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A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world's rarest plants following a lengthy facelift.
A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world's rarest plants following a lengthy facelift. "Temperate House" in London's Kew Gardens is large enough to house three jumbo jets, and was home to around 1,000 species of plants from around the world before it was shut in 2013 after falling into a state of disrepair. "There was rust everywhere, all the paint was falling off, and look now, it's all brand spanking new," project manager Andrew Williams told AFP, as a fleet of diggers and teams of workers put the finishing touches to the £41 million (USD 57 million, 46 million euros) renovation project. The wrought iron and glass structure was designed by esteemed Victorian architect Decimus Burton in 1860 and opened in 1863.
The facelift required the removal of 69,000 individual elements to be cleaned, repaired or replaced and the restoration of 15,000 panes of glass. Enough paint to cover four football pitches was used to spruce up the huge iron columns, and Kew expects hundreds of thousands of visitors to pass through its doors annually after its May reopening. "A building like this deserves it," said Williams. "I don't think you'd build a building like this now," he added.
"I had a love-hate relationship. You end up loving it at the beginning (of the project), then hating it in the middle and loving it at the end. It's hard work. "Everybody who has worked in here is really proud and now you see the plants going in, it's a fantastic space." With weeks to go before the grand reopening, horticulturalists are hard at work rehousing the plants, many of which were transferred to on-site nurseries during the renovation work.
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Today's combo meal is from scandinavia , stroganhoff is now so popular that its origin may not be known to many. It is believed to be originated somewhere in russia but now popular all over the world.
It is the classic case of simple ingredients turning into something beautiful and rich.
1 cup chopped mushrooms (Button)
1 onion finely chopped
2 garlic cloves crushed
1 tspn all spice (optional)
1 tspn paprika crushed
1 tspn lemon juice (optional)
salt to taste
1 tbsp Olive oil
2 tbsp sour cream (cream and buttermilk mixed and set to ferment for few hours)
1) Saute onion and garlic in olive oil in a non stick pan for few minutes
2) Next add the mushrooms and cook it until it is soft and tender and most of the water is evaporated
3) Add the paprika, all spice and salt
4) Next add the sour cream and quickly and gently mix it
5) Remove from heat and add the lemon juice
Serve with rice or noodles...Buttered rice goes very well.
You may also add cooked chicken, paneer or tofu to this.
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Manhattan's Half Gallery is turning kid stuff into art, tapping master balloon twister Buster Balloon for an unlikely solo show this September. "I think it was Michelangelo who said he never told the stone what to do—it told him," says Buster, who can often be found performing for children in California's Orange County, where he's based. "It's sort of the same thing with balloons: I pay attention to what the balloon wants." His intricate creations have included mermaids, playing cards and all manner of fauna, and he recently collaborated with Jeff Koons (whose famed balloon sculptures are made from the more durable stainless steel) on a "top secret" project. On the show's opening night, Buster will fashion "balloonicatures"—caricatures sculpted from balloons—of gallery patrons for $100 a pop. Art-world heavyweights who have already signed up as models include gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Purple magazine founder Olivier Zahm.
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Our Hallmark Card Keepers allow you to preserve the heartfelt cards you have received from your family & friends.
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Anton Lander waived, Dillon Simpson returned to AHL as Oilers prepare to welcome back some injured players
Is it three strikes and you're out for Anton Lander? For the third time in three years the Edmonton Oilers have placed the Swedish centre on waivers. Twice he survived that process and found a new lease on life with the Oil, but ultimately he hasn't made himself indispensible enough to survive an impending influx of bodies returning from the injury list.
The second-round pick from way back in 2009 passed through waivers at the start of the 2014-15 season, then returned in the second half to post solid offensive numbers under interim coach Todd Nelson. But he was unable to sustain that in 2015-16, posting miserable numbers of 61 GP, 1-2-3, -9. He was waived at the end of training camp this season, cleared again, but stayed in Edmonton and quickly found his way back into the line-up for the injury-depleted squad, which was missing a variety of bottom-six forwards like Matt Hendricks, Iiro Pakarinen, and promising rookie Drake Caggiula. The natural centre found himself on left wing, playing the d-zone mule role alongside Mark Letestu. He performed well in the faceoff circle, leading the team with a 57.1% success rate in 126 draws at this point in time. He ranked second among forwards in shorthanded ice time, and matched last year's boxcars in just 16 games with an interesting line of 1-2-3, +4. But in recent games he found his ice time waning, especially at even strength, and his skill set is decidedly of less value to a squad that has been constantly trailing in games than it was to the team that was protecting leads earlier in the season.
In his most recent run Lander played his 200th NHL game, making him the most successful Oilers second-round pick since Jeff Petry in 2006. Think about that as you ponder the reasons this club has been skating in quicksand for lo these many years.
Lander's departure surely clears space for Matt Hendricks, a veteran grinder who checks many of the same boxes — can play left wing or centre, good on faceoffs, experienced on the penalty kill, accustomed to being buried deep in his own territory. Hendricks, 35, is ten years older than Lander, a little more injury-prone but with more of a reputation as a lunch-bucket player.
Hendricks was hurt in preseason, one of many depth players (Pakarinen, Caggiula, Brandon Davidson, Mark Fayne) to get banged up in the first part of October. All suffered serious enough injuries that Hendricks will be the first of that group to return, in the second half of November.
Meanwhile, on the back end Kris Russell, hurt two weeks ago, is back skating with the club and may soon be ready to go. One indication is that the club today returned Dillon Simpson to Bakersfield after a stint on the big-league roster which, unfortunately foir him, didn't include any game time whatsoever. Russell has been missed by a team that has been leaking oil in the defensive zone. When he is ready to draw in it's an open question as to whether he will replace the man who replaced him, rookie Matt Benning, or veteran Eric Gryba. Benning has impressed in a sheltered role on the third pairing, while Gryba has struggled somewhat since seeing his own role elevated in Russell's absence. The robust veteran had a very strong start to the season in the #6 role and may well return there, or perhaps split time with the more mobile Benning based on coach's decision.
No word yet on the immediate status of Drake Caggiula, who has never been on the roster, injured list or otherwise, since suffering a hip flexor injury late in what had been a very impressive preseason. Best guess is he may go down to Bakersifeld for some conditioning, but with the big club struggling mightily for offensive production, that stay might be a short one.
At 9-8-1 the Oilers remain firmly in the mix in the weak Western Conference, but have been taking on water at an alarming rate in November. Any influx of healthy reinforcements is a welcome development after the group that started the season so promisingly has gone stale.
UPDATE Saturday 10:00: Anton Lander cleared waivers and will report to Bakersfield.
Recently at the Cult of Hockey:
McCURDY: Oilers game grades — Putting the "Loss" in "Los Angeles"
McCURDY: Time for Milan Lucic to pick up the pace
STAPLES: Draisaitl still creating scoring chances if not goals without Hall
STAPLES: 8 reasons to keen your chin up, Oilers faithful
LEAVINS: Oilers game grades for the debacle against the Ducks
STAPLES: Oilers, Hall, Yakupov all trying to find the net


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Best Party Destinations for 2012
As we enter the warm and fun part of 2012, its time to bring out the party hats because the world's ready to take things to the next level. Dance, culture, music and more is waiting for you as the summer season throws up a new range of exciting options for all.
Outshine the sizzling sun as the world gears up for a whole new list of parties in destinations that have rocked us since the beginning of time. From deserts to beaches and from nightclubs to mountains, the world becomes your oyster as this wonderful season comes in with the coolest parties to beat that summer heat.
Capital of Cool
When it comes to partying, the world's biggest street-party is the place to be. Berlin is host to one of the most awaited summer party events of the year and when the Love Parade hits town, you know that everyone's going to be there. July 15th is, forever, marked as the day that Berlin hosts the world and if you think that this wonderful city's nightlife and underground clubs are amazing, you haven't seen the Love Parade yet.
The Man
As summer comes to a close in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, its time to take things to the next level! A 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, known quite eloquently as "The Man", is set ablaze in the still of the desert night, with people partying all around this magnificent burning monument of, well, nothing in particular.
Nobody really knows how and why it started but all they can tell is that if you are in search for a party like no other, then on the weekend leading up to Labor Day, and the Labor Day weekend as well, you need to be in the Black Rock Desert.
Cultural Breeze
The "Windy City" may not really be an apt name for the city of Chicago but then, if you are in the city to discuss the weather then you're there for all the wrong reasons. Summer is a time when the entire city gets together to create a massive party. Whether you are looking to visit specially organized events or simply look for some night-time party action, you are in the right place.
The Taste of Chicago, the Theater on the Lake, the Ravinia Festival and the Magnificent Mile Arts Festival, all are fantastic events that combine different art forms to give you an opportunity to party in a different way. If, however, you are looking to hit the dance floor, there are over 10,000 establishments that can give you a taste of good booze, great food and heavenly music!
Cote d'Azur is one of the most happening and stunning locations to spend your summer partying. Running all the way along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the cities of Monte Carlo, Nice, Cannes and St. Tropez get together to bring you a combination of breathtaking beaches, flamboyant casinos, brilliant restaurants and sizzling nightclubs! If you are looking for something that can give you an all-round fantastic experience, then a visit to Cote d'Azur will leave you breathless, but asking for more.
Island Paradise
When you think of party destinations for the summer, Croatia is hardly the place that comes to mind. However, a short trip from Dubrovnik brings you to the island of Hvar, a little spot of land that can give Ibiza a run for its money. When you combine the world's best beaches with some of the most incredible bars and a glamorous crowd, you get one of the most spectacular ways to spend the summer months.
Speaking of Ibiza
How can we leave this fantastic location out of a list for the best summer party destinations in the world? A-list DJs and world class clubs form the heart of this fantastic Island termed as the "Entertainment Island of the World". The crowd on this beautiful island is unbelievable while the beauty of this place is a combination of natural splendor and man-made debauchery. How can you miss out on that?
About the Author – Ruben Gonzalves
A meeting with Ruben leaves you wondering how crazy can a man be about the "good time". Absolutely intent on seeing as much of the world as he can, this financial consultant works like a donkey, for 10 months in a year, and takes off in the summer to see some of the best party spots on the planet. From living in New York hotel penthouses to taking cheap flights to Australia's wildest countryside, Ruben has been there and done it all.


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Vendor Exhibition
December 3rd - 5th, 2014
Lise-Meitner Campus, Berlin-Wannsee and Wilhelm-Conrad-Roentgen Campus, Berlin-Adlershof
On Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th, the User Meeting will be accompanied by a vendor exhibition.The exhibition will be arranged in the Newton- and Einstein-Kabinett of the WISTA-conference center. It opens on Thursday from 9:00 to 18:00 and on Friday from 8:30 to 11:30.
Traditionally the vendor exhibition is a very successful part of the User Meeting. We can give up to 49 companies the opportunity to present their most recent products related to the fields of Synchrotron Radiation Spectroscopies and Neutron Scattering.
As in the previous years, there are no fees for participating in the vendor exhibition. Nevertheless, we kindly ask the participating companies to sponsor our "Berliner Buffet", the social highlight of the User Meeting, with a reasonable donation.
Deadline for vendor registration was September 15, 2014, it is fully booked already.


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Join us for an unforgettable one-day taxi tour from Port St Johns to Coffee Bay overland in our 4×4. The taxi ride up to Mthatha and then down to Coffee Bay can be a real drag, and you miss out on the best bits. That's why we offer an amazing off-the-beaten-track adventure trip that get's you out into the vast untouched wilderness of the Wild Coast.
The trip price starts from only R350 pp. This is for a minimum of 6 passengers, and if there are less of you, the price goes up a bit. There are optional extras along the way such as a visit to Sangoma Village, a delicious traditional Xhosa lunch, and a Kayaking Trip in Mgazana – the largest Mangrove in the southern hemisphere.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Translations in Progress
Translations opens at Sasaki Associates in Watertown, MA on March 29. My husband and I will be installing it on the 26th. The 105 squares are almost finished. I purchased 8" wooden square panels for painting at Artist and Craftsman Supply in Boston. After a coat of polyurethane, they are covered with a red Lokta paper from Nepal that I purchased at Rugg Road in Boston. It's a relaxing but time-consuming project in which I have been ably assisted by Kate Getz, a Newburyport High School Junior.
Part II of the exhibition will be Translations III: Spring Awakening, an installation on the river birch trees in the courtyard. Banners of handmade paper from Bhutan with ink drawings of natural materials will be hung on all the trees. To the Druids, the birch is a symbol of new beginnings and awakening. After the weather-related trials of the first Translations installation at Maudslay, I have taken to making the banners two layers thick with the cord inside flexible plastic tubing which is inserted into channels that have been sewn in the paper. I was overwhelmed at the thought of sewing 41 banners that were 4" wide and 84" long. My friend Chris Bobek saved the day when she brought her sewing machine to my studio and the two of us spent a day stitching away. This week I will be going to Watertown to gather natural materials for the drawings.
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I'm writing about boundary monuments again and this time I'm focusing on #253 and #254.
They are both made of iron, the material used for the largest number of boundary markers. They both stand in front of military landing mat. Off to one side of both markers is a door, which is bolted and locked on the American side only. I recently found out that when this military landing mat was erected in 1994, the doors didn't exist. However, the International Boundary and Water Commission told the Customs and Border Patrol that they needed to install the doors, just in case the IBWC needed to have access to the boundary monuments.
Boundary Marker #253
#253 stands along a two lane highway. It is unassuming and you might need to drive along this road several times before spotting it. If you do find it, then you'll need to put your hazard lights on before stopping to take a picture because no side shoulder exists for you to park.
Boundary Marker #254
#254, on the other hands, stands along a dirt road that leads into a steep canyon. The canyon is across the street from a residential neighborhood (colonia).
When we stop at #254, a man jumps up the military landing mat and sits at the top for a long time. Two men across the street kept calling to him, but he laughs and looks out at the U.S. It's likely that he's had a little too much sauce today. As he sits atop the landing mat, we see how easy it is to tumble up the wall in broad daylight.
Photographing The Border
I visited here with my photographer friend, Maria Teresa Fernandez, who has been documenting the boundary wall since 1999. Originally from Mexico, she lives in the South Bay and her interest in the wall began when she took a photography class.
She studied art history in Mexico and also in Rome for two years. She then taught art history in Mexico for a time. About 1999, she began a project of photographing the poorer colonias in Tijuana because she was fascinated by how creative these neighborhoods were.
Her father, an architect, and he always told her: "You will find beauty in everything if you look for it."
Maria Teresa said of the colonias she photographed, "They used all sorts of materials, blending them together without any fear. People were creative with nothing, they built with nothing: with the trash of garage doors or the trash from the maquilas. They were looking for a place to live for their families and they built houses in terrain that they were not afraid of."
From #254 we drove down into a neighborhood where houses used the boundary wall in creative ways, such as for drying laundry.
Maria Theresa said, "Everytime I came to these neighborhoods, look what I found — a surveillance camera. There was always something that was stopping the colonia from growing. Something not allowing them to go farther."
One project became very engaged with the other one. Maria Teresa started to follow the fence. She noticed the military landing mat on the Mexican side was like a canvas with political announcements, graffiti, artists and objects that migrants would leave behind.
The Wall and The Poor
Maria Teresa then showed me how intertwined the Mexican poor are with the wall. A family–father, mother and three children–lived in a home made of recycled materials. One wall of the family's home happened to be the military landing mat of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The owner explained that migrants often squat or hide in their home, waiting for an opportunity to jump over the fence. It's probably because the house is the last one at the end of the street.
We looked over the boundary wall from here and saw the second wall about three hundred feet away. Many squares had been re-plastered by border patrol because migrants come with tools and cut holes into the second wall so they can cross. The Border Patrol then patches up the holes.
The owner recalled that before the second fence was erected in 2008, the people in this neighborhood used to cross over to the U.S. to buy watermelons from a vendor.
The owner has lived there since the age of eight. As Alex explained on his Turista Libre tour, if you live on a piece of land for more than five years, that land belongs to you by Mexican law. However, this family was recently approached and told that their home may be destroyed.
Indeed, if HR 399 passes, one of the bill's stipulations is to construct "Thirty-one miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol's San Diego sector." Most likely, this means that the houses along the border (and there are many) will be destroyed. The people, already living in this poor colonia, will be forced to move, likely becoming homeless.


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(Physiology 612, 9.30-11)
This meeting is suspended over the summer. Watch this space for updates.
(Mt Washington Conference Center)
July 15th, Register by July 5th @ CardioPEG Registration
Schedule: Final Rev PEG 2016 Retreat Sched[1].pdf
January 2017: Fundamentals of Glycobiology
July 2017: Techniques in Glycobiology
Synopsis: Analysis of glycoconjugate structure and understanding the function of
these complex molecules can often be facilitated by chemical approaches and
compounds that are not commercially available. To help meet this need, the Chemistry
Core, which is headed Kevin Yarema who is a leader in chemical glycobiology, is
well equipped for the routine synthesis of many bioorganic small molecules
required to manipulate glycosylation. The core specializes in monosaccharide
analogues used in "metabolic glycoengeering" technology; it is pursuing
inhibitors of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (specifically UAP1/2) and
glycosyltransferases; and it is developing methods to improve the
pharmacological properties of sugar based drugs to facilitate their in vivo use
and clinical translation. The core also provides expertise is other aspects as
chemical synthesis, including the production of PEG-SA-based polymers for in
vivo delivery of D-PDMP used in Project 5 (see accompanying reference list). The
Chemistry Core provides support to other CardioPEG projects and participated in
its training mission to provide "hands-on" experience as well as theoretical
knowledge in cutting-edge chemical glycobiology.
Resources Now Available: The chemistry core primarily
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collaborative basis that are not commercially available. Such compounds that
are currently available include 1,3,4-O-Bu3ManNAc, 3,4,6-O-Bu3ManNAc,
Bu4ManNAc, 1,3,4-O-Bu3ManNAz, 3,4,6-O-Bu3ManNAz,
and Bu4ManNAz, which are tools that benefit metabolic labeling
experiments underway in Projects 1 through 4.
In addition, a newly-developed resource is Ac4Glc2Bz, a novel
inhibitor of UAP1/2 that reduces flux through the hexosamine biosynthetic
pathway, lowers levels of UDP-GlcNAc, and reduces O-GlcNAcylation by depriving
OGT of this critical co-substrate; this new tool is relevant to the research
ongoing in Projects 1 and 2. Additional compounds can be custom synthesized upon
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"High-flux" butanoylated hexosamine
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Wang, Z., Du, J., Che, P.-L., Meledeo,
M.A. & Yarema, K.J. Hexosamine analogs: from metabolic glycoengineering to
drug discovery. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 13, 565-572
Almaraz, R.T., Aich, U., Khanna, H.S.,
Tan, E., Bhattacharya, R., Shah, S. & Yarema, K.J. Metabolic oligosaccharide
engineering with N-acyl functionalized ManNAc analogues: cytotoxicity,
metabolic flux, and glycan-display considerations. Biotechnology and
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The Online Job Hunt
Job postings on the internet were scarce and it is strange to see http://buenosaires.craigslist.com postings, usually an informal way for people to connect cheaply, adapted to fit the US tourist/expat market abroad.
For example, under the FOR SALE catagory:
Are you a female that wants to become an american citizen. If you are this is your chance. Is it worth 5000 to become an american citizen. If it is Email me
The housing market is little different, the standard advertisements for apartments are at a weekly rate and about five times what is paid by Argentineans.
The jobs were almost all for e-commuting webdesign jobs. Argentineans are well educated, have access to technology and will work for cheap. Freelance outsourcing is the rule here. One job stuck out a bit more than the others. It was for a project manager with web design experience. I responded and it turned out to be a freelance curriculum development company based in Buenos Aires. Why are they in Argentina? I quote their website: "And the significant cost savings made possible by our Buenos Aires production facilities makes our solutions affordable."
I got an interview and I waver over how much to ask for. I have calculated my expenses at $800 a month. This gives me leeway. If I were living as a porteño I would only be spending about $400 but it would be difficult to find housing that cheaply without a guarantia and also I want to get out and do more things than the average person who grew up here would want to do.
The interview goes great. The owner, Mark, was very helpful and offered to assist in the apartment hunt whether or not I got the job. Getting an apartment in the city is a little difficult since Buenos Aires has a fairly archaic system of rental laws. For this, the landlords demand a "guarantia", which is essentially a guarantee from a friend of the renters who owns land, guaranteeing that rent will be paid or their property will be forfeit. This is partly due to archaic rent laws which state that once in an apartment it is near impossible to remove a bad tenant who refuses to pay. It is also partly due to a feudal class system of excluding those who lack land (or a friend who does) from living in the city. There are apparently ways for foreigners to get around this, all of which involve paying a bit more.
He said he was not getting many applicants. He had advertised on craigslist and got replies from people in the USA asking to be flown out. He thought not.
Half the interview questions were about why I was in Argentina. This I found difficult to answer. To be assured I wasn't going to say I just wanted a job cause it suited me. So I said that I had traveled here specifically for that, which was more or less true. Why Buenos Aires? I like it here. Bad answer. I should have said: "cause I've always wanted to let my dog shit on the sidewalk."
The best I could come up with was "when I return to the states and live in San Francisco I don't know what I'll say at the interview there." Then I countered by asking why it was an important question and he told me he didn't want travelers. And I assured him by telling him that I was not a traveler and I was here to work. It was a lie but it was nice to get all that out in the open. I doubt he was totally convinced but I didn't care. I fit the job profile better than anyone else he's looking for: I'm young, eager, cheap, smart, and have experience in everything the job asks for. If I didn't get it, he'd have made a hiring mistake.
The next day I checked my email even though they told me they'd be calling back only next week. I somehow hoped the next interviewee would not show and they'd just give me the job by default. That seems to be how I get most of my jobs. But I'm good on an interview and I enjoy talking to people.
Over the next few days I became worried about staying too long in Buenos Aires and things not working out. People would ask me what I was doing and what my plans were. Every time that I answered that I was going to live here I would build up my failure if things did not work out. I almost decided to leave the city so I wouldn't have to worry about hearing back from the job.
In the meantime the freelance jobs I had applied for were not responding. The only one I heard from was a person wanting a web design project done in Flash. I have no experience in Flash but I want to learn. I realized that I didn't even have my laptop. There was no way at all that I could learn how to use this complicated software using internet kiosks.


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BRIDGEWATER, Va. - A late second half surge doomed the Apprentice School men's basketball team as they fell 84-75 to Eastern Mennonite on Saturday evening as part of the Don Glick Tournament hosted by Bridgewater College.
In the first half, the Builders held an eight-point lead before the Royals cut the deficit to one at the break. The Builders shot 54% from the floor and were led by Marion Moore and Sam Morris, who had eight points each. They held the Royals to 37% shooting from the floor. The Royals found their offensive groove in the second half and saw their largest lead reach 13. The Builders cut the lead to three with a little bit over two minutes remaining before the Royals went on an 11-5 run to close out the game.
- Marion Moore led the Builders with 20 points. He was 10-for-15 from the field.
- Drew Walton added 17 points and 10 rebounds.
- Sam Morris connected on four three-pointers as part of his 14 points.
- Corey Joyner added eight assists along with his seven points.
- The Builders were edged in the paint with the Royals holding a 40-32 advantage.
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Design is a critical to the successful development of any interactive learning environment (ILE). Moreover, in technology enhanced learning (TEL), the design process requires input from many diverse areas of expertise. As such, anyone undertaking tool development is required to directly address the design challenge from multiple perspectives. We provide a motivation and rationale for design approaches for learning technologies that draws upon Simon's seminal proposition of Design Science (Simon, 1969). We then review the application of Design Experiments (Brown, 1992) and Design Patterns (Alexander et al., 1977) and argue that a patterns approach has the potential to address many of the critical challenges faced by learning technologists.
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Dear Parents ,
A few weeks ago at a Parent Club meeting I referred to myself as "just some idiot from Holy Name." This remark was not meant to disparage the education I got at my alma mater or to convey some false sense of modesty about my own skills. If anything it was meant as an expression of joy about the current state of my life. I was given the opportunity to get a good Catholic education at Holy Name, Sacred Heart and USF and for that I thank my Dad. There were siblings, friends and teachers who believed in me and encouraged me. I thank them too.
Yet, I am sometimes amazed at how blessed I am. I have a loving wife, two kids who are both serving the community (yes, teaching is very different from the USMC, but both are serving). My beautiful daughter-in-law gave birth to my first grandchild three weeks ago and I work at a great school.
God's gifts are many and constant. Please take the time during your busy week to pause and reflect on the gifts that God has sent to you: your spouse, children, friends, a great job (if applicable), those friends who you've known since high school, and the great gift of God's love.
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We wanted to use a UITabBar in our iPhone app, but with one exception: we have a "sync" button which I wanted to rotate while the sync operation is happening.
Unfortunately this meant having to create a custom tab bar, but that's neither here nor there: the animation I implemented using Core Animation looks awesome. The problem is that while animating, it adversely affects the performance of everything else using animation on the screen: UITableView scrolling, MKMapView panning and pin drops, etc. My test device is an iPhone 4.
The problem seems to be how I've implemented the tab bar - I wanted to achieve something very similar to UITabBar, where you just supply a PNG for the icon and it uses the alpha channel to create the normal and highlighted states by masking a background image. I accomplished this with CALayer's
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maskLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 31, 31);
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maskLayer.contentsScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
maskLayer.rasterizationScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
maskLayer.contents = (id)symbolImage.CGImage;
maskLayer.shouldRasterize = YES;
maskLayer.opaque = YES;
fgLayer = [[CALayer layer] retain];
fgLayer.frame = self.layer.frame;
fgLayer.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithImageNamed:@"tabbar-normal-bg.png"].CGColor;
fgLayer.mask = maskLayer; // Apply the mask
fgLayer.shouldRasterize = YES;
fgLayer.opaque = YES;
[self.layer addSublayer:fgLayer];
(Note: in the screenshot above you can see I've also added a shadow layer, but for simplicity I removed that from the code. I remove the shadow layer from the sync icon when it is animating, so it shouldn't be relevant.)
To animate, I simply rotate the mask layer:
- (void)startAnimating {
CABasicAnimation* animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath: @"transform"];
CATransform3D transform = CATransform3DMakeRotation(RADIANS(179.9), 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
animation.toValue = [NSValue valueWithCATransform3D:transform];
animation.duration = 5;
animation.repeatCount = 10000;
animation.removedOnCompletion = YES;
[fgLayer.mask addAnimation:animation forKey:@"rotate"]; // Add animation to the mask
So this all works great except for performance. You can see I've already tried tips that turned up on Google about rasterizing layers / making them opaque - hasn't helped.
I think I've identified the mask layer as being the culprit. When I take out the mask layer and just rotate the
fgLayer instead of its mask, performance is wonderful, though it's certainly not the affect I'm going for:
Performance is also just as bad as before if I rotate the
fgLayer instead of the mask while the mask is applied.
So if having to recomposite the mask each frame of the animation is the slow down, are there any other techniques I can use to achieve a similar affect that will have better performance? Using a path instead of an image for the mask layer? Or am I going to have to drop down to OpenGL or something to get good performance?
UPDATE: further reinforcing the idea that the mask is the slowdown, my coworker suggested trying to rotate a CALayer with just the image as the contents -- so similar to my example above w/o a mask -- and performance was also good that way. So I can really only do a solid color like that (no gradient), but it may be a good interim solution. I'd still love to achieve rotating a mask with good performance though, so suggestions welcome :)


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Today's Haphazard Daily Prompt asks us to scribble down the first ten words that come to mind, then pick 3 of them and and that's the post title….so now I'm to write about street tea mosaic.
This morning as I was walking down my friend's street thinking about how much I wanted to get back to the house and get busy making some art I was totally focused on the new tile back splash in their kitchen, a mosaic if you will. My friend is into colored tiles and mosaics like I am and I'd like to paint/create some art for her while I'm here for the
So here I am down by the street with a tall glass of sport tea getting started on my creation. What I'm going to do is brew some small bowls of tea in various strengths to get various tea hues, soak torn bits of paper in the various shades of tea, allow them to dry in the sun on this blacktop near the street, and then play around with the resulting warped, wrinkled, tea stained paper remnants like puzzle pieces to create a street tea mosaic…..I can't wait to see how this little experiment turns out…..I really feel like doing it now that I've dreamed it all up as a result of this Daily Post Challenge!!
I've added this gallery of photos which believe it or not included one of those "shot by accident" photos of ….the STREET, and I had taken one of the front of the house which is more like the back of a house except that it faces the street…..but because these are not the most visually pleasing photos you'd ever want to look and and because I know seeing the rear/front view where my car is parked is making you crazed to see what the front/rear of the house looks like…further causing you to wonder what sort of property this exquisite residence might be sitting on…..so here you go….nearly real time photos coming at you from New Tripoli, PA on this fine day in August… Enjoy!!
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You Are Your Own Best Product
You are about to begin an adventure. Like any adventure, it is going to have some highs and lows, some moments of exhilaration and some of depression. You are about to look for your first full-time job.
The first thing you need to realize as you start down this road is that you have to start thinking of yourself as a really great product that you're selling. That is what you are doing. Just like a car company is trying to convince you their cars are the best ones to drive, you are out to convince someone that you are the best person to fill an open job.
What do car companies do when they market their products? They make them look great. They add on extras that make them stand out from the competition. They do market research to see what people want. They craft an ad campaign to influence buyers' decisions.
That is exactly what you need to do to get that job. BMW knows their cars are great, and you know you are great. The trick is getting everyone else to believe it. So, your first assignment in The Great Job Hunting Adventure is to sit down and map out a plan for selling You. Ask yourself, "If I were a product, how would I sell myself?"


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Jessi Hempel reports in Wired:
Windows alone has the capability to establish itself as AI's third giant. It's a company that has the resources, the data, the talent, and—most critically—the vision and culture to not only realize the spoils of the science, but also push the field forward. Microsoft (now has) a direct line to one of AI's top resources for ideas, talent, and direction. And it's a strong sign that Microsoft actually has a shot at making the ruling AI duo into a trio.
MORE FROM THIS AUTHORA dizzying few weeks followed as Pasupalak entertained offers from multiple suitors and weighed that against what he felt the company could become if it stayed independent. In the end, the choice felt obvious. Microsoft—yes, Microsoft—won the prize.The team wanted the chance to work with Microsoft's data. "I think Satya mentioned, specifically, that they have the world's biggest amount of text. For years, we were dealing with little data and trying to make the most out of the little data for our algorithms. That was like gold for us," Pasupalak says.The Maluuba team isn't decamping to Redmond, however. Instead, just this week, it moved across town to a larger office where, with help from Microsoft and Bengio, it aims to double its staff by the end of the year. Montreal is emerging as a global hotspot for AI talent, and Microsoft wants to have roots in the city.It's all part of one strategy to help ensure that in the future, when you need a computing assist–whether through personalized medicine, while commuting in a self-driving car, or when trying to remember the birthdays of all your nieces and nephews–Microsoft will be your assistant of choice. Maluuba's learnings may empower Zo to have more intuitive conversations with her teenage friends. Those conversations will serve as the training data for Cortana's algorithms and help inspire the creation of new cognitive services for developers. And somewhere along the way, Microsoft hopes your AI-infused life will get easier.Before I leave Montreal, I ask Bengio if Microsoft is better positioned than its primary competitors in at least some aspects of this new science. As he thinks on it, he pours a bit of anise into the glass of water on his desk to give it a slight licorice flavor. He sips it. Then he pushes the bottle over for me to take a look. There's no alcohol, he says, no sugar. "It just makes water taste really good," he says.Bengio mentions that Microsoft's language capabilities are quite good. But he shies away from superlatives—and the chest thumping that might have characterized the company in the past. "I think everybody's pushing on the same buttons right now, and that it's all in the details, right?" he says. But he is certain that Microsoft is now a contender.


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Today's show features Heba Malki of the Domilya Group, a Canadian based renovation & construction company. Hear her amazing story on how she secured a seven-figure construction project as the highest bidder.
Heba will also explain how her company has more than tripled their business over the past three years by showing appreciation to each prospect and client with a relationship marketing program.
Kody Bateman: Hey everybody. This is Kody Bateman. Welcome to our weekly Relationship Marketing show. I'm really excited for our show this week. We have a very special guest on with us today.
If you're jumping on, we got people coming in from all over the world here. Just say hi to us, so we can say hi back to you. But we are going to get started right away here. We got an action-packed show here. I'm really excited for this one.
Well, I'm excited for all of them. But I will tell you, this guest today, she's a true professional. Coming from the construction industry, she and her husband own their own construction company. They do commercial and residential construction. Please welcome to the show from Milton, Ontario, Canada, Heba Malki. How are you, Heba?
Heba Malki: I'm good. How are you?
Kody: It's great to have you on the show today. We're so excited. I had the opportunity to have several conversations with you over the last couple of years, not only about the effects that this relationship system has had in your personal life but also in your business life and you are a true professional. It has been fun to listen to you because you're a businesswoman. I mean you get down to brass tacks. You know what your numbers are. You're very professional, very successful, you and your husband. So this is going to be a great show. I'm very, very excited.
Heba: Thank you.
Kody: And like anybody, like anybody that starts out, you didn't always have great success. You had your struggling years too. Can you just tell us a little bit about how you and your husband started this business? By the way, the name of the company is the Domilya Group and there's a reason for that. Why do you call it the Domilya Group?
Heba: It's derived from both my kids' names. Adam's nickname is Doma and Amilya and they came up with the name and went home and Googled it and came out to be in Latin a beautiful space. So –
Kody: So what a great story behind the name itself. I mean that's really cool.
Heba: Thank you.
Kody: So tell us just real briefly the struggling years, when you got started, how – how hard is it to start a business like this?
Heba: Oh my god. Starting a business – and it's funny. It just feels like it was yesterday and you reflect on the things that you did right and the things that you did wrong. But I remember starting with my husband and it was really hard and I was working fulltime when he started his business.
It was a lot of work because after work, you would come deal with the kids and sit down and book his appointments, schedule him, still do all the administrative, behind-the-scenes work when it was just the two of us and one other guy that used to help us in the company. It was a lot of blood, sweat and tears and the jobs were – we weren't making as much money as we would have liked to at the beginning.
Kody: Right.
Heba: To be honest with you. It was very hard. But you have to build the reputation and then you grow from that, right?
Kody: Absolutely. So how long have you been in business now?
Heba: My husband and I have been doing this for just over 14 years.
Kody: OK. So you're 14 years into it, very, very successful now. What I would like to do is focus on the last three years of your business because over the course of the last three years, you have implemented a very powerful relationship marketing strategy.
I want to share these numbers upfront and have you comment on them a little bit before we get into the kind of things that you do because you incorporated a relationship marketing plan. You've been faithful at it over three years and the result is – and when you started, you had a successful business going. But since you started this relationship marketing system over three years, you've increased your business by 320 percent. Is that correct?
Heba: Yes, sir.
Kody: Now that's tripling your business, right? Is that right? Isn't that like tripling, 300 – isn't that tripling your business?
Kody: It's tripling our business. Yeah.
Heba: So that's pretty exciting. I mean I think anybody listening in, how did Heba and her husband triple their construction business over the past three years, utilizing some of these things? The first thing I would like to do Heba, you have a great story about how you bid on a job. You bid on a job and you were the highest bidder, but you won the bid.
Kody: Yeah.
Heba: Can you share with us that story and how – why and how did you win the bid? Highest bidder but you won the bid. How did that work?
Kody: Well, it was a partnership with four doctors and a medical – they were buying an old building and changing it into a therapy medical building and we basically got the appointment to go do the quote, met with the four doctors independently and walked through the ideas, listened to them and I remember that day when my husband came home and he was like, "I want this job." That's all he said to me. I'm like, "OK."
For me, I just do the regular thing. He doesn't necessarily deal with all the marketing and everything on the backend. So as always, beautiful "Nice to meet you!" card went out to all the doctors. We appreciate the opportunity. Within a few days, we sent off the quote and again, we sent another card. Just to say, "Hello. We're here. We just wanted to thank you again for the opportunity."
Kody: OK. So I want to – so before the bid went through, so you went – you met with him and right after, you sent them a card and you sent them a gift too, right? Then you send –
Heba: Yes, I always send brownies.
Kody: OK.
Heba: Because a great way – me and my – the strategy is a way to a man's heart is through the stomach.
Kody: That's right.
Heba: So the way to a job is through their stomach.
Kody: No question about it. So you sent an immediate thank-you card with a box of brownies. Then you sent them the bid. It was a high bid. But right after that, you sent them another card. Tell us about the second card.
Heba: The second card was again – it was an appreciation card of having the opportunity to quote. But it was also like a little nudge to get an answer from them, to see, because we've also followed up in between with emails and I know the cards take about three days, three to five days max. So I like to give a couple of nudges in between emails to say, "Hey, what's going on?" and with that card, I sent out a big wooden box that was filled with delicious goodies again.
Kody: Wow. So what happened?
Heba: They gave us a call. I want to say about three or four days after. They got back. I know they got it because they called and said – they actually texted and said, "Thank you so much. That was a kind gesture and you didn't have to do that."
Four days after that, we basically got a call and said, "Can we have Rachid come into the office? We want to talk to him," and I knew that we got the job. I wasn't expecting that we would be the highest bidders. But we also were told at the time when we went out and seen them again that we were the only contractors that one, responded with a quote right away; two, were able to send out something of – it was – they were blown over the moon with it and they said, "You won the job even though you were the highest bidder. But because you took care of just sending us a quote, we know that you will take care of us and make sure that our job is done right." So it was that care that they saw at the beginning that made us win the job and know that we would take care of them.
Kody: OK. Now I want to make sure that our listeners are hearing this because this is such a powerful message. I get bids all the time. I own a company and I get bids all the time on doing work. The most important thing in hiring anybody is having the confidence that they're going to take care of you, that they're going to do all of the extra things that need to be done to get a job done the right way.
Basically what you're saying is it wasn't – I mean I'm sure it would help that there were good-tasting brownies and all that. But it wasn't that. It was the fact that you took the effort to do those things. You sent a bid quickly. You sent not one but two cards with gifts attached to them, which showed them that you are somebody that number one, cares about their customer; number two is willing to go the extra mile and they – as a buyer, I would do the same thing. I would think to myself, "Wow, if they are focused on this kind of detail, that's the kind of person I want to hire." That's essentially what happened.
Heba: Absolutely. In either Canada or the United States, contractors don't always have the best reputation.
Kody: Right.
Heba: So how does myself as a contractor, a renovator or a builder build that reputation with someone? It's to show them that from the beginning, there's customer care. There is a touch point that – you know, the emails, the phone calls and the text messages that go back and forth, asking questions, answering their questions is great. But when I send them a cool card and it has my branding with all my information right there, we live a busy life. It just impacts them. They're just like, "I haven't gotten a card in years."
Kody: Yeah. It's amazing. You mentioned too that you stay in contact with people. You use email. You use social media and you use tangible touches like greeting cards and gifts. So it's not just the cards that you send but you do multiple ways of staying in touch.
But the difference is, is that other – your competition is probably sending emails and that's all they're doing and people don't realize about 11 percent of emails even get opened, let alone read. So it's interesting that just the power of doing all of those – utilizing all of the ways of reaching out to somebody.
Now Heba, you are the queen of what I would consider – you are the queen of multiple touches. Like we're really big on the tangible touch, a physical greeting card and a gift that shows up in the mail. Somebody can feel it, touch it, smell it, read it. It's obvious it's in all of our shows. You've already mentioned it here. But you're really big on not just one time but multiple touches.
In fact you have a rule. There's a rule that you have. You try to make sure that with your prospects and customers, that you reach out to them tangibly a minimum of how many times?
Heba: Minimum four times a year.
Kody: So that's a rule. So number one, there's a rule. Once you're on my radar, I'm going to make sure I hit you up at least four times a year with a tangible touch, right?
Heba: Yes.
Kody: So give us an example. What would be the – what are the four main tangible touches that you use?
Heba: My first is always a "Nice to meet you."
Kody: OK.
Heba: Whether I've met you through networking or I've gone to your house to do a quote. My minimum is always – the first one is, "Nice to meet you," and then I always like to send out the holiday cards and I love sending out the – maybe the "Thank you for the opportunity!" card or possibly it could be even the birthday cards. I just like – and I follow people on Facebook too. So they become friends and I always love finding out what's going on, whether it's a new grandbaby or a baby or whatever. So cards are in my blood.
Kody: OK. So again, I want to recap on that for people that are first-time users or looking to get involved with our relationship marketing system. Always a "Nice to meet you." I think that's a no-brainer. It seems like it's a no-brainer. But only three percent of businesspeople do it. So go figure. I can't figure it out, but whatever.
So "Nice to meet you!" is obvious. Hey, I've met you somewhere. You're interested in our services maybe. Nice to meet you. Then you get an opportunity to bid on a job. Thank you. Again another touch goes out. Thank you for allowing me to bid on your job.
Heba: Yeah.
Kody: And then after you bid on the job, you send another, "Thanks for the opportunity to bid on your job. Let me know how things work out." Well, something interesting that you do is regardless of whether you win the job or not, you still send another card. So if you win the job, it's like thank you for the job and then you get started with the job. If you don't get the job, what do you do?
Heba: I still say thank you for the opportunity.
Kody: Yeah, go ahead.
Heba: It really has helped. Like it's one of those cards that out of 10 people, 4 of them will come back and say, "Hold on. Can we work out a deal or can you hold this pricing for me for six months? We will book you in at this time."
Kody: OK. Now again, I want to make sure listeners are hearing this because – and you've had – multiple times you did not get the job. You send out that card that said, "Thank you for the opportunity," and then ended up later on doing a job. It might not have been that one but later on, you ended up doing a job with the same person, right?
Heba: Yes.
Kody: I mean you got a ton of those stories.
Heba: Yes.
Kody: But here's what I think is important that everybody hears. That's not the first card they got from you. That's probably about the fourth one because you've already sent them a, "Nice to meet you," "Thanks for the opportunity to bid. I hope you received my bid well. Let me know how it goes."
Heba: Yeah.
Kody: And then, "Thank you for the opportunity. I hope we can bid on a job in the future." So you've hit them already three or four times. Probably a fourth time and that's why they end up calling you and wanting to reconsider.
Now those who are listening, it's the craziest thing to me because people who are listening are like, "Yeah, right. Yeah, it doesn't really work like that." But does it really work like that?
Heba: It really does. I'm going to be honest with you. At the beginning, I was really skeptical and I sat down and I really made a marketing plan and I said, "I'm going to stick to this for one year." Within my third month, I was sold. There was a lot of times that my husband doesn't believe that – I've already sent out three, four cards. We've emailed three, four times. We've talked a couple of times on the phone and then I will just send them that, "You know what? I really appreciate you. Thank you for the opportunity. Maybe next time we will do better."
They always seem to come back. It's not 100 percent. I don't want to say that everyone does come back. But I would say a good at least 40 to 50 percent come back and say, "You know what, Heba, Rachid, I need you to hold off. I would like to lock in this price right now. But I won't start for another –" Like they're pre-booking. I'm booked February of 2019. So there's a lot of people out there that would say that they're not booked this far advance and it's because we treat people right and we ask them, "What can we do better?" or we appreciate them for who they are and where they're at and we really focus on service first.
So if service means touching them 1000 times with cards, gifts, emails, phone calls, then that's what it means to us in Domilya Group.
Kody: Wow, that's incredible. Now let me ask you. You said that 40 to 50 percent of the time, those who you don't get the job with end up coming back and doing something else. So 40 to 50 percent of the time, those you missed with the first time end up doing business with you. Now there's a whole another 50 percent out there.
Heba: Yeah.
Kody: Do you still stay in touch with that other 50 percent?
Heba: Absolutely.
Kody: Interesting.
Heba: They're in my radar. We pay a lot of money for marketing whether it's through SendOut, Google AdWords, SEO, whatever the case may be. I want to make sure – it's almost like saying I bought a contact because they came through a funnel through my website.
So I want to use this contact and keep appreciating them. I have gotten people that they've not used us. They call us back and said, "You know, we went with someone else and we made the biggest mistake. Can you please help us out of our nightmare?" or "We didn't like the guy that we used but here's our neighbor and our neighbor's neighbor and our cousins and our uncles and our aunts that want to do renos."
So it's not just – I look at it as a relationship that I've built with a human being that I want my brand to be as recognized anywhere in the world as possible or anywhere in Ontario as possible that they will come back to us over and over again and bring their friends.
Kody: So it really is not about the second word "marketing". It's about the first word "relationship".
Heba: Yes, sir.
Kody: And you're a master at it, Heba. You're a master at creating relationships over time and the reason I ask that question, the 50 percent question the way I did, I would venture to say that over time, the remaining 50 percent will end up directly or indirectly bringing business to you. That is the power of relationship and you're one of the best there is at it. Just incredible stuff that you do, Heba.
Our time is short now. I just want to – we want to go ahead and end the show. I always like to end the show this way. Any final words of wisdom or any cards that you would like to show us or anything as we close today? Go ahead.
Heba: I will do both. I will make the words really quick and I will show you quick cards and the value and the importance of it.
The word of wisdom would be for any business out there. If you are looking at massive growth, I would say you have to do a massive look at your service and how you treat your customers and be the person that stands out.
There are 10,000 insurance brokers and 10,000 contractors and 10,000 whether mortgage brokers or realtors. Be that person that stands above everybody else and be personable.
One of the series of cards that I have here is for instance every year – so this was my last year's holiday – this way. This was my last year's holiday card. It was a little card – just going to X out the name. So little card with us in it and some – you know, our word and our information, but our branding was what is our real estate because my idea is that no one will take your business card and physically put it on their mantel for their families to do it.
Pick some of the best holidays. The first long weekend of summer to make sure that your card sits on their mantel because people will pick it up and they will be nosy to see who this is and what they do.
So this was our last year and I got to let them know a little bit about my family. So there's a family picture of us. So I'm making it personal for them to know that there's people behind this company and we're real people.
Kody: That's great. Excellent. I will tell you, Heba, we sure appreciate it. I knew this would be a super action-packed, cool show because you're on it and appreciate your stories. Really incredible, very inspirational for all of us out there.
So all of you, I hope you've taken some gold nuggets from today's show. Those of you who are interested in how Heba does those cards and how, just get back with the person that shared this show with you today and I'm sure they will be able to show you how to get things set up. So thanks everybody. Take care. We will see you next week on another great edition. Take care now.
Heba: Thank you.
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Senior Conservatives went to war with the Crown Prosecution Service over its decision to prosecute Nigel Evans for rape and sexual assault after the former Commons deputy speaker became the latest public figure to be cleared of similar allegations in court.
Colleagues called for a review of sex-related prosecutions, warning that men's lives are at risk of being ruined, as Evans spoke of his "11 months of hell" since he was first arrested on suspicion of rape and assaulting six other men over a 10-year period. It comes after the CPS has unsuccessfully brought cases against celebrities including Dave Lee Travis, Michael Le Vell and Bill Roache.
The Tory MP for Ribble Valley was found not guilty of all nine counts on Thursday following a five-week trial at Preston crown court, where he was accused of abusing his power to attack young Commons workers between 2003 and March last year.
There were sobs and shouts of "yes" from the public gallery as the verdicts were read. Speaking from the court steps he thanked his legal team and said: "Nothing will ever be the same again."
David Cameron said it was "hard to imagine the relief Nigel must feel" and hinted that the whip could be restored to him following discussions after the Easter recess.
Regardless of the outcome, the case has shone a spotlight on the hard-drinking culture of Westminster and brought allegations that the Conservative party could have avoided police involvement if it had taken complaints of inappropriate behaviour against Evans more seriously.
During the case, Evans admitted making inappropriate drunken passes but strongly denied any criminal behaviour and said he had consensual sex with one of the complainants. The case has prompted the Conservative chief whip, Sir George Young, to send out a voluntary code of conduct and grievance procedure for staff working in parliamentary offices. Channel 4 News revealed a survey of Westminster workers suggesting unwanted sexual approaches were part of the fabric of political life.
The code of conduct will urge MPs to make sure researchers and administrative staff work in an environment "free from harassment and bullying, and inappropriate language". A grievance procedure will "protect both parties involved, bring with it consistency and fairness, and in doing so upholds the reputation of the party and of parliament".
However many Tory MPs appeared more concerned about the actions of the CPS, with allies of Evans claiming both police and prosecutors had questions to answer. One of the alleged victims in the trial told ITV news following the verdict: "I don't believe he [Evans] should have been charged. I don't think it was a criminal act. It's the sort of thing that happens in every bar. It wasn't a big deal."
The prime minister's spokesman said Cameron has confidence in the work of the CPS when asked about its recent high-profile failed prosecutions.
David Davis, the Conservative MP and a former shadow home secretary, called for an urgent overhaul of the way sexual offences are prosecuted in the light of Evans's acquittal yesterday.
"This case has highlighted serious concerns over how the police and the Crown Prosecution Service bring sexual offence cases to court," he said.
"In particular we must now review the process whereby the police and the Crown Prosecution Service put together a large number of lesser, subsidiary cases in order to reinforce one serious case when prosecuting sexual offences. It is clear from the way that this case proceeded that there is a risk of a serious injustice being done to an innocent man, and I would call on the attorney general to urgently review this issue."
In a scathing analysis of the case, Evans's solicitor, Daniel Berk, also suggested the police and the CPS had pursued the case more vigorously because of the MP's high-profile public role.
"They put far more resources into this than they would if the complainant was a member of the public and the defendant was not somebody in the public eye," he told the BBC Radio 4 PM programme.
"I have dealt with cases involving allegations of rape and sexual assault before. Normally there would be a couple of detective constables investigating it and perhaps a middle-ranking barrister prosecuting.
"In this case there was a large police team. It came out in evidence that the police had gone out of their way to find complaints – two of which dated back 10 years and both of whom said in evidence that they were somewhat surprised to find themselves in court.
"They also instructed senior Treasury counsel - a QC - which, again, would not be typical in a case like this."
Former prisons minister Crispin Blunt also demanded a fresh look at whether defendants in sexual offence cases should be given anonymity up to the point of charge, although sources close to Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, said there were no plans to legislate on this issue.
Blunt told Sky News: "There are no winners in this process, only victims; and that's why I do think the CPS should examine their procedures and the way this prosecution was conducted because the whole process hasn't helped anybody and the verdict has not come as the slightest surprise to me."
Asked if he believed the CPS had been over-zealous, he replied: "Yes, I'm afraid I do. If you look at how the case was constructed against Nigel, a lot of the complainants, well, they weren't complainants, they did not regard themselves as victims and they didn't actually want to be in court. So, this, to a degree, was quite an artificial prosecution."
One MP, David Morris, has now written to John Bercow, the Speaker of the house, asking for the deputy to be reinstated, even though MPs have now voted for the role to be handed to Eleanor Laing.
Another, Mark Pritchard, asked: "What was Lancashire police's motive in pursuing the Nigel Evans case – given there was manifestly insufficient evidence to prosecute?"
Another backbencher, Peter Bone, said there were "serious questions for the police and CPS to answer", while his colleague Alun Cairns tweeted: "surely prosecutors have questions to answer in Nigel Evans case, after Roach & Le Vell".
In response to the criticism, a CPS spokesman said the complainants in this case "provided clear accounts of the alleged offending and it was right that all of the evidence was put before a jury".
"That evidence could only be fully explored during a trial and the jury has decided, after hearing all of the evidence, that the prosecution has not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. We respect this decision," he said.
Lancashire police also said their commitment to investigating allegations of sexual assault remained unchanged "no matter what the role, position and status of the alleged offender".


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Finished restoring an old rusty crud covered Champion #90 post drill for my forge shed. The drill was a mess and the whole thing was seized up. The guy I got it from told me it had been lying in his grandfather's barn ever since he could remember so that's at least 30 years. I believe the drill would have been made in the early 1900's.
I tore the whole thing apart and scraped what dried crud I could and then used an angle grinder with a metal brush to clean up the rest. After a paint job and some lubrication, the drill works surprisingly well. These old post drills have some wobble in them but for what I'm using it for it won't be a problem. I also installed an adjustable chuck as I can't find any bits made for post drills.
Operation is simple, just put in your bit adjust the top wheel by turning it until the drill is in contact with the work and start turning.This type has a knurled knob up by the top wheel that lets you adjust the advance 1 or 2 clicks every revelotion of the handle. When the hole is drilled you flip up the feed paw and unscrew the top wheel to remove the drill bit from the work.
I also took a picture of my anvil and vice bench. Before the shed, I had been doing my blacksmithing outside. That's hard to do in Nebraska because there is almost always a strong wind around 30mph. I will take more pictures of my forge shed once I get everything done. I can't wait!