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Why Manchester United should be Premier League 2017/18 title favourites
At the beginning of last season, calling who would be Premier League winners was a difficult task. It was the first season that the league could lay claim to possessing not only the world's best players, but the world's finest and most in demand managers.
One year later, and predicting remains equally challenging. Gone have the days of a clear top four hegemony, or a rampaging Sir Alex Ferguson Manchester United team destined for the title. For the second year in a row, you could make valid lines of argument for one of United, Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea, or Liverpool making a run for the title, while in a post title-winning Leicester age, it might even be naïve to write off Everton.
But unlike last year, the 2017/18 season holds greater significance because of the pressure it lays on the league's 'Hollywood' managers. Guardiola, Mourinho, Antonio Conte, Mauricio Pochettino, Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klopp all hold themselves to standards that will be difficult to maintain in such a competitive field, and with two of those aforementioned six having to finish outside the top four, it would be surprising to see all of them spat out of the otherside of this season unscathed.
But in and among the pre-season pandemonium, fifth placed Manchester United should be the team who get your backing. Here's why.
As a simple line of argument, Mourinho has won the domestic title in his second season at every club he has ever been at. True, this doesn't really prove anything in the context of such a highly competitive league, but it does prove that his team's improve in his second year of management. This has been especially relevant in his tenures at Madrid and his second spell at Chelsea, where his ideology clearly began to yield greater performances after a year of establishing his style and methods.
When he joined United last year, he was explicit in his need for time for results to be seen.
'My teams are different to Mr Van Gaal, and it is a difficult situation to change the dynamics. It would be easier for me to have 20 new players and start from zero. For two years, they had some principles of play that are not mine – clearly, they are not'.
With a year of Mourinho-ism now embedded into Old Trafford, history would clearly suggest that United will be a stronger force than they were last year.
When reviewing the 2016/17 season, it's clear where improvements can be made. United were tepid at Old Trafford last season, dropping 14 points in low scoring draws to the likes of Stoke (1-1), Burnley (0-0), West Ham (1-1), Hull (0-0), Bournemouth (1-1), West Brom (1-1), Swansea (1-1), an uncharacteristic turn of form for both club and manager. Make note, Mourinho holds one of the finest home league records in managerial history (he previously went nine years without losing at home, or 151 games between 2002-2011) and United will surely progress here.
Such progression will of course be buttressed by the arrival of the slightly under-appreciated Romelu Lukaku, who boasts excellent Premier League experience, a deadly finish in front of goal, and an ever improving touch that will help him bring the rampaging Paul Pogba into play. Pogba is due a big season, and will be given a freer reign to push forward with Nemanja Matic anchoring in behind. Those three just about sum up Mourinho's approach; raw power, physicality, and height. It's hard to see club's coping with the power that they now posses.
The further underlying trend to take note of is how Mourinho has started title winning seasons. In all three successes with Chelsea, his sides have started extremely quickly, leading the chase and building up a big enough lead to allow a late season slow down. Correspondingly, United's 17/18 fixture list supports this trend immensely, with a generous opening 10 games.
Obviously, United will need to rely on one of their rivals not excelling to achieve this, and that's where the shortcomings of Man City become pertinent. Guardiola is unquestionably a very real threat, but there's a lack of evidence to suggest he's truly addressed the factors that prevented City from winning the title last season.
While City showed flashes of brilliance last year, they were also brittle in defence, notably losing 4-2 at Leicester having been 4-0 down. Claudio Bravo's inability to shot stop and John Stones' tendency to make crucial mistakes meant the side was overly 'top heavy', with Nicolas Otamendi doing little to mitigate for the ageing full backs flanking them.
True, Guardiola has invested in his full backs and a goalkeeper, but questions remain about who should anchor their defence, especially with the ongoing tentativeness of Vincent Kompany's fitness, which seems to convince the club not to invest in a world class, long term replacement. Kompany has managed just 25 appearances in the last two seasons.
Tactically, City's weakness last year was their inability to compete against the long ball, and the 'second ball'. As Kevin De Bruyne explained:
'Where Pep is most surprised is that there are still a lot of teams playing with long balls. Sometimes he thinks the team will try to play football, because they do that against other teams, but if it is against us they change their way of playing. I think that sometimes he must be annoyed by it. He puts so much time and energy in looking for things, where spaces might be, but then he tells us that the opponent will surely play long ball'.
Guardiola's unwavering commitment to technical football has ultimately encouraged teams to play Route One against him. Commenting on it himself, Guardiola was candid in his analysis:
'The football is more unpredictable here. I only needed to see one game to understand English football, Swansea 5-4 against Crystal Palace. Nine goals, eight from set pieces. This is English football, and I have to adapt'.
Despite Guardiola's formidable managerial record, there is little evidence to suggest he's ever had to truly assemble a new defence. At Barcelona he was gifted a Carlos Puyol – Gerard Pique centre back partnership and at Bayern, the treble winning Phillipe Lahm, Jermone Boateng, Dante and David Alaba were handed to him.
Tactically, it will be interesting to see how Guardiola sets up. The Spaniard his flirted with a three man defence at times, and even played his full backs as central midfielders in their opening run last year.While City are without doubt the strongest team going forward in the league, whether they will find a coherent balance between technically adept attacking and rugged, Premier League defending will be the challenge that will define their season. A failure to defensively resolve, an issue that doesn't appear to have been addressed this summer, will see them fall short of the title.
Guardiola started perfectly last season by winning his first ten games in all competitions, and it's not unreasonable to think that both Manchester clubs will make early dashes for the title.
Tottenham remain the true wildcard in the pack.
Despite a quiet summer, livened up by Danny Rose saying some truly idiotic things, Daniel Levy and Pochettino's approach has been refreshingly sensible. Aware that their starting XI can only be improved by a major signing for an overly inflated fee, they've held back, occasionally flirting with the idea of signing Ross Barkley.
Spurs would surely be more favoured for the title were they not moving to Wembley, a stadium they've won twice at in their last 10. Considering they were unbeaten at White Hart Lane season, winning 17 of 19 and picking up 53 of their 86 points, a drop in home form would surely see them fall short. The thought of Arsenal coming to Wembley for the North London derby, a stadium the Gunners have triumphed at in their last eight attempts, doesn't quite hold as much home tenacity as a game at the Lane.
If quantitative statistical analysis is to be taken seriously, one model suggests that Tottenham should in fact be outright favourites. Considering that this approach saw the FT predict last year's table with astonishing accuracy, perhaps this is worth taking seriously. That said, whether such an analysis can quantify playing at Wembley is unlikely.
The team coming off the worst pre-season is Chelsea.
Antonio Conte finds himself in overly-public political scrap with the Chelsea board, first refusing to extend his contract when he signed an improved deal recently, and then openly admitting that he had absolutely no intention of selling Matic to United.
"Matic knows very well what I think about him — the importance for me about this player, who is a really good player, a top player, very important for our team," he said. "But sometimes you must accept this crazy transfer market, and sometimes you must accept different decisions. But he is a great loss for us."
It is baffling that Chelsea have decided to sell such an important player to one of their biggest rivals, and puts added pressure on the incoming Tiemoué Bakayoko, a player Conte intended on slowly inducting into the league.
Conte's political predicament is endemic of the club's internal framework. In the Abramovic era, Chelsea have become a club led as two independent entities; the first, Conte's first team and on pitch matters; the second, a separate 'trading arm' that buys, sells and largely loans players at an alarming rate. Clearly Conte has come to odds with this, as the likes of Cuardrado, Atsu, Begovic, Solanke, Traore, Ake, Abraham, Loftus-Cheek, Van Ginkel, and Zouma have all left this season with only Caballero, Rudiger, Bakayoko and Morata having joined.
There also remains an odd nervousness to embrace youth, and yet again the Chelsea board have decided to invest rather than attempt to reap the rewards of a youth team that has won the last four youth FA Cups. Ultimately, the trading arms purpose appears to be to help the club navigate the tribulations of Financial Fair Play, as opposed to provide nascent talent for the first team.
This is all at a time when the club is about to start competing in Europe, adding significant strain to a squad that excelled from a quieter fixture list last season. Part of our rationale this time last year for backing Chelsea was in part based around this; it's been a trend for several years now; Liverpool in 13/14 (second) and Leicester 15/16 (first) also benefitted immeasurably having a week to prepare for Premier League games. This time, with five Premier League teams qualified for the Champions League, and Arsenal taking on the ever-exhausting Europa League, no side will enjoy that advantage.
With further questions of Conte's commitment to the club becoming ever louder, notably in light of his history of leaving clubs when he likes, as well as overly dramatic fallout with Diego Costa, there's a cloud of doubt lingering over Stamford Bridge as the club looks to defend its crown. Add to the fact that Conte's groundbreaking 3-4-2-1 formation is less effective as teams mimic the formation against him, and this may well actually be the Italian's 'most difficult' season of his career.
The club's previous title defence will still lie fresh in memory; a side hasn't retained the title since Manchester United in 2009; their squad is too small to compete on multiple fronts: backing them this season would be shortsighted.
The remainders; Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton, can all call on reasons to be optimistic heading into the year, but don't look quite as strong as the Manchester front and Tottenham.
Everton have had a bullish window, cashing in on the £75m sale of Lukaku, moving swiftly for a collection of promising players. However, despite the auspicious nature of the club's outlook, notably supported by a new owner who looks ready to spend, the 2017/18 is more likely a transition season as the club looks to evolve.
Liverpool are in good hands under the charismatic Klopp, but also have done little to convince of real progress from last season. They were outstanding against their title rivals but like United, lacked a cutting edge against bottom half sides. Home defeats to Swansea, and Crystal Palace, as well as away losses at Hull, Bourmenouth, Burnley and Leicester nearly cost them a place in the top four. Like Chelsea, they will also have to re-adapt to the rigours of European football.
Liverpool and Chelsea's qualification for the Champions League will certainly benefit Arsenal, who have done well to hold on to Alexis Sanchez while importing Lacazette from Lyon. How Wenger plays the Europa League may define how well they perform in the Premier League and there will surely be a temptation to focus solely on the league.
As always, there remains a hollow sense of optimism that this might finally be Arsenal's year, that Sanchez, Ozil and Lacazette will fire them to the title, that Santi Cazorla may come back from injury, in this new look 3-4-2-1 that has looked encouraging. But as always it's hard to look beyond the inevitable narrative of a late season dip and a fresh bout of heavy 'Wenger-out' rhetoric. Could 2017/18 instead be the year of 'Wexit'?
United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are the bookies top four in advance, with Guardiola, for the second year in a row, being the outright favourite. If pre-season is anything to go by though, Mourinho will pip Guardiola to the title, Tottenham will dangerously flirt with the title and then slip away, while Chelsea will find themselves in a battle for fourth against Liverpool and Arsenal.
It's going to be an absolute cracker.


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What is the best way to handle the over estimated hours for project task by team member.
Lets says the project can be completed in 50 hrs however the task completion time and efforts provided by the developer who will be working estimates it 150 hrs which is more than the required hours.
The way the OP is written leads me to interpret this a very specific way -
It is possible the OP is a manager of some kind - he mentions this estimate was from a team member. When he says the project can be completed in 50 hrs based on experience, this could very well be from having multiple projects very similar in scope and requirement that were completed in that time frame. The developer on his team is giving him an estimate of 150 hours. The working experience of this developer is likely brought up because of those previous projects, where other developers involved may have had similar working experience, and were able to complete the job in that 50 hour window.
IF this interpretation is anywhere close, my thoughts are that this particular developer is either sandbagging the estimate, or is not as skillled in the required area as he should be for this job, and is not the right candidate to be working on it.
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Lets says the project can be completed in 50 hrs however the task completion time and efforts provided by the developer who will be working estimates it 150 hrs which is more than the required hours.
The first thing to figure out is why someone thinks that the project will be one third quicker than the developer who will actually be working on it.
How does the person who reckons it will take 50 hours come to that conclusion? On what data are they basing that information?
How much experience does the developer have?
This 50 hours efforts is based on the experience and break down of task.
No, it's not. Who came up with 50 hours?
The developer has 5-6 years experience and based on his experience the 50 hours should be good.
Asking again, why does the developer want three times as long? Why the massive disparity in time?
Well its look at it a different way. If you book 50 hours and the developer isn't done, you will have to create a change order and get it approved to extend the project timeline. If you book 150 hours and then close it early no one will be mad (with in reason if you book 150 and close in 20 then that will cause other issues). Now if the developer is getting paid hourly, then its in his best interest to book so many (extra) hours. Again if you book 50 then run over no only will you need to get approval to extend the project timeline as well as get additional funding for the developer. If the developer is getting paid by the hour then you should create an incentivized structured payments so that he gets the job done in the shortest amount of time to get a bigger payout.
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Do you have a project plan for the project ? It should break down all of the tasks and give an indication of how long each will take. You would ideally have two times for each task - one being the bare minimum, and the other being the minimum + contingency.
You will then be able to challenge the higher timed project. That developer may have thought about things that the other hasn't - or maybe they are doing things that are not needed. Maybe they have read the specification wrongly.
The way through this is by dialogue, talking to both people.
Back when I was doing software for a living, I had a rule for estimating any request.
1) Figure out how long it will take
2) DOUBLE it.
3) add 25% for changes and contingency
4) add 10% just in case.
So, let's see. 50hrs X2=100hrs. + 25% (25hrs)= 125hrs. +10% (12.5hrs) = 137.5 hours. Not that far off.
There is obviously a serious disconnect between PM and Dev here, which is a really bad way to start off the project.
I assume we're talking about working hours, not duration, right? Who came up with the 50 hr. estimate on "required hours", and based on what? Is that person just as well or better equipped/qualified to judge the workload than the actual developer? Is there perhaps also a vested interest on the part of project management in maintaining low hours so as to be able to quote a more attractive price to the client (or management)? I would be very careful with that. Clients (and management) tend to get really POd when things end up costing two or three times the original estimate.
Of course the developer could be vastly exaggerating. As evident in this thread, some guys just like to play it safe and triple their own estimate. Personally, I don't like doing that. If I am really not sure how long something will take, I'll give the client a range and explain the variables involved. When fairly sure as to effort required based on previous experience, I will still always factor a 50% buffer in the estimate. That generally works out well, but I have had to occasionally eat an extra hour or two myself. That's fine, cost of doing business.
A 300% buffer like mentioned above seems very steep (and a bit lazy), but in the end, it just depends on what the client is willing to approve, and whether you're competing against anyone.
In the case at hand, I would simply try and get a second opinion from an independent developer before finalizing any plans.
I would ask a 2nd developer.. See what his estimate is...
Yup, you should be searching around for more than one developer/quote etc, etc if you already haven't. I feel like more detail to this post would have helped get you better answers.
I would also like to ask... Why spicehead-1fabt do you think it will only take 50 hours.. while the guy doing to work (with the experience) says it will take much longer... Why don't you believe him? Are you afraid you will lose the job? Do you not trust the guy? Do you work with him or is he someone you are getting a quote from?
- Do it yourself in 50-hours or less.
- Assign it to someone who can get it done in 50-hours.
- Get rid of them and find someone who is a better fit.
If you honestly believe that you have staff only working 13 hours in a 40 hour work week... (2.5 hours a day?) Or a contractor billing 3 times actual hours. You have a much bigger issue.
As everyone else has mentioned, it sounds like there's a big disconnect between the PM and the Dev. Is the Dev being paid on a contract at an hourly rate? In that case, the Dev is probably stretching things out unnecessarily. If they're part of the company, and are just being asked "how long will this take you" and they're providing 150 hrs, then they're probably just overestimating due to previous experience with similar projects.
It's important to look at the motivation of both sides, you've provided a less than complete picture of the situation, so all we can do is guess.
Sounds more like this should be titled: "How to handle under estimated hours for project completion". No evidence has been given that 50 hours is accurate, and the person doing the work thinks it will be longer. Why are they automatically suspect and not the person who came up with 50 hours?
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Seems the main question here is where the 50 hour estimate came from and why it varies so drastically from the dev's estimate;
Back in my BA days, I worked pretty closely with devs on projects and while there didn't seem to be any set standard, I always made sure to base any estimates off of the technical requirements. The problem with that is sometimes technical requirements can take some time to draft up so it's nearly impossible for a dev to give an accurate estimate based only on some preliminary specs. In cases like that, I found it most helpful to set reasonable expectations with my clients regarding estimates.
In a perfect world, you should never go over your estimated hours for any project; In cases where a ballpark estimate is needed (i.e. without full requirements), most devs would double or even triple the hours estimated to cover most any variables for the project. Any changes to the scope of the project would require a new estimate and approval.


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'In the beginning, there was a big bang and things started to develop rapidly after that," says Moonalice guitarist and vocalist Roger McNamee.
Moonalice formed in San Francisco in 2007 with guidance from producer T Bone Burnett, part of Burnett's series of new bands playing in classic Americana styles. The other projects included the duo of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.
"We had an amazing experience making a record with T Bone and having a band because of him," McNamee says.
Moonalice also features drummer John Molo (Bruce Hornsby & the Range), keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna) and guitarist Barry Sless (the David Nelson Band). Jason Crosby, who also plays with McNamee in the Doobie Decibel System, has joined the band frequently onstage over the past year.
McNamee sums up Moonalice as "San Francisco psychedelic"— original songs written in a classic-rock style. "We're effectively a tribute to a vibe rather than a specific band or kind of music," he says. "We were striving for this vibe of a time long gone."
Inspired by T Bone's advice to build a legend around the band, Moonalice created a backstory that the members were a tribe of "ne'er-do-well men and really smart women" (McNamee's wife Ann was an original member), which they built up through concert posters drawn by renowned local artists and offered at every show they play.
Offstage, the band is anything but stuck in a bygone era, and was one of the first in the region to take up social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to connect with fans. Their 2009 hit single, "It's 4:20 Somewhere," was downloaded more than 4.6 million times from their website, a first for any band without a label.
Moonalice also broadcast every show live in HD and make them available to watch on their website. "This kind of homegrown thing is very San Francisco psychedelic, but updated to the 21st century," McNamee says.
Next month, Moonalice release their first full-length album since 2009,
High 5, built around a thematic idea of "the tribe as a community in hard times."
"This is a time when music can be very helpful; it can be a way to express sentiments that are hard to bring up in conversation," McNamee says.
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New Tax Would Penalize Electric Cars for Not Using Gas
Here's another entry for the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished file: Environmentally conscious drivers may soon get hit with a charge to make up for the gas that they're not using.
Aiming to cut use of gasoline and dependence on foreign oil, the federal government gives you a $7,500 tax credit if you buy a new electric car. Various states add their own tax credits ranging up to $5,000. So far, so good. But now state and federal proposals would penalize electric cars for not paying gasoline tax, by imposing a tax on the miles they travel. And here's a hackle-raising detail: to make it work, states would have to track your mileage with a mandatory GPS device on the car.
The cost of highway and other transportation expenses are (partially) offset by gasoline taxes -- an 18.4 cents per gallon federal levy and widely varying rates at the state level. (Check the rate in your state). The federal tax, unchanged since 1993, already has fallen short of financing the federal highway trust fund, with $19. 5 billion transferred from general revenues this year. And revenues may continue to decline: Federal regulations require vehicles to average 35.5 mpg by 2016, which has already cut into gas tax revenue. (See What You'll Be Driving in 2016).
Armed with a report released last week by the Congressional Budget Office, Senate Budget Committee head Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) has raised the possibility of a "vehicle miles traveled" tax. In fact, legislation already is pending in three states -- Oregon, Texas and Washington -- that would impose some form of VMT tax. So owners of electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf (right) and Chevrolet Volt (below), who now pay no or very little gas tax, would get slammed by a VMT. Same with owners of high-mileage hybrids and low-emission cars powered by natural gas, which is generally not taxed now as a motor fuel.
The CBO report says taxing miles traveled is a more accurate way than gas taxes to assure motorists pay their fair share for road repairs. And new GPS technology makes it feasible -- though not immediately. Such a GPS device would track mileage, allowing drivers to be billed for the tax. In an advanced system, readers on gas pumps would measure mileage since the last fill-up and impose the tax immediately in your gas bill. But the CBO says the cost would be prohibitive to retrofit cars and trucks now on the road with the GPS device, though it could be mandated in new cars. Interim low-tech measures might involve having your odometer mileage certified at an annual safety inspection.
The cost and privacy concerns that the government is tracking your vehicle may help derail this idea. But it's not impossible:
- Some motorists already allow tracking to save on insurance. In a growing trend, insurance companies will cut premiums sharply for car owners willing to attach electronic devices to their vehicls to measure the distance they drive and ensure that they are not aggressive drivers. Progressive Insurance, which pioneered the concept, already has 100,000 volunteers. (See Auto Insurance: Cut Your Bill by Installing this Device).
- A pilot study shows potential acceptance. University of Iowa researchers tracked 2,500 motorists for eight months with GPS technology that recorded their mileage for potential tax bills. When the study began, 80% of participants said they were opposed to a vehicle miles traveled tax. But by the end, when they had satisfied themselves that the device reported only their mileage traveled and not their locations, 70% said they favored such a tax.
- Electric vehicles are not likely to rack up big mileage numbers. Cars such as the Nissan Leaf, which never uses gas, and the Chevrolet Volt, which has a backup gas generator, have limited range. They are likely to be used mostly as commuter cars, not long-distance travelers.
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I'm looking to repair a moulded concrete window surround on an ex council house. The window surround - i.e. the window sill, mullions and lintel - appears to have been moulded in one piece. The bottom corners, where the sill meets the mullions, are damaged - chunks of concrete have come away exposing rusted rebar. I guess that water has got to the rebar, causing the rust and the subsequent expansion has caused the concrete to fail.
So I'm wondering what's the best way to repair this? I'm guessing that I need to cut a section out around the corroded concrete and rebar, but how do I patch the missing concrete to get a good bond between old and new, and how can I prevent water finding its way through the join and to the rebar and causing the same problem in the future?
I'm told that a repair to the neighbour's window involved the in situ moulding of an outer jacket of concrete to cover the whole surround - ie somehow pouring concrete into a mould fixed to the window surround. I can't quite picture how that would be done - I guess the mould would be built and filled in sections, sill first, then mullions etc. And there would still be the problem of ensuring a good bond to old the concrete.
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Andrew Ripp creates music that pushes the boundaries of genre stereotypes, blending the energetic beats of pop music into a soul culture and adding the depth and groove of soul music into a pop culture. Since beginning his career in 2005, Ripp's songs and records have successfully impacted a diverse and growing audience including true music lovers: fans that appreciate the nuances of a well crafted album, and easy listeners: fans who simply want to hear a catchy tune.
Having an awe-inspiring voice is one thing, but knowing how to use that voice to share lyrics and emotion in a way that moves those who hear the songs is quite another. Ripp has grown in this over the years as a respected songwriter with the voice of an artist. With his first two albums, Fifty Miles to Chicago in 2008 and She Remains The Same in 2010, debuting at #1 on the Singer/Songwriter chart on iTunes, Andrew proved that he could create a song and share it with emotion and instrumentation.
He began as a songwriter- with a song on the Billboard 100 charts recorded by Ryan Cabrera, and other songs featured on American Idol, One Tree Hill, and Live To Dance, but grew comfortable in the place where his strong and powerful voice was the driving force behind each single. "The good ones," Andrew says, speaking of excellent artists, "they leave space in the songs." And over the last few years, Andrew has learned that skill. Having moved to Nashville with his wife at the encouragement of fellow musician and mentor Dave Barnes, Andrew settled into the songwriting town and began to hone his talents and grow as an artist, musician, and songwriter.
Won't Let Go, his most recent full-band album released in 2013, blends the work of Andrew in all his roles with many other award-winning musicians, songwriters, as well as award-winning producer Charlie Peacock (Civil Wars, Switchfoot) and engineer/mixer Richie Biggs.
On the heels of the success of Won't Let Go, which debuted at #3 on the Singer-Songwriter chart when it was released early last year to rave reviews, Ripp has made a stripped down acoustic album entitled Simple on Be Music & Entertainment. Simple features acoustic versions of ten tracks from Won't Let Go as well as a cover of Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors," which has become a crowd favorite out on the road. It is clear with every stripped down note on Simple that Andrew Ripp is an incredible talent worthy of all the buzz around him as an up and coming artist to watch in 2014.
"Simple is more to me than just the title of this record and tour," Ripp explains, "It's the filter I've been striving to live my entire life through. It's putting down the iPhone, closing the computer, turning off the TV and just sitting still. Distractions can be very convincing and they have a way of making me believe that they're more important than having a conversation with a human being. The process of making this record has really helped me to focus my time on the important things in life."
As a touring artist, Andrew's live performances continue to move the audience in just the right ways- quieting them at the most heart-felt moments and causing dance at just the right beat. Crowds don't want him to leave the stage when the show is over, and he's not sure he's ready to leave either. He has opened for and toured with the likes of with Jon Foreman, needtobreathe, Will Hoge and Robert Randolph. 2013 included tour stops with Andy Grammer, Sara Bareilles, Parachute, LeAnn Rimes and Plain White T's and Ripp continues to book dates around the country. "I've been touring for the last few years and a lot of my shows have been stripped down – solo style and simple," said Ripp. "After having a bunch of people ask me after shows when I was going to make an acoustic record I decided to do just that. This is my way of saying I HEAR YOU, I LOVE YOU and THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting me over the years!"


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It's time to sort through the food! I decided to break this into three parts: pantry goods, tea/coffee, and fridge/freezer.
Here's my pantry before I got started. It has fared well since I reorganised it at the start of the year, but since I shop more from the bulk foods now, its contents have changed a bit and it was due for some clearing out.
I began by pulling out all the food and putting it on the table. That was intimidating.
Of course, then I went through each item and decided what to keep. We had one or two things that were obviously expired or very old, and a few more that I was just tired of having around. In her second book, Spark Joy, Marie Kondo does say that when you clear out food, it's best to make plans to eat up what you don't want (but which is still good), rather than to just throw it out, and I agree.
So I ate the one remaining serving of trail mix just to move things along. The sacrifices you make for decluttering.
I also piled a bunch of snacky remnants into a bowl so I could focus on using them up. Most were single-serving sized remains of snacks or crackers, left from a trip we took or that had just fallen behind things and been forgotten. They were in crinkly plastic packages just being peripatetic around the pantry. What a shame, I guess I'll have to eat those, too.
Let me pause and make a comment about shopping from bulk bins. Even if you have no interest in zero waste, bulk bins are great for dry goods that you don't use often. You can buy just enough for one recipe, and not be left with a situation like this. That 'Brown & Wild' rice mix keeps getting thrown into soup, after soup, after soup…and lingers on. And quinoa, I guess we want to like you more than we do because you're still there.
I began putting things away and tidied up the bananas.
Oh, wait, those aren't bananas. I've been spending too much time around a one-year-old who thinks all fruit and vegetables are bananas. I mean, I tidied up my onion/garlic/potato bin.
And my spices and oils and vinegars are much neater.
Here is the box of items to discard.
A day later, I pulled out all the tea and coffee. I didn't discard any of these, because we like them all. We could slim our collection, but I'd rather do that by using them up.
Now, the fridge. Instead of pulling everything out, I worked one shelf at a time, pushing things around but not removing everything. Again, this is what Kondo recommends in Spark Joy. After this, I reconsidered my fridge organisation.
I always resisted organising the fridge very carefully because I saw its contents as being potentially infinite in variety and in quantity. Leftovers come and go, types of food change, we get on a kick for a particular thing for a while, etc. So what's the point of a system?
I realised, going through the fridge contents, that this is silly. We can only eat so much, and I shop weekly so we aren't stockpiling things for a long period. Certain things are always there, and should have a single spot reserved for them: eggs, yogurt, milk, bread, fruit. As for the rest, although it may not be the same stuff all the time, it fits into the same categories: vegetables, leftovers, condiments, chocolate (yes, that's it's own category).
I drew a diagram to show where everything should go.
Next up was the freezer, where once again I went through the contents without really removing them. Now, I did actually go buy a shelf to go in the freezer, because since zero waste began we now have a freezer full of glass jars all stacked up, and that seems dangerous. I found a wire shelf that was just right to give us lots of stacking space. Actually, I think the freezer is supposed to have a shelf, because there are slots for one, but perhaps a previous tenant broke it.
This was a good opportunity to consider the way I shop and cook. This is one benefit of the KonMari method: it facilitates consideration of your habits as they are evinced in your belongings. Your things will show you what you've been doing and give you a chance to consider it.
I realised that one culprit for fridge clutter is the remains of a package of something, of which you only used part for a recipe: specific sauces, sour cream, cream cheese, chilies and ginger and bunches of herbs. You know, I don't want to cook recipes like that so much any more. It's fine to have leftovers of something you'll definitely use in short order, but I am often guilty of letting half-used things just linger for weeks. I realised that I am in charge of what and how I cook. I don't have to complain about 'those recipes' that require half a package of something. I can change the recipe, or not make it at all (or, obviously, find a way to buy the thing unpackaged in the right quantity!). I'm developing a sense lately of the ingredients I like to use, and the ones I don't, and I'm interested in finding ways to use my commonly kept ingredients to substitute for others. I know, for example, that you can strain yogurt to make something like cream cheese – and since cream cheese is a frequent fridge-lingering culprit for me, this might be a good substitution. This is all to say that going through my food helped me see which ingredients I really like to cook with, and which are dispensable to me and often end up as clutter.
I also feel more inclined to simplify how we eat. I don't mean reducing the variety of our diet, but rather developing a sense of 'how we eat in our house' and learning to work within a simple repertoire with confidence. I make our salad dressing, for example: one kind only, in the same bottle each time. It's the one we like best and it makes life easy. Sometimes I vary the flavour by using a different vinegar or herbs, but essentially it's the same formula each time. That's what I mean: I want to find what we like and what fits with our life (time, budget, health), and stick with it, confidently. Sometimes the litter of too many condiments, too many half-empty packets, is a result of not being confident of my own cooking skills and tastes.
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This being the internet age, we didn't have to wait long for official pictures to leak out.
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Before the villain's identity was announced, Arrow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg spoke with EW about the upcoming season and claimed the new Big Bad isn't so different from series protagonist Oliver. "He doesn't have any personal animus towards the Arrow, and he actually in some ways has a very similar worldview," Kriesberg said, also noting that "the theme of identity is tied up very much in how the villain is presented to Oliver."
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Wondrously perched upon the terminus of High Willhays' south-western spur, this substantial cairn would have possessed a magnificent view down into the deep defile cradling the West Okement River.... if its (presumably Bronze Age) erectors had seen fit. Needless to say - for whatever reason(s) now lost to the swirling mists for which Dartmoor is famous/infamous (thanks in no small measure to Conan Doyle and that story about the dodgy mutt) - they didn't, the spellbound traveller consequently having to make his way a short distance to the crest in order to peer at the rocky river valley below. Or, even better, to the granite outcropping beside what I assume to be another military observation hut(?) upon Fordsland Ledge itself. It is worth the effort, either option offering certainly one of the finest vistas I've seen in the area. Hey, try both.
The cairn, despite apparently having lost a little height in the century since Crossing's visit (see Misc posts), is nevertheless well defined, its hollow interior sprouting a number of large orthostats irrevocably losing their footing and duly succumbing to Newton's three dicta, albeit to varying degrees. It should be noted that the resulting 'arrangement' does not resemble any standard notion of an archetypal Dartmoor cist. And the professionals reckon a chamber 'unlikely'. However I think it also unlikely that the stones should have been specifically transported here at a later date and erected to form a 'shelter', not with the much less exposed valley just below. Yeah, whatever form it took, I reckon logic suggests there probably was some sort of 'structure' incorporated within this cairn at its genesis. I guess only excavation might determine whether this was subsequently subject to adaptation, perhaps in historic times?
One thing is beyond dispute, however. What a fine hang this place is! The river may be obscured from the gaze of the Citizen Cairn'd lying almost comatose within.... but not the brutal grandeur of the encircling tors. Time slips by, as it must, it eventually dawning upon me that I'd better make a move and find somewhere to sleep. Descending to the approx north-west the shattered rocky tors of Black Tor look well worth a visit. However I find I've less in the 'reserve tank' than I previously thought and press on toward
Longstone Hill
. Ha! But wait, there's more....
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22/09/2012 - Parked at Meldon reservoir on a great weather day. Very little cloud, big blue sky. Headed south via Black Tor to the cairn at Fordsland Ledge. Really fine walking and the cairn is very nice with great views. Continued on to High Willhays and the cairns on Yes Tor. Great loop on the edge on Dartmoor. I hope to go back one day.
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Crossing, writing in 1909, also noted the cist-like structure, so it's not a very modern re-arrangement:
We shall make our way to Forsland Ledge, or, as one document gives it, Fosborne Ledge, though this name is never heard, a small pile of rocks 1/3 mile S.W. of Willes [High Willhays], and about 200 ft below it. The beholder looks down from it down into the gorge of the Ockment, and upon a picture that has not many equals on the moor. The range of hills from Newtake by Black Ridge, Cut Hill and Fur Tor to Great Mis Tor, bounds the view to the S. We look into the recesses of the moor around Cranmere, and upon the two Kneesets. Across the valley is Amicombe, and beyond it Great Links Tor, which from no other point presents a finer appearance. Away to the R. are the rocks of Black Tor at the foot of which is seen the shelter from which artillery practice is watched, with the in-country over the down beyond. But the features that arrest are Lints Tor, which came into view shortly after we left Willes, and the winding Ockment far down below. The resemblance of the tor to a castle has already been mentioned, and the rambler will not fail to be struck by it here. The rocks crown a rounded hill, covered with grass, on which are long lines of heather. Below it on the W. the Ockment flows the part of the stream here being that between Kneeset Foot and Sandy Ford. In several parts of Dartmoor are tors bearing resemblance to a building, or ruins, but nowhere is the illusion so perfect as here. To the R. of the tor Kneeset Foot is seen, with the pass called Broad Amicombe Hole above it. Great Kneeset is 1 1/4m. beyond the tor; Little Kneeset is a little to the right of this, and 1m. further away. Forsland Ledge is about 550 fft above the river; the hill on which it is placed is very steep, and plentifully strewn with granite. Quite close to is a small tumulus, within which is what appears to be a ruined kistvaen.
William Crossing -
Crossing's Guide To Dartmoor
(2nd ed. 1912).
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SX 57588888. In a crest position on Fordsland Ledge at 581.0m OD is the disturbed remains of a turf-and-heather-covered cairn. It measures 12.2m by 13.9m in diameter and is 1.1m high. In a hollow in the centre are a number of large stones suggesting the possibility of a former cist or even a chamber, utilizing the natural outcrop as its base.
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SX 5788 8889. The cairn at Fordsland Ledge remains as described by Authority 2 though the earthwork element of the site only remains to a height of 0.7m. The large stones visible in the centre of the feature are somewhat unusual and not typical of a cist-like structure. The presence of a chamber is very doubtful and it is more likely that the interior of the cairn has, at some point, been remodelled to create a small shelter.
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Wrestleview Staff and Readers Predictions
TNA Lockdown 2013 Predictions
March 10, 2013
Written by: Mr. V of Wrestleview.com
Hello everyone and welcome to the Fifth season of Wrestleview's Staff Predictions (for the 2013-2014 season). The season starts now and will last until WrestleMania XXX! The third set of predictions will be for TNA Lockdown, which takes place in San Antonio, TX. It also rings in a new era for Impact Wrestling, as they finally closed shop at Orlando.
Current Standings
The 2013-2014 Wrestleview Staff Standings (As of ROH 11th Anniversary Show)
(The number in parentheses is points earned from the previous PPV. Remember, it is 2 points for a title and 1 point for a non-title picked correctly).
1) Nick Gray 19 pts. (9)
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The current Top 2013-2014 Wrestleview Readers Standings (As of ROH 11th Anniversary Show)
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4) Jordan Benterman 14pts.(5)
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6) Jamie Sowter 14 pts. (5)
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8) Tony Castaneda 14 pts. (5)
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The 2013-2014 Wrestleview Staff Predictions changes (Quick Rundown of new rules. I'll keep them up for another few weeks.)
1) ROH iPPVs WILL count next season (but only a few of them).
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The 2013-2014 PPV Predictions Projected Schedule
WrestleMania XXIX
Extreme Rules 2013
(June PPV – Name TBD)
Money in the Bank 2013
SummerSlam 2013
Night of Champions 2013
Over the Limit 2013
Hell in a Cell 2013
Survivor Series 2013
Table, Ladders, and Chairs 2013
Royal Rumble 2014
Elmination Chamber 2014
WrestleMania XXX (will mark the official end of next season)
Lockdown 2013
Slammiversary XI
Bound for Glory 2013
Genesis 2014
Lockdown 2014
WrestleMania Weekend Shows for 2013 (Next PPV)
Best in the World 2013
Death Before Dishonor XI
Glory by Honor XII
Final Battle 2013
Anniversary Show from 2014
WrestleMania Weekend Shows for 2014
And now, the predictions for TNA Lockdown!
As of press time I have yet to receive predictions from Dave Stephens (whose picks will be announced on The Teachers' Lounge).
NON-TITLE MATCHES (each valued at one point)
Singles Match
Joseph Park vs. Joey Ryan
Nick G. – ABYSS.
Coire M. – JOSEPH PARK, ESQ.
Clinton B. – JOSEPH PARK by way of Taz calling him Abyss.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – PARK.
Darragh O. – JOEY RYAN.
Anthony V. – JOEY RYAN. Is he still associated with Matt Morgan?
Jason N. – PARK.
Gary H. – JOSEPH PARK.
Greg M. – JOSEPH PARK.
Matt O. – JOSEPH PARK.
Mike T. – JOSEPH PARK.
Michael F. – JOSEPH PARK.
Singles Match
Rob Terry vs. Robbie E
Nick G. – ROIDED DUDE.
Coire M. – Someone called ROBBIE…T.
Clinton B. – ROBBIE T.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – ROBBIE T.
Darragh O. – ROBBIE E.
Anthony V. – ROB TERRY. Babyface prevails.
Jason N. – BIG ROB.
Gary H. – ROBBIE E.
Greg M. – ROBBIE T.
Matt O. – E.
Mike T. – ROB TERRY.
Michael F. – ROB TERRY.
Steel Cage Match
Kurt Angle vs. Wes Brisco
Nick G. – KURTIE KURT.
Coire M. – KURT ANGLE.
Clinton B. – All the somas in the world couldn't save this match…KURT ANGLE by way of breaking another tooth.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – ANGLE.
Darragh O. – KURT ANGLE.
Anthony V. – KURT ANGLE. If Brisco wins this match then we are fooled.
Jason N. – ANGLE.
Gary H. – KURT ANGLE.
Greg M. – KURT ANGLE.
Matt O. – BRISCOE.
Mike T. – ANGLE.
Michael F. – KURT ANGLE.
Lethal Lockdown Match
Team TNA (Sting, Magnus, Samoa Joe, James Storm, and Eric Young)
Aces and Eights (Devon, Mr. Anderson, DOC, Knox, and Garret Bischoff)
Nick G. – ACESANDNEXUSSHEILDEIGHTSOFTHEFALL
Coire M. – TEAM TNA.
Clinton B. – TEAM TUH—NAH.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – TEAM TNA.
Darragh O. – ACES AND EIGHTS.
Anthony V. – TEAM TNA. If they make a BIG reveal then it will be at the main event of this show. I think it will happen, therefore As and 8s lose this one.
Jason N. – ACES AND EIGHTS.
Gary H. – ACES AND EIGHTS.
Greg M. – ACES AND EIGHTS.
Matt O. – TEAM TNA.
Mike T. – ACES and EIGHTS (I personally would watch a WWE Divas Ironman Match than watch As and 8s.)
Michael F. – ACES AND EIGHTS (Aces and Eights win based upon someone turning on Team TNA. My guess would be Magnus.)
CONSENSUS: ACES and EIGHTS 7-5
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES (each valued at two points)
Singles Match for the TNA Knockouts Championship
Velvet Sky (c) vs. Gail Kim
Nick G. – VELVET.
Coire M. – VELVET SKY.
Clinton B. – VELVET and her cellulite.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – VELVET.
Darragh O. – VELVET SKY.
Anthony V. – SKY. This match can go either way, but I will say Sky retains with Kim winning it back soon.
Jason N. – VELVET.
Gary H. – VELVET SKY.
Greg M. – VELVET SKY.
Matt O. – KIM.
Mike T. – SKY.
Michael F. – VELVET SKY.
Three-Way Match for the TNA X-Division Championship
Kenny King (c) vs. Christian York vs. Zema Ion
Nick G. – KING.
Coire M. – KENNY KING.
Clinton B. – KENNY KING given a chance as champion? TNA might be worth a damn now! Kenny FTW!
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – KING.
Darragh O. – KENNY KING.
Anthony V. – KENNY KING. He just won the title, and I think as of now he is the best in that division. King retains.
Jason N. – Traitor (KING).
Gary H. – KENNY KING.
Greg M. – KENNY KING.
Matt O. – KING.
Mike T. – KENNY KING.
Michael F. – KENNY KING.
CONSENSUS: KING sweeps it, as all 12 staff members predicted King to retain.
Three-Way Match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship
Bobby Roode and Austin Aries (c's) vs. Kazarian and Christopher Daniels vs. Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez
Nick G. – ARIES AND THAT OTHER JOBBER.
Coire M. – AUSTIN ARIES AND BOBBY ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Clinton B. – TEAM HELL N…I mean BOBBY ROODE AND AUSTIN ARIES.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – ROODE & ARIES.
Darragh O. – BAD INFLUENCE.
Anthony V. – KAZARIAN and DANIELS. I'm sticking with the most interesting tag team in TNA right now.
Jason N. – ARIES & ROODE.
Gary H. – BAD INFLUENCE.
Greg M. – ROODE AND ARIES.
Matt O. – ROODE AND ARIES.
Mike T. – ARIES/ROODE.
Michael F. – ARIES/ROODE.
CONSENSUS: ARIES AND ROODE are predicted to retain (9 staff members predicted them). 3 staff members predict Bad Influence as the winners.
Steel Cage Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Bully Ray
Nick G. – JEFF HARVEY.
Coire M. – JEFFERY NERO HARDY.
Clinton B. – JEFF HARDY.
Dave S. – N/A.
Josh B. – RAY.
Darragh O. – JEFF HARDY.
Anthony V. – BULLAY~! Though not the best choice, if my sense of storyline is right then Ray is the best choice as champion.
Jason N. – BULLY.
Gary H. – JEFF HARDY.
Greg M. – JEFF HARDY.
Matt O. – BULLY RAY.
Mike T. – RAY.
Michael F. – BULLY RAY.
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When you fall asleep, it is the body's natural mechanism to elevate a hormone called glucagon that increases blood sugar levels as desired by the pancreas. In response, insulin, also a hormone produced by the pancreatic cells, decreases. Reduced insulin results in lower suppression of blood glucose. Glucagon also signals the liver to breakdown excessive sugar that is stored as an emergency reserve in it. This further increases glucose in the blood circulation.
Counter-regulatory hormones- cortisol, catecholamines, and growth hormones also tend to increase rapidly. These hormones typically elevate between 3 and 8 am, peaking between 4 and 5 am. Hence, this mechanism is termed as the "dawn phenomenon."
Now that's the reason why you must have a light dinner that is low in sugar and salt, and avoid fried foods and maida-based preparations. Also make it a habit to have dinner early so that your insulin levels help control your blood sugar for a few hours before it is completely suppressed. Another way to control blood sugar better through the night is to take a walk after dinner. That will help enhance your rate of digestion and reduce blood sugar appreciably. But remember, you need a 20-minute gap after you eat, before you get on to exercising and you must replenish yourself with fluids low in sugar and fat when you feel tired.
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Joey Forman
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|December 9, 1982 (aged 53)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Joseph "Joey" Forman (November 18, 1929 – December 9, 1982) was an American comedian and comic actor.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Forman appeared on the late 1940s local radio show the Magic Lady Supper Club along with his school friend, singer Eddie Fisher.[1] The pair travelled to upstate New York to the Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Forman was originally an athletic director, but his funny remarks led the management to place him on the stage as a comedian, though Forman wished to become a serious actor. Forman broke into show business after winning an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program.[2]
He first attracted attention in Las Vegas as the opening act for Mickey Rooney and also Rooney's straight man. He also co-starred in Mickey Rooney's 1954–1955 NBC sitcom The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, as Mickey's best friend, Freddy, and appeared with him in the films Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) and The Big Operator (1959).
Forman was considered a standard Borscht Belt comic, and he performed standup comedy both live and on television (including shows like The Hollywood Palace). He also took on comedic roles in films and on television. Forman appeared in two episodes of The Monkees, first as jealous kids show host "Captain Crocodile" in an eponymous episode, then as Asian criminal "Dragonman" in "Monkees Chow Mein". He also appeared in three Get Smart episodes, including two episodes as "Harry Hoo", a parody of Charlie Chan. He also appeared in the final episode of the first season of M*A*S*H as a touring comedian performing for U.S. troops in the Korean War as well as in Episode #18 during the third season of Bewitched as Ho Ho the Clown. He also had roles in films such as the Jerry Lewis film The Errand Boy (1961) as an audio director, The Wheeler Dealers (1963) starring James Garner and Lee Remick, The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968), the cult film Candy (1968) as a tough New York cop, and Linda Lovelace for President (1975).
Forman distinguished himself from the field by inventing a character called "The Mashuganishi Yogi", a parody of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1968, working with Bill Dana, he produced a comedy album consisting of a faux press conference, in which he responded to mostly-straight questions with funny answers, speaking in a stereotyped Indian accent. He was accompanied with a sitarist, "Harvey Shankar", a parody of Ravi Shankar (played by Dana).
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In later television appearances, he would sometimes reprise his Yogi character. Forman died on December 9, 1982 from pulmonary fibrosis.[3]
Partial filmography[edit]
- The Atomic Kid (1954) - MP in Hospital
- The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955) - Ted
- Hot Rod Rumble (1957) - Benny, Club President
- Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) - Beezy 'Beez' Anderson
- The Big Operator (1959) - Ray Bailey
- The Errand Boy (1961) - Jedson
- The Wheeler Dealers (1963) - Buster Yarrow
- The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) - Herbert Sweeney
- Candy (1968) - Charlie the Cop
- The Boatniks (1970) - Lt. Jordan
- Linda Lovelace for President (1975) - Chow Ming
- New York, New York (1977) - Argumentative Man (uncredited)
- The Nude Bomb (1980) - Agent 13
- Den Tüchtigen gehört die Welt (1981) - Eddie Owen
- Earthbound (1981) - Madden
- Double Exposure (1982) - Son (final film role)
- ^ http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/magiclady.html
- ^ Gaver, Jack Joe Forman Has Good Season With Sid Caesar The Schenectady Gazette 8 January 1964
- ^ Comic Forman dies at 53
External links[edit]
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Much has been made of Craig Pickering's switch to bobsleigh but the Winter Olympic hopeful insists he has not turned his back on athletics.
In fact, the sprinter has ambitions of representing Great Britain on the track as well as in a bobsled.
Failing to make the Great Britain team for the Summer Games in London at 100metres following a back injury prompted Pickering's change in discipline and he is desperate for a crack at the Winter Sochi 2014.
Following in the footsteps of former sprinters Allyn Condon and Marcus Adam, Pickering has already taken part in a world championships in his new discipline alongside John Jackson in the two-man bob.
But he has no plans to ditch track and field, as he revealed: 'This year I could compete for Britain in two sports.
'The World Cup circuit starts again in November in bobsleigh, so for now it's back to sprint training and I aim to make the world championships in Moscow this summer.
'After that I want to make the Winter Olympics and go for a medal.'
Pickering also says the hardship involved in making it at the top level in bobsleigh was in stark contrast to his athletics career.
'On the circuit it's so difficult,' he added. 'You're pampered a bit in track and field but here you're everything; you're your own mechanic for a start.
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We are planning to load balance three password registration and reset portals that will be used by network and non-network users. I haven't found an official guide from Microsoft on how to do this so I wanted to run the scenario by the group to see if anyone could suggest best practices. I used this document for part of my design solution.
Business Case:
Allow end users on the internal network, as well as external remote users not on the network, to register for and reset their network passwords without calling the company help desk.
Standard Set Up:
- We already have connectivity to FIMService so all needed ports are open between portal machines, FIM Service and FIM Sync.
- There are three VMs: server1.acme.com, server2.acme.com, server3.acme.com
- These machines are available for internal users on the company network as well as external non-network users via reverse proxy
- IIS 7.5 installed on the password portal servers and SharePoint is not present
- Password and registration portal installed on each machine
- Single network adapter and IP per machine
- Single password service account (FIMPassword)
- There are three DNS entries for password registration that point to each server passwordregistration1.acme.com, passwordregistration 2.acme.com, passwordregistration 3.acme.com
- There are three DNS entries for password reset that point to each server passwordreset1.acme.com, passwordreset 2.acme.com, passwordreset 3.acme.com
- We will have a NLB with the main addresses as passwordreset .acme.com and passwordregistration .acme.com in front of the DNS entries
- We will set SPNS on FIMPassword passwordregistration1-3 and passwordreset1-3 along with the main passwordreset .acme.com and passwordregistration .acme.com addresses
- We plan to set up IIS to use the appPool per the document instructions
- Based on the game plan above, is this a valid approach to load balance three servers available to both internal and external users?
- Are there any other settings that we need to update to make the sites accessible to both network and non-network users?
- Any other recommendations for items we might have missed?
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I think you should be fine if you follow these steps. Only thing I might add that it might be safe to configure your NLB for "sticky IP". Meaning once a client is load balanced to a server it will stick to the server. I'm not sure the web browser or FIM client need this, but better safe than sorry. Or do thourough testing with regards to this.
Personally I'm not a fan of "registering" the serverX names. It only complexifies stuff. Your FIM will ask in various places for "the" URLS. E.g. passwordreset and passwordregistration. YOu might see weird effects if you use a direct URL whilst everything might be just fine.
If i want to "bypass" the load balancer I prefer modifying MY hosts file so that the "virtual url" points to a dedicated node.
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The Divorce Roundtable is a non-profit interdisciplinary working group dedicated to improving the divorce process for Montgomery County area families, and especially children. Formed in 1992, it is made up of judges, masters, court staff, mediators, therapists, attorneys, agency personnel, and collaborative professionals. The Divorce Roundtable seeks to develop and implement policies, programs, and education initiatives for the professionals who work with divorcing families. The Divorce Roundtable also works to foster understanding and collaboration among the professionals who work with divorcing families.
The Divorce Roundtable has been instrumental in launching court projects, including the co-parenting skills training and the court-sponsored custody mediation. The Divorce Roundtable also is involved in educational efforts directed at judges, legislators, and professionals who work in the divorce field. In this pursuit the Divorce Roundtable organizes full-day interdisciplinary training conferences, testifies on proposed family law related legislation, and sponsors frequent "brown bag" lunch seminars.
The Divorce Roundtable focuses on approaches that reflect input from many perspectives and solutions that consider the legitimate needs of all participants. It promotes beneficial alternatives to litigation of divorce and related family issues. It also develops public education materials that address the just resolution of divorce and related family issues.
This website serves to foster awareness of the Divorce Roundtable and its mission, and to distribute education related news and information. Thank you for visiting!


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How to Make It
Step 1
Whisk together cornstarch, cocoa and salt in a heavy saucepan. Slowly whisk in half-and-half. Turn heat to medium and cook, whisking frequently, until mixture thickens, 8 to 10 minutes.
Step 2
Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate-hazelnut spread, butter and vanilla until smooth. Divide among 6 ramekins or custard cups. Serve warm, or cover, pressing plastic wrap onto surface, and refrigerate for up to 3 days. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.


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The U.S. Coast Guard dropped its charges against Lt. Lance Leone.
The Sitka-based Coast Guard aviator was facing charges of negligent homicide and destruction of government property in connection with a 2010 helicopter crash.
Leone is a U.S. Coast Guard aviator, and the sole survivor of a 2010 helicopter crash that killed three people from Air Station Sitka. He was facing charges of negligent homicide and destruction of government property.
According to Leone's attorney, John Smith, Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo decided not to send the charges on to court martial.
Smith says while it's the end of the charges, it's the beginning of a new chapter for Leone.
"Probably one of the most difficult things he's going to have to do is to be able to do that thing that he loves to do again," Smith said. "It's been quite a while since he's flown or piloted an aircraft, and I'm hoping that he is going to be able to go to retraining soon, pass that retraining, and look forward to a new assignment in the Coast Guard, flying and rescuing people in accordance with the Coast Guard mission."
Smith said Ostebo's decision, and the outcome of the charges against his client, serve as encouragement for the members of all military branches that the military's system of justice works.