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30 Years of the Horse Breeders & Owners Conference
The Annual Horse Breeders and Owners Conference is proudly celebrating its 30
anniversary this year. Here's a look at the evolution of the conference over the past 30 years.
The Horse Breeders and Owners Conference was first run by The University of Calgary. The U of C was an early leader in equine education courses throughout the late 1960's through the 1970's. The courses were in the areas of horse care, riding, reproduction, and behaviour. In 1978, Ron Cole, the coordinator of the continuing education department organized the first University of Calgary Equine Reproduction Symposium. The feature speaker at this inaugural symposium was Dr. Peter Rosedale from England. After the success of the first symposium, a decision was made to run the symposium annually. Following symposiums featured notable speakers such as Wolf Krober, founder of Equitana in Germany; the great horse photographer Robert Vavra from Spain; Dorian Williams of the British Horse Society; and the famous equine geneticist Dr. Ann Bowling from the University of California, Davis. In 1983, the first Alberta Horse Breeders and Owners Conference was held in conjunction with the U of C with notable speakers on the program such as Dr. Thomas Tobin from the University of Kentucky and horse behaviourist Linda Tellington-Jones.
When Ron Cole retired from the University Of Calgary Department Of Continuing Education, Doug Milligan, Les Burwash and Bob Coleman were on staff at the Horse Industry Branch with Alberta Agriculture conducting extension programs for the horse industry. They had been closely involved with the horse activities offered at the University of Calgary. Ron Cole's retirement meant the horse courses and the conference that had been initiated would cease to run. The Horse Industry Branch saw the conference as a significant extension program that could be grown.
The first conference not conducted through the U of C was held in 1982. This conference was held at the University but hosted by Alberta Agriculture and an ad hoc group of horse people under the name of the Alberta Horse Breeders Conference. The Horse Industry Association of Alberta was informally established in 1982 to act as an organizing body for the conference.
In 1983, the conference was moved to the Capri Centre in Red Deer, Alberta where it has remained. The physical layout of the hotel allowed the organizers to change the format of the program and to bring in more speakers on a variety of topics. It was now possible to have two or three speakers present at the same time, which allowed participants to choose a session based on their interests. The conference has been held at the Capri Centre for 29 years, always during the month of January.
By 1991, the growth of the conference necessitated the incorporation of the Horse Industry Association of Alberta under the Alberta Society's Act as a non-profit organization.
In the 1990's the Capri Centre added a conference hall to the hotel. This allowed the organizing committee to increase the sponsorships of the conference and add to the education experience. In the initial years, the conference had three sponsors, besides Alberta Agriculture. Sponsorship has grown over the years to the point where now 65 sponsors fill the trade show area of the conference.
The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals partnered with the Horse Industry Association to have the Fred Pearce Memorial Speakers Series presented on an annual basis. Fred Pearce had a small farm near Huxley, Alberta. When he passed away, he bequeathed his estate to the Alberta SPCA. Fred's wishes were that an education program be established to enhance the wellbeing of animals. The Alberta SPCA felt the Alberta Horse Breeders and Owners Conference was a venue that could help in honouring Mr. Pearce's wishes. Each year a feature speaker is brought to the conference to deliver a message that will assist in educating horse owners on topics that will enhance the horse's welfare.
Alberta has many people in the horse industry that contribute significantly to the betterment of the horse industry beyond their own personal gain. The Horse Industry Association of Alberta initiated a Distinguished Service Award in 2000 to honour these individuals. The criteria for selection are 40% significant accomplishments, 30% public benefit, 20% individual credibility, and 10% continued contributions. The inaugural recipient was cutting horse legend, Bill Collins who was the first Canadian to be inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. He has since been followed by Ron and Marg Southern, Hans Hansma, Joe Selinger, Bruce Roy, Dave Robson, David Reid, John Scott, Doug Milligan, and Peggy McDonald and Eldon Bienert. Recently Dr. Wayne Burwash was the latest recipient of this award in 2015. These individuals have had the greatest impact on the growth and development of Alberta's horse industry.
As time moved forward the program organizers continued to increase the scope of the topics and speakers. Currently the conference brings in 17 internationally recognized speakers. Topics tend to fall into three main categories: health and care of the horse, use and training of horses, and thirdly the business of horses. Through the support of its sponsors and delegates, internationally renowned speakers from throughout North America and Europe have addressed the conference. Some notable examples include Dr. Marvin Beeman, Dr. R. M. Miller, Dr. Bill Pickett, Cherry Hill, Bill Collins, Patti Colbert, Doug Householder, Janice Swanson, Julie Thorson, Wayne McIlwraith and Greg Darnall. Recently since this article was published: Dan James, Lauren Barwick, Kurt and Tammy Pate, Stephen Peters, Martin Black, and Temple Grandin,
The conference begins with an "Open Barn" reception in the Exhibit Hall at 7:00 on Friday evening and the first session starts at 8:40 am Saturday morning. Saturday evening provides a chance to network and socialize with wine, dessert, awards and live entertainment.
The Alberta Horse Breeders and Owners Conference has evolved into the premiere horse conference in North America and it's right in your backyard.
Les Burwash: Les grew up on a mixed dairy farm in the Balzac area. He attended Montana State University receiving a BSc in Animal Science, which was followed by obtaining a MSc in Reproductive Physiology from Colorado State University. Les was hired as horse specialist with the newly formed Horse Industry Branch of the Alberta Department of Agriculture in 1974. He has been involved with doing equine research and extension activities with the department since. Les is recognized for his knowledge in the areas of reproduction, genetics, horse care, nutrition, conformation evaluation and practical approach to horse production.


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The following is a guest post from Paid Twice, a blog about one family's journey to eliminate their debt, and beyond.
David has posted before about reusing cardboard boxes as storage. Well, I've taken that a step further in our house. We're under a big budget crunch while trying to pay down some debt, and I don't feel like we can spend the money on storage solutions for our home. But we have two small children with doting grandparents who have bestowed on us a multitude of blocks, stuffed animals, and other assorted toys. We had nowhere to put them away and it was driving me crazy.
Enter, the cardboard box. Now, I'm not talking about just any cardboard box – a bunch of random cardboard boxes in your house might just seem like you're moving. These are dressed up cardboard!
I take a cardboard box, fold the top flaps down inside to reinforce the sides, then I cover the outside of the box with contact paper. You could use wrapping paper even, but my kids would destroy that. I would guess you could even make fabric cozies for the boxes if you were crafty like that. But I use contact paper, I buy it on sale and then cover the outside and top rim with it. And – ta da, my boring ugly cardboard box looks like a storage bin for cheap. I'm reusing something instead of recycling it and also not buying something else to do the same job. And it is cute. Win win win for me I think.
An even better solution would to have less toys… I'll get the grandparents right to work on that. Have I mentioned my parents sent our one year old daughter a slide for her birthday? The grandparents like to send "stuff".
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Keep Smiling, Even in the Midst of a Storm
If you're like me, you're still reeling from the election last week. I must admit, the results were unexpected, and in the aftermath, I've wrestled with confusion and a struggle to resolve a number of swirling questions still floating around my head.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. "
I believe this to the core, but it's not always easy to accomplish. There are times when all you want to do is scream 'why!'
How do we handle ourselves in these moments? How do we recover when things don't go our way?
Of course, we can get angry, and sometimes we should. We can complain, and sometimes that's inevitable. We can even bury our head in the sand and ignore the situation into oblivion – that usually never works.
There are many options, and we've probably used them all at one time or another. While these options may feel good in the moment – perhaps even resulting in some quick, temporary fix – they won't do much to move us forward and restore our sense of peace and happiness.
So what then?
When we find ourselves in the midst of a storm, it's in those times that we can find unique opportunities to go deeper – to strengthen our resolve, to maintain our calm right in the middle of chaos. It's not always easy. We may feel like giving up or giving in to anger, fear or hate. Our ability to choose happiness, courage, and love in those moments – that's what defines us. It's resilience in action. Even if we have to walk through the fire, we will do it fearlessly and with a smile.
So how can we maintain our peace of mind and a positive outlook even in the midst of a storm?
Acknowledge frustration and hurt. Whatever painful emotions we feel should be acknowledged and honored. It's not only our right, but our obligation to do so. Ignoring our feelings won't make them go away. It only buries them like seeds to grow and fester in other ways.
Release the pain. Pain is venom and needs to be released. We should take the time to process our negative feelings and then, let it go. We can't allow pain to fester and poison our spirit. External circumstances should hold no power over our inner world. Instead, we should use the strength of our inner world to transform our circumstances.
One of my favorite books, Man's Search for Meaning, is about Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor. In the book, Frankl recounts his time in Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland where over a million Jews perished. While there he endured all manner of pain and torture both mental and physical, still he managed to find freedom. It was a freedom of the mind that allowed him to find peace and purpose and to thrive, despite being a prisoner tagged for death. He credits this mindset with giving him the will survive until his physical freedom was returned to him.
As they say, we can't control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. Our ability to respond in the manner of our choosing is the only freedom that can never be taken away.
Bring more perspective into our awareness. From a wider perspective, one-off events become less and less significant. We're able to focus on the larger picture and take better account of the options available to us. Part of gaining perspective is reconnecting with our values. What's most important to us, not just in this moment, but in life overall? How do we want to live? Who do we choose to be? These questions clarify our vision and untie us from the baggage of negative and unnecessary thoughts and emotions.
Stay positive and search for the opportunities. This is not a Pollyannaish outlook, it's a winning mindset. Going negative, staying mad, wallowing in self-pity is a road to nowhere. It's important to process our feelings and stay in our authenticity. That said, the ability to transmute those feelings, that energy, into something positive and actionable is where our real power lies.
Practice gratitude. It has a way of putting things in their proper perspective – one that energizes and motivates. When things get a bit rough, it's best to start counting the blessings and opportunities that abound. It's time to remember the faith we have in our tomorrows and express our gratitude for it.
In the end, we should also be willing to accept the things we cannot change, as the prayer goes. Happiness is not a product of our circumstances. It's the result of a decision to be happy. Come what may, we must protect our joy at all costs.


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Celebrity Metaphysics
One Thousand Malkoviches:
Reflections On the Cultural Phenomenology of Celebrity
An Essay by John David Ebert
(The following piece is an outtake from my book "Dead Celebrities, Living Icons" that did not make the final cut due to space considerations)
("The Birth of Narcissus" [1976] by Arthur Boyd)
Department Store Monitor
Everyone, by now, has had the following experience: you're walking through a department store and you round the corner, momentarily caught by surprise at your own image reflected back at you upon the store's video surveillance monitor. You pause, realizing that you have walked in front of a video camera, and then move on again without giving the matter a second thought. Its very banality has rendered the action insignificant.
However, this phenomenon of bumping into yourself is actually quite strange. In fact, it is something that is only possible in a culture moving at light speed, as ours has been doing since about 1840, the time of the invention of the electric telegraph. This is a very recent phenomenon of human culture, and today we have created the conditions, for the first time in history, in which it is possible to bump into an electric image of oneself on a fairly regular basis. Through digital cameras, computers, DVD players, YouTube and movies, we have been cloning electric duplicates of ourselves for a little over a century. Indeed, since the advent of photography, invented just a decade or so earlier than the telegraph, we have been capable of creating technological facsimiles of ourselves. Photography, though, is not in origin an electrical process, but rather a chemical one. Consequently, to contemplate a still photograph of oneself may also be an unusual phenomenon when set against the backdrop of thousands of years of human cultural evolution, but in the case of photography one is not confronted with a living image of oneself, an image that is capable of talking and acting (apparently) on its own. Or at least, that is the way things seem when one watches oneself on television or on YouTube. Who is that person, anyway?
In such a situation, you are suddenly confronted by the very strangeness of yourself, for by means of electric technology, your own mirror reflection becomes a separate, detached — and highly portable — entity. Hence, an electric doppelganger, the modern incarnation of the detachable shadow of fairy tales, stares back at you from out of the pixilated abysses painted onto the screen of the monitor by flickering showers of linear rows of electrons.
In our society, we live at the speed of light, and so we reproduce ourselves electronically as a routine part of our daily existence. By means of the flow of electric current, we create a separate, but parallel, universe running at right angles to our own physical world, like a gigantic mirror reflecting all of creation. A simulated universe, filled with the electric revenants of human beings which go about their lives apparently completely independent of our own. And without ever exhibiting any signs of ageing, illness or decrepitude.
But what if, for the sake of argument, we were to assume for a moment that the electronically generated shadow of yourself that you passed in the department store monitor really isn't innocuous? What would happen if we imagined that such a shadow could take on its own life and become more real than you? So real that it began to tyrannize over you, making demands, even insisting that you exit from this world so that it could live in peace without being troubled by the brute factuality of your existence?
Thus, Marilyn Monroe's electric double contrived to actually push her out of existence altogether, so that it could have her audience all to itself. And Elvis Presley's phantom twin which replaced the biological one that had died along with his physical birth, would eventually come to stand in place of the real physical Elvis made out of flesh and bone and blood.
Apparently, fame is more hazardous to your health than most people realize.
The Myth of the Doppelganger: Ancient Origins
This phenomenon of the electric image is a new development in the world, barely a century old. And yet, the myth of which it is a technological reconstruction is not new at all.
In fact, the myth of the double is at least as old as Egyptian civilization. According to the texts carved into their tombs, the Egyptians believed that each one of us has a secret, invisible double that follows us around throughout our lives, a double which they termed a ka. This ka was but one of the many components which they saw as making up the architecture of the subtle body, which also included entities such as the ba, the khaibit and the ren. Each of these entities led its own numinous existence, but it was the ka which was thought to embody the visual image, or carbon copy, of one's self. Representations of the archaic creator deity Khnum show him manufacturing a human being who stands beside a duplicate of himself, his ka, at the time of his birth.
The ka was a sort of genius which followed one around through life, and though it came into being with the birth of one's physical body, it was thought to survive the death of this body, which became a corpse, or khat, until the mummification process transformed it into a sahu, or a living eternal being. The ka, however, was tied to the sahu as though with an invisible umbilical cord, since it could not leave the immediate vicinity of the dead body. Its function was to hang around the tomb and receive the offerings of food and drink made to it from the deceased's relatives, for this food and drink were thought to be actually consumed by the ka, which therefore kept the sahu alive. In doing so, this made it possible for the ba to transform itself into a human-headed bird and fly away from the tomb in order to journey to the underworld. In fact, the ba could metamorphose into any shape it desired, and travel anywhere in the cosmos it wished, while the ka remained confined to the immediate vicinity of the tomb.
In the case of the Egyptians, the human being does not ever seem to have been in any danger from its ka, and indeed the phrase "to go to one's ka" was a euphemism for death. However, it is in Greek mythology — specifically the myth of Narcissus — that we find the first warnings that an individual might come to a bad end at the hands of his own image, for Narcissus fell to his death while pining away for his own reflection in a pool of water. In this myth, the image or double actually becomes stronger than the real human self and demands the sacrifice of that physical self. Since the pool of water in which Narcissus sees himself is essentially a type of mirror — and this moment, therefore, corresponds to that of its celluloid twin when the character Chance, played by Peter Sellers in the movie Being There happens to see himself in a video monitor on display in a store window — the Greeks seem here to have been prescient about the dangers of a technology of Xeroxing the human self along with its concomitant possibility of losing track of the very substantiality of that self in order to feed this mirror image. In the case of the Egyptians, only the dead person's image, or ka, demanded nourishment: with the Greeks, it is the reflected image of a living person which demands the sacrifice of the physical self which cast that image.
Now of course ancient mythology — especially Native American myth — is replete with stories of twins and their attempts to destroy one another, but it is important to remark here that it is not the phenomenon of twins that I am talking about. Twins embody a dual analogue of cosmic powers which are no more duplicates of each other than are light and darkness, night and day, summer and winter. Twins, that is to say, are asymmetric polarities, not identical images. Narcissus encountered not his twin, but an exact duplicate of himself. The Egyptian ka, likewise, is a double, not a twin. The Roman genius, furthermore, seems to have been an idea similar to that of the Egyptian ka (for the genius is related to one's own ability to procreate, while the word ka originally meant "bull's phallus"), and one normally sacrificed to one's genius on the day of birth (or in the case of women, to the Juno). And, as in Egyptian myth, there is no evidence of one's genius ever having posed a danger to oneself.
Throughout history, cultures have exhibited a decided ambivalence toward the technology of mirrors. There is, for instance, a Japanese folk tale that is a sort of equivalent to the Greek Narcissus story, in which a man who returns home to his wife and daughter from a business trip to Kyoto opens up a bamboo basket and presents his daughter with a doll and some cakes and his wife with a beautiful mirror. The story says that the woman had never seen a mirror before and that she had the distinct impression of another woman looking back at her as she looked at it. (Hence, that strangeness that I was talking about).
Not long after his return home, the story continues, the woman becomes ill and on her deathbed, gives the mirror to her daughter as a present, telling her that whenever she feels lonely, she must look into the mirror and there she will find the face of her mother staring back at her. The mother then dies and the father remarries a woman whom the daughter dislikes, and so she often goes off into a corner of the house to gaze at her mother's image in the mirror. The stepmother, assuming that she is practicing some kind of black magic, asks the girl's father to investigate the matter, but when the father finds out that his daughter is merely gazing lovingly at her mother's image, he and his new wife rejoice at this act of filial piety and hold the girl up as a model of respect for her elders.
Thus, in Japan, the mythology surrounding mirrors becomes inflected in such a way as to show a positive Japanese attitude toward the Ancestors. Yet we cannot fail to remark that the mother's death coincided with the introduction of the mirror into the house, whereupon it seems to have stolen her image. The point of the story, then, is the same as that of the Narcissus myth: the reflection survives, while the real physical person, the source of the image, languishes and dies.
Mirrors, in myth and folklore, are often gateways to the realm of the dead. This story clearly shows that the mirror has captured and preserved the spirit of the dead mother, and there is, furthermore, an old European custom of covering all the mirrors in one's house when someone dies, as though out of a fear of glimpsing the dead ancestor looking back from the beyond. In Chinese mythology, likewise, the god of the dead, Yama, has a huge mirror which he uses to show the spirits of the dead what their future incarnations will look like. According to these traditions, then, mirrors make hidden spirits visible, and this is how mirrors are used in the Russian vampire movie Nightwatch (although this reverses the normal use of mirrors in vampire mythology, since vampires abhor mirrors precisely because they fail to reflect the dead).
Mirrors, then, are traditionally imagined as portals to the realm of the dead, and in a certain sense, we are using our modern electronic mirrors — video cameras, satellites, etc. — to create an electromagnetic sphere surrounding the planet with a bubble of grainy, low-resolution icons of dead celebrities that surround the earth, and which have thus taken the place of the ancient sphere of ghosts and angels which was once thought to encompass the earth.
It is not, however, until the Renaissance that mirrors begin to become dissociated from the realm of the dead and turned around, so to speak, to become objects that not only reflect the world of the living, but do so in a way that is absolutely veridical. Lewis Mumford remarks that improvements in the technology of mirrors during the 16th century went hand in hand with a new introspective interest in the self. The rise of the fashionable use of mirrors to decorate the home — for with the rise of the new sense of perspectival space in the Renaissance, the realm of the dead became completely separated from that of the living — was coterminous with Rembrandt's self-portraits, Descartes' discovvery of the ego as the final authority on all matters of truth, Newton's Opticks and the development of depth perspective in painting. This was an age in which the authority of the eye reigned over all things. In Velazquez's painting Las Meninas, a mirror occupies the center of the composition in such a way that the vanishing point terminates directly into it (whereas only two centuries earlier, the vanishing point in Leonardo's Last Supper had terminated in the head of Christ seated at the center of the composition. The object of revelation, that is to say, had by the 17th century shifted from the non-corporeal world of the Spirit to the physical realm of the eye and its optical laws).
Thus, mirrors constituted a new kind of authority in the Age of the Eye, for their reflections could tell no lies. This shift in the ontological status of the mirror from something allied with supernatural powers to an absolute authority on all matters of Truth is reflected in the story of Snow White, in which the wicked witch's mirror on the wall refuses to mollify her with the lie that she is more beautiful than Snow White. The mirror now seems bound to an oath of truth in this new age of realism.
But in the nineteenth century, all this began to change, for the role of the mirror as incapable of falsification was replaced by the photograph which was, however, capable of lying, since photography was thought to be akin not to Truth but to the delicate arts of weaving light and shadow that had previously been the domain solely of painting since the chiaroscurists. The image could no longer be trusted for a true to life portrait, especially as Euclidean space and depth perspective were breaking up into the funhouse elongations of non-Euclidean geometry and aperspectival painting beginning with Manet and Cezanne. The mirror, as a result, could no longer be trusted as a true reflection of the physical world, and so reverted back to its ancient role as a gateway to a parallel universe, which is precisely how it appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which Alice steps into a troubling world of doppelgangers, devils, clowns and tricksters.
Poe and Dostoyevsky: Doubles
This brings us to a pair of stories, doubles of one another, if you will, which lie at the threshold of the new world of electrical society. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story whose doubling title echoes its thematic concerns "William Wilson," (and which already foreshadows such later doubling phenomena of pop culture as "Marilyn Monroe") which was published in a magazine in 1839. Poe's Russian double Dostoyevsky, having read and metabolized Poe's fiction, produced his doppelganger of Poe's story, titled simply "The Double," in 1846. These stories, written at just the time when the first of the great electric inventions, the telegraph, was coming into being, are weirdly prescient of the splintering effects of electric technology upon human life.
Poe's story is a first person account of a boy named William Wilson who grows up in a rural village outside of London. On the very day that he enters school, another boy arrives bearing the same name and who physically resembles him. William later finds out that the boy is from the same town and was born on the same day as himself. The two become friends, but also rivals, and Poe furnishes us with an account of their childhood antics. The boy grows up and leaves for Oxford where, however, he becomes a debauch, a drunk and a cheat. One evening at a game of cards in which he has won through cheating, his double shows up and exposes him to the players. Humiliated, William leaves and his double disappears. He flees to the continent, to Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Rome, but his double follows him everywhere, always waiting to expose his frauds and lecheries. Finally, at a carnival in Rome, the two confront one another, and William stabs and kills his double. His attention is momentarily diverted by someone trying the door of the antechamber into which they have taken their duel, and when he turns back to perceive his dying double, he thinks for a moment that he is looking into a mirror, for his double's features are identical to his own in every respect. But then he insists that it was not a mirror, and recounts his double's dying words, which are also the last sentences of the story: "You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward are thou also dead–dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist–and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou has murdered thyself."
Thus, in Poe's story,the double has taken on a life of its own and proceeds to undermine and sabotage every action which William Wilson embarks upon. It is important to note that the appearance of the double at the very moment of the first beginnings of electric technology is significant, but it is also important that we note that Wilson's double is absolutely antagonistic to him. Thus, Poe is prophesying that in the coming days of electric civilization, the image multiplying effect that will become one of the primary attributes of this culture is bad news indeed, for the replication via electric technology of ourselves means trouble for ourselves.
If Poe's narrator is able–just barely–to overcome his doppelganger and stop him from ruining his life at the last possible moment, in Dostoyevsky's novella, "The Double," the protagonist is not so lucky, for his doppelganger ruins his life, utterly. Dostoyevsky's story is more urban than Poe's in its concerns, for it is set in St. Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century, a city that was then as cosmopolitan as London or Paris. The story's protagonist is a man named Golyadkin, a nervous, anxious and very paranoid individual who works in an office where he processes paperwork all day.
After recounting a day of Golyadkin's life in which he is spurned and humiliated at a party given at his employer's mansion, a man turns up at the office next day, seated directly across from him, who is an exact physical duplicate of him. He even has the same name and seems to have come from the same town. At first, Golyadkin is hostile to him, but when he discovers that the man is poverty stricken and has no place to stay, offers his home for the night. There, the two get to know each other, carouse, get drunk and fall asleep. When Golyadkin awakens the next morning, his double is gone and when he arrives at the office, he discovers that his double now seems to be insolent. He snaps at Golyadkin's heels, shows him up at his own job, makes fun of him and in general makes him look ridiculous in the eyes of his coworkers. Gradually, this new Golyadkin replaces and takes over the life of the old Golyadkin (just as the electric image clones of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe took over the lives of their originators). He becomes socially accepted in the very circles in which Golyadkin had tried and failed to become accepted. Golyadkin attempts, on a number of occasions, to discuss the situation with his double, but his double is so flippant that he is unable to get anywhere with him. By the novel's conclusion, Golyadkin's double has gotten him fired from his job and has replaced him successfully in every way. In the final scenes, Golyadkin is taken away to an institution, and we begin to realize that we have been inside the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic all along.
Dostoyevsky and Poe, then, are engaged in writing a study of the future, specifically, of the coming cult of the celebrity, for their stories read like dress rehearsals for the biographies of such twentieth century celebrities as Jim Morrison, John Lennon and James Dean, each of whom wrestled with their own public personae, which constantly tried to subvert and overthrow their lives wherever possible. Marilyn Monroe, for instance, when she did the movie Bus Stop, tried to perform an assassination of her own image stereotype; tried, that is, and failed, for she soon found herself back in the same old straight-jacketing roles in Some Like it Hot and The Prince and the Showgirl. But her clone would have none of that and so contrived to have the real flesh and blood Marilyn killed and out of the way so that it could enjoy her spotlight untroubled by the doubts, hesitations and complications of real flesh and blood human beings.
Celebrity Mythology
In a way, Billy Wilder's 1950 classic film Sunset Boulevard is an updating of the stories of Poe and Dostoyevsky for Cold War America, and serves as an elegant synopsis of the whole myth of the celebrity who is held hostage by his or her own doppelganger.
The story concerns a man named Joe Gillis, a Hollywood screenwriter whose career happens to be in a slump. His B movie screenplays aren't selling and he is three months behind on rent and car payments. One day, pursued by repo men, he turns up a driveway in order to hide his car at a dilapidated old Hollywood mansion.
After securing his car, he wanders about the property, whereupon he is mistaken for the undertaker whom the mansion's principal occupant, an ageing movie star from the silent era named Norma Desmond, has summoned to perform the last rites on her pet chimpanzee. Gillis insists that he is a writer, not an undertaker, and he recognizes Norma, who is just about to dismiss him when she hesitates. She suddenly insists that he read her screenplay, an historical epic about Salome which she intends as her comeback to be directed by Cecil B. DeMille with whom she made 12 famous silent films. Gillis reluctantly agrees and finds himself finishing his reading of the screenplay several hours later. He tells her that the screenplay is terrible, but Norma offers to pay him to rewrite it for her. Again, he agrees reluctantly, since he is penniless.
Soon, he finds himself more or less a prisoner to the plush comforts of Desmond's finances. While working on the screenplay, he becomes a kept man to Norma, who lavishes great wealth upon him. But soon he falls in love with another, younger woman, a budding screenwriter herself, with whom he begins a collaborative and romantic affair, in hopes of jump-starting his career. When Norma discovers this rival to her affections she become distraught, buys a gun and threatens to commit suicide. When the other woman shows up at the mansion in an attempt to rescue Gillis, he tells her to go away, that he is caught and will not return to being poor. The girl leaves, but then when he begins hurriedly to pack his things, Norma shoots him as he is on his way out the door. He plunges into the swimming pool, like Narcissus, and dies.
In the film's famous concluding scene, Norma descends the staircase of her mansion to greet the cameras of the press for her last and greatest role as murderess. Once again, the cameras are upon her and her second coming is at hand.
Norma Desmond is the prototype of the mega-celebrity whose fame is based upon the creation of an electrically replicated image of herself. The image was, in its time, so powerful that it has actually taken her hostage and now holds her mind captive, frozen in a 1920s timewarp. Her house is surrounded by shrines which she has erected as devotional relics to her own image. Photographs of her multiple selves crowd one another upon dusty tables lit by oily candles. She has even built a movie theater inside her house at which she only shows movies starring herself. For Gillis's amusement, she performs scenes from her own movies. Norma has created her own religion with her electric persona cast in the role of primary divinity. Since her 1920s doppelganger has taken her mentally hostage, she has taken Joe Gillis as her hostage, and attempts, unconsciously, to transfer her plight onto him. And Joe, the willing victim, submits to this fate, allowing himself to be cocooned by threads made out of Norma's own moth-eaten images of herself.
Such is the fate of the fan who is captured by his adoration of a celebrity whose image becomes so overwhelmingly suffocating that the fan then takes it upon himself to kill the celebrity in order to take back his own life. When Valerie Solanas was asked why she attempted to gun down Andy Warhol, she said it was because "he had too much control over my life." Likewise, when Mark David Chapman was asked why he shot and killed John Lennon, he said it was because he, Chapman, "was a nobody who wanted to be somebody." In the case of Sunset Boulevard, the typical situation is reversed, for it is the celebrity who shoots and kills her "fan," although the point is still the same: Gillis had been taken captive by the Muse of Old Hollywood and he would never again regain control of his own life. In order to do so, he would have had to kill Norma himself, but Gillis was not the type. Sunset Boulevard throws a metaphoric light upon the agony of the psychologially unstable fan who becomes a "kept man" to the celebrity he idolizes. And furthermore, it gives us, I think, an accurate portrait of the domineering ego of the celebrity whose self-importance looms so large as to become a virtual religion unto itself. The celebrity who casts herself in the role of an icon at the center of her own bhakti cult of devotional worship should not be too suprised, then, by the type of fate she karmically attracts, since it is the typical fate of gods and avatars to be assassinated.
Sunset Boulevard, then, which appears in 1950, announces in seed form the whole great drama of the Cold War cult of the mega-celebrity that was then about to unfold, beginning with the car crash of James Dean, which would take place just five years after the film's release. Twelve years after its first showing, Marilyn Monroe — who, had she lived, just might have ended by becoming Norma Desmond — would be dead of a drug overdose (recall Norma's suicidal attempts to free herself from captivity by her own persona). And 47 years later, the entire epoch will come to an end just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the occurrence of another great car crash: that of Diana, princess of Wales. Thus, from the Little Prince to the Welsh Princess, the Age of the Multimedia Celebrity will rise, flourish, crash and collapse into ruins, where it has lain ever since.
And so, that innocuous little image of yourself that you bumped into in the department store video monitor may not have been so harmless after all, for under the right conditions, you see, it can grow to become a demon seed which, if brought to fruition, contains the potential to wreck your life.


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No wonder Senator Harkin was so angry at Rush Limbaugh's attacks on "phony soldiers"…
Rush was talking about him!
Senator Harkin lashed out at Rush Limbaugh today on the floor of the Senate:
Well, I don't know. Maybe he was just high on his drugs again. I don't know whether he was or not. If so, he ought to let us know. But that shouldn't be an excuse.
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Nice. But, considering Harkin's phony soldier duty claims it only makes sense that he would be angry at Rush:
In Mr. Harkin's case, the questions that have lingered longest concern his Navy record. Mr. Harkin did serve in the Navy during the Vietnam era, but exactly what he did, and for how long, remain a matter of some dispute.
"After I got out of college," he says in his standard stump speech, "I spent eight years, eight months and eight days as a Navy pilot." His military record, though, shows he served five years on active duty, from Nov. 21, 1962, until Nov. 30, 1967. The senator arrives at the eight-year figure by adding on three years in the ready reserve. Mr. Harkin's military record, acquired by The Wall Street Journal through a Freedom of Information request, shows he remained active in the reserves, ready or not, until Oct. 1, 1989, retiring with the rank of commander.
"I'm right," Mr. Harkin says. "I was a Navy flyer for eight years, eight months and eight days. I have a certificate to prove it."
What he did while on active duty is even more confusing. In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans' Caucus. "I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962," Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. "One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing."
It also appears that Tom Harkin's staff do not want you to know that Tom Harkin made up phony stories about his military service:
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While running for his Senate seat in 1984, and again while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Harkin has faced criticism for claiming that he had flown combat missions over North Vietnam. In a 1979 round table discussion with other Congressional Veterans, Harkin said of his service as a Navy pilot: "One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions". These comments were later published in a 1981 book by David Broder. After subsequent inquiries by Barry Goldwater and The Wall Street Journal, Harkin clarified that that he had been stationed in Japan and sometimes flew recently repaired aircraft on test missions over Vietnam. His service flying F-4s and F-8s was later, while he was stationed in Cuba. References to this controversy were deleted from Wikipedia by staffers from Harkin's senate office. [1]
Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds have more on Tom Harkin's phony past.
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Meanwhile… Rep. Jack Kingston today proposed legislation to commend "Rush Hudson Limbaugh III for his ongoing public support of American troops serving both here and abroad."
And… Of course, democratic attack dogs want to silence Rush and ban him from the military airwaves… Even though he was secured an hour of programming on the Armed Forces Radio network, because the troops requested it.


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UGANDA'S EXPERIENCE WITH MONITORING AID EFFECTIVENESS COMMITMENTS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Dr. Sarah Byakika Ministry of Health 5th October 2012 HOW IS IT BEING DONE, AND WHAT IS BEING MONITORED? Compact between GOU and Partners for Implementation of the Health Sector Strategic and Investment (HSSIP) 2010/11 – 2014/15 Guiding Principles: Ownership and leadership by government Alignment of all partner programmes, activities and funding to one national plan (HSSIP) and harmonized annual plan Use of common management arrangements Value for money, and One monitoring framework to promote accountability HOW IS IT BEING DONE, & WHAT IS MONITORED? Health Policy and Advisory Committee (HPAC) serves as the main oversight and steering body for monitoring implementation of the Compact. Specifically responsible for; Quarterly review of whether signatories are on track with their commitments . Attendance of the quarterly sector performance review meetings Participating in Annual reviews to monitor whether "Government" has met its commitments with respect to the implementation of HSSIP HOW IS IT BEING DONE, & WHAT IS MONITORED? How it should be done? What is monitored? What is being done? Quarterly review during HPAC Whether signatories are on track with their commitments Not done. No monitoring tool. Quarterly and Annual sector performance reviews Whether government has met its commitments Quarterly and annual sector performance reviews conducted based on the key outputs in the workplan and HSSIP core indicators WHAT IS BEING MONITORED? INPUT & PROCESS OUTPUT Health financing Service access and Information, readiness Governance GGA on health TB case 1 as % of total 5 detection rate gov't budget Per capita OPD Workforce 6 utilization rate Annual reduction % of HFs w/o of 2 in absenteeism 7 any of 6 tracer rate medicines % of posts filled % functional 3 8 by trained HWs HCs IV Service quality and Infrastructure safety % of villages/ % clients 4 wards with a 9 expressing functional VHT satisfaction 10 11 12 OUTCOME IMPACT Coverage of interventions Health status % pregnant women attending 4 ANC sessions % of deliveries in public and PNFP % children under one year immunized with 3rd dose pentavalent vaccine Maternal Mortality 22 Ratio Neonatal mortality rate Infant Mortality 24 Rate 23 % one year old children immunized Under 5 mortality 25 rate against measles % pregnant women who have Financial risk 14 completed IPT2 protection % of children exposed to HIV % of HHs 15 accessing HIV testing within 12 months 26 experiencing catastrophic pay % UFs with fever receiving malaria 16 treatment within 24 hrs 17 % eligible persons receiving ART 13 Risk factors and behaviours 18 % of households with a pit latrine 19 20 % U5's new visits with stunting % U5s with marasmus 21 Contraceptive Prevalence Rate HOW ARE FINDINGS BEING USED, AND BY WHOM? Quarterly/biannual and annual reports compiled, discussed and disseminated Annual performance report findings are discussed at the Joint Review Mission; Involves all stakeholders in health Focuses on performance against the core indicator targets, Jointly identify challenges, priority interventions and targets for the remaining period in the FY and subsequent year. Expected to guide planning & resource allocation by government and partners Used for recognition and reward HOW ARE FINDINGS BEING USED, AND BY WHOM? Used to meet other national and global reporting requirements e.g. Government of Uganda Annual Report, Project Reports, IHP+ report WHAT HAS CHANGED, AS A RESULT? Government taking lead in determining sector priorities (HSSIP) and available resource allocation Using a common M&E framework (Country-led) with harmonized M&E tools. Minimised reporting requirements at implementation level Joint Assessment Framework – jointly agreed targets and monitoring avoiding conflicting reports MAIN LESSONS Continuous dialogue necessary to bring all partners on board (Long consultative process) All key stakeholders need to be involved in development of monitoring tools to cater for data/reporting needs, ensure ownership, use and transparency MAJOR CHALLENGES Not all donors are signatory to the Compact Some partners hesitant to adopt the SWAPs – off budget funding which is difficult to program and monitor and may not be aligned to sector priorities Opting for project support and Parallel Implementing Units with focus on achieving project indicators. (skews resources) Difficult to track donor resources due to lack of transparency. (Some do not share MOU, commitments or amounts disbursed with MoH and this information is not easily accessible from MoFPED) Sometimes disbursements are below commitments. Who is to be held accountable? Development Partner Commitments are not assessed or discussed during the sector performance reviews.


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The Battle football team has solidified itself as one of the state's premier Class 5 programs in its first four years.
After making its third straight trip to the state semifinal the Spartans opened camp on Monday with new faces at key positions.
The Spartans lost a host of seniors who contributed to last season's 12-1 year including all-state honorees: wide receiver Jaevon McQuitty, defensive end Keiondre Hall, running back Hunter Smith, four-year quarterback Brevinn Tyler and offensive lineman Tanner Strodtman.
I stopped by camp on Tuesday to talk with coach Justin Conyers about the Spartans, who return four starters on offense and six on defense, new faces and expectations.
Here are a few notes from their second day of camp.
New faces at quarterback: There is no easy way to replace Tyler, who finished his career at Battle as the program leader in rushing attempts (457), completions (462), passing yards (7,460), rushing touchdowns (48) and passing touchdowns (73) and won three straight district championships, but this offseason Battle is tasked with filling his position.
Three quarterbacks have been battling for the position, senior Jackson Keller and juniors Jaren Lewis and Jaylon Williamson. Conyers said he wanted to have a depth chart entering camp and as of the second day of camp Lewis No. 1 Conyers said.
"It's obviously still a pretty close race, but we thought through the evaluation process this summer, films and camps, that we had that this is where we are starting at," Conyers said.
Keller is second and Williamson, who will play at cornerback if he isn't quarterback, is third.
"Jaren's confidence has been really good. His arm has gotten stronger, he's gotten better throwing the football this summer and he is making solid reads in our option game," Conyers said. "Jackson was just a little bit hesitant on some throws, kind of a second late or one step too much. That was the separation, but he also does a good job in our run-game piece. There may be a chance where he could be right there on his heels as well."
Wide receiving depth: The Spartans graduated two starting wide receivers in McQuitty, who is playing for Nebraska this fall, and Xavier Johnson, who is playing at Lincoln, despite those losses Conyers said this year's corps is one of their "most solid corps we've had."
"They are athletic as heck," Conyers added.
Leading that group will be Dreyton Tyler, a senior who finished last season with 651 yards and seven touchdowns. With Tyler will be Keiondre Whitaker — who stepped in and received major playing time throughout the season especially when McQuitty went down with a shoulder injury — junior De'shawn Ganaway, senior Alex Smith and sophomore Tavian Miller. Seniors Matt Page and Jarel Hyler will fill the tight end role for the Spartans.
Conyers likes the versatility he sees from each of the receivers.
"We can play them all in multiple positions, which is always, as a coach, big when guys know more than just their one spot," Conyers said.
Replacing the offensive line: Battle lost nearly its entire offensive line to graduation last season, with the exception of Malik Edwards, who fill the RG position.
Replacing the seniors are Parker Ray, X'zaviaun Conson, who received key playoff time last season, CJ Schlater and Chase Anderson, who moved over from the defensive line.
Experienced linebacking duo: Last season Battle's ability to stop its opponents run-game was a key in yet another deep postseason run.
Battle will look to replace its top defensive end in Hall, Khaleb Adams and Brennen DeMarco, who though he played safety was one of Battle's leading tacklers. Conyers moved Hyler to a full-time defensive end this year to help fill the gap.
"He's a great end for us," Conyers said on Hyler.
Anderson will see some time on defense, along with sophomore Shamil Hamilton, De'Shannon Turner and Connor Heider.
But where the Spartans have the most experience is at linebacker with returning Tribune Defensive Player of the Year, Tre Morris and junior Jake Hedrick.
"You have experience with Jake and experience with Tre, I feel pretty good about them being our two inside guys," Conyers said.
Morris, who missed four games last season finished the year with 138 tackles, 101 of which were solo tackles.
"He is your defensive leader, veteran and the heart and soul of our defense," Conyers said. "You feel very confident with him being on the football field and leading that group.
Hedrick was one of the Spartans Top 10 tacklers last season, but what Conyers has seen the most from Hedrick is a confidence boost and his physical build.
"Jake has had probably the best offseason he could have right now," Conyers said. "You can see his work translate to the football field, he is probably one of the strongest players on our team. His confidence is building too. He was kind of unsure of himself a bit last year, but now you see him have some confidence."
Conyers final thoughts on continuing the program's success: "We are hopeful for that. It's one of those things where the No. 1 thing I told them is that there can't be any complacency in our locker room and there can be no sense of entitlement," Conyers said. "We just don't want kids to think "Oh we are going to be good because we have Battle on our chest.' No, we are going to have to work to have the success we want."


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Curiously, the IIc on the lower left below has a maximum aperture of f2.8 while the earlier II and IIa models and the later Retina Reflex all offer an f2 maximum f-stop.
My opinion is that the Xenon lenses on the Retinas were as good as anything being made in their time, as was the general design and construction of the whole camera line. Kodak continued for a couple decades to develop the Retina cameras, incorporating additional innovations including coupled light metering. However, the improvements were quickly matched by Japanese makers who were also ultimately able to attain an insuperable lead in price competitiveness.
I have seldom posted landscape images on the blog. My excuse has always been that I am just not good at seeing the compositional possibilities of the broad view. That is probably not true, though. I likely have just as much (or as little) talent for landscape as other forms, but I just haven't made an effort in the past to come to grips with the challenge. So, my plan is to start devoting a few frames of every roll of film to landscapes to see if I can develop some actual practical skills.
And, lastly, a goodbye to my loyal friend, Rio, who patiently endured many photo sessions, including this one with a Retina Reflex.


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Maurizio Sarri adamant Eden Hazard will remain at Chelsea beyond 2020
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri insists Eden Hazard will remain at the club beyond the end of his contract in 2020.
The Belgian has been linked with a move to Real Madrid and he has spoken over his desire to join Los Blancos.
However, despite the links, the West London club's manager is adamant Hazard will remain beyond the end of his deal.
Sarri on Hazard: "He's staying here"
The former SSC Napoli manager has stated that Hazard will remain at Stamford Bridge despite the interest from the European champions.
Sarri told Corriere dello Sport:
"His contract expires in 2020, but he's staying here."
Sarri: "Hazard is immense"
The Chelsea manager also believes that the 27-year-old has much more scope for improvement.
Sarri is confident Hazard can become one of the best players in the world but insists he must change his mentality in order to reach his full potential.
Sarri added:
"Hazard is immense and I don't think even he knows how much he can still improve.
"I said he could end up in the tight circle of the best three or four players in the world.
"The problem is he plays to enjoy himself and at times doesn't realise the importance of moving from fun to reaping the rewards.
"At the end of the day, you've got to get the fruits of your labour.
"Hazard's approach is a positive, but it can become a potential limitation too.
"He needs to lift his head up, look around and realise there's a whole world in front of him that he can dictate with his feet for the good of the collective and not just the individual."
Read more Chelsea news here:
Eden Hazard told to leave Chelsea to achieve greatness
Eden Hazard reveals he will not leave Chelsea in January


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Discussion in 'Newcastle Knights Discussion' started by Aidos, Mar 9, 2018.
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Please don't
I'm fairly confident Pearce/Ponga are both better than them all. Only thing holding back Pearce is his Origin winning history and that he is damaged goods in a way.
Cleary is getting by purely on clout atm, Pearce as of now is the better player. Morgan isn't looking like taking the Cowboys to the gf again any time soon. Munster I've gotta give it to him, love the dude.
No doubt next season's success will depend on the recruitment of some quality forwards and a healthy spine. Ponga/Pearce in the halves with Watson popping up in support should be lethal and has the potential to take is deep into September with some luck.
On another note, as for Munster, he really stepped up this year after a controversial pre-season. I'd like to see him leave the Storm and head to the Cows to partner Morgan as a running 5/8. If the Barba/Holmes swap plays out, they'll have a truly impressive spine from 2020 as well.
I'm sure you would of been saying Morgan was no chance of taking the Cowboys to the GF in 2017 as well. Morgan is a better player than Pearce.
The Cowboys won't be going after Munster in my opinion. Not while Clifford and TMM are on the books.
I know what you're saying, if dropped into the Kangaroos set up, they would be fantastic as a pairing & could well be better than the option they actually go with. But it would never happen, unless we win the premiership next year or something.
That's going to require a hell of a lot of sun block out cream, better get sponsored by banana boat
No he isn't!
Pearce is better!
Disagree mate, good player aside from that 1 year without being great, as well as Thurston, no Coote either which is a blow, Scotts on the slide as are a lot of your other forwards, not saying he won't be as good, BUT his got the task ahead of him.
What are we basing the who is better argument on? Just opinion?
An argument of who is better out of Paeaece and Morgan against Cowboy fans and Knights fans is pointless.
But Pearce is clearly better haha
The one area I'm not convinced about with Ponga moving to the halves is his laid back attitude.
Good halves are bossy little units who let people know what they want them to do.
Pearce lets people know.
Joey Johns would give anyone a spray if they mucked up a play.
Funniest example I saw was little Luke Walsh in a reserve grade game pointing the finger and chasing big Matt White half the length of the field to give him a massive spray for not running the line he wanted him to.
If Ponga needs to step up to be our main playmaker in a game, I can't see him laying down the law.
Great point Billy. He's pretty vocal at organising the defensive line ahead of him at fullback, hopefully he can draw on that
Watching Joey absolutely give it to Lee Jackson every week was one of the highlights of attending games in the late 90s.
1 brilliant season at fullback in 2014 having never ever played a game there in his life until round 1.
2 brilliant seasons as JT's right hand man in the halves going toe to toe with him on try and line break assists. Also being the main man that got us the premiership. No Morgan in the final 30 seconds no premiership.
1 brilliant season being thrown in being the main man for the first time. Guides the side to the GF while both co captains out injured. Several others out injured plus atleast half a dozen including himself playing injured where they shouldn't of been throughout the finals series.
No Coote? Everyone on here was laughing at Coote being in the side not long ago due to Ponga going so well. Barba is an attacking upgrade on Coote no one can deny that.
Clifford showed us his potential as well. The Walker brothers who coach the Jets in Q-Cup have repeatedly stated he was the best halves/player in the comp last year. Not bad for a kid in his first year of seniors having taken out the NYC player of the year award the year before (ahead of Ponga mind you).
Then throw in the incumbent NZ 5/8th in TMM as well... Morgan won't be doing it all on his own. Will have a solid supporting cast there to help.
Most Cowbous fans will be worrying about the hooking position the most. That's the real issue.
P.S Morgan is clearly better than Pearce
You want Levi?
We've got a live one here!
Hold onto your hats!
Nice to see its not just Knights fans who over hype their own players.
Was actually mentioned on the Cowboys forum throughout the year.
I'd personally pass on him but any pressure on Granville would be nice.
Luke's available now I believe.
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Some people might've seen this already, but there's a new official Bossman site, which doesn't have much on it so far besides a loop of "Handclap" and the bio from the Virgin website, but it's cool since the N.E.K. site hasn't been updated in over a year. He's also got a MySpace page, and C Love recently posted this new interview, which mentions, among other things, that Rockwilder produced "Handclap," and that he's got a new mixtape comin' out with DJ Envy and Big Mike called Yellow Tape, so if anyone knows how I can cop that, lemme know. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, Bossman got a Show & Prove article in XXL (the current issue with Jeezy/Cam'ron on the cover), page 86, just a few pages after an article about Gel & Weave favorites 334 Mobb.
5:21p.m. EDIT: Just saw this, Bossman feature on Allhiphop.com today. LOL @ Baltimore being called "Southeastern," though.
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I believe we're considered mid-atlantic not southeastern. Are these people from All Hip Hop dot.com are from up top?
yeah, I'd say mid-Atlantic or even Northeastern before Southeastern. I dunno if a NYer wrote that, but it seems like in New England they think of Bmore/MD as Southern, but people in the South usually laugh if you even call Virginia part of the South.
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The Cottonera Resource Centre, once again organised STEM Summer School for students between the age of 11 - 14 years. The students participated in a 7 week project were they revised and learned various subjects in a fun and interactive way. The subjects being taught include Maths, Maltese, English, Physics, Personal and Social Development, and Design and Technology.
Graffiti Project
In total fifteen students showed interest in participating in the Graffiti project with twelve actively participating in the sessions (nine of which were from the Curies class) from the STEM Summer School.
On July 17, U.S. Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley visited the Cottonera Resource Center/St. Margaret College to view the mural created by Mr. Perdue and youths from Cottonera and the south of Malta. In brief comments she said, "This mural celebrates diversity and inclusion. I believe we all can benefit from open, tolerant and inclusive dialogue. We should reject violence or intimidation that's aimed at silencing people's voices." The Ambassador applauded the Cottonera Resource Center's mission to promote higher education among youths. She said, "Societies are more likely to succeed when all our people -- regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation, or gender – have equal opportunity to pursue a first-class education."
Pavlis Institute - Experiments
Once again, two Engineering undergraduates from the Michigan Tech University delivered a number of experiments during the physics sessions. The experiments permitted the students to learn through a hands-on approach and were a consolidation of the topics that were being tackled. The materials utilised for the experiments were mainly brought by the undergraduates themselves. Said experiment were -
Homemade Compass
3D Waves
Soundproof Box
Circular Motion
Inertia Ball
Thick or Thin Wires
Every Thursday at the STEM summer school an excursion was organised for the four classes. The idea behind the excursions was to learn by seeing and visiting a variety of places on topics relating to culture, history, science and sports.
Excursion 1 – Birgu historical tour and the Inquisitor's Palace
On the 9th July, for the first excursion the students were taken on a whirlwind tour around Birgu. During the tour Birgu, which was led by the Local Counsellor Lawrence Attard, the students were encouraged to spot and take selfies with historical artefacts that can be found around the town. After the tour, the students visited the Inquisitor's Palace, where they were guided by a staff member and were aided to answer a short worksheet on said Palace.
Excursion 2 – The Fortress Builders centre
On the 16th July, for the second excursion the students were taken to the Fortress Builders Fortification Interpretation Centre in Valletta, where different models are exhibited to illustrate the different types of fortifications that were present in the Maltese Island and appreciate their purpose. The students also participating in a question and answer session with the director of the institute.
Excursion 3 – The National Aquarium
On the 23rd July, for the third excursion the students visited the National Aquarium for a guided visit. At the Aquarium the students could witness an array of marine life from local waters and exotic seas.
Excursion 4 – Ta' Qali National Stadium
On the 30th July, for the fourth excursion the students visited the National Football Stadium in Ta' Qali for a guided visit. The guided visit took the students all around the stadium from the press room, the changing rooms of the National Football team, the football ground and the trophy room; after which, the students were given team building and sports activities by a Skola Sport trainer.
Excursion 5 – Civil Protection Department – Marsa and Hal Far Station
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Visit by Sportsman
On the 10th August, the triathlon athlete Fabio Spiteri addressed two Form 4 classes; where he shared his experience of being a full-time sportsman both locally and abroad. Mr. Spiteri showed them his equipment including the bicycle used in the various races and competitions. The session was ended with a discussion about the challenges Mr. Spiteri faces, his diet and lifestyle he follows.
Graphic Novel Workshop
On the last day of the STEM Summer School, a workshop was organised by the Graphic Novels Library. The students were invited to create a superhero, including his/her background story and the image of said superhero. The session permitted the students to work on their creative and presentation skills while working in a team.
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Whether you're a business, homeowner, or nonprofit, solar panels are one of the best ways to invest, ranking with more conventional investments like stocks and bonds. The most common reasons why many people go solar include cutting energy costs, increase property value, and safeguard the environment. But in order to justify any major renovation to your property, you have to do your research and see the facts for yourself.
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- The US is making progress towards energy independence. America had its biggest year for solar production ever in 2016, reaching 4 gigawatts of potential solar capacity nationwide.
- New installations are steadily increasing for residential property owners. There are now over one million residential installations.
- You can find the solar potential for your property on a map. The least sunny regions of the country can still produce enough solar energy to make the investment viable. For example, parts of Alaska will generate 360 cubic watts a day.
- Solar earns a great return on your investment. The solar capacity and initial cost vary for each individual property, but some investors recoup their investment in under three years.
- Solar adds to real estate value – typical homeowners who go solar can expect their property value to go up around $15K, the rule of thumb being approximately $20 of value for every $1 of savings. And for commercial properties, the sky's the limit.
- Solar renewable energy credit markets were created in response to environmental responsibility policies. Public utilities must meet mandated clean energy rules called minimum renewable portfolio standards. SRECS are certificates equaling 1Mwh hour of solar electricity. Producers can sell their certificates at auction or privately. The producer receives credits whether they have consumed the power or fed it into the grid.
- Jobs in the solar industry are growing thanks in part to increased demand and programs that offer training and placement. The Solar Jobs Census 2016 found that the workforce has increased 25% from the previous year.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Overland Park, Kansas police and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers captured one person and continued to search for another after a police chase across the state line Thursday morning.
Around 7:30 a.m., Kansas City, Missouri police saw a Chevrolet pickup truck pulling a U-Haul driving erratically near Interstate 435 south and Truman Road.
Officers began following the what they believed was a drunk driver as the truck entered into Kansas and exited onto Nall Avenue.
KCPD ceased their pursuit at that time, and Kansas authorities were called to the area to try to find the truck.
They later learned the truck had been stolen out of Raytown, and that is why the driver tried to flee police, not because he was under the influence.
At about 8:30 a.m., the truck was located, abandoned, in the 10000 block of Horton Drive in Overland Park, police said.
Two schools, John Diemer Elementary and Indian Woods Middle School, went under a soft lockdown as authorities searched the area for the suspects.
Officers found and took the driver into custody.
The schools' lockdown was lifted before 11:30 a.m. as officials broke their perimeter down.
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The Martha's Vineyard Times was awarded the weekly Newspaper of the Year at last Thursday's New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) fall convention in Natick.
The Times was recognized as the best weekly for newspapers with a circulation of 8,000 or more. NENPA is a professional trade organization with more than 450 member newspapers throughout New England's six-state region.
The judges reviewed a mandatory entry from March (March 30) and The MV Times submitted a second edition (May 11) for consideration.
"It's very gratifying to be recognized by peers, and this award is a well-deserved tribute to the effort and professionalism of each member of The Times team — editorial, sales, design, and production," publisher Peter Oberfest said. "Barbara and I couldn't be more grateful or more proud."
Executive editor Jamie Kageleiry acknowledged the collaborative Times staff: "Every week, every member of this staff works hard to publish the best paper we can. I love seeing how invested everyone is in the outcome. And it's nice to be rewarded for that."
"I'm a newcomer here, but after working with this tremendous team for close to seven months, this comes as no surprise," news editor George Brennan said. "The Times staff is dedicated to bringing our readers the most comprehensive coverage of news, sports, and events possible. This is actually a win for our readers as well, because we couldn't put out a winning newspaper without your willingness to share your stories with us."
It was a good day for the Cape and Islands at the awards ceremony. The Provincetown Banner, Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror, and The Cape Cod Times also took home awards.
The MVTimes company also publishes Martha's Vineyard Arts & Ideas, The Local, Vineyard Visitor, and The Insider's Guide to Martha's Vineyard, along with the websites mvartsandideas.com, and vineyardvisitor.com.


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Next-generation Wi-Fi technology 802.11ax could facilitate the delivery of some 5G use cases earlier than expected, according to a new whitepaper from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).
Today, almost 70% of smartphone data is carried over Wi-Fi networks, in many cases complementing cellular coverage when there's a weak signal. In its definition of the 5G core network, 3GPP has also highlighted the need for the ability to better integrate Wi-Fi networks, alongside 5G New Radio (NR).
The WBA's whitepaper, Enhanced Wi-Fi – 802.11ax Decoded, claims that 802.11ax can not only speed up the roll-out of 5G but could also expedite the implementation of key 5G use cases, and therefore ROI. Potential applications include industrial IoT, smart cities, smart stadiums and more.
New features in 802.11ax include: multi-user MIMO uplink and downlink to boost capacity in the case of multiple devices being used simultaneously – e.g. public venues and high-density buildings; dual-band frequencies supporting 2.4GHz and 5GHz, allowing new spectrum to be leveraged; flexible channel sizes and resource units so operators can use dedicated channels for specific purposes and network requirements; and a new Target Wake Time feature which allows IoT devices to 'sleep' at scheduled times to save battery.
The WBA notes that 802.11ax is backwards compatible, speeds up time to market and offers return on investment.
"Investment in 802.11ax offers operators and enterprises a compelling proposition to dramatically accelerate the delivery of 5G use cases, at a much lower cost," said Tiago Rodrigues, General Manager at the WBA.
"However, it shouldn't be viewed as 'just the next evolution in Wi-Fi technology' that can complement cellular. The WBA has developed this paper as part of its venture to raise awareness of 802.11ax as a standalone technology, providing new capabilities which can be used by the entire industry to address a whole new set of opportunities and use cases."
A number of parties have recently suggested that 5G could be bad news for Wi-Fi.
The latest Disruptive Innovations report from Citi warned that products such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet could be displaced by wireless 5G alternatives. Citi said that 5G would offer all the same attributes, with the added benefit of being mobile.
O2 also commented recently that emerging technology Li-Fi is a "serious contender to Wi-Fi". Li-Fi, short for 'light fidelity', transmits data via visible light instead of the radio waves. O2 is also currently trialling Li-Fi at its headquarters in Slough.
Read the WBA's whitepaper : Enhanced Wi-Fi – 802.11ax Decoded
Microsoft has announced that it will be purchasing UK company Metaswitch Networks
Opensignal data has revealed that 5G in the UK hits average speeds of 138.1Mbps.
Wireless Broadband Alliance announces first trials of Wi-Fi 6E in 6GHz spectrum
More than half of CPE units shipped will support Wi-Fi 6 by 2024, according to ABI...
The NGMN and WBA urge tighter integration between 5G and Wi-Fi to support new use...


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Jennifer Haskell, 22, a senior at Ball State University, died Friday morning at an Indianapolis hospital.
Haskell and five others were victims of a stage collapse just before Sugarland was slated to play at the Indiana State Fair. A strong wind gust knocked over the stage, which collapsed towards the crowd. About 50 people were injured by the crash.
Sugarland resumed touring last night in Albuquerque, N.M. The duo along with its crew of about 80 people, came on stage to say a few words about the tragedy and sang one song.


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19117 E. Broadway Ave.
Spokane Valley, WA 99016
New 2018 Forest River RV Sandstorm T271GSLR For Sale in Spokane, WA
This Sandstorm 271SLR toy hauler travel trailer by Forest River features a front bedroom, a rear electric bed, and an Easy Lift Sport Ramp for ease of loading and unloading your off-road toys.
In the cargo area you will find an electric bed with roll over sofa in the rear. Along one side of the trailer there is a fold down sofa with pedestal table. You may choose to add an optional sofa slide instead. Across from the sofa you will find two lounge chairs and an end table. You may also choose an optional flip up dinette.
In the kitchen area there is an L-shaped counter with a three burner stove, an overhead microwave, a double kitchen sink, and a refrigerator.
Proceeding toward the front of the trailer, the bathroom is on the left. Inside the bathroom you will find a shower with glass door, a sink, a medicine cabinet, and a toilet.
You can enter the bedroom from either the hallway or from the bathroom. Inside the bedroom there is a comfortable queen bed which you can retire on after a long full day. The bedroom also features two wardrobes, and an overhead cabinet for your personal belongings.
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Interior Color: Smoke Grey
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Forest River RV is a division of Forest River, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, which produces recreational vehicles, pontoons, park models, buses, cargo trailers and commercial trucks. The diversity of Forest River, Inc., enables us to approach the RV industry with a unique perspective, incorporating lessons learned at each one of our divisions. Operating with openness across a wide range of products is what makes us stand apart from the competition. At Forest River, Inc., quality and dependability are a necessity in everything we make.


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More from your two intrepid adventurers, the "Ron and Pat Show Go To Hollywood."
Folks, looking at these videos and pictures that I took while we were in Hollywood this past January brings back a big smile to my face. It also brings back sadness because I see how I'm walking around regular, something I took for granted that I will never take for granted again.
As I said in my previous post Pat and I decided to take the long walk all the way down to Hollywood and Vine one evening, in search of the original location of the 60's TV show "77 Sunset Strip." Of course we didn't find that location but what we did find was a lot of people, lights, history and excitement.
|Just two happy tourists taking in the night at Hollywood and Vine in January
|Not the best pictures but a non-selfie. Lots of activity at Hollywood and Vine. We loved it!
|The Walk of Fame - next year I'm going to look for my favorite stars
|The fearless duo right in the mix
|Yet another selfie trying to catch the glamour and glitz of thee Hollywood and Vine
We now have a new tradition, every January we descend on Hollywood.
Pat may live in Toronto and I may live in Delaware but we get together three times a year. In May (or June depending on the healing process of my leg) Pat comes down here to Delaware and we spend a week together exploring the many attractions of Delaware as well as southeastern Pennsylvania
In August I visit Pat at his home in Toronto to celebrate the when we met (August 2013) and the end of the summer season.
In January we visit Los Angeles to celebrate our birthdays (November and December).
Life is good folks.