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Erik Jones won the Lucas Oil 150 on Friday night at Phoenix International Raceway. The driver of the No. 51 Toyota earned a trip to victory lane finishing ahead of Ross Chastain.
Chastain began the race on the pole but it was not long before Erik Jones gave him a fight for the lead. Multiple restarts would give Jones a chance to get past Chastain at the end of the race and he did so with nine laps to go.
With the win Jones becomes the longest winner in the truck series at 17.
Matt Crafton entered the race with a 46 point lead over James Buescher in the point standings. He will leave with a 46 point lead over Ty Dillon meaning he has to wait until next week at Homestead to claim the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title. Crafton needs to simply start the race in order to claim the series title.
Another big story from Friday's race was Ron Hornaday confirming that he was being replaced in the No. 9 truck beginning next week at Homestead. Hornaday will drive a truck for Turner Scott Motorsports.


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Wine Dinner and Auction & Presentation of the 2019 International Sustainable Winegrowing Award
BRIT's 2019 platinum winner is Casa Ferreirinha, a Portuguese reference brand in Douro Wines. Gold medals go to Sandeman, Portugal; Tasca D'Almerita, Italy; Jowler Creek Vineyard & Winery, USA and E. & J. Gallo Winery, USA. Silver goes to Ruffino, Italy.
The 2018 platinum winner was Alexander Valley Vineyards of Healdsburg, California. Bodega Catena Zapata, Mendoza, Argentina, gold; Franciscan Estates, silver; and Peach Creek Vineyards, bronze. E. & J. Gallo Winery received a gold medal as special recognition for its corporate-wide, multi-brand sustainability programs and for the organization's industry leadership.
The 2017 platinum award goes to Yealands Family Wines of Marlborough, New Zealand. Gold medals go to Halter Ranch Vineyard, California; Bodega Tapiz, Argentina; and Château Couhins, France. Silver medals go to Muatori, Tenuta Villa Crespia, Italy; Grupo Matarromera, Spain; Bien Nacido Vineyards, California; and Ruffino, Italy.
The 2016 platinum award was presented to Les Vignerons de Buzet of Buzet-sur-Baïse, France with gold medals going to Sandeman and Casa Ferreirinha of Portugal.
The 2014 platinum award was presented to LangeTwins Family Winery and Vineyards of Lodi, California. Gold medal went to Les Vignerons de Buzet (France); silver went to Ampelidae (France); bronze medals went to Tenuta Oppida Aminea – Muratori (Italy), Azienda Agricola Maltese (Italy), and Red Caboose Winery (USA).
In 2013, Yalumba, Australia's oldest family-owned winery, has become the first, non-U.S. winery to win the BRIT's platinum, International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing. Gold medal went to L'Olivera Winery (Spain) and there was a three-way tie for the silver medal between Vignerons de Caractère (France), Jackson Family Wines (USA), and Les Vignerons de Buzet (France).
Past winners also include: Trefethen Family Wines (2012), Parducci Wine Cellars (2011), and HALL Wines received the inaugural award in 2010.
New for 2020, BRIT has teamed with FIVS, a Paris-based global organization designed to serve the wine, spirits, and beer sectors. FIVS will partner with BRIT to help manage and promote the growing international competition.
In addition, the competition and award name has also be changed to reflect FIVS' expanded role. The new name of the competition is BRIT/FIVS International Sustainable Winegrowing Competition. It is still the only competition of its kind which recognizes of the bond between wine and botany and the need to distinguish wineries that truly embrace a "ground to glass" attitude towards sustainability. Where other competitions may focus on the end product – the wine itself – our competition, in addition to wine taste, focuses on a winery's real-world application of the three tenets of sustainability: environmental, economic, and social.
To enter, submit our current year's 20-question self-assessment application and provide a sample bottle of wine for judging. The overall winner receives BRIT's iconic hand-blown glass award. Second and third place winners receive gold and silver medals, respectively. The overall winner is presented with the BRIT award in Fort Worth, Texas in March, during the Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival. All wineries that feel they are actively demonstrating a broad-based commitment to sustainability are encouraged to participate.
The 2020 competition begins May 1, 2019 with a submission deadline of September 30, 2019. If you are interested in applying, please check this page in May for an application.
Wine Dinner and Auction & Presentation of the 2019 International Sustainable Winegrowing Award
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) is pleased to announce the winners in its 2017 International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing competition.
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) is pleased to announce the winners in its 2016 Internation
LangeTwins Family Winery and Vineyards
1525 E. Jahant Road
Acampo, Callifornia, 95220
Les Vignerons de Buzet
BP 17 Buzet sur Baïse, 47160
Manoir de Lavauguyot - 86380 Marigny-Brizay
40 Eden Valley Road
Angaston SA 5353
L'Olivera Winery
La Plana, s/n
25268 Vallbona de les Monges. Lleida.
Les Vignerons de Buzet
BP 17 Buzet sur Baïse, 47160
Trefethen Family Vineyards
1160 Oak Knoll Avenue
Napa, Callifornia, 94558

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Only a few years ago, Los Angeles dining was an indoor event--usually in a dark, refrigerated room that invariably made you forget whether it was day or night, summer or winter. Jackets or sweaters were always in order, especially if you sat under the vents.
Oh, there were a few so-called outdoor cafes. Ma Maison, with the artificial-grass floor and the roll-away sunroof, for example.
And later, the Bistro Garden.
But these were not ordinary people's places; they didn't remind you of the great sidewalk cafes of some of the oldest cities in the world.
And nobody, in those bad old days, ever called Los Angeles a capital of fine cuisine--or fashion.
Times have changed. And so have local dining habits--and what we wear to dine. The outdoor cafe has arrived in Los Angeles--and everybody loves it.
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Vince Cable was Secretary of State for Business under the Coalition Government, one of the most well-respected and experienced Liberal Democrat MPs of recent years. He served as a Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham for nearly 20 years, until he lost his seat in the 2015 General Election.
Vince will be speaking at Our Lady's Abingdon as part of their annual Reading Festival. After his critically-acclaimed bestseller 'The Storm', his new book 'After The Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future' provides a powerful and insightful look at the state of the global economy - and the UK's position in it.
It is also the inside story of his time at the heart of the coalition, the General Election of 2015, as well as informed opinion on how the British economy should be managed in years to come. Central to this is Britain's position in the European Union, and the consequences of a British exit in the referendum.
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We expect demand to be very strong for this event, so please email us to reserve tickets. Vince will be signing copies of 'After The Storm' immediately following the event.


text: Vincent "Vinny" Andrew Krasiejko, 28, passed away at his home on Saturday, September 24, 2016. Vinny was born on June 28, 1988 at Bristol Hospital. He is survived by his loving parents, Tracy and Vince Krasiejko. Vinny attended Lake Garda Elementary as well as Har-Bur Middle School in Burlington. Upon his graduation from Har-Bur middle school he attended Sport Medical and Sciences Academy (SMSA) in Hartford in order to be able to play football. While at SMSA Vinny excelled in the classroom where he was on the honor roll for all four years. He achieved a number of academic honors both from the school as well as the Hartford Business community. He was accepted into WHO's WHO in the national High School registry. Vinny had a great attitude and blended well with all the different students at the school. Vinny loved to ride and work on his dirt bike. In his sophomore year in high school Vinny had a severe accident and injured his back which forced him to miss his junior year of football. In his senior year he rejoined the team as the starting middle linebacker and was voted to the all-conference first team by the conference coaches and the comeback player of the year by SMSA coaches. After his graduation from SMSA Vinny had the opportunity to attend Norwich Military Academy in Vermont on a practical scholarship but chose to skip college for the time being and went to work for a number of residential concrete contractors in the Bristol and Burlington area. Vinny was a great, wonderful, fun loving person and will be deeply missed by his family and friends. In addition to his parents Vinny is survived by his three brothers: Kevin and his significant other, Marci Oullette, of Middlebury, Keith and his wife Kelly Krasiejko, of Coral Springs, FL, Wesley Krasiejko, of Burlington; many aunts and uncles; several nieces and nephews and a number of cousins. Funeral services for Vinny will be celebrated at Funk Funeral Home, 35 Bellevue Ave., Bristol, CT on Friday, September 30, 2016, at 1 PM. Relatives and friends are invited to call at Funk Funeral Home prior to the service on Friday between 11 AM and 1 PM. Burial will be private and at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to The Grant Street Partnership, 62 Grant St., New Haven, CT 06519. Please visit Vinny's memorial website at www.FUNKFUNERALHOME.com


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Kirsty trained initially as a classical pedal harpist, but her desire to move away from the "fluffy" romantic image often associated with the harp led her first to contemporary music, and then back to the harps of earlier times.
From 2004 to 2007 she studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Kirsty now works internationally, playing music and instruments that trace their history from the late 14th century onwards.
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Part of FringeNYC: Can't get tickets to Hamilton? Come see the second best show in NYC about non-traditional casting! An obscure, low-rent college theatre department becomes a national punch line when its sole African American professor casts a white girl as Rosa Parks. More…
Categories: Comedy, FringeHIGH, Drama, Local. Written by Kirk White. Directed by Keith Winsted.
"There are those who continue to insist we live in a postracial world, and Kirk White's 'Colorblind'd' pokes fun at this belief as he engages in a deeper conversation about race and art...'Colorblind'd' is a bit sprawling, and important elements of the characters' relationships to each other seem thinly sketched. But the play is entertaining and funny." Full Review
"Playwright Kirk White tackles a lot of issues and because of this, the characters aren't always fully drawn. It is worth noting that White and director Keith Winsted are both white men; while they have every right to tackle these issues, it is hard not to wonder if this is why 'Colorblind'd' stays mostly at the academic level...The exception is with the character of Dorien: Cotto brings an emotional weight to what would otherwise be an ideas play." Full Review
"From afar, Kirk White's play is most obviously about sensitivities and perils of grappling with race in the performing arts, but White also takes a critical eye to academia, probing the value of formal theater education...With so many elements, the play can sprawl such that it sometimes comes off as unfocused...Without a firmer sense of where we stand, it's hard not to feel adrift in a sea of ideas." Full Review
"An African-American professor casts a white student in the lead role of her new play about Rosa Parks. The lone black theater major is not as good an actor, but complains about being passed over...Casting presents all-too-real issues, and the black student's unsentimental view is one we don't hear often, but the show is burdened by hackneyed writing and uneven performances." Full Review
"A glib new drama…While the premise and first few scenes are engaging, the inconsistent 'Colorblind'd' quickly flies off the rails, leaving more questions than answers...By the end, writer White and director Keith Winsted seem to abandon their question of nontraditional casting and simply leave us scratching our heads over plot holes. All in all, 'Colorblind'd' is a disappointingly missed opportunity." Full Review
See it if In the tradition of Gillman's "Spinning into Butter" excites you.
Don't see it if You don't like racial tension and a show with no "good" guys.
See it if you want to see a great play full of interesting themes that will make you think. I give it a B+ grade.
Don't see it if you have issues with a play that will challenge how you think about race, art, and doing whatever it takes to make a name for yourself.
See it if you've been tuned in to the question of "colorblind" casting in contemporary theatre.
Don't see it if you're tired of the "ignorant trashy white girl" trope.
See it if you like plays that make you think. Typecasting vs Great Acting. Teaching vs doing. The 4 characters were excellent.
Don't see it if if you don't like well written drama.
See it if you like high school drama...
Don't see it if high school throws you back into PSTD - the anger you may feel towards the main character may be too much...
See it if U want to see a new take on racism and academia and theatre
Don't see it if U dont like preachy, strident shows with too many plotlines
See it if Love great-acting, smaller venue, "out-the-box" plays
Don't see it if Hate smaller theatre, profanity, race issues, & don't come with high expectations (I was hoping to see "Rosa Parks" acted by "the chosen 1"
See it if Many provocative and relevant ideas that too often are left unsaid esp regarding academia, daring and edgy when needed
Don't see it if Many provocative and relevant ideas but too many of them thus preventing a taut dramatic experience, at times acting a little too broad
See it if you're interested in the phenomenon of casting controversies in the social media era
Don't see it if you prefer cogently structured plays with consistent characterization
See it if you want to see some really top notch acting. All four performers were excellent and I could almost believe their ludicrous actions.
Don't see it if you don't want to see what happens when a white guy thinks he can write an edgy play about race in America.
See it if you enjoy riveting theatre that stimulates the brain and leaves you feeling refreshed and rewarded.
Don't see it if you want the same old mundane theatre.
See it if You like the story and powerful performances.
Don't see it if You are closed minded.
See it if You want an intellectual time of theatre.
Don't see it if You aren't ready to "think".
See it if you enjoy brilliantly written, yet controversial theatre.
Don't see it if you are single minded and stubborn.
See it if You want to see a show that has amazing multidimensional characters. Relevant subject matter from multiple viewpoints.
Don't see it if If you don't like shows that make you think.
See it if If you are interested in a perspective on race in American culture that may make you uncomfortable but will also challenge you...see it.
Don't see it if Don't go if can't talk to someone about race who isn't the same race as you.
See it if You like edgy sometimes uncomfortable theater that will leave you discussing the play for hours after.
Don't see it if You like shows with unicorn and rainbow endings.
See it if i think eveyone should at least go see it once if mn nothing more than to form your own meaning of the show
Don't see it if you dont want the real
See it if You're interested in an important conversation that currently affects the theatre community. It was fine, but nothing new or groundbreaking.
Don't see it if You're looking for a fluffy, fun night out. This show will challenge you and make you think and discuss for hours.


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Hot on the heels of Cindi's outstanding coverage of the Darien Library's Drupal Unconference, I had the chance to attend a smaller, in-person Drupal event of my own. The Chicago Drupal4Lib BoF, hosted by librarian and all-around Drupal enthusiast Leo Klein, included over twenty participants and took place in an instruction room in the library at DePaul University's downtown campus right here in Chicago.
According to Leo, the event was:
...an opportunity for librarians to get together and discuss how they use (or would like to use) Drupal in a library context. We'll ask people to present projects they're working on and we'll field questions on problems and approaches to implementing Drupal.
True to form, the event was informal, open and was a great forum for discussion. Participants came from a variety of locations, all within the Chicago metro area. While attending, I couldn't help but think of Cindi's description of Darien's Drupal Camp as an incredibly "human" conference, and how the same applied at this event. As participants introduced themselves, not one person described themselves as an "expert" on Drupal. The majority of attendees had never actively used Drupal, and were there because they were curious about what it might be able to do for them. People wanted help--they wanted discussion, and they wanted others to know what they didn't know as much as what they did.
The meat of the event was the sharing and discussion, where participants gave demonstrations of successful Drupal projects. Participants discussed how they had become interested in Drupal, more often than not their explanations involved dissatisfaction with a proprietary CMS. If there was one common theme that came up during these discussions, it was that Drupal helped people save money.
A librarian from the Prairie Area Library System, a consortium that covers a wide area of northern Illinois, explained how he was able to use Drupal to create sitebuilder module that has allowed dozens of libraries in the consortium to create web pages based on a template. These libraries, mostly small, public facilities with no IT staff, are now able to easily design and maintain customizable, highly functional web sites using an open-source CMS. They have paid no money to web developers, graphic designers or other IT professionals for these web pages.
We've had some discussion on this blog about Drupal's learning curve, a topic that definitely came up during the event. One participant, before giving a demonstration of his Drupal project, explained, "I am not an IT person...I'm an adult-services librarian." Many of the Drupal-curious participants were encouraged to hear that the librarians who had successfully used Drupal to help implement major projects started out with the same technical knowledge that they currently had.
This was an open forum, and it had the ultimate effect of increasing curiosity and making it more likely that the curious would take that extra step toward actually downloading and trying to learn to use Drupal. While this may have been a small event, as Leo pointed out, there are small events like this popping up all over the country. If these trends continue, the Drupal Library revolution may already have begun.
Leo's photos from the event are available here.


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Panasonic Eluga Prim Smartphone Launched in India Priced at Rs. 10,290 :- Panasonic has propelled another Eluga-arrangement cell phone, the Eluga Prim, evaluated at Rs. 10,290. The organization has affirmed that the new Eluga cell phone will be accessible through disconnected retailers crosswise over India.
The greatest highlight of the Eluga Prim is it highlights 4G LTE and in addition voice over LTE (VoLTE), which implies it will permit voice brings over versatile information on supporting systems like the Reliance Jio organize.
The new Panasonic Eluga Prim accompanies double SIM support and accompanies a committed microSD card space which implies no cross breed double SIM opening. It will be accessible in Gold shading with White show board and Gun Metal Silver with Black show board. The handset additionally highlights a unique mark scanner at the front.
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The New Panasonic Eluga Prim Handset Features a 5-inch Full HD IPS 1280×720 Pixels resolution display that supports multitouch.
It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor with Mali-T720 and is paired with 2GB of RAM. It is equipped with an Internal storage of 16GB, that can be expandable later Up to 32GB Via. micro SD Card.
The newly launched Eluga prim Smartphone sports a 13-Megapixel Primary rear Autofocus camera with triple LED Flash, that can record Full HD Videos at 30FPS.
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It is backed up by a 2500 mAh Non-removable battery pack, that can last a full day of usage when it is fully charged.
The Panasonic Eluga Prim handset supports Dual-SIM (no hybrid dual-SIM slot) with 4G Connectivity and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow Operating system Out of the Box.
The connectivity options of Panasonic Eluga Prim Smartphone includes 2G/3G, 4G with VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, FM Radio, 3.5mm Audio Jack and a Micro-USB Port for charging and data syncing.
It also features some of the sensors like Gravity Sensor, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer and Ambient light sensor.
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There are two types of weed barriers that you can install in your garden to prevent any unwanted plant growth: plastic and fabric.
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A lot of the discussion in the American presidential campaign has focused on the budget – with proposed tax solutions and spending cuts. Bachmann and other Republicans have been tearing into the "half of all Americans who don't pay taxes". It's about time Stephen Colbert's biting humour was called in to show how idiotic this debate is:
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Last year, Betsy Bird commented on the "Cluster of Chloes" showing up in children's books. (And, in the comments section, Lois Lowry noted the Emmas and Bens of yore.) A new crop of books seems to have blossomed, all starring girls (or other animals) named Flora.
Recent books…and counting:
Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle (Chronicle, 2013)
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by K. G. Campbell (Candlewick, 2013)
The teenage sister in After Iris by Natasha Farrant (Dial, 2013)
The porcine star of The Adventures of a South Pole Pig by Chris Kurtz, illus. by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Harcourt, 2013)
Flora's Very Windy Day by Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan (Clarion, 2010)
Day-Fairy-wannabe from The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick, 2010)
Flora Segunda series by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
Meanwhile, a quick search on the Horn Book Guide Online brought up these classics (along with a good many more):
The brothers Sendak's Circus Girl (Harper, 1957)
Flora and Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories from My Life by Eric Carle (Philomel, 1997)
Babar and Celeste's daughter
The little girl from Zoo-Looking by Mem Fox, illus. by Candace Whitman (Mondo, 1996)
Titular rodent from The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith, illus. by Cynthia Fisher (Hyperion, 1995)
Star of Margaret Mahy's Dangerous Spaces (Viking, 1991)
Borneo-raised teen from Other Echoes by Adele Geras (Atheneum, 1982)
Flora McDonnell's ABC (Candlewick, 1997)
Flora the Frog by Shirley Isherwood (Peachtree, 2000)
Flora's Red Socks by Anne Harvey and Bernice McMullan (Bedrick, 1991)
Bunny star of popular Debi Gliori picture books (Scholastic/Orchard)
Any favorite Floras we're missing? Let us know in the comments!


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Mother, London came to Daren Rabinovitch of Encyclopedia Pictura with a modern fable of a dad trying to learn how to play again. Except the dad is a robot, his kids are a bat and an eagle, and the fable is an ad for Ikea's new line of toys and costumes.
Daren set about designing the characters and fairy-tale world and we assembled a team of nearly 30 artists to fabricate the props and set, working out of a temporary studio at the Pfizer Building in Brooklyn. After a month of fabrication, the elements were transported to a green screen stage in Greenpoint, where the team embarked on an epic 4-day shoot. A technocrane, wire work, and crash pads were all involved. It wasn't always pretty, but the final product sure does stand out.
The final scene was shot at a real home in London and the massive post job was handled by MPC's legendary London office. A Hudson Mohawk remix of a Battles track was the final icing on the cake.


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While talking about dental implants, then you can't rule out to their advantages. They're majorly infused into the jawbone for encouraging the artificial teeth. Were you aware the cable or bridge that's mounted to them will remain continuous? This is the importance of this installation of the new tooth implant. It's supposed to assist you once you're talking or as you consume.
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The two different kinds of implants which are secure to integrate are:
Endosteal augmentation: it's surgically implanted into the jawbone. Following the gum tissues enclosing the region heal a surgery up is conducted to place an implant. Shortly after, the enamel is implanted on into the present denture.
Subperiosteal implant: it includes a strong metal frame that's further fitted into the jawbone directly below your gum tissue. After the gum heals the framework automatically fixes to a jawbone. The articles that remain attached to the present frame protrude and after those synthetic teeth are mounted on them.
If you are thinking about dental implants at Chermside, start looking for a trusted dentist or dental practice. Considering these are things of this face and the mouth area you can't dismiss the function of a dentist.


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This 1923 Mediterranean Revival in Whitley Heights, one of Hollywood's earliest celebrity enclaves, was originally owned by silent film comedian Clyde W. Cook and his first wife, actress Alice Knowlton.
Centering on Hollywood and downtown L.A. from its southwest exposure, the home was described as having "a most marvelous view of the Los Angeles plain from their terrace" in a 1926 story in The Times. The story also noted that Cook was "carving a ship model for the mantel" at the time.
During the 1930s and '40s, the home was owned by Risser Patty, a former dean of music at Coe College, who taught voice lessons and hosted concert parties on the property.
Listed for sale at $1.175 million, the home most recently sold for $837,500 in 2003. About six years earlier it went for $385,000.
In keeping with the period style, original tile lines an exterior staircase leading to the two-story main house.
French doors, hardwoods and wrought iron finishes are a common theme throughout the 3,339 square feet, which count four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Features include a living room with a tiled fireplace, an enclosed sun room and a master suite with a large deck.
Outside, the grounds center on an open courtyard filled with a collection of bougainvillea, palms and fruit trees. A separate entrance leads to a guest apartment complete with beamed ceilings, a kitchen, a living room and a laundry room.
Barry Gray and William Baker of deasy/penner & partners have the listing.
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We only spent half a day in Mumbai, but it was enough to see a few things. Unfortunately we were all in various states of illness by this point so we spent much of the day resting at the hotel.
Tour boats in the harbour. These take tourists to Elephanta Island.
Gateway of India
The inscription on the front of the Gateway
Marine Drive as seen from the hotel, about five floors up
The Mumbai skyline from Steve's hotel room window
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel - we didn't stay here but it is a good building
These photos ©2006 Jo & Alan Hunter - please ask before using elsewhere - thank you.


text: I love my friend Brittany. She is my amazing God-fearing sister in Christ and a foodie. That girl posts some of the most amazing pictures of vegetarian food. I just had to take her to Liberty. I went for the evening special – the Red Wine Marinara Gnocchi. She did the Thai salad. But tonight wasn't about the food, it was about that big fat piece of Red Velvet cake sitting in the window. I was all about the dessert tonight. Fun night out!


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From left to right: Lee Brandt (Brilliance Award); Mike Barr (Nominations & Awards Committee); Derek Porter (Special Recognition Award); Tim Milton (Nominations & Awards Committee); Peter Jacobson (Nominations & Awards Committee); Paul Marantz (Golden Achievement Award); Shaun Fillion (Nominations & Awards Committee); Erin Gussert (Special Recognition Award)
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Brilliance is defined as extreme brightness or radiance, exceptional intelligence, ability, skill, or talent, imposing splendor or magnificence. On June 15, 2017 at the Lumen Gala, the IESNYC proudly recognized the following members with these qualities; individuals who make the New York City Section shine.
Paul Marantz, FIALD IES
Fisher Marantz Stone
Presented by the New York City Section of the IES for outstanding and continuous support of educational goals and ideals of the IESNYC Section.
The Golden Achievement Award honors individuals who have contributed their influence in design achievement, career development, education and stewardship to the New York City Section of the IES. A founding partner at Fisher Marantz Stone, Paul and his firm have received many Lumen and other lighting awards.
Lee Brandt, IALD, LC, LEED AP BD+C
HLB Lighting Design
2017 Brilliance Award
Presented by the New York City Section of the IES for dedicated service and contributions to the New York City lighting community.
Lee's relentless pursuit of excellence in lighting are immeasurable. She participates on the IESNYC committees and in panel discussions on events that challenge our thinking. She has contributed to the lighting language in the NYC Energy Conservation Codes, while serving as a lighting advisor over the last two code cycles with the NYC Department of Buildings. Lee is very giving of her time, and her wisdom has engaged students and emerging members of our design community, allowing them to see what a successful design community leader looks like, thinks about, and achieves.
Erin Gussert, LEED AP BD+C, IES
Regency Lighting
2017 Special Recognition Award
Presented by the New York City Section of the IES in special recognition of distinguished service to the IESNYC Section.
Erin's hard work and dedication has contributed to the incredible growth of the IESNYC Student Lighting Competition which promotes greater awareness about the importance of lighting. New York City students from programs in lighting, architecture, interior and product design are introduced—many of them for the first time—to the excitement of architectural lighting and benefit from the networking and competitive spirit of the competition. Erin is also lending her expertise to other IES Sections, so they too, can create similar competitions.
Derek Porter, IALD IES
Principal Designer, Derek Porter Studio
Associate Professor, MFA Lighting Design - Parsons School of Design
2017 Special Recognition Award
Presented by the New York City Section of the IES in special recognition of distinguished service to the IESNYC Section.
Derek has guided the New York City Section in the development of the annual IESNYC Scholarship, and given tremendous support to the IESNYC Thesis Prize and Student Lighting Competition. He has enabled the New York City section to become a nationally recognizable entity. With the creation of the Student Liaison Committee, Derek has also established a bond between the students and the Section.


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Outside a modest midcity theater, the rainstorm is fierce. Angry sheets of water slam against the pavement, but inside, the storm is even more ferocious.
"Aaayaah!" yells choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez, turning up the volume on a track of primal drumbeating and high-pitched screaming in a small rehearsal space. Her dancers whip around one another in rolling, wave-like motions, as if being flung about by an ocean's undercurrent. They raise their fists to the ceiling, shaking empty water bottles, the sharp crinkling and popping of plastic mixing with a chorus of percussion instruments, panting and shrieking.
Then the dancers collapse, melting into one another before falling apart, like loose parts of a rickety ship that has come undone in a tempest.
The activist-oriented contemporary dance company Contra-Tiempo is rehearsing its latest work, "Agua Furiosa," which premiered at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA on Jan. 14. The piece, inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Oya, the Afro-Cuban god of wind and storms, encompasses racial conflict, economic inequity, gun violence and the politics of water and drought.
"The piece isn't about any one of those things but about how they're connected," says Alvarez, founding artistic director of the Los Angeles company. "These issues swirl together to create a larger idea of society and who we are as human beings and how we're grappling with nature."
All of Contra-Tiempo's work is highly political. Alvarez — who grew up in a bilingual household in the South with an American mother and Cuban father, both union organizers — founded the multilingual dance company in 2005 after completing her UCLA master's thesis on salsa as a language of resistance. "Contra Tiempo," or "Against the Times," partly about immigration, was the first piece the company performed in 2006-07, in towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. The company's most recently staged piece, "Full Still Hungry," premiered at the John Anson Ford theater in 2011 exploring food politics and the economic effect of hunger in the U.S.
"Growing up the way I did, I always felt that my job as an artist was to figure out how to engage with society and create work that's in conversation with what's happening in the world," Alvarez says. "And really have my art spark dialogue and be a catalyst for change, pushing forward ideas of community, love, compassion and justice."
"Agua Furiosa" follows in that tradition of social responsibility, but the impetus for the work is also personal for Alvarez. She created the piece in response to feeling like she needed to better protect her now 5-year-old son, Sidney, from violence aimed at children of color.
"Every time you go on Facebook or Instagram, every time you turn on the television, we're hearing about this incredible issue we're having in our country right now where young men and women of color — kids — are being murdered by policemen, by vigilante neighbors who patrol people, and people keep getting off," Alvarez says. "Our justice system has these loopholes where people can do this and it's not a crime. So it feels like this incredible crime against humanity."
Using "The Tempest" as a jumping-off point, she says, was her way of broaching that issue.
"It's about family, exile, slavery, violence, patriarchy, nature — it takes on so much," Alvarez says. "'Agua Furiosa' isn't an adaptation of 'The Tempest.' It's a counter-narrative to it."
Like all of Contra-Tiempo's work, "Agua Furiosa" blends salsa, Afro-Cuban movement, hip-hop and other forms of contemporary dance into what Alvarez calls urban Latin dance theater. But the production, featuring hip-hop and Afro-diasporic-influenced electronic music composed for the piece by Los Angeles sound artist d. Sabela grimes, is a bit of a departure in that it's more heavily Afro-Cuban than salsa-influenced.
The work incorporates live performance from jazz vocalist Pyeng Threadgill and dance that's alternately intense or soft and vulnerable. Interactive "call and response" chanting involves the audience and performers.
"We're not doing this in isolation, we don't want you to sit there and be quiet," Alvarez says. "We want to know you're out there and feel your engagement."
The drought started about six months after Alvarez began composing the piece. Water imagery appears throughout the production; the performers dance in and around buckets of water, rattle and shake empty water bottles and deploy umbrellas. By the end of the show, Alvarez says, "let's just say there's water on the stage.
"We're filling the space with the consumption of water as well as the emptiness of lack of water."
Although Alvarez wrote and choreographed "Agua Furiosa," the two-year process of creating it was highly collaborative. She incorporated personal stories from her dancers and other staffers. The company also worked with the community to further develop the piece through 10 months of choreographic labs around L.A. Members of the public gave verbal critiques of the work and participated in dance workshops and traditional Native American story circling.
That interactive process is as much what Contra-Tiempo is about, Alvarez says, as the resulting dance performance. Building community and using urban Latin dance to initiate a conversation about social justice are primary goals of the company.
Which is why, after the eight-night L.A. run of "Agua Furiosa" at UCLA, Contra-Tiempo will take the production on tour through eight cities in the South. At each stop, performers will hold workshops with the public at universities, local theaters and community centers to discuss race, compassion and social justice.
"I know the need for this kind of work in the South from my own experience growing up there as a woman of color," Alvarez says. "Young people are our incredible hope in terms of transforming our culture — young people are the future. I know that may sound cliché, but I believe it in my deepest heart."


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I'm extremely efficient with my writing. It's true. I am. Friends laugh that I write books in a weekend. I'm not that good, but I'm close. I can knock out amazing amounts of content in short bursts. I don't exactly know why this is, but I like it. (Don't worry, I'm terribly slow at other things in life that you can probably do in 1/100th the time.)
That said, it's critical that I know when I can write well, and when I can't. Because if I write when I'm not working well, I've no hope of efficient writing, and every hope of post-writing frustration.
Case in point: The other day, I went to a coffee shop where I was going to spend a few hours writing. I know for sure that it's easier for me to write outside of my home office, so that means I try to go to a coffee shop about twice a month to do the writing work I need to get done. Writing at a coffee shop generally works for me, and I can plow through and do a ton of work in a few hours.
But not that day.
That day, I arrived. I sat down on the couch I'm a fan of. I ordered a large soda water with lemon. And I pulled out the computer. And that's where it went downhill. Somewhere between the checking of email, and then the checking of Twitter, and the checking of email again, and then the reading of a great article on Hemingway (I just read a so-so novel about his wives, hence the interest) I got all lost and tangled up. Pretty soon I was texting my husband: when are we going grocery shopping?
Because I would rather go grocery shopping than write. Obviously.
Productivity gurus say you need to know when you are most effective, and utilize those times to do your work. I agree. I would go further and say that you don't just need to know when you're effective, you need to know when you are particularly effective for the specific task at hand.
And so the fact that I wandered into the coffee shop on a holiday at three pm was not, for all the world to see, going to turn out well. I do my best writing in the morning, with a large decaf coffee with almond milk, and a bright sun rising overhead. Or around dinner time, with a cold Sauvignon Blanc. These are the times I can write.
The afternoon is not my writing time.
We all have times of the day, and days of the week, that work best for particular tasks, and it is essential that we work to figure out what those times are, and to make sure that we respect them to their holiest extent.
When my husband picked me up to grocery shopping, I felt icky and annoyed and had done very little work, and most of it was particularly terrible. The wrong time of day, you see. I'd bungled it all up from the start, and needed to remember my own rule.
Only work when I can work well. And only write when I can write well.
Are you a writer? What times of day work best for you?


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Lavatory: Full
Airspeed (MPH): 469
Range (nm): 5,600
Cabin Width: 11′ 6″
Cabin Height: 7′
Cabin Length: 79′ 2″
Baggage Capacity: 640 cu. ft.
The improved MAX 7 and 8 will fly farther, increase revenue and provide the lowest seat mile cost of any airplane in its class.
The BBJ Max 7, 8, & 9 family is Boeing's most successful aircraft range and the latest Max model - which is due to be delivered in 2017 with launch customer Southwest Airlines - was borne out the desire for airlines to have more fuel efficient planes.


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Dream Visions
Hidden Senses Trilogy
Book 2
Hidden Senses Trilogy
Book 2
What if you weren't considered normal to the rest of the world?
Would you give up everything in your life to help someone, even if it meant starting over again?
Felicity has spent her life alone, moving from one place to another hiding a part of her no one has ever been able to accept, not even her own family.
For as long as she can remember she's had dreams that lead her to a person that's somehow connected with her. There are no answers or cures only misery for her when she can't get anyone to believe her.
When a child reaches out to her, frightened and in the hands of strangers she forgets the reasons why she shouldn't
tell anyone and goes to the police. She finds herself sent for a court ordered psychiatric evaluation.
It's not the first time, it won't be the last. She packs up once again, ready to move as soon as she's done with another so
called doctor. From the moment she steps into the office everything changes and she finds nothing she expected.
Can the child be found before it's too late or is she facing heartache again?


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As Android grows in visibility, more and more developers, particularly those coming from other mobile platforms, are starting to learn Android development. For example, there seems to be a growing influx of Windows Mobile developers starting to get involved in creating Android ports of their applications.
If you are one of those people, welcome!
One problem we encounter, though, is that some newcomers seem insistent upon Android necessarily supporting whatever sort of implementation patterns they are used to from past development environments. So, we get complaints about Android lacking thread-blocking dialogs, or ways to terminate the app, or whatnot. And, sometimes, when those complaints are met with "sorry, that's just not the way things are done around here", those lodging the complaints get nasty.
Android development may be better than what you're used to. It may be worse. More importantly, though, it is just plain different. This should be no surprise, since each development environment is different across the board: WinMo is different from iPhone, Ruby Web apps are different from Java Web apps, Visual Basic for DOS is different than FoxPro…
(oh, wait, I'm showing my age on that last one)
…and so on.
Whenever you start developing for a new platform, you need flexibility in your mental model, particularly if you are trying to do a straight-up port of one app to a new platform. Things that you did in the original app just may not make sense in the new environment, and trying to force the issue is only going to cause you pain. Your goal should be to deliver significantly similar business logic on the new platform, not to replicate every last button or icon. So, while people "terminate" their Windows Mobile app, they don't really "terminate" an Android app, any more than they "terminate" a Web app.
Similarly, programming techniques you used in the old environment just might not make sense in the new one. Android, like many GUI toolkits, is highly event-driven. This means that some conveniences you may find in other platforms — such as displaying a dialog and blocking the thread that started the dialog until the dialog closes — just flat out aren't available. Does this mean that event-driven GUI toolkits are inherently inferior? Not really. They are just different, requiring different code structures (e.g., event handlers instead of blocking threads).
Whenever you move to a new programming environment, it is important to keep an open mind and find the right balance between your design models and the approaches that are most conducive to solid apps on the platform. In this respect, Android is no different.


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Gay couples won't be able to tie the knot in the Keys any time soon despite a Monroe County judge's decision last week striking down Florida's voter-approved constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.
Siding with Attorney General Pam Bondi and courts in other states, Circuit Judge Luis Garcia on Monday refused to lift a stay on his ruling that the prohibition violates due process and U.S. constitutional protections against discrimination.
Instead, Garcia ordered a hold on his Thursday ruling to stay in place until appeals are complete or he decides otherwise. The automatic stay was prompted by Bondi's appeal, filed almost immediately after Garcia issued his ruling last week.
Mirroring other court decisions, Garcia ruled in favor of Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones, two Key West bartenders who sued Monroe County Clerk of Court Amy Heavilin for refusing to grant them a marriage license.
In an emergency motion filed Monday morning, lawyers for the couple asked Garcia to order Heavilin to start issuing marriage licenses, arguing that the state has little chance of winning its appeal. Heavilin has said she would be prepared to move forward with gay marriages if the court orders her to do so, the lawyers wrote, and "couples are gathering in Monroe County today in anticipation of the issuance of marriage licenses."
Garcia's ruling on Florida's same-sex marriage ban is the latest in a string of victories for gay rights advocates since a milestone U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year in the United States v. Windsor case that overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Courts in 19 other states have since struck down restrictions on same-sex marriages in lawsuits sparked by the Supreme Court ruling.
"Since Windsor was decided, an unbroken wave of federal and state courts across the country have concluded that state laws barring same-sex couples from marriage violate basic due process and equal protection principles," lawyers for Huntsman and Jones wrote in Monday's motion. "The state of Florida was unable to identify even a single substantive justification for (the Florida Marriage Protection Act) before this court and is equally unlikely to succeed on appeal."
But Bondi's lawyers asked Garcia to "maintain the status quo" as other courts have done throughout the country. Both sides anticipate that the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide the fate of same-sex marriage bans.
Garcia's ruling is the first court decision regarding the "Florida Marriage Protection Act," approved by 62 percent of voters in 2008. Six gay couples filed a similar lawsuit in Miami-Dade County, but a judge has not yet ruled in that case, and a separate federal case in Tallahassee is also pending.


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Frank Ludlow, one of the team of editors for Ireland's leading science fiction and fantasy magazine Albedo One, recently asked me if I would like to join the team as a columnist.
At first I was reluctant because of my busy days, but as he pointed out, I would essentially being doing what I already am doing with their magazine, writing reviews. Mostly I'll be focusing on sci fi reviews, as they were already covered in the fantasy and horror genres. How could I say no? So I said yes. To be part of one of the world's leading speculative fiction magazines, I couldn't turn that offer down.
So it is official, I'm with the Albedo One team now. So far my reviews have appeared in Issues 34 and 35, more reviews are scheduled for issue 36 and now there is some talk of me doing some interviews with leading sci fi authors! All very exciting.
I used to do a similar role with William Jones' Book of Dark Wisdom in the United States before the magazine came to an end, so I'm no stranger to review writing.
Conincidentally I came to the notice of both magazines through my fiction writing, through submitting tales to each. With Book of Dark Wisdom I had two stories published, "Solvent Hunger" and "Vanishing Curves" (which became my first professional story sale), and Albedo One it was "Black Water" which was shortlisted in their second year of the Aeon Award. Both editors liked almost everything I submitted to them even if they didn't publish the majority of it, and from there great working relationships developed. Where as the same stories submitted to other magazines hardly got a look at. Goes to show that what each of us likes in a short story can vary so much.
Because I wasn't a finalist in the Aeon Award "Black Water" couldn't be published in Albedo One. However it will appear in Issue 24 for Jupiter Magazine early next year. It remains one of my personnel favorites, a cyberpunk-style tale set in Dar-es-Salaam and Zanzibar.


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A survey into ways in which colleges and universities can make computing greener and more sustainable is about to publish its preliminary findings.
Higher Education Environment Performance Improvement (Heepi) and SustainIT, an NGO set up to focus on the environmental and social impact of IT, are researching how sustainable further and higher education IT is, and how education best practice compares with the private sector.
The report being written for the Joint Information System Committee (Jisc) says green IT is best achieved through the collaboration of IT and estates management. It finds that increased energy and computing costs can be offset by technologies such as grid computing and virtualisation. The need to reduce carbon the footprint is behind a cull of wasteful IT practices.
The author of the report, Peter James, who is also part-time professor of environmental management at Bradford University and associate director of SustainIT, says: "Eighty to 90% of a computer's capacity is wasted.
"By linking PCs together we can run complex computing tasks broken down into manageable chunks when the computers are not in normal classroom use."
Dave Berry, technology lead of the knowledge transfer organisation Grid Computing Now, explains how grid computing and virtualisation work: "The most famous example of grid computing is Berkeley University's SETI @t Home project - the search for extraterrestrial life. Berkeley has taken a complex research project and broken it up into lots of little tasks run on people's home computers."
Virtualisation offers much more dramatic savings. "This is one component of grid computing that's really going mainstream," says Berry. "Many servers set up to run a single application are running at less than 10% capacity. By using virtualisation you can bring several applications onto one server and use less energy for IT, power and cooling."
Four months into the year-long IT survey, James reveals that the team has held around 40 qualitative interviews with college and university IT managers as well as drawing from data produced by further and higher education sector IT bodies such as Ucisa. The survey aims to evaluate the sustainability of IT, identify and disseminate best practice and build capacity within the sector.
The integration of estates and IT at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (QMU) enabled the institution's recent transition from three outdated buildings to a new purpose-built campus. The university is highly praised in the report and will host one of SustainIT's regional open days.
Intelligent design reduced space requirement in the new building by a third and the design of IT was crucial, according to Steve Scott, director of estates and facilities at QMU.
"We remodelled teaching spaces into flexible open plan areas," he says. "We merged IT and the library together to create a much bigger learning resource centre at the heart of the university and we installed 1,200 energy-efficient thin-client servers throughout the building so that teachers and students can work on any terminal using a simple password login."
Thin-client servers take up less space and, because the processing is done on a central server, they produce no heat. This meant the building could be naturally lit and ventilated through opening windows. No bulky PCs meant room sizes could be smaller. Less cabling also enabled the building's designer to expose the ceilings rather than create bulky hollow floor areas.
"Clever design meant we were able to reduced build costs and end up with a building that is cheaper to run and maintain," says Scott, who estimates that, by collaborating at the design stage, IT and estates between them saved £1m in capital costs and reduced annual energy consumption by £100,000.
Meanwhile, Cardiff University has come up with an innovative solution to the cost of running super computers for research projects by centralising departments' IT budgets and transferring byte-hungry number-crunching to clusters of smaller high-performance computers. The project is called Arcca (advanced research computing at Cardiff).
"Before Arcca, departments ran their own computers for their own researchers," says Dr Hugh Beedie, Cardiff's chief technology officer, who was personally charged with reducing IT costs throughout the institution. "When they weren't online the computers were idle. Now we manage things centrally and any researcher can access our super computer cluster."
Beedie has also redesigned server racks and their air-conditioning systems to optimise temperature and cut wasted energy - in some cases by up to 80%. "An older server was using up 100kw of energy a year - that's £100,000. If we cut that, we can save up to £320,000 over four years," he says.
Better air-conditioning means the university can locate more servers in its racks. And by ordering the latest and more energy-efficient servers, Beedie reckons he can save space as well. The key to improvements is measuring and monitoring.
"You have decisions to make and options to weigh up all along the IT chain," he says. "Installing monitoring equipment to measure the output of servers, transformers, PCs, scanners and all electronic equipment gives you an idea of where you need to make savings and how successful you are at driving down costs."
The publication of Heepi and SustainIT's interim report in June marks the start of a series of up to seven campus IT open days to be held throughout the UK until October and designed to allow IT managers a chance to see the latest sustainable initiatives for themselves. At least one event will be focused on the further education sector and based around the virtualisation programme at Stockport college.


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Southbourne Beam and Vault 2017
Many of our gymnasts took part in our annual invitational Beam and Vault competition on Sunday 26th November.
Round 1 included a mixture of general and artistic gymnasts. Heather competed in her first competition in the novice 2003-2006 category with 14 other gymnasts. Heather performed well on beam and placed 9th. Gabi competed in a large group of 2010 novice gymnasts. She performed a flatback vault for the first time and scored 6.00 for 9th place. Over to beam, and Gabi performed a lovely routine for 3rd place. Combined scores placed Gabi in 8th.
Annie and Ellie competed in the advanced category. Annie placed 5th (6.40) on beam and 2nd (7.95) on vault for the 3rd (14.35) place overall. Ellie placed 1st (7.50) on beam and 1st (8.05) on vault for the overall Gold medal (15.55). Emily competed in the 2003+ Bronze category. She placed 6th on beam and 2nd on vault for overall 6th.
In the silver category, Isabella, Eleanor and Nancy all competed. Isabella narrowly missed out on the bronze for beam, finishing in 4th. Eleanor performed a solid beam routine for 2nd place, and Nancy performed an excellent beam for 1st. Over to vault, Isabella and Eleanor both performing new vaults placed joint 5th with a score of 8.00. Nancy executed a ½ on ½ off for a score of 8.85 which gave her 1st place. Overall Isabella placed 4th, just 0.05 off 3rd. Eleanor placed 3rd (16.20) and Nancy placed 1st with a score of 17.45.
Betsy and Caitlyn were competing in the gold category and placed 1st and 2nd on both beam and vault to walk away with the same overall.
For the artistic competition, modified 5 saw Daisy and Courtney compete. It was only Courtneys second competition, and her nerves were tested on beam. Unfortunately 3 falls left Courtney in 7th on beam and a 6th place vault. Daisy performed her round off solidly on beam for 3rd place. A much improved platform flatback vault gave her 4th place, just 0.1 from 3rd. Overall Courtney placed 7th with a strong score of 20.30, and Daisy placed 3rd with a score of 23.70.
In modified 4, Ebony placed 1st on beam and with a new vault being competed also placed her in 1st (11.90) which meant she was the overall winner of the category.
Level 4, Ches and Maisie took part. Strong solid vaults, both gaining there bonuses gave them 1st (12.40) and 2nd (12.30) places. Unfortunately Maisie took some falls on beam, but continued to perform her new flick, flick connection to be given the 3rd place. Ches performed a beautiful beam routine with several new connections and a free cartwheel which gave her 1sdt place and a massive 1.2 marks above 2nd. Overall in this category Ches placed 1st (26.20) and Maisie 3rd (23.70).
Chloe competed in her last ever competition of her career. She performed well on beam, and fought to save a near fall to finish with a score of 11.60 for 1st, also placed 1st on vault and overall.
Round 2 saw some of our youngest gymnasts compete in the 2011 set competition with a large group of 14 gymnasts. They all performed extremely well on the day, all holding their nerves and staying on the beam! Indiya placed 10th, Lottie 9th, Maira 8th, Sofia 6th, Phoebe 5th, Gabi 3rd, Josie 2nd and Jessica 1st. Over to vault Indiya placed 8th, Maira 7th, Sofia 5th, Jesscia and Phoebe joint 4th, Gabi 2nd and Lottie and Josie joint 1st. Overall positions; Indiya 11th, Maira 10th, Sofia 8th, Phoebe and Lottie joint 6th, Gabi 3rd, Jessica 2nd and Josie 1st. Fantastic results for all the gymnasts, many their first competition!
In the novice 2008-2009 group, a large group of gymnasts took part. Alaina, only participating for a few weeks placed 15th on beam, Darcey 14th, Millie 13th, Lucy 12th, anna 7th, Mae 6th, Mary and Emily joint 5th, and Dani 1st. The girls performed some great vaults on the day, with Lucy in 12th, Mary 11th, Alaina and Emily joint 9th, Anna 8th, Millie 7th, Mae 6th and Dani 4th. Overall Dani placed 3rd in the group.
Both Annabelle's competed in the novice 2007 group. Annabelle T placed 7th on vault and 5th on beam, whilst Annabelle L placed 9th on vault and 1st on beam. Overall A'belle L placed 9th and A'belle T 4th, just narrowly missing out on the bronze medal by 0.3.
Neve competed for the first time in the Bronze category. She placed 8th on vault, with only 0.45 to 1st place! Neve performed a strong beam to place 5th. Emma also competing in bronze (04/05) for the first time performed a strong vault for 4th, and a confident beam for 2nd to finish in the overall 3rd place.
Athena, competing for the first time in a Women's Artistic competition performed lots of new skills on beam, unfortunately counting a fall left her in 5th place. However she fought back and performed a strong 2nd place vault which gave her 5th overall.
Round 3 saw another group of our younger gymnasts compete. In the set 09/10 group, Freya and Willow placed joint 5th on beam, Bella 4th, Thea 2nd and Evie 1st. On Vault Bella placed 5th, Evie and Thea and Freya joint 4th, and Willow 3rd. Overall Bella placed 7th, Freya 6th, Willow 5th, Thea 4th and Evie 3rd. Our youngest gymnast of the competition, Sophia performed extremely well and placed 1st on both beam and vault to be given the overall 1st place position, walking away with three gold medals!
Abbey and Grace competed in the intermediate 08/09 group. Both performed confidently on beam for 6th (Abbey) and 5th (Grace). Grace placed 3rd on vault with a tidy squat on, and Abbey placed 2nd with a flatback. Overall Grace finished in 7th, and Abbey in 4th just 0.05 off 3rd. In the intermediate 06/07 group on beam Ava placed 10th, Amelie 7th, Isabel, Katie and Anwen joint 6th, Verity 3rd and Luna 1st. All performed flatback vaults with Luna finishing in 9th, Anwen in 8th, Ava and Katie in 6th, Amelie 5th, Isabel 3rd and Verity 2nd. Overall places, Ava 9th, Anwen 8th, Amelie 7th, Katie 6th, Isabel 5th, Luna 4th and Verity 1st. In the intermediate 05+ group, Lisa and Emily competed. Lisa placed 6th on vault and 2nd on beam for 5th overall. Emily placed 4th on beam, (including a fall) and 1st on vault for the overall Gold medal position.
Bronte and Katherine competed in the Advanced group for 05/06. Bronte performed well on both vault and beam for 5th places, and combined score gave her 4th, just 0.2 away from 3rd. Katherine also performed well on beam and vault for 3rd places on both. Her combined scores gave her the silver medal overall.
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On 'Illegal Combatants' and Target Practice at our Shoes
July 31, 2008 § 8 Comments
It occurred to me while reading this thread that if this person had been treated as a POW, rather than as a carefully non-categorized non-person, he would still be – perfectly legitimately – in custody, rather than wherever he is after having successfully perpetrated a suicide attack in Iraq. The nice thing about POW status (at least in my layman's understanding) is that you don't have to prove that the detainee committed a crime in order to continue to detain him until the hostilities in which he was involved cease. We can't torture him, of course, which is a bummer to some; but we can keep him in custody until hostilities are definitively over.
If it turns out that he is a criminal, at least as I understand it he can be turned over to the proper authorities when that comes to light. And his treatment as a POW, unlike extra-legal treatment as an 'illegal combatant', will not interfere with prosecution or lead to premature release.
It further occurred to me that that – his status as an indefinitely yet legally and morally imprisoned POW, had it been the case – would probably represent an intolerable outrage to both the anti-war Left and the pro-war Right.
Going AWOL
July 14, 2008 § 9 Comments
… for a bit. Thanks to readers for some stimulating recent discussions. Y'all try to stay out of trouble, OK?
Legislating and Formal Cooperation
July 14, 2008 § 6 Comments
I thought a point-by-point summary might give folks the opportunity to say what specifically they do or do not agree with in the argument; so here it is:
1) Authoring or advocating for a particular provision in a bill is a distinct kind of act from voting to pass a fully composed bill consisting of many provisions. The morality of each of these distinct kinds of acts stands or falls on its own merits.
2) It is never morally licit to intend that the murder of a particular class of unborn children be permitted in law. If an act necessarily entails intending that the murder of a particular class of unborn children be permitted in law, either as a means or an end, the act is morally illicit.
3) Composing and promoting a particular provision in a particular bill, as a means or an end, necessarily entails intending that specific provision in law. One formally cooperates with making a specific provision into law when one composes and promotes that particular provision.
4) Voting for a composite bill consisting of many provisions does not necessarily entail intending every provision in it. One does not necessarily formally cooperate with making every provision in a composite bill into law when one votes for a bill composed of many provisions. It is possible, in general, to intend some of the provisions in a bill for which one votes while objecting to or merely tolerating others.
5) Any specific provision in law authorizing the murder of particular innocent persons as a means or an end, either through an explicit exception or by deliberate omission, is intrinsically unjust.
6) To formally cooperate with making an intrinsically unjust provision into law is always morally wrong.
Conclusion 1: Specifically advocating – for any reason whatsoever, including the reason "because it is the only way I think I can get the bill to pass" – rape/incest/life of the mother exceptions in a bill prohibiting abortion is always morally wrong.
Conclusion 2: Supporting a composite bill which contains rape/incest/life of the mother exceptions inserted by others is not necessarily morally wrong. Since it is not necessarily wrong it is possible for it to be a grave obligation, depending on the circumstances.
Line Item Lies
July 12, 2008 § 32 Comments
Another argument for the position that a legislator may materially cooperate with evil by voting for a bill with the three exceptions, if no better alternative is available, but may not himself author provisions authorizing abortion in the case of rape, incest, or saving the life of the mother:
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.
If this is true of law in general, surely it is true of individual provisions in law. Now the person who writes and proposes an individual provision permitting abortion in the case of incest, for example, is writing in a provision which "ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law." In other words, in proposing that provision in law he is proposing a lie.
A Corollary Practical Recommendation
July 11, 2008 § 3 Comments
Because of the grave danger of falling into formal cooperation with evil (which is another way of saying 'failing to meet the means-end integrity required by double effect', which is another way of saying 'failing to exhibit the minimal virtues required of Christians') when voting for a pro-choice politician, I have a practical recommendation for those who are considering it.
That practical recommendation is simply to be as loud and uncompromising as possible on the specific point that abortion absolutely must be made illegal. We all have a grave duty to conscientiously object to the abortion legal regime. The temptation for a supporter of a pro-choice politician to 'tone down' on the absolute necessity to make abortion illegal, with that toning down as a means to the end of collaborating with pro-choicers (that is, people who, against Catholic doctrine, believe that abortion should be legal), is doubtless very strong. But doing so, in my understanding, fails double-effect, and is unqualifiedly evil.
"Brights" Pledge to Desecrate the Eucharist
July 11, 2008 § 6 Comments
How Material Cooperation Becomes Formal Cooperation, Book VII
July 10, 2008 § 57 Comments
Formal cooperation with evil, as we know, is always morally impermissible. Formal cooperation with evil simply means to intend evil, as either a means or an end, and it is never licit to intend evil for any reason whatsoever.
Now we know that it is possible for a legislator to materially cooperate with evil in a non-culpable way by voting for a less-than-ideal law. Suppose the law presently says that abortion is a 'right' from conception until birth, and a law is proposed which outlaws abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. The proposed law is less than ideal, but it is more restrictive than the present law. Specifically the three exceptions, as a juridical matter in positive law, authorize the murder of the innocent in particular kinds of cases. A legislator may vote for this law, indeed has a grave duty to vote for this law, so long as he does not intend the three exceptions. In this case it is merely the best he can do, and while he materially cooperates with the three exceptions he presumably does not intend them.
Suppose though that our legislator is the one proposing the law. He has concluded that a law without the three exceptions will not pass, so he deliberately includes the three exceptions in his proposed law as a means of making his law likely to pass. He has concluded that it is impossible to pass a law without the three exceptions, so he decides to propose a law with the three exceptions.
Is this morally licit material cooperation with evil? Clearly not. In this case, our legislator intends the three exceptions as a means. And it is never morally licit to intend evil as either a means or an end.


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