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Francisco "Frank" Moreno, 77, of Pearland, Texas, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2018. He is preceded in death by his parents Dominga Sandoval and Francisco G. Moreno, daughter Ruth Moreno, sister Ruth Moreno, and granddaughter Ava Helena. Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife of 52 years Caroline Moreno, sons; Frank Damian Moreno, Mario Moreno and wife Stephanie, Adrian Daniel Moreno and wife Cristyn, daughter Carol Rando, grandchildren; David, Phillip, Kaitlyn, Ben, Michael, Drew, Gabriel, Natalie, his beloved pug Nugget and many other family members and friends.
Frank was a proud U.S. Army Veteran, retired from CenterPoint after 35 years, and was a substitute teacher at St. Helen Catholic School. He coached Dad's Club Football and was a Scout Master with the boys in Boy Scouts. They enjoyed many family camping trips. Frank was extremely active in the Knights of Columbus. He was a third and fourth degree knight and played senior softball on their slow pitch team: a dedicated member of St. Helen's since 1978. Frank was a charter member with the American Legion, a two-time post commander, and a member of the American G.I. Forum. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him.
A visitation for Frank will be held at St. Helen Catholic Church, 2209 Old Alvin Road, Pearland, Texas 77581, on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. with a Rosary beginning at 9:30 a.m. The funeral mass will begin at 10:00 a.m. with Father Jim Courville officiating.


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Potatoes are a dinner staple in my house. From steamy, fresh off the grill baked potatoes to potato soup, my family loves them. There are so many varieties to choose from that potatoes can never get boring. There are Jumbo Russets for baked potatoes, Baby Red for potato salad and Yukon Gold for the most flavorful mashed potatoes ever! But the real workhorse potato is just your basic Russet. And that is what I am using to make these crazy delicious Crispy Roasted Potato Wedges. They are super simple to make and are perfect side dish!Print
Crispy Roasted Potato Wedges
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 48 potato wedges 1x
Crispy and delicious, these crispy potato wedges are a perfect side dish for chicken, fish, or beef.
- 4 Medium Russet potatoes
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese (optional)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Preheat oven to 425 Degrees.
- Spray large baking sheet with cooking spray.
- Wash and thoroughly dry potatoes.
- Cut potatoes into wedges, 12 wedges for each potato.
- Place potatoes on baking sheet in single layer, dust wedges with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Pour oil over potatoes and toss to coat, returning to single layer on baking sheet.
- Bake potatoes in 425 degree oven for 20 minutes, Turn wedges oveer and bake for another 25 minutes.
- Potato wedges will be golden brown when done. Salt to taste, and dust with grated parmesan cheese.
- Serve hot with your favorite dipping sauce.
Parmesan cheese gives the wedges an extra punch of flavor. Instead of Parmesan cheese, chives, dill or chili powder are great alternatives to add additional flavor.
- Serving Size: 12 wedges

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The No 10 shirt is evocative around the sporting world, not least in Argentina. To the great unwashed there, it has always meant Diego Maradona, while to a small middle-class elite, Hugo Porta is the name that leaves them misty-eyed and nostalgic.
Hitherto football and rugby have rubbed along happily enough, simply because the former is so massive and all-embracing that the latter has no option but to sweep up meekly any crumbs left at the table. It is a master and servant relationship, friendly enough but well defined.
However, the arrival of the Pumas on the world scene in recent years has been eating steadily into soccer's column inches and air time back in Buenos Aires. For the past month, rugby has been dominating the front and back pages. Something remarkable is happening.
Nobody epitomises this sea change more than Juan-Martin Hernandez, probably the next superstar of world rugby and certainly the first genuine pin-up boy of Pumas rugby. The world is at his feet – almost literally, as I have never seen any rugby player with his extraordinary range of kicks.
Hernandez bridges both the football and rugby cultures and that perhaps partly explains his popularity among the sporting public in Argentina and his extraordinary natural ability. The football hordes instinctively understand what he is trying to do and by following him are beginning to learn about rugby. By popular demand this Sunday, the massive derby clash between Boca Juniors and River Plate has been brought forward two hours to allow football fans to watch live television coverage of the rugby.
His uncle, Patricio Hernandez, was a superbly talented footballer and part of Argentina's 1982 World Cup squad, though as a contemporary of the great Maradona he very rarely got a game. Juan-Martin's sister, Maria de la Paz Hernandez, is Argentina's leading hockey player and guided Las Leonas to a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics and a bronze in Athens.
He clearly shares all those ball-playing genes but also has the physique and mentality of a flanker. Put them together and unsurprisingly the result is a glorious rugby talent.
Pumas coach Marcelo Loffreda calls Hernandez "El Mago" – the magician – and says: "He is capable of doing things with his body that only someone blessed with supreme creative gifts can do. He is, in his own way, our version of Daniel Carter." Max Guazzini, Stade Francais' billionaire president, refers to him as Maradona.
The close-knit rugby world has known about 'Maradona' for two or three years. Leicester and Gloucester have both bust a gut trying to sign him from Stade Francais in recent years but can't compete with Guazzini's largesse.
He was by a distance the outstanding player in the French league last season. "It has been a unique privilege playing on the same team as the greatest rugby talent I have ever seen," his Stade Francais colleague Mike James said recently.
His physique is what strikes you first. A sturdy 6ft 1in, he is poised like a ballet dancer, and his follow-through after hoisting a high ball is like one of the high-stepping can-can girls down at the Moulin Rouge.
Stade Francais produce a saucy nude calendar every Christmas for charity, and predictably Hernandez has emerged as the main attraction for legions of both female and male followers. To his embarrassment, he now matches Toulouse's Freddie Michalak as a gay icon in France.
But this is no poseur. He is strong and sturdy and is never happier than when taking on the opposition back row, either in attack or defence. His tackling is right up there with that of Jonny Wilkinson, who set the benchmark for fly-halves. He loves to run and pass, which is why Stade prefer him at full-back or wing, but even they have admitted that such an all-round talent has to control the game from fly-half.
If there has ever been a more languid sportsman, I have yet to see him. Michael Holding gliding into the wicket comes close and David Gower smelling the roses as he creamed another drive through the covers is not a million miles away, but that is about it. His kicking is a joy to behold and despite a lingering quadricep muscle injury, which has also hindered his usually electric running, he has been going through his full repertoire in France.
He can do all the normal stuff – spiralling torpedoes, skimming grubbers and place-kicking when required – but it is the extras that mark him out. His basic touch-kick is like watching Bobby Charlton of yesteryear, as he takes aim and fires from 30 yards. He drives the ball hard and low for some imaginary corner of the net, lower than any fly-half in history.
Then there is the banana kick, a sort of David Beckham free-kick scenario when he deliberately puts the ball sideways and hits the end pointing into the field to swerve the ball into touch. He hasn't just got one grubber, he has three: the slider; the skimmer, which bounces three times before popping up (Barry John once gave a masterclass on how to achieve that); and there is the one he digs in viciously to sit up straight like a 'throat ball' from Malcolm Marshall.
His up-and-unders are among the highest the game has ever seen and he seems to linger on the point of contact for ever.
"The emergence of Juan-Martin has been a great thing for the Pumas," their captain, Agustin Pichot, says. "It has been a great excitement at the end of my international career to see such a talent come through. He has everything but is also very humble, never neglects the basics and knows the need to train hard and prepare correctly.
"When you have a player like him in your side, it keeps the opposition guessing. You cannot prepare fully against him because sometimes we don't even know what he will do next.
"He will be a big factor in the growth of Argentina rugby. We have reached a certain level now and of course we hope to go further still in this World Cup, but when us older guys are gone he will be the face of Argentina rugby abroad and, more importantly, at home.
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2010 Call for Participation
Call for Participation
Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE 2010)
Stanford University— March 23-24, 2010
The growing complexity and shrinking geometries of modern device technologies are making high-density, low-voltage devices increasingly susceptible to influences from electrical noise, process variation, and natural radiation interference. System-level effects of these errors can be far reaching. Growing concern about intermittent errors, unstable storage cells, and the effects of aging are influencing system design. This workshop provides a forum for discussing current research and practice in system-level error management. Participants from industry and academia explore both current technologies and future research direction (including nanotechnology). We are interested in soliciting papers that cover system-level effects of errors from a variety of perspectives: architectural, logical and circuit-level, and semiconductor processes. Case studies are also solicited.
Key areas of interest are (but not limited to):
- Technology trends and the impact on error rates.
- New error mitigation techniques.
- Characterizing the overhead and design complexity of error mitigation techniques.
- Case studies describing the engineering tradeoffs necessary to decide what mitigationtechnique to apply.
- Experimental data.
- System-level models: derating factors and validation of error models.
- Error handling protocols (higher-level protocols for robust system design).Authors may submit extended abstracts for paper presentation, poster presentation, or either format. The extended abstracts for accepted posters are included in the workshop proceedings. Authors are requested to submit their extended abstracts for review before December 19, 2009. Additional information and guidelines for submission are available at www.selse.org. Submissions should be PDF or Microsoft Word files that do not exceed four printed pages. Customary terms for copyright agreement and non-confidentiality will apply. Authors will be notified of paper outcome by February 10, 2010. Camera-ready formatted papers, up to six pages in length, are due on March 10, 2010.
Organizing committee (see www.selse.org/committee for complete membership):
Workshop Co-chairs: Program Co-chairs: Finance Co-chairs
Local Arrangements Chair: Publicity Chair:
Alan Wood, Sun
Ishwar Parulkar
Allan Silburt and Adrian Evans, Cisco Charles Reccia, Intel
Vikas Chandra, ARM
Rakesh Kumar, UIUC
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Popeye 90th Anniversary Celebration
February 25 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
E.C. Segar (1894–1938) was one of the classic American cartoonists of the 1920s and '30s, best known for creating the beloved comic character Popeye. Hailing from Chester, IL, Segar had an unconventional path to cartooning success. He started out providing musical accompaniment for movies and vaudeville acts at his local theater, eventually becoming a film projectionist. At 18, interested in cartooning but lacking formal training, Segar took a correspondence art course. Years later, he created a comic strip, Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers, which was published by the Chicago Herald. Throughout the 1910s, he would work on two short-lived comic strips, Barry the Boob and Looping the Loop, until he created the popular Thimble Theater.
Debuting in 1919, the strip would run for nearly a decade before the January 17, 1929 strip that introduced Popeye. This eccentric sailor man soon became the star of the strip, which exploded in popularity thereafter. Segar's hilarious, wildly imaginative creation has influenced generations of artists and cartoonists and his characters still appear in popular media today.
Popeye's Cartoon Club
In the 1930s, E.C. Segar added a new feature to the end of the Thimble Theatre Sunday comic page called "Popeye's Cartoon Club." In it, he offered quick drawing lessons and invited fans to submit their own cartoons to be published alongside one of the most famous comic characters of all time—Popeye!
Now, to honor the legacy of Thimble Theatre, King Features Syndicate is bringing "Popeye's Cartoon Club" back, but with a twist! This time, they've invited artists of all kinds to write and draw their own Sunday comic strip featuring Popeye and his friends. King Features will be publishing one strip a week for the full year of 2019.
Come share your love of Popeye with your favorite artists and help us wish everyone's favorite Sailor Man a very happy birthday!


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text: An Te Liu (born 1967, Tainan, Taiwan) lives and works in Toronto. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Liu's works are included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent and ongoing exhibitions include In Absentia at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, and Shine a Light–-Canadian Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Canada. A forthcoming monograph on the artist's work will be released in fall 2015 by Black Dog Publishing (London, UK).


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The Winnowing
(Stanley & Hazel #2)
By Jo Schaffer
Published by: Month9Books
Publication date: February 26th 2019
Genres: Historical, Young Adult
Darkness descends over St. Louis, a city already rocked by the Great Depression. More and more people are disappearing, and some have turned up dead. A sinister secret society is putting forward their plan known as "The Winnowing," designed to wipe out those they consider "undesirable."
After Stanley and Hazel foil the diabolical plans of Charles Chouteau, they become instant celebrities. Hazel is thrust into the role of debutante, and risks loses herself in it. Meanwhile, Stanley must deal with the horrific tragedy of his best friend's death while being threatened by the unseen forces of the Veiled Prophet.
With things spiraling out of control, Stanley and Hazel's relationship is tested, possibly beyond repair. As bodies pile up, people become more desperate. The divide between wealthy and poor grows ever wider, threatening to tear their worlds apart. Now, the two must find a way to work together if there is any hope at all of saving their relationship and their futures.
The renegade newsie climbed on top of the metal box and forced the window open a crack with a crowbar he produced from his baggy trousers. Then he sat and lit a cigarette. He puffed on it a few times before reaching into the inside pocket of his oversized coat. He pulled out a bottle that sloshed with liquid and removed the cork.
He took a handkerchief and stuffed it into the bottle of liquid, leaving a tail of it hanging out of the top. Pinching his cigarette between two fingers, he contemplated the tip, while smoke trailed out of his nose.
Henri sniffed the air, and his ears perked. Before Hazel could stop the young dog, he jumped and let out a bark.
Arthur sprung to his feet, turning in Hazel's direction.
Bananas. She squeezed her eyes shut, hoping he wouldn't see her where she crouched.
"Peek-a-boo," Arthur said, slow and deliberate. "I see you, Princess."
Knees shaking, Hazel slowly stood to face him. She gripped Henri's leash. He was her only defense.
"Where do you go, Hazel Malloy?" Gabriel said in her ear.
"I can feel you thinking hard." He chuckled.
Hazel smiled. "I like this song," she said, embarrassed as though he could actually tell that he'd caught her thinking about him.
"I do too." He pressed his cheek to hers, and she let him.
As the song ended, there was a slight disturbance from the far end of the room. Hazel glanced up, and her heart paused.
Stanley stood in the entrance of the conservatory, tall and suited up, a hard look on his face, one eye almost swollen shut. He was flanked by some of his Knights, looking rough and out of place in suits, smirks on their faces as they scanned the room. It was like Eliot Ness and his Untouchables about to raid.
The "good people" of St. Louis stared uneasily and made way as the boys stalked into the room. Hazel sometimes forgot what they must look like to everyone else. They were a tough looking lot, battle scarred, and imposing.
The song ended and in the pause before the next one began, Stanley took long strides across the room, toward where Hazel and Gabriel stood, still holding hands.
Stanley's eye twitched. "Heya, Haze." He tilted his head toward Gabriel. "If it isn't soft slugger trying to get to first base." His jaw flexed, and he breathed in through his nose, and Hazel knew he was counting to ten.
Gabriel released Hazel's hand and calmly replied, "Good to see you, Fields. You clean up nice."
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Jo Schaffer was born and raised in the California Bay Area in a huge, creative family. She is a YA novelist, speaker, writer at Patheos.com, works in film production and is a Taekwondo black belt.
She's a founding member of Writers Cubed and co-founder of the Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the largest conferences in the nation for youth ages 13-19. She and a crew of local and international bestselling authors present writing workshops to hundreds of attendees at the Utah-based conference as well as hundreds of others worldwide who view the conference online.
Jo loves being involved in anything that promotes literacy and family. She is passionate about community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic films and martial arts. Her brain is always spinning new ideas for books and sometimes she even gets around to blogging.
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A former president of the United Nations General Assembly and several other officials were charged on Tuesday with accepting more than a million dollars in bribes from Chinese businesspeople including a billionaire property mogul.
John Ashe, a former UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who presided over the General Assembly from 2013 to 2014, was arrested at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York State. He was accused by US prosecutors of turning the world body into a "platform for profit" by taking bribes in exchange for paving the way for lucrative investments.
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In one case, Mr Ashe allegedly accepted more than $500,000 from Ng Lap Seng, 68, a property developer, who was seeking a contract to build a UN-sponsored conference centre in Macau.
In total, Mr Ashe is said to have accepted $1.3 million in bribes from various Chinese businessmen, which he used to line his own pockets and to curry favour from the then prime minister of Antigua.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, was "shocked and deeply troubled" by the allegations that "go to the heart and integrity of the UN," Stephane Dujarric, his spokesman, said on Tuesday.
But the UN had not found any documentation of the claims involving the Macau proposal, Mr Dujarric added.
US Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters that as authorities continued their investigation, "We will be asking: Is bribery business as usual at the UN?"
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Prosecutors said that the deal was facilitated by Jeff Yin, Mr Ng's assistant, and Francis Lorenzo, a former deputy ambassador to the UN from the Dominican Republic, who has also been charged with offences related to bribery and conspiracy.
The charges follow the arrests last month of Mr Ng and his assistant, after they allegedly lied to US customs officials about why they had brought $4.5 million in cash into the country in a series of trips by private jet.
Mr Yin, 29, reportedly told the FBI after his arrest that his boss had made payments to obtain action from the UN.
Prosecutors say some of the bribe money paid for a luxury trip to New Orleans for Mr Ashe, his wife and two children, including first class airfares and an $850-a-night hotel room.
Mr Ashe also allegedly used it to lease a luxury car, pay his home mortgage, buy Rolex watches and custom suits, and construct a $30,000 basketball court at his New York home. He opened two bank accounts to receive the funds and then underreported his income by more than $1.2 million, officials said.
Bieber Brian, a lawyer for Mr Lorenzo, told Reuters that his client "maintains that he acted in good faith at all times and believed in the integrity of what he was told by those involved".
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Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Mr Ng, told the Wall Street Journal on Monday that the legal team's position is that the businessman "committed no crime".
The tycoon, who US prosecutors say has a fortune of $1.8 billion, sits on board of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as an adviser to the government.
The businessman heads the privately held Sun Kian Ip Group in Macau, whose foundation arm lists several UN ambassadors as holding leadership positions, including Mr Ashe.
Mr Ng has been accused in the past – though never charged – of involvement in murky backroom deals in American politics.
Photo: Getty Images
Last year his name was linked to the scandal surrounding Asian funding for President Bill Clinton's Democratic Party in 1998.
The tycoon is alleged to have passed $7 million (£4.6 million) into Democratic Party coffers using a complex series of bank accounts.
Mr Ng previously figured into a Congressional probe into how foreign money was funnelled into to the Democratic National Committee before the 1996 presidential election during the Clinton administration.
On both counts, he was never charged.


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Shrunken heads, toys like Barbie and Action Man, punk paraphernalia and top hats can all be worth collecting, says Toby Walne
The spirit of adventure and exploration in the Victorian era marks the beginning of a fascination for alternative investments that make money today.
Among the earliest bizarre trades was the shrunken head. Intrepid British explorers of the 1850s stumbled across the gruesome trophy deep in the Amazonian forest in South America. Initially, the exchange rate was a musket for a shrunken head ? a decent deal for Jivaro Indians previously armed only with bows, arrows and spears.
But by the mid-20th century it was a dying ? and illegal ? art and, with fist-sized heads no longer made to order, they were changing hands for £20. Present-day investors can expect to pay £5,000 for an authentic shrunken head ? though the record is the $15,000 (£9,000) paid by exhibition firm Ripley's Believe It or Not for one once owned by author Ernest Hemingway.
Those who would rather limit their adventures to childhood favourites might choose an Action Man, which has been growing in value by an average of 5% a year over the past decade. This plastic doll began life as an American citizen ? GI Joe ? in 1964 before emigrating to Britain two years later. An early example can now fetch £600.
As with other collectibles, models that have not been played with but kept in pristine condition inside the box command the highest price ? at least doubling values. Accessories are worth even more: the Holy Grail is a 1970s cricket strip that sells at £6,000.
Action Man was honourably discharged from duty in 1984 when youngsters started buying Star Wars figures ? which has boosted values. Sadly, the modern politically correct Action Man is virtually worthless as a collector's item.
His occasional girlfriend Barbie celebrated her 50th birthday this year. Don't bother with Ken, who was never an item with Barbie and remains a relatively worthless boy-next-door drip. But anyone who forked out $3 (£1.70) for the very first Barbie, complete with black-and-white swimsuit, could sell her for £8,000 if she is still in the original box.
Barbie's early life was not as wholesome as the All-American girl might have you believe, as she was modelled on a sexy German comic strip called Bild Lilli. The first 1959 Barbie is easy to recognise, as she had holes in the bottom of her feet to set her on a stand that disappeared the following year.
Barbie has gone under the plastic surgeon's knife many times over the years ? boob enhancements, chin tucks and nose jobs. However, collectors are primarily interested in the vintage models made between 1959 and 1972, and the rarest glamour accessories.
For authenticity, check the right cheek of Barbie's bottom for a date stamp, and be wary of "Frankenstein fakes" as forgeries abound. As with other alternative investments, it is best to pay slightly over the odds with a reputable dealer than trust to luck on the internet.
Punk rock once stood for anarchy but is now a highly respectable investment, with artefacts also fetching hundreds or even thousands of pounds.
The most iconic and collectible items are by The Sex Pistols. Formed in 1975 they produced only four singles and a studio album ? Never Mind the Bollocks ? in the three years when Johnny Rotten was in the band.
The most valuable is the God Save the Queen single cut on the A&M label in 1977 before it dropped them and the group moved to Virgin. The unreleased A&M vinyl is valued at £5,000 by the Rare Record Price Guide but has hit as high as £12,000 at auction.
Publicity material, such as a controversial Sex Pistols tour poster showing genitals, can fetch as much as £3,000.
Other punk bands whose posters can sell for more than £1,000 include the Clash, the Damned, the Ramones and New York Dolls.
Punk clothes by Vivienne Westwood are also highly sought after. Original 'Destroy', 'Chaos' and 'God Save the Queen' T-shirts sell for £500.
A pair of authentic Westwood tartan bondage trousers will sell for £2,000. But if a stiff upper lip and formal dress wear is more your idea of fun than chaotic noise and bleeding ears, why not invest in a top hat?
This dandy headgear was the punk accessory of its day and allegedly caused a riot when first worn by haberdasher John Hetherington in 1797. Several women fainted, children screamed, dogs yelped, and an errand boy's arm was broken when he was trampled by the mob.
Yet by the late 19th century, few men ventured out without a "topper". It was only in the 20th century that this common hat became a fashion statement for toffs.
The best early woven silks can now fetch £5,000 and prices have risen as much as 50% in the past five years as their rarity has been realised. This is because the last of the original French silk looms for making top hats was destroyed in the Sixties when it was then thrown into the river Seine.
Big heads can be blamed for the highest prices, as sizes popular today are unusually large compared to the less swell-headed Victorians.
Although silk top hats are the most collectible, they were once also made of beaver fur ? which is where the term "refurbishment" originates. It is only the finest quality original true silks that sell for £1,000 or more ? old felt or silk-imitation hats can still be picked up for as little as £50.
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Events for 28 June 2019
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10:00 am
10-11am Adventurous Asana, with Emma
Playful Practice Adventurous Asana, 60mintue class. A practice for those at the Expanding level (appropriate for students who have previously practiced deepening, expanding classes or equivalent). Designed for those wanting to explore some of the stronger, advanced and adventurous postures. Here you will receive an asana based class, with attention to alignment whilst playing with your […]Find out more »
12:00 pm
12-1pm, Lunchtime with Emma
Enjoy yoga in the middle of your day! These classes are suitable for all students, whether you are new to yoga or more practiced.Find out more »
5:30 pm
5:30-6:45pm, Aerial Restorative, with Emma
A beautiful way to balance support and freedom In this deeply nourishing practice we are supported in a low hammock (load tested to 500kgs) which allows us to feel perfectly held. As we develop trust in the support and enable a letting go we also find a wonderful sense of freedom and fluidity. Aerial […]Find out more »


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There are a large number of newbie submissive men who seem to think they are the odd one out if they don't just submit to everyone.
Usually those observations have this hideously aggravating flavour of special snowflakedness. They display a stereotypical view that has obviously come from a lack of experience or exposure to real life D/sers, and that has much to do with online silliness and I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT (you KNOW I want to blame porn, but this isn't even about the sexytimes part).
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PROJECT SPACE / 26 July to 17 August (Opening Thursday 25 July 5–7pm)
SPEAKER / William Yang Thursday 15 August 6pm
Both Australia and Taiwan have experienced polarising debates around the issue of same sex or equal marriage. Following a Constitutional Court ruling, Taiwan joined the list of countries with marriage equality in May 2019, becoming the first country in Asia to do so. This exhibition explores how queer artists in both Australia and Taiwan have responded to these intense moments of debate, struggle and change. Each work in the exhibition has been created during this climate of heightened contestation of queer rights and equality. Featuring collage, video, installation, textile, painting and photography, the exhibition is a diverse look at how artists have both overtly and covertly engaged with queer themes in response to their current social contexts.
Queer Nations is being presented in connection with Equal Love in Spare Room.
We would like to welcome you to the following events:
Curator and Artist talk
Monday 29 July 12.30pm
Project Space Gallery, RMIT building 94, level 2, room 1, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton, VIC
Sex Positivity Discussion Group, an artwork by Zito Tseng
Monday 5 August 12.30pm
Project Space Gallery, RMIT building 94, level 2, room 1, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton, VIC
SPEAKER talk with William Yang
Thursday 15 August 6pm
Location TBC


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We Are All Rock Stars!
I did my sixth MS Walk on Sunday April 28th. I walked 5KM with my team The Wolf Pack in an hour and ten minutes! That beats last years mark at an hour and twenty minutes! Holy crap, I'm a rock star…
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Rail Project HSE Manager & Rail Project Quality Manager
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If you are looking for a quick guide to the level 100 talents announced today at Blizzcon for the new Warlords of Draenor expansion for all the classes, you are in the right place. Here are links to our extensive look at each new talent choices for the following classes.
Shaman Level 100 Talents – Restoration, Elemental & Enhancement
Rainstorm; Storm Elemental Totem; Reach of the Elements
Priest Level 100 Talents – Discipline, Holy & Shadow
Power of the Void; Divine Clarity; Spiritual Guidance
Monk Level 100 Talents – Mistweaver, Windwalker & Brewmaster
Vital Convictions; Chi Explosion; Serene Mists
Druid Level 100 Talents – Restoration, Balance, Feral & Guardian
Touch of Elune; Will of Malfurion; Might of Malorne
Paladin Level 100 Talents – Holy, Protection & Retribution
The Light Within; Seal of Faith; Divine Conviction
Gearing up to be a great expansion!


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• Remsha places as a finalist in RCSI mini-heats for science communication competition 'FameLab Ireland'
A worldwide competition in science communication, FameLab first came alive at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK in 2005, and has since increased in popularity around the world! Currently held in over 30 different countries each year, its motive is to get scientists to share their research with the public in an informative yet entertaining way. Think of it like X-factor for scientists, where participants deliver various wonderful scientific topics to a public audience, and are then judged on their content, clarity, and of course, their 'X-factor' or charisma. To make matters more challenging for scientists, who so heavily rely on PowerPoint presentations, FameLab only allows a few small props but mostly the participants' wits to help them deliver three-minute talks on their respective topics.
November 2018 saw FameLab come to RCSI for the first time for a mini-heat session where 10 hopeful contestants from a range of age groups and disciplines battled to gain the judges' and audiences' approval. In the end only two could get through to the Dublin regionals (to be held on the 22nd of February 2019). One of those two winners was Remsha. Her winning talk was titled ˜'The Pacman in our body', which alluded to the ability of macrophage cells to ingest pathogens and cellular debris, how this ability can be dysfunctional in autoimmune disease, and possible ways to manipulate a macrophage therapeutically. Remsha chose this topic to spread awareness about the research her lab does on macrophages in autoimmunity.
For her success at the RCSI heats, Remsha was interviewed by the Irish Times for an article they wrote on FameLab and science communication that was published in Jan 2019.
To read the full article click here "Talking science: FameLab and 180 seconds of fame"


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Today is the first day of Warrior Week, which is a series of events, across this week, organized by ARHS student groups, that are designed to help our school better understand the messages of Calvin Terrell. The specific theme of the week is: From Cowards to Warriors: Courage to Act. When Calvin visited us in September, he challenged us all to be warriors a community that has the collective courage to interrupt injustices big and small, but especially those that play out under our own roof. In todays advisory, we want to start the week in a concrete way, focusing on the recent experience of an adult member of the ARHS community who is a person of color. Rather than talking abstractly about the issue of racism, our belief is that talking about an issue that actually happened here makes more educational sense. Last fall, while in school, Ms. Gardner, a math teacher who is new this year to ARHS, had two experiences in the space of 24 hours that left her deeply unsettled and questioning her own personal safety. As a person of color, these experiences left her wondering whether ARHS could ever become her professional home. Weve prepared a video of Ms. Gardner describing and reflecting on these experiences. Each advisory will watch it shortly. We ask that you take Ms. Gardner in and allow her to teach you.
Carolyns Personal Story: Racism at ARHS What Amherst Regional High School is known for is its acceptance and inclusivity of all people regardless of race, color or creed. I came here excited to immerse myself into the life of a school that seemed to embrace fully the American experiment. What I have found working here instead is that there is a subtle exclusion that is actively at work. As one of only a few teachers of color working here at Amherst Regional High School, I am dismayed to nd an incongruity with the schools stated philosophy and my own. My personal story since I began teaching here in September includes examples of both individual and institutional racism. On an individual level, I have been personally targeted because of my racial identity. During rst trimester, on a regular October school day, a threatening note toward me was found in a bathroom. A Deans investigation revealed it was written by a student. This experience has left me feeling very unsafe in this building. That day, it was most difcult for me to teach through to the end of Eperiod. As soon as school ended, at 2:20 pm, I locked my door in fear avoiding afterschool help, avoiding interactions with anyone, with everyone. I worried about my safety in getting to my car, in getting home to my special needs son whose primary
support is his mother, a woman of color, a teacher at this high school where he, my son, during his high school years, refused to continue to be a student because of his own personal experiences in this building. It was Mr. Jackson who unlocked my door that afternoon and escorted me to the parking lot. I am remembering now how I had to ght my very sense of lucidity as I walked onto Amherst Regional High School property the following morning. While trembling internally, I entered Mr. Jacksons ofce before school per our agreement for what was to be a quick check in and update on the previous days events. Here is what unfolded instead: Mr. Jackson presented me with yet another shocking revelation, another personal affront. My classroom door sign with my name and room number was defaced with a racially motivated derogatory slur. I WAS BROKEN. In tears I left the school premises that morning unable to work, unable to perform my duties as an employee of the Amherst Regional Public School System. My thought How could I have been so wrong in my decision to move to Amherst Regional High School, to leave a comfortable position at Northampton High School where I worked for over ten years? As a mother, a woman of color, a mathematics teacher, a person the insidious effects of the racism that I have endured are psychological, they are emotional, they are social, and they are physical. My discussion with our administration since these personally distressing incidents has included a push for honest conversations about racial consciousness. My agenda is straightforward: We need to be engaged in transforming our school community into one that does not only pay lip-service to equity and equality, but one that actually does something about achieving it. On an institutional level, I nd that as a teacher of color in this school, there is very little room for my perspectives. I nd that students are not equally prepared for postsecondary life. One thing that is disturbingly clear to me with the Amherst school system is that all students are not given an equal chance for advancement. In my estimation, the system is very closely aligned with a system of structural racism and stubbornly adheres to it. In the eld of mathematics, for example, Black students are systematically left out of honors classes. Based on my observations throughout this school, I question whether the general expectation of teachers for the success of students of color equates to the levels of expectations teachers have for White students. These ponderings leave me deeply disheartened. There are many signs, both subtle and ongoing, that prompt me to conclude that our school system does not do nearly enough to recognize the needs of students and teachers
of color. Denying our needs, our ways of seeing the world, our styles of learning, our perspectives, and our experiences denies us of our humanity. It is a hard reality to embrace that we, ARHS community members, are of lesser humanity and lesser importance because of our race and ethnicity. We should all be equally given a chance for advancement, and equally high expectations. Every member of our community is complicit in this system, as racism is an all hands on deck issue. I challenge us to create a school community that pushes equally hard for students of color to get into honors classes as White students; that punishes with equal urgency or discretion the infractions of students of color and White students; that is as eager to teach in ways that honor the experiences and learning styles of students of color as it is to teach White students. Everybody has to be committed to seeing racism end for it to end. Doing little things to make it better does nothing to make it end. Believe it or not, the presence of racial prejudice demeans us all, it renders us all less human, and it takes from us all. To our White students: your classmates of color are simply that, classmates with the same wants, needs, desires as yourselves. They struggle with similar teenage and familial issues. Our students of color: you are important. You matter. You are not strange or exotic. You belong here just as much as anyone else does. The way you see the world is as legitimate and valid as anyone elses view. And you are as capable of success as any other student here or anywhere. Let us please use this opportunity to address this specic issue that of racial inequity as practiced in this school and wider community. Let us explore it despite the discomfort it will undoubtedly bring and refrain from conating it with other issues that often wittingly or unwittingly present an opportunity to escape a direct address of the ugliness of racism. I am committed to seeing us all enjoy a school community of people who ll each others lives with the wonder of each other; who each help to weave a colorful fabric of varying stories, perspectives, ways of being that makes us enriched in equal proportion. I challenge us to create a school environment that is warm and welcoming and accommodating to all who are a part of it regardless of where we come from or what we look like or how much resources we have at our disposal. This is entirely achievable. The rst step in achieving this has to be the robust desire to see it done.
This is where this discussion must begin and end: at the place of acknowledging and embracing with equal conviction the humanity of us all. For the Amherst High School community to be a place of inclusion, high achievement, full student and teacher involvement and engagement, a place of acceptance and love, then there must be an unwavering embrace of this truth.


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Again, it's been awhile since we last posted. A lot has been happening for us both. Commencement of a new job, far away in Campbelltown (meaning hellishly long 2 hour commutes, one-way), preparing to move to Strathfield and of course, ongoing wedding planning.Read More
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One of my aims, when returning to Sydney was to start going on photo walks with friends. And last night it finally happened. Andrew and I drove to Milson's Point, next to Luna Park to take some shots.
It was pretty quiet. Luna Park was open, but we're unsure if the rides actually work or they just use it as a function centre.Read More


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Today, we look at a familiar ghost from three different angles; a poem, a play, and a song.Read More
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This week's episode is the famous story of the Messon Frogs, the brother's who came to be known as the Tuxtla Two, and the act of courage that saved the game.Read More
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After many years and many turns, farewells and comebacks, Mr. Running Wild eventually releases an album under a different name. I believe Giant X is a band/project where Kasparek and his nowadays Running Wild partner Peter Jordan live out their true spirits and creates more from their inner senses. Honestly speaking, I think it's good that Kasparek now head for other directions when his main band has been stuck in barren lands during the last one and a half decade. A not so wild guess is that the fans would prefer a new Running Wild album, which also obviously have been Kasparek living in the last three decades. He has been around for ages now though, so I understand that he's looking for revival.
This release contains mainly hard rock songs with heavy metal elements. After a spoken intro, the album kicks off with the two best songs, the Running Wild oriented On A Blind Flight, which opens up with a classic Kasparek yeah-eah-yeah, and catchy Don't Quit Till Tomorrow, but from then on, there are mostly decent or fairly good songs. Not good, not bad. Just slightly outside his natural habitat and since listening to his music since I was young in the later half of the eighties, I must admit that it seems odd to hear this classic and individual voice on a different album. I also like Now Or Never, Rough Ride and Friendly Fire a bit, but I can do without goofy songs like Let's Dance.
Both Kasparek and Jordan must dismiss a vivid and living drum sound. It's programmed and sounds flat and powerless, just like on the latest Running Wild releases. The production also lacks power and that spark to lift the songs to new levels. Pretentious perfection, hollowness and emptiness is what comes to mind. I miss that raw and heavy push to the songs.
It's extremely hard to not compare this album to Running
Wild's catalogue and in some way I admire Kasparek. Most of his fans
and also himself think that his best work was released in the early
nineties and yet he is still looking for change. Even after over twenty
spins, I still feel it's strange to hear Kasparek in anything besides
Running Wild. This album is not bad, but can you believe that this man
once wrote and recorded songs like Riding The Storm, Treasure Island
and Lead Or Gold, to name a few? All in all, a decent album and this
outcome was somewhat near what I expected.