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My Sunday Photo – Flight Paths
My Sunday Photo for this week is a long exposure of the flight paths over Cronulla and into Sydney's Kingsford Smith airport. The photo was taken at around 5am. I used my Nikon D5100, with an exposure time of 135 seconds. I like how sharp and still the rock pool looks, while the sky above shows all the movement – not only of the first planes of the day coming in to land, but also of the stars through the sky as the earth rotates.
There's nothing quite like this place, at this time, to remind me just how insignificant I am in the grand scheme of things. Some people find that thought troubling, but for me it is overwhelmingly liberating. There is no better way to let the stresses of life melt away.
Flight Paths
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As always on a Sunday, I'm linked up to the excellent #MySundayPhoto linky. It's hosted by Darren Coleshill on the website Photalife. I highly recommend you click on the link (or the badge below) and check out everyone's photos.
If you want to see more photos from me, head over to the Blog of Dad Instagram page.


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Eat Your Heart Out Star Trek
Continuing this series on Cellular Automata, I'd like you to look at a very simple rule. This rule is credited to Carnegie Mellon Professor Ed Fredkin, and I'll have more to say about him in a bit. For now, this is his rule:
A cell is on if and only if an odd number of its neighbors are on
What does this rule do? Well, let's try it. I started with an initial pattern of "on" cells that formed a "+" sign and ran it for a few generations. Here's an animation of the results, showing the progression of the grid:
It made copies of the pattern! But maybe this was the choice of pattern? How about something different, like a smiley face?
Same result! It keeps replicating its pattern, no matter how large or complex.
And maybe it's just me, but I love how the the pattern seems most chaotic right before it "crystallizes" into copies.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Cells decide their state by applying the rule we give them, and using for information only their own state and/or the state of their neighbors. Yet how do we define a cell's neighbors or its neighborhood?
Up until now, I've been considering the 8 adjacent cells (above, below, left, right and diagonally) as the neighborhood. This is known as the "Moore Neighborhood" and here's an image below (courtesy of Wikipedia).
The blue cell is the active cell — the one whose state is being decided, and the red cells are its neighbors, or its neighborhood.
However, the "Moore Neighborhood" isn't the only possible neighborhood. One alternative is the "Von Neumann" neighborhood, which consists of the 4 cells (left, right, above and below) around the current cell. Here's a diagram of what the Von Neumann neighborhood looks like (courtesy of Wikipedia)
Again, the blue cell is the active cell, and the red cells are its neighbors, or its neighborhood.
So what happens if I use the Von Neumann neighborhood with the replicator rule?
It still replicates, but now the arrangement mirrors that of the neighborhood. In fact, looking back on the previous examples, it's now clear they also mirror the arrangement of their neighborhood (Moore).
This is a pretty robust replicator. It even functions when the boundaries wrap around to the other side (so the extremities interact).
If you're interested in trying out this and other rules, you can download a free Cellular Automaton Package for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android or iPad.
It's Not What You Do, but the Way You Do It
That there's replication going on is not impressive; it's HOW the replication happens that is.
There is no replication command in this system. There is no program that scans cells, calculates distances and copies them. Each cell operates independently and simultaneously, following an update rule that's identical to every other cell. Each cell uses as information only its own state and/or the state of cells immediately adjacent to it. No cell knows where it is, its relationship to the whole, what the whole is like, or that there is even a whole. This is strictly a local phenomena.
Yet despite this locality, global copying takes place. We've got a process emerging through interactions of parts that don't exhibit this property. It's this phenomena — Emergence — that makes Cellular Automata so fascinating.
The idea that we can create something that seems to take on a life of it's own — to the point that we can study it — is fascinating. We can all be researchers, scientists with our computers. And yes, people catalog rules and the patterns in those rules. This is how I stumbled on this replicator rule, by studying an inventory of these patterns.
Ramifications on Reality?
If I believe simplicity underlies reality at it's most fundamental — possibly far below the Quantum level — then this is food for thought. Here is a system that is deterministic, local, and with a simple, uniform rule governing it. It's hard not to wonder if reality is something like this.
What's more, such a view would not undermine any current science, but explain it. For instance, apparently non-local phenomena and randomness can be explained by deeper, local deterministic connections (maybe I'm dancing too close to the Hidden Variable Theory?). An analogy would be seeing two apparently identical balls roll differently, and chalking it up to randomness, then looking deeper and finding this apparent randomness was caused by deterministic phenomena like slight imperfections in the ground or slight differences in their composition that throws them off balance.
On the other hand, why should things be deterministic? Why not random? Aren't both an arbitrary choice when we get fine-grained enough? Could determinism actually be an emergent property of an underlying randomness? For that matter, is the macro world deterministic? We can predict things with varying levels of accuracy, but there's always a limit to how accurate we can get, which I assumed was due to our ignorance. Is that so, or is that simply randomness?
And why should things be simple? After all, if I expect complete simplicity, I'm forced to ask why there's something instead of nothing. After all, to have nothing is much simpler than to have something. Once I allow for something, then why do I draw the line there? Why do I accept a something consisting "only" of cells, states, connections and an update rule, instead of a something consisting of a huge array of particles and laws?
Still, the view that reality may be something like a Cellular Automata has been proposed by some. Which brings us to…
Edward Fredkin
Early in this article, I mentioned Ed Fredkin. Fredkin believes reality at its most fundamental may be something like a Cellular Automaton. He called this view "Digital Physics", but has since come to prefer the phrase "Digital Philosophy" (DP).
He has a web site dedicated to this, and his intro has a concise summary of his position. Here's a relevant excerpt:
[…] DP is an atomic theory carried to a logical extreme where all quantities in nature are finite and discrete. This means that, theoretically, any quantity can be represented exactly by an integer. Further, DP implies that nature harbors no infinities, infinitesimals, continuities, or locally determined random variables. […].
At the most fundamental levels of physics, DP implies a totally discrete process called Digital Mechanics. Digital Mechanics[1] (DM) must be a substrate for Quantum Mechanics. […]
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KGYM/HN Podcast: Interview with former Hawkeye Luke Recker
Each Friday, Hawkeye Nation hooks up with KGYM in Cedar Rapids for the BIG Hour from 6-7 p.m. CT sponsored by Hawkeye Title and Settlement of Iowa City. Most weeks we have a special guest, usually a Hawkeye.
Our latest interview went down Friday night when we were joined by former Iowa hoops standout Luke Recker. He talked about his time as a Hawkeye, playing for Steve Alford and their relationship today, his connection to current coach, Fran McCaffery, dealing with public adversities, and what he thought about Last Days of Knight.
You can listen to the our entire interview with Luke Recker and download the podcast HERE. It's from 12-14-18. The discussion starts at the 120:00 mark of this recording. There's plenty of Hawkeye talk throughout the podcast, however.
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As Robert Mueller's investigation continues, federal prosecutors in New York have separately ordered Donald Trump's inaugural committee to turn over documents related to the $107m celebration marking the start of his presidency in 2017.
Inaugural committee spokeswoman Kristin Celauro told the Associated Press that the committee had received the subpoena and was still reviewing it. "It is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry," she said.
A second spokesman, Owen Blicksilver, declined to answer questions about which documents prosecutors requested. The US attorney's office in Manhattan, which issued the subpoena, declined to comment.
The investigation is yet another legal threat surrounding the president as he prepares for the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Russia inquiry, which has ensnared several senior figures from his presidential campaign, appears close to the end. But the administration is preparing for a blitz of oversight investigations that the newly empowered House Democrats have promised.
The subpoena, first reported by ABC, represents an escalation of the investigation, headed by the public corruption unit of the Manhattan US attorney's office.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the investigation, reported that federal prosecutors in New York's southern district on Monday issued a subpoena related to the committee's donors, finances and activities. Prosecutors are also examining whether any foreigners made illegal payments to the committee, the newspapers reported.
No one working for the committee has been accused of wrongdoing, the reports said, and there is no indication that the matter relates directly to Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December that prosecutors were in the "early stages" of an investigation into whether Trump's inaugural committee and a pro-Trump Super Pac received illegal donations from foreigners hoping for influence over US policy.
Investigators are reportedly examining how the committee spent the money as well as whether the donations – a record sum raised for such an event – were made in return for influence over policy or access to the Trump administration as it entered power.
The Times reported that the inquiry was focused on whether individuals from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations used "straw donors" to hide their own gifts to the Trump funds.
The Journal reported that the investigation arose from an FBI raid on the home of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer who has been sentenced to three years in prison for lying to Congress and facilitating illegal payments to silence two women who alleged affairs with Trump.
FBI agents raided Cohen's home and office in April, which resulted in the disclosure of a recorded conversation between the lawyer and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser to Melania Trump, according to the newspaper. In the conversation, Wolkoff, one of the main producers of the 20 January 2017 inauguration celebrations, is alleged to have "expressed concern" about how the inaugural committee was spending the money it had raised.


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The Congress Who Stole Christmas
Forget the Grinch – Congress is the group that is the most likely to steal Christmas. Oh, December 25th will some as surely as will April 15th (tax day, in case you forget). But December 25th, celebrated as Christmas, a time of joy, laughter, good cheer, and yes, egg nog, is on the verge of being stolen. We try to teach reconciliation, peace and love, but when two sides of our government are head to head in such hatred and contempt one has to wonder if good cheer and glad tidings are ever going to be again the breath of fellowship and togetherness. We think of Christmas as giving a great example to the world of change and healing, so what kind of example are our leaders sending to us? But if we continue to believe in the spirit of the season, despite other appearances around us, then perhaps the holidays can not be shut down, even if Congress wants to consider us non-essential merrymakers.
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Long ago, a miller wanted to appear important in front of the king, so he lied and said that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king was intrigued. He ordered that the girl be shut locked in a tower with only straw and a spinning wheel. He demanded that, for three nights, she spin straw into gold. If she could not, she would be executed. (On the bracelet you will find a tiny sterling spinning wheel and bunches of straw, made from Czech glass bugle beads.)
The daughter was sure she was doomed until a dwarf appeared in the tower. (On the bracelet he bears a striking resemblance to a sterling yard gnome.)
The first night, in exchange for her necklace, he spun straw into gold. (The gold on the bracelet is pyrite, also known as "fool's gold." Kind of appropriate, given the dysfunctionality of the girl's father.) The king was delighted, and the next night again locked her in the tower with more straw.
The miller's daughter began to weep. What were the odds of a strange gold-spinning dwarf appearing twice? But appear, he did. This time, in exchange for the girl's ring, he again spun straw into gold. The king was thrilled. This was better than that goose that laid golden eggs!
By the third night, the girl was desperate. When the dwarf appeared, she had nothing left with which she could barter. But her life was at stake. In exchange for the dwarf's magical spinning, the dwarf demanded that, when she was queen, she would give him her first-born child.
Sure that the odds of that happening were slim to none, the miller's daughter agreed. When the king saw the new pile of gold, he was so impressed that he married the miller's daughter, though this wasn't what his mother had in mind when she told him to marry well. (You will find a little sterling crown on the bracelet, for the miller's daughter was now a queen.)
All went well, considering that she had just married a man who had earlier threatened to have her executed. Soon the queen (formerly known as the miller's daughter) gave birth to a child. (This child can be seen as a baby in a basket. The sterling charm is moveable; the top of the basket opens to reveal the baby.)
The dwarf returned to claim his payment. "Now give me what you promised!" he demanded. The queen offered to give him all her wealth if he would let her keep her child. The dwarf refused. A deal, after all, is a deal. "But," he told her, "I will give up my claim if you can guess my name. You have three nights."
The queen sent a messenger out into the world to learn the identity of the little man. Each night the dwarf came to her and she guessed at names. Was he Algernon? Bertram? Catheter? The dwarf danced with glee; she would never guess his name.
The next night the messenger had not yet returned, and the queen guessed again. Was the dwarf's name Mortimer? Nixon? Opossum?
But before the final night, the messenger returned. Deep in the forest and high on a mountaintop, he had found the dwarf's cottage. Inside the dwarf sang with glee:
"Today do I bake, tomorrow I brew,
The day after that the queen's child comes in;
And oh! I am glad that nobody knew
That the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!"
When the dwarf returned on the third night, the queen again guessed at his name. Yanov? Xavier? Zachary?
The dwarf was ready to seize the baby when the queen gave her last best guess. "Is your name, perchance, Rumpelstiltskin?"
The dwarf flew into a rage and, in various versions of the story:
1) Ran way and never came
2) Stomped his foot so hard he drove it into the earth and then, in a rage, tore himself in two
3) Flew out the window on a cooking ladle.
None of these endings is pictured on the bracelet. You shall have to decide which you prefer. It is right here.


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Another fine recording from The Brabant Ensemble
I like Obrecht's music very much. There is a sombre beauty in it throughout which I find extremely satisfying and the Brabant Ensemble bring it out wonderfully. They are an excellent choir and, for me anyway, this is one of their finest discs. They are technically impeccable with a lovely fluency of line, a fine engagement with the text and a balance which suits the music perfectly. I find it spellbinding.
The recording is of the excellent quality we expect from Hyperion, with a lovely acoustic which allows the voices to resonate without obscuring the detail. The notes and presentation are also excellent, making this a terrific disc all round. Very warmly recommended.


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I've got to admit, I haven't done as well as I would like to during the past couple months (when it comes to reading to Bubba). I could always use the holidays (like Halloween and Thanksgiving), being out of town, my FIRST LEGO League team, work, or a number of other things as excuses, but really… excuses aren't going to help. I'm just going to have to do better.
With that said, we've still been averaging 4.6 new books per day during October and November (that's a total of 281 books). It's not bad, but I know it could be better.
My wife and I are going to be transitioning Bubba from a crib to a real bed very soon, so I think that will help out a bunch! I'm really looking forward to reading a few books in bed before tucking him each night J
My goal is still to read 5 new books each day, though, so hopefully I'll be able to report in early January that I met the goal throughout December!


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Dreaming Pancho Villa
Last night I dreamt I was Pancho Villa —
ragged, bandoliered, reckless.
I dreamt my poetry at the end of a pistol,
felt it kick nearly out of my hand.
But this morning I awoke again
white and assimilated into these cobwebs
of my half-self. When did I forget
my mother? Sometimes Spanish
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Tournament Report
A sunny Saturday morning at Redcar Squash Club and 43 eager juniors ready to take part in the 2019 Junior County Closed. This is the best entry for a number of years and thanks to all coaches for encouraging our county juniors to enter the competition. It was great to see a good number of girls in the competition (#squashgirlscan). All age groups except U19 were played in both boys and girls with the runner up and winner as listed below.
Girls U11 Boys U11
Winner Charlotte Lawrenson Winner Wilf Thompson
Runner up Ailbhe Khundaker Runner up Ben Nozedar
Girls U13 Boys U13
Winner Ellie May Couhig Winner Dan Leech
Runner up Sarah Townsend Runner up Mal Tindale
Girls U15 Boys U15
Winner Anna Simpson Winner Toby Simpson
Runner up Jessica Price Runner up Isaac Tindale
Girls U17 Boys U17
Winner Jenny Walker Winner Matthew Bond
Runner up Erica Leng Runner up Ben Wilberforce
All games were played in great spirit with many juniors trying their hand at marking for the first time.
A big thanks to Redcar Squash Club for hosting the competition and providing excellent food throughout the day.
Durham and Cleveland Juniors entered 4 teams for the Inter Counties stage 1 at Manchester the weekend of November 17th & 18th. Three boys teams at U19, U15 and U13 and a girls U13. Three of the U13 youngsters, Wilf Thompson, Emily Bell and Ellie May Couhig, were representing the county for the first time. The U13 girls team of Anna Simpson, Ellie May Couhig and Emily Bell faced strong opposition in Northumbria and Shropshire coming in 3rd place overall. The U13 boys comprising, Dan Leech, Joseph Billany, Mal Tindale, Ned Parker and Wilf Thompson, played well to push the Yorkshire A team losing 3-2 with Dan and Mal winning their games. They beat Shropshire 3-2 and were beaten 3-2 in a close game against Warwickshire. A real credit with 4 of the team aged under 12. Well done to Dan and Mal who won all of their games.
On the Saturday the U15 boys, Toby Simpson, Matty Bond, Ben Suggitt, Jess Weatherspoon and Isaac Tindale played Cheshire and Derbyshire. They came out 5-0 winners against Derbyshire going 4-1 down to Cheshire with Isaac winning both of his games and Toby pushed the Cheshire number 1 to 5 sets. In the U19 age group Ben Cross, David Collins and Will Gibbon came top of the group with good wins against Cheshire 3-0 and Northumbria 2-1. Ben and David winning both their matches. This takes the U19 team through to the main finals in February at Nottingham and we will wait to see if the other age groups move to the Trophy Finals. A really big thanks to all the players for representing the county and the parents and team managers during the weekend.
Each school brought five players with a minimum of two girls per team. The schools play a round-robin format, with everyone playing their opposite numbers in 'first to 7 point-a rally' scoring.
The competition was a resounding success, with many excellent performances from children new to the game as well as more experienced players. The format often conspires to produce tight finishes, and this year was again very close.
Sedgefield Primary won their first match 3-2 against Sedgefield Hardwick but the points' total, from adding the scores in individual games, was equal. St. Michael's, Bishop Middleham, despite an inexperienced team and having missed the pre-competition coaching sessions put up a remarkable fight: they lost both matches 2-3 matches. Crucially, the greater strength in depth of Hardwick meant they picked up points all the way down their team order.
Final results:
1 Sedgefield Hardwick 57pts (1win); 2 Sedgefield Primary 55pts (2wins); 3. Bishop Middleham 47pts (0 wins)
Sedgefield Primary 3 – 2 Sedgefield Hardwick (points 27-27)
Sedgefield Hardwick 3 – 2 St.Michael's, Bp. Middleham (points 30-26)
Sedgefield Primary 3 – 2 St Michael's, Bp. Middleham (points 28-21)
Maximum points scorers (14 pts): Ella Banks (St.Michael's); Amy Gulliver (Sedgefield Hardwick); Joseph Morrison, Tom Gilbert and Mason Lee (all Sedgefield Primary).
Sedgefield Hardwick will now represent the area in the Durham and Cleveland inter-primary schools competition – provisional date: March 2nd 2016.
Anyone who wants to take up the game (or to practice for their next competition) are very welcome to turn up at 11.00 on Saturday mornings during term-time for club coaching at Sedgefield squash club, in the grounds of Ceddesfeld Hall, Rectory Row. We offer two free taster sessions.
A great weekend of squash in the Junior County Closed.
Lots of really good squash from U9's to U19's. Thanks to all the players and
parents for creating a really good atmosphere. Fantastic behaviour from all of
the juniors and the parents were pretty good as well! Many thanks to all from
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Kay Elizabeth Stigers, 70, of West Chester died Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, at Parkview Manor in Wellman.
Born Dec. 8, 1942, in Washington, Iowa, she was the daughter of Stanley F. and Betty McCartney Mangold. On Aug. 21, 1965, she married Paul Johnson in Iowa City. He preceded her in death in 1999. On Dec. 5, 2009, she married Fred Stigers in Washington.
Mr. Stigers attended Dutch Creek rural school and West Chester High School. She worked as a waitress for many years, auto body in Iowa City for 12 years, cook at Washington Care Center, managed Daylight Doughnuts in Washington and later worked at and retired from Civco in Kalona.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, and she enjoyed spending time with family and friends; cooking; watching birds; feeding squirrels and humming birds; the Iowa Hawkeyes; and country and gospel music.
Survivors include her husband; three children, Jim White of Washington, Sherry Swailes of West Chester and Jo Pratt of Kalona; seven stepchildren, Paula Shafer of Coppock, Ron Stigers of Cloquet, Minn., and Connie Rockhold, Paul "Pee Wee" Johnson Jr., Daniel Stigers and Fran Stigers, all of Washington, and Pam Calhoun of Manson, Wash.; one brother, Richard "Dick" Mangold of Washington; and numerous grandchildren, stepgrandchildren, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, first husband, one brother, three stepdaughters and two grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Beatty Funeral Home in Washington.
A celebration of life for Mrs. Stigers will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Beatty Funeral Home. Burial will be in West Chester Cemetery.
A memorial has been established.


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Well, this all started when I took a break from my college courses to take a trip to Japan. It was something I wanted to do for years. I spent two weeks playing tourist and seeing the sights. I visited Himeji castle, the Great Buddha at Kamakura, and numerous Buddhist and Shinto shrines.
One day I visited the island of Miyajima. The entire island has been consecrated as a shrine and is so sacred to the Shinto religion that no one is allowed to die there. Anyone who is seriously ill or pregnant must leave the island. Miyajima is famous for the Itsukushima Shinto Shrine with its big red torii gate that stands in the sea. I went there first and watched the believers throw money into a grate, pull on a rope to sound a gong, clap their hands together and bow before an altar. I find the Shinto religion interesting because it is an ancient belief, indigenous to Japan, that is based on nature worship. Where things like sun worship died out in most places, it's still the norm in the Shinto religion.
After visiting the shrine, I climbed Mt. Misen. On the way back I tripped over an old tree root and fell down a steep embankment. I came to rest against a stone pillar. I looked up and saw that it was moss covered, crumbling stone torii gate. In the Shinto religion a torii gate divides the common world from the spirit world and so I stepped through the torii. The path was guarded by two large stone fox statues and before me was a gong and altar. This was obviously a long forgotten Shinto shrine. I couldn't resist pulling on the rotting rope to sound the gong. It made a dull thudding noise and some moss fell down. I then clapped my hands together and bowed.
Walking behind the altar I saw an odd shaped stone statue. It took me a moment to realize that it was giant erect penis, about six feet long and a foot in diameter. You could even see the veins in bas-relief. It's not unheard of to have these phallic symbols at Shinto shrines. The Taga-jinja Shrine at Uwajima has an even bigger example. Still, I thought it was funny to know that I had been praying at the "Shrine of the Giant Cock". I laughed to myself as I climbed the steep embankment back to the trail.
It was getting late so I hurried to the ferry then took the train to the ryokan I was staying at. A ryokan is a Japanese inn with straw mats on the floor and "squat" toilets. I took my shoes off at the door and put on those silly brown slippers they give you (which always fall off). When I got to my room. I left the slipper at the door and changed into my yukata. There's a special way you're supposed to tie the belt around the robe but, it's beyond me. It always unties in the middle of the night and gets all tangled up. After soaking in the men's hot bath, I went to sleep.
I must have been exhausted because I was still asleep when maids showed up to put away my futon. They were startled to see me there when I jerked awake. They always try to be invisible and wait until you leave the room. They backed up towards the door, bowing and apologizing. I gestured that it was all right and stood up to let them know that it was OK to remove the bed. They were very solicitous of me and insisted on pouring my green tea for me. When they set it back on the low table I knelt on the cushion to drink the tea. I took a few sips and then sat there watching them straighten the room. They were a nice matched set:: tiny identical twins in identical light kimonos. Their black hair framed their exquisite, high cheek-boned faces. They both had the same identical dimple next to their chin when they smiled or were worried. With lithe bodies, they moved gracefully around the room. I couldn't help but fantasize what it would be like to have a threesome with those two honeys. Suddenly my luscious thoughts were interrupted by the table tilting and my tea sliding away from me onto the floor.
I jumped up and knocked over the table. The twins turn around and froze. I glanced down. I'd miss-tied the yukata again and it had fallen open. There sticking straight out between the folds was my big cock. The maids look at each other and said something. I went to cover up but one of them stopped me. The other one produced some oil from somewhere inside her kimono. Next she pouring oil on my cock while the other started rubbing it in. It was then that I finally noticed what the commotion was all about. Now, I always considered my penis to be good sized; no ones ever had any complaints. But what guy hasn't wanted to be bigger? Watching those four hands stroking up and down my manhood with room to spare-I realized suddenly I was! I was now over a foot long and wider around than your wrist. Somehow, over night, I had become HUGE. It was too big to fit in their mouth so the sisters licked opposite sides of the head while they worked the shaft with both hands. Just seeing their tiny hands and lips on that monster was almost enough to make me cum.
Then Twin Number One got down on her hands and knees and pulled her kimono up to her shoulders. It was obvious that she wanted to try out my new equipment doggy style. I grabbing her tight tush, positioned my cock, and pushed—no go. Helpful Twin Two rubbed more oil on my dick with one hand and grasp the shaft with the another to ease me into her sister. Soon I was pounding away into that tiny tight twin. With each long stroke I battered against her cervix, causing her to moan with each impact but, I couldn't get it all the way in. When Twin Two saw that there was still at least six inches left to play with she started massaging and kissing the remaining shaft so it didn't feel left out. Eventually she got so work up watching me fuck her sister that she mounted me astride, facing me, so that every thrust passed between her vaginal lips. I hoisted up her kimono so I could kiss and suck on her breasts. It was great! Like screwing two woman at once! After twin one had cum four or five times, I could feel my own orgasm coming on. I guess there must be a little sibling rivalry, even among twins, because just then Twin Two dismounted my organ, turned around, and pushed her sister off my cock. I exploded into the air. Big spurts of white sticky cum cascaded down her hair, neck, kimono, back, and butt.
When I finished cumming I notice that Twin Two had already positioned herself on the futon, face up, impatiently waiting to see how many inches she could take. I kneeled between her legs on the bedding. I positioned my still hard organ and slowly pushed it into her. Fortunately she was wet enough that she didn't need her sister helping hand, for Twin One lie, cum spattered, face down on the floor. Twin Two was even more active than the first and she wrapped her legs behind my tush to try and force deeper into her. Since I was already hard against her cervix, it was to no avail. As I fucked her. she bucked, writhed, and moaned. Every time she orgasmed she screamed so loud I thought someone would call the police. During one of these orgasms I came so hard that the pressure blew me out of her. I fired one warning shot over her head. It hit the ceiling with a splat. The second shot hit the far wall and clung there in a big sticky glob. The third made a pool on the floor three feet away. The fourth and fifth landed in her hair. The sixth hit her square in the eye and across her nose. Then in secession it was, her cheek, neck, left breast, and a white gooey Amazon starting at her cleavage, flooding her navel and matting her pubic hair. Man, that was so great! I felt like a super stud. When the whole thing was over, I was still good and stiff. I thought that one of the sisters might want another go. But, they gestured that they were both way too sore so they excused themselves go and clean up.
After they left, I took a cold shower so that I could get everything back into my pants. Showering gave me a chance to think about this erotic turn of events. I have never been a great believer in miracles and things like that, but that Shinto shrine was the only thing I could think of to cause the enhancement of my size and performance.
Later, at dusk, I was still feeling pretty frisky so I thought that I would try out the Tokyo night life and see what the evening had to offer. I went to a part of town where things were jumping and entered a likely night club. I'm not, what you would call, much of a bar type person. I don't smoke and I don't usually drink and there was a ton of smoking a drinking going on. Peering though the smoke and gloom, I saw that at the bar there was an empty stool near a knockout Japanese girl. I seem like a good place to start so I sat down next to her and ordered a sake. The bartender puts it down in front of me.
I took a drink of sake . The hot liquid burned in my mouth. I swallowed and I felt the heat go down my throat and settle in my gut. I looked over at the girl next to me. She looked back and smiled. I felt the burning move down to my groin. I felt the familiar swelling of an erection coming on. She seemed to notice the significant budge in my pants.
She leaned over, "Excuse please," she said shyly in her cute Japanese accent, "please is true what say about American man?"
"Huh?", I grunted, not sure where this was heading.
"Sorry, is bigger, is bigger all over. She put her tiny hand on my thigh to bring home the focus of her question.
As if on queue, my erection swelled in my pants. I looked at her. She stared intently at my crotch. I followed her eyes to my lap. There I saw the healthy bulge of my organ as it struggled to escape the confines of my underwear. The bulge got bigger. I could feel the head pressing against the leg of my jockey shorts. The pressure grew. Finally my cock forced its way down the leg of my pants. You could visibly see the outline of it as it lifted her hand and continued its journey down my pants. She tentatively stroked it as it swelled against her fingers.
Now, I thought I was huge when I was with the two Japanese maids—but now, with the head of my penis jammed like a fist into the knee of my pants—I was enormous!!
She stared at my extra knee, "Hai, American is bigger…. Maybe is to big for Japanese." She removed her hand as my organ surged round the bend and down where no cock has gone before.
I looked around uncomfortably. Good, nobody was watching me. Though "Ms. Foreign Interest" still seemed curious. Then ,what I feared happened, my penis dropped out of the pant leg, flopped over my shoe and sprawled onto the floor of the bar. I gave an involuntary sigh of relief—it was getting pretty cramped in my trousers What happened next was more unreal. I looked at the girl sitting there in wide-eyed shock. She stood up and started to move away as my cock slithered near her. But, like a huge flesh colored python, it wrapped itself twice around her ankle and held her fast.
"IIE!!", she cried as she struggled to free herself. The bartender glanced up and shrugged; all the action was at ground level. She and I watched as it looped itself up her leg. Her eyes and mouth wide with fright, she seemed paralyzed; unable to move or speak. Part of me tried to pull it back, to turn back the cock from its quest. It was hard to get a mental consensus. It was wrong and freakish, yet there was something admittedly exciting and erotic to know your giant manhood has subdued its pray, and the sight and feel of your pleasure pole twined round that shapely leg…. Was fantastic!! I tried with all my conscious being to call it back, but whether deep in my sub-conscious the primitive urge was being directed, or perhaps it had a will of its own; my efforts were in vain, it stayed relentlessly on its course. It soon wrapped itself around her upper thigh, under her dress, and squeeze up the leg of her panty.
Those little silk panties were mighty small and tight. They weren't design for something that big, hard, and fat jam up into them. They ripped open at the seam-I hoped that wasn't going to happen to that tight little Japanese girl! And boy, she was tight! When the head of my penis entered her she actually lifted off of the bar stool for a moment before her lubricating juices permitted me to enter her fully. Not that I'm sure what I mean by fully, my organ was not fully stuffed into her but she was fully stuffed. So there I was, crammed deep inside of her-how deep?-well I think felt the head hit her cervix then work itself into her uterus. I had no idea how I would be able to screw her like that. I mean, my dick was hanging out of my pant leg, on the bar floor, and wrapped around this sweet young things leg half a dozen times. I felt my cock head flair up and sort of both twist and vibrate. It was weird but the feeling was indescribable-a hot tingly sensation a bit itchy which started at the tip of my prick traveled along its prodigious length and into my groin. From there the waves flowed throughout my body down to my toes and up to my head where it filled my brain will shocks of desperate pleasure and pushed out all thoughts of even trying to withdraw from my reluctant partner. Or should I say, formally reluctant partner, because from the look on her face my pulsating prick had driven all thoughts of escape from her mind as she was nearing a mind shattering orgasm. Not that I was far behind, the way it felt I couldn't last much longer.
I watched her face, twisted in pre-orgasmic concentration, but, my God she was beautiful! My eyes wandered down her perfect neck and lingered on her small pert breasts, like ripe plums, under her tight black dress. Suddenly my eyes were drawn down to her once flat stomach. It now bulged like she was three month pregnant-she was that stuffed full of cock. That sight and her strong orgasmic spasms put me over the top. She must have screamed because ever head in the bar turn to her. You know, how in cartoons, when someone turns on a fire plug the water makes a big bulge that travels down the hose? Well, that's what it felt like when the sperm came shooting down my fire hose. When I actually ejaculate her eyes went wide and I don't know if it was because the semen had no place to go or it was just part of the Shinto deal, but all of a sudden her breasts started to swell and grow in front of everyone. A gasp of amazement went up as she expanded from an A cup to a double D in a matter of seconds. Of course that little black thing she was wearing couldn't handle tits of that size and burst down the zipper in the back. That gave everyone a great view of her bra clasp letting loose with a loud snap.
From my vantage point her new semen breast implants looked fantastic, big, round breath-taking cantaloupes replacing cute little plums. But I'm not sure how the recipient felt about them. Whether she was still recovering from her orgasm or mine, she was completely out of it. She was sitting there like a zombie until her new center of gravity made her slowly collapse with her head and chest on the bar. I knew it was time to disengage before the curious eyes saw what I was engaged in. I tried to withdraw but my cock head had swollen up so big inside her that I couldn't pull it out. I didn't help that I could see the side of one of her huge compressed melons revealed by her torn gown. I think the bartender could see the other one from the look on his face. At any rate, I tugged on his sleeve to get his attention. He gave me a blank stare. I ordered an ice water which I "accidentally" spilt on my lap, down my leg, and on the "floor" and tried not to look at her tits. That did the trick, I was able pull out with audible pop. I paid my tab and hers-it was the least I could do; I wrecked her dress. I then waddled stiff legged out the door with the tip of my dick rubbing uncomfortably against my shoe and leaving a trail of ice water and semen across the floor of the bar.
By the time I got to my ryokan I was only hanging half way to the knee. I was also freezing. All that ice water and the cold night air made me shiver uncontrollably. Back in my room I stripped off my wet clothes, put on a fresh yukata that my maid friends were nice enough to leave, and drank some hot green tea. My teeth were still chattering so I decided to go down to the men's bath—who cares if I was hung like a horse—if you got it, flaunt it! At the bath there were more then half a dozen pairs of slipper by the door. No big deal, I guess, I've showered in gym for years. I went into the dressing area; it was empty. I took off my robe and put it in an empty basket. Then I went through the sliding glass door into the bathing area. It was so hot and steamy that I could barely see. I washed my self and rinsed in the traditional Japanese manner by pouring buckets of water over me. I then stepped into the huge tub. The water was really hot and it took me a minute to be able to sit down. When I finally submerged up to my neck I could feel the heat seep into my body. Soon I was warm and comfortable. Then I heard some giggling. I froze and looked around. The "guy" next to me was a gal with medium breasts and long black hair piled up on her head. They were all women! In all, about ten women with—keeping true to our fruit analogy—inviting breast ranging from cherries to the size of oranges. I had forgotten that, like many Japanese baths, this one swaps sides between men and women sides at various times of the day. This was now ladies night.
The ladies were sitting and chatting in circles, breasts bobbing in the water, totally unaware of my presence. And I meant to keep it that way, it was time to beat a hasty retreat—especially with "Mr. Eager Beaver" champing at the bit. I stealfully made my way to the edge of the tub. Suddenly a cry went up-I'd been discovered! I tried to jump out of the bath but I was stopped by what felt like someone pulling me by the groin. I looked down and I saw what was going on. The "big guy" had already wrap around the nearest girl's leg. Peering into the steam, nobody seemed to be looking at me, but they were yelling and splashing and making quite a commotion. So they hadn't spotted me in the bath, they had just spotted my water snake. Odd that nobody left the tub. That's when I saw that my penis had somehow sprouted "arms", huge branches all coming out of a massive main trunk. Each long branch penis had seized a different girl and now they were all being held prisoner. Quickly, each mighty cock penetrated its girl captive and started to twist and vibrate. If I had trouble trying to described what it felt like in the bar—just multiply that by ten! Suffice to say it was like a continuos, gigantic, mind-numbing orgasm…. My God, it was good! It seemed to agree with the bathing beauties too, for they had all stopped struggling and were now vigorously pumping up and down on their individual merry-go-round pole. It was hot—ten gorgeous Japanese sea nymphs all speared on my harpoon! With the water alive with writhing phallic arms and each lovely naked girl, breast jiggling—nipples erect—moaning or screaming in orgasm, frantically fucking a gigantic, monstrous tentacle cock, it looked like a bad Japanese horror film turned porno flick.
After standing there, knee deep in water, enormous penis slanting into the pool like a fallen tree and watching comely Asian coeds cum and cum again, I let loose with an organism of my own. I think it would be fair to call it "earth shattering" because it knocked me off my feet. I sat there, literally up to my neck in hot water, paralyzed, with my eyes frozen wide open, watching gallons of semen pump into these tiny Japanese girls. First, each huge cock arm went suddenly stiff, lifting some of the girls, still dripping wet, out of the water and into the air. Then they recoiled like artillery cannon, firing volley after volley of sperm into their hapless target. It was fascinating to watch the ladies-on-a-stick's cup size grow with each repeated assault. When thing started, they varied in cup from double A all the way up to almost a C. By they time they reached double D they were all pretty well matched. The sight of these buxom beauty, big breasts quaking with each spermatic volley made me stiffer still; lifting the ladies like X rated scarecrows astride my mutated manhood. The girls continued their trip down through the lingerie alphabet. By the time I ran out of seminal ammunition they had inflate into watermelons (I wont try to guess the cup size they had already advance well into the realm of bowl size). I felt like a cross between drained and struck by lightning, but at least I was conscious. The girls, on the other hand, floated comatose on their backs; enormous swollen breasts acting like "Mae West" floatation devices.
The question, of course, was how to get out of there. By crawling and dragging and pulling my cock I was able to tug some of the girls against the side of the tub. The gave me enough slack so that I could reach the cold water faucet and I could just barely snag one of the rinse buckets with my foot. After a few buckets of cold water and the terror of imagining what could happen to me if I were caught in this compromising position with ladies still in tow, gave me the ability. I uncoupled myself from the girls with the sound of a repeating pop-gun. I then coiled my cock over my shoulder, across my chest and under my arm like a climber's rope and got the hell out of there. Once outside, I threw myself into the decorative pond. While I lay there, waiting for the cold water to do its trick, koi carp nibbled on me, wondering if I was good to eat. Finally, I sneaked back to my room to get dressed. I stood before the mirror, in a completely cold shriveled and flaccid state, I hung all the way down past my knee and looked like one of those horrid squid things they try to feed you in Tokyo restaurants. Well, no more college gym classes for me.
As I dressed it hit me what was happening to me; this was some kind of Shinto curse because I had rang the gong without making an offering to the shine. Maybe if I made a large offering now the curse would be removed. It was my only hope. My cock was getting more and more out of control. God knows what it would do next. With just a hint of regret (it had its moments) I resolved to return to the shrine and make restitution. I hurried back to the rail station. It was getting late so it was pretty empty. I grabbed a can of hot tea out of those funny Japanese hot/cold vending machines. I was still cold from my dip in the fish pond. I sat down on a bench at the empty rail side and sipped my tea. A train going the opposite direction stopped at the other landing three tracks away. About twenty or thirty high school students got off. They appeared to be from a local girls school—all in the same uniform. I felt the monster awakening so I quickly got up to leave. Suddenly my pants ripped open from crotch to cuff and that giant penis came bursting out coil after coil. Like a elephantine snake it slithered across the landing and down towards the tracks. I tried with all my being to will it back to me. But, it was no longer part of me. It had a life and entity all its own. It crossed the tracks and made its way up the embankment, cock heads multiplying to match its unsuspecting prey. Out of nowhere a bullet train came roaring down the track. I said that monstrous mutated organ wasn't mine, but the pain was mine. That searing pain, like bands of steel cutting into my flesh, was agonizingly mine. It burned into my brain like a laser beam jerking me awake.
Gone were the school girls… Gone was the train station… Gone was the monster cock… All that was left was the pain. I look down. The belt to my yukata was twisted around my hard-on like a tourniquet. I unwrapped my throbbing dick, stripped off the robe and rolled over with my back to the futon—it was getting bad—I gotta get laid.
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In with the new, but keeping much of the old, works for renovation at Princeton.
When renovating a historic structure at the center of a prestigious university campus, one must make every effort to ensure the traditional, Ivy-league feel remains intact, even while adding modern elements of architecture and design. This was the challenge presented by Princeton Univ.'s (Princeton, NJ), 20 Washington Road renovation.
Built in 1929 as the Frick chemistry laboratory, the collegiate Gothic structure had been vacant since the department relocated in 2010. The renovated facility will house the university's economics and international studies programs, centralizing those two academies that were previously scattered in multiple buildings across campus.
The challenge was to add a modern look and feel (interior and exterior) to one of the most prominent campus buildings clad in the same argylite stone, limestone-framed windows, and vaulted ceilings as the majority of the heritage campus buildings for which this and many other Ivy League schools are known.
Historic meets contemporary
According to KPMB Architects, Toronto (kpmb.com), selected to lead the renovation, the design concept focused on "an extensive transformation of the interior into a light-filled, accessible learning environment with a coherent system of corridors and public spaces while preserving the historic character of the exterior and key primary interior spaces, particularly the entry and the second-floor library." The facility also called for the creation of additional entrances to help bring the community together, hence the renovation of the existing atrium at the Washington Road entrance and a second atrium adjacent to Scudder Plaza, a focal point and causeway for the university campus.
Trex Commercial Products, Minneapolis (trexcommercial.com), was selected to provide more than 3,300 ft. of ornamental railing for the project to achieve a modern, vibrant feel while allowing the character of the building to shine through. A variety of glass-paneled railings, inside and outside the facility, offer unobstructed views of the original architecture and modern additions. This not only allows natural light into the complex, but also complements the building's new character.
On the exterior, a newly created bridge is framed by Trex' Point-series glass railing with 1-in. laminated, tempered low-iron glass that affords a clear view of the structure's original external masonry. The building's three-story main atrium features suspended, glass-walled meeting rooms, multi-level stairs, and balcony overlooks encompassing more than 950 ft. of Point-series railing that adds a minimalistic look to the space. The railings' custom fascia-mounted stainless-steel nodes are countersunk into the glass, and attached using stud-weld to a steel stringer. An 18-gauge stainless-steel top cap sits on the 1-in. thick low-iron glass with PVB interlayer to create a one-of-a-kind look throughout the facility. The same glass-railing system can also be found on exterior balconies overlooking campus on the west side of the structure.
More than 1,200 ft. of Track Rail system was used throughout the facility, including multi-level stairs, balcony overlooks, and fire-shutter barriers. For this system, the aluminum-shoe profile is mounted on a steel angle that is welded to the side of the stair stringer. To provide a consistent look and feel throughout the interior, the 1-in. tempered, laminated glass with stainless-steel top cap that was used in the Point-supported system was also used within the Track Rail system. A custom gray gasket finishes off the top of the base-shoe system after the glass has been set to achieve the desired look.
Another unifying element to the system is the custom stainless-steel 5/8-in. x 2-in. flat-bar handrail fabricated with stainless-steel standoffs with #4 finish, and NOMMA #1 that was used on all welds throughout the building's stairs and overlooks. This same custom-designed handrail carries over to the custom post-supported railing on multiple facility ramps using the flat bar and posts and a 4-in.-wide, 3/8-in. thick continuous stainless-steel base that was epoxy anchored into the structure.
By using glass and unobtrusive mounting structures, the products provide a contemporary look while preserving the building's heritage components. Trex was also able to open a window to the future by using recyclable materials throughout, contributing to the university's desire of achieving LEED gold status for the project.
— Get information on the Point series.
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Telecom developers to challenge global hackers
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – THE international telecom developer hackathon, TADHack, will be held for the first time in Africa in October.
The event, courtesy of MTN South Africa, will be held from October 14-16 at the MTN Innovation Centre in Johannesburg.
Local developers can enter and compete against the best developers in 30 countries around the world. Entries close on 23 September 2016.
The Global TADHack challenge will see developers creating hacks using the global sponsors' resources.
MTN Chief Information Officer, Benjamin Marais, says MTN believes this is an opportunity for local developers to decode Africa.
The company expects the developers to showcase Africas' ability to solving African problems.
Marais says local developers participating in TADHack 2016 have the capacity to debunk the misconceptions about a lack of developer skills in Africa.
"The platform will showcase Africa's capabilities within the app development space, highlighting our own creative thinking and the amount of knowledge and innovation that is based in our continent," says Marais.
With the support of its global sponsors including MTN Business, IBM, Huawei, ZTE and Comviva, TADHack helps build the telecom application development ecosystem from the grass roots.
MTN is bringing the global event to South Africa as part of an ongoing campaign to stimulate innovation and development capacity in the country.
"Through our ongoing developer and start-up engagements and support initiatives, we have noted the phenomenal innovation and development skills exist in the country, and we believe challenges like TADHack help to bring them to the fore," says Marais. – CAJ News


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The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded DCNS, Thales and ECA a major study contract that is expected to lead, around 2011, to a demonstrator of a new mine countermeasures solution dubbed Espadon*.
Today, mine countermeasures (MCM) is typically performed by dedicated vessels known as minehunters. MCM operations expose minehunter crews to considerable danger due to the simple fact that these vessels operate in known mine fields.
With many navies expected to renew their MCM systems over the coming decade, DCNS, Thales and ECA have put forward a joint solution using a type of naval drone known as an unmanned surface vehicle. USVs offer the key benefit of keeping minehunter crews out of harm's way.
The Espadon solution comprises a minehunter, two USVs and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). While remaining at all times at a safe distance from the mine field, the minehunter or similar dedicated vessel will deploy and control the USVs, each programmed specifically to operate in mine fields. The USVs, in turn, will deploy AUVs, a smaller and completely autonomous type of subsea naval drone carrying sensors and robotic devices to detect and neutralise naval mines. On completing their mission, the AUVs return to the USVs and the USVs to the mother vessel.
With Espadon, DCNS, Thales and ECA will be the first team in the world to evaluate USVs deploying AUVs for full-scale mine countermeasures.
The Espadon studies will be shared in such a way as to ensure that each partner contributes its specific expertise in MCM.
In addition to acting as the lead contractor to the DGA for the overall project, DCNS is responsible for the USV platform and the interface with the mother vessel.
Thales is responsible for the USV, MCM outfitting and the sensor module, comprising an AUV and a towed sonar for mine detection, identification and location. Thales is also responsible for communications between the different components.
ECA is responsible for the design and development of the autonomous underwater vehicles, the AUV launch and recovery system and the USV remote control system.
* ESPADON (Évaluation de Solutions Potentielles d'Automatisation de Déminage pour les Opérations Navales) or evaluation of potential solutions for the automation of mine clearing for naval operations.


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Rustic Rooms offers the finest handcrafted furniture, armoires, and rustic imports at the most competitive prices in Austin and Texas. From the far corners of Mexico and Central America, each rustic piece is handpicked and inspected for quality craftsmanship. Many pieces are so unique, you will not find them in any other store. We have spent years developing close relationships with the best factories south of the border, many of them small, family-owned businesses. From San Miguel to Santa Fe, no store offers a better selection of authentic Mexican furniture and imported home furnishings. Why not see for yourself? Visit Rustic Rooms at the corner of Loop 360 and 2222. We are nestled in the Texas Hill Country just three miles south of The Arboretum!
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Top Fantasy Picks from the NHL Eastern Atlantic Division
The fantasy hockey staff identifies relevant players from each team for 2018-19. Today, we look at the Eastern Atlantic division franchise players.
Top Tampa Bay Lightning Players
Nikita Kucherov, RW — The 25-year-old finished third in the NHL with 100 points (39 goals, 61 assists) in 80 games. He also finished top 10 in shots on goal (279), power-play points (36) and even-strength goals (31). He's a near lock to finish top 10 in fantasy points this season based on his 100-point potential.
Steven Stamkos, C — The 28-year-old had his highest point total since 2011-12. His 86 points (27 goals, 59 assists) were second on the Lightning behind Kucherov and 12th in the NHL. He finished tied for third in the NHL with 15 power-play goals, a trend he carried over to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, when he scored six (T-1st). The Lightning had the third-ranked power play in the NHL (23.9 percent) and should have the opportunity to be among the best in the NHL for a second straight season. Given the chemistry formed with Kucherov and Tampa Bay's overall team security, Stamkos should a top center in fantasy drafts.
Andrei Vasilevskiy, G — The No. 1 goalie had a breakout season with 44 wins (T-1st in NHL), including eight shutouts (T-1st), a 2.62 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage. He has the potential to finish as the best goaltender in the NHL.
Top Boston Bruins Players
David Pastrnak, RW — The 22-year-old has increased his point total in each of the past two seasons, including an NHL career high 80 points (35 goals, 45 assists) last season. He was plus-10, led the Boston Bruins in power-play points (26) and finished tied for 10th in the NHL with 13 power-play goals. Pastrnak, who finished among Stanley Cup Playoff leaders with 20 points (six goals, 14 assists) in 12 games, forms the NHL's most potent line with left wing Brad Marchand and center Patrice Bergeron.
Brad Marchand, LW — The left wing had 85 points, tying his NHL career high from the previous season, despite being limited to 68 games. He scored 34 goals and had 51 assists, his third straight season with at least 34 goals. Marchand has been plus-21 or better in six of his past eight seasons, and factors in on the power play (23 PPP) and penalty kill (four shorthanded points). He's also had at least 63 penalty minutes in each of the past five seasons and has greater value in PIMs leagues compared to ones with hits (37 last season; 0.9 per game in NHL career).
Top Toronto Maple Leafs Players
Auston Matthews, C — Matthews, who turns 21 on Sept. 17, leads the NHL in even-strength goals per game (0.42; minimum 100 games) since entering the League in 2016-17. He was better than a point-per-game player (63 points in 62 games) last season despite missing 20 games because of multiple injuries. The potential 2019 restricted free agent has room for improvement in power-play points (13 last season) and could exceed 90 points with a plus/minus (plus-25 last season) among the NHL leaders on a line with wings Patrick Marleau and William Nylander.
John Tavares, C — Leaving the New York Islanders to sign a seven-year, $77 million contract with the Maple Leafs (average annual value $11 million) has catapulted Tavares back into the top 10 overall fantasy rankings, right behind fellow elite center and new teammate Matthews. Coach Mike Babcock said he plans to start Tavares on a line with right wing Mitchell Marner (led Maple Leafs with 69 points last season) and left wing Zach Hyman (38 even-strength points; tied for fourth on Toronto). Tavares, who had three seasons with at least 81 points and two with at least 30 PPP for the Islanders (often with ordinary linemates) joins a power play that ranked second in the NHL last season (25.0 percent) behind the Pittsburgh Penguins (26.2).


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Member spotlight on Sarah Allen-Anthony, CPA
November 30, 2018
Sarah Allen-Anthony, CPA, is a great example of a success story for work/life balance. As a senior manager and a leader in the firm's Global Private Client Services at Crowe LLP in South Bend, Indiana, she provides tax and consulting services to high net worth families and their businesses. Sarah is a mom of three children — all with busy schedules. She's the vice-chair of the AICPA's Partnership Technical Resource Panel (TRP) and serves on two not-for-profit boards. If that doesn't sound like enough to keep her busy, Sarah has several hobbies, including an interest in art and photography. On Saturday mornings and many days right after work, you can find her doing a tough workout at the gym.
As you can imagine, colleagues often ask her for advice on balancing their professional and personal lives. Sarah notes there's no single answer that works for everyone, and achieving the right balance is often a moving target. Juggling priorities looks different for every person, so she recommends forging your own path.
Sarah's dad was a big influence on her career path. As a businessman, she noticed how people in the community looked up to him and the many ways that he helped the people that he encountered. He provided her a strong role model on the importance of developing relationships. Sarah has taken his advice and example to heart and is proud of the role model that she is to others today.
During her career at Crowe, Sarah has developed the skill to digest complex information about tax transactions and be able to boil it down into simple, understandable language. She understands that clients value someone to assist with prioritizing and filtering out the unnecessary noise. By doing just that, she continues the relationship building process with her clients.
As part of Sarah's work on the Partnership TRP, she has learned much more about the advocacy work done by the AICPA and its volunteers. She enjoys working side by side with other professionals who share ideas on ways to improve current and future tax legislation and guidance. The ability to develop relationships with the IRS and Treasury in order to benefit the profession as well as the greater public good is a fulfilling part of her work with the AICPA. As part of her work on the TRP, she testified before the IRS on the partnership audit regime proposed regulations in September 2017.
If you love to go to art museums or shoot some hoops — Sarah earned the record for making the most three pointers for the season while on her high school basketball team. Or, if you want to talk about how the new tax laws are driving you crazy, then you will love sitting down for a chat with Sarah. Our profession is lucky to have her.
Consider connecting with Sarah on LinkedIn and meet other professionals like her via our Tax Practitioners' LinkedIn group.


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Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, inc, is a national manufactured home, modular home, and mobile home lender company that is based in the United states. Learn about Vanderbilt Mortgage Loan Service today.
It offers new and used manufactured and modular home financing; traditional home loans; and financing for e-Score energy efficient home improvement, as well as escrow services.
The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Maryville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Clayton Homes, Inc.
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, inc, uses a simple online banking system which allows their clients to access and manage their accounts with ease.
If you have an account with Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance and you do not know how to sign into your account, quickly follow this simple process and learn how to sign in to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance account.
All you need to do is to follow the guide provided in this article
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- Visit the official website of Vanderbilt Mortgage Loan and Finance here on www.vmf.com
- Click on the access your Account Box. This is located at the left corner of the homepage .
- Kindly provide your correct User ID and your Password.
- You can also check the Save User ID. box to remind you of your Login details in case of next time.
- Finally, Click on the Login button.
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- Click on Forgot User ID or Password links that is below the Username and Password Field.
- After you click on the Link, then you will be required to follow the step by step guide that will be given to you to reset your account.
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- Their hours of operation for accepting phone calls are Mon-Thurs, 8:30AM-8PM ET, and Fri 8:30AM-5:30PM ET. You should have your loan number ready if you plan on calling the company.
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As London prepares for the Pride parade this weekend, there have been an increasing number of companies displaying their support of LGBT rights.
Rainbow-striped logos spread across the High Street and many clothing brands have released pride outfit ranges as well as sponsoring blimps during the parade.
The BBC's Katie Silver has been to the shops of Oxford Circus, to see if this is a sign of inclusivity or an attempt to profit from pride.


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Hi. I'm Scotty. :3
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1)a sucker is truly born every secent.
2)people will believe anything if they want to,even if it's a scam,like pshycic readings.
3)how to swallow a quarter,make it go through your arm,then be able to cut that quarter out through your flesh.
4)how to transfer true energy between two or more people.
5)there is no key to succes.there is no substitute for hard work.you need only three things:a dream,a passion,and belife in yourself.
6)it dosn't matter what ayone else(even my mom!lol!)says,if i choose to believe it,that's my choice.


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Wine books for the holidays
George M. MacLeod was 53 years old and still working at Monsanto when, with wife Greta and several children in tow, he went in search of land he could farm.
Having scoured California, and ready to give up, he finally zeroed in on 50 acres in Kenwood on the slope of Sonoma Mountain, overgrown with blackberries and abandoned cherry, fig and apple orchards, where old vineyard rows had once stood.
Unsure of what he had done, MacLeod started taking viticulture classes at UC Davis and Santa Rosa Junior College, making the initial leap into grape growing. MacLeod Family Vineyard at Indian Springs Ranch is now a respected source of sauvignon blanc.
At 93, MacLeod tells his hardworking tale in "Journey to Harvest: How to Grow Great Grapes, Make Distinctive Wines & Live Forever," a self-published detailing of his personal and viticultural triumphs and travails.
His is among the most locally inspired wine books to consider this holiday season. Here's our list of other wine and spirits books worth seeking out this year.
"The Essence of Wine: Celebrating the Delights of the Palate," by Alder Yarrow, a San Francisco-based wine blogger, is a stunningly visual exploration of wine's aromas and flavors. The successful result of a Kickstarter campaign, Yarrow's book will appeal to hard core wine aficionados as well as the more laissez-faire. An opening two pages on cherry, for example, detail how the aroma and flavor we associate with cherry can play into what we experience in a wine. Yarrow then includes wines to look for that will help illustrate the point on the nose and palate. Similar explorations occur with apple, graphite, rose and earth.
"50 Premiere Winemakers of Napa Valley: Their Insights and Inspirations," by Nicola Siso, is a large-format, coffee-table-sized book with portraits of Napa Valley winemakers complemented by a series of probing wine- and life-related questions and answers along the lines of, "If you were stuck on a desert island..." Good guy Corey Beck of Francis Ford Coppola Winery answers that he'd "hope it would be with my wife. We would enjoy a cold glass of sauvignon blanc together."
"Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent," by Berkeley-based writer Mandy Aftel, is an investigative, literary exploration into the history and philosophy of scent, with much ado about food and wine, including recipes. Aftel goes into detail on five landmark scents – cinnamon, mint, frankincense, ambergris and jasmine – using them as jumping-off points to talk about cooking and flavoring. Among her discussions of flavor, within the cinnamon section, she includes the original formula for Coca-Cola, which featured essential oils of cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg and orange, not to mention cocaine. She provides a less-stimulating version for people to try at home.
"GQ Drinks: The Cocktail Collection for Discerning Drinkers," edited by Paul Henderson, is a beautiful compendium of 150 cocktail recipes, broken down by spirit, with mouthwatering photography and bartender's tips for each one. Fun quotes float throughout, like W.C. Field's advice to "always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake"; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous admonition that "too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right."
"The World Atlas of Whisky," by Dave Broom, is a must-have for fans of the brown spirit, in its second, fully revised and updated edition. Compelling photography brings the subject to life alongside profiles of more than 200 distilleries around the world, plus hundreds of tasting notes and detailed maps. In addition to the usual suspects in Scotland and Ireland, Broom provides depth and breadth to what's going on with whiskey in Canada, Japan and Scandinavia, not to mention the explosive growth in craft distilleries across the United States. Kentucky and Tennessee are appropriately represented, but attention is also paid to new producers in New York, Texas, Michigan, Washington and California, among many others.


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This article has been updated to reflect a date change for the first History Harvest. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8.
By Deanna G. Wooley // Public History Program Coordinator, Purdue University Fort Wayne
North Side High School and Purdue University Fort Wayne are seeking NSHS alumni and supporters with interesting NSHS artifacts to contribute to a digital collection.
The NSHS Alumni Association is working with the university's Public History Program to gather and preserve the material culture of one of the longest-lasting institutions in the Fort Wayne community in anticipation of North Side's centennial anniversary.
In order to supplement the upcoming publication of a written history of the high school's one-hundred year history, we are organizing a community call-out to all North Side alumni and supporters who have North Side memorabilia or artifacts from their high school days tucked away in their attics, basements, storage rooms or just displayed on their living room bookshelves.
We are looking for all memorabilia connected to North Side high school, from clothing to yearbooks to souvenirs to anything that reminds you of your time at North Side – and we want to digitally preserve it (you get to take the artifacts home – we don't want to keep them) through cameras and scanners. The images will be uploaded with short, oral history interviews about the memories attached to the artifacts to an online archive, which will be accessible to the public.
This project is just getting started, and we are planning our first History Harvest for Dec. 8 at North Side High School from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. During those times, you can bring in your memorabilia to be digitally preserved, and if you want, you can give us a short interview explaining the significance of the objects you bring. Those with questions may contact Deanna Wooley at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Photos courtesy of the History Harvest team, via NSHS yearbooks.


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Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trumps America
Maria Isabel Alvarez and Dante Di Stefano
New York Quarterly Books ($21.95)
Anonymous White House reports say Melania reads the anthology while weeping, wearing her "I DON'T REALLY CARE" jacket, devouring Godiva chocolate truffles, and watching CNN.
Kai Carlson-Wee
BOA Editions ($16.00)
The title refers to "Railways as a means of transport," not to be confused with "rail" as in "Complain or protest strongly and persistently about," which applies to the official Lit Critics of Anders Carlson-Wee (see "A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology," New York Times, 8/2/2018).
Hammer with No Master
Rene Char, tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson
Tupelo Press ($19.95)
Cento review; "O useless lips! Great wheelbarrow of bogs. / The poet will go to bed in love. / Forget the torched mental temptress. The first head to roll. / When tortured the poet raves a monstrous chant. / I hear pure eyes, magnetic chains, a trail of gunpowder. / Don't suffer for Andre Breton."
The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
Hanshan, tr. Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt
Shambhala ($18.95)
Cento review: "Regardless of rain / How can you sit with me / lush Cold Mountain / in the midst of white clouds / Think of wrens / Make fun of fish / in a royal golden cage. / Don't suffer for Andre Breton."
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
Penguin ($18.00)
Follow these simple steps: Blow up the sonnet. Reassemble. Blow up the sonnet. Reassemble. Reassemble the sonnet. Blow it up.
The Collected Poems of Li He
Li He, tr. J. D. Frosham
Calligrams ($22.95)
O.K, we get it, he's one of us: "Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, 'sexual dissipation,' or both."
The Wounded Alphabet: Collected Poems
George Hitchcock
Tavern Books ($17.00)
Plot Summary: The pilot with pinwheel eyes calmly tells the passengers not to worry; the plane has lost all engines; he is a surrealist; the plane needs no engines or jet fuel; they will now propel the plane by rapidly blinking their eyes.
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Tr. Peter MacMillan
Penguin ($13.00)
Not to be confused with One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poetry Prizes Each or One Hundred Egos, One Hundred Thousand Poems Each or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Over and Over.
Father's on the Phone with the Flies
Herta Müller
Tr. Thomas Cooper
The German List ($24.50)
Plot summary: The flies on the phone with mother. Mother on the flies behind father. Father flies on mother on the phone with father and the flies applaud their phoned-in applause.
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Ana Ristovic
Tr. Steven Teref and Maja Teref
Zephyr Press ($15.00)
Not to be confused with Aleksandar Ristovic, the author's father, who wrote Devil's Lunch. She offers these words to live by, words her father would no doubt agree with: "The more I read, the less / I know about poetry . . ." and "Poetry is cursed."
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
Diane Seuss
Graywolf ($16.00)
Cento review: "Van Gogh ate paint. I fall in love again like Cornelius Nobertus Gijsbrechts / my own badness / downward, into the earth. / Then I learned that fucking had to do with a pipefitter at SeaWorld. If these legs could talk. Don't suffer for Andre Breton."
Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin
Tr. Chloe Garcia Roberts
Cento review: "Then I met the Furred Woman / Chasing sweetness, I'm somehow drunk / I remember, sharkmaid silk / Sleeping alone. / I am already broken inside / Fluff flies. / Sleeping on the pillow of my hand / Let this poem / awake from intoxication, Andre Breton."
Counting Descent
Clint Smith
Write Bloody Publishing ($15.00)
Not to be confused with Clint Smith, Marine Corps veteran, President and Director of Thunder Ranch, author of Urban Rifle: 45 Years of Teaching and Training.
New and Selected Poems of Cecelia Vicuna
Cecilia Vicuna
Kelsey Street Press ($35.00)
Note: The high cost of this volume, Wilbur Ross has explained, is due to the tariff on Chilean books critical of the CIA. This tariff will be dropped when the CIA will be welcomed and justly celebrated by all artists throughout Chile.


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Dendrite Development and PlasticityPosted by: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Posted date: 2019-Mar-29
Location: USA
Position Description:
The Dendrite Morphogenesis and Plasticity Unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has a postdoctoral fellow position to study dendrite development and experience-dependent structural plasticity. The applicant should have a recent (less than 3 years) PhD degree in Neuroscience, Physiology or Cell Biology. Individuals with research experience in genetics, imaging techniques and a history of solid prior publications are preferred. Salary and compensation will be commensurate with experience and accomplishments.
Our group studies visual experience-induced homeostatic structural plasticity in the Drosophila larval visual circuit. The exceptional optical and genetic accessibility of the model system allows us to identify and characterize many candidate genes through genetic studies, cell-specific RNA-seq analyses and functional imaging. National Institute of Health offers the state of art facility equipped for advanced neuroscience research and a large and vibrant research community.Qualifications:
We are seeking a motivated team member to join our efforts in studying cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating the construction and properties of the developing neural circuit. More information about the lab can be found at: https://neuroscience.nih.gov/ninds/Faculty/Profile/quan-yuan.aspx.To Apply:
To apply, please send a CV, a brief statement of research experience and goals, and the contact information of three references to quan.yuannih.gov.
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Final Logan trailer is here
The final full trailer for Logan is here.
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces. Check out the brand new trailer above.
Logan is the last outing for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, it also stars Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Stephen Merchant, Richard E Grant, Doris Morgado and Boyd Hobrook. It is directed by James Mangold and is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 3rd March 2017.