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When we ride a motorcycle our hands are managing key controls. This involves grasping, twisting, holding, pulling, and squeezing – all dependant on power in our grip. This can often be a challenge for not only women riders but for men too. As a rider, to strengthen your grip will result in better motorcycle handling and control. This equally will help avoid fatigue and make you feel more confident to your overall motorcycle operation.
The power and strength of your grip is dependent on many factors. Such things as the size of your hand, and density of the bones. Even the muscles of the hands and fingers which support wrists and forearms are relevant to your strength and staying power. If you've ever had to ride your motorcycle in rush hour traffic, in a so-called "bumper-to-bumper" situation you'll understand the muscles required to keep your clutch lever under good control.
Strengthen Your Grip and Good Strengthening Exercises
Though any workout or weight training exercise which relies on your grip, is a sure-fire method to increase your hands strength. The following exercises have been specifically selected with a focus to creating a strong hand and tireless grip!
Coil Spring Hand Grips
These are our favourite! You can find coil spring hand grips at most any sporting goods store or any department store with a sporting goods department. These are so handy to carry around making their use simple to do anywhere – even at your desk during work. Simply grip the handles and squeeze. Pull your hands together as tightly as you can, then release and repeat. As a tip-use only the hands; anything more and you won't really be working to the goal of strengthening the hands.
Coil spring hand grips will result in the following:
- Forearm Muscularity : Muscles in your forearms are the ones controlling your fingers. Your forearm flexors control the closing of your hand, while your forearm extensors control the opening. These muscles will be the primary beneficiaries of using hand grips and so important to tireless clutch and brake lever control.
- Hand Endurance: Your hand endurance is automatically increased when you work out with hand grips, because you are increasing the measure of force that your hands can apply. Another way that your hand endurance gets a big boost is in the length of time that you can apply force. As you work with hand grips, you can train yourself to apply pressure for longer periods of time. A practical area for which this provides instant benefits is, for instance, when you are riding the clutch in bumper-to-bumper traffic. After building up your hand endurance for a while, you will notice how you will not as easily succumb to fatigue from clutch use.
- Increased Hand Strength: The third benefit of working with hand grips is the result you'll get of increased hand strength. Your training is to increase the power of both your fingers and your wrists.
- Improved Dexterity: Hand grips will work to build up the strength in your fingers independently, thus improving dexterity. This is also a practice of musicians and typists.
Squeezing a rubber ball: In the same way as coil spring grips – intermittently, or instead of using a gripper.
Cable dumbbell, and barbell wrist rolls: Performed with cables you can pull a light-weight up slightly drawing two cables directly up in front of you. Bend only at the wrists, curling them up and down. Alternate between an overhand and underhand grip. With the dumbbells hold your arms straight out in front of you so the arm gains from this exercise. Now first overhand, curl the wrists up and down; be sure to use a very light set of dumbbells. Now rotate the wrists. Perform these same two manoeuvres with an underhand grip. With the barbell version of this you will hold a barbell, first overhand then underhand, arms tight against your sides. Curl the wrists up and down.
Finger weights of weighted gloves: Guitarists to strengthen the fingers for playing have used the wearing of finger weights in routine activities. Weighted gloves carry out a similar goal. Wrist roller-uses a rod, rope and weight plate. You hold the rod out in front of you, arms straight. You roll it lifting the weight with the rope as it twists around the rod. Roll the weight all the way up and down again.
Reverse curl: In a reverse barbell curl you curl the barbell up backward toward your chin and back down again. Preacher forearms curls – Done over an incline bench and otherwise looks like the reverse forearm curl.
! Be cautious. Wrist and forearm injuries are possible. Start slow with proper form and breathing. Use light weights and increase as you go along.


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What is ESOS?
ESOS (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme) is an energy assessment scheme introduced by the Government to comply with European Regulations, specifically to implement article 8 (406) of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU).
Who is Targeted?
The scheme is mandatory for all organisations in the UK who meet the following criteria:
- 1. Organisations that employ more than 250 people.
- 2. Organisations that employ less than 250 people but have an annual turnover in excess of €50m and an annual balance sheet in excess of €43m.
Corporate groups qualify if at least one UK group member meets the definition of a "large undertaking" as described above.
Unlike some other schemes, organisations with emissions already subject to EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Climate Change Agreements (CCL) or Carbon Reduction Commitment (CCA) are not excluded ./ excused from ESOS reporting / compliance obligations.
What is involved?
Organisations that qualify for ESOS must carry out the ESOS assessments every 4 years. These assessments are audits of the energy used by their buildings, industrial processes and transport to identify cost effective energy saving measures.
Step 1
Firstly an organisation is expected to determine qualification for ESOS and in the event that the qualifying criteria are met, then they must declare compliance to the Environment Agency no later than 5th December 2015.
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The participating organisation is initially required to calculate its total energy consumption including electricity, gas, heating oil and transport fuels (diesel and petrol).
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The organisation must complete 'ESOS Compliant' energy audits at relevant premises to cover at least 90% of the organisation's energy consumption. These audits should identify energy saving opportunities which the customer can then consider for implementation.
Any efficiency recommendations that are made should include the estimated costs and benefits of implementation. The cost of implementing each measure should be based on an analysis of whether the investment will be economical over its entire life, taking into account the cost of purchase, installation, maintenance and depreciation.
There is no mandatory requirement for organisations to implement the energy savings opportunities identified in the audits.
Organisations with identical or very similar multiple sites can take a proportionate approach, applying energy saving opportunities identified at sites selected for audit to the wider company portfolio.
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The organisation must compile and then maintain an evidence pack detailing all required energy consumption going forward.
Steps 2 & 3 shown above will need to be completed by 5th December 2015 (the end of Phase 1) with results being posted on an online notification system.
Participating organisations must appoint an ESOS accredited "Lead Assessor" to carry out, oversee and review energy audits.
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For some reason soup was the topic of the day. Our normal email group was emailing about soup for like an hour. Didn't anyone realize it is the middle of the summer? It's hot and humid. I don't want soup! But Mandi did. So we compromised on one chilled soup and one hot soup. We had a cayenne ripening in the garden so I thought we could spice up a gazpacho. This made me laugh… hot cold soup. That's when I thought, how can I make the hot soup cold? Mint is a "cool" flavor and I had heard of people using mint with lamb and peas in ravioli/wontons. That's how I came to the finalized dinner of the night. Duo of soups: Hot cold (spicy gazpacho), and cold hot (mint lamb wontons in chicken broth). Food sounds classy if you say "duo".
A rub of mostly salt, pepper, and a small amount of cumin and coriander.
A roasting rack of carrots. This lamb shoulder went in the oven for 3 hours at 275.
This pepper isn't quite ready, but the internet said you can eat them green if you want, so I knew it would still taste good. This pepper was cray cray spicy. Like burn your mouth for 10 min if you licked the inside for a quarter of a second spicy. That's just how I was hoping for them to be.
I don't care that it wasn't ready, the multicolor is cool.
Some radishes were in the recipe I was following.
A half bell pepper.
Some scallions
Some tomatoes inside, and some as garnish. We only used half the hot pepper at first, but we added the other half later and it still could have used another.
a gazpacho salad?
a liquid salad.
it needed a little something. 2 basil leaves did the trick.
lamb shoulder perfectly cooked.
Olive oil, garlic and onions to kick up the flavor of the canned chicken stock. I like to use homemade frozen stock, but we were out and Mandi was seriously craving soup. We strained these out after pouring in the broth and letting them boil together for awhile.
Frozen peas
Mint from the garden
Breaking everything up a bit.
In goes the lamb.
The first 2 wontons. We used store bought wonton wrappers.
Garnish for the gazpacho
We cooked the wontons right in the boiling broth.
It was best to eat the gazpacho as an appetizer. still, we thought it could have have been better. Some of the chunks felt stringy and it could have been more delicious if it was a bit cooked before being chilled, or if the veggies were picked over better and stringy parts were removed. Even still, it was delicious and definitely cleared our apprehension towards chilled soups.
The leftover Gazpacho was delicious in scrambled eggs the next morning!
The gazpacho was kinda like this one, but with chicken stock instead of veg juice, and a few basil leaves.
and fresh cayenne, not powder.
The hot soup was just chicken stock. the store bought wonton wrappers were filled with roasted lamb shoulder, fresh mint leaves, and frozen peas.


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College Park looks for edge against The Woodlands tonight
College Park hasn't won a District 14-5A boys basketball game since handling Oak Ridge 77-58 on Dec. 21.
And nothing gets easier tonight for the Cavaliers, who face The Woodlands, which is unbeaten in 14-5A play, tonight at College Park.
College Park (18-11, 1-3 in 14-5A) will be without senior guard Desmond Fleming, who sustained a concussion in the Cavs' 66-50 loss to A&M Consolidated on Jan. 8.
"Our kids are going to battle and they're going to try to defend their home court," College Park coach Clifton McNeely said. "Having Desmond out is a huge loss. We've got to find some guys who can pick up the slack."
Fleming averages 11.9 points per game, second on his team only to Jayden Holden (12.3 ppg), and is among the Cavaliers' leaders in assists (87), steals (50) and made free throws (85).
The Cavaliers will have to compete with the Highlanders' deep backcourt, which includes veterans such as Garret Colonna (12.0 points, 5.3 rebounds per game), Brian Baehl (9.5 ppg), Garrett Burlas and Timi Adeleye.
The Woodlands is 20-5 overall and 4-0 in district play.
"We've won 14 of our last 15 games and we've played really well defensively," TWHS coach Dale Reed said.
The Woodlands and College Park split last season, with each team winning on the opponent's home court. The TWHS girls, who are 22-6 overall and 6-0 in 14-5A play, will face the Lady Cavaliers (16-9, 5-1) tonight at The Woodlands.
"Talent-wise, College Park is outstanding," Reed said. "They always play hard and have a way of giving themselves a chance to win at the end of the game.
"In a rivalry game, a lot of things can happen."
McNeely had to bring up a couple players from his junior varsity squad because of injuries to Fleming and Tristan Newman, who also excels in football and track and field.
"Offensively, you really can't replace a kid like Desmond," McNeely said. "We're going to have to do it by committee."
College Park girls coach Michelle Richardson can probably relate.
The Lady Cavaliers don't have a post presence to counter Kelsey Lang, the 6-foot-4 TWHS center on her way to the University of Texas.
"We have to play bigger than we are, and we have to play smart basketball," Richardson said. "We've got to be able to handle their press early and make good decisions. We don't want to fall in a hole and find ourselves behind by 12 to 15 points."
College Park overcame such a deficit in last week's 49-36 victory over Lufkin, but the Lady Highlanders are a deeper team with more experience.
Lang averages 16.7 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, and TWHS has another established scorer in Nicole Iademarco, who averages 11.7 points per game.
The Woodlands defeated College Park 44-38 on Dec. 7.
"I really expect a battle and turnovers are rebounding will probably be the key," TWHS coach Dana Bruton said. "It's always tougher going through a district schedule the second time. There aren't many secrets."
Alexia Sanders leads College Park with 18.9 points per game and shoots 51 percent from the field and 76 percent from the free-throw line.
"Alexia and Uma (Rajagopalan) are very mobile inside," Bruton said. "Hopefully, we'll have an edge on hour home court, but nothing is guaranteed."
Conroe's boys (9-16, 1-3 in 14-5A) will play host to A&M Consolidated (16-7, 3-2) while the Tigerettes will be on the road to face A&M Consolidated (6-16, 2-4) in College Station.
Oak Ridge (12-11, 1-3) is at home to face Lufkin (18-6, 3-1) while the Lady War Eagles (11-13, 2-4) are on the road to play the Lady Panthers (17-7, 4-2).


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Innovations that improve your customers' experience can result in increased satisfaction and a more robust bottom line.
4. Couple your customer service system with others.Customer service agents must navigate through an average of 20 disparate applications to find the information they need, thereby increasing the time needed to handle queries and decreasing customer satisfaction. Customer service systems should be more than just a database front-end for customer information and cases. They should be integrated with back-office applications so agents can provide customers with fast, accurate answers to their queries.
High 5 Sportswear, an athletic apparel distributor, exemplifies the benefits of integrating customer service systems with a larger IT ecosystem. In the past, the company's customer service agents had struggled—sometimes for up to 48 hours—to track down customer interaction history, piece together customer claims and validate discounts.
To fix this problem, High 5 deployed an integrated sales and customer service solution that allows agents to quickly access customer sales data and discount levels, and properly complete and efficiently route service tickets and track orders. The result was higher-quality customer interactions, better productivity and faster turnarounds on orders.
5. Define an efficient service experience. Agents typically don't follow the same discovery path through customer service applications, which negatively affects agent consistency and leads to higher turnover. One solution is to apply business process management to a customer service offering. Agents are led through a set of screens, which display the information needed to resolve customer issues and ensure compliance with company policies.
An international bank used this strategy when it realized its poor customer sat scores were the result of service agents in the bank's 23 contact centers following different processes. Agents now use a process-driven desktop that provides all the information needed to resolve multiple queries during a single transaction. As a result, first-contact resolution has improved by 30 percent, and call transfers have been reduced by 20 percent.
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You should also offer proactive service to customers, such as service alerts and proactive fixes for common issues. Let customers flag conditions for which they want to be notified. These communications will help keep customers loyal.
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8. Harness your customer community with Web 2.0 tools. Another common strategy is to make forums available for peer-to-peer communication, letting customers help themselves and deflecting inquiries from the contact center. Unresolved issues can be escalated to customer service agents, and discussion threads can be recommended for addition to the knowledge base.
Computer maker Lenovo exemplifies best practices in tying forums to customer service. As a result of the information contained in its forums, Lenovo saw a 20 percent reduction in laptop support call rates and shortened problem-resolution cycles.
9. Listen to your customers. Gather customer feedback after every interaction and ask open-ended questions to solicit honest opinions. Append feedback forms to all user-viewable knowledge base content. Let users rate solutions and use this collected feedback to optimize the service experience.
In addition, monitor customers' sentiments over social channels such as Twitter and Facebook. Then use their opinions to see if you can improve your products, services and processes. Comcast, with its ComcastCares Twitter presence, has shown that this approach leads to real differentiation in the market.
These innovative strategies can help you engage in a winning customer service relationship. But it's essential to monitor your success and have an ongoing dialogue with your customers. And be sure to recraft your offering to stay true to your brand and your customers' changing needs.
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The Hiarcs team changed the contempt factor during the game versus Alaric.
The contempt factor is a way to tell the engine when it is time to accept a draw. By setting the contempt factor to 1 pawn they told Hiarcs to accept a draw only if the evaluation said something worse than 1 pawn. Look at draw 149 in the game below. Hiarcs sacs a pawn in order to avoid the 50-move rule because of the high contempt factor. Hiarcs rather lose a pawn than accepting a draw.
Now, to change parameters or to intervene in any form during the game is not allowed in computer tournaments except from a few obvious cases. For instance when the engine crash you must start it up again. Normally you are not allowed to help the engine in any way.
So obviously the Hiarcs team broke that rule and they did also very openly admit that. This started a hot debate at CCC. It all starts here and the following thread.
Let us try to have balanced view here…
ICC tournaments are always done in a friendly atmosphere. There are rules and there are rules. Many rules are overruled when someone accidently do some error. For instance in one game Crafty didn't Kibitz. They whispered instead, by mistake of course. The rule says kibitzing but this is typical a situation when no one tries to forfeit Crafty. Some games are replayed cause of some mistake from one of the participants. In this tournament Erdo registered at the same day. A bit late… Operators often didn't show up in time to the rounds and the TD started their engines for them. There are probably other examples as well. The TD did a great job! and no one really cared about all this. On the contrary if I illegaly tried to use Rybka and call it Alaric, there would be no friendly atmosphere anymore! Absolutely forbidden of course. There are rules and there are rules.
The friendly way gives a fun and relaxed tourney. The problem with friendlyness is that we have a gray zone of breaking rules. For instance Rybka didn't Kibitz at all in any game. The rules are very clear about this. Of course Vas could implement Kibitzing in his engine in less than 30 minutes but he didn't. Now Vas told us that he tried to use Chess Assistant. It kibitzes automatically for the engine, but he couldn't make it work and had to use Arena. In Arena the engine must kibitz by itself. Most people accepted this but there were discussions. What would happen if it was Alaric and not Rybka who did this? Would they let Alaric play? Well, I don't know. Somewhow I have a feeling that the top engines have more bargaining room when it comes to these matters.
Rybka won the tourney despite breaking this rule.
So how should we judge the Hiarcs contempt? First of all they didn't gain anything from this, they lost instead of a draw, but this is not the issue here. Secondly, if someone do change the contempt during the game, we can never never see that or prove that in any way. The same goes for many engine parameters and even things like forcing the engine to think more or to move immediately. Forbidden but not possible to discover. Is breaking a rule less serious when it can not be proven? Of course not! We would actually need a special GUI that blocks or reports any
operator action during the game and that is secured in some way from
hacking. We dont' have that but maybe something to think about in the future!
IMO is changing the contempt factor during the game a more serious act than the Rybka mistake, but…. The friendly atmosphere how about that?
The Hiarcs team admitted by themself what they did. They could be quiet about it.
Let us keep the friendly atmosphere even here. Let it be… and remember that I would say the same even if Hiarcs won the game.


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College professor Jeff McClenahan hiked up a winding road Saturday toward a terrible unknown, expecting the worst.
The ferocious Woolsey Fire had come through Friday after leaping the freeway. McClenahan had grabbed his wife's computer and some documents and evacuated. That night, someone had posted a photo on social media of a nearby house consumed by the flames. He had stayed awake all night, thinking: "I'll never wear that cowboy hat again. I'll never wear that sweater again."
But fires can be capricious. Maybe he still had his home?
He arrived, and stared. A house that has succumbed to a wildfire is rarely just a little bit destroyed. The damage almost always looks as if the structure had been not merely been burned, but also bombed. A water pipe spurted halfheartedly over the ruins.
"On the one hand . . . it's stuff," McClenahan said, struggling to maintain his composure. "But it's a lot of history. Everything, our whole lives were in here."
"Oh, you get to start over," he said. Then he crumbled to his knees and sobbed.
The wildfires scorching California in the past few days have been vast, bringing their destruction and lethality to numerous communities across large swaths of the state, including this one in Los Angeles County and another gigantic burn along the northern mountains.
The Camp Fire, in the Sierra Nevada foothills north of Sacramento, is now the most-destructive individual wildfire in California's history. As of Saturday, it already had destroyed nearly 7,000 structures in and around the mountain town of Paradise and has been blamed for 25 deaths, though more could come. Sheriff's deputies are looking into 35 reports of missing people.
"This event was the worst-case scenario," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. "It's the event that we have feared for a long time."
The smoke, like orange fog, that enveloped Chico and surrounding towns Friday gave way to a low-lying haze that spread all the way up to Redding on Saturday, thanks to a shift in winds overnight.
Surgical nurse Nichole Jolly, who turned 34 on Friday, spent her birthday helping evacuate all the patients from Chico's only hospital. She didn't know if her home survived. After clearing the hospital, she tried to leave the area but was trapped by smoke and flames. Her car caught fire. A call from her husband, in a place where cellphone service is notoriously spotty, came through and "he told me to get out and run."
"I told him I wasn't sure I was going to make it out," she said. "I told him I loved him and told him to give the kids a kiss. He told me to get out of the car and run, that if you're going to die, die fighting."
A bulldozer picked her up and brought her back to Adventist Health Feather River hospital, where staff, trapped in place, started a triage area outside because "the whole place smelled like burned plastic."
Staff, patients and anyone who could hold a fire extinguisher watched for spot fires. She said there were about 10 nurses, two doctors and a respiratory therapist who spent the next five or six hours treating anyone who found their way to the hospital.
"People were making sure no one was left behind," she said. "Strangers helping strangers. We might be a divided country, but it didn't matter that day. Black, white, Democrat, Republican; none of that mattered. People just helped one another, and it was amazing to see."
Here in Southern California, investigators said two bodies were found, deaths that might be linked to the wildfire. Winds eased Saturday, but they are expected to ramp up again Sunday. The weather that is conducive to fires – dry air, not a drop of rain, high winds – is forecast to continue until late Tuesday.
About 200,000 people, enough to fill the Rose Bowl twice, were forced to evacuate from the Woolsey Fire, which sparked into existence midafternoon Thursday near Simi Valley even as fire departments were responding to a second wildfire, called the Hill Fire, just west of Thousand Oaks. The Woolsey Fire proved to be truly explosive, expanding within 24 hours to some 35,000 acres. It raced from the Conejo Valley to the Pacific Ocean, straight across Highway 101 and the Santa Monica mountains, at speeds that impressed veteran fire officials.
"It's spreading quicker than it used to," said Mark Lorenzen, chief of the Ventura County Fire Department.
They weren't surprised. They knew the wind was coming, and when there is wind here, there is fire, reliably. But David Richardson, deputy chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said everyone had expected a lull in the wind Friday afternoon, and it didn't materialize. The gusts stayed dangerous.
"This fire is very bad and monumental. It's a historic fire," Richardson said. "These fires come along every 30 years or so."
This was an unpredictable fire, one that burned some houses to the foundation, everything gone, nothing but charred ruins, while leaving the one next door untouched. That was the case in Oak Park, which abuts the rugged hills separating Conejo Valley from Simi Valley. People were still gradually returning to their neighborhoods Saturday, and what they found was a largely intact community pocked with destroyed houses.
"It's just nature. Nature makes its choices," said a man walking his dog, too busy on his cellphone to provide his name or any other information.
Californians have a relationship with fire. They read smoke signals. They will study the fire glow on a ridgeline and forecast their immediate future based on what they smell. They know what to pack. They know to turn their cars around in the driveway, aimed toward safety.
They are required by law to have "defensible space" around their homes, free of brush, a firebreak built into the building codes. They know how fire spreads: "We get this ember wash. It looks like a billion fireflies," Lorenzen said.
The embers were largely gone Saturday, but the smoke remained – inescapable, pooling in lower elevations. Spot fires remained, and the ground smoldered. Among the things consumed by flames was Paramount Ranch, a fake Western town used for HBO's "Westworld" and other shows dating back more than a half-century.
Sharon Woods, 48, who owns a winery, lives just a few yards from McClenahan in Malibou Lake, and she was horrified by the hellscape all around her. Her two-story wooden house somehow had been spared, with a trail of fire circumventing it as it heeded the property line. The only things she lost were a couple of garbage cans. She'd won the fire lottery.
"I'm still completely dazed," she said. "I've been crying for 20 hours."
She surveyed the remnants of the neighborhood with Jeremy Sugarman, 39, a landscape architect whose home also survived.
"I'm very familiar with fire. This one, however, was exceptionally scary," Sugarman said. He recounted driving to Malibu to check on his mother's house: "We were seeing smoke tornadoes."
In Malibu, Pepperdine University's 3,600 undergraduates were ordered to shelter in place as the fire approached. That decision by university officials proved controversial, especially with parents, after the flames reached hillsides near campus. Overnight, debate had raged about whether the students were in the safest possible spot – or trapped and in danger.
It seems counterintuitive, said Connie Horton, Pepperdine's vice president for student affairs, but the Los Angeles County Fire Department supports the shelter-in-place plan as the safest course. "We have lived it a number of times over the years, practiced it, rehearsed it, trained on it," she said.
The flames had been extinguished near campus by early Saturday morning.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump made his first comments on the wildfires, blaming California's government for its management of the forests.
"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted Saturday morning. "Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"
A spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, D, responded by saying that more federal forest land has burned than state land, adding that the state has expanded its forestry budget while the Trump administration has cut its budget for forest services.
Back in Oak Park, Richard Gwynn, 75, and his wife, Lynda Gwynn, 70, surveyed the burned landscape. She became emotional, looking at a canyon where her children had once played, which was now blackened by fire.
"Winds are coming back tonight and they're going to blow all day Monday," Richard Gwynn said. "But there's nothing left to burn."
Nearby, a rabbit hopped over charred ground.
"There's one alive?" he said.
"We can't get rid of them no matter what," Lynda Gwynn said.
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Syracuse 39 - 61 Georgetown
Hoyas dominate final regular-season Big East meeting with SyracuseMar 10, 2013 - 12:36 AM Washington, DC (Sports Network) - It certainly didn't have the drama of past Syracuse-Georgetown matchups, as the Hoyas completely dominated the final Big East meeting between the long-time rivals Saturday at the Verizon Center.
Markel Starks scored 19 points and D'Vaun Smith-Rivera added 15, as the fifth- ranked Hoyas pulled away in the second half for a 61-39 victory over the Orange. Georgetown earned a share of the Big East regular-season title and also wrapped up the top overall seed in the upcoming conference tournament.
"It is really special, on many different levels. It's special because the Big East as we have known it, is ending. We won the first game, and we won the last one," Hoyas coach John Thompson III said.
Otto Porter carried Georgetown to a victory at Syracuse two weeks ago with 33 points, but didn't make a shot from the floor until the second half in this one. He finished with just 10 points, but contributed eight rebounds and seven assists as the Hoyas (24-5, 14-4 Big East) bounced back from Wednesday's loss at Villanova to win for the 12th time in their last 13 games.
Michael Carter-Williams was the lone Syracuse player in double figures with 17 points. C.J. Fair added nine for the 17th-ranked Orange (23-8, 11-7), who closed the regular season with four losses in five games and failed to earn a double-bye for next week's tournament at Madison Square Garden.
The Orange will be seeded fifth in the event and face either Seton Hall or South Florida in Wednesday's second round.
"I thought today the Georgetown defense was just better, way better than our offense. We just didn't handle their defense," Orange coach Jim Boeheim said.
Despite a Georgetown sweep for the first time since 2001-02, Syracuse still owns a 48-41 advantage in the all-time series against the Hoyas. While the Orange will head to the ACC next season and Saturday's game marked the end of the conference rivalry, there has been speculation that the two original Big East members might continue the series as non-conference opponents.
Syracuse's recent slump began with a 57-46 loss to Georgetown two weeks ago at the Carrier Dome, a setback that ended the Orange's 38-game home winning streak.
Georgetown locked down on defense two weeks ago and did the same on Saturday, contesting nearly every Syracuse shot. The Orange, meanwhile, didn't play much defense as the Hoyas consistently found open areas in the usually potent Syracuse zone.
The Hoyas shot 42 percent overall and drained 9-of-22 from beyond the arc, led by a combined 8-of-16 performance from Starks and Smith-Rivera.
Georgetown closed the first half with the final five points for a 25-18 lead and opened the second half with the first seven to build a 14-point margin. Syracuse quickly ran off the next seven in less than a minute, but Porter drained a foul line jumper for his field goal of the game and Starks hit from beyond the arc to extend the advantage back to 12.
A bucket by Carter-Williams stemmed the tide, but only momentarily, as Georgetown ran off the next seven for a 44-27 cushion with just over 11 minutes remaining. Syracuse never recovered and fell behind by 21 when Smith- Rivera buried a jumper for a 52-31 lead with just under six minutes to play.
Starks scored the first eight points for Georgetown and Smith-Rivera followed with the next eight as the Hoyas opened a 16-11 lead with just under 8 1/2 minutes left in the first half. Syracuse drew within 20-18 on a jumper by Fair, but the Hoyas scored the final five points -- a three by Smith-Rivera and two free throws by Porter for his only two points of the opening 20 minutes.
Georgetown made 5-of-12 from 3-point range in the first half and held Syracuse to 1-of-5 from beyond the arc and 28 percent from the field overall.
Game Notes
Jabril Trawick scored 11 points for Georgetown ... Syracuse finished 1-for-11 from beyond the arc ... Syracuse seniors James Southerland and Brandon Triche combined to shoot 1-for-17 overall.
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– General Introduction –
Born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, (Ontario, Canada) seven years after his parents, Annie and Constantin emigrated from Romania, Daniel Negreanu, aka Kid Poker, has made a name for himself in the poker world, being named Best Player of the Decade by the Global Poker Index and the Poker Hall of Fame. His accolades include 6 WSOP bracelets, 2 WPT titles, and 1 WCOOP title.
– Key Career Dates –
- 1980: Discovers gambling and starts playing poker full time.
- 1985: Comes to Las Vegas, loses his bankroll, and goes back to Toronto.
- 1998: Youngest ever winner of first WSOP cash and bracelet; nicknamed "Kid Poker".
- 2004: Wins first and second WPT victories and is named "Card Player of the Year".
- 2008: Publishes his book, Power Hold'em Strategy.
- 2013: #1 on the Global Poker Index, WSOP Player of the Year, 2013 Bluff Player of the Year, and 2013 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year.
- 2014: Inducted into Las Vegas Poker Hall of Fame.
- 2016: First WCOOP title.
– Daniel Negreanu's Career –
→ Beginnings ←
After leaving high school to play poker full time against adults who were often twice his age or older, Negreanu grew his bankroll by winning consistently in a variety of gambling halls, casinos, and charity games.
At the age of 21, he packed up his stuff, along with his bankroll, and headed to Las Vegas to make it big. This first trip to The City of Lights ended quickly, as Negreanu lost his bankroll and headed home to Toronto to rebuild it.
With the determination of a true champion, Negreanu refused to get discouraged by this early set back. He kept playing, seemingly stuck in a cycle of winning in Toronto but then losing in Las Vegas.
Eventually, his determination paid off. Foxwoods' World Poker Final named Negreanu Best All Around Player in 1997, and in 1998, at the young age of 23, Daniel won the $2k Pot Limit Hold'em at the first WSOP event he ever entered. This success earned him the nickname "Kid Poker" because, at that time, he became the youngest player to ever win a WSOP bracelet.
Read More : Being Broke but Never Quitting: The Years That Built Daniel Negreanu's Career
→ Live Tournaments ←
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|World Poker Tour Titles for Daniel Negreanu
|Prize (US$)
|$10,000 Borgata Poker Open
|$15,000 Five Diamond World Poker Classic
→ Other Tournaments ←
Negreanu earned $55,064 during two events at the Foxwoods' World Poker Finals in 1997, which led to him being named the tournament's best all-around player. He claimed the S.H.O.E. bracelet in 2003 for the game that rotates through the following events, in order: Seven Card Stud, Hold' Em, Omaha Eights or Better, and Stud Eights or Better.
A personal best came for Negreanu when he topped a field of 690 players in November 2008 to win the 4th Annual British Columbia Poker Championships' main event. This win earned him $371,910 CAD ($299,951 USD).
→ Live Cash Games ←
Besides regular appearances in the big game at Bobby's Room, Negreanu played on the television shows High Stakes Poker (all seven seasons) and PokerStars Big Game (two seasons).
→ Online Poker ←
For a brief time in December 2005, Negreanu was the professional spokesperson the online poker site Poker Mountain.
Following "Black Friday", he returned to Canada to play online via PokerStars. He became an official member of the PokerStars team in June 2007, but it wasn't until 2010/2011 that he became serious about online poker.
It didn't go so well at first. Playing most of his hands in $5/$10 – $100/$200 NLHE at PokerStars, Negreanu lost over $430k in the first several months of 2010.
However, things gradually improved, again thanks to Negreanu's determination. He won $216,000 playing PL Omaha [6 Max] at the SCOOP in 2013, and he earned $61,865.47 when he won the WCOOP $2,100 HORSE Championship in 2016.
→ Sponsorship deals ←
After Negreanu joined the PokerStars team in 2007, he quickly became "the face" of the business. Making between $2 and $4 million per year from his PokerStars work, Negreanu is a visible figure in almost every PokerStars commercial.
– Daniel Negreanu's Private Life –
→ Love Life ←
Daniel Negreanu's first relationship started when he met Canadian poker pro Evelyn Ng at a pool hall. When he was 16, they started dating. Although their romantic relationship did not last long, they've remained friends, and he even mentored her. In 2005, he married a girl from Michigan named Lori Lin Weber. The August party was held at Wynn Casino in Las Vegas and included a veritable who's who list of poker personalities, including Erick Lindgren (the best man), Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Chau Giang, Eli Elezrea, and Evelyn Ng.
The couple separated in November 2007, citing his busy, incredibly demanding schedule as too much of a stress on their relationship. Negreanu announced the decision via a blog post in which he wrote that it was the "right decision," done "smoothly, like "adults," without the need for lawyers. They've remained friends.
Since his divorce, Negreanu has dated or been seen with a variety of poker celebrities and other famous women. There were rumors that he was involved with American actress Shannon Elizabeth Fadal. Born in 1973, of Syrian and Lebanese origins, Fadal was coached by Negreanu when she played the main WSOP event in 2005. Last seen at the table in 2013, Fadal played consistently from 2005 to 2010.
For a brief time in 2010, Negreanu dated the American actress and host for PokerStars television show, Big Game, Amanda Leatherman (born in 1984). Although she became engaged to Bobby Robinson in April of 2013, she and Negreanu remain friends. Currently married to Robinson, Leatherman reportedly told Pokernews that Negreanu is "amazing. He does anything I want."
After Leatherman, Negreanu dated Krisztina Polgar, a Hungarian model. Born in 1986, Polgar was the 2008 "Miss Earth Hungary." She originally approached him during a WSOP event. Also a poker player, Polgar was particularly active from 2010-2012.
Negreanu's love life got especially public in 2013 when he appeared on the season 6 premier of the Bravo TV reality dating show Millionaire Matchmaker, where he claimed to be looking for a girl with the personality of Scary Movie actress Anna Faris. On the show, he was matched with an attractive blonde woman named Lindsay Blalock. The show tracked them across several dates, including taking a private plan to the Bellagio, going to see Cirque du Soleil, and enjoying a 5-star meal at Cosmopolitan restaurant. Although they were seen kissing several times during the show, within weeks of it airing on television, Negreanu tweeted: "For those asking, I am single but me and Lindsay are still friends and she is a GREAT girl as advertised :-)."
Most recently, Negreanu was seen dating Marissa Rachelle Rodney, a Las Vegas hairstylist he met at a charity event. In an interview, he confirmed that they'd been together since January 2014, and he was quoted as saying, "She's very sweet. We have an incredible chemistry." However, the website whosdatedwho.com, has reported that he may be single. Throwing another wrench in the possibilities, he was quoted in an interview with calvinayre.com in 2015, saying "I don't get lonely despite being alone a lot. I am quite an introvert. I like spending time on my own." In the same interview, Negreanu also confessed, "I have only ever been in love once, to Amanda Leatherman." Previously, he had written on his blog that "she is the most naturally beautiful woman I've ever seen," and explained that the separation was hard on him.
In june 2018, in the middle of the WSOP in Vegas, Negreanu confessed in his Vlog #25 that after four years, he was no longer in a relationship with Marissa. The couple had put in "a lot of hard work" to make the relationship work he said. He went on to explain that it was like trying to fit two pieces into a puzzle, "and they sort of fit, but they're not the exactly right pieces for that puzzle". He expects they will remain good friends.
So where does Daniel Negreanu live now ? In Las Vegas of course ! Some rumors on internet asked if Daniel Negreanu was gay… But judging by his record of official girlfriends, we can safely assume that he's not … or then wouldn't be a master bluffer only in poker !
After almost a 10 years romance break and a neverending relation of friendship and complicity with Amanda Leatherman, Daniel Negreanu, who secretly kept a wedding ring all this time for her, finally asked Amanda to become his wife on the 31st of December, 2018.
This engagement on NYE follows the events of Negreanu's wife-to-be moving back to Las Vegas in September of 2018 after taking a job with Poker Central as part of the Friday Night Poker broadcast team. The two lovebirds were dating again for only a few months when Daniel popped the question, but with their history, we are confident they are both making the right call !
Amanda Leatherman should officially become Daniel Negreanu's wife in the first months of 2019. Negreanu hinted that a beach type location in the Spring are on its mind, as well as the idea of founding a family with her.
See Daniel Negreanu's proposal to Amanda Leatherman :
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Posted by Daniel Negreanu on Tuesday, 1 January 2019
Coming up with a wedding guest list is incredibly challenging.
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) January 6, 2019
→ Business ←
Expanding his horizons in 2005, Negreanu explored new business ventures through writing.
He contributed a chaper to Doyle Brunson's Super System 2 and began working on two of his own books: Hold'em Wisdom, published in 2007, and Power Hold'em Strategy, published in 2008.
→ Net Worth ←
How much is Daniel Negreanu worth ?
According to the HendonMob DB, he is second in the all-time poker money list, having won more on the green felt than any other poker player: Daniel Negreanu's winnings are close to $40,000,000 for his whole career, (July 2018) ! His best year so far was 2014, when he earned $ 10,284,118 in tournaments.
Therichest.come reports that Daniel Negreanu's net worth is $15M, while celebritynetworth.com reports $50M.
→ Hobbies & life ←
When he's not working, Negreanu enjoys playing golf and pool. He's also a big NHL fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
A vegetarian since 2000, Negreanu has been vegan since 2006.
In addition to his time on reality TV and playing live poker, he can be seen in three movies (of course, playing poker): Lucky You" (2007), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and The Grand (2007). He also appeared in Tilt, a poker-focused TV series in 2005, and he was featured in the 2015 Netflix documentary Kid Poker.
He also enjoys playing the Blizzard Card Game "Heartstone: Heroes of Warcraft," and he won against Elky (Bertrand Grospellier) at the World Championship at Blizzcon Anaheim in 2015.
Negreanu works with the charity "Ante Up for Africa," which raises money for the crisis-torn region of Darfur, and he is the founder of the annual "Big Swing" charity golf event for the Lili Claire Foundation, which serves children born with special needs and their families. Although he had already lived in the US for many years, he received his green card on July 15, 2009.
Daniel Negreanu on Social Media
Negreanu really enjoys social media, where he regularly contributes new content, particularly to podcasts with Full Contact Poker. He even launched a Youtube Channel in 2016.
He is very active on social media, including the following stats:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialKidPoker/ 180,000 fans
Twitter: https://twitter.com/realkidpoker 437,000 followers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dnegspoker/ 128,000 subscribers
YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/DNegreanu 117,000 subscribers
He also has an official website, where he maintains a blog and sells his books.
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Carlow is a very popular location for a hen party. To help you plan your hen party in Carlow, we've compiled a useful list of places to stay, where to eat and the pubs and clubs that we recommend your hens should visit.
There are a number of excellent restaurants in Carlow which accommodate hen parties. Some of our top picks include:
Liberty Tree Restaurant, part of The Talbot Hotel, offers fine wining and dining and great views of the town. Their set menus are reasonable, straying off a set menu could work out expensive for a hen party though. Tel: (059) 915 3000
Italian Connection, as the name suggests, serve an array of Italian cuisine including pizzas. It can get very busy and packed as they attract primarily group bookings but the food is quite tasty. Tel: (059) 914 0942
Weeping Thaiger, Thai Food, Service can be a little slow from time to time but very reasonable in price. Tel: (059)9137000
Brooks Café Bistro, Perfect for lunch or an evening meal, serves a café bar with paninis, wraps and the like during the day before turning into a trendy bar and restaurant in the evening. Situated in the Dinn Ri hotel. Food quality can be a little hit and miss sometimes but is generally good. Tel: (059) 9133111
Ewings Bar is a traditional Irish pub in Carlow which offers a great cocktail menu. It is probably not a pub that you'll spend all night in but worth visiting for a drink or two.
The Med Bar is very popular with hen parties. It has a lively atmosphere and always has some form of music whether it be a live band or a DJ.
Tully's Bar offers live music and chart hit playing DJ's. Mainly attract a fairly crowd.
Scraggs Alley is very spacious with 11 different areas in the place. It has an impressive smoking area and beer garden. Music provided by live bands and later in the night, a DJ. It can get very crowded.
Teach Dolmain is great for live traditional music if that's what your hens are into.
The Foundry Nightclub is part of the Dinn Ri hotel and is very hen party friendly. Contact them in advance to arrange a VIP area and some bubbly or complimentary passes.
Ewings Bar offer B&B accommodation for hen parties in Carlow. It is quite basic but has a very central location and is not expensive.
Coolanowle Country House: A farmhouse, organic B&B with superb rooms, self catering accommodation, a "Barn" for your dance class, and meals made from fresh meat and vegetables from the farm. Coolanowle House has won many awards and is an excellent choice for a very special hen party! Tel: +353 (0)59 862 5176
The Dinn Ri Hotel is most popular for hen parties, Extremely central location and has a bar, restaurant and nightclub all within its premises. Tel: (059) 9133111
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Kirk's quarters in the movies
Has anyone noticed that in the first and second star trek movie Kirk's quarters are a lot more lavish than in the sixth? In the second movie we see Spock's quarters too. Even though he's captain of the vessel, he seems to be assigned much smaller quarters. In ST:VI Kirk's quarters appear to be reduced in size to resemble that of Spock in ST:II/ST:III. Is it possible that the larger, lavish quarters we see in I and II are reserved for flag officers and Kirk had to downgrade his quarters when he was demoted to Captain? Federation 05:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Spock's is seen in a scene on VI Lt. T 03:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- As originally conceived, senior officers (ie, Department Heads and CO) had the two room quarters shown for Kirk in TMP, with a separate sleeping area and work area with corner nook. Spock's quarters as shown in II/III don't make this plain because of the camera angles/placements the director chose. The exact layout is documented by Shane Johnson in "Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise", and is derived from Johnson's personal inspection of the actual film sets.
- Obviously, sometime between IV and VI, space became more of a premium, and the Senior Officers were reduced to one room quarters as shown in that film.Capt Christopher Donovan 04:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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Can we somehow incorporate the traditions associated with arranging crew quarters for high-ranking visiting officials, as mentioned by Worf in DS9: "Rapture"? I think it's worth mentioning but I can't quite remember the exact phrasing. If anyone has seen the episode recently, could you add it? -- TrekFan Talk 16:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I propose redirecting this to crew quarters, unless there are major differences between the accomodations for crew and those of guests. --31dot 15:00, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
- perhaps it could be merged into the one article simply called quarters (Thetrekinator 15:04, March 25, 2010 (UTC))
- Let me gather all of the relevant information for pages that link to this and then we can move it to Crew Quarters, which is where I first looked to see if this was already created.--Obey the Fist!! 15:09, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
- I SUPPORT merging this page with Crew quarters and changing this into a redirect, as 31dot suggested. This is where this information should be in the first place.--Obey the Fist!! 15:28, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
- Well then, let's move this article already!! :) --Obey the Fist!! 20:13, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
does anyone have any pictures of guest quarters that could be added to the article (Thetrekinator 15:22, March 26, 2010 (UTC))


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The Lions climb to 7-3 overall and 1-0 in conference play with the win. The Wildcats fall to 4-7 on the season and 0-1 in the league with the result.
Courtney McCarthy (Merrimack, N.H.) tallied a team-best 11 kills and added nine digs. Ruth Aguilar (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) posted 11 assists, nine kills, three aces, and three digs on the day. Samantha Caldwell (Quincy, Mass.) dished out 13 assists while Jessica Caldwell (Quincy, Mass.) collected 13 digs and McKenzie Walling (Rock Hill, S.C.) chipped in with nine digs and three service aces.
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Founded 1878
In his time, Joseph Marchak was considered by the people to be in the same league as the famous Russian goldsmiths Sazikov and Khlebnikov. One could come across his name as frequently as the famous brands Faberge and Bolin in the reports about the Nizhny Novgorod Fair of Art and Industry of 1896. Today, jewelry historians state that the works by Marchak embodied the best features of the art of jewelry in the borderline period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The items created by the master were distinguished by their professionalism, artistic taste, humor, originality, and superb workmanship. While the House of Marchak created an array of masterpieces, most of them did not survive the storm of revolutions, wars and historical cataclysms and were lost forever.
Iosif (Joseph) Abramovich Marchak was born in 1854. From childhood he demonstrated artistic talent and while apprenticing at a jeweler's atelier, at the age of 14, he dreamed about starting his own business. In 1878, ten years after starting his apprenticeship, he launched his own business in a poor Kiev neighborhood making gold chains and other items. He later settled in a five-room flat at 4 Kreschatyk, Kiev's main street, and later moved production to Russia. In his work, he strove for perfection, using only the best materials: gold from Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris, silver from Moscow and platinum from St.Petersburg. He started close business relationships with foreign goldsmiths and hired the best artists from St.Petersburg and Paris to work on the design of his items.
In 1885, he employed a score of people in his workshop. At the end of the century, Russia was prosperous and orders were flowing. Joseph traveled regularly and took part in many exhibitions in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In1890, Joseph Marchak set out on a journey to France. Sumptuous parties enlightened the most romantic of all capital cities, and Russia began to have as great an impact on France as France had traditionally exerted on Russia.
In 1893, Joseph's reputation crossed the Atlantic. By this time Joseph Marchak was supplying 38 jewelry stores and up-market workshops as well as managing production for his own boutique. He also opened a school for underprivileged children in Kiev where they were taught ironwork, steel-engraving and wood carving. It was not long until he was called "The Cartier of Kiev" and became the outright rival of the famed Fabergé.
He was awarded a medal at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 and another at Antwerp in 1894. Within a little more than twenty years, Joseph Marchak had become one the most important jewelers of the Russian Empire and the House of Marchak was a household name. Every time he returned from abroad, he developed and improved the techniques he had witnessed. After a devastating fire in 1899, he re-built the workshops, modernizing production facilities to match the level of European jewelry production requirements and employed one hundred and fifty people.
The year 1913 marked the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. To commemorate it the State commissioned special pieces by Marchak to be given to Tsar Nicolas II as gifts. These were the great days for the jeweler's reputation.
During the Russian Revolution many Russian citizens fled to Europe. The Marchak family relocated to Paris, concealing the last remnants of their jewelry creations under their clothes. The youngest son of Marchak, Alexander, born in 1892, had been studying law and attending classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before returning to Kiev to assist with the family business. At the outbreak of WWI, he was obligated to fulfill mandatory service requirement in the Russian Army and was sent to the Austrian front where he performed airborne reconnaissance photography which later proved to be of significant importance to the war. Joseph Marchak died prematurely of cancer in 1918 before the conclusion of the war. Alexander left the army and joined the family in Paris, rumors state that he carried a credit note for 50 Million Francs with him. His money and his contacts made it very easy for the Marchak family to establish themselves in Paris and continue with their jewelry business.
After the War, 1920's Paris was alive again. Designers, craftsmen and jewelers came back from the front. As soon as he arrived in Paris, Alexander Marchak sensed the approach of a new incredible era and rapidly opened a shop on the famous Rue de la Paix, at number 4, right next to Place Vendôme and the Hotel Ritz Paris. A multitude of wealthy foreigners had ceaselessly flocked to the area. The epicenter of the luxury industry, the Place Vendôme and Rue de la Paix neighborhood already hosted numerous renowned designers, a perfumer, many jewelers, goldsmiths, glove makers, shirt designers as well as hat makers. True to its origins, Marchak's originality and the quality of its creations set him apart from the others in the Parisian jewelry sphere. The firm rose to prominence during the Art Deco period, creating highly romanticized pieces featuring the favorite themes of birds and sprays of flowers.
In 1922 Alexander Marchak launched a collaboration with Robert Linzeler. Their names have become linked with some of the greatest jewels of the Art Deco period. Marchak and Linzeler were one team of only 30 exhibitors who were invited to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, where they won the Grand Prix. This was a groundbreaking achievement for the House. However, the partnership broke up shortly after the exhibition. Marchak went on to another Gran Prix, at the Colonial Exhibition in 1931 and exhibited at the International Arts and Techniques in Modern Life fair. In the 1940's, despite the war, the firm prospered, during which their pieces evolved to reflect changing tastes, shifting from platinum to gold.
The Marchak's spent the war in Savoy while the Paris shop was looked after by a manager. After WWII ended, Alexander Marchak hired designer Alexander Diringer, long-known by the jewelry community of the Rue de la Paix and a former employee of Cartier. He remained designer of the House of Marchak until the end of the sixties. The post-war period was particularly artistically rich for Marchak. In 1946 Jacques Verger, the son of a prominent jewelry family and exceptionally passionate salesman, was hired. Verger was very well connected and experienced, having previously worked at Ostertag's and Sterlé. He became head of the company and, with his financial partner, André Delanglade, bought out Marchak's shares. Alexander retired in 1957. A year later the Marchak firm, lead by Verger, started expanding, taking its jewelry overseas to the United States. Despite the passing of family ownership, the Marchak spirit lived on thanks to the hearty collaboration of Jacques Verger and his employees.
In 2000, one of the only heirs of Alexander Marchak to bear the Marchak name decided to revive the brand of his great-grandfather by creating a new collection. The collection has traveled around the world, in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, the United States, Japan and Australia.
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