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MerMay: Trucks in a Bottle
This image resulted from the idea of bottles floating in the ocean. I thought about in what context glass bottles live in the mermaid world and that led me to thinking about how sometimes people build ships in bottles. If a mermaid were to do the same, perhaps they would be more interested with land vehicles, being sea creatures themselves.
I think the rough layout is done...although I think the work table/rock needs to be fixed perspective-wise. Any feedback or things I'm overlooking is greatly appreciated.
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love the idea an the and the way it looks
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this looks great so far, looking forward to seeing it progress! It's a great idea.
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@shinjifujioka Great idea! Will she be sitting on a chair or on the ground? I think it might look nice if she was sitting on an old wood chair or something like that.
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I love the concept
@Chip-Valecek I hadn't thought of her sitting on a chair or anything...just kind of standing/floating as she moves the bottle from the shelf to the table. I'll sketch in a stool and see if it reads well. Thanks for the suggestion!
Very clever!
looking good @shinjifujioka ! I'd just be careful and avoid any tangents while you refine the sketch..with so many elements in the scene, things can get very close to each other.
I'd suggest tilting the head a bit lower as well to make look more towards the truck.
All the best!
@Darian Oh, I'm already running into issues, haha. I have to be better at answering all the design questions before starting on coloring.
I'm wanting to wrap this up and upload it to the Mermay thread. Before I do, are there any glaring fixes that I might be missing? Depending on how much time I have, I may be able to do a few tweaks before the 31st.
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I like it as it is, it is very outstanding in story and composition
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I love this concept and really awesome characer design! I'm liking the composition a lot, especially that you have added details in the foreground as well. Very nice work! If I were to say something, maybe you can push the contrasts between light and shadow a little bit more? Or maybe add a glow from her skin/scales? I'm imagining that her scales would reflect the sun rays and create a shimmering and almost magical effect But I really like what you have done so far!
IT is fabulous! The only thing that struck out at me (because I am struggling with it right now) is the direction of light being consistent-does that make sense?
@lmrush Could you elaborate on that? This one was a bit tricky for me because I don't know how light reflects off rocks in water. There is one light source out of frame, and then the hole in the rock. I tried to make it seem like the light is reflecting throughout the room, but maybe that isn't working?
@KajsaH Thanks! I'll see if I can push the lighting a bit.
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Wow this looks awesome!
@Andy-Nichols-Art Thanks Andy!
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Awesome and clever concept!
@shinjifujioka Cute idea
@shinjifujioka I am no expert so @lee white, @Jake-Parker @Will-Terry step in here if you can. I tried to type out what I meant, then just decide an image would be easier. Obvioulsy this is really dark and the values are exaggerated, I did it just so I could easily draw the light directions I meant. I would love to hear from the experts as I would hate to lead you astray!


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Vampire Bride and Groom
The vampire wedding is slowly approaching and these two morbidly beautiful bride and groom would definitely appreciate a make-over. Spend the day customizing their looks, putting on the bride's dress, veil and shoes and getting the groom ready as well. The big important day is here and the vampire bride and groom love each other more then humanly possible!
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Nintendo on Wii Sports 2 rumour
Speculation. But don't rule it out.
Nintendo has dismissed French reports that Wii Sports 2 is already in development as "pure rumour and speculation".
NGC France had reported that a second title may well be in development, perhaps even with swimming, basketball and other sports included.
The first title comes free with the Wii in both the US and Europe, while early sales figures in Japan, where it is sold separately, had it as the console's most popular title.
"We're really pleased with the reaction to Wii Sports - from people completely new to gaming to the hardcore fans everyone has taken to it straight away," a Nintendo UK spokesperson commented.
"It might just be the most popular game this Christmas in homes across the UK."
In other words, they may not be talking about a sequel yet, but with online gaming still to come to Wii and the first game's popularity already significant, don't be surprised if the tune changes in future.


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Interviewer: Esther Kezia Thorpe
Esther: What have you done since joining MIT to evolve its offering and bring it to new audiences?
Elizabeth: So I joined MIT in 2015. I had been at the Economist in the UK actually, before that, and had moved back to the US for family reasons. And it was a legacy publication, and when the opportunity came to join Tech Review, as Chief Operating Officer, which is how I started here, I wasn't quite sure.
When I was at the Economist, I wasn't really on the traditional media side, I was more on the business to business side, I wasn't on the consumer side. So I was curious about what the opportunity here would look like.
That's quite a change in culture as well.
Oh, it was totally, it was completely different in ways that both good and, you know, perhaps more challenging. So it was clear that there was something really valuable here, that there was a brand that there was a reputation for producing good technology-related content, but that it was not getting anywhere close to the kind of attention and audience that it needed, because it was operating from a very print perspective still.
So the first thing we did was build the events business. They had built an events brand, for a number of years they had an events brand, but it really hadn't gotten the kind of attention and investment that it needed and demanded.
And so it was clear that we had a lot more mileage that we could get out of events. I realised that that was clearly a product that worked and that was special, but that needed to be really thought about differently from a commercial standpoint.
So we built that right away, and started to invest in doing more branded events, Technology Review, MTech branded events. And that has proven to be quite a successful part of the business model development.
But we also began to think about how to build the digital audience. When I started, there wasn't even any social media editorial work going on. So we needed to get a social media presence going, we needed to build a digital newsletter strategy. And now we have quite a few digital newsletters that go out every day and every week to our readers and that bring really engaged loyal readers back to our site on a regular basis.
We also needed to do a redesign. So this took a little bit longer. This didn't happen until I became CEO. But we then did a website redesign so that we have a feed on our site.
And then we also redesigned the print magazine, in order that we could have thematic print magazines. We publish six times a year, and a thematic approach means that when you are having that immersive, what they call at the Economist 'lean back experience', that you are fully immersed in the topic of that theme.
Rather than trying to have print be kind of a less interactive, less engaging, less up to date and current version of what is on the website, we instead said, 'All right, let's make this actually play to the strengths of print,' which is that when you're reading print, your immersive, you're sitting back, you've decided, time now for me to really understand what's going on with technology and China, or what's going on with technology and politics, or whatever the topic may be for that thematic issue. And then that, of course, is complemented by the constant more news-driven cadence of the digital website experience.
And then, the other things we've done, we've done quite a lot that you can't see, that's sort of more behind the scenes, things having to do with our tech stack and whatnot. But another thing that was sort of visible to the world was, we did some experimentation in podcasts to figure out well, how would this work for Tech Review? What's a good way of manifesting this audio and where where should we really kind of make some bets?
So, a lot of different sort of levels to our transformation, and it has been extremely exciting.
And has that managed to bring a different or a younger audience to you?
Absolutely, yeah. So as you probably expect, a print audience is an older audience than in digital. So by virtue of growing our digital audience, we are of course attracting a whole lot more people to the brand overall, which is good in all kinds of ways you might imagine.
And did that older audience get on board with some of the changes in print, because that's often where publishers hit issues with redesigns is that their older audience switch off?
Yeah, I mean, it's a challenge for sure. An entirely print audience is hard to make sense, business-wise of today, and so what we are really trying to do is get people who only experience us in print to, at the very least have a newsletter, a digital newsletter that enables them to see what they aren't getting by not seeing us more frequently, digitally.
And that's a process, there's all kinds of things having to do with the channel by which you reach a print audience, you've got to then figure out well, how am I going to connect with them in order to in order to encourage them to engage with us digitally. You've got to do things like get email addresses and whatnot.
So that's a process that's, you know, I mean, we've got a ways to go yet there. But people who are traditional print readers, who also have begun to experience us digitally, we see that they are much stickier, that their renewal rate, the renewal rate for that cohort is higher than folks who didn't experience us digitally at all.
That makes it clear what we need to do and obviously, there's a set of steps that we're taking to make that happen.
I suppose you got to think in terms of the future as well, you can't just be keeping old people happy!
No, that's right. I think again, if you're only experiencing us in print, then having a themed issue approach might be hard. Because you might say, 'Well, I don't really care about, you know, longevity, and that was one out of my six issues. So I'm not sure if the value is there in the subscription.'
But if you're experiencing us in all the ways that you can, then you understand that this is a themed, immersive, almost more of a book experience that you're getting out of print that complements the steady, all topics, both news-driven, and more feature-led digital product that we also offer besides.
So it's really an important part of telling the value proposition story to people who are trying to decide how they want to experience us.
A lot of the stuff you cover on your website is that intersection of science and technology. That can be quite challenging to cover, because you've probably got audiences ranging from complete experts to people who just have a passing interest. So how do you strike that balance between getting content that appeals to the experts, the experts don't find too basic, but also that can be understood by passing members of the public?
We're very clear that we're not writing for the experts. We are interviewing the experts, we expect that they will be amongst the readers of our articles. But we're not an academic – although we're owned by an academic institution – we are not an academic publication.
And so what we're trying to do is make technology and science accessible to a broader audience. What that means in practical terms is that if you are a tech expert, or you're an academic who's deeply immersed in AI, or deeply immersed in biomedicine or whatever it might be, you yourself might not find our article to be groundbreaking. But it will tell the story of the kinds of things that you do on a day to day basis in a way that your family members or your neighbours would understand and find interesting.
And so, although the people who are the experts themselves won't necessarily find anything new in the themes, in the content that's associated with their areas of expertise, they will also know if there's anything that's stupid in it, that doesn't make any sense, right?
We're aware that they'll read it, but they will read it with a different understanding of what it's trying to do. And they'll share it, they'll pass it on to people who they want to better understand, help to better understand their topic areas, and they will tell us if they think it's rubbish.
So what we're aware of is that they are amongst the people who read it, but it's not about trying to break new news, for instance, in these fields, as far as an expert is concerned. It's about trying to explain the developments that are happening in these fields to a broader audience.
But we're always very aware of the importance of maintaining the credibility, that is a huge part of the value that we bring.
That area, that intersection, it's a field that's become quite crowded, I'm thinking in particular, the last three to four years. You've got brands like WIRED that are very well known. So what do you do at Technology Review to stand out? What's different?
Yeah, it's a thing we think about, talk about all the time. And when I was trying to decide, for instance, if I wanted to join this company four years ago, I was asking myself the same question. There's a couple things.
So Technology Review is the first ever technology publication. It was established in 1899 when publishing about technology was not a thing.
Technology was barely a thing!
Exactly. So we've got a legacy, and a reputation. But there are no guarantees associated with that. You have to stay relevant. You have to stay connected with where audiences are going. You have to understand what makes you special to those audiences. And it isn't necessarily what made you special a decade or more ago.
So we're very cognisant of what other tech publications are out there doing. And you're right, it is a crowded field. And what we're trying to be very clear about is that we're looking at a technology as it impacts the way we all live and work. And we're doing that from a place of authority, influence and established expertise. And that place is quite simply MIT.
So we're very aware that we carry the letters MIT, and we carry the reputation that comes with that. And we lean in to the authority and the credibility that that gives us, even as we're aware that we have to kind of earn it every day.
It's quite an interesting place to be because our intention is to own the category, to be the established brand in technology media. We're not there now. But that's a part of our path. That's where we're heading.
I suppose that's where that word legacy has a more positive connotation if you're talking about credibility.
That's right. And it's also quite interesting Esther, we could talk another time about the importance of maintaining independence, because we are owned by MIT but we're independent from MIT. It's important that we lean into the advantages that it gives us, while not being about publishing on MIT per se, we publish about what's going on it at Stanford, or other universities, or the private sector.
What we publish is not specific to what's happening around us, geographically around us, but rather what's happening in the ecosystem, at the centre of which are institutions like MIT.
You mentioned earlier you'd experimented a bit with podcasts this year. Can you talk a bit about that, what you've learned and what you're planning for next year?
Yeah, it's great, we'd learned a lot. So we launched it as an experiment. We did a podcast that lives on, it called Business Lab or shorten to BLab. And it was about trying to test out…we had some interest from some sponsors, and we wanted to test out what would it really require to build an audience? What would it really require to do a whole bunch of connecting with editorial, connecting with sponsorship, what was the magnitude of the ask?
And so I hosted it, which was not I think, not ideal, it made a lot of sense for a bunch of reasons, kind of boring inside reasons. But ultimately I've got another job. And I think one of the big things we realised is, how important it was going to be to have someone who thought every day in audio terms about how to tell stories, and how to bring out noises and voices and ambient sound, and all that kind of cool stuff that makes podcasts such a special medium.
But we did learn that the audiences would come, that the sponsors would come, that it was really easy to find ideas for episodes and things we could create. I mean, we had way more ideas than we ended up doing anything with.
That's always a good starting point!
Yeah. And we understood that we were very much sort of scratching the surface. And so what we learned out of that, and that pretty much was entirely focused, we only really did that in 2019 and I believe we launched it in the beginning of the calendar year.
So now we've made two hires, we've hired someone who was previously at Wall Street Journal and built the Future of Everything brand, including the podcast. She's quite actively working on building out something, which I won't say much more about.
And then we also hired somebody who's been a long time…had formerly worked here, began to develop a podcast himself and has a popular podcast in the science space, to do another podcast as much more concentrated on a little bit of sort of behind the scenes at Tech Review, how we operate, how we get stories, how we connect with the scholars in our field, with leaders in our field. So there's a whole bunch of interesting things that he's working on too.
Those two podcasts will take flight in early 2020.
You've talked a bit about some of the changes you've made over the past five years, what are you doing to ensure MIT Technology Review is ready for the next five years?
Yeah, I mean, as I said, there's no guarantee that I mean, I mentioned I was at the Economist before I came here. And it's an amazing place and amazing experience, and it's, I think, a very clear lesson of success in the past is no guarantee of success in the future.
What we've done quite a bit of, and I mentioned also sort of behind the scenes stuff, is a lot of investing in tools. So we've rebuilt our tech stack. That's not an investment. I felt like I wanted…I didn't want to make that investment. But we had to have tools that were up to the job of being a digital media company in 2019 and beyond. And so we needed to have tools that would give us insights so we can take decisions.
Was that easy to get everybody else on board with?
Eventually, yeah, I mean, I think the challenge was transforming the business from a legacy print publication to a digital media brand, is something that a lot of people say they are excited about doing, and I genuinely believe them. But when it actually plays out and when it actually occurs, and it means what you're doing has to change from this to that, it's not always easy.
And so in particular, a lot of the technology investments, we really needed to wait until I had the right person to lead that operation, that part of the business. And then once I had the right person, it all kind of came together, much, much more quickly and with greater confidence after his arrival.
But I mean, the point was that if we really want to stay relevant, and we really need to think about the next five years in the future of media, and all that good stuff, we had to have tools to enable us to see. We had to have the visibility on what is our audience doing when they hit our site, where are they coming from, how much time are they spending on these stories versus those stories, what are they doing after they've read these stories versus those stories, can we play around with different ways of directing them to recirculate on this site from different kinds of stories and see what kind of impact those kinds of modifications would make? So all that is now possible at last, but it took quite some time.
The other part of it is that, looking ahead, we are also looking at evolving the business model to complement the journalism with other kinds of media products. So again, we're aware that that obviously advertising in digital media doesn't have a massive future for the business, and particularly for a publication of our size, or of our sort of specificity. We're looking at building reader supported revenue.
And so that's again about understanding when people hit our site, and they hit the subscribe button and they carry through the transaction, what was their experience before they got to that point? And how do we replicate that with more of our audience? And similarly, once they're our subscriber, how do we nurture them and keep them engaged so that they renew?
But even so, you build up all that and you still need to kind of figure out well, where is really going to be some additional sources of stability? We're spending a lot of time thinking about B2B media, and what the opportunities might look like for Technology Review, to build out some more business oriented product.
Are you optimistic about our future with technology, or do you share concerns that experts have said about AI taking over humanity and things like that?
I have to say, I'm not worried about AI taking over humanity. I do have worries about the future of humanity! But I'm not sure that I would attribute my concerns to AI per se. I mean, I'm much more worried about the climate crisis, for instance, and we are publishing a lot about technologies that will help us adapt to climate change, since climate changes is an inarguable reality. So I would say I'm more concerned about those sorts of threats.
And also because I think technology will be a path to, again, adaptation, I feel more of an optimism there. In terms of worries about what is the future of AI? I mean I've been in too many conversations with too many genius, brilliant people about the steps in the consciousness that they're applying to the way AI is being developed and deployed to think that it's all going to go, you know, down the tragic path. I mean, I think, in human history, we've often said this. And I think that we will, in this context, I think we will take the right decisions to control the threat side of things. At least that's what I'm hoping!
But I do want to see us do things like apply it to the big thorny challenges like disease, like hunger, like as I said, climate. That's probably the way most people are really thinking about it, rather than, you know, the machines taking over.


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Story by Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com
Photo Credit by Adam Hothersall
Nick Trombetta wants to build something at Thornton. He calls it a "Trojan Spirit," and talks about how he wants to return his Class 4A football program to relevancy. Well, that plan got a major spark in the form of a 27-20 win over rival Northglenn on Friday night. It was the first time Thornton had beaten their rival in 14 years. It means the I-25 Bowl trophy will be housed at Thornton High School for the first time since it was created. And alumni have taken notice. "It's a big deal for our community," Trombetta said this week. Now, Trombetta has been named the Denver Broncos High School Football Coach of the Week. The Broncos High School Coach of the Week, presented by Gatorade and IHOP, is selected in partnership with the Broncos and CHSCA.
Nick Trombetta Bio
Years as head coach: 3 ( overall)
Years at Thornton: 3 (41-18, 1-0 this season)
Previous stops: Thornton assistant (2012-15); Denver North assistant (2016); Denver North head coach (2017); Thornton head coach (2018-present).
Casey: Can you talk about why you decided to become a coach and what you enjoy about it?
Trombetta: I really wanted to become a coach because I kinda had some negative experiences playing high school ball. So really wanted to make a difference in that aspect because I understand, for a lot of kids, this is it for them. You don't want to have the last time you coached or the last time you played to have been soured by a negative interaction with a coach or anything like that. Then initially, way back when I was in middle school, I had a coach that I had decided I was done with football and he actually had stopped me walking home from school my eighth grade year and convinced me to play youth football and like suited me up out of old equipment in his garage. He put me out there. They put the ball on my hands for the first time as a running back and I kinda refound my love of the game. So it was like both positive and negative experiences that really drove me to wanting to coach and make a difference that way.
Casey: What do you think your players feel like it's like to be coached by you?
Trombetta: Well I can say probably depends on who you ask. I think my passion is probably the most prevailing factor. I'm a little more toned down this year than I was last year, but I think that they can just really see my passion for them and their lives post high school. I am really just trying to make sure that they're going to be good citizens, dads, husbands — whatever they're going to be after high school — to try to make sure that they're ready to do that type of stuff. I always try to make myself the worst coach on my staff from a football standpoint.
Casey: That's smart.
Trombetta: Yes. I mean, they're not gonna confuse me for — you know, name of famous coach. They're not going to mistake me for any of that stuff. But they just know that I'm the father figure for a lot of guys and I'm going to hold them accountable for things that other people in life aren't ready to hold them accountable for.
Casey: So do you have an overarching goal or maybe mission or vision that you're trying to accomplish at Thornton?
Trombetta: Well, being a grad there, we always have fond memories of our high schools and I really wanna try to return this back to relevance. It's been a really, really long time since Thornton has had a relevant football program. And part of it is just trying to make it important at the school to play again. Our participation numbers have risen slightly from last year to this year. And it's kind of where we're at right now is just trying to make it an atmosphere that kids want to be a part of. At the end of the day, I want to return back to 5A as a program. I think that's important. We're the only Adams 12 program that's not 5A. So I would definitely like to be able to return back to 5A, be able to field three levels, and part of that is winning games so that kids are excited to come out and play.
Casey: Can you take me into your pregame locker room on Friday? What did you guys talk about?
Trombetta: I kind of flipped flop back and forth between not trying to make it bigger than it needed to be because it's Week 1, but also honoring the tradition of the rivalry. We talked a lot about how Thornton had won nine times in the past 52 years, 53 years.
Casey: That's crazy.
Trombetta: And we hadn't won obviously in 14 years. So a lot of it was, "We can either concentrate on what history dictates or, we can embrace who we are in the moment."
Casey: That's interesting because some coaches try to avoid stuff like, "Oh, we know we haven't beat them in 14 years," but you guys met that head on and they were fully aware of that?
Trombetta: Oh, 100%. Yeah. I wasn't gonna run from it because I think that it's important. We have some initials on the back of our helmets from some former Thornton players throughout the years that have passed away just this past year. And there was a big talk about how we don't take what happened last year or the year before or the previous 14 years into a game. You take the spirit of all those people that played before into it. I kind of framed it as like you have one school just trying to avoid losing and I view us as somebody that's trying to establish a spirit, a Trojan Spirit that we're trying to bring to the forefront.
Casey: What's interesting about that game though is you kicked the ball off and then had an hour weather delay and then didn't you come out and fumble on your first possession?
Trombetta: First two possessions!
Casey: So how did you recover from that? That's a really disjointed start, I imagine.
Trombetta: Our boys just don't — we just worry about what we can control. I mean, past years, Thornton football teams would have definitely folded up camp at that point. But this is a special group of young men and they just don't — sometimes things for good and for bad just don't register with them. And I don't think that they ever felt in any true danger. I think we worry about us. We don't do a lot of, "Oh, we're playing so-and-so this week." Although we talked about the streak against Northglenn, and this week, we'll talk about how Delta's got a really good squad. They got a really good quarterback. But we don't — we'll game plan for what they do, but we kinda worry about us. And we knew against Northglenn, watching film and with some of the weapons we have on offense, we knew that we were going to have shots. Our defense was playing well. And I think once the defense got that stop on that second fumble, we were able to settle in, and then Ethan was able to find JR on that first touchdown. We kind of knew we were rolling at that point.
Casey: Well, and then you had that spurt at the end of the first quarter where all of a sudden you're up two touchdowns. What was it like then, and what was the halftime locker room like?
Trombetta: We went up 20-7 and we were kind of in uncharted territory. We're all kind of looking around and we hadn't played well, but we were still up a couple of touchdowns. We went into halftime and we gave the whole, "It's 0-0," like all coaches say. I mean, you could see it in their eyes, and our boys, as much as we condition them, I was shocked: We were gassed. Boys were starting to cramp up. I think a combination of a lot of things. I think that the juices were flowing and they were going hard. We talked about, "You guys got 24 minutes to rewrite your legacies," and (laughs) they made it interesting.
Casey: Yes, they did at the very end there. So, what's the reaction been like since the win?
Trombetta: The reaction has been crazy. I've heard from a lot of my coaching mentors, like coach Marquez, coach Brothers at Holy Family. Some guys that I lean on. I heard from some of the guys that I coached with at Denver North. I heard from guys at Prospect Ridge. The outpourings of, "Way to go," it's been really, really awesome. The school is on cloud nine right now. I mean, that trophy only exists because it has all that red on it because Northglenn made it. We didn't make the trophy.
Casey: Is that right?
Trombetta: The trophy has never actually been at Thorton High School before. It has never been there. I just dropped that off this morning. It was like the Stanley Cup and it's spent the weekend at my house. I mean it's a cool feeling. I mean just the alumni, the kids rushing the field. I think my favorite moment of the whole thing is I was probably the first one onto the field and then I turned around, it was just like a wave of humanity. And people started hugging me and I didn't even know who anybody was. And then my daughter who is a senior at Thornton came running and hugged me and she was sobbing and it was just like this whole — I don't want to downplay, I know it's one game and it's Week 1 — but when you're talking about 10 wins in 53 years and two wins in the past 30… it's a big deal for our community. The alumni has been very excited. I mean, the people that I don't even know are reaching out to me. Yeah, the whole thing, it's just been surreal, and then this Coach of the Week honor it's like, I'm just a guy, you know, standing on the sidelines at a 4A school in Thornton. It's all a little bit surreal and it's all because the boys refused to be No. 15.


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Looking forward
I hear the longing for things to be as they once were.
I hear it when I sit with elders in a circle during an event at the spirituality center where I minister, when they express concern about the lack of young adults, youth and children in their churches. I hear it when I talk to catechists at area parishes and they share their hope that young adults who've left the church after confirmation will return once they miss the sacraments and want their children to learn the faith. I hear it when I listen to some elder sisters in my community, when they express sadness that there aren't large groups of young women applying to join our congregation every year.
I get it. It's normal to hold out hope that things will go back to what we once knew, what made sense to us. I understand.
Yet, I also struggle with the notion, with the longing for things to be as they once were.
I aim to lovingly listen when elders express disappointment about the era we're in now. But I don't tell them that I hear their grief…
[This is the beginning of my latest column for the online newspaper, Global Sisters Report. Continue reading here.]


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Toy Story 4 (USA / G / 100 mins)
In short: A second goodbye
Directed by Josh Cooley. Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Keanu Reeves, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Joan Cusack.
The Plot: Time is moving on for Woody (Tom Allen), Buzz (Time Allen) and the other toys. Andy has grown up and gone to university. His toys have been passed to his younger sister Bonnie, who doesn't show as much interest in Woody. On her first day in school, Bonnie literally makes a new friend – a spork with a love of trash whom she dubs Forky (Tony Hale). Forky becomes her new favourite toy, a way for her to connect to the strange new world of school. When Forky wanders off on a family trip to a fairground, he's taken in by retro doll Gabby (Christina Hendricks) who has long since been left on the shelf. Woody, Buzz and the others set out to bring the loopy new toy back home where he belongs…
The Verdict: The toys are back in town. Unexpectedly perhaps. Nine years ago, Toy Story 3 made even grown men weep with its touching farewell to Pixar's most loved animated characters. The ones that made us all fall in love with Pixar and their unique brand of animation in the first place. So, it's with some trepidation that audiences will approach Toy Story 4, an all-new adventure which sees our favourite characters going on another frenetic adventure and introduces a few new ones too. The real question of course is whether this latest – and very likely last – instalment justifies its existence. The answer is a reasonably solid yes. Not resoundingly perhaps but even the most cynical Pixar fan, weary of them churning out yet more unloved Cars sequels, will not be unmoved by this third sequel.
There's a lovely sense of time passing here, that the toys don't age but their owners do. Children grow up and put away childish things, but there's always another child just waiting around the corner to pick up Woody and play with him. That's the main sentiment behind the script, by Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom. Woody progresses further in his journey as a toy here, as he comes to realise that the march of time is relentless. Sometimes toys just need to pass into different hands and go to different places, as part of their own journey. Not without having some fun along the way of course. That's where the new characters come in and they inject liveliness and colour into the proceedings.
The googly-eyed and wander-prone Forky is a welcome addition to the gang of toys. 1950s doll Gabby enters in an antique store, where she has footsoldiers in the guise of sinister dummies not unlike Slappy from Goosebumps. Listen out for the first of several Stanley Kubrick references here – an always welcome touch from the movie-loving Pixar crew. However, it's Duke Caboom who steals the show. Essentially a Canadian take on Evil Knievel and his 1970s pull toy, Duke Caboom is an arch poseur who is totally confident in his stunt abilities (well, almost). Who better than Keanu Reeves to voice him, lending him that requisite 'whoa' quality right through to the most excellent gags that are interlaced with the first batch of end credits.
The introduction of these new characters does shift the focus more onto them, meaning that some of the supporting players are somewhat sidelined. More of the world-weary Mr Pricklepants and even the yee-haw Jessie would have been welcome. There's still much to enjoy here though, building to a conclusion that is earned. The film itself is akin to Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull – a fourth film in a supposed trilogy that is pleasant and enjoyable enough, justifies its existence but doesn't do much more than that. Sometimes a second goodbye is required and that's fine for Pixar. Hanging out with these characters for another 100 minutes is still a joy for all, for the little kids of today and the big kids who first discovered them way back in 1995. With Pixar now focusing on creating original content rather than sequels to existing properties, they are surely going to infinity and beyond.
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Review by Gareth O'Connor


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The Forest Resources Center and Arboretum hosts a weather measurements and recording station for the Oak Ridge Office of the NOAA - Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division.
The Arboretum provides outdoor study opportunities for the Clinch River Environmental Studies Organization (CRESO). This project is an educational/research association between the Department of Energy, Anderson County Schools, and Oak Ridge Schools.
Many enhancements have been made to the grounds and trails of the UT Arboretum by volunteer members of local Boy's and Girl's Scout troops.
The Arboretum is an official Wildlife Observation Site recogonized by the State of Tennessee. View the types of wildlife that have been spotted and read about the wildlife research projects being conducted at the Arboretum.
Inspired by the late Harold Elmore, The Elmore Holly Collection at the University of Tennessee Arboretum is a research and display garden of over two hundred cultivars of the genus Ilex.
The Arboretum is an outdoor classroom for the University of Tennessee National Forensic Academy program.


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While we talk about many different online marketing types on the Influencer Marketing Hub, the site's core is influencer marketing, as its name suggests. That does bring up the issue of when you can consider yourself an influencer. One factor is the number of followers or subscribers you have to your account – although we stress that many other factors make somebody an influencer.
Although typical follower or subscriber numbers differ by the social network, there are still approximate milestone figures that indicate that you have reached a level of success. However, we do stress the importance of only having genuine followers/subscribers. We have previously written about Why Buying Instagram Followers is a Really Bad Idea, and the same argument applies to all the other social networks.
Building your follower or subscriber numbers (genuinely) is a real achievement. It is a sign that you have some skill, popularity, and the ability to generate an audience of people who find your content interesting, informative, or entertaining. It is also an indication that you are doing things right and should continue to produce content in the way you are currently doing. If you struggle to build up a follower base, perhaps you need to reexamine your social media approach, read through more articles on this site, and change your content and its promotion accordingly.
Social Media Followers Badge (FREE Tool for Social Media Influencers):
Our Social Media Followers Badge Generator
Do you think you are performing well on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube? We now have a tool that will generate a social media achievement badge that you can use to prove to your friends, followers, subscribers, or indeed anybody you want your success.
While these numbers are sometimes called vanity stats, why worry? Take any credit where it is due. Also, high follower/subscriber numbers unlock particular milestones on some of these networks, so it makes sense to emphasize your success when you have it.
Why Does Social Media Success Matter?
The answer to this question depends on whether you are running an individual or business account. Businesses run social accounts for totally different reasons than everyday people do.
Suppose you (as a person) don't have a social account nowadays. In that case, many people consider you an old "fuddy duddy" – someone who is "fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist, or conservative, sometimes almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness" according to Wikipedia.
Even many older people have ventured onto social media, Facebook in particular, initially to contact their grandchildren and then for genuine social reasons. Similarly, YouTube appeals to a wide variety of people who enjoy watching videos, perhaps of special events, or topics that particularly interest them. Sometimes the most unlikely people watch YouTube. For example, keen fishermen may watch YouTube videos to learn new casting techniques. Even hunters and trampers, lovers of the "great outdoors," watch YouTube to find new places to visit.
Social media offers a way to network with people anywhere and develop a presence. It has also provided opportunities to catch up with people you might have lost contact with in the past, for example, old school friends.
It's important to remember the full title – "social media network." All these help you network with people somehow, even if you live thousands or even millions of miles away from them.
Each of the social networks has developed a point of difference from its competitors. The three we cover with our tool are all visual in some way. TikTok specializes in short videos, YouTube in longer videos, and Instagram photography and other images. Sure, they overlap to an extent, but each has devoted most of their development budgets to improving their core capabilities. Other social networks also specialize, e.g., Facebook focuses on mixing text and images, Twitter concentrates on short, pithy thoughts, and LinkedIn has a strong business bias. In many of these networks, you can join groups or conversations on specific topics that interest you, contributing as you see fit.
Social media success is different for business, however. Many firms now recognize the amount of time their potential customers spend on social media. And it makes sense that they spend their marketing budget where their customers are. It can also be easier to monitor success with much social media marketing compared with more traditional methods. In many cases, businesses can use social media in two ways. They can make posts, just like any other user (or pay influencers to do so if preferred). Alternatively, they can advertise on most social networks, and in the process, be highly selective about who they want to see their ads.
Even if you can't sell your product directly on social media, it gives you an immense opportunity to create brand awareness and possibly drive traffic back to your company's site.
Signs of Success on TikTok
It's vital to remember that follower numbers alone are not the essential indication of your success and visibility on the platform. Later has looked in detail at how the TikTok algorithm works. Ideally, you want your videos to appear on as many people's For You pages as possible.
TikTok has announced the following factors affect their choice of videos for "For You" pages:
- User interactions, e.g., videos people like and share, accounts they follow, the content they post, comments they make
- Video information, e.g., details like captions, sounds, and hashtags
- Device and account settings, e.g., language preferences, countries, and device types
This means that every user faces a different combination of videos in their "For You" feed.
Follower numbers are not one of TikTok's factors for choosing "For You" videos. They genuinely try to find videos that will interest each individual user.
However, if you have more followers, you're likely to receive more views for your videos. Not because they appear in more people's "For You" feeds, but simply because they obviously appear in more people's "Following" feeds.
And, despite follower numbers not having a significant impact on TikTok's algorithm, marketers still look closely at them. You are far more likely to earn a living as a TikTok influencer with 100,000 followers than you would be with 10,000 followers.
Signs of Success on Instagram
As with all of these platforms, you need engaged followers to be successful on Instagram. Fake followers are of no value to you whatsoever. As with TikTok, Instagram's algorithm easily finds and weeds out fake accounts and bots. Therefore, you need to work on engaging with the followers that you do have. This will, in turn, likely lead to you gaining more followers. In turn, the more followers you have, the greater the opportunities you have to engage with them.
Instagram is one of those networks that benefit from specialization. Decide on a niche and stick to sharing images relating to it. In turn, engage with other accounts in your topic. You will never gain huge genuine follower numbers and taste success as a generalist on Instagram. Create and share (or pay influencers to share) the types of content your followers want.
One essential thing you will have to do if you want to succeed on Instagram is to change from a Personal account to either a Business or Creator account. For a start, you need to do this to give you access to Instagram Insights – analytics for your Instagram account that breakdown your performance.
One important follower number statistic relates to Instagram Stories. You need at least 10,000 followers to add links to your Instagram Stories with an Instagram Business profile.
Instagram also initially required you to have 10,000 followers if you wanted a Creator profile, although they appear to have relaxed that rule recently. Creator accounts give even more detailed analytics than Business accounts.
Instagram describes Creator accounts as being more suitable for public figures, content producers, artists, and influencers. They describe Business accounts as being suited to retailers, local businesses, brands, organizations, and service providers.
Signs of Success on YouTube
YouTube operates differently from most of the other social networks. You create channels – just like an on-demand television channel. People who particularly like a YouTube channel want to see future videos shared on it and subscribe to that channel.
Nowadays, YouTube doesn't publicly disclose exact subscriber numbers. For example, while it shows each new subscriber, if you have fewer than 1,000 subscribers, you have to gain ten new subscribers for it to display for channels with between 1,000 and 9,999 subscribers. This pattern continues as your channels grow, maxing out at showing only 1,000,000 increases to accounts with more than 100,000,000 or more subscribers.
Like Instagram and TikTok, YouTube removes closed or spam accounts from their statistics, including those accounts terminated for breaking YouTube's rules.
To officially earn money on YouTube, you need the network to accept you into the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). It gives creators greater access to YouTube resources and features. To be eligible to join the YPP, you need to meet the following criteria:
- Follow all the YouTube monetization policies
- Live in a country or region where the YouTube Partner Program is available.
- Have more than 4,000 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months.
- Have more than 1,000 subscribers.
- Have a linked AdSense account.
Requirement 4 is essential here – you need to obtain 1,000 followers before you can even consider monetizing your channel. YouTube says the watch hour and subscriber number requirements are there to give context. When you reach this threshold, it usually means that you have more content. The threshold helps them make a more informed decision about whether your channel meets their policies and guidelines. YouTube reserves the right to remove monetization from inactive channels, not uploading or posting Community posts for six months or more.
What Makes You an Influencer?
One of our earliest posts (which we regularly update) is What is an Influencer? While this is generic and not specific to any particular social network, it gives a good guide to the different types of influencers you will find.
One way to measure influence is by follower size. Unfortunately, there are no official standards for follower numbers, so you may come across different definitions elsewhere. Also, although we use the term "followers," here, some platforms, like YouTube, use other names, like "subscribers."
From largest to smallest, the main types of influencers are:
- Mega-Influencers - people with a vast number of followers on their social networks, often with more than 1 million followers on at least one social platform.
- Macro-Influencers - people with followers in the range between 40,000 and 1 million followers on a social network
- Micro-Influencers - ordinary everyday people who have become known for their knowledge about some specialist niche. Although views differ, micro-influencers tend to have between 1,000 and 40,000 followers on a single social platform.
- Nano-Influencers - These people have a small number of followers but tend to be experts in an obscure or highly specialized field. They have fewer than 1,000 followers who are keen and interested followers on a niche topic.
If you wish to become an influencer on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, you should make reaching the above numbers a goal.


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Going when no one else would
Our History
For more than 70 years, World Vision has been committed to protecting and caring for children and those in need. From our founder Bob Pierce giving the last $5 in his pocket to help care for an abandoned Chinese girl in 1947, to then-CEO Stan Mooneyham purchasing a large ship in 1979 to rescue refugee families stranded at sea in Vietnam, World Vision has gone where others would not. Even in the places where it is hardest to be a child, God is there—and we should be there too. So, our mission continues.
Bob Pierce founded World Vision three years after he came face to face with an abandoned child and chose not to look away. Determined the last $5 in his pocket wasn't enough, he knew more people had to be involved for a long-term solution and broader impact. Initially based in the state of Oregon, the organisation focused on missions service for emergencies in East Asia. Today World Vision has become the largest Christian international non-governmental organisation working in nearly 100 countries worldwide.
When the countries surrounding Vietnam were refusing to accept the fleeing refugees because of political and racial tension, World Vision believed each person's life was more valuable than the cost of the risks involved. They were warned against the mission. Despite the captain learning that his license could be revoked and the ship could be denied refuelling and the right to return to port, they all chose to take the risk. Our World Vision ship became the first international rescue ship to provide food and medical assistance to 93 stranded refugees from Vietnam during Operation Seasweep in 1979. When no one else would, we did.
During a devastating civil war, Ethiopia was hit with a famine and a hunger crisis which defined a decade and made for one of the worst humanitarian events of the 20th century. The United Nations estimated nearly 1 million famine deaths, along with millions displaced from their homes. World Vision emergency relief workers were among the first on the ground to assist the starving children and families, providing help where it was most critically needed.
During the early 1990s as Romania's communist party fell and President Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown, the world was shocked by images of abandoned children tethered to beds and confined in cages. Tens of thousands of innocent Romanian children were placed in orphanages due to extremely difficult financial hardships and poverty. World Vision was one of the first to give aid to the institutionalised children, and continues to be one of the few international organisations to still have a presence in Romania.
Within 100 days in 1994, Rwanda's citizens turned against one another during the country's deadliest genocide, resulting in 800,000 people brutally slaughtered. The majority of survivors were children who lost one or both of their parents. World Vision arrived in 1994 to provide emergency aid and assist the survivors in resettling. As it became evident that physical wounds were not the only ones that needed healing, World Vision initiated peacebuilding and reconciliation programmes to help children and adults work through their emotional scars, and begin to heal a broken country.
At a time when AIDS was stigmatised by the Christian community and many others as something to be ashamed of, 12 million African children were orphaned due to this deadly disease. When no one else would, World Vision challenged the cultural beliefs and attitudes of the time and spurred global action to support the well-being of these vulnerable children through the HIV and AIDS Hope Initiative. World Vision's three main approaches remain the same today: to prevent new cases, increase the quality of care for children infected or at risk of infection, and advocate to help stop the spread of HIV.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Indonesia in 2004 triggered a massive tsunami, which killed nearly 230,000 people and levelled entire cities to the ground in a matter of minutes. The tsunami continued to devastate Thailand and Sri Lanka, before eventually ceasing in South Africa. In addition to those who lost their lives, many more were injured or left homeless. In response to this tragedy, World Vision initiated its largest-ever relief response (at that time) across all of the five affected countries, raising US$350 million. We continue to support these communities today.
2010s - Today
World Vision has been working in the Middle East for more than 40 years and has been responding to Syria's deadly civil war since it began in early 2011. To date, approximately 5.6 million people have fled from Syria and another 6.2 million people are displaced within the country – half of which are vulnerable children. World Vision is helping with healthcare, emergency food, water and sanitation, shelter repair kits, education and recreation. We're also providing child protection training for adults and psychological support for Syrian families as well as members of host communities near where refugees have found shelter in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
Our global impact today
In 2022 alone, World Vision supported around 30 million people through 59 global emergency responses; provided 10.3 million people with food, and helped 3 million people to gain access to clean water. Through Child Sponsorship, 3.2 million vulnerable children were given a second chance in life. To see more of our global impact dowonlad our most recent Partnership Update.
Our Promise
Learn about our Partnership-wide campaign that aims to bring extreme poverty to an end by 2030.


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Please have a very safe and Happy Halloween!
Love, Kim and Scout
Wear your nerd on your sleeve! Nerdy, plus-size and budget-friendly looks. Click on links below to shop.
For our next outfit of the day, we have a Star Lord cosplay shirt from Kawaiian Pizza Apparel. Funny name, great stuff! They have everyday cosplay items for men, women and kids. Size inclusive.
Although they didn't have a Star Lord dress (I wish!), I purchased the men's Star Lord shirt and paired it with a skirt to make my own Star Lord dress!
Grab your own shirt here. They do run small, so I ordered a 3XL in men's and it fit really well. A little big, but I wanted it to be tunic-style.
My jacket is from Walmart. Necklaces from Amazon.
Happy Shopping!
Love, Kim and Scout
For our latest outfit of the day, we have the Ghostbusters Jacket from Spirit Halloween.
Yep, you heard that right! I picked this sweet jacket up from a Halloween store. Halloween stores aren't just for decorating your house anymore (Ha!)
The jacket is a men's jacket, but fits me really well. I got the XL. I'm a women's size 18/20 for reference.
The jacket comes with name tags for all four men Ghostbusters, so you can change them with your mood. They attach with some pretty sturdy velcro, so they stay put really well. I went with Egon, because, of course!
I added in a pair of Holzmann glasses and gloves to complete the look. Good way to "cross the streams" between the men and women 'Busters (see what I did there *wink*).
Get your own jacket here.
Happy Shopping and remember that we are ready to believe you!
Love, Kim and Scout
Our latest outfit of the day is Doctor Strange Bound.
This would work for a theme park visit, a night out or even work.
I paired this outfit with wingtip sneakers from Sketchers, but you can also pair it with a tall boot or bootie.
Dress from Amazon. Necklace from Amazon. Belt from Torrid. Sweater from Amazon.
Interior photos taken with my Echo Look device.
Happy Shopping!
Love, Kim and Scout
We recently bought a new toy for the blog, the Echo Look by Amazon.
As you can see by the video, this device is perfect for all beauty bloggers, fashion bloggers and Instagrammers.
Once you set up the device and use your phone's camera to frame the photos, all you have to do is say, "Alexa, take a picture." The device will light your photo and take the picture. It automatically goes to your app. From the app, you can save the photo, compare it with other looks and share with any of your socials. The device also has a camera and mic off button so you can mute the device for privacy.
The free app to accompany the device allows you to keep your looks and organize them by color and style.
The last feature is Style Check. You put in two of your looks and style experts weigh in on which outfit looks better on you.
So far, I really love it. Next up will be the first looks taken by Echo Look from my new closet room, a project I will outline when it is finally finished.
Until next time…
Love, Kim and Scout
*All photos and video: amazon.com


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A couple of things to think about as you learn about our research project:
1) Is small group work an essential part of learning science and engineering at the high school level?
2) If so, should science teachers teach students how to work effectively in groups or should students learn it some other way?
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Those amongst you clever enough to be Roker Report devotees couldn't possibly have missed this guest piece last week from acclaimed football historian and author Mark Metcalf. Before he is either of those things, however, he is a Sunderland AFC fan, just like the rest of us.
I must admit that one of my own personal great hopes for Roker Report is that we provide a platform to make information about our club's brilliant past as accessible as it possibly can be. The way modern football not only seeks to dismiss the pre-Premier League days but, at time, actively try and rewrite the history books entirely is a genuine irritant of mine. So when Mark offered us the chance to publish a piece recounting his memories of Sunderland and Manchester United clashes spanning 5 decades, there was no way in hell I was passing it up.
We all remember the more recent contests between the clubs, but what lets delve a little deeper. So, once again, we hand you over to Mark for part 1 of his Manchester United memories.
If you're like me then when the fixtures are announced I always look to see who we play first, and then as long as we're in the same league Newcastle and Manchester United.
Whilst the games against 'the Magpie's' have provided me with equal amounts of pleasure and pain over the last 40 years they have also, in my view, rarely touched the footballing heights of some of the games I've seen between 'the lads' and 'the Red Devils' during the same period. And I suspect those lucky enough to have watched Sunderland during this period would have to agree even if our record especially away from home hasn't exactly been a complete triumph, to put it mildly.
The first time I saw a game with Man Utd was in September 1967, a 1-1 draw at Roker Park. Not yet eight I vaguely recall that there were two goals at the start. [Brian Kidd scored in the 4th and Colin Suggett in the 5th according to the record books] Manchester United I know were the reigning league champions and had a star studded line-up featuring Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and, of course, George Best. What I do remember was the noise and being stuck in the boys' pen at the front of the absolutely immense Roker End packed with over 20,000 standing spectators.
The 51,257 that turned out at Roker Park was 11,000 less than the numbers, of which I was one, at Old Trafford, for the return fixture where home fans knew that they had to win and hope Newcastle United beat Manchester City at St James's Park for them to retain the title. Sunderland were expected to be like lambs to the slaughter, it didn't turn out like that; they took Manchester United apart with Suggett and George Mulhall scoring in a 2-1 victory.
Mulhall I know from speaking to him last year rates that one of his best goals of his career stating:- "We played exceptionally well; it was one of the finest Sunderland games that I played in during my time there. We had played some good games in the 2nd division and also in the FA Cup but the quality of opposition on that day – Best, Charlton, Crerand, marvellous players. I scored the winner with a header; I got up and headed it back across the goal right into the corner. The players used to call me Chandelier for my heading abilities, or at least some of them, as well as because they used to say I would jump to get out of the way for high tackles, but that was a really good header that one".
Unlike in 1967-68 I vividly recall the following season's match at Roker Park, mainly because my dad bought seat tickets in the Main Stand close to the Roker End where I watched mesmerised as the crowd surged first one way and then the next. It looked, and was, slightly dangerous as my dad was to find out many years later during another Man Utd match of which more later, but most people seemed to find it fairly exciting and the mood was light hearted fuelled no doubt by a few pints beforehand.
I can also recall walking to the ground behind a bunch of away fans, one of whom was wearing a denim Wrangler Jacket that had on the back a picture of George Best with 'Bestie' spelt out in metal studs.
What I remember about that game was one player, my dad's favourite, Charlie Hurley and in particular the way he hung back in his own half and waited for Alex Stepney to kick the ball before he advanced forward to head the ball back like a rocket towards the United goal with the Sunderland forwards haring towards it. Now we are not talking the soft ball of today, so to meet the ball and head it so far was I felt remarkable, I still do. Good player Hurley. He actually scored that day, an 88th minute equaliser; sadly it was for Manchester United after he couldn't get out of the way of a Nobby Stiles shot which rocketed off his head and past Jimmy Montgomery. In some ways this just made me like him even more.
Hurley wasn't around when we next played Manchester United the following year, relegation bound Sunderland grabbed another 1-1 draw at Roker Park at Xmas, Joe Baker scoring but I can't even remember if I was at the match or not.
However with Manchester United suffering the indignity of dropping down into what was then Division 2 at the end of the 1973-74 season, and Bob Stokoe's side unable to build on their FA Cup success, the scene was set for a renewal of hostilities in 1974-75. When the fixtures were announced the trip to Old Trafford was set for November 30th. This was one game that I didn't want to miss, at any cost, and although my dad had largely stopped doing away games, mainly as a result of working all over the country as a plumber during a period when jobs were once again tight in the north east this was also one he'd circled in his calendar.
One slight concern for any Sunderland fan wanting to join the thousands certain to travel was the then fearsome reputation of 'the Red Army' hordes of United fans who had started the season by invading small towns and home ends up and down the country as Tommy Docherty's side rushed to the top of the table. Wisely as it turned out my dad and his mates decided on getting tickets in the Main Stand, although not even that prevented some unpleasant incidents, especially for the foolish young United fans who tried to collar 'Big Bernie' from Peterlee and suffered the consequences.
So it was that I sat watching as groups of Sunderland fans in the Scoreboard End found themselves having to take defensive action, called 'legging it' to avoid getting a kicking, Patrick Garraghan who even today is a decent runner and another of my mates Iain Lambert both showing an ability to get out of the way of some of United's finest. It took some time for Sunderland fans to gather in large enough numbers to resist getting attacked.
Our seats were close to the then world famous 'Stretford End' and it was absolutely packed around 45 minutes before the teams came out. The colour as the United fans swirled their scarves above their heads and particularly the noise was astonishing with the chanting hurting my eardrums.
Backed by such fervour it didn't come as any surprise when United took an early lead through Stuart Pearson, but Sunderland buoyed by what I recall was an excellent performance the previous weekend and with the FA Cup performances still relatively fresh had one or two decent players in those days. These included Billy Hughes eventually capped for Scotland, and a man who should have joined him my favourite player of the time Bobby Kerr, a marvellous captain.
And it was Hughes who gleefully converted Kerr's drilled cross at the Stretford End to bring pandemonium amongst I'd guess approximately 10,000 Sunderland fans in a crowd of plus 60,000. If that was good things got even better when Hughes snatched a second after a superb 1-2 with Pop Robson.
The roar of 'Haway the Lads' could not be drowned even by the Stretford and Scoreboard Ends. Half-time 2-1 and I was sure we were going to win. The reason we didn't is pretty straight forward, a bloody awful linesman!
Sitting where we were I had a brilliant view of events on pitch and can still see the ball being played over the outrushing Sunderland back four arms aloft appealing for what was an obvious offside as Sammy McIlroy was yards behind them. The expected flag of the linesman never materialised and when Pearson crossed the ball Willie Morgan was on hand to score the equaliser and produce a deafening noise. Even now more than 30 years later I am still annoyed, daylight robbery made worse by the fact that the previous week Sunderland had had a similar goal disallowed for offside against Notts County. Of course who then scored the winning goal, McIlroy and I've hated him since.
A 3-2 defeat in a cracking game was no mean feat, and with Match of the Day camera's in attendance, this was a time when they also showed games from outside the top flight, then it was still a pleasure to return on the bus and watch the highlights of a match that the BBC watching public later voted the game of the 1970's.
The return match that season in January wasn't a bad affair; plenty of Man Utd fans I recall made the trip and were housed in the Clock Stand Paddocks with Sunderland fans seated above. There were regular kamikaze attacks whereby Sunderland nutters dived round the metal fence separating the Fulwell End from the Paddocks to launch futile raids. On the pitch the United rearguard also proved similarly impossible to penetrate and it was no surprise that the match, which was again on Match of the Day, ended 0-0.
Be sure to come back tomorrow for Part 2 of the mini-series, and be sure to check out Mark's own website for details on his range of Sunderland AFC related books, as well as general football interest ones, HERE.


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Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday alleged that chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Irrigation minister T Harish Rao were truly lying on the Pulichintala ousters issue.
Stating that the Congress leaders fought for the right of Pulichintala ousters he said that it was unfortunate on part of TRS leaders for resorting to cheap politics. He was speaking during a meeting on this issue at party office. He said, "We had meetings with the Pulichintala victims and enquired as to what they needed in compensation. Now the 130 MW power plant is evident of the struggle of Congress leaders which ruling party is hiding from public."
The rehabilitation provided to the Pulichintala oustees was unprecedented, he claimed. He said that people of the affected villages got the facilities of roads, basic amenities including water, electricity, schools and others.
Anganwadi centers and drinking water facilities were also provided, he added. Uttam further said that the oustees were provided such facilities which were not even enlisted in the 2013 land acquisition act and that farmers were continuing their cultivation activities even today.
Consequent to the efforts of Congress leaders it was made possible that the 130 MW power plant was retrieved to the Telangana besides that several lift irrigation projects have facilitated nearly 15 to 20,000 acre land be irrigated, he informed. Alleging that the Chief Minister and Irrigation Minister were spreading lies on this contentious issue Uttma said if the oustees say that they were not given proper compensation he would resign. He said that Congress government had given them Rs 500 crore compensations and ideal villages were set up. But the current government was not coming forward to release the remaining amount of the compensation, he said.
The TPCC Chief said that in case of Mallanna Sagar Telangana government must rehabilitate and compensate the affected farmers and recover the compensation from the neighboring state. It is unfair to forcefully take the lands of farmers and take their signatures by harassing them, he lamented. He said that compensation must be according to 2013 act and as per the wishes of farmers there. (INN)


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How to Work & Play During the Holidays
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving (and success on Black Friday and Cyber Monday if that's your thing). Now that all of the turkeys/tofurkeys/turduckens have been consumed, it's officially holiday season 2012. The whirlwind month of family time, catalog finishing and last-minute fourth-quarter earnings is upon us. The one thing school taught me that never seems to resonate in the real world is that the holiday season is a time for relaxing and watching marathons of Boy Meets World and NCIS (I have eclectic tastes). The holiday season is actually the busiest time of the year for most of us. We have to put away the leftover apple pie, stop watching Punkin Chunkin and focus on work. Here are three ways to do it without impacting your holiday cheer:
1. Suit Up
Take a cue from America's favorite cad, Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother, and suit up. Even if you are typically a casual dresser, the holidays give you a time to get a little fancy, or encourage your clients to add a little something extra to their corporate or uniform wears. A holiday theme or some glitter shows the celebratory spirit of the season.
2. Be Thankful
Thanksgiving is over, but the thanking season isn't. If you haven't sent thank-you cards to your clients, now might be a good time. Holiday-themed cards with well wishes and a thank-you for their business will go a long way for repeat business in 2013.
3. Prepare for Travel
I bought my flights for Vegas last week. Are ready for a pick-up in work travel? Booking my flight made me realize how much I want to do in the month and a half before the trip. Take a morning this week or next to map out your January travel plans and rough goals of what you want to accomplish before then. Getting that out of the way relieves some of the stress for the next month, because you know what you have to do and what you can leave for after Vegas.


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Our weather in Oregon has been a bit on the cool and slightly wet side this spring. But today temperatures jumped to nearly 80 degrees and it was too good to pass up. I did ride the bicycle a bit to try and get back on that horse, but the ride on the Ducati was sadly only the third ride of the year.
Paul and I are planning to hit Laguna Seca for MotoGP and do a proper vacation on motorcycles. But I'm a bit out of practice to say the least. He may be taking his BMW R75/5, but he's damn proficient on it in the corners and I really do have to work to keep up with him. I need to attend one of Roger's MotorcyclExcitement schools in the near future! (I maintain his current website and hope to make a new site for him soon!)
The good news is that Paul did such a stellar job dialing in this bike for Sears Point last year that she's ready to hit the road again with nearly no adjustments.


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It's with a sad heart that we must report that Chuck Renslow, the pioneering gay activist who opened the first gay leather bar in the country, the Gold Coast in 1958, has passed away at the age of 87.
Mr. Renslow was the founder and photographer of Kris Studios, one of the earliest and most durable of the physique houses ( and one where leather always had a place ) He was the publisher of Triumph, Mars and Rawhide Male magazines. He was a founder of Second City Motorcycle Club, the first club in the midwest in 1965.
He was among the earliest members, often among the founders, of many gay liberation organizations and movements. He was the publisher of GayLife Newspaper and has sat on the Board of fourteen different GLBT organizations. He was also the founder of many gay bars and sex clubs including Man's Country, which has survived for more than 30 years.
He is the founder, in of the International Mr. Leather, which meets yearly in Chicago and was inducted into Chicago's Lesbian and Gay Hall of Fame in 1991.
At the Leather Archives & Museum's September 2016 Board of Directors meeting Chuck was elected "Chairperson of the Board" of the world famous museum that he himself founded.
Specific details of his passing have not been released as of yet.


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This is the third bog in a series " How Therapy Helps"
Why do so many of us hold back from making changes in ourselves that we supposedly want? Usually it is fear, and that fear can be strong enough to keep us from even setting the "desired" change as a goal. Can't progress in therapy if we are afraid to make our goal a reality, right?
Why does this happen? Let's take some examples to make this understandable: Perhaps you grew up in a family were your intrinsic worth wasn't reinforced enough, and you become an overachiever to prove you are worth something. Yet, working so many hours is wearing you out, and your present family, your spouse and kids, complain that you are always at work and don't have time for them. You'd like to not feel pressured to work so much, and you agree to go to therapy so that you can change this and spend more time with the people you love. So – what's to be nervous about here?
This person might very well hold back while questioning themselves in this way: Who will think highly of me if I don't keep earning those raises, awards, etc. I don't know if I can feel good about myself if I don't keep over-achieving; I've kept that old feeling of being wrong and bad at bay by being a super-achiever. Won't other people see me differently too? Why would they respect me anymore?
It's hard to believe that therapy will change the way you see yourself, and that then you will no longer assume that others will look down at you if they are not looking up. It seems like a terrible risk.
Or take the woman who is so giving of herself to people around her. She's the one who decided to take care of her siblings so her mother could rest and her mother praised her for it. Now it seems that everyone says good things about her for being so giving. Her children think she is a great Mom, her husband is always appreciating what she does, her neighbors think the world of her. How do you give that up, especially when that is who you see yourself to be? Of course there is this problem of feeling used, of never having time for yourself, and not even knowing what is important or pleasing to yourself. The kids are soon off to college and then what will you do with your time then? Volunteer? What about pursuing something that will be truly fulfilling? But maybe that is being selfish, and who would say good things about you then? Besides, you have no idea what you would like to pursue….what if there isn't anything? Very scary prospects, yes?
It is true that therapy takes courage – a different kind of courage Therapy takes courage to look within ourselves, face our inner dragons, and let ourselves change. The good news is that change comes slowly enough for you to control yourself. A competent therapist would never expect you to behave differently in the world until you are fully ready to do so. It is the therapist's job to help you track down the blocks to moving forward, and show you how to move through them and get on with becoming the person you truly are.


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A constant is an identifier (name) for a simple value. As the name
suggests, that value cannot change during the execution of the
script (except for
magic constants, which aren't actually constants).
A constant is case-sensitive by default. By convention, constant
identifiers are always uppercase.
The name of a constant follows the same rules as any label in PHP. A
valid constant name starts with a letter or underscore, followed
by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular
expression, it would be expressed thusly:
Example 13-1. Valid and invalid constant names
<?php// Valid constant namesdefine("FOO", "something");define("FOO2", "something else");define("FOO_BAR", "something more");// Invalid constant namesdefine("2FOO", "something");// This is valid, but should be avoided:// PHP may one day provide a magical constant// that will break your scriptdefine("__FOO__", "something"); ?>
For our purposes here, a letter is a-z, A-Z, and the ASCII
characters from 127 through 255 (0x7f-0xff).
Like superglobals, the scope of a constant is global. You
can access constants anywhere in your script without regard to scope.
For more information on scope, read the manual section on
variable scope.
You can define a constant by using the
define()-function. Once a constant is defined,
it can never be changed or undefined.
Only scalar data (boolean, integer,
float and string) can be contained
in constants.
Do not define resource constants.
You can get the value of a constant by simply specifying its name.
Unlike with variables, you should not prepend
a constant with a $.
You can also use the function constant() to
read a constant's value if you wish to obtain the constant's name
Use get_defined_constants() to get a list of
all defined constants.
Constants and (global) variables are in a different namespace.
This implies that for example TRUE and
$TRUE are generally different.
If you use an undefined constant, PHP assumes that you mean
the name of the constant itself, just as if you called it as
a string (CONSTANT vs "CONSTANT"). An error of level
E_NOTICE will be issued
when this happens. See also the manual entry on why
$foo[bar] is
wrong (unless you first define()
bar as a constant). If you simply want to check if a
constant is set, use the defined() function.
These are the differences between constants and variables:
Constants do not have a dollar sign ($)
before them;
Constants may only be defined using the
define() function, not by simple assignment;
Constants may be defined and accessed anywhere without regard
to variable scoping rules;
Constants may not be redefined or undefined once they have been
set; and
Constants may only evaluate to scalar values.
Example 13-2. Defining Constants
<?phpdefine("CONSTANT", "Hello world.");echo CONSTANT; // outputs "Hello world."echo Constant; // outputs "Constant" and issues a notice.?>
See also Class Constants.


text: Hello there everyone! Don't let the title of this post deceive you. The video that I invited below will teach you a whole lot of things about moss that you can put in your aquarium. Some of you out there may know that I'm a big fan of java moss in particular. In this video, he covers drop them off as well as a whole bunch of others that are very expensive and very rare. He also talks about an interesting growing technique. Did you know some mosses can grow faster and more efficiently when they're partially submerged in water? Enjoy the video below.


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Can They Even Survive in Public Sectors?
No Shame No Accountability
8 years ago by SoPissed
Defense Secretary Carter Admits to 'Mistake' on EmailU.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter admitted Thursday that he had used a personal email account on his iPhone to send work-related emails, taking responsibility for what he termed "a mistake".
Hillary Clinton used her own email server to conduct very sensitive government business. And what she said? A Mistake.
They are not "a mistake". These guys are our top federal leaders to deal with our national security issues, and their behaviors clearly telling us they don't give it a damn about the government rules or security issues.
They are violating the government rules, and taking responsibility means to RESIGN.
But what do you expect from those shamless politicians, especially those D's? If having a sex in the Oval office with a Whitehouse intern, then publicly lied and twisted words about it, and refused to resign, everything goes!
Updated 8 years ago


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The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning begins today and runs through September 27th. I'll be attending every event possible, with the exception of a few hours on Saturday. From 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. I will have a booth at the Kenosha HarborMarket. I'll be drawing caricatures and selling some of my stuff. Come on out and bring your wallets!
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Kenosha Festival of Cartooning
This weekend is the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. It runs from September 25th-27th. In addition to attending as many as the events and seminars as possible, I will also have a booth at the Kenosha Harbor Market on 2nd Ave. Spot #35 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. I'll be drawing live caricatures and will have my books available, as well as limited-edition stickers and prints of my artwork, original art and Zombie Garden Gnomes that I've designed. Come on out and spend lots and lots of money on my stuff!
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Live caricature entertainment.
In addition to the studio illustration I do, I also draw carictures live at events like company parties, birthdays, picnics, Holiday parties, etc. I've been doing it since 1999 and I love it.
Here are a few recent examples of my live caricature work:
This fun young couple wanted to be drawn as zombies!
A fun guy at a company event.
This one was amazing. I drew every member of a 61-person family at their reunion on one sheet of paper. So much fun!
This was from a super-secret caricature "gig" at Catalano Square in Milwaukee today. I was hired to draw ONE picture, but a very special one. I was to set up in the park as if I was drawing caricatures for the public, and when this gentleman came by with his girlfriend, I would offer to draw them. Little did she know, he was using the caricature as a means to propose to her! She was surprised when I showed it to her. I've done these many times before when i drew caricatures at Disney World and they're always fun. Oh, and by the way, she said "yes".
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Republican Steve Scalise is still in the hospital after being shot and severely injured last week by a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer. The attack took place while Scalise, along with a number of other Congressmen and their staff, were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Scalise was close to death when he arrived at the hospital and has undergone multiple surgeries to stop internal bleeding. He was upgraded Sunday from critical to severe condition.
But despite still being laid up in a hospital bed, MSNBC Host Joy Reid accused the Congressmen of racism on her show (ironically named "Morning Joy") over the weekend. Further her guest, Rev. William Barber, used the opportunity to claim Republicans dislike poor people and are deliberately taking away their healthcare.
The new civility never starts with the left, despite a years of lectures to conservatives and Republicans about needing to tone down the rhetoric.
Meanwhile as Matt wrote earlier, CBS News is asking if Scalise being shot was "self inflicted."


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Emergency services have cordoned off a section of Clifton's Down this afternoon after a man's body was discovered in the Avon Gorge.
Fire and police crews were called to near Circular Road, at around 2pm today, on Monday (July 30).
A man was found dead at the scene.
Firefighters from Temple and Bedminster attended the incident and used turntable ladders to recover the body.
A witness at the scene said: "There are five police cars and four fire engines. They have sectioned off a an area of the Downs."
An Avon Fire and Rescue spokesman said: "We were called to the area at 2:01pm today. Two crews from Temple and two crews from Bedminster attended."
A police spokesman said: "We received a call for concern for welfare at about 2pm today in the Portway.
"The body of a man was reported to be near there.
"Fire and ambulance are at the scene and the body of a man is being recovered."
Most people who are thinking of taking their own life have shown warning signs beforehand.
These can include becoming depressed, showing sudden changes in behaviour, talking about wanting to die and feelings of hopelessness.
These feelings do improve and can be treated.
If you are concerned about someone, or need help yourself, please contact the Samaritans on 116 123.


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Seth Godin, as he reviews applications for his college-student summer internship, says:
I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
He goes on to comment on the dismal self-marketing skills of college students looking for a job. I agree with his larger idea here — anytime I look through resumes or try to hire someone, I've shocked at how poorly people present themselves.
But this doesn't mean you should hang up the resume. Seth concludes with:
Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those jobs don't get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever.
Agreed, but how many college kids are looking for a world-class job, a job people kill for? Most students or recent grads are just looking for a job. Opening an interview with, "I don't have a resume, because I'm an A+ kind of guy" isn't going to work out too well.
Have a good resume, but also have a personal web site with a custom domain (seriously – do you have your own domain and web site?), have a blog, do something remarkable. Follow the rules and change the rules — at once.
So I agree that true all-stars don't send out resumes to find a job. Those people work within a trusted network of contacts, and there's a body of public information about their work that's more useful than a resume can ever be. Yet most college students are not all-stars and shouldn't, in their quest to be remarkable, just ignore all existing hiring conventions.


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Our relationships speak to our own self worth
It is through consciousness, that we are able to be fully authentic and present in our relationships. Why bend and mold yourself to meet the needs of others, when you can simply be who it is that you are?
Everyone has their vision of an ideal relationship.
Our beliefs surrounding marriage (that we adopted from our families) are typically not the same as our spouse or partner. These differences can cause strain and strife in relationships. If you're like most of my clients, you tend to feel:
Whether you believe your parents had the perfect marriage or you've done everything in your power to not recreate your parent's dynamic - we learn how to love from our parents.
- Disconnected from your partner and how things used to be
- Exhausted from having the same argument over and over
- Frustrated your partner won't change his/her behaviors
- Upset your partner doesn't give you the attention you desire
- Unheard, unseen or unimportant in your relationship
- Fearful to address recurring issues in your relationship
- Annoyed your partner doesn't parent like you do
- Worried your relationship isn't going to last forever
Our work together in conscious relationships strengthens the connection with yourself, allowing you to more present than ever in your relationship. Like most of my clients, you will feel:
- Confident in staying true to yourself while being in a relationship
- Clear-minded in how you want your relationship to grow
- Capable of seeing your co-creation in the relationship
- Comfortable setting boundaries
- Connected to your needs and able to express them
- Communicative from a place of love instead of fear or anger
- Courageously open to the unknown reality of all relationships


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Best known for the astonishing "Vicksburg Blues" and "No Special Rider Blues," the barrelhousing Little Brother Montgomery was a great writer and arguably the most versatile of all blues piano men. He grew up listening to ragtime, idolized Jelly Roll Morton, and absorbed stride and boogie into his early style; while his roots remained obvious, he stayed up-to-date until his 1985 death. Eleven tracks as accompanist, four fronting a jazz band, and nine postwar solo tracks on which he sounds like two men playing at once. – John Mothland


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Ferrari upgrades fuel tank on 950bhp LaFerrari
Ferrari has begun a service campaign to upgrade the fuel tanks on all LaFerrari models delivered to customers so far.
The Maranello firm says there is no serious safety risk to owners and the procedure is not being treated as an official recall.
The job, which takes around eight hours, can be completed as part of the car's standard servicing schedule.
As standard, all Ferrari models are sold with seven years of free maintenance. The LaFerrari costs around £1.15 million and is powered by a 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine in conjunction with an electric motor.
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