deepening corruption probe plunged South Korea into grief and anger. Heads bowed, thousands took part in a solemn ceremony in the courtyard of the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace before the hearse carrying Roh's body headed to a grassy plaza outside City Hall for emotional public rites attended by a reported 500,000 people.
Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi urgently needs medical attention in the Myanmar prison where she is being held, her party said Friday, while closing arguments in her trial were delayed until the end of next week.
A party statement said it was "gravely concerned" about the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's health, saying she cannot sleep well because she suffers from leg cramps.
Suu Kyi, 63, was treated for dehydration and low blood pressure in early May, a few days after an American intruder was arrested for sneaking into her home. The military government has accused her of violating the terms of her house arrest for harboring the man, and if found guilty she could spend up to five years in prison.
A plainclothes policeman who drew his gun while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot and killed by a fellow officer who was driving by and saw the pursuit, the police commissioner said.
Commissioner Raymond Kelly said 25-year-old Omar Edwards died after being shot late Thursday within blocks of the Harlem housing police station where he worked. The medical examiner said Friday that the fatal shot entered his back.
The shooter was white and Edwards was black, a fact that could raise questions about police use of deadly force in a minority community. And in recent years there have been several cases of off-duty policemen in the New York City area being shot and killed by other officers.
It was unclear whether the officers identified themselves.
The international space station just had a population boom.
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three new space station residents docked at the orbiting complex Friday. With three astronauts there to greet them, the space station now has a full staff of six for the first time in its 10-year history.
What's more, each of the major space station partners is represented on board for the first time. The combined crew, all men, now includes two Russians and one American, Japanese, Canadian and Belgian.
The Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday and pulled in at the space station as the two vessels soared above the China coast.
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed a Democratic congressman in a corruption probe, an indication that a Justice Department investigation of a top lobbying firm has the potential to end congressional careers.
On Friday, Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., acknowledged the grand jury has demanded documents from his office, some employees and his campaign committees.
The probe focuses on the PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm that specialized in securing federal contracts for defense firms from Visclosky, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and others on the appropriations subcommittee that Murtha chairs.
In his hometown of Johnstown, Pa., Murtha brushed aside questions Friday about one Pennsylvania defense contractor for whom he obtained $14.7 million in the last two years in directed funds called earmarks.
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2019-04-25T13:06:45Z
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2009-05-30-0905290375-story.html
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Draft: 2013, Chicago White Sox, 1st rd.
Married Bria … has one daughter: Peyton ... Twitter: @TimAnderson7 … Instagram: @timanderson7 ... Attended East Central Community College in Decatur, Miss., where he led the nation with a .495 average and ranked second with 41 stolen bases as a sophomore in 2013 ... Signed a letter of intent to play baseball at the University of Alabama-Birmingham prior to being drafted by the White Sox ... Graduated in 2011 from Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala. … did not play baseball until his junior year … led the basketball team to the state title as a senior.
American League Leaders: 7th-SB (26) ... Became the first shortstop in White Sox history to record 20-plus home runs and 20-plus stolen bases in a season ... Joined Boston's Mookie Betts, Cleveland's Francisco Lindor and José Ramírez, Pittsburgh's Starling Marte and Colorado's Trevor Story as the only players in the majors with 20-plus home runs and 25-plus steals ... Fell four steals shy of joining Alex Ríos (2010) and Tommie Agee (1966) as the only Sox with a 20-HR/30-SB season ... Recorded career highs in doubles (28), homers (20), RBI (64), walks (30), runs scored (77) and extra-base hits (51) ... His 20 home runs were the most by a White Sox shortstop since Juan Uribe in 2007 (20) ... Committed 10 errors over his first 52 games, compared to 10 over his final 101 … did not commit an error in 24 consecutive games from 8/11-9/5 … lowered his error total from 2017 (28) ... Offensive Opener: Recorded his first career multi-homer game and matched his career high with three RBI (fifth time) on Opening Day (3/29) at Kansas City … joined teammate Matt Davidson (three; 2018), Alejandro De Aza (2014), Jim Thome (2008), Sammy Sosa (1991) and Minnie Miñoso (1960) as the only Sox players to hit two-plus home runs on Opening Day ... Stole four bases over the club's first six games, the first Sox player to accomplish the feat since Hall-of-Famer Tim Raines in 1992 (also four) … his six stolen bases were the most by a White Sox through the team's first 10 games of a season since John Cangelosi in 1986 (seven steals) ... Hit a game-tying, RBI single in the ninth inning on 4/18 at Oakland … connected on his fifth career leadoff homer on 4/28-2 at Kansas City, tying Pat Kelly for the fifth-most in Sox history ... Andersons Give Back: Along with wife, Bria, and in conjunction with their League of Leaders organization, awarded the first Branden Deon Moss (BDM) scholarships on 5/1 … Reagan Ross and Lorenzo Winston, students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala., were the $500 scholarship recipients after submitting winning essays about their experience with violence and how violence negatively impacts our world … the scholarship is named in honor of Branden Moss, who was killed last year … Anderson and Moss were close friends, and both attended Hillcrest High School ... Recorded his second career multihomer game on 5/5 vs. Minnesota … homered four times in a four-game span from 5/25-28 … registered his third career multihomer game and a career-high four RBI on 5/26 at Detroit … hit a solo homer in the fifth and a three-run shot in the sixth ... Hit a game-winning, two-run triple in the sixth inning on 6/1 vs. Milwaukee and a game-winning, two-run single in the sixth on 6/6 at Minnesota ... Homered in consecutive games from 6/22-23 vs. Oakland, ending a 22-game drought … hit a three-run home run on his 25th birthday (6/23) ... Fell a home run shy of the cycle and stole two bases on 8/17 vs. Kansas City … became just the third player in franchise history to record a double, triple and two steals in a game (last Jim Rivera on 8/11/55 at Kansas City) ... Hit his 17th home run on 8/22 vs. Minnesota, matching his total from the 2017 season ... Hit his 18th home run on 9/2 vs. Boston, establishing a new career high … also recorded three extra-base hits in a game for the second time in his career (also 5/5 vs. Minnesota) … connected on a game-winning, two-run home run in the 12th on 9/12 at Kansas City ... Hit his 20th home run of the season on 9/22 vs. the Cubs, becoming the first shortstop in franchise history to record a 20-HR/20-SB season.
Spent his first full season in the major leagues … his 17 home runs ranked sixth among American League shortstops and are the seventh-highest total in franchise history by a shortstop...Became the youngest shortstop (age 24) in White Sox history to record double digits in home runs...Ranked 12th in the AL with a .321 (51-159) average vs. left-handers … was successful on 93.8 percent (15-16) of his stolen-base attempts...Hit three of the franchise-record eight leadoff home runs, increasing his career total to four...Hit .204 (19-93) in April but rebounded to bat .319 (30-94) in May … combined to hit .206 (36-175) in June/July...Batted .343 (36-105) over his last 25 games and .299 (66-221) with 13 doubles, eight home runs and 27 RBI over his last 53 (8/2-end of season)...Committed a major-league high 28 errors but just six over his final 65 games of the season...Agreed to terms on a six-year, $25-million contract on 3/21 … the deal includes club options for 2023 and 2024, with $1-million buyouts on both option years...Was the White Sox Opening Day shortstop on 4/4 vs. Detroit … connected on his second career leadoff home run on 4/13 at Cleveland (off RHP Josh Tomlin)...Hit safely in nine of 10 games from 4/17-28, going 13-42 (.310) with nine runs scored … matched his career high with three hits and three runs scored on 4/24 vs. Kansas City. Missed the three-game series from 5/12-14 vs. San Diego to return home to Tuscaloosa, Ala. for the funeral of a close friend, Brandon Moss … returned to the lineup on 5/16 at Los Angeles-AL and hit a go-ahead, solo homer in the 11th inning...Hit a game-tying, solo home run in the eighth inning on 5/18 at Seattle as part of back-to-back homers with Todd Frazier … connected on his sixth home run on 5/30 vs. Boston, a solo shot off former teammate Chris Sale...Was ejected by home-plate umpire Jim Wolf (first career)for arguing balls and strikes on 6/23 vs. Minnesota (24th birthday)… snapped a 22-game homerless stretch with a three-run shot in the ninth inning on 6/26 vs. the Yankees... Homered for the second straight game on 7/8 at Colorado, a game-winning, solo shot in the ninth inning off Greg Holland, his first career game-winning homer in the ninth or later...Hit safely in 14 of 15 games from 8/2-18, including two seven-game hitting streaks … batted .328 (21-64) with four doubles, two triples, five home runs, 12 RBI and a 1.036 OPS during the 15-game span, raising his average from .232 to .247...Also hit safely in 24 of 25 road games from 7/21-9/21 (.330, 35-106), bookended by 11- and 13-game streaks...Connected on his third career leadoff homer on 8/5 at Boston and his fourth on 8/15 at the Dodgers … hit four home runs in a six-game span from 8/9-15, including consecutive contests on 8/13 and 8/15...Recorded his first career game-ending hit on 8/23 vs. Minnesota, a ninth-inning single off Trevor Hildenberger...Matched his career high with three RBI on 9/3 vs. Tampa Bay, including a solo home run...Registered a career-high, 15-game hitting streak from 9/9-24 (.410, 25-61)… streak tied for the 10th-longest in the AL during the season...Went 3-5 with a triple and home run on 9/9 vs. San Francisco…fell a double shy of joining José Abreu as the only teammates in major-league history to hit for the cycle in the same game (STATS LLC)... Established a career high with four hits on 9/16 at Detroit … broke up Matthew Boyd's no-hit bid with a two-out double in the ninth inning on 9/17 at Detroit … joined Melky Cabrera as the second Sox player to break up a no-hitter in the ninth this season … the last team to break up two no-hit bids in the ninth was Atlanta in 1997.
American League Rookie Leaders: T1st-3B (6); 2nd-R (57); T2nd-2B (22); T2nd-SB (10); 3rd-H (116); 3rd-TB (177); T3rd-XBH (37); 6th-G (99); 10th-HR (9); 10th-RBI (30). Appeared in 99 games in his rookie season with the White Sox … started 97 games at shortstop. Recorded 33 multihit games, tied with Jose Abreu (2014) for the seventh-most by a White Sox player in his first 99 career games … his six triples tied for fifth in the AL. Batted .326/.340/.457 with two homers and seven RBI vs. left-handers and .315/.333/.486 with five home runs and 20 RBI in 52 games at U.S. Cellular Field. Led off 41 times (.279/.303/.419/4 HR/12 RBI) and hit in the No. 2 spot 48 times (.278/.296/.409/3 HR/14 RBI). Compiled a .965 fielding percentage (14 E/400 TC) … committed one error in the first half (28 games) and 13 after the break (71). His contract was purchased from Class AAA Charlotte on 6/10 … was the starting shortstop that night vs. Detroit and recorded his first major-league hit in his first at-bat, a double to left field in the third inning … also scored his first run. Hit .333 (24-72) with five doubles, three home runs, nine RBI and 12 runs scored over 16 games from 6/23-7/10 after being moved into the No. 1 spot in the lineup on 6/13. Registered his first career multihit game (two doubles) on 6/14 vs. Detroit … recorded his first three-hit game, including his first triple and three runs scored, on 6/15 vs. Detroit. Hit his first career home run on 6/23 at Boston, a leadoff shot off Clay Buchholz that landed in the parking lot behind the Green Monster … became the first White Sox to lead off the first with his first career homer since Thad Bosley on 5/29/78 vs. Oakland (STATS LLC). Hit safely in seven consecutive games from 6/23-30, batting .394 (13-33) with two doubles, two home runs, four RBI, seven runs scored and five multihit efforts. Homered in consecutive games for the first time in his career on 6/25-26 vs. Toronto … recorded his first multiRBI game on 6/29 vs. Minnesota. Recorded his fourth straight multihit effort and matched his season high with three hits on 6/30 vs. Minnesota … connected on a game-tying, two-run homer on 7/4 vs. the Yankees. Hit his fifth home run of the season on 7/18 at Seattle, a solo shot in the first inning … registered his third three-hit game on 7/30 at Minnesota. Hit safely in a season-high 11 straight games from 8/6-18, going 13-41 (.317) with four doubles, two home runs, five RBI, five walks, nine runs scored and a .944 OPS. Connected on a go-ahead, RBI single in the 11th inning on 8/10 at Kansas City … extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a two-run home run in the third inning on 8/17 at Cleveland … matched his season high with three hits on 8/25 vs. Seattle. Left the game on 9/1 at Minnesota after being hit by a Melky Cabrera line drive in the first inning. Snapped an 11-11 tie with a game-winning, two-run double in the top of the 12th on 9/4 at Minnesota. Hit safely in each of his last six games, going 11-26 (.423) with three doubles, two triples, two homers and five RBI. Hit his eighth home run, drove in a career-high three and fell a triple shy of the cycle on 9/27 vs. Tampa Bay … recorded three hits, including a home run, and drove in two runs on 9/30 vs. Minnesota (fell a double shy of the cycle). Appeared in 55 games with Charlotte … at the time of his promotion to the White Sox, led the International League in hits (75) and multihit games (25), ranked second in runs scored (39), fifth in total bases (101) and 10th in average (.304). Hit .346 (45-129) with five doubles, two triples, three home runs, 13 RBI, 24 runs scored and eight walks in May. Recorded four hits on 4/25 at Toledo and 5/12 at Norfolk … registered four straight multihit efforts from 5/10-13, 5/16-19 and 5/22-26 … homered in three consecutive games from 5/12-14. Entered the season rated by Baseball America as the No. 1 Prospect, Best Hitter for Average and Best Athlete in the White Sox organization … also was tabbed by MLB.com as the No. 1 Prospect in the Sox system and No. 38 overall in baseball. Attended a rookie symposium in Washington D.C. in January hosted by Major League Baseball and the MLBPA.
Led the Southern League in hits (160), runs scored (79) and stolen bases (49), ranked third in average (.312) and tied for third in triples (12) and total bases (220) at Class AA Birmingham ... Was selected to the SL mid and postseason All-Star teams … also was named Best Utility Man and Best Hustler ... Stole three bases in a game three times and recorded seven games with two stolen bases ... Hit for the cycle on 5/9 at Montgomery, going 4-6 with three RBI … went 5-6 with two doubles on 5/16 at Mobile ... Entered the season rated by Baseball America as the Sox No. 2 prospect … also tabbed by the publication as the Best Hitter for Average and Best Athlete in the organization.
Combined to hit .301 (104-345) with 21 doubles, seven triples, nine home runs, 40 RBI, 57 runs and 10 steals in 83 games between Class A Winston-Salem, AZL Sox and Birmingham ... Began the season with Winston-Salem, where he was named a CL mid-season All-Star ... Was on the disabled list from 4/29-5/11 with right shoulder tendinitis and from 6/29-8/21 with a fractured right wrist ... Batted .320 (62-194) over his last 46 games with the Dash … was promoted to Birmingham on 8/22 … went 3-3 with a double in his Barons debut on 8/22 at Mississippi and 4-6 with a double and three RBI on 8/23 at Mississippi ... Entered the season rated by Baseball America as the No. 3 Prospect in the White Sox organization.
Tied for fourth among Sox minor-leaguers with five triples and ranked sixth with 24 stolen bases during his professional debut with Class A Kannapolis ... Batted .360 (18-50) with two doubles, two triples and 13 runs scored during a 13-game hitting streak from 8/19-9/1 ... Was recommended/signed by Warren Hughes.
April 20, 2019 Chicago White Sox activated SS Tim Anderson.
April 19, 2019 SS Tim Anderson roster status changed by Chicago White Sox.
April 4, 2019 Chicago White Sox activated SS Tim Anderson from the paternity list.
April 3, 2019 Chicago White Sox placed SS Tim Anderson on the paternity list.
June 10, 2016 Chicago White Sox selected the contract of SS Tim Anderson from Charlotte Knights.
April 6, 2016 SS Tim Anderson assigned to Charlotte Knights from Birmingham Barons.
January 26, 2016 Chicago White Sox invited non-roster SS Tim Anderson to spring training.
September 11, 2015 Birmingham Barons activated SS Tim Anderson from the 7-day disabled list.
September 4, 2015 Birmingham Barons placed SS Tim Anderson on the 7-day disabled list.
January 22, 2015 Chicago White Sox invited non-roster SS Tim Anderson to spring training.
August 22, 2014 SS Tim Anderson assigned to Birmingham Barons from Winston-Salem Dash.
August 15, 2014 Winston-Salem Dash sent SS Tim Anderson on a rehab assignment to AZL White Sox.
August 15, 2014 sent SS Tim Anderson on a rehab assignment to AZL White Sox.
June 29, 2014 Winston-Salem Dash placed SS Tim Anderson on the 7-day disabled list.
May 11, 2014 Winston-Salem Dash activated SS Tim Anderson from the 7-day disabled list.
May 1, 2014 Winston-Salem Dash placed SS Tim Anderson on the 7-day disabled list retroactive to April 29, 2014.
April 1, 2014 SS Tim Anderson assigned to Winston-Salem Dash from Kannapolis Intimidators.
June 13, 2013 Tim Anderson assigned to Bristol White Sox.
June 12, 2013 Chicago White Sox signed SS Tim Anderson.
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The collection is arranged chronologically. The collection consists of one box. The collection only contains copies and transcriptions.
De Blanc, Louis Charles, 1753-1826.
Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788.
Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819.
Preferred Citation: Louis Charles de Blanc St. Denis papers, Manuscripts Collection 484, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of commissions, appointments, letters, and an order relating to the military career of Louis Charles de Blanc St. Denis, an officer in the Louisiana Militia who served as commandant of both the Natchitoches and Attakapas (St. Martinsville) posts. There are documents signed by Charles III and Charles IV of Spain as well as other signed by Baron de Carondelet, governor of Louisiana (1791-1797).
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https://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=555
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65%74°48°Mostly cloudy with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C). Winds ESE at 6 mph (9.7 kph).Night - Showers with a 75% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 2 to 12 mph (3.2 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10.0 °C).
Today - Mostly cloudy with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C). Winds ESE at 6 mph (9.7 kph).
Tonight - Showers with a 75% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 2 to 12 mph (3.2 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10.0 °C).
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/denmark/hovedstaden/taastrup-557938
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wordpress
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It’s been almost 2 months since we said goodbye to Harrison.
It hasn’t gotten any easier. But I have begun to accept that it never really does, you just find a way to carry on, even though the hurt is still there. It never fades at all, not one tiny bit. You just get better at distracting yourself and keeping your mind busy. But as soon as you focus on the fact he isn’t there anymore, or there is a memory or reminder at the forefront of your mind, the feeling consumes you. A weird mix of happiness and sadness. Happy to remember him and all the good times, but so so sad to be living with such a big void in our lives now.
After a particularly bad weekend where he was really suffering with his epilepsy we knew the time had come. Once we had reached the decision to say goodbye we quickly arranged for a photographer to come and capture some nice moments, so that we had some really high quality images to remember him but and not just the mobile phone snaps and videos we already had. Don’t get me wrong, we had loads of great shots, but really wanted some high quality images to have printed, framed and displayed around the house.
I contacted a few local-ish photographers and finally found Tracey. I knew straight away I wanted her to take the photos ahead of everyone else I had spoken to. She was very quick to respond to my initial enquiry and provided regular updates with a very personable, friendly and professional approach, whilst also applying the necessary sympathy and sensitivity given the circumstances. We are thrilled with the photo shoot results and decided to buy all the images from her. We received them on a USB stick, which came packaged in a lovely presentation box with Harrison’s name on, which was a lovely additional touch as well.
The shoot itself was relaxed and easy-going, we just went for a walk in the woods and poor Tracey had a pretty tough job with Harrison, as he was not a very patient or calm model (or dog in general, ha!) the final results are fantastic and we have some really beautiful images to keep and remember him by. It goes without saying, it was an emotional shoot and even more emotional to receive the images and view them all – it still is now. Tracey was aware of our situation as I wanted to be honest when approaching any photographers, but she agreed to take the job on even though it was pretty sad for her too, as a dog lover and animal lover in general. We’ll be forever grateful.
There are so many good pics, but here’s a few of my favourites (the newly updated header image for the blog is another one too 🙂 ).
Author meandmyrescuePosted on 12/02/2017 14/02/2017 Categories canine epilepsyTags dog photographer, in memory of, memorial, pet photography, photoshoot, R.I.P, RIP, saying goodbye, seizuresLeave a comment on Fantastic Photographer!
This is our typical course of action when an epileptic seizure occurs. We have everything already in place all the time “just in case” and have learned this through trial and error really and what works best for Harrison. All dogs are different, but this is what seems to work for him.
Advanced checklist: After a while you will do everything required on autopilot, but in the beginning it may help you function in a panic if you create yourself a checklist so you can methodically follow the steps.
Emergency Meds: Always have your emergency meds ready to go. Packets and pills can be fiddly when you’re on red alert, so make your life easier by preparing so you can tend to your dog efficiently in a crisis.We keep Harrison’s emergency levetiracetam (keppra) tablets and valium tubes (diazepam)* in a specific container in the kitchen – ensure you always adhere to the drug storage instructions so they can remain as effective as possible. *Please note, this emergency medication was specifically prescribed and instructed by our neurology/canine epilepsy specialist.
Emergency veterinary attention: If things escalate at home, call your vet or out of hours emergency line ASAP. Save both numbers in your phone in advance so you can act fast. We have been advised to take Harrison to the vet should he suffer any more than 2 seizures within 24 hours, as he will need IV fluids & IV medication to stop the cluster of seizures.
Remain calm and if you talk, make sure its relaxing and reassuring. Sometimes silence may be best. If you get any pre-ictal warning signs a seizure is incoming, turn off lights and other stimulus and take your dog to the safe place you have created for them. At this point, you can give them their emergency medication if they will eat it/take it (Harrison hasn’t ever been able to at this stage, as he’s already too spooked).
During and after the seizure your dog may overheat, so this is another factor when considering using the Thundershirt, as that will keep the heat in even further. We use ice packs and/or soaked towels to keep him cool. Its best to cool the ears & paws, an ice on the spine can help the seizure activity.
I should add, you need to react accordingly to your dogs seizures. If it lasts any longer than a few minutes and you have already tried diazepam to no avail, or don’t have any at home, then you need to call the vet ASAP. A prolonged seizure is called status epilepticus and can be very damaging/fatal. So read the signs and get the necessary help if you are worried. We had to do this when Harrison got stuck in a cluster, he had 9 seizures within 2 hours and needed IV drugs to break out of it.
Some people claim they have good results with natural calming products such as Pet Remedy or natural essential oils, even things like Bach Flowers Rescue Remedy. Rubbing essential oils into the ears or a few drops of rescue remedy in their water bowl or directly on the tongue can help.
Following the seizure your dog may be paralysed, deaf/blind, confused, disoriented but when they start come round you will want to get their blood sugar up. Some people suggest using a decent, organic ice cream but we found this too stimulating for Harrison, it made him go hyper. We find it most effective to give very small amounts of food often and scatter across the floor so he can sniff it out and find it. This helps to focus his attention and stop him going frantic or gulping it down too quickly.
Turn off bright lights and other stimulus (mobile phones, games, tv, radio etc). If you have other animals, ensure they are kept away to avoid any unnecessary stress.
Make a note of the time when things start kicking off.
Take your dog to their safe place, as soon as its safe to do so (you may not always have this option before the seizure occurs).
Protect their head and stop them hurting themselves during the seizure.
Be careful around their mouth area in case they have a jaw snapping motion during the seizure, or in case they may bite out of fear.
Administer emergency meds/remedies, if you are using any.
Try to keep them cool.
When they start to come round, remain clam and talk in soft, reassuring but positive tones telling them they’re a good boy/good girl. You may want to stroke them gently, but be wary as they may be a bit jumpy. Some dogs may show aggression as they’re so frightened, so be very careful.
Administer any post-seizure medication/remedies you have been advised to give as soon as you are able to.
Give plenty of food, they will likely feel ravenous and you need to get their blood sugar up.
Give your dog the time and space they need to recover and just ride it out together. Remember it is probably worse for you to witness, than for them to endure.
If things don’t seem to be improving, call your vet/emergency line ASAP.
Harrison’s seizure events usually last 60 minutes from start to finish. This starts at the point of the seizure itself right through to end of the post-ictal pacing, restless period. After plenty to eat, some pacing about, toileting outside and a nice big drink of water, we know he is probably almost ready to crash out finally. We let him sleep and recuperate until he indicates to us he is ready for walkies or playtime. By the time he wakes up he is his happy go lucky, cheeky self again!
We had a consultation with a canine nutritionist yesterday. After deciding to switch to raw feeding we were keen to enlist the help of someone experienced and knowledgeable in this area to ensure a smooth transition and a controlled approach.
I had done a lot of research myself of course, but like with the start of our canine epilepsy journey, it seemed a bit of a minefield, there were so many different comments and conflicting recommendations I thought we’d be best consulting someone who knows what they’re doing!
We had a great consultation with thedognutritionist which wouldn’t have been complete without Harrison having a seizure half way through….! Poor little dude, he made a speedy recovery though and is his usual self again after plenty of food, water and rest.
Admittedly, we’d made a few mistakes with his medication since the 1st November (administering the wrong meds at the wrong time) so we have had to implement a better system to prevent this from reoccurring. Obviously you are riddled with guilt after something like that, but at the same time we are only human and mistakes can happen. I bought a new, larger pill box / dosette box to try and keep us on track. It has 4 compartments for morn, noon, eve, bed administrations. I managed to find it in Poundland, so was only £1, I noticed they’re very expensive in pharmacies! We actually need 5 compartments for 6:30, 7:30, 14:30, 19:30, 22:30 doses but the pill organisers with 5 sections were massive and really expensive. So for now we have kept the 2:30 dose in our original 1 week pill organiser as this is easier for our dogsitter as well, as this is the only dose she administers, so hopefully we can remember during the weekends and keep all his meds on track. I have re-labelled all the sections with correct times, drugs names and dosage too, so hopefully we wont have anymore mishaps for a good long while!
So, after a very emotional day on Sunday and lots of tears I have new found determination and optimism. Sometimes it just helps to let it out, right? Then you can move on!
As our vet so poetically advised, “well your only alternative now really is euthanasia, so what have you got to lose?!” so with this in mind and having talked to some other owners of dogs with seemingly very severe epilepsy, I am preparing for one last battle.
If H is with me and ready to fight, then I am too. Judging by the wonderful snuggles and cheeky little face he still has his determination isn’t waning and until I feel he signals to me enough is enough I won’t give up on him. Come on, I can’t face not having those velvety soft ears to rub and snuggle. I need them in my life a little bit longer please!
The next steps are controversial really, we go down the more holistic route but also attempt to wean off some of the meds gradually probably against the advice of both our vet and neurologist. BUT, Harrison is a special, unique case – always has been, always will be. So maybe this time, this more unique approach actually succeeds? All methods attempted so far are unsuccessful, so as our vet said, what have we got to lose. Essentially the outcome is the same. Right now, the only viable option is euthanasia when we decide this current seizure frequency is no longer sustainable (i.e. in a couple of weeks time realistically). So we try one more thing and if it doesn’t work the outcome is still the same. But if it succeeds (like it has for the ladies I’ve been talking to and their beautiful dogs) then we get to enjoy our sweet boy just that little bit longer.
To be honest, even if we only got another month or two with him, but it meant that precious time could be seizure free (or at least less frequent seizures), I would be happy with that. That way, we could spoil him rotten, say our goodbyes and give him the good send off he deserves.
Mother Nature, let your magic calm my poor sweet boy’s busy little brain.
Author meandmyrescuePosted on 02/11/2016 02/11/2016 Categories canine epilepsyTags canine epilepsy, german shorthaired pointer, holistic, holistic vet, homeopathic, neurology, pointer, rescue dog, seizures, veterinary, weimeraner3 Comments on Never give up!
Harrison had another seizure this morning, so it looks like even with his most recent med zonisamide being added he’s still on his every 3-4 days seizure pattern. We almost discounted the last 2 seizures whilst we waited for the drug to take effect (5 days, apparently), but today’s event confirms our worst fears really. However, we could blame it on the clocks changing etc, but we know we’re kidding ourselves.
So we have about 2-3 weeks of food and medication left and we know we’ll need to reduce his phenobarbitone anyway due to his levels being too high at the moment. If his seizure frequency or severity increases a lot as a result of that then we know we have to act quickly, otherwise we just have to carry on as we are until we know the time is right. I don’t think it will be very long, unfortunately.
Feeling very sad and hopeless now, I wish there was something more we could do, but we have tried everything it seems and nothing is helping, so don’t want to run the risk of doing anything which is unfair or cruel, or just prolonging the inevitable any further.
Its hard to know what to say really. Things aren’t really going as we had anticipated and it feels like now more than ever, the end is in sight..
Since visiting the epilepsy specialist on 6th September, we still haven’t managed to gain control of Harrison’s seizures. He is currently averaging a seizure every 4 days. Whilst its true that the seizure severity has improved a lot, the seizures are much less violent and he seems to recover quickly, which is great. However, although he recovers fully and behaves like his usual self inbetween seizures he still isn’t able to lead a “normal” life at the moment and neither are we. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean this in a selfish way, we would go to great lengths to make this work long term (and have already done so much), but we also don’t want his epilepsy to be the all consuming part of his and our lives as if that is the case, then really we know things are too bad to carry on as we are. I hope that makes sense? At the moment, Harrison has not been left on his own since around 22nd September. We know that when we try to build him up to being alone again he may get a little bit agitated or upset and for the time being we wanted to give him a good chance to have a break from seizures before trialing, as the stress may induce another seizure and we can’t knowingly put him through that.
He started with a drug called zonisamide (Zonegran) on 20th October. This is in addition to the phenobarbitone and levetiracetam he is already taking, as they’re clearly not having the desired effect. Zonisamide costs around £200 a month, we can claim on our insurance for now thank goodness, but we have to be out of pocket until we claim it back as we’re purchasing from the pharmacy as it is human medication! The vet could dispense, but cost even more then, closer to £300!
We also got the results back from his recent blood and liver tests yesterday. Currently his pheno is at a very high dose, within the toxic end of the therapeutic range. His peak sample was 40mg/l and his trough sample was 36mg/l, whilst his liver levels looked good for the moment he has only been on this dose for 3 weeks, but over time this high range would destroy his liver. The therapeutic range for pheno spans 15-40gm/l, as the start of this journey Harrison was on 15mg/l with poor seizure control and, this was increased to around the 28mg/l mark, but was dipping below 25mg/l when his next dose was due in 12 hours. For a dog with seemingly severe seizures, or poor control of seizures like Harrison, the specialist advised they need at least 25gm/l consistently for optimum seizure control and to not dip below that level when their next dose is due. So we now administer his pheno every 8 hours, as he was dropping to 23mg/l around the 12 hour mark.
So we’re waiting for further instruction from our vet and neuro now on how best to proceed, I imagine we will drop his pheno back to 90mg every 8 hours (he was on this originally, but kept having seizures when we dropped from 120 suddenly so it was hiked back up), potentially even 102.5mg, as you can get 12.5mg tablets too. Hopefully now he takes the zonisamide as well dropping his pheno shouldn’t mean he starts seizuring even more regularly again.
A more common drug combo is pheno & potassium bromide, but this really didn’t suit Harrison. His personality totally changed so we stopped giving it to him again, as everything became even more difficult to manage then as he was frustrated and aggressive, it was horrible. At least if we don’t have long left, we have our lovely sweet boy back now.
His zonisamide should be at a good effective level now, the couple of seizure during the last week have been logged but we haven’t let them dishearten us, but moving on from this point really we have to really assess what we are going to do long term as adding zonisamide was pretty much the last option and if he isn’t responding to it then the beast we are wrangling is just maybe that bit too strong. I have read lots of success stories with more natural, holistic approaches such as CBD oil, essential oils, homeopathic or holistic treatments but its whether we think we should try if we think he is suffering seizures every 4 days.
At the moment all I want for him is a good seizure free break so we can just enjoy a bit of normal life with him.Then if we had to let him go after that, I would feel more comfortable with it, knowing we can just spoil him rotten and give him a good send off.
Author meandmyrescuePosted on 29/10/2016 29/10/2016 Categories canine epilepsyTags canine epilepsy, german shorthaired pointer, gsp, levetiracetam, neurology, phenobarbitone, rehoming, rescue dog, seizures, sleep deprivation, weimeraner, zonisamideLeave a comment on The final hurdle?
It’s been a while since my last post. We have been busy implementing the new medication plan, desperately trying to get Harrison’s condition under control and its been such a tough few weeks. Everything is new territory for us; new signals, warning signs, patterns, different behaviours, different seizure characteristics – it’s all completely new.
He had a few seizures whilst we were at work too, so we had to get a full time dog-sitter in which is very expensive, but we thought we’d stick with it for now whilst we try to get things to a manageable level at least and were advised by the neuro to minimise stress* as much as possible (*separation anxiety). The aim being to reduce the dog-sitting hours over time as his seizures strike less often.
I’m afraid we’re not quite there yet though, things are still very much in progress. We’ve not managed to reach a good stable, control level with his meds and have to keep fine tuning things. But overall, it is not looking good at the moment.
We’re pleased that his seizures have definitely become less violent, he recovers more quickly and he is only suffering 1 at a time now, rather than clustering into several. Which is good progress. But the frequency remains too often still, with seizures occurring every few days. Even the specialist is concerned and surprised by the fact he keeps on having seizures with all the meds he’s on. He’s a unique specimen that’s for sure! Poor little boy.
Author meandmyrescuePosted on 09/10/2016 13/10/2016 Categories UncategorizedTags animal health trust, canine epilepsy, dog adoption, dogstrust, epilepsy, german shorthaired pointer, gsp, levetiracetam, neurology, phenobarbitone, pointer, specialist, veterinary, weimeraner3 Comments on Where do we go from here?
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Mike D’Antoni answered questions in Italian and showed comedic timing in cracking jokes in a West Virginian drawl during yesterday’s introductory Garden press conference.
But when the topic turned to the “Seven Seconds or Less” offensive revolution he led in the desert that critics claim will fail with the plodding Knicks, D’Antoni dug in his heels. The former Suns coach is not changing.
Introduced as the Knicks’ seventh coach in seven years, D’Antoni said he plans to, with tweaks, run and gun at the Garden.
D’Antoni’s Suns were 95-25 vs. the East in his four full seasons.
D’Antoni swatted a home run in explaining why he chose the Knicks over the Bulls, beyond the $24 million contract.
“If we can get this turned around, it’ll probably be the highlight of everyone’s career,” D’Antoni said. “You’d be crazy not to try to do it. I’m not naive to think it’s going to be easy.”As reported first in The Post, Knicks president Donnie Walsh made up a list of four coaches he’d pursue after the first round if available and D’Antoni headed the list.
“I thought we’d have to be real lucky, but I was waiting,” Walsh said.
Selecting D’Antoni over Mark Jackson wasn’t that tough when Walsh considered their disastrous state (Jackson is interviewing in Phoenix). When Walsh tabbed Larry Bird without coaching experience, the Pacers were top-notch.
D’Antoni fired off a warning that if the cast can’t cut it, changes will be made. Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph are plodding big men. Stephon Marbury, in the last year of his contract and coming off ankle surgery, is more of a halfcourt point guard at 31. D’Antoni will sit on the dais for Tuesday’s lottery, praying to win The Derrick Rose Sweepstakes.
Ex-Suns Marbury, Quentin Richardson and speedball Nate Robinson all asked to attend the press conference. Less-involved James Dolan was absent. In one of several one-liners, D’Antoni cracked, “Quentin’s here, he obviously thought I’d give him more shots by coming.”On Marbury, whom he once traded, D’Antoni said he’ll try to work with him.
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TOKYO, May 2 (Reuters) - Indonesian and Australian coal exporters are moving aggressively to fend off competition to meet Japan’s new-found appetite for the fuel to generate electricity while the country’s nuclear reactors remain offline after the Fukushima disaster.
Japan’s coal imports are set to hit another record over the next year as utilities led by Tokyo Electric Power Co burn more of the cheaper fuel to cut surging energy bills that pushed the nation into a record trade deficit last year.
The move to coal has already made some inroads into the fuel bill as Japanese utilities have been able to force down prices for annual contracts. Competition for the market in the world’s second-largest importer is fierce as exporters struggle with a glut of supply on global markets that has pushed benchmark prices to a three-year low and is forcing higher cost producers to curb output.
Japan’s government is encouraging utilities to burn more coal by relaxing environmental rules and to build power plants that use technology to limit emissions.
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The government estimates coal is about 10 percent cheaper than liquefied natural gas (LNG) per energy unit. Japan is the world’s top LNG importer.
A weakening Japanese yen, the flip side of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s aggressive stimulus efforts, provides another imperative for utilities to seek cheaper fuel.
The dollar’s rise to a four-year high against the yen means power companies can expect to pay 3.8 trillion yen ($39 billion)more for fuel this business year than last, the government has said. That is double the fuel import bill before Fukushima.
Big coal producers in the United States, South Africa and Russia are looking for a share of a market dominated by Indonesian and Australian firms.
Two of Japan’s utilities - Tohoku Electric Power Co and Chubu Electric Power Co - say they are looking at U.S. coal more closely after Kansai Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co in November signed a contract for 1 million tonnes at lower prices than from Australia, Japan’s biggest supplier.
Australia’s exporters have had to cut prices in response to both increased competition and falling international coal prices. The largest thermal coal exporter Xstrata Plc and Tohoku Electric earlier last month settled a benchmark annual supply contract 17 percent lower than last year.
The talks dragged on beyond their usual deadline as Tohoku Electric, which was representing Japan’s utilities, refused to budge.
The reduction was a little more than the 14 percent fall in the past year in Asia’s benchmark coal prices, Australia’s Newcastle spot index, to around $86.50 a tonne.
U.S. exports to Japan have more than tripled in the first three months of 2013 to 311,000 tonnes - and cost nine percent less than supplies from Australia, according to government data released on Friday.
U.S. coal exporters such as Florida-based Oxbow Coal & Petcoke, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxbow Carbon, are looking for new export markets to compensate for falling demand at home as domestic shale gas output rises and displaces coal as a fuel for power generation.
Imports from South Africa are up 57 percent this year, while the flow from Indonesia to Japan is down 15.4 percent and from Australia down 0.4 percent.
“The reality is that there is likely to be a queue of interested coal producers ready to spring increased volumes to Japan and we are amongst them,” said Dileep Srivastava, a director at Indonesia’s PT Bumi Resources TBK, Asia’s biggest thermal coal exporter.
Coal consumption by Japan’s 10 regional power monopolies and the biggest coal user, wholesaler J-Power, is set to rise 11 percent to a record 79.3 million tonnes in the business year that started in April, according to a Reuters survey of utilities. These companies account for nearly four fifths of Japan’s imports.
Total thermal coal imports in the last business year were at a record 106 million tonnes with Russian supplies increasing to a historical high of 8 million tonnes.
Japan’s coal imports slipped in the first three months of this year but will rebound after Tepco started test runs for two new coal units with 1,600 megawatts of capacity last month.
Tohoku Electric resumed full commercial operations of a 2,000 megawatt coal power station on Friday, after repairing damage from the natural disaster that set off the Fukushima catastrophe.
The government on Friday relaxed tough environmental rules on building new coal-fired power stations. The restrictions had been an effective ban on construction.
New plants employ burning techniques that have made Japan’s coal plants among the world’s most efficient. Design advances include combined cycle coal gasification, called IGCC, used at a plant in Fukushima operated by Tohoku Electric and Tokyo Electric that started in April.
“Coal has become the new source for base load power generation following the shutdown of nuclear reactors,” said Ken Taniguchi, an analyst at Mathyos, a Tokyo-based energy consultancy.
How long the window of opportunity for coal exporters will last depends on how many reactors can restart after the country’s nuclear regulator puts in place new standards in July before a vetting process that may take months. The regulator has said its rules will be the toughest in the world.
Only two of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors are running, and they need to shut for maintenance by September. Chubu Electric, the country’s second biggest user of coal, on Friday conceded it doesn’t expect to start any of its reactors until at least March 2015, over a year behind schedule. Chubu expects to use 10 million tonnes of coal over the next year.
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2019-04-18T15:23:20Z
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Maximum: $$389/person/night Includes tax and service charge, meals, lodging, all ranch activities.
Located on thousands of acres of the most scenic horseback riding in Southern Arizona. The Circle Z Ranch offers all inclusive ranch vacations; 3 delicious meals/day, horseback riding, tennis, game room, heated outdoor pool, hiking, bird watching, campfires, cookouts, nature walks and guided star gazing.
Relax in one of our seven adobe cottages, meticulously detailed for your stay. There are accommodations for singles, couples and families, and our cottages are furnished in colorful southwestern decor. You will find all the comforts of home with new mattresses, individually controlled heat and air conditioning, and private entrances.
Our horseback riding program is well known for the diversity of trails and excellent horses. Many of our horses are bred and trained right here on the ranch, and our expert wranglers will guide you along hundreds of miles of horseback riding trails. You will explore lush riparian areas, beautiful canyons, high mountain tops and high grass valleys. The Sky Islands of Southern Arizona are among the most diverse in the world, supporting hundreds of species of birds, animals, and plant life.
Owned by the Nash family since 1976, our down to earth style is reflected in the preservation of our property and traditions. We have hosted families for reunions and anniversaries, couples seeking a new adventure, and singles who like to explore the beauty of the desert. The social fabric of our ranch runs deep, as we have entertained generations of guests from around the world. You will be welcomed by a friendly and eager staff, and will quickly become a part of the Circle Z family. Come and join us for an old-time, but not old fashioned, dude ranch vacation.
Ranch Dining: Served buffet style, our fine dining will satisfy the most discerning tastes. Our gardens provide fresh seasonal vegetables,and our three hearty and delicious meals daily are made from the finest and freshest ingredients. Ranch raised beef, locally raised pork and lamb, all prepared to perfection by our cooks. Fresh baked breads, mouth-watering pastries, and cookies made from scratch will greet you each day of your stay. And our Fridays are devoted to authentic, mouth watering Mexican dishes.
Ranch Activities: Aside from our diverse horseback riding adventures in a variety of terrains, there are many fun activities at the Circle Z. We offer a weekly nature program and astronomy night, plus our property is a world renowned birding site. Every evening we have social hour in our Cantina, with live entertainment on Saturday. There are campfire nights with s'mores, and twice weekly cook-out rides. Our new Game Room has billiards, foosball, ping pong, basketball and board games. Our tennis court is newly resurfaced, and our outdoor pool is always open. Not to mention the nearby towns that offer shopping, wine tastings, cavern exploring, and historic tours. There is always something to do at the Circle Z, no matter your interests!
Ranch Lodging: The ranch's maximum occupancy of 30 guests, and 45 guests on holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, is sure to make for a warm, friendly, and intimate stay. Seven historic Spanish-style adobe guest cottages dot the plateau on which the Circle Z lies. Accommodations vary from individual rooms to suites with living rooms or entirely private cottages, each reflecting Southwestern charm. All have individually controlled heat and outside entrances onto a porch. Our cottages have all the amenities : refrigerators, irons, hair dryers, and new mattresses.
We require a 25% deposit to confirm your reservation. We have a 60 day cancellation policy. On refunds of credit card deposits, 5% of the deposit will be deducted to cover processing fees. No credit will be given for shortened stays or absences during a stay. Circle Z recommends the purchase of Trip Cancellation Insurance.
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2019-04-21T16:02:30Z
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https://duderanch.org/listings/circle-z-ranch
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Spring is in the air, and I have finally sprung from my bed after round two of this hideous virus I’ve had for weeks now, which just doesn’t seem to want to go. However I wasn’t going to let it stop me attending one of the biggest nights of the year in Showbiz, the very glamorous Olivier Awards.
Not only did I have the most fabulous night catching up with friends old and new, watching incredible performers, and being surrounded by more talent than I could dream of… I also managed to make it to No.1 on a worst dressed list, I mean I’ve never won at anything! Apparently I looked a bit too like I was going to the office, well I don’t know about you but I certainly wouldn’t wear a black jewelled dress and drop earrings to the office! What do you think?
From one amazing night to the next, I was thrilled to attend last nights opening of the much anticipated Sunset Boulevard, starring the legendary Glenn Close, and boy did it live up to the hype. Along with co stars Micheal Xavier and Siobhan Dillon, Glenn Close had me on the edge of my seat, and of course in floods of tears. I have to say thank you to Harry and Jackie Brunjes at the ENO for one of the most memorable nights of my life. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket, it’s an absolute must see.
Meanwhile I loved working with Philip Price today and chatting all about it!
Hope you all had fabulous Easters and didn’t overdo it on the chocolate! As for me I’ve wrapped up in hibernation trying to ward off this damn nasty virus that’s been plaguing me for weeks now, I’m sure you know the one, everyone seems to have been affected by it this year. It’s miserable and very boring… Thank goodness for the TV! The Night Manager kept me completely on tenterhooks, but that’s finished now and there’s a big gap to fill! But take a look at BBC2 Line Of Duty, it’s hooking me in fast!
Thank you to everyone that’s been in contact tweeting and messaging me remedies and elixirs – I’ve been trying them all and something’s obviously worked as I’m finally beginning to feel human again and after nearly two weeks in my cocoon I’m impatient to get out and about and what better event than the Olivier Awards this Sunday!
So have a fabulous weekend and I’ll be back next week with all the red carpet gossip, so make sure you subscribe.
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2019-04-21T04:24:25Z
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https://arlenephillips.wordpress.com/2016/04/
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As parents, we often feel a strange false sense of security once the day is coming to a close and the kids are tucked in bed. We feel safe knowing the kids alright and the house is locked up tight. You have an awkward comfort in knowing everything will be as it is when you awake the next day. So what happens to that security, that safety, that comfort, when the child you left safely tucked in their bed isn’t there when you go to wake them?
In February 2000, Asha Degree was a nine-year-old girl living in a town not far from Charlotte North Carolina, called Shelby. She was described as a bright, shy, sweet girl. Asha played point guard for her basketball team and was often referred to as the star player. She was an avid reader and was currently reading “The Whipping Boy”. Asha had a 10-year-old brother named O’Bryant, whom she was very close to. Because their parents Harold and Iquilla had very demanding work schedules, Asha and O’Bryant relied on each other a lot and spent a lot of time together. They often stayed down the street with their aunt, but they both also had their own keys to the apartment. Their parents sheltered them from as much as they could, by things like limiting television time and not owning a computer.
Asha played in her basketball game for youth basketball league. She was fouled out of the game, and the team subsequently lost the game. She felt awful and responsible for the teams first loss of the season. Asha complained about injuring her leg during the game, but seemed to be fine, and was back to her jovial self by the end of O”Bryant’s game.
It was a very cold and rainy day in Shelby. The weather had made the roads a magnet for disaster and a wreck down the street caused a power outage to the Degree home. Unable to give her children a bath without power, Iquilla put the kids down at 8 p.m. and planned to wake them a bit early in the morning. Asha’s father Harold arrived home from his second job around midnight and peaked in and checked on the kids. They were both asleep and safe in their beds. Harold checked on the kids once more before he went to bed at 2:30 a.m. and all was still well.
Iquilla woke up thinking it was going to be a wonderful day, it was her and Harold’s anniversary. It was Valentine’s Day. She went to wake the kids at 6:30 for their baths, but Asha wasn’t in her bed. She frantically woke the boys and began searching the house. Everything was still secure. It didn’t look like someone broke in. Still not finding Asha, she began calling everyone they knew hoping someone had seen Asha. With no information and no Asha, her parents immediately turned to law enforcement for help. The police were at the apartment within ten minutes. They noticed no signs of forced entry, all of the doors were in fact, still locked. Search dogs arrived with law enforcement, but the rain mixed with heavy winds and freezing temperatures made Asha’s scent hard to track. Asha’s family wasted no time and started going door to door searching for Asha.
O’Bryant said he heard Asha stirring during the night in her sleep (they share a room) and he saw her get up and go to the bathroom. He heard her again shortly after but thought she was rolling over, and he went back to sleep.
Law enforcement discovered her backpack was missing, along with several items of clothing. Did she wake up, pack a bag, and decide to leave? It was a torrential storm during the time she could have disappeared, and she was terrified of storms and the dark. She was also petrified of dogs, and would rarely go out alone. Certainly, that child wouldn’t have chosen to leave at that time. But where was Asha?
The media was quick to get Asha’s story out to the public. Iquilla pleaded to the public, “She’s my baby just bring her back. If somebody took her or if someone has seen her just bring her back”.
The media exposure brought a few witnesses forward that reported seeing Asha walking down Highway 18. Highway 18 runs north and south through the state. The morning of the 14th, several drivers reported seeing a child fitting Asha’s description walking down the side of the highway. She was described as wearing a backpack and a long sleeve white t-shirt by witnesses. She wasn’t wearing a jacket and didn’t appear to be in distress. It’s important to note that she wasn’t wearing a jacket because the temperature outside around the time she was spotted walking down the highway was just barely above freezing and raining. Why didn’t she have a jacket on?
Law enforcement confirmed the sightings as Asha based on the items confirmed missing from the home. The missing items also included a pair of sneakers, white pants, and a tweety bird pocketbook.
One of the witnesses added that he stopped to see if she needed help and she just ran off into the thicket and vanished. This location was about 1.3 miles south of Asha’s home. That’s quite a walk for a child without adequate clothing in almost freezing temperatures and torrential rain. And if she really did hurt her leg in the game on Saturday, why did she want to walk over a mile on a sore leg?
On the 17th, law enforcement heard of another Asha sighting from Debbie Turner. There was a shed about 100 yards off of HWY 18 used by Turner’s Upholstery. Debbie noticed items around the entrance of the shed on the 15th but didn’t make the connection to Asha until the 17th. Debbie found a green marker, a pencil, and a Mikey Mouse hair bow.
When law enforcement searched the area, they found candy wrappers matching the kind Asha’s basketball team was given for Valentine’s Day. Search dogs were once again brought in, and once again couldn’t pick up on Asha’s scent.
No further signs of Asha were found.
The search was called off after a week and 9,000 man hours. They didn’t even have enough to go on for the FBI to create a working profile. This was an eerily accurate example of “vanished without a trace”.
Nothing new would happen in Asha’s case until August 3rd, 2001, the day her backpack was unearthed. The last sighting of Asha, she was moving south along HWY 18, but her backpack was discovered 26 miles north of Turner’s Upholstery shed, along HWY 18. There was a lot being cleared so construction could begin. A contractor uncovered what appeared to be a black garbage bag with something inside about 50 yards from the highway. Curiosity got the best of him, and he looked inside the black garbage bag to find another black garbage bag, and inside that garbage bag was Asha’s backpack.
Search and rescue combed the area, but they didn’t recover Asha or any further evidence. The FBI took the backpack for forensic testing, however, those results have never been revealed. An inventory of the items found inside Asha’s backpack has also never been confirmed.
In May of 2016, a witness came forward saying that she saw Asha get in a dark green car 70’s model, similar to a Thunderbird or Mark IV, on HWY 18 near the shed. The vehicle has never been located.
In 2017, an FBI team specializing in missing children also started looking into Asha’s case. At the time of that announcement, they also announced they are working on the assumption that Asha is alive.
Just a few weeks ago, October 9th, 2018, The Cleveland County Sherriff’s Office announced two “new possible clues” in Asha’s case. The first item is a library book from Fallston Elementary School “McElligot’s Pool” by Dr. Seuss. The sheriff’s office is asking that anyone who had or knows who had that book around the time of her disappearance to contact them because the library records don’t go back that far.
The second item is a concert t-shirt from The New Kids on the Block, asking that anyone who recognizes the shirt to contact the office. Law enforcement wouldn’t give any further details about the items, or their relevance.
18 years later, and Asha’s family still needs answers and law enforcement refuses to stop searching for them. The Degree family still have the same phone number after all of these years, just in case, Asha might call.
There are multiple rabbit holes you can lose yourself in on the internet searching for theories on Asha’s disappearance. There’s just so little to go on, and nothing in this case, is as it seems, all you can do is speculate. As in every scenario, some theories are better than others.
That Asha ran away of her own volition. This theory holds a lot of weight. She was spotted by multiple witnesses walking down the side of the highway, alone. She shared a room with her brother, who probably would have heard her packing a backpack, which begs you to wonder if she already had the bag packed and ready to go. Was the shed a meeting spot for someone to pick her up? Which could fit into the “ran away to meet a person of trust” theory. This could also account for her 9-year-old logic thinking she wouldn’t be out long enough to need a coat. She was currently reading “The Whipping Boy”, so did she want to run away to have her own adventure like in the book? Some theorize that she left because she was so down on herself for losing the basketball game, however, everyone says she was back to herself by the end of her brother’s game. Children who run away are typically 12 and older and have significant reasons to leave such as abuse or neglect.
That Asha ran away and was then abducted. This is another possibility since Asha couldn’t have made it 26 miles north, where her backpack was found on her own, especially without being seen. But, if someone abducted her, why would you preserve and bury the backpack? Why not burn it or throw it in a landfill? Or did the abductor know Asha and they couldn’t bring themself to destroy her belonging? Again, without much to go on, you can make a lot of theories fit and not fit if you try hard enough. There are just so many puzzle pieces missing.
Donald Preston Ferguson. In 2014 this guy was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a 7-year-old girl and leaving her body behind an elementary school in 1990. Ferguson was known to be in Spartanburg, which is 38 miles from Shelby. Victimology would put Asha in his preference, but again reaching.
Hit and run cover up. I think this theory gained popularity because the odds of a 9-year-old getting hit walking down the side of the highway in the dark are pretty high. Personally, unless the driver was the luckiest accidental criminal ever, I feel like the body would have been recovered by now, or there would have been some evidence of it on the side of the road. Also, this theory doesn’t really fit someone being intelligent and resourceful enough to hide a body, but not a backpack.
Sleepwalking. This theory seems popular because of her not wearing a coat, and her walking a route her bus takes. This is one of my least favorite theories. She wouldn’t have already packed her bag. Sleepwalkers generally perform very routine and basic tasks, and her walking outside in that weather would have certainly woken her.
There is currently a $45,000 reward for information pertaining to Asha’s case. The FBI also created an age-progressed photo of Asha, who would be 28 now. We can only hope that one day soon her family and loved ones will have those answers they’ve been waiting so desperately for.
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2019-04-22T01:10:43Z
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Thanks to today’s Guest Blogger, Ray Taylor, whose take on transition is fresh and timely. Look for his suggestions to go after new opportunities while you’re in transition or just because…you’ll see the value!
Webster’s dictionary defines transition as “a movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to another”. Many (including the owner of this blog) have written that the whole concept of employment is changing – permanently. On that basis this term, transition, makes sense.
With that in mind, if you are one of those describing your current situation as “in transition”, consider what you are doing during this time. If you are focused on replacing the job you had with one very nearly the same as the one you lost, that might work for you but, it’s not transition.
Now, I’m not trying to pick on you for not complying with Webster’s definition. What I am asking you to do is realize that the demand for many positions is not coming back to pre-2008 levels – ever. That means the competition will be stiffer, the compensation will be lower and the time to land will be longer. Are you prepared for that?
Let me ask you another question. Did you really love that old job? I mean “wake up in the morning and can’t wait to get after it” love? Right, I didn’t think so.
Kevin Cashman starts his book Leadership from the Inside Out with a story about choice. He asks you to imagine being stranded in a snowstorm and missing that important meeting that you are rushing to. Do you rant about it and let it raise your blood pressure? Or do you realize that one of the things you often say you’d love to have, is just a few hours alone to think? Do you let this event derail you or, do you choose to see it as a wish that has just been granted? You choose.
You can also choose to live the definition of transition during this challenging time. Instead of the old school job search, engage in transition. Reinvent yourself. Learn.
In It’s What Inside that Counts, Janine discussed ideas to help us connect with our internal motivations. The three ideas revolved around seeking autonomy, mastery and purpose. Think of these three concepts during your transition.
Autonomy: Rather than submitting hundreds of resumes blindly and hoping for a call, look around. What problems could you solve for a friend starting a business? She might love to have the professionalism you offer, but never thought she could afford your price tag. So, help her. Help her first and then let the financials work themselves out (they will, trust me).
Volunteer for charitable organizations or non-profits that are struggling. If you can make a difference people will notice. People you have helped will be looking for ways to help you. You won’t be going in, with hat in hand, asking for referrals. You will have an ally who has seen you in action and would be glad to recommend you.
Don’t even think of telling me you don’t have time. If you want to do the traditional job search, it’s going to take you 6 – 9 months to find a job you don’t really like. Consider this activity your part-time job and, more importantly, part of your journey to fulfillment.
Mastery: For the new role you would really love, you might need to master some new skills. Let’s say your friend with the startup can afford to pay you half what you are used to. But, you will learn some new skills. Add the cost of tuition at a business school to your pay and you might find you didn’t take a pay cut at all.
Join groups and pay attention to the events they host. Many are low or no-cost events. Offer to help with the planning. Being a planner is like a backstage pass. You may be able to meet a knowledgeable and influential keynote speaker in the field you are pursuing. How much would that be worth?
Purpose: Having a purpose is uniquely human. Finding it isn’t a journey you have to make alone. Your coaches might be right in front of you. Instead of asking people how they can help you find a job, ask them if they know their purpose. When you find the ones who know their purpose, find out how they learned what it was.
Find out who you are and what you are here to do. Learn what skills you need to master to fulfill your purpose.
Taking ownership doesn’t mean going solo. Seeking guidance can be an important step to transition. Not transition as a euphemism for joblessness, transition as Webster defines it.
About: Ray Taylor is an accomplished sales and customer service leader focused on innovation. Ray also serves on the executive committee of Ohio University’s Sales Centre. Write to him at [email protected].
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2019-04-26T14:38:59Z
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GREEN BAY – The awards keep piling up for Aaron Rodgers’ breathtaking Hail Mary pass to Richard Rodgers that sealed the Packers’ 27-23 comeback win over the Lions last December.
The 61-yard game-winning touchdown took home Best Play honors at Wednesday night’s ESPY awards. The play, which came on an untimed down due to penalty, previously won the Play of the Year award at February’s NFL Honors ceremony.
Other finalists for Best Play were LeBron James’ Game 7 block in the NBA Finals and Villanova junior Kris Jenkins’ buzzer-beating shot against North Carolina in the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball championship game.
Both Rodgers were on-hand to accept the award and thank fans for voting.
“I’d like to thank God because if it weren’t for God, there wouldn’t be any Hail Marys,” quipped Richard Rodgers during his acceptance speech.
After the game, Richard Rodgers told reporters he wasn’t even supposed to catch the ball. His responsibility actually was supposed to box out for receiver Davante Adams, but he ended up pulling down the biggest catch of his career instead.
It ended a career day for Rodgers, who caught eight passes for 145 yards. It was the most receiving yards by a Green Bay tight end since Jermichael Finley caught six passes for 159 yards in the wild-card playoffs against Arizona on Jan. 10, 2011.
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2019-04-21T02:30:41Z
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Grievance procedure, in industrial relations, process through which disagreements between individual workers and management may be settled. Typical grievances may include the promotion of one worker over another who has seniority, disputes over holiday pay, and problems related to worker discipline.
Grievance procedures are a significant issue in collective bargaining agreements in much of Europe and the United States. They usually detail a series of steps open to the worker, beginning with discussion between the foreman and the union steward and going up the line until a settlement has been reached. The final step in the United States is usually arbitration; in some European countries the grievance case may finally be appealed to a labour court.
In other countries, where issues other than the resolution of grievances have consistently been more important, grievance procedures have not been formalized. In several Latin American countries, for example, currency inflation has tended to concentrate the unions’ attention almost solely on wage increases, with the result that workers’ complaints are usually resolved through informal procedures.
The existence of formal procedures is no guarantee that an individual’s grievance will be resolved. In Japan, though grievance procedures modeled after the U.S. example are a part of most collective agreements, tradition tends to inhibit an individual from registering a personal grievance. Instead, problems are brought up in a general way by union leaders at regular negotiating sessions.
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2019-04-24T14:46:03Z
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/grievance-procedure
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Date 1928 Phys. Desc. p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
L'observatoire de Zi-ka-wei : cinquante ans de travail scientifique.
Cover title also in Chinese: Xujiahui tianwentai 徐家匯天文臺.
Xujiahui guanxiangtai formerly related to Lujiabang guanxiangtai and She Shan guanxiangtai; became part of Zhongguo kexueyuan Shanghai tianwentai in 1962. LC auth. rec.
Local access Dig.pdf [Zikawei Observatoire.pdf].
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2019-04-23T11:07:03Z
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An Obama administration directive with the aim of driving down disproportionately high school discipline rates for black and Latino students took center stage at a congressional hearing on school safety Tuesday.
That guidance, issued by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education in 2014, includes a call for schools to ensure that they are not involving law enforcement in routine disciplinary issues. It also put schools on notice that they may be in violation of civil rights laws if their disciplinary policies lead to disparately high discipline rates for students of color, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.
The Broward County, Fla., district—where the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School killed 17—created a 2013 agreement with law enforcement agencies whose officers work in its schools to clarify when to involve officers in student discipline and to set up a diversionary program, called PROMISE, as an alternative to student arrests. That program was held up as a model by the Obama administration as it encouraged schools to rewrite their discipline policies.
Some Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime asked Wednesday whether the accused shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, should have been arrested at Stoneman Douglas when he was a student there. If he had been arrested, the infraction may have shown up on a criminal background check before he bought a gun or confirmed to the FBI that he was a possible threat, the lawmakers said. They cited news reports that said the suspect was frequently disciplined at school and was known for disturbing behavior, like killing small animals, but they did not name a specific offense he should have been arrested for.
"The question needs to be asked why Cruz was never placed under arrest, either at school or at home," said Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, the chairman of the subcommittee. "He clearly had a violent past, a past that is properly handled by law enforcement."
He spoke a few hours after the most recent school shooting at a high school in Great Mills, Md.
Sensenbrenner also listed concerns about Cruz that did not relate to school discipline. He noted that the Broward County sheriff's office had been called to the suspect's home dozens of times and a tip passed on to a deputy who worked at the school that Cruz may be planning a school shooting. He also called out the failure of the FBI to investigate a tip from a caller who feared Cruz may one day be a school shooter, and noted that the school had once recommended he be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.
Democrats on the committee said critics of Obama-era discipline guidance were trying to use it as a scapegoat and a distraction from the need for new gun laws. They said the guidance had helped make critical progress for black and Latino students, who are often disciplined at higher rates than their white peers in school. And they criticized loopholes in the background check system that may have allowed the suspect to buy a gun, whether or not he had an arrest on his record.
"The issue of school discipline is a worthy topic of discussion, so long as it is constructive and not intended to undermine progress in reforming disciplinary policies that have been racially biased and counterproductive for a long time," said Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the ranking member of the subcommittee. "Unfortunately, some individuals are advancing the charge that reforms to these policies contributed to the Parkland shooter not having been stopped. To use a horrible mass shooting as a pretext to halt progress in these much-needed reforms is offensive."
Critics of the Obama-era discipline guidance have pushed for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to revoke or revise it since she took office. DeVos has said she is reviewing the document. After Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, questioned the guidance, the White House listed it as one of the items DeVos will review as leader of a task force on school safety. In a recent 60 Minutes interview, DeVos would not say if racial disparities in school discipline rates are caused by systemic racism.
The guidance calls on schools to explore the underlying causes for discipline disparities, like implicit bias that causes teachers to perceive behavior differently depending on a student's race, inconsistently applied policies, and vaguely worded school rules against infractions like "defiance" that may be interpreted subjectively and applied differently by different teachers.
But critics, like Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Max Eden, say schools have rushed to comply with the guidance by limiting the use of suspensions, creating unsafe and disruptive learning environments. School officials fear federal investigations if their suspension rates are uneven, Eden told the subcommittee Wednesday. In some districts that have made such changes, teachers have complained that they are unprepared for new discipline policies or that they don't know how to deal with disruptive students, he said.
"When teachers have their hands tied in handling classroom disruption, student learning suffers," Eden told the subcommittee.
Civil rights groups and organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus have spoken out in support of the guidance in recent weeks, fearing that it may be revoked. Black and Latino students are too often disciplined and arrested at school for minor, non-violent infractions, they say. They cite incidents like a 2015 viral video of a South Carolina girl who was violently dragged from her desk by a school police officer and arrested in math class after she refused to surrender her cell phone. A classmate who recorded the interaction was also arrested for "disturbing a school."
"To put it simply, neither the purpose nor the letter of the federal school discipline guidance restricts the authority of school personnel to remove a child who is threatening student safety," Kristen Harper, a former Education Department official and policy director for Child Trends, told the committee.
The guidance does not prohibit schools from referring students to police, she said. Rather, it recommends that schools "establish procedures and train school personnel...how to contact law enforcement when warranted." And calls in the guidance to address disparate discipline rates echo previous court decisions, which have flagged schools for policies that affect one student group more heavily than the other.
"There is no conflict between our obligation to prevent discrimination based on race and our obligation to keep children safe in school," Harper said. "We can and must do both."
Harper called on Congress to provide resources for schools to help create positive learning environments and to help support students with emotional and behavioral concerns.
Broward County Superintendent Robert Runcie has been pushubg back against criticisms of his district's discipline plan. He's emphasized that it focuses on non-violent behaviors.
That plan includes a matrix that recommends or mandates certain responses for various student behaviors. For some behaviors, schools could opt to enroll students in the PROMISE diversionary program as an alternative to a law enforcement referral.
The district has no record of Cruz committing an infraction that might have placed him in the PROMISE discipline program while he was in school, Runcie said in a statement submitted to the committee. The matrix allows staff to consult with law enforcement on the first offense for a variety of behaviors, including a major fight, hazing, sexual misconduct, an assault that causes injury, the threat of such an assault, and battery.
"The District's position with the PROMISE program and school discipline reform efforts, in partnership with local law enforcement, has always been explicitly clear— that there is no intent to limit or tie the hands of law enforcement in doing their jobs in addressing school safety," Runcie's statement said.
Eden acknowledged that the Broward County program was created by the district's own volition before the Obama directive was put into place, but he said many districts have adopted similar approaches to student discipline since the 2014 guidance.
He also acknowledged that the guidance doesn't explicitly prohibit or limit student arrests.
"My issue is that this policy of explicitly trying to push these numbers down can inhibit the good and fair judgment of school resource officers to issue arrests where they may be warranted, and those arrests then feed into the system in a way that could have been constructive in this case," Eden said.
Questions about Cruz's disciplinary, mental health, and emotional history will likely be answered in coming months. A school safety bill recently signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, established a state commission with subpoena power to investigate the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. And, at Runcie's recommendation, the school district has hired an outside consulting agency to conduct a review of Cruz's history with the district and the policies that were in place while he was a student.
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NarayanKripa Sundararajan, PhD in educational psychology, has gleaned as much as possible from her time at Washington State University. Graduating in December, she looks back at her time here with gratitude.
Encouraged by her advisor, Dr. Olusola Adesope, Kripa has been actively involved in a number of student organizations and initiatives throughout her time here, including the International Center Coffee Hours, Graduate Students of Education, and the Professional Development Initiative (PDI). She has been awarded professional development and travel grants by the Graduate & Professional Students Association and the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Educational/Counseling Psychology six times over the years.
These events helped Kripa, who is originally from India, understand the processes that lead to success. And it has paid off. Kripa has a job waiting for her when she graduates.
Kripa was awarded the Charles Allen Master’s Thesis Award in 2015 for research on improving critical thinking skills in the kindergarten classroom, also done during her time at WSU. More recently, Kripa’s dissertation focused on the effect of seductive details – the results of including interesting information that is tangentially connected to the learning content but irrelevant to the learning objective.
In addition to her dissertation research and being actively involved on campus, Kripa has participated in a number of research projects resulting in three published papers, and six more in various stages of publication. One of the papers she coauthored with Dr. Adesope was among the top 10 most read education research articles in 2017. She also competed in the 2017 Three Minute Thesis competition sharing details on a project that examined the learning benefits of low-stakes testing. The Three Minute Thesis competition is a research communication challenge that dares students to consolidate their research to one PowerPoint slide and one three-minute speech.
Kripa’s educational experience provides her with a comparative foundation. Having attended 11 schools, she believes WSU has provided her with important values.
Kripa notes that the unique community of support at WSU was crucial to her success, and offers some wisdom to other graduate students.
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No, currently PBS does not support video downloading for offline viewing.
Passport videos are included with our online streaming services through PBS.org or supported apps and websites. A network connection is required to stream these videos.
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A pitch clock won’t be coming to Major League Baseball. Not yet at least.
The league announced Monday this year’s new pace-of-play rules, and they’re highlighted by compromise. A long-talked-about pitch clock, which the MLB Players Association didn’t want, is off the table for now. Instead, MLB is putting a limit on mound visits — six per nine-inning game, whether they’re from coaches in the dugout or players on the field.
Last year, the average time for a nine-inning game in Major League Baseball was 3:05, up from 3:00 in 2016 and up almost 10 minutes from 2:56 in 2015. And those numbers are much higher than 20 and 30 years ago. The average nine-inning game was 2:52 in 1997 and 2:47 in 1987.
As much as MLB is pushing this as a compromise, union chief Tony Clark made it clear in a statement that his organization is still worried about the “fabric of the game,” which could mean that not everyone was on board with this compromise or the union is already lobbying against the pitch clock for next year.
a. 2018 Championship Season. Mound visits without a pitching change shall be limited to six (6) per team, per nine innings. For any extra-innings played, each Club shall be entitled to one additional non-pitching change mound visit per inning.
b. OBR 5.10(l). Official Baseball Rule 5.10(l), which governs mound visits by a manager or coach, remains in effect (i.e., a pitcher must be removed on the second visit by a manager/coach in an inning).
(3) Cross-Up in Signs. In the event a team has exhausted its allotment of mound visits in a game (or extra inning) and the home plate umpire determines that the catcher and pitcher did not have a shared understanding of the location or type of pitch that had been signaled by the catcher (otherwise referred to as a “cross-up”), the home plate umpire may, upon request of the catcher, allow the catcher to make a brief mound visit. Any mound visit resulting from a cross-up prior to a team exhausting its allotted number of visits shall count against a team’s total number of allotted mound visits.
Been told that there is no penalty for 7th visit to mound, that umps will just disallow it, which I see causing problems both hysterical and confrontational.
Other notable changes in the 2018 pace-of-play rules: The league is trying to speed up replay reviews by giving review rooms direct access to slow-motion camera angles and, as previously reported, the league will begin to monitor dugout phones to make sure teams aren’t using replay equipment to steal signs.
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Come join the Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties for the second of three spring 1st Saturday Workshops with Master Gardeners. This workshop will be held at the WSU Grays Harbor Extension Office meeting room.
This April workshop is especially for newcomers and gardeners wanting to learn more about how to start a garden in the Pacific Northwest. We will be discussing a variety of considerations for our area (moisture, what grows well/not well, etc.) as an introduction, followed by general soil amendment suggestions to begin improving your garden soil. We will end with information on starting seeds (when to start, what to start indoors, seeds vs starts, etc.) and demonstrate how to start seeds.
Cooperating agencies: Washington State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Grays Harbor County.
Welcome spring and bring your plant problems and questions to one of the Dennis Company/ Ace Hardware Spring Events in Grays Harbor or Pacific Counties on Saturday, April 6th.
The Plant Clinic team will be there to research any questions you might have. If you do have a plant question, please bring a sample of that plant with you, preferably in a sealed plastic bag.
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I would just like to say what a great trip you organised. The golf, hotels, and especially the driver and coach – every aspect of the trip went according to plan without a hitch.
The weather was especially kind.
Thanks from all the group.
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So its almost here. Mastered copies back from the Blasting Room in CO, and sounding great! Heres the Education EP cover photo done by our good friend Colin Cronin and Natalie Christensen. If you don’t recognize it, its where the three of us have called our home for the past sixteen months. An awesomely GROSS house on 700 east where we have ALL learned a lot of things. Thus the name of the EP. Stay tuned for its local release late January with the online release to be determined.
We played some shows this past week with the great Finn Riggins from Idaho. They were great. The girls of the animal house were nice enough to lend us their house for the night. Photos of that show to come. We then went on to Salt Lake City to play at the Woodshed. Supper fun week. Thanks guys for coming.
The Following are some very impressive show posters of theirs. Finn Riggins is going on to tour with Built to Spill & Disco Doom.
Recent news…. Sadly Hans Ringger is no longer with us as a bass player. We are all still friends and wish him the best in all of his projects in life. He was a great bass player and an amazing friend. Our new e.p. Will be out soon! Jan 30th is the local release date at velour be there!
Not so fresh off the press….
We were recently featured in two of Provo’s local news papers. Both the Daily Universe and the Daily Herald. More or less the same articles. Our good pal Spencer Flanagan writes for both papers. So check’em out. They tell pretty much what we’ve been up to and what we have planed for the near future. We also had a show last saturday up here in Provo and MMMAANNNN was it fun. Thanks to all those who came. Here is the flyer for it. So thats what’s new as of now. Stay tuned and keep you’re eyes on the media section of this blog. We’ve been getting some good footage of shows and behind the scenes action.
We’re in the process of hammering out the dates for a two week, west coast tour. Here’s the show poster we’ve made up. Feel free to copy and pass it around for promotion in you’re town. See you sooooon!
What a blast, its The Appleseed Cast!
well if anyone even reads this thing yet, here you go. we (shark speed) are scheduled to play a show with ONE of our all time favorite bands The Appleseed Cast. this is very exciting to us and is a little shout out to them for sticking with it all these years and providing quality music for the rest of the world. we’re getting really pumped! hope you are too!
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The Memorial House of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whose father came from Kodzadzik, opened in the village on Monday.
President Gjorge Ivanov said Macedonia is proud to be called the native country of Ataturk’s father.
“We remain consistent with the traditionally excellent cooperation with friendly Turkey. I believe Turks in Macedonia, as well as the thousands of emigrants of Macedonian descent in Turkey will continue to be our ambassadors of friendship and cooperation between the two nations”, said Ivanov.
Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska highlighted the significance of the memorial house in promoting the ideas of Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey.
“The Memorial House is a strong argument in the promotion of understanding through culture. The facility includes a memorial house and the family home of the Ataturk family. It is a proof of the permanent friendship between Macedonia and Turkey”, added Kanceska-Milevska.
Macedonian and Turkish Vice Premiers, Vladimir Pesevski and Emrullah Isler respectively, also addressed the event, stressing the enormous friendship between the two nations and states.
The memorial house was constructed by the Ministry of Culture and Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency – TIKA.
According to Macedonian and Turkish historians and archaeologists, Ataturk’s family had lived in Kodzadzik in the second half of the 19. century. By the end of the century, Ataturk’s father Ali Riza emigrated to Solun and married Zubeyde Hanım. Kemal Mustafa was born there and later enrolled at the Bitola Military High School.
The Friendship, Equality and Peace Party, representing the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Greece, will take part in Sunday’s European Parliament elections for the first time, contesting the polls with 38 candidates.
Speaking to an Anadolu Agency reporter in Athens, the party’s chairman, Mustafa Ali Cavus, said Saturday that the party felt obliged to participate in elections ‘as a last resort,’ as he claimed the Greece government does not help solve the Turkish minority’s problems in many areas.
“We will participate in the EU parliamentary elections to raise our voice in a democratic way,” Cavus said.
The party’s vice president and a candidate for a seat in the European Parliament, Ozan Ahmetoglu, said that the elections are an opportunity to make the Turkish minority more visible.
Ahmetoglu said the minority had many issues, which were compounded by economic difficulties, including a youth unemployment level that stands higher than the national rate.
The European Union is holding parliamentary elections, which last four days through Sunday, when the majority of EU member states will hold their national vote.
The Friendship, Equality and Peace Party was founded in 1991 to represent the interests of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace.
Posted by Yilan in Trakya, Yunanistan.
Why Sabiha Suleiman, a minority within a minority, never stood a chance.
A few weeks before the much-touted European parliamentary elections, there were reports in the Greek press that a Muslim Roma activist by the name of Sabiha Suleiman would be a candidate, running with the left-of-centre main opposition party Syriza. Shockingly, Suleiman’s candidacy was over almost as soon as it was announced.
What was intriguing was that a fellow Syriza candidate, who happens to be a vice president of the esteemed International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) advocacy group, went on record to say that he personally had made every effort to ensure Sabiha Suleiman was struck off the ballot.
Dimitris Christopoulos, the candidate in question, on paper, has an impeccable record in the field of progressive politics and human rights. Apart from his role in the FIDH, Christopoulos is a noted academic, specialising in minority rights. Moreover, he recently edited and co-authored a report examining the rise of ultra-right extremism, xenophobia and racism within the Greek state apparatus, on behalf of a think-tank directly linked to Germany’s leftist party Die Linke.
What was the reasoning behind what can only be called an attack on Suleiman, who through her work in the Roma settlement of Drosero, in the northeastern region of Thrace, has produced measurable and commendable improvement in the lives of Muslim Roma children and women, through education and self-empowerment? Incidentally, Syriza placed labour activist Kostadinka Kuneva, a Bulgarian immigrant who was the victim of an acid attack because of her political views and actions, on the same European ballot. So striking Suleiman off could in no way be perceived as an attempt at assuaging possibly bigoted Greek voters.
The reason Christopoulos initially gave for his statements and actions was that Suleiman’s candidacy would be a show of support for nationalism in an area of Greece which is plagued by it, to the detriment of those Greek Muslims who define themselves as ethnically Turkish. He even said that the Muslim minority in Thrace is a “unified Turkish thing”, and – initially – made no mention of those Muslims who define themselves as Roma or Pomak, a Slav-speaking ethnic group.
The reason Christopoulos initially gave for his statements and actions was that Suleiman’s candidacy would be a show of support for nationalism in an area of Greece which is plagued by it, to the detriment of those Greek Muslims who define themselves as ethnically Turkish.
Suleiman at the same time was smeared by those media supporting Syriza as someone who had received funding from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and nationalist circles. In response, Suleiman, who defines herself as a Greek Roma Muslim woman, said all this was happening because the Turkish consulate in Thrace was targeting her, as they wanted to ensure that the Muslim Roma were absorbed into the Turkish minority. Worryingly, there are reports that Suleiman has been physically attacked at least twice and that she receives threats almost every day. The mainstream media and the governing coalition parties seized the opportunity to accuse Syriza of catering to the interests of a foreign power.
To say that things got messy and complicated would be an understatement. Before proceeding, let us set out some of the issues in question: self-identification, self-determination, gender, class, ethnicity, social class, citizenship, religion, memory, history, politics, diplomacy. What happens when all these combine to form an explosive mix? And what happens when one minority, itself the victim of discrimination, discriminates against another, less numerous minority?
To get a sense of why things are the way they are in Greek Thrace, we have to travel back in time to 1923, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Greece and the then newly-formed Turkey signed the Lausanne peace treaty. It foresaw the forced relocation of nearly 2 million people, considered a progressive step at the time. The primary criterion for defining ethnicity was religion. Muslims living in Greece were relocated to Turkey and Christians living in Turkey to Greece. Two groups were spared: Those Greeks living in Istanbul as well as on two islands at the mouth of the Dardanelles; and the Muslim population of western Thrace which ethnically was comprised of Turks, Pomaks and Roma. One of the best accounts of what happened, combining exemplary research and a well-written narrative structure, is Bruce Clark’s Twice a Stranger.
In Greece, those members of what the Lausanne Treaty called the “Muslim minority” during the Cold War were treated by the Greek state as a Turkish minority. Turkey was a NATO ally and the fear that the Slav-speaking Pomaks would side with Communist Bulgaria was greater. This changed when Greece and Turkey clashed over the issue of Cyprus, which Turkey invaded in 1974. Relations between Greece and Turkey have markedly improved since, but for those suffering the consequences of diplomacy, there is still a sense of being pawns in a game.
But let us return to petty politics. In all the mayhem surrounding Suleiman, another candidacy passed comparatively unnoticed: that of Photini Tomai, head of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ archives, who is running with the governing New Democracy party and who called Syriza’s stance towards Suleiman “treasonous”. Among Tomai’s accomplishments is a book on the Greeks who died at Auschwitz concentration camp, an official publication of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
So why mention this? It is less well known that the Roma were themselves the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. No Greek foreign ministry publication has been commissioned for those Greek Roma who were killed, Christian or Muslim. In any case, the Roma, Europe’s biggest minority, remain on the margins of society and discrimination against them is rampant.
So which minority deserves more support? The regrettable situation for those Greek Muslims in Thrace who define themselves as ethnic Turks or ethnic Pomaks, in the face of the inadequacies of the Greek state, material and political, is a given. But Suleiman bears the additional burden of not being able to rely on support from a renascent Turkey, a country today part of the G20 group of developed nations. An openly pro-Turkey political party has been set up in Greek Thrace, whose discourse is similar to that of the Turkish state.
Moreover, a key member of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s cabinet hails from Greek Thrace and reportedly takes a keen interest in the area. Interestingly, again because of the Lausanne Treaty, Greek Thrace is the only region in Europe where Sharia law applies. This has specific implications as to the rights of women. Suleiman, as a Muslim Roma woman, belongs to a minority within a minority within another minority. How do political institutions, how do societies, how do social groups, deal with such issues? Usually they do not.
Ironically, Turkey itself abolished Sharia in 1926, adopting the Swiss civil code. Speaking of Switzerland, apart from being one of the most industrialised countries in the world on a per capita basis, it granted women the right to vote only in 1971. Would that imply Switzerland’s success is based on the limitations of the rights of women? Of course not. It is time we make proper correlations between cause and effect, especially towards those most vulnerable in our societies.
Posted by Yilan in Turkey, Yunanistan.
The Turkish island of Bozcaada is known for its vineyards, pictured here Sept. 4, 2013.
The Turkish media reported earlier this month that four Greek families had decided to leave Greece and (re)settle on the island of Gokceada, in Turkey’s northern Aegean region, encouraged by the reopening of a Greek primary school there. What was reported as a “small” story is actually of great significance given Turkey’s deep-rooted hostile policies toward its minorities.
Summary Ankara’s softening minority policies have encouraged several Greek families to return to their native lands in Turkey, but a genuine reconciliation requires farther-reaching steps.
The two islands mentioned in the reports — Gokceada and Bozcaada, or Imbros and Tenedos in Greek — had overwhelmingly Greek populations throughout their history until the 1960s, when Turkey’s policies drastically changed their demography. The number of ethnic Greeks has since dwindled to several hundred, while the number of Turks shot up to the tens of thousands.
Over the decades, Turkey’s ethnic Greeks became scapegoats whenever the Turkish minorities in Cyprus or Greece suffered oppression or Turkey’s relations with Greece were strained. Populated heavily with Greeks, Gokceada and Bozcaada bore the brunt of Turkey’s antagonistic attitudes vis-à-vis its ethnic Greek citizens. In 2008, European Parliament rapporteur Andreas Gross penned a comprehensive report on the two islands’ historical and cultural fabric and detailed the plight of their former Greek inhabitants. One of the most striking sections documents how the Greeks were forced to leave.
Gross wrote that the Greek islanders’ fate took a turn for the worse following the 1960 military coup in Turkey. The Greek schools on the islands were closed in 1964 amid Greek-Turkish ethnic strife in Cyprus, and the Greeks’ farmland was largely expropriated. The establishment of an “open prison” (agricultural prison) on Gokceada and the criminal acts the inmates committed against the Greek islanders drove many to emigrate. Gross said authorities failed to effectively intervene, but documents that emerged in later years indicate that criminal acts were in fact part of deliberate state policy.
In the recording, the officer speaking, Col. Bulent Tuncay, head of the 1st Army’s Planning and Operations Department, is telling his colleagues that the acts committed against the Greeks were actual “state policy.” Gross asserted that the closure of Greek-language schools in 1964 was the primary factor that drove the Greek islanders to leave. In light of this background, the reopening of a Greek school in Gokceada after five decades, an insignificant development in itself, represents an important sign of change in a fundamental policy.
Another important sign emerged on Dec. 13, 2013, when Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with former Greek inhabitants of Gokceada during a visit to Athens. Paris Asanakis, head of the Imbros Association and a meeting participant, said Davutoglu extended an invitation to the 25,000 Gokceada Greeks scattered around the world to apply to regain their Turkish citizenship. Davutoglu’s visit and the drive to reopen Greek schools in Gokceada appears to have warmed Greek emigrants to the idea of returning to their native islands.
Not all members of Turkey’s Greek minority, however, agree with Massavetas. Ethnic Greek journalist and Istanbul native Mihail Vasiliadis, for instance, argues that the “hate speech” targeting Greeks in Turkey today must first come to an end before a return could become possible.
As I have noted in previous articles for Al-Monitor, the AKP government’s policy vis-à-vis non-Muslim minorities signals a break from the Kemalist militarist state tradition, but a comprehensive overhaul is yet to take place. It would be premature to say that Turkey has adopted policies that embrace non-Muslims and encourage their mass return. For instance, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan often refers to Turkey’s various ethnic groups to emphasize the country’s heterogeneous fabric, but his list remains limited to such Muslim communities as Arabs, Circassians, Kurds and Turks.
Nevertheless, the AKP government’s softening of Turkey’s historically hostile policies toward minorities and the return of several Greek families to the picturesque Aegean islands is inspiring hope for the future.
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Hello, I have a question, what is the best way to stabilize the trail hand putter takeaway? Is it a matter of grip style or rather of a grip size? Or perhaps something related to technique? I can see my putter head is vey unstable when taking away. Thanks.
Are you asking what to do about your right hand (if you are playing right handed)? Is it too active you think?
If your putter is unstable in the takeaway, I'm guessing it might either be that you are not in a neutral setup, causing your hands/arms to not follow your natural arc/path without manipulating it. Or it could be as I asked above, that you are simply too active with your right hand.
Where does the motion stem from in your stroke? Shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, torso, combination of some of them? You will find great putters who drive the stroke with all of those parts, but it might be worth experimenting with trying to start the stroke with some other group of muscles than you are doing now, to see if that helps stabilise the putter.
Many people who feel their right hand is too dominant find success by going left hand low, claw grip, or by placing the hands right next to each other or on top of each other. A larger grip may help with that. Basically, just place your hands in some manner that makes your left hand/arm more dominant than the right, so the right side just follows along for the ride. For me personally, I have much more feel and control in my right arm than I do my left, so that is something that never worked for me. I do need to make sure my right elbow doesn't go pointing outwards though, because that causes me to move the putter head outside too much.
I understand I'm most likely not pinpointing your problem here, but hopefully it will give you something to think about and try! Good luck!
take the putter back with the shoulders not the hands. Think "one piece". And whatever you do, stop watching the putter head and focus on the ball!
For me finding a putter that fit my stroke helped alot. I have a slight to strong arc so when i used face balanced putters id bring it back outside and reroute to inside. Always seemed wobbly going back. Also i see guys try and take the putter back really slow and it looks forced not natural so go with a natural speed takeaway.
shoulders around your spine or head, creating a pendulum like stroke.
ground - your putter is now "on plane" and very stable throughout the stroke.
Thanks to all who responded. Yes I think my right hand is too active because I am a heavily right-handed guy.
For me the claw was the solution. I found my right hand trying to “guide” the putter head back which would usually lead to it going back shut and outside. With the claw, I also try to feel my right elbow tucked into my right pants pocket. Obviously this is not “do able” but for me, it positions my right arm under my shoulders and doesn’t allow me to take it outside.
I suggest the claw but you should try to find something that works for you. Putting is very individual.
Grip it more firmly in your left hand - the right hand is along for the ride. The hands are together as Ben Crenshaw would say but you will have more relaxed pressure in the left hand.
I have a similar issue - it's mental going back even in a rock the shoulders one piece takeaway. I've quickened the speed of the stroke to .9-1 second and go for a 2:1 tempo.
I've even taken the right hand off the grip so it surrounds the left hand ala the Pat O'Brien (SeeMore) Hand Putting Grip. But not staying over the ball, letting the air out of you to relax and then immediately taking the stroke in a good rhythm and speed seems to work. I'm great on the practice green and fine on about 12/18 greens, but it's a mental issue for me.
OK, I will try all methods.
Another thing I've noticed which I think is bad is that my wobbling backswing is longer than my foreswing after hitting the ball. Perhaps this is also related to my problems.
I know the issue of an overactive right hand and tried pretty much everything there is (****, I even went side-saddle for a 27-hole stretch early this year). I recently started putting with an arm-lock putter (kuchar method) and there is nothing out there for me that takes the hands out as much as armlock.
You often hear suggestions to take the right hand out of the stroke. Lot's of great teachers suggest moving the whole triangle as a whole. But... There are also many great teachers who have a different approach. Many will have a new student start out putting balls with only one arm, than switch to the other arm. When they have determined which arm you had an easier time with, this will be the dominant arm in your stroke. And there are many great examples of both kinds of players. Stricker is very left arm dominant in his putting stroke, Tiger is very right arm dominant in his putting stroke.
I'm just a random guy on the Internet so take it for what it's worth, but when you say that "I think my right hand is too active because I am a heavily right-handed guy", this makes me skeptical about you being able to find any natural feel for distance by taking your right side out of the stroke, without having to practice a huge amount of time.
Same with the follow through, lot's of great putters have very short follow throughs, Brandt Snedeker goes to the extent of saying "Follow through is the most overrated thing in putting". So just because some teachers may advocate a longer follow through, does not necessarily mean it's the only way to do it.
I get you are asking questions here because you are having issues with your putting, so I'm not suggesting that you should ignore all advice and continue with what you are doing. I would just recommend that you at least question and think about why you believe you are too right arm dominant and have a too short follow through. What issus are they causing you? This may, but also may not be the problem you are having with a wobbly back stroke. As I said in my first post, to me it sounds more like a setup issue than anything else, but of course I have never seen you putt, so I'm just guessing.
If you would really like to feel what a more shoulder driven stroke feels like, I can highly recommend the Garsen G Max grip. I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just a fan, because it automatically makes your stroke more shoulder driven without you having to do much. I actually don't use that grip any more because after a while I realised that I do need to have more of an arm swing for me to get a better feel for distance. But that grip taught me a lot and puts you in a very natural setup.
How about methods to take the lead hand out of the stroke?
For me it's more of a feel thing, I just feel like I'm bowling the ball with my right hand. I'm very much a right handed person, so I don't have to think about letting it dominate the stroke, it just happens. But here is an interesting video that definitely takes one of your arms out of the stroke. It's a little extreme for me personally, but I understand the logic and I'm sure it's effective for many people. Can be used for either left or right arm.
Hi all, I checked many possibilities and I obtained the best results by placing the ball further from my body. No wobbling takeaway any more. Elbows are nicely at sides of my torso. However, not having my eyes almost over ther ball brought another problem which is pulling the ball left on a constant basis. Any thoughts? Thanks.
In that case, it sounds like maybe you are not bringing the head enough on the inside of the line on the way back. If you are standing further from the ball and take the putter back too straight, it is very easy to close the head too soon on the way forward. More free flowing, less rigid. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Try that and let me know.
If the putter is more comfortable farther away from your body.....you may want to flatten the lie angle to eliminate the pulls.
Try "pinning" your elbows in, against your mid-section, with your hands low. I found, that with arms too loose and disconnected from the body, it's really easy to lose track of your hands in the stroke. With the elbows in slightly and a little pressure against the chest/abdomen, the body is forced to rock at the shoulder to make a stroke, and the results are much more consistent.
Yes, it can be the issue. I take the head back straight slightly to the outside. Also observed my shoulders are open to the target line a bit as I am a right eye dominant person. But my takeaway is not wobbling anymore which feels great.
I did it without any improvement.
My elbows are very stable anchored on my body now when I am standing farther away from the ball.
Upload or link a video(YouTube), it would help a lot to see what's happening in your stroke. I think the wobbliness can be cured without having to stand away so far. If you held your hands lower(possibly shorter putter), and played the ball closer, you could find a similar shaft angle as you have now standing far back. This could create the feel you're experiencing now, but with your eyes more above the ball/line.
Lastly, a grip overhaul might be in order. I went from a traditional grip, to a Vardonish with my index finger down, to slowly moving my low hand up(more fingers overlapping on top of upper hand). Now, my lead hand(left) grips fully as normal, but my trail hand(right) is half holding the bottom part of my lead hand(overlapping, with only my middle finger, index and thumb of trail(RH) touching the grip. I'm convinced that melding the two hands together, as much as possible without feeling awkward, is the key to consistency.
I have tooled with both and determined that I need to use my right hand to put a good stroke on the ball.
Lots of good stuff here but it belongs in the instruction forum.
Anyone has an advice for right eye dominant fellows how to address the ball correctly without a necessity to close the dominant eye ? Also detrmining a line while standing in front of the ball does not work for me; when I address the ball I simply have to look at the ball again and open shoulders unintentionally. Any thoughts here ?
Line up a straight putt, maybe 10-15 feet or so. Then place a ball marker one foot from your ball, that you know is right on line. So you know that you have to roll the ball over the marker to make the putt.
Now get setup over the ball. From that position, does it still look like you need to roll the ball over the marker for it to go in? If not, you need to find a setup position that makes you see the line correctly. It's trial and error just moving around. Eye's over the ball or more inside the ball, moving the ball further forward or back in your stance, leaning your head, tilting your head, standing taller, standing more bent over etc. etc.
Look at all the best putters in the world, very few of them have the exact same setup. Everyone see's the line from different places. Once you see the line, you can get to work on your stroke. But I think you were already on to something a few posts back when you said you have a tendency to bring the putter back on the outside of the line. That is going to create problems no matter how you stand.
Ps. I have just tried it on the carpet and I don't **** believe it ! The marker is set straight at the target looking from behind the ball but while addressing it seems I'd pull it left of the target big time if I roll over the marker ! Unbelievable ! I need to close my stance a lot to feel the marker is on the way to the target. I'll experiment with it more and revert to it. I am both terrified and thrilled, **** it.
Aim with a line drawn on the ball, no need to "see" the line at address if you can use the ball as your direction. If you're eyes are playing tricks on you, this solves it.
Also if you adjust your height / stance, etc you might need to change the lie on your putter to match otherwise you'll have a pull/push depending on toe up/down.
Update : when I look at the marker with either left eye (non-dominant) or both eyes iot's hard to believe the marker had been set properly; it looks I will horribly pull the ball left if I roll the ball over the markwer; however, when I look with my rear eye only (dominant) suddenly the marker is on the way to the hole and all putts go perfectly straight to the hole.
Now I wonder what should I do: putting with my left eye closed is not very comfortable because my nose disturbs the view; otoh while putting with both eyes open I need to forget about the marker for the reasons I described in the first part of my post. Perhaps the best way is to set up the direction with the marker and my right eye only and just turn my head more. Thoughts?
I put 3/4 roll of lead tape on the bottom of the shaft. No wobble. And it smooths out the stroke. And enhances feel for me. I'm very rh dominant. When I putt I pretend I'm not putting, but chipping, and push the clubhead out along the line. Seems to take the stress out. Been doing this tape-thing since the beginning; always preferred a heavy putter. And the bowling comment above might apply to me as well.
Everyone that tries my heavy putter really likes it.
Now that I think about it, chipping with the pw has removed a lot of stress around the green. I used to just grab the putter and sw, but always felt stress with the sw. A buddy in Phoenix, mike burlaka, always used his pw, and was deadly with it. I recently started using the pw, using my putting stroke for the most part and have never been better around the greens.
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Chris Kirk holed an 18-foot putt for eagle on his final hole for a 9-under 63 and a one-shot lead Thursday in the RSM Classic.
Kirk played the par 5s on the Plantation Course at Sea Island Golf Club in 5 under.
The seven lowest scores of the opening round came on the Plantation Course during a picturesque afternoon on the Golden Isles. Sporting a University of Georgia hat Thursday, Kirk won at Sea Island four years ago for the second of his four PGA Tour victories.
The tournament is the final PGA Tour event of the calendar year, and Kirk is sorting out equipment changes.
Joel Dahmen had a 64.
“I think it played a little easier today,” Dahmen said. “The wind was down, greens were a little softer over here on the Plantation side. But just kept the ball in front of me and made a bunch of 8- to 10-footers.
Sea Island resident Hudson Swafford was at 65 at the Plantation along with Jason Kokrak and Brian Gay.
He played alongside fellow former Georgia players Bubba Watson and Brian Harman.
“We are right in the heart of Dawgs’ territory, mine and Harman’s backyard, so it’s kind of nice,” Swafford said.
Though, his caddie wore an Auburn shirt.
“We don’t need to talk about that,” said Swafford, not needing to be reminded that Auburn beat Georgia in football last week.
Brandt Snedeker opened with a 67 in his first return from a sternum injury that sidelined him since the Travelers in June.
Harman shot 69, and Watson had a 71.
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Olen seurannut mielenkiinnolla Suomen naapurin ja itselle tärkeän maan Viron itsenäisyyden juhlimista näin Suomen juhlinnan jälkeen. Sain kunnian olla vieraana, kun Turussa juhlittiin 100-vuotista Viroa. Puheet pitivät presidentti Tarja Halonen ja Viron pääministeri Jüri Ratas. Sain myös nauttia musiikista, jota esittivät Iris ja Tauno Saviauk. Maamme-laulua tulee nykyään enemmän soitettua itse, mutta tässä tilaisuudessa lauloin viroksi! Myös kahvitilaisuus oli maistuva.
On erikoinen tunne saapua itsenäisyyttä juhlistavaan juhlaan sen jälkeen, kun on harjoitellut maanpuolustamista metsässä lähes kaksi viikkoa. Kai sille voi antaa suuremman merkityksen ja kokea hieman lähemmin. Toivoa, että oma itsenäinen maa on turvattu niin meillä kuin muuallakin.
Oli ihanaa kuunnella elävää musiikkia pitkästä aikaa. Se houkutteli ja innosti. Nyt vain muut asiat vievät ajan soittamiselta. Olen sentään silloin tällöin päässyt kasaamaan soittimen, mutta useamman päivän tauot eivät tee hyvää toistuvasti. Vielä pari kuukautta.
I have been interested in Estonia’s celebrations of independency. The country reached 100 years as Finland did last year. For me the country is important as I spent there 2 years studying. It was an honor to be invited to celebrate Estonia in Turku. There were two orations by the former Finnish president Tarja Halonen and the prime minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas. I also enjoyed music played by Iris and Tauno Saviauk. I am used to nowadays to play more often than sing myself the Finnish National Hymn. Estonia has the same melody and this time I was singing not in Finnish but in Estonian! Also there were very tasty snacks.
It is a special feeling to participate this kind of celebration of independency after spending almost two weeks in forests learning how to defend my home country. Perhaps I could sense a bigger meaning and it was more real. I can only hope, that my country will keep it’s independency in the future as I hope it for any country.
This entry was posted in Musician in the Army on March 2, 2018 by helipauliina.
Vihdoin sain päivitettyä menneet keikat. Samalla päätin laskea kuluvan vuoden keikat ja konsertit ja tällä hetkellä on tehty 71. Vielä on yksi jäljellä sunnuntaina jouluaattona. Sitä on mahdollista seurata myös TV:stä.
Tuntuu hyvältä saada vuosi päätökseen, mutta samalla odottaa taas erilaiset ajat. Aloitan työntekijöiden kurssin tammikuussa, joten muusikko palaa armeijaan. Se tarkoittaa myös, että ensi vuoden alun osalta kaikki Laivaston soittokunnan esiintymiset jäävät minulta tekemättä.
Toivottavasti kuitenkin ehdin soittaa itsekseni edes jonkin verran. Mielessä on taas uusia projekteja, joita toivottavasti ensi vuoden aikana pääsisi toteuttamaan.
Finally I updated my past performances. This year I have done 71 gigs and one more is going to be on Sunday 24th of December. It is possible to see that gig via Finnish TV and in the Internet (Yle Areena).
It’s pretty good feeling that soon we will wrap up this year. However, it also means a new period in my life. I will begin a course that means “going back to the army”. Because of that I won’t be playing in the Finnish Navy Band performances in the beginning of the year.
I hope I have some time to use for playing anyway. I have some ideas that would be great to organize next year.
At the end a picture from Declaration of Christmas Peace in Finland from 50’s or 60’s. I saw the picture on the wall of “American Diner” restaurant in the Turku city center.
This entry was posted in Finnish Navy Band, Musician in the Army, Performance on December 18, 2017 by helipauliina.
I’ve been away from playing for a short while. I wanted to write about it but I didn’t know what to tell. It hasn’t been my longest break and I didn’t completely quit practicing.
So I was doing some more military training to be qualified for my job. The first period was basic military education for the navy. I learned to do some sea soldier stuff which is in a way cool but on the other hand I wasn’t very good since I have no earlier experience. Also I survived one week in the forests again. If I look it as a musician it was easy for me to study books and do exams but I’ve spent most of the time with my instruments when these young guys have been training their muscles.
This week I began the second period of the education that will happen in the band. And I am excited! On Friday we will have a nice concert with music from the West Side Story among others. I also practiced Poulenc’s clarinet sonata today together with the pianist for the first time. That one I will perform in November in chamber music concerts. If nothing else, the first period of the training reminded me how much I love the playing and music. And I can make a living from it.
There is also one other interesting project emerging. We wanted to create a clarinet quartet here in Turku but now it seems it is going to be a trio. Anyway, we had to think what is it and how it should be. And I realized what was my motivation. In a bigger orchestra there is always the short amount of time to concentrate on one program and everyone is doing their best to handle it. We have had quite complicated programs this year and after some concerts I wished that I would have had more time to practice and get deeper into the music. Also playing alone is just not that much fun as with other people. In a small group it is easier to work things out. So I understood that for me this trio is a possibility to focus on making music that we want and refine the details without any stress to make it ready just yet. Of course we agreed that we would like to perform but I think it will come when we feel like we have created something together. Developing as a musician needs also a bit time and freedom.
At the end as a reminder: Check the future coming concerts of the Finnish Navy Band (and also the chamber music evenings) from here!
This entry was posted in Concerts, Musician in the Army, musician's lifestyle, Performance on October 18, 2016 by helipauliina.
254 days behind. One more ahead.
It is difficult to explain how it feels to be here doing the service. I had no idea. So I believe it’s only possible to know if you do it yourself. Anyway, my service has been very different than for the of the most people. I have visited quite many barracks around Finland and played for the last veterans of the wars of Finland. I have also played in many public concerts and had quite a lot contact with the civil life. And soon it will be my job.
During the last days I’ve got a promotion (leading seaman) and I passed the Cooper test. We had concerts both on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s concert was a part of “Puhallinpäivät” (Wind Days) in Turku. I met lots of old friends around the Finland. The concert was great. We had Olli Leppäniemi as a soloist and everyone was thrilled.
On Sunday we played in the cathedral and in the middle of the event Antti’s clarinet cracked. So I played the first clarinet part from that moment on.
After this I’ve stayed in the barracks slowly packing and giving away the materials.
Sometimes time goes slowly. But it never stops.
This entry was posted in Musician in the Army on March 15, 2016 by helipauliina.
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Will they get a plot?
Are we returning to the punter plot? Which we did nothing with the first time? But now, we’ll have the unendurable dramatic tension of Kaz trying to keep Bolek on the team even though Kaz doesn’t know all the “Elevator to the Gallows” trivia.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Teenchy, My Man, I’ll have some haiku in the future as I like your versions, and the TWIMers versions in general, but GOTTA HAND IT TO YA, dipping into White Album territory absolutely MANGLES this plot. You come through again, Mt Friend.
And while appreciate the diversion to the Cooking Channel, I’m sure Kelly can low-burn a pot roast ‘n’ veggies on the Crock Pot(“careful not to spend too much time at the Bridge Club, check in every 3-4 hours”) with the best of ’em but, honestly Rachel Ray and the VideoHound are appearing more on the scene than football . I’ll take Howard Cosell’s occasional inane commentary on Monday Night Football, accompanied by Frank Gifford and Dandy Don “Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over” Meredith, over “The Chopping Block” in disguise.
I think Kaz should be a little less worried about organ grinding and more concerned about what Kelly plans on doing with that straight razor in panel 3. Fully unfolded, too! You didn’t think that was her thumb, did you?
I also like that Kelly made the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Dinner for both of them — a big bowl of popcorn, and buttered toast.
Oh great. We reach a point of dramatic tension (well, what passes for “dramatic tension” in these parts) in the Tiki storyline, so NOW it’s time to pivot back to the cineaste punter?
And the big reveal is that Meathead Kaz doesn’t really know anything about movies that don’t involve superheroes or blazing firearms? Shocked. I am shocked.
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Umony has become surplus to requirements at SuperSport just after a season and will now have to take the step down to the First Division for the new season after failing to win a move to Maritzburg United. The 21-year-old has signed a one-year deal with TUKS that will run in collaboration with the year that he had remaining on his SuperSport contract. SuperSport commercial manager Jose Ferreira confirms that Umony has left on a permanent transfer. "It is outright and he now belongs to TUKS," says Ferreira. SuperSport have already exhausted their foreign quota after re-signing Ethiopian striker Fikru Tefera in an attack line that already has Jose Perreira, Glen Salmon, Thabo Mongalo and Kermit Erasmus. Tefera's arrival also pushed Umony down the pecking order.
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Read through some commonly asked questions about financial aid, loans, consolidation, and more.
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Yes. Many families mistakenly think that they don't qualify for aid, so they don't apply. There are many sources of non-need based aid, but receipt of these types of aid also requires a financial aid application. Some sources of non-need based aid are unsubsidized Stafford loans, parent PLUS loans, Minnesota SELF loans and alternative collegiate loans.
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Tuitions and fees for a given academic year are generally set by mid-summer. See current tuition rates.
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The minimum amount of financial aid all freshman qualify for is $5,500 in an unsubsidized Stafford loan. Receipt of a subsidized loan, federal grant, or state grant depends on family income, family size and financial assets. You will receive an e-mail notification from Stout listing the aid you qualify for.
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We prefer that you file your FAFSA by March 15, which is our priority date. Filing as early as possible increases your chances to receive all the available aid types, if you qualify.
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A Federal Consolidation Loan is a loan that allows a borrower to combine all eligible federal education loans into a new loan with a single payment and an extended repayment period up to 30 years.
The Federal Direct Consolidation Loan website is a one-stop shop for information, resources, contact information and the consolidation application process: http://loanconsolidation.ed.gov.
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The Federal government offers a choice of repayment plans including a level payment plan and different graduated income-sensitive repayment plans. For specific details regarding repayment plans, visit the Federal Direct Loan Consolidation website: http://loanconsolidation.ed.gov. You will be asked to specify the repayment plan that best fits your needs on the Federal Consolidation Loan Application and Promissory Note.
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You may be eligible to receive additional deferments if, at the time you received your first Direct Loan, you had an outstanding balance on a loan made under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program before July 1, 1993. For a list of qualifying criteria, go to http://loanconsolidation.ed.gov/borrower/brights.html.
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In addition, we may give you a forbearance if you are temporarily unable to make your scheduled loan payments for reasons including, but not limited to, financial hardship or illness.
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Can I alter my loans after I consolidate?
You may add any other/new eligible loan(s) to your outstanding consolidation loan, provided you make the request within 180 days of the date the consolidation loan is made. You may also be eligible for a subsequent consolidation loan if you wish to consolidate your existing consolidation loan with at least one other eligible loan.
Once a loan is consolidated, you cannot undo the consolidation, because the borrower completed a promissory note.
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The Harriers go into the first of the festive League games with a visit to Forest Green Rovers. We'll be looking for our first ever League win there although we did win a Bob Lord Trophy game there back in 1998.
We'll be without Stuart Whitehead after his second sending off of the season last Saturday at Hinckley. The much maligned Setanta Trophy has cost us dear but it can be argued that Whitehead was equally to blame.
Apart from the Captain we have no injury problems and should be at full strength. Expect a bit of juggling with Andy Ferrell, Jon Munday and Gavin Hurren to fill in for Whitehead. Justin Richards should get a re-call to partner James Constable in place of Iyseden Christie after he stayed on the bench on Saturday.
We'll be up against the threat of FGR's leading scorer, and also the countries leading scorer, in Stuart Fleetwood and we'll have to be on our toes to stop him adding to his tally of twenty five goals so far this season.
Forest Green just have the one injury worry with Jamie Pitman but he is almost ready for his comeback from a hamstring injury and could be picked to face the Reds.
This is going to be a tough game - as they all are at FGR - but we could be good enough to come away with a draw. If we can only stop Fleetwood from scoring.
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So I saw a tweet yesterday; one of the Okoyes (P Squared) tweeted something about welcoming someone/something on bored (board). Someone else tweeted in response, “Rich but lack education” following which he was promptly blocked. But this is my thrust, and I’ve wondered this many times. Why do people consistently seem to look for ways to knock celebs down a peg or two? It baffles me.
Now I’m not talking about good natured yabs…those are perfectly normal and should even be expected. If as a public figure no one is yabbing you, you are not yet visible, but the relentless aggression, mockery and so on…well in my opinion it is more reflective of the speaker than the one spoken of. Just putting that out there.
So I popped over to Bella this afternoon and there was a piece on the topics listed above. If you haven’t read it, just click here.
Tyler Perry might have gotten that access because of his position, but that doesn’t make TD Jakes mercenary…it’s just the reaffirmation of a basic fact of life. The first part of Proverbs 18:16 says that a man’s gift makes room for him. Now I have always interpreted that verse 2 ways – first that a man’s ability or talent will create opportunities for him, but also very literally, that a gift in your hands will create opportunities for you. It is common practice – if you’re meeting someone that you admire or seek access to, you put together a gift (not a bribe please), an expression of their value in your eyes, it helps to make the right impression…also, when companies are trying to gain a new client, they will often put together gift baskets filled with selections from a carefully researched list of said potential client’s personal preferences and send them “With their sincere regards”…anyway I digress.
My point is, any way you choose to look at it, it is life – access is created based on what you carry – inside and outside. Alhaji Dangote can make a request of any government in Africa and see it granted, simply because of the immense weight he carries, and the possibilities that open based on acquaintance with him.
Even as we are, there are certain people who have more access in our lives than others, simply because of their position on our personal scale.
Was TD Jakes so overwhelmed by the $1 million cheque that he was willing to let Tyler Perry do anything he felt like? I think not. But did Tyler Perry’s gift create an opportunity or an environment for him to do something out of the ordinary? I believe so.
It’s a bit…maybe naïve..maybe unkind, to simply reduce Tyler Perry’s leeway to the money that he gave…it goes beyond that. He has leveraged his every gift to the fullest and continues to do so, and it has granted him access.
I do not wish to get close enough to TD Jakes to lay hands on him, but I do intend to hone my gifts and skills to the extent that when I need to walk into certain circles or have to get something or the other done, I will be assured that those doors of access will be opened to me.
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2019-04-26T04:28:15Z
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Why do I Need a Research Data Management Plan?
Quite simply, it is the management of research data. So the question is: what is research data? It is the data, in any format, that make up the results of observations, findings or outcomes of a research project. This includes any type of data, whether it be qualitative or quantitative.
It refers to all aspects of creating, housing, delivering, maintaining, archiving, and preserving data. It is one of the essential areas of responsible conduct of research.
Data Management refers to the storage, access and preservation of data produced from a given investigation. Data management practices cover the entire lifecycle of the data, from planning the investigation to conducting it, and from backing up data as it is created and used to long term preservation of data deliverables after the research investigation has concluded.
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Before we headed out to the southeast and then the middle, we headed just south to San Mateo and the 10th anniversary edition of Maker Faire Bay Area.
We have had the opportunity to attend several Maker Faire events in the past and it is always awesome to see the new things people have come up with since the last time we were there. One year, the trend was 3D printers. The next was the make your own 3D printer using only this book. The next was quadcopters and other radio controlled “drones”. The one after that had those drones in all shapes and sizes and doing battle in one of the exhibit halls.
This year had all of that stuff, but way more fine tuned than it used to be. The filament some of the booths had for 3D printing was very heavy and strong and not the super breakable and flexible plastic I had seen printed in the past. The drones, well, they’re still about the same. But even the tiny ones are equipped with HD cameras now. I was impressed by the Aerofly and Freerunner RC simulator programs that were being demoed at one booth. I hope to one day find time to take my own quadcopters back into the air!
In the realm of 3D printing, my other favorite thing was the Imaginary Spaces booth. Imaginary Spaces lets you design things in their app, currently only on PC and MAC but beta testing on iOS and later Android soon. Once you have your design configured you can virtually walk through it or export it to Minecraft or 3D print it. They had tiny 3D printed castle rings they were giving away and demonstration models of elaborate dollhouses and one architectural model that looked very professionally done, all made through their software.
In the back corners of the Tesla dark room and the 3D village were the virtual reality folks. In the 3D village I got to see the cameras used to shoot a 3D OK Go video. In the Tesla dark room, I got to watch others marvel at the technology behind the Oculus Rift, the Google Cardboard, the Gear VR and plunge head first into VR with a flying carpet demo using a Thrustmaster HOTAS controller.
At the other end of the faire, I got to check out the Ricoh Theta 360 degree camera. If it didn’t have a 4GB limitation and no way to change batteries, I would have been sold. I spent around 20 minutes talking to the folks at the Ricoh booth and am excited about their now a couple of year old technology. I hope the next model has expandable memory and changeable batteries.
I also saw other cool things like the Makey Makey and Drum Pants 2.0.
The most impressive sights though were the things that schoolchildren had come up with. Whether it be an exoskeleton that can lift 700 pounds or a telepresence robot that lets you see what the robot sees through an Oculus Rift, kids were showing me a world of tomorrow.
I wasn’t expecting much out of the 10th Maker Faire. The lineup of guests were not people that interested me. We spent five hours exploring and it ended up being a great time. I’m glad to see people still making awesome things and I definitely felt inspired by them.
After we got back from our cross country whirlwind tour following Mark Danielewski, we went back to work. Yeah, pretty boring stuff.
Tonight I went to see Alessandro Cortini at the Gray Area Festival. Gray Area is a arts and technology lab based in the Mission who recently renovated the long dead Grand Theater near 23rd and Mission and had a weekend festival to promote its grand opening. Today was Day 1.
I found out Alessandro was playing just yesterday and my wife was both not feeling well and not that interested in the show, so I braved it alone.
It was my first time going to a show flying a Schoeps hat, and while I didn’t think what I was doing was working, it turned out that I got a quiet but accurate document of the somewhat technical difficulty marred set.
Cortini played a 45 minute set of his latest works from his 2014 album Sonno backed by cool visuals on a giant movie screen. The theater was extremely dark during his performance and the crowd were all there seemingly to see the headliner, a guy named Lustmord who has been around for a long time but rarely plays shows.
I greatly enjoyed seeing Alessandro as he is one of my favorite artists. I was too tired to stick around for the big deal to everyone else headliner but am happy I made the trip out.
Now onward to a not busy holiday three day weekend.
May 22, 2015 in Event, Music, Nerddom.
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Picture this: You're sitting in your interview, having just given an answer, when you're faced with a wall of silence. You're desperate to know how your response was received, but the interviewer is, of course, keeping their cards close to their chest.
Or are they? According to behavioral expert Annie Sarnblad, they could be giving away a lot more than you think. The trick is to learn the cues.
Sarnblad is a specialist in micro-expressions, a grouping of brief, involuntary facial expressions that all humans make. They last mere milliseconds, but are impossible to hide, and Sarnblad says learning them can help us to make the most out of our interactions.
That could mean the difference between securing — or missing out on — that all important job, deal, or even date.
"Micro-expressions are completely subconscious and precede the speech process, but everybody makes them," Sarnblad told CNBC Make It at YPO Edge in Singapore.
"Being able to read them means you can figure out other people's true feelings and adapt the conversation."
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Sarnblad said the eyes can be especially revealing. When our pupils dilate, it indicates desire; when they contract, it shows disinterest. This is true for both professional and personal interactions, and can be applied to the negotiation table, for instance.
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But she added that live training sessions, where you can see the micro-expressions in action, provide the best training.
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This workshop offers you access to my top web tools for today’s business educator. Participants will visit these top web tools and discuss practical uses for them in today’s classroom. This list may change as new sites are made available so check back from time to time to see what has been added or changed.
BPA Advisers Do you need a safe way to text message or email students and parents? The connected classroom is rapidly evolving. Remind is a great one way communication between you and your students/parents Teachers never see students/parents phone numbers, nor will students/parents will they have to give it out. Signing up takes less than two minutes on the website. Remind helps innovative teachers take advantage of technology in a way that frees up their time. Watch this video to learn more.
Another similar tool I discovered is a twitter type site called Twiducate. Watch this video to learn more.
A great site to teach and build web pages is w3schools.com. This site offers free tutorials in all web development technologies. I also recommend Weebly which has been recently redesigned.
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Description: CalcMoolator offers over 50 free financial calculators for the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Some of the most popular calculators are: Tip Calculator, House Rent vs. Buy, Auto Loan Estimate, Auto Lease vs. Buy, Mortgage Payment Estimate, and Pay Off My Credit Card Debt Sooner (and much more!).
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Description: Free online journal. Similar to a blog and has enhanced formats and designs.
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Penzu is ideal for business communications classes or any class that has a writing project.
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Description: SlideShare is an excellent way to share presentations, documents and professional videos. Easy to get a free account to upload and share. On home page, click view all to get ideas.
Description: WeVideo is an online video creation platform that helps you tell compelling stories and share them with friends and family. It is one of the leading video creation platforms. Check it out!
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Description: Another free online photo editor that is easy and fun way to enhance your photos. They claim they are the most advanced.
Description: Online survey creator with easy analysis features. While the fee-based version has more features, the free version has ample features to be a viable tool that advances skill development when integrated into the curriculum.
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Using Surveymonkey is a natural for communications and marketing classes. The analysis portion can align with math, finance, and accounting.
Description: Glogging is a blog, notetaking, or PowerPoint alternative. The “presentation” is created on a virtual poster; audio and video can be added.
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Excellent for students and teachers. Works great for one or two minute lessons, tutorials, short stories such as debrief or prep for a job interview. Students can develop course content knowledge, sharp communication skills, and technology skills at the same time — a component of 21st Century Skills.
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Description: Organized online work-space for managing and sharing files. A variety of file types open in usable view and collaborators can comment or discuss or edit. Has a feel of a wiki but integrated with an operating system and blog.
Description: Institutional sponsors include Sloan, National Science Foundation, and more.
Description: 15.5 million users. StumbleUpon takes you to web pages, photos, and videos handpicked by your friends and like-minded people. Instructor can create a class login/pw.
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community.
Description: Free online access to the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine: answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge—and much more.
Description: IFixit is like Wikipedia but for technology. The site claims that it is the free repair manual that you can edit. Includes: diagnostics, tips, links, and oodles of tech information.
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http://t2i2.weebly.com/web-20-for-business-education-2015.html
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The following course discuss ethics and issues of faith and science. Topics include the origin of human life, stewardship of the environment, micro and macro evolution, ethics of genetic technology and origins of the universe.
The goal of the Barnes family is to provide for an annual symposium on Issues of Science and Christian Faith.
The vision for the symposium is to assist the RWC and NES communities in developing an intellectual basis for understanding the principle that all truth is God's truth i.e., that the data of Scripture as understood through theology and the data of nature, as understood through the sciences, may be honestly explored, and will be in harmony when interpreted correctly. Dr. David S. and F. Avis Barnes have been active participants in the Roberts Wesleyan College community since 1970. Their daughters are graduates of the college. Dr. Barnes attended the college, his parents met at the college in the 1920's, his grandparents attended in the 1880's, two brothers attended the college, and four members of the extended family served on the RWC board.
Dr. David Barnes, professor emeritus in biology, taught in the Division of Natural Science and Mathematics from 1970-2004. For many years he directed the Cultural Life Committee Lecture Series and arranged for over 200 guest speakers to make presentations to students and faculty.
Avis Barnes taught for 30 years in the Pavilion School District, and, upon retirement, has continued volunteering in the Rochester City Schools tutoring needy students.
The Barnes began a long cross-cultural involvement with Rochester's sister-city in Novgorod, Russia in the late '80s and continue to help coordinate ministry programs there.
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2019-04-19T05:02:50Z
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https://www.roberts.edu/department-of-biological-and-chemical-sciences/faith-and-science/
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Our regular Writers’ Group slot.
Our regular Open Mic slot, this month featuring Sophie Cooke and Caitlynn Cummings.
Our regular slot. Feature performances this month from Nuala Watt and Zorras!
2 – 5pm. Continuing our series of workshops for writers with “Anxiety and the Writer” from Eliza Langland.
Our regular slot. Feature performances from Jane McKie and Alan Bissett!
Our new series of workshops for writers!
Our regular open mic slot!
The return of the monthy Inky Fingers Open Mic!
The popular writers’ group returns.
Our regular open mic slot.
The popular writers’ group continues!
Join our mailing list at [email protected] (just email with “Mailing List” in the subject line to sign up) to hear first about our events, and get news of other writerly events in Edinburgh and beyond. We don’t have the capacity to keep wider listings here, but we recommend the Scottish Poetry Library’s listings, which are regularly updates, as well as those at Edinburgh City of Lit and Write Out Loud. Follow some of the links in our blogroll below to find even more.
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2019-04-20T22:27:34Z
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https://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com/events-diary/past-events/
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A power breakdown affected large parts of Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat on Wednesday.
"Due to the suspected fault in Maharashtra State Electricity Board System coupled with the prevailing low voltages at many strategic locations, there was a grid disturbance in Western region at 10:28 am, leading to a power breakdown," Power Grid Corporation of India Limited General Manager Anjan Roy said.
Everything was normal by 1305 IST, with the synchronisation of the 400KV Gandhar-Padghe line, he said.
Mumbai was spared due to the immediate islanding by the Tata Power Company and was ensured power supply by TPC and Reliance's BSES.
But Navi Mumbai and cities like Pune and Kolhapur were crippled by the failure.
Train services stopped on the Igatpuri-Bhusawal section and several express, mail and goods trains were delayed by more than an hour.
State Energy Minister Dilip Walse-Patil asked the Central Electricity Authority to investigate the failure and submit a report within a month.
The state government also asked the CEA to suggest remedial measures.
On October 6, a similar disruption had occurred on the Padgha-Kalwa 400KV line and a probe had revealed improper maintenance of the line, an MSEB official said.
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2019-04-18T15:18:44Z
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https://www.rediff.com/news/report/power/20031105.htm
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Ha… you’re only ignorant if you want to be. Looks like I have some more reading to do.
In a paper published by the A.P.A.
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2019-04-26T09:47:22Z
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https://iknowrobert.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/decline-of-the-empire/
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Red anti-Walmart signs dot a stretch of Route 924 in Harford County, where people have packed public meetings and organized protests. Petitions are circulating through housing developments, and residents are writing to politicians.
But it's not corporate labor practices or the impact of discount pricing on nearby mom-and-pop stores — issues that have triggered protests in other communities — that have many residents in an uproar. They're upset over a three-mile move planned by the giant retailer, from Abingdon to Bel Air, where it wants to build a bigger store that offers more groceries.
"This is not a Walmart issue," said Bel Air resident Skip Panowitz, who opposes the proposed move. "A lot of these folks are Walmart shoppers, and they admit it. It's their favorite store. It's just the location."
These kinds of clashes may play out in communities across Maryland, as the giant retailer plans to expand stores or build from scratch to create eight more supercenters in a national reshuffling of its retail footprint.
While the company has long been a target of labor unions, environmentalists and others, today's critics are just as likely to raise ordinary development issues such as increased traffic — or even to decry the loss of their neighborhood Walmart.
More than half of Americans live within five miles of a Walmart, and opinions about the retailer — both positive and negative — run deep.
In Abingdon, residents near the current location worry about the loss of a convenient shopping option and a vacant eyesore that could be left behind. Residents near the proposed Bel Air site fear over-development in the area, while others support the proposal.
Many of Walmart's plans, such as the one in Harford County, involve relocating existing stores to sites where the company can build supercenters that offer a full line of groceries.
"They either expand or move stores every week. They want every original Walmart, or almost every original Walmart, to become a supercenter," said Charles Fishman, author of the book "The Walmart Effect."
Walmart has a highly sophisticated real estate operation for picking new locations to maximize customer traffic and profits, Fishman said. And the company "is very skilled at pitting jurisdictions against each other," tempting local officials with the prospect of tax revenue and jobs.
Still, it's getting harder for Walmart to open new stores, he said. Many of the good retail spots are taken, and communities have gotten better at organizing opposition.
"It's no secret what Walmart's impact is, and it's no secret what arguments you can muster to resist Walmart," Fishman said. "Twenty years ago, it was much harder for people who didn't want a Walmart to open."
The Walmart debate, however, has evolved.
Early resistance to Walmart stemmed from the damage the competition did to local merchants, Fishman said. But then, the rise of all big-box retailers meant the decline of independent retailers.
Now, he said, "those objections have less power just because the landscape is so different. There are fewer local merchants in many communities."
Walmarts can still spell trouble for traditional grocery stores that are already struggling to compete against both discount grocers and upscale food outlets, retail experts say.
"They've definitely pulled customers away and the grocery dollars away from supermarkets," said Jeremy Diamond, food consultant with the Diamond Group in Baltimore. "By them expanding more and more, it pulls away dollars from the independents and from the local chains and larger ones."
On the other hand, some local officials welcome Walmart as a strong anchor in shopping centers that can stimulate growth in an area. They also welcome promised jobs. The company says it has created more than 1,000 jobs in Maryland this year.
But labor unions say Walmarts push down wages for the community. Last month, some workers walked off the job in what they called the first-ever strikes in the company's history.
"Most of those jobs are part-time, where people can't make a living off them," said Patrick O'Neill, executive vice president and organizing director for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents employees of grocery stores including Safeway and Giant. "Now, especially when Walmart's almost reached a saturation point, I think more communities have definitely recognized the negative effects of Walmarts."
Maryland has 48 Walmarts, and the chain is planning more.
Nationally, "Walmart has been on a very big expansion kick for about the last three years," said supermarket analyst David J. Livingston of DJL Research.
The company has eight projects in the planning and approval process, including the Bel Air site, Walmart spokesman Bill Wertz said in a statement. Three of the projects are new supercenters, while the other five are expansions or relocations.
This year, the retailer has built new supercenters in Denton and in Randallstown. In Ellicott City, Walmart expanded an older store into a supercenter, its sixth expansion in Maryland this year.
"These expansions have been very popular with customers, who enjoy the convenience of one-stop shopping and better access to fresh produce and other groceries at affordable prices," Wertz said.
Many welcomed the Randallstown store, which opened in October. Residents and Baltimore County officials hope the store will attract restaurants and new retailers to the aging Liberty Road corridor.
"Baltimore has a pretty strong local market," said Jeff Mayhew, the county's head of community planning. "But when a Walmart, a national chain, comes in, it's a recognition that the local market is strong and the national folks think they can provide a service and make some money, along with providing a job."
In contrast, the possible relocation of another Baltimore County Walmart at the Carroll Island Shopping Center has stirred controversy.
Walmart is eyeing the nearby Middle River Depot — a vacant site recently zoned for redevelopment — to open a supercenter. That prompted the owner of the shopping center where Walmart is now, the Cordish Cos., to help fund a contentious referendum drive to challenge the zoning votes that would allow the depot redevelopment.
In the city's Remington neighborhood, plans for a Walmart drew community opposition. The project was approved by the City Council, but critics filed a lawsuit. The company still hopes to move forward, Wertz said.
In Bel Air, a top concern is traffic. There are grocery stores, fast food restaurants, drug stores and other retailers along the road from the current Walmart to the proposed new site at Plumtree Road and Route 924, now an empty lot filled with trees and brush.
The Harford County Council passed a resolution asking the State Highway Administration to deny access to Route 924. Local officials also tried to convince Walmart to expand its Abingdon location rather than move.
"People in general that I've spoken to are not anti-Walmart," said Councilman Jim McMahan, who sponsored the resolution and believes it's a public safety issue because two schools and a new firehouse are located near the proposed Bel Air Walmart site. "But with what they have seen of the design and the breadth and scope of it, they simply do not feel that it is the proper fit for the location."
Abingdon resident Steve Tobia said many residents there want the store to stay put. "They are located in a great position. They can serve more communities right where they are."
Wertz said the company plans to work with state transportation officials and will spend $3 million on traffic improvements. "We have a common interest with the Bel Air community ... in avoiding traffic bottlenecks," Wertz said.
People are worried, too, about effects on local business, increased crime, and the vacant storefront that Walmart would leave in Abingdon, said Bel Air resident Kathy Dunkleberger.
Despite the roadblocks, Walmart is expected to continue aggressively pursue growth, retail experts say, especially as competitors have suffered in the down economy.
"They don't ever rest," said Fishman, the author. "They are not ever satisfied. And as an example of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, you can admire that. … But in a company the scale and impact of Walmart, that can look less like innovation and more like relentless competitive battering."
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2019-04-21T08:57:37Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-xpm-2012-11-11-bs-md-walmart-plans-20121111-story.html
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On April 10th several kittens were born… We were blessed to receive 2 of them. Now I have had well over a dozen cats throughout my life and know a lot about them, but one thing I had never experience that I remember are multiple kittens. I am sure we had them growing up I just don’t remember them. Had I remembered I might have said NO… and yet on the other hand I would have certainly said YESSSS!
Here is a picture of our bundles of joy at 7 weeks old.
Now! Are they not the cutest things in the world! They were spectacularly adorable! Sisters and litter-mates they went everywhere together. Which is evidence below!
The one on top, the tabby, is Chloe. I totally and unconditionally fell in love with her. She was my little snuggle bug. The one on the bottom is Lilly and she and my daughter immediately bonded. She is sweet and beautiful and definitely more grown up! Chloe is a goof ball and silly and not real coordinated! lol Lilly is beautiful, too grown up for some kitty games and extremely coordinated and catches flies mid air to eat them just so we are protected from those germy little creatures!
Fast forward to this week….
This is just a little snap shot of some of the joy that has been deposited into our lives because of these kittens and we are forever grateful! What joys are in your life and why are you grateful? I would love to hear your stories.
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2019-04-19T19:15:25Z
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https://graceunveiledblog.wordpress.com/tag/siamese/
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>fact I have more recordings of his music than any composer).
to his music and enjoy reading the newsletter of the Martinu archive.
Do you have favorite pieces?
>almost Brucknarian lead is enough to make me turn it off immediately).
wonder who could really be on the same level as Furtwangler?
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2019-04-23T16:29:25Z
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https://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=ind0710&L=CLASSICAL&O=A&P=59044
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collegehoopsnet
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Welcome to "Saar Hydraulic", your one-stop hydraulics components resource. Our experienced team has a wealth of experience in supplying hydraulic Internormen 01.E60 Series Filter Elementss, valves,cylinders,filters,filter elements.
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2019-04-25T06:18:49Z
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http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/schedules-44810839-internormen-01-e60-series-filter-elements.html
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allblacks
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For those who may think the assessment of both team as strugglers at present is a bit harsh, it only needs to be pointed out they sit 11th and 12th on the table with only one win apiece – and 11th or lower is not where anyone wants to be this year.
VENUE & TIME: North Harbour Stadium, Albany, Friday August 21, 19.35 NZT.
HEAD TO HEAD: Played 30 – North Harbour 20, Northland 9, drawn 1.
LAST TIME: September 21, 2008 (Albany) – North Harbour 24-35 Northland.
WALKING WOUNDED: Neither coach tinkered too much with his lineup, although Craig Dowd needed to replace Luke McAlister at first-five and did so with Michael Harris. He would have been pleased to get Rudi Wulf back after the winger's comeback was held up by more injury problems. Northland moved a couple of guys between the starting lineup and the bench but almost the same 22 as at Kerikeri are on duty at Albany; the only one missing is injured winger Troy Woodman.
FORM: Both sides were outplayed a week ago and each conceded a bonus point and roughly 20 to their respective conquerors. It didn't have to be that way for Harbour but some dreadful finishing made sure they went tryless for the second week running despite a massive advantage in territory and possession. Northland was never really in the hunt against Auckland although the score only blew out in the last quarter and Northland had reason to feel hard done by with some of the downfield blocking that Auckland used to open gaps in the first spell. That said, Auckland took as much as it was allowed and from that point of view deserved such a decisive victory.
WHO'S HOT: Perhaps the best thing about Harbour's season – and it's not a big field to choose from – is the form of young lock James King, who had a dominant match at Carisbrook. He is secure on his own ball and a threat to the opposition, so his development through the year will be watched with interest. Mike Harris can be expected to kick his goals but will be asked for more in general play and Anthony Tuitavake really does need to get more involved. Northland will need big Cam Jowitt to get stuck in and combat King at the lineout, which is not one of Northland's strengths. Jared Payne will probably have a few kicks to field but might get running room on some returns and Rene Ranger will also be interested if the chase line is not spot on.
WE THINK: It's very hard to get a handle on these sides as neither one has fired too many shots, so confidently picking a winner is impossible. We're going for Northland by 10, simply because they have at least threatened on occasions this year. They haven't finished many chances so far – that's Friday's problem.
North Harbour: 1 – Mike Reid, 2 – Mike Mayhew, 3 – Ben Afeaki, 4 – James King, 5 – Filo Paulo, 6 – Chris Smith, 7 – Malakai Ravulo, 8 – Viliame Ma'afu, 9 – Matt France, 10 – Mike Harris, 11 – Rudi Wulf, 12 – Andrew Mailei, 13 – George Pisi, 14 – Anthony Tuitavake (captain), 15 – Jack McPhee.
Reserves: 16 – James Hanson, 17 – James Afoa, 18 – Richard Mayhew, 19 – Robbie Colhoun, 20 – Nalu Tuigamala, 21 – Ben Botica, 22 – Nafi Tuitavake.
Northland: 1 – Bronson Murray, 2 – Mikaele Tuu'u, 3 – Karl Haitana, 4 – Dan Goodwin, 5 – Cam Jowitt, 6 – Eroni Gndolo, 7 – Matt Clutterbuck, 8 – Cameron Eyre, 9 – Luke Hamilton, 10 – Lachie Munro, 11 – Rene Ranger, 12 – Derek Carpenter, 13 – Damien Fakafanua, 14 – Brook Gilmore, 15 – Jared Payne (captain).
Reserves: 16 – Tim Dow, 17 – Matt Wallis, 18 – Daniel Faleafa, 19 – Joel McKenty, 20 – Rhyan Caine, 21 – Jon Elrick, 22 – Sione Fonua.
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2019-04-25T00:42:21Z
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http://www.allblacks.com/News/10828/air-nz-cup-preview-north-harbour-v-northland
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Another day, another… night, I guess. I’m sleepy because it’s Thursday and I woke up thinking it was Friday. I’ve been forward planning so much lately that I’m losing track of right now, I suppose.
So I have a job for the next week, but it’s all a bit up in the air. This is the issue with temporary jobs – you don’t quite know if you’re coming or going. I keep thinking of clever things to say, or at least things that seem clever, and I mean to say them but forget.
Anyway. The challenges, which last week related to hope.
Jessica from masterselftherapy brought us a post discussing hope and how it relates to kindness – or the lack thereof. She discusses her own experiences of both giving and receiving kindness, plus some of the psychology within.
Yen from Little Calico’s Journal shared a flash fiction regarding a hopeless situation. Maybe it’s me, but I thought I detected a hint of mythology to it… Read on to see how it ends.
Your challenge this week (20 August) is Enduring/Endurance.
That’s okay. Hope all is well. Welcome back!
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2019-04-25T23:51:41Z
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https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/stellar-and-lunar-14/
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teamunify
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For more information on Blogger, please visit the Blogger Help Center.
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2019-04-25T08:29:03Z
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https://support.teamunify.com/en/articles/1220
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usatoday
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Legalized sports betting will wreak havoc on college athletics. Or not.
College sports officials fear the impact of legalized sports betting after Supreme Court ruling last month.
OXON HILL, Md. – Tom McMillen is CEO of an association of college athletics directors, a former Congressman, a former NBA player – and now, unofficially, an odds-maker.
McMillen was part of a panel discussion at last month's annual conference of the Sports Lawyers Association. He stopped short of offering an over/under as to how soon he thinks such a scandal could come now that the Supreme Court has ruled states are free to allow gambling on sports, including college sports.
The calculus behind McMillen’s assertion is simply this: Athletes in the major team sports are paid so much that they are unlikely to risk their careers by fixing games or shaving points, whereas college players are vulnerable to illicit offers because of NCAA limits on their compensation.
Laughter and light applause washed the room at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Convention Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. McMillen represented the area in Congress during the era when he voted for 1992’s Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. That’s the law that effectively banned commercial sports betting in most states – and which the Supreme Court recently overturned as unconstitutional.
Delaware announced Thursday that it will launch full-scale sports betting next Tuesday. New Jersey, which pushed its case to the Supreme Court, hopes to begin later in June. At least 20 states are at various stages of considering or implementing sports betting, according to information compiled by the USA TODAY NETWORK.
Sara Slane, senior vice president of public affairs at the American Gaming Association, rejected McMillen’s premise that wider legal sports betting is likely to lead to scandal. She said college athletes are already susceptible to inducements from illegal gamblers.
Slane’s point is that it will be easier for the gaming industry to track irregularities when it has a pool of transactions wider than Nevada’s to study. Point-shaving scandals have dogged college basketball for generations, from CCNY in the 1950s to Boston College in the 1970s to Tulane in the 1980s.
McMillen is president and CEO of the LEAD1 Association, which represents 130 athletics directors and programs of the Football Bowl Subdivision, including college sports’ best-known brand names. He said the association surveyed its athletics directors and found 80% oppose legalized sports betting on colleges. They worry about point shaving, McMillen said, but also about the added expense of educating athletes and monitoring them.
Just how newly legalized sports betting will shake out is hard to say, perhaps more so for colleges than for major pro sports.
Injury reports, frequently perused by bettors, are a staple of the NFL. Gabe Feldman, director of the sports law program at Tulane Law School, said greater privacy interests and legal rights afforded to students could well lead to colleges deciding against making such information public.
Sometimes fellow students are in the best position to know if the quarterback wrenched a knee — or broke up with his girlfriend. That sort of information could be valuable to gamblers.
“Who would have better inside information than fellow students?” said John Wolohan, professor of Sports Law in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. “But, once again, I think we still see that happening today” before legal sports betting goes wide.
Feldman said the NCAA will be able to continue its ban on sports gambling for student-athletes, even in states where it’s legal. He pointed out the NCAA already does that with certain performance-enhancing drugs that are otherwise legal.
The proposed gambling law in New Jersey would prohibit betting on schools in the state, such as Rutgers and Seton Hall, as well as college games played in the state. Delaware's law excludes collegiate sporting events that involve a Delaware school.
Nevada originally had a similar betting exemption for colleges in the state but no longer. The gaming industry opposes these kinds of carveouts.
The NBA and MLB have advanced the notion of so-called integrity fees, perhaps 1% of a sports book's handle. McMillen said schools would like to be paid for what he calls increased monitoring costs as well.
Another potential source of revenue for colleges from legalized sports betting is fees for official data, which the pro leagues are advocating for, but it’s not clear where the line is between public information and proprietary data.
Additionally, schools and conferences may decide they’d be willing to accept advertising or other forms of sponsorships from sports betting enterprises. The Pac-12, for instance, wholly owns its conference television networks, the Big Ten partially owns its network and other conferences have a say in the types of advertising their television partners can accept. There already are many schools that have sponsorship agreements or other types of relationships with casinos, casino hotels and/or state lotteries.
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2019-04-25T02:19:58Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2018/05/31/sports-betting-college-athletics-world-concerned-supreme-court-ruling/645367002/
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Description: Letter, To: "My dear Papa" (William T. Sherman) From: Ellie, [May 7, 1886?].
Letter, To: "My dear Papa" (William T. Sherman) From: Ellie, [May 7, 1886?].
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2019-04-19T18:56:28Z
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https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Record/vudl:36070/Description
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typepad
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Reportedly, Russia plans to construct a cloning facility in the world's coldest city, Yakutsk, in the remote north-east of the country. The plan is to work with other scientists "to study extinct animals from living cells - and to restore such creatures as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, cave lion and breeds of long-gone horses".
It seems a bit far-fetched, but it appears that they want to try it, nonetheless.
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2019-04-26T14:10:08Z
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https://maxredline.typepad.com/maxredline/2018/08/jurassic-park-russia.html
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cincinnati
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Chris Mack had some measured and thoughtful criticism of the Big East Conference for opting to schedule Dec. 27 as the opening night.
MILWAUKEE — We gained an idea of at least one issue Xavier basketball head coach Chris Mack might bring up when he meets with the league's coaches and athletic directors next offseason.
Following Xavier's 91-87 win over Marquette Wednesday, Mack had some measured criticism of the Big East Conference for opting to schedule Dec. 27 as the opening night, forcing Xavier and other programs to practice on Christmas Day.
Asked specifically by The Enquirer about offensive rebounding, Mack noted the earlier than normal start to league play as a possible cause for unrefined play.
"I didn't like the way the Big East sort of did our conference with these games on the 27th," Mack said. "You know, we've got a five-month season and we're the only sport that has a fall semester and a spring semester. I know fans and TV want to see games but, Christmas Day, I think our kids should be home with their families. The fact that we're practicing on Christmas, we only had a couple days to prepare. I'm sure Marquette was the same way.
"It's no excuse. Both teams are in the same bucket but that's just sort of my feeling on it."
Mack's assertion isn't wrong. Wednesday's start to league play marked the first time in the post-realignment era of the Big East that Xavier opened Big East play before Dec. 31.
All of the Musketeers' prior Big East openers were played on New Years Eve.
Prior to Wednesday's league opener, Xavier was at Northern Iowa Friday, so the Musketeers are essentially pedal to the metal schedule-wise until well into the Big East campaign.
Their first "bye" in the schedule won't arrive for several weeks.
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2019-04-22T00:12:06Z
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/xavier/2017/12/28/chris-mack-big-east-players-should-home-christmas-not-practicing/986516001/
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usga
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San Antonio – Standing on the 13th tee during her second-round match on Tuesday, Meghan Stasi couldn’t have liked her chances of winning the 2012 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur.
Five down with only six holes to play against Lynne Cowan, Stasi completed an improbable comeback, winning in 21 holes.
Three victories later, the 34-year-old from Oakland Park, Fla., finds herself one win away from joining Ellen Port as the only four-time champion of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur.
Stasi earned her spot in Thursday’s 18-hole championship match at the 6,074-yard, par-72 Briggs Ranch Golf Club with a pair of victories on Wednesday, including a 6-and-5 semifinal win over 2009 runner-up Laura Coble, of Augusta, Ga.
Standing in Stasi’s way is Liz Waynick, 52, of Scottsdale, Ariz. Waynick defeated her semifinal opponent, Stacy Dennis, of Huntsville, Texas, in 20 holes.
Thursday’s final is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. CDT.
Stasi, who won this event in 2006, 2007 and 2010, made quick work of Coble. The match was all square through seven holes, but Stasi won the next six holes to deny Coble her shot at an individual USGA championship. Coble has helped Georgia win three USGA Women’s State Team Championships.
I’m going to need that rest for tomorrow, said Stasi, a member of the victorious 2008 USA Curtis Cup Team.
Stasi used her length advantage against Coble, reaching both of the par 5s on the second nine (Nos. 11 and 13) in two. She converted birdies on each to put the match away.
The 2-hybrid I hit on 11 was one of my best of the day, said Stasi, whose approach landed within 12 feet for eagle.
In her quarterfinal match, Stasi was pushed to the 17th hole by a scrappy Andrea Kraus, 52, of Baltimore, Md., who was playing in her 22nd USGA championship. Stasi sank a clutch 12-foot par putt to eliminate Kraus, 2 and 1.
With a win on Thursday, Stasi would join rare company. She would be just the 16th player in USGA history to win the same championship at least four times. Last month, Nathan Smith accomplished the feat at Conway Farms C.C., in Lake Forest, Ill., when he won his fourth U.S. Mid-Amateur title. Port, the 2012 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion, won her fourth Women’s Mid-Amateur title last year. Port lost in the third round of this championship.
Despite being on history’s doorstep, Stasi remains focused on making good swings and sound decisions.
I’m just going to take it shot by shot, said Stasi. You have to. The second you get ahead of yourself, bad things start to happen.
Waynick has trailed for just one hole throughout her first five matches, spanning a stretch of 85 holes. Despite having the upper hand in a majority of her matches, two have gone to extra holes, including her semifinal victory against Dennis, the last remaining Texan in the field.
Dennis, the past president of the Texas Women’s Golf Association, made a 6-foot par putt on the 18th hole to extend the match, but her drive on the second extra hole found the left fairway bunker, forcing an awkward stance that left her no chance to reach the green. Her second shot landed 25 yards in front of the bunker and, after playing her third to the green, Dennis missed a 25-footer for par. Before she had a chance to attempt her bogey putt, Waynick drained her 5-foot par putt to end the match.
I’m speechless, said Waynick, who earlier in the day defeated 2004 Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Corey Weworski, 2 and 1, in the quarterfinals. I’m just ecstatic right now, I couldn’t be more grateful. This is the highlight of my life.
Despite nursing a blister on her left foot, Waynick said she will be ready to go against the long-hitting Stasi.
I’m going to take all of her woods out of her bag and she’s going to start with her 7-iron, joked Waynick. I got to this point by playing my game. I’m not a long hitter by any means, but it’s not about how you get there, it’s about how many strokes it takes.
Waynick competed in the 1976 U.S. Women’s Amateur (losing to Nancy Lopez, 5 and 3, in the third round) and 1977 Girls’ Junior, then got into the golf business in 1985, serving as the director of golf at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Ore., and head golf professional at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Ariz. Both venues have hosted USGA championships.
She stopped playing competitive golf for nearly 25 years, but wanted to start playing some tournaments again after retiring in 2000. Because of various injuries to her shoulder and elbow, however, she did not enter another USGA championship until the 2011 Women’s Mid-Am.
A year later, she is just one win away from claiming a national championship.
San Antonio – Results from Wednesday’s quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of match play at the 2012 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship being held at the 6,074-yard, par-72 Briggs Ranch Golf Club.
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All registrants who present a paper at regional meetings must be members of the CCL. Please click here to join the CCL.
Ochsner is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the story collection People I Wanted to Be. Both books received the Oregon Book Award. Her novel The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight received the Grub Street Book Prize in 2011 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2010. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Glimmertrain and the Kenyon Review.
Tippens coedited Shadow & Light: Literature and the Life of Faith, a popular anthology featuring fiction, essays and poems by 48 writers, now in its third edition, and is the author of Pilgrim Heart: The Way of Jesus in Everyday Life. He served as provost at Pepperdine University from 2001 to 2014 and is currently university distinguished professor at Abilene Christian University. Tippens is president of The Conference on Christianity and Literature.
Oregon stretches from the Pacific Coast, over the Coast Range, through the fertile Willamette Valley, past the snowcapped Cascades, and into the high-desert country of central and eastern Oregon.
Portland is a short drive from campus. The city is home to the Old Town district, the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, numerous art galleries and museums, a number of theatre groups and jazz clubs, Powell’s City of Books, and a world-class symphony, ballet, and opera. Other attractions include the Oregon Zoo, the Japanese Garden, the International Rose Test Gardens, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
Snow-capped mountains and the Columbia Gorge are about a two-hour drive away, and Oregon’s rugged coastal beaches are just a little more than an hour away via Highway 18.
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THOS. H. MARTIN. F. A. MaCARL. E. S. LYONS. W. A. LROVVN. A. E. CHENOWETH. BISHOP H. W. WARREN AND ENTIRE AMERICAN STAFF OF THE METHODIST MISSION IN OCTOBER, I903. M. A. RADER. HOMER C. STUNTZ. BISHOP H. W. WARREN. A J. L. malAUGHLIN. W. A. GOODELL.M. A. RADER. HOMER C. STUNTZ. BISHOP H. W. WARREN. A J. L. ma lAUGHLIN. W. A. GOODELL.
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Has anyone else noticed how the fur plays havoc with the CVs?
>> cytometer, even to evaluate phagocytosis!!
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This entry was posted in Humor & Pathos, Personal Musings, They Have Touched My Heart, Thursday Re-View and tagged addiction, angel, mental health, therapy. Bookmark the permalink.
You would have loved her feisty spirit and ‘take no prisoners’ attitude. But once you gained her respect, you never lost it. She died content with herself for the first time in her 40 plus years. That she could genuinely smile after living so long in a mental hospital was a tribute to her as a survivor.
Weeping here…but in a good way. We are kindred spirits in many ways. Bless you!!
Yes, that we are, my friend. You understand the ‘good weeping’ – this work is sacred ground.
It is such a challenge, Michelle, as your daughter undoubtedly knows. “Dual Diagnosis” – substance abuse combined with a mental illness. Where I did an internship awhile back, I had the option of not treating clients until they were ‘clean and sober,’ but that is not reality any longer. It is difficult to know where one ends and the other begins, along with which issue began first. Send along my best to her (as well as you).
Man, what a story. I don´t know how you wake up and go to work day after day. I´m sure glad there are good people out there that try to help in their own way bad people, that includes me. I have a social worker which took also care of me long time ago plus some legal problems here and there, no biggy though. I myself now find it depressing to go and see the social worker, but still have to by the state. You guys must have a thick skin, sort off like doctors operating on the ER.
No “bad people,” maybe just people who’ve made some poor decisions. Those of us in this type work believe in people’s ability to change; there is always hope in life – always. I consider my work to be a privilege, sacred ground. I have learned as much from my clients/patients as I hope they have learned from me. Good luck!
Bad people was a poor choice of words since I don´t consider myself a bad person, quite far from it. But sure made bad decisions and substance abuse probably has to do with a lot of them.
I´m sure glad there are people out there like you.
Thanks, been sober for some time now. But know the life and is not fun.
A truly beautiful story. You are/were a wonderful therapist.
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Scale Screen 2012 by Christina Waterson (Detail). Photography by Tobias Titz 2012.
The development of Scale Screen occurred over many years. This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body (through a New Work – Established – Australia Council Grant). Scale Screen’s origins are linked to my Bloom Series Home-wares and furniture range, launched in 2009. From the outset of the development of The Bloom Series, I had always envisioned Pixel Screen (pictured below) to be realised in coated sheet metal.
Pixel Screen part of The Bloom Series 2009 by Christina Waterson. Photography by Jon Linkins 2009.
The surface, colour and depth of the Scale Screen project is informed by the skin of Taipan and King Brown snakes. In my hometown of Sharon in Queensland, the remnants of shedded snakeskin on timber joists proves a reminder of the local reptilian residents – snakes rub on the rough joists to break their skin for the process of shedding. Amongst Australia’s most aggressive and poisonous snakes, the beauty of their skin belies their potential danger. I play with the duality of the notions of protective efficiency and deadly beauty as being inherent to Australian native flora and fauna.
In the foreground: Scale Screen 2012 Photography by Tobias Titz 2012.
A distant and more acute view of Scale Screen 2012 to the right. Photography by Tobias Titz 2012.
My works are intended to be experienced in space, time and light. This is particularly clear in the development of Scale Screen 2012. The patterns within its surface are 3-dimensional; they are patterns that exist in space – new patterns are revealed and continuously evolve as you walk around the work.
I applied the knowledge I gained through the Australia Council Grant Research and Development to other subsequent commissions. Taking Flight (pictured below) uses the same fabrication techniques as Scale Screen but has dramatic differences in form and concept.
Conceptual Photography of Scale Screen’s sister work Taking Flight 2011 (Folded Aluminium wall relief commissioned by Aurecon) directly used the skills and knowledge from developing Scale Screen. Photography by Jon Linkins 2010.
Taking Flight 2011 by Christina Waterson installed in Aurecon’s Brisbane Head Office Reception. This work aimed to capture a sense of action and growth; similar to birds alighting from a forest or the flourish of blooms in spring. Photography by Jon Linkins 2011.
Scale Screen 2012 Detail by Christina Waterson within Trace at Pin-up Architecture and Design Project Space. Photography by James Braund 2012.
I would like to sincerely thank the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body for assisting the Scale Screen project.
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Did you see that Silent Spring was in the list of runners-up.
I mean *Silent Spring*!!! Damaging to anyone other than rapacious business?
Exactly -- see my post below! I think we both posted at the same time!
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The English Department is a vibrant academic community of nearly 400 majors and 35 full-time faculty.
There are four ways to major in English, with concentrations in Literature, Theatre Arts, Creative Writing, Journalism and Professional Writing, as well as an online degree in English Studies.
Theatre arts students gain valuable experience behind the scenes through paid internships on faculty-supervised productions. That can lead to professional internships – and then jobs.
Joaquim de Almeida, the best-known Portuguese actor in Hollywood, gave career advice to students in the Theatre Arts and Digital Media programs. He also spoke at a public event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies.
Jack Neary ’73 is a prolific playwright, director and actor with 34 published works to his name.
Yahuba Garcia-Torres ’96 has been rocking the national music scene since 2006. He says UMass Lowell gave him his musical foundation.
Kelsey McDonough’s Emerging Scholar research on modernist women’s literature is taking her places.
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SALT LAKE CITY — When Alonzo Clemons was a toddler, he suffered a traumatic head injury that permanently impaired his ability to learn and communicate. It also affected the way he interprets the world around him, and at an early age he had a passionate desire to express himself by sculpting.
Unable to tie his own shoes and barely able to speak, Clemons was mistreated throughout his childhood. Little was known about savant syndrome at the time, and he was institutionalized in a state hospital at the age of 10. He remained there for a decade, continuing to sculpt on a daily basis. When the hospital staff took away his clay, he’d improvise, sneaking outside to scrape tar from the parking lot with his fingernails.
Individuals with savant syndrome have developmental disabilities, as well as genius-level abilities in a specific area, and Clemons is now recognized as an artistic prodigy. He lives near Boulder, Colo., and creates sculptures in his small apartment.
When the hospital staff took away his clay, he'd improvise, sneaking outside to scrape tar from the parking lot with his fingernails.
When Utah filmmakers Joseph LeBaron and Travis Pitcher heard about Clemons’ remarkable story, they felt compelled to meet him in person. The four-minute video they created from this meeting is drawing praise from across the nation.
I sat down with LeBaron and Pitcher to learn the story behind the video and why they created it.
How did you first hear about Alonzo Clemons?
LeBaron: We first heard about Alonzo through our friends in a group called “What I Thought I Saw,” which is a photo-story traveling exhibit and book that tells stories of people we may have otherwise been overlooked. They told a beautiful story of Alonzo, accompanied with a stunning portrait in their book. When we read about him, they kindly helped produce the short by making connections and giving us an idea of what to expect.
What was it about his story that interested you most?
Pitcher: Perfection and imperfection. Lots of people see Alonzo’s condition as a disability and pity him. But really he’s a very capable man, making a life of his own temporally, artistically and mentally.
LeBaron: I wanted to let the man speak for himself. There’s a stigma attached to people with mental disabilities that makes it easy for people to write off what someone like Alonzo might say. We really wanted Alonzo to say what he wanted to say.
Lots of people see Alonzo's condition as a disability and pity him. But really he's a very capable man, making a life of his own temporally, artistically and mentally.
Where was the interview conducted?
Pitcher: There was no space in his apartment, due to all of the drying sculptures. We wanted to showcase him and his background but had to all scrunch together in this tiny room, careful to not damage any of his sculptures.
LeBaron: We did the interview in one of his back rooms full of sculptures. Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, nothing but drying sculptures.
How did you approach the interview?
LeBaron: We had seen a BBC short and German television feature on Alonzo, but they always used narrators and Alonzo wasn’t allowed to speak. We were dead-set on having him tell his own story. Once we saw that we had a major hurdle to overcome with Alonzo’s speech, our designer, Josh Brandt, came up with an ingenious way use text without traditional subtitles. This was important because it would have defeated the purpose if we had subtitled, effectively translating the entire thing.
What was Alonzo like in person?
LeBaron: That man glows. Straight up. There’s something in his eyes. Just watch the video. There’s a depth of humanity there that I’ve not quite been able to understand. He’s also a very strong man; tall, broad shoulders, but very timid and polite. There's a quiet, giant aura to him. He welcomed us into his home and was very kind.
Where does he sell most of his sculptures?
LeBaron: All of his sculptures can be purchased online at alonzoclemons.com.
Which of his sculptures impressed you most?
Pitcher: The intricacy of his elk sculptures was impressive. But what was mesmerizing was how fast he sculpts. Just to capture it all on camera, we had to have him sculpt three separate pieces, which took him in total only about 15 minutes. And that was him going slow for our sake.
That man glows. Straight up. There's something in his eyes. Just watch the video. There's a depth of humanity there that I've not quite been able to understand.
Your video has been getting a lot of notice. Why do you think it resonates with people?
LeBaron: Obviously because Alonzo is a special talent. I believe people pick up on how pure he is. We wanted to set the video up so people would think he was just another guy like they’ve seen bagging your groceries or sweeping on the streets. I think that reveal of what he’s capable of doing and saying is really intriguing to people. I know it was intriguing to us, which is why we wanted to meet him in the first place.
How did you choose the music for the video?
LeBaron: We filmed with Alonzo back in April and really took our time with this one. I went through so many music options. Too many to count. I happened to have Kishi Bashi playing in the background while watching raw clips of Alonzo and instantly knew it was a fit. We reached out and were thankfully able to license the song. The words, the pacing, everything about the song fits in my opinion.
What do you most want people to take away from the video?
Pitcher: I want it to break stereotypes. And actually, I just want people to enjoy it and feel happy after watching it.
LeBaron: Agreed. I want this video to further the conversation on mental illness and mental disabilities. And truthfully, I want people to want to buy one of Alonzo’s sculptures. They’d be lucky to have one sitting in their home.
What other projects do you guys have coming up?
LeBaron: We’re working with a lot of new clients, mostly in the non-profit world, but we are currently circumnavigating the world filming a feature documentary. We left Oct. 12, driving from Salt Lake City to New York City. We then flew to Sweden for a few days. We’ve been in Berlin for three days and are just a few hours from flying out to Singapore. After that, we have one last trip for the year down to Guatemala for Operation Smile. We’re really excited to work with them, because they’re an organization that’s doing a lot of good around the world. We really believe in their mission.
Grant Olsen joined the ksl.com team in 2012. He covers travel, outdoor adventures and other interesting things. Contact him at [email protected].
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Autodesk has made an important announcement about support for Microsoft Windows Vista.
Regarding Windows XP, this announcement does not change support for Windows XP for Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler. Infrastructure Modeler does not currently support Windows XP.
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Iowa has been working on its workforce for a long time.
The state’s current labor market conditions are challenging employers who seek skilled workers. Some define the problem as a skills gap, others call it an overall workforce shortage, and still others blame current wage levels. Whatever the label, a growing disconnect between Iowa’s workforce supply and employer demands is threatening to weaken the state’s economic growth potential.
For Nancy Jacobs, it boils down to a tale of two departments.
In April, Jacobs became human resources manager for Misty Harbor, a Fort Dodge boat manufacturer that has been working with CIRAS for several years to get leaner and improve its productivity. Misty Harbor last year credited training in disciplines such as Lean manufacturing and the Theory of Constraints, among others, with boosting the company’s bottom line by an estimated $2 million in new and retained sales.
But the transformation is still in progress.
Happy Tuesday. Today we touch base largely to share some 3-D printing news and a whole raft of economic stories that you might have missed.
Think of it as an impending explosion in the dark: It’s coming at some point. It may be a time bomb or a firecracker. You don’t know how big, or how close to you, the eventual bang will be.
You probably ought to find out.
Experts say that’s roughly the current situation in Iowa’s food companies, many of whom can expect within months to feel the first full weight of important new federal safety regulations. A 2011 law called the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) gave the FDA new powers to prevent outbreaks of foodborne disease. But the impact of new rules was largely delayed as authorities constructed complex standards and procedures.
A Cresco tool-and-die maker’s search for diversification has led the company, with CIRAS’ help, to stake out new territory as what may be the first Iowa business of its kind to produce parts for customers via additive manufacturing.
Upper Iowa Tool & Die & Innovations, founded in 1978, purchased a new plastic-based 3-D printer earlier this year after conversations with CIRAS convinced the company to aim higher in its search for a way to differentiate from competitors. Since mid-April, Upper Iowa has been pitching its additive manufacturing capability both to new clients and as an add-on for services to existing customers.
Happy Friday. Today we bring you news of interest if you’re a taxpaying business in or around Des Moines and various takes on a potential manufacturing PR issue in terms of the industry’s impact on taxpayers as a whole.
The CIRAS Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAP) was recognized by its national peers in April for its extraordinary efforts to educate Iowa companies on the intricacies of government contracting.
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It has been a while since my last post. About a month ago I started a new job as a Dynamics TSP (Technology Solution Professional) at Microsoft. It is a technical role aimed to support Dynamics related sales processes.
Sadly, It means giving up my MVP title, as Microsoft employees are not eligible for this award.
This is a major change for me. In the last 8 years I was self employed of a sort, without a regular schedule, office or boss. Switching to work in one of the largest corporations on the planet is overwhelming. But in a good way. Although I am still drinking from the firehose, I can now access deep and broad layers of knowledge I was missing before.
I have been writing this blog since 2009 and plan to continue. Although I am a Microsoft employee now, the opinions and views stated in this blog are my own.
So now, armed with new knowledge and super powers, this blog is getting even better. Stay tuned.
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by Jack Hill | August 1, 2008 at 4:09 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK Guitarist-singer-songwriter Robert Hill left Arkansas years ago for New York, but he can't quite get the Natural State out of his system, judging from songs he has titled "Rose City," "Ozark Passage" and "Crater of Diamonds." Another one, "Moses McCord," the first song on Hill's first album, starts with the line "Moses McCord was born down in Arkansas ...."
Born in North Little Rock, Hill graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1972. For a time he was a part of the local music scene as a member of two bands, The RPMS and The Blue Mambas.
Saturday, August 2, 2008, 7 p.m.
"I moved north about 25 years ago for a couple of reasons," Hill says. "I wanted to try my hand at music up here and also to do some filmmaking and animation, which I do for CBS on The Early Show, four days a week. The rest of the time I play music and chase kids."
Hill and his wife, Heidi, have two children, Paulina, 10, and Robb, 5. The whole family is coming to see his first show in Arkansas in, lo, these many years, Saturday nightat west Little Rock coffeehouse Studio Joe. He adds that his mother and brother will also attend, and he hopes friends and former fans of his early bands will come and check out the progress he has made since flying the coop.
"When I was still living in Little Rock, I'd play at the White Water Tavern and another jointon Cantrell Road," Hill recalls. "It was called Smiley's, and it was a biker bar, a big Bandito hangout, and we kind of became the house band there. Most of the gigs ended up with a fight. Alcohol, blues and bikers, that's always a potent combination."
Hill is bringing along a musical cohort, bassist Mark Murphy, who wanted to bring his upright bass but will settle for a smaller electric model, due to the problems and expense of transport.
"I hope that someday I can bring my whole band," Hill says.
Around New York, Hill used to play in what he calls "straightahead blues bands," one of which was called The Bluesicians, in the 1990s at prominent clubs, including Tramps, Mannie's Car Wash and Mondo Cane.
"We played mostly cover stuff then," he says. "Now I've started doing more original stuff, playing in small theaters in upstate New York and out in New Jersey. I'm doing more listening-type rooms, coffeehouse things, where my stuff is more of a mix of singer-songwriter blues and Americana. I'm trying to play more for people that want to listen to the words. I've also been hosting a concert series at a Methodist church in New Jersey where we bring in a regional artist once a month. I've been doing that for a year."
He has opened shows for Chris Smither, Debbie Davies, John McEuen, The Tony Trischka Band, Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown, the late Rick Danko of The Band and another member of The Band, Hill's fellow Arkansan, Levon Helm.
In 1999, Hill released his selftitled debut CD on his label, Slide On Rye Records. His second album, My Corner, came out in 2007. The title cut of his recent CD was inspired by a midnight walk in 90 degree heat in New York.
"I saw a guy sitting on a corner with his shopping cart," Hill recalls, "and he had on a heavy winter coat and a parka and all these clothes,and it was a powerful image. The course of the song came to me right then. As I drove home, I felt like that song was given to me, as it all came out at once. It made me think how we don't know what people have been through and how they end up where they are." The song won first place in the Unisong international songwriting competition in 2005 and has been played on "The Loft," an Americana station on XM radio. A Hill instrumental, "Slide on Rye," was used in an episode of the TV series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and as the theme song of a weekly radio show in Australia. Hill wrote the soundtrack of a documentary, Burley, the story of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, that aired on the Public Broadcasting System.
A third CD, Evolution Blues, is in the works for later in the year or early 2009, Hill says.
Hill will also perform on the MidDay Arkansas show at 11:30 a.m. today on KATV, Channel 7.
Full disclosure: The writer of this story, whose name is also Hill and who also grew up in North Little Rock, is not related to Robert Hill.
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Should We Worry About An Asset Bubble?
Earlier this week, Nouriel Roubini had a column in the Financial Times warning that an asset bubble is forming. He asserts that investors are taking advantage of low interest rates and a weak dollar to speculate on assets, driving up prices. I think he's probably right. He worries, then, that this is forming yet another bubble. That might be true as well, but I need a little more convincing that this asset bubble will be as severe as Roubini appears to believe in the U.S.
Since March there has been a massive rally in all sorts of risky assets - equities, oil, energy and commodity prices - a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade credit spreads, and an even bigger rally in emerging market asset classes (their stocks, bonds and currencies). At the same time, the dollar has weakened sharply, while government bond yields have gently increased but stayed low and stable.
I've argued something similar myself -- that the stock market, in particular, can't be an accurate reflection of what the recovery will look like. It's not going to be nearly as steep a recovery as the climb of the Dow would indicate.
But here's a question: what if the U.S. experiences significant inflation like some economist fear? What if 2011-2013 average, say, between 5% and 10% inflation? One of the best hedges against such high inflation is assets, like equities, energy and commodities. Real assets will continue to be traded in nominal dollars, so inflation will be largely included as their prices changes.
So if those pessimistic inflation expectations are right, then that would serve to make the asset bubble less severe than it would otherwise have been, because inflation will increase the nominal value of assets beyond what economic growth alone would have done.
- The asset bubble's pop will have very ugly consequences.
- Assets were overvalued, but not significantly.
- There was no asset bubble, as current prices accurately reflect the future.
If you're really worried about the asset bubble, you'd expect Scenario #1. I think most of Wall Street might expect Scenario #4, or at least only that scenario would best justify current asset prices. But if either Scenarios #2 or #3 turn out to be accurate, then the asset bubble's pop might not be too catastrophic in the U.S.
Of course, if an expectation for high growth is, indeed, expected by most investors, then they may be in for a very rude awakening sooner than later if the economy proves sluggish during all of 2010. That could lead to asset prices falling sooner, before inflation really even has time to take hold. So the timing matters too.
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2019-04-23T14:24:51Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/should-we-worry-about-an-asset-bubble/29683/
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Sports
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Business
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wordpress
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Microsoft® MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in XNA/DirectX.
Yesterday i got an email form Microsoft saying that i have been selected for MVP in XNA/DirectX category.
It was really memorable moment for me.And proud to be a Microsoft MVP.
There are now total 44 MVPs for XNA/DirectX.
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2019-04-23T20:19:24Z
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https://uditha.wordpress.com/2010/04/
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Sports
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Games
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baltimoresun
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Three locals setting their 'own bar,' ready to participate in Special Olympics World Games in L.A.
Alicia Gogue was a wide-eyed 8-year-old when she rode her first two-wheeler. One minute, her father was trotting beside her, steadying the bicycle. The next, she was pedaling solo through her quiet neighborhood in Odenton..
"I didn't realize I was alone until I turned my head," said Gogue, who was born with Down syndrome. "It was like I had wings on my back. I thought, 'I can do it!'"
Three locals setting their 'own bar,' ready to participate in Special Olympics World Games in L.A.
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2019-04-18T13:06:59Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/sports/olympics/15000144-topic.html
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Sports
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Sports
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wordpress
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We all thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Sportivater event with Olympic swimmer James Kirton last Friday although the fitness circuit proved to be much more challenging than we anticipated. Our levels of stamina, resilience and determination were certainly put to the test.
Now that the children have completed the fitness circuit, we ask that any sponsorship money is brought into school by Monday 9th July at the very latest. The money that is raised will be used to buy sports equipment for the academy, while also supporting GB athletes (including Paralympic athletes).
May we take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your support.
This entry was posted in Juniors on July 5, 2018 by Signhills Blog.
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2019-04-20T02:34:57Z
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https://signhillsblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/whole-school-fitness-circuit-with-olympic-swimmer-james-kirton/
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Sports
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Kids
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topdrawersoccer
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Blue Hen junior forward Roberto Gimenez’s free-kick goal with five minutes left in the match gave the University of Delaware men’s soccer team a 3-2 victory over Georgia State in Colonial Athletic Association action Saturday night at GSU’s Soccer Complex.
Tied at 2-2 with only five minutes left in the match, a free kick was handled by Gimenez from 35 yards away. The junior forward from Calle Calatrava, Spain kicked the ball into the upper left side of the goal into the back of the net for the eventual game-winning goal for the Blue Hens. It was Gimenez’s second goal of the season and second off a free-kick opportunity.
With the victory Delaware (3-6-1, 1-0), snaps a two-game losing skid as the Blue Hens own a four-match winning streak against CAA competition while Georgia State (3-6, 0-2) remains winless in the conference.
“We scored three wonderful goals on the evening and the spirit of the group is strong,” Hennessy added.
At the 6:14 mark of the first half, Delaware junior midfielder Mark Garrity tallied his first goal of the season by using a sliding kick into the left side of the net, after a helpful assist from freshman Joe Dipre as the Blue Hens seized an early 1-0 lead.
With the help from sophomore midfielder Kyle Nuel, Garrity collected his second goal of the season from 18-yards away after his shot deflected off a GSU defender into the goal that doubled Delaware’s advantage to 2-0 at the 18:24 mark of the first half.
From a crossing pass by Georgia State’s William Mellors Blair, a diving header into the back of the Blue Hens goal by Caleb Kernan cut the Panthers deficit in half, 2-1, at the 31:27 mark of the opening period.
In the 73rd minute of the match, a high cross from the left side of the field set up Georgia State’s Alex Vivanco, who headed the ball into the far post that tied the match at 2-2 for only 12 minutes before Gimenez’s heroics.
The Blue Hens were out shot by the Panthers, 15-12. Garrity led UD with three shots on goal while GSU’s Kernan paced the Panthers with two shots on goal.
Delaware sophomore goalkeeper Jay Lupas collected five saves in his first CAA victory while GSU’s goalkeeper Vincent Foermer matched Lupas with five saves in the loss.
UD senior John Dineen was issued a yellow card by the officials at the 56th minute of the second half. Stefan Bangsund also was handed a yellow card in the 73rd minute of the match.
Delaware begins its CAA home schedule on Wednesday, October 3 at 7 p.m. when the Blue Hens host Towson University at Delaware Mini Stadium.
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2019-04-24T18:51:16Z
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https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/gimenezs-goal-leads-ud-to-victory-over-gsu_aid27054
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Sports
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Sports
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wordpress
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CakePHP is very much easy in some function points like ADD EDIT DELETE.Just you want to aware how to use.I like this article we are using this trick many places.
i’m totally agree with you Nirav. That’s the reason because i started to program with CakePHP. I’m really loving the results i’m getting in huge projects, so this is the beginning of my path using it.
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2019-04-23T10:56:32Z
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https://tomaru.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/cakephp-como-hacer-update-para-un-contador-de-visitas/
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Sports
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Reference
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wordpress
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I know, I know: I promised to get back to blogging regularly then failed yet again. I’m sorry! I’m just so tired at the moment… I can barely string a coherent sentence together, let alone write an entire blog post! This morning I hit snooze on my alarm, think I would just have five more minutes… only to wake up half an hour later wondering why it was light already! It’s a good job I have flexi-time at work… plus enough overtime saved up to make up for the fact that I’ve already worked about 2 hours less than I should have this week. And today was only Wednesday. Two more whole days before the weekend and sleeep… plus a trip to IKEA to spend the money my Grandma gave us. Yes, I lead such an exciting life.
Anyway, Jan is out tonight (he has choir practice), so I suppose I’d better go and attempt to make some food for myself. I’m thinking Supernoodles are the way forward! I won’t promise to write again soon, cos we all know how well that worked out last time… however, I will post some more photos of the flat once we’ve got the yet-to-be-bought IKEA furniture up and arranged. How’s that for a deal?
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2019-04-24T06:17:35Z
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https://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/tag/failing-to-blog/
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Sports
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Shopping
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bu
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First and foremost, CONGRATS on your acceptance to BU COM! Time to attend Open House, submit your final decision and rock your new BU gear in school. Next up is finishing senior year on a high note and attending summer orientation. Believe me when I tell you that once you go to orientation you’ll never want to leave Boston for the rest of the summer. By the time the weekend is over you’ll be planning lunch dates with your new friends for September. While at orientation you will get a small taste of Boston’s vibrant culture. Just wait until you get here in the fall when you can fully explore (and eat and shop your way through) the different neighborhoods.
Take advantage of the city as much as you can because as the semester goes on and your workload builds up, you may venture out into the city less and less. Here’s my advice: the best time to actually enjoy Boston is when you’re super stressed. Manage your time, hide out in a quiet space in-between classes and then at night unwind by taking a mini shopping trip to Newbury or attending a concert. You’ll see that by taking a few hours off from assignments will feel incredibly therapeutic.
On a recent Monday night my best friend and I went to the Chairlift concert at Brighton Music Hall. Getting the chance to dance just a few feet away from one of my favorite current bands not only helped me to de-stress for a few hours, but gave me a boost of energy for the rest of the week. So be spontaneous, enjoy Boston. YOLO.
With Coachella fast approaching and the Lollapalooza lineup leaked this week, I’ve been feeling some serious music envy lately. Really, though, to all of you flying out to California for Coachella in April, stop telling me about your plans. I’m too jealous. If you’re like me and are struggling to find a couple of dollars for your Starbucks order each morning, you probably won’t be headed out to any major festival this spring or summer. Have no fear though! There are some great acts coming to Boston in the coming months. Best of all, these shows are relatively cheap.
Known mostly for being featured in endless commercials, Oberhofer is still working on gaining popularity outside of the advertising world. Led by Brad Oberhofer, the band has an upbeat sound that will keep you dancing and happy throughout the show. Check out the songs “Away From You” and “Gold” for a solid sample of the group.
I can’t go a day without a new cover of Gotye’s “Somebody I Used to Know” being posted on facebook. The original song, which features New Zealand artist Kimbra, was a huge hit this past summer in Gotye’s native Australia and is slowly becoming popular here in the U.S. Both artists have amazing voices and should put on solid performances separately and together.
Even though they’ve been around and popular since the ‘90s, ticket prices for Of Montreal are still shockingly low. With their eleventh album released earlier in the month, the band is continuing their signature psychedelic-pop sound with great results. I wouldn’t hesitate to check out any of their new songs but make sure to listen to some old stuff too. They tend to go retro during their lives performances.
This French electronica band is insanely catchy. The highly addictive single Midnight City has honestly had me dancing by myself for the past couple of months. Similar in sound to a lower-key MGMT, the group has an eclectic mix of songs that range from slow and sad to fast and fun. They also tend to do spontaneous remixes on stage, so they never disappoint live.
I saw this band last summer when they opened for the WFNX Clambake, and even though I had no expectations for them, they wound up being fantastic. Hailing from nearby Worcester, their local flavor makes their shows a ton of fun. Maybe it’s because I first saw them in June, but Dom’s sound definitely has a carefree summer-like feel for me. Check out one of their first singles “Living In America,” though, and see for yourself.
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2019-04-24T06:32:48Z
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http://blogs.bu.edu/comblog/tag/brighton-music-hall/
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Sports
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Shopping
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squarespace
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We talk about personality, be that for brands or individuals, as if it’s something that comes naturally. Actually, in an ever-growing digital environment where we face a multitude of platforms and networks, it’s all too easy to lose your voice in a maelstrom of white noise.
If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, the future of VR is Social. Of course he’s going to say that with the backing of the world’s largest social network, but what does this mean?
Last week, Facebook revealed a set of much better looking avatars for their foray into social VR as part of their expanding Oculus lineup. It’s an important second step – the first being ‘Spaces’ earlier this year and other established networks such as vTime and Altspace offering a few customisable features to allow visitors to feel comfortable in their virtual skin.
Whether you want to accurately represent yourself or an ‘alternative you’, the audience needs to overcome the fact you can’t currently broadcast your own face thanks to the lump of plastic and a screen in the way, so let’s not get hung up on that. Think about the avatar itself and how it needs to become platform agnostic – not just across VR environments, but also into AR, regular digital screen content and even an audio signature.
We have yet to witness VR’s Pokemon moment as the platform still doesn’t fit into many people’s lives. It is taking hold for enterprise but consumers still couldn’t give a crap as it requires too much effort and is too easy to put down. This is why personalisation and realistic avatars are a vital step on the road to success.
The concept of lurking in alternate worlds and sharing quality time with others will be experienced by a mainstream audience when Stephen Spielberg brings Ready Player One to life in cinemas next year. Although HTC has plans for actual VR content, you won’t need to watch the film with a headset on so there will at least be more eyeballs on the VR lifestyle. Let’s see how many like the idea of the real thing.
I’ve been tackling the significance of avatars in general but they’re more of a branding exercise. What happens when you add real substance, with AI sitting behind the facade?
With a recent death in the family, mortality is something close to my heart right now. This was brought into focus a few weeks ago when I received a LinkedIn status message “Wish Matt a happy birthday” – from a colleague and friend who died in 2015. You could say he lives on through social channels but this isn't really true is it?
I've pondered the social and emotional benefits of preserving VR snapshots in time with family members for future generations – those no longer with us or simply to remember magical moments with your children and loved ones. The true measure of technology is when it exists for a reason, rather than simply existing.
We talk about Artificial Intelligence and automation stealing jobs from the rest of us but they'll be freeing up precious time for us to be more productive in other key areas. What if we use AI to deliver immortality? Sounds far-fetched, but it isn't.
When we have perfected digital personalities, mimicking real individuals and 'thinking' as they do, why wouldn't the LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook status of the future be delivered from beyond the grave?
Of course there are ethical and religious issues and a few technical hurdles to overcome, but I’m not suggesting we take control of someone else’s personality, rather it becomes a box-checking exercise to ‘live on’ or ‘delete persona’ beyond death. This throws up the question of whether erase means erase or we’re merely placing our personalities in a ‘recently deleted’ folder.
It’s easy to see how a grieving relative could be tempted to have one more conversation, or ask the questions you never seemed to find time for. Does this become a path to acceptance or a way to normalise post-life interaction? For some it will be a simple choice, others may decide on both.
Filming VR moments offers us a virtual time machine, with the ability to relive events as if we were there again, albeit passively. Add layers of interaction across multiple devices and platforms and you begin to see how this becomes about the persona, rather than the delivery mechanism – like real life.
In a deluge of indiscernible Fake News, a hacked personality in VR will offer the ultimate brain-washing medium so there are some enormous hurdles plus new levels of digital encryption and authentication required.
We could potentially face a transitionary period where we’re testing AI avatars as a direct replacement for genuine social accounts to see if audiences notice the difference. It’s these standards that bots and personal assistants need to strive for, proving this research is essential.
Avatars are the ringtones of the future and will be a huge growth market over the next decade. Control the supply of these and you own the gateway to digital personality, the most comprehensive database on earth. You’ll make yourself useful in a world of useless and provide a service as a brand or build a business driven by data, insight and creativity.
I plan to add more substance to this subject over the next few months through the written word and on the global conference circuit. It deserves the widest possible audience.
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2019-04-20T00:58:09Z
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http://activrightbrain.squarespace.com/blog/tag/Artificial+Intelligence
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Sports
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Business
| 0.544737 |
rediff
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Almost after a year of no food product being pulled out of the market, the regulator has decided to bring a comprehensive recall policy this financial year.
The last big food recall was in June 2015, of Nestle India's Maggi noodles. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had ordered the removal on reports that it contained traces of lead and monosodium glutamate.
Subsequent lab tests cleared Maggi and the product is now back on retail shelves.
In the making for five years, the draft procedure for a food product's recall was put up for public comment on the body's website last year by FSSAI, where it has remained. Its latest newsletter lists 'final notification of recall regulations' as among the 12 important things it plans for 2016-17.
Other items include guidelines on a traceability mechanism, a food recall portal, final notification of the product approval regulations and amendment of the Food Safety Act of 2006.
An industry representative said another round of deliberations with businesses is expected before fine-tuning the draft food recall procedures.
Besides Maggi, several energy drinks, flavoured water, syrups and sauces had been recalled in the past for not adhering to prescribed food standards.
While the current law has provision for a recall, there hasn't been a foolproof policy or procedures, unlike in mature markets such as the US or Britain.
In August 2015, FSSAI said it would not continue with the process of product approvals, citing a Supreme Court order allowing food and health care products to be launched freely. That saw the end of food recall, too.
According to the draft recall procedure, the objective is to "guide the food business operators on how to carry out a recall process, using global identification systems such as barcode and other mechanisms like e-mail, paper, fax, etc, which facilitates fast removal of the food under recall from the distribution chain…"
The idea is also to inform consumers of the presence of such food in the market and ensure it is contained and destroyed or rendered safe.
Once the policy comes into effect, it will be a guide to operators on how to establish a written 'recall plan' for executing such a process, in case the food is determined unsafe and to protect the health of consumers in such a situation.
It will be about the complete process of recall, post-recall report, closure of the recall process and follow-up action to prevent a recurrence.
The proposed regulation exempts retailers from having a recall plan unless they are also engaged in the manufacture or import of food.
Restaurants, caterers and takeaway joints do not need to have a recall plan.
But, every entity in the distribution chain must remove the recalled product, once notified.
The draft procedures say a recall of food made abroad may also be initiated by reports of health authorities or from information received directly from such authorities or otherwise.
Back in 2011, then FSSAI chairman P I Suvrathan had told this newspaper that food recall was a complex process and the Authority would come up with related norms in the following year.
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2019-04-24T08:29:22Z
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https://www.rediff.com/money/report/fssai-to-bring-comprehensive-recall-policy-by-april/20160516.htm
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Sports
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Business
| 0.931413 |
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