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09 October 2014
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
A film about St.Michael's trading estate in Bridport. Under threat of redevelopment, Enterprise St.Michael's was formed to propose a new alternative.
28 August 2014
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
The 2014 official guide and map for Bridport and West Bay is available to view here.
This Guide has been produced with both residents and visitors in mind. It has been created and published by Kayenne Marketing with the authority of Bridport Town Council. It is compiled from information supplied by the businesses and organisations listed.
18 September 2014
Posted in EATING OUT
The world garlic eating competition played out at the George Inn, Chideock on 13th September 2013
27 June 2014
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
Second homes are no longer acceptable in rural and coastal communities (like Bridport) that have severe housing shortages. Less than two thirds of the homes the South West needs each year are being built and the lack of supply is pushing up the region's house prices and rents.
If you agree then please sign this petition:
01 April 2014
Posted in BUCKY DOO
Locals are outraged to find local landmark Colmers' Hill desecrated. The iconic trees atop the beauty spot have been felled by the M.O.D. to allow "Clear line of site for aircraft manoeuvres".
06 February 2014
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
15 January 2014
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
"Dang Dang Diddly Dang De Dang Dang Dang Diddly Dang De Dang Dang Dang Diddly Dang De Dang White lines....... Boyakasha....."
Centre markings are to be reinstated on the picturesque B3157 following a meeting at Dorset County Council today (15 January)
Members made the decision after considering a report on the Chickerell to Bridport road and listening to local residents' concerns.
19 November 2013
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
Local woman Margaret Allen has just had a book published entitled "In the Bag! Labrador Training from Puppy to Gundog"It offers a fresh approach to gundog training for beginners and seasoned trainers alike. It contains sound advice on the selection of your Labrador Retriever and valuable information regarding his care and management from puppy to veteran.
Margaret Allen who lives just outside of Bridport has been successfully training, trialling, breeding and showing Labradors since 1964. Margaret believes that in order to train your dog successfully, you should make it your chief objective to find out what makes him tick. In this book, you will learn how your dog thinks, reacts and learns. Armed with this knowledge, training should proceed with a minimum of setbacks.
Is available from Crowood Books or if you would like a signed copy you can contact Mrs Allen via her website margaretallen.co.uk
28 October 2013
Posted in BRIDPORT NEWS & VIEWS
These three short films were made by Watershed PR for Spirit of Bridport and funded by Dorset Chalk and Cheese. They really give a taste of the best of West Dorset .


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... journalists and other "Communicators make conscious or unconscious framing judgments … guided by frame[works]… that organize their belief systems" and as a result "establish the literally 'common sense' … interpretation of events" and issues (…).
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A spokeswoman for the Central Texas city of Bryan confirmed the deaths of 54-year-old Greg Pickard and 36-year-old Eric Wallace. Mary Lynne Stratta says Pickard died Saturday in a Galveston hospital and Wallace at the scene.
Stratta says the firefighters entered the burning Knights of Columbus hall in Bryan about midnight Friday, but didn't emerge when ordered to evacuate.
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She says two firefighters taken to the Galveston hospital for burns, Ricky Mantey Jr. and Mitchel Moran, are both in serious but stable condition.
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By Mark Evans, Analyst
Last month we attended a trip hosted by CICC in China to gain a deeper 'on the ground' understanding of the health of the Chinese economy. This was a commodities and macro focussed trip and the third consecutive year we attended. The government's reform efforts in reducing excess supply in the economy continue to impress. Upstream industries are in generally much sounder financial health relative to my first trip in 2016, and the reform focus has clearly pivoted away from financial to environmental health, consistent with remarks over recent months by President Xi. It's widely expected commodity prices should be supported by reduced supply, although shifting attention to cleaning up the environment may have some unintended consequences for demand.
Xi's supply side reforms keeping the steel market balanced
To its credit, the government's ambitious attempts to tackle inefficient steel production and revive profitability is clearly working. My visit to Tangshan, one of China's big steel producing cities, was testament to that with 'diamond-effect' paintwork on Range Rovers, Lamborghinis outside the front of hotels and generally more 'German metal' on the road than my previous visits. Aside from these anecdotes, clearly regulatory and financial tightening has forced inefficient producers out of the steel market, with larger and more profitable operators who benefit from economies of scale still producing at near full capacity. Secondly, the government's core objective of cleaning up the environment is forcing steel mills and other industrialised factories to reinvest in cleaner infrastructure to decrease pollution levels. What I found interesting was how local government officials, far from ignoring Beijing's call for tighter environmental policy given the negative implications on growth, are implementing a stricter framework than Beijing is pushing for.
For example, we heard that the white smoke emissions from steel mills will not be allowed in Tangshan from November this year, despite the lack of producers with appropriate technology. While measures like this are likely to be watered down, it does highlight the seriousness of local authorities' environmental conservation efforts. Clearly over tightening risks exist as the government's focus shifts from quantity to quality of economic growth. However, we gain some comfort from the significant improvement in the coordination of policy and implementation over the last two years, and hence I think any signs of overtightening will be dealt with accordingly.
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Steel producers and other market participants we spoke to weren't overly concerned with the pick-up in protectionist rhetoric and policy from the US. The general sense was policies implemented so far were relatively modest in their effect, while any significant tightening would be self-defeating for the US. Admittedly I was a little surprised to see such a relaxed attitude, although we generally concur with the view, as detailed in a blog piece released last week. Moreover, discussions with a couple of reputable economists also highlighted risks from domestic overtightening far outweighed those of a trade war.
Soft economic activity data
The timing of the Chinese New Year (CNY) makes analysing and interpreting recent soft data prints extremely hard. Chinese demand data generally goes through a seasonal lag following CNY, but it seems to be uncharacteristically slow to recover this year. At this point and as a result of discussions from the trip, we believe that demand is delayed rather than permanently reduced. We are closely monitoring inventory levels of steel which appear to be moderating and hence provide some comfort that demand has merely been delayed rather than reduced. Weakness should therefore recover during the second quarter. Furthermore, consumer and business confidence surveys continue to point to a healthy macro-backdrop.
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Despite slightly reducing some risk in our emerging market debt and emerging market multi-asset strategies before the recent sell-off, we are still positive on the global growth story. China's contribution to the world economic expansion remains significant, and hence our constructive view on China supports our positive outlook on global growth. In our view, further sell-offs in asset prices relating to a Chinese growth slowdown will provide us with a good opportunity to increase risk at more attractive levels.
In terms of bottom-up positioning, we still hold a long position in the renminbi against other regional peers. The closing interest rate differential with the US (i.e. difference between US and Chinese interest rates) creates some challenges, but overall the balance of payments are in a robust position. Capital outflows remain contained, capital inflows are also gaining traction thanks to recent liberalisation measures and benchmark announcements, while strong global growth is continuing to underpin healthy export growth. Furthermore, we also think renminbi strength is welcomed by the authorities as it helps to contain capital outflow pressures while also assisting in trade negotiations with the US.
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The obligatory beauty shot with the Christmas tree, pre-Santa visit
Invariably a gift or two was forgotten. There would be a wayward box tucked high in the closet, perhaps with new pyjamas, or maybe, if I was especially lucky, a new doll. New dolls being a rarity in a house with two older sisters and frugal, hand-me-down parents. My mother would suddenly slip away, coming back with the errant package, hastily wrapped and "forgotten" by Santa. Even when I was old enough to catch on, these last minute random gifts seemed somehow special, apart from the rest, and those pyjamas, that doll, treasured all the more for almost having been missed.
Those Christmases of a lifetime ago seem almost as mythical as Dickens. Nowadays, Christmas is a very different affair. My parents are both gone. My sisters and I, although still very close, live many miles and lives apart. And, as hard as we've tried, we just can't seem to interest our cat in either new pyjamas or dolls (although a brand new catnip toy does garner more than passing interest). Time for new traditions, new ways of celebrating and sharing a spirit of joy during the Christmas season.
With more than 80 people now regularly in attendance, and all of the food prepared by us, I modestly think we've become somewhat expert at throwing a 'do. One that we know is as eagerly anticipated by all who come as it is by us who plan it.
As we begin the four week countdown to the big day – December 18 this year – I thought I would take you along on the journey, sharing tips, tricks, recipes and survival tactics for how to throw a party with aplomb, verve, passion and enthusiasm. Because I do firmly believe that even the most disastrous of events can be salvaged with a bit of verve and a lot of enthusiasm.
Five Tips for a Memorable Holiday Gathering
1. Send proper invitations. By that I mean in the mail. You remember mail, right? When it was exciting to receive a beautiful silver envelope amongst all of the junk and the bills? People still get excited by personal invitations and for the little bit more time and effort, it makes a wonderful impact. Yes, I know I know; you can't keep track of RSVPs electronically; you can't automatically send reminders; you won't know who FOR SURE is coming and with whom – but do you ever really anyway? For years we even made our invites by hand but time and common sense in the form of my husband prevailed. Do what we do and look for beautiful invitations on sale after Christmas. Plan ahead for the next year (but remember where you put them!).
From the complex to the silly: handmade invites of Open Houses past
2. Hire help. For goodness sake, don't be a martyr. Hire people to help you serve/clean/clear/take coats. Even if the gathering is small, hire a local college student (or pay your older kids) to pitch in and help. Even better – if there's a local culinary or hospitality school, post your party there. You'll get someone who's enthusiastic about food. You'll be more relaxed and more importantly you'll be able to spend time with your guests. For our annual do, we hire five wait staff: two to do last minute prep for food, and three to do the rest.
3. Simplify your food choices. Finger foods are fun easy to prepare and many can be made and frozen in advance. I also stick with all savoury. Introducing sweets means coffee, tea, etc etc.
Pastry cirlces for mini meat pies that can be baked, frozen, and pre-heated as needed
4. Remember it's the season of giving. Amidst all of the bounty, we try to remember those who have less than us. Every year we accept donations to our Daily Bread Food Bank. With the abundance on the table, it makes us feel great to collect those boxes and boxes of food.
The generosity of our guests in full evidence
5. Give everyone a little something special to take home. Every year we make each guest a personalised gingerbread cookie. It's probably the most laborious thing we do, but perhaps the most satisfying. I love seeing the look on the kids' faces when they're handed a cookie with their name on it. And nothing beats the smell of gingerbread baking.


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Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
The purpose of this "Guide for National Implementation" is to help translate the aim, objectives and operational targets of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding into concrete, focused national strategy, policy and action plans. The guide is written for programme managers in governments and their partners, primarily those working in maternal and child health and nutrition. It proposes a step-wise process to develop a country-specific strategy, with plans to be implemented in support of appropriate infant and young child feeding, especially in the first two years of life.
This Guide has two parts.
- Part I is intended to help a responsible individual or group through the steps proposed, and focuses on the process involved in developing a national infant and young child feeding strategy.
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My mom offered to keep Miles this morning while Noah was at preschool- which meant that I would be CHILDLESS! I had grand plans of getting my brows waxed, finishing up the Christmas shopping and treating myself to a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit from Micky D's. I dreamed about that biscuit all night. I woke up this morning thinking about it. I gloated to hubby about how good this breakfast was going to be. I nearly panicked when I opened the fridge this morning and realized that we were out of Diet Pepsi which meant that I would have to go without my caffeine fix. By the time Sadie's bus comes around at 7:10 am, I'm usually working on my second one. "Not to worry," I told myself, "You'll be at McDonald's soon and you can get some carbonated caffeine there when you have that biscuit you've been craving!"
I dropped Noah off at school, dropped Miles off at my mother's and pulled my minivan into the drive-thru at McD's. I placed my order. I reached over and grabbed my purse, opened it up and shoved my hand inside to pull out my wallet, only my wallet was not in there. No worries, it probably just fell out in the car somewhere. I pulled out of the line and parked and searched through the car. I dumped my purse out and found 5 containers of hand sanitizer, a mashed up, mangled tampon, a chewed up wad of gum stuck inside a tissue, 3 tubes of chapstick, and the receipts for everything I've purchased in the last century. BUT NO WALLET!
I texted the bad news to my mother, and drove the thirty minutes back to my house, thinking that surely my wallet was just on the kitchen counter or next to the computer or somewhere in the house. I walked in the house and started searching. It took me a solid hour of my alone time, my FREEDOM, to clean the house up enough to even begin searching for my wallet. It was no where. I started thinking that maybe it fell out of the car in the driveway and the dog carried it off somewhere. I gave the dog the Spanish inquisition and traipsed through the backyard landmine full of dog doo looking for the wallet to no avail.
I was about to blow a gasket over this. There were only so many places it could be. By the time I'd wasted so much time, I didn't have time to go steal the other debit card from the hubby and get anywhere before I would need to pick up Noah from preschool, so I decided to just go ahead and really try to get the house as clean as I could. It needed to be done and I couldn't go anywhere else with no money and no id. I was washing dishes and sweeping floors with huge tears in my eyes. I mean, here I was- a free woman with no kids and I was cleaning my house! I had that identity crisis that I think all stay at home moms have every now and then. You know, the one where you freak the freak out about how you've been reduced to a pile of dishes, laundry and endless meals to cook. The one where you think about how you used to be somebody! How you have all kinds of skills and talent and here you are spending all day every day changing diapers and packing school lunches. I looked under each couch cushion, in every coat pocket, in the garbage, in the dirty clothes pile, in every nook and cranny of my house and still no wallet. I screamed expletives at the top of my lungs until my throat hurt, but my temper tantrum did not cause my wallet to materialize.
It never fails that when you are feeling crummy, the phone will ring off the hook. While I lamented how ticked off I was about losing my wallet to every person on the other end, I was told one too many times, "Well, it's always the last place you look!" DUH!!! Of course it will be in last place I look. Once I find it I'm not going to keep looking!
I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, other than to say that I had a craptacular day- one where I lost my identity, then questioned my identity, and then nearly passed out when I got the call from hubby where he said that he found my wallet in his car. After all day of cleaning and freaking out, it was hiding in his car the whole time. Imagine that. Ugh.
In the words of Scarlett O'Hara- "Tomorrow is another day." Thank God. I think I'll wake up early and go get that stupid biscuit and put that craving to rest! It will be my ultimate redemption. What can I say- I'm easily pleased by sausage.
|This wallet is now on my naughty list.
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I told you I might be back with another character from the new Madagascar 3 movie. I thought that making a lesson on the villain from the film might be something that you guys would enjoy drawing. So here is "how to draw Dubois", step by step. Her full name is Capitaine Chantel DuBois, and she is one ruthless, and relentless woman. She is a animal control worker that has made it her mission in life to capture all of the Zoosters which includes Marty, Melman, Alex, and Gloria. I guess you could say that she is looking to add some new trophies to her animal capture collection. Captain DuBois goes through great lengths as she runs around Europe to try and swoop up the pesky animals that she thinks to be annoying and a menace. Her evil looking face and mole makes her an interesting character to draw. I think you will enjoy recreating Dubois because she really does look like your typical English animal capitaine. Well, that's about it. Don't worry I will return with more drawing fun, I'm actually just getting started. Stick around for my return because more exciting fun is on the way. Adios people and please enjoy your drawing day!
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The steady march of 4K into the mainstream continues, with more affordable 4K TVs and more 4K content gradually becoming available thanks to streaming services and top-end camcorders.
You might expect that the PS4 and Xbox One next-gen consoles would do 4K too, and you'd be right, but not entirely. 4K gaming is the PC's domain.
Next-gen consoles will play 4K video, but not 4K games
It has been confirmed that both the PS4 and Xbox One are capable of displaying 4K, but that it's currently limited to video content and photographs – not actual games. This is somewhat surprising for a pair of consoles that, if history is anything to go by, are designed to last almost 10 years (the Xbox 360 will be eight years old in November). The trouble is that, when it comes to demanding titles, there's a big question mark hanging over whether they even have the raw power to push 4K's 3840x2160 pixels, as you can read all about here.
Meanwhile, thanks to their upgradeability, gaming PCs are already capable of taking advantage of the new format - and now they're shouting about it too.
Battlebox bangs the 4K drum
Nvidia has just unveiled its plans to encourage PC gamers to upgrade to 4K with its 'Battlebox' seal of approval.
Gaming rigs equipped with Nvidia's top-end GeForce GTX 780 or GTX Titan graphics boards in 2- or 3-way configurations and paired with overclocked Intel Haswell Core i5 or i7 processors will be proudly marked up with the company's new 'Battlebox' branding. These are then sold with 4K displays to show off exactly what they can do.
Nvidia says Battleboxes will churn 45-60 frames per second at 4K at top detail setting, and with all the graphical bells and whistles such as TXAA anti-aliasing enabled. The current lineup of 4K-capable games include Watch_Dogs, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Batman: Arkham Origins.
But do we actually need 4K games on a TV?
We'd be happy if the new hardware let games developers really push the depth of their games rather than just the surface sheen; certainly, improved AI and more extensive virtual worlds are what the console makers are championing. After all, at the heart of a great game is a great story.
The difference is, PC gaming enthusiasts get up close and personal with their monitors and enjoy the bragging rights that an extra frame per second or two over their companions' machines bring, so 4K provides real benefits. For console gaming, where we currently almost always make do with 720p graphics (which provide half the pixels of 1080p full HD, and one eighth those of 4K) on screens several feet away, it's that bit less important.
It wasn't always this way
At launch, the Xbox 360 (2005) and Sony PS3 (2006) were at the forefront of game graphics, and boasted the sort of specs that got PC gamers drooling. The Xbox 360's bespoke 3-core 3.2GHz PowerPC chip and the PS4's 8-core Cell processor really turned heads.
Now, in 2013, as their x86 architecture is cut from mid-range PC cloth, these compact, stylish (ish) boxes can't compete with the plus-sized electronics, nuclear-class cooling systems and national grid-straining energy consumption of the very best PCs. To put it bluntly, the PS4 and Xbox One aren't at the forefront of gaming tech, at least in graphical terms. But hey, at least you can afford one.
It's always going to be harder to generate 4K video on the fly – as is required for games – rather than just playing it. Pushing that many pixels through all those little electronic pipes was never going to be easy. That's why the 4K gaming PCs are so ludicrously expensive.
A 4K enabled PC for example, with its 4.5GHz i7 processor, 32GB of RAM, 250GB SSD and more, will set you back a good RM20,000 . And that's just for the PC – you'll still need the 4K monitor. Let's throw in the 31.5in Asus PQ321Q – which is estimated to be around RM11,000. If you've got any change left over you might think about adding a keyboard and mouse to that too.
Around RM32,000 is a lot of money. Considering the PS4 will be around RM1800 and you'll already have a TV to play it on, that's quite a jump. That 4K gaming PC on its own is over 10 times the price of the PS4. Just think of all the games you could buy instead.
The future of 4K gaming?
PCs may well be the future of 4K gaming, but is 4K really the future of gaming?
Perhaps not until the next generation of next-gen consoles arrives - or, of course, their completely hardware-free, cloud gaming equivalent. That could take a while.


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To achieve lasting success, credit union marketers and business developers must be more than good.
They need to be "rock star" good, business performance expert Ryan Estis told CUNA Marketing & Business Development Council Conference attendees Thursday morning in Orlando, Fla.
One constant among the most successful marketers: They embrace change.
"When the world changes around us, we must change with it," he says. "A lot of what got us here today won't get us where we're going."
Rock star marketers, Estis says, do three things consistently well:
1. Collaborate. "Success today is a team sport," he says, adding that collaboration builds high-trust, high-value organizations.
Successful collaboration requires marketers and business developers to "master the art of active listening," Estis says, which involves asking insightful questions.
Without collaboration, people miss opportunities to build connections. The goal, he says, is to "first understand, then be understood."
2. Serve as change agents by being open-minded, sharing best practices with others, embracing continuous learning—and learning to be uncomfortable.
"When you're uncomfortable, that means you're growing and getting better," Estis says. "Ask yourself: Am I learning and getting a little better every day?'"
He advised conference attendees to become change agents by implementing and executing three new ideas in the next 30 days. "Use this moment to decide where you're going and take action."
3. Champion the organization's culture by connecting with its purpose and aligning their actions with its values.
Doing so—and not doing so—has a direct impact on an organization's performance. "Culture is a catalyst," Estis says, "for either growth and success or a barrier to achieve goals."
The Mayo Clinic is one organization where employees truly embrace the culture, which boils down to seven words: The needs of the patient come first.
The clinic maintains this culture focus by using it to decide who's hired, promoted, or fired.
"When employees understand the company's core values, they're much more likely to be engaged," Estis says. "This isn't a big cost. It's about being inclusive."
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The mobile channel is quickly taking hold: By 2015, 70% of consumer interactions with financial institutions will originate from mobile devices, says Shahab Choudhry, mobile strategist and co-founder of Propelics.
He says the overwhelming popularity of mobile devices tends to prompt a flurry of spending and invention—some of wise and well-timed, much of it not.
The financial services industry—typically risk-averse, Choudhry says, when it comes to adopting new technologies—has embraced mobile technology. "None of the other industries seem to be catching up. A lot of people still haven't embraced mobile, but 90% of chief information officers expect to deploy mobile apps in their companies in the next 12 months."
Branded apps are becoming more prevalent among financial institutions, and apps for credit unions and banks are starting to look the same, with the same menu of accounts, transactions, capturing, branch locations, calculators, and records of payments and deposits.
This prompts Choudhry to ask, "Where is the innovation? Just having an app is not a strategy."
He outlined six factors credit unions should consider when developing a mobile strategy:
1. Decide whether to build or buy an app. "You can't just skim someone else's app and put your logo on it," Choudhry says. "This will be part of members' brand experience with your credit union. Once the app is out there, you can't pull it back."
2. Decide whether to build a mobile phone app or an application for "lean back devices," such as tablets, which are used less for transactions and more for content consumption.
3. Recognize that simply having an app isn't a strategy. Determine whether this is the first piece of the mobile puzzle you should implement. Look beyond the financial services industry for ideas.
4. Simplify. The mobile experience differs from other delivery channels. It has lots of features and complex systems—but the mobile app must shield that complexity while being elegant and simple.
"You have to think through a lot of technical plumbing," Choudhry says.
5. Focus on the member experience.
6. Implement a mobile device management roadmap to assess the types of data that will be touched by a variety of devices.
Determine how the credit union will address the issue of employees coming to work with smartphones, iPads, or other devices, and possibly exposing member data through such personal devices. What will the loss strategy be if an employee's device is lost or stolen and it contains member information?
"Don't ignore this aspect," Choudhry says. "It's your risk."
Choudhry addressed the America's Credit Union Conference in San Diego.


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Is the time right for optical storage?
Optical storage has languished on the periphery of enterprise storage, but new technologies with higher capacities and more competitive per-gigabyte prices are moving optical into the mainstream.
Sometimes the stars and the planets in the technology universe align, and technology and user needs magically mesh. Optical storage, a technology that has spent a decade or more orbiting the far periphery of enterprise storage, is becoming more widely adopted. Higher capacities, improved performance and a more competitive price per gigabyte are propelling optical into more mainstream storage applications.
Optical has enjoyed modest success for specific archival tasks, particularly in the financial and healthcare industries where a physical write once, read many (WORM) record is required, but it remains a more expensive solution than tape. Although the lowest cost magnetic disk today remains more expensive than optical on the basis of the cost of the total storage system (hardware and software), prices for magnetic disk storage continue to drop (see Optical storage economics, this page). "There is a lot of price pressure from disk systems," says Wolfgang Schlichting, research director, removable storage at IDC, Framingham, MA.
Two recent developments are pressuring enterprise storage managers to look for the kind of long-term archival storage that optical provides. First, various regulatory mandates are forcing organizations to store more data and more types of data for longer periods, and to ensure that the data hasn't been altered. In addition, the data must be quickly accessible to auditors, regulators and lawyers. The second issue is the increasing recognition of the value of content. Rich media, such as graphics and images, needs to be preserved for the long term, yet remain easily accessible.
"Optical is getting much more attention than it got a few years ago. People are taking a second look because of mandates like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Basel 2," says Schlichting. He expects that attention to translate into many more optical storage implementations. From 300 optical libraries sold in 2004 (5.25-inch magneto optical [MO] or Ultra Density Optical [UDO] format), IDC expects 5,000 libraries to be sold by 2008.
Plasmon, Englewood, CO, is the primary provider of UDO, which increases capacities by using an extremely focused blue laser to write and read data. "IT never purchased optical. Optical storage was always part of scanning and archives, and used for things like check images," says Dave DuPont, Plasmon's vice president of marketing. But the new demand for enterprise archival storage, combined with the more attractive economics of the latest optical technology, makes optical storage a viable alternative to tape at the low end and to inexpensive disk (ATA/SATA) at the high end.
UDO upstages MO
Until recently, the primary optical storage offering for this market was MO disk. MO uses a 5.25-inch disk read by a red laser. Current MO storage capacity is 9.1GB per disk. The disks can be loaded into multidrive jukeboxes that scale to multiple terabytes. "The problem with MO is that it's running out of steam," says Tom Sas, product manager for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s automated storage group in Loveland, CO. HP offers an MO-based system, but MO has reached its maximum capacity because of the size of the dot a red laser can manage. "We can't pack any more density on the disk, so MO will top out at 9.1GB," says Sas.
Picking up from there is the blue laser, which is the basis of several optical disk technologies. From an enterprise storage standpoint, the most promising is the UDO format. UDO uses a 5.25-inch double-sided disk that packs 15GB per side, or 30GB total. The roadmap for UDO currently stretches out to 60GB capacity, and then to 120GB capacity by 2007 or 2008. Because the disk form factor remains consistent from MO to UDO, organizations will be able to convert their existing MO robotics (jukeboxes) to handle UDO, although there will be no read/write compatibility. DVD is another optical 5.25-inch format that's non-proprietary.
MO disk technology will likely be around for another 10 years or more, but vendors have basically stopped trying to enhance it. "For some customers, MO is all they need. They will be able to continue using it, although it will slowly ramp down," says Sas.
UDO is no sooner ramping up than a potentially disruptive optical storage technology--holographic optical--has appeared. Holographic optical is being developed by InPhase Technologies, Longmont, CO. It uses roughly the same size disk as MO, but promises to put 300GB on each disk. Its roadmap calls for 800GB and then 1.6TB within a few years, says Liz Murphy, InPhase's vice president of marketing. Holographic drives will look like SCSI devices and provide random access like any disk technology. But Murphy doesn't expect the first commercial products to ship until the fourth quarter of 2006. Early adopters are expected to be media and entertainment companies that need high storage capacity for movies and high-definition TV.
Optical applications
At one point, optical storage was envisioned as the midtier of a hierarchical storage management strategy. It never panned out. "Optical would have required a usage change. The whole architecture was tuned to tape," says IDC's Schlichting. Instead, optical was adopted primarily for its WORM capabilities.
Information lifecycle management may yet revive interest in optical storage. "Certainly, optical is more viable now as EMC, Computer Associates, Veritas Software and others offer support for optical," Schlichting continues. IBM Corp., on the other hand, hasn't been active in optical storage for several years.
Optical storage shows up most often in the medical, financial and government sectors (see "Where optical works best," this page). It's also used in the media industry for the storage of digital content, according to IDC. The Dallas Morning News, for example, recently replaced a small DVD jukebox with a Plasmon UDO jukebox to permanently store photos shot by its photographers.
"We have the entire shoot if a question ever arises. We also go back and reuse our shots regularly," says Bob Mason, director of publishing systems at The Dallas Morning News. Now that it has the technology, the company is looking to expand its use of optical into areas like regulatory compliance and financial records.
Mason said that before purchasing the UDO jukebox, "we looked at tape because of its low TCO [total cost of ownership], but ruled it out due to its lack of permanence." UDO gave the newspaper what it wanted: WORM permanence, high reliability, a 50-year lifespan and a fast response to user searches. The newspaper looked at disk systems, but rejected them. "We had concerns about the amount of floor space required. Also, disk systems aren't perfect. You have to back them up. In the end, the total cost of ownership was too high," says Mason. The total cost of the UDO optical storage system came to approximately $150,000. This includes 638 disks, two jukeboxes for replication to a second data center, replication software and digital asset management software from The Software Construction Company, Alpharetta, GA.
DigiLink Inc., an Alexandria, VA, pre-press company, takes content provided by its customers and creates the type of electronic files needed for printing. In recent years, the firm has offered the actual printing as well. DigiLink takes customer content and initially stores it on a SAN. After the job has been completed, it sends the files to a 700-disk DVD jukebox for long-term archiving.
Before going optical, the company archived customer files on DLT tapes. "After four years of growth, we had over 100 DLT tapes," says Dave Whetzel, DigiLink's manager of technical operations. DigiLink also found it difficult to pull files from the tapes. With optical storage and Media Beacon digital asset management software, DigiLink and its customers can pull any file from the jukebox using a Web browser.
The firm opted for DVD over UDO, although UDO offers more capacity. "We didn't want something proprietary. DVD is a nice, open technology," Whetzel says. "I could [even] pull a disk and access it in a Mac," but he doesn't expect to.
Currently, each DVD holds 4.3GB of data. After one year of use, the company has filled 450 sides of DVD storage. The optical storage is accessed from the DigiLink's Windows servers through a StorageQuest Inc. appliance that acts as a NAS head for optical storage. The 700-disk jukebox can accommodate 1,400 sides. By the time DigiLink approaches capacity, "we expect DVD capacity to increase through the use of double layers," Whetzel says. Another option at that point is to plug in a second jukebox.
"It's just a SCSI connection out of the StorageQuest NAS head. We can daisy-chain more jukeboxes," he says.
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When optical isn't optimal
Despite the success organizations like DigiLink and The Dallas Morning News are having with optical and the emergence of new optical formats, optical storage still poses some problems for storage managers. To begin with, "you need some management tools in the storage system to work with the jukebox," says HP's Sas.
Another concern is the number of optical technologies and the frequent rate of change. Today, organizations can choose among MO, UDO and DVD. Coming soon will be greater density UDO and DVD, as well as holographic storage. And Sony Electronics Inc. is pushing another standard, Professional Disc for Data (PDD), which offers 23.3GB of rewritable capacity and a very attractive cost per gigabyte. Ostensibly for consumer usage, Sony has been signaling that it may direct it to the data storage market as well, and will introduce it this year to the broadcast industry. Faced with this confusing array of optical options, storage managers might just decide to continue to use tape until magnetic disk prices drop enough to become competitive with optical. In addition, optical requires bringing in yet another class of storage system.
Forces such as the continuing reduction in the cost of magnetic disk are working to undermine today's neatly aligned optical storage opportunity. But right now, optical storage has a window in which to establish a compelling value proposition and make itself an indispensable part of the enterprise storage infrastructure.


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The Man Who Quit Money speaks out on Colorado Public Radio
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Heard an intelligent and thoughtful interview about "The Man Who Quit Money" on Colorado Public Radio yesterday morning with Daniel Suelo, a native of Grand Junction who spent the last 12 years living happily without earning, receiving or spending any money.
Author Mark Sundeen was also on the show, so the two voices created an engaging conversation about money in modern society.
Suelo lives mostly in a cave near Moab, and loves sleeping out, though he sometimes will agree to housesitting.
When I first tuned in to the show, I thought it was about the current battle over banning the homeless from sleeping on the Denver streets, which came to the Denver City Council last night.


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- (noun) a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected; "to her consternation her car wouldn't start"
Consternation (कान्स्टर्नेशन / कान्स्टर्नैशन) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
- घबराहट, व्याकुलता, सनसनी
Consternation Origin
- early 17th century: from Latin consternatio(n- ), from the verb consternare 'lay prostrate, terrify.
Consternation in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
- Consternation over Bhopal encounter.
- Trump's campaign rhetoric caused consternation in many world capitals, including Tokyo.
- Trump caused consternation in December 2015 by mooting a ban on all Muslims travelling to the United States.
- There seems to be consternation within the Congress on the proposed Grand Alliance in Uttar Pradesh on the lines of Bihar.
- School Burnings Cause Consternation in Indian Kashmir.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of consternation
- conster (~monster) + nation, monster in your nation will cause consternation
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|How do you use an Ecology post?
I've written a series of articles (linked over on the right hand side, underneath the picture) about various monster ecologies. People have liked them, but remain unsure of how they can be useful in play.
In the article On Cultivating the Fantastic, I talk about how the wonder and the horror of creatures has been lost. Everything has become statistics and numbers.
How do we restore that wonder?
It can't be by just playing up the traditional tropes of the monster. Everyone is painfully familiar with those tropes.
How many "Noble savage" orcs have you met? How many Orcs indistinguishable from Klingons?
Even if your DM takes the time to rework one race into an interesting trope, think about all the background radiation of other races that remain, dull, staid, and plain.
Well, Ecology articles are here to help with that.
Let's examine an ecology article:
Quote: These are all quotes from Shalladore, one of my personal fantasy settings.
Nomenclature: Are names or variety of names these creatures are called. These names are culled from internet searches, ecology articles in Dragon Magazine, crowd-sourced suggestions, and my own brain.
Monster EcologyAboleth
Gelatinous Cube
Oozes, Slimes, Jellies, and Puddings
Collective Nouns For Fantasy Monsters
Description and Things that are known: When you bend something, you have to have an original shape you start from. These sections provide the baseline of what assumptions the article has going forward. I.e. in On the Ecology of the Orc, the description is "Brutish, Green Skinned Humanoids" and the known things are "They despise men and are hated by elves".
No matter what changes we make to orc, these are the thing that make them orcs and not gnolls or hobgoblins. It strips away everything down to the things we cannot change without making this into some other creature. Orcs have green skin, are brutish, they are despised by men, hated by elves, and they are humanoid. Everything else is ephemeral and subject to alteration.
Rumors and other whispers in the dark: So, if you're going to change the monsters, here's how! These can be used as actual rumors, reasons behind the monster and the way it is, ways to change up encounters and make them interesting. Obviously they all can't be true, due to the contradictory nature of the rumors, but several of them may be. Some, all, or none of this information can be available!
Finally we discuss special combat techniques or powers of the monster. Monster powers, surprisingly, are one of the most classic tropes in the game. So now not only is there some sort of interesting story behind how the monster is designed, but also they become a unique opponent to fight!
Are there other questions?
The list of ecologies on this page will not be updated, but the blog index will be!
The ecology series is a crowdsourced series of articles, and contributors can be found on google+ under the hashtag #crowdecology. They are limited posts, but following me on G+ will allow you to see them. All artwork is credited where the artist could be found. Classic ecology articles from Dragon magazine are used both for reference and inspiration; the whole impetus of the idea was to create 'classic' ecology articles that are actually useful. Let's Read the Monster Manual by Noisms is also a source of inspiration.


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The lively nightlife of Spain's capital is famous all over the world. If there is one city where you know you'll be able to dance all night long to whatever music you like, where you'll come across people from hundreds of different nationalities and discover venues in every possible style, that city must be Madrid.
You'll see how the atmosphere changes depending on the area. If you're looking for an evening with a little refinement, take a stroll around the Salamanca district. If you prefer something more underground with rock and alternative pop, head for the Malasaña neighbourhood. And to find the latest hip discos and clubs with sessions by the best djs, as well as the chance to spot a few famous faces, the best place to go is the centre, in the area around the Gran Vía and Sol.
Although any time in Madrid is a good time for dancing and meeting people, you'll find the best atmosphere on Thursdays to Saturdays, starting around midnight. And then you can always head for an afterhours club to carry on partying.
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Looks like the warm, gooey goodness of the "pizza puck," born and bred in Vacaville, will be staging a comeback.
"We"re hoping to be open by March," said Eric Frakes, creator and CEO of the Original Pizza Pucks.
Back in 2001, Frakes opened his first eatery featuring the pizza rolls, shaped like cinnamon rolls but slathered in pizza sauce, all manner of toppings and, of course, cheese. Described as addictive, the rolls took off, and Frakes began selling franchises of his business in 2006.
Originally located in the Vacaville Factory Outlet Stores, the business later relocated to a spot on Elmira Road. Franchises soon cropped up throughout Solano County and California. But, a few years back, plans to expand further were crushed due to a medical emergency, and all of the businesses shut down.
Recently, a new site was chosen — the former home of Posh Couture Cakes on East Monte Vista Avenue and Dobbins Street. Permits have been drawn and work is being done.
"We"re completely re-landscaping, redoing the inside and the outside," Frakes said
Vacaville residents apparently share the sentiment, with more than 200 "likes" registered on the business" Facebook page and multiple residents weighing in on everything from the location to the color scheme to the menu.
Meanwhile, work continues across town on the Vaca Valley Travel Center on Crocker Drive and Vaca Valley Parkway.
Day in and day out, work crews focus on bringing sketched plans to reality.
Britam Sidhu, the property and business owner, said delays such as wet weather have kept the business" opening at bay. Initially thought to be completed by early January, looks like late February is the next proposed finish date.
When completed, the 4.48-acre property will be paved and feature a full-service Chevron station and touchless car wash. The main building will measure about 6,000 square feet. Sharing the space will be a Blimpie sub sandwich shop; Surf City Squeeze, a mecca of smoothies; a Dreyer"s ice cream station; and a place for the ever-popular slushies. At some point, a Burger King will also call the center home.
Speaking of ice cream, Dairy Queen has expressed interest in a small space being built off Bella Vista Road, advised Peyman Behvand, senior planner with the city. A larger space nearby has not yet been spoken for, he advised.
New in Vacaville will be a branch of Savers, a secondhand-store chain with ties to Southern California.
The shop will move into the old Yardbirds on Browns Valley Road. Or, at least, part of it.
Associate City Planner Christina Corsello said the former hardware and garden store has since been split into two parcels. One of them, measuring 28,000 square feet, will house the thrift store. The other will stay vacant for now.
Both interior and exterior work will be done on the Savers site.
Follow Staff Writer Kimberly K. Fu at Twitter.com/ReporterKimFu.


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After enjoying three straight home games, Harvard hits the road for an Ivy League game against Columbia in New York City on Saturday.
The game can be heard on the radio (WBNW 1120 AM, WPLM 1390 and WESO 790) with Bernie Corbett and Mike Giardi '94 on the call.
The game can also be heard live on the radio and over the internet on AM 1120 (Boston), 1390 (Plymouth), 970 (Sturbridge), as well as WHRB-FM 95.3 (Cambridge) with students Scott Reed and Charlie Hobbs.
Series History
Saturday's game will be the 70th meeting between Harvard and Columbia in a series that dates back to 1877.
- Complete Game Notes (PDF/ 4 MB)
- Harvard-Dartmouth Game Photos
- Extended Highlights: Harvard 41 - Dartmouth 10
Harvard holds a 54-14-1 series lead and has won the last seven meetings against the Lions by an average margin of 35-11. However, Harvard is just 4-3 in New York since 1996 despite winning three straight at Wien Stadium.
Ivy Updates
Harvard controls its destiny in the Ivy race as the lone undefeated team in league play at 4-0. Brown, Penn and Yale are tied at 3-1. Penn has defeated Yale; Brown has defeated Penn; and Harvard has defeated Brown.
Last Year's Meeting
Harvard raced to a 23-0 lead en route to a 23-7 win over Columbia at The Stadium.
Gino Gordon '10 ran for 109 yards and three different Crimson players ran for a TD. Defensively, the team was led by Matthew Hanson, Collin Zych and Nick Hasselberg who all totaled nine tackles.
Harvard's Last Time Out
A week after passing for 403 yards and five touchdowns, and playing in a blizzard, Harvard had three different players rush for more than 100 yards and two touchdowns apiece in a 41-10 rout of Dartmouth.
Harvard's sixth consecutive win also raised its all-time night record at home to 6-0. Collier Winters ran 15 times for 126 yards, two touchdowns and was 10-of-13 through the air for 116 yards.
Treavor Scales carried 18 times for 139 yards, including two 1-yard scores. Zach Boden ran for touchdowns of 8 and 7 yards while gaining 112 yards. Dartmouth has lost its eighth straight to Harvard and 14th of the last 15.
Columbia's Last Time Out
Yale backup RB Mordecai Cargill ran for a career-high 230 yards and two touchdowns to help Yale hold off Columbia 16-13.
Cargill scored on a 19-yard run in the third quarter and a 4-yard scamper to start the fourth, giving Yale a 16-0 lead with 12:03 to play.
Sean Brackett led a fourth-quarter Columbia rally with a 26-yard strike to Zack McKown and a 4-yard score to Mike Stephens to pull within the final margin, but the Yale defense came up big to close it out.
After Columbia stopped Yale on a fourth-and-one on the ensuing possession, Yale returned the favor as Nick Okano intercepted Brackett on fourth-and-seven at Columbia's 31-yard line.
Brackett threw for 95 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Lions.
The Matchup
Harvard produced 511 yards of offense last weekend in a blizzard with much of the damage coming in the first three quarters. The Crimson ranks as the nation's 6th-highest scoring team at nearly 37 points per game. On the defensive side of the ball, Harvard ranks 10th nationally at fewer than 18 points per game.
Columbia, despite its record, has played reasonably well on defense - especially on pass defense where the Lions allow fewer than 200 yards per game.
The Key Players
Matthew Hanson leads the Ivy League in passes defended (8); Josue Ortiz ranks second in the Ivy in sacks (6.0) and ranks third in tackles for a loss (8.0); Alex Gedeon is third in the league in total tackles (67).
Colton Chapple leads the Ivy and ranks third nationally in passing efficiency (169.2). Collier Winters does not have enough attempts to qualify but would rank second in the league and 12th nationally with his 158.3 mark.
Seitu Smith III leads the league and ranks third nationally in kickoff return average (31.2).
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy
In his 18th season as Harvard's head coach, Tim Murphy enters Saturday's game with a 117-59 record with the Crimson and a 149-104-1 overall head coaching record, which includes five years at Cincinnati and two years at Maine. Murphy is one of just five coaches to win 100 games since the formation of the Ivy League in 1954. Murphy has led Harvard to five Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008). He is 13-4 all-time against Columbia.
Elite Company
With 117 career victories on the Harvard sideline, head coach Tim Murphy has tied Joe Restic's school record 117 wins (from 1971-93).
Ivy Era Coaches
Since the formal naming of the Ivy League in 1956, just five coaches have reached the 100-win plateau with two of them being Harvard men.
Carm Cozza, Yale: 179
Al Bangnoli, Penn: 135
Bob Blackman, Dartmouth: 127
Joe Restic, Harvard: 117
Tim Murphy, Harvard: 117
Columbia Coach Norries Wilson
Norries Wilson is in his sixth year as head coach at Columbia, and he brings a 16-42 record into Saturday's game against Harvard after pulling off a 5-5 record in his first year. Wilson had been offensive coordinator at Connecticut before taking over on the Lion sideline. He is 0-5 against Harvard.
Better Than Average
In 2011, Harvard clinched its 112th season at .500 or better in the program's 138-year history. It marked the Crimson's 13th straight year at .500 or better.
Into The Night
Harvard is 6-0 all-time in night games at Harvard Stadium.
Harvard drew 18,898 fans to its first-ever night game in 2007 at The Stadium.
A year later, in its 2008 opener against Holy Cross, the Crimson drew 20,462 in the first Friday night game at The Stadium.
The Crimson drew 17,263 to its third night game - against Brown in 2009.
21,704 fans saw Harvard's 34-6 win over Holy Cross on Sept. 18, 2010.
In 2011, Harvard saw rain and snow hit the Stadium for the first time in a night game but 18,565 still turned out for a 24-7 win over Brown. In a 41-10 win over Dartmouth, a rare October blizzard limited the crowd to just over 6,000 but the game was luckily broadcast nationally on TV.
Harvard has averaged 504 yards of offense over its past four games.
After having just two 300-yard rushing games from 2000-07, Harvard has had a 300-yard rushing game in each of the past four seasons. Harvard finished with 395 rushing yards in a 41-10 win against Dartmouth in 2011.
Four for Forty
Harvard has scored at least 40 points in four straight games, marking the first such occurrence since 1890.
Triple Threat
Harvard had three individuals rush for 100 yards and two touchdowns apiece against Dartmouth (Treavor Scales - 139, Collier Winters - 126, Zach Boden - 116). It marked the first time in program history that three players ran for 100 or more yards in a game.
Record Nights
Against Dartmouth, Collier Winters (126) and Zach Boden (116) each ran for career highs.
Harvard has had three players with 100-plus all-purpose yards in consecutive games (Princeton, Dartmouth).
In its last 49 Ivy League games, just three teams have managed 400-yards of total offense against Harvard.


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For most of us, the Grandstand stage at the Calgary Stampede is a place of entertainment, someplace we might go once or twice a year for a few hours of fun.
Even with Grandstand under water, Young Canadians vow show 'will always go on'
For most of us, the Grandstand stage at the Calgary Stampede is a place of entertainment, someplace we might go once or twice a year for a few hours of fun.
Angela Benson, though, sees something else, something more. For Benson, the artistic director of the Young Canadians, that stage is a transformative place where children achieve their dreams through months of hard work and sacrifice.
So when she sees those pictures and video of the now-flooded infield, a sea of muddy brown water, it affects her on a different level than the rest of us. You wouldn't know it, though, from the positive energy she radiates in a conversation about the state of what will become the Young Canadians' home during the 10 nights of Stampede.
"The thing is, the show will always go on," Benson says, optimism shooting over the phone line like the fireworks that light up the sky at the end of each Grandstand Show. "The Young Canadians are actually in such good shape for the show this year."
More than 120 youth, ages six to 22, have been hard at work on this year's production for months. The production, Century 2, features the Young Canadians and members of the local arts community, such as Alberta Ballet and Calgary Opera.
The Young Canadians were scheduled to take to the Grandstand stage for rehearsals starting Tuesday, but for now, "things are on hold," Benson says. Some members of the group have been evacuated from their family homes, she says, and the rest of the group has been quick to rally around.
"We take care of each other. . . . There's been a lot of alumni from the past 45 years who have been e-mailing in, offering help," she says, adding that's everything from food to practise space in a hotel.
"It's pretty amazing. We are really blessed and lucky to live in a city like this."
In May and June, the group holds rehearsals at a hockey arena off-site because they need a large space to accommodate the large, elaborate stage props. On Thursday, though, they were doing some work on the Grandstand Show, including practicing some of the aerial moves. "They had to push us off the stage," Benson says with a laugh.
There's a tunnel that goes under the infield and branches out into a warren of change rooms, meeting rooms and washrooms. It leads to a large area where the performers can ride risers that take them up on to the stage.
I was lucky enough to get a tour of the area last year and I was struck by the energy level of the performers, who practically vibrated before taking to the stage. One portion of the cinder block wall was covered in signatures of past members of the Young Canadians, scrawled reminders of past wishes for all the luck in the world for their young colleagues.
All that is now under water.
"Thanks goodness our costumes didn't move to the basement — where our dressing rooms are — yet," Benson says, managing to see the positive amid all that pooling water.
"When our production team and tech team and director of the show, as soon as we heard that the Stampede grounds were being evacuated, it was all hands on deck. Everyone came together as a team to make sure the stage was as safe as possible.
"But seeing some of that (flood) footage, I think that we are going to have to put in some elbow grease and scrub-a-dub-dub that stage to get it ready."
Again, where most of us see only a mud-covered disaster, a daunting task that couldn't possibly be completed in the two short weeks until the Stampede starts, Benson sees something more.
"The Calgary Stampede runs on volunteer spirit. That's why I'm not nervous. I know that the city of Calgary is going pull together and the Stampede will go on."
The born-and-raised Calgarian says the theme of this year's show is particularly apt, seeing as "it's really a celebration of the community of Calgary."
"To be honest, my heart goes out to the entire city. It's not just the (Stampede) grounds, it's seeing how it affect people," she says, before reiterating: "Nothing is going stop us. The show must go on. There's nothing better than seeing the Young Canadians perform to bring the city of Calgary back together."


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New Haven, CT – The Sacred Heart University Track and Field teams participated in the Geigengack Invitational hosted by Yale University, with the women winning both the shot put and the weight throw events. The Pioneers finished with four of the top six in the shot put and four of the top five in the weight throw.
With a mark of 13.6 meters, Lindsay Aponte (West Islip, NY) took home the win in the shot put for the Pioneers. Athalia Smith (New Britain, CT) finished in second place slightly behind Aponte with a mark of 12.78 meters. Rounding out the top six for SHU were Kolbi Smith (Valatie, NY) with a mark of 11.71 meters (fifth place) and Christi Middleton (Colchester, NY) with a mark of 11.02 meters (sixth).
Athalia Smith took home first place honors in the weight throw with an impressive mark of 18.17 meters, over one meter farther than every other competitor. Kolbi Smith finished in second place with a mark of 17.02 meters. Chantaul Smith (New Britain, CT) grabbed fourth place with a throw of 15.33 meters and Middleton rounded out the top five with a throw of 17.74 meters.
Joselyn Henry (Westport, CT) also put up a strong performance for Sacred Heart in the Women's Long Jump, finishing in seventh place with a leap of 5.12 meters. Another strong performer from the girls' squad was Brigid Paddock (Stony Brook, NY) also gave the Pioneers a strong performance with a sixth-place finish of 2:25.06 in the 800 meter.
The men were also most successful in the shot put and the weight throw events, recording two of the top ten in shot put and four of the top eight in weight throw. Philip Miccio (Jericho, NY) threw 13.95 meters to finish seventh in shot put. Scott Sheehan (Beverly, MA) finished just behind Miccio in ninth with a throw of 13.34 meters.
For the weight throw, Matt Wagner (Brookhaven, NY) tossed an impressive 16.1-meters to finish fourth. Marc Troiani (Valhalla, NY) came in right behind in fifth with a 15.54-meter throw. Rounding out the top eight were Chris Mahl (South Burlington, VM) in seventh and Miccio in eighth with tosses of 14.92 meters and 14.55 meters respectively.
Kevin Eckel (Haverford, PA) also led SHU in the 60 meter dash with a sixth-place finish of 7.12 seconds.
There were over 11 teams competing in the invitational with no team scoring.