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By JOSH GERSTEINA ten-day delay in talks aimed at negotiating an interim halt to Iran's nuclear program could allow opponents of such a deal to build momentum on Capitol Hill, analysts said Monday.
For a time last week, it seemed like the Obama administration was eager to complete such a pact in little more than 48 hours from the time officials disclosed that a serious short-term agreement was on the table. That would have allowed the administration to bring such a package to Congress as a done deal, with lawmakers in the position of having to upend an agreement that had the blessing of at least six major world powers.
However, a late snag in the talks — there was still some dispute Monday about who was responsible for the hitch — led the parties to recess, with plans to reconvene Nov. 20. And that delay is essentially forcing the administration into a more public and high-profile defense of more diplomacy with Iran, and the Senate to hold off on a vote on new sanctions against Tehran.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Monday to encourage the Senate to avoid any moves that might scuttle the next round of talks, said a source familiar with the conversation, first reported by BuzzFeed.
And Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to brief members of the Senate Banking Committee at a closed-door session later this week, a congressional source said. Kerry spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters returning from the Mideast with the secretary that the briefing will take place Wednesday, Reuters reported.
As top Obama administration officials urged the Senate to hold off any new sanctions action, some supporters of a deal with Iran fretted that the administration had waited until now to make a strong push in Congress and with the public for a pact aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear program.
"I understand the attractiveness of that strategy, but am still doubtful about the wisdom and effectiveness of it, because it essentially means the president wanted to present Congress with a fait accompli, and this Congress doesn't react very well to that," said Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council.
Parsi said it was clear that the U.S. administration and others wanted to get an interim deal signed before the debate heated up in Congress again on sanctions.
"Part of the reason why the talks continued until 2 a.m. in the morning on what was in reality the fourth day when they were supposed to be two days is precisely because of the awareness on all sides, except for the French, that if they don't get something now, it's going to be more difficult," Parsi said. "Before now, [a deal] had the momentum. That doesn't mean it's completely dead."
Longtime arms control advocate Joe Cirincione said the delay leaves the administration with a more uphill battle, but not an impossible one.
"It puts the administration a little more on the defensive," said Cirincione, now with the Ploughshares Fund. "All negotiators would prefer to make the deal in private, whether it's labor-management or two countries or, in this case, seven countries…They're now in awkward position of having to go over the individual parts of this deal and have it all second-guessed."
Meanwhile, groups who have been vocal about the Iranian nuclear threat are clearly delighted with the additional time to urge Congress to get more involved, even as administration officials are warning senators not to upset the delicate negotiations.
"The result of Geneva is that Congress will now have an opportunity, which it must take, to speak up on what it views as the essential principles of an Iranian nuclear agreement," said United Against Nuclear Iran's Mark Wallace, a former U.S. representative at the U.N. under President George W. Bush.
"Senators will be demanding much more detail about the agreement than would have been the case had the administration snuck it across the goal line last week," Josh Block of the Israel Project said. "Are they going to legitimize the Iranian right to enrich in this deal? That would be an unacceptable outcome."
Capitol Hill will begin to turn the heat up on the issue no later than Wednesday morning, when the House Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing assessing the Iranian talks and the proposal for an interim deal. No Obama administration official is on the witness list, but Obama campaign adviser and former Pentagon official Colin Kahl is set to appear.


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Give me the beat. Basic three piece trap-set to eight piece wih cymbols. Have you the drive to make the Rhythm?
To achieve the motion necessary in the music and set the other instruments on the roll to Rock.
Counting the structure of time in musc. Learn the system .
This all applies to purcussion instrtuments alike. Just different techniques to clockwork timing.
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Native of Washington, D.C. began playing music at the age of seven on the piano. Singing in church choirs with family members and participating with the D.C. Youth Chorale.
Began instruction on the Viola in the D.C. Youth Orchestra program.
Auditioned and attended the Duke Ellington Performing Arts High School in the inaugural year. 1976.
Awarded with a Full Scholarship for vocal studies at the
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York
Music is the universal communicator, educator, healer, and conflict mediator.
We naturally expose our children to music to incite awareness and stimulate self-motivational learning practices within. Music, as a hobby or passion, you will discover the connection to other practical disciplines,
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2. COUNTING. keeping time, the ruler of motion in music.
3. Learn how to create beautiful melodies and syntax of song to discover the process of creativity with a structure toward musical thought.
Also. effective personal practice techniques and the basics of Improvisation and Composition.
It is well documented that exposing children to music and the creative arts is a prerequisite to fundamental logical thought processes and schematic reasoning.
Music is organic FUN for kids of all the ages! 4 years to 104. Lol
Recordings with artists and celebrities throughout the U.S. and Europe. Presentations of jazz and classical ensembles with rotating artists for hire of various genres of music.
You may consider me a Triple threat as they say, Singer, Dancer and Entertainer.
He has performed with notables such as Stevie Wonder,
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Akademisches Festival Orchestra, Leipzig,
Kammerorchester de St. Laurentius, in Dessau, Germany.
National Gallery of Art Orchestra, and the
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Howard University Community Orchestra
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If you want to really rock on the drums I can get you started. I have MANY years of playing, performing, and teaching experience. Want to learn to play your favorite songs? And hopefully develope your own style! Let's rock!
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I make sure that I find out from the get go what each and every new student likes musically and what they want to learn and how far they want to go on the drums. Then I try to tailor all the lessons to each students interests and abilities. Making sure that it's fun for them in the process. This can't be work or a chore or they won't stick with it. But I will say I do believe that every beginning student who has NEVER sat behind a kit before should know and start with the fundamentals ( the building blocks so to speak) of drumming such as holding the sticks, proper stick control and technique, and how to execute some important basic rudiments and keep good time. Also I think learning to read some drum notation is important so you know and understand what you are playing when you play it, but can teach by ear also. I can also teach double bass technique if a student is interested in that.
*** Studio Equipment ***
Works space w/two drum sets, one double-bass and one single. Instruction material (books, CDs, videos). Seating for parents.
*** Travel Equipment ***
If necessary to travel to a students home, they should have a drum kit there or at least a practice pad to get started on. I will bring sticks, a metronome if needed and the necessary instruction books for the lessons. Also willing to travel to a students home if they are just getting started and need help setting up their kit or need help tuning the drums.
*** Specialties ***
Mostly specialize in beginner to intermediate ages 7 and up teaching rock ( which includes old rock and roll from the 50's, blues), classic rock ( 60's and 70's) , hard rock and metal from the 80's all the way up to today's rock, pop and metal music. Believe it or not, it's all tied together. Let me show and teach you how.
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Whether hand percussion or on a full drum set I can help you develop your rudiments in a fun way to the songs you love
About Aleksis
My education includes classical voice training with Michele Howard Hansen, an opera singer that often performs at the Kennedy Center. I studied piano with Geoffrey Chappell, who writes for Jazz Times. I also received compositional training on multiple instruments from Stanley Cowell, who recorded and performed with legends like Miles Davis.
I have been performing professionally since 1992. I studied education in college and did my student teaching in a music class at Goshen Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I have been teaching music pr
Whatever your goals or abilities, I look forward to working with you!
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Experience fun based lessons as my teaching approach is relaxed and inspirational. I enjoy working with all ages, adjusting my teaching methods to accommodate your learning style and abilities. Learn to play the music you love! You learn best when you enjoy what you are playing, I can help you play along with your favorites or even write your own songs. I always ask my students at the beginning of a lesson "What would you like to do today?" Then structure the lesson accordingly into a routine that the student can practice on their own. Generally the time is divided into warm ups, learning new material, then picking a fun song the student choses. Whether your interest is Classical, Jazz, Rock, Pop music, etc... I'm here help you reach your goals so let's make your dreams come true with music together!
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Books, Guitar, music stand, metronome, picks, tuner, page clips, capo, media player, laptop, Keyboard (on request), and recording equipment (on request)
*** Specialties ***
With Voice I specialize in helping people prepare for auditions such as American Idol. I have students who simply want to be karaoke stars. I have several professional singers that hire me as a voice coach and producer for recording sessions. I have taught children as young as 2 and those that retired with a lifelong dream to sing. Though my training is classical, I can teach Jazz, Pop, Rock, Rap, R&B, etc...whatever is fun for the student. I highly recommend learning to read music but I do not push it unless parents want their child to.
With Piano I can teach traditionally from Alfred and Bastien Piano Courses depending if they are auditory or visual learners. For Kinesthetic learners I use Hanon scale exercises and Rothman Rhythm Exercises. For those that want to learn notation I introduce classical and Jazz composers unless there is a popular artist/band/movie theme etc...that they would like to learn. However I do not push students to read music unless their parents would prefer it. I tend to keep more students that want to learn to play by ear especially adults by using rhythm training and music theory exercises and then applying them to songs they love. For piano I haven't had much success with children younger than 3. I also have a lot experience working with special needs children.
For Guitar I teach Classical, Acoustic, and Electric all styles and genres. I encourage sight reading but don't mind using tabs. I use more exercises with these students, since the first month students have a hard time making a sound. I try to make the lessons fun by having students strum chords along with songs they chose. I teach lead and rhythm even songwriting and composition. Job satisfaction for me is seeing my students leave a lesson with a smile on their face so I make sure to be a fun based teacher that doesn't give the student a hard time about not practicing.
For Recording and Performance I use the knowledge I gained doing Pro Audio Sales for Guitar Center from 2000-2002 to help clients build their own home studio. I have lots of producers and engineers I work with on a regular basis to produce broadcast quality audio and video recordings and help my students use their lessons and pre-production for those opportunities. I can teach Garage Band or Pro Tools classes on navigating the software and utilizing all the commands. I can also teach room acoustics and using the right microphone and how to position them with the right equipment and the right acoustics to get the best possible tone that they are looking for. I can also teach editing, mixing, looping, sampling, midi, and mastering so that the student can eventually work on their own writing, performing, and recording their music.
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My life of music started knee high at the age of 4 playing drums and piano. At the age of 15 I gave my first musical performance, from that stage on I knew my talent had found a home.
In the 11th grade I toured with a local funk group in Washington DC through 26 cities learning music and the life of travel at an early age. During my last high school and college years I performed extensively playing classical, jazz, rock, funk, go-go, gospel, marching band, R&B, and with local rap artist.
Recording credits and highlights include work with Def Jam artist Steady Eddy, recording go-go Mario with Double Agent Rock, and recordings with Little Benny and the Masters.
My other musical passion is teaching. Throughout my col
Musical inspiration is an important element to the refinement of my craft. A few personal musical influences are Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Neil Peart (Rush), Dennis Chambers, (Santana), George Gray (Roberta Flack), Ricky Wellman (Miles Davis), Quinton Mack-Davis (Rare Essence) and Michael Bland (Prince).
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Within the first three months of lessons student will gain a strong foundation of sight reading and basic drum techniques in both rudiment studies and playing the drum set. My style of teaching music consist of breaking each skill down into chunks and allowing students to learn using their individual learning styles. I utilize rewards for perfect practice and each lesson contains a safe, fun learning atmosphere with students exhibiting in their best behavior.
*** Studio Equipment ***
Lessons in store front studio, drum kit provided
*** Travel Equipment ***
I will bring a practice pad. Students should have a drum set.
*** Specialties ***
Jazz, Funk, pop, and classical.
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Charles S.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the drums! Lesson plans are custom made for your individual goals!
About Andrew
I have been dedicated to the drums since the age of 9 and since then I have been honing and applying those skills to musical groups
*** Lesson Details ***
When we work together we will split lessons between the necessary mechanical aspects of the instrument and the more creative and spontaneous elements. At the beginning, I emphasize a relaxed technique and an efficiency of motion. Once this is established, we will explore the instrument through improvisation and other creativity exercises. Although drumming can be very technical, I never lose sight of the importance of groove, expression, and having fun while playing.
*** Studio Equipment ***
My studio is complete with 2 drums sets, practice pads, computers, hand percussion instruments, and other instruments for accompaniment.
*** Specialties ***
I try to split lessons between the technical elements of drumming and the more creative aspects of the instrument. I feel that you can't have one without the other and teachers need to be mindful not to lean too much to one side. I also strive to give the students practical examples in their style of interest and encourage them to apply what they learn to actual musical situations as much as possible. I have had experience in pop/rock, jazz, show music, and many traditional world-music styles.
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From the first lesson, Andrew has been a consummate professional. Each lesson he brings in something new, while making sure that everything we've covered in the past is still ingrained through repetition. Having Andrew as an instructor has opened my eyes to the many facets of drumming, and I have taken skills/techniques with me that will last forever. The feedback does not stop after each lesson, Andrew is available all the time for any questions I may have during the week if I am stumped while practicing. His schedule is flexible with mine, and he is willing to bring in music that I want to personally learn. The lessons are the right balance of fun and teaching, and his studio promotes a learning environment that is not intimidating to let loose if you're a beginner like me.
I'd recommend Andrew to anyone looking to expand their skill set, the lessons have been a great experience.
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45 years in the Music Business Students learn -
Drum Set/Snare Drum Technique and Music Performance,
Music Recording Techniques,
The Music Business - The Music AND the Business of Music
Endorsed by Hal Blaine - The most recorded Musician in HISTORY
Endorsed by Alex Van Halen and many others
About Keith
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You will learn to read drum music and/or write and play drum parts. You will learn snare drum technique and drum set skills. I have experience in the MUSIC BUSINESS, so students will learn not only about the MUSIC, but also
I also teach Studio session recording drumming techniques should you wish to become a top session recording drummer !!!
I have been around the world working with MAJOR famous recording artists touring out of Washington, DC and Los Angeles.
I teach 1/2 hour lessons and/or 1 hour lessons.
During each lesson, I give you plenty of material to practice over a weeks time. WE WILL HAVE FUN.
Not many teachers in this area have my experience nor credentials. I love the drums more than anything and my enthusiasm should be evident during our lessons. Several of my students have gone on to major music colleges such as Berklee. One of my students is currently touring and working with Linkin Park. Another student is currently touring with Fall Out Boy.
When you take lessons from me, you will develop the skills to play in your school band with confidence, start your own band, or play at an advanced professional level.
I am great with young children as well as students of all ages. Additionally, I have experience with students requiring special needs.
I have all the patience in the world, remember, I was in your shoes years ago when I had a dream of learning how to play the drums !!!!
*** Studio Equipment ***
Large, private studio with all the equipment you will need to absorb the "pearls of wisdom" I will give you during your private one-on-one private lesson. Comfortable waiting room outside studio. Drum set, practice pad set, PA for playing any song you wish to learn loud enough so you can hear it over the studio drums.
*** Specialties ***
Drum set technique, snare drum technique, reading studies. Rock, Country, Jazz, symphonic, marching band etc., Studio session recording drumming techniques.
I teach both the MUSIC and the BUSINESS, for the aspiring or current professional.
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One on one private instruction, Online instruction
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(Juilliard Member since 2005)
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I have over 20 years of playing and performing experience. I keep lessons fun, yet challenging. I tailor each lessons to my students interests and goals. I teach how to play beats, fills, read music, and how to play by ear. Let's rock out and learn some awesome songs!
About Matthew
Guitar lessons – I specialize in rock, pop, blues, and folk styles. I teach acoustic and electrical guitar lessons to students age 5 through adult! I help students learn their favorite songs and can teach chords, soloing, note reading, improvising, and music theory.
Songwriting lessons – Songwriting is a deep passion of mine and I specialize in rock, pop, and folk. I teach students how to formulate ideas, use chord progressions, make beats/arrangements, overcome writer's block, and develop solid polished songs.
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I love teaching lessons and sharing music with eager students. Music should be fun, yet it teaches the value of hard work and the rewards that come with it. I look forward to meeting you and helping you achieve your musical goals!
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Kevin Peter Jones is an active drummer, percussionist, and music instructor in the D.C. Metro area (DC, MD. & Northern Virginia). He has over 30 years of teaching experience and a passion for sharing the gift of music with others.
About Kevin Peter
He plays and teaches everything from rock, jazz, and pop to orchestral instruments, like the timpani and hand percussion. It's safe to say that music is Kevin's life, and he feels blessed to be able to inspire the love of music with his students.
High school was the first step towards Kevin becoming a professional musician, as he was fortunate enough to attend Elk Grove High School in Chicago, which had an award-winning marching band and orchestra. He was a top All-State soloist during this time and decided to continue his study of music in college.
Kevin attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music and Georget
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Thomas takes tour of Hall ahead of induction
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- On his first trip to Cooperstown, Frank Thomas was afraid to set foot in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
A big league rookie, he wanted to make sure he really belonged before comparing himself to the game's greatest players.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- On his first trip to Cooperstown, Frank Thomas was afraid to set foot in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
A big league rookie, he wanted to make sure he really belonged before comparing himself to the game's greatest players.
Now "The Big Hurt" is ready to take his place alongside those stars. The former White Sox, A's and Blue Jays slugger on Monday toured the shrine where he's scheduled for induction on Sunday, July 27.
"This is the top one percent in all of baseball," Thomas said. "To dream that as a kid, that's a big dream."
It came true a couple of months ago when he got a phone call notifying him of his election as a first-ballot inductee. The last time he was here, in 2007, was for the annual Hall of Fame Game as a member of the Blue Jays.
That same summer, Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn joined the Hall, setting an all-time induction weekend attendance record. Thomas thinks this year's crowd could be even bigger, given the cast he's going in with -- managers Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox, and 300-game winners Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux.
He joked when asked if he felt slighted by getting less votes than those two great hurlers.
"Are you crazy?" Thomas said. "I'm just happy to be going to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's hard to take something like this in. Hard work and dedication is what it's all about."
Possessing a rare ability to hit for average and power, Thomas finished up his 19-year career (1990-2008) with a .301 average, 1,704 RBIs and 521 home runs, which is tied for 18th all time with Ted Williams and Willie McCovey. Thomas was a two-time American League MVP in 1993 and '94, won the AL batting title in 1997 (.347) and is one of only a handful of players to hit .300, belt 20 or more homers and knock in 100 runs for seven straight years (1991-97).
Despite his immense size and power -- 6-foot-5, 240 pounds -- Thomas prided himself on making contact. That's how he wants to be remembered.
"He was the biggest man on the field, but he was a consistent hitter," said Thomas, describing himself. "I cared about getting hits and scoring runs. A lot of times I was content getting on base and letting other guys drive me in."
He scored and drove in more than 100 runs for eight straight seasons (1991-98).
Part of his success he attributes to a good luck charm, a piece of iron rebar that he found one day at a construction site across from the White Sox Spring Training facility in Florida. Picking it up, he began swinging it, liked the way it felt and decided it worked better than a weighted bat. So it went with him in the on-deck circle for the rest his career.
"It was my blanket, like Linus," Thomas said, smiling.
Of course, luck didn't get him to Cooperstown. Thomas went to Auburn on a football scholarship, following in the footsteps of another Tigers two-sport star: Bo Jackson.
"Everybody wanted to be like Bo," Thomas said. "That's one of the reasons I went to Auburn. I knew the coaches didn't have a problem with guys playing two sports."
After getting injured in football, he focused full time on baseball and became a White Sox first-round Draft pick. During his 16 years in the Windy City, Thomas virtually rewrote the Pale Hose record book for offense prowess.
La Russa will bring fans to Cooperstown from Chicago's South Side as well, and Maddux, who also played for the Cubs, should attract many Wrigley Field faithful.
Cox, Glavine and Maddux will all have many Braves fans on hand, and Yankees lovers from the region will show up for Torre's induction.
"We're hoping for record crowds," Thomas said.
White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson tagged him with the nickname "The Big Hurt" early in his career, and it stuck.
"It's the first nickname I ever liked," Thomas said. "That's got a little ring to it."
For the better part of two decades, he put a hurting on opposing pitchers with every trip to the plate.
Thomas looked with awe at Hank Aaron's plaque, not just for his athletic feats, but for the way he handled himself while chasing Babe Ruth's home run record in the face of racial tensions that included threats on his life.
"All little kids have heroes," Thomas said. "He was mine. I idolized him."
Paul Post is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Holy Geens stores values the relationship to the human body, nature, farmers, customers and their primary products. They offer tasteful and good salads and have stores in the city centre of Malmö, Helsingborg and Stockholm. Their newly opened store in Berga in Helsingborg Sweden has a fresh and modern concept.
The merchandises on display are carefully illuminated with Marathon spotlights with Rich and Glow function.
Marathon Glow is the ultimate luminaire for bringing out warm tones in a store, perfect for illuminating healthy salads and juices.
The nature coloured elements such as wooden interior, green plants and menu is enhanced with Glow to create a more homely and warm feeling at the store. Glow function is also used to highlight the white crisp tile to create a warmer feeling on the wall.
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Vanessa Hudgens: 24 Hour Plays on Broadway!
Vanessa Hudgens smiles wide at the The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway after party held at BB King on Monday (November 12) in New York City.
The 23-year-old actress performed in a play titled "Workday" alongside Amber Heard, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and more!
Also in attendance to perform in the Montblanc presented Broadway festival was Olivia Wilde, whose boyfriend Jason Sudeikis came out to support, Justin Long, Taran Killam, Seth Green, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, Gina Gershon, Anthony Mackie, Jack McBrayer, and (not pictured) Amber Tamblyn, Vincent Piazza, America Ferrera, and Jason Biggs!
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Former Ottawa Senators player and fan favourite Mike Fisher and his wife, country singer Carrie Underwood, are selling their west Ottawa home for $2.2 million.
The custom-built single-family home at 1135 Spruce Ridge Road has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. It also features a garage, patio and fireplace, according to the listing last updated on June 13.
Fisher and Underwood had the home built on an 11-acre lot, surrounded by trees, in 2010. But Fisher was soon traded to the Nashville, where Underwood often lived, in the spring of 2011.
According to the listing from Paul Rushforth Real Estate Inc., the home features "a romantic master bedroom with a closet space thought to be conceivable only by imagination."
There is also an enclosed porch with its own fireplace, a fully finished lower level with a wine cellar, home theatre, wet bar, home gym and locker storage, according to the listing.
Fisher continues to play in Nashville, where he admittedly wanted to live after marrying Underwood, with his current contract ending in 2015.
Rushforth posted a YouTube video in mid-April showing a tour of the home. You can watch it below.
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The man to watch on the track in London, as in Beijing, is clearly Usain Bolt. In Beijing, the Jamaican not only won the gold in the 100- and 200-meters, but set world records doing it. Enter Yohan Blake, whom Bolt calls the "Beast." The reason? "Because when you're sleeping, I'm working," Blake told the British newspaper the Guardian. That work ethic has made him perhaps the co-favorite for the 100- and 200-meters in London with Bolt. In the Jamaican trials, Blake won both races.
In fact, Jamaica has a decent chance of sweeping the men's 100 meters, with Asafa Powell also a medal contender. American Tyson Gay, for one, hopes to break up that trio. But if the Jamaicans can manage it, they will match what their women did in Beijing, taking gold, silver, and bronze in track and field's showcase event.


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Latest Update on IJPE - May 2015
The International of Journal of Performability Engineering is a refereed interdisciplinary journal which presents all engineering aspects of performance of products, systems or services. This journal was started in July 2005, and this year it is in the eleventh year of its publication. We like to present here how this journal has been progressing since its inception in 2005. Undoubtedly, we have come a long way and will continue making special efforts to ensure that we have participation and representation of all major countries of the world and the journal has a wide coverage of the topics within the planned scope of this journal. It is a matter of great satisfaction that the journal, in general, has been appreciated and has been received very well by the scientific community of the world. This is reflected through the demand /orders received for the copies of the papers published in this journal. We will of course continue to keep the standard of this journal very high and strive to provide high quality papers to our readers following a rigorous refereeing process involving competent reviewers so that the published papers are brief, precise and are of high standard.
We have been bringing out special issues or special sections of an issue in the important and new emerging areas of research and invite acclaimed researchers and practitioners to serve as Guest Editors in order to provide their interaction with researchers and professionals in the area and offer the latest information and literature to the readers of IJPE on the subject.
IJPE also provides a unique facility to authors/researchers to present their new ideas before the scientific community through the medium of Short Communications/Short Papers, which otherwise might take quite some time to develop the idea into a full-fledged research paper. For better interaction between researchers, comments on papers published in IJPE are also encouraged.
Book reviews of latest books are often published in the journal to inform our readership of new arrivals in the literature to keep them up-to-date in their respective areas.
The details of IJPE issues published, during the period July 2005-May 2015, are as follows:
List of 50 Countries which have contributed papers to IJPE: The following countries (in alphabetic order) contributed papers to the IJPE during this period:
Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea (South), Kuwait, Latvia, Malaysia, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela.
Major contributing countries happen to be (in alphabetic order): Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, U.K., U.S.A. (The highest number of papers published have been from U.S.A. and India in that order).
. The number of citations from July 2005 to June 2014 for 406 papers published during the period has been 1066 and 722 respective as per Google Scholar and SCOPUS data bases as given on website of this journal. http://www.ijpe-online.com/visibility-factor-of-ijpe.html
We like to thank a large number of anonymous reviewers of papers, who over this period have given us their precious time and advice to keep the standard of this journal very high. We like to thank them here collectively and would like to record our gratitude to them.


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Rays stifled by Mark Buehrle in shutout loss to Blue Jays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays domination of the Toronto Blue Jays at home is in jeopardy thanks to Mark Buehrle and Jose Bautista.
Buehrle allowed four hits over 8 2-3 innings, Bautista homered twice, and the Blue Jays beat the Rays 3-0 on Wednesday night.
"Just another well-played game," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "They got us."
With a victory in Thursday night's game, Toronto would stop a streak of 20 consecutive winless road series against the Rays. The Blue Jays, who have won two of three against the Rays to start a four-game set, haven't won a series at Tampa Bay since April 2007. Of the 20 series, the Blue Jays have lost 19 and split one.
"Obviously, it hasn't been a good place for this team," Buehrle said. "Hopefully come out and take this series tomorrow and get off to an even better start."
Buehrle (1-0) struck out 11 and walked one.
It was just the second career double-digit strikeout game in 430 major league starts for Buehrle. The other was a 12-strikeout game on April 16, 2005 against Seattle, while with the Chicago White Sox.
"That ball was running, ducking, and darting," Toronto manager John Gibbons said.
Bautista put the Blue Jays ahead 1-0 on his first homer of the season, a solo shot off Matt Moore (0-1) in the fourth. Dioner Navarro made it 2-0 later in the inning with an RBI single.
Toronto went up 3-0 on Bautista's second homer, a towering solo drive to left off Josh Lueke during the seventh. It was the slugger's 22nd multihomer game.
"Bautista is the guy who really hurt us tonight with the homers," Maddon said. "For the most part their offense was centered around one guy. He can do that kind of stuff."
Sergio Santos entered after Ben Zobrist had a two-out single off Buehrle in the ninth and walked Evan Longoria. Brett Cecil then struck out pinch-hitter Matt Joyce for his first save.
Moore gave up two runs, six hits and three walks in 5 2-3 innings.
"I thought he pitched well," Maddon said. "That's definitely good enough to win a ball game. Two runs in five and two-thirds. I'll take that out of all of our starters. I thought he was fine."
The Blue Jays had runners on first and second with two outs in the first when Longoria got a forceout at third after leaping to catch Navarro's grounder that went airborne after hitting the base.
Toronto third baseman Brett Lawrie saved a run in the fifth when he made a leaping catch on Sean Rodriguez's liner with a runner on a second.
Notes: Tampa Bay RHP Chris Archer and Blue Jays RHP Brandon Morrow are Thursday's scheduled starters. Archer and the Rays agreed to a $25.5 million, six-year deal on Wednesday. The contract includes club options for 2020 and 2021 that could raise the value to $43.75 million. … Blue Jays SS Jose Reyes (mild left hamstring inflammation) is getting treatment and feeling better. He hopes to return in a couple weeks. … Toronto closer Casey Janssen, on the 15-day disabled list due to a strain in his left abdominal area and lower back, threw in the outfield. … Rays OF David DeJesus (bruised right foot) was out of the lineup for the second straight game and is day to day.


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Alex Rodriguez storms out of hearing, says Selig 'hates my guts'
Alex Rodriguez has reached the rarified air of such legendary figures as Mike Tyson and Toronto mayor Rob Ford. There is no longer anything he can do that registers as a surprise, including storming out of his own hearing to appeal a 211-game suspension from Major League Baseball, which he did on Wednesday.
A-Rod having his suspension upheld, then showing up to Yankees spring training in full uniform, living in a rented Winnebago and blasting The Standells' "Dirty Water" until he is hauled away by police? Sure, why not?
A-Rod on Francesa denies any wrongdoing. pic.twitter.com/05y5vpOJU8
— Sporting News MLB (@SN_Baseball) November 20, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: MLB players suspended for PED use
A-Rod announcing plans to start his own baseball enterprise, the No Buds League, in which Bud Norris is allowed, but Bud Selig is not, because one Bud is fine, but, sorry, no Buds? Sure, why not?
A-Rod wrestling an alligator? Sure, why not?
Almost everything revolving around Rodriguez has been a sideshow for years, with co-stars ranging from Madonna to A-Rod's own reflection in a mirror to a painting of A-Rod as a centaur. The ringmaster just had enough with this iteration of The Great A-Rod and Friends, so he pulled the plug.
A-Rod later went on WFAN radio in New York and flatly denied everything from using performance-enhancing drugs to putting his phone number on a baseball and giving it to a female fan. The Yankee third baseman told host Mike Francesa he left the hearing because arbitrator Fredric Horowitz refused to order Selig to testify.
"He hates my guts," A-Rod said of the commissioner. "One hundred percent, this is personal."
He added: "He's retiring in 2014 and to put me in his big mantle on the way out, that's a hell of a trophy," Rodriguez said.
Here was the statement from Rodriguez on Wednesday, as printed by the New York Daily News: "I am disgusted with this abusive process, designed to ensure that the player fails. … I have sat through 10 days of testimony by felons and liars, sitting quietly through every minute, trying to respect the league and the process. This morning, after Bud Selig refused to come in and testify about his rationale for the unprecedented and totally baseless punishment he hit me with, the arbitrator selected by MLB and the Players Association refused to order Selig to come in and face me.
"The absurdity and the injustice just became too much. I walked out and will not participate any further in this farce."
A-Rod's statement brings to mind Billy Martin's famous line about Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner: "One's a born liar, and the other's convicted." Much like Martin, Rodriguez is not exactly a paragon of grace, morals, and good behavior himself, but it does not mean that he is wrong.
One point that sticks out is that Rodriguez notes that the arbitrator for his case was selected by MLB and the Players Association. A-Rod has distanced himself from the union, going with his own team of lawyers and spinmeisters throughout his appeal. And when it comes to a farce, it is certainly important to remember that last year, MLB fired longtime arbitrator Shyam Das in the wake of his ruling against the league in Ryan Braun's appeal of a 50-game suspension.
While Braun eventually took a 65-game suspension in the Biogenesis scandal that has ensnared Rodriguez, he had the right to appeal his initial suspension and get it tossed out on a technicality. So, too, does A-Rod have the right to fight a 211-game ban whose parameters have appeared from the start to be completely arbitrary – the remainder of the 2013 regular season from the time the suspension was handed down, plus the entirety of 2014.
So long as Rodriguez's case remains under the jurisdiction of baseball, and not the United States court system, there are no subpoenas, and neither Selig nor anyone else is compelled to testify, let alone to offer sworn testimony. Trying to get in front of a judge rather than an arbitrator may be A-Rod's only remaining move. That, or wrestling an alligator.


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Works as project manager for Sgurr Energy renewable energy consultancy, on projects in the US and Hong Kong
Spending around £15,000 on a masters degree meant getting a job paying a higher salary
I studied engineering at Durham University and joined consumer product giant Unilever. My last job there was as a senior project manager building production lines at an ice-cream factory. Then, I worked for about a year and half as a management consultant for Accenture. I'm a consultant now, so it was useful to learn how to deal with clients and so on. But the work was not as interesting as the work I do now.
It was my brother who suggested I might enjoy working in the renewable-energy industry — he picked up a newspaper supplement about renewable energy jobs. I've always been passionate about the environment and climate change, and this was my chance to do something I really believe in.
Education pays off
I did a masters degree in renewable-energy engineering and started working at consultancy Sgurr Energy while doing the course. I got into offshore wind last November. My course was full-time for a year, with two terms of modules and then a dissertation. The first term was spent learning about different types of renewables. From the beginning I had an inkling that I wanted to specialise in offshore wind.
Doing a course like the one I did at Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh is a useful way of advancing yourself if you're transferring from another industry. I spent a fair amount of time looking at whether I could go straight from Accenture into renewables, but I came to the conclusion that I'd have to go back down to graduate engineer level. Whereas if I spent around £15,000 on the course I thought I could get a job paying a higher salary. And that is what happened. I was 33 when I did the masters and I'm delighted I did it. In this industry you see so many people who come from other industries and are learning fast. It's still quite a small field.
My day-to-day job involves a mixture of tasks: team meetings, working with clients, suppliers and tendering companies, and trying to move all projects along at the same time. The nice thing is that it involves a fair amount of time out of the office. I also love sailing and I get out to sea once a month or so. Sailing helps me understand some of the issues facing the offshore wind sector better. For example, why you need exclusion zones around turbines.
Two of the projects I'm involved in are really interesting and personally satisfying. One is the Cape Wind project, which has the potential to be the first offshore wind farm in the US. The other is the installation of an offshore measuring station in Hong Kong.
I definitely see myself in this industry for the rest of my career. Once wave and tidal devices become commercialised I'd love to get involved in that area as well, although I don't see that happening in the immediate future. There are issues in common between onshore and offshore wind. But there are much higher costs and risks in offshore projects, so a lot more effort goes into risk management.
What makes offshore so interesting is the sheer scale of it. Turbines are being built with a 160-metre rotor – that is enormous. It's brilliant, as well as slightly scary.
Works for UK environmental consultancy Apem, in operational research and development
"I could have ended up being quite desk bound"
My job focuses on optimising imaging systems for offshore ornithological surveys. A typical day could involve me flying onboard aircraft in order to operate our systems and capture images of offshore seabirds. I also process the imagery and work with our in-house ornithologists to improve species identification.
I do a lot of liaising with other members of the team — their feedback helps me to optimise our systems further so that we get the very best seabird images possible. In our ornithological surveys we are trying to identify both high population densities of seabirds and migratory paths.
I enjoy all aspects of my job, but flying out miles into the North Sea is definitely the best bit. All of the projects we work on take me to places that have never been surveyed before. In the course of a working week I'll often travel further than some people will travel in a year.
My undergraduate degree was in environmental biology and my MSc was in remote sensing. Remote sensing is a very broad field, so I knew that I would be working with aerial data, but to be as involved as I am in actual surveying isn't something I expected. It's been a real surprise and a welcome one.
The possibility of working in the offshore wind sector wasn't really mentioned when I was doing my MSc, but I can see now that the skills I gained in both of my degrees are ideal for this work. I could have ended up being quite desk bound, processing satellite images from half way around the world. The offshore wind sector has offered me a truly unique role.
Works Siemens Wind, UK
"We're creating an industry, developing solutions"
I'm the senior project manager for the first offshore wind farm being built by Siemens in the UK, the Walney II wind farm in the Irish Sea. It's an exciting project. It's not just a new wind farm, it's the first location in the world where Siemens is installing its new SWT3.6-1.2 turbines.
I'm only 30 years old and I'm running a project team of 120 people. I did an MEng degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Edinburgh and then worked for Shell Exploration and Production.
I decided that oil and gas wasn't the sector I wanted to work in. I've always been interested in renewable energy and so I moved to a renewable energy consultancy, Sgurr Energy, and later set up my own consultancy in Germany, working for clients such as RWE. My next step was joining Siemens Wind.
When you work in established industries, like oil and gas, everything is already set up. But in offshore wind we're creating an industry, we're developing solutions as we go along. Everyone I'm working with has chosen to work in this field — they all love working in offshore wind.
The offshore wind sector is expanding quickly and is recruiting aggressively. It's challenging and stressful to be creating a workforce as we go along, but massively exciting.
Works as partner for UK law firm Eversheds
Loves working on global precedent-setting offshore projects
I head up the clean energy and sustainability group at Eversheds. Our team advises utilities, private-equity funds, banks and independent developers about onshore and offshore wind, biomass, solar, hydro and geothermal projects. We are also heavily involved in policy, and work with a number of industry groups and with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
My area of expertise is mergers and acquisitions and private equity. A typical day will involve advising clients on acquisitions or disposals or investments they are making or seeking in the renewables space. I usually attend an industry group meeting or I might speak at a conference. I am a member of the RenewableUK offshore wind strategy group, and the UK government's offshore wind cost-reduction task force.
I got involved in the renewables sector about nine years ago, and the first offshore work began when I advised Statkraft on its acquisition of Sheringham Shoal. I then worked with bidders on UK's Round 3 of offshore projects.
The supply chain for offshore wind is a huge challenge and affects the ability of these projects to attract non-recourse financing. Onshore financing by comparison is simple.
Much of the infrastructure needed to supply offshore-wind components needs to be secured, such as ports and ships. And, of course, building in what will increasingly be deeper waters and further from shore brings its own problems. The industry must be supported as it attempts to find solutions to these challenges. Offshore wind is probably one of the most truly innovative part of the wider renewables sector.
It is great to be working on ground-breaking projects, which are setting precedents globally. Our offshore wind clients are innovative and hugely focused on delivering. Despite the challenges of the offshore wind industry, it is an enormously positive part of the sector to work in.
Works for E.on Climate and Renewables, Germany as health, safety, security & environment co-ordinator
One study found that offshore wind farms can lead to biodiversity enhancements
Part of my job is to support the health, safety and environment managers who oversee our operational wind farms in UK, Nordic and German waters. At a strategic level, I look at issues that need to be addressed, such as the benefits and impacts of offshore wind farms.
One big project of ours I participated in was a study published last year in collaboration with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the biodiversity effects of offshore wind farms. From an offshore developer point of view we were often faced with contradictory scientific results. We wanted to improve our understanding of what is scientifically clear when it comes to environmental impacts and what are myths, so we approached IUCN. They reviewed all of the scientific literature and assessed its quality.
One of the study's findings was that offshore wind farms can lead to biodiversity enhancements because fishing — particularly trawling — generally isn't allowed within the wind farms. So marine life has more protection, which increases populations and expands the number of species. It's such a positive impact. In terms of biodiversity effects that require more investigation, piling noise and its impact on marine life is something we're working on.
We also need to understand the expectations of different stakeholders more fully. There may be greater opportunities to work together. For instance, in some locations aquaculture projects could be combined with offshore wind farms, allowing for the creation of mussel or oyster beds.
I began working for E.on after I completed my studies in environmental science. I wanted to go into the energy sector and I was interested in renewables, but I wasn't looking in particular for a job that involved offshore wind. I expect offshore wind to become a bigger part of my work over time, as it is one of the company's key areas of focus.
Works as UK president of French power generation firm Alstom, also a member of the UK government's offshore wind cost-cutting task force
Wants to see the offshore wind sector develop apprenticeships
I've been involved in offshore wind for around two years, and more than ten years in onshore wind. Alstom is developing technology for use in Round 3. We are evaluating where in the UK we might do assembly work.
I started in engineering 35 years ago as an apprentice electrical engineer. I've been able to carve out a really interesting international career in a lot of roles — this is what's available to people pursuing careers in energy.
Offshore wind will be a long-term industry, not a one-minute wonder where there's lots of shouting and attracting people, and then all of a sudden there's nothing.
The breadth of competencies in offshore wind is colossal. There is electronic and electrical engineering, civil engineering, control engineering, project management and marine engineering. A vast array of different disciplines is brought together to develop a wind farm.
This industry will create jobs where we need them — in Scotland and the north east, the east and west of England.
Alstom doesn't have any training schools in offshore wind yet, but we invest in the National Skills Academy for Power and the Renewables Training Network. It's the responsibility of both government and employers to attract the right people, particularly young people, to this industry.
We need to recreate apprenticeships — you can't expect people to fall out of university and be immediately 100% productive. Now is the time to develop and encourage the right skills so that by the time projects take off we have a pool of good people in the country.
Works for UK marine ecology consultancy Thomson Unicomarine as senior principal biologist and operations manager
Found 400,000 amphipod crustacean on monopile
I have always been interested in animals, especially invertebrates. After graduating from Hull University in 1993 I joined Unicomarine, which specialises in biological surveys, sample analysis, and impact assessments. The thrill of searching marine sediment for animals, reminiscent of my childhood rockpooling, now paid my wages!
These days my role involves day-to-day management and development, but I still do some microscope work as I manage the National Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme, an international quality assurance scheme.
I have worked for several industries, including aggregates, port developments, oil and gas and foreshore developments. Biological surveys and analysis are essentially the same.
Offshore wind is rapidly becoming a major client. Offshore wind developments differ due to the standard suite of biological surveys required by the Crown Estate, which owns the rights to UK waters. These surveys will add to our collective knowledge of the UK marine environment, including sea birds, cetaceans, fish, benthic communities (animals that live within the sediment) and geophysical surveys.
In 1998, I was involved in the Scroby Sands wind farm off England's east coast at Great Yarmouth. I was a member of our team of four biologists working on the offshore seabed survey gathering baseline data to examine the suitability of the proposed development. I recall very long surveys, using trawling continuing into the night, as we capitalised on the tidal currents.
Journey of discovery
A study of the colonisation of an experimental wind turbine monopile at the proposed Scroby Sands development is the most interesting wind project I have been involved with. The study found a huge colonisation of 400,000 Jassa falcata — a tube-dwelling amphipod crustacean — per square metre on the monopile. This, in turn, could support biodiversity.
There is great potential for further study into the "ecological ergonomics" of wind farm developments and we're working with other parties to advance the industry's understanding through research and education. These could have a real benefit — you could produce positive biological measurables in biodiversity, fish stocks, along with a legacy of high quality national data.
I learned virtually all the specific knowledge and skills required for offshore wind energy during my full-time employment — there is no substitute for on the job training. The company employs 27 full-time marine biologists, all graduates. It takes about two years of biological sample processing to achieve a basic level of competence and longer for expert-level knowledge. A seabed sample can take anything from a few hours to two weeks to process. A typical project can have 60 samples, so it's a lot of work.
The offshore wind sector offers good development with continued biological monitoring and research. We have recruited new staff in the past eight months and now have a marine cetaceans team of 12, marine mammal observers, and passive acoustic monitoring- qualified staff.
Our understanding of the relationship between offshore wind farms and the marine environment is relatively sparse and as technology evolves so, too, will our biological monitoring techniques.
Works as head of offshore renewables for UK engineering consultancy G3 Baxi
Most interesting project was one that was never built
I always wanted to do something that contributed to reducing consumption of fossil fuels, but I didn't aim to be employed in the offshore wind industry. It happened more by chance.
I've also worked in onshore wind, which is more mature so there is more or less a "template" for delivery. It's not as complex as offshore. It is difficult, but not impossible, to transition from onshore to offshore, but it helps if you have had marine or offshore experience in other industries.
I had a background in oil and gas, thanks to my work for NL Baroid, and I spent plenty of time on offshore rigs and vessels, from the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The oil and gas industry has a very structured education and training process allied to ongoing personnel development, which isn't the case in the offshore wind industry. However, offshore wind offers good opportunities for career development. Although my BSc in geology from the University of Aberdeen has been relevant to my work, I have mainly developed knowledge and skills on the job. I would not be a supporter of an offshore wind degree, as I believe there are many skills from many different sectors that are required to deliver offshore projects. However, good training courses for health and safety and for technicians are a must.
The most interesting offshore wind project I've been involved in so far was the Shell Flat project in the Irish Sea, developed by Scottish Power Renewables and Cirrus Power. It wasn't built because of aviation and environmental objections.
As well as working on UK offshore wind Round 1 and 2 projects I have helped establish, and was inaugural chair of, the East Irish Sea Developers Group, which brought together all of the offshore wind developers active in the Irish Sea to address common issues and co-ordinate surveys and resources. I'm also an active member of industry association RenewableUK and have sat on some of its sub-committees.
I think the biggest challenges facing the offshore wind sector are planning, health and safety, lack of experience and finance.
Works for Siemens in Scotland, UK as a service engineer
More pressure with offshore than with onshore wind farms to keep turbines operational
I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 2010. I'm part of a team responsible for servicing and maintaining operational wind farms. I've worked on both onshore and offshore wind farms. With offshore wind farms there is the challenge of just getting to work — travelling by boat. That's quite fun.
There is more pressure with offshore than with onshore wind farms to keep turbines operational. We need to get it right the first time and focus on preventative maintenance.
In particular, I've really enjoyed working on Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm off the North Wales coast. It's small, but really well run with a good project team. It offers a good blueprint for the larger wind farms we're developing now.
Works for Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe
Round 3 offshore projects are so interesting because of the scale
During my first few years at Mitsubishi I worked on onshore wind projects before moving to offshore wind. It is a very different discipline, with much greater challenges.
It is possible to migrate from working in offshore wind to onshore, but I think it would be difficult to move the other way now. I couldn't find a more rewarding career right now and I would recommend it for any young engineer. Offshore wind offers technological excitement and it is a whole new area to explore, which is rare these days. And it's growing.
The most interesting projects I've worked on are the UK Round 3 projects currently in development. Offshore wind in Europe, and Round 3 in particular, are so interesting because of the scale, the distance, the accessibility issues — it's so different to the existing programmes.
My undergraduate and graduate education prepared me for a great deal of the work I do now, although I have also developed skills on the job. I think it is good to have renewable-energy qualifications available, but I don't think we need more specific onshore or offshore degree courses, at least not up to graduate level.


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Ann Hutchinson was born in England in 1591, came to Boston in 1634, and was excommunicated from the Puritan church and banished from Boston in 1638
Azar Nafisi was born in Iran in 1955, went to England to school when she was 13, continued her education in Norman, Oklahoma, returned to Iran in 1979, and was forced to leave Iran in 1997.
But the frightening observation that is referenced in the title is the similarity between the was women were treated by the two governments. At one point in telling the story how some of her students were arrested for no reason, Azar Nafisi writes in Reading Lolita in Tehran,
There, despite their protests, the girls were kept in a small, dark room, which they shared the first night with several prostitutes and a drug addict. Their jail wardens came into their room two or three times in the middle of the night to wake up those who might have dozed off, and hurled insults at them. They were held in that room for forty-eight hours. Despite their repeated requests, they were denied the right to call their parents. Apart from brief excursions to the rest room at appointed times, they left the room twice?the first time to be led to a hospital, where they were given virginity tests by a woman gynecologist, who had her students observe the examinations. Not satisfied with her verdict, the guards took them to a private clinic for a second check. On the third day, their anxious parents in Tehran, unable to locate them, were told by the concierge at their villa that their children might have been killed in a recent car accident. They set off at once to the resort town in search of their daughters, and finally found them. The girls were then given a summary trial, forced to sign a document confessing to sins they had not committed and subjected to twenty five lashes.
While Azar Nafisi was able to avoid this kind of arbitrary arrest and treatment, she was faced with a serious choice if she wished to continue teaching at Tehran University.
I told the Revolutionary Committee that my integrity as a teacher and a woman was being compromised by its insistence that I wear the veil under false pretenses for a few thousand tumans a month. The issue was not so much the veil itself as freedom of choice. . . . Little did I know that I would soon be given the choice of either veiling or being jailed, flogged and perhaps killed if I disobeyed.
As a result of standing up for her rights as a woman she was ultimately expelled from the university and then faced the choice, not of losing her livlihood, but of losing her life. Several years later, she and her family left their home in Iran and came to the United States where she would once again have the freedom to teach and to not wear the veil.
Ironically four hundred years earlier, Anne Hutchinson and her family came to a place only four hundred miles away from where Azar teaches today. They came to a four year old village named Boston to find the religious freedom that they could not find in England. And four years later she, her family, and many of her friends would be banished from Boston for exercising that same religious freedom.
Anne was tried in 1637 by a Massachusetts court of 42 men, including ministers of both the state and the church. Governer John Winthrop served as both chief judge and prosecutor. Anne was forty-six and well into her fifteenth pregnancy. She was forced to stand for several cold, November days in an unheated meeting house. They accused her of violating the fifth commandment – to "honor the father and mother" – by which they meant her "governmental fathers."
They voted to banish her from the colony "as being a woman not fit for our society." Another bit of irony was that one of those sitting on the court, had called for the women of Boston to starting wearing viels. She was put under house arrest to await her religious trial for heresy. In March 1638, the First Church in Boston conducted the religious trial. This religious court, with several members who had already judged her at the civil trial, found her guilty of heresy and voted to excommunicate her from the Puritan Church.
The Hutchinsons moved to Rhode Island and helped to found the city of Portsmouth. Her husband, William, died shortly after the move. Amid rumors that the Bay Colony was going to take over Rhode Island, Anne and her children moved farther south to New Netherlands, hoping to find more freeom in the Dutch colony. But in 1643, Anne and most of her children were killed in an Indian raid. When the news of her death reached Boston, it was said by some that she had finally gotten her just reward.
In 1922, a statue of Anne and her daughter was erected in front of the Boston state house. Included in the inscription are the words, "COURAGEOUS EXPONENT OF CIVIL LIBERTY AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION." But it was not until 1987, that Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned Anne and revoked her banishment.
For those who do not see the similarities between the way these two remarkable women were abused by their society, remember that it was just 50 years after the death of Anne Hutchinson that the good people of Massachusetts began to execute women for witchcraft. For another example of the cruelty and injustice that were part of that colony read the account of the hanging of Anne's friend, Mary Dyer.
The frightening observation is that when those who are convinced of the absolute truth of their religion (Muslim or Christian or whatever) are given political power, it is always a thing to be feared. But this is really not a new discovery, an early Baptist preacher in Virginia, John Leland, said in the 18th century,
"Let it suffice on this head to say, that it is not possible in the nature of things to establish religion by human laws without perverting the design of civil law and oppressing the people." And that thought was echoed two hundred years later by another Baptist preacher, Herschel Hobbs, at Oklahoma Baptist University, who said, "We're free. Please, please, don't ever let anyone take your Baptist freedoms away from you."
If you would like to check this out for yourself the books are
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi. Random House (March 25, 2003)
American Jezebel : The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante


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The L.A. Complex has become must-see Monday night television ever since the Canadian series made its stateside debut. One obvious reason: The ample servings of beefcake and the scorching same-sex love scenes featuring actor Andra Fuller.
The Toronto-based series has also attracted a cult following among Black gay and bisexual men because of its delicious narrative and characters. Black Enterprise chats up Andra Fuller who portrays the "volatile gangsta rapper Kaldrick King... who also happens to be gay [and] closeted. ... Fuller had no trepidations about taking the part, but those around him were leery about his decision."
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Fuller's impeccable performance is buoyed by sharp writing [and] navigates it all — from suicide attempts to intense love scenes — with incredible ease. "As an actor, you don't run away from a role because it doesn't coexist with your personal lifestyle," he explains. "If I take a role as a mass murderer, I don't think I would ever have the gall to kill someone in my real life. But I'm not going to run away from it because I don't believe in murder."
Very refreshing to hear a Black actor embrace a multi-dimensional gay character with such intensity ... and will not shy away from the sexual component. .
Television depictions of the LGBT community remain overwhelmingly white, according to a recent report by GLAAD. CW remains the top broadcast network for LGBT impressions and has the most diversity—thanks to programming such as The L.A. Complex and America's Next Top Model.
"The gay and lesbian community has been super-supportive and appreciative of what I've been putting into Kaldrick," Fuller told Black Enterprise. "It's definitely an honor to be chosen to play this character in this storyline. I try my damndest every day I step on set to do it justice."
The L.A. Complex will air tonight and Mondays at 8P through October 1. Very much looking forward to tonight's episode after last week's scorcher with the legal fierceness. Kaldrick has met his match. Yasss.
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Professor Kavita Khory
More evidence if any were needed of the racially-discriminatory policies of Israeli border authorities. Last spring, Kavita Khory, a Professor of Political Science at Mount Holyoke College, signed up for a one-week, all expenses paid tour of Israel for scholars of international relations aimed at providing a "deeper understanding" of the politics of the area. The trip of a dozen scholars was sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Well Khory got a deeper understanding. She didn't end up going because of the way Israel treated her prospectively, on account of her having been born in Pakistan. And Congress is thinking of extending no-visa privileges to Israelis seeking to come to the U.S.?
From Khory's account, at Duck of Minerva.
A week before our departure, the CJP informed me that I (the only member of the group and a US citizen) would need to carry a separate identification document at all times—a "card" certifying that I had been "prescreened" by the Israeli Consulate in Boston. While "technically traveling with a U.S. passport is sufficient in Israel," additional documentation, I was told, would ensure a "smooth" trip.
As I began reading the consular official's questions, I realized that the only issue was my place of birth—Pakistan. Because of the circumstances of my birth, over which I had no control, I was being singled out for "special" treatment that did not in any way make me feel confident about my own safety and security while traveling in Israel.
The assumption that individuals with any connection to Pakistan would immediately be seen as a potential threat is infuriating. Equally if not more troubling, the Israeli government, as I discovered, employs a two-tier system to screen U.S. citizens.
I no longer felt I was part of a group of my peers, having already been assigned a different—and subordinate—status without any regard for my professional accomplishments, which I assumed was the reason I was invited in the first place.
I couldn't choose my place of birth, but I could choose not to acquiesce to the Israeli government's discriminatory practices toward U.S. citizens. So after mulling it over for a day or so, I decided against traveling to Israel and declined the CJP's invitation…
What is our professional responsibility when colleagues are treated differently because of national or ethnic origin? How should we respond when faced with such examples of exclusion and discrimination?
P.S. Khory clarified a point implicit in her original post, in correspondence with me:
I was the only member of a group of 12 faculty asked to fill out the additional paperwork and carry another ID along with my passport. I think if I had known about this earlier in the process, I would have simply declined the invitation. As I said in the piece, it was a personal decision not to go. Others might have reacted differently. Another colleague who went on the trip this year, had a good experience, so I would not discourage anyone from going in the future.


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A vet once advised me to be cautious in naming horses, and to choose anything except what I didn't want the horse to be – names like "buck", "striker", or "renegade" for instance. He pointed out that if a horse was named for a bad habit, then you are reminded of that every time you say the name; not a good idea if your horse has a tendency to buck you off to name him "buck". When it comes to whales, amusement parks either get one name and stick with it, replacing dead whales with new ones and keeping the name (aka "Shamu" at SeaWorld) or in the case of the Miami Seaquarium choosing a sleazy and inappropriate moniker such as "Lolita".
Back when "Lolita" the captive orca was torn from her family in a violent and brutal capture, she was initially named "Tokitae", a Native American Coast Salish greeting meaning "Nice day, pretty colors"…nice day? For who? Yet as ironic a choice as that was at least it had a positive spin, and maybe "Lolita's" life would have turned out differently had people everywhere been wishing her a nice day when they said her name. Like wishing a prisoner a 'nice day', the next thing you think about is "like that is going to happen".
But instead the amusement park that owns her decided to change her name to the sexy and precocious "Lolita", in honor of a story character. A story character, who by the way, represents the tawdry way young girls are victimized in this world, a world where a child's innocence is short enough, and too often violated. When "Lolita" was taken from her family she was still a child in human terms; orcas grow and develop in a way that is remarkably parallel to our own, so at four years old, she was basically emotionally and physically the same as our own children at that age.
The final irony is that "Lolita" means "little sorrowful one". How appropriate.
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The Tantrum that Saved the World, a children's book about climate change written by Michael E. Mann and Megan Herbert, is reviewed by a fifth grade teacher and her students.
September is fast approaching—which means it's time for our third annual back-to-school microgrant cycle. Every year NCSE's Science Booster Club program uses the funds we raise to buy durable equipment for science teachers. Common requests include balances, thermometers, microscopes, and shop tools.
You may already know (e.g., from Ann Reid's recent post) that I have a new role with NCSE, working with Emily Schoerning on the Science Booster Club Program. But as I finish up my work with the Scientist in the Classroom program, I have one more update for you! Let me tell you about what's been happening this semester.
By this point in the school year, I hope that you have heard of NCSE's Scientist in the Classroom program. But if not, please check it out!
In designing the program, we wanted to be sure that scientists and teachers were able to work together to come up with a hands-on activity that fit in with what was going on in the classroom as opposed to a prescribed activity. A really neat result of this design is that all of the pairs have a unique experience with the program.
The path of some scientists is to do science. The path of other scientists is to help inspire people to see the beauty in science. I realized through working with the National Center for Science Education's Science Booster Club that I am meant to be part of the latter group. And now I am.
In a post earlier this week, I talked about the scandalous state of science education funding in one Iowa town, where we learned that teachers were working with equipment budgets of 40 cents per student per year. Well, I have an update from the teachers involved. Apparently meeting with us and receiving our equipment donation was inspiring. Afterwards, the teachers went to their administration to discuss the budget they'd been handed. The outcome?
My day as a "scientist in the classroom" was a fun, collaborative experience with Robin Bulleri, an energetic AP Biology teacher, and her awesome class. Once we were connected through NCSE's Scientist in the Classroom program, Robin and I discussed what aspect of evolution I would cover with her class. As a visiting scientist, we decided it made the most sense for me to talk about the tools and evidence that scientists use to study evolution.
Natural selection is part of every state's high school science standards, but that doesn't mean we teachers are always successful in connecting our students with the topic. If your students are like mine, I'm sure you get some disconcerting responses when you ask them to explain how a feature of a species, like the dark color of peppered moths, could have evolved by natural selection. For example, one student wrote, "The moth most likely changed color due to the fact that its environment did as well.
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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern women's soccer team kept Lander University's offense at bay for 75 minutes on Saturday afternoon at Hurricane Field, but the Lady 'Canes were unable to pitch a shutout as the Lady Bearcats scored a pair of late goals and defeated GSW, 2-0.
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