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Actions/Presets Used: Inspire Photoshop Actions
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Manual Edits:
Started by cloning in bits of the dress and sand. Shortened the edges of the dress via the clone stamp tool in CS6.
Inspire Actions:
- Bittersweet (with fudge edges and matte turned off)
- Beaming at 30% opacity
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To create a bit more punch the photographer ran a levels layer on the red channel and moved the top point to the left and the bottom point to the right. She ran one more curves layer this time raising the shadows a bit more by dragging the center point up to form a small c curve. Final edit was to add a field blur at 15px and then brush on at a 30% opacity to areas that were softened.
After all edits were complete she used MCP's free FB resize and sharpen action to save for web.
Image Title: Desert child
By: Melanie
Studio: Melanie Osorio Photography
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Sooo, I've quikly made this (still work in progress):
With RagePixel plugin for unity. Because, I'm for sure ain't gonna make decent 3d, because I'm still learning. And because I spent too much time on silly things, for my unity skills are a bit rusty and there is not much of them.
Anyway, not sure if I'm gonna make it for LD compo, or even jam, cause I have some troubles with staying on theme., but I will finish it anyway.
Initial idea was that you jumping on procedurally generated islands with henchman-pets which has different stats, and some of them are divide itself when there is a free spot on your team. So, they shoot, fly around. You collect some resources, maybe abilities, maybe upgrade yourself, maybe get more pets. But this idea is too complex(need enemies as well, some kind of pathfinding, how to make it noticeable what's going on with your pets? How many of them should there be?) So, yeah, if you ask me, this there is kind of hard to get right, and I'm not a fan of it at all.

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Recently I had seen some cards made by my US adopted sister CardMonkey Jarvis whom I had the pleasure of meeting at CTMH Convention this past summer in Florida. She had made a swing card using the Polar Bear Holiday Stamp Set, and it got me into the mood to cut some swing cards off the CTMH Artiste cartridge.
I tried 2 different cuts, and used the Frosted paper and the new Holiday paper Sparkle & Shine.
I really think they turned out really sweet. If you would like to be able to make these cards, you can purchase all the supplies from my website here.


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You can follow Soolah Hoops on Instagram from her website or if you are on Instagram! Enjoy!
Soolah's Instagram Vlog
Sometimes life is easier to relay in photos and videos than in words as actions speak much louder than words...:)
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Stay up to date on what Soolah is creating in the world of hoop dance and more! Classes, Festivals, Summer Camps, Performance dates are just a few of the things Soolah will be sharing in her newsletters! Click on the Archive Link to view!
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Suffice it to say I am not a blogger but maybe a little bit of a Vlogger and I kinda like that better because it is quick and easy for me to post a mini video than to write. I want to see if this will continuously update here so that I am not so behind on my blog stuff. It may seem quiet here but truly I am always very busy! If I am not creating fun classes, updating my website and marketing, creating hoops and performing and sharing the hoop love I am certainly practicing. Let's see how this goes...:) Hope you enjoy!
Keep on hoop dancing!
You can follow me on Instagram or any of the other social media in the bar at the top of my website too!
What's happening these days?
Well, we are in 2013 and I realize that I am definitely not a blogger. Ok, wait, I kinda have been busy this year. First recovering from major surgery and then into the swing of things with hooping and other huge life changing events. Hmmmmn, now that I am writing I didn't really realize how many very big life changing events have happened this year! I kind need to give myself a break on the blogging dealio. ;)
As I was kicking off my year and still in the throws of winter I landed in the hospital and had to have an emergency hysterectomy. Gotta admit that isn't a small deal, especially for a hooper. Because of the way they had to do the surgery my recovery was going to take longer. The incision was from my belly button down. Again, not so great for a professional hooper. But it could have been worse so I am grateful for what did happen instead of that worse case scenario you get. And trust me, when I was told the worst case, I saw my life as it is completely stop, and more tears. You can't hoop with a colostomy bag that is for sure! So yeah happy it didn't go that route! Thank you Universe - Bock, Bock!!
There was a ton of surrender involved with that. Letting go in so many ways. Not just of something physical but also aspects of things I had created as well. Letting go of classes I had just started. Letting go of performances that I was supposed to do that month. Letting go of not being in a glamorous state of performance costumes and fun a lot of the time. 10 days in the hospital you kinda get a bit gross during that time. For whatever reason I chose not to take a shower that whole time til I got home. I think I was scared to create any other issues. Doesn't mean I didn't stay clean but still. Letting go of the busy self and not knowing when I could get back to being in a good place all around with all I did.
Needless to say I was in tears at one point over it. It's very hard to have no other choice but to let go of everything you created within your business but I did. It was a pretty scary time to be honest and a huge lesson in being vulnerable. I am not so great at "vulnerable"...really... But I had no other choice but to be in that state of being at that time. It was really tough to be there to be honest. But I ended up at some point telling myself that I needed to surrender. To let go and let things roll. That it is happening for a reason and that I should enjoy this time of just being.
What was amazing was the outpouring of real love at that time. My family pulled together to visit me and take care of me at points even though they are far away. Dad especially did that. I tend to not show my vulnerable side to my family. I had the role of being the big sister who took care of everyone else. For some reason I had to be "the strong one". And then when Dad was here I had a long day of pain about a week after I was home that made me think I would have to go back to the hospital. i didn't want to go at all. I cried in front of him and that I didn't do at some point as a kid. He was worried and tried to help me in whatever way he could. But it was a scary moment.
My daughter was incredible. At almost 20 she pulled friends together to help me out in shifts when she could not be there. The love coming from friends was amazing! I kept hearing how they wanted to help me out. From my friend Amira creating a meds schedule (and trust me I had a ton of meds I was on - it was nuts!), to others staying with me and to my friend Angel not only helped get me home when I finally had to leave the hospital but who also created a donations portal because I do not have health insurance and I could not work at all so no income was coming in - which letting go in that way was very difficult! That site showed me just how much people were in a state of love and caring all around. This helped me out a ton as well. It was an intense time but I saw how much support I had and how many people cared. I can say I never want to be in that place again to find out but it was still a beautiful thing to see happening to the point of being overwhelming and I cried again just because.
Recovery has been interesting. I am 4 months out of that time period. I performed for the first time at the end of March at my 7 week mark. I took it easy but performed what I could. A few minutes here and there and doing things off the body were part of what I could do. Since it was a fire performance I was able to do other things as well. It was a test of where I was for me. I listened and did not over do - which I tend to do by the way. I paced things as I moved into my second and third month from my surgery date. And I listened to my body. If I over did a day then I would know. It has been so interesting going through that. Having to really listen and still be vulnerable and stop when I am being prompted to do so. I had noticed my short term memory was effected for a bit. Anesthesia can do that. Food was interesting too. Hospital food is not so great, especially when they want to stick you on a "regular diet" and your body actually is not ready for that. I lost a lot of weight that I could not afford to lose. I think I went down to 105 and I am usually 115 - 120. I would look at my body and freak out at how skinny I was and yet I was starving. I wanted to eat but was afraid to. One night they made pork, sauerkraut and baked apples. I was doing my walk to try to get things moving physically and smelled that and was immediately turned off. And I am polish/hungarian on my Dad's side so that is normal food for me. Not that day. My sense of smell was extremely heightened. I am guessing because I hadn't eaten and that is the normal reaction. I could smell EVERYTHING. In most cases that was't a good thing. Once I finally got home (and trust me that getting there was an ordeal in and of itself) my body told me what I wanted. It was amazing. I knew I could trick my body into it's normal functioning with popsicles so Edy's All Natural Lime ones were on my menu. Friends created food but I wasn't ready for it. I needed to start slow. I also knew that pineapple would help with digestive stuff. I found one night I woke up with a craving for Avocado. Perfect for fat content especially. And then Sweet Potato also came into play. It was amazing how my body responded and how I ate what it wanted not what was put in front of me. It's a bit stressful at a hospital trying to eat and nothing is working. But it was good once I got home and listened to my body in that way as well. Now I eat everything in site...:) I gained my weight back and feel better for sure.
I am at 4 months from that time. My biggest thing is fatigue. I get tired quicker still than where I was so I really have to still pace myself. I also can feel it once in a while in my scarring and the ab muscles. They get a little achy for sure and sometimes when I am fooling around with certain tricks I have to stop. Rolling around with a hoop on your foot is not always a good idea. But I also see the strides I have made too. Where I was is far from where I am now so that is a plus. And also not pushing myself too much.
My May was super busy and June will be as well. Then I am into my kids summer camps in July and August. I can still pace myself as each month comes along. I have a lot going on and am really grateful I can actually do my favorite things. I am enjoying time at home gardening, spending time with good friends and living one at a time. I am excited about all of this and to see where I will be physically at the 6 month mark as well.
Wow, I had a lot to say but hopefully not too much tmi and yet I feel like I need to recognize this point. That I am back to hooping, can still feel fatigued at points but that is my body's way of assisting me in not overdoing things.
Looking forward to more fun and hope to see you all at some point along the happy hooping road of life!
More fall classes coming up!
Hey all,
It's been so busy with 1. working on my house (lots and lots of painting!!), 2. creating and hosting classes in the area, 3. performing and 4. making hoops! The balance between finding downtime and building a business is definitely a fine line. I tend to be a work-a-holic when it comes to this because it is so important to me! So finding or creating time for the self is always important. I should be done with interior painting of my home soon so that will free me up for sure. And it looks so pretty!
So many classes have been happening and am gearing up for more! I am expanding my range of where I am hosting classes and really look forward to seeing who is ready to jump into the hoop for some fun times in them! Good ol' positive hoop stuff happening and I really hope to see you in a class soon!
I begin new classes in Gettysburg this week and am starting a new Hoop Dance Class next Tuesday in Frederick! Please check out the Workshops page for more details!
One thing I am hoping to get back up and running is my Newsletter. I am hoping to revamp it and then start it again. In creating classes, hooping, performances and keeping my website updated it certainly has been neglected! I am hoping to get something out soon though...:)
Until the next time enjoy your
Busy times and lots of changes
Hey all,
It's been a while and I figured I would write something in regards to all that has been happening in the world of Soolah Hoops! I just returned from Sturgis out in South Dakota and had a super fun time performing! Lots and lots of fire play for me and was able to do some things that I had never done before. It's been a kind of pushing the boundaries time for me and that included fire dance tools. My poor flamebrella fell apart while I was performing on stage...:( We tried to create another but modern day umbrella's are really not that sturdy at all! It started to fall apart right away. Hopefully, I can have another created that is sturdier because I really loved the beauty of that fire toy!
In it's place came a fire staff which I had never really played with before. Still recouping from an injury to my thumb during the Frederick Fire works (yeah a cartwheel uphill with a flaming hoop snapped something!) it made it a little difficult to twirl around but I figured out how to do so without too much aggravation to that thumb. I also found that I could balance the thing on my head pretty effectively. Then I got to balancing my hoop on my head as well when the fire wicks got down to 3 or 4 lit wicks. I snagged out some belly dance moves I had seen and learned and I had another technique to my dance.
I have also begun to dabble with poi which was something I was hoping to do years ago but was intimidated by. Having a ball of fire possibly hit you in the face was never something I was up for but since I have hoop moves that incorporate poi moves I found I was able to do it. Seems my fire abilities will be broadening now with a few more types of toys so that is really good. Now to just continue to practice them all.
I recently stopped working at my day job after finding my exhaustion levels high. If some of you have followed me you will know my schedule was a bit insane. When you hear a million times over "HOW are you DOING all of this?!?!" You know there may be a problem. You kind of find that you can't see life half the time because it is passing you by so quickly. I can say I think I see it now more than ever. I have realized my exhaustion levels too and know that it could have gotten way more detrimental if I had continued the way I had. I have new ideas rolling around for my personal future with hoops and hope to get that rolling out at least by 2012 if not before then. Stay tuned for more!
I am booking festivals, shows and workshops for myself and for Pyrophoric right now which is pretty exciting. I am facilitating my Adult Hoop Dance Workshop at FCC this year which is very exciting to me. I am working on finishing my teacher training as well so that is coming in the next few weeks. I am also doing a music video shoot with my amazing friends Frenchy and the Punk in September! I am really looking forward to this!
I have more coming down the pike as I said but wanted to get something out there to those reading this blog that was a little more up to date...:) Hope everyone is doing well and Happy Hooping!Soolah
Rejuvenating everything!
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Today was a big website revamp! There are still more things to add, especially in the links section, but I created a new header, added in my summer workshops & classes and added some new photos to the photo stream. I also updated the front page content of the site, the events page and moved information to the About page. Managing the website can be a lot but it is worth it...:) I think it just feels better to have taken the time to get a bit a fresh new look to it. Hope you like it!
Lots of cool things around the corner including the latest news! I have recently signed a contract with Boomtown Hoops to join the Astral Rhythm Dancers in becoming The Legendary Buffalo Chip Hula Girls! It's an honor to be working with such talented hoopers and fire dancers! We will be the opening act for many bands at Sturgis! A list of bands includes the likes of Styx, Poison, Alice Cooper,Toby Keith, Edgar Winter, Gregg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jeff Bridges, Def Leppard, George Thorogood, Bachman Tuner, Tesla and more! We will be performing throughout the event at any given turn so be on the lookout for us if you are headed to Sturgis this year!
I've been practicing different kinds of hoop tricks lately and actually working on using multiple hoops. So far I am up to 2 hoops at a time. It takes a lot of practice and body coordination working with multiple hoops. I am hoping to work in fire with this new stuff...:)
Until next time! Happy hooping!
April balancing act!
April balancing act!
Whew! I have been super busy in all different arenas of hooping. Whether it's been creating my marketing, studying for my training or setting up workshops and events I have had to find time just to unwind and hoop. I find Ihave to make time between working basically two full time jobs, taking care of my daughter and home and focusing on hoop stuff. It can be tough to juggle it all at once. I love that I have moments to slow down and unwind when I can get them. As busy as I am I am living in the best way. I find joy in what I do here and am happy to spread it to those who are interested. Tonight was focusing on just updating my website and creating my monthly newsletter. A couple of days late on the newsletter but it's ok. I am still in early enough in April that the major events are advertised and still able to be scheduled into your life as well. When I hoop with everyone I get to unwind as well. It sharing that love of hooping that keeps me going and your smiling faces are the reward more than anything! I am keeping this entry short but wanted to reach out and connect. Hopefully you can make it to some of the scheduled events or workshops! The weather is warming up and that brings lots of hooping opportunities coming your way!
Happy hooping and see you soon!
New Hoop Programs coming soon!
Hi everyone!
Lots of amazing things are happening in the world of Soolah Hoops and I am looking forward to bringing new hoop fun to the community! I will be working with the City of Frederick Parks and Recreation to bring hoop workshops and classes to people of all ages. I have been fleshing out a new programs for younger kids and parents to exercise and play with hoops! It's such a great way for families to connect after a busy week of work, school and other distractions. It's time to bring families together in fun! Be on the lookout for more details in the Workshops page. I will also be doing many events with The CIty of Frederick as well and can't wait to get started!
The Western Maryland Hooping Society kicked off their new kids hoop troupe on March 6th! 18 kids registered for the Spring Session. The kids named the troupe Shooting Diamond Hoopers and chose their troupe colors of Hot Pink, Neon Green, Purple and Silver! We worked on basic hooping to start with and are slowly introducing tricks as we work toward our Hoop Dance routine. We'll be working hard in the next few months on our routine and will keep you informed when we perform for our first event!
In March I took a fun AcroHoop class with Marria and Zach of Ninja Hoops and The Vegetable Circus! What amazing instructors! I learned a bunch of new tricks to incorporate into my hoop performance. I learned to cartwheel and do hand stands with my hoop in motion along with several other tricks! It was so much fun and trust me I had an amazing 3 hour workout that day. Was I sore? Indeed but it was a good soreness knowing that I can do many other fun things with my hoop when I play. I have also been working on several other tricks that I hope to bring to my performing this year so be on the lookout for some of the new stuff I am doing. It's always good to challenge yourself in the best way and Marria and Zach definitely did this!!
I have events beginning to book so my schedule will start to fill up soon! I will be at Frederick's Earth Day Celebration this year. Hoops invoke happiness about being able to just play on our precious planet. Showing gratitude toward our planet is important. Come on out and see all of the wonderful things that will be happening at this event!
Pyrophoric is busy scheduling events to perform at as well and you will see us at the Frederick Fireworks on July 4th! We can't wait to bring you some firey fun this year with fire breathing, fire staff, fire hoop, poi, orb, fire fans and more!
On another note, I have begun my teacher training with Safire Dance and am enjoying my classes immensely! Safire was one of my major inspirations as I began hooping so having her knowledge to improve my skills is a terrific benefit. I am grateful for this opportunity to learn more and hone my skils as a teacher and trainer.
Looking forward to seeing you at upcoming events!
Happy hooping,
Soolah Hoops
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Lisle, Illinois ~ The Dow Jones industrial average is at an all-time high. Unemployment is down. Consumer confidence is up.
How did we get here? How do we stay here? What role will Washington, D.C., play?
The Center for Civic Leadership (CCL) at Benedictine University will host former presidential economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Ph.D., who will lecture on "Economic and Political Realities: 2015 and Beyond" at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12 on the second floor of the Krasa Student Center.
Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He previously served in Washington as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the President's cabinet.
Goolsbee's research has earned him recognition as a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In prior years he was named one of the "100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum and one of the six "Gurus of the Future" by the Financial Times.
Comedy Central's "Daily Show" star Jon Stewart describes him as "Eliot Ness meets Milton Friedman," and in 2009 he was voted "Washington, D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity."
Established in 2005 under the direction of former Illinois Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan, the CCL seeks to shape a new generation of public leaders and responsible citizens. Each year, the CCL invites prominent public figures to speak about the importance of active citizenship and public service.
In recent years, the CCL has hosted President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, Washington Post columnists Bob Woodward and David Broder, CNN's Peter Bergen, Children's Defense Fund Director Marian Wright Edelman, University of Chicago legal scholar Cass Sustein and human rights advocate Paul Rusesabagina.
As a vehicle for civic education and engagement, the CCL has also placed many undergraduate students into public service and government internships, where they gain valuable firsthand experience working closely with some of Illinois' finest public servants and elected officials.
Through the CCL, Benedictine students have interned in the state's attorney's offices, with members of the General Assembly in Springfield, and with the Citizens Advocacy Center in Elmhurst. Other students have been placed as volunteers with political campaigns.
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Portobello Burger
Delicious almond/ buckwheat hamburger bun, served with a tart Cream sauce and topped with Heirloom Tomatoes, Onions Straws and Alfalfa Sprouts.
Portobello Steaks
Portobello(s) were marinated in Fresh Lemon juice, minced garlic, Nama shoyu and cold pressed olive oil for one hour. After marinating they were transferred to the dehydrator for 6 hours. I checked them every couple of hours and applied more marinate to keep them moist and evenly flavored.
Onion Straws
Massage 5 Onions in Date Paste, Nama Shoyu & Olive Oil. Dehydrate on texflex sheet for 24 hours, remove and transfer to mesh sheet dehydrating for another 12 hours.
Warm Mash No-tatoes
In a food processor, blend Parsnips, Jicama, fresh Garlic, Olive Oil, Nutritional Yeast, Water, Salt and Pepper. Once you achieve the consistency you'd like transfer to a glass bowl and place on the bottom shelf of the dehydrator to warm.
Hamburger Bun
Blend together Zucchini, Olive Oil, Garlic, Red Miso, Flax Meal, Almond Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Fresh Lemon Juice, Nutritional Yeast, Fresh Rosemary, Coriander, White Pepper, Sea Salt & Pepper.
Most of the raw hamburger/ sandwich buns we've had have been like little hockey pucks or terribly bland in flavor. These are so flavorful, moist and easy to bite down on. I opted to keep the skins on the Zucchini to so that I didn't waste any of the vitamins, you could leave off which would give the bun a more golden appearance.
Onion Straws & Plating
You could really have some fun with the Onion Straws by creating some great visuals for plating.
For those parents out there, kids love these tasty onion treats and think they are onion rings! Great way to get your toddler or kids to eat these awesome cancer fighting foods.
So good they don't know its health food!
I have never been able to get the kids to eat mushrooms. No matter how clever I am at hiding them in a dish, my daughter finds every one and picks them out. These steaks were so flavorful that she didn't even give it a second thought and ate it all. My Son had two helpings of the potatoes and my husband stated it was the best meal ever!
Have fun with this dish and be sure to share it with your love ones!


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Ever since I was in Brisbane's David Jones and saw a lovely pale girl working in Willow with a dark brown bob with fringe, dark draped clothes and striking purple lips I've been obsessed with finding my own purple lipstick. Finally, I have one.
Illamasqua's Diablo is simply amazing. The loveliest shade of purple, it's strong and goes on the same colour as in the tube. I've worn it here with a Sage #5 eyeshadow disc from The Body Shop and my TBS makeup base etc. I love the green and the purple together; it feels so mysterious and in a way, slightly magical. I can't wait for the next event to wear it to!


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I am a Birther. She's a Birther. Wouldn't you like to be a Birther, too? Just remember Hitler wasn't a German and look what depths he took Germany to.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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text: Fauji Foundation's main thrust remains towards rural areas because of obvious reason that most of the Beneficiaries population belongs to rural areas. It is because of this reason that concept of mobile clinics was evolved. The basic purpose / concept of these health clinics was to providing Health Care to remote areas which are quite away from Health Clinics, Medical Centres and Hospitals. All Hospitals and Medical Centres operate a total of 50 x Mobile Health Clinics. Covering a total, 482 stations. These Mobile Health Clinics operate 3 days a week upto a maximum of 120 kms in mountains and 175 kms in plains both ways from base Hospital and Medical Centre. A huge number of patients take advantage of this service and get treatment from these Mobile Health Clinics. Mobile Health Clinics have contributed a lot in provision of care at door steps of Beneficiaries in rural areas, especially in the prevailing economic crunch and increased transportation charges.


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Reds' Latos passes latest test
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Mat Latos threw breaking balls for the first time this spring in a bullpen session yesterday.
"He had a long bullpen -- 40, 45 pitches," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "He threw all his pitches -- his curveball, his slider. He felt really good. We'll see how he comes out of it today when he goes out to play catch. We anticipate the next step to be a live batting practice session toward the end of the week."
Latos is coming off Feb. 14 knee surgery, but he also had arthroscopic elbow surgery on Oct. 11. He had not throw breaking balls since the elbow surgery.
Latos could get in a game after the live BP session.
"A lot of it is going to be what we see -- if he's sharp, how he comes through it," Price said. "But I think he's getting very close to being game-ready."
HANNAHAN UPDATE: Jack Hannahan will go with the team to Camelback Ranch tomorrow for the game with the Dodgers. He'll pinch-hit. It will be his first game action of the spring.
Hannahan is coming off offseason shoulder surgery. That curtailed Price's plan for him.
"We're hoping he'd be physically ready because we wanted him to spend time at all the infield positions and maybe play some left field," Price said. "He's not ready to defend yet with his throwing arm."
Price is big on players playing multiple positions.
"We've been playing guys at their second and third position to see what value they provide," Price said. "I know Jack hasn't played a great deal of shortstop in the big leagues, however, if you need a guy to play over there for a game or two, it would be nice to know he's capable. It's just finding a different way to rest your regulars and get your bench guys at-bats."


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Part 5 in the series "Adaptable//Sustainable: DIY Home Adaptation//Remaking Your Space to Work for You."
Make use of a formal dining room: do you have two dining areas, one of which is rarely used? Have the formal dining room do double duty as a library. This can help get visual clutter out of other rooms while adding to a room that may need a breath of life.
Example of a dining room/library/parlor/circulation space, originally intended to be the living room. The living room is now set up in the smaller, cozier, no traffic original formal dining room.
Adding function to a rarely used room will in turn add another room to your house without the hassle of a construction project.
Next week: Adaptable//Sustainable: Adding kids' bedrooms.


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The time machine
It is a lazy Saturday afternoon and you are on your way buy some food. You were walking along the street.
There is a time machine right in front of you. It is a special one, it could only transport you to the period twenty years ago. For some of you who were already alive and kicking back then, you are cautious, it might bring back negative memories, it might also bring back the good ones. But you have decided to give it a go. For those of you who are too young to remember what has happened twenty years ago or have not been around yet, you are filled with curiosity in finding out how life was like in the not so distant past.
So you enter the time machine. The door behind you closes automatically. 'THUD'. "You will now be transported to twenty years into the past", a male automated voice narrated. The sound of automated voices are familiar to you. There was not much movement in the time machine. In less than thirty seconds, you hear the same voice again. The date currently is 29th december 1995. You left the time machine immediately and you try to find a cafe nearby. Lo and behold. You recognize some of the places. They were still around before you went into the time machine. You got hungry so you tried to find a cafe nearby. Fortunately you still have some spare cash in your pocket. As you arrived at the entrance of the cafe, you realized that business is brisk. Of course it is what you would have expected on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Many would prefer eating out. The waiter politely requested you to wait for a few minutes while he clears up the table that had just been vacated.
While waiting, you noticed a scene that is very much different from that of the present time. People are not texting or busily entertained by electronic forms of entertainments. They were looking into each others' eyes. They were communicating face to face, feelings each others' emotions, communicating via body language, facial expressions. Their words were accentuated by the speed of their speech, the tone and the volume of the voices.
Finally, the waiter calls out your name and brings you to your seat. You decided not to take out your smartphone even to check the time, that would be a dead giveaway that you are not from the current 'surroundings'.
Upon placing your order for food and drinks, you thought to yourself; Would'nt it be nice if people at your current state would enjoy a face to face conversation? It is very different from texting. You could see that everyone is absorbed in their conversations. Everyone is 'alive' and 'living the moment'. A group of youths were happily chuckling away. A pair of lovebirds were having a delightful heart to heart conversation with each other. There was a family with 2 children, a boy and a girl asking their parents about food they were going to have. The expressions on their faces were obvious reflections of their current emotional state.
Everything took place in real time. It feels more human. Would'nt it be nice if everyone in your era sees the importance and value of face to face communication.
(The waiter then delivers your meal)
Upon completing your meal, you decide to return to the time machine. While you were slowly walking towards it, you started to reflect on what you have just witnessed. Well, smartphones are a great tool for communication and entertainment. And you have been using it to keep track of your appointments and you have your own online diary and blog to express your thoughts on various issue. Social media is great because you get various perspectives of an issue and it keeps you informed of various things that are happening in various parts of the world. Besides, you get a lot of jokes and entertainment as well as funny videos from your friends. You won't want to go back to 20 years ago.
But one thing you would want to tell the people around you is that electronic forms of communications could never replace face to face conversations.
And so you made a note on what you wished to share with the people around you.
"...remind the people the value of face to face communication and being in the moment in instead of looking into their electronic devices most of the time when they are in the presence of one another..."
The time machine's door opens and you hear the same robotlike male voice again "You are now back in 2015..."
You ran off eager to share what you have just learnt.
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Teen Suspect in Be'er Sheva Stabbing Claims Self-defense
The high school student suspected of stabbing fellow classmate Phillip Gellar left the victim to bleed to death at around 4 A.M. Saturday.
A Be'er Sheva high school student suspected of fatally stabbing a classmate over the weekend said in court yesterday that he had not intended to kill Philip Geller, and had stabbed the victim in self-defense.
The suspect told police earlier that Geller had tried to hit him with a rock.
Geller was buried in the Be'er Sheva cemetery yesterday.
The Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court yesterday extended by six days the remand of the suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor.
The 16-year-old suspect, whom Geller's mother and others described as a good friend of the victim, left the victim to bleed to death at around 4 A.M. Saturday and did not call the police or an ambulance, police said.
But a friend said the suspect and five other teenagers involved in the fracas, which took place at the end of a party at the suspect's house at which alcohol was served, initially tried to seek help.
"They did call for an ambulance, and no one answered," the friend said. "They didn't run away. ... These are good kids who didn't mean to run away and leave Philip bleeding."
One of Geller's friends said the fight was the result of drinking.
"It's all because of the alcohol," he said. "They're two normal kids who got dragged into this situation. It's a sad story."
The police confirmed that alcohol played a prominent role in the stabbing.
"There is a worrisome trend of drinking alcohol. The age of the users and the drinkers is going down from year to year," said the commander of the Be'er Sheva police station, Yossi Cohen. "We are very active in eradicating the phenomenon of minors and youth drinking alcohol. We have and will take serious action against convenience stores and clubs that sell alchol to minors."
Cohen said police shut down dozens of businesses this year for more than 30 days at a time because of alcohol sales to minors, in an effort "to prevent crime and violence among young people."
He said the weekend stabbing shows that isn't enough, and suggested that educators and parents get involved in attempting to keep teens from drinking.
Hundreds of people attended Geller's funeral yesterday, the same day that some of his classmates were taking a matriculation exam in language at their school.
"Everyone here is still shocked by what happened," one of Geller's classmates said at the school. "We can't understand how something like this could happen to our friends. [Geller and the suspect] were good friends, they hung out and had fun together. This incident has made us all dumbfounded."
Geller's school, considered one of the leading high schools in the city, had grief counselors available yesterday, and students lit memorial candles for Geller near the school's entrance.
Geller's mother, Marina Geller, said the suspect had been at their house just two days before the stabbing.
"The murder suspect was his friend," she said. "He would come to the house and hang out with him, and Philip would visit him." On Thursday, she recalled, the suspect helped Philip move an old table.
"I'm still in shock," said Marina. "I don't know how he could have done this. What right did he have to take my son's life?"
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Offered through FGS, presented by Amy Johnson Crow, CG
I sat in on this webinar since I'm starting a genealogical society for my area of Indiana (BRVGS). I wanted to learn more about volunteers of a group. I have volunteered myself and could relate to a lot of what Ms. Crow discussed.
I hope to meet new interested people for our new local society. People who have special skills to put to use, people who want to volunteer a little time to support their community, people who want to learn more about their family history and how to document what they find for future generations.
I'll definitely be reviewing my notes as the first meetings of BRVGS commence!


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Happy Meal
Mobile app lunch box delivery service for Chinese executives
Happy Meal (Kaixinshan) is an on-demand mobile based healthy Chinese lunch box delivery service targeting executives in Shanghai.
Customers choose between a set of different meals, fully prepared in the company's central kitchen, which are delivered from dozens of hubs to their door, mainly office buildings, within 15 minutes.
The company is based in Shanghai and plans to expand in other Chinese cities.


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Senior strives to open doors for children in Romania
By Karin Dienst
Princeton senior Clare Vierbuchen (left) runs Open Doors, a nonprofit organization that raises funds for families in Romania, from her room in Dod Hall. Her roommate, senior Allison Cheung (right), serves as vice president of the organization.
Princeton NJ -- Senior year has a lot of pressures, but it typically does not include finding ways to help abandoned children thousands of miles away. For Clare Vierbuchen, a psychology major from Houston, Texas, her academic rigors often pale in comparison to her struggles to strengthen families in Romania.
Five years ago when her family was living in London, Vierbuchen went on a week-long school trip to Romania to visit several orphanages. After that, there was no ignoring what she had seen, not even after her family returned to the United States and she enrolled at Princeton.
Now, from her room in Dod Hall, Vierbuchen runs a nonprofit organization called Open Doors, through which she raises funds to support a household of five abandoned children -- and pays the salaries of two women who serve as their foster parents -- in the town of Bistrita in northern Romania. She also is working to establish a community center in or near Bistrita, an area that has a large ethnic Romany population (commonly called ''Gypsies'').
According to Vierbuchen, the children she helps, who range in age from 5 to 9, ''fell through the cracks'' of the overextended child care system in Romania. Four of the children are siblings and were abandoned by their parents and placed in orphanages, but their parents, who will not give permission for them to be adopted, still visit them sporadically. The fifth child's mother is mentally ill. Through her efforts, Vierbuchen ensures that the children can live together in a stable home environment and attend a Montessori school.
To support the household, which Vierbuchen established in 2003 and refers to as a ''family center,'' she has to raise $1,200 a month. She does this by finding sponsors for the children -- currently there are nearly 20 regular supporters, including four Princeton students -- but money is tight. If the funds grow, Vierbuchen hopes to add two more children to the family center and move them from their rented apartment to a house.
The responsibilities Vierbuchen has taken on are great, especially since her busy schedule as a Princeton senior includes 20 hours of work per week at various libraries on campus as well as babysitting jobs. ''It's very stressful, but it's definitely worth it,'' she said. ''I wouldn't have it any other way.''
Every week, Vierbuchen, who taught herself Romanian, phones the children and their foster parents to catch up with their news. ''I get phone cards and call to talk about school,'' she said. ''And if the kids do anything bad I'm supposed to talk with them about that.'' Right now the excitement is building in anticipation of Vierbuchen's next visit over the winter break.
Vierbuchen goes to Romania at least twice a year for extended visits. In January, she will be in Bistrita for as long as possible, toting take-home assignments from class. Not only will she move in with the children, but she also will proceed with plans for the community center, which she says she has thought about since freshman year.
Clare Vierbuchen, shown here at an orphanage in Romania, will spend much of January in that country visiting the children supported through the nonprofit organization she started.
Recognizing that the plight of orphans in Romania stems from larger societal issues, Vierbuchen has found ways to introduce what she has learned in studying psychology at Princeton. Specifically, she has set up training for staff members and caregivers in various orphanages and foster care settings, with a focus on play therapy, behavior modification and finding ways to implement educational tools. To gain practical knowledge, Vierbuchen regularly calls on the help of Michael Litchman, a visiting professor of psychology.
In preparation for her upcoming visit, Vierbuchen is working with Litchman to create a psychoeducational program geared to helping children who are struggling academically. A particular goal is to offer new approaches for teaching math to children in grades one through eight.
''Romania is such a poor country that the identification of learning disabled children and the educational remediation of its poorest citizens is literally decades behind what it is in Western Europe and the United States,'' said Litchman.
''Unfortunately, there is no money for Clare to buy materials that can unequivocally identify those children who need special education, but she has already started working with some children who show signs of learning disabilities. Clare has the passion, the compassion and the determination to make a significant impact in the lives of these children,'' he said.
Through the community center, Vierbuchen plans to provide preschool and after-school programs for children as well as literacy and job placement programs for adults. She estimates that it will cost about $16,000 to run the center, once established. Already, she has in mind psychologists in Romania she would like to ask to join the staff.
After she graduates, Vierbuchen expects to spend two years in Bistrita working to realize her dreams for the community center. Afterward, she will pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the United States, and then she anticipates returning to Eastern Europe, perhaps to Russia next time.
To learn more about Open Doors, visit <Web site>. Vierbuchen also provides sponsors with updates about the children the organization helps through a monthly newsletter.


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Missing Keys, Stunted Blooms, and
Emerging Enchanters:
Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift
Originally Published on About.com's Classic Literature Page
Best known for his extraordinary English-language novels, particularly Lolita, which he suggested in its 1956 afterward was a record of his love affair with the English language, Vladimir Nabokov had almost as distinguished a literary career in his native Russian language, publishing nine novels and countless stories and poems and plays while living as an émigré in Berlin between 1923 and 1937, a period that ended when Nabokov and his wife, Véra (who was Jewish), fled a regime that was even more insane than the one they and their families had fled almost two decades earlier in Russia. Nabokov claimed in the same afterward that his English was a feeble shadow of his magisterial Russian—an astonishing thing to imagine—but his precarious years in Germany left him and his fellow exiles with an extremely limited reading audience and opportunity to thrive as working artists. While his Russian works are almost as vividly modern and ambitious as his later English works, Nabokov's writing in these years can be likened to an amber encapsulation of Russia's great literary past, which in many ways he both culminated and exhausted, in part because of how his works serve as a brilliant coda for a scattered tradition and in part because of how his severed relationship to his homeland made it impossible for his use of the language to grow and evolve for the rest of his life. His estrangement from living Russian became startlingly evident to him when, decades later, he translated Lolita into Russian and was shocked to discover that he had no idea what the Russian words for such modern terms as "glove compartment" were. Still reveling in artistic possibility in Berlin, however, Nabokov's first novel, Mary, is a tiny diamond of loveliness, while later Russian novels such as The Eye and Laughter in the Dark and Despair are all masterpieces of grotesque and glorious strangeness. Perhaps only somewhat intentionally, never knowing which way history would turn, but probably suspecting that that he'd never get to return home, his final Russian novel, The Gift, features a tour through Russian literature that serves as a swan song for Nabokov's fertile but increasingly uprooted relationship with his native literary soil.
Detailing the artistic growth of a Russian émigré writer named Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev in 1920s Berlin, The Gift, like so many of Nabokov's other works, features a protagonist who shares much of the author's history and aesthetic and intellectual predilections. This is not an autobiographical novel, however, as Nabokov insists in his foreword to the book's English translation, but even though Godunov-Cherdyntsev is not a disguised version of the author, the book still paints a fascinating panorama of the world in which Nabokov, like his novel's invented young writer, began his literary apprenticeship. Nabokov also significantly notes that the heroine of the novel isn't Godunov-Cherdyntsev's girlfriend, Zina, but rather Russian literature itself, which the novel's progressions imitate and often mock, ravishing it the way that Nabokov ravishes Lolita's own true heroine, the English language.
The opening chapter finds Godunov-Cherdyntsev having just moved into a new flat on the same week that his first book of poems has been published. With significance that will be mirrored and amplified in the final chapter, the young writer is out walking and doesn't have the key to get into his flat—an accidental linguistic pun: there's a repeatedly missing clef in this non-roman à clef. Through a series of reflections and samples and authorial explications, the reader enters into Godunov-Cherdyntsev's early life through his poems, which in his case are keys to his autobiography, both personal and artistic. Subsequent chapters of The Gift evoke Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol in both literary mode and subject matter as they follow Godunov-Cherdyntsev's desires and plans to write a great novel about his father, who was/is an explorer who disappeared before the Russian Revolution and who haunts his son's dreams of both life and art. Delving into Godunov-Cherdyntsev's research and notes for his projected novel, The Gift in many ways is that novel, but The Gift's self-reflexive nature insists on being and encompassing more—and unfortunately, though its single-minded focus on the processes of (and varied critical reactions to) artistic creation, it often offers much less.
The Gift's serious wrong-turn comes in Chapter Four, which comprises a brutally mocking biographical appraisal of the life and work of the nineteenth-century critic and writer Nikolay Chernyshevski, whose social novel What is to Be Done? (What to Do? in Nabokov's translation) inspired generations of revolutionaries, most notably Lenin, who reused the novel's title as the name of one of his most influential political tracts. Serving for Nabokov and Godunov-Cherdyntsev as both a historical and an artistic catastrophe—the novel so hackneyed and over/underwrought that even in my Russophile youth I was unable to force myself to read it in full—Chernyshevski's work and life find themselves relentlessly drawn and quartered within The Gift's hundred-page diversion away from literary exploration and into literary impalement. Inspired by a coincidence of names and influences, and perhaps needing to develop his prose muscles before writing the book that he wants to write, Godunov-Cherdyntsev embarks upon this cruel and pointless display of virtuosic learning as a reaction to the wrong-turn he feels that history and literary thought have taken. Aesthetically, politically, and personally, this book-within-a-book is spot-on, and it's in fact amazingly informative and often hilarious, especially in its ingenious bending of facts and dates and authorities, its dizzying contortions working to make its final twists extra ruthless, but all in all this brilliant tour-de-force is a serious drag on the novel's thrust and leaves a bitter aftertaste that mars the beautiful arc of The Gift's mirror of Russian literature, which may in fact be Nabokov's plan in reflecting the vicissitudes of art in his lost country's lost mind.
Nabokov has great fun having his characters—and even his invented author—criticize this work of creative criticism, whose circular structure Nabokov would later reprise in his own much more favorable (but still critical) book on Gogol, but this long chapter's elaborately dense trashing/thrashing of its subject takes Nabokov's often childish invectives to a new low. Like Dante, who even in the most intoxicating celestial spheres can't help spewing his obloquy upon the disappointments of reality, Nabokov's hatreds overtake him constantly, and while he usually satisfies himself with a few crushing words about the things he despises and then moves along to the glories of his own artistic universe, this novel contents itself with highlighting negativity rather than aspiring to the heights. In a novel in which Russian literature is ostensibly the heroine, it's surprising—and telling—that Tolstoy and his work are mentioned exactly three times, while so much time and space and energy are expended upon a writer whose work and influence Nabokov sees as a tremendous waste of time and space and energy.
Leaving this lamentable chapter behind and moving forward, Godunov-Cherdyntsev surges toward full artistic maturity—as well as full union with Zina—and this final chapter simply dazzles as Nabokov delights in all the pleasures and opportunities available to a novelist in full control of his language and his artistic form. The book often shifts from third person to first person, with Godunov-Cherdyntsev's inner voice supplanting the novel's outer narration, and with so much literary discussion and sleight-of-hand at play, The Gift often serves as a metafictional dialogue about its own devices and structures and aesthetics. The ending especially leads the book back (or forward) toward itself, and while this Möbius-strip contrivance could simply seem contrived in another writer's hands, Nabokov and his readers thrill to Godunov-Cherdyntsev's discovery of the key to his own masterwork as he and Zina walk together, happily keyless, to the flat that contains their shared future.
The sad thing about all this is that the novel's surge forward simply ends here and doesn't bloom into anything near the level of Tolstoy, who Nabokov possibly could have matched as a novelist in Russian under vastly different circumstances but whose rarefied company Nabokov would join only after switching to English. The Gift has much in common with James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—a novel that Nabokov detested—and it's disheartening that Nabokov had to stop with Godunov-Cherdyntsev discovering how to write the novel that we've just read rather than moving on to write a Russian Ulysses, a novel that Nabokov revered, and which also features a main character wandering around keyless. A fascinating glimmer of Nabokov's future literary mastery comes from a wholly unexpected direction, though, and quite ironically. About halfway through the novel, Zina's detestable stepfather mentions a novel that he'd like to write himself, "from real life":
An old dog—but still in his prime, fiery, thirsting for happiness—gets to know a widow, and she has a daughter, still quite a little girl—you know what I mean—when nothing is formed yet but already she has a way of walking that drives you out of your mind—A slip of a girl, very fair, pale, with blue under the eyes—and of course she doesn't even look at the old goat. What to do? Well, not long thinking, he ups and marries the widow. Okay. They settle down the three of them. Here you can go on indefinitely—the temptation, the eternal torment, the itch, the mad hopes. And the upshot—a miscalculation. Time flies, he gets older, she blossoms out—and not a sausage. Just walks by and scorches you with a look of contempt. Eh? D'you feel here a kind of Dostoyevskian tragedy? That story, you see, happened to a great friend of mine, once upon a time in fairyland when old King Cole was a merry old soul….
This is of course the seed for Lolita, which takes a far darker course than the one that Zina luckily evaded. Even the grossly nostalgic "once upon a time in fairyland when old King Cole was a merry old soul" prefigures Lolita's use of Poe's "Annabel Lee" in its opening pages:
Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea.
Near the end of The Gift, Godunov-Cherdyntsev writes a letter to his mother in Paris and discusses his thoughts of writing a "classical novel" and lampoons the "brash trash" that he sees being "considered the crown of literature," and among his list of despised topics is "incest." How fitting then that a novel on this rejected topic—and not a classical novel in the vein of Tolstoy—would become his masterpiece, the "crown of literature" that he would never achieve in Russian.
Almost two decades separate The Gift and Lolita, and during that time Nabokov dedicated himself to the exploration of the English language's wild wilderness, but there's a significant link between the two novels—and it's in his native Russian. In 1939, just after completing his first English-language novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov composed a remarkable novella in Russian that he called The Enchanter, an ur-Lolita that he later described as "the first little throb" of the great work that would consume his life between 1949 and 1955—and for years afterward, the novel becoming such a sensation that it changed his life forever. He was dissatisfied with The Enchanter upon completing it and reading it aloud, and in 1957 he recalled that he'd thrown it away—he'd nearly done the same thing with Lolita, which he abandoned several times and which his wife once had to retrieve from the trash can. In 1959, Nabokov discovered The Enchanter in his archives and found it more pleasing than he remembered, and he proposed that it be translated into English by his family, which didn't happen until 1986 when his son, Dmitri, undertook the task, nearly a decade after Nabokov's death.
Following all these trails of artistic thread through Nabokov's work, it's startling—but not surprising—to find that even the "little throb" of Lolita's precursor had a precursor. And not in a princedom by the sea, but in the Nazi Germany of the mid-to-late 1930s, in a novel in which the protagonist rejects a theme that reflects the sickness of both a repulsive old man and a literary and historical scene that had little place for truly great Russian literature. The Gift tells the story of one young writer's growing literary gift, but this gift—in Nabokov's case—was unfulfillable, even in a novel of The Gift's scope and complexity. Only when he took up and fully explored the hauntingly vile subject that Godunov-Cherdyntsev so adamantly pushes away from himself—and only after giving up the dream of achieving a true masterwork in Russian—would Nabokov find the key to the literary apotheosis that his own gift so richly deserved.
—David Wiley


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DELHI: Rajasthan Royals produced one of their better batting performances this season to keep pace with the two table leaders and no, the starring roles didn't feature Ajinkya Rahane or Shane Watson or Stuart Binny.
There was one steadying hand from Sanju Samson to ensure the middling target was under control and a surprise promotion for Rajat Bhatia, but it was another young batsman, playing only his third game for the franchise, who reaffirmed Royals' narrative of being a moneyball outfit. Karun Nair, the Karnataka batsman who had scores of 8 and 1 in his previous two outings, was conservative to start with, but opened up in the second half of his innings to hit an unbeaten half-century to sink Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets.
A chase of 153 had tested Royals two years ago at the same ground when they had fallen a run short, but there were no such surprises this time as Royals built a solid foundation to set up the launch. In that first half, Nair had almost remained invisible in the shadow of Samson's strokeplay. He was on 29 off the first 30 balls he faced despite hitting three crisp boundaries.
Maybe it was the dismissal of Samson or maybe it was the need to be assertive in the company of Bhatia, who was sent to provide some thrust to the innings, Nair's second half was in complete contrast to the first. His next 20 deliveries produced 44 runs that included five fours and two sixes, the second of which could have done Watson proud for its disdain.


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15 June 2017: The second round of the METS Ignited Project Funds is open until 31 July 2017.
This article was published in CRC ORE News - June 2017
New funding for METS companies
Supplied by METS Ignited
June 2017: The second round of the METS Ignited Project Funds is now open. The Project Funds is designed to support projects that will have significant benefits for Australia's METS sector.
METS Ignited is looking to drive more than $35m worth of projects over the next two years though the Project Fund. The Project Fund is provided by the Australian Government as part of its Growth Centre Initiative.
Applications close on 31 July 2017. Visit the METS Ignited website for the guidelines and application form.
This article was published in CRC ORE News - February 2017
10 Year Sector Competitiveness Plan released for Australian METS sector
February 2017: A new plan to strengthen the Australian mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector and help invigorate Australia's position as the global hub for mining innovation has been released.
METS Ignited released its 10 Year Sector Competitiveness Plan at IMARC in November. The groups CEO, Ric Gros, pointed to the plan as a landmark document for the METS sector. "It is a long-term view of how the Australian METS sector needs to be competitive, skilled and forward-thinking to respond to future industry demands and to strengthen its position as an integral part of the global mining innovation ecosystem," he says.
The plan details five broad programs of work towards a globally competitive vision for the Australian METS sector. Each program of work is matched with a range of targeted initiatives. The five program areas are:
1. Aligned strategy
2. Global brand
3. Internationally competitive
4. Collaborative and innovative
5. Skilled for 2026
To download your copy of the plan click here. You will need to register to become a Network Associate (free) to download a copy.
This article was published in CRC ORE News - November 2016
METS Ignited releases Industry Knowledge Priorities
November 2016: METS Ignited have released their Industry Knowledge Priorities to highlight what the Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector requires now and moving forward from Australian research providers and innovators.
METS Ignited, working together with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Austmine, has defined Industry Knowledge Priorities (IKPs), for the METS sector.
These are the outcome-focussed bodies of information or skills that need to be developed to create sustainable global competitive advantage for the Australian METS sector.
The Industry Knowledge Priorities (IKPs), look to target the following outcomes:
- The identification and development of opportunities for significant / step-change improvements in the economic, social and environmental benefits from mining.
- Increased commercial development opportunities to address domestic and global mining challenges.
- Increased input from a diverse range of stakeholders, including those from outside the mining sector.
- The creation of critical mass through identifying and developing clusters formed around either specific expertise/knowledge areas or around natural geographic groupings of complementary skills/knowledge areas.
The IKPs fall into two broad categories:
- management skills and capabilities needed to make the sector more competitive; and
- research and development required to ensure that the sector remains relevant.
Six knowledge priorities for world-class capability and leadership
IKP1: Improving speed of innovation, collaboration and business models
IKP2: Operating in a global market place
IKP3: Business development, optimisation and growth
IKP4: Excellence in finding, mining and extracting
IKP5: Reducing mining's footprint
IKP6: Ubiquitous sensing, digitisation and data analytics
For further detail, download a copy of the Industry Knowledge Priorities: Mining Equipment, Technology and Services.
The IKPs will be refined and updated along with the annual review of the Sector Competitiveness Plan.
The IKPs are a result of consultation with the METS and mining sectors, as well as through input from CSIRO, Austmine, and a VCI report commissioned by METS Ignited. The IKPs have been shaped by global megatrends (including CSIRO's Our Future World: global megatrends report), as well as current and emerging challenges and technology trends. - Supplied by METS Ignited
This article was published in CRC ORE News - July 2016
CRC ORE and METS Ignited MOU signed
January 2016: Greater collaboration and commercialisation for the Australian Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector are key drivers of a newly signed agreement between METS Ignited and CRC ORE.
METS Ignited and CRC ORE are working together to improve commercialisation and collaboration outcomes for Australian METS companies.
This has culminated in the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the groups, outlining a shared vision and detailed work plan to engage the Australian METS sector with the activities of CRC ORE.
Joint activities planned for 2016 include a roadshow to highlight CRC ORE's research, collaboration on an innovation portal to help connect industry, and METS Ignited participation on CRC ORE's Implementation Council. There are also activities planned to make capital markets more aware of the METS sector.
Elizabeth Lewis-Gray, Chair of METS Ignited, said that METS Ignited is excited to work with CRC ORE and sees the agreement as an obvious collaboration to strengthen the mining innovation ecosystem which, in turn will increase the competitive advantage of the Australian METS sector, nationally and globally. "The $90 billion Australian METS sector has diverse competitive strengths and innovative solutions to improve productive and sustainable mining. By working together we can create greater opportunities for METS companies," said Ms Lewis-Gray.
"Our relationship with CRC ORE will assist Australian METS companies gain scale and credibility through the global reputation and reach of CRC ORE with miners.
"We will better connect the Australian METS sector and researchers with mining companies to ensure all parties are aware of each other's activities and plans. This will improve collaboration and commercialisation outcomes," she said.
CRC ORE Chair Jonathan Loraine stated that CRC ORE's work in the areas of productivity improvement and sustainability is highly relevant in the current commercial environment. "CRC ORE is at the forefront of mining innovation to improve the productivity of minerals resource extraction," he says. "Major areas of focus for CRC ORE will be the deployment of Grade Engineering® to exploit natural ore heterogeneity, sensor based 'whole of stream' integration and the development and application of innovative methods to improve and optimise 'whole of stream' productivity."
"CRC ORE receives very strong support from the Mining, Research and METS sectors. The MoU with METS Ignited will enable the parties to work together to secure the maximum engagement of Australia's innovative METS companies in the activities of CRC ORE."
The respective chairs of METS Ignited and CRC ORE officially signed the MoU on 22 January 2016 at Old Government House at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Garden Point Campus in Brisbane.


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