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Kier | Kier Highways becomes Disability Confident Leader
Kier Highways is the first company in the UK construction sector to become a Disability Confident Leader.
Disability Confident is a scheme conducted by the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) to increase levels of employment for people with disabilities by raising standards and increasing understanding of disability in the workplace.
As part of this, it has committed to practices and behaviours making the business more inclusive, diverse and attractive to people with disabilities. It has launched an Inclusive Recruitment Policy; equality, diversity & inclusion steering and action groups; a Disability Confident Forum for employees with disabilities to test practices and procedures; and introduced bi-annual Inclusion Weeks.
As well as the number of initiatives Kier Highways has in place to support people with disabilities, its business, NORDIS Signs was established to provide meaningful employment for disabled people in the Northamptonshire area. It currently employs 15 road signs specialists, 14 of whom have a disability. It helps disabled people with more complex issues not only find, but stay in, employment.
Dave Wright, executive director for Kier Highways, commented:
"I'm thrilled that Kier Highways is the first company in the UK construction sector to be recognised as a Disability Confident Leader. We work hard to ensure our workplace is inclusive for our colleagues with disabilities and to be recognised for this is very humbling.
"I am particularly proud of our NORDIS Signs business and being able to offer our colleagues in Northamptonshire stable employment opportunities. People with disabilities offer a wide range of skills and strengths into our business and this commitment extends beyond compliance; we will be promoting the scheme and its principles to clients, supply chain and peers within the construction sector."
Tony Hyland is a National Account Manager with the DWP and has been supporting the journey Kier has undertaken to becoming a Disability Confidence Leader.
Tony commented:
"It is fantastic that Kier Highways has made this important step, and we hope this will be the first of many companies in the sector. People with disabilities can overlook construction as a career path, often because they are unaware of the range of roles available."
Stephen Lismore, Head of Employer Engagement at DWP presented Kier Highways with its certificate at a reception to mark the event at Kier's London offices.
He said:
"We are delighted to present Kier with this accreditation. It's important that employers demonstrate they are open and receptive to employing people from all parts of our communities."


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As over 100 million viewers tuned in to watch Super Bowl XLIV, a major brand's presence was absent from the slew of much-anticipated Super Bowl commercials. With over 23 consecutive years of Super Bowl advertising—creating many iconic commercials along the way—Pepsi opted out of a coveted position in what has historically been the most watched television broadcast in the United States.
Instead of spending $3 million plus for a 30-second spot in this year's Super Bowl, Pepsi has decided to invest its marketing efforts in its online presence. By launching its Pepsi Refresh Project, Pepsi is seeking to develop a more meaningful relationship with consumers. The project is a campaign to give $20 million away in grant money to community improvement projects. Ideas are generated by consumers and consumers ultimately choose which projects receive grant money by voting for worthy ideas online.
It is through the Pepsi Refresh Project that Pepsi is hoping to create more of a rapport with consumers—launching a participatory experience that will keep consumers engaged with the brand throughout the year, instead of passively enjoying a one-shot television commercial.
With online analysis predicting over 200 million impressions, Pepsi has the potential to reach twice the audience that it would have with a Super Bowl ad.
Pepsi's shift in advertising spending is a sign of the times. Large companies are realizing that the most efficient and effective use of their advertising budget is on the Internet—and not in traditional forms of advertising that are more intrusive than inviting and interactive.
Companies, like Pepsi, realize that their consumers are online throughout the year; so, they're taking active measures to meet consumers where they are.
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On the evening of April 22th, 2019 Spring Exhibition of USTC Art Club was held at the Modern Art Center (ground floor, No.2 Building, USTC Central Campus). Teachers from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Youth League Committee, Academic Affairs Office, Basic Teaching Center, and Library participated in the first-day exhibition, and interacted with the students in a warm atmosphere.
Exhibition at the Modern Art Center
The exhibition received help and support from university leaders, teachers, and students during the preparation phase. There are 66 pieces of students' works in all, including gouache, acrylic painting, color pencil painting, pen painting, computer painting, oil painting and other kinds of paintings. The exhibition witnesses USTCers' creativity and aesthetic taste through landscape painting, figure painting, still life and so on.
Several students' works (Image provided by YANG Xinqi)
GAO Huaicun, an Anhui young singer, sang the wonderful scenes of Chinese and foreign operas on the first-day exhibition.
Activity site of the first-day exhibition
This exhibition is the first activity held by the new Modern Art Center. It provided a platform for students to appreciate humanities and arts, shows the rich cultural life of USTC, and embodies cooperation between humanities elective courses and student clubs. In the future, the USTC Youth League Committee will strengthen its cooperation with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the 2+X education in the central campus, the new model of improving students' humanities literacy will be continuously explored. And the student organizations will be better able to play an important role in general education and humanistic literacy.
(Written by YANG Xinqi, edited by SHI Xiao, USTC News Center)
On May 11, the Nature Publishing Group released Nature Publishing Index 2010 China, remarking "a dramatic rise in the quality of research being published by China". University of Science and Technology of China is ranked 3rd of TOP 10 Institutions in Index 2010 China.
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Marty is back in this weeks episode with Cliff and Julie. We had a plan to talk about stuff… but we got sidetracked and it barreled out of control into something fun and unscripted! Enjoy! https://pinecast.com/listen/6a63c1ca-5f7e-441c-91eb-53d8f67afa75.mp3
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The trio of wrestling lunatics is joined by a special guest this week. The group discusses the big returns that happened this week on WWE TV, along with the other big news of the week! Raw, Smackdown, 205 Live, and NXT recaps as well! Also, we played "Where's Katie? on NXT" and we found her
Julie and Cliff run down their lists of top 10 NXT feuds, top 10 WWE feuds, top 5 rivalries in all of WWE, & the gang delivers theirs hopes for 2019! https://pinecast.com/listen/3fc88dd7-7823-440c-b9ec-9c8e66c91ef8.mp3
Cliff, Julie, & I are back with some more hilarity! We see if this random "Best Matches of 2018" list meets our standards, & say if some matches deserve to be on there more than others! Come see if you agree with the listmaker or us! FYI, the WWE World Cup was never mentioned for
ONE OF US, ONE OF US! Cliff and I dragged another poor soul into our midst this week. Everyone, please welcome Julie as a new guest! We get her familiarized with our banter… not really… she fits in really well… almost too well… DEAR GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE!? We chat about Drew before and
Yeah, a bit of a name change because it fits and makes sense… FrankenCulture… FrankenSteiner… no relation to Scott Steiner… ha ha ha… bad lame joke… ANYWAYS! We are back with a great full hour of content for you dealing with the past week in wrestling! Next week, we pick Katie's brain about the CEOxNJPW


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How to Create Massive Amounts of Content 10x Faster So You can Focus on Marketing
It is not uncommon to see on the internet corporate blogs that are no longer powered for months. In question, most often: the lack of time. Creating content is indeed a particularly time-consuming task: you have to find an article subject, research the issue, write the content, find an illustration, optimize it for SEO, and put it online. Cumulative, all these steps easily take several hours and make the creation of content very tedious. To make your site live and attract audiences, you need to create content. How can you create more content simply and effectively, and still focus on marketing you say? Nothing simpler, here's how to do so.
Have a list of topics always ready and available
Knowing what to write is a recurring problem for anyone who feeds a business blog. Often, we swarm of ideas the first months, but over time, it seems to have gone around the subject, and we find ourselves faced with a big failure of inspiration. Having a list of blog post topics at your fingertips means you do not have to worry about unnecessary questions and start writing immediately after you've decided: just pick an article idea from the list to get started. If you operate with editorial planning, this list will also allow you to feed it very easily. Just put a date in front of each idea to know what to write and when. By evacuating these two questions, you will then be much more effective.
Find out what to say in your article
Finding an article topic is a good start, but knowing what to say on this topic is another problem! Do you not have time to dig your head? Here are two ideas that will allow you to write an article plan and identify smart things to say about a topic at great V speed. The simplest solution is to have others work for you by asking your question on an expert forum. If you choose one that has a lot of active members in a few hours, you should get some tips for writing your article. This method is, however, to use in moderation (or with many different nicks!) To avoid being spotted by other members. It works particularly well in American forums, where the experts themselves are often asked to be questioned to show that they are pros.
Optimize the drafting process
Well, at this point you have an article topic and things to talk about. All you have to do is tap on your computer keyboard to see your article take shape. Again, some simple tips will save you time. In addition, make use of content templates. It's difficult to write content when you do not know what its final version should look like. This is why it is important to draft upstream a precise editorial charter, which frames the process and even includes, if possible, content templates to use for your blog. For example, you can juggle 2 or 3 templates that correspond to different article formats (lists, "How to," etc.) and guide your approach.
Fine-tune the content after writing
Did you put the endpoint on your first throw? Perfect! You will now be able to refine everything in efficient mode, that is to say:
Reworking the form
No need to write Moliere, the key is to make you understand. Moreover, a simple and casual tone is easier and more pleasant to read than a doctoral tone. During the proofreading of your article, you can be satisfied with:
- Correct slightly flawed formulations and spelling mistakes,
- Find synonyms to avoid possible repetitions (think to use Google).
- It should not take you more than 5 minutes for short articles, a maximum of fifteen for long ones.
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Rosary to the rescue
Ham Lake couple gets extra help during roadside birth
Nikki Mickelson was getting anxious with her pregnancy.
She had been to the hospital three times — and was sent back home three times with false labor.
By Sunday, June 24, her baby was a week overdue.
"I was praying my rosary, 'Please, Blessed Mother, make this go quick and soon,'" admitted the 32-year-old parishioner of St. Paul, Ham Lake.
"Maybe I was praying too hard."
Baby Veyda Nicole Mickelson did come quick — and a bit too soon.
She was born in her parents' car on the way to St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul.
In God's plan
The couple wasn't interested in their story being shared with the media, but when asked by a fellow parishioner if they would talk with The Catholic Spirit, Nikki agreed.
Nikki and Toby Mickelson were already the parents of three boys — Landen, 6, Greer, 4, and Hollis, 18 months — when the couple learned they were expecting again — unexpectedly.
"We're a Catholic NFP (natural family planning) family," Nikki explained. She said she had not detected any of the signs that there was the potential for pregnancy.
"I guess this was God's way of sending us our little girl."
Day to remember
Here's the story of Veyda Nicole's birthday:
The family had just come home from Sunday Mass when Nikki started to feel contractions. A delivery nurse she phoned said to wait until the contractions were three-to-five minutes apart.
Nikki called her mom — Peggy Hall — to come watch the boys.
About 5 p.m. Nikki and Toby left their home in Blaine and headed to St. Joseph's in downtown St. Paul.
Contractions started coming a minute apart. "I felt the urge to push, but Toby told me not to," Nikki recalled. "He was going down [Interstate] 35W south like 85 miles an hour."
They were still on the highway when Nikki said she felt the baby's head engage her pelvis — and her water broke.
"We could see the hospital from where we were, but with all the construction we couldn't tell which way to go," Nikki said. Toby made a wrong turn and they ended up back on the highway.
That was when Veyda Nicole decided to make her entrance.
"Toby pulled over onto the side of the highway, took his shirt off and wrapped the baby in it," Nikki said.
They called 911, even more anxious now because the baby wasn't breathing right away.
"We were slapping the baby on the back, but the 911 dispatcher said to take a pinky finger to swab inside the baby's mouth to open a breathing passage."
It worked.
With the baby breathing and an ambulance on the way, the emergency dispatcher asked if it was a boy or girl.
"We didn't even know!" Nikki said. "Then we looked, and we went, 'Oh my God, it's a girl!"
Another role for the rosary
The story doesn't end there, though.
The 911 dispatcher instructed the Mickelson's to tie-off the baby's umbilical cord.
"Do you have a string?" Nikki remembered being asked.
No. That's when Toby saw the rosary hanging from the rearview mirror.
He used the rosary to tie the cord off.
"When the ambulance got there they fixed the umbilical cord," Nikki said, "but in the hospital a nurse said, 'I'm going to throw away this rosary.' I said, 'Oh no you're not!'"
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#WomenInTech: Tackling Complex Problems with FreshBooks' Lindsay Rothman
The Lead Product Manager at FreshBooks, Lindsay Rothman is focused on making accounting and billing enjoyable experiences. In our chat, we spoke about how product management has evolved in recent years, how companies should think about diversity and her role as a SheEO Activator.
Nudge: What differentiates FreshBooks from other competitors?
LR: FreshBooks is an invoicing and accounting app for freelancers and small business owners. Everyone wants to focus on their work, not their billing. So we take care of that.
Our customers are all different kinds of freelancers such as graphic designers, IT professionals, business consultants, as well as tradespeople. We try to make accounting as awesome and painless as possible. Billing is an essential part of doing business for any freelancer, and because we're a critical part of their day-to-day operations, we have an opportunity to play a big role in their business.
As a product manager, it's an interesting challenge to take something that not everyone likes and make it not so bad, or maybe even a little fun.
Nudge: You're now Lead Product Manager at FreshBooks – what does your role entail on a day-to-day basis?
LR: Overall, the role of a product manager is to figure out what problems exist for our customers and how to solve them. Day-to-day, the job is about having a lot of conversations with customers, as well as analyzing data from different sources to find out how we can assist customers in new ways. It's a lot of collaboration with our user experience designers and our development team to figure out how to make these things happen. Then it's about launching these new solutions, seeing how they perform in the market and making further adjustments based on customer input. Things are always changing.
Nudge: How has product management changed or evolved since you've been in the role?
LR: Well, the bar for products is a lot higher now. Over the last few years, we've seen successful companies emerge where the CEO was a former designer (Airbnb and Pinterest come to mind). As a result, consumers now expect products to instantly solve the problem, and really be usable and beautiful right off the bat.
Nudge: You're also an Activator with SheEO. How did you first get involved as an Activator, and why is funding female entrepreneurs something that's important to you?
LR: I think I first heard about it on Twitter. And I just thought, "why hasn't this existed before?" This is such a great thing!
Becoming a SheEO Activator means you contribute $1,100 to create a pool of capital loaned out to women-led ventures. It's one thing to say "I support women entrepreneurs", but it's something else to make a large financial contribution. Paying $1,100 per year into the pool of capital really shows a different level of support.
It's very important for me to support female entrepreneurs. In North America, only 4% of venture capital goes to women. Given that access to capital is an important part of fostering entrepreneurship, we need to financially support women-led ventures. Simply saying, "I support female entrepreneurs" isn't enough.
Nudge: Lots of companies in Toronto have their own ideas and policies about how to increase diversity at their company – from what you've seen, what's the most effective approach?
LR: Companies need to reframe their thinking about diversity. Many companies approach diversity as a touchy-feely sort of thing, but creating a diverse workplace isn't about feelings – it's a complex business problem and there aren't straightforward answers to complex business problems.
A company might say that they care about diversity, but these are just words. Unless a company thoughtfully delivers different initiatives in a sustained way, the status quo is unlikely to change. To improve customer retention, for example, a company would gather different stakeholders to investigate what other organizations have done successfully (or unsuccessfully) to address the problem, read up on the latest research and relevant data, and then try out different initiatives and experiment. Similarly, the same sustained and thoughtful efforts are necessary to increase diversity.
For more information on why diverse workforces perform better, here's McKinsey's article on Why Diversity Matters.
Nudge: What was the last book you read?
LR: I've recently embraced my inner nerd by reading classic sci-fi. I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, which is the book the film Blade Runner was based on. The protagonist is a bounty-hunter in a futuristic world tasked with killing (or "retiring") artificial-intelligence robots that are almost indistinguishable from humans. Trust me, this book is about so much more than a dude killing robots. The story forces you to ponder deep questions about empathy and what it means to be human.


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Looking towards Ashurst Beacon.
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on 6th August 2014 at 08:43
It's that time of year again, nice shot Mick.
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christine Roberts
on 6th August 2014 at 11:56
Lovely with the sun's reflection that you have captured in this shot
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on 6th August 2014 at 12:33
I love seeing bales in farmers field wrapped in plastic, I think they really make a nice contrast to the rest of the surrounding countryside.
Ive seen Black, Blue and Green plastic so far when Im on my travels but I think one of these days some bright young enterprising wiz kid who works for an advertising company will come up with the idea on using these plastic wrapped bales for putting adverts and logos on.
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on 6th August 2014 at 15:41
When we were in the Yorkshire dales for the Tour de France, a lot of the bales were wrapped in Wensleydale cheeses wrappers, just looked like a mammoth version of the ones in the shops!
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on 6th August 2014 at 16:55
I think you are mistaken Burtsdpieeater, this is obviously a balck pudding farm.
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on 6th August 2014 at 17:04
Superb photo.
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on 6th August 2014 at 17:10
I wonder if that plastic gets recycled?
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Fred Mason
on 6th August 2014 at 18:06
They are actually black pudding eggs, laid by the giant black pudding bird from New Zealand.
Great photo, Mick. At first glance I thought it was taken in Switzerland.
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Gerald Pilkington (Canada)
on 6th August 2014 at 22:05
ever seen Canadian Poop, same size different color
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on 6th August 2014 at 22:05
Wensleydale cheeses wrappers and Black pudding are a great ideas.
I was thinking they could be easily made to look like Polo mints
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Many farmers, particularly those who feed large herds, have moved to balers which produce much larger bales, maximizing the amount of hay which is protected from the elements. Large bales come in two types, round and square. "Large Square" bales, which can weigh up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb), can be stacked and are easier to transport on trucks. Round bales, which typically weigh 300 to 400 kilograms (660880 lb), are more moisture-resistant, and pack the hay more densely (especially at the center). Round bales are quickly fed with the use of mechanized equipment.
The ratio of volume to surface area makes it possible for many dry-area farmers to leave large bales outside until they are consumed. Wet-area farmers and those in climates with heavy snowfall can stack round bales under a shed or tarp, but can also use a light but durable plastic wrap that partially encloses bales left outside. The wrap repels moisture, but leaves the ends of the bale exposed so that the hay itself can "breathe" and does not begin to ferment. However, when it is possible to store round bales under a shed, they last longer and less hay is lost to rot and moisture.
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on 6th August 2014 at 23:15
Ernest by wrapping them in plastic the farmers dont need barns anymore to store them, thats why you see all these barns being made into houses
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on 7th August 2014 at 11:49
Less chance of someone setting fire to the plastic bales/barns.
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Jean F (Wales)
on 7th August 2014 at 20:10
There`s tidy for you, as the welsh would say!
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There used to be a lot of barn fires, not necessarily arson. Hay can self combust under certain conditions.
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PlantLink is founded by Lund University (LU) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and has financial support from both universities. A steering committee, appointed by LU and SLU, meets twice every semester and is jointly responsible for the activities, the budget and allocation of funds.
Protocols (in Swedish) from the steering committee meetings can be found here.
Steering Committee
Thomas Moritz (chair, University of Copenhagen/UPSC)
Jean Yong (SLU)
Erik Andreasson (SLU)
Mariette Andersson (SLU)
Rajni Hatti Kaul (LTH)
Allan Rasmusson (LU)
Leif Bülow (LTH)
Annette Olesen (Lantmännen)
Jenny Bergsten (Region Skåne)
Linnea Almqvist (graduate student representative, SLU)
Gróa Valgerdur Ingimundardottir (graduate student representative, LU)
Svend Christensen (University of Copenhagen) is a permanent observatory members of the Steering Committee.
Next to the Steering Committee, the director is responsible for the activities at PlantLink. The director is appointed jointly by LU and SLU on a proposal by the Steering Committee.
As of July 2016 Erik Alexandersson (SLU) is the director of PlantLink succeding Leif Bülow. Tina D'Hertefeldt (LU) is the Assistant Director.
PlantLink bioinformatician
Our PlantLink bioinformatician alternates between Alnarp and Lund.
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"Everyone who is godly…" That's a show stopper. "Godly." I can't claim that title. The word translated "godly," however, comes from a Hebrew root that actually means "loved." It refers to those who are loved by God and who love Him in return. That puts me back in the picture.
"For this cause…" Why do I have this effortless access to God? Because I am so good? No, it is because He is so good, for He has forgiven all my sins. I am in His favor (32:5).
"In a time when You may be found…" And when might that be? "In a flood of great waters," When I am in over my head. Then He is my hiding place.
Jesus, lover of my soul,
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Hide me, O my Savior, hide,
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As Brian McCann squatted behind home plate in November at Dodger Stadium, waiting for Corey Seager to get set in the batter's box, he looked out at pitcher Charlie Morton and had a moment.
They were about to clinch the Houston Astros' first World Series title, but McCann was not thinking about the here and now. He was thinking back some 16 years earlier, when he and Morton met for the first time — as sinewy, fresh-faced teenagers who had traveled across the country to play in a showcase tournament.
"There were two outs in the ninth and we're up four runs and I'm just sitting there, like this is pretty neat," McCann said recently at the Astros' spring training camp. "It's all come full circle."
So when Seager could not handle Morton's first pitch — a fastball in on his hands — and grounded meekly to second baseman Jose Altuve, the ensuing celebration allowed for a poignant scene: McCann racing toward the mound and leaping into Morton's arms.
It was an embrace with deep roots.
"In those moments, the underlying emotion is derived from how you know that person and who that person is to you, and you want those moments for those people," said Morton, who, like McCann, is 34. "I have an appreciation for not only who he is as a catcher and as a hitter, but as a person."
A year after that first meeting as 17-year-olds at the Area Code Games, about 30 miles south of Dodger Stadium in Long Beach, Calif., McCann and Morton were drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the second and third rounds of the 2002 draft. They were teammates in rookie ball that summer before their paths quickly diverged, intersecting intermittently but meaningfully.
In 2008, McCann, by then an established star, was behind the plate when Morton made his major league debut. They joined the Astros before last season — McCann coming via a trade with the Yankees, Morton arriving from Philadelphia as a free agent.
For all their shared experiences, they could not be more different.
McCann, who grew up in Duluth, Ga., outside Atlanta, is bearded, bald and burly, and a seven-time All-Star whose biting wit, keen baseball mind and easy confidence have made him a clubhouse leader. Morton, who grew up in Redding, Conn., is towering and lithe, an introspective journeyman whose talent has often exceeded his confidence, which at times has been as fragile as his health. He has undergone surgeries on his elbow, hip (twice) and hamstring.
But in each of their voices, there is an appreciation for the path the other has taken. They were the only players on that Area Code Games team, which was run by Pittsburgh Pirates scouts, to ascend to the major leagues. And among the 52 players drafted by the Braves in their class, they are among six who reached the majors and the only ones still there.
McCann recalls arriving at the Braves' minor league complex in 2002 after signing and seeing two other players in the clubhouse. One was Morton. Their rooms were across the hall from each other at the hotel where they lived, and they hung out during a stage in a ballplayer's life that usually involves video games and pizza delivery.
"When you sign, you're going to a place where you don't know what to expect," Morton said. "There are people of different ages, different backgrounds, different nationalities, different cultures and you're just showing up. You're all there to begin your career and become acclimated to professional baseball. It's not even necessarily about baseball. It's more about adhering to structure and responsibility and then you go from there."
Three years later, Morton was going nowhere. Still in low Class A in Rome, Ga., "trying to figure out who I was on the field, off the field," he said, he went to eat at a Fuddruckers restaurant across the street from the ballpark. On the television, he watched McCann's second game in the big leagues, on June 11, 2005.
After Braves pitcher John Smoltz finished a complete game, Morton was struck by how emphatic the future Hall of Famer was in congratulating McCann, then 20, after the final out. McCann said he was not sent down to the minors a few days later — as had been planned — because Smoltz lobbied Manager Bobby Cox to keep him.
Smoltz recognized then what Morton had gotten a glimpse of in their brief summer together and would get a full viewing of later, when he navigated six innings in a win over the Los Angeles Angels in his major league debut, on June 14, 2008.
"I remember Vladimir Guerrero hitting a ball straight back up the middle," Morton said. "I'm pretty sure I remember Brian scream, 'Watch out,' even before he hit it."
Morton described good catchers as having a selfless self-confidence about them.
"It allows you to feed off their confidence, off their self-determination, off their experience because it's hard — especially as a young guy — to look in and believe in the totality of the decisions you're making, pitch to pitch, batter to batter," Morton said. "But a good catcher, you can see it in their eyes, you can see it in their face — how they receive the ball, how the game is called — that quiet, I-know-what-I'm-doing look in their eyes."
It could not have hurt Morton to have such a settling hand when he went to the mound to begin the sixth inning of Game 7 against the Dodgers in November. It was Morton's first relief appearance in nine years, and it is hard to overstate how desperately Houston was counting on him. Though the Astros led, 5-0, they had already used four pitchers from a threadbare bullpen.
Morton's outing did not start promisingly: The Dodgers had one run in and two runners on with one out, bringing Dodger Stadium alive and the top of the order to the plate.
"I was just trying to throw as hard as I could," said Morton, who had one fastball clocked at 99 miles per hour. "I remember thinking: Wow, the ball's coming out really well, but I don't know where it's going because I'm trying to throw it really hard. Then I threw a couple where it's just, 'make a pitch,' and I look up to see if the ball is coming out well on the radar gun and it was like the same."
The regathering helped. Morton struck out Chris Taylor on three pitches, the final one a sharp-breaking curve. He then shattered Seager's bat — a shard hit Morton on the thigh — to escape. He did not allow another base runner.
"After the pitch he made on Seager, I knew from catching him that he was going to finish the game," McCann said.
It was an extraordinary show of faith in a pitcher who has a losing record in his career (60-78) and whom the Astros pitching coach Brent Strom described as a glass half-empty guy. Just to be sure, Astros Manager A. J. Hinch had Justin Verlander — who threw 93 pitches the day before — warming up in the ninth inning.
But McCann's faith was buttressed by his history with Morton, who was 14-7 with a 3.62 earned run average in the best season of his career and even better in the playoffs. He threw five shutout innings in the Astros' 4-0 win over the Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, and left Game 4 of the World Series with one out in the seventh and a 1-0 lead the bullpen would not hold.
"When it's all synced up, he's one of the best pitchers in the game," McCann said.
"I just remember those Game 7s how calm he was, like he had played this moment in his head a million times. Not one moment got too big for him — he owned it."
That is not completely true. Morton said his one anxious moment came at the start of the ninth inning of Game 7 against the Dodgers, when Chase Utley, who was hitless in the postseason but 5 for 10 with a double and a homer in his career against Morton, was called upon to pinch-hit.
"That was a game within a game for me," Morton said. "This isn't to take away from any other hitters in the game, but over a 10-year stretch, he's a guy that I felt was really going to give me a hard time. So when Chase Utley steps into the box in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series, you're like, uh, all right, let's see how this goes."
It went just fine. Morton struck Utley out on three pitches.
Then he retired Taylor and Seager on routine grounders to Altuve.
When first baseman Yuli Gurriel gloved Altuve's final throw, shortstop Carlos Correa hurled his glove in the air, third baseman Alex Bregman sank to his knees and a brigade of pitchers burst through the bullpen gates. Morton checked to make sure it was the third out.
"You kind of get lost in the moment," he said. "I think we were on a good roll, we were making pitches and then, just like that, the season's over. You throw one pitch and the whole thing is over."
It has been a little more than four months since the World Series ended. McCann, who had never advanced in five previous trips to the playoffs, said that time — and the watching and rewatching of the playoffs from his couch — had allowed for a deeper appreciation of how hard it is to win and for how remarkable the Series was.
Morton said he had rewatched Game 7 only a handful of times. It was not transformative, he said, or a validation. What if he is back in the same spot this season and ends up losing? But it was, he added, a reminder of why the game matters.
"We don't romanticize baseball as much as people would love us to," Morton said as he stood inside the clubhouse this month. "After a certain amount of time — I was drafted in 2002 and here we are 16 years later — and it's become a job. It's still appealing in the way that I get to go play baseball for a living, but the utopian idea of it, that's kind of played out and now I have legitimate responsibilities to the organization, to myself and my family because it's become about more than just me."
He paused to think.
"But those moments," Morton continued. "In baseball, if you're speaking from in here, in this environment, that's what we live for."


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In the last week I have been duly inspired by two standout women journalists. As I speak before a lecture hall to freshmen journalism students at Northwestern University's Medill School every week, I am brought back to the intention that inspired many of us to pursue journalism reverently and humbly. It starts with the intention to change a system, portray a life, change a mind, foster a smile or an action. I want to remind the young men– and mostly women– that journalism is a noble profession.
The shame of plagiarists, back-talking CNN anchors and sloppy pundits aside, there are many thousands who take this profession seriously and view our jobs more as a calling than a call to a paycheck. It is the storytelling that matters to us.
Connie Schultz , a columnist at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, reminded me why I became a journalist in 1979 in her essay published on Poynter last week.
It is an honor to tell the stories of regular people leading heroic lives of struggle and hard work. While it is sometimes wearying to chip away at the daily injustices of American life, it is ultimately rewarding work, if for no other reason than it fuels the person I want to be when I wake up in the morning. I don't want to give up the fight. I want to be the woman who still jumps out of bed ready to take another swing at life.
Another journalist I emulate is Laurie Hertzel, whose new book, "News To Me" is just out from University of Minnsota Press. In her book she writes about her own career as a small town reporter able to tell stories exceptionally well.
For my last book, Everyman News, I interviewed Laurie, then working on narrative projects for the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2004. Now the books editor, Laurie said, "When you attach news stories to human beings, then it becomes more real."
It's ethics week this quarter in my Reporting & Writing Class and I have a robust lecture planned with two days of vigorous reporting and writing assignments designed to spark debate and thoughtfulness on the practice of being an ethical journalist. I sometimes cringe that I only spend a week on ethics. Hopefully this is the beginning of a dialogue that lasts each student's four-year career here.
But it's an opportunity to affect young journalists and to point out examples of those who continue to tell stories well because the compulsion is to inspire change that will affect lives. And to do it as well as humanly possible. Strive for excellence. And if real change is not possible through the journalism committed, then real stories will at least give a reader or viewer pause.
Schultz said it best:
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The social worker wrote: "It is my assessment that the intervention of the state has been a wake-up call for this couple. Their current beliefs do not pose a risk or compromise the safety of their children. "[They] are good parents and they are able to care for all their children. I see no reason whatsoever to remove the children from their care."
A couple of committed Islamists and keen followers of radical Imam Anjem Choudary who attempted to take their children into a war zone and join ISIS, will be allowed to keep their passports and young children a family court ruled yesterday.
In the first ruling of its kind, Sir James Munby, the most senior family court judge in England and Wales, said the family will have their passports returned as parents Asif Malik, 31, and Sara Kiran, 29, posed no threat to the welfare of their children – daughter Zoha, seven, and three sons Essa, four, Zakariva, two, and Yahya, one.
Sir James said they had "put the incident behind them", The Times reports.
Mr Malik was photographed outside Regent's Park mosque last January holding a placard which read: "Muslims will destroy the crusade and establish the Islamic state!" andoutside the Lebanese embassy in May last year with one stating: "Stop Terrorism Against Sunnis… Islamic State Is The Solution."
He was a member of the banned extremist group al-Mujahiroun, founded by the infamous Anjem Choudary who is currently being detained on charges of recruiting for terrorist organisations, and had links to Abu Rahin Aziz, an Islamic State fighter from Luton killed in a US drone strike in July.


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Archive for June, 2016
Best wishes to our retiring faculty and staff
This year, 10 staff members will be retiring from the South Glens Falls Central School District.
Construction starts in district's $57.8 million capital project
Construction on the district's $57.8 million capital project will start the last week of June, and continue through 2020.
Congratulations to the Class of 2016 Top 10 students
These students will graduate with the 10 highest averages ni the Class of 2016.
June Moreau Messenger now available
Click here to see the June edition of the Moreau Messenger.
SGF grad helps prove scientific theory
A South Glens Falls High School graduate recently helped confirm Einstein's space theory at Syracuse University. To read an article from the Times Union, click here.
Sabrena Quintois-McKinney places sixth at state track meet
SGF High School junior took sixth place in the state.
Congratulations to our Life Skills Program graduates
Three students, Johnathan Barrett-Daniels, Sara Bennett and Connor Clark graduated from the Life Skills Program at South Glens Falls High School this year.
Middle school to hold first Moving-Up Ceremony for 8th graders
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Unified Basketball team wins division
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Poem by Gina Wilson
Spokesperson for Intersex Rights in Australia
I will draw a wavy line on this board
it seems to want it.
then I'll draw some lines beneath,
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Intersex is not about gender
though some Intersex have genders
of all sorts.
Intersex is not about sexual preference
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Intersex is about sex.
The sex you preform on me
The sex you expect me to preform
rare as ambergris
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jonatanrullman started following Main fan not permanent, Spare parts for UM2 for sale, Unused roll of Ultimaker Flex PLA and and 3 others
Spare parts for UM2 for sale
jonatanrullman posted a topic in Buying or selling your UltimakerI have converted two of my UM2s to 1.75mm so I have some spare parts left over. I'm located in Sweden but I can ship basically anywhere. Outside of EU might make things complicated with customs and such though but not impossible. I have the following: *Two bowden tubes including locks and clips. One has been used about 500 hours and the other about 1500 hours. *Two original blocks. One has been used about 250 hours and the other is brand new. The used one is a bit dirty. *Two Olsson blocks. To the best of my knowledge these are genuine Ultimaker blocks but since they were included with second hand machines I can't guarantee that. They sure look well made and I have printed a whole bunch of hours on them flawlessly. One has been used about 250 hours and one about 1500 hours, only pla or abs. They are quite dirty. *Eight nozzles. Three unknown and five 3DSolex. Usage is everything from 0 to a couple of hundred ours each, mostly pla and on rare occasions abs, no other materials. Most of them are quite dirty as well. The 3DSolex ones are 2x0.25mm, 2x0.4mm, 1x0,8mm and the unknown ones I'm not sure of. *Three couplings. Two of them are Ultimaker and one is 3DSolex. One Ultimaker is basically worn out, one is brand new and the 3DSolex one has been used only with I2K spacer, so that one is basically brand new as well. *Some plastic parts for the head. Two complete and one extra middle part. Not sure about what would be a reasonable price for any of this but if anyone cares to make me an offer for one or more things. Cheers
Unused roll of Ultimaker Flex PLA
jonatanrullman posted a topic in Buying or selling your UltimakerI have one unused (I previously wrote unopened which on reflection wasn't true) roll of black Ultimaker Fex PLA that is never going to see use. Not sure if they stopped making the stuff because it was terrible or something else. Any takers? Shipping is going to be expensive from Sweden though, probably along the lines of €28 to Europe so I'm thinking a low price tag just to make it worth my trouble to send it. Note that the original bag had been punctured so I replaced it. Might need a bit of drying out.
Martin Bondeus actually lives about one and a half hours drive from me. :-) He makes great stuff, but slightly overpriced I feel personally. I'm sure his products would have saved me a bit of headache, but when I have had problems with grinding it has seldom been directly because of the grip from the drive gear but other factors. I'm not sure how many of those situations would have been too much even for the dual system to handle. Anyway. I'm happy with my current solution. It seems to be working very well. But since I only have UM2s and no plans of buying a 2+ it won't, like you pointed out, work. I added my offer as an afterthought if anyone happened to have a 2+ feeder left over (possibly half broken or something) but didn't feel like giving a 1.75 mod a go I'd be willing to try for the greater good. Personally I think going to 1.75 has been great. I have had so much trouble with too tightly wound spools and different problems with 2.85mm. The 1.75 has so far been a breeze. But as I've only done about 200 hours of printing since the conversion I shall perhaps reserve judgement on the long term reliability of the mod for another couple of months. Right now I'm trying to put and end to all my left over 2.85mm filament so that I can convert a second machine. Anyway. We seem to have strayed somewhat off the topic of this thread. I wish I could of more assistance when it comes to the UM3 but unfortunately I have not even seen one. While I can speak with at least some experience about the feeder side of the arrangement the updated head and print cores is a closed book to me. Cheers
Upgraded 2 to 2+
jonatanrullman replied to smorgana's topic in Ultimaker 3D printersYep. The UM2 is kind of a mediocre printer with incredible potential. It doesn't shine until it has the Olsson block, a geared feeder and a new fan shroud. But boy does it shine.
I knew that. Deep down. There had to be a reason I prefer UM2. :-) I don't have a 2+ feeder to hand or I could have had a look at it. I imagine that the tension with 1.75mm could be much too low. It's hard to see on the photos but one problem with the original parts on the UM2 with 1.75 is that there is no groove to keep the filament in place. So it tends to jump off. This can be rectified with a tighter throat but with the 2+ feeder the options for modifications might be quite slim. Is there any chance that the larger gear could be removed and implemented into a completely new feeder design? Possibly a gearbox housing with a iRoberti feeder on top. On my UM2 the power from the motor works just fine, though I use a gearbox for 2.85mm, but I don't think there is any harm in having one depending on how much it lowers the max speed. A friend of mine has an Anet A8 that is bowden converted and he uses a iRoberti feeder because he really likes the design. But his motor couldn't cope without gearing so we fitted a Meduza gearbox and that works a treat. The difference a 0.9 quality motor does over a 1.8 chinese no name I guess. I can't find any designs at all that modify the 2+ feeder for 1.75 except one using bondtech that Neotko has put together. On the off chance that someone, preferably in Europe, has a spare 2+ feeder they'd be willing to donate I'd be happy to pay for postage and donate the time to see if I can make a reasonable 1.75 conversion. Though I wouldn't be able to properly try it out since I don't have a 2+ motor of course, that is a bit of a drawback. If there's any interest in it. I don't think I'd be using it myself as I'm happy enough with my current solution. Cheers
Literally ten seconds before I got a notification about your reply I finished publishing the modified feeder I use on my converted UM2. I'm guessing one would prefer to use the original feeder as that design is quite nice or so I've heard. But the way I solved it (nothing genius or new about it really) might give you a brainwave. https://www.youmagine.com/designs/alternate-iroberti-feeder-body-for-1-75mm-filament
I will start thinking about it quite seriously then. :-) The print head actually sticks out through the front? Weird design. Like I said, I have never even seen an UM3 in real life so what do I know. Would love to play around with one for an afternoon though and get a feel for it. I guess my three upgraded UM2's is somewhat of a statement of my liking for the machine. I was actually called a "brand boy" by a Prusa MK2 owner the other week, but he meant it well. Still, the UM3 is a bit rich for my taste. Perhaps sometime in the future when they start to show up used. :-)
I don't have much to add to this. But a few tidbits. I can attest that 1.75 works beautifully on UM2 if you do it right. I'm thinking of making a small writeup about my conversion at a later date. The UM3 is very different with the print cores and such. I'm not sure at all it would work but since I have never seen an UM3 in real life I should probably just shut up. I have bought doors for all my three UM2s from a german eBay store called shopfablab. Excellent doors, though he doesn't list UM3X as an option. I bought my 2X from him though by sending a message and asking if he could just cut one that was identical but 10cm taller and that worked superb. He has since added it as an option to the listing, presumably because I was able to report that it fitted. So perhaps he can do the same with 3X. Other than that I'm not sure I have much to add. Presumably you have already decided that you must have dual, otherwise an UM2 or 2+ is an excellent choice and one that can be cheaply (say $100) converted to 1.75. Cheers
Main fan not permanent
jonatanrullman replied to jonatanrullman's topic in Ultimaker 3D printersI see. My newest one is probably a later batch then. I was hoping I had just missed something. My other two are fairly quiet. My very first one was very loud but I didn't notice until I got my second one and realised how quiet it should be. I think the second one was pretty early because it had the very low light encased led strips. Anyway, I ordered a new fan for the loud printer and they are all just fine. Would have been even more quiet with it off though. I might get one of those switches and mount on the side I guess. It won't fit on the top because I use Alexander Leisentritts modified print head. It's not a really big deal, just very nice that the fan shuts off when not in use. Cheers
HI, I'm switching block on my newest UM2 today. Had the chance to take a photo that really highlights the difference the I2K spacer makes, for those that still wonders. The spacer on the left is from 3DSolex. It has printed about 900 hours or so with I2K and spring replacement. The spacer on the right is an original Ultimaker one from a completely unmodified UM2. It has printed 221 hours. That spacer may be expensive but boy does it work.
Main fan not permanent
jonatanrullman posted a topic in Ultimaker 3D printersHi, I bought myself a third UM2 yesterday. What can I say, with a couple of upgrades to make it a sort of 2+ I simply love these machines. This particular one was bought several years ago but the guy wasn't much interested in 3D printing, just 3D prints. He never got it working properly. So it has run 221 hours. Got eight spools of plastic into the deal as well. Paid €1100 so I'm happy. Though regretfully I suspect that the seller isn't as he originally wanted €1500 and he was a really nice guy. Buyers market though, there was two nearly identical for sale about 1,5 drive from each other and the other guy told me later that he would have taken €800 if i had offered it. Anyway. This one has a weird feature compared to my other two. The main fan only activates when the extruder hits 50 degrees C. I know about this feature from Marlin of course, I just thought the UM2 wasn't able to use it. Was this an experimental feature somewhere along the line or is it a hidden feature you have to activate in the firmware or something? I would love to have this on my other two machines as well. Cheers
Well. Alright. Materials. We're into a whole new world of hurt here. There are about 30 different plastics available and all have their uses. My friend who works with plastic injection laughs at this. They have about 30 differents types of ABS with even more specialised properties, for example one that is only used when making parts for electrical appliances with an operating voltage of 5000 or more. But more importantly in your case, all have their disadvantages and limitations. I think you should spend some time reading up on materials to figure out what what work for you. To take a few examples based on what you have written so far. The question of PLA vs ABS when it comes to hardness is not as easy as ABS is harder. To begin with hardness isn't always what you want and there are several kinds of forces that relate to it. I'm sure they have very nice names but it comes down to striking, bending, elongating and compressing. What does have more of a bearing on you is environmental factors. PLA has a much lower glass transition temperature, about 50 degrees celsius. It will basically start to deform in a hot car during summer here in Sweden. ABS is better at about 70-90-ish. PLA also deteriorates since it is made from starch. Reports say that plants pots for use in the garden made from PLA will hold up for a season or so before needing replacement. ABS however is harder to print. Depending on humidity you might even find that some plastics are hard to print with even though they would work fine for finished products. This is just a few examples. But in this case I think that material has a much larger bearing than for most of us, so you should probably spend some time finding out what might work and not. One last thought that has struck me. Contact Ultimaker directly. And Prusa for that matter. I'm not sure they can or want to do anything for you. But it seems to me like child prosthetics in the developing world is exactly the kind of project that Ultimaker shows off about (in a good way). So who knows. @SandervG might be able to offer us a comment on this.
I don't know about the Creality but the Prusa isn't a bad machine in any respect. 3D printers in general are a bit of struggle. When they work fine they really work fine. But when they start to act up they can be frustratingly difficult to get back on track. And they require a fair bit of know how to maintain. That said, it's incredibly hard to beat the UM2 for reliability. And I think I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Ultimaker is by far the easiest of the three to get up and running. Cura doesn't produce the quickest or most optimised prints but it produces fantastic results out of the box. When I just want to print and need good results quickly for a one off item I still fire up Cura and change a few settings to my liking. Even though I mainly use Simplify3D now to get more power to optimise print speed for production runs. There's also a few weird holes to fall in for the unweary traveller. It would be easy to say that the Prusa is more reliable because it has builtin auto bed leveling. Yeah, sure. But since the Ultimaker takes 30 seconds to re-level in the fly and can easily go 200 prints hours without needing an adjustment that is a somewhat moot point. I'm sure the Prusa actually benefits from the bed leveling, because the carriage design is a bit prone to skew the bed and is a real pain to adjust (at least the old design and many clones suffer from this). My friend, who has a i3 clone, installed a level probe over christmas for this very reason. I have no knowledge of the community around Prusa though I'd venture that it is also very good, as is the Ultimaker community. Though I think that the fact that there are so many i3 clones out there might make it harder to find accurate information about the genuine ones. There are very few Ultimaker 2 clones in circulation, so when you find a thread about it you pretty much know it will apply to your machine as well. But I understand your situation. Why should I buy a machine for well over €2000 when I can get this other machine with great reviews for €1000. I think the best summary I can make is that I have a very, very hard time thinking that you can go wrong with the Ultimaker 2+ or a 2 with improved feeder, I don't think you need the Olsson block though it is very nice to have. I can however see a risk that you can go wrong with a Prusa MK2S (which seems like the best model to get). One should also realise that different printers have different shortcomings. In a perfect world I would recommend anyone who has a 3D printer to get a second and possibly of a different kind that compliments it. Myself I have two UM2s because for me the machine have very few shortcomings and a second one compliments the first one beautifully. It is quite easy to damage something that could be easily fixed if you only had a 3d printer to do it. Not that you should expect a quality machine like the UM2 to break down any time soon of course. My point is that if funds were not an issue I would either buy a UM2 and a MK2S. Or i would buy two UM2s. Or I would buy a MK2S and try it out and, if it works well, I would buy a second one or an UM2 if the MK2S did not work as well and then continue using the MK2S as a secondary machine. Indeed I have had some thoughts about buying a MK2S as a third printer just to get a machine that can do multi material and keep my two UM2s as my primary workhorses. But if I had to pick one single option I would go with an UM2. One last thing. I do not know what kind of material you are thinking about using. There might be a lot in this rather long post that changes if your primary requirement is to print something special. Hope this was at least somewhat comprehensible. Cheers
A small update to this. I immediately restarted the print (though I redid the gcode to print three instead of four copies of the part). Took eight hours with no trouble. Started a new print for two more copies of the same part, also perfect. I'm currently two hours into my next print and still no more sight of this issue. Very disturbing.
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Thanks. Unfortunately I'm almost certain that I'm already running Tinker 17.10.1, though it could possibly be 17.10. The weird thing is that I must have printed 300 hours since I updated the firmware last and this is the first time it has crashed.


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Wow, I feel like its been a decade since my last post, ...but creating your own start-up takes a helluva lot of time!
That said, I've found some time to play to the new release of the Alien franchise: Alien Isolation. I'm a super big fan of any Alien related stuff....I've played every single game there is: From the Amstrad CPC versions (here and here), to every single PC game that came to my hands:
|Old school baby, who cares where I'm aiming, die you dumb Alien!
|See that guy? That means you'll die in the next 2 seconds
|Remember that jumping map? Yeah...me too
|Mounting a GoPRO inside an Alien's mouth? Awesome
|Inter-species love? Don't think so
You can say I'm a big fan of the Universe created by Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger so I was expecting the new Alien:Isolation release anxiously, specially considering that latest PC Alien related games were quite crappy, to be honest. The only exception would be the Aliens vs Predator 1 & 2 from 1999-2001, specially the first one.
Alien Isolation
So here we are with a new version of the Alien franchise. Alien isolation, for those who haven't heard of it, the main character is Amanda Ripley, daughter of our beloved Ellen Ripley, and the main plot (no spoilers here) points to getting the black box from he Nostromo ship that is within the Sevastopol station. This black box could provide a clue about what happened to the Nostromo crew and to Amanda's mother.
|Sevastopol in all its glory, better get used to it
I won't go into details about graphics, gameplay, etc, I'll just say that this game is a master piece from that perspective, and even if you don't like or never cared about Alien games, this one is worth your time.
Now let's see why I think this game is awesome, step by step.
It has been years probably since I've played a game in which I feel absorbed by the atmosphere such as this one. The recreation of the original Alien universe can be depicted everywhere you go....door controls, corridors, buttons, screens, monitors...the whole lot.
|Isn't this familiar? I had nightmares with those corridors :D
This feeling of overwhelming immersion is even bigger in those levels where the "creature" is lurking you, but overall, even those that feel more "relaxed" where only human or droids are a real menace are incredibly detailed. Thus, level designs are simply awesome, and more than once you'll need to revisit some places due the contained dimensions of the Sevastopol station and the game duration (main plot took me about 25 hours to complete), but you never have the feel of "been here already, this is boring", the plot is consistent and makes you feel like you need to do that, although you just want to get pass that level quick. Simply put, there is no place safe enough to feel comfy for too long.
Talking about fear when it comes to a videogame can be a subject of discussion, but in this case, its justified. This is specially true until the first encounter with the "creature".
|Crouching and motion-tracking, better get used to it
This is probably because whenever you face the creature, unless you have some kind of "weapon", you're screwed, plain and simple. The Alien is so fast, strong and lethal that any attempt to "kill it" is useless. Hence, is all about hide & seek. The games warn you to don't run very often, and I say, don't you EVER run. If you need to run, the Alien will spot you YES or YES, and then you're done. Use distraction, caution, crouch, walk silently, but don't you ever RUN if the Alien is stalking nearby.
|You gonna spend a lot of time in one of those
Another reason for being scared most of the time is the fact that hiding won't save you either. You will spend a lot of time inside closets, boxes, under tables, etc. But one essential fact remains...the Alien will find you eventually. This urgent feeling of "can't stay here for too long" is stressing. And that's what the game is about...make you feel uneasy...scared in one word.
There are many situations in which you have to manipulate some sort of device while the Alien is hunting you down. That, added to the complexity of using this device will become like a lot of "lucky run" trials. You will die in this game, a lot, and you better save whenever you have the chance. Man it was ages since I played I game where finding a saving spot made me feel so lucky. Its simply very hard to find a game like this nowadays.
The sound (or sounds) in this game are simply over-the-top. To really feel the difference I'd recommend using a 5.1 or 7.1 surround system, and in case you don't have one, use some set of nice gaming headphones that simulate that the best way possible. A big plus is to use the ButtKicker too, there is lot of humming, scratching that if you feel them in you butt will make you jump on the chair (I promise, this happened to me).
|Tunnels, not a safe place really
This is specially true whenever you jump into a ventilation tunnel and you feel surrounded by all sort of sounds that come from the outside, and you feel that the Alien might be coming in any minute. In other places, the most scaring sound you'll face is the Alien foot steps running in the vent system. Whenever you hear that, hide or run, the Alien is very close.
The sound design is plain and simple amazing, even when you go out to space within a spacesuit, the only thing you hear is your own breath, and then you're missing all the noises and sounds that made you feel uneasy within the station. The beeping from the motion tracker gets a bit annoying sometimes, but it is a life saver, and most of the times you're so scared you won't care about it.
This deserves a special chapter by itself because I'm still amazed with the Alien A.I. most of the times. I've played many many games, and most of them, increase difficulty by two means mostly: lower your HP, damage, etc. or increasing the enemies one to a point where is very hard to kill them. But, unless some exceptions, all enemies tend to follow a movement pattern or you can infer the behaviour by simply stare at them for some time.
Well, that is not the case with the Alien creature in this game. Whenever the Alien is "patrolling" looking for you, there is no pattern, it will change the places where it looks randomly, pretty much like a person would do when looking for someone. That, added to the very possible situation in which the Alien spots you or listens some noise you made, make it simply impossible to determine the next move of the creature. That said, this is one of the points that increases the difficulty a lot, and the most rewarding when you're able to move from one place to another not being hunted down.
Final words
This is just a great game, I'd suggest you go there and buy it right away, but I must recon this game is no for everyone...unless you're expecting to feel OK with feeling overwhelmed by the Alien most of the times and dying a LOT of times, then go for it...otherwise go and play Colonial Marines or similar :D.
Besides, the game comes with some curious game types where you'll have to face the Alien to reach some place, some sort of survival mode that you play with other characters than Amanda. It's worth a try and its good fun too. If you really liked the game then good news, because there is going to be an expansion in which you play with the original Nostromo crew! Yeah, you heard that right, Ellen Ripley is coming back to our screens! Can't wait to get my hands on it.
|Go, Ripley, Go!


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History with Hastings College
I graduated from Hastings College in Spring of 2018 with a BA in Exercise Science. I spent three years as a Resident Assistant in the dorms/apartments and one year as a tour guide. I was on the varsity wrestling team for my first two years as a Bronco then I picked up glassblowing and became very involved in the Art Department.
Hobbies and Interests
I love to read in the Fantasy genre (Lord of The Rings, Game of Thrones, The Inheritance Cycle) as well as ride my bike along the bike path, blow glass in the state-of-the-art Jackson Dinsdale Art Center or play billiards with friends.
Favorite thing about Hastings College
While we are a small school as far as population is concerned, our campus is spread out and beautiful. When I was a student, I would take late night bike/scooter rides around campus.
Favorite thing to do in Hastings
Find a nice spot at Heartwell Park or Lake Hastings to read a book or drop a line and fish for an afternoon.
Favorite place to eat in Hastings
Kitties' Roadhouse has fantastic burgers, pizza, and the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
Hidden talent
Although I spent four years earning my degree in Exercise Science, I will spend hours in the Glass studio making bowls, vases and even swords. A talent I never would have expected but only discovered through opportunities at Hastings College.
Best meal I can cook
I learned from my father that a big and fluffy pancake is the way to go. I like to add fruit as well to create the illusion that i'm being somewhat healthy.