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Tara Skurtu – poems
1. Indian River at Dusk (audio by author)
2. Bar Poem (audio by author & Nic Sebastian)
3. Discovery: Negative Return (audio by author)
4. Survivor Vade Mecum (audio by author)
5. Richter Scale, Bucharest
1. Foreclosure (with audio by Dave Bonta)
…. – Video remix by Dave Bonta
2. The Amoeba Game (with audio by the author)
…. – Visual poem response by April Faison
3. Visiting Amber at Lowell Correctional (with audio by the author)
…. – Video remix by Othniel Smith
4. Some Days Begin Like This (with audio by the author and Sinéad McClure)
…. – Video remix by Lori Ersolmaz
5. Morning Love Poem (with audio by Nic Sebastian)
Indian River at Dusk
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
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The first and only time I caught a sheephead
big enough to eat, black and white and breathing
in my hands. On my way to get ice I got
distracted, tossed Dad's keys in the water.
I was a good Catholic: I walked him to the spot
and pointed. I made up a lie, but I named
everyone I loved to God before falling
asleep in my yellow room every night—
God was a word person. After two
Hail Marys and an Our Father I'd be
good again. Like my words, I knew where
the keys landed. I've tried to write
about this before. For over a year I made myself
guiltless, couldn't preserve the thing I caught
or get the syntax right. I didn't know about
currents. I can't keep anyone safe.
– First published in Plume
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Bar Poem
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
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(Read by Nic Sebastian)
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I'm here on the patio, no appetite,
drinking a salty margarita. I feel
my liver, ignore it like last night's
glass of water. I'm tired of writing
you down when I should be writing
poems about place. Dusk hits beyond
the man playing the red accordion
on the corner, and the strays of Iași
bark out a score backed by dissonant
frequencies of the evening bells.
This morning I took a walk and found
a noseless man pumping gypsy love songs
on his accordion. I stared into the holes
of his face and thought about the girl
with the green ribbon around her neck.
Had you read the story backwards,
we might not have lost our heads.
It's late. What time is it?
I ask a poet who isn't you.
There's time enough, he says.
– First published in The Common
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Discovery: Negative Return
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
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Seven tubes of blood in a neat line. A needle longer
than a finger slides into the muscle between ribs.
A spaghetti strand of organ suspended in clear solution.
Some days my doctor says you have to napalm
the napalm, but this morning he says undetectable,
and it's Thursday the 29th of September, 1988 again—
on the news, Discovery is inching closer and closer
to the moment of truth. I'm outside with my class, squinting
at a trail of cloud as Discovery's pinprick spark disappears.
For every disbelief, an equal and opposite belief. Outside
the blood draw clinic, I believe I see a passenger plane—
upside down, dragging backwards, it banks to a still speck.
– First published in Memorious
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Survivor Vade Mecum
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
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Go swimming in salt water.
Think, I am a living, breathing organism.
Remember your neighbor Marlene,
her neon lips, twenty-something
feral cats, her Buick, its red and white
bumper sticker: Shit happens.
Under the topsoil in her backyard,
a constellation of cats.
You've added some to this lot.
The mangled mass on Georgia Avenue,
blood spreading like a puddle of piss—
someone else's hit-and-run.
You asked your dad to please give
the body a proper burial,
and he pulled over, scraped it
from the asphalt into a cardboard box.
You are a living, breathing organism
with all of your fingers and both feet,
swimming in the ocean, feeding the fish.
– First published in DMQ Review
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Richter Scale, Bucharest
Our first week, you showed me around
your empty capital in a dream. We skipped
Parliament and headed down Calea Victoriei,
lit beeswax candles for the living,
drank jasmine tea at Serendipity, then
a big one hit. I would've asked
what happened next, but I was in it, I knew,
I could feel it: you'd have saved yourself
if it weren't for each day you forget how.
You're like that musicologist I've read about—
seventeen-second memory. Every 3.4
blinks, forgets what he's forked into his mouth,
his daughter's name, his own. Every I
he writes, once written, a trick
of someone else's hand. He remembers
composition, and he remembers his wife.
Every time he sees her he's seeing her
for the first time in ten years, and he wants
to waltz. Every time she walks into his room
she steps around a box. I am this wife.
I'm stuck in your village, walking
a chicken on a leash. He pecks the ring of sun-
flower seeds around this house on Lavender Street
—lavender in another language. We're stuck
in November, he and I, waiting for you
to walk into the side yard, past the little black
dog tunneling a lattice of wormholes in the dirt.
– First published in The Common
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(Read by Dave Bonta)
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Thigh-high weed grass in the front yard.
Scarves of Spanish moss, a spray-painted
anarchy sign on the trunk of the thickest oak.
Through a window, crusted dishes in the sink,
stacks of records, a high school watercolor,
blanket on the couch. Everything the way it was.
Through another, the giant happy face
Dad drew on the bedroom wall in Sharpie
to cheer up Amber, still smiling in the dark.
The backyard pool, full of gurgling frogs
and larvae under a land-like sheet of algae.
Mosquitoes humming, thick as dust motes.
– First published in B O D Y
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The Amoeba Game
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
download audioI stood at the stove holding
a wooden spoon in my right hand,
listening to butter sputtering against
the splattered circle of an egg. Perhaps
it was the flapping of the egg's
wavy edges against the steel pan,
or the amorphousness of its innards
outside the carriage of its brown shell—
I remembered an odd game I played
in Brownies. The amoeba game.
In the front yard of the scout cabin,
one girl at a time would become
an amoeba and lead the rest.
We didn't know what amoebas were,
only that they weren't human or animal,
and moved like a thousand blind legs
treading through molasses.
So it was that our heads and arms
became legs and feet, undulating
wayward into dusk. Swaying our shoulders
left to right, we'd giggle through mouths
we weren't supposed to have, pretending
we had no eyes and didn't know where
we came from or where we were going.
– First published in Poet Lore
Visual poem response by April Faison
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Visiting Amber at Lowell Correctional
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
download audioA windowless room. Mom and I
remove shoes, socks, spread our arms wide
between the cinderblock wall and locked door.
The guard takes a swallow of V8
before patting us down. Inside, I ask Amber
if this is a maximum security facility.
She tells me they've got her in here with murderers
like The Gardener—worked at a daycare,
killed a few kids there, buried them
alive. They gave her yard duty until
she began to name the trees she planted:
Josie, Maggie, Stephanie. Slicing deep
into her thighs, she mortared her wounds
with shit and got gangrene. In a wheelchair now.
Don't wanna think about her no more, Amber says.
Seeing her every day is bad enough.
An inmate takes Polaroids, two dollars each,
acrylic wall paintings in the background.
One of an angel, feathers fanned out against a pastel sky.
Stand here, Amber says. I want you to have wings.
She's to my right, our mother to my left. We smile big.
When I dream about my sister she's a child,
in our Florida backyard, wide-eyed and silent.
She fills buckets with garden snakes,
catches strawberry-necked lizards
poised with the want of a mate.
With one hand she holds a wriggling lizard,
with the other she hinges its jaws open
then closed onto the lobe of her ear.
-First published in The Southeast Review
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Some Days Begin Like This
(Read by Tara Skurtu)
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(Read by Sinéad McClure)
download audioThe fear of forgetting I am well
crawls into my mouth like a word
that regrets being spoken;
it presses sour phrases against
my teeth, tongue, and gums.
I want to tell it stop,
that I am well,
that my blood is my blood.
But as I'm ready to swallow,
it wedges another phrase
onto the back of my tongue—
something about the flawlessness
of the antibody's memory,
how it never forgets
the image of the mother
that abandoned it here.
– First published in Salamander
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Morning Love Poem
(Read by Nic Sebastian)
download audioDreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly,
something you were allergic to.
And you were gone, like that.
You don't have even a single allergy,
but still. The dream cracked. Cars nose-dived
off snow banks into side streets. Sometimes
dreams slip poison, make the living
dead then alive again, twirling
in an unfamiliar room.
It's hard to say I need you enough.
Today I did. Walked into your morning
shower fully clothed. All the moments
we stop ourselves just because we might
feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet.
– First published in the minnesota review
About Tara:
Tara Skurtu is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow, and a recipient of a 2013 Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have been translated into Romanian and Hindi, and appear in Poetry Review, The Dalhousie Review, B O D Y, the minnesota review, Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.


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Ross Taylor
Taylor playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009.
|Personal information
|Full name
|Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor
8 March 1984
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
|Pallekele Plunderer, The Kiwi Bradman, Rosco
|1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
|Batting style
|Right-hand bat
|Bowling style
|Right-arm off break
|Top-order Batsman
|International information
|National side
|Test debut (cap 234)
|8 November 2007 v South Africa
|Last Test
|29 November 2015 v Australia
|ODI debut (cap 144)
|1 March 2006 v West Indies
|Last ODI
|17June 2015 v England
|ODI shirt no.
|Domestic team information
|Central Districts
|Royal Challengers Bangalore
|Rajasthan Royals
|2012; 2014
|Delhi Daredevils
|Pune Warriors India
|Career statistics
|Source: ESPNcricinfo, 17 November 2015
Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor (born 8 March 1984), more commonly known as Ross Taylor, is a New Zealand cricketer and former national captain.[1] He previously captained the New Zealand Under-19 side in youth internationals. Taylor has a highest List A score of 132* in the State Shield domestic one-day competition in 2003–04, and a first class best of 290 against Australia in the 2015–16 Trans-Tasman Trophy Test series. He has at times been considered one of the best batsmen of the 21st century with only a lack of consistency preventing him from further cementing his name amongst the current legends of the game. He is arguably one of New Zealand's greatest cricketers in the 21st century. He currently plays for cricket franchise Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.
Personal life[edit]
|This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (December 2013)
Taylor is of part-Samoan descent, his mother being from Samoa and his father from New Zealand. Taylor was a hockey player before shifting his focus to cricket. Taylor and New Zealand women's cricketer Victoria Jayne Brown were married on 25 June 2011. They have a daughter named Mackenzie, who was born on 24 September 2011 and a son named Jonty who was born on 16 February 2014.
International career[edit]
He made his debut for the New Zealand team in international cricket on 1 March 2006, in a one-day match against the West Indies. He became the second male player of Samoan heritage to play for New Zealand after Murphy Su'a.[2] Taylor's full name is Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor; however, some sources have inaccurately recorded his name as Ross Luteru Taylor. This is because Taylor grew up answering to both Luteru and Ross when playing cricket, and did not realise he needed to write down his full name for the official New Zealand Cricket records when he was asked to fill in a questionnaire at a first-class match early in his career.
Taylor captained New Zealand for the first time in an ODI against Australia in Napier on 3 March 2010, when Daniel Vettori dropped out of the side less than 30 minutes before the start with a neck ache. Taylor top-scored with 70 and New Zealand won by two wickets with four balls to spare. Taylor was also awarded the Man of the Match and donated the $NZ 500 prize to the Lansdowne Cricket Club in Masterton.
Taylor has been a dominant batsman on the domestic scene for the past couple of seasons. He is a clean striker of the ball, and a useful off-break bowler. Taylor scored his maiden one day century in front of a delighted crowd in Napier, playing against Sri Lanka on 28 December 2006. Unluckily for him, New Zealand were comprehensively beaten in that game, his innings aside. He also suffered dehydration and required a short hospital trip during the second innings. Taylor hit 84 against Australia in their opening game in the 2007 Commonwealth Bank series. He has also established one of the most potent no.3-no.4 top order partnership with Kane Williamson since the latter made his debut.[3] However, they were also involved in 12 run outs across all forms of international cricket as of 26 January 2015 when they are both on the crease.[4]
Taylor has also played English cricket for Norwich and Coltishall Wanderers in Norfolk. He was their key player and he was consistent in scoring runs.
Domestic career[edit]
Taylor was picked up by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2008 Indian Premier League auction. An innings of note was a destructive 81* off 33 balls[5] against the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2009.
In the 2011 auction, Taylor was sold to the Rajasthan Royals. Mainly used as a finisher for the Royals, he was underused yet effective.
He departed the Rajasthan Royals to join the Delhi Daredevils for the season of 2012.
He was traded from Delhi Daredevils where he played a season to Pune Warriors India for Ashish Nehra in 2013.[6]
His domestic team in New Zealand is the Central Stags, in 2009/10 he played for the Victorian Bushrangers in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash as one of two overseas players (the other being Dwayne Bravo from the West Indies). In the 2009-10 HRV Cup Final against the Auckland Aces, Taylor scored a match-winning 80 off 30 balls, and in a partnership with Kieran Noema-Barnett they scored 133 runs from 53 balls bowled. Taylor also hit Michael Bates for 27 in one over, including three consecutive sixes. In total Taylor hit eight sixes and five fours for the Stags. In 2010 he played for Durham in the Friends Provident T20 tournament, his most substantial contribution being a brutal 80 not out from only 33 balls including 3 fours and 9 sixes.
Taylor's first ODI century came against Sri Lanka on 28 December 2006, scoring 128* off 133 balls. The innings included 12 fours and 6 sixes. Taylor scored his second century in his ODI career on 18 February 2007 against Australia. He scored 117, the 2nd highest score by a New Zealander against Australia.
He made his highest ODI score of 131* which came off 124 balls against Pakistan on 8 March 2011 at the ICC Cricket World Cup. His innings included seven (7) 6's and eight (8) 4's and contributed to New Zealand making 127 runs in the final 9 overs of the game for their highest total ever against Pakistan (302) in ODI cricket. It is from this match that Taylor earned his nickname 'The Pallekele Plunderer' after he blasted a staggering 55 runs from the last 13 deliveries he faced.[7] With this century, Taylor became only the fourth batsman in history of the game that scored an ODI century in a birthday, after Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, and Sanath Jayasuriya.[8]
He scored his maiden Test century, a patient and restrained 120, in March 2008 at Hamilton in the first Test of the 2007–08 series against England and went on to be the leading run scorer for the series.
Aside from national duties for the New Zealand team, Taylor also plays for Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and for his domestic team, the Central Districts Stags. Taylor scored a match winning innings of 81 from just 33 balls for Bangalore against Kolkata to seal an improbable victory for his team in 2009.
Known for his explosive style, combining flair and aggression with proper, elegant strokes, Taylor has been a match-winner in many of the RCB's wins. He has one of the highest strike-rates as an RCB batsman and known to be a 'finisher'. After RCB's win over Delhi Daredevils at Airtel Champions League Twenty20 2009, captain Anil Kumble said that Taylor was a "murderer" of spinners, referring to his explosive innings of 65. In 38 balls, Taylor had scored six 4s and four 6s, and was declared Man of the Match.[9]
Ross Taylor scored what was then a Test match career-best of 154* against England at Old Trafford in May 2008, a brilliant innings including 5 sixes and 17 fours.
His third Test century, an aggressive and chancy innings of 151 runs off 204 balls, came against India at Napier in March 2009. His fourth Test century, in the next Test, was a serene 107 which delayed India's victory long enough to force a draw.
In a match against Australia at Hamilton in March 2010, Taylor made the fastest Test century ever by a New Zealander, bringing up his hundred off only 81 balls [10]
Taylor scored centuries in all three tests in the 2013/14 series against the West Indies. In the first Test, Taylor made his first Test match double-century and highest test score of 217* in a composed and classy innings.[11]
Taylor's 12th ODI century against Pakistan at Napier coincides with the 100th century for the Black Caps. Kane Williamson also scored his century before, making his the 99th century for the team.[12]
The best innings of his life came during the second test of Trans-Tasman Trophy in 2015-16 season in Australia. He scored his first double hundred and became the highest score by a New Zealand batsman in away Tests and in Australian soil as well. With this feat, he also became the first Kiwi batsman to score a Test double-hundred against Australia and the 2nd fastest among his countrymen to reach 5,000 Test career runs (in 120 innings).[13] During the inning, his partnership with Kane Williamson of 265-run for the third wicket, which was New Zealand's highest of all time against Australia for any wicket.[14] Taylor dismissed for magnificent 290 runs with 43 fours, just short ten runs for triple hundred club.
International centuries[edit]
Ross Taylor has scored 28 centuries in both Test and ODI matches, without in T20 internationals. He has scored 13 Test hundreds and 15 ODI centuries. Taylor is second only to Nathan Astle for most number of ODI centuries by a Blackcap.
International Awards[edit]
Test Cricket[edit]
Man of the match awards[edit]
|S No
|Series Performance
|New Zealand in Sri Lanka
|1st innings: 142 (306 balls: 11×4); DNB, 1 catch
2nd innings: 74 (95 balls: 2×4); DNB
|New Zealand won by 167 runs.[15]
|West Indies in New Zealand
|1st innings: 217* (319 balls: 23×4); DNB, 2 catches
2nd innings: DNB, 2 catches; 16* (61 balls: 2×4)
|West Indies in New Zealand
|1st innings: DNB; 131 (264 balls: 16×4, 2x6)
2nd innings: DNB, 1 catch; 2* (8 balls)
|New Zealand won by 8 wickets.[17]
|New Zealand vs Pakistan in UAE
|1st innings: 23 (71 balls: 3×4); DNB, 2 catches
2nd innings: 104 (133 balls: 12×4); DNB, 1 catch
|Trans-Tasman Trophy
|1st innings: 290 (374 balls: 43×4); DNB
2nd innings: 36* (35 balls: 5×4); DNB; 1 catch
One-Day International Cricket[edit]
Man of the Match Awards[edit]
|S No
|Match Performance
|Eden Park, Auckland
|18 February 2007
|DNB, 1 catch; 117 (127 balls: 16×4, 1x6)
|New Zealand won by 5 wickets.[20]
|Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
|20 March 2007
|85 (107 balls: 8×4, 1x6); DNB
|New Zealand won by 148 runs.[21]
|Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
|14 October 2008
|103 (119 balls: 5×4, 4x6); DNB
|New Zealand won by 79 runs.[22]
|University Oval, Dunedin
|8 February 2010
|DNB; 78 (52 balls: 6×4, 5x6)
|New Zealand won by 5 wickets.[23]
|McLean Park, Napier
|3 March 2010
|DNB; 70 (71 balls: 6×4, 1x6)
|New Zealand won by 2 wickets.[24]
|Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla
|10 August 2010
|95 (113 balls: 8×4, 1x6); DNB, 4 catches
|New Zealand won by 200 runs.[25]
|Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
|8 March 2011
|131* (124 balls: 8×4, 7x6); DNB, 1 catch
|New Zealand won by 110 runs.[26]
|Seddon Park, Hamilton
|28 January 2014
|DNB; 112* (127 balls: 15×4)
|New Zealand won by 7 wickets.[27]
|Westpac Stadium, Wellington
|31 January 2014
|102 (106 balls: 10×4, 1x6); DNB, 1 catch
|New Zealand won by 87 runs.[28]
|Kennington Oval, London
|12 June 2015
|119* (96 balls: 10×4, 4x6); DNB, 1 catch
|New Zealand won by 13 runs (D/L).[29]
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- ^ "Delhi Daredevils trade Ross Taylor for Pune's Ashish Nehra". firstpost.com. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
- ^ Sheringham, Sam. "Cricket World Cup: Ross Taylor blitz sets up NZ victory". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
- ^ http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup/greatest-100-moments/114/birthday-boy-taylor-punishes-pakistan-in-2011
- ^ RCB vs. DD match scorecard. "RCB vs. DD CLT20 Scorecard". Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^ NZ v AUS Match Report. "The Age". Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ NZ v WI Scorecard "ESPN Cricinfo ". Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ New Zealand vs. Pakistan - Highlights (2nd ODI - Napier 2015)
- ^ Shiva Jayaraman (16 November 2015). "Taylor breaks 111-year-old record". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-new-zealand-2015-16/content/story/940983.html
- ^ "New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012/13 – Sri Lanka v New Zealand Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 2013/14 – New Zealand v West Indies Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 2013/14 – New Zealand v West Indies Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "Pakistan v New Zealand Test Series, 2014/15 – New Zealand v Pakistan Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 21 November 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "Trans-Tasman Trophy [New Zealand in Australia], 2015/16 - 2nd Test Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ "Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2006/07 – New Zealand v Australia Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 18 February 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "ICC World Cup, 2006/07 – Kenya v New Zealand Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 – Bangladesh v New Zealand Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "Bangladesh in New Zealand ODI Series, 2009/10 – New Zealand v Bangladesh Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2009/10 – New Zealand v Australia Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Triangular Series, 2010 – India v New Zealand Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 – New Zealand v Pakistan Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2013/14 – New Zealand v India Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "India tour of New Zealand, 5th ODI: New Zealand v India at Wellington, Jan 31, 2014 Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "New Zealand in England ODI Series, 2015 – New Zealand v England Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
External links[edit]
- Player profile: Ross Taylor from ESPNcricinfo
- Player profile: Ross Taylor from CricketArchive
- Ross Taylor at New Zealand Cricket Players Association
- Ross Taylor on Twitter
- RCB Player Profile: from Royal Challengers Bangalore
- 1984 births
- Living people
- New Zealand cricketers
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- New Zealand Test cricket captains
- New Zealand One Day International cricketers
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- Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup
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- Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup
- New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers
- New Zealand Twenty20 International captains
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I'm getting all in a twist trying to get this to work. New to scala and to actors so may inadvertently be making bad design decisions - please tell me if so.
The setup is this:
I have a controlling actor which contains a number of worker actors. Each worker represents a calculation that for a given input will spit out 1..n outputs. The controller has to set off each worker, collect the returned outputs, then carry on and do a bunch more stuff once this is complete. This is how I approached it using
receive in the controller actor:
class WorkerActor extends Actor {
def act() {
loop {
react {
case DoJob =>
for (1 to n) sender ! Result
sender ! Done
The worker actor is simple enough - it spits out results until it's done, when it sends back a
Done message.
class ControllerActor(val workers: List[WorkerActor]) extends Actor {
def act() {
workers.foreach(w => w ! DoJob)
//do a bunch of other stuff
def receiveResults(count: Int) {
if (count == 0) return
receive {
case Result =>
// do something with this result (that updates own mutable state)
case Done
receiveResults(count - 1)
The controller actor kicks off each of the workers, then recursively calls receive until it has received a
Done message for each of the workers.
This works, but I need to create lots of the controller actors, so
receive is too heavyweight - I need to replace it with
However, when I use
react, the behind-the-scenes exception kicks in once the final
Done message is processed, and the controller actor's
act method is short-circuited, so none of the "
//do a bunch of other stuff" that comes after happens.
I can make something happen after the final
Done message by using
andThen { } - but I actually need to do several sets of calculations in this manner so would end up with a ridiculously nested structure of
andThen { andThen { andThen } }s.
I also want to hide away this complexity in a method, which would then be moved into a separate trait, such that a controller actor with a number of lists of worker actors can just be something like this:
class ControllerActor extends Actor with CalculatingTrait {
//CalculatingTrait has performCalculations method
val listOne: List[WorkerActor]
val ListTwo: List[WorkerActor]
def act {
So is there any way to stop the short-circuiting of the
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I won't be surprised to hear that question from my daughter by the time she gets out of college, or should I say the State Mandatory Voluntarism Training Facility.
When liberals hear conservatives decry the death of capitalism, they titter and roll their eyes. "Oh, you paranoid right-wingers! You see Bolsheviks around every corner."
But such exasperation is the exhalation of concentrated ignorance. The absence of free markets isn't necessarily Bolshevism, or even socialism. Capitalism's death can come in many forms, by many different hands.
After all, not all of Julius Caesar's murderers thought alike. They were united in their belief Caesar had to go, not necessarily on what would replace him. Caesar fought off his attackers until he saw that among their number was Brutus, his friend. "Et tu, Brute?" he exclaimed; "You, too, Brutus?" It was not the enemy blows but his friend's betrayal that sapped his will to fight and brought his downfall.
Some historians claim Caesar actually said, "Tu quoque, fili mi?" or, "You too, my child?"
Whether that's more accurate, it certainly seems a more fitting declaration as the coup de grace of capitalism's murder is at the hands of its most successful child: big business.
Everywhere we look we see the great and once-great beneficiaries of free markets running to the state for protection from the cruel bullying of competition. On health care, insurance companies and others repeat the mantra that they want to be "at the table rather than on the menu," all the better to be positioned as a tax collector of the welfare state. General Motors and Chrysler have gone from being pimped-out prostitutes of the state to outright chattel more akin to the leather-bound gimp in "Pulp Fiction," eager to do the bidding of the president and the UAW.
Once-proud companies like GE have become seduced by global warming schemes, because they recognize that there's more money to be made selling white elephants to Uncle Sam than there is selling competitive products consumers want. Indeed, cap-and-trade taxes promise to deliver precisely the protectionist industrial policies the left has dreamed of for decades, only under a "progressive" label.
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If I could get paid for doing what I love, there is only one thing that I would want to do. I would be a marine life photographer. People often forget how beautiful life in the ocean is, because many people live too far from the ocean and have no way to view its beauty. I not only want to major in photography, but I would love to learn it somewhere closer to the water (Arizona is not cutting it) and be able to practice what I love doing, where I love doing it. This would change the world because if people had a better understanding of how beautiful and precious the ocean is, they would make better decisions about keeping the ocean clean.
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Miramont is situated in the Haut Couserans an area of 18 valleys converging on St Girons. Bordering the Spanish frontier, it is one the most mountainous, and southerly parts of the department of Ariege (department 09) which itself is part of the geographically and culturally diverse region of Midi-Pyrenees, stretching from Ariege in the South to the department of Lot in the North.
Miramont (mir- to look, amont- to the mountains) means "look up", and you do- from our garden your eye is irresistably drawn to the proud ruins of Charlemagnes Chateau de Mirabat (itself meaning look below, mir + abat/a bas) as you would, from its heights to the valleys far below down which came the invading Spanish and Moors….
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Here you will find Miramont, a tiny hamlet nestling on the slopes overlooking the beautiful Garbet Valley, underneath the proud ruins of Charlemagne's Chateau du Mirabat, with its commanding views towards the valleys of the Spanish frontier. And here a warm welcome at "le Pichet" awaits you – built, partly into the hillside, this beautifully renovated stone home, once a barn, comfortably accommodates up to 7 people with a reduced price option outside school holiday periods for up to 4 people. A winner in 2011 of "May the Best House Win", both house and garden benefit from wonderful views over the mountains, and being west-facing, fabulous sunsets.
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Sizer School, a North Central Charter Essential School is a public school where students are known personally, challenged intellectually, and expected to participate actively. Guided by its commitment to diversity and inclusiveness, the school seeks to send graduates into the world who think for themselves, care about others, and act creatively and responsibly.
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Sizer School, a North Central Charter Essential School athletics program provides an inclusive environment where all students are encouraged to see themselves as athletes. Our athletic teams create opportunities for students to belong and to feel secure in taking positive risks. The program's primary goal is for student athletes to model integrity as it relates to sportsmanship, fair play, and the values of teamwork. Sizer School athletics program empowers each individual by providing them with opportunities to use their voice, lead in competition, and to find joy in participation.
Each season, Sizer School offers sports options to our students. ALL of our students are invited to participate in sports regardless of their experience or skill. We believe sports create opportunities for students to belong and to feel secure in taking positive risks. As well, movement for our students helps not only their body, but their minds. So join in!
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The Mars rover Curiosity zapped its first rock on Sunday with a high-powered laser gun designed to analyze Martian mineral content, and scientists declared their target practice a success.
The robotic science lab aimed its laser beam at the fist-sized stone nearby and shot the rock with 30 pulses over a 10-second period, NASA said in a statement issued from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles.
Each pulse delivers more than 1 million watts of energy for about five one-billionths of a second, vaporizing a pinhead-sized bit of the rock to create a tiny spark, which is analyzed by a small telescope mounted on the instrument.
The ionized glow, which can be observed and recorded from up to 25 feet (7 meters) away, is then split into its component wavelengths by three spectrometers that give scientists information about the chemical makeup of the target rock.
The combined system, called the Chemistry-and-Camera instrument, or ChemCam, is capable of discerning more than 6,000 different wavelengths in the ultraviolet, infrared and visible light spectrum and is designed to take about 14,000 measurements throughout Curiosity's Mars mission.
The purpose of Sunday's initial use of the laser, conducted at roughly 3 a.m. Pacific time (1100 GMT), was as "target practice" for the instrument. But scientists will examine the data they receive to determine composition of the rock, which they dubbed "Coronation," NASA said.
"We got a great spectrum of Coronation - lots of signal," said ChemCam principal investigator Roger Wiens of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where the instrument was developed. "After eight years of building the instrument, it's payoff time."
Curiosity, a one-ton, six-wheeled vehicle the size of a compact car, landed inside a vast, ancient impact crater near Mars' equator on Aug. 6 after an eight-month, 354-million-mile voyage through space. Its two-year mission is aimed at determining whether or not the planet most like Earth could have hosted microbial life.
The rover's primary target is Mount Sharp, a towering mound of layered rock rising from the floor of Gale Crater. But mission controllers are gradually checking out Curiosity's sophisticated array of instruments before sending it on its first road trip across the Martian landscape.
The $2.5 billion Curiosity project marks NASA's first astrobiology mission since the Viking probes to Mars during the 1970s and the most advanced robotic science lab sent to another world.
The technique employed by ChemCam has been used to examine the composition of materials in other extreme environments, such as inside nuclear reactors and on the sea floor.
The technology also has experimental applications in environmental monitoring and cancer detection. But Sunday's exercise, conducted during Curiosity's 13th full day on Mars, was the first use in interplanetary exploration, NASA said.
Before Curiosity embarks on its 4.3-mile (7-km) trek to the foot of Mount Sharp, a journey that could take six months, mission controllers plan to send it out on a shorter jaunt to a spot 1,600 feet (500 meters) from its landing site.
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Nine Hong Kong tourists were among 19 victims killed in Luxor, Egypt, when a hot-air balloon burst into flames as it was descending during a sightseeing tour on February 26, 2013. Only the Egyptian pilot and a Briton survived the early morning accident. The other victims, out of 20 passengers, were from France, Japan, Britain, Hungary and Egypt.


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It's puzzling why only Americans made the cut in Joshua Kendall's study of obsessive traits in seven high achievers -- but who cares? The control freaks and workaholics profiled in "America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built Nation" (Grand Central Publishing), one of three books reviewed in the Summer 2013 issue of Bloomberg Pursuits, are so fascinatingly weird that carping seems almost criminal.
Baseball great Ted Williams legally changed his birthday to a postseason date so that celebrating wouldn't interfere with his concentration at the plate. Henry J. Heinz, he of the 57 varieties, unspooled a tape measure wherever he went; the ear of the statue of Ramses II, Heinz could have told you after his tour of Egypt, measures 3.5 feet (107 centimeters) in length. Thomas Jefferson, Charles Lindbergh, Alfred Kinsey -- the biographical details change but not the point: If obsessiveness isn't a prerequisite for genius, it sure doesn't hurt.
Prior to the invasion of Italy in World War II, the Allies decreed that certain cities not be bombed in order to protect their art and architecture. According to "Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis" (W.W. Norton), Milan didn't make the list. On Aug. 16, 1943, an Allied bomb struck the refectory of the city's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, although, remarkably, the building's north wall -- containing Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper -- escaped unscathed.
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Among the heroes of historian Robert M. Edsel's superb account are a fiercely determined band of American and British scholar-soldiers, nicknamed the Monuments Men. Among the first ashore, these foot soldiers for art tracked down and safeguarded dozens of masterpieces by Botticelli, Rubens, Titian and others. It's thanks to them that we didn't destroy civilization on the way to saving it.
In "Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier" (Grand Central Publishing), Emily Brady parts the "redwood curtain" to reveal the illicit industry flourishing amid the old-growth forests of Northern California. (The Golden State produces an estimated 80 percent of the nation's pot.)
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Posted on Monday, January 13th, 2014 at 9:36pm CST by dfa12b2d
Product: Citizens Energy Group
Company: Citizens Gas Company Indianapolis
Location: 2020 North Meridian
Category: Home, Garden
I have been a Citizens Gas Utility Customer for 24 years and I moved in August 13, 2013. I no longer needed their gas services any longer and I contacted Cheryl at Citizens Energy Group about my deposit. She said that she would go into the archives because it had been since 1990 when I paid my deposit. I informed her that I recently gave my receipt to them and let them make a copy. I waited some months and I still have not received my deposit. I filed a complaint with the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and the Attorney Generals Office and I still have not received my deposit with interest. Citizens Energy Group has given me excuse after excuse why I have not received my deposit. They said that it has been too many years to find the information and that they cannot see if my deposit has been returned which is not my problem. You have to pay a deposit to get any utilities turned on. They said they do not know if I have paid a deposit. You cannot receive services without a deposit so they are playing games and refusing to send me my deposit. I will have to file a claim against their company in order to receive my deposit back. If you do not pay your utility bill they are very quick to disconnect your services but when you request your deposit returned you have to beg them. They should have returned my deposit within a reasonable amount of time without me having to go through h*** to get it back.


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Otley Methodist Church to have Tour de France big screen
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Tour de France fans will be able to watch the race's entire first day from Otley Methodist Church.
It will have a big screen TV on Saturday July 5 as part of its celebrations to mark the Tour passing through town.
Breakfasts, morning coffee and lunches will be served to cater for some of the thousands of visitors.
The church is also running a Tour de France-theme T-shirt contest with pupils.
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Comment Re:Why isn't Scott Walker on that list? (Score 2, Interesting) 686
agreed 100%. he's the one candidate that could get me to vote for Hillary. I'll most likely be voting 3rd party, but if Bernie or Rand got the nomination, either of them would get my vote. If both of them got it, awesome -- Rand would be my man.


text: In the figure, a cord runs around two massless, frictionless pulleys; a canister with mass m = 20 kg hangs from one pulley; and you exert a force F on the free end of the cord. If the magnitude of F to move the canister at a constant speed is 98 N, and the distance to lift the canister 3.5 cm upward from the loose end of the string is 7 cm. Then what is during that lift, what is the work done on the canister by your force (via the cord), and what is the work done on the canister by the weight mg of the canister? (Hint: When a cord loops around a pulley as shown, it pulls on the pulley with a net force that is twice the tension in the cord.)


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A Samsung smartphone that comes with the model SM-115 appeared on GFXBench's website, a benchmarking website measuring various aspects of smartphones, in terms of hardware and software. A quick search of SM-115 reveals that it is actually the Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoom, a variant of their high-end smartphone that features full zoom lens.
Looking at the details, the Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoom will feature a Samsung Exynos Hexa processor running at 1.3 GHz, 1.8 GB of RAM, a 4.8-inch touchscreen with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution. It also ups the camera at 19 megapixels and will seemingly feature the same 10x optical zoom lens as well.
While the original Galaxy S4 Zoom offered decent specs, its design gained some criticisms from its design. Big and bulky as others have said. We hope Samsung can make a design that will define the Zoom as a true camera phone.


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The Times They Are A-changin' by Bob Dylan1964
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Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
3642 reviews
66% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.9
Price: $$
Package Quality: 3.9
Price: $$
Not tested on animals
Burt's Bees is a Cruelty-Free Subsidiary.
INGREDIENTSbeeswax, coconut oil, sunflower seed oil, peppermint oil, lanolin, tocopherol, rosemary leaf extract, soybean oil, canola oil.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Love this! It's not super moisturising, so if your lips tend to get really dry you might want to look for something else. I use it when I feel like I want to protect my lips, and my lips aren't extremely dry. I love the feeling of this lip balm, and when I apply it there is a slight cooling sensation that I also like. I will definitely repurchase!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I've owned this product multiple times and I think it's an okay lip balm. First of all it has a really pleasant minty smell, so when you put it on your lips there is a really nice tingling sensation! I personally like the sensation but if you're not a fan then maybe this product isn't for you. I also think this product is nothing special when it comes to moisturizing my lips. It also has a really waxy feel which is something that I don't enjoy. To break it down it's a waxy mint lip balm that isn't too moisturizing but stays on the lips for a decent amount of time- decently priced so it's worth a shot!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
This is my favorite lip balm. I have several different ones sitting in a tin on my nightstand and I reach for this one the most.
It moisturizes my lips very well but I don't care for the mint smell.
I usually use this more at night after gently scrubbing my lips. I apply a pretty thick layer before bed and wake up with hydrated lips
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I CANNOT live without this lip balm ever!! I have like 7 of these in almost every purse/backpack/cosmetic cases just so I have it with me all the time.
BTW i only like the one with vitamin E and Peppermint, it's stiffer than other ones and it glide on just like wax, it sits there like a protective film to hydrate your lips. I love the tingly minty feeling, it makes me feel like the product is working!
i love to put it on at night before i sleep. and when i wake up, my lips become more plumped, lines reduce by a lot, and look a bit redder/lighter too.
i got this for my bf and he loves it too :]
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
There are a lot better lip balms out there. Sometimes I think Burt's Bees has cult status because of the name, and that bees and honey sound so good for you and yummy. It is a very average lip balm, I like Weleda much better, or even Nivea which is made in Germany. It takes a lot of the pigment out of the lipstick if you layer it under lipstick, which is a waste.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
This is my favourite lip balm! It's super easy and convenient to use, the smell is AMAZING (I have the mango one), and it makes my lips so smooth and soft. So so so happy with this product and I will be repurchasing :)
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
In my country this stuff is super expensive. I stockpiled on a whole load of the burts bees range when I visited the US. It feels lovely when initially applied because the peppermint gives a lovely cooling sensation. However it is also very drying and unless I keep applying more, my lips feel dehydrated. The lipbalm feels like it's just sitting on top of my lips and not penetrating the surface. Wouldn't buy again
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Love this product. Always reliable. Also love the colored versions!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I have been using this product for years! I love it and it moisturizes your lips like crazy! I also recommend using the mango butter version from Burt's Bees! It goes on very smooth and is moisturizing! They Dont have a pigment but they smell amazing!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Other, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
Love this lip balm as it hydrated my lips very well throughout the day. The only setback of this product is the smell. I think it smells awful.
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Tiled Topography from e+i studio
Friday, May 3, 2013
Emily Hooper.
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e+i studio of New York won a design competition for their concept of a trade show pavilion made entirely from Italian tile.
Crafting a memorable and intimate environment within voluminous convention halls can be a daunting challenge. To establish a meaningful presence in such environs, Ceramics of Italy tapped into the A&D community with a competition in 2012 for unique booth designs to showcase the products of its manufacturers. Piazza Ceramica, designed by e+i Studio and fabricated by A&M Production, won the competition. Its proposal was installed at the Coverings Tile and Stone trade show in 2012 and 2013. Inspired by Italy's social culture, architects Ian Gordon and Eva Perez de Vega used the idea of a public space to showcase tiles produced in Italy for a bespoke, modular pavilion that houses a multi-function program of a café, information kiosk, and restaurant.
The design utilizes a topographical approach to build up the pavilion's perimeter with seating and display installed product. "From the beginning, we started to look at the topography in a series of parametric studies to determine the optimal stair/riser ratio to integrate the substructure of the two mounds," said Perez de Vega. "From there, we wanted color to be an important component to showcase the qualities of the tile to transition smoothly from intense greens to reds to whites." Read More
A Game of Cat's Cradle with yo_cy
Friday, April 19, 2013
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Kenneth Tracy and Christine Yogiaman of yo_cy applied research from working with concrete to dispel the singular material tendency of digital fabrication.
Out of 68 submissions from 17 countries across four continents, the winning proposal of Tex-Fab's APPLIED: Research through Fabrication competition at the University of Texas at Arlington came from Kenneth Tracy and Christine Yogiaman of yo_cy, a collaborative design studio that utilizes digital techniques for maximum design effect. Their winning idea is called Cast Thicket, a study in tensile concrete that takes off in variations like a game of Cat's Cradle.
"The initial idea was to apply our research toward the competition," said Tracy. The designers used their experience with an Indonesian material called bilik—a soft, woven bamboo mat typically used as a vertical divider—that helped form a fabric, cast concrete wall for a residential project in Southeast Asia. "We wanted to make something from a construction material that is normally very heavy looking [and] invert the stereotype of the carved aesthetics of concrete to create something that is lacy, thin, and delicate." Read More
Learn Parametric Design From the Pros at Facades+PERFORMANCE On April 11+12
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The Editors.
We know you've seen those sleek parametric designs that are all the rage in cutting-edge architecture, but have you ever wanted to make your own? Venturing into the software zoo of Grasshopper and Rhino can be daunting on your own, and understanding algorithms and computational geometry can sound like Greek to the uninitiated. Luckily, parametric expert Ronnie Parsons of Mode Collective has joined the upcoming facades+PERFORMANCE Conference taking place in New York City next week, April 11 and 12, and will help guide beginners into the exciting world of Parametric Design.
With a focus on fundamental concepts and workflows for creating performance-based design models with the parametric design tool Grasshopper for Rhino3D. Parsons' Technical Workshop, Introduction to Parametric Design, will guide participants through a series of exercises designed to emphasize the relevant applications of parametric design for professional practice.
Register today for the Introduction to Parametric Design workshop and the facades+PERFORMANCE before space fills up. There are 8 LU AIA CE credits up for grabs, so head on over to the facades+PERFORMANCE homepage for more information.
Pyramid Scheming with Michigan Architecture Students
Friday, March 29, 2013
Emily Hooper.
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Two students in the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning designed a textural, horizontal installation with complete transparency.
When Harold-Sprague Solie and Geoffrey Salvatore developed their decorative 12- by 5-foot ceiling installation Stalactites for a graduate course with Tsz Yan Ng at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, the goal was to produce a design and fabrication process with an accompanying detailed set of documents. "We wanted to take the focus away from just the object at the end and go through a set of drawings to help [the viewer] understand the installation and bring him or her into it," said Salvatore. He expressed the desire for complete transparency, since architecture tends to conceal the labor details, and explained that this process helps expose some of the hidden logic of the project.
So while the drawings began as aids for viewing and understanding the project, they became useful as Solie and Salvatore went through the design process. "[As we worked] we'd have these drawing to fall back on; to rediscover ideas, to catch mistakes and reveal things we'd have missed," Solie said. Read More
Tietz-Baccon Dials Down The Volume in a Textural Chicago Office
Friday, March 15, 2013
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Tietz-Baccon fabricated a 7-foot by 23-foot freestanding wall, and a 10-foot by 160-foot decorative wall for Enova's Chicago offices.
As more and more companies embrace open workspaces that support collaborative and impromptu group work, acoustics are of utmost importance to employee productivity. To craft sound-absorbing feature walls for the Chicago offices of financial firm Enova, Brininstool + Lynch turned to fabrication studio Tietz-Baccon. Their six-person facility in Long Island City, New York, makes bespoke solutions for a variety of design-minded clients who appreciate—and ultimately benefit from—the founders' architectural background: Erik Tietz and Andrew Baccon met as students at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
"On the fabrication end, we take nonstandard projects and make them achievable by relying heavily on our digital capabilities," Baccon said. "Brininstool + Lynch had a concept that was worked out very well and was looking for someone who could execute on a tight budget in a short period of time." According to Baccon, the architects came to the fabricators with a family of shapes and a way of aggregating them, which was then applied to different materials, helping Tietz-Baccon deliver finished projects very close to the firm's original requests. "There was good collaborative discussion, and a back-and-forth to tweak and bring the concept to realization. They didn't have to compromise their idea that much."
Veyko's Four Star Installation for Le Bernardin
Friday, March 8, 2013
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Veyko's custom metal screens are composed of 284 aluminum strips, each containing several varying 45-degree angles.
After 25 successful years, it was time to update the interior of Le Bernardin—a New York restaurant renowned for its constantly evolving menu. Owners Eric Ripert and Maguy Le Coze turned to New York-based architecture firm Bentel & Bentel Architects & Planners to design an interior that matched its trend-setting carte du jour. Part of the sophisticated new palette includes three metal screens that offer privacy and transparency in the main dining area, a new lounge, and the entry foyer. To craft the screens' 284 undulating aluminum strips and frames, the architects turned to Veyko, an ornamental metal fabrication studio outside of Philadelphia.
Jumping off from a two dimensional drawing, Veyko owner Richard Goloveyko said the specific form of the screens developed organically through the design and fabrication process. "We spent a lot of time establishing our ability to bend each bar consistently," he said. "One of the intricacies of the project was keeping the bends consistent to form a pattern; if a bend isn't consistent it can start to read."
TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits Leads April 12 Workshop
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Editors.
Did you miss 3-D printing guru Skylar Tibbits at this year's TED conference? Never fear, there's an opportunity to hear Tibbits in New York City on April 12. And not just hear but participate in a hands-on workshop that Tibbits will lead as part of Facades + PERFORMANCE, a two-day conference on high-performance building enclosures sponsored by The Architect's Newspaper.
Earlier this week at TED, Tibbits gave 3-D printing another dimension, quite literally, when he presented the possibility of "4-D printing," or programming materials to self-reassemble into new structures over time. Tibbits unveiled a 4-D printer concept developed with MIT that he argues could have far-reaching implications for not just manufacturing but also for architecture. Will architects one day be able to design structures that build and mend themselves? Here's the idea, as Tibbits told TED:
"If we combine the processes that natural systems offer intrinsically—genetic instructions, energy production, error correction—with those artificial or synthetic—programmability for design and scaffold, structure, mechanisms—we can potentially have extremely large-scale quasi-biological and quasi-synthetic architectural organisms."
Twaddle and Topocast Make Houston Textural
Friday, February 22, 2013
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Topocast and Randy Twaddle used Rhino to produce a 3D version of a 2D pattern. The 3D model became a 3D print, which was used as a prototype for casting 65 sculptural tiles.
The entrance portal of Mirabeau B, a 14-unit residential complex in Houston's Hyde Park neighborhood, is home to a 7-foot-high, 25-foot-long white wall of deeply textural tiles. Each tile is 20 inches square and features on its surface a three dimensional pattern that resembles nothing so much as the carapace of a Sci-Fi race of crab creatures. In fact, the pattern was derived from a photograph of a power transformer and its tangle of intersecting wires atop an electric light pole. It was worked into its current condition through a collaboration between print and textile artist Randy Twaddle and Dallas-based design and fabrication studio Topocast.
Twaddle had used this image to generate several of his designs for wall coverings and rugs and the like. In this instance, he manipulated the image until arriving at a pattern that could be repeated and assembled modularly in a system of tiles. Twaddle delivered the 2D pattern to Topocast, which began to develop a workable 3D version. "Most of the 3D was done in Rhino," said Topocast founder Brad Bell. "We also used the Rhino plugin T-Splines to create the intricate curvature and geometries."
INABA Creates a Cylindrical Beacon For A Norwegian Concert Hall
Friday, February 8, 2013
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INABA's inverted chandelier comprises a steel frame clad with aluminum tubes and activated by LEDs.
Both simple in its geometry and intriguing in its illumination, a massive new lighting installation in Stavanger, Norway, aims to activate the lobby of a concert hall and create a welcoming civic gesture. Designed by New York-based INABA, the cylindrical structure responds to its setting in a variety of ways. Cutaways in the cylinder reveal views out for visitors inside the concert hall and also reveal slices of the dynamic LED lighting inside the structure to people outside the concert hall on the plaza.
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of INABA, calls the installation Skylight, and refers to it as an "inverted chandelier." The light is reflected within the rings, rather than out. The outside is coated in glossy white to reflect the warmer daylight and ambient light in the building. The design of Skylight is meant to function as a recognizable figure for the building, which was designed by Oslo-based Ratio Arkitekter.
Ellipses Collide in Mathematically-Inspired Installation at the University of Oregon
Friday, January 25, 2013
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SubDivided provides a unifying element in Fenton Hall's three-story atrium, tying each level together visually.
In December 2012, the University of Oregon completed a renovation of Fenton Hall (1904), which has been home to the mathematics department for the past 35 years. In addition to sprucing up the interior and upgrading the mechanical systems, the institution hosted an open competition for the design of an installation to hang in the building's atrium. Out of roughly 200 initial applicants three were shortlisted, and of those the university selected a design by Atlanta-based architect Vokan Alkanoglu. Composed of 550 uniquely shaped aluminum sheets, the 14-foot-high by 10-foot-long by 4 ½-foot-wide sculptural form is derived from the curving geometry created by several opposed ellipses—a nod to the discipline that calls Fenton Hall home.
"We wanted to create something that would be visible on all three floors of the atrium to connect the levels and create flow in the space," said Alkanoglu. "We also wanted to have an interior to the piece, so that you could see inside and outside, to give it a real sense of three dimensionality."
Utile Makes a Splash With Digitally Fabricated Pavilion in Boston
Friday, January 18, 2013
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The Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion roof channels rainwater for irrigation on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Jump on a ferry in Downtown Boston and in twenty minutes, you'll arrive at the Boston Harbor Islands, an archipelago of 34 islands dotting Boston Harbor managed by the National Park Service. To entice city-dwellers to make the trip, Boston-based Utile Architecture + Planning has designed a composite steel and concrete pavilion with a digitally fabricated roof for the National Park Service and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance to provide travel information and history about the Islands and a shady respite atop the highway-capping Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Two thin overlapping concrete canopy slabs supported by delicate steel beams provide a sculptural shelter. Utile digitally designed the $4.2 million Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion using Rhino to respond to the surrounding cityscape and serve as a playful rainwater-harvesting system to irrigate the Greenway's landscape.
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Born: April 15,1993 Mumbai
Parents: Soni Razdan,Mahesh Bhatt
Zodiac: Virgo
Height: 5 feet 5 inches
Biography: Daughter of well-known filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan, Alia Bhatt made her smashing acting debut with Karan Johar's directorial venture Student of the Year. The film also marked acting debut of Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra. It turned out to be a hit and Alia was praised for her performance. After her first film itself, many started to compare her with Kareena Kapoor Khan. The young actress then played the lead in Imtiaz Ali's road film highway which co-starred Randeep Hooda. With this film, Alia shed her glam-doll image and proved her versatility as an actor. Though the film wasn't a box office hit, Alia charmed many with her act. Then the pretty lady was seen opposite Arjun Kapoor in 2 States, which got registers jingling at the ticket windows. Once again alia bhatt was praised for her acting skills. The starlet then teamed up with Varun Dhawan for Karan Johar's Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania which was a romantic comedy. Currently, the actress is shooting for Vikas Bahl's directorial venture Shandaar alongside Shahid Kapoor. She has also signed Ayan Mukerj's next opposite Ranbir Kapoor.See full bio
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Pomela Granate by MissPompWatch
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I couldn't sleep so I figured I would doodle a bit and then.. here she came along. Poméla "Pomé" (pronounced Pom-aye) Granate. If you couldn't guess, yes she's a pomegranate. She's about 4'9 or 5'0. A short, plump and juicy lil thing. Maybe around 21-22. Not sure what her occupation is yet. She's very happy-go-lucky, sweet and has this sassy-sarcastic attitude. Sort of tom-boyish but she loves to dress up whenever she can. Her hair is actual made up of the berries you find in pomegranates and -now this is the cool part-she can style her hair by plucking out the berries and placing them anywhere she wants. So if she feels like long hair, she'll adjust it to make it long, and if she wants short hair, she just plucks them out until it's short enough. Most times you'll see her wearing her beanie (which resembles the top of a pomegranate) cuz she says it holds all of her hair together when she can't do anything with it. And yes, she has lil sprouts and leaves that grow from her head. No, they are not sensitive like gordies and such. But it does hurt to pluck them out. Sort of like how you pluck out a strand of hair. Anyway, that's all I got.
Pomé (c)
Pomé (c)
Omg she is so cute!
OGM I love pomegranates! *picks a berry out of her hair and eats it* mmmmmmmm pomegranate
Pome:............... Uh..... excuse you, mister "thinks-I-can-eat-a-berry-without-permission-first". How about introducin' and askin' first before ya go pluckin' one of my berries >:I
she's so cute!
defs one of my faves x3
defs one of my faves x3
((Awww, what a little cute little teen *huggles* I want to take her home and snuggle all day~))
( oh god! dia shes preshious!! let me hold her *takes and runs away* mwahhaha ))
Oh honey she is so amazing! <3
The hair bit is what sold me - fantastic idea~
Very cute character UuU
Very cute character UuU
(( oh my sweet babys!! Q3Q *grabby hands* she's so cute!! QuQ and her hair! oh god i cant handle the cute!! ))
and all that cute is all natural, dear XD
mother of god! *rolls around* let me holds her forever!!~<3 Q3Q
also i love pomegranates there are so manny stories about them XD
awww cutest thing ever!))
ahmahgawd, she's so cute>w<
I love her hair! So cute!)
she's soo cute dia ;w; I love that bit about her hair .))
She's so cute!))
Look at that cute hair. ;w; Oh my <3 )
ehehehe >u< that's my fav about her~
she's cute enough to just scoop up and eat UwU ]
here then, lemme give you a big ol scoop XD
OwO! I thought I'd just...pick her up and nom on her head ewe )
Well, then help yoself UvU
Pome: H-Hey! What the juice!?! >:U
Shush girl, the admins are talking
Pome: H-Hey! What the juice!?! >:U
Shush girl, the admins are talking
(( Oh mah gork, she is adoreablu ;3; ))


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On signing day last year, the Georgia Bulldogs signed two running backs, Keith Marshall and Todd Gurley. Marshall was considered by some to be the top running back in the nation in last year's recruiting class and Gurley was a sought after four-star recruit.
One of the Bulldogs' freshman backs had a standout performance in his first game in Sanford Stadium, but it was not the one receiving all the hype.
Gurley entered the game on Georgia's first drive to spell starter Ken Malcome. On his second carry of the drive, Gurley carried the ball into the end zone for a ten yard touchdown. The freshman displayed a terrific stiff arm move on the touchdown that sent a Buffalo defender reeling to the ground.
On his next touch, Gurley did something that had only been done in Georgia Bulldog history once. He lined up in the end zone as the team's kick returner and took the ball 100 yards into the end zone. He found the hole created by his blockers, ran up the sideline and shook off multiple defenders on his way to the end zone. The only other Bulldog to have a kickoff return touchdown of that length was cornerback Brandon Boykin in 2010. Gurley also became the 43rd player in NCAA history to have a kickoff return touchdown of that length.
"That electrified the fans and it electrified me, too," said coach Mark Richt of the return. "That was fun to watch. I was proud of him and Coach (Tony) Ball and the entire kickoff return team. You need a guy with bravery to hit it up in
there full speed, the ability to break some arm tackles and the speed to take it to the house. He looks like he will be a pretty good return man."
Gurley would not see the endzone again until the fourth quarter, but made his presence felt with a 55 yard touchdown late in the game. He took the hand-off from quarterback Aaron Murray, bounced off his blocker, stiff-armed another defender and displayed his track speed on his way to the end-zone.
Gurley finished the day with 100 yards rushing on eight carries with two touchdowns and a 100 yard kickoff return touchdown, an explosive performance for a true freshman. He was named Co-SEC Freshman of the week on Monday morning and shares the honor with Alabama running back T.J. Yeldon.
His performance may have come as a surprise to some, but when looking at his scrimmage stats from the month of August, a successful day from Gurley is not much of a surprise. The freshman led all Bulldog running backs in yards and touchdowns last month–granted, it's hard to take stock in scrimmage stats, but his numbers stand out.
What is most surprising is the speed he has displayed during his time as a Georgia Bulldog. He is a 6-foot-1, 218 pound running back and was expected to be a power back for the Bulldogs. Marshall is a smaller back with speed and the pair were supposed to set up a 1-2 punch at the position. However, it is possible that the media doubted Gurley's speed when evaluating him as a prospect. He did run track in high school, after all.
On all of his runs Saturday afternoon, Gurley displayed great burst and power. He shook off multiple defenders throughout the game and seemed to turn it up a notch when he reached the next level of the defense, a feat that caught the attention of his coaches.
"He impressed as a runner and has been impressing me," Richt said. "He's got a knack for breaking tackles and has more speed than you would think."
Gurley seemed like a complete back for the Bulldogs on Saturday. For a team that has had an open door at running back in recent memory, his performance was a welcome sight.
Chris Lionetti covers the Georgia Bulldogs for Rant Sports.
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About this listing
Single room at the heart of the center!
You can't be more central in Barcelona than at this location - just next to 'Plaça Catalunya', "Plaça Universidad", Gothic area! In a walking distance to Barceloneta beach, Picasso museun, and more!
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
The Space
Single room at the heart of the center!
You can't be more central in Barcelona than at this location - just next to 'Plaça Catalunya', "Plaça Universidad", directly at the world famous 'Ramblas'. From here many top sights are in walking distance and next to the subway station at 'Plaça de Catalunya' (the city centre) or 'Plaça Universitat' if you need to travel more far.
It's the perfect spot if you want to enjoy Barcelona's night life, without need to taking a taxi home. Just next you'll find restaurants, bars, clubs, grocery (food) and much more just around the corner - that's very comfortable. From here in a minute you enter 'The Rambla', strolling by Sundays hippie markets, buy fresh fruits, having a coffee or leading down to the harbor and beach area walking. Once there you can take a ferry boat to Ibiza, Mallorca, Marocco or elsewhere and continue your travel... Barcelona has season all year round as there is so many things to discover and enjoy!
Our rooms are fully equipped with a comfortable beds with shared bathroom - if you need. And you have 24-hours access to the building with your own key.
**You also can use the kitchen to prepare your own food.
We offer:
Top location in the old town - at 'Plaça Catalunya', Plaça Univesidad, and 'The Ramblas'
Flexible check-in/check-out (please ask in advance)
All rooms with table/chairs as well (dine-in)
Nicely and cozy decorated house (to make you feel comfortable)
Spacious bathroom (shared/housekeeper on site)
Later luggage pick-up/use of bathroom (if your flight/travel leaves later on day of check-out without charges)
Free high-speed Wi-Fi in all rooms (no TVs in the rooms/bring your PC/tablet/Smartphone)
Fully equipped kitchen to use
Travel assistance (car rental, tour bookings, tickets, information - just ask!)
**Pick-up & Drop-off at the Airport!
We also can pick you up at the airport for a small charge! It's easier and faster to get here! Just give us your flight details - From the airport directly to our door in short time!
Price per 1 or 2 persons - 20 Euros
*Fantastic tours from Barcelona!
If you plan to stay few days and would like to know some other place around or near Barcelona, we can bring you to fantastic places for a small charge!
Montserrat - It's one of Barcelona and Spain's most popular tourist attractions with breathtaking scenery, unique rock formations and panoramic views of the Catalan countryside.
Church of Sant Miguel del Fai - The Monastary of Sant Miquel del Fai is an area of great natural beauty in the valley "Vall del Tenes" one hour from Barcelona by car. The monastary is perched on a sheer cliff with a lovely waterfall flowing down.
Sitges - Is the the famous pearl from Catalunya! It's a town about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona, renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival. Located between the Garraf Massif and the sea, it is known for its beaches, nightspots, and historical sites.
Would you like to go and see those beautiful places? Just ask... :-)
Getting Around
We're just few steps to the Metro from Plaza de Catalunya, and plaza Universidad! With many different metro and train lines to everywhere in Barcelona! Also many bus stops around as we're in the middle of the city!
From the Airport, you can take the "Airbus", that brings you directly to the Plaza de Catalunya, and from there it's only about 5 mins walking to our house :-)
*At check-in you'll receive the password to the WIFI and your keys
*It's not allowed to bring guests without communicate before
*We're in a family building... You can enjoy your stay allot! Just be careful to don't incommode the neighbors - And after 22:00 hrs the quite is required!
From Feb 2 - 15, 2016 the minimum stay is 3 nights.


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