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In 2009-10, the Oilers had some nice things despite the poor record. However, Pat Quinn thought Lubo was not the vaunt, and he also sent Marc Pouliot away (fie!) in the final stages of running the remnants of the 2006 into the ground. Pouliot never did deliver, owing much (I believe) to injuries during important development time. IS Oscar Klefbom the new Poo?
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- Sept 2/11: Swedish Oil: Klefbom was unlucky enough to get cut on his thigh by an ice skate, the wound was sewn with ten stitches, and when the stitches were removed there was an infection. Now Klefbom is on penicillin which also prohibits him from playing.
- Nov 14/11: Sami Hoffrén: Klefbom was hit to the head by a Russian forward and he had to leave the game. Didn't play in the tournament after that hit. I assume Klefbom suffered a concussion.
- Oct 9/12: Oscar Klefbom: "It happened on Oct. 9 playing against Vaxjo," Klefbom said. "I dumped the puck in the offensive zone and I got a small hit from behind and I lost my balance and I flew into the boards. I had to catch myself with my left arm. Afterwards, I couldn't feel my arm, it was like a dead arm. I didn't know what happened."
- Sept 12/13: Oilers announce they are following concussion protocol after Klefbom is injured in the U of A game.
I think we're at a point now with Klefbom that it's reasonable to suggest his career development has been impacted significantly by injury. Now, some players have this resume and then fly through the next 20 years without a scratch, but the growing list of worries (and this isn't a complete list, I'm sure) tells me that Oscar Klefbom may never deliver on the potential of his draft day due to injury.
It's a tough damn game.
The Klefbom injury is not considered to be long term (Eakins said "He (Klefbom) was hit in the head and we're following the protocol with every head injury. He'll be reassessed in the morning") and there are bumps and bruises for Jujhar Khaira, Curtis Hamilton, Andrew Miller and Kale Kessy. All of that info and more is here.
The VO2 max score that everyone is talking about is Andrew Ference (67), considered an other-worldly performance. Anton Lander was in the 60's and baby Nuge scored a 60 according to various reports.
I imagine today's TC will be about getting ready for the two Saturday games. I do like Hall between Smyth and Hemsky for two reasons:
- It gives Hall two veterans who can help with the heavy work.
- It sends a clear message that the team is a "team" and there's no more of this "kid line" or "veteran line" responsibility.
We'll see how it goes, but I wouldn't mind seeing that line through the pre-season. If they can develop some chem then the 3 scoring lines Unicorn theory (I think that's what Ryan Batty called it yesterday) may actually happen.
I was absolutely astonished by Tyler Dellow's item about Pat Quinn and I think it points out a couple of major worries:
- HOW can an organization do their due diligence and come to the conclusion that this is the best available person for the job?
- At some point they HAD to know things were askew, and yet they kept the situation status quo until summer. That is very disturbing.
As for the other characters in the play, as much as Sam Gagner gets crapped all over by fans it appears it may have been worse for him during some portions of his Oiler career inside the building. I'm not certain the Oilers have earned his loyalty, but it appears to be there all the same. Craig MacTavish may have arrived just in time to save that relationship.
Big Friday show as we get ready for the weekend. Scheduled to appear:
- Steve Lansky from Big Mouth Sports. Eakins-mania, and are the Leafs being set up for a big fall?
- Lisa McRitchie from Kukla's Korner. Oilers camp and we'll touch base on the coming WHL season.
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If it's any consolation, you do start the mission with a lumber mill and barracks already built. Also, your necrolyte and warlock start with every spell already unlocked. That means you'll get to use dark vision to scan the map immediately. The warlock will be the most crucial unit in the first 15 minutes of the mission because he can summon a daemon to defend your town.
Good luck, War Chief. Go get the pink skins!
|The beginning of the end.
Immediately send your peons north and start mining. Start training a fifth peon to harvest lumber.
Within the first 2-3 minutes, the computer player will attack with knights from the north. Immediately summon a daemon and send it to the northern bridge to intercept the attackers. You'll also face a host of archers and clerics. Once the bridge is secured, have the daemon wander east and uncover as much of the human town as possible. This distracts one of the three towns and gives you some breathing room to build up your town.
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The humans love to send invisible archers to attack your town. It will take time to properly guard the bridges. So in the meantime, train spearmen and leave them in the intersections to protect your town. This way, any humans that suddenly become visible will be shot down. The miners and woodcutters will still be able to move freely through the town.
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Keep the warlock around with a full tank of magic so he can summon a daemon to defend your town if there's an emergency.
Continue using the necrolyte's dark vision to scout the human towns. The northern town is probably still a little bare from the daemon attack at the very start of the mission.
|The towns are revealed.
Outside the southern town, you'll find a wall of archers and knights.
|Block both bridges with spearmen.
Set up your spearmen as shown in the screenshot above to block the invisible attackers from the south. The catapult can be positioned along the bank to destroy the town defenders to the south. You should also place a catapult to the right of the bridge to counter any archers the computer player may try to station across the river to the right. These archers will be able to shoot your spearmen and open up holes for invisible units to walk through. But due to the difference in attack range, but the spearmen won't be able to fight back. Having a catapult on the right will keep this from happening.
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Hold the bridges until you can train four warlocks for each bridge. You'll have eight warlocks total. With the southern group, summon four daemons and send them south into the human town.
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The four demons should be able to kill any defenders in town that weren't destroyed by your catapult.
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After the town is destroyed, you should have four daemons low on magic. Get the most mileage out of them by sending them east into the third and largest human town. They'll be able to kill a lot of archers, clerics, and catapults before running out of juice.
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The four warlocks you've stationed at the northern bridge should be ready to summon four daemons. Send them to raze the northeast human town.
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The daemons will be able to kill all the defenders and destroy the town. Then, send any surviving daemons south into the last human town. Your four warlocks at the southern bridge will have recharged their magic and can summon four more daemons. Do this.
|Stormwind Keep is ripe for plunder.
Using dark vision, you'll notice that Stormwind Keep is guarded by a lot of knights, clerics, and conjurers.
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The four daemons from the south should have arrived by now. Kill defenders.
|More daemons come from the north.
Once those daemons do their damage, summon four more daemons with your northern warlocks and attack from the north. I think you get the picture now. Keep summoning daemons and wear down the human bases. The narrow roads and walls make it difficult for the computer player to maneuver back and forth because archers will block knights and prevent them from attacking your daemons.
As you push through the town, your main target should be human catapults and barracks. The towers aren't very dangerous because newly hired conjurers will not be able to summon water elementals right away.
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Keep up the pressure and you'll destroy all of the buildings.
|The humans have no place to go.
Congregate around Stormwind Keep and destroy it.
|Stormwind is defenseless.
|Boom goes the dynamite!
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Clean up the rest of the map. If there are human peasants left, they'll try to rebuild. You can prevent this by stationing units over the charred ruins. Otherwise, wait for the peasant to enter the building's construction site and destroy it. When the last human is slain, you will be victorious.
|Well, it wasn't that simple.
Congratulations on a battle hard fought. The orcs celebrate their victory with a big bonfire and marshmallows. But we all know the daemons did all the dirty work.
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Researchers using the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have developed a new method to detect a special class of stellar remnant, known as pulsars. A pulsar is a special type of neutron star, which spin hundreds of times per second. When the intense spin is combined with beams of energy caused by intense magnetic fields, a "lighthouse" pulse is generated. When the "lighthouse" beam sweeps across Earth's field of view, the object is referred to as a pulsar.
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The unusual pulsar, officially named PSR J0101–6422, had an additional 35 days of study devoted to better understanding its properties. Once the radio pulsation period and phase were determined, an incredible amount of data, including data on its gamma-ray pulsations was obtained. Using the data, the team was able to determine PSR J0101–6422 is roughly 1750 light-years away from Earth, and has an unusual light curve which features a "sandwich" of two gamma-ray peaks with an intense radio peak in the center, like a cosmic ham sandwich.
The team was unable to explain the phenomenon with standard pulsar emission models.which the team could not explain with standard geometric pulsar emission models, and have proposed that J0101–6422 is a new hybrid class of pulsar that features radio emissions that originate from low and high altitudes above the neutron star.
If you'd like to learn more about the Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope, visit: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The results of Kerr's research have been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Image #1 Caption:Clouds of charged particles move along the pulsar's magnetic field lines (blue) and create a lighthouse-like beam of gamma rays (purple) in this illustration. Image Credit: NASA
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Can anyone tell me if there are neutron stars that do not have the 'lighthouse beam' mentioned in the first paragraph of this article?
quiescent vs. accreting pulsar? wouldn't it have more pronounced radio lobes if it was spinning up? talk about complex objects! wow.
I've heard that pulsars could be used as a solar system, or even galactic, GPS type location system. Is this possible?
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Yes, there are. 😉
DrFilmmer, Do you mean those instances where the pulsar pulses are not aligned for our observation, or if there are ones that have significantly slowed over the age of the universe so that the neuron stars longer emit a pulse, or is their some other mechanism at play?
In fact, both versions are possible.
Neutron stars come in several flavors, so to speak. They can be ordinary neutron stars, with a rather normal magnetic field strength, and no lighthouse beam. Then we have pulsars, which do emit the lighthouse beam. And finally, we have magnetars: Neutron stars with a magnetic field of 10^12 Tesla or so. This is an unbelievably strong magnetic field.
We also observed "star quakes" on neutron stars. Imagine: A shift of the crust of only a few cm or so, but releasing an energy that is on the order of a supernova explosion (not exactly, but maybe only an order or two of magnitude below).
I have found myself working with two other gentlemen on a problem of why neutron star rotation or pulsar frequencies tend to not exceed the millisecond range. This is a form of the Birkhoff theorem for extending a vacuum solution of the Einstein field equation, the Popapetrou metric with Ernst potentials, into a medium. The medium is the neutron star itself. This is a hard and complicated problem as it turns out. The magnetic fields of 10^{15} Gauss and the frame dragging of a fast rotating neutron star begins to cause shearing of the material at fast rotations.
A neutron star produces the beam of electromagnetic energy from the interaction with gas around it. The magnetic field of the neutron star causes charged particles (protons and electrons) to enter into a spiraling trajectory. A charge particle that is accelerated emits electromagnetic radiation, called Bremsstrahlung radiation, where a charged particle on a circular orbit is under a centripetal acceleration. The sorts of kHz whistles and noise one hears on a radio is due to analogous processes with charged particles in the Earth's magnetic field.
The magnetic field is not necessarily oriented parallel to the axis of rotation, which means the lobe of electromagnetic radiation emitted can do this lighthouse sweeping. An observer with the right equipment, such as a radio telescope, at a distant position that is on the line of sight will detect this sweeping, termed a pulsar, which when converted to an audio signal often sounds like a repeating pattern of bongo drumming. If you are not on that line of sight the neutron star is not detected this way.
A neutron star in near pure vacuum will not produce any EM radiation. These rogue neutron stars are fairly invisible. It is not well known what their "population census" is in the galaxy.
Non rotating neutron stars anyone? I only got 143,000 hits on Google for that one. Would a non rotating neutron star be impossible to detect?
In what external frame of reference would a neutron star be able to be non-rotating?
A neutron star that is not accreting will slow down its rotation, but the rate of the slowdown decreases rapidly so coming to a full stop will never be reached. And the only known formation mecanisms for neutron star involves a relatively rapidly rotating start.
The kinetic energy involved in rotations of hundreds or thousands per second must be enormous (ha! is that word inadequate!). I've never understood where this energy comes from. Is it just the skater analogy? Are these failed stars or dying stars? How did they get to this point?
Neutron stars are the left over of a star core after it exhausted its nuclear fuel. The end of the star burning phase causes the core to implode and send a huge shock wave outwards with rapid fusion in these outer layers as the shock wave propagates. It is actually rather similar to a chemical explosion, which is a combustion that propagates through a medium of fuel faster than the speed of sound through that medium. This is a supernova that marks the end of a star. If that core has a mass larger than the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.4 times the mass of the sun, which is also necessary for a supernova, it will collapse into a neutron star. A more modest core will just produce a white dwarf. A collapsing core larger than the Oppenheimer-Volkov limit of 3.1 times the mass of the sun forms a black hole.
Thanks LC, I get that, but what starts it spinning, and in particular, why do they spin in such a perfect way? Why is such a mighty explosion so symmetrical that it makes the pulsar rotate about a single axis without being chaotic? Or did a little asymmetry in the explosion kick off the rotation? Or am I, er, completely "off beam"?
I studied one year of uni physics in 1965! Our texts were the Feynman Lectures on Physics, just published then. Then I found electronics.
Most stars rotate or have some angular momentum. When they collapse they speed up, like a skater drawing her arms in to spin faster. As Torbjörn Larsson points out the sun rotates every 25 Earth days and if compacted into a neutron star that would be 2 seconds. Actually it would be faster, for the density profile of a neutron increases with decreasing radius.
Any rotating object in the absence of perturbing influences will have a constant angular momentum. Earth's angular momentum is fairly constant, with a weak precession of its axis due to the moon and solar gravity. A neutron star in the absence of any perturbing influence, and that has largely stopped its "starquakes" will rotate with perfect precision for a vast period of time.
Just for kicks, I want to run a back-of-the-envelope.
– I don't want to model a star. Hence I am not going to estimate the real angular momentum from a dense remaining core of a red giant. I will scale the Sun to a 1.4 solar mass main sequence star.
Realistically there is some conversion with gravitational potential energy as well. We will have to keep in mind that this will be not even order of magnitude correct.
– A ball angular momentum is I = 2mr^2/5, its angular velocity w = 2pi/t, its kinetic energy of rotation K = Iw^2/2 = 2mr^2/5*(2pi/t)^2/2 ~ (r/T)^2.
Conservation of kinetic energy makes the rotation time scale as r/t = R/T ; r,t post, R, T pre collapse; or t = R/rxT.
The Sun has a radius ~ 7×10^8 m and a rotation time of ~ 25 days. Hence I take precollapse radius R ~ 10^9 m and rotation time T ~ 25x24x60x60 ~ 2×10^6 s.
The post-collapse radius will be "a few km". Say 1 km then, giving a postcollapse rotation time of t ~ 10^9/10^3*2×10^6 ~ 2 s.
Pulsars ranges between ms to s, so not entirely out of the target range.


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Jesus Christ, there are babies EVERYWHERE.
And, they are out with their dads. Cute, scruffy Mission dudes with babies slung all over them like messenger bags. A row of dads drinking coffee and pushing strollers, chatting it up on Valencia. The Mission is New dad central, and Dashiell and I look at them with a mixture of longing and inspiration.
"I can't wait for those weekends when you get to sleep in and I take the baby out for a walk," says Dashiell, already practiced at early-morning walks with Rodney. I love thinking of sweet, handsome, rosy-cheeked Dashiell with a baby strapped to him, nodding hello at the other dads, making some light dad acquaintances.
There is something romantic about me lolling around in bed while this happens. The other morning I opted, for the first time, to not leave the house with Dashiell in the morning but instead sleep in, lolling around in bed until I slowly woke up to work on my computer alongside Rodney, who also had a hefty workload that day -- protecting us from the construction workers in the backyard.
There is something about being in a space haunted by a person when they're not there, another way of feeling close to them. I loved moving Dashiell's clothes around, hanging his towel, picking an orange blossom from a tree in the yard and sticking it in a bottle on the windowsill. Writing a love note to leave in the pocket of his new shirt.
I can imagine this with a kid around; getting to lie in our bed in our home's sweet stillness, Dashiell out with the kid, both of them bursting back inside in a clamor, rising me from the bed. It's so sweet! I just have to get pregnant and make it happen.
Until the baby, there's Rodney.
It's time to inseminate, and my Clomid hasn't arrived. I haven't asked Dirk when I can expect it because I don't want to keep bugging him. It's coming from overseas, maybe it takes forever? Why does everything take so goddamn long?
On the night of the first insemination Dashiell can't be there -- he's got Bill Cosby tickets. That's right -- Bill Cosby. I'm busy too, having been asked to speak at an artist's colony on the occasion of their 30th birthday. The colony is over in Marin and, being drivers license-less, they are sending a CAR for me! That sounds fancy.
I plan for Quentin and Rhonda to come over with just enough time to let me lay there with the sperm in me and then run down to the car. Poor Quentin is so tired! He was up til 4 in the morning being a drag queer, and then had to get up at 9 am to run a batch of his sperm to the clinic for testing! He said he kept the sperm in his pocket.
It is so nice to laze around on pillows with my hips gently angled and not heave myself into wonked shoulder stands anymore! It's much more elegant. The car service rings me 20 minutes into my insemination, they're right downstairs.
"Uh, I'm going to need 10 more minutes," I tell the driver, looking down at myself in my underwear. I beg Rhonda to come to the event with me, and she does. We spend the evening chowing down on fancy cheese and looking at really cool art.
Thanks, Quentin!
By the way, there's a whole new way of warming the bowl, now. Rhonda stuffs it into her shirt and warms it against her belly! It's pretty cute. She strolls around my apartment looking like a pregnant lady during the chit-chat period of the insemination gathering, and then whips it out, all warm from her tummy. I've tried to do it but get impatient, plus it's so cold!
I like to bring it over to my 1965 space heater, the one that looks like it's about to burst into flames but it's already so OLD, I think if it was going to burst into flames it would have by now and is actually one of the safer space heaters around! Anyway, I like to put the Pyrex up against the glowing orange grate and warm it that way. I suppose a hair dryer would work, too.
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Two nights later, Quentin comes over straight from his first literary reading – at City Lights, no less! Such an auspicious start! He is published in an anthology that had a book party that evening. Dashiell is red and teary, having forgotten to take her allergy medicine. The cats, sensing her weakness, climb right up onto her. Rhonda's movie is getting out too late for her to join us.
"Oh, did you check your email?" Quentin asks. "I sent you my results."
The sperm results! This is almost as exciting as my Clomid coming -- which, it has not. I want the Clomid to get here because I want to take it, obviously, but also so I know that I actually gave all my credit information to an actual, legitimate business and not some sort of scam that charged me $40 to steal my identity. I go to my computer and pull up Quentin's results.
From what I gather, comparing his results to the standard, he's above average. Quentin! Above average in EVERY way!
"That's so great!" I cheer. Even though people say that the dude's sperm needs to be checked for potency too, I was never worried about Quentin. He's a virile, healthy 28-year-old. I know that if there is anything physical preventing this pregnancy from happening, it's on my side.
The results are in!
"My doctor wants to call and talk to me about it, though," He says, sounding worried. "I don't know why."
"She probably just wants to make sure you understand what it all means," I shrug. "It is sort of complicated. "But from what I can tell, it's awesome!"
We get to inseminating me before Dashiell goes into anaphylactic shock. I've sort of fallen off with the eating. After gaining 14 pounds and no longer being able to fit into some of my favorite clothes, I thought I should put the brakes on. Even my sister, who is always trying to fatten me up, said I can cool it.
But my Not Otherwise Specified Eating Disorder has two settings -- Binge and Skimp. I know how to pig out, and I know how to forget to eat. So now I'm back to zooming through my day on the computer and the clock suddenly hitting 5pm and I've eaten nothing but a handful of almonds. Sadly, I feel rad! HELLO LOW BLOOD SUGAR, MY OLD FRIEND…..
The day before my 41st birthday, I get the weirdest phone call. It's Dashiell! Dashiell has NEVER called me on the phone! Not unless you count that one time when he first got my number and then accidentally dialed it when he was trying to send me a text asking me on a date. He was so scared to text after that because he thought I'd think he's a creep! But I didn't even know he'd called because I ignore my phone so thoroughly.
But this time Dashiell's number is programmed into my cell, and when it rings a foxy little picture of him pops up on my screen. I answer gingerly, as if it is a serial killer.
"Hi." Dashiell's sexy voice sounds even sexier over the phone, because it's isolated. My other senses aren't distracted by all the other ways he's so sexy.
"Wow, it's your voice," I say.
"I know. Listen, I need you to buzz me into your house, and then go in your kitchen and shut the door. And stay there until I tell you to come out."
"Uh – okay." This is all so mysterious! "Um, bye?"
"Bye," he says, and his sexy voice is clicked away. My doorbell is connected to my cell phone, so when it rings again I buzz him in, unlock my apartment door and go sit in the kitchen. Or not sit. More, like, bounce. Excitement is rising and falling inside me, like a carnival ride. There is a knock at the door, and I crack it open.
"You can come out now."
In my bedroom is a tree. It is a squat tree, but it is a real tree, and a heavy tree. There are fat, yellow lemons hanging from it. It's a lemon tree! A miniature lemon tree! A miniature Meyer lemon tree! Something I've wanted since I moved into my apartment a year ago. It's leaves are dark and shiny and I can't believe there's already fruit on it! We find a place for it and sit it on a towel, watching the cats investigate.
"I don't know if it will live inside a house," Dashiell cautions, "But if it starts to die we'll bring it to my mom's. She can save any plant."
Lemon tree, very pretty.
And with that we start head off on my birthday trip to Arcata.
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Mastery of these fundamentals is essential for every lacrosse player. If you're not the fastest, quickest, or strongest player, remember that you can always improve your fundamentals through practice and determination. If you happen to be blessed as a natural athlete, you should not be complacent with your stick skills. I've seen many great athletes who are not good lacrosse players because they do not work on their stick skills. The bottom line is that nobody wants to be a liability on the field. Being able to pass and catch with both hands will allow you to help your team.
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24 First Look: Gregory Itzin Returns!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Fortunately for most Americans, George W. Bush has receded into the background following his controversial terms in office.
But the same can't be said for Gregory Itzin's President Charles Logan, as the evil schemer will return for another stint on 24 this season.
On April 12, he'll be summoned to the United Nations to advise President Allison Taylor on her crumbling peace-treaty negotiations.
"I have an old relationship with the Russians, so Ethan brings me in against her better judgment. She's not pleased to have to deal with this character," Itzin told TV Guide Magazine.
As for his former First Lady? There's no mention of the lovable nut job that is Martha Logan. But Itzin says producers assured him she's alive... and sort of well.
"I asked, 'Martha's dead, right?,' and they all said, 'No, she's still in rehab.' I'm going to assume she and I no longer have a relationship."
We thought this week's episode of 24 was the best of the season. What did you think?
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Investigators recommend no charges in fatal accident
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Payson Police Commander Don Engler will not face charges in a fatality accident in which the trailer he was pulling broke free, killing a Valley man, if the Maricopa County Attorney accepts the recommendation of the Scottsdale Police Department.
Robert M. Harriman, 42, of Phoenix was hit by the trailer on Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in Scottsdale July 9. He was thrown from his motorcycle and run over by a minivan.
Harriman was transported to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn, where he died in the emergency room. Records show the cause of death as a massive skull fracture and internal injuries.
Scottsdale police submitted their findings last week to the county attorney following an investigation that took about 45 days.
"We did not request charges, but the county attorney has the ultimate call on charging," Scottsdale Police Sgt. Mark Clark said.
According to Maricopa County Attorney Public Relations officer Bill Fitzgerald, a final decision is upcoming.
"The case in under investigation and I don't expect a decision for a week or two," he said.
The driver of the minivan told police at the time of the accident the intersection (Frank Lloyd Wright and Northsight) was exploding with debris.
The driver also told police he saw the motorcycle driver flying through the air and seconds later felt a bump he believed was the driver being run over. In the investigation, officers found the safety chain hook on Engler's trailer was bent and a retainer latch was loose.
"Both the forward and aft position of the retainer latch could be moved upward with a relatively small amount of force," the investigation officer wrote.
The officer also found that a spring on the interior portion of the trailer "appeared to be partially broken."
Engler told police just seconds before the trailer broke free he felt a bump, checked his mirror and saw the trailer was off center.
"He saw the trailer sway three or four times before it came loose and traveled into the opposing lane of traffic," the investigating officer wrote.
Engler said he did not wish to comment.
"Let's just let them handle it down there," he said.
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My Depression Was the Worst It Has Ever Been During My Pregnancy
What is a time of joy for many women was my darkest hour.
Please indulge me as I talk sleeping habits and nighttime rituals. For me, an average night routine looks something like this: I avoid caffeine, booze and CNN after sundown. I consume only light things in the hours before bedtime (chamomile tea, Nora Ephron essays, re-runs of "The Office"). I rub lavender-scented lotion into my skin and try to think happy thoughts. And I leave my smartphone and laptop outside the bedroom, because (like you) I've read those articles about how light-emitting electronic devices like smartphones, tablets and TVs are evil sleep destroyers that lead to something called junk sleep.
Obviously, I do sleepytime right, so how could I NOT enjoy a long, delicious night of sweet, restful slumber? Mmmm, slumber.
Cut to a couple hours later on my hypothetical average night of sleep. I've tossed and turned and finally abandoned the bedroom. Now I'm hunched over my laptop in the living room, the artificial light casting an ugly glow into the night. Minutes tick by. Then, somehow, hours.
I pace the house, feeling tired but not sleepy. I'm awake and alert enough for light-duty stuff like checking and answering emails, but not focused enough to get real work done. I move through the night hours in a sleep-tinged daze, zoning out on Netflix and thumb-scrolling my way through a couple day's-worth of Tweets and xoJane articles. Suddenly, it's 2 am. I can feel the under-eye bags and shaky nerves setting in.
Basically, my nighttime routine is a weird blend of self-care and self-delusion. It starts off promising ("Tonight I will sleep like a god!"), and eventually veers off track ("Is it 1 am already? I guess I won't be getting up for that 5 am jog . . . Again. ").
I've been (day)dreaming about a perfect night's rest my whole life. I want to someday fall asleep early on plush organic bedding and dream of friendly, magical unicorns that frolic across my Pinterest-perfect backyard, which is also home to a pair of majestic white peacocks, an orange grove in full bloom, and a waterfall cascading crisp white wine. I dream of having sweet dreams. I haven't decided yet if that's whimsical, or just kind of sad.
On these sleepless nights, good "sleep hygiene" eventually gets chucked right out the window. I turn into an unabashed, bleary-eyed tech sloth. Laptop? Check. Smartphone in bed? Hell, yes. Some mornings, I wake up with the phone plastered against my chest, or tucked next to my thigh ... right next to the remote control. Usually, I crash out sometime around dawn, waking up groggy, tired, and slightly ashamed of myself.
I am a night owl who on many occasions has wanted to be a morning person. I grew up in a family of early risers, and though my family never really sleep-shamed me, I couldn't help feeling like Eeyore in a land of shiny, bouncy Tiggers. Sleep deprivation doesn't look or feel pretty. And falling asleep at your keyboard is frowned upon in most offices (so I've heard).
By now, you're probably thinking, "Pop an Ambien and call it a night for crissakes." I've tried many sleep aids (not Ambien ... yet), but most leave me foggy and groggy. I hate taking pills, or downing a bedside shot of ZzzQuil. But I do it when I have to, because it's still better than falling asleep at 4 am when you know you have to be up in a few hours.
Recently, I read about a study that found camping can reset your internal body clock, otherwise known as the circadian rhythm. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder stuck eight night owls in the woods without their smartphones and tracked their sleep patterns for a week. The study found that the night owls, on average, fell asleep two hours earlier than normal.
According to this article, "With the glow of a campfire as the only allowed light source at night, the volunteers sleeping patterns were synchronized with sunrises and sunsets after one week."
Whoa, really? A week in the great outdoors sounded good to me. So, I camped for five nights to see if I could reset my sleep clock. The study participants camped out a full seven nights, but my schedule—and love of air conditioning—could only withstand five full moons. Here's how it went down.
Night 1
I head into the tent at sundown. As I lay me down to sleep, one thought rises above all the others: WHY THE HELL DID I CHOOSE TO DO THIS IN JULY? I'm one of those people who is always cold and I've learned to cope with the desert heat fairly well, but still. I'm also one of those people who, when they get an idea, feel the need to execute it right away. Instead of, you know, being patient and waiting until summer is over.
I console myself with the thought that homeless people do this every night, and they don't have a snazzy tent with cross-ventilation windows. It's monsoon season here in the Arizona deserts. The nights are breezier than normal, which helps a lot. I point a battery-powered fan at my head and stare out the mesh window. The moon is almost full and surrounded by a gauze of clouds. It's absolutely lovely. Thunder strikes in the far distance. I feel lucky for this awesome view. But even the sight of the moon and the soothing sound of the wind can't put me to sleep. After what feels like forever (or, about two hours), I go outside, plop myself on a dusty log and read a book with my flashlight. Yeah, I cheated. Eventually I start nodding off and straggle back into the tent. Total sleep time: maybe three or four hours. Sweet magical unicorn dreams: zero.
Night 2
It's breezy again, and the desert is glowing with moonlight. I wonder if all this bright moonlight will mess with my sleep clock? I lie down and close my eyes. Nothing. This feels like a repeat of night one. I write in my journal. The sensation of writing in the near dark is strange and interesting. I can't see if I'm writing on the lines, but somehow I trust I am. Every sense feels sharpened. This must be how Thoreau felt when he went to Walden Pond! This is the last sleep-deprived thought I have before drifting off. Net sleep: maybe five hours.
Night 3
NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN. I'm nowhere near Brooklyn, but I can't get this song out of my head tonight. Haven't even listened to it in months. Camping out in July is making me go crazy. I pour some ice water down my shirt to cool off. There is little wind tonight. Finally, I get so bored I turn on the flashlight and read. Sleep total: around four hours.
Night 4
I'm really looking forward to going back to the king-size bed my boyfriend and I just bought. It's such a nice bed. I'm looking forward to ugly glowing devices and junk sleep. And pizza. I really want pizza. These are the thoughts lazily moving across my heat-weary brain sometime after midnight inside the tent.
Sleep total: between four and five hours.
Night 5
Another breezy night. I'm tired from a full day of hiking, sightseeing and snapping pictures in the heat. The moonlight is so bright, you can almost read with it. The combination of physical weariness and a heavy dinner is enough to put me out early. I wake up from the heat and a mosquito attack in the middle of the night, but fall back asleep. Total sleep time: around six hours. Is this starting to work?
I've been sleeping better since the camping experiment. But I can't say there's been a radical shift. It's hard not fall back on old habits. Clearly, being able to fall asleep early will never be second nature to many of us. But sleeping outdoors made me more conscious of how easy it is to plug in and numb out with technology. It also made me much more conscious of air conditioning and its role in making me sweat a lot less at night.
Obviously, you don't have to go camping to try to turn your sleep clock back a few hours. You can black out your bedroom, wear a sleep mask, and avoid artificial light before going to bed. Getting lots of natural light first thing in the morning is supposed to help, too.
I'm curious about other people's sleep habits and rituals. Anybody out there have any success with light therapy? What weird things do you do when you can't sleep? Does camping help you sleep better? Does anyone else fall asleep clutching their smartphones?


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Rupper Nathanel Mulin-El was last seen by his wife leaving the Maher Manor on Route 18 and Ferry Road. He went to the A&P on Ferry Road and Route 9, and was seen on surveillance video at approximately 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3. His whereabouts since then are unkown.
He was wearing all brown clothing when last seen, and he was carrying $500 in cash. Authorities believe that he could have boarded a bus from the A&P. He has relatives and friends in New York City.
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Quest IV - The Shadow Vault (Part 2)
Picking up from where we left off last week, our group settled in to continue with the grueling Interlude quest that began last week. Consensus was that it's a sign of how well balanced the game is, that both sides have essentially been brought to a near stalemate. The heroes had only made it to the Cave, but had largely cleared it out (only a wounded Baron Zachareth and one hybrid sentinel minion remained nearby).
The heroes finished off Baron Zachareth (forcing him to flee once more) and the hybrid sentinel (though not before it got one final hit in on Leoric). This worked out well for the Overlord, as his next wave of reinforcements were finally making their way to the River's Edge and were preparing to engage the heroes. The barghests, which had been instructed to remain at the River's Edge until the heroes moved past the Caravan to the north, were finally allowed to join the assault as the heroes moved forward. [I decided that this was probably my last chance to pull out an Overlord victory. Grisban the Thirsty was a tank and what little damage I was managing to do to him was all to easily removed by Avric's healing abilities.]
One group consisting of a shadow dragon and two barghests proceeded around the path, as a similar force remained near the "shortcut" leading to the River's Edge from the Caravan. Unfortunately, the heroes wisely saw that they would be trapped between two forces and decided to take the longer route. However, they heroes' false sense of security was lost when Baron Zachareth managed to knock the stuck door free, allowing the second group of the Overlord's minions to move into the Caravan and flank the surprised heroes! [Kudos to the heroes for not blindly walking into the trap, and it would have worked well for them if I didn't have a Lieutenant (such as Baron Zachareth) in this mission. Normal monsters do not have stats, and as such would not have been able to get the stuck door open (it requires a Might check to open). As it was, I managed to pincer the heroes on the northeastern most tile, trapping them between two shadow dragons with barghests within range to use their Howl ability.]
The heroes fought valiantly, but were completely surrounded by two shadow dragons, four barghests, two hybrid sentinels, and Baron Zachareth himself. The Baron saw that Grisban had the casket from the Shadow Vault, and focused his attacks on the dwarf. Grisban fought bravely, and managed to slay one of the shadow dragons. However, before the heroes could break free, the other shadow dragon moved in to keep them pinned in with its shadow and bulk, preventing them from escaping. The hybrid sentinels kept Jain Fairwood and Leoric occupied, as the hybrid sentinel master, shadow dragon master, and the Baron finally managed to take down Grisban! Baron Zachareth grabbed the casket; now he just had to fight free from the heroes and escape with the relic! [The melee on this tile was epic! The shadow dragon minion's positioning on the tile managed to pin the heroes in, both preventing them from escaping and keeping them all adjacent so they would be affected by the dragon's Shadow ability (which requires the hero to spend a Surge or miss with their attack). Grisban was making some excellent rolls, avoiding the fatigue from the barghest's Howls and generally making great defense rolls when attacked. However, he finally went down under the combined assault, and Zachareth managed to grab the casket before another hero could sweep in and do so. Unfortunately, that was his last action, so he had to survive the upcoming turn and then escape!]
The heroes rallied, but it was too little, too late. Grisban managed to recover, but Baron Zachareth got in one final blow and then escaped back down the path to the River's Edge. The heroes were still pinned in by the Overlord's remaining forces, and more reinforcements were moving up (namely the shadow dragon minion). [I played two Overlord cards on Baron Zachareth on my next turn: Frenzy and Dash. This gave him one free attack (which was really just adding insult to injury) directed at Grisban, and Dash gave him an extra Move action. On top of this, I used Zachareth's two normal actions to Move, so he managed to get twelve spaces away from the heroes. At this point, we called the game as the heroes would have no way to catch Zachareth, and even if they broke free of the current fight, the second shadow dragon would have delayed them long enough to allow the Baron to escape. Victory for the Overlord! The Shadow Rune was mine! Muahahahaha!]
I was very pleased with how my choice of monsters (shadow dragons, barghests, and hybrid sentinels) played out. It took forever for the barghests to get activated (the heroes have to make it to the Caravan tile), but their Howl ability was nice and allowed them to contribute even when they weren't on the front lines. They had decent damage and resilience, and a couple of barghests (minion and master) were giving a wounded Avric a tough time. Since their Howl ability does not cause damage, it does not qualify as an attack, and it can be done either in addition to their Attack action, or have them perform two Howl actions. I can see this as a potentially unintended effect, so I'll watch the Descent FAQ to see if it's addressed at a future date.
The shadow dragons were immensely useful, as their Shadow ability (mentioned above) played a huge role in the final battle. In addition, after we checked the FAQ and learned that the Fire Breath ability can change directions, that made the shadow dragon and hybrid sentinel masters' that much more dangerous. I would like to see more "area of effect" abilities for the Overlord, as the heroes seem to get much more dangerous (and resilient) when they stay bunched together.
The hybrid sentinel's Fly ability should not be overlooked either, as it enabled them to get into convenient locations past the "front line" heroes and pick on the back ranks. Coupled with their Prey On The Weak ability (which adds one damage when attacking a target with a Might of two or less), this makes them excellent at targeting the support and ranged heroes (in this instance, Jain and Leoric).
One final note: as the final quest of Act I, I suspect this is the point of greatest imbalance between the heroes and the Overlord. The heroes have all gotten numerous skills and new gear, which has enabled them to tear through most of the Overlord's monsters (I suspect the shadow dragons were limited in Act I as a sort of counterbalance to this). Going into Act II, the Overlord's monsters and Lieutenants all get significant upgrades. I look forward to seeing how the balance of power changes (or if it changes) on our next quest!


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The East Baton Rouge Parish School System offers outstanding magnet programs in nine elementary schools, nine middle schools and six high schools throughout the parish. Many of our magnet schools have been recognized for earning Blue Ribbon status and for being awarded numerous Magnet Schools of America Merit awards.
East Baton Rouge Parish's Magnet Schools offer a wide variety of different programs in addition to their accelerated academic reputation. At the elementary level visual and performing arts, Montessori, and Foreign Language Immersion programs are offered.
Our middle school programs include visual and performing arts, pre-engineering and a Foreign Language Immersion track. At the high school level, various special programs such as medical, visual and performing arts as well as Centers of Excellence programs focus on health sciences, business and governmental affairs, as well as engineering.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board approved policy allows students enrolled in a dedicated magnet school to progress to the next magnet school level if they apply and qualify. Therefore, students who attend elementary magnet schools will receive priority admission into: Capitol Middle, McKinley Middle, Scotlandville Middle, Sherwood Middle, Southeast Middle and Westdale Middle Immersion's Program at the middle school level.
In addition, these special interest programs for high achieving student in grades K-12, offers advanced study such as dual enrollment for college credit, extended day services (elementary), expanded elective courses, and college readiness courses.
Students enrolled in a middle magnet school program (except Capitol and Southeast Middle) will receive priority admission into Baton Rouge Magnet High School, if they apply and meet academic eligibility requirements during the first magnet application period. During the 2018-19 magnet application period, eighth grade students enrolled in the magnet program at Capitol and Southeast Middle will receive priority admission for Lee High School, if they apply and qualify.


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Kenny's Back on Tour in 2018
Country tours don't come any bigger than Kenny Chesney tours, and his 2018 "Trip Around the Sun" trek might just be his biggest one yet! The "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" singer is bringing along Dierks Bentley, the Brothers Osborne, and Brandon Lay to make sure there's something for every country music fan this time around — and that's why tickets for the upcoming Kenny Chesney Foxborough concert are likely to sell out fast. Lucky for you, though, you've come to BigStub, where the best Kenny Chesney tour tickets are just a click away.
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Quiet a while ago I bought a SDR-RTL USB dongle. Originally to capture the signal from my outdoor temperature sensor. However, no one had decipherd the signal for that device so far and I was not motivated enough to invest too much time in it. I almost forgot the dongle and remembered it recently, when I read about Flight radar and dump1090, which logs the ID, position and elevation signal of airplanes. Almost all airplanes transmit this unencrypted signal about themselves at 1090 MHz the 'Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast System (ADS-B)'. And I was curious how I could log and visualize those flight tracks from Frankfurt/Main airport towards Mainz.
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I have a group that is wanting to do a sea campaign and I am honestly not sure how to do it or if I want to even try.
I can't imagine how exciting a sea campaign would be. What's your thoughts?
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To get a good seafaring (yarrgh!) game, we say:
1. Get to the good parts. Real life on a sailing vessel is boring! Just ask Flagoon. Skip all the mundane tasks of ship upkeep and swabbing decks and repairing sails. Yawn fest. Get to the part where the crew has to stay alive during a typhoon or repel the invading pirates or resist the call of the Sirens. Now that's entertainment!
2. Authenticity. Not to be confused with the boring parts. Let players name key crew members and come up with duty rosters. So when it comes time to get to battle stations, they can yell for a specific person to man the cannons and for another specific person to batten down the hatches. Give them the sense of a real ship. Also, give them a little personal space on a cramped ship. Maybe some personal quarters to call their own, complete with all the decor and personal effects they've collected along the way. This will help them feel invested and "bought in" to the story.
3. Catchphrases*. Its corny, but giving each player some phrase that gives a little snippet of their character away. Just a simple one sentence phrase that sets a starting point for development. "I can see myself on that ship" or "I hope they've got rum on board" are some examples. Give some bonus experience or create a situational bonus for using these phrases in context.
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Individuals who are filing for disability through the SSI program have to meet income and resource limits as well as be found medically disabled in order to qualify for disability benefits. SSI is a need-based disability program and, as such, it is bound by income and resource limits just as any other need-based program.
The resource limits can change yearly but they have remained the same for many years. Currently, the resource limit for a person is $2000.00 and for a couple it is $3000.00. Resource limits exclude an individual's or couple's highest valued vehicle and their home. Any other land, vehicles, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, etc. count toward the resource limit.
Additionally, SSI disability applicants must meet income limits that vary depending upon family composition. If a disability applicant is over either limit, their SSI disability claim will be denied at the initial disability interview.
If an individual meets the income and resource limits at their initial disability interview, their disability claim will be sent to a state disability-processing agency for a medical decision. The medical decision process is the same for both Social Security disability and SSI. Once the claim is at the state disability agency, a disability examiner gathers medical records from the sources the disability applicant provided at their interview. If an individual does not have any current medical treatment, or they have no medical treatment notes, they will have to attend consultative medical or mental examinations with a physician who is paid by Social Security.
Once the information is received from the individual's medical sources or their consultative examination reports, the disability examiner will evaluate the medical evidence along with questionnaires completed by both the applicant and their third party contact-person (a friend or family member who knows about their conditions and how it limits the their daily activity) in order to determine what the disability applicant's residual functional capacity (what an individual is able to do in spite of their limitations) is.
Once the disability examiner determines an individual's residual functional capacity, they can further determine if the applicant is able to perform any of their past work or if they would be capable of other work considering their limitations.
So how does an individual get approved for SSI? They have to meet or equal a Social Security impairment listing or they have to go through the disability decision described above. And if an individual is medically approved for SSI there is still one last hurdle to jump. SSI disability applicants who are approved medically for disability must go to an end-of-the-line review with a claims representative prior to receiving SSI disability.
The end of the line review is used to make sure an individual still meets the income and resource limits along with other non-medical requirements and disability criteria needed to be eligible for SSI. Regrettably, some SSI applicants who are found medically disabled are denied because they do not meet the income and resource limits
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When a parent receives disability benefits, can the children receive benefits?
Information on the following topics can be found here: Social Security Disability Questions and in these subsections:
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Filing for disability - How to file for SSD or SSI and the Information that is needed by Social Security
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Lisa and Sam were married at The Great Hall at Mains on what was forecast to be a rainy and windy day. As you can hopefully see from the photos, that wasn't the case at all, and everybody spent nearly the entire day outside! Lisa & Sam looked fantastic together and I don't think Lisa stopped smiling all day long - I thoroughly enjoyed looking through their photos after their wedding as the smiles and laughter reminded me of many funny moments throughout the day!
I spent the morning with the girls (and Poppy the dog!) at Lisa's house, it was clear from the moment I arrived that it was going to be a fun day, as the Prossecco was already flowing and there was an excited atmosphere to the house! Flower Design provided the stunning flower bouquets which the girls held onto all day!
Sam was very nervous waiting for Lisa to arrive but the look on his face when he knew she was walking down the aisle towards him was priceless, and the service was full of laughter (Sam putting the ring on the wrong finger was just the start!) - hopefully the photos will do the talking here!
Paul Guard was on form as usual with some great entertainment throughout the day, it is always a pleasure to work with him!
The day concluded with a fantastic firework display where all the guests came outside to watch, before heading back inside the Great Hall to dance the night away!
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Alfred Herbert
Alfred Herbert
Alfred Herbert at the age of 90
5 September 1866
Leicester, England
26 May 1957 (aged 90)
King's Somborne, England
|Alfred Herbert Ltd.
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|Benefactor to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
|Ellen Adela (married 1889), Florence Lucus (married 1913), Marian Pugh (married 1933)[1]
Sir Alfred Edward Herbert KBE (5 September 1866 – 26 May 1957) was an English industrialist and museum benefactor. He moved to Coventry in 1887 to manage a small engineering business which grew to become Alfred Herbert Limited, one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.[2]
Born in Leicester and educated at Stoneygate House School in Leicester, Alfred Herbert became an apprentice at Joseph Jessop & Sons, crane builders in 1884.[1]
In 1887 he moved to Coventry to become manager of Coles & Matthews, a small engineering business where his brother, William, was director.[1] In 1888 he went into partnership with William Hubbard. They bought C&M for £2,375 and traded as Herbert & Hubbard. Herbert bought out Hubbard in 1894 and the company was incorporated under the name Alfred Herbert Limited: a company that would become one of the World's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.[2] During World War I Herbert became Controller of machine tools for the Ministry of Munitions.[1] He was knighted in 1917 and appointed an Officer in the Belgian Order of Leopold[3] and an Officer in the French Légion d'honneur in 1919.[4]
He retired to Dunley Manor in Whitchurch and died at King's Somborne in 1957.[1][5]
As well as being an industrialist, Herbert was a philanthropist within Coventry, building almshouses, supporting wounded servicemen through donations, establishing a camp for the city's poor children, and funding the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.[1]
Herbert's legacy also lives on in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, of which he was a major benefactor.[6] In 1938 he donated £100,000 to Coventry City Council to erect a Gallery and Museum on a town centre site owned by the council.[7] The city's destruction during the Second World War meant that construction was suspended. New plans were drawn up in 1952, and in May 1954 the foundation stone was laid by Herbert, who also donated a further £100,000 to the project.[8]
He was married three times; he married Ellen Adela, with whom he had four daughters, in 1889, then Florence Lucus in 1913 and then Marian Pugh in 1933.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g Donnelly, Tom (2004). "Herbert, Sir Alfred Edward (1866–1957)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ a b Page 4, Alfred Herbert and the British Machine Tool Industry 1887 - 1983, R. Lloyd-Jones and M.J. Lewis, Ashgate, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-0523-2
- ^ "No. 31255". The London Gazette. 28 March 1919. p. 4009.
- ^ "No. 31293". The London Gazette. 15 April 1919. p. 4880.
- ^ Obituary, The Times, Monday, 27 May 1957
- ^ "History | The Herbert". Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Archived from the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ Sir A. Herbert's Gift To Coventry, The Times, 26 October 1938
- ^ McCarthy, James (2 September 2005). "Bright New Look For The Herbert; First Phase Of City Art Gallery Revealed". Coventry Evening Telegraph.
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Your living room usually creates the first impression about your home. It's the only room, aside from the bathroom, that will be used frequently by both your guests and your family members. So decorating this room in an inviting, relaxing and enjoyable way is important. It also has to be consistent with your personal taste and the design style of the rest of your house. Here are some design tips to help you in your task. In case you don't know that yet, color has the biggest influence on your mood. So the color palette you choose to your living …Read More »
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All people spend much time to improve their living place to be the best, and it is common for us to receive guests and want to give them a good impression. The long goal of giving a good impression requires decency as if you were turning the space into a perfect picture. You do not want to threaten the visitors by place that needs a lot of repairs. Living room interior designs are meant for living and not just having conservations. As a result, you have to make sure that the unit has a comfortable design. The first step to …Read More »


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With Reality TV Bigger Than Ever, A&E Woos Top Producers With an Extravagant Miami Getaway
And with the beach trip came a $25,000 pledge to bankroll virtually any reality pitch.
Between now and Labor Day, nearly 100 new unscripted shows are scheduled to debut on various broadcast and cable networks, from celeb-focused soaps (Ryan & Tatum: The O'Neals) to a series about competitive facial-hair growing (Whisker Wars). This Tribble-like expansion of reality is no shocker: Even seemingly low-concept series such as Pawn Stars or 16 and Pregnant now outdraw dozens of much costlier scripted shows. That's led to a major shift in TV's power paradigm, and now the same reality producers who a few years ago were treated as second-class citizens by Hollywood now find themselves on the A-list. Case in point: Vulture has learned that earlier this spring, the folks who run AEN Networks (the company behind History, Lifetime, and A&E) rang up about two dozen of the industry's most accomplished reality producers — including SallyAnn Salsano (Jersey Shore), Thom Beers (Deadliest Catch), Jonathan Murray (The Real World), Allison Grodner (Big Brother), Craig Piligian (Dirty Jobs), and Gay Rosenthal (Little People, Big World) — and invited them to Miami for an all-expenses-paid midweek getaway filled with lavish dinners, expensive wines, and preplanned recreational activities (kayaking, anyone?). But there was more: The event wrapped with AEN playing Oprah, offering the producers what some have taken to calling a "golden ticket" — a ducat with a $25,000 price tag.
The ticket was essentially a promise that AEN would give the producers $25K in development money to be used toward turning nearly any idea they had into something more concrete. In most cases, the coin will likely be used for a "sizzle reel," a quick-cut presentation of a couple of minutes designed to give a feel for how a show would turn out. All these producers needed to do was pitch a concept to the company, and assuming AEN execs (specifically, History/Lifetime chief Nancy Dubuc and A&E head Bob DeBitetto) saw even a glimmer of potential in the idea, the company would hand over the money. AEN also promised that it would let producers develop their pilot without being nitpicked to death with notes and meetings. "They're basically giving us the chance to do whatever we want," a producer who attended the retreat told us.
While the company sold the idea of spending a few days at the W Hotel in Miami as "a way to mix and mingle and get to know your colleagues" (as one attending producer told Vulture), its real purpose was to show these top showrunners how the company operated, what sorts of programming it was looking for, and to sell them on the notion that AEN should be their first stop when they have great ideas.
AEN is clearly eager to maintain its leadership position in cable reality. It launched the pawn-shop trend and made addiction hip via Intervention; both genres have now been fully copycatted by competitors, increasing the pressure on AEN to keep innovating. What's more, the number of potential rivals just keeps growing, as cablers that once wouldn't dream of touching the reality genre — like AMC or the Weather Channel — are now in the game, seeing just how popular and profitable these shows can be. Even broadcasters are now copying cable ideas: NBC and Fox both have Pawn Stars–inspired, junk-centric shows in the works for later this summer. AEN's charm offensive makes "it more likely that a producer who has an out-of-the-box idea will pitch it to them first," our producer spy says. Of course, as appreciated as AEN's wooing was by producers, it's not as if three days in the sun will be enough to ensure the company's networks get first crack at every good idea. Producers often have a keen sense of which of their notions might appeal to multiple outlets, and when they've got a concept they think is a winner (three words: Ice Road Hoarders), they're going to pitch it to multiple places. As one producer who wasn't at the Miami event told us, a red-hot pitch will generally end up at the network that bids the most money. AEN suits no doubt know this, and likely viewed the Miami gathering not as a definitive death blow against rivals but more as an exercise in relationship-building at a time when every small advantage can make a difference.
A spokesman for AEN confirmed that the company held an event for reality producers earlier this year but declined to comment further. One reason why the company hasn't made a big deal of its initiative could be that it didn't want to advertise its strategy to competitors, who've already demonstrated a penchant for ripping off AEN's content. Well, too late, because now it's not just their content that other networks are appropriating: As word of the junket has spread through Hollywood's reality circles, Vulture is already hearing one, and possibly two other cable conglomerates are mulling similar bids to sweet-talk unscripted producers.