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For three-straight months the Boston Bruins were the hottest team on the planet, rattling-off a superlative record of 29-5-4 between November 15 and February 16. They were firing on all cylinders, brushing many of their opponents aside with ease. Nineteen of those 29 wins were by two goals or more and 14 of them were by at least three goals. Dominance.
But somewhere between their 5-2 manhandling of the Calgary Flames on February 13 and their next contest four nights later their mojo seems to have abandoned them, like Austin Powers in the "Spy Who Shagged Me." The sequel. With Heather Graham. Remember how Dr. Evil steals his mojo?
Anyway, Boston's recent five-game road trip took them from Western Canada through Western New York. It also took them from first-place in the NHL (point-percentage) to fourth, with the B's picking up just four of a possible 10 points.
Spinning Their Tires
The trip was bookended by losses to teams with the second and fourth-worst records in the league (Vancouver and Buffalo) by a combined score of 10-2.
In between the two drubbings was a contest at the Saddledome in Calgary wherein Tuukka Rask stood on his head for the entire third period and overtime until Brad Marchand's breakaway winner secured two points. Twenty-four hours later the Bruins needed a Herculean effort and miraculous three-goal third period to triumph over the wayward, sub-.500 Edmonton Oilers. A loss to the Auston Matthews-less Toronto Maple Leafs came three days later.
Finally back on home ice Tuesday night, the boys in Black and Gold needed overtime and another three-goal comeback to vanquish the Carolina Hurricanes. Sure, they were without star center and Hart Trophy candidate Patrice Bergeron, but their performance over the previous five games removes "Bergie's" absence as a legitimate excuse.
Four of those six teams were outside the playoff bubble at the time of each respective contest and that number has grown to five as of this writing.
The fact that Boston has been able to pull a couple wins out of their hats despite looking out-of-sorts for large swaths of each of the last six contests is, in its own way, encouraging; ugly wins also count for two points. And their ability to come from behind again and again is indeed a part of their Stanley Cup DNA. But needing to do so with this much frequency versus teams outside the playoff picture has ceased to resemble a virtue and has begun to look like kinks in the machine.
So, what gives?
Law of Averages & Chatter
The most even-handed and level-headed assessment would be that the Bruins are slowing down because of course they are. That 29-5-4 stretch would be unsustainable for even the most legendary of teams. That's a rate of 134 points over an 82-game season, a point total yet to be matched in NHL history (the 1995-96 Red Wings' 131 points are the closest total).
The law of averages was bound to kick in at some point and it appears that time is now.
But it's also probably not a coincidence that Boston's funk has neatly coincided with the trade deadline, a time of year rife with anxiety and uncertainty as lives are upended and families uprooted. In 2018, in a sports-mad town like Boston, it would be foolish to assume the team's gaggle of twenty-somethings and their entrenched elders were impervious to the incessant rumors, chatter and criticisms that comprise roughly 31% of the atmosphere in the Greater Boston Area.
Now that the deadline has come and gone the Bruins will attempt to gather themselves and put their collective best foot forward, with each individual in the room knowing for sure that they're not going anywhere.
"Special" Teams
Talking about Boston "losing its mojo" and discussing the law of averages isn't terribly tangible analysis. But the team's struggles on special teams, on the other hand, have been as tangible and distinguishable as Tomas Plekanec's turtlenecks.
With the league cracking-down on slashing infractions, opportunities are frequent on both sides of the coin. If a team isn't taking care of business on special teams in 2018 then they probably aren't winning many games.
Power Play
For the vast majority of this season Boston's power play has vacillated between "serviceable" and "lethal." There have been sporadic periods of ineffectiveness, but there have also been eruptions with the man-advantage, such as the 4 power play goals scored versus Vancouver on October 19, 0r the three scored versus Ottawa on December 30.
The top-heavy first unit of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand, Ryan Spooner and Torey Krug featured three snipers on pace to eclipse 30 goals, a half-wall playmaking wizard and a defenseman on pace to eclipse 50 points for the second-consecutive season.
Their power play was fixture within the NHL's top ten and even included a brief flirtation with the top five.
But of late the wheels have fallen off, caught fire, rolled down the mountain and wound up in a scummy pond just south of Framingham.
Since their trip to Vancouver the unit has plummeted from 10th to 19th in the league, having failed to convert on their last 18 chances with the man-advantage. Eighteen. That's a figure reminiscent of the organization's 2011 squad, whose power play ineptitude made history.
With Patrice Bergeron sidelined with a fractured foot and Ryan Spooner now a member of the New York Rangers, revitalizing the unit will fall on the broad shoulders of newcomer Rick Nash and his beleaguered teammates. If the power play goals don't start trickling back in you can rest assured that the losses to also-rans and furious comeback attempts will continue to pile up.
Penalty Kill
Struggles with the man-advantage will come as little surprise to those who follow the Bruins; with few exceptions of late the team has a rather rich history of fruitless power plays. Struggles when shorthanded, however, are significantly more rare.
Last season's personnel gave Boston the top-ranked penalty kill in the NHL. This year's edition picked up right where they'd left off, garnering a top-two ranking for the entirety of Boston's incredible three-month stretch.
But like their power play counterparts, the "pk" unit's effectiveness has waned drastically since embarking on their trip through Western Canada.
What has long-since been a staple of Bruins hockey has recently devolved into a roller coaster of unwelcome excitement, conceding a goal on six of their last 15 deployments; a success rate of just 60%. Their ineffectual play when the team is at its most vulnerable has dropped the unit from second to 13th in the NHL in a span of just 11 days.
Defensemen Brandon Carlo and Adam McQuaid, both fixtures on the penalty kill, have had a particularly rough-go of things lately. Given their respective limitations offensively, continued struggles while killing penalties could eventually lead to press box duty for both now that newly-acquired Nick Holden is in the mix.
Teams that simultaneously fail to cash-in on their own opportunities while getting scored on at a 40% rate are dead in the water. It's no wonder the Bruins have played .500 hockey against mediocre competition over the last two weeks.
Division-rival Tampa Bay has scored the second-most power play goals in the NHL this season. Fellow Atlantic Division foe Toronto has conceded the second-fewest power play goals in the league. Boston's hopeful trip to the Stanley Cup Final will go through one (if not both) of those locales, meaning the time to right the special teams ship in anticipation of the playoffs is yesterday.
None of this is to say that it's time to sound the alarms. There are logical explanations for Boston's recent downturn in play and some are even beyond the team's control. After all, these guys have set the bar quite high for themselves.
But that high standard and the accompanying expectations forced general manager Don Sweeney's hand in deviating from the script and wading into the NHL's rental market; at a steep cost, no less. In order to make good on that investment and a stellar 60-game start, these issues must be treated as such: Issues. Specifically, ones that need addressing before bad habits take root and confidence is lost.
This Bruins team is talented and driven enough to rattle-off three-goal comebacks against the likes of Edmonton or Carolina. But springtime deficits to Tampa Bay, Toronto or Pittsburgh are unlikely to be quite so surmountable.
Despite being New England's Son (hailing from the Great State of Connecticut), Joe currently resides in Los Angeles, California. One of his earliest memories is of the Bruins losing in the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals, setting up a lifetime of crushing disappointments. He feels genuine sadness for those without a passion to rival his unwavering love for the greatest game on earth.


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A EV Battery Charger Using a PFC based Bridgeless SEPIC Converter
Abhishek Kumar
Dept of EEE, SKIT, Bangalore, India
Sandhya B
Dept of EEE, SKIT, Bangalore, India
Ranjitha V R
Dept of EEE, SKIT, Bangalore, India
Megha M
Dept of EEE SKIT, Bangalore, India
AbstractConventional PFC circuits in EV (Electric Vehicle) battery chargers have the efficiency limitation. To overcome this issue,their were lossess associated with thw DBR,hence a bridgeless single ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) with improved power quality is presented in this paper. Input current drawn by the charger shows a unity power factor operation in a complete switching cycle. Due to elimination of DBR, conduction losses are significantly controlled. The overall performance of the proposed bridgeless SEPIC converter is analysed with the help of various operating modes.The battery is charged at constant current/ constant voltage control mode and it provides satisfactory results for inherent power factor correction, thus, improving overall performance of the charger.
Keywords Electric Vehicle; Bridgeless system SEPIC Converter; Diode bridge rectifier (DBR); Power Quality; Constant Current/Constant Voltage (CC/CV) control
The recent and upcoming vehicle technology comprises an energy storage system known as BESS (Battery Energy Storage System), which charging system incorporates certain power electronic interfacing circuit as illustrated. These power electronics circuits that regulate the charging voltage for BESS, should be designed efficient enough to maintain international power quality (PQ) standards at the input side of the AC-DC converter, as given. Being a key component of an EV charger, the front-end PFC converter should be designed to achieve the efficiency and size goals along with inherent unity power factor operation. In order to have maximum power supply efficiency, lots of efforts have been made in literature to design bridgeless PFC converter topologies which reduces switches conduction loss by eliminating the diode bridge rectifier (DBR) and thus, making the current to flow through less number of semiconductor switches. For power factor correction, conventional boost converter, with diode bridge, has been the foremost choice in power electronics equipment but at high power levels, boost converters involve some severe issues like converter efficiency degrades due to increased bridge losses, increased size of inductor and increased high frequency ripple in DC link capacitor if a low value of inductor is selected.. A comprehensive study of various single phase AC-DC PFC converters has been discussed in with their procedures, and control techniques
employed and performance verification in different applications. Because of low conduction losses, reduce input current ripple, good efficiency at low level of input voltage and lower switch voltage stress.
Fig. 1. Block diagram of A EV Battery Charger Using a PFC based Bridgeless SEPIC Converter
The proposed system configuration for EV battery charger, as shown in Fig.1, incorporates two SEPIC isolated converters to be operated in alternate cycles of supply voltage, one at a time. An input DBR is eliminated at the input so that conduction losses associated with the switching devices are significantly reduced.
Fig. 2. Schematic of Bridgeless Isolated SEPIC PFC Converter used for battery charging
A unity power factor operation as well as improved load regulation is achieved with specifically designed components for the proposed converter and constant current/ constant voltage control mode of charging has to be implemented with the help of two PI (Proportional and Integral) controllers. The above mentioned controllers perform well to provide fast dynamic loop response and minimum steady state error to regulate DC link to the desired reference value so that a continuous current flows into the battery.(2)
The principle of operation of the proposed bridgeless PFC converter to provide unity power factor operation as well as an input current free from any harmonics so that international standards are not violated. Two different subsections, namely, operation during a complete cycle of supply voltage and operation during a complete switching period has been shown in Fig. 3-7. Fig.8 shows the associated switching waveforms during both the subsections of converter's operation.
A. Operation during complete cycle of operation.
The proposed bridgeless topology uses two switches which are gated to operate one by one in alternate half cycle of AC mains voltage (i.e. positive and negative cycles respectively). During positive half cycle of supply voltage, switch S1 is turned ON which makes diode D1 forward biased as depicted by
Fig. 3. MODE:1 During complete cycle of the supply voltage(positive half cycle )
Fig. 4. MODE:2 During complete cycle of the supply voltage(negative half cycle)
Fig. 5. MODE:3 operation during a complete switching period
Fig. 6. MODE:4 operation during a complete switching period
Fig. 7. MODE:5 operation during a complete switching period
Fig. 8. Associated switching waveformsduring positive or negative half cycle of the supply voltage. switch S2 remains OFF due to gating sequence generated by PWM control. After that, in negative half of the supply voltage, switchS2 and diode D2 come into conduction giving a reverse bias to diode D1 since switch S1 is in OFF condition, as depicted in Fig. 3(b).
The proposed circuit operates in three different modes as indicated in Figs. 2(c), (d) and (e) during positive (or negative) half of the supply cycle. During mode-1, when switch S1 is in conduction, diode D1remains OFF because of HFT polarity. In this duration, HFT inductance stores the energy supplied from the input source. The output capacitor feeds to the battery load, as shown in Fig.2 (c). When switch S1 comes into OFF state as indicated in Fig. 2(d), the energy in magnetizing inductance discharges through a diode D1 and it become forward biased, freewheels the HFT energy to the load. Fig. 2(e) shows the discontinuous operation of the proposed converter when a current in magnetizing inductance ceases and diode D1 again comes to OFF state. Similar
operation for the converter is seen for the negative half of the supply voltage, when switch S2 comes into conduction.
Design procedure of PFC circuits.
This section elaborates the design expression and control strategy used for charging along with representing Thevenin's equivalent model of lead acid battery. A 1kW PFC bridgeless SEPIC converter is designed for EV battery charging with the specifications given as: Output power (Pout) = 1kW, supply voltage (Vs) = 220V, DC link voltage (Vb) = 65V, line frequency (f) = 50 Hz, transformation ratio of HFT (N1:N2 )= 1:1.015, permitted ripple current in inductor L1 (iL1 )= 50% of I1, permitted ripple voltage in intermediate capacitor C1(Vc1) = 25% of Vsav (average value of input voltage), (Vdc) permitted DC link voltage ripple = 10% of Vdc, switching frequency, fs= 50kHz. Battery rating: 48V 100Ah lead acid battery.
Design of Lead Acid Storage Battery
Fig. 3 shows a lead acid battery equivalent model, implemented in MATLAB/Simulink environment with the design parameters defined for the application.
Fig. 9. Design of Lead acid storage battery
The Thevenin's equivalent circuit arameters are explained as a DC voltage source Vb, oc,, having a value of nominal battery voltage, an equivalent series resistance Rs of 0.01 that also includes internal resistance of battery, Rb, defined as self discharge resistance having value of (10k) and an equivalent capacitor Cb which represents the storage capacity of the battery. The value of Cb for the battery storage capacity given in kWh is estimated as,
where,Vb,oc,max and Vb,oc,min are having the values of battery voltage in fully charged/discharged conditions i.e. 56V and 42V for a 48V 100Ah battery. Substituting the rated in (1), the estimated value of storage equivalent capacitor is obtained as
Design Procedure of Proposed Bridgeless PFC
1kW, 65V bridgeless PFC converter based EV battery charger with an isolated SEPIC converter topology is designed to operate in DICM depicted by discontinuous magnetizing inductor current in the end of each switching cycle. Various design expressions for different components of the proposed EV charger circuit are given here along with the design
specifications chosen for the application. The operation of the proposed bridgeless SEPIC converter during both the halves of the supply is analyzed as below: The average value of input supply voltage, Vs is given by,
Duty cycle for the application is considered as 0.25 in order to obtain 65V DC from rated 220V AC supply. Based on the value of the duty cycle, turns ratio of the HFT is being decided
Where, Vb is the specified DC link voltage at the output. Putting all the design value in above expression, HFT turns ratio N1/N2 comes out to be 1.015. The value of input inductor is given by
Where, fs is the switching frequency considered as 50kHz for the purpose. Substituting all the values in input inductor is estimated as 0.242mH for 50% ripple in input current
Here, Lm1 and Lm2 are given as HFT inductances gt /for the two isolated transformers and Ro is defining a battery load estimated as
The critical value of HFT inductance to operate under boundary conditions, is calculated as,
The value of Lm is selected as 30Husing so that current through the inductor ceases at the end of each switching period.
The intermediate capacitors C1 and C2 are designed to operate in DCM consisting a ripple of 25% in intermediate capacitor voltage,
Where, voltage across the intermediate capacitors is the average supply voltage due to DCM operation of the converter in steady state condition. A .08F capacitor value is chosen to operate C1 and C2 into DCM. The DC link capacitor to supply rated battery load for 10% ripple in output voltage, is estimated as,
Replacing the notations in (10), with the numerical values specified for the proposed converter, the value of the output capacitor is given as,
Therefore, a 4mF capacitor is selected to maintain the charging signals at specified levels and to control DC link voltage constant around 65V.
Fig. 10. Simulation circuit for SEPIC converter
We have propsed the a PFC bridgeless SEPIC converter used with the specified values. according to the standard specifications. we have got the waveforms that we have verified with the hardware.
The input voltage that we are giving in the simulation is 440(p-p).output that we are getting is at the battery side is 48v.a constant voltage.
Fig. 11. INPUT VOLTAGE AND CURRENT400V(P-P)
Fig. 12. Output Voltage48v(Constant)
In hard ware we have used the same values as that of the simulation.ie at the input side we are giving 100v(p-p).and we have got the battery output 12v constant.
Fig. 13. Hardware circut
Fig. 14. 100v(P-P) Output Voltage
Fig. 15. 12v(constant battery output)
Simulated results have implied the fact that proposed PFC converter is fast enough to reject any disturbances in the input AC mains voltage so that a constant charging current flows into the battery maintaining desired DC link voltage. In hard ware we have used 100v(p-p) & output that we are getting from the battery is 12v.In simulation we are giving 400v(p-p) & output that we are getting is 48v. The main intension is to make power factor to unity,& we have reduced the over all size of the components. We have compared the both simulation and hardware.and results is verified with the wave forms.
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Our Centre Community: Raven Hume
In 1991, I was living in Vermont as an undergraduate student and college hockey player when I started to hear tell of "a yogi who was living up in the hills nearby." My friends would return from visiting with him with soft, glowing eyes, warm hearts and kind laughter. Despite being a musclebound jock, I still had a huge soft spot, and their smiles and radiance spoke to a deep part of me. They would tell me about how he took them into his tiny house, how it had a wood burning stove, how his family was there and there was "macrobiotic food" cooking away. I was entranced, but somehow couldn't generate the avenues to make it up there. If I recall correctly, I even tried to find the place, asking around at the corner store in the area where I thought he lived – to no avail. Ultimately, I had to content myself with learning from my friends one of the techniques he had taught them. It was called, "alternate nostril breathing." I graduated without meeting this man, but these were the first glimmerings of my practice of yoga and of a particular magnetism which I ended up finding out more about only recently.
I've always had an appreciation for radiance. When I was three or four, I remember walking up the driveway of our suburban Toronto house and seeing the neighbours walking down theirs. Something about them was radiant and peaceful and moved me enough to tug at my mother's sleeve and communicate a wondering. It must have been something along the lines of, "wow, what's up with them?!" Because she looked at them, then me and said, "oh… they don't smoke or drink." It wasn't really a comment about smoking or drinking per se, but rather said something about discipline, about the possibility of living an alternative life… a life of radiance… the possibility of not "running with the herd" as Andrew Cohen would say at a later time. To this day, I recall my young mind saying, "when I grow up, I'm not going to smoke or drink."
We lived the suburban dream of commuting to achieve success in school, playing on sporting teams to achieve the Christian ideal of the healthy body, and periodically attending churches to achieve, perhaps, a moment of relative peace, relative beauty, relative community. But behind the scenes, there was something lurking. As one of my current heroes, Charles Eisenstein, writes, "I (like many others) felt a wrongness in the world, a wrongness that seeped through the cracks of my privileged, insulated childhood. I never fully accepted what I had been offered as normal. Life, I knew, was supposed to be more joyful than this, more real, more meaningful, and the world was supposed to be more beautiful. We were not supposed to hate Mondays and live for the weekends and holidays. We were not supposed to have to raise our hands to be allowed to pee. We were not supposed to be kept indoors on a beautiful day, day after day." I remember a small placard in the change area to our suburban swimming pool.
Behold the fisherman
He riseth early in the morning,
He waketh the whole household.
Many are his preparations,
Bountiful his expectations,
He returneth late in the evening,
Smelling of strong drink,
And the truth is not in him.
Reciting this aloud at eight years old seemed to bring a certain delight to my family, and an avenue of self-expression for a certain background anxiety for me. What was it about our preparations and expectations that was 'driving us to drink?' I began to see that "the truth" was powerful and important.
A highlight of my youth was brief exposures to nature through my father. Each summer, we would go on camping trips in North Ontario. Sometimes to a river near Georgian Bay. Sometimes to a beach on Lake Huron. Just the other day, spreading the grass mats out for Arati at the centre, their scent took me back to this beach. I could feel the sand between my toes… smell the apple fritters my dad brought back from the local bakery… feel the sun and wind of Lake Huron. Swimming in those waters, smelling the pines, feeling the sun and hearing the sounds of the forest at night would plant the seeds of connection to the elements and to ecology, a relationship which has been crucial to my awakening and healing.
In the ninth grade, our English teacher had us read "Siddhartha," by Herman Hesse. The most compelling thing about it to me was the way it introduced the sound: "Om". Something in me intuitively understood and resonated with it. Our homework was to create a "book cover". Mine was the word "Om", stylized, with a person walking down a path into the "O".
Fortunately, during that time, I saw the beauty of life and nature, because by the time I reached 16, like most teenagers perhaps, I was feeling an immense amount of anguish and pain. In the midst of striving to "be somebody" in academics and on the hockey rink, as Charles writes, "the Age of Aquarius had morphed into the age of Ronald Reagan." I was surrounded by the mid-eighties messages of hyper consumerism and the rise of the corporate state. Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech in the movie "Wall Street" was not necessarily being seen as a recipe for failure. Moreover, my burgeoning love affair with the natural beauty of Northern Ontario was up against ever increasing evidence of despoilment and the ravages of industry. The spiritual bankruptcy of my surroundings seemed complete.
I was indeed very fortunate, because in the maelstrom of inner turmoil, two things happened. One was that I heard the most beautiful sound outside. It was a small bird, and its chirp was astonishing. It seemed to show me that despite appearances, there is a beautiful, benevolent force and existence at the core of life that is imperishable. The other thing that happened was that somehow I had the insight to realize that one day I would die naturally – that one way or another the pain and anguish would have an end, and that that day would come soon. I made up my mind that if the pain was going to stick around, tempting me to deny this imperishable beauty I had discovered, then just to spite it I would live with it. I would "just allow." I seemed to have come upon a version of the insight, "this too shall pass." This was the best thing I could have ever done. I found myself able to move on. It was perhaps the beginning of the realization of the power of surrender.
In my late teens, I fell in love, but was perhaps doubly confused and frustrated, not only when the relationship didn't last the apparently necessary move to university, but also when the love I was feeling didn't seem to engender a matching level of integrity, truth and honesty. I found myself asking, "what does it take to live a life of true love and affection?"
It was at this time that I started to hear about the yogi in the hills, and while I was working to attend to my academic duties, I also fanned the flames of a creative revival of sorts: I started a rock band with some friends. After two and a half seasons, I left the hockey team. I took up "big brother" service with a young boy in the neighbourhood. I wrote poetry. I explored dance and theatre. I managed to explore some courses which hinted at the possibility of true freedom… true peace, true affection… I studied Thoreau , Shakespeare, and many others whose work hinted at transcendence and the Creator at the heart of nature. I saw the beginnings of the enquiry into true nature – into release from suffering, into the "fullness of life," but nonetheless, graduated with a sense that something was missing.
I had an opportunity to teach English at a secondary school just outside of New York City, but decided to turn it down. Something in me knew that I had more to discover. On the plane ride out west that fall, through a bizarre coincidence, I sat next to a man who at the end of the flight said to me "You should check out J. Krishnamurti… I think you'll like him." The library in Whistler had one text by the man: "Education and the Significance of Life." Very quickly, his message began to become clear: all conflict on the planet has the same source – a search for "psychological security." I was immediately captured and astonished. Why don't they teach this stuff in college, I wondered? Krishnamurti's work supported my first headlong dive into the realization and practice of true-nature, of Self, of Yoga. The fullness of life which I was seeking was to be found in exposing the falseness of the idea of the "personal, psychological ME." He wrote: "The self is made up of a series of defensive and expansive reactions, and its fulfilment is always in its own projections and gratifying identifications. As long as we translate experience in terms of the self, of the "me" and the "mine", as long as the "I", the ego, maintains itself through its reactions, experience cannot be freed from conflict, confusion and pain. Freedom comes only when one understands the ways of the self, the experiencer. It is only when the self, with its accumulated reactions, is not the experiencer, that experience takes on an entirely different significance and becomes creation."
I got the message, and was entranced by the grace and skill with which he led his life and spoke with people. I embarked on a journey of studying his work very deeply, and despite his harsh critique regarding the manner in which the west was adopting "Eastern spirituality" and Yoga, I simultaneously moved into the insights and practice of Patanjali yoga.
For eight years, I spent my winters in the mountains, finding enough work to "pay the rent" as I deepened my practice and study. I was a builder, a taxi driver, a daycare worker, a lift operator on the mountain. My summers were spent in Ontario as a wilderness camp guide, director, and coordinator. The health, healing and vigour that I was discovering through leading a "simple life close to nature" found my appreciation for natural beauty growing. I began to see the power and importance of a certain conscious austerity. True to my childhood vow, I found myself neither smoking nor drinking – not a sign of integrity in and of itself, but an expression of a deeper focus, a deeper calling and urgency. My youthful hunch of a certain "wrongness" – a certain lack of truth – was finding its sources. I came to see, like my hero Charles, that our culture's apparent wealth and security was merely "a bubble built on top of massive human suffering and environmental degradation." He goes on to say, "… as my horizons broadened, I knew that millions were not supposed to be starving, that nuclear weapons were not supposed to be hanging over our heads, that the rainforests were not supposed to be shrinking, or the fish dying or the condors and eagles disappearing. I could not accept the way the dominant narrative of my culture handled these things: as fragmentary problems to be solved, as unfortunate facts of life to be regretted, or as unmentionable taboo subjects to be simply ignored." We all have a need for integrity, for truthful, loving action. I could see that the solution for me lay in living and understanding yoga and the liberation teachings to the core.
In attempting to live a life which was vulnerable to truth, I lived with a tension. Krishnamurti's words regarding yoga rang in my ears: "It's about unitive consciousness, not all this other racket." And yet push seemed to be coming to shove. My enthusiasm for wilderness guiding and life in a sporty ski town seemed to have taught me all it could. It was time to move on, but to what? In the summer of 2003, I was burning. Everyday I would sit, somewhat embarrassed, in between two cabins on the shore Alta lake in Whistler, obviously having a crisis. Feeling the burn of "not knowing." Finding the breath. Letting the mental noise pass by like so many clouds. The scent of the mountain wildflowers was intoxicating, the fluff from the cottonwood trees was blowing over me like warm snow.
Despite my fear that I was getting involved in "all that other racket", I decided to do a yoga teacher training, and stumbled upon one in the Kripalu tradition – a tradition with which I had had a good deal of experience. During the training, and with my new circles of friends in the city, I started to hear about the "Salt Spring Centre". A friend of mine said, "you could go there."
I decided to go, was accepted, and was immediately impressed by the kindness, inspiration and creativity of the people whom I began to meet. I found a home for my enthusiasm for study, practice, and for serving and supporting people in theirs. I began to explore Babaji's written work, and there was an Eckhart Tolle video group in the yurt every Monday evening. A consistent invitation bubbled through it all: Attaining peace through the "perennial teaching" – the teaching of "true nature." The teaching of the Self which exists despite thought, imagery and thinking. At one point, Eckhart questioned, "what does it mean to be enlightened?" He said, "it means you are very present." Like Krishnamurti, Babaji wrote, "violence and ego consciousness can't be separated. So long as there is individuality to be defended, there will be violence."
When at long last the day arrived when I would see and meet Babaji, I was working in the kitchen and was told that I would see him out on the mound, under the maple tree. Washing dishes at the sink, I peered out towards the mound and saw him sitting there. A feeling of relief and delight washed over me. Instantly I could sense that he didn't need anything from me – that he didn't have any psychological agendas, that he wasn't stirring up any drama – any racket. I could see that he wasn't pushing anything away, wasn't living in any ideas, and wasn't living in any expectations. He was simply "very present."
Since that day, over nine years ago, I have had the great fortune to be able to serve regularly at the centre. With Babaji's support, my principal aim has been to attain peace – to be in my deepest spiritual enquiry, my deepest warmheartedness, and to support others in being in theirs. Meeting and working with Babaji has been a delight. I've returned year after year to be a resident and to work primarily in the garden and kitchen. I have also enjoyed regular participation at satsang, kirtan evenings, yajnas and celebrations. In that time, I have consistently received warmth and support from the many people who are inspired by Babaji and who mirror and embody his selflessness. The Sattvic climate generated by the people and practice at the centre and the focus on cultivation of positive qualities has supported my deepest values and awakening. I am so grateful to all who have done 'the work' of being kind. The work of supporting and holding space for Yoga and Self-realization.
So there is a punchline to the story of the yogi who lived up in the hills of Vermont. A few months ago, I found myself reminiscing about those times (over twenty years ago!) and I thought, "hmmn… what was that fellow's name again? Prem something… Prem Prakash!" On a whim, I "googled" his name and found that he had continued his teaching career and had started a yoga school. I looked at his bio and was delighted to see that his Guru is none other than Baba Hari Dass! So as I turned my youthful attention to the possibility of a life of meaning, Babaji's grace was instantly there, calling to me from across the miles through the radiant eyes, smiles and hearts of some students of his student. May we all surrender to our love – to living the teachings – and know the effect our simple exchanges have on each other as we fall into grace – into the fullness of life.


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One of the things that OWASP's Jeff Williams usually likes to say is that we need builders versus breakers.
He (and others) basically defend, that we need to have more guys focusing on how to protect systems, versus how to break/exploit them. He uses, as an example: 'why do we need another example of how to exploit an specific variation of SQL injection instead of spending the resources figuring out how to fix it?'
The reality is that we need both. We actually need to have both researches activities/cultures, because showing us how to break something, is actually a great measurement of the current state of a particular problem (see also Jeremiah's Builders, Breakers, and Malicious Hackers).
The irony of all this, is that Jeff, in his Black Hat's Enterprise Java Rootkits presentation, become a BREAKER himself, and spend considerable resources and time showing in several powerful demos how dangerous is Java code executed outside the Java Security manager (i.e. outside a Sandbox). He is trying to do for Java what I tried (and gave up) on .NET (see Past research on Sandboxing and Code Access Security (CAS))
Today, just about everybody runs Java code outside a sandbox and the awareness that this could be very dangerous has still not reached critical mass. So for the people who are aware of this problem (i.e. Jeff), unless he starts hacking away real world targets to prove his point (not a very good idea in 2009) the only other alternative is to show what can be done and how bad is the current status quo. And by doing so, he is being a breaker.
Due to his past 'Builder vs Breaker positon' Jeff took a bit of slack for it, but basically he is showing / highlighting the problem and helping to raise awareness of its implications.
The main reason we need breakers, is because they actually show us the current state of the problem, since, the easier job the breaker has, the easier the target's can be exploited.
We also need 'non malicious' breakers because they actually show us what's going on.
For example 'non malicious' (& with no criminal intent) virus writers!
I like to go on record to say that 'non malicious' Virus writers are actually our best friends, because they actually raise our overall level of security.
Although they may create short term havoc (and pain to the guys directly affected), they literally raise the level of security (for example 'forcing' people to patch existing vulns and making the eco-system more resilient)
This is why we need 'non malicious' viruses in the real world as well as the web world; they are actually benign and helpful (in the big scheme of things :) ).
In fact we (the good guys in the web application security world) should be paid to write viruses in order to push security up, but that is very unlikely to happen .... in the short term ... :)


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15 Jul Western Contemporary
DOVETAIL CONSTRUCTION IS THE "REALIZATION OF A CHILDHOOD DREAM for founders and close friends Tim Rote and Kevin Sullivan, who met in kindergarten and built forts together in the woods while talking of dump trucks and plywood. They knew at an early age that they wanted two things: to live in the mountains and to build.
"(Kevin's) father was a builder, so we've been in construction for all of our lives, and we've always wanted to do what we were doing now," Rote said.
After earning engineering and construction management degrees and parting ways to work on major projects such as skyscrapers and bridges in places as far off as Alaska and New York City, the pair returned to Bozeman, Mont., to start Dovetail Construction in 2005. Their work is the outcome of a lifelong dream, and it shows in the finished product.
Recently the company partnered with Andrew Brechbuhler, of Brechbuhler Architects, to construct a home for Jim and Sue Hodapp inBlack Bull, a premiere 486-acre, private golf course community located near Bozeman.
What started four years ago and tumbled into an accumulation of hundreds of photographs and cherry-picked design elements, has now manifested itself as a beautiful, 4,158 square-feet home for the Hodapp family. The home strikes a balance between the rustic tradition of mountain homes, with exposed timber and a large stone fireplace, and the contemporary, with beaming storefront windows and industrial steel elements, for a modern take on Western design. The four bedroom and four-and-a-half-bath house is interesting because of this contrast, because of its sophisticated nod to the rustic.
Sue Hodapp, from St. Louis, Missouri, was introduced to "The Last Best Place" in 2008 when she and her son Jack volunteered on the Blackfeet Reservation near Glacier National Park. She returned with her husband Jim a few months later to look at real estate. Eventually they decided on Black Bull because "the amenities are right here, we have a pool, a beautiful workout center, and Jim can walk out the back door and go to the driving range," Sue said. The lure of skiing for their two sons Jack, 19, and Andy, 16, in Big Sky and the proximity to Bozeman were additional contributing factors.
The Hodapps called Dovetail Construction after they saw a house they built on Bozeman's south side.
"I think they appreciated very much the quality of the timber work, the masonry, the stone elements and that the house had a bit of a Western contemporary feel to it as well. It wasn't your typical old rustic, there was a little diversity to it," Rote said.
"No slate in the entire house, that was Sue's one request," Jim said. "And that our home was not 'Bozeman brown.'"
In the Hodapp's home, a crystal chandelier hangs as the perfect glimmering accent in the master bathroom and fits as easily and succinctly as the antler chandelier that hangs above the dining room table. In part because of the influence of Cathy McNally of McNally Interiors and Design, nothing about this contrast feels out of place, because there isa continuity to the design and theme of the home for a smooth merger of contemporary elements in a traditional Western home.From the foyer, an earthy stone fireplace acts as the focal point, and is open to both the living room and the library. In the open kitchen the contrast of rustic and contemporary is showcased. Shannon Lundgren from Bridger Kitchens designed the sleek kitchen and bath cabinetry and was instrumental in selecting, tile and granite, all essential components that embed personal elements throughout the home. There are subtle industrial accents, such as the steel staircase railing and the large storefront windows that stretch across the living room, master bedroom and library, allowing for a wide view of Black Bull golf course and distant Bridger Mountains. The windows create a clean, streamlined element to the home's design and light becomes a central component. With expansive views, the outdoors never feel far off.
"The industrial accents are extra subtle, and it's a lot of fun as a builder to incorporate something that's out of the norm, because it gives our craftsmen something fun and unique to do to show off their skills," Rote said.
The timber that frames the living room, comes from old-growth trees that have dried and twisted over time. Despite these changes, the joinery between the beams is still seamless, creating an organic feel that is void of 90-degree angles.
The exterior of the home is plywood stained with different earthy colors to give it texture and tie the home to the landscape and the Bridger Mountains, said Brechbuhler.
"What I think is important in my designs, is that the house sits really calmly on the landscape; it's not something that jumps out too much. It just has lots of nice details, but isn't too much in your face. It just kind of sits appropriately," he said.
The clean, contemporary lines found in the Hodapps' home encourage a sense of simplicity; a natural compliment for the traditional, more organic elements found in a western home. Add stunning views of the
Bridger Mountains and the Spanish Peaks, and top it off with only having to walk a little over 400 yards to the driving range, and the Hodapps will be the first to tell you that the finished product is a dream come true for them as well.


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The question over breakfast was blunt, but also involved way more nuance than sports commissioners and administrators – and players – seem willing to admit.
"Are they going to have sports this year?"
Great question. And over and above the various quests for championships that we await, this may be the most intriguing drama of all: In a global pandemic, in a country where the curve not only hasn't been flattened but increasingly looks like a steep hill, can our professional and college sports entities pull it off? Can they make it to season's end without more mass infections shutting things down?
More specifically, what constitutes acceptable risk? And at what point do precautions break down and acceptable risks become unacceptable?
Already, even before the NBA has welcomed teams into its bubble or baseball has begun its extended spring training, the signs aren't promising either inside or outside of sports.
COVID-19 cases overall are spiking in a large number of localities – including Florida, where NBA and MLS teams will be sequestered in Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando. And this one, where even California's prolonged stay-at-home order and measured attempts to slow the spread of the virus haven't prevented a new surge of cases.
The volume of positive tests being reported in various sports, often even before official workouts have begun, doesn't prompt much confidence, either.
Charlie Blackmon of the Rockies has reportedly had a positive test, one of many in MLB and one of the few with a name attached. The Miami Heat's Derek Jones Jr., the Sacramento Kings' Buddy Hield, the Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic all have had positive tests. Novak Djokovic and his wife, and three other players, tested positive after Djokovic's ill-advised and ill-planned exhibition tennis tournament in Croatia and his native Serbia, where Jokic reportedly also contracted the virus.
Want more? Brooks Koepka and Webb Simpson withdrew from this week's PGA Tour event in Cromwell, Conn., after Koepka's caddie and one of Simpson's family members tested positive. Kansas State, Houston and Boise State football have all shut down summer workouts because of outbreaks, while LSU and Clemson, among others, reported large numbers of positive tests among players returning for summer workouts.
And Avery Bradley of the Lakers has opted out of the season's re-start over family medical concerns. How many other players will decline to play? And what happens, God forbid, if LeBron James or Kawhi Leonard or Giannis Antetokounmpo tests positive and, at the very least, has to quarantine once play starts?
With all that's at stake, primarily copious amounts of TV money, there will be every temptation to push the envelope as far as possible. But how far is too far? Is there a number or a percentage beyond which the NBA, or NHL or MLS or MLB or PGA or NCAA or whoever, can't go? We don't know.
"I think that's literally the multimillion-dollar question going on right now," said Dr. Rand McClain, a Santa Monica based physician who specializes in regenerative therapy and has some athletes as clients.
"It's going to come down to, if you think about it, more finances than anything else. At what point does a season get ruined, so to speak, because the first-string linemen all got infected? And so this team over here decides, 'OK, well, we're gonna put in the second team and play the games anyway.' This team over here says, 'No, we're gonna call the next two games, period, because some of our guys got infected so we're doing a two-week lockdown.'
"I really think that's the biggest unknown and one of the biggest factors left to be decided at this point, because it's going to affect every level – high school, college and pro. … The money received – I hate to say it, but it is definitely a part of the decision-making process going on here. It's not just about making fans happy. It's about keeping the programs going."
A full team pullout has already happened. The National Women's Soccer League will be the first league to return with meaningful games Saturday, but the Orlando Pride pulled out of the league's Challenge Cup tournament in Utah earlier this week after six players and four staffers tested positive. So what was supposed to be a nine-team event is now eight.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians talked a while back about having a third quarterback under quarantine just in case starter Tom Brady and probable backup Blaine Gabbert both get sick. It sounded semi-whimsical, but maybe the NFL's practice squads will now become quarantine squads.
Most sports entities seem to have taken similar approaches to a return: Testing and screening to start, contact tracing as necessary throughout the process, and a first phase of training in small groups followed by full team workouts followed eventually by competition, with adherence to social distancing and mask use and other restrictions involving locker and training rooms, all the way down to such things as no high fives or, in baseball, no chewing and spitting sunflower seeds.
(Trust me, that will cause some angst.)
And, as McClain noted, what happens when football players are breathing on each other in the huddle, or at the line of scrimmage? In a contact sport – which, let's face it, most of our popular sports are to one degree or another – social distancing normally gets you benched.
But in the return to play it may have been the very first step even before the balls were rolled out.
"Our phase one is a 14-day social isolation phase," said Dr. Jeanne Doperak of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who assists Pitt's athletic program and also the Pittsburgh Steelers, on a recent episode of the Shaping Opinion podcast. "My infectious disease colleagues tell me that the safest way to assure someone does not have the virus is to take them to a cabin in the woods, don't let them leave for 14 days, and after 14 days if they don't get sick you're good.
"So we're trying to create our own version of Cabin in the Woods. Now, does that come with some hiccups? Perhaps when you're dealing with a bunch of college students, it does."
Not just college students, either. The incentive is obvious: The fewer risks you take that might get you infected or infect others, the quicker things return to normal, including sports. But as we've seen over the last few months, through all age groups, lots of people aren't accepting that premise.
"Is there any way to say that there's 100 percent certainty? There's not," Doperak said. " … We're going to have to be somewhat accepting that there is some risk there, and do our very best to minimize the risk, but to understand that there is risk."
And so the suspense mounts.
Can baseball make it through a 60-game schedule and all the way through to a World Series before the predicted second wave of the virus comes crashing through? Will the NFL and college football bull their way through and conduct full, partial or even interrupted seasons? (The NFL's Aug. 6 Hall of Fame Game in Canton was scrubbed Thursday, and that might be an ominous sign.) Will we see the NBA crown a champion at all, much less one representing the city of Los Angeles?
The positive scenario is that the concept of acceptable risk, whatever that might be, will carry us through. The uglier alternative? We'll be overwhelmed. Rather than champions with asterisks, we'll have none at all.
"I'm an eternal optimist, but I think we're going to pull it off," McClain said. "If we can execute, then we can do it. If we don't execute, if we get sloppy, I think we're going to be sorry."
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Dirty FIX for Luminar 3 not starting
Hi, I found out that luminar is not starting anymore (just showing the startup-screen), when it has created "TO MUCH" thumbnails (sounds really crazy). For me this happens, when I use the "Shortcut" --> "All photos" in the upper level and L3 creates thumbnails for all photos.
My solution: I renamed (could be deleted as well) the folder "PreviewCache" in the catalog folder and Luminar 3 starts without problems again AND recreates thumbnails.
Maybe this helps for some here in the forums.
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Hi Alina,
I can reproduce this error/behavior.
- Open Luminar
- got to "All photos"
- scroll up and down and let Luminar create Thumbnails
- the longer Luminar creates Thumbnails, the longer it needs for the next to start
- and on some point (don´t know when) it has too much thumbnails and the next start is impossible and it starts not at all
Please fix.
Hi Erwin,
Thank you for your cooperation.
Could you please let us know what is your hardware configuration?
- Press the Windows logo key + R.
- Type msinfo32 in the dialog box that opens and hit Enter on your keyboard.
- In the window that opens, make sure you have System Summary highlighted on the left.
- Click File > Export.
- Type the name of the file and save it somewhere where you can easily find it
and attach this text file to the email to support.
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- Type eventvwr in the dialog box that opens and hit Enter on your keyboard.
- In the window that opens click the triangle next to Windows Logs on the left. A directory tree should open.
- Click Application in the directory tree.
- In the main part of the window find the two topmost entries marked with Error named Application Error and .NET Runtime.
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Bailey Wingler, Salisbury artist and sole proprietor of Just Bailey Designs, has always had a passion for using art to make the world a better place. So, when her long time client, Ms. Jennifer Alford of Winston-Salem, commissioned her to create a painting for the Holly Haven family care home Bailey immediately sprung into action.
Holly Haven, located in Forsyth County, is a residence that "provides professional, courteous care for persons living with advanced HIV disease and support for their families and loved ones. (They) offer round-the-clock "family-style" residential services, including meals, activities, medication administration, housekeeping, and personal care." (aidscareservice.org)
Alford, an art lover and volunteer with Aids Care Services, felt compelled to purchase artwork after volunteering at Holly Haven and noticing that many of the walls were bare. She believes that art can have a healing effect and that purchasing a piece of art was just a small way she could bring some joy into the lives of the Holly Haven residents. After discussing this with Bailey, the two decided to embark on a project to fill the halls of Holly Haven with as many colorful artworks as possible. Bailey, who is very active within her local arts community started an event on Facebook inviting area artists to paint canvases that Alford would supply. The two were immediately contacted by interested artists spanning through four counties.
The group of artists include Darcey Quates Wilson of Darceyjoy Design, Same Kearns aka The Wandering Pygmy, Ali Carter, Marietta Foster Smith, Michael Owens, Shane Manier of the Guerilla Poets, Gloria Rodriguez, Artist/Musician Sue McHugh and Just Bailey Designs.
Artists will be working on their pieces over the next month and hope to unveil all of the artwork at the end of April. More information regarding the unveiling of the artworks will be provided soon. In the meantime, if you are interested in participating in this event, please email Bailey Wingler at email@example.com.


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Malik is from New Jersey though. He got the tank top and hat from his trip in Costa Rica. He told me that he hanged out in Philly and New York a lot.
He is a poet. Here's his piece on love.
What does love look like you ask? Theres a million ways to tell you that I lov… I mean "like like" you.
Hay muchas formas de decir "te amo"
Par exemple, Je t'aime
Im passionate about you.
A million way to describe a feeling that no one has come to fully understand
Scholars, MUSICIANS, POETS & English majors have failed us for centuries,
Formulating and rearranging letters
only TO say the same thing a different way
they tried to teach us that love was "Where for art thou Romeo"
Or BABY WONT YOU COME MYYY WAYYYYYY
Or TELL US REAL LOVE IS LIKE the Great Gatsby,
Or THAT LOVE IS reminisce about how you use to call me on my cell phone.. Late nights wen you need my love.
But the wait is over….
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have deciphered the code
Ive come up with the greatest theory since Newton and gravity
GATHER AROUND! Listen!
… Maybe no one has ever been able to describe love because…
Frankly… they never met you.
They never got to witness the gravitational pull of your glance
That only constant, that constantly has my heart in orbit, making me constantly fall for you over and over
They never got to feel what its like to lose your breathe from the aesthetic geometrics that makes up your face,
The slope of the bridge of your nose, the circumference of your eyes, the surface area of the wrinkles in your face when you smile, the intensity of your diamonds you call teeth. All in perfect alignment with one another, you are my favorite constellation.
MaybeThey never got to calculate the velocity of how fast we connected.
I guess they took it 3.00×10^9
I mean… I guess they took it light
Or they never got to hear the way you tell me everything is going to be alright
She tells me P=mgh
And only you can define how high you can reach.
You unlocked my potential
You make me feel like I can be the first black super Saiyan
Or the maybe they never go to measure the magnetic force of your soul that keeps me coming back for more
Maybe They never got to calculate your energy,
Because if E = mc^2
Its makes sense that… Everything= must come second.
I guess they never had the opportunity to realize the biggest star is right in front of them.
I don't think the word love should exist.
It's a pretense…
I think we should replace it with the things that gives us hype or butter flies or nervous
Like Instead of I love you say
I "my first time listening to MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY" you
I "drakes verse in Jumpman" you
I "sitting in the front of Kingda Ka" you
I "my first spoken word performance" you
I "when you know your mom about to whip that ass and you tryna pretend like you sleep" you
I "new season of walking dead coming out next week" you
I "the first time I heard you sing" you
I "the first time, we netflix'd and chilled and actually netflix'd and chilled" you
I'm tryna say…Forget what people have been preaching to you
Because no one could ever understand it, until they feel love like I feel it for you.
Im passionate about you
Par exemple, je t'aime
Hay muchas formas de decir " te amo"
But this is greater than any combination of letters


text: Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, of '90s hip-hop trio Digable Planets, has been a musical nomad since the band's split — from the smoked-out blues of Cherrywine, an aborted solo disc and attempted stage reunions of the Planets. Shabazz Palaces is his latest incarnation, a project filled with more questions than answers, more potential than satisfaction. When Kanye got bored of hip-hop's bravado, we got the emo 808's & Heartbreaks. When Andre tired of beats and rhymes, he cut The Love Below. Here, Butterfly (now Palaceer Lazarus) eschews hip-hop's standard time signatures, and while fans of esoterica will adore it, initial listens can be difficult to get through. There are bright moments, often the songs in which the weirdness isn't overwrought. "Youlogy" is straight to the point and keeps heads nodding, while "Recollections of the Wraith" and album closer "Swerve" are simply great songs — equal parts brilliant and disturbing. That the disc ends with a reprisal of his group debut's Black is you, Black is me, Black is us, Black is free chant bookends his creative evolution perfectly.


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At the risk of shaming my parents with this Dickensian tale, the spoils of my family's annual back to school shopping were...paltry at best. Every August, my mom carted my brother, sister, and I off to Kohl's (Kohl's! The Target of the midwest before Target was a glimmer in our nation's eye) and let us loose in the store to pick out one (1) shirt and one (1) pair of pants OR shorts for our "first day of school" outfit.
And who knows? Maybe that's normal! I'm sure it's more than some kids got, and obviously less than others. I was always too embarrassed to ask my friends about their own school shopping hauls, but it seemed to me that Katie R., Katie L., Lauren S., AND Lauren W. each had new outfits for the whole g-d first week of school, not just the first day.
The summer before I left for college, I was working at Abercrombie (are you intimidated by this HiGh FaShiOn BaCkGroUnD of mine?!) and dressing in A&F head to toe. So when I stepped onto campus my freshman year, I felt (rightly or wrongly) 100% confident in my back to school wardrobe for the first time.
Maybe that's why I get so excited about the whole process of back to school shopping even now. Maybe you can't control when you get your braces off, or if that nickname you're trying to give yourself will stick. But your first week fashion impression? That can be handled.
Below the Style Girlfriend-approved picks for guys headed back to school on a budget.
AE Ne(x)t Level slim jeans, $37 (on sale)
This doesn't just apply to college guys - do not sleep on American Eagle Outfitters's denim selection. They're nearly always on sale to one degree or another, and the styles are surprisingly resilient in the wash.
Abercrombie sherpa-lined jacket, $105 (on sale)
As I mentioned, I'm an A&F alum, so take this hot take with a grain of cold salt: Abercrombie is totally back, babyyyyyyyy. Sure, they still sell some stuff that's moose-emblazoned, but for the most part what you'll find in the Fierce-scented store is dependable basics in classic cuts. This sherpa-lined jacket is perfect for fall, and already on sale.
Old Navy hoodie, $30
It's college. You need a hoodie. Old Navy finally makes theirs without the huge branding of my youth splashed across the chest. I like the green with the lion, but the millennial pink is very cool and hip, too.
New Republic Kurt leather sneaker, $89
Designer Mark McNairy's career trajectory has been crooked at best, but I'm all in on this latest footwear venture of his. The leather sneakers rival the look of much more expensive, similar styles and ring up under a hundred bucks.
Uniqlo long-sleeved stripe shirt, $20
Uniqlo calls this color yellow, while I'd argue it's more of a dark mustard? Point is, it looks ju-u-u-u-st different enough from whatever your classmates will be wearing while still feeling as comfortable as if you'd just rolled out of bed in it (which, who knows, you might have).
Asos black sweatpants, $32
I'm not a monster. At least not about this. You can and should and will wear sweatpants in college. The only difference today is that in fashion they're called "joggers" and they're "cool" not "lazy" or indicative of the fact that you "didn't come home last night."
Don't worry, you can style these without the weird fanny pack/canteen the ASOS model is wearing around his neck.
Target Goodfellow shampoo and body wash, $6
Like I said, I'm not a monster. I don't expect a college guy (or, y'know, an adult guy) to have that strenuous of a skincare routine. This combination shampoo and body wash smells surprisingly sophisticated, and rings up under ten dollars. Shower caddy and flip flops to fend off communal bathroom grodiness not included.
J.Crew 484 slim fit tech pant, $80
Okay, okay. I know I'm trying to keep everything on this list cheap, but for those days you can't wear jeans (or, again, sweats), you want a pair of pants that look put together and won't fall apart in the wash. J.Crew's classic 484 style fits the bill. They're perfect for internships and presentation days in class.
Tailgate tie-dye t-shirt, $35
You want to skip the school book store when it comes to fan gear. Todd Snyder's affordable collegiate sports offspring Tailgate is the answer. The entire collection is super affordable and the tees especially fit in that snug and stylish way you want them to when you're spending your free time hitting the free weights at the on-campus gym.


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Enraged Rivers Ejected After Technical For Crossing Midcourt [VIDEO]
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Doc Rivers had something to say and wanted to make sure he was close enough to be heard.
Too close, according to NBA rules.
Rivers was given a technical foul for crossing over midcourt, then another and ejected for his tirade that followed in the Los Angeles Clippers' 127-122 loss in double overtime to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.
The Clippers trailed by two late in the first OT and fouled Nets rookie Isaiah Whitehead in the backcourt after he received the inbounds pass. Rivers appeared to think Whitehead swung his elbows and should have been called for the foul, and walked nearly to the Nets' bench to say something to referee Lauren Holtkamp.
Rivers said they weren't even arguing, and that Holtkamp had agreed with what Rivers said. But Mauer, who was standing on the Clippers' side of the court, called what Rivers said was an "awful" tech.
"It was the damndest tech to give at that time," Rivers said. "What the league is going to fall back on, 'He crossed the halfcourt.' You'll see tomorrow that's what they're going to say and we're all going to know that that's not the real reason."
But Mauer said it was.
"Technically, the first technical was for crossing the midcourt. That's automatic," Mauer told a pool reporter.
Rivers — a member of the league's competition committee that recommended a rule approved this year to extend the coach's box — then became enraged and began yelling at Mauer, who cited Rivers' behavior and language in issuing the second technical and automatic ejection. Rivers had to be held back by players and assistants from getting closer to Mauer.
"I don't think that an official that has nothing to do with the play should be giving someone a tech. That's my thing. That's why I got upset," Rivers said. "He didn't know what we were talking about. It wasn't even an argument."
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