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Shenzhen RICH RFID Technology Co.,Ltd is a high-technology company that specialized in the production and sales of RFID tags, smart cards and reader. It has an experienced, professional skill outstanding technology research and development, production and management team. After years of accumulation of technology research and development, we have made a great breakthrough in antenna design, reader development and automation equipment, especially in RFID tire tag,laundry tag,UHF metal tags,eas/rfid dual frequency tag,etc.
The headquarters of Shenzhen RICH RFID Technology Co.,Ltd is Shenzhen. Product applications of our company cover more than 40 countries and regions including Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.Our products have successfully entered and applied in logistics and supply chain management, apparel management, container management, the vehicle management, personnel management, library management, production management, financial management, no parking charge management, asset management, steel industry, tobacco industry, national public security, certificates anti-counterfeit, food safety, animal management and so on.
Our Clients:
SAMAUNG,CHINA POST,BMW,WAL-MART,Hapag,China Southern Power Grid and etc.
Scope of business:
IC/ID Card,Epoxy Card,Inlay, Sticker, Label, Special Tags,Eas/Rfid Tag,Tire tag,Laundry tag,Metal Tags, Ticket,Reader,etc
2016 Sales Office moved to Longhua near Shenzhen North Railway Station
2015 Factory moved to Guanlan
2014 Import one unit new Heidlberg Printing Equipment,In total three unit Printing Equipment
2013 Got Some RFID Tags Patents,inlcuding spring tag,laundry tag,tire tag,etc
2012 RFID Tag Division was established
2010 Import one unit new Heidelberg printing equipment
2009 Got National Indusrtial IC/ID card production qualification and got by ISO 9001:2008 Certificate.
2008 Smart Card Factory was established
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Business Type
Brands : RICH RFID
No. of Employees : 90~100
Annual Sales : 6 millions-7 millions
Year Established : 2012
Export p.c : 80% - 90%
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Ride Saturday, October 6
This week, Gary Johnson, the club's founder and former ride leader, will host a special ride from his new home town. Gary's ride will start at 08:00 from downtown Wayzata's Starbucks (740 Lake St E, Wayzata), which is right across the street from a public parking lot at Lake Street E and Superior Blvd. The route will go south through Chaska, Victoria, Excelsior, and back to Wayzata for about 60–65 miles. There will be a food and drink stop in Chaska or Victoria.
If you can't make it to Gary's ride, meet at 08:00 at Starbucks in Rosemount and ride with other club members. I plan to join Gary, so let me know if you want to lead the ride from Rosemount otherwise those who show up will have to figure out a route.
If you haven't already done so, please take two minutes to fill out a short survey that I put together to see how we're doing. One question asks what new club kit you want to be able to buy for next season.

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As class bird dog enthusiasts, conservationists, and parents, we promise to commit ourselves to the next generation of handlers and hunters each and every day. Follow our journey as we mentor our daughters and other young enthusiasts to share our passion.
At Blue Wing Kennel, we believe that we as breeders have an incredible responsibility to both our breeds and to our clients. There are so many factors that are part of what it means to be a class bird dog.
It's no secret that labrador retrievers are wonderful companion animals. And it's no secret that they can transform a hunt from an average day outdoors into an amazing experience of partnership between an owner and her dog by returning an otherwise lost bird to hand.
Have you ever been on a hunt and wondered why our dogs are able to find birds in one field but you come up empty-handed on the next? The answer is the habitat.


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Easter is coming early this year which probably means your children's spring break is just around the corner. More free time usually morphs into more screen time. After all, you still have a lot of work to do and your kids need to be otherwise occupied sometimes. As you think about your spring break screen time strategy (yes, you can and should have a plan), here are three important questions to ask:
Question #1: Do we use screens to come together as a family?
Technology has the power to bring a family together. You can Skype grandma or watch a funny or inspiring video clip together. But technology also has the power to drive you apart from your family members. The truth is we are rarely all around a screen at once. It's more typical to sit alone in different spaces of the home; each of us with our own screen. Dad is watching sports, mom's scrolling through posts. Sister has her ear buds in, and brother's playing video games.
During spring break, you can create screen free zones around mealtimes or on certain days like Sundays, or after 8:00 pm on weeknights unless the family is watching a movie together.
Question #2: Is the parent/child relationship primarily strengthened or weakened because of screen use?
I was in the martial arts studio recently. My husband and I are crazy enough to participate, so we're on the mat with our kids wrestling. I watched one mom who was looking down at her phone during most of the one hour class. Being down on the mat gave me her son's perspective. I did not see her look up at her son until the very end of class.
I kept wondering, "What in the world is so interesting on your phone that you can't put it down after fifteen minutes to watch your son?"
I totally understand checking email and answering texts while waiting on a child's activity. But we must have the self-control to finish our necessary tasks and then put our phones away.
We must make the conscious decision to look up.
[You can finish reading the rest of this article at For the Family. Click here.]


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Use Comparisons to Give Meaning to Your Infographics
Infographics traffic in data. They're made up of charts and graphs and drawings, all filled with facts and statistics and more facts. For all this data to be meaningful to readers, however, it has to tell them something worth knowing about its subject. Context is everything. Readers can't form opinions about issues and won't feel well informed without having information for comparison.
Here's an example. How much does the United States spend on elementary education each year? Say the total is $250 million. To the average person, that's a lot of money, and to be sure, if you found this deposited into your checking account, you'd be having a pretty good day. But on the scale of a government with 300 million citizens, is $250 million really a lot of money?
To figure that out, you could compare education spending in America with spending on other areas, such as defense, healthcare, and more. Say you found out that America spends $500 million yearly on healthcare. That's twice the amount spent on education. Now, in context, the amount spent on education seems smaller.
And take a moment to think about why comparing these budgets adds meaning. These numbers aren't just dollar amounts — they're about priorities. Comparing how much a government spends on different sectors suggests something about where that government places value.
If you compare the budgets of different presidential administrations, you wouldn't just have a picture of their financial behavior; you'd also have a sense of what each administration thinks is important. That level of meaning — that story — isn't evident without making a comparison.


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Earl Sweatshirt's "Doris" Is Weird Rap–Album Review
Tan Cressida/Columbia/Sony (2013)
Thebe Kgositsile, better known as rapper Earl Sweatshirt, has been anointed by music journalists as the next coming. Unfortunately, other than using words like "progressive" and similar verbiage to describe his music, there is no consensus on what this "coming" entails. The 19-year-old actually rose to fame in absentia; when his L.A-based Odd Future collective started gaining national buzz, he wasn't around. A self-released mixtape floated around online but Sweatshirt himself remained a mystery. The myth grew as OF members and even Lil Wayne sported "Free Earl" sweatshirts, prompting curious writers to ask "Who's Earl?"
After much speculation, New Yorker magazine's Kelefa Sanneh penned an 8,000-word feature about Sweatshirt, who, it turns out, had been sent to a reform school in Samoa by his mother, Cheryl Harris, a UCLA law professor. Also revealed was the identity of Sweatshirt's absentee father, an influential South African poet laureate. At that point, major media down to the tiniest of blogs began broadcasting Sweatshirt's pedigree to the world as the hype machine went into overdrive.
After a substantial build-up that included an exhaustive profile in the Los Angeles Times by the paper's pop music critic, Sweatshirt's debut album Doris finally arrived this week. In all of its monotone, lack-of-any-melodic-sense glory, it is progressive indeed – if "progressive" is really a euphemism for "weird." Over minimalist, self-produced beats under the alias "randomblackdude," Sweatshirt's raps are odd and often incoherent. The album is so lyrically dense and ultra-abstract that even to a savvy critic, it's the equivalent of free jazz, dissonant and disconnected, devoid of vivid storytelling or clever bars.
There are only a few intriguing moments. Over a churning piano riff on "Chum," Sweatshirt admits his dad's absence left a scar on his psyche. He also labels Tyler, The Creator a "big brother" and even gets into racial politics. "It's probably been 12 years since my father left/left me fatherless/and I used to say I hate him in dishonest jest/when honestly I miss this n***a like I was six," Earl raps. Ironically, Tyler sabotages the album's best moment with a disclaimer before "Whoa," calling it "that old f****g 2010 shit" before proceeding into his preferred garbled abstract rap.
The Wu-Tang Clan's RZA lends production for "Molasses," complete with a menacing hook in which he threatens to"f**k the freckles off your face b***h." There are some remnants of early Wu-Tang Clan here, validating the comparisons between the famed Staten Island crew and Odd Future. Unfortunately, Sweatshirt doesn't say anything memorable on the song, making it a missed opportunity.
Doris proves to be an unfocused experiment for Sweatshirt, who is as unlikely a hip-hop hero as we have seen. If there was a lot of pressure to deliver a classic debut, it surely doesn't show. With fame inadvertently engineered by his mother and an overzealous media, the 19-year-old doesn't come across as a prodigy as much as just another aloof teenager who is trying to find his voice.
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His best friend deceived him.
For which, Pat Summerall said, he will be eternally grateful.
For long, riotous years, Summerall and his best pal, Tom Brookshier, had played Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, microphone partners and night riders rollicking around the country, TV celebrities seen by millions, relentless and thirst--unquenchably thirsty--seekers of pleasurable diversions.
They would finish their telecast of a football game or some other sporting event, and then repair to the nearest, most convenient upholstered watering hole. There, night tended to dissolve into dawn before they found their way back to lodgings, sometimes their own, sometimes not.
Their memories of those raucous times were mostly scraps and blurs.
"Between us, we could usually piece together bits of evidence, but we were never really sure about all that had transpired," Summerall reflects. "People would tell us we'd had a really great time, but there were so many gaps we'd have to take their word for it."
Both having been professional football players, both assumed they were immune to the usual inevitable consequences of such reckless living. They were spared when their employer, the Columbia Broadcasting System, decided to separate them.
"If CBS hadn't broken us up," says Summerall, "I am convinced neither one of us would be alive today."
He wouldn't come to this conclusion until much later, however, and not until after he had had time to analyze the situation soberly, dispassionately.
"Brookie was--is--the closest thing I have to a brother," Summerall says. "He's the only one who could have tricked me and gotten away with it."
From a distance, Brookshier had watched with growing alarm what his former partner was doing to himself.
"I was drinking myself to death," Summerall says, with hesitating candor. "Everyone saw it but me. That's how it always is. The only one who refuses to recognize that there's a problem is the one who has the problem."
Denial is always the drunk's first weapon.
He was careful; he never went on the air inebriated. His speech was never slurred. He never toppled out of whatever crow's nest he had been assigned, whether in a stadium press box or in a golf course tower or from some suspended aerie overlooking a tennis court. Super Bowl, Masters, U.S. Open...he always showed up for work coherent and reasonably clear-eyed. Viewers heard only the familiar sparse presentation, the soft, pleasing drawl, the economy of words, the utter lack of hyperbole.
But when the work was done and it was time to unstrap, well, then he made up for lost time. With both hands.
"Jack Daniels was my running mate," he says.
His former running mate lured him into ambush early in the spring of 1992. Tom Brookshier waited until Summerall had concluded working the Masters, in April. And then he called his pal.
"I was in Philadelphia, getting ready to do a voice-over for the NFL Films," Summerall recalls, "and Brookie gets me and asks for a favor. He says he's selling luxury suites in an arena in Philly and he's got a potential client who's a big fan of mine, and if I could just meet with the guy for a few minutes that would probably be enough to seal the deal.
"I agreed, though I was less than thrilled, and Brookie says to meet him at the Stouffer's Inn in Camden, New Jersey. We meet in the lobby and he says the guy is in a room on the 12th floor. I guess I should have been suspicious but I just wanted to get it over with. And then when we opened the door and went into that room..."
His voice catches. Even after all those years, he can see the hotel room and the circle of chairs in it, each one occupied by a dear, and deeply concerned, friend.
It was an intervention.
The friends of Pat Summerall had gathered to save him from himself.
The late Pete Rozelle, the long-time commissioner of the NFL, was there. So was the president of the Mayo Clinic. So were marquee names from sports and television. So was Pat Summerall's daughter, Susan. They had been assembled there, he later learned, for two days, patiently waiting for him.
Now, from across the years, he sees that room through the mist of grateful tears. On the day of the ambush, however, he saw the room only through the red haze of anger. He didn't feel love or gratitude for those who had gathered; he felt betrayed.
Only later would he learn that
there is usually a correlation, that the deeper the problem the greater the
anger, the resentment. Friends are seen
as enemies.
"Here they were wanting to save me," Summerall says, "and I was sure they were the ones who had the problem."
Each one in that hotel room had written him a letter, in long hand. One by one they stood to read.
"I didn't hear much of anything, I was so mad," he says. "I was so furious they practically had to tie me down."
And then his daughter stood.
"She said, 'Lately I've been ashamed to share your name.' "
That was the hit that took him to his knees.
As he relates this, Pat Summerall is sitting in Eden, in a lawn chair at one of the umbrella tables on the impossibly green grass of the veranda of the Augusta National Golf Club, in the shadow of two enormous oak trees thought to be two centuries old. It is a soft early April morning, on the eve of the 1998 Masters. The air is thick with the heady musk of spring and of rebirth and recycling and resurrection. Surely there cannot be another locale anywhere better suited for assessing and for appreciating and for offering up thanks.
His friends had arranged for a private plane. It would fly Pat Summerall across the continent, to California, to the Betty Ford Clinic. He would be admitted immediately.
He agreed. Numbly. His daughter's letter had sucked most of the resistance out of him.
Tom Brookshier, true friend, made the trip with him.
"Sometimes," Brookshier says, "you just need someone to hold your hand. I told him: 'Patrick, I'll go to the ends of the earth with you if that's what it takes.' "
The usual stay is 28 days. Pat Summerall was there for 33.
"I asked them why, and they smiled and said 'You were so mad and raving that you didn't hear anything anyone was saying for the first five days.' "
Gradually, his anger cooled. He listened. Sobriety took. He became one of the clinic's most famous triumphs. Very soon he was not only a testament to the wonders of rehabilitation, he was on the board of regents of the Clinic.
In that capacity, he gives
speeches from time to time. Invariably,
he reaches into his pocket and brings out a sheaf of pages from yellow legal
pads. They are wrinkled and worn from
constant usage.
They are the letters that were written to him by those people who gathered in a hotel room to save his life.
His story has a happy ending. But it did not come without crushing cost.
There was, as there always is with great trauma, damage beyond repair.
In Pat Summerall's case, sobriety cost him a marriage. He and Kathy had been wed 35 years. They had three children--Susan, Jay and Kyle. And grandchildren.
"But my wife...my former wife...she had been in such denial for so long, she wasn't the same person. And, of course, sober, neither was I. It was inevitable, I guess, that we separated."
Four years into sobriety, he trusted himself to try again. He and Cheri live outside Dallas. She arranges his schedule, points him in the right direction.
"We're near the airport," he says. "I can get just about every place I need to get non-stop."
Pause. Smile.
"Except for Green Bay."
The entrance to their place is guarded by two large stone gates. On one is etched the address. On the other is etched the name they selected, with great care, for their homestead:
Amazing Grace.
As it does to most who play it for a living, football has left Pat Summerall with assorted souvenirs, reminders of the violence that is meted out and that is absorbed.
He is 6 feet, 4 inches tall but when he walks he is shorter than that because he tilts forward slightly. His body having its revenge against him for a career of physical indignities.
He has a slight crouch and a slight limp. When he sits, he takes his time unfolding. When he stands, he does so deliberately and slowly, as though he is carrying eggs in his pockets.
Let us take the inventory:
*Six surgeries on the left knee. "One when I was playing, five clean-outs since."
*Nose broken eleven times; what is left is flattened. "I try to convince myself that it gives character to my face."
*A long, jagged scar on the front of his left forearm, an even longer one on the back. The arm was laid completely open to repair a compound fracture he sustained during a game. "The compensation is that it blocks out the hook in my golf swing."
On May 10, 1998, he turned 67. His hair is a mane of snow, distinctive and distinguished. Most of the whiskey glow is gone now from his nose. And the spider webbing of broken capillaries has faded. His liver is on speaking terms with him. All things considered...
"...all things considered, I got off lucky. I see guys a lot worse off than me. Guys in wheelchairs. Guys hooked up to machines."
He was a natural. Strong and supple, sleek as a cheetah, he was good at any sport he tried. Not just good, All-State good. Tennis. Football. Basketball. Boxing.
He was born and grew up in Lake City, Florida. He is a true Son of the South. His grandmother was named Augusta Georgia Summerall, his grand daddy Thomas Jefferson Summerall, and that Confederate heritage is evident in his courtliness and his gentlemanly manner.
His parents separated when he was young. They wanted to send him to an orphanage, but his aunt and uncle intervened and took him in. They lived a block from the Columbia High School football field, where he would later star. Hour upon hour he kicked footballs there.
He kicked with a right foot that he came to regard as charmed. It was backward at birth, so deformed that a doctor broke it and reset it in the correct position. During a 10-season career in the NFL, that charmed foot kicked for 561 points, including 101 field goals and 258 extra points, 129 of those in a row.
He played before specialization came to the sport, before two-platoon football, before nickel packages and dime packages, in the era of the 60-minute men. He was an end on offense and an end on defense, and he place kicked as a sideline. He played before the advent of soccer-style kickers and used a squared-off shoe, kicking straight ahead, with a high chorus line follow-through.
In 1958, playing for the Giants in a blinding snowstorm at Yankee Stadium, he was sent in to try a 49-yard field goal against the Cleveland Browns. The score was 10-10.
The offensive coordinator of the Giants argued furiously against the attempt.
"You can't kick it that far, not
even on a calm day," Vince Lombardi shouted at Summerall.
So much for the pep talk.
He kicked and the ball tumbled end over end through the howling wind and the swirling snow and the bone-deep cold...and fell just over the crossbar.
The 13-10 win enabled the Giants to tie the Browns for the Eastern Division title and forced a one-game playoff between the two the following week. The Giants won that, too, and then played the Baltimore Colts in the overtime epic--Alan Ameche tromping through a gaping hole, falling into the end zone---that did more to raise the public's awareness of professional football than probably any other game ever played.
And when Pat Summerall jogged off the field at Yankee Stadium after kicking the field goal that made that game possible, Vince Lombardi was waiting for him, his lips pulled back over his teeth in what might have been a smile or a baring of fangs.
"I thought he was going to hug me," Summerall remembers. "Instead, he was screaming at me: 'C'mon, you son of a kangaroo, c'mon, you know you can't kick it that far.' "
He ended up doing a lot of things that surprised people. He won a scholarship to Arkansas. For basketball. He not only got his degree from there, he earned a Master's degree.
In Russian history.
He also taught junior high English and History.
"I fully intended to be a teacher," he says. "Football kind of got in the way."
Kind of.
He was signed, in 1952, by the Cardinals, when they were in Chicago. His signing bonus was two hundred and fifty dollars, which just so happened to equal the bar tab he owed. He played five seasons for them and then five more with the Giants, and early in the 1960's when his career was winding down as a player, he began working for CBS, first in radio, doing brief commentaries, then in television. That would enable him to make the transition from player to ex-player almost seamlessly, with none of the usual sense of separation and loss.
"I'd like to tell you that it was hard giving up football," he says, "but it wasn't. Not really. But only because I already had something lined up and because that something was the closest thing to actually playing the game. Plus, you don't get hit. And you don't have to have help getting out of bed the next morning."
"But if I hadn't been able to stay close to the game, I don't know what I would have done. I've never been in combat, but I guess football is as close to it as you can get. You develop a lot of foxhole friendships. That's the part you miss the most, I guess."
He was privileged to spend his broadcasting apprenticeship in the company of some of the profession's most luminous talents. From Chris Schenkel he learned the value of meticulous preparation. From Jack Buck he learned that the booth wasn't church, that it was permissible, sometimes even preferable, to laugh. And from Ray Scott he learned the precious gift of understatement and restraint.
"In six and a half years with Ray, I never heard him make a mistake," he says. "That was because he wanted to make sure he was right before he spoke. He wasn't in a hurry. And he felt that often the pictures spoke for themselves, and all we did was get in the way, clutter things up, speaking inanities."
That has become Pat Summerall's signature, the absence of speaking the obvious, the absence of the shrill and of the shill. Over the year--33 of them with CBS, then four and counting with Fox--he has been variously described as Perry Como and Gary Cooper. He has won the public's trust and confidence. He has become to sports what Walter Cronkite was to news, a symbol of comfort and credibility and assurance.
In the words of Beano Cook of ESPN: "If I ever got cancer, I'd want Pat Summerall to be the one to tell me."
When this is repeated to him, Summerall winces. And also blushes. He recognizes the intense compliment that is meant.
"I was blessed with a voice that doesn't offend too many people. And I've always thought I was a pretty good listener. That comes in handy when you're sharing a booth with someone else for three hours at a time."
Brookshier was his first on-air partner. Their's was an easy, natural fit.
"But I never would have guessed we'd end up together," Summerall says. "Brookie was a very good defensive back with Philadelphia, and of course the Giants and Eagles played each other frequently. I remember one game, it was all over but the shouting, everyone kind of relaxed, just playing it out, and Brookie laid a lick on me so hard that he split my helmet. I was lying there, and I looked up at him and snarled: 'What's wrong with you, you blankety-blank? What'd you do that for?' "
"And he looked down at me, almost out of pity, and he sneered: 'Why, you're pathetic. You shouldn't even be out here. You're gonna get yourself hurt.' "
After Brookshier, he was partnered with John Madden. For almost two decades they have been sports television's most famous and most effective couple. Madden is the rumpled, unmade bed, a shambling Saint Bernard wildly gesturing, splotching his sentences with his own sound effects. Summerall is the ideal antidote, serene and controlled, elegant and eloquent, cleaning up his excitable mate's verbal clutter, the terse two-sentence counterpoint. Madden will aim his telestrator at a tailgate pig roast and Summerall will remind you of down, distance and score.
"He's the least affected broadcaster I've ever known," says Madden. "No ego at all. I'm very outgoing and disorganized. Pat is very controlled and organized and that really helps me. His strength in tying things together makes up for my weaknesses. He knows what everyone has gone through, or is going through, because he went through it himself."
"He's what we mean when we say less-is-more. He makes me comfortable and I know he makes viewers feel that way, too."
They meshed from the start.
"We never worked at it, never planned anything," Summerall says.
Which, of course, is precisely why they work so well together. Nothing is forced. Rehearsals or scripts would spoil their chemistry.
"Our first game together was at Tampa Bay and John had a suit and tie on, which of course looked like a straitjacket on him. He was sweating something awful, and I thought, 'Oh boy, if his nerves are this bad and we haven't even gone on the air, this is never going to work out.' Well, it wasn't nerves. It was height. John doesn't like heights and he's claustrophobic. That's why he doesn't fly. But when the game started he put all his phobias aside and by the end of the first quarter of our first game, I knew this was right."
It was so right that when CBS lost its NFL broadcasting rights, Pat Summerall and John Madden sat together in the empty stands of the Silverdome after their last game and pondered work without each other.
"I told John, 'I don't believe I can work with anyone else.' " And he said, "I don't think I can , either. Fortunately, we didn't have to."
Madden: "Tell you all you need to know about Pat. My two sons were in college and they were going to play against each other in football--Mike at Harvard, Joe at Brown--and I wanted to go to their game. The problem was, Pat and I watch film on Saturday for our Sunday game. For me to get away for their game, Pat would have to come up early so we could watch film on Friday. Well, not only did he come in on Friday, he came in on Wednesday, so he could be at a dinner where they gave me an award."
"Do you know what was so special about that? The best gift any of us can give to each other is the precious gift of time. Our time. He gave me that, and what's even more amazing, he didn't bitch about having to do it. Me, yeah, I would have done it, but believe me I'd have bitched and moaned and complained the whole time, made sure everyone realized what a favor I was doing. But Pat never mentioned it. Not a word. Never held it over me. He just came in, did it, never made it seem like an imposition."
"You know, he tries to be always in control, the tough guy, the cool guy. Well, I know for a fact that when Ben Crenshaw won the Masters in 1984...everyone was very, very emotional because Ben Crenshaw is such a great guy and everyone was happy for him...Pat was so choked up, so glad for Ben, that he had to hand Ken Venturi the microphone for a couple of moments."
Asked to verify this, Pat Summerall nods hesitantly that, yes, that is so.
And he turns away for just an instant. He seems to brush at his eyes. But no, he couldn't be...
Because as everyone knows, football players don't cry.
Do they?


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Today we had our Junk Kouture fashion show in school. All groups had to be done there outfits by today and the models had to wear and present the outfits on the catwalk in front of the year and the school judges.
We only had fifteen minutes to get the models ready. We had to do their hair and make up and then we all made our way down to the hall where the fashion show was held.
Everyone had a specific song to go with their dress and theme. Our song was Pablo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead. We chose this song because it was an up beat dance song that was fun.
Our Junk Kouture experience is finished and we are relieved that the stress is gone but we enjoyed the experience so much!


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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) - A slowing economy brought a company-wide markdown to Sears Roebuck in the second quarter Wednesday as the legendary retail giant posted a 13 percent decrease in earnings.
Before the opening bell, Sears S, +1.01% said it earned $316 million, or 96 cents per share on the quarter, excluding non-comparable items. That's down from $365 million, or $1.05 per share in the year ago period. On average, analysts polled by First Call had been looking for earnings of 95 cents per share
After adding in previously announced charges of $810 million, the company had a net loss for the quarter of $197 million, or 60 cents a share. In the second quarter last year, it had a profit of $388 million, or $1.11 a share.
The revenue picture was about the only positive indicator as the overall figure rose to $10.23 billion from $10.04 billion.
However, the company stood by a previous forecast that full-year earnings, excluding items, will come in roughly the same as last year when it earned $4.21 per share.
Virtually all the company's major business segments - retail & related, credit & financial, home improvement services and even Sears Canada - were under profit pressure in the quarter.
Still, as CEO Alan Lacy stressed in the earnings release, "despite a very challenging retail environment, we delivered second quarter results that were in line with our expectations. In our core Retail operations, we were very effective in tightly managing inventories and costs. In addition, our credit business achieved solid growth in receivables while maintaining strong overall credit quality."
The enormous pre-tax charges that blew such a hole in the company's bottom line included "the application of new accounting standards for receivable securitizations, a charge relating to HomeLife Corporation and the exit of the skin care and color cosmetics business," Sears said.
Shares in Sears were basically flat Wednesday, losing 15 cents to $46.45.


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Areas: South Devon, Devon
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This barn conversion sits in the peaceful unspoilt Blackdown Hills designated as an AONB and is ideally located for enjoying exceptional habitats for wildlife-watching and a maze of fine walks and trails. Just 2 miles away is the Wellington Monument - the tallest triangular obelisk in the world and the landmark of the Blackdown Hills. Castle Neroche a medieval fortress in the Middle Ages where you can enjoy a delightful network of woodland walks cycling horse riding outdoor activities or just experience the good country life is only 3.5 miles away. Just 6 miles from bustling Taunton Somersets cider town with its racecourse and renowned country cricket ground. Wellington a small country town holds a twice monthly farmers market and has a sports centre and cinema. Two local pubs one of which has been awarded Devon Dining Pub of the Year in The Good Pub Guide for 2012 are 0.5 miles. Shop 2 miles.
Spacious open-plan beamed sitting room with oak floor and well-equipped kitchen/dining area. Double bedroom. Step up to twin bedded room. Bathroom/WC (shower over bath).
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Nearest AttractionsHeritage Rated from 1- 5 (low-exceptional) on historic interest
Wellington Monument - 2.3 miles (Historic Building)
Wellington Museum - 4.2 miles (Museum)
Wolford Chapel - 5.4 miles (Historic Church)
Coldharbour Mill Museum - 5.7 miles (Historic Building)
Cothay Manor and Gardens - 6.2 miles (Historic Building)
Kentisbeare, St Mary's Church - 6.4 miles (Historic Church)
Broadhembury, St Andrew's Church - 6.5 miles (Historic Church)
Holbrook Garden - 6.9 miles (Garden)
Museum of Somerset (Taunton Castle) - 8.1 miles (Museum)
Taunton, St Mary Magdalene Church - 8.2 miles (Historic Church)
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First off, the Avengers are back on the Age of Ultron with all the cast in April. There are plenty of superhero fancy dress ideas from this movie whether you dress up as Iron Man or Hulk.
Secondly, the long awaited return of the Star Wars franchise is set to release in December which is a long wait but then, don't let it stop you for organizing a star wars fancy dress party and watch all the Star Wars series, you have got about 6 episodes to catch up on.
Another franchise hitting the big screen this year is Jurassic World. You can dress up as an explorer running among the dinosaurs or don dinosaur masks for this installment set to be released in May.
For kids, there is a live action movie of Cinderella out on March and the beloved Minions are back with their own feature length movie in the summer.
Why not throw a minion party, get all the details on our blog post a while back on: Party Theme: Minions


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Ohio Is Basketball Capital of World
Forget about New York, Indiana, or wherever. Ohio is the basketball capital of the world. Why? Couple reasons. Obviously we have LeBron. Buy beyond that, we have all kinds of dance cards punched around here. Ohio State, Akron, Cleveland State, Dayton, and Xavier are all in the NCAA Tournament. This is the first time in history that all five schools have gone to the dance in the same year. Should be exciting. Especially when Ohio State and Cleveland State collide in the Sweet Sixteen. You heard it here first.
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By Anthony L. Cuaycong
FROM THE OUTSET, The Longest Five Minutes presents anything and everything unlike most other Japanese role-playing games (JRPG) on the Nintendo Switch. It makes no pretensions about what makes it tick. Boasting of pixel-art visuals and matching retro-feel audio that will have you recalling the glory days of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, it aims to provide the genre with an alternative to the graphically intensive titles that have thus far populated the hybrid system. It also highlights a unique narrative style; you are Flash Back, head of a party of four, and you start at the end, ready to take on the final boss, only to suffer from amnesia resulting from a hit during battle. You are then compelled to piece together your memory through — what else? — flashbacks, with what you get to remember incrementally allowing you and your band to stay alive and thereby defeat the Demon Lord.
And that's not all. To truly separate The Longest Five Minutes from other similarly themed releases on the Switch, Nippon Ichi Software and SYUPRO-DX have tweaked the gameplay itself. You partake of JRPG elements as you go about reliving the events leading up to the final battle, but you find yourself relieved of the usual requirements to move the story forward. Because your recollections — and, therefore, in-game experiences — aren't linear, you don't have to grind or level up and strengthen yourself and your mates for the ultimate task. You don't even need to collect items or equipment you feel may help you in your journey. Rather, each flashback represents a chapter in the story where you need to meet objectives and, along the way, earn "Re-experience" points which, in turn, arm your party with new skills and advanced spells.
In this regard, success in The Longest Five Minutes lies in the journey, not the destination. Random battles abound, but they present little to no challenge and seemingly occur just to inform you of the tools you have for that particular chapter en route to the dungeon boss fight. True, the division of labor within the party is not uncommon; one is charged with healing, another with physical attacks, another with magic, and so on. Still, most encounters are bereft of tension; unless the enemies outnumber you and until you're in front of the bosses, you won't need to go beyond the standard stuff. Heck, you could even go into auto-battle mode and not worry about the possibility of defeat. Add to this such modern-day conveniences as instant saves and inexpensive out-of-battle healing, and your journey to the Demon King is all but assured. Then again, you did begin from the end, so survival shouldn't really be a point to ponder at all.
Nonetheless, The Longest Five Minutes earns every penny of its $40 price tag with its engrossing story line, surprising capacity for humor, fleshed-out characters, and polished execution. From the art to the music to the dialogue to the gameplay, long-time gamers are treated to a product that is singularly driven by a desire to recall a time when simplicity ruled, when eye candy didn't necessarily mean cutting-edge resolutions, when worth wasn't equated with man-hours spent buffing up characters and scavenging for every last item available. It's perfect for the mobile you, nowhere near so rote as to lull you into ennui, nowhere near so complicated as to make you forget you're whiling the time away between meetings or waiting for the doctor outside his office, and nowhere near so flippant as to make it inconsequential.
Admittedly, The Longest Five Minutes isn't for everybody. Those who pine for something akin to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 would do well to look elsewhere and pick up, well, Xenoblade Chronicles 2. NIS America's latest release isn't designed to keep you involved for 200 or so hours; in fact, 20 hours may well be deemed on the long side. That said, the relative brevity isn't a mistake; rather, it's an offshoot of the developers' vision and the tightness with which they bring it to fruition. No second is wasted, and every minute brings about an aspect to be savored. In a library full of Samuel Richardsons, it's a Robert Frost that reminds you of the finest of what was — and the best of what is — just as well.


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Real Irish Wedding: Friday 17th August in London and Saturday 25th August at Montalto Estate, Ballynahinch
From London to Montalto Estate, Lisa and Michael's 10-day city chic wedding took us on a real journey…
The couple
Lisa and Michael met at a mutual friend's party in 2007 and got engaged on London's Tower Bridge with the lights of city skyline as the romantic backdrop.
Wedding planning
"When Michael and I got engaged we knew we wanted our celebrations to be different than a traditional wedding," begins Lisa. "We wanted to incorporate a very relaxed intimate ceremony with something fun for the celebrations. It was also really important to us that the wedding didn't just feel like a one-day event – we wanted the celebrations to last for more than one day- so we stretched it out over 10 days!"
The relaxed atmosphere meant abandoning many of the formal traditions associated with weddings and so there was no cake, no bridesmaids, no best man and no speeches!
The couple chose the iconic Chelsea Registry Office, Kings Road in London as the location for their ceremony; "We had always enjoyed how you could stroll along the Kings Road and visit the cafes, bars and shops all within walking distance of our hotel, so it had to be there," reveals Lisa.
10 of their closest family and friends joined Lisa and Michael for four days in Chelsea. Their afternoon ceremony was a casual affair, starting with a stroll from boutique MyHotel Chelsea, through St Luke's gardens for pictures and on to the Registry office. "This was one of the best parts," recalls Lisa. "The sun was shining and we chatted and laughed together which made it all so relaxed. Having pictures before hand meant we could go straight into celebrating after the ceremony!"
Montalto Estate
Just a few days later the couple were joined by 20 guests at the stunning Montalto Estate where the girls enjoyed Champagne brunch and pampering while the chaps donned wellies and Barbour jackets for an afternoon of shooting. This was followed by an evening of dinner, cocktails and dancing in the Carriage Rooms on the estate.
"I had the pleasure of visiting Montalto a few years back and fell in love – from then on I always knew if I ever got married it would have to be there," Lisa explains. "The romance and beauty of the Estate is breathtaking and I loved the secluded feeling you have when you are there."
Wedding dress
Lisa wore a bespoke gown by Pronuptia Belfast. " I knew I wanted a tea length dress and the city part involved some walking, so I didn't want to feel restricted. It also had to show off my coral Jimmy Choos! The lace and belt wasn't actually added until a few days before the wedding – a last minute change – but one I am so glad I made as I think the dress would have been too plain otherwise."
Michael wore a grey suit and coral striped tie by Suitor Menswear, Belfast
The flowers
Being the owners of Ferguson Flowers in Belfast, it comes as no surprise that the flowers, created by Ferguson Flowers, played a huge part on the day. Formal arrangements were a mixture of homegrown hydrangeas, vintage coloured roses, spray roses and freesia. Jars and jugs decorated the bar area with a mixture of spray roses, milk churns were filled with huge blue delphiniums and a vintage bike was decorated with trailing ivy. Tins and retro boxes of rosemary, coriander and thyme provided the finishing touches.
Photography by Jamie Trimble


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Psalm 93 Thanksgiving Meditation: Thou art from Everlasting
Psalm 93 is a joyful expression of God's everlasting power, a reminder to us in an age of over-singing about ourselves and growing concerns for our own security that God is not only "in control," but always has been--regardless of what we think or who we think is running the show on a local or world scale. And he will accomplish his purposes however he wants, through whom he wants, whenever he wants. Psalm 93 Freely Adapted By Greg Taylor
The Lord is clothed in majesty, armed with strength.
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McCain, Obama agree: health care needs fixing
2 views: Obama, McCain far apart on how to reform health care system
John McCain and Barack Obama agree that our current health care system isn't working. They say the country needs to reduce the ranks of the 46 million uninsured and provide alternatives to job-based insurance.
But any similarities between the presidential hopefuls' health reform proposals pretty much stop there.
McCain's proposal relies on the private market to heal the ailing system. He proposes eliminating tax breaks employers enjoy for subsidizing health insurance, thereby treating the benefit as a taxable wage, and offering tax credits - up to $2,500 for an individual and $5,000 per family - to help people buy their own policies in the open market.
Obama's remedy would build on the current system, requiring employers to provide meaningful coverage or contribute to a new public plan. Unlike a pure single-payer or government-run program, the public plan would give people guaranteed access to a mix of government and private plans with benefits similar to those available to federal workers.
Both plans come at a cost, the details of which remain murky. And the promise of health care reform seems all the more questionable - at least for the foreseeable future - given the current economic meltdown. The credit crisis could make the money required for an overhaul much tougher to come by, especially if a bailout for the financial sector is enacted.
But supporters of reforming the system say the country can't afford to ignore health care, a $2 trillion piece of the economy that plays an essential role in the daily life of Americans.
"The cost of doing nothing just got higher if more and more people are losing their jobs," said Len Nichols, health economist with the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy group in Washington, D.C., that supports covering all Americans. "People really want security, and part of economic security is having your health care."
The Tax Policy Center, a project of the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, estimates that Obama's plan could cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years, and that the tax-related provisions of the McCain plan would cost $1.3 trillion over the same period.
In the simplest of terms, McCain values individual control and competitive market forces while Obama values expanding government and private insurance.
"They have fundamentally different opinions of what insurance should do," said Drew Altman, president and chief executive of the Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park. Obama sees insurance as comprehensive health coverage, whereas McCain seeks to control costs by encouraging a more bare-bones approach that relies on individual choices about health spending, he said.
McCain's plan would create a far more dramatic change in how we get and pay for our health care than Obama's proposal, which could leave the current employer system intact for many workers. That's because McCain's plan gives employers a huge incentive to drop coverage by eliminating tax breaks for those benefits.
"The McCain plan is completely untried. There is no country in the world that has this plan. All bets are off," said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the health policy and management department at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Most Americans get their health insurance through employers. It's difficult to predict how many employers would stop offering insurance to their workers under McCain's plan, but authors of a critique published earlier in September in the journal Health Affairs projected 20 million people would lose their employer-sponsored health coverage, while the individual health insurance market would end up covering 21 million people.
The individual health insurance market, which now covers only about 8 percent of the insured population, has come under fire because of business practices that make it difficult for people to find and keep their coverage. But McCain's plan would allow consumers to buy coverage across state lines, which could broaden the options but weaken coverage.
Unlike the group market, people who apply for individual coverage have to go through medical underwriting. That means insurers can reject or charge higher rates to those with less-than-perfect health histories.
After McCain realized his health history would make him ineligible for his own health proposal, he added a fix: guaranteed-access high-risk pools. Available in 34 states, including California, these little-known programs serve as the coverage of last resort for people who don't have access to group coverage and whose medical backgrounds make them uninsurable in the individual markets.
The pools are funded primarily by assessments on insurers, but many of the 34 states still lack adequate funding and have had to restrict access with waiting lists, rules and coverage limits. It's unclear whether McCain's proposal to work with states to create federally funded high-risk pools will fix those shortcomings.
Obama's plan has been criticized for trying to offer too much at too high a cost. Some experts contend that his promise to lower health premiums by $2,500 for the typical family is difficult to support and that he's weak on how his proposal would be financed.
The Democratic candidate's plan requires that all children have health coverage, extending tax-funded children's health insurance programs to cover those who don't have access to private coverage. In addition to offering a mix of public and private options, Obama's plan also prohibits insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
"These hopes are too audacious to be believed," wrote Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute in the New England Journal of Medicine last week.
Antos contends that Obama's requirement that employers (except small businesses) offer coverage or contribute to a public plan will increase labor costs, resulting in lower wages and job reductions. The candidate's plan to offer coverage on par with federal-employee coverage would be unaffordable to many without generous taxpayer subsidies, Antos said.
But scholars and health experts agree Obama is taking bigger strides than McCain to address the problem of the uninsured. Obama's proposal could reduce the number of uninsured by 18 million at the start of the policy and by as much as 34 million over 10 years, according to Tax Policy Center projections.
"By definition, he is trying to provide some form of universal health insurance," said Gary Claxton, vice president with the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that studies health care issues.
Claxton estimated that the McCain plan would cost more in the early phases but less in the long run, in part because it encourages people to buy cheaper policies that cover less.
Obama's plan likely would cost more in the long run, Claxton said. "Sen. Obama is going to spend whatever it costs to bring most people into the system, and those costs will go up over time as health care costs go up," he said.
Both candidates have been accused of falling short on specifics, particularly failing to answer rising medical costs that have caused health premium increases to consistently outpace wage-gains and inflation.
There are some cost-control strategies in both candidates' plans such as the adoption of electronic medical record keeping and other technologies, disease management programs, cost and quality transparency. Both candidates support safely importing medications from other countries and increasing the use of generic drugs.
The Kaiser Family Foundation's Altman said Americans are better served looking at the philosophies of the proposals rather than the details, many of which will never see the light of day. That's because members of Congress would still have to turn the proposals into legislation, and the country is deeply divided over how to reform health care.
"You can be sure neither plan will ever be enacted into law," Altman said.
Health care differences
Comparing the candidates' proposals for health care
|John McCain
|Barack Obama
|On expanding coverage
|Opposes coverage mandates. Would provide tax credits for individuals to buy insurance in the private market.
|Mandates that all children have health insurance. Would require larger employers to provide "meaningful" coverage or contribute to public plan. Creates an exchange to give small businesses and individuals access to the public plan or approved private plans.
|On health coverage tax changes
|Would remove tax breaks for plans offered by employers.
|No provision
|On subsidies
|Would offer tax credits of $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families.
|Would make income-related subsidies available to help people buy coverage and offer credits for small businesses.
|On pre-existing conditions
|Would work with states to create a federally funded Guaranteed Access Plan for people with pre-existing conditions.
|Would prohibit insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation; jonhmccain.com; barackobama.com


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Angry Fags - Reading
by Topher Payne - Too Strange to Live, Too Weird to Die
Bennett, a speechwriter for the only out state senator in Georgia, is thrown for a loop when his boss refuses to acknowledge a recent gay bashing that left his ex-boyfriend dead. When he and his roommate decide to take matters into their own hands and "make it better" things take a turn for the worse, and then some. Angry Fags is an uncompromising Oscar Wilde-meets-Fight Club fantasia about how good ideas go bad, toxic masculinity, and how no one is really afraid of gay guys.
Ft. Catherine Buxton, Sarabeth Connelly, Nolan Ellsworth, Mnemosyne Heileman, Benn May, Mackenzie O'Connor, and James Patefield
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The Bone Girls - 2018 Workshop
by Laura Edmondson
As a small New England town gets ready for their Fiftieth Annual Fifth Grade Colonial Festival the moms of the community are shaken by a surprising discovery. Their girls, on the other hand, are more interested in zombies than new discoveries or the colonial play they're supposed to put together.
The Bone Girls is a Clauder Competition Gold Prize-winner and was included as part of Portland Stage's 30th annual Little Festival of the Unexpected.
Ft. Tonia E. Anderson*, Abigail Killeen*, Bridgette Lorainne, and Danielle Slavick*
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Am I Dead? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave - Reading
by Kevin R. Free - Too Strange to Live, Too Weird to Die
Am I Dead? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave re-imagines the Isis-Osiris myth featuring four strangers from different eras trapped in purgatory, tasked with rebuilding the bodies of men they wronged in life. The play confronts our country's long history of violence on black bodies, and examines blackness, and whiteness, in unflinching, theatrical, and caustically funny ways.
Ft. Shannon Campbell, Oronde Cruger, LaLa Drew, Callie Kimball, and Tommy Waltz
AD - Rebecca Rovezzi
Red Bike - Reading
by Caridad Svich - Too Strange to Live, Too Weird to Die
Fresh off its three-stop National New Play Network rolling World Premiere, Caridad Svich's Red Bike is brought to Portland Stage. Told entirely in the second person, this thrilling experimental work tells the story of that time you (yes you!) saw something on the wrong side of town on your red bike.
Ft. Jason LeSaldo and Ella Mock
Late: A Cowboy Song - Reading
by Sarah Ruhl
Mary and Crick have been in love since the second grade, but when Mary meets Red, a lady cowboy, just outside of Pittsburgh she wonders about things she hasn't explored, beyond the binaries of red and blue, man and woman, and husband and wife.
Part of Dramatic Repertory Company's Patron's Club Reading Series.
Ft. Joe Bearor, Bridgette Loraine, and Ella Mock.
Small Jokes About Monsters - 2018 Workshop
by Steven Strafford
Three Brothers spend an evening at a rented beach house sorting through the recent death of their father. After learning his final wishes, and with the unexpected arrival of their mother, they come to terms with the ugly truths that lie beneath the humor they share.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's Studio Series Workshops.
Ft. Corey Gagne, Erik Moody, Tommy Waltz, and Moira Driscoll*
AD - Dylan Gurrera
Kaya - 2018 Reading
by Iva Pezuashvili
Backus adapted Pezuashvili's short story Kaya into a staged reading. The story focuses on a chance encounter between a photographer and a young woman in a graveyard that shakes his life's foundation.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's 21st Annual From Away.
Ft. Peter Anestis, Catherine Buxton, and Christopher Holt.
AD - Dylan Gurrera
The Death Closet - Part of Haunting Hour 2.0
by Callie Kimball
When two women in the 14th century find themselves alone in a dark, damp room they learn about themselves, each other, and what it takes to survive.
The Death Closet by Callie Kimball was included as part of Dustin Tucker's Haunting Hour 2.0 a collection of spooky plays for Halloween.
Ft. Hannah Daly and Bridgette Lorainne.
Scenic Design - Meg Anderson
Lighting Design - Corey Anderson
Sound Design - Seth Asa Sengel
Costume Design - Kathleen P. Brown
Fight Director - Sally Wood
Assistant Director - Zoe Levine Sporer
Stage Manager - Alex Kimmel
Photos by Mat Garber
The Absentee - 2018 Workshop
by Julia Doolittle
Far out in the Milky Way, "Beacons" serve as lighthouses for warping spaceships around the galaxy. When a U.S. Space Forces ship explodes near Beacon 44.AR.90, its Operator finds herself alone in deep space with only her ship's A.I. for companionship. That is, until a persistent canvasser calls, desperate to convince her to vote absentee in the 2088 election.
The Absentee was included as part of Portland Stage's 29th annual Little Festival of the Unexpected.
Ft. Grace Bauer*, Charley Flyte*, René Johnson, and Evan Maltby*
AD - Katie Baskerville
The Nature Room - 2018 Workshop
by Nora Sørena Casey
High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the middle of a majestic natural park, sits a small Natural History Museum and Gift Shop decorated to look like the forest outside. From within, Lee is trying to stop the hasty development scheduled by the new owners. But when she enlists the help of an old friend, Lee invites more than fond memories into her forest refuge.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's Studio Series Workshops.
Ft. Catherine Buxton, Hannah Cordes, Khalil LeSaldo, Erica Murphy, and James Patefield
Dear Elizabeth - 2018 Dark Week Production
by Sarah Ruhl
Dear Elizabeth is a moving and innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history. From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they had for each other, these missives are the most intimate record available of both poets and one of the greatest correspondences in American literature.
Presented as a Dark Week Project at Portland Stage.
Scenic Design & Projections - Anita Stewart
Sound Design - Devin Bruton
Lighting Consultant - Emily Kenny
Dramaturg - Clare McCormick
Stage Manager - Alex Kimmel
Ft. Ron Botting*, Maureen Butler, Moira Driscoll*, Callie Kimball, Daniel Noel*, and Dustin Tucker*
Refuge/Malja - 2018 Workshop
by Bess Welden
with Arabic translations by Ali Al Mshakheel
Jamie, a fiercely independent Jewish-American photojournalist, calls up an old friend, Ibrahim, in the middle of the night for help and advice. She is used to covering harrowing situations, but when shoeless, motherless Waleed steps in front of her camera lens, she suddenly feels compelled to cross the professional line and assist the young refugee. Now backed into an impossible corner, Jamie needs Ibrahim to translate a message into Arabic, but hesitates to tell him the secret of why she is so drawn to the boy. This decade-spanning drama, written in English and Arabic, explores what it means to truly communicate across languages and cultures as well as within our own families, and how each of us defines and finds our own malja (refuge).
Presented as part of Portland Stage's Studio Series Workshops.
Ft. Julia Langham, Khalil LeSaldo, Tess Van Horn, and Zahraa Salim
Birdstrike - 2017 Reading
by Xavier Villanova
Villanova presents an examination of Diana and Francisco's failing relationship, told from end to beginning, along with her affair with Jesus. The play is intercut with the tragic tale of a plane crash instigated by a birdstrike that kills all but two people on board.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's 21st Annual From Away.
Ft. Catherine Buxton, Ian Carlsen, and Jared Mongeau
Things That Are Round - 2017 Workshop
by Callie Kimball
Tetherly, a dentist specializing in existential terror, and Nina, an opera singer who just might be the worst babysitter ever, square off in a strange ballet of truth or dare. But is this a game anyone can even win? Thelma & Louise meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on steroids.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's Studio Series Workshops.
Ft. Grace Bauer*, Hannah Daly, and Erica Murphy
The Cave - 2017 Workshop
by Eleanor Burgess
As winters get colder and food gets scarce, a makeshift tribe of cavemen struggles to decide whether to remain in the place they call home or head to greener pastures in the south. This new play by Eleanor Burgess shows us the lives that we evolved to lead, exploring our relationship with nature, our place in the universe, and what relationships mean in a time of survival.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's Studio Series Workshops.
Ft. Noah Bragg, Ellie Frances, Russell Kaback, Bridgette Kelly, and James Patefield
The Extraordinary Life - 2016 Reading
by Mariano Tenconi Blanco
An examination of the lives and loves of two young women from a remote part of Argentina told through letters, conversation, and poetry.
Presented as part of Portland Stage's 20th Annual From Away.
Ft. Catherine Buxton and Erica Murphy
It Can't Happen Here - 2016 Portland Stage Benefit Reading
by Sinclair Lewis
Adapted by Bennett S. Cohen and Tony Taccone
Written during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis' darkly satirical It Can't Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president's authoritarian tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who is caught in the chaos of social upheaval.
Ft. Grace Bauer*, Channon Campbell, Cameron Foley, Anna Gravél, Meredythe Dehne Lindsey, Jody McColman, Michael Rafkin, Mark Rubin, Ann Tracy, and Dustin Tucker*
Here, It's Color - 2016 Reading
by Matt Barbot
Barbot's quick-witted, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers-esque exploration pits a young woman against the thing that used to be her brother in a battle of cunning and survival.
Part of The Navigator's 2nd Annual Lift-Off Festival.
Ft. Kaela Garvin, Mieko Gavia, Galen Sho Sato
Operation Cairo - 2016 Benefit Reading
by Rebecca Jane Stokes
A 10-minute short presented for The Dirty Blondes' Bombshell Benefit.
Ft. Anjili Pal and Dondrie Burnham
The Cave - 2016 Developmental Lab
by Eleanor Burgess
As winters get colder and food gets scarce, a makeshift tribe of cavemen struggles to decide whether to remain in the place they call home or head to greener pastures in the south. This new play by Eleanor Burgess shows us the lives that we evolved to lead, exploring our relationship with nature, our place in the universe, and what relationships mean in a time of survival.
Developed as part of Everyday Inferno Theatre Company's 2016 Playwright & Director Lab.
Ft. Mary Baynard, Zachary Clarence, Briana Sakamoto*, and Daniel Morgan Shelley*
Deliberations - 2016 Play-in-a-Day Festival
by Hope Weiner
Part of The Dirty Blondes' Play-in-a-Day Festival: The Comments Section. Deliberations was an intense exploration of courtroom dramas, the internet, and sports metaphors that were arranged in a delightfully physicalized tête-a-tête in the short span of about 12 hours.
Ft. Molly Elizabeth Bennett, loise Edwards, and Tyler Gardella
Derek and the Sheep - 2015 World Premiere Production
by Nora Sørena Casey
composed by Christopher Dennison
Derek and the Sheep is about community, time-travel, and siblings. It follows Derek, a young man thrown into the future, who finds his community has changed. There he meets Alice, a young girl, and Sheep, a... sheep(?). Derek tries to find a way back to the past to change the future, and Sheep revels in the idea of escaping her currently unhappy life. Will they make it into the past? Will the future stay the same? Music, Dance, and sheep tell a story about trying to find home.
Part of the Motor Company's 2015 Communal Spaces Garden Play Festival.
Ft. Koryna Flores, Marc Hem Lee*, Alison Shilling, and Christopher Dennison
Let's Play Play - 2015 World Premiere Production and Remount
by Ben Ferber
What happens when it's your job to be friends with someone? When do you compromise artistic integrity for cash? Two Internet personalities skyrocket to stardom with a new "Let's Play" video game show. But when a female gamer joins them, things get ugly. And then even uglier.
Let's Play Play is about selling out, and how we use Internet personalities as replacements for real friends. It also embodies the infamously horrifying vitriol of YouTube comments.
Part of the 2015 Game Play Festival.
Part of the 2015 FRIGID Festival.
FRIGID New York Sell Out Award
Ft. Paul Karle, Brittany K Allen, and Jonathan Iglesias*
"Easily the most interesting production of this year's bunch is Let's Play Play." - Matt Hawkins, Attract Mode
"Let's Play Play stages a layered snapshot of Internet culture in action... A production that skillfully weaves together in-person, online, and text interaction... Small flourishes give additional force to the big-picture questions and critiques that Let's Play Play puts forth."
- Dr. Leah Richards & Dr. John Zeigler, Culture Catch
"Let's Play Play deals nicely with this IRL/URL tug-of-war, something to think about the next time you try to have an opinion on the internet."
- Liz Richards, Indie Theater Now
Stage Whispers: Founders - 2014 Reading
by Nora Sørena Casey, Shannon Stockwell, and Ella Wrenn
Curated and directed for the second series of staged readings. This evening featured selections of three plays in progress by founding members of PowerOut Casey, Stockwell, and Wrenn: Dreams of Malinche, The Continental Point of Inaccessibility, and Song Cycle
Stage Whispers: Sarah Kane - 2014 Reading
by Sarah Kane
Curated and directed for the second series of staged readings. This evening featured selections of three of Sarah Kane's plays: Phaedra's Love, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis
The Shadow - 2013 Workshop
by Shannon Stockwell
The Shadow, written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1847, is widely known as one of his darkest and most disturbing fairy tales. Taking inspiration from both Tennessee Williams' poetry and Hans Christian Andersen's prose, Shannon Stockwell's creative adaptation explores love, art, and what it means, in the most literal sense, to be human.
Ft. Spencer Kiernan McGrath, Katie Reid, Sean Senior, and Ann Tracy
For the Lulz - 2013 World Premiere Production
by Ben Ferber
A politically-motivated black hat hacker named poof begins attacking social networks. Fay, a stalwart tech journalist, Gale, a professor and embezzler, and MrJ, a patriotic grey hat hacker, decide to take him down for fame, for revenge, and for the lulz.
For the Lulz is a thriller based on real hacking, exciting Internet adventures, and online intrigue.
Nominated for the PEER Award for New Frontiers.
Ft. Caroline O'Connor, Shannon Stockwell, Eric Darrow Worthley, and Ella Wrenn
"[For the Lulz's] fast-paced dialogue abounds in the clipped syntax of Twitter, technical explanations (DDoS, "phreaking"), and the wild-west obscenities of the blogosphere ("Nice tits, cuntmuffin!"). It's exhausting, but it does nicely express the thrills of online anonymity and alliances, as do its capable actors, who are energetic and quirkily comic."
– The Portland Phoenix
Stage Whispers: Sarah Ruhl - 2011 Reading
by Sarah Ruhl
Curated and directed the first in a series of staged readings. This evening featured selections of three of Sarah Ruhl's plays: Melancholy Play, The Clean House, and Dead Man's Cellphone.
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - 2011 Thesis Production
by Moisés Kaufman
A dramatic examination of a historical moment, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde attempts to piece together the series of events leading up to and following after Oscar Wilde's three trials in relation to his romance with Lord Alfred Douglas. Using multiple (often contradictory) sources Kaufman examines the nature of truth and art in this intricate ensemble piece.


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- mCloud establishes AssetCare™ connectivity to Heiwado Shopping Center in China, the first in a journey to connect over 1,000 malls with partner SCN
- In parallel, mCloud's Wind team is moving forward on two wind projects using AssetCare analytics in continental Europe and China
- Newly-announced partnership with Fulcrum Automation Technologies is set to target an initial 200 oil and gas assets in North America and the Middle East
VANCOUVER, April 9, 2019 – Universal mCloud Corp.(TSX-V: MCLD) (OTCQB: MCLDF) ("mCloud" or the "Company"), a leading provider of asset management solutions combining IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence ("AI"), and analytics, today provided an update on the progress being made across all of its business segments, highlighting numerous advances in executing its business plan around the world:
Smart Buildings: First shopping center connected to AssetCare in expansion effort to over 1,000 malls across China
Within mCloud's Smart Buildings segment, the Company announced that AssetCare connectivity has been established for the Heiwado Shopping Center in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. This marks a major milestone in the implementation of a nine-year shopping center contract originally announced on January 2019 with partner SCN Ltd. ("SCN").
With mCloud's AssetCare solution, the Company will begin continuous management of the store's HVAC systems using AI and analytics – delivering ongoing energy savings, curbing the costly 41% of energy currently used by Heiwado at this mall for heating and cooling.
The Heiwado Shopping Center represents the first in an expansion effort with SCN to take AssetCare to over 1,000 shopping centers across Greater China, representing a portfolio of over 40,000 connectable assets.
Wind: mCloud moving forward with delivering AssetCare analytics for two wind projects this month
On the back of mCloud's recently announced strategic collaboration with Britwind, an affiliate of UK's Ecotricity, in March 2019, mCloud's Wind team is applying AssetCare analytics to improve wind turbine availability and extend the health of wind turbines associated with two wind projects, one based in continental Europe and another based in China.
In addition to the over 1,000 Endurance E-series wind turbines positioned for upgrades between mCloud and Britwind, these projects represent additional opportunities for mCloud to access a further 90,000 wind turbines as connected assets.
Oil and Gas: mCloud and Fulcrum Automation Technologies plan initial roll-out targeting 200 assets across North America and the Middle East
Related to the Company's February 2019 announcement of a US$15M global service agreement with Fulcrum Automation Technologies ("Fulcrum"), mCloud and Fulcrum are jointly working on a plan to target at least 200 oil and gas assets as part of a greater strategy to access thousands of field assets in North America and the Middle East.
Using the Company's AssetCare platform, mCloud and Fulcrum will apply AI and analytics to a variety of maintenance and inspection applications that support these assets, from monitoring fugitive emissions to assisting field workers in field repair and overhaul activities.
"Getting AssetCare connected to a multitude of assets across all segments of our business is a remarkable start to 2019," said Russ McMeekin, mCloud's President and CEO. "We look forward to making even more progress over the course of this year as we incorporate more into AssetCare."
As announced on March 28, 2019, mCloud will hold an earnings call to discuss 2018 performance and provide forward-looking insight on April 24, 2019. Conference details will be provided at a later date.
About Universal mCloud Corp.
Universal mCloud is creating a more efficient future with the use of AI and analytics, curbing energy waste, maximizing energy production, and getting the most out of critical energy infrastructure. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with technology and operations centers in San Francisco, CA and Bristol, PA, mCloud takes advantage of IoT sensors to bring data from connected assets into the cloud, applying AI and analytics to maximize their health and performance. Today, mCloud offers complete asset management solutions to four distinct segments: smart buildings, wind energy, utilities, and oil and gas. With over 100 blue chip customers and more than 28,000 assets connected in thousands of locations worldwide, mCloud is changing the way energy assets are managed. For more information, visit www.mcloudcorp.com.
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Gulls Along Lake Michigan
Black Swallowtail
The Music of Summer
Yellow Swallowtail
ButterflyYellow Swallowtail
Can You See Me Now?
At first I thought it was real!
Robin in Winter
Robin Banquet
Welcome to Spring
Fox at Sunset
Sly fox. Dinner awaits you.
Stalk at dusk for full relief.
From Landscape
Bison in Blue Field
The Pond Swan
Peaceful now and serene.
Calm hiding strength to flee.
Just Out of Grasp
Raven. Rise from ink.
Beyond my grasp lies your life.
Wild and Free
Break free. Escape from the mist.
Worlds of wonder await you.
A Little Calculation
I think. Yes I can.
Swim away. No island holds.
Montana Bison Herd
Range herd. Bison on the move.
Spread with comfort grazing deep.
Two Hens
French hens. Scratching for supper.
When will your labors produce?
Swan in Winter
Ice breaks. Crystals shine.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Le Domino in Cannes, France
Prix fixe: €13.90, two courses.
Wandering along the streets of old Cannes looking for where the locales eat, we stumble across what must be the only gay run restaurant in town. Perhaps this subtle attractive force could be a new fundamental one - mediated by the homon force-particle? We walk up another one of those charmant winding streets in the suquet to find the only cafe amongst four with bustling tables. Two 40+ trim men with tight cotton t-shirts, identical cargo shorts and military-style haircuts natter away to their customers whilst taking orders. One spots us and cheekily quips, "Depechez-vous vous asseoir, uh! (Hurry up and sit down, you two!)" The food is a good price and of good quality - good value compared to 'film festival prices' down on the Croisette. It's so easy to serve fantastic food when you have great ingredients - decent produce, treated well. I chose a mignon de porc avec sauce miel (pork eye-fillet with honey sauce) and a tarte aux fraises (strawberry tarte). This was cooked well, without ostentation and good value.
Throughout the meal I tried to gather evidence, for I wasn't quite 100% sure, that our hosts were indeed Friends of Dorothy. I decided definitely when Monsieur Un came over and pretended to do a little striptease with his cargo short on the front step to his customers. They pegged us too as Monsieur Deux bustled around and dropped a grand wicker basket of gay-club flyers and other community information declaring in hushed tones, "I'll give you some addresses to go out to, ok?"
It felt so welcoming to find 'instant' community. I've never encountered such warmth from gays before. As their friends and acquaintances arrived, we were introduced to his 'sister' and his 'aunt'. A painter friend asked if I would pose nude for him "or even in your underwear will be ok, no?" Flattered, I didn't think I had the time and politely declined.
4 comments:
- no milk said...
i think it's much tougher to understand whether people from other cultures are gay because some of the key indicators like grooming and culture are more prevalent there. glad you were able to find some instant culture, it is our community that we cling to and accepts us ultimately.
- Puspha said...
Just stumbled upon ur blog. Cool blog u have here.
- David said...
Thanks Paul - there used to be a TV show Eurotrash hosted by Jean-Paul Gaultier and one of the segments had pictures of random men on the street and you had to pick if they were Gay or just Eurotrash based on their clothes.
But yes, European men are so well-groomed and cultured compared to British counterparts. And the Germans have this uncanny eye-contact thing; every German guy I've met I've thought was keen on me but always turns out that's just how they interact with everyone.
Welcome Puspha, hope you enjoy it.
yes i have been to this restaurant those guys are so great and the food is simple but good and the price very light
very typical from south of france