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a windsurfing perspective.
This is for those who don't 'get' sport and physical activity and why we do it. Why we ruin our knees, freeze our bits off and bust collar bones. It's for those who say, it's just a game. And those who write things like:
"I have never understood the puerile fascination of watching 22 adult men kicking a bag of wind up and down a field."
Or, as To Muse and Abuse states:
"Analysts have since confirmed that the air-bag-kickery was the most exciting thing to happen in human history since last weekend, when a bunch of yellow-shirted millionaires kicked their sack of air into a net belonging to red-and-blue-shirted millionaires."
What follows is not about about windsurfing per se, it's about lifestyle and passion; an attempt to explain our ridiculous behaviour to all the sports hall haters of the world; for all those who seek to apply logic to our follies and think there are better things to do.
" The same energy devoted to sports can be devoted to more fruitful endeavours – like, say, cleaning the streets, repainting a school, dealing with soil erosion etc. Those can all be motivating and can build social networks."
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The cold north wind and rain had been funnelling down the Hope Valley for days rattling the tiles with gusts of 80 mph or more. On the Beaufort Scale winds of this magnitude are classified as Hurricane Force. At this time, apart from worrying if racks of sails and boards were getting damaged in my leaky shed, my thoughts couldn't have been further away from windsurfing and the two hour journey to the cold North Sea this would have entailed. And then Alan Coutts landed on the breakfast bar.
At a time when storms and floods continue to cause disruption throughout the UK, Alan was out . When most were battening down the hatches, windsurfers throughout the Uk would be excited beyond rest at the thought of wind and waves. No sleep would be had, and waking hours would be spent wondering if the dusted off 3.5m would be small enough; and what excuse to make to get off work.
Turning the clock back to 1980, I was walking on the same stretch of coastline on the Largs sea front. The day was bitter cold and the wind blowing from the North. Out of the grey distance a small sail ghosted at the edge of sight. It grew larger as it approached, a flash of orange and yellow, then flick, and somehow it was going back towards Millport (Great Cumbrae), across the wild sea. At the time there was no way I could work out how this little figure could glide and rise from the waves, turn 360 and disappear into the horizon. The only thing I did know was, I had to do it.
Windsurfing isn't the cheapest sport around, so I had to wait until my studies were finished before I could satisfy my longing. My first pay packet went on a RYA Level 1 course at Calshot Activities Centre.
The first thing I learned was, when you see white water breaking, even if at sea, don't sail at it. Unless you want to end up like me, that is, and be catapulted onto a sand bar in the middle of the Solent.
To this day I can still remember every detail of that weekend, right down to the smell of the wet suits and the crap coffee from the machine. I loved ever minute of the experience – that was me, well and truly hooked. For the next 20 years my life was devoted to windsurfing, nothing else mattered.
It is difficult to put into words all the sensations that windsurfing brings. Put simply, it is like a shot in the arm. The first time I lifted the board out of the water and began to plane I was a windsurfing junkie. Visualise being on the stone that you skim across the water, but the stone doesn't stop skimming (planing). Then imagine being able to turn the stone; jump it; lean out from the edge; or ride it down waves; ride out into sunsets. Imagine the sensation of feeling the water running through your toes and spray on your face. Totally at one with nature and the vast expanse of the sea.
It is 30 years since that weekend, and my obsession has taken me all over the world. In New Zealand I ran into a shark on a deserted beach, and had Gannets plunging into the water right next to me. Rode the waves in El Cotillo and turned back out to sea with flying fish leaping out at my feet and gulls flying along side – a touch away. And I have lounged under palm tress waiting for wind in Tobago. Nothing else mattered; I needed nothing else.
These days, a combination of poor circulation, 4 hours drive and the cold north sea, has made windsurfing a rare pleasure. But, the spring winds are here. Alan Coutts is out, and Robbie Naish – long admired by me – has made a return to competition. And I am back looking at the forecast. And I still miss Michael Fish.
When the wind didn't blow I dreamed the dull moments away by endlessly watching this video. This is the best windsurfing movie of all time. Robby Naish is a legend and I wish he would re-release this movie.
So for the 71% who said yes in a debate on, Are Sports a Waste of Time? You are missing the point; stop looking for logic. Sport and physical activity is nearest a person can get to a natural high. No drugs, or fags or booze, a natural feel good – and it does feel very good. Take a peek it may change your life.
1. Millport
2. Calshot
3. El Cotillo
4. Robbie Naish
5. Michael Fish


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Come, O Holy Spirit! Enlighten my understanding in order that I may know your commands; strengthen my heart against the snares of the enemy; enkindle my will. I have heard your voice, and I do not want to harden my heart and resist, saying, "Later . . . tomorrow." Nunc coepi! Right now! Lest there be no tomorrow for me.
O Spirit of truth and of wisdom, Spirit of understanding and of counsel, Spirit of joy and of peace! I want what you want, because you want it, as you want it, when you want it.
Beginning: and beginning again
In the midst of the limitations that accompany our present life, in which sin is still present in us to some extent at least, we Christians perceive with a particular clearness all the wealth of our divine filiation, when we realize that we are fully free because we are doing our Father's work, when our joy becomes constant because no one can take our hope away. It is then that we can admire at the same time all the great and beautiful things of this earth, can appreciate the richness and goodness of creation, and can love with all the strength and purity for which the human heart was made. It is then that sorrow for sin does not degenerate into a bitter gesture of despair or pride, because sorrow and knowledge of human weakness lead us to identify ourselves again with Christ's work of redemption and feel more deeply our solidarity with others.
It is then, finally, that we Christians experience in our own life the sure strength of the Holy Spirit, in such a way that our own failures do not drag us down. Rather, they are an invitation to begin again and to continue being faithful witnesses of Christ in all the moments of our life-in spite of our own personal weaknesses, which, in such a case, are normally no more than small failings that hardly perturb the soul. And even if they are grave sins, the sacrament of Penance, received with true sorrow, enables us to recover our peace with God and to become again a good witness of his mercy.
Such is the brief summary, which can barely be expressed in human language, of the richness of our faith and of our Christian life, if we let ourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit. That is why I can end these words in only one way: by voicing a prayer, contained in one of the liturgical hymns for the feast of Pentecost, which is like an echo of the unceasing petition of the whole Church: "Come, creating Spirit, to the minds of those who belong to you, and fill, with grace from above, the hearts that you have created. . . . Grant that through you we may know the Father and become acquainted with the Son; may we believe in you, the Spirit who proceeds from the Father and Son, for ever. Amen."38
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Holy and divine Spirit! Through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, your spouse, bring the fullness of your gifts into our hearts. Comforted and strengthened by you, may we live according to your will and may we die praising your infinite mercy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. COME, HOLY SPIRIT
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Are the Medicinal Benefits of Agarwood About to go Mainstream?
SINGAPORE, July 23, 2014 / PRNewswire — Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) already has an important role for agarwood where it is used to relieve spasms and pain, treat the digestive system, regulate the vital organs (heart, lungs, liver), and to lower and redirect energy levels to support the kidneys. It is also used to treat tightness in the chest, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and asthma.
In a new investment programme Asia Plantation Capital is engaging various academics in Southeast Asia to explore the science behind these medicinal applications. They aim to identify key areas for crucial analysis and eventual preclinical trials, a fundamental process towards gaining approval and acceptance by medical authorities in Europe and America.
According to data provided by the Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy there are 47 valid manufacturing licences for prepared TCM products containing agarwood powder as an ingredient. Recommended daily dosages of between 1.5-3g apply for different medical purposes. These include 42 that are over-the-counter medicines and 5 restricted as medicines on prescription or for hospital use only; 42 are oral medicines, two for external use and three without specific description. Among these over 80% of the items contain less than 6% of agarwood in each dosage. Barry Rawlinson, CEO Asia Pacific for Asia Plantation Capital, commented that "Traditional Chinese Medicines are now used the world over, even forming the basis of many alternative health treatments in the West. With the organic processes used on our agarwood plantations Asia Plantation Capital is well placed to help international pharmaceutical companies, especially as they continue their search for new medicines to combat recognised conditions and increase research on the international aspect of new contagions."
In Thailand Asia Plantation Capital has been working with Prince Songkhla University where Prof. Pakamas Chetpattananondh is leading their assault on driving change from TCM to recognised global scientific acceptance, with particular focus on anti-oxidant properties of agarwood.
Asia Plantation Capital is already producing agarwood tea using leaves from selected organic agarwood plantations in Thailand and Sri Lanka. Last year saw them launch agarwood rice containing nutritional supplements developed from processed plantation agarwood trees. For some mild skin conditions they are also selling an innovative agarwood soap.
At the 1st International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) in September 2013 the laxative property of agarwood leaves was confirmed and Japanese researchers announced the imminent launch of a related product. The conference also confirmed that aquilaria crassna leaf extracts possesses antipyretic, analgesic and anti-oxidative properties without noticeable anti-inflammatory activity. Another presenter promoted agarwood leaf as a promising potential anti-diabetic agent. There was even a report of one diabetic patient significantly decreasing their blood glucose by drinking a water infusion of agarwood leaf instead of water for six months. Agarwood leaf extracts are known to possess antipyretic, laxative and antimicrobial activities.
Barry Rawlinson continues, "It is not only China where agarwood has been used in medicines for more than one thousand years, traditional uses extend across Asia and into India within Ayurveda, even the Middle East where agarwood chips and Oud oil have a long established high value market. At Asia Plantation Capital we are working to carry this cultural heritage forward scientifically based upon sound environmental practices."
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Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a diverse range of commercial plantation and farming businesses across the Asia-Pacific region, and globally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated companies. Their focus is on multicultural and diverse plantation projects geared to the domestic and commercial demands of the countries in which they operate. Working closely with and supporting local communities is an underlying core principle of the APC business, providing social and cultural support, as well as investment, to move these communities away from deforestation and illegal logging activities, previously seen as a main source of income in some regions of Asia. Established officially in 2008, although operating privately since 2002, the group now has plantation and agricultural projects on four continents with operational projects at various stages in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.
Promoting the use of certified wood is the best way of preventing deforestation, protecting biodiversity and combatting poverty in the tropical rainforest regions. For the yachting sector, which strives for excellence and which is already involved in environmental efforts, this is also a way of ensuring that no wood from illegal logging is used.
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plugged in charger for laptop like any other day but this time the power on half my house went out and wont come back on. No breakers were tripped in the process either. Im not sure the age of the trailer but i would say an early 90's.
Be very careful. Typical home wiring is two 120volt wires from the "pole" through thr meter and into the electrical panel. If one is not working, approximately half the home will be witout power. Also any appliances , like stove, water heater, clothes dryer will not work as they require two 120 volt wires.
Problem is often the utility company's transformer at the pole, the meter can, or the main breaker in the electric panel.Best not to attempt to look closely at any of these.
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by BayAreaAC
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If it is really half the house then the problem should be at, or upstream, of the meter / circuit breaker panel. If it is a lot less than half the outlets then the problem may be a loose wire where you plugged in the charger. BE CAREFULL. The outlet can be live even though it can't power a light. If you can't determine which circuit breaker turns off the outlet, then turn off the main breaker before removing the receptacle.
The power company will come and look at it for free.
If they say it is a house (e.g. your) problem then tell them to unlock the meter so your electrician can pull the meter for inspection and troubleshooting.
The electrician may find that the problem is indeed with the power company. In that case, the electrician can prove it to the power company.
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I am assuming you have at least 10 or so breakers for your trailer - not just two, which I could not imagine would be the case.
Check if any other outlets in your house (or lights) are out - if several others are or electric stove or clothes dryer or electric water heater or electric forced air furnace does not work, then like Kestrel said one side of your feed is out.
If this is the case, I would check with a couple of neighbors and see if half their circuitsare dead too - especially if you are in the ice storm area, as a line could have gone down. ESPECIALLY check with anyone else who's house comes off the same transformer, if you know who is on the same one or you can eyeball the wires from your trailer to a pole mounted transformer, then see which other ones come off same transformer. If others have same problem,, see if you can get pole or transformer number - commonly metal or plastic tags or letters on pole if pole transformer, or on front of transformer housing if on-ground transformer with buried power feed, then callpower company as it would definitely be their end if more than one house if out.
If only yours, you can try turning the master breaker (double or twin breaker, sometimes at top of breaker panel and labelled MASTER and would be rated probably 100, 150, or 200 amps), sometimes outside in a separate box with a flip-open lid or door right next to the meter base box) off, then back on. Sometimes a trip out from outside line problems will take one side only and not trip the whole breaker. WARNING - do this early on a weekday, so if the master breaker fails totally (sometimes do when old) there is time to call an electrician to have it replaced without hopefully paying overtime, because then the entire house will be out of power. When you do it push both linked breaker levers at same time together, and do NOT try to hold it on - just snap and release - if it snaps back by itself then either a short somewhere in your system or a bad master breaker.
What I would do, when doing this, is FIRST turn OFF the breaker that serves the outlet you were on when it went out. Then do the master breaker reset as above. If that turns the rest of your house on, then leave that one breaker off till an electrician can fix the problem - likely at the outlet. At least that way you have the rest of the house in operation at least.
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When chicken pho first came on the scene, naysayers declared it "un-pho-like" but the dish prevailed. Nguyen says the use of chicken was likely a response to government control over the number of draught animals being slaughtered; beef would have been in shorter supply.
Starting with chicken pho is a great way for beginners to learn traditional techniques, she says. It's more straight-forward to make than beef and requires fewer ingredients, all of which are readily available at mainstream markets.
"Especially with the whole bone broth movement, beef bones can be difficult to find and they can cost a lot as well. I'm very aware of cost for cooks because if you're going to try something new, there's no need to spend $100 on ingredients. That kind of goes against what pho is. It's supposed to be a resourceful dish," Nguyen says with a laugh.
Serves: 2 | Takes about 40 minutes
2 medium-large green onions
1 very small (15 g) bunch cilantro sprigs
1 1⁄2 tsp (7 mL) coriander seeds
1 whole clove
3 1⁄2 to 4 cups (840 mL to 1 L) low-sodium chicken broth (see note)
2 cups (480 mL) water
1 (180 to 225 g) boneless, skinless chicken breast or thigh
About 1⁄2 tsp (2 mL) fine sea salt
150 g (5 oz) dried narrow flat rice noodles
2 to 3 tsp (10 to 15 mL) fish sauce
About 1⁄2 tsp (2 mL) organic sugar, or 1 tsp (5 mL) maple syrup (optional)
Pepper (optional)
Garnish plate (e.g. bean sprouts; mint sprigs; Thai basil; culantro leaves; rice paddy herb; lime wedges; sliced Thai, serrano or jalapeño chili)
1⁄3 cup (90 mL) Ginger Dipping Sauce (recipe follows)
Step 1
Peel then slice the ginger into 4 or 5 coins. Smack with the flat side of a knife or meat mallet; set aside. Thinly slice the green parts of the green onion to yield 2 to 3 tablespoons (30 to 45 mL); set aside for garnish. Cut the leftover sections into pinkie-finger lengths, bruise, then add to the ginger.
Step 2
Coarsely chop the leafy tops of the cilantro to yield 2 tablespoons (30 mL); set aside for garnish. Set the remaining cilantro sprigs aside.
Step 3
In a 3- to 4-litre pot, toast the coriander seeds and clove over medium heat until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the ginger and green onion sections. Stir for about 30 seconds, until aromatic. Slide the pot off heat, wait 15 seconds or so to briefly cool, then pour in the broth.
Step 4
Return the pot to the burner, then add the water, cilantro sprigs, chicken, and salt. Bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat to gently simmer for 30 minutes.
Step 5
While the broth simmers, soak the rice noodles in hot water until pliable and opaque. Drain, rinse, and set aside.
Step 6
After 5 to 10 minutes of simmering, the chicken should be firm and cooked through (press on it and it should slightly yield). Transfer the chicken to a bowl, flush with cold water to arrest the cooking, then drain. Let cool, then cut or shred into bite-size pieces. Cover loosely to prevent drying.
Step 7
When the broth is done, pour it through a fine-mesh strainer positioned over a 2-litre pot; line the strainer with muslin for superclear broth. Discard the solids. You should have about 4 cups (1 L). Season with fish sauce and sugar (or maple syrup), if needed, to create a strong savoury-sweet note.
Step 8
Bring the strained broth to a boil over high heat. Put the noodles in a noodle strainer or mesh sieve and dunk in the hot broth to heat and soften, 5 to 60 seconds. Lift the noodles from the pot and divide between the 2 bowls.
Step 9
Lower the heat to keep the broth hot while you arrange the chicken on top of the noodles and garnish with the chopped green onion, cilantro, and a sprinkling of pepper. Taste and adjust the broth's saltiness one last time. Return the broth to a boil and ladle into the bowls. Enjoy with any extras, if you like.
Many people enjoy chicken pho with a side of this zippy sauce. They dip the flesh into the sauce as they eat the soup.
Makes: 2⁄3 cup (150 mL) | Takes 5 minutes, plus 15 minutes to rest
6 tbsp (90 mL) fresh lime juice
2 to 2 1⁄2 tbsp (30 to 37 mL) sugar
2 to 3 tbsp (30 to 45 mL) fish sauce
2 tsp (10 mL) finely chopped seeded Fresno or jalapeño chili
In a small bowl, stir together the ginger, lime juice, and sugar to dissolve the sugar. Taste to make sure it's agreeable on a spicy-tart-sweet level. Adjust as needed. Add the fish sauce and chili and set aside for 15 minutes to meld and develop flavours. The sauce may be refrigerated for a few days. Serve in the bowl or use as a salad dressing.


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Kitsune uses Elasticsearch to power its on-site search facility.
It gives us a number of advantages over MySQL's full-text search or Google's site search.
Much faster than MySQL.
And reduces load on MySQL.
We have total control over what results look like.
We can adjust searches with non-visible content.
We don't rely on Google reindexing the site.
We can fine-tune the algorithm and scoring.
Installing Elasticsearch¶
There's an installation guide on the Elasticsearch site:
We're currently using 1.2.4 in production.
The directory you install Elasticsearch in will hereafter be referred
to as
You can configure Elasticsearch with the configuration file at
Elasticsearch uses several settings in
kitsune/settings.py that you
need to override in
kitsune/settings_local.py. Here's an example:
# Connection information for Elastic
ES_URLS = ['http://127.0.0.1:9200']
ES_INDEXES = {'default': 'sumo_dev'}
These settings explained:
Defaults to
Points to the url for your Elasticsearch instance.
The url must match the host and port in
ELASTICDIR/config/elasticsearch.yml. So if you change it in one place, you must also change it in the other.
Mapping of
'default'to the name of the index used for searching.
The index name must be prefixed with the value of
Examples if
ES_INDEX_PREFIXis set to
'sumo':ES_INDEXES = {'default': 'sumo'} ES_INDEXES = {'default': 'sumo_20120213'} ES_INDEXES = {'default': 'tofurkey'} # WRONG!
Mapping of
'default'to the name of the index used for indexing.
The index name must be prefixed with the value of
Examples if
ES_INDEX_PREFIXis set to
'sumo':ES_WRITE_INDEXES = ES_INDEXES ES_WRITE_INDEXES = {'default': 'sumo'} ES_WRITE_INDEXES = {'default': 'sumo_20120213'} ES_WRITE_INDEXES = {'default': 'tofurkey'} # WRONG!
The separate roles for indexes allows us to push mapping changes to production. In the first push, we'll push the mapping change and give
ES_WRITE_INDEXESa different value. Then we reindex into the new index. Then we push a change updating
ES_INDEXESto equal
ES_WRITE_INDEXESallowing the search code to use the new index.
If you're a developer, the best thing to do is have your
ES_WRITE_INDEXESbe the same as
ES_INDEXES. That way you can reindex and search and you don't have to fiddle with settings in between.
There are a few other settings you can set in your
kitsune/settings_local.py file that override ElasticUtils defaults. See
the ElasticUtils docs
for details.
Other things you can change:
Defaults to
All indexes for this application must start with the index prefix. Indexes that don't start with the index prefix won't show up in index listings and cannot be deleted through the esdelete subcommand and the search admin.
The index names in both
ES_WRITE_INDEXESmust start with this prefix.
Defaults to False.
You can also set
ES_LIVE_INDEXINGin your
kitsune/settings_local.pyfile. This affects whether Kitsune does Elasticsearch indexing when data changes in the
For tests,
ES_LIVE_INDEXINGis set to
Falseexcept for Elasticsearch specific tests so we're not spending a ton of time indexing things we're not using.
Defaults to 5.
This affects timeouts for search-related requests.
If you're having problems with ES being slow, raising this number might be helpful.
Using Elasticsearch¶
Start Elasticsearch by:
$ ELASTICDIR/bin/elasticsearch
That launches Elasticsearch in the background.
Do a complete reindexing of everything by:
$ ./manage.py esreindex
This will delete the existing index specified by
create a new one, and reindex everything in your database. On my
machine it takes under an hour.
If you need to get stuff done and don't want to wait for a full indexing, you can index a percentage of things.
For example, this indexes 10% of your data ordered by id:
$ ./manage.py esreindex --percent 10
This indexes 50% of your data ordered by id:
$ ./manage.py esreindex --percent 50
I use this when I'm fiddling with mappings and the indexing code.
Another way of specifying a smaller number of things to index is by indicating how recently updated things should be to be included:
$ ./manage.py esreindex --hours-ago 2
$ ./manage.py esreindex --minutes-ago 20
$ ./manage.py esreindex --seconds-ago 90
Those options can be combined as well if you wish. Different indexes have different ways of determining how long ago something was updated, but as a whole this should reindex everything in every index (or those specified in the –mapping_types option) that was updated less than or equal to how long ago you say.
You can also specify which mapping_types to index:
$ ./manage.py esreindex --mapping_types questions_question,wiki_document
--help for more details:
$ ./manage.py esreindex --help
Once you've indexed everything, if you have
set to
True, you won't have to do it again unless indexing code
changes. The models have
post_save and
pre_delete hooks
that will update the index as the data changes.
If you kick off indexing with the admin, then indexing gets done in chunks by celery tasks. If you need to halt indexing, you can purge the tasks with:
$ celery -A kitsune purge
If you do this often, it helps to write a shell script for it.
You can see Elasticsearch index status with:
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Liberty Jazz Series Drumset
Top-quality modern design with tasty vintage flare.
by Michael Dawson
Jazz series drums are designed to be high-quality, modern instruments with vintage tone and appeal. They feature the company's Opex bearing edges, which have a slightly rounded outer cut for more head-to-shell contact, and a 45-degree inner cut. The shells are cross-laminated from Finnish birch (9-ply/6mm toms, 12-ply/8mm bass drums, and 15-ply snares), and the drums come with die-cast Liberty Beetle lugs, 2.3mm triple-flange rims, wood bass drum hoops, a Dunnett SC-GW845 George Way–style snare throw-off, and Evans drumheads (EQ4 Frosted kick batter, EQ3 Smooth White resonant, J1 Etched tom batters, G1 Clear tom bottoms, Strata Staccato snare batter, and Hazy 300 snare bottom).
The finish of our four-piece Jazz series kit is the new Electric Blue Flame wrap, which Liberty says is fully bonded to the shell to maximize resonance. Drum sizes on this kit include a 14×18 bass drum, an 8×12 rack tom, a 14×14 floor tom, and a matching 5.5×14 snare. (List price is $2,491).
Given that the name of the series is Jazz, it makes sense to assume that this kit's ideal application would be in low-volume straight-ahead swing situations with the heads tensioned super-tight for maximum rebound and dynamic response. While they did sound fantastic and had clean, strong presence when cranked high for a 1964-era Tony Williams sound, I found that they were most at home at medium and medium-low tunings.
The birch shells have a more contained sustain, focused pitch, and punchier attack than a standard maple shell, while the rounded bearing edges enhance the low-end depth. The warmer, darker models of Evans drumheads on the drums also helped emphasize lower frequencies and minimize overtones without added muffling.
During our testing period I was also working on a Rolling Stones–inspired track, and this Jazz series kit was perfect for that jazzy blues-rock Charlie Watts sound. Tuned medium or medium-low, the bass drum sounded nice and punchy with just enough boom to keep it natural and earthy, the snare had clean and snappy response and a gorgeous open tone that didn't ring for too long, and the toms threw out warm, rich, and fat tones with short but even decay.
These Jazz series drums sounded amazing acoustically, and microphones loved them too—I didn't need to overdo the EQ or compression to make them cut and be present in a mix. The retro Electric Blue Flame wrap is one of the coolest I've seen, and the contrast between the blue and purple flames varied considerably depending on the type of lighting being used. You certainly won't go unnoticed, visually or sonically, if you were to bring one of these kits to your next gig or session.
Tech Specs
Shells: Finnish birch
Sizes: 8×12, 14×14, 14×18, and 5.5×14
Finish: Electric Blue Flame wrap
Drumheads: Evans
Price: $2,491


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Perfect Pitch Competition
Click here for 2019 Competition Guidelines
It has been traditional for students to present posters highlighting their research at the conference that ERCs hold each year for their industry partners. By asking students to answer the following three questions in 90 seconds—what real-life problem their research addressed, how they solved it in a unique way, and what impact it would have for society and in achieving their Center's mission—they learn a succinct way of talking about their research in the context of societal needs and the broader impact of their success. Often these short presentations, sometimes called an "elevator pitch," are organized as a competition among the students.
The ERC Program hosts such a competition across the ERCs, called the "Perfect Pitch" competition. The COMPETITION is open only to ERC undergraduates, Masters, and PhD students, all competing for a first-place $5,000 cash prize. Each ERC holds an internal competition in order to select one winner to send to the finals at the ERC Program biennial meeting, where an overall winner and two runners-up are chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from industry and the venture capital world.
To enhance the esprit de corps within each ERC and create an atmosphere of friendly competition among the ERCs, the specially designed Lynn Preston Trophy is presented to the ERC home of the contest's first-place winner "for creating a nurturing environment that allowed their student to rise to the top of the competition." The trophy resides at that center for the following two years.
The winner of the 2017 ERC-wide Perfect Pitch contest was Sebastian Husein, an Arizona State University PhD student at the QESST ERC (Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies). Second place was taken by Stephen Sasaki, a PhD student at UCLA in the Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS) ERC. Tanya Liu, a PhD candidate at Stanford University and part of the Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) ERC, won third place.


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@ SFU Theatre (All Ages)Improvisational Jazz Ion Zoo, Carol Sawyer, Stephen Bagnell, Lisa Miller
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|After his kids come down with exam-day blues, a teacher argues that standardized, fill-in-the-bubble tests are not the answer.
I wondered if my students were in as much pain as I was for them. It was time for the BSAPs, the Basic Skills Assessment Program tests used throughout South Carolina to show how much students have grown academically from one year to the next. For 90 minutes each morning for five days, students in grades 2-5 stopped learning and began bubbling in circles, an arduous job in itself for some, whose chubby fingers tried mightily to color within the lines, a task not yet mastered even with big-page coloring books.
I saw chagrin on my students' faces as they entered our 5th grade classroom. Their desks, usually clustered in small groups, now stood in rows, reminiscent of bleak, washed-out photos from "the good ol' days" when the teacher was a schoolmarm, a wood stove provided heat, and bolts and screws kept the desks immobile. Newspapers covered the alphabet charts, textbooks were marooned in a far corner, and all displays of the children's work and talents--their creative writing, their maps of their favorite imaginary places, even their drawings--were removed or screened from view. Our room, usually vibrant and full of color and life, looked prepared for a whitewash. Indeed, perhaps it was.
It was our custom to meet each morning in the "community circle," a daily reintroduction to one another where we shared our hopes, our fears, and our hands. On this Monday morning, I looked out at 25 pairs of tired eyes. It appeared that many had ignored my suggestion to get a good night's sleep and eat well to prepare for the tests. The open-ended phrase of the day was "I know this will be a good day because . . ." As we went around the circle, several mentioned after-school sports and a few looked forward to the afternoon assembly. One stated that the day's end would mean one less day of BSAPs, drawing lots of sympathetic groans of agreement. But most took the option that they always had but seldom chose: "Pass." This no-comment comment said more than the other responses combined. It's hard to hush up a 5th grader's mind and mouth, but BSAPs do it well.
We did a few calisthenics, stretching to the sky and reaching for our toes. The grunts and moans sounded like so many reluctant lawn mowers struggling to kick over after a restful winter slumber. Eventually, however, the children's simple movements seemed to work. When we closed our circle, eyes looked brighter, banter was common, and giggles were making their way around the arc.
Then, it was time. I distributed thick, anonymous test booklets, each stamped with the commands: DO NOT open your test booklet. DO NOT begin until you are told to do so. DO NOT look at anyone else's answer sheet.
Once I let the children unseal their booklets, they were confronted by even more rules. They could not work ahead. If they happened to finish early, they were not allowed to look at a book or anything else. They were to answer as best they could, although they were not expected to know how to do some of the problems. They were to keep an eye on the clock, as well as the number of test questions they had remaining, in hopes that they would reach simultaneous closure. So, under these "ideal" conditions, the opening volley sounded: "You may begin."
For 15 minutes or so, there was little more to see than children hunched over desks. The only sounds were occasional sniffles and coughs and the near-silent rubbing of erasers on answer sheets. But then, after the first few questions were completed, just as the children were hooked into believing these tests weren't really all that bad, they were hit with a sneak attack of those questions "you weren't expected to know."
Brandon called me to his desk. "What's this word, Mr. D? I've never seen it before!"
"I can't tell you, Brandon. I can only tell you to try your best."
He looked angry. "If you tell me the word, maybe I've heard it, and I can figure out what it means."
I looked at the word and wondered if I'd ever used it myself in 5th grade. I gave an illegal hint: "Use context clues, Brandon. Maybe then you'll be able to at least eliminate one or two choices that they gave you."
Brandon looked resigned to getting the answer wrong. Our class's brightest child, Brandon had most likely used that method already. His appeal to me had been a sign of desperation; I was his last resort before he made a mistake in vocabulary, an area where he had previously felt confident and successful.
"Maybe this is one of those questions you're not supposed to know, Brandon."
Unconvinced, he shrugged his shoulders and carelessly filled in "D"--a wrong choice. Then he moved on without looking up to me. As I walked away, I heard him mutter to himself, "And I thought teachers were supposed to help you learn stuff."
After that, few other students asked questions, though it was obvious they were struggling. I watched Jesse, a bright boy with some reading problems, as he bit the end of his pencil and twisted his long blond hair with a finger of frustration. He had wanted to do well, but his body language indicated that he didn't think that possible now. Shatiqua, a perfectionist who took every task seriously, rushed to the end of the first test and then went back to change more than half her answers. Her motions were frenetic; I assumed her thinking was, too. Carter's pencil sat alongside his elbow, still as sharp as new, 15 minutes after the test began. He had correctly answered three or four questions, leaving the rest blank. "You've still got time to finish some questions," I reminded Carter. He told me he knew that, but he didn't care to because the stories were too boring. "Can't they give us something fun to read? I could answer lots of questions about a Goosebumps book."
Caryn, a sad, lost soul on the best of days whose academic struggles are accompanied by a pitiful home life, followed Carter's lead. To her, perhaps, it was easier to do no work than to have your wrong answers prove that you weren't very smart. And Reggie, always jolly and rambunctious, said the test was real, real easy; he completed it in 10 minutes. If only he had read the questions before he answered them, I'm sure he might have scored higher.
For 90 minutes, with occasional breaks between subsections of the test, the students did what was uncommon and unnatural: They sat, quiet and motionless, in desks that were never designed for such extended stays. They squirmed as if they were sitting in a mixture of Jell-O and rocks. When the call came over the loudspeaker--"That concludes today's testing"--the children rushed, madly and with absolutely no decorum, to use a restroom that many had probably needed two subsections ago.
I'm not sure what the students learned that day. Neither are they. But I do know what I learned. I learned that my students' varied ways of learning were not respected by a test that demanded only one type of response. I learned that my students' work had to be covered up with newspapers so they did not "cheat" by referring to a word or a concept they had learned previously. I learned that my students were expected to do their best even when deprived of the guidance and assistance of a teacher they had previously turned to for both. I learned that their physical needs had to wait until all the test bubbles were filled in throughout the school. I learned that my students were expected to give their best under the worst of conditions.
P erhaps the next time lawmakers in any state meet to write new laws to fix the sad state of affairs in our public schools, we should give each of them a couple of No. 2 pencils and a booklet of meaningless stories and questions, sit them at small tables with chairs that do not move, deny them coffee or restroom breaks, and then ask these men and women to "show us their best thinking" from the multiple choices given in their test booklets. And, just to keep things fair, we'll ask them to do this for five mornings in a row.
If this is not appropriate for intelligent lawmakers and governors--and it is not--then neither is it beneficial for Jesse or Shatiqua or Carter or Brandon, my students, each of whom is trying to be smart, and all of whom deserve the right to show what they know in ways that are personally meaningful, legitimate, and humane.
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Award safety and occupational health (K3) on the theme of K3 Awards 2018 back held by Ministry of Labor (Kemnaker) recently. Zero Accident categories into a thrilling kategor, for this category of Indosat Ooredoo won the award as one of the companies that have been successful implementing K3 in the work environment as well.
Indosat Ooredoo earlier also once won a similar award that is the Golden Flag year 2012 as the best company with the HSE management system and the Zero Accident. It is increasingly asserted the existence of Indosat in the implementation of K3.
"With this award, Indosat Ooredoo remains committed to continue its efforts, namely making the culture of the K3 in every activity of the company's activity as a whole in order to improve the aspect of safety, quality and productivity of work the company, "said Andy R Herdanarto, Group Head of Facilities Management Services Indosat Ooredoo in Jakarta, Wednesday (15/8/2018).
Indosat Ooredoo has had policies and programs the implementation of occupational safety and health work as the implementation of the system of safety and occupational health (17 countries) in an enterprise environment. For process supervision and any updates done regularly and checked periodically by involving employees and all elements of the company involved. To keep the independiensi supervision and checking of also involving parties from outside professional K3.
In addition to the certification of 17 countries as the standard management of K3, Indosat Ooredoo standard OHSAS 18001 also have ISO 14001 certification and as the field of K3 and the environment. Both are standards that have been recognized by the international certification body (QUAY Audit UK Limited).
See this entry is not new if Indosat Ooredoo awarded the occupational health and Safety (Hse) to see how his company indeed concentrated in maintaining this policy. Indosat also understand if it is dicederai then the name of the company that will be affected by the outbreak and it is not good for business.
Some time ago the Minister of employment, m. Hanif Dhakiri, has published a regulation of the Minister of Employment (Permenaker) RI Number 5 year 2018 on Work safety and health working environment. The publication of this Permenaker to realize the work environment that is safe, healthy, and convenient as well as prevent accidents and occupational diseases.
Candy Number Employment 5 year 2018 is at once a previous regulations revoke namely Candy Labour No. 7 in 1964 about the conditions of health, Hygiene And Lighting in the workplace and the regulation of the Minister of manpower and transmigration No. 13 years 2011 about the value threshold of physical and chemical Factors in the workplace.


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Intercomparison of automated methodologies for determination of ambient isoprene during the PROPHET 1998 summer campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research. 106(D20):24,301-24,313.. 2001.
Investigation of the nighttime decay of isoprene. Journal of Geophysical Research. 106(D20):24,335-24,346.. 2001.


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Are there different norovirus strains?
Can you explain how does our body fight Norovirus? And are there many kinds or strains of noroviruses?
Lydia - Yes. So, one of the things that we've noticed with norovirus in all the sampling that there is, is there are a number of different strains. We call these genotypes of norovirus and there are also geno groups. So, there's kind of a wide variety. And as you mentioned Chris, you could be presumably infected twice in a year or even in a short period of time by two different strains. Although as was mentioned, there are predominant strains that circulate. Now, these move around the world quite rapidly. We've seen looking at all the data that those in GenBank, so that's everybody's analysis of the virus from the genetic material in the virus. We can see the same virus moving for 10 to 20 years and spreading within the same year from the US to China, from the UK to Southeast Asia. So, really quite rapid spread.
Chris - Okay, so Keith, if Lydia's result show that people are infectious for 3 weeks, what's that going to do to your budget if you have to put the staff off work for 3 weeks?
Keith - I think it will come back to evidence as to what that actually means because we control outbreaks now without having staff off. So, the question I think is, how does that shedding actually translate into the spread of disease? We don't know that at the moment, but we'd be guided by the evidence. If it has implications, it has implications and we have to plan for that.


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Great Harbor Shoot-Out 2015
Mount Desert Island teams cruised to victory in two of four divisions of the Great Harbor Shoot-Out basketball tournament this weekend. Organized by Harbor House, the tournament has become an institution in the state, growing to include 169 games played by 82 teams on eight basketball courts in six gyms over three days. PHOTOS BY LIZ GRAVESRead More


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According to a recent report by the USDA Forest Service, the combination of fuel treatments (tree thinning) on the landscape and Firewise principles applied around homes in Alpine, Arizona, allowed firefighters to deliver the "knock-out punch" saving homes from the Wallow Fire that raged through 40,000 acres in just six days.
This short report includes numerous photos clearly illustrating how the fire behaved as it rapidly consumed all the available fuel in overgrown forest areas, and then slowed and dropped to the ground as it moved into the areas where trees had been thinned out to separate their crowns and where brushy fuels that serve as "ladders" for the fire had been removed. Fire in tree crowns can spread quickly along the forest, with long flame lengths and greater heat than a fire in more sparsely vegetated areas.
Besides slowing the fire and reducing the heat, fuel treatments begun as long ago as 2004 provided strategic locations for firefighters to be able to set up and fight the fire. According to one fire managment officer, "Without the fuel treatments, I never would have had a firefighter there." The potential was just too great for injury or death had the area been left untreated.
The report documents the successful "saves" of nearly every home in Alpine and the nearby community of Greer, crediting not only the fuel treatments and the defense by firefighters, but also the work of property owners themselves. The report says that, "even though they experienced ember showers and low-intensity surface fires, many of the other Alpine structures that survived the Wallow Fire did so because of these prior fuel treatments, as well as "Firewise" construction and landscaping completed by the land owners."
Photo from report "How Fuel Treatments Saved Homes from the 2011 Wallow Fire," USDA Forest Service


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MWCDC elections Oct. 20
The Mount Washington Community Development Corporation will hold elections for its Board of Directors at a community forum on Thursday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. at the Mt. Washington Senior Center, 122 Virginia Avenue.
Six Board Members will be elected at the meeting. Mt. Washington residents who registered for membership prior to September 20 are eligible to vote.
For more information about the candidates visit: http://bit.ly/2dIimFY (MWCDC members get to hear from candidates seeking board positions, South Pittsburgh Reporter, Sept. 20, 2016) or mwcdc.org.


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Online Discernmentalists (ODMs) have long recognized that the moon has been the preoccupation of many pagans (we have NEVER been obsessed with the moon!) Werevolves bark at the moon, pagans worship the moon….and some cultists mark their calanders based on the lunar calander. That is why true Online Discernmentalists everywhere support NASA's attack on the moon with a satellite. Thank-goodness however, NASA did not use Eric Barger's Bible Based Satellite System (BS) that we use to serve our truth forces….but thank-goodness the moon has been bombed into servitude. It will never again be used for pagan practices.
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Princess Cruises has announced its widest ever range of UK sailings for its 2016 Europe programme.
The programme includes a longer Mediterranean season from Southampton, with the 3,000-guest Emerald Princess making a total of 15 departures between April and September next year – an increase of five voyages compared to 2015.
For the first time in three years the line will also offer a three-night sampler cruise, which will sail from Southampton in April 2016 with fares starting at £399 per person (based on two sharing an inside cabin, subject to availability).
In terms of the fleet, Princess Cruises' two newest cruise ships will be based in Europe. Royal Princess will sail in the Mediterranean on seven to 21-night itineraries out of Civitavecchia, Athens or Barcelona and Regal Princess will be based in Northern Europe sailing from Copenhagen. Meanwhile, both the 3,000-guest Caribbean Princess and Emerald Princess will sail from Southampton, while the more intimate 670-guest Pacific Princess will travel on a split season with half of the summer sailing out of Dover and the second half sailing on Greek Isles fly-cruise voyages.
Paul Ludlow, Princess Cruises managing director UK and Europe, said: "There really is a cruise in Europe for everyone and our 2016 programme is packed with options. We have some returning guest favourites such as the Canaries, while the addition of a three-night sampler cruise is a must for anyone wishing to try Princess for the first time."
Princess Cruises are currently offering free drinks packages on all Mediterranean and Northern Europe 2016 cruises booked by 30 June 2015, subject to availability.
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Jensen Maritime Open New Orleans Office
New Location Strategically Positions Jensen along U.S. Gulf, West and East Coasts.
Seattle-based Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Crowley Maritime Corporation company, announced today that it has expanded its presence to the U.S. Gulf with the establishment of a third office in New Orleans, La. This strategic new location places Jensen in close proximity to many important customers and shipyards in the U.S. Gulf, as well as to Crowley's Houston-based solutions group, a Project Management Organization (PMOrg). Solutions provides marine project management services as a prime contractor for the energy and resource extraction industries.
The company's full services – including new design, naval architecture, marine/mechanical engineering, ship structures, electrical engineering, production engineering and construction management – will each be available from this new location. These unique company capabilities are built upon a foundation of vessel design and engineering, construction and operations experience, due in part to Jensen's close working relationships with Crowley's marine operators. Jensen's staff includes naval architects, marine engineers, electrical engineers, maritime academy graduates and direct hires from shipyards around the U.S.
Customers who will benefit from Jensen's presence in the U.S. Gulf include regional shipyards and local operators, as well as clients in the offshore oil and gas, energy, fishing, workboat and brown-water industries.
"We are thrilled to announce the opening of a new Jensen office in this highly strategic region," said Crowley's Todd Busch, senior vice president and general manager, technical services. "Not only will Jensen now be able to serve the U.S. Gulf with all of its traditional naval architecture and marine engineering services from a convenient location, but Jensen is also now in a position to take on even more of the region's large energy projects, such as offshore design projects and sealifts, alongside solutions. Serving these industries are areas that the company has and will continue to provide a great deal of expertise on."
The New Orleans office is now operating under the direction of General Manager Sergio Fifi, reporting to Jensen's Johan Sperling, vice president, in Seattle. Fifi joined Jensen in 2004 as naval architect and marine engineer with responsibilities for vessel refurbishment and new designs. In 2010, he transitioned to Crowley as the manager of fleet engineering in Valdez, Alaska, where he was domiciled until recently. Prior to joining Jensen, Fifi worked for GE Fanuc Automation, N.A., in a technical leadership program, and earned a Masters in engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelors of Science in marine engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
The past year has been a time of incredible growth for Jensen. In 2011, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary with the opening of a new southern office in Jacksonville; added fully staffed, in-house production engineering, construction management and electrical engineering groups; and doubled the size of its staff. Jensen also formed a dedicated business development team and invested in project management training, which continues to aid the company as it executes complex projects alongside Crowley's solutions team. Today, Jensen is a full-service naval architecture and marine engineering provider - with services ranging from initial concept design through the final delivery stage.
"Jensen's explosive expansion is due to the careful joint planning of Jensen and our parent company Crowley, which has demonstrated sustained growth for 120 years," said Sperling. "This fully integrated office adds to Jensen's already strong presence on both the U.S. West and East Coasts. We look forward to serving our valued customers in the U.S. Gulf."
Jensen Maritime is now hiring qualified applicants for a variety of positions in the New Orleans office. Interested job seekers should visit www.jensenmaritime.com/careers for more information.
The company's new U.S. Gulf office address is as follows:
Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc.
1515 Poydras Street, Suite 2030
New Orleans, LA 70112


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Town Council
The Montverde Town Council consists of 5 locally elected residents that work with the Mayor to govern the town.
Current Members are:
Allan Hartle – Council President
Jim Ley – Council Vice President
Judy Smith – Councilmember
Jim Peacock – Councilmember
Billy Bates – Councilmember
They publicly meet in the Town Hall every second Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
JIM PEACOCKCouncil Member
Jim is a lifeweb_peacock.jpglong Florida resident and has lived in Montverde for the past twenty years. He is married to Robin for twenty six years and has two daughters, Bethany and Cassie. Jim has had an extensive career in Commercial Construction for over forty years. He performs monthly water sampling from Lake Florence for the UF Lakewatch program and also maintains the aeration system in the lake. His hobbies include water skiing and wood working.
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JIM LEYCouncil Vice President
Jim attended Pine Hills Elementary School in Orlando and went on to graduate from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He also attained a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of North Florida. Jim has had an extended career in Law Enforcement with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office before retiring in 2008.
His parents moved to Montverde and purchased the old Montverde Fish Camp. Jim and his wife Judy, along with their youngest daughter also moved to Montverde and renovated the old homestead. They have six children and seven grandchildren. For several years Jim has served the Town on the Public Safety Committee and is currently serving his second term on the Town Council. He has a passion for government and political processes as well as history and enjoys motorcycling and outdoor activities.
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Billy BatesCouncil Member
Billy is a Navy Veteran and now works for a major insurance company as a Licensed Adjuster. He has been married to Tiffany for eighteen years and has three children ages 14,11 and 5. The unique character and small town atmosphere of Montverde drew him and his wife to the town which has been their home for over twenty five years. Prior to serving on Council, Billy served as a member of the Planning and Zoning Board. He has been on the Town Council on and off since 2006 including four years as Council President. Bill is passionate about outdoor persuits and enjoys fishing and hunting.
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ALLAN HARTLECouncil President
Allan is a native of South Lake County and graduated from Clermont High School in 1976. He and his wife Dianne, have been married for nearly 3 decades and have been residents of Montverde for more than ten years. They have four sons; three of which have, or are serving in the United States Airforce. Allan worked in his family's citrus grove until the freezes of the 80's, but has spent the last thirty-three years as EHS manager for Whitaker Oil. He still enjoys involvement with the local agricultural community, and also believes in environmental responsibility and controlled growth. Allan served on the Montverde P&Z Board for three years and also worked with the Public Safety committee. He and his wife are members of First Baptist Church Orlando where he enjoys playing Tuba in the Orchestra. Allan is passionate about American history and enjoys hunting.
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JUDY SMITHCouncil Member
Judy has been a resident of Montverde for the past twenty four years after moving from Orlando. She worked for the Department of Business and Professional Regulation as a Paralegal, Complaint Analyst, Investigator and Supervisor for twenty five years before retiring in 2010. Previous to this she has worked for the CIA in Washington DC, owned two businesses and taught the Real Estate Law Course at both Valencia College and UCF for thirteen years. Judy was also the Director for the Real Estate Institute at Valencia's Open Campus and Clerk for Lake County Elections Precinct 16 Polling Station in Montverde.
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We return for a second helping of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with the directors and Pete Nash, the animation director.
Check out the trailers and clips from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from at AWNtv!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs opens today from Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia Pictures, and its wacky premise of food falling from the skies, is not only tailor-made for 3-D but also for a stylistic pairing of UPA and The Muppets.
Animation Director Pete Nash, who is currently working in Bristol with Aardman on Arthur Christmas, tells us how they pulled it off. I also had a follow-up chat with the amiable directors, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller.
"The biggest challenges in Cloudy were the stylistic choice," Nash suggests, "because the directors were very inspired by two things: UPA, the group of Disney animators that broke away in the '50s because they wanted to do a more flat, graphic design oriented way that was much more abstract and much less about accurately moving volumes around in space. And then The Muppets.
"And so the challenge was how do you do that in 3D, which is a lot less abstract. You have realistic lighting and textures and you can't really stretch anything because the textures will turn into lines and it will look awful and it won't look like the material it's made out of anymore.
"And where applicable, they wanted to apply the held-cel UPA [approach] but only on certain characters. So the challenge was figuring out what the boundaries were before it broke in 3D."
In fact, Manny, the cameraman, was probably the most UPA-esque character, according to Nash. He's very short, has tiny, skinny legs, an enormous head and giant nose. And he has a hat that covers his eyes. "He has an economy of motion and often would not move at all because his character is quietly confident and has nothing to prove, and only speaks a few times in the movie," Nash continues. "So, that confidence and precision lent themselves to the UPA approach.
The cool thing about Flint [the protagonist] is that he grew up as a loner in a town where he had to invent his own way of dealing with social situations, and they were always wrong and awkward. So he never knew how to interact with people, so his hands were always making adjustments and his eyes would dart around nervously, while the rest of him would be hunched over. And whenever he was alone in his lab, he would ham it up and act like he was in his own adventure movie.
"So when he has to solve a problem in his lab, we would have him walk around and intentionally abandon mechanics that you would normally have in a walk cycle. So there would be no up/down to his body and his feet would be articulately animated. The idea is that other than traveling through space, he was intensely focused, so the unnecessary motion was stripped away to help support that idea."
Meanwhile, Sam, the beautiful TV journalist newbie, was a nerd in adolescence, which she now hides from the world to gain acceptance. "So she would act like a ditzy blond character -- no offense to blonds -- and whenever she heard something that intrigued her, she would forget herself and go back to her true nature. And then she'd start acting a bit more like Flint, where she'd start to dissect all of the information and process it. But then she'd catch herself and over compensate by acting extra ditzy in hopes of erasing that she almost exposed her true nature."
Not surprisingly, a lot of work had to be done on the character rigs, so, among other things, "you could turn the chest into world space, which means it would be completely lockedp while the legs and pelvis moved separately underneath. You could do that with the pelvis and head too and then snap them back in body space over a frame, and this allowed do this very stylistic approach. Also, we could wire control the limbs and either have a skeletal structure in the arms where there was a defined elbow or we could erase that and turn it into like a rubber hose, which we did with Flint a lot whenever he was panicking or moving around like a maniac. We kept him loose like a Muppet, and that's when we treat his arms like hoses.
"We also had a pretty well engineered facial rig where we could add incredible range. Normally, you're concerned about how, if you lift up the corners of the mouth, does that push the cheek mass falling into the eyes and how does that affect the lower lids? But we were actually trying to not do that because they were going for more of a graphic look. So it was harder for the riggers, who had to figure out a way to hide that mass when you push the corner of the mouth up instead of having it bulge, which actually gives it a place to go. But they figured it out and they had so much range that we could pull the corners of the mouth all the way around the head and then literally turn them into a Muppet-like character."
And what do the directors think of the results?
For Miller, it was important that the town looked real: "We didn't to hide the power lines and the air conditioning ducts on the roofs. And we were able to find beauty in that, especially in that part of the movie right before the food arrives. We wanted it feel like going into Oz when the food comes, with a big burst of color and happiness."
As they previously told AWN, they're very proud of the food, but also the cloud work and cartoony snowflakes. "Again, Imageworks does an amazing job and they were able to take advantage of Arnold, the ray tracer that's able to calculate bounce light and shadows and have a real feel even though it was so stylized," Lord adds. That's why the shots of the town look so good."
"I'm just so shocked that the thing's finished and it came out," Miller jokes. "We didn't get fired and people like it. I'm not quite sure if it shows great faith or negligence on the part of the studio. Either way, I'm very thankful that they gave us the opportunity and turned a blind's eye to our deficits."
Lord concurs that it was a great learning experience, considering that this is their first animated feature and initial foray into 3-D. "So, obviously, we were in over our heads, but we've always been in over our heads every step of our career, even on Clone High.
"When you're in the fox hole, you wonder how anyone wants to make another one of these. But then Jill Culton [Hotel Transylvania, Open Season] told us that we're going to be shocked at how much we'll want to make another one. You learn so much and you realize that you can actually do better now."
But if they make another 3-D film again, Miller wants to take better advantage of the depth cues and Lord wants to open things up more and perhaps cut a little differently. "I think the movie looks amazing in 3-D, but now I really know how to make it pop."
Bill Desowitz is senior editor of AWN & VFXWorld.
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The call to change the name of Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska has been joined by all 15 Minneapolis state legislators.
On Wednesday, the group of representatives and senators sent a letter to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources urging Commissioner Tom Landwehr to "take all necessary official action" to change the name. It's the next step in the potential renaming of Minneapolis' largest and most-popular lake after the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners voted 4–3 in November to restore the lake's Dakota name, usually translated as "white earth lake."
In the letter to the DNR, the Minneapolis legislators write that the lake's current name "was chosen to dignify a man that represents a very undignified part of our American experience."
The name Calhoun was chosen for the lake by white surveyors in the 1820s. It honored John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina politician who was an outspoken supporter of slavery and played a key role in developing the Indian Removal Act while serving as U.S. secretary of war. A series of frontier outposts established under his leadership included Fort Snelling.
"The history of Calhoun as a political or historical figure is not honored or dignified by Minnesotans now, nor should it ever have been," the legislators' letter states.
The legislators predict that the name change "will start conversations and educational experiences about our history" and "grow a deeper appreciation for the vibrant Native American Indian communities that still exist in Minneapolis and throughout the state."
The November vote by the Hennepin County Board was a significant step in the years-long effort to change the name. In May, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board approved a master plan for the lake that endorsed changing its name to Bde Maka Ska, a signs around the lake currently include both names. Those votes were preceded by a years-long effort on the part of local activists to rename the lake.
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Some thought it would never happen, yet the original members of Destiny's Child met with their replacements..! Check out these snaps of former members LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, and Michelle Williams from last night. It was rumored that LeToya and LaTavia we removed from the Bootylicious band back in 2000 and replaced with Williams and Farrah Franklin. The later only survived the hit Say My Name until she left and DC became the band that ruled the world. Alas, Kelly Rowland & Beyonce are missing from the reunion, yet seeing this united front can only spark rumours of a DC reunion.
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Burlington Dems Nominate Failed Retreads for Sheriff, Surrogate and Freeholder
Kostoplis, Friedman and Foster all deeply flawed candidates
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Mount Holly, February 5, 2016 – The Burlington County Democrats decision to nominate three failed retreads for Sheriff, Surrogate and Freeholder reveals a party decimated by three straight years of losing campaigns, campaign finance violations and ineffective leadership, said GOP Chairman Bill Layton today.
"The fact that the best Burlington County Democrats could do in a Presidential election is nominate three failed candidates who have all been rejected by county voters before demonstrates just how disorganized and weak their party has become locally," said Burlington County GOP Chairman Bill Layton. "A double-dipping Sheriff's candidate; a special interest lawyer for Surrogate; and a Freeholder candidate notorious for failing to pay her taxes or her own bills – that's a ticket that should send shivers up the spine of any taxpayer."
If James Kostoplis is elected Sheriff, he would exploit a loophole in New Jersey law that allows politicians to double-dip on taxpayers, and collect nearly $200,000 a year in taxpayer money. Kostoplis ran against Sheriff Jean Stanfield in 2013 three years ago and lost.
Surrogate candidate Sander Friedman made a living suing county governments and forcing residents to foot the bill. Friedman ran an ugly, personal smear campaign against Surrogate George Kotch in 2011 and lost.
Freeholder candidate Reva Foster lost to Freeholder Joe Donnelly by more than 20 points in 2013 after it was revealed that she was sued for failing to pay her own taxes, in addition to failing to pay her mortgage, her car payment, her utility bills, and even her dentist.


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What's up, my nerds? The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon dug into the ancient world of gaming last night when they invited Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto onto the show. Fallon tried out the new Nintendo Switch, and afterward, they had Miyamoto sit in with The Roots for a jam sesh.
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