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Agoura (Calif.) High righthander Robert Stock may be the No. 1 prep pitching prospect in the Draft Class of 2007 according to scouts, but he's not even viewed as the No. 1 pitcher on his own high school team. With a big game on the line, senior righthander Jason Stoffel would get the nod over Stock, according to Mike Magnante, the former big league lefthander who is in his second year as pitching coach at Agoura High.
"Both have God-given ability and throw hard, but they're at different stages in their development," Magnante says. "Jason doesn't throw as hard as Robert, maybe 91-92 mph, but he's more refined at this point. You can work with him on the finer points of pitching because he's more advanced."
No matter who's viewed as the team's ace, the luxury of having two of the best high school arms in the nation on one staff has Agoura head coach Scott Deck predicting big things for his team in 2006. The Chargers, 19-7 in 2005, have been installed at No. 4 in the Baseball America/National High School Baseball Coaches Association preseason poll, just behind defending national champion Russell County High of Seale, Ala., which has two high-profile arms of its own.
"To have two consistent, quality pitchers makes my job easier," Deck said. "We know what we are going to get from them each time out. Their presence brings confidence to the rest of the players on the team. The hitters don't have as much pressure to score because the score is usually low when they are on the mound."
Having a pitching coach with 12 years of major league experience also makes Deck's job easier.
"Mike does an amazing job with the pitchers," Deck said. "He is great with small mechanical changes, and the mental side of pitching. I have complete confidence in him."
Magnante, who went 26-32 in a major league career that ended in 2002, had no inkling that he would be entrusted with two arms like Stock and Stoffel when he took a job as a math teacher and assistant baseball coach at Agoura High in 2004.
"I knew nothing about either kid before I got here," Magnante said. "But I heard about Stock pretty quickly."
Stock, whose fastball was clocked last fall at 95 mph, was selected as Baseball America's Youth Player of the Year in 2005 as a 15-year-old.
And yet Stock, for all his accolades and all his talent, has yet to make his mark at Agoura High on the mound. With Stoffel and Jason Novak, who is now at UCLA, handling most of the starting responsibilities for the Chargers last year, Stock was used as the team's closer and worked just 22 innings. He went 5-1, 1.81 with eight saves.
His more pressing assignment was catching Novak and Stoffel, and he hit .409 with eight homers in that role, earning all-league honors. He'll be used as a starting pitcher this year, in addition to serving as his team's primary receiver.
For all Stock's upside on the mound, Magnante thinks the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder is a better catcher at this point in his development than he is a pitcher.
"Robert can go either way but he is probably more refined behind the plate," Magnante said. "He's got a cannon back there. But he's worked very hard as a pitcher and his mechanics have gotten a lot better.
"One of the concerns we've had with him pitching more this year is we've had to search for a catcher that can catch him. He's got great stuff, but he's a lot easier to catch now because his command is much better."
As a pitching coach, Magnante preaches throwing quality strikes, and his instruction has made a big difference in Stoffel's development.
The 6-foot-3 righthander worked only one inning at Agoura as a sophomore, but under Magnante's tutelage last year he developed into the pitcher of the year in Ventura County, going 8-2, 2.14. Scouts say Stoffel's command is so advanced that it is the equal of any premium high school pitcher in the country. He has the ability to be drafted in the first two rounds in June providing he can be lured away from a scholarship offer to Arizona.
While Magnante favors using Stoffel with a big game on the line this season, Deck isn't so sure.
"That is too difficult to call," Deck said. "Both have tremendous confidence and bring a presence to the mound. But being that Jason is a senior and has paid his dues, I might lean towards him, with Robert entering at any point.
"However, Robert has thrown in so many big games throughout his career, it would be hard not to start him. But I guess we'll cross that bridge if we get there."
It's a safe presumption that if Russell County High repeats as BA's No. 1 team, the honor will have been well earned.
It seems like just yesterday that the Rasmus clan-Tony, the country's most quotable coach with his four sons in tow-was sopping up headlines like biscuits 'n' gravy. Last year, the Warriors were ranked No. 4 in the preseason but took over the top spot in April and never looked back, completing the 2005 season with a 38-1 record and an Alabama Class 5-A title.
It was a fitting ending. Tony bade farewell to his oldest son Colby, a senior center fielder on last year's team who was named first-team All-America and was drafted in the first round by the Cardinals. The club will miss Colby's offense-he batted .484-24-66-as well as his arm-he won three games and saved three others with 30 strikeouts in 17 innings, most of which came late in the few close games Russell County played.
But the Rasmus boys just keep coming. Now Cory is a senior, Case and Cyle are sophomores and all should play integral roles in the Warrior's title defense. Cory's fastball has been clocked as high as 97 mph and, along with senior lefthander Kasey Kiker, a second-team Preseason All-American, Russell County returns its top two pitchers.
"I actually believe our pitching staff will be better," said Tony, whose team got better by virtue of its previous success and growing reputation as a regional and national power.
Six-foot-4 junior righty Danny Danielson and senior righthander David Williamson transferred to Russell County before this season. Williamson won't be able to pitch because of a rotator cuff injury, but Danielson falls into the fold nicely, as one of a handful of hurlers who can at least bump 90 mph--if he's cleared to play.
Less than a week before the season, five players who transferred to Russell County were ruled ineligible while the school's administration made sure they had followed protocol during their transfers.
The void created when Colby graduated was plugged with Adam Coe, an infielder who transferred from nearby Columbus (Ga.) High.
"Our team will be a better hitting club one through nine (and) will pitch better, but we will miss Colby's defensive presence along with his amazing ability to help every player around play at a higher level," Tony said. "The only thing that could sidetrack this club is that lack of leadership."
Intangibles notwithstanding, Russell County High's experience, pitching depth and infusion of talent make it the preseason top team in the BA/NHSBCA Top 50. In the 12-year history of the poll, only Chatsworth (Calif.) High has finished No. 1 in back-to-back seasons, turning the trick in 2003 and 2004.
The Warriors will be hard-pressed to repeat the feat. Along with many of Alabama's best teams-including Millbrook's Stanhope Elmore, the only team to beat Russell County in 2005-Tony has laid out a demanding schedule.
"You know, Kasey and Cory don't lack for an ego, and they said, 'we've better than a lot of (teams in the country),' " Tony said. "So I said all right, and started lining them up.
"It's going to be tough on us but it's going to be fun to play that schedule."
The gauntlet began with No. 28 Mosley High (Lynn Haven, Fla.), the top team from Florida's panhandle and home of senior outfielder Cody Johnson, one of the country's best power hitters. Mosley defeated a Russell County and its emaciated roster, 7-6.
No. 15 Lassiter High (Marietta, Ga.) coach Mickey McMurtry rang Tony before the season and set up a showdown with Russell County in early March. A week later the Warriors travel east to participate in the La Grange Invitational where Georgia powers Cartersville High, La Grange High, Columbus High and Parkview High (Lilburn, Ga.), as well as Nova High (Davie, Fla.) will be among the teams gunning for Kasey, Cory and company.
Arguably Russell County's toughest test will come at home April 11, when Miami's No. 6 Florida Christian comes calling.
• Agoura's bid to make an impact nationally may depend on its ability to beat two teams from its own backyard, Chatsworth High and El Camino Real High, both of which went 29-4 in 2005. Chatsworth returns senior RHP Josh Ravin along with two promising juniors, 3B Matt Dominguez and SS Mike Moustakas. El Camino Real added highly-regarded senior OF Gabe Cohen, a transfer from Harvard-Westlake High, to a pitching-rich team that features senior OF/LHP Shaun Kort (.456-11-41; 10-1, 1.18).
• Northern California's pecking order wasn't easily deciphered as the season approached. San Jose's Bellarmine Prep was NorCal's highest-ranked club in the preseason poll at No. 16, although Carmichael's Jesuit High, No. 20 De La Salle (Concord) and Deer Valley (Antioch) all boast talented rosters. Jesuit High took a hit when its top returning catcher was lost for the season after Tommy John surgery. The senior combo of 1B/OF Lars Anderson and LHP Andy Oros provides Jesuit with a power bat to anchor the lineup and a front-line starter, but holes behind the plate and up the middle-Jesuit is bereft of a true shortstop, as well-lend uncertainty in the team's outlook. "Our league is good again, and we're playing in Fresno the week before Easter and the National Classic (in Orange County) the week after," Jesuit head coach Joe Potulny said. "We'll find out at some point how good we are. And if we do OK, at some point later in the year, we might (contend for national ranking)."
• Further north in Napa, Justin-Siena High, which went 27-0 and won its third straight California Interscholastic Federation North Coast Section Division-VI title last year, carried a 40-game winning streak into this season. It was the state's longest active streak and the second longest in California history behind Chatsworth High's 54-game streak, which ended last season.
• Jackson High of Mill Creek, Wash., makes its first splash in the national rankings at No. 10 in the BA/NHSBCA preseason poll. But winning national championships are nothing new to several Jackson players. The team's three top players, junior C/RHP Kawika Emsley-Pai, senior RHP Cam Nobles and senior OF Travis Snider, were all key players for the Seattle Stars, which won consecutive Continental Amateur Baseball Association 15-year-old titles in 2003 and 2004.
• Owasso High, winners of five Oklahoma Class 6-A titles from 1998-2004, will attempt to get back on track after losing in the championship game of the 2005 state playoffs to Union High of Tulsa. The Rams return senior LHP Chris Armstrong, who is 29-3 with 349 strikeouts in his high school career, along with senior C Joe Patterson (.363-6-36) and senior SS Pete Kozma (.405-8-31). "We are coming off a great season, but have several holes to fill," coach Larry Turner said of his Rams, ranked again as Oklahoma's top team in the BA/NHSBCA preseason poll at No. 23.
• No. 37 Cypress Falls (Texas) High SS Joey Kenworthy, a senior who committed to Texas Tech, broke his left leg during preseason practice and is not expected to return to the lineup until the postseason, at the earliest.
• Competition in New York City's Division-A Public School Athletic League should be fierce this season. Perennial powers Tottenville High, No. 39 James Monroe High and George Washington High figure to be in the mix, as usual, but a relative newcomer on the block is Brooklyn's Grand Street Campus High. Grand Street made the move up from Division-B in 1999 and last year lost to Tottenville, the eventual champion, in the semifinals of the 32-team PSAL postseason tournament. Grand Street RHP Dellin Betances, the state's top prospect and a first-team preseason All-American, overthrew first base on a bunt, allowing two runs to score in the 2-1 final. Betances, whose fastball has been clocked in the mid-90s, is back for his senior season, and finding someone to catch him-behind the plate-remains somewhat of a dilemma. Grand Street coach Melvin Martinez planned to use senior C Hendy Tavarez and junior Louis Hiraldo behind the plate but said, particularly early in the season, his catcher's hand was too sore after receiving for Betances to play again for up to a week. "We get started March 11 and sometimes it's still in the 30s and your hand is frozen," Martinez said. "You get back there when (Betances) is pitching and it hurts. We've had (the catcher) wrapped, padded . . . everything imaginable."


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Cleaning up: see clearly with pristine windows
Van Morrison started his career as a window cleaner, and no doubt the " working man in his prime" did a good, if untalkative job.
If you fancy regaining some sparkle in your windows after the January storms and rain, you could try Clear View.
The company was founded in Bangor as a millennial idea in 2000 by Richard Dorman and has grown into a business with five cleaners. The cleaners cover the Bangor and Holywood areas and would charge "£3.50 to £5 a go " to clean a regular three-bedroomed family home.
Mr Dorman recommends that you get your windows cleaned fortnightly if you live by the seaside "as they get dirtier a lot quicker" and once a month inland.
Asked about amusing window-cleaning anecdotes, he recalls starting on one house and realising the householder was scantily-clad and mowing the lawn. As a gentleman, he stopped cleaning and returned another time.
The amusingly-named Muggins, started four years ago, is run by Philip McLearnon in Belfast - and the firm now employs several cleaners. He's an experienced window cleaner, and does industrial work too, "including the Belfast tower blocks". In the business for 14 years, Philip reckons cleaning outside windows on a standard three-bedroomed house would cost " £6.50". The firm covers the whole of Belfast and beyond, and doesn't charge extra for travel. Philip normally cleans windows for his domestic clients fortnightly or monthly. In the recent bad weather, Muggins has been kept busy.
John Horner founded Regal Window Cleaners in October 1988 - "I've been in the business nearly 20 years and now have two employees to help".
He is based in Belfast and covers the whole of the city. Regal would charge " £15 to £25" to clean the outside of an average three-bedroomed house, partly because there's no standard job and as he says, "most people have conservatories now".
John Horner uses a squeegee and T-bar covered in sheepswool and will clean windows inside the house. "But that would double the cost." In the winter, Regal pay particular attention to the window frames. The recent weather has made business brisk, and John says he's looking forward to spring. He recommends domestic windows are cleaned monthly, but if a house is on a main road weekly.
- Clear View, tel 07799 512087
- Muggins, tel 028 9079 3373
- Regal Window Cleaners 0708 721133.
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Dating 101: Friends vs. Boyfriends
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, let's talk about relationships.
Relationships are new and exciting and we sometimes have a tendency to let them consume everything we do. "Sorry, we're busy that day." "I'm going out with ____ tonight." "Did I tell you what my boyfriend did the other day?" You know the drill. I'm not a stranger to playing the role of friend of the girlfriend. One of my best friends has been in a relationship for over six years now so I'm used to hearing "Brad and I" [name changed] every time I talk to her; however, my single best friend and myself both recently went from being "single" at the start of college to "in a relationship" and I've noticed that there is a fine line between being a good girlfriend while being a good friend.
Friendships are important. The last person I want to be (and I hope you feel the same way) is the girl that ignores her friends the entire time she has a boyfriend and then goes running back to them the moment the relationship falls apart.
We're young, 20-something college students and having a boyfriend (or girlfriend) feels like the next big investment, but don't forget the people that have been in your life. Balancing life, school, work, friendships, family, and all the rest can be hard, I know.
Here are some of my own musings on how to incorporate the social life you had before your significant other entered the picture.
Don't let being a We stop you from being a You.
1. Spend time apart
You're in love. You can't stand a moment away from each other. Well, you should. Spending time apart from your boyfriend/girlfriend is healthy. It doesn't have to be a long amount of time here. Just putting a single day of "alone time" in between every couple days will give you some breathing time and let you miss each other. It'll give you time to appreciate each other and yourself. Remember that being content by just being you is important to any relationship. If you can't spend a single night without your boyfriend/girlfriend while reading a book, doing homework, watching TV, or just being home then you need to either 1) Get married or 2) Re-evaluate your relationship.
2. Group dates: Make room for other people
Being social is a great way to include your other friends while spending time together. I love group dates! They don't have to be huge. One or two other couples are fine. And here's the kicker, you don't have to sit next to your boyfriend/girlfriend the entire time! Engage with other people. Find out how your friends are doing.
Group outings don't have to be strictly couple nights. Invite your friends to hang out with you. Have a game night. I love hanging out with my boyfriend and my roommates together. It completely changes our dynamics and lets me see an entirely different side to him.
3. Quality time with friends
Repeat after me – Spending time with my friends is IMPORTANT. You are more than just your relationships. I've been blessed to have some amazing friends and I never want to lose them due to negligence or stupidity. Spending time with my friends without my boyfriend is something that I try to do at least once a week. I've often told my best friend that spending time with her and our boyfriends doesn't feel like we're spending time together. Quality time matters. Just because you see someone doesn't mean that you're investing time into them.
Set aside time to keep building your relationship with your friends. My roommate (Amanda) and I have date nights together. Even though we live together and I see her every day it's still important to let her know that I cherish the moments I spend with her.
Relationships can be wonderful. Your significant other can bring out a part of you that you never knew existed. Just remember that you are not your relationship and the amount of time you invest in your friends should be just as important as the amount of time you invest in your boyfriend/girlfriend.
With Valentine's Day just around the corner make sure you express your love and appreciation to all the people that enrich your life. Don't let it pass by as just another Hallmark holiday.
One more thing. To my best friend, who never stopped investing in our friendship even after becoming a "we," thank you.
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Trombino Fastest, Szoke Eighth-fastest In Qualifying For Canadian Superbike National At Shannonville
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TROMBINO TOPS IN SUPERBIKE

SHANNONVILLE, ON - Kleinburg, ON's Frank Trombino was the pacesetter on the opening day of practice for the Honda Motorcycles Challenge, the opening round of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship, at Shannonville Motorsport Park on Friday.

Making his debut with the Honda Canada / Orion Motorsports team, Trombino lapped the 1.5-mile Shannonville 'Pro' circuit in 1:06.734 on his Honda RC51 in the final practice session of the day.

Toronto's Michael Taylor was second fastest on the Yamaha Motor Canada / Brooklin Cycle Yamaha YZF-R1 with a time of 1:07.025. Despite falls in both the morning and afternoon sessions Huntington Beach, CA resident Owen Weichel placed third at 1:07.178 aboard the Canadian Kawasaki ZX-7RR.

"I'm surprised how quickly I've been able to adapt to the RC51," said Trombino, who finished fourth in last year's Parts Canada Superbike series riding for Yamaha. "The bike can certainly go faster. It's just a matter of me getting adjusted to it."

Trombino's teammate, defending series champion Steve Crevier of Maple Ridge, BC was fifth quickest in practice on Friday aboard his Honda RC51 with a time of 1:07.653. Just ahead of him was Sherbrooke, QC's Francis Martin, who recorded a 1:07.210 on the Suzuki Canada / Fast Company Suzuki GSX-R1000.

Former Canadian Superbike champ Jordan Szoke of Brantford, ON was eighth quickest on a Blackfoot Motosports Suzuki GSX-R1000 with a time of 1:08.493. Szoke is making a one-off appearance at Shannonville.

In other action at Shannonville, Trombino also led the way in practice for the International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW Open Sport Bike national support class. Trombino, the two-time defending champion in the category, recorded a best lap of 1:07.973 aboard his Honda CBR954RR.

Weichel set the quickest time in practice for the Yoshimura 600 Sport Bike class with a lap of 1:08.748 on his Kawasaki ZX-6R. Defending champion Crevier was third quickest at 1:08.856 riding a Honda CBR600F4i.

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This weekend's event will be televised on TSN on Sunday, June 23 at 6:00 pm EDT and later this year on Quebec's RDS and across Canada on the Outdoor Life Network.
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What Interests Israelis? The United States, Rabin, and the Zipper
Or at least so says Wikipedia's list of the most popular entries in various languages.
Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia, seized on the end of 2012 as an opportunity to release lists of the most popular articles of the past year in more than 35 languages.
In first place in Wikipedia in English, the most popular Wikipedia site in the world, was the entry for Facebook, with more than 36 million viewings in 2012.
The top 10 also included several articles about the entertainment world: The British boys' band One Direction was number four (22 million viewings ), the book "50 Shades of Gray" was in sixth place (21 million viewings ), "The Dark Knight Rises" was in eighth place (nearly 19 million viewings ) and "The Hunger Games" closed the top 10 with a bit more than 18,000 viewings.
But the most popular searches in the Hebrew Wikipedia reveal an entirely different picture from the English version. The leading topics were entries in the field of diplomacy and politics, not entertainment.
The word "Israel" itself was actually in the lead, with a view count of nearly half a million. Immediately after the entry for Israel came the article on the United States of America (300,000 viewings ) and then former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (277,000 ).
Surprisingly, the word "zipper" appeared in fourth place, with 266,000 hits, apparently in response to the doodle on the Google search engine's home page in April to mark the birthday of its inventor.
The top 10 were rounded out by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (260,000 ), Jerusalem (258,000 ), Facebook (254,000 ), Theodor Herzl (186,000 ), New York (185,000 ) and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (184,000 ).
Arab surfers were most interested last year in famous people from the ancient Muslim world. Though the most widely viewed entry was the one on Egypt, with more than 3.2 million viewings, it was immediately followed by Egypt's Mohammed Ali Pasha - the commander of the Ottoman army who ruled Egypt and Sudan in the 19th century. Next came Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph and one of the founders of the Muslim empire in the 7th century, and then Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th-century Ottoman sultan who, among other things, built the walls of Jerusalem.
Quite a number of countries posted surprising results this past year. In Iran, the most frequently read articles were Tehran, Iran, the entry titled "Wikipedia," and Nowruz (the Persian new year ), alongside the articles on sex, female circumcision and homosexuality. In Japan the most popular article of the past year was about a porn actress.
The Italians, oddly enough, flocked to the page on the American television series "Grey's Anatomy," while in Germany, people looked up the American television series "How I Met Your Mother," "Game of Thrones" and "The Big Bang Theory."
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What are CCS?-
CCS are rapidly deployable, inflated structures that harden on hydration to form durable concrete buildings. They enable high quality permanent buildings to be constructed with comparable time and effort to temporary soft skinned structures. Installation is extremely simple and requires no heavy lift cranes and no training. The units are modular in design and so the space can be expanded to meet operational needs.
How did the concept for CCS originate?-
The concept originated from the idea of using inflation to create a purely tensile surface to use as the formwork for perfect compressive forms, thus using the properties of concrete most efficiently. The Concrete Canvas was developed over a 3 year period and thousands of iterations, including developing a plant to produce the Canvas continuously.Research was conducted in Uganda, visiting camps in the field and interviewing refugees and 22 UN Agencies and NGOs over a 5 week period. New Orleans was also visited in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as well as a user feedback forum in Geneva with staff from the all the major aid agencies.The development has been iterative, beginning with 1/8th scale prototypes and trial samples and progressing to full scale prototyping and testing.
Is it possible to purchase a CCS?-
Concrete Canvas have established a production facility in South Wales, for the commercial manufacture of both Concrete Canvas Shelters and Concrete Canvas. Please contact your local sales representative (see Contact Page of our website) if you would like to place an order.
How much does CCS cost?-
Please contact your local sales representative (see Contact Page of our website) if you would like information on pricing.
What do you need to deploy a CCS?-
The building comes supplied with everything required for construction, including a full set of deployment instructions and H&S information (Annex D). Construction is extremely simple and requires only access to power for the blower unit (can be provided as 110 or 240V) and a water supply (approx 1000lt for the CCS25 and 2000lt for the CCS50). The water does not need to be potable, and bore-hole water, river water or seawater can be used. No major ground excavation or foundation work is required.
What level of Force Protection does CCS provide?-
CCS are constructed using our CC13 (13mm thick) material. Although CCS will provide much better protection from fragmentation than a conventional soft skinned structure, the current version of our CC material is not designed to provide ballistic protection. However, the structures are designed to be earth bermed using an earth fill force protection system such as DefenCell or Hesco Bastion. Please refer to the manufacturers websites for details on protection levels provided by these systems. The Swedish military recently conducted blast testing on an unprotected (not earth-bermed) CCS. The results showed that CCS can withstand a bare charge of 5kg at a distance not closer than 3m.
Have you done any analytical testing on CCS?-
In addition to the static loading trials, Concrete Canvas has commissioned Finite Element Analysis of the shelter to determine the maximum loading criteria including: overhead loading, wind loading, uneven snow loading and point loading. The work was led by Dr Antony Darby, Senior Lecturer of Structural Engineering at the University of Bath. The full reports can be viewed upon request. A summary of the analysed conditions is below:
* Overhead Loading (based on fill density of 20kN/m3) = 800mm
* Uneven Snow Loading = 1.5kN/mm2, (equivalent to 1.5m of fresh snow).
* Wind Loading (during first 8 hours of curing) = 15m/s, (33mph).
* Wind Loading (after 24 hours) = 60m/s, (130mph).
* Point Loading (on apex of structure) = 2000N
What are the weights of each shelter variation?-
The weights of the shelters are continually dropping as we develop both Concrete Canvas and Concrete Canvas Shelters. A basic guideline for the CCS25 and CCS50 are 1900kg and 3100kg respectively, significantly less than any other comparable semi-permanent and permanent structures.
How do the shelters perform thermally?-
Concrete Canvas Shelters have excellent thermal properties and have been designed to allow earth or snow berming. This provides both improved thermal insulation and a large thermal mass which helps maintain a constant internal temperature by dampening temperature fluctuations between night and day. This is especially important in desert environments where the temperature can vary from extreme heat in the day to below freezing at night.
What is earth or snow berming?-
Earth or snow berming is the practice of using earth or snow against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss and to maintain a steady indoor air temperature. Concrete Canvas Shelters, when earth bermed, will also provide protection against small arms fire and shrapnel.
What size of shelters are available?-
There are two shelter variants available with 25sqm and 50sqm of floor space (known respectively as CCS25 and CCS50). We do not supply shelters in any other sizes apart from these.
Is it possible to repair CCS?-
Yes. Concrete Canvas can be used to patch Concrete Canvas Shelters as it bonds extremely well to itself. Alternatively a standard cement mortar may be used.
Can I put windows in CCS?-
It is possible to cut small openings in CCS provided that you do not cut through one of the reinforcing ribs which are critical in stiffening the structure, We not recommend earth berming CCS if any openings have been cut in the CC skin at all.
Is it possible to connect shelters together?-
Concrete Canvas Shelters have been designed as part of a modular system: units can be easily linked together enabling the space to be tailored to the application. The prefabricated units can be expanded as required, by docking units end-to-end to allow an uninterrupted flow of internal space. The double doors are reversible allowing the blades to be changed from outward opening to inward opening to facilitate docking.
What is the lifespan of a CCS?-
CCS units have a design life of 10 years. This is based on accelerated age testing of the Concrete Canvas for a range of environmental conditions. CCS units are manufactured from 3 constituent elements, the Concrete Canvas, plastic liner and steel doors. All 3 have been independently tested to the relevant British and International Standards.
How do you demolish a CCS?-
Concrete Canvas Shelters can be demolished using simple hand and/or power tools or by conventional demolition using heavy equipment. Concrete Canvas Shelters are thin walled structures. When demolished, they constitute a very small volume of debris which can be reused as hardcore in rebuilding operations.


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High dignitaries of the German republic paid tribute to Max Liebermann, the famous German Jewish artist, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, when a Liebermann exhibition was opened at the Art Academy here.
Representatives of the arts, science, leaders and personages in political and social life, were present when Chancellor Marx and Minister of Education Becker, led the octogenarian to the seat of honor in the Art Academy.
In the addresses delivered on the occasion, Prof Liebermann was hailed as "the great master".


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89 Degrees, a customer engagement agency that leverages data and analytically driven strategy for maximum ROI, announced that will be presenting at the Demandware XChange Conference in Las Vegas with two clients: Fila, a leading athletic apparel and footwear brand, and international luxury brand Crabtree & Evelyn.
89 Degrees' presentation, "The Case for Cross-Channel Loyalty Programs", will take place at the Conference on Thursday, April 4.
This session will focus on the benefits of creating integrated, cross-channel loyalty strategies that engage customers at every touchpoint with a seamless brand experience. By engaging with customers across channels, businesses can build the coveted 360° relationship that ensures loyalty.
"Your customers are shopping in every channel these days, but one thing remains constant: they like to be rewarded for their loyalty," said Arthur Sweetser, chief marketing officer at 89 Degrees. "Loyalty programs are adding to the overall brand experience and social media are playing a role in this as well. Our conference co-presenters, 89 Degree clients Fila and Crabtree & Evelyn, are great examples of how to take advantage of today's loyalty opportunity by delivering a cross-channel marketing experience that attracts customers and keeps them coming back."


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I've been test-driving the 2013 Ford Flex this week, which I've been waiting to drive for years. Overall, my impressions are highly favorable (stay tuned for the complete review) with the exception of one major point. My test car came equipped with a second-row bench seat, so the car seats a total of seven. Captain's chairs in the second row are also available, taking the number of seats down to six. While many families may think they want the extra seating capacity that comes with a second-row bench seat, I'm here to save you from making that mistake.
If you have kids in child-safety seats or booster seats, you're most likely to put them in the second row's outboard positions where a parent, grandparent, caregiver or carpool driver has the easiest access to help them climb in and out and get buckled and unbuckled. The problem is in most three-row SUVs like the Flex the only real access to the third row is by sliding, folding and/or flipping one of the outboard seats in the second row. When a car seat is installed in the outboard, there are limited options as to getting to the third row.Option 1: You could remove a child-safety seat from the second row and fold, slide, flip and/or tumble the seat forward. Then let the kids climb into the third row, fold the second-row seat back into place and then reinstall the child-safety seat and hope your kids don't repeat the foul language you've used while completing this maneuver.
Option 2: You could have third-row passengers step on the bench seat with their grimy, germy shoes and then fold their legs up like an Olympic hurdler and catapult over the bench seat into the third row. Warning: This only works with kids small enough to squeeze between the top of the bench seat and the roofliner.
Option 3: If you only have one third-row passenger, you can keep half of the third row folded flat and then have your child climb in and out of the car through the cargo area and hope nobody calls the authorities to report that you're locking your kids in the "trunk."
Option 4: You can get captain's chairs.
Sure, you might think you're losing a precious extra seat by going with the captain's chairs, but that seat is small. My third daughter, who gets sandwiched in the middle position of my test cars' bench seats regularly, says this position in most cases is too narrow to actually fit a person of any width. Apparently riding for an extended period of time with a butt cheek on each outboard seat belt buckle just isn't comfortable.
Instead, why not do away with this useless center seat and turn it in into a passageway for easy access to the third row by getting captain's chairs? Even when a center console is between the two captain's chairs like in the Infiniti QX56, kids can easily step over the console and into the third row when needed.
Another benefit of captain's chairs is you typically have much more flexibility when positioning them, so you can adjust the each seatback to accommodate child-safety seats or booster seats of different sizes. And better yet, there seems to be an innate calmness that happens in a car where siblings each have their own defined space with a passageway between as delineation.
There are a couple of exceptions to the above problem. Infiniti's new JX35 has a bench seat in the second row, but the passenger-side outboard seat slides forward and tilts slightly with a child-safety seat fully installed. This allows children to pass behind the seat and climb into the third row. The upcoming Nissan Pathfinder will have the same feature. And the Toyota Highlander offers a second-row bench seat that splits into thirds, and the center seat can be removed and stowed away, essentially converting the bench seat into captain's chairs.
Do you and you family have a three-row SUV with either a bench seat or captain's chairs? If so, what are the pros and cons for your family of the option you chose? Tell us in the comment section below.
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Rædwald ('power in counsel'), also rendered as Raedwald or Redwald, was a 7th-century king of East Anglia, a long-lived Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the son of Tytila of East Anglia and a member of the Wuffingas dynasty (named after his grandfather, Wuffa), who were the first kings of the East Angles. Details about Rædwald's reign are scarce, primarily because the Viking invasions of the 9th century destroyed the monasteries in East Anglia where many documents would have been kept. Rædwald reigned from about 599 until his death around 624, initially under the overlordship of Æthelberht of Kent. In 616, as a result of fighting the Battle of the River Idle and defeating Æthelfrith of Northumbria, he was able to install Edwin, who was acquiescent to his authority, as the new king of Northumbria. During the battle, both Æthelfrith and Rædwald's son Rægenhere were killed.
From around 616, Rædwald was the most powerful of the English kings south of the River Humber. According to Bede he was the fourth ruler to hold imperium over other southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: he was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written centuries after his death, as a bretwalda (an Old English term meaning 'Britain-ruler' or 'wide-ruler'). He was the first king of the East Angles to become a Christian, converting at Æthelberht's court some time before 605, whilst at the same time maintaining a pagan temple. In receiving the faith he helped to ensure the survival of Christianity in East Anglia during the apostasy of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Essex and Kent. He is generally considered by historians to be the most favoured candidate for the occupant of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, although other theories have been advanced.


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CAMBRIDGE, MA (May 21, 2014) – MassBio elected five life sciences executives to the organization's Board of Directors at the MassBio Annual Meeting last month.
Joining the board this year are Jim Burns, Head of the Sanofi Boston R&D Hub, Liz Lewis, Chief Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, Paris Panayiotopoulos, President & Managing Director at EMD Serono, Adelene Perkins, Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Rick Russell, Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
"We are thrilled to add the significant breadth and depth of expertise that comes with adding Jim, Liz, Paris, Adelene and Rick to the Board of Directors," said MassBio President & CEO Robert K. Coughlin. "We rely on these industry experts on the Board to represent and advocate for life sciences organizations and their needs. We appreciate the time they devote to building the Massachusetts supercluster through MassBio."
Jim Burns is Head of the Boston R&D Hub at Sanofi. He was Senior Vice President and Head of Drug and Biomaterial R&D at Genzyme prior to joining Sanofi. He earned a B.S. in biology from Purdue University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois-Chicago where his thesis work focused on drug delivery. Following his graduate studies, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Liz Lewis is Chief Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company/Takeda Pharmaceutical International Co. She has been instrumental in creating Millennium's legal and compliance functions that support the global oncology business and has played an integral role in the successful launch, commercialization and market expansion of VELCADE. Liz has more than 20 years of legal expertise advising manufacturers, payors and other ancillary providers in the health care life sciences space. Prior to Millennium, she served as a partner in the national health law practice of Epstein, Becker & Green, a D.C.-based law firm. She was inducted into the Takeda Leadership Institute, serves as the chair for various steering committees, and is an active participant in industry trade organizations, PhRMA and BIO, often being asked to provide legal and compliance leadership. Most recently, the Boston Business Journal named Liz as one of the top 20 "2014 Women to Watch" in the life sciences industry.
Paris Panayiotopoulos is President and Managing Director of EMD Serono, Inc., one of the top U.S. biopharmaceutical companies focused exclusively on specialty care. He came to EMD Serono from the company's Japan subsidiary, Merck Serono, where he served as President and Managing Director. Other positions he held at Merck Serono include Head of Western Europe Operations, Director of Global Marketing, Global Commercial Team Leader and Head of the COO Office. Prior to that, he served in roles across multiple therapeutic areas and global brands at Eli Lilly & Company, based in the United Kingdom.
Adelene Perkins has served as President and CEO of Infinity Pharmaceuticals since 2009 and as the company's board chair since 2012. She has played an integral role in leading the company, guiding its transition from a platform to a product-focused organization, building the team and forming strategic partnerships to advance the company's product pipeline and establish a strong financial foundation. She has more than 25 years of international business experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, focused on building and leading high-caliber, cross-functional teams, corporate strategy, licensing and business development, strategic finance and product life cycle management. Prior to Infinity, Ms. Perkins held leadership positions at TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Genetics Institute and Bain & Company.
Rick Russell is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, providing leadership for North American and U.K. commercial organizations. In his role, he drives a patient centric culture across sales, marketing, commercial operations and managed market group activities. He has more than 20 years of experience leading commercial operations and in developing and implementing sales and marketing activities for major pharmaceutical brands. His pharmaceutical experience spans several therapeutic areas ranging from central nervous system (CNS) disorders, women's health, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. Prior to joining Sunovion, he held the position of U.S. Executive Vice President, Neurodegenerative Diseases and Rheumatology at EMD Serono.
MassBio also elected its 2014-2015 Executive Committee at the MassBio Annual Meeting on April 3rd.
They are:
Chair Glenn Batchelder, Civitas Therapeutics
Vice Chair Abbie Celniker, Eleven Biotherapeutics
Treasurer Michael O'Hara, Deloitte
Clerk David Lucchino, Semprus Biosciences
Past Chair Geoff MacKay, Organogenesis Inc.
Counsel Lawrence Wittenberg, Goodwin Procter
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Aaron Rodgers Of Green Bay Packers Says NFC Pro Bowlers 'Embarrassed Themselves'
I watched some of the Pro Bowl and thought, "Why even pick defensive linemen? They don't even bother to pressure the quarterback". I totally get Rodger's point on this. What do you think?
Criticism of the play in Sunday's Pro Bowl reached a new level when Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers blasted the effort of some NFC teammates Tuesday.
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In the fall of 2014 we invited four Instagrammers on an exclusive tour of our slate quarry in upstate New York, followed by a farm to table dinner. We asked bartender Derek Hawkins of Brooklyn's Sweet Science to develop a cocktail specifically for the event featuring WhistlePig 10 Year Straight Rye Whiskey. — Ed.
— 3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice
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— 2 oz. WhistlePig 10 Year Old Straight Rye Whiskey
— a few dashes of Angostura bitters
— mint leaves for garnish
Add bitters, lemon juice, ginger syrup, and whiskey to a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake until well chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain into rocks glass with a single slow-melting ice cube, or serve "up" in a coupe. Garnish with mint leaves, kick your feet up, and sip at your leisure.
Derek Hawkins is a bartender at Sweet Science in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Sweet Science, 135 Graham Ave., Brooklyn NY • 347.783.0872 • sweetscience.com


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Sir Simon Cowell? X Factor judge tipped to be knighted
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Simon Cowell is reportedly going to be made a British knight in the New Year Honours List.
The award will apparently recognise the music mogul's contribution to the entertainment industry, as well as the UK economy as a whole.
Cowell's work on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent has helped him make a name in showbiz circles, but it's also his fundraising efforts which have led to him being tipped for the honour.
A source told The Daily Mail: 'Simon is very strongly expected to receive an honour when the awards are announced.'
The insider close to the honours' process added the knighthood 'will be recognition of the work he put into the Haiti campaign but also his other charity work'.
Multi-millionaire Cowell received praise when he helped raise more than £1 million for the appeal following the earthquake in Haiti, masterminding the charity single Everybody Hurts featuring popstars Kylie Minogue and Leona Lewis among others.
The 2011 Honours List will be announced on December 31st and the 51-year-old's name is expected to appear on it.
Recently, Cowell's fiancée Mezhgan Hussainy flew out to Barbados to join him on holiday, putting to rest rumours the pair had split.


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And here's an old favorite--one of the best evocations of music I've read is Bruce Brooks' YA novel Midnight Hour Encores (Harper, 1986).
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- GraceAnne LadyHawk said...
What an excellent list!
You know, I hated Midnight Hour Encores, and I do not remember why. Sigh.
I loved Gillian Cross' Chartbreak which evoked the power of music for me in magical ways.
- 6:01 PM, November 01, 2007
- Roger Sutton said...
It might have been the ending, GraceAnne--very controversial. But BB has the peculiar talent of being able to write about music in a way that makes you want to rush out and listen to whatever piece he's writing about.
I've had the pleasure of music-shopping with Bruce several times. We have very different tastes--"you like divas in big dresses" he said to me once. Too true. And when I was at his house a couple of months ago, he played me something I mistook for street noise until he pointed out that it was coming from the speakers!
- 9:03 AM, November 02, 2007
- jules said...
This is way off-topic, so promptly ignore me, but when you typed "one of the best evocations of music I've read," it brought to my mind some of my favorite movie scenes with characters trying in vain to convey their love of music: The scene in "Philadelphia" where Tom Hanks' character is trying to describe his love of arias to Denzel Washington's character while an aria's playing and the camera's swirling and it's all very red -- well, it makes me collapse. And that scene in "Children of a Lesser God" in which James Leeds is trying to show in the air with his hands his love of that Bach piece to Sarah, who is deaf. Oh my. Perfection.
I'm done now. Ignore me.
- 3:04 PM, November 02, 2007
Oh, sheesh! I HATED that scene in Philadelphia (to my taste, oh so cloying, and did the movie have to force one more point about the intelligence and sensitivity of gay men down our throats?) and I never saw the movie of Children of a Lesser God (they changed the ending of the play, which to me ruined the whole point). I do remember vividly the moment in the play when Sarah tells John Rubinstein that she can hear the music, and he realizes she feels the vibrations in the floor.
Anyway, my favorite book that features music is The Beethoven Medal by K. M. Peyton. But that probably tells you more about me than about the book--give me a protagonist who's hot enough and I'll follow him anywhere. I knew a librarian in Lexington, MA who used to call Patrick Pennington, the tortured hero of The Beethoven Medal, "the sexiest fictitious figure since Rhett Butler."
- 10:39 PM, November 03, 2007
- Laura said...
Huh. . . the ending of Midnight Hour Encores never struck me as controversial--but then that may be because I approached it simply as a reader, long before the thought of being a librarian ever crossed my mind.
My friend and I (both fatherless) used to discuss the relative merits of Cabot "Taxi" Spooner and Atticus Finch as fathers. It's a pity I never thought to write about one of them for one of the cloying father's day assignments we used to get in school.
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President Carter, in a ceremony marking International Holocaust Day, urged Americans today to "remember the terrible price" paid for "bigotry and hatred" as well as for "indifference and silence," and called upon the Senate to ratify the United Nations Genocide Convention.
The President's remarks were made at the Rotunda beneath the great dome of the nation's Capitol, where Americans for generations have eulogized their honored dead. At noon today, the President and the American people remembered with intense solemnity the six million Jews and five million non-Jews who were slaughtered in the Holocaust.
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The invocation was given by Rev. A. Roy Eckhardt, a professor of religious studies at Lehigh University. Rabbi Bernard Raskas of Minneapolis recited the kaddish and many in the audience visibly wept as Cantor Isaac Good friend of Atlanta chanted the EI Mole Rachamim. The 48-member Boys Choir of Atlanta, wearing yarmulkes, sang "Ani Maamin" and partisan songs in Hebrew and Yiddish.
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A seventh candle was lit by Alex Monoogion of Detroit, honorary president of the Armenian General Development Union of America. Rev. Vartan Hartunian, minister of the First Armenian Church of Belmont, Mass. pointed out in a prayer that the 1.5 million Armenians who perished in World War I were the victims of what he termed the first genocide. The Armenians were slaughtered by the Turks.
Carter, who was escorted to the Rotunda by leaders of both parties in Congress, noted that "a philosopher has written that language itself breaks down when one tries to speak about the Holocaust. Our words pale before the frightening spectacle of human evil unleashed upon the world, and before the awesomeness of suffering involved, the sheer weight of its numbers — 11 million innocent victims exterminated — six million of them Jews."
But, the President added, "we must strive to understand. We must teach the lessons of the Holocaust. And most of all, we ourselves must remember."
Carter stressed that "we must remember the terrible price that was paid for bigotry and hatred and also the terrible price paid for indifference and silence. We must learn anew the age-old lesson that all human life is sacred, and that evil inflicted against one people may engulf all people in the end."
Saying that "our generation — the generation of the survivors — will never permit that lesson to be forgotten, "Carter declared:" America must and always will speak out in the defense of human rights around the world."
The President pointed out, "without concrete action our words are hollow" and called again on the Senate to "take a long overdue step this year by ratifying the international treaty on the prevention and punishment of genocide."
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Carter recalled his visit to Yad Vashem on his visit to Israel five weeks ago and said, " I vowed then — as people all over the world are doing this week — to reaffirm our unshakeable commitment that such on event will never recur on this earth again."
Wiesel visibly moved the audience by his recollections of his childhood which was spent in the death camps. "After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same," he declared. Speaking in the name of "all people" who perished Wiesel stressed that "only the Jewish people's extermination was an end in itself. They were not condemned for what they said or did, but for what they were."
Wiesel, the author of many novels about the Holocaust, noted that "a single rescue mission would have let them know they were not forgotten. The truth is they were forgotten, the world knew and kept silent." Turning to present day events, Wiesel noted that "little did we think that little Jewish children will be murdered by killers in Israel." He warned that "neutrality always helps the aggressors, not the victims"
Wiesel praised Carter for "summoning our nation, and indeed all nations, to keep the memory alive" of the Holocaust. He said that "no other country or its government, except for Israel" has done so. Rabbilrving Greenberg, executive chairman of the Holocoust Commission, introduced the participants.
The Rotunda has been used only on 25 other occasions since 1852 when Henry Clay was memorialized to honor heroic dead. Today was the first time that non-Americans were so honored.
The ceremony at the Rotunda today was part of a week-long series of programs throughout the United States which began last Sunday and will conclude next Sunday at the National Cathedral. In a community-wide ceremony at Washington's Adas Israel Congregation last Sunday, Rabbi Israel Miller, a vice president of Yeshiva University and former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told a gathering of 1200 people that "remembrance implies action."
He stressed the importance of the Genocide Convention and universal human rights. Miller said he is "not bothered" when Israeli Premier Menachem Begin "gives his lecture to Carter or (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat on Jewish history." He said to remember is "our commandment. The world must be taught again what if did not do before" (to prevent the Holocaust).


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We've all heard about "that guy." The one who spent an insane amount of money on sticker price and mark-up just to be the first person on his block with the newest model of a car.
Over the weekend, a very generous man shelled out 300 grand for not only the first 2015 Mustang GT in his neighborhood, but the first production 2015 Mustang GT, period. That's right – VIN 0001.
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FORMER Port Adelaide captain Warren Tredrea has admitted he was offered banned substances during his playing career by an individual outside the club.
Tredrea said he only found the supplements were banned when he had them tested.
His revelation comes as the Essendon Football Club will undergo a joint probe by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and AFL into whether players have taken supplements containing banned substances under their training regime in 2012.
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The 23-year-old Indian student who was gang raped and brutally assaulted on a moving bus in Delhi, the Indian capital city, died on 29 December 2012 in a hospital in Singapore after days of intensive medical treatment. The day before her death, a national paper, the Indian Express published an interview conducted with her brother. The interview raises serious questions about the country's political leadership, structures of policing, law and order, and problematic media reporting across the country.
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As I sit here mourning this young girl, whose name I do not know, I hope that her brutal death sheds light on the countless other women and men who face systematic and often unreported sexual violence in our country. I hope it makes everyone of us introspect on our own contributions to rape culture, misogyny, and patriarchy. I hope it problematizes our notions of rigid masculinities, femininities, and heteronormativity. And I hope it highlights and strengthens the resistance, the protests, the subversions, and the struggles, everyday and otherwise, of those who have challenged the aforementioned participations and of those who continue to do so.
Akanksha Mehta is an MPhil/PhD candidate at the Center for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She can be reached at www.twitter.com/SahibanInExile
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