text: KGB Racing News from KGB-Racing.com http://www.kgb-racing.com 2020-10-20T11:11:24+01:00 KGB-Racing http://www.kgb-racing.com http://www.kgb-racing.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2011-06-02T12:09:59+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com The Original KGB Racing car http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/81/ The first car that was part of KGB Racing was a 2000 BMW Z3 Coupe. 2,8 litter of pure BMW power :) That is the car that i took to my first autocross and it earned me a 3rd place in Novice Class in 2001. This was my first ever new car and my second BMW. This is also the only car i really miss. text/html 2010-07-06T17:04:18+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Suspension Changes Worked! http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/53/ For the last few years i have been trying to prevent my car from lifting the inside rear tire during right hand sweeper. The latest changes finally worked. Removing the rear sway bar and installing 800lb springs did the trick. racinricpix's Flick Photostreem (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43812942@N06/sets/72157624308119207/) text/html 2010-07-02T14:39:17+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Corner weights http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/52/ Last Friday I was able to put the car on scales and finally adjust the suspension. Results are: text/html 2010-06-25T14:22:25+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com EFI Installation. Part 3. Electrical http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/51/ Fuel delivery has been installed and tested. It is now time to set up all of the electrical parts. Wiring under the hood was cleaned up., since there is a lot more of it coming. Battery cable is now terminated at junction block. A new lead runs from there to the starter. Another distribution block was set up for all positive connectors under the hood. They all used to terminate on the starter. That was a bit messy. text/html 2010-04-13T22:37:54+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com EFI Installation. Part 2. Fuel http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/50/ First thing that EFI requires is a 2 fuel line. One feeding the fuel injectors and the other to return access fuel back to the tank. A stock BMW 2002 only has one line. It;s a plastic line that runs inside the cab and was designed to feed the carburetor at 3.5 PSI. The news system will put out about 50 PSI. text/html 2010-04-12T23:31:35+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Lightweight alternator http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/49/ After driving with a big 533 alternator for a few years i finally replaced it with something a little more speedy. This one if from Performance Distributors and is 6lb and produces 50 AMP. Installation is not too complicated. The smaller of the mounting holes is threaded for the M8 bolt, same size as used for 2002 alternator mounting. A spacer was used to place the alternator in the proper spot. text/html 2010-04-11T11:15:15+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com EFI Installation. Part 1. Parts http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/48/ A little late into the off-season but planning is over and installation has started. Over the next few weeks I am going to re-plumb the car with high pressure line and fittings that came from LPI Racing (http://www.lpiracing.com), fuel pump that came from 2002 Haus (http://www.2002haus.com), header from Ireland Engineering (http://www.bmw2002.com), throttle bodies from Extrudabody, (http://www.extrudabody.com/) clean up wiring under the hood, remove all old ignition and fuel supply parts, and install Electromotive TECgt from Sias Tuning (http://www.siastuning.com). text/html 2009-10-01T14:00:19+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Trophy at Nationals http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/46/ Steve Kupper of KGB-Racing takes 7th place at SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. Andrew Quigley took 21st in a very competitive F Street Prepared. For the second year in a row a rear wheel drive car takes the first place in FSP. It was Iain Mannix's 1968 BMW 2002 Driven by David Fauth. David took a commanding lead after day one on the east course. text/html 2009-09-20T13:14:14+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Ignition issues http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/44/ As some of you might have heard about 2 weeks prior to the Nationals and right after the head was rebuilt, the car started to misfire badly. I found the misfire of cylinder #1 and thought it was due to a leaking gasket that is on the water neck and the first intake. After fixing that, the misfire did not go away. And what i discovered is that the misfire was on cylinders #1 and #3. text/html 2009-09-17T16:23:25+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Broken Rockers http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/43/ A few broken rockers did not stop KGB-Racing BMW 2002 from attending SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. Three weeks prior to the departure date at American Autocross Series event at Marina CA a disaster struck. In the end of the day car lost power and start making a lot of noise from the engine bay. Fear we had was that the bearing were gone, but to a pleasant surprise, after taking the valve cover off we discovered that the problem was in the head. Exhaust rocker for #1 piston was broken. The pad fell off and was sitting in two pieces next to the valve spring. Lucky for us it did not fall into any oil passages. text/html 2006-09-06T06:55:17+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Fuel Pump http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/26/ Carter fuel pump that has been running in the car for about 4 years has died at the last SFR SCCA event at Golden Gate Fields after one run. Golden Gate Field is usually good for KGB-Racing with multiple PAX placing in top 10. This time we had to push the car back on the trailer :) New fuel pump was acquired from Gottelli Speed Shop in South San Francisco and we were racing again in Stockton with Sacramento Chapter. steve k. text/html 2006-09-06T06:37:00+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Last Event of the Season http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/25/ The last event of the regular season for SFR SCCA is on September 10th. We are currently in 1st and hoping to stay that way. Come and join us. More information about the event is available at http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2 Steve K. text/html 2006-06-13T17:41:52+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com SAC SCCA Event at Mather http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/24/ Last weekend was the second annual Shriner Children's Hospital Charity Event hosted by Sacramento Chapter of SCCA. KGB-Racing car number 26 was present to compete in FSP on Saturday June 10th with the best time of 55.5 seconds on the second run. The course resembled a 5 leaf clover with a lot of surface changes going from concrete to asphalt. 2 member of BMW 2002 FAQ (http://www.bmw2002faq.com), Norm and Ali (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1357), have joined Steve K. in F Street Prepared. Norm driving a 2000CS and Ali with his flat black 2002. For the photos and video from the event please visit our gallery (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1298). text/html 2006-05-26T01:16:15+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Bay Area 02 Show: a great success! http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/23/ First of all I have to thank guys at EDGE Motorworks (http://www.edgemotorworks.com)for getting the car ready in time. With new front pads and rotors and new wheel studs all the way around, the car made it to show. Presented in its race gear with all of the stickers and on race rubber it was a nice site. There were over 100 cars at show ranging from concourse restorations to 35 year old daily driven originals. 6 factory Turbos, as many Tourings, one convertible, and an electric '02 were on the lawn. Pictures from the event can be found on the Event Gallery. (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=918) Three cars from previous (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1116) day's show were in attendance. Ali drove in the morning just as it was starting rain. Norm and I were driving through puddles in what seemed to be a mid May monsoon. If you want to see what it feels like to be autocrossing in the rain see the in car video (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1226). Or the video from Daniel (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1280)if you want to see a couple fun spins (index.php?option=com_gallery2 Itemid=29 g2_itemId=1280). text/html 2006-05-07T01:09:15+01:00 http://www.kgb-racing.com Repair progress http://www.kgb-racing.com/content/view/21/ Not much progress has been done in the last week, mostly parts research and search. New studs are coming from Ireland Engineering (http://www.bmw2002.com/). The old studs were Moroso 7/16 diameter and 3 long. the new studs are once again metric. They are made by ARP. Thread is 12x1.5 and the length is 65mm. Another change int he car will be the front brakes. Thanks to the recommendation from Jeremy i an going away from Hawk Blue bads since they seem to overheat and cook my rotors in autocross condition and moving towards Hawk HPS pads. They can be found at TireRack (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1875887-10399972). 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Dec 29 (Reuters) - Manager Juergen Klopp has urged Liverpool to concentrate on isolating returning Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero when the teams meet at Anfield in the Premier League on Saturday.
Aguero is back after a four-match ban for violent conduct for third-placed City, who travel to second-placed Liverpool in search of their first Premier League win at Anfield since May 2003.
"What can I say? He's back," Klopp told a news conference on Thursday. "Good striker. I have never made a secret of it. That makes life not easier for us -- but we knew it before.
"He can only score goals if somebody gives him the ball. We have to avoid easy passes. We can defend really good. So we need to be concentrated. That's the biggest challenge in this game."
Klopp's men are undefeated at home this season and the German is hoping that playing at their historic stadium will hand them the upper hand.
"This is a very big game for both," he added. "Six clubs fight for four or one positions. Each game is kind of a final.
"City have the highest quality in the team and highest quality on the bench.
"The advantage is that it's at Anfield. We must try to use this. It will be really difficult for both teams. I'm really looking forward to it. We love playing against the best."
The German will be without defender Joel Matip (ankle) for the fourth game in a row, while midfielder Philippe Coutinho will also miss out.
Coutinho, one of Liverpool's chief attacking threats, has not featured since injuring an ankle against Sunderland at the end of November and Klopp said it was unlikely he would be back for the reverse fixture at the Stadium of Light on Jan. 2.
Despite the injuries and the impending loss of Sadio Mane to the African Nations Cup next month, Klopp played down the significance of the January transfer window.
"If we think a player can help us in January, February, March, April and May then yes we will do something. I'm not sure it will be important for us this year," he added.
The manager also shot down speculation that Liverpool were interested in signing Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, describing British media reports that the club were contemplating a January bid as "nonsense". (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, editing by Neil Robinson)
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Paul Kennedy facts for kids
Paul Kennedy is an American sportscaster with Fox Sports Florida. He does play-by-play for games for the Orlando Magic. Kennedy has also called NFL Europe and NFL games for Fox. He currently calls college football games for Fox Sports Net. Kennedy is the host of a show for the Tampa Bay Lightning Inside the Lightning. He also hosted Prime Time Noles. He also has called college basketball games for FSN. Kennedy was the host of Miami Dolphins Monday Night Magazine and Bucs Diaries featuring head coach Tony Dungy. He also served as the play-by-play voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football and basketball teams. Kennedy has also been involved in baseball. He was the studio host for The Baseball Network and the Florida Marlins and called select play-by-play for the Marlins.


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Robot fruit pickers could help solve the industry's skilled recruitment crisis, says a Kent farm manager.
Giles Cannon, who manages Roughway Farm near Tonbridge, says his farm has been "overwhelmed" with job interest in recent weeks as hundreds of people seek to work as fruit pickers.
It comes several weeks after a national call was made by the Environment Secretary, George Eustice, urging students and furloughed workers to apply for seasonal farm work amid feared shortages.
However, hiring experienced staff has proved challenging for the agricultural sector, according to Mr Cannon.
Mr Cannon, who has worked in the farming sector for decades, said: "To call fruit picking an unskilled job is doing the industry a disservice."
Farmers around the world are increasingly interested in robot technology to address the long-term decline in skilled labour, according to 2019 research carried out by Fieldwork Robotics, a company linked to the University of


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I am thinking about adding something besides unity into my ubuntu 12.04.
My questions are this: -If I add cinnamon, mate, gnome2/3, could I still call it it Ubuntu, or would it be Mint? -Why not just add Mint instead of cinnamon, or mate, into Ubuntu? -Or is Mint just those at the core, and not the other way around? -I had terrible battery drain using Mint. Something was wrong with the kernel with my laptop type. If I add cinnamon, would I get that battery drain again? -And lastly, would I be able to get that awesome HUD if I add the other things?
I realize these questions are a bit confusing, or at least they are for me.


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I'm such a bad "blogger" that I literally forgot about this blog and started another one. I'm not riding or writing as much as I used to, but there are definitely more recent posts at "Father Dan's Church of Cycling" here:
If I have things set up properly, www.ChurchOfCycling.org will also forward to that page.
Our "big" cycling trip this year was to go to the third of the big three grand tours, La Vuelta de España, which we saw part of in the Costa Brava region of Spain. We got to ride on the time trial course while the pros were warming up on it. See photos here: https://goo.gl/L3sLHs
See you on the road. Keep the rubber side down.
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Onboard the Rainbow Warrior, Mike Baillie sails around the coast of South Africa, and finds it to be a really great opportunity to reflect on how he got there and where it's taking him in life…
I was born in a small town east of Johannesburg, perhaps best known for its giant coal plants and oil industry. It was a horrible place to grow up: full of smog, polluted rivers, and burnt veld. Massive dirty pipes climbed into thick black clouds, and on some days they blocked the sun out completely.
When I was five my parents got divorced, and my dad went back to Zimbabwe to work on the family farm. My sister and I would visit on school holidays. Freed from the city, with its huge highways, lifeless malls, and endless concrete, we'd roll around the farm getting covered in rich red mud.
I remember how one holiday we fostered a baby calf who'd been abandoned. We named her "chicken" and suckled her on a bottle of warm milk. She'd chase us around the garden, and by the end of a morning spent playing with her, we'd be completely covered in warm slobber.
a kid's dream
Foothills farm was a kid's dream. Hideouts. Fishing trips. Bike rides. Rivers to damn up and get muddy in. Always lots of mud.
From a very young age I realized how special the natural world was – but I also had a very clear image of how badly humans could wreck it. Take almost any metric that relates to the environment and it'll tell you that we are ravaging the planet: our current way of life simply isn't sustainable.
Years later I found myself in a job that many would have loved, but one I grew very frustrated in. It was all about sales, advertising, and profit. My job was to make people want more, and I was disappointed to find myself contributing to a system I knew was at odds with the planet.
following your heart
I had to make a choice: either stay in the 'cushy' job and work for something I didn't believe in, or make a change and find something closer to my heart. I got a job with Greenpeace, moved across the country and left my girlfriend and home behind. I became a climber, and then last year I found myself hanging off a massive crane in a coal plant being constructed just an hour from where I was born.
A love for the outdoors, for the veld, is something very South African. We love talking about the bush, of unplugging from the city, and just getting out. I think that although South Africans can disagree on many things, our connection to the wilderness is something we all identify with. No one thinks rhino poaching is a good idea, and no one thinks empty oceans are a good thing either.
And yet here we are in a situation where our oceans and wilderness are severely threatened. Our water, which will become even more scarce as climate change rolls on, is being polluted by mines and pumped into massive coal plants. Rainforests further north are being cleared at a rate beyond exaggeration, and millions of the most vulnerable people across the continent will be pushed even harder by the impacts of climate change.
too late to reply on governments
Expecting governments to spontaneously take action on these fronts is no longer an option. They have been given numerous opportunities to take the action we need, but have repeatedly let us down, while polluters go on plundering the planet for profit.
Now it's up to us. You and I have to get up and start pushing for changes. We must take action in our own lives to lessen our impact on the planet, start speaking up in our communities about environmental destruction, and increase pressure on governments and corporates. On news channels around the world, there are a string of examples of how citizen action is resulting in change – we should be inspired by those examples, and start pushing for our own versions of this change.
Today, as I sit writing this onboard the Rainbow Warrior, I can see the coastline of the Eastern Cape in the distance. I can see blueish mountains and white sand dunes dotting the horizon – it's an incredible sight, and although I'm aware of all the environmental challenges we are facing, a view like this is all the inspiration I need to keep up the fight.
By Mike Baillie. Source: Greenpeace Africa


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For the women like me, who seem to have a summer full of all different types of weddings, and like wearing something new but don't want to spend a fortune, here are guest wedding looks that are appropriate for a beach getaway wedding, a country club wedding, an outside country wedding, and a chic city wedding. All of these looks and dresses can be reused and incorporated into your everyday life. Best of all, they are affordable so you can validate buying a new dress for each wedding!
H&M dress $19.95, Chelsea Turnlock Clutch $29.95 DSW, Target gold gladiator sandal $24.99
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Knighton Dress $99 at jackwills.com, Michael Antonio Luelle at DSW $24.95, clutch $35 at Aldo
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No matter what we say or think we're doing, we're looking for a Grand Unification Theory or GUT: A way of viewing any random piece of news or gossip without our entire world view cracking and spilling out all over the ground around us. Thus the current fascination with realtime micromessaging and Track.
The past few days there's been a flurry of discussion falling under the heading of "Google threatened by realtime people search." The thesis is that search (Google) is based on the past, while Twitter search (Track) is based on realtime, i.e. now. The problem with this GUT is that this is not a new insight, has been discussed openly for several years, and seems surprisingly resistant to being monetized for such an epochal sea change.
Facebook's move toward opening its realtime update stream does little to disrupt Twitter's control of its dominant stream via rate limiting and corporate indirection. The GUT suggests micromessages are owned by the individual vendor, and the so-called Open crowd helps popularize what is in reality a shell game. In fact, the vendor who first claims ownership of the stream will immediately forfeit it.
First, it is not the stream that holds the value of the system — it's the intersection of the active stream (Track) with the individual's view of the peer group most likely to help winnow the stream down to manageable size. Having access to all the most important information in the world is useless without some way of managing it in real time. Twitter's value proposition is the Follow cloud managed and extended by Track.
Second, we've had systems capable of broadcasting status messages for some time now. Search collected these signals – documents, posts, email, IM – and provided a system to assign value and therefore pricing to the data. Web 2.0 in effect was the API to these floating information objects, with search the primary driver of who gets to where first.
Third, the more we understand the value of these micro-objects, the more interested we become in getting the best deal for distributing them and deriving compensation for the effort expended to create and manage them. Once we understand how valuable Tweets are, we start looking for a manager or an agent.
Of course, there are only a few Scobles or Arringtons out there who can command a decent price for their individual messages. For the rest of us, we have to find support from affinity groups. Affinities come in many flavors, but they neatly divide into two groups: those we know about – church or sport or music or book club – and those who know about us. These implicit affinities are subtle and overlapping and dynamic.
Querying affinities requires a valid contract between the users who make up the groups and those who want to reach them. Google has enormous flow of user data about interest and intent, but little assent at the affinity level. Facebook's assent is weakly typed because it's difficult to distinguish between levels of "friendship". Twitter's Follow architecture provides the best explicit modeling of affinities, if, and it's the Big If, Track is available to help balance asymmetry between a small number of Follows and a larger number of Followers.
So far Twitter has succeeded in maintaining growth and the perception of value within its communities of users and developers. FriendFeed has done a good job of challenging Twitter's blockade of Track and realtime APIs, which hurts third party developers more than it does users. Facebook may make inroads with developers adding the Facebook stream to aggregation tools, and Facebook Connect is already provisioned to handle the news stream.
But any overt move to claim users or their affinity clouds will trigger extremely negative effects. Microsoft's Hailstorm was viable only as long as it wasn't wedded to an identity system. Google's attempts to harvest social graph data from email behavior and graft it onto Google Reader shared feeds violated the implicit social contracts of two separate services. Yahoo's MyBlogLog harvested data as the result of contracts with Web sites owners and without the clear consent of the users themselves.
Today these services seem somewhat neutered. Hailstorm was in the end deployed as Google Apps and Gmail instead of by Microsoft. Google Reader dominates the RSS aggregation market but has not been integrated into the Apps. MyBlogLog is disappearing from sites as Twitter and FriendFeed communities expand. Third party clients are mining realtime streams to identify and target valuable groups based on their anonymous shared behavior.
But the GUT says Google has peaked. The GUT says Facebook will slowly but surely suck the business model out of Twitter just when they finally discover it. My gut says the GUT will only be ratified by users when they are able to calculate the implicit value of their gestures and then get a check for that amount. The list of those capable of cutting such a check is not very long. It may be the ultimate stimulus package.


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Animecast: Gundam Build Fighters
Gundam has been around for longer than most have been alive, building a fandom of passion that is rivaled by few. Nothing speaks stronger for this passion than Gundam Build Fighters which takes the world of Gundam models (or Gunpla) and throws it into a fun battler series that is surprisingly entertaining and deep. Join the hosts as they explain what to expect and how it's worth your time. Read more »


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Yurt Based - Guided Backcountry Ski Touring - 6 Day pack
8 Day backcountry ski package | 10 Day backcountry ski package
Nothing beats a powder filled adventure with good friends in Kyrgyz Tien Shan mountains and the yurt based backcountry ski or splitboard experience in Kyrgyzstan is like none other. Hand crafted kyrgyz yurts has been given a shelter to nomads since time immemorial and now we welcome you to our backcountry ski yurt set cozily in Terskei Ala Too backocounty among the towering peaks. The yurt provides direct access to a great variety of finest backcountry ski and snowboard terrain, wide open alpine slopes and scenic glaciers covered with annual snowfalls of up to 2,200 cm. Ski at day time and enjoy fire and dinner in the evening by staying in our warm, wood burning stove heated yurt.
1 Day. Arrive Bishkek. Meet agent and load a vehicle with gear. Long day drive to Karakol for aprox 6 hrs. Lunch on the way. In Karakol we meet guides and continue to trailhead with ex army truck. Skin up the yurt. Final preparations/gear check/avalanche safety briefing. Dinner. Overnight in yurt.
2 Day. Full day backcoutnry ski touring in the area. Fire&BBQ in the evening. Sauna to be taken, vodka to be drinken.
3 Day. Full day backcoutnry ski touring in the area. Fire&BBQ in the evening. Sauna to be taken, vodka to be drinken.
4 Day. Full day backcoutnry ski touring in the area. Fire&BBQ in the evening. Sauna to be taken, vodka to be drinken.
5 Day. Ski out in the morning. Meet vehicle at trailhead. Drive to Karakol. Switch vehicles again and continue to Bishkek. Accommodation in hotel.
6 Day. Transfer to airport for your up coming onward journey. End of services.
990 USD* per person
*Price is based on double occupancy in hotels.
Price includes:
- 2 Guides per group
- All relevant transportation
- Full board meals and drinks whilst on tour
- Yurt lodging fees - 4 nts, Hotel in Bishkek -1 nt.
- Access to all yurt supplies and resources
- Gear haul both ways
We recommend you book your week early to avoid any disappointment!
Price does not include:
- Excess baggage costs
- Air fare to Kyrgyzstan
- Single accommodations
- Personal travel insurance
- Tipping
- Emergency evacuation charges
- Certain meal whilst not on tour
- All personal expenses, ski/splitboard equipment and clothing
- Visa and passport cost if applied
Fantastic Asia additional services:
- Folklore shows
- Traditional craft work by experts in their fields
- Demonstrations of national horse games and bird hunting shows
Guests are required to have:
- Sense of Adventure
- Reasonable fitness
- Personal travellers' first aid kit
- Medical and Accident insurance
- All appropriate clothing and equipment: gear list
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Poundland has announced that it will move away from its single price model and offer a broader range of products.
The discount retailer was recently acquired by South African giant Steinhoff in an arduous take over process for £635 million.
Steinhoff has now announced that it will be adding footwear and apparel products from its Pep&Co chain to Poundland stores, adding a more varied price range to its product base.
Chief executive of the group Markus Jooste has stated that in the stores where these new products were offered "gross margins increased substantially".
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He added: "Management is quite confident that a multi-pricepoint and a different mix of product is definitely in store for the future for those brands in the UK."
Rumours emerged last month that Poundland would be shutting 80 of its 900 nationwide stores in a move to prevent duplication in towns. Steinhoff failed to comment on the matter.
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Winners & Losers: Royal baby edition
The (expanding) Royal Family:Buckingham Palace confirms that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first baby. Explosion of global hysteria confirms that the world needs a teething biscuit and a nap.
A day in court:The Supreme Court announces it will rule on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, giving the hotly debated same-sex marriage question the hearing it deserves.
Our Grammy nominees:Tom Waits and Ravi Shankar are among the eight current or former locals who will be walking the red carpet during the 2013 Grammy Awards. Non-nominee Nicki Minaj is available for wardrobe consultations and wig tips.
Pizza lovers:Pizza Hut releases "Eau de Pizza Hut," a fragrance that reportedly smells like fresh dough. Next up, L'Air du Memphis BBQ Burger, which reportedly smells like fresh angioplasty.
Public safety:San Diego Mayor Bob Filner directs a $6.9 million reimbursment-fee windfall to the city's police and fire departments. Local potholes wait for bucks to blow their way.
Norv Turner and A.J. Smith:Sources say the Chargers' head coach and General Manger will be fired at the end of the season, giving fans the gift of endless Monday-morning quarterbacking.
Fresh & Easy shoppers: The British owners of the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market chain announce they may be pulling out of the U.S. market. What will we do with our self-checkout skills now?
4th & B:The downtown San Diego concert venue with the big dance-floor and eclectic lineup shuts down, leaving music fans to cherish their sore feet and rockin' memories.
Jillian Hanson-Cox:The former El Cajon Councilwoman is sentenced to 30 months in prison for embezzling millions to pay for improvements to the Mother Goose Parade and lifestyle upgrades for herself. Honk if you think she got off easy.
Zombie apocalypse:A zombie attack staged during a San Diego counterterrorism training event is included in a Senate report on questionable Homeland Security expenses. In matters of national security, the Senate much prefers vampires.


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Scancell is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company which was founded in 1997 on research led by Professor Lindy Durrant at the University of Nottingham. The Company is operating at the forefront of immuno-oncology, an exciting field of cancer research which involves the development of immunotherapies to harness the body's ability to generate and sustain an effective immune response against cancer.
The cancer immunotherapy market is one of the most rapidly growing markets within the biopharmaceutical industry, estimated to be worth USD100 billion by the year 2022. Immunotherapies are being evaluated in most cancer indications and their unrivalled efficacy and relatively low toxicity profile compared to chemotherapy is already leading to paradigm shifts in the treatment of many cancers. However, tumours often successfully evade the body's own natural defence mechanism, the immune system, and not all patients are able to respond to checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapies. Therapeutic vaccines therefore have the potential to improve the proportion of patients who are able to benefit by initiating immune responses that convert unresponsive tumours, or so-called "cold" tumours, into "hot" ones.
The commercial potential of Scancell's products will be defined by clinical data, either as monotherapies or in combination with checkpoint inhibitors, designed to provide increased and durable responses in patients without compromising safety and to address the unmet needs in hard to treat cancers. Scancell's three technology platforms, ImmunoBody®, Moditope® and AvidiMab™, each offers a unique approach to cancer therapy to address all of these criteria.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, Scancell has evaluated how it can best contribute its expertise and resources to help in the global response. Vaccines are the long-term solution and the company believes its combined high avidity T cell and neutralising antibody approach has the potential to produce a second-generation vaccine that will generate an effective and durable immune response to COVID-19. Scancell has therefore initiated its COVIDITY programme to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in collaboration with scientists at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.
John has many years' international experience in listed life science companies where he has fulfilled the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. He is Managing Director of Newstar Ventures Ltd, an investment and advisory firm and contributes strong corporate finance skills to the Group. John is also Chairman of N4 Pharma PLC, an AIM listed company and serves on the board of an Australian listed company, Regeneus Limited.
Cliff brings over 25 years of life science industry experience to Scancell in the development and commercialisation of emerging technologies and therapeutic products including licensing, M&A, corporate financing and operations management. Prior to joining Scancell, Cliff was Chief Business and Operating Officer for Benitec Biopharma, an Australian NASDAQ listed company.
Lindy is an internationally recognised immunologist in the field of tumour therapy and co-founder of Scancell. She has worked for over 25 years in translational research, developing products for clinical trials including monoclonal antibodies and cancer vaccines. She has a personal Chair in Cancer Immunotherapy in the Department of Clinical Oncology at the University of Nottingham.
Sally has worked on many complex projects over the past 25 years including anti-infective vaccines and cancer immunotherapies. She has previously held Development Director positions in life science companies and, prior to her appointment as Development Director at Scancell, she worked as a development consultant to Scancell providing guidance on the development of SCIB1.
Richard joined Scancell as a co-founder and was CEO until December 2017. He has many years' experience with Scancell and in life sciences generally which he brings to the Board. As well as contributing to the Board, Richard provides business development advice and consulting services to Scancell.
Martin is a founder, director and partner of Vulpes Investment Management, which manages a number of funds including the Vulpes Life Sciences Fund. He has over 30 years' experience in investment banking and fund management, and has been an investor in life sciences and biotech for nearly 20 years. Martin's other directorships are Oxford Biomedica plc, Proteome Sciences plc and Chronos Therapeutics Limited.
Dr Ney has over thirty years' experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, including twenty years in senior leadership roles that also encompassed Executive and Non-Executive Board positions. She has broad experience of biologic and small molecule drug development across a range of therapeutic areas having been Director of Drug Development and on the Board of Celltech plc and later Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of Antisoma plc. Most recently, she was Chief Executive Officer of Genkyotex SA. She was a on the board of Discuva Ltd and is currently a Non-Executive Director of Proteome Sciences plc and also a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Plymouth.
Susan is an experienced life sciences financier with over 25 years of capital markets and investment banking experience, including Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets at Citigroup Global Markets Limited and most recently until 2018, Managing Director at Torreya Partners LLC, a global investment banking firm serving companies in the Life Sciences industry. Susan is currently Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Evgen Pharma plc, an AIM listed clinical stage drug development company.
Cliff brings over 25 years of life science industry experience to Scancell in the development and commercialisation of emerging technologies and therapeutic products including licensing, M&A, corporate financing and operations management. Prior to joining Scancell, Cliff was Chief Business and Operating Officer for Benitec Biopharma, an Australian NASAQ listed company.
Keith trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat Marwick (now KPMG). He has taken on many consultancy and interim finance roles for private and AIM listed companies in the life sciences sector. Keith started working for Scancell on a part-time basis in January 2010 and took up a full-time role in September 2016.
Samantha joined Scancell from Immunocore where she held several positions including Head of T Cell Cloning and Group Leader. While at Immunocore, Samantha was responsible for the generation of the in house T cell cloning method and biological molecule discovery which made significant contributions to the current Immunocore oncology pipeline. Prior to this, Samantha held a number of positions at Medigene, Avidex, NIBSC and GSK. Samantha holds a PhD from University College London in Immunology/Haematology, following an BSc Honours Degree in Microbiology from the University of Sheffield.
Adrian joined Scancell from Mereo BioPharma where he was Head of Small Molecule CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls), managing outsourced GMP manufacturing activities. Prior to this, Adrian was New Product Development Director at Juniper Pharmaceuticals and has previously held further CMC positions at Circassia, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Prosidion, Evotec and OSI Pharmaceuticals, totalling 20 years of development expertise including the delivery of multiple, complex GMP drug products. Adrian holds a PhD in Physical Organic/Analytical Chemistry from The Open University, following a MSc in Advanced Analytical Chemistry from the University of Bristol.
Robert Coleman is Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology at Weston Park Hospital and the University of Sheffield. He graduated in medicine from Kings College Hospital Medical School and trained in London and Edinburgh before moving to Sheffield where he was instrumental in developing clinical cancer research in the city and establishing an internationally respected bone oncology research team. Professor Coleman held many leadership roles before his recent retirement from the University. He has written more than 450 scientific articles and 60 book chapters, is a past-president of the Cancer and Bone Society and was a trustee for Breast Cancer Now, the largest breast cancer research charity in the UK from 2010-2018. Currently he is a trustee at St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield and the Weston Park Cancer Charity. Since 2014 he has been a part-time Medical Director for the global independent medical education provider, prIME Oncology™ developing and delivering both live and on-line educational programmes for oncologists and other providers of cancer care.
Christian Ottensmeier is Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at the University of Southampton. He graduated in Münster, Germany and began his specialist training there. After a 3-year training fellowship in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, he moved to Southampton where he leads the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. He has been a consultant in medical oncology since 2000. Clinically his interests are thoracic malignancies, head & neck cancer and melanoma, and he has co-developed a number of national NCRI studies in lung cancer. He is at the forefront of research into cancer vaccines and manages a broad and active clinical trials portfolio, including lung cancer and melanoma.
Poulam Patel is Professor of Clinical Oncology at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He combines laboratory research with clinical practice focussing on the development of new treatments for several cancer types including malignant melanoma and renal cancer. He has been principal investigator for many trials of novel therapies, including Scancell's Phase 1/2 clinical trial of SCIB1-001 in melanoma patients. Professor Patel is currently the Chairman of the UK National Cancer Research Institute's Skin Cancer Clinical Studies Group, the multidisciplinary committee charged with developing the national trials portfolio for skin cancer. He has previously been a National Cancer Specialty lead of the NIHR Clinical Research Network, the clinical trials arm of the NHS, and Chairman of the EORTC Melanoma Group, one of the world's largest international melanoma clinical trials networks.
Iain McNeish is Professor of Oncology and Head of the Division of Cancer within the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He is also the Director of the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre and Cancer theme lead in the Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Externally, he is Chair of the NCRI Gynaecological Clinical Studies Group. His research focuses on ovarian cancer, specifically developing improved therapies through improved understanding of disease biology. He co-leads the BriTROC translational research collaborative and holds a programme grant from Cancer Research UK investigating copy number alterations in ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma as a possible prognostic and predictive biomarker.
David Miles is a consultant oncologist who specialises in breast cancer treatment, with over 20 years' experience in the field. Professor Miles was head of the Breast Cancer Biology Group at Guy's and St Thomas's, and more recently became Lead Clinician for breast cancer at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. Professor Miles is the Global Principal Investigator in clinical trials of biological therapies in the treatment of breast cancer and serves on a number of clinical trial steering and independent data monitoring committees for studies of novel therapies for the treatment of breast and other cancers. Professor Miles also advises the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on the adoption of new drugs being considered for breast cancer.
Stephen Chan is the Director of Clinical Trials in Breast Cancer and Gynaecological Cancer at Nottingham University Hospital. For over two decades he has been at the forefront of researching and treating breast and gynaecological cancer, focussing on specialist treatment areas including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted therapies. Professor Chan qualified at Nottingham University Medical School followed by further research and training at Oxford, Cambridge and London hospitals and universities. Professor Chan leads the Nottingham Personalised Therapy Oncology Research Group and the Breast & Gynaecological Clinical Trial Group with a particular interest in identifying new cancer genes and tests to select the best treatment for individual patients.
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In an event at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, mobile monetisation firm OpenX is unveiling Native O|X. The exchange uses a number of buzz words that are popular with major mobile advertising efforts these days: real-time bidding, programmatic buying, and native ads.
This basically means that the system can automatically insert ads into content, such as an app or a game, in a really fast way that makes contextual sense. So-called "native" ads are more contextual, fitting in with a particular application where it makes sense.
In a game, a native ad could be one that appears after a player completes a level. The ad could take the form of a game character popping up and asking if they would like to try another game or perhaps buy virtual goods with real money in order to accomplish something in the next stage.
Such native ads are becoming more popular because users are likely to see them as useful, rather than a nuisance. They also allow the advertiser to be more creative, building ads that fit in with the app or game.
OpenX's launch partners include IconApps, Tagged, Run, Mediasmart, and Celtra.
OpenX, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based OpenX Software, says the exchange allows developers and publishers to apply the full power and scale of programmatic buying to native ad formats. The exchange is available now.
Native O|X lets premium brand advertisers bid on native ads within a private environment. The ad inventory (from the developers and publishers) is premium, which means the ads are contextually placed in apps that are supposedly engaging.
The new exchange offers application developers and publishers access to more than 300 prescreened, multiscreen demand partners (advertisers) that will have access to the available inventory. OpenX says developers and publishers can tightly control any advertising. The result is better monetisation, OpenX says.
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Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia) has been putting his new Giant to good use at the Tour de France with four stage victories to his name.
Giant's TCR Advanced SL has been built with Toray T800 carbon that has improved stiffness over last year's model and – impressively – this improvement is a gain of 42%. The majority of the stiffness gain is at the bottom bracket, which now uses a 86mm shell with internal Dura-Ace bearings. This new design and carbon lay-up improves stiffness by 26%.
Improvements at the head tube also have seen an 11/8 bearing at the top and a 1/1/4 on the lower race to improve front-end rigidity.
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The build up of the bike is not too dissimilar to the rest of the team, with Cav using an SRM and the cables mounted internally in the frame to monitor his power and speed. For the high speed sprints the Manxman is using a 53 ? 11 on 170mm long cranks.
Silicone fills the hole where Cav's SRM cables are routed through the frame.
Shimano supply the team with its groupset and unlike most of the riders in the peloton this year, Cavendish is not using the new 7900 series Dura-Ace but the current 7800 series groupset. As the new groupset was supplied just before the Tour, maybe Cavendish did not want to take any chances with not being used to the new design in the final few metres of the sprint stages. Either way the decision did not hurt him.
The BB is 26% stiffer than the previous model.
Pro components also feature on the TCR, with the aluminium Vibe set-up being Cavendish?s preferred choice for rigidity and reliability.
Alloy bars and stem up-front.
Wheels are an important piece of equipment for a sprinter, with not only the most aero wheels being a priority but also stiffness. From the team's large selection of wheels Cavendish has chosen to run the deepest rim on the back with a Zipp 808 and a slightly less side wind affected 404 for the front.
Cav's rear mech still shows the signs of his crash.
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The Monkees Arena Theatre August 1, 2013
Musically speaking, the Monkees are timeless. There's something about the sound of their big pop hits that is like an auditory time machine that takes you back to the first time you heard it. True, that time may have been sitting on the couch back when their show first hit the airwaves in 1966, being part of the generation that rediscovered them thanks to MTV and Nick at Nite, or having a rad older person clue you in on where that song in Shrek you like really came from, but the songs take you back.
So the group could have fully embraced the nostalgia angle and phoned Thursday's show. No one would have blamed them -- the median age of the group is 70, after all. If Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith had decided to hit the road and just sing the hits, crowds still would have been happy.
But they don't. They go out. They play their instruments. They put on a show.
It's not about just blind nostalgia. It's about enjoying the music in the present.
It's a shame that in the grand scheme of things the Monkees are better-known for their history than for their music. Songs like "Daydream Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville" will always be around, but so will that bit from The Simpsons where someone taunts Marge because the Monkees didn't play their own songs.
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It's a shame, because they have a really strong catalog, and the trio, along with their backing band, rip through it effortlessly. From the pop classics ("I'm a Believer") and the country-rock of "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round?" to the psychedelic "Porpoise Song" and rockers like "Circle Sky," they manage to pull it all off and make it look easy in the process. Nesmith can still make a guitar sound great, Dolenz has a goofy charm that shines through no matter what he's playing, and Tork plays a mean banjo.
They played a version of "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" that was more rocking than anything I've seen live this year, most of those performances from bands whose members weren't even alive when the song was first released as a single.
True, the trio is older, but Dolenz and Tork remain performers at heart. They're funny without being kitschy, silly without being a joke. Nesmith comes off somewhat as serious musician first, performer second, but the man wrote "Mary, Mary," so he's allowed to be proud of his talents.
As for the lack of Davy Jones, you almost don't really notice his absence. He appears in video clips that are shown onscreen during the songs and when the band takes a break, but it's not 'til late in the show that they have to tackle his absence because you really can't play "Daydream Believer" and not talk about the voice of the song.
But rather than make it a memorial, they make it a celebration by taking a risk and letting someone from the crowd sing the song. "It belongs to you," is how they phrase it. It's one of those choices that could lead to disaster, but in Houston it worked out perfectly: the most adorable old man around got onstage, and even if he didn't have the pipes he had the heart to do the song justice, and it was amazing.
It's hard to say what happens next in the strange saga of The Monkees. Before the show it might have been hard to believe that they'd have the goods at their age, but whether it was watching Tork dance across stage, Dolenz pound the drums, or Nesmith lead the band through "Circle Sky" you start to think that maybe this doesn't have to be the last tour.
Maybe the band is more timeless than anyone thought.
Personal Bias: About a year and change ago I wrote a blog about why The Monkees should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is something I believe. In about ten years I'll be trolling the people behind the Houston Music Hall of Fame to get Nesmith in since he was born here. Fair warning.
The Crowd: Well, compared to your average concert crowd: older, more polite, and way more laid-back. Not as many people on their cell phones. Very happy to see Nesmith back in the band.
Overheard In the Crowd: Not a whole lot. Like I said, it was pretty laid-back other than the occasional too-loud drunk or random "I love you, [band member]."
Random Notebook Dump: My favorite underappreciated dance move is when middle-aged white ladies can't contain their excitement, so they stand up and move their arms in the air side to side. That's real enthusiasm, and it's awesome.
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Random Notebook Dump No. 2: For all the talk about rare songs they're playing on this tour, I was slightly bummed they didn't bust out "Zor and Zam," but I suspect I'm the only one who feels this way.
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New Zealander Karen Walker's clothes always pack a punch, mixing wearability with whimsy — which is precisely why, we're guessing, we saw Teen Vogue's Amy Astley front and center at the show on Thursday. Walker's Spring/Summer 2008 collection conjured memories (inherited memories, that is) of a sort of "Best Of" of late 60's/early 70's iconography. The opening look had us screaming "Carol Brady!", while other ensembles seemed straight out of the costume department of The Stepford Wives (pussy bows, pom poms, and polka dots; short shorts in easy silks.) We look forward to the spread in which Teen Vogue tries to make these clothes look serious, but ends up making them look ridiculous in ways they were never intended to be.
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I woke up feeling like the day ahead would be a good one. I was excited about taking a day trip to Muir Woods with John. After breakfast I headed upstairs to shower. As I looked down at my feet, my toenails looked blue and I started to think, "What is wrong with me? Is it something bad? I don't want to go to the doctors. I hate going to the doctors. Am I feeling ok?" As these fearful thoughts started washing over me, the anxiety starts to build.
I try to talk myself out of the fear by telling myself I am just cold. I am fine…STOP worrying. I can't allow these feelings to dictate the remainder of my day.
As I get myself together and prepare to leave, the feelings of fear and anxiety linger. Still, I think there is hope. We are going to spend an afternoon with the towering redwoods. Nature is calming and peaceful.
We arrived after a long drive. If you haven't been to the park before, you need to arrive early just to get a parking spot. That was not the case. My fear and anxiety slowed me down so we did not arrive until the late morning. Parking spaces were hard to come by so John dropped me off while he found a spot.
We eventually met up and we found our way to the beginning of the trail, our Nikon cameras hanging from our necks. We encountered these massive redwood trees that lined either side of the walkway like great guardians of the forest. Standing beside one of these towering trees made the world seem bigger beyond imagination and I was just a tiny part of it all.
As we moved forward through the park we came upon a stair case that lead to a stunning view, or so we were told. We decided to forge ahead. I was determined to quiet the fear and anxiety that was still occupying so much of my being. With each step upward, I tried to distract myself from my fear by focusing on the beauty around me. I paused for a few moments to take pictures of tiny little red mushrooms. They reminded me of a place where fairies would live. I took another step but each one was a challenge because I was hyper aware of every twinge and ache in my body.
I am afraid of heights and the path seemed to get more narrow the further we went. It was uneven and there were no railings to prevent a person from falling down the side if they misstepped. I made every effort not to allow this to add to the already looming feelings within me. I was cold and the tension in my jaw and the fluttering feelings in my stomach made my heart race. Despite it all, I kept moving.
With each person that passed us on their way down I asked, " Are we close to the top yet?" They would tell me no. My wonderful and understanding husband gave me an out: he said we could turn around before we reached the top. I felt relieved and took him up on the offer. The hike down was just as challenging as the hike up.
When we reached the bottom, our journey took us further in to the forest. We only went as far as the second bridge and turned back. "Turkey's in the straw after all." That is what we say when our dog Milkbone is home alone. We took a few more photos and stopped at the gift shop where we spent more than we planned. We each picked out a box made from redwood and I found a Bigfoot carved out of redwood. John loves and fears Bigfoot at the same time.
We arrived home exhausted. We both had headaches and were quite dirty from hiking through the woods. For me, this day was only the first of many challenging days that followed.
Besides having nightmares, I was waking up in the middle of the night half out of my footie pajamas and feeling like someone was standing over me. I was having waves of panic.
I had moments of feeling good despite a constant feeling of being out of balance. Out of no where, panic would rise up and blind side me as if I was standing in the ocean and waves were hitting me from behind and knocking me over.
I felt like Eeyore: sad, alone and absolutely useless. I felt as if I was just wasting my life away. I couldn't shake off these feelings.
My body was constricting and the tension in my jaw was unbearable. I was not able to leave the house or be around other people. I wanted to hide. I felt like I was Wily Coyote, the heaviness at the top of my head felt like an anvil was dropped on me.
I felt as if I was stuck – as if I could not move forward. Then there was this energy that was pulling me forward or maybe it was my own desire to pull myself out of this tornado of uncertainty. Nothing was soothing or comforting. I couldn't figure out what was standing in my way. Was I standing in my own way? Did I have negative energy in my space that needed to be cleared? Was the earth energy changing and I could feel it? I didn't know.
After an exhausting week of few highs and many lows, it was Sunday and time for church. I attend 8:30 mass every Sunday at St. Joseph's Parish in Pinole, CA. When I got out of bed that morning, I felt really good. Wow, I haven't felt like this all week! What changed? Who knows! I was ready to stay positive and go to church (and then Costco).
John came with me but sat in the car as he worked on his blog. I got in there and the usual happened. The procession in, the introductory rites, liturgy, first reading, Responsorial Psalm second reading, alleluia, Gospel, and the moment I was struck by: the Homily.
Fr. John Direen spoke about the readings that morning. The transfiguration of Jesus. The reading, in a nut shell, speaks about Jesus being on a mountain with two of his disciples. The disciples see Jesus speaking to Moses and Elijah, who came long before him. The disciples offered to set up tents for Jesus, Moses and Elijah. They were trying to avoid Jesus' fate of the cross.
The skies got grey and stormy and this great voice spoke to the disciples from Heaven as Moses and Elijah disappeared. The disciples were afraid. God spoke to them telling them to not be afraid because Jesus' purpose was to reach the cross.
The point Fr. John was making about the readings is that we are in Lent and we are all in our own transfiguration. By fasting through Lent and giving up the things we love, like foods that we love and may not be good for us, we are transforming. We take those things that do not serve us anymore and release them so we can move forward like Jesus.
It hit me: last week was my higher self knowing I had to let go of fears, anger, hurt and all those things so I could be who I am suppose to be. Once this happened then it was time for me to move forward.
I feel as if I have been holding myself back by focusing too much of my energy on those things that I have no control over or can not change. As soon as I am able to "let go and let God", then I will be able to fulfill my purpose on this earth.
It was like the past week made perfect sense to me. All the struggles of the week were making sense. It's like a light bulb went off in my head. God answered my prayers when I was ready for the answer. Last week was His way of preparing me so I could understand what he was saying to me.
Even though I have made these connections for myself I am still learning how to have self love and self compassion. How to truly let go of the limiting thoughts, beliefs and programming. It is hard work but work I am willing to do.
God is good! God is grand!


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Bush, Draper Back Health IT Startup Wellframe as Sector Heats Up
The world of health IT apps just got more competitive.
Boston-based startup Wellframe said today it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from some big names: Jonathan Bush, CEO of Athenahealth; Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, president of the British Medical Association; Russ Nash, former global managing director at Accenture; Carl Byers, venture partner at Fidelity Biosciences; James Nahirny, founder and managing partner at Leerink Capital Partners; and others.
Wellframe is led by CEO Jacob Sattelmair. The company graduated from the Rock Health accelerator in San Francisco in early 2013. It makes mobile apps to help patients connect with their doctors and caregivers in a more personalized way.
Wellframe is focusing first on cardiology patients—in particular, cardiac rehabilitation for people who have had a heart attack. The Wellframe app includes a daily task list for patients and a private social network to connect patients with clinicians and family members. From what I can tell, the app also collects data on patient behavior and uses artificial-intelligence techniques to try to give doctors insights into what's happening between hospital visits.
Personal health is an emerging sector for tech startups. Some are doing it with smartphones and apps, like RunKeeper and Ginger.io, while others are working on wearable sensors and software, like Quanttus and Bobo Analytics. Meanwhile, the rest of the world waits to see what giants like Apple and Google are building in healthtech.


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The language a writer uses to create a world is that world, and Franzen's strenuously contemporary and therefore juvenile language is a world in which nothing important can happen.It's difficult to tell if Myers is objecting to the use of contemporary language or just using it strenuously, but "contemporary" does not necessarily mean "juvenile, even if you put the word therefore before the pronouncement. Furthermore, important things can happen in a world built of contemporary or juvenile language. Critics enjoy noting that a work of art violates some universal rule, making it inferior. This despite the fact that many great works violated some rule or another. For instance, not many writing instructors would tell you to stick a bunch of details about whaling into your novel that is about much more than a whale. But Melville made it work.My point is not that it is unfair to say that something has made choices that the critic doesn't agree with, but it is not enough just to say, "the author did this, therefore the book sucks." There are no universal rules. (I know what you're thinking.)
The same narrator who gives us "sucked" and "very into" also deploys compound adjectives, bursts of journalese, and long if syntactically crude sentences. An idiosyncratic mix? Far from it. We find the same insecure style on The Daily Show and in the blogosphere; we overhear it on the subway.The first part of this is a list of adjectives that I suppose are to be taken as pejorative, but Myers gives us no reason to think so other than a snarky tone. Then he brings up a pop culture reference, which according to him makes a work of fiction unserious. Guess it's okay for a review. But anyway, is there something insecure about The Daily Show? And are the show's writers known for using compound adjectives? And if I hear one more person erupting into bursts of journalese, using long if syntactically crude sentences, I'll explode! By the way, not everyone reading the review lives in New York, so what's the "we" business? How about "one" or "New Yorkers"?
Emphatic lines of dialogue continue to appear, chat-room-style, in capital letters sans exclamation marks: "I KNOW IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN."First the blogosphere, now chat rooms! What does Myers have against the Internet anyway? And why do we have to know what something sounds like when we read it? Maybe Franzen is challenging you to use your imagination or has created some unique? Maybe not, but the mere fact that Myers can't imagine it doesn't make the technique a bad one. One more thing: my personal rule is that people who say "sans" are unserious, and therefore this review is completely bogus.
Why was Freedom written? The prologue raises expectations for a socially engaged, or at least social, narrative that are left unmet. Too much of it takes place in high school, college, or suburbia; how odd that a kind of fiction allegedly made necessary by America's unique vitality always returns to the places that change the least. Franzen clearly has little interest in the world of work. (The same applies, incidentally, to whoever edited the novel.) Of the four main characters, only Walter has a real job, about which we learn nothing until it becomes a matter of traveling around with an admiring young assistant. (American novelists never tire of the student-don romance; they just dress it up in different clothes.) Walter is constantly holding forth on issues he has researched, but not dramatically experienced. They are entertaining tirades, but this is not what fiction is for.Myers doesn't tell us what fiction is for.
When Joey and a girl fly to Argentina, Pirates of the Caribbean is playing on the seat backs in front of them. Facile, yes, but Franzen knows his market. Many people who eschew great books for the latest novels do so because they want precisely this kind of thing. (Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.) These readers want a world that is recognizably their own in every trivial particular, right down to Twitter, even if the book says less of real relevance to their lives than one written a century ago.And now Twitter! Myers not only imagines what Franzen's "market" is, but what they want. He also knows it is inferior to what it is they should want, and that is: to read old books. I'm going to finish with a thought about that ridiculous line, "Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread." Is he saying we should read only classics? Do we need to be told beforehand that a book is good before we should waste our time reading it? And who defines classic? And what reader hasn't had the very same thought (should I be reading Balzac instead of Stephen King)? Myers would have us discover nothing on our own, ignore contemporary writers who have the audacity to write about what they see today rather than pretending those things don't exist because it violates what "should be" featured in a work of fiction.
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Fun, Colorful and Nerdy Tattoos of Cartoon Characters by Matt Daniels
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Matt Daniels does awesome colorful tattoos and illustrations, and we're loving them all!
These fun tattoos of cartoon characters from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s will awaken and bring life to the child in us. Somehow it brings nostalgia, as these special heroes and characters have a special place in our hearts.... and giving them a special place on our skin is now possible! Thanks to @StickyPop aka Matt Daniels.
So which cartoon character was your favorite as a kid? Enjoy!
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The Sceptre UK Fund was managed by Chris Broadhurst (1959-2009) and Luke Howard Taylor. Lipper, Inc. have provided performance analysis showing that in the last 12 months of operation the Fund was the best performing UK Equity fund from their universe of 1,907 funds and that since inception the Fund ranked 4th from 1,260 peers. The Fund was liquidated following the death of the manager, Chris Broadhurst, in August 2009.
A selection of material from the history of the Fund is archived below. For more information please contact Luke (who is now a Research Analyst and Partner at Longview Partners LLP) at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Announcement of the death of Chris Broadhurst
Annual and interim letters to investors
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The last few days have been vastly busy for me with outside jobs, and I am way behind on blog matters! But I did come across some recent research about the movements of stars which fascinated me, and which has prompted this post. It also has the seeds of what could be a fine prehistoric story, which one day might get written.
If you do a quick search for "what is the closest star to our sun" then you will get the reply "Alpha Centauri" (or perhaps, more precisely, "Proxima Centauri" – if you ask Alexa she will give you quite a detailed response). This multiple star system is situated just over four light years from us – for comparison, Pluto is under 5 light hours from the sun. But Alpha Centauri is very like our sun in terms of size, energy, and so on, and is easily visible from the right locations, so has appeared several times in stories.
But what if you then consider the movements of stars over time? All stars near us are involved in a vast circling movement around the galaxy's centre, but this movement is not regular and orderly in the way that the planets' movement is around our sun. Stars approach each other and move away, potentially having huge effects on the clusters of planets, comets, etc that accompany them. So what happens if we look forward or backward in time?
So as you can see, Proxima Centauri will get steadily closer to us for the next 30,000 years or so, then lose its role to Ross 248. But none of these stars gets closer to us than about 3 light years, which is comfortably far away and is unlikely to cause any serious issues.
Perhaps you are wondering where the story is in this? We will get there…
Now, these stars are mostly fairly bright, and many of them have been known since antiquity. But in recent years, powerful space-based telescopes like Hubble have discovered that far the most numerous stars in our galaxy are not bright ones like our sun, or super-bright ones like Sirius, but small, dim ones called red or brown dwarfs. These burn extremely slowly, conserving their fuel in a miserly way that means they will hugely outlive our sun. They are invisible to the naked eye even at quite close range (astronomically speaking)… but many of them have planets of their own, and if these planets huddle close enough in, then they could quite easily be habitable. To date, much of our quest for life elsewhere in the universe has looked at stars broadly similar to our own, but maybe we should be looking by preference at these dwarfs?
So… what if we roll back that chart in time to a scale of 70,000 years rather than 20,000, and include the paths of dwarf stars in it (a feat which has only become possible in very recent years). For context, 70,000 years ago anatomically modern humans had already experienced their first large-scale migration out of Africa to other parts of the world, and would soon be doing so a second time. They were sharing the world with Neanderthals and other hominids, and would be for another 30-40,000 years, including various times of interbreeding. They were using stone tools and showing signs of "behavioural modernity" (religious and artistic sensitivity and such like). Slightly earlier, there may have a global crisis involving the Toba supervolcano eruption -some argue that this caused massive population loss, others are not convinced.
Whatever the effects of Toba, around 70,000 years ago a binary star system came very close to us – about 3/4 of a light year in fact. It consists of 1 red dwarf with 1 brown dwarf, both under 100 times the mass of Jupiter. It is called Scholtz's Star, or WISE J072003.20-084651.2 if you are feeling thoroughly pedantic. Now, 3/4 of a light year is still way outside Pluto's orbit, but it is inside the region called the Oort Cloud, a loose collection of icy rocks and potential comets that accompany our sun and from time to time journey down into the inner solar system to become visible for a brief time.
Today, Scholtz's Star can only be viewed in the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Monoceros. It's about 20 light years away and receding from us. Back then you'd have needed to look in the constellation Gemini (though the shapes would be a bit changed because of stellar movement).
So, would Scholtz's Star have been visible to our remote ancestors? Well, probably not in its normal state. Even at 3/4 of a light year, it would almost certainly be too dim to be seen with the naked eye. But many red dwarfs are what are called flare stars – their brightness flares up to many times the usual intensity on an irregular basis. And if a flare event happened while it was near to us, then it would have been vivid to our ancestors. Back then, the best time for viewing would have been in the autumn of the northern hemisphere, from the tropics northwards. So my remote European forebears might have stood and wondered at this – although the Europe of 70,000 years ago looked rather different to today's map!
And here of course is the story – what would these people have made of such a star? Suppose that it had entered our neighbourhood while in quiescent mode – invisible to their naked eyes just as much as ours – and then flared up while close. A new star would have appeared to them, and I wonder what they would have made of it. I don't expect they had a great deal of time for abstract philosophy back then, but I'm willing to bet they told stories and sang songs – what part would Scholtz's Star have played in them?


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You can passably play League of Legends, you can throw down in Call of Duty with the best of them, you may even find the time to enjoy a nice Indie game every now and then - but you also find sweet, heart-throbbing pleasure in a dating sim. And that is just fine. Perhaps you are compelled by them by the same God complex that causes you to lose literal days in games like The Sims, or maybe you just need to feed your inner amorous alligators. Regardless, a good dating sim can satisfy an itch. Yet, the same "boy meets harem" scenario can wear after a time. Fortunately, the home of dating sims, Japan, is such a wonderfully weird place that its developers and those abroad inspired by them have made some awesomely weird ones to keep the genre fresh.
Hatoful Boyfriend
Let's just get this one out of the way first. Hatoful Boyfriend has reached such a cult status that it has essentially became the defacto king of weird dating sims, inspiring gamers to seek out weirder and more wonderful fare. As a play on words, "hato" is both the word for pigeon in Japanese and how a native Japanese speaker would pronounce the English word "heartful". The insight into the title alone pretty much sums up the game. You take on the role of a young girl who becomes the first human to attend the prestigious St. PigeoNation's Institute, a school for urban birds. Naturally, school days are the days of young love and you have your pick of the litter. Do you fancy bad boy fantails? Do quail teachers make you wail? Or are you a sucker for that sensitive rock dove? You decide.
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Tomak ~ Save the Earth ~ Love Story
Tomak is about falling in love with your disembodied head that you keep in a flower pot.
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No, wait, guys. Come back! It's not what you think.
Tomak isn't some disturbing pipe dream that wafted right out of GuroChan, it is actually not as sinister as it sounds. In this dating sim, the gods have decree that because there is not true love in the world, they will destroy it in a fit of selfish rage. However, Evian, the Goddess of Love, aims to descend to Earth to find love and prove them wrong. The catch is, she is forced to leave her (presumably rockin') body behind and catch a man as a head in a flower pot.
The player is actually some Joe Nobody and can technically date other non-flower pot women in the game, but who doesn't want a little head … in a pot, in their room?
Obvious innuendo aside, caring for the severed head of a Goddess is every bit as disturbing as it sounds. You can put her in different places in your room, dress her up in hats and bling, and eventually kiss her. Although the game does have an interesting feature where the art style changes depending on the level of your relationship, which is nothing if not innovative for a genre where the gameplay never changes.
Tusks: The Orc Dating Sim
Surprisingly, same-sex dating sims have been rather low-key in terms of truly bizarre story lines. Until Tusks came along, that is.
Is your dream man a big, burly orc that is, for some reason, Scottish? Well then, is Tusks the dating sim for you! Tusks: The Orc Dating Sim follows a group of amorous orcs as they travel to the annual orc gathering in the Scottish Highlands. The player can form meaningful friendships and find a blossoming love among the diverse group that includes three polyamorous chieftains, fierce warriors, and sensitive scholars. However, these orcs are not all about fighting and destruction, they are truly diverse in their distinct personalities.
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Paca Plus
In Paca Plus it starts off with you landing the girl of your dreams. You have a good relationship, good friends, and an all-around good life – which is the ultimate goal of most dating sims. However, one day after a trip to Alpaca Kingdom, you wake up to find your loving girlfriend has been turned into a fluffy, moe-faced alpaca that, to be fair, looks more like the aborted offspring of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
While you see your girl as an alpaca, no one else seems to notice. So instead of trying to get this flirtatious little alpaca to notice your sempai-ness, you must instead solve the mystery of what caused it, or learn to love her as she is.
If nothing else, this game has some valuable life lessons for your real relationships. Sometimes you just have to love someone as they are, or try really, really hard to change them.
Eiyuu Senki
Ah, history. What could be sexier than endless centuries of war, genocide, and repressive political systems created by the world's most iconic leaders? You know what would make it better, though? If all those iconic leaders were turned into women. That, in its essence, is what Eiyuu Senki is all about. The plot is fairly simple, if not completely absurd. You take on the role of a mysterious male protagonist that aims to conquer the world. However, the mischievous gods have completely turned the natural order on its head by bringing back both mythical and historical leaders into the same time period and turning them into women.
As dating sims go, Eiyuu Senki is actually one of the most fun ones out there as the major component of the game is actually battling enemies with your army of historical figures to become the best there ever was. Of course, hooking up with people like the Aztecan cat girl Montezuma, Emperor Caesar with her bouncy … assets, and ringlet-haired, frilly-dressed King Arthur is a super fun bonus.
Do your pants become uncomfortably tight while playing World of Tanks? Well, apparently you are not alone. Why else would someone make Panzermadels if they didn't have an interested audience? At a glance, Panzermadels looks your run-of-the-mill dating sim. You have your cute variety of girls. You have your school setting. The only difference is that each girl has a very poorly kept secret – they're tanks.
You, the male protagonist, initially transferred to the school to study Armored Warfare, but you can get closer to your beloved tanks than ever before. Covering the major armored tech from World War II, will you choose to get cuddly with the cocky M4 Sherman, break through the tsundere-ness of the T-34, or cheer on the shy, hard-working Tiger I?
The charm in Panzermadels is that it is as charming and funny as it sounds. It never takes itself too seriously and pokes fun of all common dating sim tropes. However, the most fun of the game comes when it pokes fun at the countries that the tanks represent in some awesome tongue-in-cheek pieces of dialogue.
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In class today we have started analysing personal letters in preparation for our upcoming assesment.
We started with a practice analysis, with the improbable scenario of describing an apple to an alien who has never seen one before. By doing so, we found out that analysing means to 'break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.'
Next, we did the same thing with some examples of personal letters. Here are the features that we came up with.


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"This is bigger than music." UCI & Santa Ana High symphony collaboration results in more Saints than ever applying to be Anteaters
Irvine, Calif., (March 18, 2019) – "This collaboration has never been about developing musicians, it has always been about developing young people who have been valued and encouraged in a way that they can now see themselves going to college, continuing their education and taking advantage of opportunities. Music is how we are connecting with them, but this is bigger than music," said Dr. Stephen Tucker, conductor of the UC Irvine (UCI) Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) Symphony Orchestra.
What began in 2012 as an opportunity for Dr. Tucker to get himself and the UCI Symphony Orchestra into the community for a single concert has grown into a true adoption of the Santa Ana High School (SAHS) symphony orchestra. The UCI Music Department is offering the SAHS students and teachers opportunities to learn and grow through music. The emphasis remains the same, youth development, exposing them to college and career pathways, and using music as the tool.
Every year, SAHS students work with Dr. Tucker in multiple master classes, visit UCI for side-by-side rehearsals, and participate in workshops and information sessions designed to show them what is available in a university music program. Ten outstanding CTSA Music majors are coaching SAHS students, dedicating more than 800 hours to teaching everything from musicianship and technique to instrument care and how to prepare for an audition. More and more UCI Music Department faculty are jumping in to support SAHS students, regularly providing workshops, private coaching, and insight into life as a professional musician and educator.
Because of these deep relationships with CTSA students and educators, more and more SAHS students are looking to UCI to continue their music education. Four students auditioned for the UCI Music Department this year; all four passed their auditions and were accepted into the University.
"We don't know what will catalyze a young person to achieve so we try to provide as many access points, as many opportunities as possible to excite a student to excel. If we reach them through music, or through a Q&A with current students, or by telling them what to expect in an audition, and they are then driven to succeed, whether in their education, in the arts, or in life, then WE have succeeded," said Megan Belmonte, CTSA Director of Outreach Programs.
"We work tirelessly to continue serving one another. We didn't know what this relationship would look like, six years ago, but it is better, and deeper, and more effective than we could ever have dreamed of," said Victor De Los Santos and Joseph Kaye, band and orchestra teachers at SAHS.
This collaboration is made possible by the support of gifts and grants, including a grant from the City of Santa Ana. If you would like to learn more about how you can join us in supporting this great work, contact the Outreach unit at CTSA, email@example.com or (949) 824-8976.
Join the UCI and SAHS Symphony Orchestras for their culminating side-by-side concert:
UCI and SAHS Symphony Orchestra Combined Concert
Thursday, April 11, 2019
7:00 p.m.
Bill Medley Auditorium at Santa Ana High School
520 W. Walnut Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Free admission, public welcome – donations will be accepted
To learn more about the San Arts Conservatory at Santa Ana High School visit sanarts.org or call (714) 567-4900.
To learn more about the UCI Symphony at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts visit music.arts.uci.edu/symphony or call (949) 824-6615.
To learn more about community engagement at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts visit outreach.arts.uci.edu or call (949) 824-8976.
"As UCI's creative laboratory, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts explores and presents the arts as the essence of human experience and expression, through art forms ranging from the most traditional to the radically new. Our students come to UCI to learn to be citizen-artists, to sharpen their skills and talents, and to become the molders and leaders of world culture. Our international faculty works across a wide variety of disciplines, partnering with others across the campus, our national-ranked programs in art, dance, drama, and music begin with training but end in original invention." – Dean Stephen Barker
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