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The 2006s were bottled in early April, 2008, just a week before I tasted them. The 2006 Malbec Vina Venturin is purple/black-colored with an expressive nose of toasty oak, lavender, mineral, blueberry, and black cherry. More forward than the other 2006 Malbecs, it also exhibits greater complexity, sweeter fruit, awesome depth, and a 60-second finish. Drink it from 2012 to 2026.
Wine Spectator 92 Points
This is rather flashy, with lots of mocha and fruitcake aromatics up front, backed by lush raspberry ganache, fig sauce and plum jam flavors. The long, rich, velvety finish has plenty of latent grip, with the fruit sailing on. Drink now through 2011. 1,362 cases made.–JM


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No more new models for Zune
Mar 15th
Microsoft will cease introducing new versions of the Zune music and video player because of tepid demand, letting the company shift its focus to other devices, according to a person familiar with the decision.
Microsoft will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones, such as those using the Windows operating system, said the person, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn't been announced.
Zune software lets customers buy songs and movies, as well as pay a monthly fee to stream unlimited music.
Introduced in 2006, Zune never managed to break the Apple iPod's grip. The iPod led the market with 77 percent of unit sales last year, while the Zune failed to crack the top five, according to NPD Group.
By adding the Zune features to the Windows Phone software, Microsoft aims to gain ground in mobile phones, where it's lost market share to Google and Apple.
In an e-mailed statement, Microsoft said, "We have nothing to announce about another Zune device — but most recently have introduced Zune HD to Canada via the Zune Originals store and remain committed to supporting our devices in North America. … Our long-term strategy focuses on the strength of the entire Zune ecosystem across Microsoft platforms."
When CEO Steve Ballmer released the Zune more than four years ago, he predicted that Microsoft could one day overtake Apple.
In 2009, the company split the Zune team into software and hardware groups, letting the software people focus more on other platforms, such as phones, the Xbox video-game console and personal computers.
The company touted the Zune software as a key feature in its redesigned Windows mobile-phone operating system when it went on sale in October.
The Zune's last completely new hardware model, the Zune HD, was released in 2009. A version that featured more storage went on sale a year later.
Microsoft will continue to sell existing versions of the Zune, the person familiar with the matter said.
From seattletimes.nwsource.com
Microsoft Said to Stop Releasing New Zune Models as Demand Ebbs
Mar 14th
A Microsoft Zune media player. Photographer: JB Reed/Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will cease introducing new versions of the Zune music and video-player amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to mobile phones, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The company will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones such as those running Microsoft's Windows operating system, said the person, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn't been announced. Zune software lets customers buy songs and movies, as well as pay a monthly fee to stream unlimited music.
Zune, introduced in 2006, failed to break into the rankings of the top five portable digital music players in the U.S. last year, according to NPD Group Inc. Market leader Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPod, made up 77 percent of units, NPD said. Microsoft is adding features to its Windows Phone software to help it reverse market share losses to Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple.
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled Zune with a prediction that Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft could one day overtake Apple.
"We can beat them, but it's not going to be easy," Ballmer said in a November 2006 interview.
Microsoft will continue to sell existing versions of the Zune, the person familiar with the matter said.
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From www.bloomberg.com
Unproven economic models hurting Canadian consumers
Dec 31st
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has concluded that the consumer benefits promised by the major incumbent telcos and the government have not arrived. As well, the CRTC's failure to use traditional procedural rules, such as cross-examination, has resulted in consumers being shut out of the regulatory process.
The PIAC, an Ottawa-based consumer organization, claims in its 218-page report, "Waiting for the Dream, The Consumer Brief for Telecom Reform 2010", that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has used "questionably low thresholds for competition" in exercising forbearance.
As a result, ordinary consumers are still not getting the benefits promised to them by industry competition. In particular, consumers have received few benefits from the policy decision in December 2006 by then Industry Minister Maxime Bernier that ordered the CRTC to use market forces to the maximum extent possible, and ensure that regulation was minimally intrusive.
PIAC's report principally recommends that "policy makers and the regulator stop trying to make decisions based on untested economic theories and make sure that markets actually work for consumers".
Not only did the report conclude that Canada has had a mediocre performance in broadband and wireless, the deregulation of cable and satellite services from deregulation of basic service has delivered the opposite effect to consumers that one would have expected from competitive markets.
PIAC's report recommends that the government rescind the Policy Direction of December 2006, and establish a licensing regime for all carriers with codes of conduct in place for all licensees. It also recommends reforms to the CRTC operations, including the establishment of more powers and resources recommended by the Government's Policy Review Panel Report of 2006.
The results promised at the time, including lower local telephone rates, have failed to materialize, the report says. The report does not advocate a return to regulation in the telecommunications industry. Rather, it recommends the government allow foreign competition and more liberal rules for small market players.
Three new wireless services have recently launched in Canada, Wind, Mobilicity and Public Mobile, but PIAC claims that none has captured any substantial share of the market. This view counters recent reports that, in fact, the wireless start-ups are hitting the incumbents hard, having picked up one-third of all new cellphone subscribers.
Mobilicity claims to have already gained 50,000 wireless subscribers in the quarter, with Wind Mobile chairman Anthony Lacavera claiming his company would be "well north of 200,000" subscribers by the end of 2010. Overall, analysts estimate that by the end of this quarter Wind will have grown by 75,000 subscribers, Mobilicity by 70,000, Public Mobile by 40,000.
Stakeholder interest has affected pricing and service landscape
In addition to encouraging more competition, the report suggests mandatory licensing for all phone companies with appropriate codes of conduct and meaningful enforcement.
The report says the average monthly cellphone cost in Canada, including voice, text and data, is C$67.50, compared with C$59.99 in the United States and C$32.40 in the United Kingdom. In Europe, there are also ceilings on roaming charges when mobile phone users travel from country to country.
However, one could argue that some progress has been made: Telus's broadband internet service, which starts at C$22 a month, is about half the price of what dial-up service cost 10 years ago. Wireless can start at C$20 a month.
The report concludes that the failure of the regulatory reform of the last two decades to deliver the goods for ordinary residential consumers is not one that has its roots in theory, but in practice. Here, the interests of powerful stakeholders have affected the service landscape.
In the same way that incumbent players used their political and economic influence and regulatory capture to get their way in the monopoly era of regulation, the winners have used the market-based system to their advantage, the report says. As a result, neither regulation nor deregulation will help if the decision making process is skewed by conditions and assumptions that favour some stakeholders over others.
Most importantly, says PIAC, the governance and regulation of the telecommunications industry in Canada must respond to results. For the most part, the restructuring of telecommunications has been guided by untested economic theories, largely provided by experts engaged by the largest stakeholders. The relatively poor performance of telecommunications service for ordinary consumers should have long ago engendered a review of the regulatory framework and market structure that is producing the same. In the last five years, the only acknowledged measure of success has been how fast telecommunications services have been deregulated, with predictable market results.
The solution – new models
According to PIAC, the solution is not a return to old regulation but new models. First of all, there are a variety of consumer issues associated with basic rights for information, quality of service, security of service, disconnections, privacy etc. that should be met by all carriers whether they are incumbent or not. Basic service, obligations to serve, complaints resolution, and burdens of service in uneconomic areas have to be in place for all players. The best way to ensure that this occurs is for mandatory licensing for all carriers, with appropriate codes of conduct and enforcement with meaningful force in the form of administrative monetary penalties. The Telecommunications Act should be amended to reflect these improvements.
The report argues that the CRTC has never examined whether the interests of users remain protected by competition in forborne markets where the evidence seems otherwise (BDUs and Internet). While incumbent providers are continually agitating for change where the results are not favourable to their interests, consumers have had no such opportunity.
As a result, PIAC concludes that the Policy Direction is an impediment to achieving fair, balanced, results-based regulation and should be rescinded. The sections of the TPR Report recommending the primacy of market forces are, at least in practice, problematic for fixing real market consumer problems. As well, there should be no winnowing down of the objectives in the Telecommunications Act, rather a clarification of their importance in relation to the specific powers of the CRTC.
While the report is in favour of efforts at liberalization of foreign ownership telecommunications rules for new entrants or small market players, it also warns that it is no solution to all consumer problems particularly those associated with quality of service. As well, current merger rules should be tightened to prevent any competitive benefits from flowing away from Canadian consumers.
Finally, the report endorses the recommendations of the TPR Report in terms of improving the research and professionalism of the CRTC. It also notes the importance of the adjudicative function of the Commission and recommends the use of traditional procedural rules such as cross-examination where the facts and issues at stake warrant. Public participation in telecommunications policy making requires more structural support by the regulator and the government. In broadcasting, there is a critical need to level the playing field for non-commercial public and consumer interests by resourcing representation at broadcasting hearings in a similar way to the practice in telecommunications.
Okaya, Sujana, Refex: Innovation around new business models in usage
Jul 18th
Joos is the result of a long innings by members of the Okaya Power group which claims to live and breath batteries all day, all year after innovating and riding waves of opportunities presented to them every new business cycle in the Indian economy.
This "family of technocrats ," as the founder O P Gupta points out, was transformed into a family of entrepreneurs once they decided to supply to the ever growing demand for computer monitors in the late eighties . India had witnessed a boom in assembled desktop computers at that time. O P Gupta's deep knowledge in manufacturing when he was with the Birla's as a project manager, helped a great deal.
Every two to three years he and his son Rajesh Gupta look back and identify their strengths and weaknesses. They analyse the market and capitalize on new opportunities . As a result, they have added a number of brands, many of which are not backed up by substantial operations. They work on the Indian businessman's thumb rule – 'give it a try, it may work, as a lot of people may make money from this a few months later.'
For instance, they have Alladin, a 'service highway' which is supposedly able to reach any point in the country in four hours. It is incidental that FINANCIAL TIMES has never heard about this service highway with a low profile. Then there is Okaya Solar which supplies batteries for solar street lighting, solar home lighting, solar rural electrification , solar power generation station, solar PV modules etc.
The latest example in a list of these futuristic forays is 'Joos' , the lithium mobile phone batteries with a brand that people will hopefully ask for by the trademark or tradename. The company plans to leverage its distribution strength for Okaya inverter batteries which is already in place throughout the country. This pride had crept into the announcements at the recent press conference where they announced two out of many things about Joos. One, Joos will be handled by an army of 1,100 distributors all over the country and Alladin – your wish is my command can reach anywhere in the country within four hours. God forbid if the team forgets its screwdriver!
What is so interesting about Joos is that the company Okaya Power Group refuses to get into the OEM picture and wants to remain a seller of replacement batteries .
The opportunity, as Rajesh Gupta keeps talking about is in replacement batteries and clearly does not lie in the area of OEM batteries for mobile phones. One is aware that mobile phone battery OEMs are flooded in Taiwan and China.
"Today , only Nokia makes its own handset batteries in India. The rest of the mobile companies outsource their batteries from OEMs all over the world. So we have a big market to cater to. Besides, we don't consider Nokia or any other company to be our competitor as we don't believe in competition with others. We set our own benchmark to provide the best to the end customers," said Gupta. The cost of the product will be in the range between Rs 295 to Rs 995 depending upon the handsets . The Joos batteries will have features like built-in protection circuit modules, preventing over charging, over current and short circuit .

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Danny & Annie - a Love Story
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Touching? It's a tear jerker!ReplyDelete
If my husband could think of those words to say, he would say them. As it is, I just know he feels them, as do I.
After 30 years, it just keeps getting better, thankfully.
Thanks, as always, Myrna, for sharing this beautiful video. (It stopped at the 3:08 mark for me, even after letting it download for several minutes first, so I watched it on YouTube.)
Elaine, good point on going to YouTube. Just this morning, I thought, "I wonder if I can find some of these on YouTube." It had never occurred to me that they would be cross-posted. So when possible, I'll do that. There might be a couple of days before I catch up on that (not sure what I have in the schedule).ReplyDelete
And yes, I had tears running down my face watching this.


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Fine Gael's social media stormtroopers are everywhere over the last week or so, and in the case of Cavan Monaghan they'd seriously need to calm down- they're running four candidates for a maximum of three seats, so no matter what level of support they think they have, they need to realise it's a risky strategy.
In the absence of constituency polls, ruling K Reilly out is pure folly. Also, who can even guess what FF's support really is?
I think it's SF1, FG2, FF1 and the last seat to be fought for by FG3 and SF2.
I agree that it would be folly to rule out either Katryn Reilly or a third Fine Gal candidate or, dare I say it, the second Fianna Fáil seat. I feel that the last possibility is least likely as I still see no sign of a stomach by Fianna Fáil to seriously contest this election, at least not in my area! For Kathryn Reilly to be confident of success, she will need 8,000 first preferences, but she will still be in with an excellent chance if she has about 7,000 first preferences. Any less than that and a Fine Gael third seat has to become a real possibility, depending on how their transfer strategy works for them (1, 2, 3, 4 is possible from committed party supporters, but is far less likely from non-party voters). A risky strategy, as drumlin utopian says, but I think they can be absolutely certain of Humphreys and O'Reilly, so it's probably a risk worth taking. Still, the second Sinn Féin seat has to be the most likely scenario if Reilly reaches 7,000! Does Sinn Féin in Cavan think that this is a realistic target?
Constituency Betting - Irish Government Betting Odds - Paddy Power
What do we think of the odds Paddy Power are offering, broadly in line or not?
I'm surprised that there are shorter odds for Margaret Conlon than for Sean Conlan but as Taighde says, FF can't be ruled out for a second seat. Also the fact that Kathryn Reilly is ahead of Heather Humphreys should worry FG...
In complete contradiction to what I've just said though, while Brendan Smith was always a huge vote getter, there may be (I emphasise maybe) a chance his vote will fall significantly more than people expect: He has local competition in the shape of McVitty and Forde will take at least a few 1st prefs around Cavan meaning he may be left depending on Conlon's transfers to get elected (Last time, the FF transfers went the other way but were quite tribal). Crazy though it sounds, the 5th seat would be the FF seat after whatever FG or SF people get in.
I think it's that unpredictable- I've got friends canvassing both for SF and FG (separately of course )and they're in the dark too really as to how it'll pan out.
We were canvassed at home here for first time in this election and it was Katherine Reillys campaign. Now Id live in the Ballyjamesduff district, but in a Virginia Parish, but seems they are starting to love out of the towns and villages and pick off other areas now too.
Initially I was cautious as I didnt recognise car or occupants, but they were poliite, if a little casually dressed. Told them my votes were committed and they thanked me and moved on.
No one yet from FG FF Lab Green Indo ......... but early days!
Posters are very few and far between along N3 Virginia Cavan and also sparce enough in Virginia and Ballyjamesduff villages.
I just sense (not being too involved in this election for health reasons) this campaign is being fought in media rather on doorsteps!!


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A Yorkshire minstrel has penned a special song to mark the passing of one of the county's best-loved landmarks.
With Harry Ramsden's restaurant in Guiseley up for sale after closing last month, folk singer Eddie Lawler has written a lament to the demise of the world-famous eatery.
And the 69-year-old, of Saltaire, believes the eponymous hero of his song would be "turning in his grave" if he could see what has happened to his old haunt, where he first began serving fish and chips more than 80 years ago.
Boparan Ventures, which owns the Harry Ramsden's brand, said it was forced to close the White Cross restaurant, with the loss of more than 20 staff, because it was no longer financially viable.
But Mr Lawler described the decision as "very, very sad" and said he felt compelled to write his new song, 'Arry RIP, which he was due to record today and put on his website.
"It's just the fact it's an iconic build and it's part of our tradition and history and Harry was a local hero," he said.
"It's been closed, which is rather strange, because for a company to close its flagship doesn't strike me as being very good business.
"I know the people of Guiseley have deserted it over the last year because they didn't rate it and if you go online and look at the reports about it, there are not many complimentary comments.
"There are plenty of chip shops in Guiseley and they're good and people patronise them.
"It's just very very sad. Poor old Harry will be turning in his grave."
The future of the restaurant is still up in the air, although it has been stripped and some of the memorabilia taken to other Harry Ramsden's chip shops around the country.
To hear 'Arry RIP, go to eddie-lawler.co.uk.


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The Battle of Gettysburg, arguably the most famous battle of the American Civil War, was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Over 50,000 Americans died during the battle. More images are available from the Library of Congress. Editor's Note: This gallery contains graphic images.
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Romance Sonambulo
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Romance Sonambulo Versions of Reality Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
and the forest, cunning cat,
bristles its brittle fibers. (19-20)
We don't know about you, but when we see a forest, we don't think of a cat, and vice versa. This metaphorical, alternative version of the forest's reality suggests a kind of disturbance, the kind that might set a cat's hair on end. Again, the poem uses its strange, dream-like elements to communicate an emotional tone, rather than a firm reality.
Quote #5
But now I am not I,
nor is my house now my house. (33-34)
Come again? How can an "I" not be an "I"? Or a house not a house? This kind of statement seems designed to give us a major headache. What's clear, at the very least, is that the friend speaking here is experiencing his own alternative reality, in which things that you might always trust in (your self, your intimate surroundings) have now changed. Frankly, that doesn't sound like much fun. It might also explain why the friend is unable to help the speaker when he's asked for a favor.
Quote #6
Tin bell vines
were trembling on the roofs.
A thousand crystal tambourines
struck at the dawn light. (57-60)
This is a really striking auditory image, but, well, we're at a loss as to what it really means for the poem. Know what else? So was Lorca. Of these lines, he wrote, "I cannot explain their meaning, and that is how it should be" (source). It seems that the poet was content to let the poem's version of reality supersede his own, so we are, too. For the most part.


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Second New Gamma Ray Song
Better than most of the stuff of to the metal
This is a pretty cool song. It's good to see that They are still good after all these years.
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Amish man denied new trial in hate crimes case
A federal judge denied a new trial today in the case of an Amish man who was convicted of hate crimes.
Samuel Mullet, Sr., 66, of Bergholz, Ohio, was convicted by federal jury in September on seven counts, including four counts of religious motivated beard-and-hair cutting attacks.
Mullet had requested an acquittal or new trial based on three arguments: insufficient evidence at trial; newly discovered evidence and the admission of certain pieces of evidence that he claimed constituted "a miscarriage of justice," specifically an Associated Press article and evidence of defendant's sexual relationship with one of his daughters-in-law, according to court records.
U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster denied the request.
No surprise that this highly biased judge denied a request for a new trial. Polster should be put on trial for judicial abuse.
This 66 year old Amish man is a real threat to society. The barbers and hair stylist better be on the lookout for copy cat hair and beard cutters. Waste the taxpayers money on him instead of the cockroaches that roam the streets. Pitiful.


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Fine Jewelry fashion trends for 2012/2013 gift giving season
No wonder they call it "ice." Fine jewelry trends move at a glacial pace.
And fashion jewelry isn't much faster (those jumbo "Real Housewives" cocktail rings aside).
Then again, do you really want your diamond droolery to be out of style six months from now? Of course not. And yet even in this always-tapping-the-brakes category, there are some must-haves with regard to this fall and winter…you know, the gift-giving season.
Fashion-wise, the direction this upcoming season seems to be colorful, bold and personalized (think monogram necklaces like seen on Taylor Swift and Lauren Conrad)
But that's nationally. We talked to local jewelry designers and retailers to see what will be "in' with baubles, bangles and bright shiny things here in SoFlo:
"Earrings, earrings, earrings everywhere. We saw a ton of them. Long earrings. Big earrings."
Robin Levinson of Levinson Jewelers in Fort Lauderdale
"I see a lot of turquoise and a lot of coral. Bright neon colors"
Jordan Weingartner of Jordann Jewelry and Facebook.com/ilovejewelryauctions in West Palm Beach
"Color is always popular – vibrant colors. Rose gold is very popular."
Patrick Daoud of Daoud's Fine Jewelry in Fort Lauderdale
"Our community is very fashion forward, partly due to the vast diversity of cultures present and the beautiful setting and action-packed offerings of the city. One of the bigger trends of the market has been the Rose Gold phenomenon. We decided to take it one step further and introduce our Rubedo collection this year, made of a Rose Metal that is similar to Rose Gold, which marries the richness of gold with the brilliance of silver and the warmth of copper."
Henry Gonzalez of Tiffany & Co. store in the Village of Merrick Park store in Coral Gables
"I was in Paris developing my brand from January until now [June] and a few times before that. Everything is very glam. They are wearing chunky statement necklaces – very ornate, a lot of attention to detail. And they are mixing prints with more confidence. I love to mix textures, like a pearl with a diamond and then a piece of wood. That's how I will interpret the trend."
Krystal Sasso, a jewelry designer based in Delray Beach
"People want new fresh designs in bold color…like a distinct beaded necklace or jeweled ornate pendants. And women are layering their fine jewelry with their fashion jewelry. They'll have bangles all the way up their arm with Cartier and then David Yurman and then maybe a skull."
Jordan Weingartner
"We've come to notice that South American clients are also particularly responsive towards pieces that seem exclusive and possess a unique quality. They like to be the first to have a certain look and design."
Henry Gonzalez
"Large watches. The bigger the better. Women are buying men's watches for themselves. And vintage watches like a Patek Philippe or a Rolex. As hard as they are to get, [watch collectors] know it, love it, appreciate it."
Patrick Daoud
"Our Chronograph watches are extremely popular, I own quite a few myself. Just last year we presented a series of new timepieces which continue to be discovered by male watch enthusiasts: our iconic Atlas watch, was newly interpreted in designs highlighting its Roman numerals, the men's Atlas square chronograph crafted of 18 karat rose gold continues to perform well, along with the Gemea collection which traces Art Deco like arches and curves."
Henry Gonzalez
"I see a lot of sea life, like starfish pins or rings and seashell necklaces.
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Courtney Thompson
Position: Setter
Height: 5-8
Hometown: Kent, Washington
College: Washington
Birth Date: Nov. 4, 1984
Joined Team: January 2007
Most Notable
- 2012 Olympic Games silver medalist; started quarterfinal match leading Team USA to 3-0 win over Dominican Republic
- Helped U.S. Women capture 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix gold medal
- Subject of movie "Court & Spark: A Volleyball Documentary"
2016 - NORCECA Olympic Qualification Tournament (Gold)
2015: USA Volleyball Cup vs China...FIVB World Grand Prix (Gold)
2014: Montreux Volley Masters (Silver)...USA Volleyball Cup vs Brazil...FIVB World Grand Prix (5th Preliminary Round)...FIVB World Championship (Gold)
2013: USA Volleyball Cup...FIVB World Grand Prix Preliminary Round.
2012: FIVB World Grand Prix (Gold)...Olympic Games (Silver)
2011: Pan American Games (Bronze)
2010: Montreux Volley Masters (Silver)...Pan American Cup (Bronze)
2009: Pan American Cup (Fourth); FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament – NORCECA Pool G (Gold)...FIVB World Grand Prix (Ninth)...NORCECA Continental Championship (Fourth)
2007: Pan American Cup (Fourth Place), Pan American Games (Bronze Medal), World Grand Prix (Eighth Place)
Did You Know
- Helped University of Washington win 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship title
- Three-time American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America First-Team selection and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American as selected by CoSIDA while playing at Washington
- Set then-Pac-10 record for career assists with 6,552, which was third-best in NCAA history
- First female player at University of Washington to have her collegiate jersey retired
- As junior at University of Washington, earned Honda Sports Award as best volleyball player and was a finalist for the award as a senior
- Valedictorian of Kentlake High School (Kent, Wash.) graduating class
- Led Kentlake High School (Kent, Wash.) to three state volleyball championships and also earned all-state in basketball as a senior
The Big Blurb
Courtney Thompson on Confidence: "I have always felt, not to sound cocky or anything, I am here to do something special. I know I can do it. But that doesn't mean I never doubted myself. There were always moments where I was like, 'Are you kidding me, like am I really doing this.' But I always felt like I could." - Generation IX Starring USA Volleyball's Courtney Thompson
Related Links
- Kent Reporter: Thompson Inspires On and Off the Court - Comes Home to Share the Game She Loves (Aug. 6, 2015)
- Seattle Times: Live Chat with Courtney Thompson, co-Founder of Give It Back Foundation (July 29, 2015)
- Everett (Wash.) Herald Net: Thompson Eager to Give Back (July 28, 2015)
- USA Volleyball Video Interview: Get to Know Courtney Thompson and Kristin Hildebrand
- Seattle Times: Courtney Thompson Powered by 2 Big Inspirations (July 22, 2012)
- Seattle Times: Courtney Thompson's Jersey Being Retired at UW - A First for a Female (Nov. 2, 2013)
- "Court & Spark: A Volleyball Documentary" Debuts at 2013 AVCA Convention and NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship in Seattle
- Video Clip: Generation IX Starring Courtney Thompson (documentary from 2006)
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Seven weeks out and the animated movie "Frozen" has made something of a comic book splash page out of the top rankings from first to third.
Over the first weekend of Jan., the just concluding last year carries its box office assessments across the annual border of first weekend of 2014. But 2014's ticket-sales debut along Jan. 3 to Jan. 5 carries somethings old and others new.
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" and "Frozen" commercially jostled the ending Dec. weeks for the top positions. None being comic book blockbusters or Oscar-buzzing noteworthies, their rankings hit a new shuffle on the entering showtimes for the newest "Paranormal Activity" installment.
Second place and $18.3 million spikes the box office rankings by the horror curtain-opener "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" The prime runner-up rank has been the spectacular accumulate demesne for "Frozen". Instead of a thawing drop, Disney's animation feature claimed a bump up for the non-consecutive time at first place. Off the cue of drawing in family movie-goers, the all-new story and script out of Disney Pictures' to-date punctuated 2013's overall listing for most popular commercial films. On the international market the Kristen Bell and Josh Gad voice-starring feature took 9th, and 4th along the domestic gross.
Meanwhile "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" is repositioned from its fixed position slated at top crowner, a feat held from its premiere and ensued weekend counts. The non-Holmesian teaming of Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins) and Benedict Cumberbatch (voicing Smaug) swoops with dramatic results. Two spiraling spots into third at $15.6 million.
Just a notch above the memoir adaptation "The Wolf of Wall Street" grossing at $13.2 mil, it debuted at fifth last weekend.
Drama has not spotlighted amongst the top three slates for weeks, but with the film by legendary Martin Scorsese and starring A-Lister Leonardo DiCaprio leading a slow climb upwards, quite a few dramas come in tow.
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With a Hobbit versus dragon flick leading the fantasy pack and "47 Ronin" a still not breaching above tenth place of eleventh with $5.mil that tails after the big name dystopian scifi-er leader "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" that warrants 9th with this weekend's $7.0 million grosser.
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By now you have probably broken at least half of your new years resolutions and the season of cycling is still months away. Not good. If you are serious about getting fast this year you could go to the grocery store and pick up one of those bike magazines that tell you "10 ways to get lean and fast this year" (or was it the hottness of the model on the cover that made you buy it?). I'm no cat 1 rider but I'll play one now. Want to get fast?
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There are tons of cycling coaches, we even have a listing of most of the Colorado cycling coaches. A coach will help you get organized and make a plan to fit your goals in 2012. And lets be clear, not every plan needs to have a goal of "win a race this year", maybe it's just about getting fast and breaking the 40 minute mark up to Jamestown
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You can do this without a coach if you are disciplined (how are those new years resolutions going for you?) but when making a plan be realistic and keep it reasonable. Many cycling books and websites have basic training plans and strategies for moving into the cycling season.
Oh how this one sounds silly but if you want to be fit by the cycling season that means riding now, not waiting to be a fair weather rider. Maybe you can't get out and ride at lunch when the temps are reasonable and the sun is up, try indoor training. Yes riding indoors sucks, some watch movies, others make music riding lists but for me the best solution is to try to keep it realistic as possible by using cycling videos of rides in Colorado!.
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So it appears that when cox notices an internet connection using a Bittorrent client, they throttle ALL internet for that customer. I just got home from being away for a few months, and the first day I was home I was getting download speeds of about 27Mbps (according to http://speedtest.net). I downloaded a torrent (ironically, it wasn't even an illegal one) three days ago, and ever since, my download speed has been at around 1-2Mbps. My neighbor, who also uses COX, is still getting 27Mbps. I also checked out Google's M-Lab and ran ShaperProbe which said my ISP was using shaping and that it was at a rate of almost 20Mbps. I am hoping that they have just flagged the account or something and it will go back to normal after a few days, but I have a bad feeling that this won't be the case, anything I can do?
Power-cycle your router/firewall and anything else that the packets have to pass through. I thought Verizon was doing this to me, but resetting my Pix firewall always resolved it.
If you don't agree with what your ISP is doing, talk to them and ask them to change. If they refuse, take your business elsewhere. Your dollar is your most powerful weapon in this battle.
Does it say that they'll do this in the terms and conditions?
If so then the only thing you can do is change ISP.
If they don't then you could argue that they're engaging in unfair practices, but IANAL so I don't know how far you'd get with that argument.
I recommend resetting your modem/router. For a long time I thought my provider was throttling me anytime I used bittorrent, then I realized it was that my crappy modem couldn't handle the connection rate.


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Both prepositions are equally valid, and in practice mean exactly the same thing when connecting the verb to buy to an acceptable price.
At is usually called a Preposition of Location, but in OP's context it's being used metaphorically to specify some particular point on a "range" of prices.
For is a bit more "generic", so I don't know if it falls into any particular sub-classification. It's often used with verbs like call, hope, look, wait, watch, wish, where it has some sense of purposely selected. Similarly, in OP's usage it has something of the sense of focussing on some specific value.
The only context I can think of where you might need to think about it is in, for example,...
...where the only reason would be that stylistically you'd want to avoid two instances of the same preposition being used in different ways in the same sentence. In the first case you could change the first one to for and/or the second one to from. Something similar in the second case, except I can't think of any suitable alternatives having the required "purpose" sense (concerning, regarding, per are all close, but don't quite work with Christmas dinner).


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UCLA had a near-perfect run in postseason competition, hitting 95 of 96 routines over four postseason meets en route to first-place finishes at the Pac-10 Championships, NCAA Regionals, NCAA Prelminaries and finally the NCAA Super Six Team Championships in Gainesville, Fla., site of UCLA's first-ever NCAA Gymnastics Championship win. In the team finals, the Bruins hit every routine without any major mistakes and outscored their nearest competitor by nearly half a point, recording 197.725 to runner-up Oklahoma's 197.25. UCLA needed to score 49.1 on floor exercise in the final rotation to win the title and did that with ease, scoring 49.55. Leadoff performer Tauny Frattone got things started with a 9.875, and the final four Bruins scored 9.9 or better to wrap up UCLA's sixth NCAA Women's Gymnastics title and UCLA's 105th overall NCAA crown. The Bruins added two more NCAA titles at the individual event finals when sophomore Vanessa Zamarripa won the vault crown and junior Brittani McCullough captured the floor exercise title.
The Bruins set numerous school and Women's College World Series records en route to their 12th national title and 11th NCAA championship. After steamrolling through Regionals and Super Regionals with a 5-0 record, UCLA won all five games in Oklahoma City. The WCWS run began with a 16-3 demolition of Florida, which marked the most runs scored in any UCLA postseason game. Consecutive 5-2 victories over Hawai'i and Georgia pushed the Bruins to the WCWS Championship Series, where they faced longtime rival Arizona. Game one of the finals was an instant classic, as the game featured six ties and lead changes. Trailing 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Dani Yudin reached second following a miscommunication in the Arizona outfield and Kaila Shull drove in the game-tying run with another double to send it into extra innings. Megan Langenfeld, who was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, then hit a walk-off homer with two outs in the eighth to give the Bruins the win. The Bruins finished off the Wildcats the following night, behind four home runs, to post a 15-9 victory. UCLA hit a WCWS-record 14 home runs, including a record four by both Langenfeld and Andrea Harrison. Harrison, who set the record for most RBI in one WCWS with 11, was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Samantha Camuso. As a team, the Bruins set single-season marks for home runs (108), slugging percentage (.602), on base percentage (.432) and walks (244).
The UCLA women's golf team managed to fight through tough weather conditions all week to bring home its third NCAA Championship. The Bruins entered the tournament coming off a win at the NCAA Central Regional, which earned them their 11th straight NCAA Championship berth, a school record. They carried the momentum from that win through the first round of the NCAA Championship, ending the day with a two-stroke lead over the competition. From there, the Bruins never looked back, as they ended up winning by four strokes over defending champions Purdue. The win was Head Coach Carrie Forsyth's second NCAA title as UCLA head coach and UCLA's 107th NCAA title overall. Sophomore Tiffany Lua was the UCLA's top finisher at the tournament, finishing in a tie for fourth place with a score of -1. Lua also recorded a hole-in-one during the third round of the Championship and capped off the Bruins' win with a par putt on the 72nd hole of the tournament. Freshman Ani Gulugian, sophomore Lee Lopez, junior Stephanie Kono and senior Glory Yang also played stellar down the stretch to help lead the team to championship. Overall, the Bruins finished the 2011 season with six tournament victories in eleven starts.
The Bruins saved their best volleyball of the season for the final three weeks of 2011, as UCLA won the program's fourth NCAA Championship and seventh national title. The Bruins began the tournament at the John Wooden Center with a sweep of Maryland-Eastern Shore and a four-set win over San Diego. From there, UCLA took to the road and Lexington, Ky., and faced the daunting task of playing Penn State, a team which had won 26 straight NCAA Tournament matches. That run quickly ended, as the Bruins stopped the four-time defending champions' reign with a sweep of the Nittany Lions. The following night, UCLA was again an underdog versus top-seeded Texas. The Bruins dropped the first set against the Longhorns, but came back to win the next three to advance to their first National Semifinal since 2006. Junior Rachael Kidder was named the Lexington Regional Most Outstanding Player and was joined on the All-Tournament Team by senior Lauren Van Orden and sophomore Kelly Reeves. Awaiting the Bruins in San Antonio was Florida State in the National Semifinals. UCLA made quick work of the Seminoles with a sweep to move on to its first National Championship contest since 1994 against Illinois. The first two sets were close, with UCLA winning the first 25-23 and the Fighting Illini coming back to win the second by the same score. In the third, UCLA was down two set points, but scored four in a row to steal the set 26-24. In the fourth, it was all Bruins, as they never trailed to win the set 25-16 and claim the championship. Kidder, a first-team AVCA All-American who averaged 5.24 kills per set during the NCAA Tournament, was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player. She was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Van Orden and freshman Zoe Nightingale. Second-year head coach Michael Sealy was also named AVCA National Coach of the Year.
In an amazing display of outstanding pitching, excellent defense and timely hitting, the UCLA baseball team won its first national championship and the 109th NCAA title in school history after completing a two-game sweep of Mississippi State in the College World Series Finals, as well as an undefeated, 10-0 record during the postseason. Producing the lowest earned run average in the aluminum bat era of the College World Series at 0.80, the Bruins allowed just four runs in five victories in Omaha. UCLA was led by the starting pitching of CWS Most Outstanding Player Adam Plutko and All-CWS Team honoree Nick Vander Tuig, who combined for four of the five wins, and the closing of David Berg, who set an NCAA record with 24 saves, including three at the CWS. At the plate, Eric Filia and Pat Valaika were also standouts in Omaha and went on to earn All-CWS Team honors. Filia drove in seven of his eight CWS runs in the Finals, including five in the championship-clinching contest, while Valaika had hits and RBI in each of the final three games of the season. The Bruins completed the season with a 49-17 record and an 11-game winning streak.
The UCLA women's soccer team made history on Dec. 8, 2013, winning its first-ever NCAA national championship. The Bruins defeated Florida State 1-0 in overtime on a 97th minute golden goal by Kodi Lavrusky to capture the title. Lavrusky took a perfect through ball from center back Megan Oyster and scored far post to complete the string of three-straight victories over top-seeded teams in the tournament. Defender Ally Courtnall, who scored the game-tying goal in the semifinals, was named the College Cup's Most Outstanding Defensive Player. Also selected to the All-Tournament team were goalkeeper Katelyn Rowland, who made two saves in the penalty kick shootout in the semifinals; Oyster and Sarah Killion. UCLA, which finished with a 22-1-3 record, gave up just one goal during the entire NCAA tournament and only eight goals all season. The Bruins went unbeaten over their last 21 games. UCLA first-year head coach Amanda Cromwell became just the second female head coach ever to capture the title. The championship was the 110th for UCLA's athletic program.
The fifth-seeded UCLA women's tennis team captured the program's second NCAA Championship on May 20, 2014 in Athens, Ga., downing seventh-seeded North Carolina, 4-3 in an epic battle at Georgia's Dan Magill Tennis Complex. With the match tied at 3-3, the clinching win came at No. 3 singles, where UCLA sophomore Kyle McPhillips posted a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Caroline Price to give the Bruins their third overall national championship following titles in 1981 (AIAW) and 2008 (NCAA). UCLA clinched the doubles point against North Carolina to take a 1-0 lead in the match. The Bruins then followed that up with singles wins from Robin Anderson, Chanelle Van Nguyen and McPhillips. UCLA ended the season with a 27-2 overall record and the nation's No. 1 ranking by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Anderson was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2014 NCAA Tournament. It marked the nation's leading 111th NCAA Championship for the UCLA Athletic Program.
The No. 1 UCLA men's water polo team brought home its ninth NCAA title and 112th in UCLA history with a 9-8 win over six-time defending champion USC on December 7, 2014 at UCSD's Canyonview Aquatic Center. It marked the Bruins' first NCAA Championship since 2004. Junior Danny McClintick led all scorers with four goals and was named the NCAA Tournament MVP. Sophomores Garrett Danner and Gordon Marshall joined McClintick on the NCAA's All-Tournament First Team. Seniors Cristiano Mirarchi and Paul Reynolds were both named to the Second Team. Sophomore Gordon Marshall notched the game-winner from two meters with 0:34 to go in the match. The Bruins got the stop on the next possession and then ran out the clock. UCLA finished the season with 29 wins, tying the team's single-season record (29-5 in 1988).


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During my childhood there are few movies that defined an era like the Mighty Ducks. Every kid at the time got on their skates or blades and tried the triple deke. Sometimes as Banks, sometimes as Conway, and sometimes to spice it up we were the goalie GOLDBERG!!! As a young Jewish kid to see one of my own win the Minnesota youth hockey championship and a title for Team USA, it was just inspiring. Well, we at The Great Rabbino have out done ourselves this time. We caught up with Shaun Weiss/GOLDBERG for an interview. Great guy. Legendary role. Jewish sports icon!
The Great Rabbino: Hey man, thank you for agreeing to do this interview. You are definitely a Jewish Sports legend.
TGR: To start off the interview, be honest what was bigger for your career the Mighty Ducks or the episode of Saved By the Bell the College Years that you were in? And in a follow up question, is Kelly Kapowski as awesome in real life?
Shaun: Never met her. I did 6 episodes of the new class so I got to hang with Screech… zoiks! But her sideburns always bugged me.
TGR: What kind of training did you have to do to get ready for your role as Goldberg?
Shaun: We had 3 months of hockey camp. Skating didn't come easy for me, I spent the first month on my ass. Never wanted to quit, but I did wish the movie was about the Oregon football team.
TGR: What was the best piece of advice you ever received from Coach Bombay and do you think you could kick Charlie Conway's ass right now?
Shaun: I assume you mean Emilio, the real guy. Best advice: "If ur going to hook up with the extras, get their parents to sign a release form". Kick conways ass? What kind of mench are you guy?
TGR: Since this is a Jewish Sports blog, I was wondering what it was like playing the token Jew in the film? Did it follow your throughout High School? Did you actually grow up in a Jewish home?
Shaun: Token Jew? Hmm… felt more like the token fat kid. The schools I attended were predominantly Jewish, so for a couple years there was a bar/bat mitzfah every weekend, sometimes two. It was fun watching them try to top each other. Kept waiting for Streisand to show up and bust out the hava nagila.
TGR: You are definitely a movie star to all of my friends and we love your ESPN commercial, so what else have you been up to recently?
Shaun: I'm a stand up comedian and have been studying the screenwriting craft for a decade.
TGR: Lastly, the question that I think is on all of our minds. Have you ever tried a triple deke and does it actually work?
Shaun: Never tried the triple Deke. Of course it works, didn't you see the movie? :)
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Diamond, Alan; Holland, Owen; Marques, Hugo (2011). The role of the predicted present in artificial and natural cognitive systems. In: International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Arlington, Virginia, USA, 5 November 2011 - 6 November 2011.
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In previous work, we have argued that a sophisticated cognitive system with a complex body must possess configurable models of itself (or at least its body) and the world, along with the necessary infrastructure to use the modelled interactions between these two components to select relatively advantageous actions. These models may be used to generate representations of the future (imagination) and the past (episodic memory). In this paper we will explore some problems surrounding the representation of the present arising from the use of such models in the artificial cognitive system under development within the ECCEROBOT project. There are two aspects to consider: the representation of the state of the robot's body within the self model, and the representation of the state of the external world within the world model. In both natural and robotic systems, the processing of the sensory data carrying state information takes a considerable time, and so any estimates of the present states of both the agent and the world would have to be obtained by using predictive models. However, it appears that there is no need for any such representations to be generated in the course of selecting a course of action using self and world models, since representations are only of the future or the past. This may call into question the utility and timing of the apparent perception of the present in humans.
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Rafa at the height of his powers
PARIS — It was a green day for Rafael Nadal.
Green sleeveless shirt (of course), green shoe soles. Green sweat band. Green stripes down the leg of his pirate pants. Green headband.
There was nothing green about his game, however. He is at the height of his powers and, though he was careful to note after this straight-set win over Novak Djokovic that anything can happen in a tennis final, does anyone really expect his game is going to take a sudden plunge.
Because that's what it will take. He has been consistently brilliant through the first 13 days. He hasn't lost a set. Thomaz Bellucci in the first round and Djokovic are the only players to reach at least five games in a set with Rafa.
Who knows? Maybe Roger Federer has the clay court match of his life Sunday and Nadal wakes up on the wrong side of his bed, though he could avoid that by pushing the bed against a wall. Chances are, though, that this is going to be the most one-sided of the four Nadal-Federer matches at Roland Garros.
Bjorn Borg was in the audience to watch Nadal and doubtless he'll be trotted out on court to present Nadal with his the trophy that signifies his tying of Borg's mark of four straight titles here.
But Nadal never saw him. That's how focused he was.
It's unfortunate that Djokovic was in Nadal's half of the draw, because I think he probably would have beaten Federer. Djokovic's game has grown immeasuably since last year's U.S. Open. The Australian Open title pushed him to a new emotional level and his mental strength showed up in the Nadal loss. Federer certainly has a very good backhand but, by degree, Djokovic's is better and that gives him a big edge in any Federer match.
I know it's faint praise, but Djokovic deserves some credit here. He probably used the wrong tactics at the beginning, trying to stay with Nadal in the long rallies, and he's capable of that. But his instincts are to use three or four strokes to put himself in position to take a whack, and he didn't do enough of that until the third set.
One of Federer's underpubliczed strengths is his ability to change course in a match. Djokovic also can do that, especially on service returns. You let him look at the same ball five or six times in a row and he'll make the right adjustment.
Through most of the first two sets, Nadal was sliding serves into the deep corner on the ad side and, even though Djokovic had cheated over into the extension of the doubles alley, he couldn't get a return on that shot until he'd gaffed five or six returns.
Suddenly, in the third set, Djokovic was returning serve demonically, and it made Nadal very uncomfortable. What Djokovic didn't bring to the third set was sustenance, the ability to stay in points.
As for Rafa, everyone knows his physical skills. What is not appreciated is his ability now to analyze his play in mid-set and may the adjustments. I know this from reading translations of his Spanish interviews. His English is better, but he's not sophisticated enough in the language to make clear what's on his mind. In Spanish, it's wholly different.
"Maybe the way the match turned out today was easier than I expected. I was very dominant on the court. I could throw the ball anywhere. I was domnating both forehand and backhand and I didn't have to think that I could make mistakes. That was key.
"Djokovic. . .you know, he is a great player, but his tennis wasn't as efficient as before. So things became difficult for him."
In a sense, the match against Monfils was a reminder of how significant speed is on the Chatrier court, where the two rivals will play Sunday.
Although Monfils plays nothing like Nadal and is not lefthanded, he is excitingly fast, just as is Nadal, and Federer had a very difficult time hitting past Monfils, who looped a lot of shots to Federer's backhand side, hoping to keep the ball up around his shoulders, where he's less comfortable.
It was a good game plan, but Monfils needed more than that. He needed to know when to tee off, and I thought there were many, many times when he kept a rally alive too often. He'll learn. If Federer had difficulty coping with Monfils' speed, how is he going to deal with Nadal, who puts far less air under the ball in the rallies. Nadal won't miss his opportunity to come out of the grind and take his shot for a winner.
He's now 27-0 at Roland Garros. I've seen his three triumphs here. He's playing better than ever.


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These are the solar panels from a 1:5 scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope fabricated by the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, the contractor responsible for building the flight spacecraft. The model (Catalogue #19830233000) depicts the exterior shell of the spacecraft as well as the exterior assemblies required for its operation. The solar panels are non-functional and appear to be laminated or screened image.
Lockheed Martin gave this object to the Museum in 1983.
Gift of the Lockheed Missile and Space Corporation
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
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- Lockheed Martin Missile and Space Corporation
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Explore the Universe
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- MODELS-Unmanned Spacecraft & Parts
- Materials
- Paint on unknown surface
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3 ft. 6 in. tall x 7 ft. 10 in. wide (106.7 x 238.8cm)