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There's always a hint of Charles Dickens around earnings season. Investors invariably have their own Great Expectations about how the numbers will pan out but, like Oliver Twist, they've also got their hands out asking for more – dividends, that is.
And this time round investors were also bracing for a version of Hard Times from some of Australia's top companies, after a raft of profit downgrades at the beginning of the year,
So far there's been something for everyone. Of the companies that have reported, almost 60 per cent have exceeded expectations, compared to about 40 per cent in previous years.
Telstra delivered the first increase in its interim dividend in almost a decade, but was coy on its plans for any further capital management.
Commonwealth Bank raised its first-half dividend 12 per cent to almost $3 billion but reported a fall in net interest margin. Rio Tinto beat expectations with a full-year profit of $US3.7 billion ($4.1 billion) and raised its dividend by 15 per cent.
Rio delivered a solid report but production levels for 2014 weren't as upbeat as some analysts had hoped.
JP Morgan, however, maintained its overweight recommendation and $83 target price.
Cochlear disappointed with adjusted earnings 29 per cent below consensus. Decent revenue numbers, however, were offset by weaker margins and soft implant placements.
Bradken continued the woes of the mining services sector and its share price slumped when it said it would be cutting its forecast for full-year earnings by 15 per cent.
Overall, however, the season has been a good one thanks to cost controls, the lower $A and the rise in dividends that shows companies are confident about the outlook.
Investors are just one-fifth of the way through the season but there have been a few highlights.
Shares in Domino's rose 15 per cent this week as investors welcomed the move to lift total store numbers by more than 50 per cent to 2000 within five years, and open another 750 outlets by 2025.
Boral outlook upbeat
Elsewhere, Boral trading on a forward price earnings ratio of around 25 times looks expensive, and the results were in line with its recently updated expectations.
But the stock jumped 7 per cent following the result, and its upbeat outlook impressed some investors.
The company is generating strong cash flow and is delivering on its cost-cutting program.
Boral is also a stock that with its leverage could really do well as the economy picks up. It's important to note that chief executive Mike Kane says NSW is doing well. NSW is the largest state economy in Australia and Sydney contributes more than one-fifth of Australia's GDP.
CSL has long been a favourite for investors. But this latest result was mixed. There was an increase in research and development expenses that kept margins tight, and top-line growth was softer.
The company did, however, maintain its outlook for profits and, after falling 5 per cent on the day of its result, the share price regained close to 2 per cent of that on Friday.
Analysts at CIMB say the outlook is achievable but they also point out that increasing competition, normalising plasma sales and a "focus on specialty products, as well as an evolving haemophilia portfolio" mean there's a greater earnings risk and that's not reflected in its price right now.
Elsewhere, CommSec told clients the Telstra profit result was solid and largely in line with expectations but thinks the stock is overvalued.
The broker has a price target of $4.90 and the stock was changing hands at around $5.20 on Friday.
One area identified as a concern is the stiff competition Telstra can expect from other mobile phone providers.
For the past few years Telstra has not had to worry about other players in the mobile market.
Overall the season so far shows that the high-profile parts of the Australian economy such as retail sales, credit growth, housing finance and building approvals are all clearly improving.
That implies good news for investors down the track.
But it's not that bad right now.
A year ago most analysts were forecasting earnings per share growth of around 15 per cent for 2014.
That's now fallen to closer to 7 per cent and so far that looks achievable.
The accompanying graph shows that on average earnings per share gets downgraded each financial year by 6.8 per cent.
But that doesn't mean shares can't rise. Indeed they've risen on average since 1993 about 5.2 per cent a year.
The Australian Financial Review


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Keeping it in the family with Karl Snyder on drums, his brother Cliff on synth and guitar and younger sister Edna on piano and vocals, this relatively new band is already making waves.
They have toured with the likes of Girl Talk and Health as well as Canadian comrades Dragonette, Mother Mother, Thunderheist and Rich Aucoin.
They've also signed on to a major licensing deal with Ford, having their song (simply titled "Song") featured on the latest Ford TV spot.
In recent news, Kidstreet just released their debut EP "X", they performed at this years Canadian Music Week and just had a showcase at NXNE.
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It's not a bad way to spend an afternoon in Canberra – tasting 339 beers from amateur brewers around Australia.
Judges at the Australian Amateur Brewing Championship crammed into the upstairs eatery at BentSpoke Brewing Co in Braddon to sip beers, ciders and meads in 20 categories on Thursday.
Competition organiser Stephen Lawford said the beers would be judged on aroma, appearance, flavour, mouth-feel and overall impression and were a way for home brewers to get feedback from top professionals.
"It's really nice to enter competitions and win, but it's not the reason why you should be entering; it should be a blind assessment of your beer, so you can get objective feedback to make better beer in the future. I can pour a beer and hand it to someone and they can be polite and tell me it's a great beer. That doesn't help me very much," he said.
The championship judges on Thursday included BentSpoke brewer and owner Richard Watkins, US beer celebrity Nate Smith, John Keeling from traditional British brewery Fullers, and other professional and commercial brewers.
The competition has come to Canberra alongside the Australian National Homebrewing Conference 2014.
Mr Lawford said winners would be announced at a special dinner on Friday night.
The two big awards on offer are Best State and Brewer of the Year, which is determined by adding up points from each of the beers judged during the competition.
The individual brewer with the most points is proclaimed Brewer of the Year and the same goes for the state or territory whose beers collect the most points.
"The bragging rights come and what everybody is looking for is the two trophies."
Mr Lawford said the amateur championships were held in one, huge session.
"It's a real buzz. I've run a similar-sized competition over several days, [but] I've never run one competition like this in one session where there's no break," he said.
But, at the end of the day, when all the points were allotted and the pints were sunk, he was looking forward to a beer of his own.
"I'm having one of Richard's beers, the Crankshaft, which is an IPA. I need something big and strong this time of the day," he said.
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The Swarm
Sonic Satori: Has Audeze Created the Ultimate Headphones Audio Experience?
Michael Mercer
Walking into room #3 at Harry Pearson's place in Sea Cliff, New York – the original home of The Absolute Sound magazine – proved a turning point in my life: until that fateful day in 1993, I had never heard the sheer magic that can be created using two audio channels until that day. I had nothing to judge it against, no frame of reference, and nor did I care to. As the music washed over me, I walked around the room, wondering how the hell these giant loudspeakers – $150,000 Genesis 1s – were creating a three-dimensional soundstage in front of me. I could discern where first and second violins were, the horn section, and so on. The experience was like watching a giant movie screen, in 3D. It was so intense, it actually became a visual experience. From that day on, I've been chasing great stereo sound like a drug. And incredibly, some of my most intense listening sessions have occurred with not speakers, but headphones: in particular, my Audeze LCD3s.
High-end audio is a wonderfully strange world, but it's also a small one, and many of us audiophiles know each other. So full disclosure: Alex Rosson, CEO and co-designer for Audeze, is a close friend. None of this, though, can change the fact that Audeze's LCD3 headphones (and the LCD2s before them) have, after twenty years in the hi-fi and music industries, presented me with sonic territory to explore that I never even thought possible. How could I not document these revolutuionary experiences? The truth is, there are millions of headphone users out there, but most of the cans flooding the market don't even approach the magic that Audeze provides. At 45 ohms, these aren't the easiest headphones to drive, but they're not nearly as difficult as the spec might imply. It depends on how loud you need your headphones to be, but even the HRT microStreamer, a tiny headphone amp/DAC combo drives the LCD3s without issue. That's a big bonus, as some low-impedance headphones prove unforgiving when it comes to amplifier power. However, I don't think Audeze's clientele – people who are buying $2000 headphones – are worried about getting a decent headphone amp. If you can afford them, you probably need them.
I almost can't say enough about the Audeze LCD3 headphones, and how transformative my experience has been with these sonic marvels. I've experienced things with my LCD3s that have completely changed my view of the potential of personal audio playback. Before I heard the Audezes, I considered headphones as, say, tools for DJs or the recording studio; other than that, they were merely a way to carry my music with me wherever I needed to go. After living with the LCD3s for nearly a year, however, I've come to trust their accuracy completely. Sound nuts? Well, Audeze's growing number of brand ambassadors – including Grammy-Award-winning artists, producers, and engineers – also trust their accuracy enough to to mix with them. One of those gentlemen, legendary producer/engineer Frank Filipetti, told me that he uses them to mix on the road, and about one third of the time in his studio. (I'll be interviewing Frank soon about his experiences with the LCD3s.) Frank always told me that he hated headphones, but I had a feeling he would understand the significance of these cans from a technical perspective. I was right: the moment he put them over his famous ears, he got it. They're just not like any other headphones that I've tried – and if you're a regular "Sonic Satori" reader, you know I've tried more than most. I put my trusty Sennheiser HD800s high on the list of headphones I've tried. Hell, I own a pair, so that tells you how much I love them. The LCD3s deliver a far more dynamic performance than the HD800s, however, and have a much greater ability to connect me to the music emotionally-and let's not forget about their insane soundstaging. (Yes, I'm using the correct terminology for the effect I'm describing.)
Soundstaging and imaging are not the most important things in sound reproduction: the LCD3s' ability to recreate the real time and space of concert halls on classical recordings, is unparalleled. Many of us have been hearing that for decades on loudspeakers, but imagine a pair of headphones giving you that sensation! It's not easy to comprehend, and certainly wasn't for me before I experienced it. These are the first headphones that have, on numerous occasions, tricked me into thinking I was listening to my rear-channel speakers! On none of these occasions was anything else playing-only my LCD3s and my E.A.R. HP4 headphone amp, plus the CEntrance DACmini ahead of it. If that doesn't tell you what you need to know about their imaging capabilities, I'm not sure what else to say. It's wild: they actually project an image around your head instead of simply firing the music into the middle of your skull. That's what big speaker systems do, and what most headphones just can't pull off. Do the LCD3s load a room like your loudspeakers? Of course not, but it's frightening how close they get at times.
Listening to the Audeze LCD3s is just so unlike the common headphone experience, you really need to hear it to believe it – and perhaps study their innovative engineering, too. I'm sure that the reason for their sublime imaging and transparency can be attributed to the advantages of planar magnetic transducers over traditional dynamic drivers. (By the way, if you want to read a terrific technical review of the LCD3s, check out Chris Marten's review in Playback) I could attempt to summarize the differences in these technologies, but Audeze does a far better job on their website:
Planar transducers are fundamentally different from conventional dynamic drivers. They use a flat, lightweight diaphragm suspended in a magnetic field rather than a cone attached to a voice coil.
I often relate my experience with the Audezes to my time spent listening to Magnepans, which are legendary floorstanding planar magnetic loudspeakers. Maggies exhibit a window-like transparency and have excellent detail retrieval; when set up optimally, they also disappear into the room. Getting a loudspeaker to disappear as such is not easy. When you manage to get your speakers out of their own way, it's partly the result of their transparency and detail; headphones don't disappear, but if they're designed well, you can get just as lost in the music and forget about the technology as you can with an expensive loudspeaker system. I prefer equipment that doesn't remind me that I'm experiencing a facsimile of the real thing: with the LCD3s, I can go to far more places than I can with my full stereo setup. I love the experience of a bad-ass stereo system blasting sound waves at my whole body, but just knowing that I can have something close to that when I'm not at home is a brave new world.
I was up all night a couple of days ago, listening to my LCD3s with my Macbook Pro/Amarra rig as the source and the CEntrance DACmini going into the E.A.R HP4 tube headphone amp. The sound was spectacular, as usual: the velocity of the lower and mid-bass while listening to DROKK – a wildly cinematic, synthesizer-driven collaboration by Geoff Barrows of Portishead and Beak and Ben Salisbury – proved so exciting, I must have listened to the record twenty times. The spaciousness was sublime, too. Considering the fact that much of the DROKK album is electronic says a lot about the LCD3s' capacity to reproduce dimensionality, i.e. the aural space between instruments. With the LCD3s, many of my most cherished electronic recordings, like Aphex Twin's I Care Because You Do and Swayzak's Snowboarding In Argentina, jump out at me: their crazy sounds ripple as if on an audible pond. There is also space to be discovered in them, too: these records are so dynamic that it's a challenge to listen to them, but with the LCD3s, I usually I listen to them three or four times in a row. If anything, that's the mark of an engaging sound system.
Another key to extended listening is comfort: this extends to, in the case of headphones, their fit. Fit matters a great deal when it comes to headphones. If you're using an over-ear model, for example, you want it to make a good seal in order to be dynamically effective. The large leather pads on Audeze headphones prove very forgiving when it comes to fit. My LCD3s have Audeze's "leather-free" super suede headband, which I prefer to the leather original because of its heavier padding. The headphones also feel so much lighter on my head than they did with the leather headband. It's not that they felt heavy before, but I didn't realize the difference until I tried the alternative. With the fit dialed in, I can listen for hours on end. (In addition to the components I've already mentioned, the following pieces of gear ended up in the reference system for this review: the VPI Traveler turntable and the Unison Research Simply Phono tube phono stage. This little system is glorious. I've skipped meals and lost sleep because of its hypnotic effect.)
Some consumer products level cultural boundaries-financial and social status, geography, politics, things that consume us as much as we do them. I fell in love with hi-fi because it stripped away all the bullshit between me and the music. I lived (and still do) for the wide-open spaciousness of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and the spirit of my generation's angst and rebellion in Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." When I first heard a large-scale high-end audio system, I knew I wanted to be involved in this world forever, either on the audio or the music side. I've dreamed of owning an obnoxiously large, jaw-dropping reference system since I was eighteen years old, and after all this time, my home system is not too shabby. With the Audeze LCD3s, however, I can take a killer reference system with me everywhere I go. Thanks to their sturdy travel case, I've listened to music through them all over, including beachside at Hualalai in Kona, Hawai'i! I would sit on the lanai overlooking the ocean after sunset, Burial's first LP, or Nosaj Thing's Home ; for sunrise, I often picked Brian Eno's LUX EP.
Cranking Burnt Friedman's Secret Rhythms in that context provided another revelation: because the LCD3s are open-back, with no noise cancellation, I couId hear the waves smashing against the sand while the wide-open tribal soundscapes of Friedman floated all over the porch. My reference headphone system as at times literally reduced me to tears. That rig, with these headphones, is achieving something I seek in music systems but rarely experience: emotive transference. "Special N," a track on Mogwai's latest Les Revenants LP (the soundtrack to a French television series) got to me over and over again through the LCD3s. The song is a gorgeously subtle instrumental pop ballad that makes me feel so good that, whenever I hear it, I want to cry. I will never forget those listening sessions.
As well, the LCD3s achieve such a natural tonality, sometimes it proves difficult to grasp: through them, the haunting subtlety of Tori Amos' delivery of the lyrics of "Icicle," say, proved jawdroppingly realistic. An audio designer doesn't achieve this level of sonic integrity by accident, or by copying someone else's product. That's why Audeze LCD3s remain the trendsetters in high-performance headphones today. I never saw this coming – not this level of quality in music playback, not the kinds of experiences I've had with the Audeze LCD3s. I know that the world of headphones has produced more potential hi-fi converts than ever before, but people still need to experience something vastly different from their everyday experience, something that shakes them out of their overstimulated, Twitterized comas.
Headphones currently remain embedded in our lives like never before in audio history. We use them to talk on our cell phones, to listen to our music, at home or on the go; kids use them while playing insanely realistic videogames. They're everywhere, so why not create a high-end class of products that people might use every day? To this end, Audeze has raised the bar so high with the LCD3s that they may have created their own product class. That's the ultimate goal for any designer/manufacturer. There are already a few companies selling magnetic planar headphones that look just like Audeze's original LCD2. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
I don't think I can identify the sonic signature of the Audeze LCD3s. I say this because, when I listen to them, I'm not concerned with the headphones at all. I even find myself listening to records I'd forgotten about, pulling them off the shelves to experience them all over again; I'm rediscovering things I missed in albums that I thought I knew backwards and forwards. I listen to Burial's 2007 Untrue LP weekly; when I try a new headphone amplifier or DAC with my LCD3s, I can discern the sonic differences instantly. They connect me to the music so deeply, I always feel like I'm hearing my records for the first time – a result that is partly based in physiological research. Indeed, Audeze's earcups even show the company's attention to detail and knowledge of anatomy. Most companies just give you a circular pad that doesn't aim sound at your ear in a natural way, which your brain immediately perceives; Audeze's cans, however, direct the sound of the transducer into your ear at an angle, like a continuation of the outer ear. Similarly, there's something almost intangible about the speed of the transient attacks of the LCD3s. They produce crystalline, ear-numbing bass; Distortion proves so low, meanwhile, that I felt I was hearing deeper into certain albums and tracks than I ever had before. What I perceived was not just a highly detailed experience, but a soulful one.
Soul is the key here. There are other great headphones out there, there's no doubt about that, but I haven't heard any that approach this level of sonic integrity. Previously, I never considered headphones to be a way to wholly experience music; perhaps the best compliment I can pay Audeze is that I don't think of the LCD3s as headphones at all.


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2010.64: On Coprimality Graphs for Symmetric Groups
2010.64: John J Ballantyne, Nicholas M Greer and Peter J Rowley (2012) On Coprimality Graphs for Symmetric Groups. Graphs and Combinatorics.
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For a group $G$, $X$ a subset of $G$ and $\pi$ a set of positive integers we define a graph $\mathcal{C}_\pi(G,X)$ whose vertex set is $X$ with $x, y \in X$ joined by an edge provided $x \neq y$ and the order of $xy$ is in $\pi$. Here we investigate $\mathcal{C}_\pi(G,X)$ when $G$ is a finite symmetric group and $X$ is a $G$-conjugacy class of elements of order $p$, $p$ a prime.
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What is sarcoma?
The term "sarcoma" encompasses a broad family of rare cancers that can affect soft tissue or bone throughout the body, and sometimes both.1 Sarcoma cases constitute about 15 percent of all cancers in children, but are much rarer in adults and make up only about one percent of adult cancer cases.2
In 2012, it was estimated that about 11,280 Americans would be diagnosed with soft tissue sarcomas and that approximately one third of those people would not survive. In addition, an estimated 2,890 Americans would be diagnosed with bone sarcomas, and approximately half were not expected to survive.1
However, the exact number of people affected is unknown because sarcoma can be misdiagnosed due to being difficult to distinguish from other health problems. Plus, there are often few, if any, symptoms at early stages.1
TCGA will be focusing its studies on seven sarcoma subtypes:
- Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
- Desmoid sarcoma
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
- Myxofibrosarcoma
- Synovial sarcoma
- Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.
- Uterine and non-uterine leiomyosarcoma
View additional information on soft tissue sarcoma.
Sarcoma is part of an effort to characterize rare tumor types. Read more about the Rare Tumor Projects.
What types of discoveries about sarcoma do The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) researchers hope to make?
- Identify molecular markers as well as specific genes, regions and pathways associated with tumor growth and progression in multiple sites, as well as tumor response and resistance to treatment
- Analyze characteristics of tumors based on their location in the body and how they develop
- Compare initial and recurrent sarcomas
- Examine the implications of recurring tumors in one part of the body as opposed to multiple places in the body
Where can I find more information about the TCGA Research Network's studies or studies using TCGA data?
View a list of TCGA scientific publications.
Where can I find clinical trials for sarcoma that are supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)?
View a list of NCI-supported adult soft tissue sarcoma and child soft tissue sarcoma clinical trials that are now accepting patients.
1A snapshot of sarcoma. (Oct 2011) National Cancer Institute. US Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/snapshots/sarcoma
2Sarcoma. (Dec 2011) Cancer.net. American Society of Clinical Oncology. http://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/sarcoma


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If New Zealand lose the America's Cup "they won't go home", skipper of Australia's victorious 1983 team
"How can you face it? It is a big deal for these people," he said.
"That's what we felt with the Australia II effort – to go home when we got from 3-1, to 3-2, to 3-3 – to live with that for the rest of our lives . . ."
Mr Bertrand joined seven crew from the
The gathering came as Emirates Team New Zealand was struggling with the prospect of losing their third America's Cup challenge – an event which would jeopardise future funding, both public and private, and put a serious dint in their national pride.
"I know for a fact New Zealand is sweating on this result; it is a big deal," Mr Bertrand said of the series against Oracle Team USA off San Francisco.
An article published on industry website Sailing Anarchy this week gave a strong indication of how big, before it was quickly taken down.
It reported an Emirates plane had been sitting on the tarmac at San Francisco Airport after being brought in days ago to take a victorious team back to Auckland. It was also rumoured, the article said, that the team spent $300,000 on a victory party, planned for Friday or Saturday night.
Crew didn't talk of winning
"I'd never been in a team before that had so much confidence in each other, that had so much focus towards the goal,"
"There is a story of
By Thursday morning Australian time, the world will know whether New Zealand has won. They went from being described by global media as "poised to win", with an eight-one lead in San Francisco a week ago, to an eight-all draw on Tuesday.
The team includes British, Dutch, Canadian and New Zealand sailors, as well as dual Australian-US citizen
Emirates Team New Zealand has two Australians,
"It's not about the numbers of people involved, or the technology. It's really about the cash. They are $100-million programs. That's too expensive. They need to get that back."
Mr Bertrand said Australia's cashed up entrepreneurs looking for a means to take their reputation and brand global should view funding an America's Cup bid as a vehicle to do that. "It is still the most prestigious sporting event in the world in this space, particularly in Europe," he said.
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A Very Long Engagement
The film is about Manche and Mathilde, whom we follow (wit...more
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jooxi's recommendation
A Very Long Engagment (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) is a film about love, war, and many other things I probably missed. It's a beautiful film with amazing scenery, cinematography, plot (good, even though it's complicated) and acting. The film is about Manche and Mathilde, whom we follow (with digressions) throughout the movie. Manche and Mathilde are engaged, but World War I rips them apart. The film tells their story; one of hope, searching and intrigue, while giving the viewer a feel for the senseless, ugly war that destroyed a beautiful Europe. What is beautiful about this film is the range of emotions and situations it covers: Love, war, happiness, comedy, pathos - quite a few. The scenery is amazing and make you feel transported to the pre-war, rural and urban European era. The director is Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who made Amelie, which is probably why Mathilde is played by Audrey Tautou (of Amelie fame) and contains many of the bit players from that film. It's an enchanting film that I recommend watching, even though it's a bit long (133 minutes). In French with English subtitles.
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It's sad, sweet and another lovely film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The scenes from the front are particularly absorbing, and the weaving together or the strands is wonderful.


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Puzzle Quest: Galactrix - Review @ Eurogamer
With the game hot off the presses, Infinitive Interactive's Puzzle Quest:Galactrix gets a review over at Eurogamer, who score it 7/10:
The character classes of the original Puzzle Quest are gone, replaced by the different ships your character can use. The shift, while at first looking like a simplification, soon reveals itself to be worthwhile. You can have up to three ships in your fleet at any one time, and their design changes the way the game plays out: a fast ship will help you speed past attackers in a hostile part of the galaxy, a slower, larger ship will offer lots of equipment slots for customisation.
Equipment replaces Puzzle Quest's magic system although it works in an identical way, granting various offensive and defensive abilities during battle. For example, the Bola Mines item doubles the number of mines on the board while Shield Matrix adds a +5 to your shield total. Choosing the appropriate ship for a battle is important and adds a decent high-level element of strategy to the game.
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SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Puzzle-RPG
Platform: PC
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A Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education approved private special education school, Beacon High School is a coeducational therapeutic high school for students with mental health, social, and emotional challenges. Beacon High School provides an integrated academic and therapeutic program to 65 students between the ages of 14 and 22. Throughout the school day, students benefit from comprehensive clinical services provided by experienced clinicians who are trained in a series of evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
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We have had bits and pieces of this conversation - but I thought we could try a posted discussion to keep it moving along, let's try anyways and see if it works?
For our ROCR data which is coming in (and then all the parks) - one question still remains as to how to divide the park(s) for comparative assessments. The options are 1. geographic or physical division (eg watershed) or 2. biologic/community/habitat division (eg vegetation class).
To follow on from discussions with Bill, Shawn, Todd and Lisa on this - I wonder if we may get most information by using both approaches.. and the reason is that I think they address different questions and may therefore provide different information.
To answer the question "what is the long term pattern in parks ecosystem status over time" requires a fixed, objective grouping (ie watershed or other wise geographic). One of the threats is encroachment, so using a land use classification doesn't help as an area may changes classification from 'woodland' to 'urban' (for eg) - so that while the woodland section is still healthy, it has been reduced in size and turned into imporvious surface. A fixed geographic basis will show a reduction in health status for that watershed as it (for example) increases in impervious surface. These geographic areas may have different metrics going into their ecosystem assessment within a park and certainly they will be different between parks.
But an equally valid question for a resource manager may be "which parks in the system have the most intact woodland habitat". This would be difficult to determine from a purely spatial assessment as any given watershed will have multiple habitats. In this case, it may be more useful to create for each park a table with the habitat types for that park, the area of each type, the percentage of the park under that particular habitat type and the ecosystem status (health index) value for that habitat type within that particular park. After repeated assessments, this would show changes in area over time, but also the relative intactness of that habitat type within that park. Presumably the aim would be to use a standard set of parameters for a given habitat tpye (eg for grasslands: deer abundance, water nutrients, invasives etc, for woodland: community structure, connectivity etc).
Just some thoughts anycase to keep this ball rolling - as the data is accumulating!
I agree with Tim that both types of divisions will be useful in this assessment. This may make life more difficult for me, having to do twice as many assessments, but hopefully it will be more useful scientifically.
If we do decide to go this route, we need to decide which divisions we will be using for the assessment. For geographic divisions I think we should use the same subwatersheds we are using for the aquatic data. Using this division for the terrestrial assessment may allow us to correlate the terrestrial data with the aquatic data for the overall assessment. I know we have decided to use habitat types for the terrestrial data, but we have not decided which set of habitat types to use. That should be the next step while we are waiting for the remainder of the data to be posted.
Using a standard set of parameters for each habitat type is also a good idea. This way we can compare between parks without too much difficulty. Once we decide which habitat divisions to use, we can then determine which vital signs fit within each habitat.
Nice start Tim and Lisa. My thought with respect to this topic is to keep it simple, and I present this more from a political tack than a scientific one. The spatial extent of habitat/geography is the most easily understood, but I also agree that you need measures of condition. From a management perspective, I think you can answer this via two simple questions: 1) How much do I have,? and 2) What condition is it in?. One could also add a third practical question: Can I do anything to fix a problem that exists?
Defining spatial extent will address question 1 and risk assessment (the stressors that Tim mentions are good examples) will address number 2. Number 3 is really most relevant, in that it pertains to adaptive management and, in a sense governs the first two (e.g. a park cannot add area to improve an ecosystem beyond legislated boundaries and a park may not be able to directly reduce nonpoint-source pollution).
So, addressing "How much do I have?". Subwatersheds seem to be logical. I would propose that we use Anderson-Level 2 or higher for the terrestrial side, as this level is pretty easily classified from remotely-sensed imagery and would related directly to Todd's work. Although I applaud Lisa's suggestion that we relate terrestrial and aquatic units, however, there has been quite of bit of discussion on the topic from the statistical community about how the inferences just don't mesh. For example, a water monitoring protocol will have a sample design based on stream order and placement within the watershed, but a terrestrially-based protocol (let's use birds, or forest vegetation) will have a completely different sample design, and consequently, statistical inference. Basically, it is very hard to terrestrial indicators to say something meaningful about aquatic ones, both statistically and (sometimes) logically. I suppose stream buffers or some "interface indicator" might be an exception.
Addressing "What condition is it in?": I would suggest going to thee literature and finding what's out there in terms of indicators that have been assessed by stream order or broad habitat types. I am pretty sure there are sources out there that give reach-specific water chemistry parameters (1st-order DO is this, 4th-order is that...). However, I think we will have a hard time finding terrestrial indicators that relate to very specific habitats (e.g. an oak-hickory forest should have x deer per ha but a floodplain forest should have y deer per ha). And even if we have data to support these differences, would a manager be able to use that information? That is why I think picking the broadest, most general, terrestrial habitats might be a good starting point. Todd can correct me, by I think Anderson 2 would give us only 5 or 6 habitats at ROCR.
In closing (my cigar is almost out), it might help to think about what we want to say at the end and let that drive our first set of groupings. My take on it is that we want to say "ROCR has lost x amount of forest since xxxx and the condition is y because of certain thresholds (exotic cover, deer density, bird diversity...). First order streams are this, second order are that, and so on, based on comparison to EPA or DC regulatory standards. Lisa - think about exactly what you want to be able to say about ROCR and that will determine what units you choose. If we don't have the data yet, that's OK. Keep is relevant, keep it simple - we can always subdivide when we have more data.
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It's a two-woman race in New York.
That has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
Wendy Long, a conservative New York City attorney, beat incumbent U.S. Rep Tom Turner and Nassau County comptroller George Maragos in the state's Republican primary Tuesday night. She now faces Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand, a liberal woman who many think has a bright future as a presidential candidate.
A race with two women candidates is becoming a more common sight in American politics.
In 2010, Republican Carly Fiorina faced incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer. Boxer won. That same year, Oklahoma had two female candidates for governor on its ballot – Republican Mary Fallin and Democrat Jari Askins. Fallin won.
Many congressional races have also seen two women candidates. The earliest one documented by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University was in 1944 when Connecticut's Clare Booth Luce, a Republican, ran against Democrat Margaret Connor.
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"Women comprise more than half the population and it's not surprising that women fall on both sides of the partisan aisle," Brown tells me. "Further, the only way women are going to make numerical gains is for them, like men, to be distributed all along the ideological spectrum. No one believes Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann hold the same views simply because they are both white men."
The Center for American Women and Politics says that only 2 percent of members of Congress since 1789 have been women.
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Indeed, politics is a nasty business. The November campaign has already begun in New York. The New York State Democratic Party sent out a press release last night asking "Who Is Wendy Long?" In turn, the Republican Party of New York State has been attacking Gillibrand for months.
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Forest and Bird's 'Briefing to Incoming Ministers' released today highlights the need for more Government action to protect and clean up our rivers and lakes.
The briefing identifies significant issues with freshwater quality and the lack of effective protection for New Zealand's rivers. It highlights that two thirds of our native fish will be extinct by 2050 if current trends continue, and the Government has preferred to put the burden of environmental clean-up on to taxpayers, rather than the polluter.
"All of our rivers and lakes should be clean enough to swim in," said Green Party water spokesperson Eugenie Sage.
"In Government the Green Party would be a strong voice for the environment. We have a clear plan to clean up our rivers.
"Families should be able to head down to their local swimming hole or beach and jump in the water without worrying about getting sick.
"As part of our plan to clean up New Zealand's rivers, the Green Party will implement a protected rivers network.
"Our remaining wild rivers are a finite and scarce resource which deserve effective legal protection from new dams and water takes for irrigation."
The briefing highlights that 89 per cent of New Zealanders relate their Kiwi identity to the natural environment as being fundamental to their perception of 'what it means to be a Kiwi and what is special about New Zealand.'
"When it comes to protecting the places that Kiwi's care about the Green Party is clear where the balance lies; no environment, no economy," said Ms Sage.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine may have just come out in theaters, but it's already spawned at least two new movies.
Variety reports that Twentieth Century Fox is starting development on Deadpool, a spinoff based on the character that Ryan Reynolds plays in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
This isn't very surprising, as the character is one of the most popular in the X-Men comics. Reynolds plays Wade Wilson, who submits himself to the Weapon X genetic alteration experiment after finding out that he is dying from cancer, and becomes an indestructible anti-hero.
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2006.332: Gàbor Megyesi, Frank Sottile and Thorsten Theobald (2003) Common tranversals and tangents to two lines and two quadrics in P. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 30 (4). pp. 543-571. ISSN 1432-0444
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We solve the following geometric problem, which arises in several {\mbox three-dimensional} applications in computational geometry: For which arrangements of two lines and two spheres in ${\Bbb R}^3$ are there infinitely many lines simultaneously transversal to the two lines and tangent to the two spheres? We also treat a generalization of this problem to projective quadrics. Replacing the spheres in ${\bf R}^3$ by quadrics in projective space ${\Bbb P}^3$, and fixing the lines and one general quadric, we give the following complete geometric description of the set of (second) quadrics for which the two lines and two quadrics have infinitely many transversals and tangents: in the nine-dimensional projective space ${\Bbb P}^9$ of quadrics, this is a curve of degree 24 consisting of 12 plane conics, a remarkably reducible variety.
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E-Government Award 2002
One of the first government-wide infrastructure in Southeast Asia, jointly designed and implemented by Ecquaria and Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, is selected for E-Government award.
Singapore (25 Jun 2002) -Ecquaria Limited (www.ecquaria.com), leader in Web Services infrastructure software and solutions, today announced that one of its customers, The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, will receive the prestigious Explorer Award at the E-Gov 2002 show in Washington, DC today for successfully developing and implementing the Public Services Infrastructure (PSi) which provides the central background platform on which government electronic services are delivered efficiently and securely to the public.
The award recognizes organizations for delivering citizen-centric E-Government services based on improved quality, timeliness and accuracy of government services and higher overall citizen satisfaction.
PSi, jointly developed and implemented by Ecquaria in consultation with the Singapore Government based on the Government's conceptualization of the system and its technical architecture, is a key initiative in Singapore's E-Government Action Plan. It serves as the common infrastructure on which Government agencies or their appointed vendors could deploy robust and customer-centric government electronic services for use by citizens and business community. Previously, government agencies have diverse electronic services in different technologies and systems. Ecquaria assisted in designing and deploying PSi as a scalable component-based infrastructure platform for government agencies to provide efficient information-sharing and cross-checking between agencies. It is designed to deliver significant values to:
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As a result of the successful development and implementation of the PSi, it is productized and commercialized by Ecquaria into the Ecquaria Service-Oriented Platform™ (Ecquaria SOP™). Designed to enable governments and enterprises to deliver customer-centric electronic services to internal or external users over a variety of channels, Ecquaria SOP™ provides ready and customizable features such as electronic payment, security, user profile management, electronic data exchange, multi-channel delivery, business process management, system management console and web services deployment wizard.
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"It is evident that IDA's commitment to Singapore's E-Government vision has gained recognition from the E-Gov award committee for its thought leadership in the government's use of information technology for interaction between the government, citizens and businesses. PSi has become the best practice for E-Government infrastructure. We are proud to be IDA's technology partner and to help them achieve their strategic objectives," said Mr Paul Leong, Vice President, Business Development, Ecquaria.
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But Ambika Srivastava, who conducted the WHO research, said the Bollywood film industry had slipped under the proposed controls. "The WHO and countries across the world are looking at bans on tobacco advertising but the [film] industry finds ways of getting around it," she said.
Ms Srivastava found that half of India's leading stars had smoked on screen.
"The youth thought it was a very cool thing to do. The implication of that is huge. Earlier, only the villains were shown smoking but now there's a very high percentage of the good guys who also smoke in their films."
But one of India's leading film-makers, Mahesh Bhatt, said tobacco companies, not film stars, were to blame.
"If you feel the Indian star smoking on screen is responsible for the consumption of tobacco on the streets of India and south Asia, why don't you go for the jugular and blow off these tobacco manufacturing companies?.
"When crime increases, when rape increases, the easiest people to blame are the movie stars. How long can you blame the virtual world for your real problems?"
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Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins was named NBA Western Conference Player of the Week after leading the Kings to a 3-0 record, averaging 25 points a game and 12-point-7 rebounds.
Cousins recorded a double-double in all three wins for the Kings, highlighted by a 35 point and 13 rebound performance in a 123-119 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday, January 7th.
Through 45 games, the 6'11" center is averaging 23.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game.
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Tokyo (AFP) July 31, 2014
An independent legal panel on Thursday called for criminal charges to be brought against three former executives of the Fukushima nuclear plant operator for their role in the 2011 atomic disaster.
The ruling -- issued by a judicial review panel composed of ordinary citizens -- could ultimately pave the way for an indictment, after prosecutors announced last year that they would not pursue a criminal case.
The rare ruling means that prosecutors are now compelled to reconsider their earlier decision.
Another refusal to indict may end the possibility of charges for the former Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) managers.
But if the panel challenges prosecutors' decision a second time, a group of court-appointed lawyers would then be compelled to lay formal charges under Japanese law.
The three former executives are former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, then vice president Sakae Muto and former vice president Ichiro Takekuro.
Activists and residents who lived near the crippled plant had called on authorities to indict about three dozen company officials over their failure to take proper measures to protect the site against the tsunami, which sparked the worst atomic crisis in a generation.
Prosecutors had defended their decision not to indict by saying management could not have predicted the size of the huge tsunami, which was triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
The waves crashed into Fukushima and swamped cooling systems, sparking meltdowns that spewed radiation over a wide area.
"We welcome the decision by the judicial panel -- it's obvious that someone has to take responsibility for the disaster," Miwa Chiwaki, one of thousands of plaintiffs who demanded charges be laid, told AFP.
A parliamentary report has said Fukushima was a man-made disaster caused by Japan's culture of "reflexive obedience", but no one has been punished criminally.
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The Arizona Cardinals are over halfway home in terms of signing their 2017 draft choices.
On Thursday afternoon, the franchise announced it agreed to terms on a four-year contract with third round draft pick Chad Williams, making Williams the fourth Cardinals' draft selection to finalize his rookie contract.
Over the weekend, Arizona announced it agreed to terms with fifth round selections T.J. Logan and Will Holden as well as sixth round draft choice Johnathan "Rudy" Ford.
Williams was the 98th overall selection in the 2017 NFL Draft, becoming the highest-drafted player out of Grambling State since 2006, when Dallas-Johnson Hatcher was selected with the 92nd overall pick.
The 6-foot-1, 204-pound Williams participated in the Cardinals' rookie minicamp over the weekend and worked with the team during offseason training activities (OTAs) this week, but can now continue practicing with the assurance of a paycheck.
Williams finished his college career with 210 receptions for 3,062 yards and recorded 28 touchdown catches, and earned FCS All-American honors in 2016 after leading the Southwestern Athletic Conference in receptions, yards and receiving touchdowns this season.
Williams was the second highest-selected player in this year's draft who did not receive an invitation to the NFL Combine, picked only behind Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon who was not invited for disciplinary reasons. While Williams didn't have an opportunity to impress the Cardinals in Indianapolis, he did make an impression on the team with his performance at the Senior Bowl this season.
Arizona had one opportunity to scout Williams locally during his college days, as he nabbed 13 receptions for over 150 yards in Grambling State's loss to the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson at the beginning of the 2016 campaign.
Williams is attempting to become the next small-school prospect selected by the Cardinals in the third round to make an impression at the professional level, as he's following in the footsteps of Pittsburg State's John Brown and Northern Iowa's David Johnson, a pair of skill position players drafted in the third round by general manager Steve Keim.
Though terms of the deal have not been disclosed, the value of Williams' contract is expected to fall somewhat close to $3.3 million, which will allow him to earn an average of about $825,000 over each of the next four years. However, the average third round draft choice only receives about $750,000 in guaranteed money in their rookie contract.
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2008 South Carolina Softball
South Carolina at Coastal Carolina
4/09/08 at Conway, S.C. (CCU Softball Field)
Score by Innings R H E
South Carolina...... 000 100 5 - 6 8 1
Coastal Carolina.... 010 010 0 - 2 6 1
Umpires - HP: Stephen Huddleston 1B: Daniel Cox 3B: Red Cox
Start: 4:59 PM Time: 1:58 Attendance: 416
Weather: 73 degrees, partly cloudy
Robinson, K. faced 2 batters in the 5th.
2008 South Carolina Softball
South Carolina at Coastal Carolina
4/09/08 at Conway, S.C. (CCU Softball Field)
South Carolina starters: 7/2b Payne, A.; 12/ss Walker, L.; 10/rf Mendes, L.;
44/3b Semento, J.; 22/1b Martinez, B.; 35/dp Josker, J.; 5/lf Davis, C.; 2/c
Fulmer, P.; 1/cf Voigt, A.; 9/p Robinson, K.;
Coastal Carolina starters: 6/ss WALKER, L.; 5/1b BIRNBAUM, B.; 13/2b
LONGDROPPERT; 4/dp STUART, C.; 2/rf RIFFEL, K.; 21/p PEDERSEN, A.; 11/cf
TORNATORE, A; 22/3b IRWIN, A.; 1/lf BALLARD, M.; 8/c PISONE, A.;
South Carolina 1st - CANTRELL, A. to dp for STUART,
C.. Payne, A. struck out swinging (0-2). Walker, L. struck out looking (2-2).
Mendes, L. popped up to ss (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
Coastal Carolina 1st - WALKER, L. grounded out to 2b
(2-2). BIRNBAUM, B. grounded out to 1b unassisted (1-2). LONGDROPPERT flied out
to rf (3-2). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
South Carolina 2nd - Semento, J. singled up the
middle (3-2). Martinez, B. struck out swinging (3-2). Josker, J. lined out to
3b (0-2). Davis, C. grounded out to 1b unassisted (2-2). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0
errors, 1 LOB.
Coastal Carolina 2nd - CANTRELL, A. grounded out to
2b (1-2). RIFFEL, K. singled up the middle (1-1). PEDERSEN, A. doubled to right
center, advanced to third on the throw, RBI (0-0); RIFFEL, K. scored.
TORNATORE, A popped up to ss (1-0). IRWIN, A. flied out to cf (0-0). 1
run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
South Carolina 3rd - Fulmer, P. walked (3-0).
Conwell, S. pinch ran for Fulmer, P.. Voigt, A. grounded out to c, SAC, bunt
(2-2); Conwell, S. advanced to second. Payne, A. flied out to lf (0-0). Walker,
L. grounded out to ss (0-1). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Coastal Carolina 3rd - Fulmer, P. to c for Conwell,
S.. BALLARD, M. struck out swinging (0-2). WALKER, L. struck out swinging
(1-2). BIRNBAUM, B. singled to right field (1-1). LONGDROPPERT grounded out to
p (2-2). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
South Carolina 4th - Mendes, L. reached on an error
by 2b (3-2). Semento, J. out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt (1-1); Mendes, L.
advanced to second. Martinez, B. walked (3-2). Josker, J. singled to left
center, RBI (0-1); Martinez, B. advanced to second; Mendes, L. scored,
unearned. Davis, C. reached on a fielder's choice (0-1); Josker, J. out at
second 2b to ss; Martinez, B. advanced to third. Fulmer, P. grounded out to 3b
(2-2). 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Coastal Carolina 4th - CANTRELL, A. walked (3-1).
RIFFEL, K. reached on a fielder's choice, bunt (0-0); CANTRELL, A. out at
second 1b to ss. RIFFEL, K. advanced to second on a wild pitch. PEDERSEN, A.
struck out swinging (2-2). TORNATORE, A grounded out to 2b (0-1). 0 runs,
0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
South Carolina 5th - Voigt, A. grounded out to 3b
(2-2). Payne, A. out at first ss to 2b (1-0). Walker, L. doubled to left field
(0-1). Mendes, L. grounded out to 1b unassisted (1-0). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0
errors, 1 LOB.
Coastal Carolina 5th - IRWIN, A. homered to left
field, RBI (0-1). BALLARD, M. walked (3-2). Pouliot, K. to p for Robinson, K..
WALKER, L. singled, bunt (1-1); BALLARD, M. advanced to second. BIRNBAUM, B.
hit by pitch (2-2); WALKER, L. advanced to second; BALLARD, M. advanced to
third. LONGDROPPERT struck out swinging (2-2). CANTRELL, A. reached on a
fielder's choice (1-1); BIRNBAUM, B. advanced to second; WALKER, L. advanced to
third; BALLARD, M. out at home 2b to c. RIFFEL, K. struck out looking (3-2).
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
South Carolina 6th - Semento, J. doubled down the lf
line (2-0). Martinez, B. flied out to rf (0-0). Josker, J. flied out to lf
(0-0). Davis, C. struck out looking (1-2). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1
Coastal Carolina 6th - Wierzbicki to cf for Davis,
C.. Voigt, A. to lf. PEDERSEN, A. singled to right center (2-2). TORNATORE, A
struck out swinging (2-2). IRWIN, A. reached on an error by ss (0-0); PEDERSEN,
A. advanced to second. BALLARD, M. struck out looking (3-2). WALKER, L. popped
up to ss (0-0). 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
South Carolina 7th - Fulmer, P. doubled to right
center (1-2). Wetherbee pinch hit for Voigt, A.. Wetherbee hit by pitch (2-2).
Voigt, A. to lf for Wetherbee. Payne, A. singled up the middle (0-0); Voigt, A.
advanced to second; Fulmer, P. advanced to third. Walker, L. flied out to rf
(0-0). Mendes, L. singled through the left side, RBI (1-1); Payne, A. advanced
to second; Voigt, A. advanced to third; Fulmer, P. scored. Semento, J. homered
to center field, 4 RBI (3-1); Mendes, L. scored; Payne, A. scored; Voigt, A.
scored. Martinez, B. grounded out to ss (1-1). Josker, J. flied out to lf
(2-1). 5 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Coastal Carolina 7th - BIRNBAUM, B. struck out
looking (2-2). LONGDROPPERT popped up to ss (2-2). CANTRELL, A. grounded out to
p (2-1). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
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Gheluvelt just after the War. Photo: NELS
This village, which is today marked on maps as Geluveld, came to prominence during the First Battle of Ypres, in 1914, when there was a famous stand by the 1st South Wales Borderers and the 2nd Worcesters here in October 1914 (for more on this see below).
It is a village which straddles the main road (the N8, also known as the Menin Road) for quite some distance. Driving into the village from Ypres, continue through the outskirts until the church, which is on the left hand side. There is a car parking area by the church, and the village War Memorial stands in front of it.
Within the church is a memorial plaque to Lieutenant Littleboy of the 16th Royal Warwicks. This can be found just inside the church to the right. Littleboy is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, and a picture of his grave there can be found on the Hooge page.
Memorial plaque to Lieutenant Littleboy
Just to the north of the church is the Chateau. An information board located at the gates gives the historical backgound: the chateau site was owned from 1737 by the Keniglaert family, and they retained the site after the war until 1965. A brief summary of the First Battle of Ypres is also given, along with a map, explaining how the German 54th Reserve Division attacked the village on the 29th of October 1914, and how the 1st South Wales Borderers held on. The 2nd Worcesters were brought in to bolster the line, and retook the village in a counter-attack - and although it was lost late on the 31st of October, the momentum of the German advance had been broken.
Information board at the gates to Gheluvelt Chateau today (right)
From here, to the east along a modern pathway are two memorials, to the two b attalions, the 2nd Worcesters and the 1st South Wales Borderers involved in that action. There are benches in front of them in what is a peaceful spot, as well as what look to be the remains of the old Gheluvelt mill.
A modern pathway leads to the two memorials, to the 2nd Worcesters and South Wales Borderers
The inscription on the South Wales Borderers memorial reads 'In ever glorious memory of the officers and men of the South Wales Borderers who fell in the Great War'. At the base of the pillar surmounting the memorial is the crest/insignia of the regiment, with underneath it '1914-1918'.
Memorial to the South Wales Borderers
The Memorial to the 2nd Worcesters takes the form of a granite stone which is set on a small brick wall.
Memorial to the 2nd Worcesters
However, the Worcesters memorial was previously in a more ornate setting, comprising not only the granite slab seen today but set in the wall of a private house, lined by columns and with the word "Memorial" above. There was also a small frontage containing flowers on either side, as shown below.
The Memorial to the the 2nd Worcesters in it's original location. Photo: NELS
The Germans held Gheluvelt almost throughout the war, until it was retaken on September the 28th 1918 - nearly four years after it had fallen. By that time the village had been destroyed.
The road from Gheluvelt towards Ypres
The main road from Gheluvelt leads as straight as an arrow towards Ypres. At a point just before it does bend to the left, and where another road joins from the right, is a spot which was known during the war as Clapham Junction. There are two memorials located at Clapham Junction, which is now by an Alfa Romeo and Fiat garage. The Gloucesters memorial is on the left side as you travel towards Ypres, and is now surrounded by houses. The left and right sides of the memorial show the battle honours, including Gheluvelt.
Memorial to the Gloucestershires at 'Clapham Junction'
On the opposite side of this busy road is the 18th Division Memorial, which is identical to the one found at Thiepval on the Somme. The area around the memorial was previously grassed. On the right side of the memorial are listed the units that made it up, whilst the rear records the fact that the Roll of Honour is held at Colchester.
Memorial to the Gloucestershires at 'Clapham Junction'
The left side of the memorial lists the battle honours of the Division, by year.
Battle honours listed on the 18th Division Memorial
Sources & Acknowledgements
Beatrix Brice: The Battle Book of Ypres
Major & Mrs. Holt: Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient
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Nude Beach
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US: 14 Aug 2012
UK: Import
Nude Beach is one of those bands that's been living in Brooklyn for a few years and making a name for themselves around New York City, one assumes. Up until now they've been proudly DIY, self-releasing cassettes and vinyl records and the like. But they've signed with Fat Possum Records and, weirdly, II is going to be the first thing that almost anyone has heard from the band. As introductions go, it's a good one.
This album is full of unfussy rock and roll that immediately brings to mind names like Tom Petty and Social Distortion. The songs are hard-charging but not too fast while simultaneously jangly but not saccharine. II's third track, "Some Kinda Love", exemplifies this style. Drummer Ryan Naideau chugs along on hi-hat eighth notes and dutifully hits the snare on beats two and four while guitarist/singer Chuck Betz sings at the top of his lungs. When Betz hits the shout-along chorus, "'Cause, baby / Some kinda love could bring me baaack!!", it's hard not to smile. What keeps Nude Beach from leaning too far into punk or sliding over into pop is its contrasts. A punk song would pair the drums with slashing distorted guitar chords, and Nude Beach opts for chiming, open-sounding picked riffs instead. A pop song would have the chorus be a catchy sing along, but Betz is shouting instead.
Even the album's slower moments find this balance. Would-be ballad "You Make It So Easy" has some subtle background atmospherics (Steel drum? Marimba? Keyboards? It's tough to tell) but the band just can't lay back far enough to make it gentle. Jimmy Shelton's bassline is a bit too active and Betz's guitar a bit too rough, and it comes off sounding like a slow rocker instead. "Don't Have to Try" comes closest, sounding for all the world like a '50s love song with its 6/8 time and organ accompaniment. But Nude Beach isn't going to stay that still for long, so the back half of the song finds them rocking out pretty loudly.
While Betz's throaty vocals dominate II, there are a handful of songs where Naideau takes over the singing, and it gives the band a nice change of pace. His slightly nasal tone doesn't really register on the album's opener "Radio", but it's very effective when he pops up again mid-album. When combined with Betz's preference for jangly guitar lines, Naideau's voice really makes the Tom Petty comparison snap into place on the easygoing "Keep it Cool." And when he belts it out on "Love Can't Wait", an album highlight, it almost sounds like a lost early '90s Petty b-side.
If there's a problem with II, it's that nothing much stands out. Sure, "Some Kind of Love" and "Love Can't Wait" are clearly the album's best songs. But because Nude Beach is such a straight-ahead rock band, there isn't much that's distinctive about them. It's like rock and roll comfort food. It's easy to listen to and appropriately fun and catchy. Everything here is good, but nothing is great. The downside of the Tom Petty and Social D comparisons is that the majority of rock-oriented music listeners in North America have been hearing this kind of stuff extensively for the last 30 years. As solid as this album is, without better hooks or more interesting guitar playing or something, I worry that Nude Beach is fated to be perpetual, inoffensive background music.
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