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XGames set up in Minneapolis for 2017 and pushed the bar higher than ever with TWO records being broken for Big Air by Vibronic team riders. Italo Penarrubia soared 23.4 feet, followed by Clay Kreiner at 24 feet. We love to see our team getting higher and higher!
Check out some of the footage from our amazing riders. They all worked really hard in chasing the medals this year.
For Big Air, after qualifying in first place, Italo landed in fourth overall. Clay made the podium with a bronze medal.
For Men's Vert, Clay ended up on the board in ninth place, and for Men's Park he earned sixth place. Nice work boys!


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Interesting take on anti-money laundering laws. In Russia they are used to extract bribes…hmmmmm…any lessons for us here?
Interesting take on anti-money laundering laws. In Russia they are used to extract bribes…hmmmmm…any lessons for us here?
'Twas ever thus. Report by social policy think tank Race on the Agenda. Studies the impact of youth violence on girls. It includes a study of the use of rape.
Hmmmm. I wonder who does the coercive side? Woman supposed to have moved from Colombia to Argentina and split with Mexican drug lord.
Frontex officials to get more training. New Home Affairs Commissioner strong on human rights
the Commission has been up to its old tricks. Secret negotiations without transparency. Will the bureaucrats never learn? Not much chance. There is a proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Governments and multinationals conspiring to bring the Internet under their control. They so hate freedom and initiative and they hate us to have private lives over which they have no surveillance. [Discuss]
120,000 cases pending, 27,000 from Russia alone. Most relate to Chechnya. 47 members of the Council of Europe now. Someone needs to explain to the Conservative party that membership of the Council of Europe involves accepting the supremacy of the European Court of Human Rights and that the UK joined back in 1951. Ah well. We must obey the great Murdoch and his wishes, just as Blair and Brown did.
Good think piece in the Independent by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. He'll be denounced by the loony right-wing blogosphere. Still, aren't we all?
Some interesting things going on in Manchester. This was aimed at booze-fuelled violence. Might be worth seeing what Manchester Evening News says. this involved "arches" to check for knives and other weapons. Operation Portcullis.
Washington Post article quoting an unnamed "source", says attacks only routed through two Chinese college servers. Other papers have suggested students at the two colleges did the hacking freelance…You pays your money…and you pays your money!
Le Monde examines corruption in Italy Fascinating!

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Last month I pointed out that The Noise Magazine recommended two Gloucester shows for the week of Oct 22, putting us on par with Cambridge (see post here). Well there's a new Noise issue out and this week they recommend a Rockport show (see here) specifically Amy Black with Megan Burtt at the Old Sloop Coffeehouse. Congrats Amy Black, Megan Burtt, Old Sloop (tickets here) and Rockport! Oh, and I guess I have to congratulate myself on being right again. I picked this show in this post . Here are two more videos from these rising stars, just in case you weren't convinced by the ones I posted last week.
More Megan Burtt videos here.
Now for tonight, there's a special treat at Minglewood: Tony & Samantha Goddess will share the stage with KBMG. You don't get to see all these talented artists sharing the stage very often so take advantage.
See this weekend's complete live music schedule for Gloucester and Cape Ann here.


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Party animals!!!
So, my boys are turning into party animals. They are going to ANOTHER birthday party this weekend, boy, what a life! That's three this month.
This is the card I made for the birthday boy. I've had the "Spring break" designer paper since February and was dying to use it. I just loooovvvee the color combination. I've also been wanting to pull out the "All in the family" and "Family Accessories" sets.
Here they are, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!! I tried to make the little boy look like Jack (the birthday boy) and it does resemble him. I used staz-on jet black ink and colored the image using my blender pen and ink from the cover of my ink pad. I also used some soft sky ink and colored around the image, to make it look like sky.
Have a great weekend!!
Stamps: All in the Family, Family Accessories and Happy Everything Cardstock: Blue bayou, whisper white and spring break dsp Ink: Blue bayou, old olive, soft sky and summer sun Accessories: 1 1/4, 1 3/8 circle punches, stitched ribbon and blender pens
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Five years ago today, a heat wave enveloped Colorado. Temperatures had reached 90 degrees all week; humidity was low, and high winds were hot and mean.
It was a prelude to six weeks of hell as an unprecedented wildfire, its fury mounting, engulfed much of the drought-ravaged Pike National Forest.
The Hayman fire started on June 8, 2002, when flames jumped a campfire ring near Tarryall Road in Park County. By the time it was finally contained on July 2, it had become the largest fire in Colorado history.
Named for its starting point, a pioneer homestead in Tappen Gulch just off Tarryall, the fire consumed 215 square miles of forest, an area larger than the city of Colorado Springs. Seventy square miles of forest were severely burned; the rest was left charred as the fire's flames leapt capriciously over roads, stands of trees and homes.
The fire, started by Forest Service employee Terry Barton, was a monster, reaching its arms toward Woodland Park, Palmer Lake and Denver's suburbs. At its most vicious, it came within seven miles of Woodland Park and five miles of the tiny Douglas County town of Roxborough.
At one point, Woodland Park was within 15 minutes of a mandatory town evacuation. Palmer Lake residents were asked to leave, and residents of small communities that had grown in the forest were barricaded from the roads that led to their homes.
The fire's financial toll on federal, state and local government and on Colorado residents hit an estimated $238 million, including rehabilitation and suppression costs; the loss of water storage, property and timber; and the impact it had on recreation, tourism, wildlife, power lines and fisheries.
It took a much greater personal toll on Colorado residents. It left treasured mountain homes 133 of them in smoking embers. Those who returned to homes spared by the fire found the landscape around them blackened and stripped of life, and the roads leading to them in ruins.
Residents with respiratory problems struggled with the smoke- and ash-filled air, and five firefighters from Oregon died when their van crashed on the way to working on the Hayman.
The fire took out millions of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees, leaving the landscape charred and silent. It destroyed hundreds of miles of roads frequented by hikers, hunters, campers, climbers and sightseers. Later, after the fire was out, floods their path undeterred by vegetation ruined popular campgrounds and hiking trails.
The entire Pike National Forest, more than a million acres, didn't reopen for a month. The Hayman burn area didn't open for recreation until the following April.
But it wasn't a silent place. In the weeks after the smoke cleared, forest workers in three districts, volunteers and scientists descended upon the area, clearing trees, examining burn patterns and reopening roads. The whine of chain saws and the rumble of lumber trucks filled the air. Homeowners, allowed back in, cleaned up piles of burned rubble and began making plans for rebuilding.
Today, there's life in the forest. But there's also an unmistakable feeling that things will never be the same as they were when night fell on June 7, 2002.
Historic impact
Merrill Kaufmann had studied a unique portion of Pike National Forest for more than seven years before the Hayman fire. As emeritus forest ecologist with the federal Rocky Mountain Research Station, he understood the value of a portion of forest that surrounded Cheesman Reservoir.
Kaufmann and his fellow scientists had chosen the Cheesman area for study because of its history: It had never been logged, and it had been fenced off from grazing and protected from fire since the reservoir was built as part of the Denver water system more than a century ago.
The Hayman fire ravaged the area ecologically, but even Kaufmann often found himself thinking outside scientific terms.
"In that long, hard summer after the Hayman fire occurred, I remember waking up every morning with a knot in my stomach," he says. "There was the fear that we could have that kind of fire again, and if it had been just 20 miles to the north, there could have been as many as 10,000 houses in the fire's path."
As it stood, that didn't happen. Maybe that's why most Coloradans remember the Hayman fire only in the way they remember any local news event that commands repeated coverage on TV and in print.
For Victoria Benge, it was different. Now 15 and a sophomore at Woodland Park High School, Benge was 10 when the Hayman fire burned its way into her life.
Benge will never forget one particular day, "the Tuesday after Father's Day." She was attending school in Colorado Springs, and that morning she and her father, John, checked the fire updates, left their house in Woodland Park's Painted Rocks subdivision and drove down Ute Pass.
"When we left, it was a normal day," she says. "We knew the fire was going on, and we did take five photo albums. But later, we found out our neighborhood was evacuated."
Benge and her family drove to Woodland Park High School, where officials led nightly meetings to update area residents on the fire's progress. The meetings took place in the school gym, which was as crowded and noisy as if there were a basketball game going on.
Forest officials stood at a microphone, holding papers with addresses of homes that had burned. Families and neighbors sat on the bleachers, their faces pale and eyes closed as they hoped their neighborhood wouldn't be mentioned.
But the Benges, and other families who lived in Painted Rocks, were taken out of the gym that night.
"They called Painted Rocks, and we went into a little room," Benge says. "It is the tiniest road ever, and we knew all our neighbors. They said, "We are sorry. Your house burned down.' I thought it wasn't true, that they were lying to me. Then, they showed us pictures.
"I was sad, and really mad at Terry Barton, the woman who started the fire. I wanted to know why she did this to me and my family."
The saddest part?
"I lost all my things, but the most important were my Barbie dolls," she says. "I collect them and had 150 of them with all their accessories. They represented my whole life. And my dad collected English cars. He had three in the garage. One of them was going to be my first car when I learned to drive. But we didn't take them and they burned."
She and her parents followed Barton's trial, traveling to Cripple Creek to sit in the courtroom and see her sentenced to prison.
"That was the most valuable lesson for me," Benge says. "That was a closing. I could see she wasn't this horrible person that hated me."
In the years after the fire, the Benges rebuilt their house on the same location, which now is cleared of trees.
"When I was a little girl, I always wanted a bay window," she says. "We built our new house, and I have a bay window. That really made me happy."
Knee-high success
Along Colorado Highway 67, lots more new homes, bright and clean, stand out in the scorched forest. And small signs of natural life glimmer on the still-charred landscape alongside Matukat Road, Forest Service Road 211, which most dramatically dissects the burn area.
Late-season pasque flowers nod in the breeze; waterfalls hiss in newly formed channels of decomposed granite, and the first soft, cabbage-like leaves of mullein make a polka-dot pattern on the ground.
But those symbols of springtime and new beginnings hardly make up for the devastation that spreads out for miles in all directions. And except for the pasque, a harbinger of springtime in the Rockies, the signs of life aren't all welcomed.
Take the mullein, for example. A noxious weed that can grow several feet tall, it is considered a pioneer plant one that takes over after a disturbance such as a fire. And it does its job very well.
"Noxious weeds are really good at establishing themselves after a fire," says Brent Botts, district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service. "Weeds like mullein choke out the natural grasses in the forest. They move in and take over once an area burns."
The mullein, thistle and yellow-toed flax, among other weeds that have taken up residence in the forest since the fire, comprise just one challenge for those trying to help the forest recover. Planting and erosion control projects are still continuing, though the Hayman Restoration Team which Botts headed was disbanded two years after the fire.
When that happened, the forest service assumed responsibility for the restoration. Today, its employees work hand-in-hand with the Colorado State Forest Service and other state agencies, the nonprofit Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP), dozens of scientists and hundreds of volunteers, Botts says.
Kaufmann is among those scientists. He has worked with land managers for more than a decade and is involved with the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Roundtable, a group formed in 2004 to address the questions of treatment needs for community fire protection and forest restoration in 10 counties.
That group's work, and research by Kaufmann and other scientists, revolves around lessons learned from Hayman and other catastrophic fires such as Buffalo Creek in 1996, the first eye-opening blaze in the Upper South Platte watershed.
"A couple of adjustments have taken place ecologically on the land since the Hayman fire," Kaufmann says. "And all of it has to do with the recovery of the understory vegetation. It has grown enough by now, and after the first year, was doing all it could to stabilize the soil."
Next, attention turns to the recovery of the forest. "The dilemma presented by fires the magnitude of Hayman," Kaufmann says, "is that they are so outside the historic norm of this kind of system."
A small fire creates an opening that might be 50 or 100 acres. That forest can re-establish itself, though it might take 100 years.
"Real rough estimates after the Hayman show it could be 100 years before even 10 percent of the burn area is reforested," Kaufmann says. "It would take 500 years to fully restore the forest landscape."
And when it's restored, it won't look like it did before the fire. Some portions of the Pike National Forest still hold as many as 1,000 trees per acre, says Matt Matwijec, CUSP forester.
"There should be 60 to 70 trees per acre," he says. "That's what we are working towards."
He notes that stretches of Buffalo Creek don't look much better than Hayman, even though the burn area there is just 2,500 acres and has had a six-year head start on regeneration.
"We have to be realistic," Matwijec says. "There are many acres of land out there that I'm never going to set foot on; that we will never work on. But nature will take its course, and eventually, seeds will blow in from other areas.
"Still, I feel positive when I'm out there, completing a tree-planting project. Some of the trees we planted at Cheesman the first year are now past my knees. That's success."
The smell of smoke
As the seedlings grow taller, memories of the Hayman fire will continue to fade for many. But not for residents who lived through it; they can be taken back to that summer with a whiff of wood smoke.
Jean Rodeck lives in Ridgewood, a community 10 miles north of Woodland Park, just behind the Manitou Experimental Forest.
Rodeck has retired from her position as superintendent of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, but in 2002, she was still working there.
"I remember those days," she says. "I have always prided myself at being independent and self-sufficient. But when the fire came nearer to my house, I stood in my living room and looked at my life and my stuff and just fell apart. I thought, "I can't do this by myself.' But about 10 minutes later, I started moving. I spent about six days moving my things to a storage unit on Ute Pass."
Rodeck took her two cats to a friend's house in Woodland Park, and continued to go to work at the Fossil Beds. At one point, she was told her house had burned.
"A guy from the Forest Service told me the fire had crossed the road and my house was gone," she says. "I was numb. Then, I got news that the report was wrong the fire had crossed the road in a different spot."
Rodeck's house still stands today, and the memory of the Hayman fire stays with her.
"In five years, I haven't burned a stick of wood in either of my two woodstoves," she says. "And I gave away all the wood I had stored around my house.
"It's the smell of wood smoke that gets me. If I ever smell smoke in the air, I go running outside to check my neighbors' chimneys, or see if they are using charcoal."
Today, she still remembers a tiny elderly woman she met at a forest checkpoint during the fire, when the smoke-filled air around Florissant was thick and brown.
"She had lost everything," Rodeck says. "She had no insurance, no savings, no job. And she said, "I started over once. I can do it again.'
"I think that's the spirit in people that the Hayman fire brought out. That's what I remember most."


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Tuesday's bombshell news about the FBI's two-year investigation regarding college basketball recruiting opens the question of how, if at all, the Hurricanes program will be affected.
That is not yet known.
Tuesday evening, the lawyer for UM men's basketball coach Jim Larranaga told The Post in an email that his client will not be in trouble.
"We are reviewing the allegations but I assure you they do not apply to our much loved Coach L," lawyer Stuart Grossman wrote, when asked for comment about the matter. "I just can't comment further. It's so difficult to respond to shrouded allegations."
Grossman later provided other statements to two other South Florida newspapers. He told the Miami Herald that Larranaga was "unfamiliar with this matter and had zero involvement in any allegations of any impropriety." He told the Sun Sentinel that Larranaga "does not know the identity of [the] unnamed, unidentified 'Coach-3.'" Grossman said in both statements Larranaga will continue to coach the Hurricanes.
The FBI on Tuesday indicted 10 people, including an Adidas executive, an club team coach and four major-college assistant coaches, after finding "bribery, corruption and fraud" in a sting centered on college hoops recruiting. The four coaches, who worked for Oklahoma State, USC, Auburn and Arizona, were arrested Tuesday.
The investigation is ongoing, federal officials said.
The report did not name Larranaga, his assistants or staffers, or the University of Miami. However, UM fits the profile of one school cited in the report.
That school's assistant coach allegedly conspired with the Adidas exec, a would-be agent, and travel coach in an apparent attempt to steer some $150,000 to a recruit.
More on the scandal here.


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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (June 2017) — Sean Carroll has joined the Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort family as the Chef de Cuisine for Alexander's Restaurant & Wine Bar.
Located at 76 Queen's Folly Road on the main Palmetto Dunes entry road, Alexander's has been a popular choice of the Hilton Head Island dining scene since 1977. Alexander's closed last October following Hurricane Matthew, but reopened in March featuring a fresh look and a revamped menu following a complete renovation.
The menu pays tribute to many classic Alexander's favorites such as stuffed flounder, shrimp and grits, and Wiener schnitzel, with seasonally inspired cuisine; locally caught seafood and many locally sourced ingredients. The new décor in Alexander's lagoon-front setting offers more of a Lowcountry appeal. Alexander's is open for early dining and dinner, seven nights a week.
Carroll came on board just as Alexander's reopened its doors to the public and has been hard at work getting the restaurant through its initial phase.
Carroll graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta, Georgia and went on to work at The Inn on Biltmore Estate, a 4 Diamond and 4 Star hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. His experience includes time at the Bistro at Biltmore Estate along with two restaurants in Georgia (TWO Urban Licks in Atlanta and The Partridge Inn in Augusta) and two restaurants in Williamsburg, Virginia (Blue Talon Bistro and Waypoint Seafood & Grill).
"When we acquired Alexander's Restaurant, I thought of my experience working with Sean Carroll and knew he would be the perfect fit for Chef de Cuisine of the restaurant," said Palmetto Dunes Director of Food and Beverage and Certified Sommelier Brian Couey. "Working with Sean at The Dining Room at the Inn on Biltmore Estate, I immediately recognized his talents and focus to providing a memorable meal for our guests. Sean is creative, driven, and organized and these qualities are hard to find in a chef. I am eager for Sean to put his stamp on the Alexander's menu and further showcase his talents."
Originally from Williamsburg, Carroll relocated to Hilton Head Island with his wife and young daughter.


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Of course Zoe isn't anything like Texas death row inmate Stuart Harris. She got away with her murder.
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Managing Grubs without Pesticides
From Bill Duesing Executive Director CT NOFA Cultivating an Organic Connecticut
There are increasing opportunities for managing grubs without pesticides.
The most important thing is to grow healthy grass in healthy soil so that the grass has longer, more vigorous roots and can better resist grubs or recover from grub feeding. Encouraging biodiversity in the soil (ants and ground and rove beetles, for example) and in the surrounding areas (flowering plants which encourage beneficial wasps which pray on grubs) is very helpful for natural grub control and should also build stronger turf.
Regular pesticide and fertilizer use tends to limit biodiversity and the grub control it provides. Ants seem to be the most effective predators of grub eggs.
Certain cultural practices such a watering and fertilizing as particular times can encourage grubs, so avoiding those practices can help prevent infestations.
Some species of grubs can be controlled by various nematodes (very tiny worm-like organisms that are everywhere) that are exempt from EPA registration (therefore are not pesticides) but which live in the soil, lay their eggs inside grubs and kill them. There are specific species of nematodes for specific kinds of grubs, so the type of grubs needs to be discovered. Fortunately resources at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and at UConn can help with identification. There is lots of work on a variety of nematodes to control other species of grubs. It is a rapidly evolving control strategy.
It should be noted that the most common chemical grub control (trade named Merit) is not an IPM product. It must be used before any grubs are seen to be effective, so that it is completely contrary to the IPM policy of evaluating the damage before spraying. That product has also been implicated in the demise of honey bees in France and in ground water contamination on Long Island.
As I understand it, the other grub controls are more dangerous to humans.
[Another tip: Don't water the grass in July and August when the eggs and immature grubs are around. They like and need water.]


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Police found a wig, 17 stamped letters and three license plates in the rental car in which the Roanoke, Virginia, TV crew killer shot himself Wednesday, according to a search warrant affidavit.
In seeking a search warrant for the Chevrolet Sonic Vester Lee Flanagan II was driving Wednesday after killing WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward and wounding Smith Mountain Lake Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vicki Gardner, Virginia State Police had to give a magistrate in Fauquier County probable cause.
"Investigators identified Vestor Lee Flanagan II as a person of interested based on a text message sent to a friend making reference to having done something stupid," police wrote. Flanagan's first name is spelled several different ways in the document.
Officers searched the car just before 5 p.m. Wednesday and reported their findings Thursday morning to Fauquier County Circuit Court. They recovered a Glock pistol, magazines for the pistol and ammunition.
In a briefcase in the car they found the three license plates and wig along with a shawl, an umbrella and sunglasses. There was also a black hat in the car.
There was also a to-do list. The affidavit didn't provide further details about the stamped letters or the to-do list.
Police put out a lookout for Flanagan Wednesday morning, and the car was spotted in Fauquier County.
"When troopers attempted to stop the vehicle, the subject operating the vehicle failed to yield and was observed to place an object to his head," police wrote. Flanagan shot himself in the head and died at 1:26 p.m. at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
The affidavit shows authorities were interested in pursuing charges including capital murder, first- and second-degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, reckless handling of a firearm, and disregarding law enforcement before Flanagan killed himself.


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|2011/03/29 03:48
|Richard Donovan
|LMU Munich - Cluster Experimentation with Apple Tv High Performance, multi core multi cluster experimentation can have high hardware costs and prove a serious barrier to entry. Enter the Munich University Apple TV Cluster project that aims to share and discuss software related to building collaborative, distributed computing using low cost low power Arm based processors.
|cluster, computing, apple, tv
|2011/08/02 14:05
|Richard Donovan
|pNfs - Something Tasty Baked into the New Linux 3 Kernel I totally missed that pNfs got baked into the new Linux 3 Kernel. PNfs or Parallel Network File System is a huge boost in Network File system access. While the headlines often get written by micro second performance increases in micro processors users (or programs) often wait seconds for data to be loaded of disks.
|parallel, storage, linux, cluster
|2012/02/07 14:07
|Richard Donovan
|$25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU Some times good things come in small packages. We've loved the idea of the low cost Pi Linux box since it was announced. The promise of allowing people to create the next generation of technology that is muti-core clusters and smart networked was really compelling.
|pi, linux, parallel, cluster, low, cost
|2012/07/30 01:24
|Richard Donovan
|192 Core Server that Consumes only 5 watts of power!! Boston Viridis have started to ship the create a rack mountable 2U server cluster that uses the ARM® based Calxeda EnergyCore™ SoCs (Server on Chip). This server comprising 192 processing cores leading the way towards energy efficient hyperscale computing.
|low, power, cluster, arm
|2012/09/12 08:59
|Richard Donovan
|Southampton University build a Raspberry Pi Cluster While the media may be calling this a 'super computer'. The Pi Cluster built by Southampton University will not be breaking any benchmark records. It does however provide a valuable low cost model to develop clustered and parallel computing for students and engineers. It also demonstrates how low power Arm is eating into new markets including now the educational space.
|pi, southampton, cluster, students, parallel, programming
|2012/10/08 05:01
|Richard Donovan
|Oracle Demos MySql 7.3 Cluster with Node.js and Nosql Oracle demo'd the MySQL Cluster 7.3 at the MySQL Connect conference. MySql is often the leading edge of Oracle's DB development and interestingly they have introduced integration with the open source Node.js JavaScript server.
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In finally getting around to a North American edition of the "should they stay or should they go?" question posed in my last post, I've decided to list the top U.S. and Canadian singles skaters by age rather than placement at the last Nationals. (Because, like it or not, it matters.) I've boldfaced skaters "of interest":
Top 12 men at U.S. Nationals by AGE
Jeremy Abbott (age 29)—finished 1st
Douglas Razzano (will be 26 this fall, one GP assignment)— finished 6th
Stephen Carriere (25, one GP assignment)—finished 10th
Adam Rippon (will be 25 in fall, 2 GP assignments)—finished 8th
Grant Hochstein (24, will compete at Finlandia Trophy)—finished 11th
Brandon Mroz (24 this winter) – finished 9th
Ross Miner (23, 1 GP assignment)—finished 7th
Richard Dornbush (23, some reports indicated he'd be focusing on college this season but he, too, currently has 2 GP assignments)—finished 5th
Keegan Messing (22)—finished 12th
Max Aaron (22, 2 GP assignments)—finished 3rd
Jason Brown (19, 2 GP assignments)—finished 2nd
Joshua Farris (19, 2 GP assignments)—finished 4th
Abbott: I might as well start with the one that will likely bring the most objections, so here goes... I wish he'd stayed with his plan to retire. It's not that I love his skating any less than I ever have. It's more about going out a) on his own terms (read: without a career-ending injury, a la Lysacek) and b) on a high note. While I can appreciate his re-thinking his exit strategy after pulling down a 5th place at Worlds, as well as helping secure a 3rd spot for the U.S. men for the first time in several years... I think he may be asking too much of himself with this post-script. I could be dead wrong, and I've a fork in hand, ready to eat as much crow as necessary. But there was a feeling I had when Abbott's close pal Alissa Czisny continued competing beyond her strongest season (2010-11), and... to state it simply... that feeling is back.
Mroz: Consider this my APB on the former U.S. Silver Medalist whose name is not to be found among any "Team Envelope" and has not posted to Twitter since early January. Is he continuing? Has he moved on? I don't take the time to read the message boards much anymore, so someone feel free to clue me in if he's already been discussed to bits. My thought: with his name already in the record books (first—and only, so far—quad lutz landed in an ISU-sanctioned event, October 2011), Mroz may well have something to offer as a jump specialist. Or maybe it's time to pursue his dreams of being a dentist. But he's one of those athletes that seems to have lost his joy of competing several years ago. I might actually be sad if I see his name in the Nats lineup this time.
Messing: The Alaskan with the crazy jumping ability and the unfortunate inability (thus far) to bring his best to Nationals... has decided to cross the border. According to his website, he plans to compete for
this season. Assuming he qualifies for their Nationals (??), it'll be
interesting to see how he stacks up against the likes of quad royalty (Kevin
Reynolds) and young firecrackers (Nam Nguyen).
Speaking of the Top Canadian Men (again, by AGE)...
Jeremy Ten (25, 1 GP assignment)—finished 6th
Kevin Reynolds (24, 2 GP assignments)—finished 2nd
Elladj Balde (23, 1 GP assignment)—finished 4th
Patrick Chan (age 23, at least part of season off)—finished 1st
Liam Firus (22, 1 GP assignment)—finished 3rd
Andrei Rogozine (21)—finished 7th
Nam Nguyen (16, 2 GP assignments)—finished 5th
Roman Sandovsky (15, in Junior GP)—finished 8th
Welcome to the group of guys Keegan Messing will face if January if he competes at Nationals... the oldest of which seemed to spontaneously announce his own post-Nationals retirement on Twitter earlier this year. But Jeremy Ten, like another "Jeremy" we've discussed, appears to have had a change of heart. No one else, save for Chan, has announced any sort of break. I highlighted Chan's name, though, to point out he's still relatively young in this field—one more reason why, as I said last time, I hope he sticks around at least a few more years.
Top 12 ladies at US Nationals by AGE
Ashley Wagner (23, 2 GP assignments)—finished 4th
Mirai Nagasu (21, 2 GP assignments)—finished 3rd
Samantha Cesario (21, 2 GP assignments)—finished 5th
Christina Gao (20, two GP assignments)—finished 8th
Agnes Zawadzki (20, taking year off)—finished 11th
Ashley Cain (19, 2 GP assignments)—finished 12th
Gracie Gold (19, 2 GP assignments)—finished 1st
Courtney Hicks (19 this winter, 2 GP assignments)—finished 6th
Barbie Long (18 this month)—finished 7th
Hannah Miller (18 in Fall, no GPs but has new music for this season)—finished 9th
Leah Kaiser (17 in a few weeks, Junior GP assignments)—finished 10th
Polina Edmunds (16, 2 GP assignments)—finished 2nd
With the U.S. leading ladies still relatively young—you know that's gotta be true when 21 year-old Nagasu is now among the "elders"—there aren't as many here that I look at and say "WHY are they continuing??" With the only thing close to a retirement announced by way of 14th place finisher Kiri Baga (who will now focus on continuing her education), 2010 Olympian-turned-Stanford-Student Rachael Flatt, and two-time Champ Alissa Czisny (who did not compete last January, and formally announced her retirement plans this past spring)... my focus falls to Wagner and Zawadski. Wagner may feel she has something yet to prove (at Nationals, anyway), and after what happened this past January, who can blame her? Whether or not she competes through another 4-year Olympic cycle is another story, but for now, I support her decision to continue. Zawadzki, on the other hand, is at enough of a crossroads to Be On A Break— something that's become fairly commonplace among the world's elite skaters, whether they've achieved the sport's greatest heights or not. If you've read anything about the unique sacrifices Zawadzki's family has made in order for her to compete at this level (and I say that with an emphasis on unique; stories of familial sacrifice with top skaters are everywhere), then you might be able to appreciate her decision all the more. As for whether or not she should return... given the wild ride she's had with placements the past few years (some blame her skating, some blame judges propping her up/giving up on her), it's a tough call. I'd love to hear what you think if you have an opinion!
Top 8 Ladies at Canadian Nationals by AGE
Amelie Lacoste (25, RETIRED)—finished 3rd
Alexandra Najarro (21) – finished 6th
Veronika Mallet (20, 1 GP assignment)—finished 4th
Marianne Ouellet (19)—finished 8th
Katelyn Osmond (18, 2 GP assignments)—finished 1st
Alaine Chartrand (18, 2 GP assignments)—finished 5th
Julianne Seguin (17, doing JGP pairs for sure)—finished 7th
Gabrielle Daleman (16, 2 GP assignments)—finished 2nd
Since 2010, when Olympic Bronze Medalist Joannie Rochette (now 28) has essentially stopped competing, Canada has only lost a couple of its consistent top women: 26 year-old Cynthia Phaneuf, and—as of this season—25 year-old Lacoste, who most recently won bronze (but missed out of the two available Olympic spots). And with teenagers Osmond and Daleman taking the top two spots last year, it might be a while before any of
finest decide to call it a day (and a career).


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Can wood compete with steel and concrete as a building material?
Wood presents a lot of benefits as a building material because it is strong, lightweight and environmental friendly. However, only changes in building codes will make wood competitive with steel and concrete.
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The word describes the larvae of a variety of wood-burrowing beetles. An pests begins whenever a beetle burrows into timbers and lays eggs throughout mating season. Mating seasons change from species to species, nevertheless the results are identical the larvae mature and eat the wood throughout their growth to their adult years. They tunnel from the wood and disappear as adult beetles, prepared to start the entire cycle again. Small holes are produced by each larvae and being of a significant substantial number, cause devastating leads to the wooden host.
You will find four primary types of woodworm
Although you will find others, these 4 primary species are the most typical timber enemy:
Niobium punctuate – The Most Popular Furniture Beetle
Heliotropes baulks – The Home Longhorn Beetle
Lyceums brunets – The Powerpost Beetle
Xestobium rufuvillosum – The Deathwatch Beetle
There's even the Wood Boring Weevil (Euophryum confine), that's categorized underneath the term woodwom.
Think you've woodworm?
The most typical woodworm pests are really through the Common Furniture Beetle which, unlike the title, includes a preference for structural wood instead of furniture. It may be recognized by exit holes of just one.5-2mm and lemon formed pellets that feel gritty to touch. In most cases yet it's better to obtain an expert to recognize the types of woodworm. This really is because of the truth that different woodworm require different remedies as well as cause different levels of harm. The Home Longhorn Beetle Larvae for example, are bigger than other woodworm species larvae and cause much more hidden damage. A professional in treating woodworm will have the ability to counsel you around the best treatment in addition to which timbers to exchange and woodworm prevention techniques.
Making plans to avoid woodworm
Although woodworm cannot normally be viewed until an pests has happened, you will find certain measures you are able to decide to try prevent pests.
Woodworm most frequently cannot survive in dry timber moisture levels below 11% normally allow it to be very hard for woodworm to outlive. Moisture levels could be acquired via a wood moisture readers (an expert may have one of these simple, request if you're able to borrow one). If wood is moist you might consider eliminating the moist problem, for example poor ventilation or damp conditions. Becoming dry timbers having a dehumidifier is frequently the best choice when the moist problem continues to be resolved. Long-term utilization of a dehumidifier isn't suggested, consider getting the moist sorted.
If timber is uncovered it's simpler for woodworm to achieve entry. Coating timbers in preventative offers is definitely any option. Injection of gear to fill previous woodworm infection holes can also be necessary. These will both enable you to identify if further infection happens.
Periodic variations
Different species burrow at different occasions of the season and also have different existence cycles. The easiest method to combat this really is to be careful for moist once the weather conditions are more damp and also to search for larval holes once the weather conditions are warmer. Beetles such as the moist, larvae such as the warmth.
Dealing with a woodworm pests
Regardless of woodworm infection, softwood or hardwood, furniture or structural, the first the avenue for call ought to be a woodworm specialist. Moist proofing companies frequently have woodworm specialists like a large part of stopping woodworm originates from stopping moist. A lot of companies execute free surveys and may perform same-day woodworm remedies. A professional can also be required to survey the quality of damage triggered by woodworm and replace any vital structural timbers. If furnishings are have contracted woodworm, getting rid of it out of your home may be beneficial, staying away from elevated pests. Management of common types of woodworm can involve the injection of certain poisons, which take dependent on hrs to operate. However, infection using the Dying Watch Beetle may take a couple of times of fumigation to eradicate the issue. The problem of yeast infection within wood after woodworm pests may also be worked with a professional.


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There are so many restaurant choices at Disney World, it can be overwhelming for the first time visitor. To make it easier, we've put together a list of the best restaurants for first time Disney World guests. 50's Prime Time Cafe This restaurant is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios. 50's Prime Time Cafe is a fun, … Continue Reading
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Recipe: Fried Herb and Garlic Cheese
50's Prime Time Cafe at Disney's Hollywood Studios features your favorite comfort foods from the 50s. The popular fried cheese was retired but recently has been revived. So if you're looking to make that cheesy goodness at home, this recipe is for you. Fried Herb and Garlic Cheese 4 oz. water 3 eggs, beaten 2 … Continue Reading


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Amazon WorkSpaces – Using Chromebook in Kiosk-Mode to Access Your WorkSpace
As I continue to focus on Amazon Web Services from a certification and general knowledge perspective, I find myself being more and more intrigued with Amazon WorkSpaces. If you're not familiar with WorkSpaces, it is AWS' fully managed, desktop service (DaaS) which runs in the AWS cloud. It allows you to quickly, and simply, launch virtual desktops that can be accessed anywhere with Internet access.
Although I've spent some time in the EUC space deploying and managing Horizon View (in conjunction with my other duties as a Sr. Systems Admin), I've not had an opportunity to play around with many end user devices such as thin clients, Chromebooks, etc. However, I've always been intrigued by the potential cost savings and the operational benefits of said devices in the enterprise. Moreso, the security that this solution offers by maintaining company data in the data center (private or public cloud) and not on the mobile device is tremendously valuable to businesses as well.
Like most EUC platforms, Amazon offers their WorkSpace client for a multitude of operating systems, including Windows, Chrome OS, Android, iOS, and more. This allows greater flexibility for customers, giving them a choice to use their preferred device while offering easier consumption of the service itself. And as I continue to gain more expertise around Amazon WorkSpaces, it would naturally lead me to test and experiment with client devices.
Enter Chromebook, a device that, until now, I've never owned or experimented with before. If you've never played with one, it's an extremely slim and easy to use operating system designed primarily for web applications. It allows users the ability to download Chrome extensions to increase functionality and connect to online services, such as you guessed it, Amazon WorkSpaces. Chrome OS includes a native feature called Kiosk Mode that allows users (or admins) to lock a device down to run a single application. Not only does this secure the device but it can also drive the device's purpose by auto-launching directly into the desired application upon booting, a perfect solution for any EUC platform, especially cloud-based DaaS.
As mentioned above, the simplest way to use Chromebook to access your desktop is to use Kiosk Mode along with setting the Amazon WorkSpaces client to Auto-Launch for quick and easy access. The steps outlined below will enable you to quickly configure the Chromebook for this scenario. Keep in mind that my Chromebook is not managed by Chrome Management Console, a paid service that allows organizations to manage their Chrome devices from a single console.
i. Download and install the Amazon WorkSpaces client – you can find it at clients.amazonworkspaces.com
ii. In a new Chrome tab, type chrome://extensions and press enter
iii. Scroll down and grab the application ID of the Amazon WorkSpaces client (see screenshot below)
iv. Check the box next to Developer Mode
v. Click the Manage Kiosk Applications button
vi. Enter the application ID in the box and click Add
vii. Click Auto-Launch next to Amazon WorkSpaces to have Chromebook boot directly to the application
At this point, you should be able to launch the Amazon WorkSpaces client and add your registration code. Now, you should be able to reboot the Chromebook and have it boot directly to the Amazon WorkSpaces client and log into your desktop.
NOTE: If options are not available during the configuration, such as "Set to Auto-Launch", you may need to wipe your device (to wipe any accounts already created) and enable Kiosk-Mode at first boot. Check this article for instructions to wipe your Chromebook. After the device is wiped and the initial wizard starts, connect to the network but don't log in. When prompted for credentials, press CTRL-ALT-K to enable Kiosk-Mode.


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Strawberry Fair running order
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If you're wondering what the Strawberry Fair running order is, have a look at the below. There's loads to see and do during the day, including live music, performance art, food, drink and not to mention all the stalls etc, to peruse! The weather is looking good, so come on down for a Fairytale day to remember!
Strawberry Fair 2017 Poster
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Why SCAQMD Compliance is Important
What is SCAQMD? SCAQMD stands for South Coast Air Quality Management District. Their primary concern is with the health and welfare of citizens of southern California as it relates to air quality and pollution. They work to improve the general public knowledge of air quality and the things that affect it such as wood smoke or particulate matter in the air. The lungs are one of the most vital organs in the human body and if they are damaged by...Read More


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Brad Goreski's It's a Brad, Brad World: First Look!
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Bravo just released a preview of celebrity stylist and InStyle contributor Brad Goreski's new show It's a Brad, Brad World! The show follows Goreski around the globe, from the red carpets of Hollywood to the runways of Milan, and even inside the offices of InStyle, where he meets with editor Ariel Foxman. And while his stint as assistant to Rachel Zoe on The Rachel Zoe Project offered a glimpse of his personal life, this show delves even deeper—we meet his boyfriend, his family and see some intimate ups and downs (and that's only in the two-minute teaser!). Watch the clip above, and tune in to Bravo starting January 2nd to catch all the action.
— Selene Milano
MORE: • Brad Gets a Book Deal• Brad Goreski's Cambridge Satchel• Brad Answers: Are You a Kate or a Pippa?


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No Breakfast Until You Finish Your Dessert
It looks like having a healthy, balanced breakfast may not be the best way to start your mornings after all. What if we told you that having some ice cream in the morning could not only increase your reaction rates when dealing with various problems, but also help you process information with greater speed? Would…


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Every Picture Tells A Story
Learn to capture the stories behind those old family photos before they slip away. I work with well-known photographer Bill Rasdell as together we take you through the steps to:
Bill and I offer this as a multi-visit arts experience so I guess it's closer to being a residency than anything else. We attempt to tailor it to fit sponsor's needs regarding time and funding. It is easily made into an intergenerational project with several final event outcomes to choose from. More details are available upon request.
Tell it Write
A teacher recently told me the jobs of tomorrow will demand of us many things we cannot predict—but three things that we can:
Tell It Write deals with the last two—and, as the title states, with acquiring writing skills.
Here's how:
If we want our children to learn to write, we must give them all the tools they'll need for the job. This program helps accomplish that. Its main claim is that we must base the move toward writing in already established (and pre-requisite) skills: namely, oral skills. By using orally told stories and this method, we slowly help children to "translate" their established (and growing) ability in speech into a written form.
This approach is firmly anchored in small group work, allowing students (and teachers) to be both tellers and listeners, writers and readers, to give and receive continuing (positive) feedback, as the back and forth flow from speaking to writing unfolds.
Inspiration and methodology for this offering goes to a marvelous book (and the author/storyteller whose wise insights inform it)—Writing as a Second Language by Donald Davis.
This is offered as a multi-visit residency, a shorter workshop in classes, or as a teacher training session.
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We have had a semi-busy summer so far. I have been trying to do my best to not fill up our days with stuff. Being at home sometimes is kind of really nice! We have had a few things sprinkled here and there so far this summer...including Landon turning 8 months old!
Landon is such a fun little guy! He is still busy as ever!! We can not take our eyes off of him for a minute, because there is no telling where he would be!! I do not know his measurements or anything, but I think he is around 20 lbs. He wears 12 months clothes. He has no teeth yet...following in his oldest sissies footsteps. He LOVES music. His favorite artist is local Hannah Huston from the Voice. He even had the honor of meeting her!
We visited the beach for the first time this summer. My sister came along with us and a friend met us there with her kids. All of the kids enjoyed their time! The kids love building sand forts and Landon loved floating in a tube with me!
We have also been trying to go to a local aquapark at least once a week. We have such a good time there! Our kids are such little fishies...it is so fun to watch. Easton started jumping off the high dive this year and Weston started scaling the lily pads successfully...apparently those things are big deals!
The girls, Landon, and I...along with two neighbor girls...met Hannah Huston. She placed 3rd on NBC's the Voice. She is a Grand Island native and friends with some of our friends. She was so nice!
The kids did VBS at our friends church last week. It had a sports theme. Joc did archery...and apparently was quiet the hit.
Easton fished all week.
Katelyn did vocal music.
Weston did a regular VBS with an ocean theme. Our church isn't doing VBS this year due to construction.
We have been busy with archery. Joc competed at the State 4H archery tournament. She placed 5th in the 3D division and 8th in a different type of shoot where you shoot a regular target. She had some tough competition, but I am proud at her for wanting to give it a shot even though she has only been shooting for less than a year now.
|Joc shot with these girls
Both of the girls shot in our local Hall county 4H shoot over the weekend. We will find out how they do in a few weeks!
Sean's work had their annual picnic at the shooting park. They had shooting events going on, lunch, and some blow up activities for the kiddos. It is always fun seeing everyone....but this year it was super hot out!!
The girls went to church camp this week, so it was just the boys and I. Easton had quiet the agenda.
We went fishing one morning. Shot archery and went to thr library a different morning. Today we took it easy and just went to the Dr to get some blood work done for me. I am having tingling issues, so pray for me if you can. So far everything came back ok and we are still waiting on one more test.
The girls are home now and they had a great time at camp. They are exhausted as expected...I can not even imagine how their leaders are feeling!
Well that is our summer so far in a nut shell! We head out on vacation soon and I can not wait! It has been two years since we have gone on vacation as a family...so I can hardly contain myself!!


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Remember the old joke about the kid whose parents had to tie a t-bone steak around his neck so the dog would play with him? Suddenly it doesn't seem so funny. Because I just found out there are parents who actually pay big money for sorority prep training classes so their college-bound kids will be ready for rush week. And I do mean big money -- a two-week training course can set you back $8,000 (or you can opt for a "cheap" $50 one-shot session).
It's like these parents are telling their kids, "Sorry, we don't actually believe you have a charming personality. We're going to pay for you to take classes so someone will like you!"
To be honest, I have never understood the attraction to Greek life to begin with. I know people who swear their frat brothers or sorority sisters changed their lives, and maybe they have. But isn't that the point of friends, any friend?
In fact, the point of finding a friend is supposed to be about finding someone you can be your true self around, not some superficial version of you crafted during a two-week prep course.
The lesson these parents impart when they shell out cash for training for rush week is counter to everything we tell our kids as they grow up. "Be yourself," we tell them. "If they can't like you for you, they're not worth it."
Instead these courses tell kids, "You're not worth it ... at least not the way you are. Come on, let's improve you! Forget unique, let's make you just like everybody else!"
The people behind these Greek prep courses are selling these as "life skills," the kind of lessons that will help your kid get internships and jobs down the line. Of course a parent wants to shell out cash for something like that!
But let's get real here: there's a big difference between learning how to "give good interview" and learning how to impress a bunch of people who are going to see you do a kegstand in a few weeks. And what happens when the facade drops, when their real personality is revealed, and the superficial jerks don't really "like" them? So much for lifelong friendships ...
I can't see this flying at any other stage. Can you imagine hiring someone to teach your kid to make over their personality for the first day of high school? You'd say it was nuts ... and yet, this is the same thing.
If you want your kids to make friends when they're teenagers, take a page out of the book you were using the day you sent them off for kindergarten: "Be kind, say hi, introduce yourself ... and above all, be you."
What message do you think this sends teenagers? Would you ever hire a tutor to help your kid be more likable?
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Exclusive Interview With Sooty, Sweep and Richard CadellSeptember 16, 2013 | John Dredge
Sooty and Sweep are undoubtedly one of the great comedy double acts, and they have a brand new series out this month. I spoke to their current handler, Richard Cadell, about the longest running kids TV show in history. Read More
New Podcast – NewsLeak: In Your ShoesSeptember 2, 2013 | Howard Gorman
Comedy Chords is back and proud to come back with it's own original podcast, Newsleak: In Your Shoes. This new show will follow the trials and tribulations of our very own roving reporter Dave Storrey as he tackles some of the UK's worst loved jobs.
In an original production written by Park Bench with additional material provided by Stu Ferrol and Rigid Bones the first show finds Dave head over to the local hospital to gets a hands on taste of exactly what it takes to be a porter. Read More
David Brent to Release a Greatest Hits Album?July 29, 2013 | Howard Gorman
Further to the highly popular Learn Guitar with David Brent series it appears everyone's favourite guitar mentor could be pumping on your stereo very soon in teh form of an album. Read More
Comedy Cues #7: Keith Farnan – Fear ItselfJuly 26, 2013 | Howard Gorman
Irish born and bred Keith Farnan is making a welcome return to the Fringe this year after a well deserved year off. He's decided to deal with Fear Itself this time round, which is a theme that most likely rears it's ugly head for most people involved in Edinburgh… Read More
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 Featurette: Meet the FoodimalsJune 28, 2013 | Howard Gorman
The highly anticipated animated sequel Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 follows wacky inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) as Swallow Falls finds itself up against mutated fodder rather than not raining hamburgers and ice cream. Read More
Interview with Matt Roper: Wilfredo on Stage / Wilfredo on Film: A CelebrationJune 28, 2013 | Howard Gorman
FOG ISLAND: How to survive it, as told by someone who didn'tJune 28, 2013 | Stuart Ferrol
When I applied to an advert on a popular casting website for an actor to play the role of a "motormouth DJ" in a local film, I thought it would be the usual bit role in a ten minute student dissertation project. I couldn't have been more wrong. Read More
No Naked Chins Please, We're AustralianJune 27, 2013 | Hayley Kilhams
High on facial fuzz enthusiasm, low on razors, Aussie band The Beards took to the bullet stage at The Great Escape Festival last month to stir the crowd with their beard related anthems. Read More
Is This the World's Silliest Podcast?June 27, 2013 | Howard Gorman
Today we present an exclusive five-minutes of audio weirdness from John Dredge, coming to you not live from somewhere.
Where else can you find Frank Sinatra, a Dalek, and the new K-Tel Answerometer? Paignton, maybe, but also in this brand new easy-to-fold podcast! Listen today, listening fans!
Comedy Cues #6: Tim FitzHigham – CHALLENGERJune 27, 2013 | Howard Gorman
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Challenger finds Tim FitzHigham, the multi award-winning, Perrier-nominated comedian, author, explorer and extreme unusualist back at the Edinburgh Fringe as he relates his most mystifying challenge yet. Read More


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Selected from among almost 300 entrants, the two awardees in Silver Eye Center for Photography's Fellowship 12 competition could hardly be more different while falling within the realm of art photography. Still, as selected by Julie Saul, long-time director of the eponymous photography gallery in New York, both their series rely on the convincing descriptive power of photography.
Akihiko Miyoshi, of Portland, Ore., won the International Fellowship with work that teeters between abstraction and realism. In photography, experimentalism can be traced at least as far as the 1920s' Bauhaus, and Miyoshi evinces an understanding of photography's history as well as its formal properties.
Miyoshi's experimentalism is tightly scripted as to props: studio-bound view camera on tripod, patches of color created by filters and swatches of tape, and the artist's visage masked by the black cloth a view camera necessitates for focusing. Likewise in terms of approach, with symmetrical compositions and a limited space, with the foreground or middle ground thoroughly out of focus. Such work was once considered self-reflexive or structuralist, a deadly serious interrogation of photographic grammar. But currently it falls more within the pervasive postmodern pursuit of the playful. And it veers toward the wry in work like Miyoshi's "Abstract Photograph (112811g)," in which the photographer's out-of-focus silhouette is in dialogue with the plane of blurry color.
The Keystone Award for a Pennsylvania photographer went to Isa Leshko, of Philadelphia. In the aftermath of caring for her mother with Alzheimer's, Leshko traveled to animal sanctuaries to make portraits of elderly animals. Household pets and farm animals are depicted in portraits of a high order. Each subject is carefully positioned within the frame, integrated with the visual possibilities on hand — light and shadow, hay, weathered wood — and with a variety of angles and "poses" that convey the uniqueness of the animals.
"Ash, Domestic White Turkey, Age 8" receives the full treatment in a series of four photographs; in version two, Ash is poised at rest with head centered against a black space, dramatically contrasting light and dark. "Red, Chow Mix, Age 14+" has a poignancy way beyond the owner-driven conventions of pet photography. Exquisite and moving, the photographs are a reminder of the animals' vulnerability, our culpability for their treatment and, not incidentally, our own mortality.


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Okay...my wife and I have saved all of our lives and are now at the point (age 60) where we want to start making use of our retirement savings.We have about 900K in an IRA, about 175K in a Roth IRA, about 225K in cash value in Universal Life Ins policies, and about 50K in a taxable MM account. In addition to a defined benefit retirement plan that provides us about 50K/yrWe've been really good at saving, but we aren't too sure how to start spending.If I wanted to generate an additional 50K/yr out of our retirement savings, which accounts should I tap first and in what order? Any thoughts from my fellow fools?
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So says David Bowie in this short yet insightful video interview with Charlie Rose.
Whether I get to talk with or interview great talents I am always delighted to hear how normal they think. Perhaps there are a few exceptions but most are clear in their communication and some like Bowie are actually fairly humorous in their takes.
Our need to communicate has always been there since cave drawings first appeared.I believe these first stabs at communicating something beyond speech probably occurred as the expression of ideas surpassed talking. Visual representation or sounds offered a different way to get across ideas. It does take some mind-power to create unique and entertaining communication. Bowie was master at this who created his own stage and played all the parts his imagination allowed him to express. We who admired him are the beneficiaries of his talent.
So when he says we don't really needs all this extra stuff we just need to create a home, family life and put food on the table he is right but what would our lives be like without the genius of a Bowie, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein?
So I'm not connect to eat just nuts. I want more, much much more.


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Casey Reconsidered
Father's Interests in Mother's Decision to Abort or Deliver Their Fetus
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833 (1992), confirmed a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy without governmental interference. Casey, however, also wrongly terminated the constitutional interests of anticipatory fathers in their unborn children. This paper, Casey Reconsidered, proposes reasonable changes to federal abortion law to restore paternal constitutional interests in their fetuses. It also proposes changes that ask mothers to consider the impact of their decision to abort or deliver a fetus on the father of that fetus. Click here to read this extended academic paper on abortion law by Brad Lancaster.


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Over the course of his twenty-year career, Nolan McKelvey has covered nearly every corner of the country and traversed all roads of Americana. From the pavement of alt-country, to the dusty trails of bluegrass, to the gravel roads of classic-country, to the interstate highway of straight up rock-n-roll, Nolan has traveled over a ton of ground and received critical acclaim along the way from Magazines like No Depression, Country Standard Time, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, and Performer Magazine among many others.
Nolan has opened for luminaries of Americana like Greg Brown, Peter Rowan, Odetta, Fred Eaglesmith, Los Lobos, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien, Jerry Douglas, and Leon Russell. He has also opened for contemporary artists like Sugarland, Leftover Salmon, Railroad Earth, Derek Trucks, Cowboy Junkies, Gregory Alan Isakov, Pat Green, Richard Buckner, Jack Johnson, Infamous Stringdusters, Freight Hoppers, Sonia Dada, Tim Reynolds, Dave Simonett, Jeffrey Foucault, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Son Volt, Josh Ritter, David Grisman and the list goes on and on...
Nolan performed in several bands in Boston, including The Benders, The Resophonics, with Kris Delmhorst, Ry Cavanaugh, The Vinyl Avenue String Band, Jabe, Bow Thayer, and his own 33. He was dubbed "Central to the (Boston) roots-rock revival" by WBUR radio. His bands won two Boston Music Awards (BMA) and were nominated for BMA's 7 times in his 5 years in the city. Since returning to Arizona, Nolan was named "Best Musician" by the readers of the Arizona Daily Sun and has been dubbed "One of the best songwriters in the southwest," and "Flagstaff's Poet Laureate." (FlagLive)
Nolan's studio credits include recording with grammy-winner Levon Helm (The Band), Dana Colley and Billy Conway (Morphine), Paul Q. Koldrie (Pixies, PJ Harvey, Radiohead and more), Jennifer Kimball (The Story, Wayfaring Strangers) among many others. Nolan's songs have appeared on 19 cds to date, he released five solo cd's, three discs with The Benders, six with Muskellunge, four with former band Onus B. Johnson and a duo disc with Dave Desmelik. Nolan's work as a bass player and harmony singer pushes the release list over 75 recordings.
Nolan has performed at the Newport Folk Festival (RI), Cambridge Folk Festival (MA), Boston Folk Festival (MA), Telluride Bluegrass Festival (CO), Sedona Bluegrass Festival (AZ), Tweed River Music Festival (VT), Roots on the River (VT), Tilted Earth Music Festival (AZ), Musical Instrument Museum Music Festival (AZ) and Pickin' in the Pines Acoustic Music Festival (AZ) among many more. His music has aired on nationally syndicated radio shows like World Café, Nashville Bluegrass Breakdown, and Car Talk.
Nolan currently performs his own songs solo, with Nolan McKelvey Band, and with Muskellunge, and is the bass player in Tramps and Thieves. He performs regularly in the Southwest, and occasionally on the east coast.
Muskellunge consists of: Nolan McKelvey (Vocals/Guitar), Aaron Tyler (Mandolin/Vocals), Tim Hogan (Bass/Vocals), Frank Dedera (Banjo), and Ron James (Drums).
Nolan McKelvey moved back to Arizona from Boston in 2004 after being dubbed "Central to the Somerville (Boston) roots revival" (WBUR Boston) and quickly formed Muskellunge. Over the course of his twenty year career he has performed at the Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Pickin in the Pines Festival, and many more. Nolan's band won a Boston Music Award for "best folk act", and he has performed on nationally syndicated "Nashville Bluegrass Breakdown" and "World Cafe" radio shows. He has opened for bluegrass legends like Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, Bela Fleck, and Sam Bush, as well as broad range of artists including Greg Brown, Jack Johnson, Billy Currington, Sugarland, and Odetta among many more. Nolan has been dubbed "One of the best songwriters of the Southwest" and "Flagstaff's Poet Laureate" (FlagLive!), and was elected "Best Musician," by the Arizona Daily Sun Reader's Poll.
Aaron Tyler is renowned across the southwest for his incredible mandolin virtuosity. Aaron has performed in and around Arizona for over twenty years and won the title "state champion" at the Wickenberg Bluegrass Festival Mandolin competition. Aaron is a also a two-time band competition finalist at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. His playing has been referred to as "adrenolin" for his unmatched speed and dexterity. Nolan and Aaron have been performing together since 1994 in various projects in Arizona.
Tim Hogan has traveled the country in several nationally renowned acts including Acoustic Semi, and the In-Betweens. Tim's "Muskellunge Bass" (Azola electric upright) always garners attention, but it is his creative and melodic bass lines that lay the foundation for the band. He is a phenomenal harmony vocalist and sings the bulk of the harmonies in Muskellunge.
Frank Dedera is a one of the founding members of legendary Arizona band 'Flying South' which included bluegrass legends Tom Rozum and Peter McLauglin. Frank has performed at festivals throughout the southwest and four corners region over his 30+ year career. His clean, creative banjo lines provide the driving force behind the "bluegrass" sound of Muskellunge.
Ron James is an incredibly diverse and talented musician who has been performing for over twenty-five years in every style of music imaginable. Ron has toured extensively on the west coast of the United States, in Thailand, and in Europe with bands including Limbs Akimbo, Onus B. Johnson, and Chuck Hall Band. Ron lives and performs in Flagstaff with several current projects ranging from Jazz, to Rock, to Blues, to Bluegrass, and everything in-between. He is a truly deep and soulful musician whose presence in Muskellunge helps to provide the extra kick that separates them from other contemporary bluegrass bands.
Muskellunge is contemporary, original American music that incorporates the traditions of the past into the topics of today.
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Median Wage Drops While Company Profits Rise
JKT links to Statistics New Zealand and reveals the 1.7 drop in the median weekly income (from all sources). The median income is now only $529 per week, $9 a week over the minimum wage (if looking at a 40 hr week). For a year's income it works out at $27,508, so almost half of all New Zealanders live on less than this. No the wonder the demand for food parcels is dramatically increasing and child poverty involves over 20% of our children.
Bill English and the National Government appear to have no intention of addressing the growing inequities and Bill has even stated that low wages will give us a competitive edge. National's enthusiasm for supporting corporates and the already wealthy as a way to stimulate the economy appears to reflect the failed "trickle down" theory of the past. This approach is fully exposed in the latest Time magazine's headlining article "The five Myths about the US economy". Myth number five is "The private sector will make it better" and it is revealed that American firms generated $1.68 trillion in profit over the last quarter of 2010 alone, with none of that profit being translated into jobs or increased wages.
I thought I would do a quick google to check how our New Zealand companies are doing and this is what I found:
Westpac: Profits up 68% ($210 million)
Infratil: up 26% ($120 million)
Air New Zealand; up 33% for half year ($115 million)
ANZ: up 19% for half year ($605 million)
McDonalds: up 5% for half year ($35 million)
Freightways: up 9% for half year ($15.8 million)
F&P: up 20% ($33.5 million)
Delgats: up 9% ($17.1 million)
Fonterra: up 21% ($293 million from a revenue of $9.4 billion)
Fairfax Media: up 15.8% for half year ($172.3 million)
(an average of 22.8% increase in profits across these randomly chosen companies)
These companies represent a good cross-section of our economy; banking, transport, farming, manufacturing, investment and fast food. The increase in profits range from 5 to 68% yet wage increases have been forcibly kept down under 4% and many on the lowest incomes struggle to get more than 1% through their wage negotiations.
I am ready to admit that I am not an economist but it certainly appears that under this government our successful businesses are laughing all the way to their banks and the banks are laughing all the way back to Australia.


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The bulletin reads:
Prepare the Way of the Lord*
The Hanging of the Greens Sunday is always a festive start to the Advent season. This striking bulletin with its image of a wreath and the lyrics of the hymn captures the joyous anticipation felt at this time of year. You need only open the doors and
enter. Bulletin is 8.5" x 11" unfolded, and 5.5" x 8.5" folded.
*Prepare the Way of the Lord
Words: Isaiah 40:3, 52:10
Music: Jacques Berthier and the Community of Taize, 1984
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Sony's latest APS-C cameras, the SLT-A55 and SLT-A33, look like conventional DSLRs, but feature a fixed pellicle mirror and an eye-level electronic viewfinder in place of the DSLR's eye-level optical viewfinder. The system allows for quick, continuous phase-detection autofocusing in Live View mode, even for video recording, in a way not possible with traditional mirror design.
In a conventional SLR, the mirror sits in the "down" position for viewing, directing the image up to the focusing screen and on to the pentaprism (or pentamirror) eye-level viewfinder. When you press the shutter button to take a shot, the mirror flips up and out of the light path, allowing light to reach the image sensor (or film, with film SLRs). The mirror returns to the viewing position immediately after the exposure has been made.
There are some drawbacks with the traditional approach. First, the viewfinder image blacks out during exposure, since the mirror is no longer in the viewing position. Second, the mirror's movement causes vibrations, which can adversely affect sharpness with high-magnification and long-exposure images. Third, it creates problems with DSLRs that offer live-view operation. The quick, accurate phase-detection AF systems used by DSLRs require the mirror to be in the down position for light to reach the AF sensor. But the mirror must be in the up position for light to reach the image sensor and produce the live-view image. When phase-detection AF is used in Live View mode with conventional DSLRs, the live view is disrupted while the camera focuses.
To eliminate this problem, DSLR manufacturers also include contrast-based AF right off the image sensor during live view. The problem here is that contrast-based AF historically has been much slower than phase-detection AF, making it unusable for action subjects and decisive moments.


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Would you like to join Netmail on Friday, April 28, 2017, at the upcoming Techstravaganza NYC Conference where we'll be presenting Dark Data in Your Records: Danger or Opportunity? The Techstravaganza NYC Conference is an IT Pro TechEd event being held at the NYC Microsoft Technology Center - New York City. This *free event will be held from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, and includes a light breakfast and lunch, and an after-event party at a nearby location.
At the conference, we'll explain how a solid data consolidation process can help you see the opportunity lurking in your dark data. We'll demonstrate how Netmail discovers, sanitizes, consolidates, and migrates data using leading edge tools that ensures compliance and reduces costs on premise or in the Cloud.
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Different rules exist for generic drug manufacturers and brand-name drug manufacturers with regard to their warning labels. The labeling process is governed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules and regulations. FDA-approved drug labels summarize the essential information needed for the safe and effective use of the drug. Importantly, these labels provide health care practitioners with essential scientific information needed to make the best prescribing decisions. These labels allow for the safe and effective use of prescription drug products and reduce the likelihood of medication errors.
Brand Name v. Generic Labeling- What's the difference?
Actions taken by generic drug manufacturers are limited by the current regulatory framework. Both generic-drug manufacturers and brand-name drug manufacturers must obtain FDA approval. However, a generic drug is required to maintain the same labeling as its corresponding brand-name drug (with some limited exceptions). The process through which labels are changed is through the Changes Being Effected (CBE) supplement process. Only brand-name manufacturers may use the CBE process. If the FDA approves a brand-name manufacturer's label change, generic-drug manufacturers must make that same change to the corresponding generic drug's label as soon as possible.
PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
This limitation was highlighted in a recent Supreme Court case PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing. The Supreme Court held that because the FDA generally prohibits generic-drug manufacturers from independently altering their labels, these manufacturers cannot be liable for failing to make such changes. The Court found that it was impossible for generic manufacturers to comply with both their state-law duty to change the drug's label to a different, safer label that adequately warned of the injuries alleged, and their federal law duty to keep the label the same. The Court therefore ruled that federal law (FDA rules) pre-empted state laws that imposed a duty to change a drug's label on generic drug manufacturers.
What Does This Mean for You, the Consumer?
This ruling limited product liability plaintiffs' remedies. The Pliva decision essentially held that certain failure to warn claims against generic drug manufacturers are preempted, while those same claims against brand-name drugs are not. Therefore, many who use generic brand drugs are unable to pursue their claims against the manufacturers and have little recourse.
However, this soon may change. Recently, the FDA proposed a rule to permit generic drug manufacturers to unilaterally update their warnings labels. In doing so, the rule creates greater accountability for generic drug manufacturers over the content of their warning. The new rule would:
- Permit generic-drug manufacturers to use the CBE process independent of brand-name manufacturers;
- Open a FDA website containing the proposed label changes and background information submitted by generic-drug manufacturers;
- Require the generic-drug manufacturers that submit CBE supplements to monitor the information posted on the website and notify the FDA if any of the information is incorrect; and
- Impose a 30 day deadline for generic-drug manufacturers to update their labels to match those of the brand-name equivalent.
Share Your Thoughts: What Do You Think the Rule Should be?
This rule is open for public comment until April 27, 2015. Comments may be submitted here. The FDA will also host a public meeting on March 27, 2015 from 8 am to 5 pm in Silver Spring, Maryland. The public meeting will be held at the FDA White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Building 31 Conference Center, the Great Room (Rm. 1503), Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002.