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Project Portfolio
Hi and welcome to my project portfolio, there's a lot I'm excited to share with you!
My biggest passion is designing games; I have 100s of game sketches, many dozens of fully built prototypes, and two self-published games Legacy and Starships Assembly.
Also, it wasn't rocket science exactly, but I was a rocket engineer. And my research publications are about automatic parallelization; practical stuff by academic standards.
Some other cool projects you can check out: an open-source tool for analyzing Starcraft 2 maps, a comic book made from Halo 3 screenshots, and a crossword puzzle published in The New York Times.
I have a lot of energy and enthusiasm for making awesome stuff!
If you have questions about any of these projects or just want to
say hello feel free to drop me a line.
Self-Published Game: Starships Assembly
Starships Assembly is my most-polished, biggest project yet taking nights and weekends spanning 7 years. It all started with a challenge I gave myself:
Can I make a fun, interesting strategy game using as few parts as possible?
The crazy thing is, right from the get-go, I had some idea of the game using exactly 20 cards with the captains, the ships, the middle of the card being reused for damage, and all of those elements are in the final design. So what took 7 years???
The introduction video gives a quick summary of the game:
I poured a lot of love into this project! If you try it out and have thoughts, comments, good-bad-whatever, I would love to hear about it!
Self-Published Game: Legacy
Legacy is a strategy game for any number of players. Flip a card that shows a number, each player adds that number to one element of her legacy: her Empire, her Garden, or her Opus. After all players have chosen where to place the number, flip another card. Cards with a star are called journeys, and the game ends when you flip over the third journey.
The three elements of your legacy have different structures and scoring systems. The Opus is a string of numbers that alternate high-low, sort of like musical notes; the score of the Opus is the 1's digit of the numbers in the high position minus the 1's digit of the numbers in low position. The Empire requires numbers to alternate even-odd in a grid-like pattern where you want to build the biggest closed rectangle before time runs out. Finally, the Garden has a root and branches, where numbers that branch up must be lower than the number they branch from, so use a good solid trunk.
Legacy was reviewed favorably in the November 2012 issue of GAMES magazine, and later that year Legacy made the "Abstract Strategy" category of the 2012 traditional GAMES 100!
Read more about Legacy at playlegacy.net, it has the full rules, an example game, and even a fully free online version you can play right now!
Multiplayer Maps for Existing Games
I LOVE LOVE LOVE when a great game comes with a great level
editor. Designing scenarios and competitive head-to-head maps is
something I've poured serious effort into! Below are some maps I've
made that are all available for download. I hope you find one for a
game YOU love!
Counter-Strike: Source Map: "de_rio"
Counter-Strike's bomb defuse game type, always the type used for competitive play, requires an ingenious blend of skill and strategy for players to master. I designed a bomb defuse map called "de_rio."
This was a big ~4-5 month project building a complete 3d map using Valve's Hammer editor.
Compared to the main competitive
defuse maps, "de_rio" is medium-small and fairly open. I tried to bring something new to the defuse design
by giving the bomb sites new and interesting approaches, and doing something different with the middle
of the map. Read an overview of the map's interesting features or
download it.
Starcraft II Melee Maps
I made many maps for competitive Starcraft 2 and shared my best with the community. Of the maps, Triangle Love Moon was a Top 5 finalist in Map of the Month #4 and you can see it in action in Mr. Bitter and CatsPajamas casting sixjaxdde vs. ROOTDdoRo. And Axis of Industry was customized for the USD500 : US & SEA : VISTA Cataract Cup : Malaysia tournament.
Warcraft III Melee Maps
The multiplayer side of Warcraft III broke new ground for RTSs. Neutral creeps are a resource for your offensive units to "gather." Armies teleport around the map, so attacking a base is usually a raze-one-building-and-split sort of effort. I like the feel of it, so here are some competitive multiplayer maps for the normal melee mode that I've tried to do something new with.
See a comparison to Blizzard ladder maps.
Starcraft Melee Co-op Maps
Before I discovered the competitive Starcraft scene via TeamLiquid.net, I mainly played Starcraft with my brothers and friends, none of whom were interested in head-to-head competition. So we played together allied against bots, always trying to add more to see if we could still win. So many of the maps I made for Starcraft were designed for humans to team up for a comp-stomp!
Warcraft II Scenarios
Warcraft II was my first RTS and it came with a simple but perfect map editor! What's really interesting about designing single-player scenarios for this game is the lack of triggers and objectives. You cannot program arbitrary enemy behavior. You simply win by eliminating the enemy buildings. But that doesn't mean the levels have to be boring! Some tricks I used to spice up these maps:
Tool: Starcraft 2 Map Analyzer
Starcraft 2 Mapping Community
Making maps for games I like is fun and a great design exercise, but for Starcraft 2 I got sucked into the online map-making community and made quite a few contributions to the scene.
Blizzard's tweet of my SC2 map concepts that I made before the editor came out were reposted at TeamLiquid.net and the high quality of the content and threads really got me engaged. There are just a lot smart people analyzing a game we all love and offering free content to this community, just as a labor of love. Maybe a modern Irish blessing could be, "May everyone find their corner of the internet." I definitely found mine!
At TeamLiquid.net I'm known as dimfish.
Sharing SC2 Map Analyzer
Always my goal for making a competitive map for any game is to (1) do something new and (2) use analysis to ensure there are as few elements that break or bend the game as possible. And the latter is most definitely the hard thing. Some examples for SC2,
I wanted to make really good, competitive maps that were also solid when thoroughly analyzed. So I wrote this open-source tool (mentioned above) the SC2 Map Analyzer and shared it with the community. This turned out to be a big contribution and 5 years later and long after I stopped supporting it, the tool is still being used to analyze new maps and is called out in the ongoing TeamLiquid map contest as useful info to with a submission, where that content's goal is to produce new Blizzard-recognized maps for pro play.
My TeamLiquid post of the map analyzer has 60k views.
Mapping Articles
I wrote some articles to help the mapping community,
The biggie guide though is when I used my analyzer to pull data for the Blizzard ladder maps and summarized my findings for the community, Rush Distance Comparisons. This post has 25k views and is of interest to mappers but also directly to players that wanted to know the properties of the ladder maps to improve their competitive play. I made several major edits when the pool of ladder maps changed, and made this one off graphic to summarize the spectrum of rush distances across major maps,
A Founder of Map of the Month Contest
For over a year after release Blizzard did not include any community made maps in the ladder pool, and pros had no incentive to use valuable practice time on new maps that were unlikely to be featured in any given competition. The main problem with not experimenting with the map pools at top-level play is we could only speculate when a game issue might be fixed with new map elements.
A lot of folks in the SC2 map community desparately wanted to crack Blizzard and get them to accept community maps, so I joined a group to found the Map of the Month contest. Our goal was to galvanize the community, promote really good new maps that could make the game we all loved better for everyone.
I was proud to help get this effort off the ground, and I also served as a judge, made submissions and put up some cash toward prizes.
Interview With Korean Mappers
Interview With
Korean Map Makers
20k views at TeamLiquid.net
Part of understanding competitive Starcraft and it's communities is to realize that its heart is in Korea. Long after Blizzard stopped actively patching Starcraft: Brood War did the professional Starcraft scene really get going. And this was an interesting crazy thing where players rediscovered and revolutioned strategies within a static video game, practically unheard of today where all major eSports are constantly tweaked by the developers. Sorry for the digression, but the cosmic success that broodwar was after the designers moved on is something that will always amaze me!
Anywho, while almost no one in the world except some Counter-Strike players were organizing professional tournaments centered around networked video games, Koreans had whole professional teams competing on TV. Korean players destroyed the rest of the world at Starcraft, and it turned out that the first community made maps to make it into the Blizzard map pool came from Korean mappers.
This was bonkers-awesome news to the SC2 English-speaking map making community, so I got this crazy idea to reach out to them and with some help from my friend monolab to translate, I interviewed the most successful mappers coming out of Korea.
The mappers were very cool about it and some fun info and stories came out of it. Thanks again to those mappers for the their time and the great maps they made for us!! Here are their introductions from the interview,
Program Analysis and Compilers Research
I earned my Master's and PhD at the University of California, Irvine. In collaboration with my advisor Brian Demsky and my colleague Yong hun Eom I worked on a static heap analysis called Disjoint Reachability Analysis that supports a new, simple parallel programming model called Out-of-Order Java.
There are 71 citations to my research as of August 2015.
It is common for a program to process a large collection of things, and when those things are simple groups of bits like pixels, existing techniques can really do a wonderful job of processing them in parallel. It gets a lot harder when you build heirarchies of objects, and some objects are sharing children objects; these programs can be parallelized by hand but it is very difficult to automatically determine where the opportunities for safe parallelism are.
There has been a lot of research into automatic parallelization. One way to divide this large body is into program analysis that can run really fast (points-to) and so you can drop it into commercial compilers and get some benefits, but only so much. So for example, in a program with many complex heap objects that could be processed in parallel, a very speedy points-to analysis might conclude "I can't tell if there are separate groups of objects for parallelization, or if all these things are fully linked together." On the other end of the spectrum are analyses that visit and revisit the code under analysis to build up rich, very useful facts that could parallelize almost any program that had parallelism; if you're willing to wait for a result.
I'm proud of the new contribution we made here. We went for a heavier analysis, but not looking for the perfect answer. The property we wanted was, "All of your A's can reach at most one B, so there's no sharing of B's by A's, and therefore it is safe to process all A's in parallel." We don't care what the actual shape of the heap is, just the "reachability" of all things relative to the key top-level things that your big--hopefully parallel--loops are processing. That first part is the disjoint reachability analysis. The second piece of the puzzle is exactly how to use that for parallelization; we call it Out-of-Order Java. We said, first write a single-threaded Java program which is easy to test and get correct. Then use our one new keyword, "task", to tell us where your top-level loops are, and we will automatically parallelize the program as much as we can, AND the answer from the parallel version is guaranteed to be exactly the same as the single-threaded version. That last part is what could be very attractive. If you are an expert programmer and regularly write and debug concurrent code, you can probably do a fine job without Out-of-Order Java. But for someone who is not an expert, go ahead and tackle the single-threaded version and get that working, and we'll give you what parallelism we can for free.
Key Result 1: Disjoint Reachability Analysis
I developed disjoint reachability analysis with my advisor Brian Demsky. Our work (PDF) was published in the Compiler Construction track of the 2011 European Joint Conference on the Theory & Practice of Software (ETAPS). Saarbrücken, Germany hosted the conference; I had a nice time exploring the downtown area.
Program Analysis
Disjoint reachability analysis is a static program analysis, specifically concentrating on the reachability relations between objects in the heap. There is a ton of research in heap analysis, a continuum from very scalable pointer analysis to heavy-weight shape analysis.
Our analysis is closely related to shape analysis in that they both use a richer abstraction than the basic points-to graph from pointer analysis or access paths from alias analysis. Shape analyses commonly abstract the heap as a set of heap regions (like in a points-to graph) and choose to summarize objects into a heap region if they share a heap shape (the same pattern of references coming in and out). Shape analyses can determine when some set of objects form a valid binary tree, or a linked list, or other heap shapes.
Disjoint reachability extends a points-to graph, like many shape analyses, but it adds a different abstraction. In our analysis we maintain a mapping of heap regions and abstract references to reachability states. A reachability state for a concrete object specifies which other objects in the heap can reach it via some heap path. We propose a reachability abstraction in terms of heap regions and an abstract count of objects from the region (0, at most 1, or any number).
Use in Parallelization
Our motivation for developing disjoint reachability analysis was to employ the analysis results in our parallel programming model called Out-of-Order Java.
Pointer analysis, alias analysis and related work generally compute sharing in the heap in terms of variables. Disjoint reachability analysis computes reachability (and can deduce the absence of sharing) between unbounded sets of objects. We believe a critical pattern in parallel computing is repeating a task over a collection of disjoint data structures; if you can prove parallel tasks operate on disjoint data, then the tasks are safe to execute in parallel.
Key Result 2: Out-of-Order Java
OoOJava is a parallel programming model and parallelizing compiler that relies on disjoint reachability analysis. I collaborated on both works with my advisor Brian Demsky and my colleague Yong hun Eom.
Our motivation comes from the current challenges in developing parallel software. Even experts make mistakes, and the bugs in parallel software are often hard to find and fix. It is more important than ever to develop parallel software because computer architectures are trending towards including more and more cores. The way to harness the power of additional cores is to extract the parallelism from programs cheaply so its concurrent tasks can keep more cores busy.
The goal of Out-of-Order Java is to start with a single-threaded model, like Java without any explicit threads, which is much easier to reason about and debug than current explicitly parallel programming models.
Consider the following program fragment in which the
public doSomeWork(Vector
Even though the call to
public doSomeWork(Vector
We simply wrap the line with parallel work in one task, and the line with a loop-carried dependence in another task. The power of OoOJava is that it will perform a program analysis during compilation and determine the dependences of the tasks automatically. Then OoOJava will generate an executable to execute the program in this manner:
In this example we expect that OoOJava will generate a binary that quickly executes every iteration of the main loop, issuing an instance of task a and task b for each loop iteration. The instances of task a will be ready and begin executing whenever there are free cores. The instances of task b have two dependences: they must wait until the instance of task a from the same loop iteration retires, and the instance of task b from the previous loop iteration retires.
So what's the gain from OoOJava? A parallel implementation that preserves the observable behavior of the sequential program. Once we've developed the sequential program to our satisfaction, we can obtain a parallel implementation for a relatively low development cost compared to explicitly parallel models.
What about related research? There is a large body of work concerning automatic parallelization and compiler-assisted parallelization, and deterministic parallel programming models like OoOJava. The primary contributions of OoOJava are
The primary drawback of OoOJava is that it relies on static analysis. Some programs, like those with irregular parallelism, do not have any parallelism to extract from our static analysis facts. Additionally, it is an open research problem how to scale OoOJava to very large programs; it currently handles programs with tens of thousands lines of code.
Bottom line? OoOJava is a best-bang-for-your-buck point in the parallel programming model design space. It allows you to write programs in a way that is easy to reason about, and it can deliver parallel implementations for programs amenable to OoOJava's static analysis. We believe this type of parallel programming model is essential for a future of mainstream parallel programming.
Launching Rockets
I worked for about 5 years at Northrop Grumman (NGC), most of that time on the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP). I worked on the independent verification and validation of flight computers and software that guided rockets into orbit.
These are some of my mission patches. It was very interesting work; for example I worked regularly with guidance navigation & control (GNC) engineers, propulsion engineers, RF engineers, electrical engineers, so many other kinds of engineers. And I once had the good fortune to attend a launch!
Other Game-Related Projects
Crossword Puzzle in The New York Times
My dad and I got a crossword puzzle published in The New York Times on January 3, 2004. I devised a mind-tickling rebus-like theme. Dad did the grid fill, which is very hard even with software assistance to get a satisfying grid. Nothing's worse than a 90% wonderful puzzle and a corner full of Q's, A's and U's. Dad also wrote yummy tricky clues!
Will Shortz posted on the Times crossword forum that it was the most difficult puzzle he had ever published to that date.
The puzzle is not ours to distribute, but Dad came across an explanation of our puzzle on this blog with this mission to spread crossword love:
I've worked an average of just over one crossword puzzle a day since 1972. During that time I've learned a thing or two about crosswords, and I've even gotten a few of my acquaintances hooked on them. I want to hook you.
The author calls our puzzle "fiendishly twisted" and goes on to give us this huge compliment!
When was the last time -- whether in the field of crossword construction or any other -- that you came up with an idea this clever?
In the end, speaking on all the puzzles mentioned, this author found our work to be what we hoped it could be: the right balance of challenging and fun to make a memorable experience.
These rare puzzles -- the ones with a wickedly hidden theme that requires you to strain your imagination just to figure it out -- are by far the most enjoyable.
Pop Culture Website: XtremeWailing.com
Wailing is a kind of awesome scream-singing, and Xtreme Wailing is clearly what everyone wants to wake up to in the morning... if your day should be filled with katana blades and car chases.
That explanation of "Xtreme Wailing" is pretty much the tone of XtremeWailing.com, this nutty pop culture website my friends Rich, Drew and I founded in 2004.
Over several years we posted 100+ pop culture articles.
We didn't even really try to market the site! But we didn't care much, it was fun just sharing our articles with each other and making the podcast. Also, the site's message board is still up and collecting bots, probably all but 7 of the 6,620 registered users, so it's still interacting with the internet in some capacity.
Also, always remember to
Wail hard!
Essay: "Board Game Design Informs Video Game Design"
After designing board games and video games for some time I've come to the conclusion that good board game design informs good video game design. The short explanation is that a board game experience has more deal-breaking design constraints. There can't be too many rules, or too many numbers for players to track or too many game pieces to update, nor can one sitting take too long. When a board game violates any of these maxims players quickly drop the game for good. There are many other facets to a good game's design that video games and board games share, but board game designers must take extra care to pare down to what is most necessary and effective because players, not a CPU, have to conduct the experience.
An analogy would be how good sketching informs good painting. Sketching in pencil has less degrees of freedom than painting, e.g. lack of color. However, an artist can refine shading techniques and experiment with monochromatic images while sketching and then apply those valuable lessons to the more vibrant realm of painting. Similarly, I offer three concrete examples of how principles drawn from the extra constraints of board game design can inform good video game design.
Rule Reminders
A common theme in board game design is to include a reference card for remembering rules, or to print action-reminder symbols on the board or playing cards. There is no computer to enforce board game rules; players may intentionally or accidentally make invalid moves if the rules are not clear to all players at all times. If players read the rules once and encounter effective reminders as they play then confusion and intentional or accidental invalid moves are minimized. It takes some clever thinking and many design iterations to craft a set of effective rule reminders, but it can make all the difference in getting a complete group of new players to understand and enjoy a board game together.
The idea of crafting rule reminders is clearly applicable to video game design. Video games are able to strictly enforce rules so that players cannot play invalidly, but that doesn't mean the experience will be fun--every video game player has experienced frustration when a game won't let them do something they perceive to be legal. Rather than learn this lesson the hard way, a video game design is better conceived by imagining, like a board game, that the player will likely try invalid actions constantly. How do you communicate the rules and remind the player of them during play? By considering this perspective during design a video game will evolve into a better experience.
Depth Without Complexity
The effort of designing a board game without simply heaping on complexity is often thankless. It is exactly like an audio engineer mixing sound for a movie; a well-mixed audio track sounds completely natural and goes unnoticed as the audience concentrates on absorbing the movie's content. But a bad sound mix is noticeably distracting. Likewise, a game with unnecessary complexity can confuse or tire players. A simple game draws players in easily, and if it also has depth they will stick with it.
The principle of depth without complexity applies to all games, and to video games in particular. Consider this: making a board game more and more complex puts immediate burdens on the players like having to remember 200 pages of rules. A board game designer usually gets instant feedback from players when added complexity is no longer improving the game experience.
With video games this feedback is harder to extract. The processor can do computations for the player, menus and information displays can be constructed to appear contextually; in short, unnecessary complexity in a video game can be mitigated with the power of interactivity, even though the fundamental design is not getting better.
A common example of unnecessary complexity in video games are the statistics of characters in a traditional role-playing game (RPG). RPGs typically feature eight or more characters that the player can assemble into an adventuring party, and each character is scored on various scales: intelligence, strength, magical power, etc. The unnecessary aspect of these designs is that the absolute stat values are unimportant. Does it matter that the level 4 knight has 31 strength and the level 4 mage has 12 strength? Not really, the numbers are arbitrary. What matters is that the knight always has more strength than the same level mage does, and if a weapon improved by strength is discovered by the player, it will be most effectively wielded by the knight.
So how could RPG stat design be improved? If an RPG were converted into a one-sitting board game, asking players to keep changing six or eight stats for each character at every level would be cumbersome. How about creating a reference card with a row for each stat, and a graphical icon of the characters appears in their relative ordering by that stat? So if we look at the row for strength we see a picture of the mage at the low end and a picture of the knight at the high end. There are no numbers and no calculations. We still retain this idea that there are several facets by which a character is measured, but we eliminate the unnecessary complexity of tracking details that are too fine to be of use. It is tempting to add all sorts of complex systems behind the scenes of a video game. But--a designer should ask herself if simply reducing the complexity will result in a more streamlined but equally deep experience.
Good balance in video games can be improved by balancing the "board game version" first.
Reflexes are usually irrelevant or much less emphasized in board games than in video games. Many board games, then, offer a slower, more deliberate thinking experience. With this difference in mind, let's suppose we take a fighting game like Street Fighter and make a board game out of it. Conceptually, it is like accelerating the players' reflexes to the absolute max, where they are able to block or dodge every straight-forward strike. In a board game like this, players must out-think opponents, instead of out-twitch and out-think.
To successfully balance this fighting board game each fighter must have a move set that allows for a variety of strategic options against every other fighter. If we analyze the move set and discover that Guile's moves allow an undefendable sequence when playing against E. Honda, then the move sets must be altered. This is an easier task with a board game than in a video game with reflexes in the mix.
Of course, video fighting games combine the strategy of out-thinking the opponent with reflex skills required to execute moves. I contend it is a mistake to start a design-implement-test cycle for a video fighting game without considering the "board game version" first, where every player has limitless reflex. If history teaches us anything, some players will overcome almost any reflex challenge to achieve undefendable move sequences or other game-breaking effects. Therefore, imagining the design of a video game as a board game first can provide a balanced foundation to build reflex-based elements upon. For example, video fighting games often feature stronger characters that require more difficult move execution--in this case we want to be certain that players who master such a character (i.e. become a player in the "board game version" with practically limitless reflex) cannot find literally unbeatable move sequences.
Video games, in comparison to board games, have an almost infinite design space. There are so many single- and multiplayer experiences that could never work as a board game. However, the principles that make a board game good can help zero-in on the best designs in the vast space of possible video games.


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Kim Kardashian's 72-day marriage is officially over - her divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries was finalized on Monday (03Jun13).
The reality TV star, who is heavily pregnant with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West's baby, split from the sportsman in October, 2011, sparking a bitter legal wrangle between the estranged couple.
They finally reached a settlement in April (13), avoiding a divorce trial, and a Los Angeles judge signed off on the court papers this week.
The terms of the deal have not been released, although Kim Kardashian had signed a prenuptial agreement with the Brooklyn Nets player prior to their August, 2011 wedding.

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Pack for activities first! Start by studying your itinerary to see what you'll be doing on your trip to Iceland. Most outdoor activities (horseback riding, caving, hiking, glacier walking, etc.) will require basically the same gear (with the outfitter providing any specialized gear that's required – helmets, crampons, etc). You'll need to wear heeled boots, such as hiking boots, moisture-wicking socks, long pants, and long sleeve shirts. You'll also want a lightweight, waterproof but breathable shell for rainy or misty days, and a few wool (not cotton) or fleece sweaters for cooler days and evenings. You should consider bringing a hat, scarf and gloves all year round. There are also many opportunities to purchase Icelandic woollen goods!
Add in some "city clothes" In Reykjavík and Akureyri, the only unified theme in fashion is "unique." It's all about personal style, from the frilly dresses and stiletto heels you'd expect to find in New York and London to the hippie-chic styles you might imagine as the norm in any modern city. What you won't find is anything boring and basic – no plain jeans, white t-shirts and sneakers here. Dressing for Reykjavík isn't about changing your personal style, but it is about taking it to the next level. Though, if you plan on going on the weekend Runtur (pub crawl), you'll want to add a few dressier items to your wardrobe. Women generally "dress" in a skirt or dress, or jeans with trendy tops. Men wear tailored dark jeans and button-up shirts, or dark pants and sport coats. For footwear, men usually wear sport loafers or Converse, while women wear anything from high-heeled boots to open-toed stilettos to fashionable flats.
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October 15th, 2016 12:00am - 1:30pm
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Join The Fundy Vault author Linda Moore at Chapters Bayers Lake for a book signing on Saturday, October 15th.
Linda will be in-store from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. with books available for purchase.
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The long-awaited follow-up to Foul Deeds finds thespian-criminologist Rosalind roaming the backroads of Nova Scotia's Minas Basin for clues in the recent murder of a what looked like a woman's body tangled in the roots of a floating tree.


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Courtney Williams
Girls Basketball Player of the Year
Senior, North Shore
To put it simply, Williams is a matchup problem for opponents.
The McDonald's All-American has the size (6-1) to play inside with an ability to do whatever she wants out on the perimeter. She even took her game to another level this season when the Mustangs lost guard Monique Bedford for the year due to injury. Williams led North Shore back to the regional tournament. Headed to Texas A&M, Williams talks about the season, being an All-American and her recruiting class' nickname.
How would you say the season went?
The season was good. It was unexpected for us to go to the fourth round — the regional semifinals. I don't think anybody expected that. We played Hightower (in the regional quarterfinals), and we hadn't beat them in like four years, so that made me feel good because knowing I haven't beat them and beating them my senior year in the playoffs — that felt good because we lost to them earlier in the year. We beat them when it really mattered.
You guys lost Bedford early in the year. How did taking on a bigger role help your game?
It motivated me to get farther in the playoffs for Mo because I know she would have wanted to get to state. I took us as far as we could, but it was just playing harder for her.
How was being named a McDonald's All-American?
I felt honored because LeBron (James), Kobe (Bryant) and (Michael) Jordan all played in that game. I just know I have a great future ahead of me.
What about the game itself?
The game was fun — it didn't feel like it was on TV. It just felt like I was playing another game, and I just played my game. It's still basketball. We just went out there and had fun.
What made Texas A&M the right choice?
My teammates — my old teammates — are there, and I feel comfortable around A&M. The lady who recruited me (Johnnie Harris), I've known her since the eighth grade. Her daughter played on my AAU team, so we got close, and I guess I just wanted to be with her for my next four years of college. I felt like I could trust her, and she's like a mother to me. We're really close.
This recruiting class coming in is called the "six pack." How did that come about?
I don't who made up that name; maybe it was the coaches. I just know I went on my visit and they were calling us the six pack. I guess it's a good name because the six of us are coming in as freshmen and we want to be like the Fab Five. We're going to work hard together, and we have a close bond. We're tight — like a six pack.
Alexis Durley
Jr., G, Dekaney
Durley, who is committed to Cincinnati, averaged 15 points per game this year in leading the Wildcats to their first state tournament.
Loryn Goodwin
Sr., G, Cypress Falls
Goodwin was a key to the Golden Eagles' success this season, leading them with 19.3 points per game.
Kendall Shaw
Sr., P, Barbers Hill
The 6-4 Vanderbilt signee led the Eagles' run to the 4A state tournament.
Brianna Turner
So., P, Manvel
Turner is already one of the nation's top players, and she averaged more than 21 points in leading Manvel to the regional semifinals.
Courtney Williams
Sr., G, North Shore
Williams did a bit of everything, helping the Mustangs get to the regional tournament again.
A.J. Alix
Jr., G, Bellaire
Tiffany Davis
Sr., G, Westbury Christian
Akunna Elonu
Sr., P, Elsik
Veja Hamilton
Sr., G, Klein Collins
Brooke McCarty
So., G, Clear Springs
Nicole Blaskowsky
Sr., G, Fort Bend Austin
Curtyce Knox
Sr., G, Atascocita
Tyler Gilbert
Sr., P, Hightower
Diamonsha Sophus
Sr., G, Wheatley
Anna Strickland
Sr., P, The Woodlands
Damyean Dotson
Boys Basketball Player of the Year
Senior, Yates
Dotson didn't always show the flash that his fellow teammates displayed above the rim for Yates. But when the Lions needed him, the senior always seemed to be at his best. Dotson scored 26 points in a state semifinal win over Denton Ryan, making seven 3-pointers. Two days later, he put up 23 and kept Yates on the verge of claiming its third Class 4A title in four years. Dotson, who will play his college ball at Oregon, talks about playing through injury, the state final and being in the zone.
You missed time with an injury. How was it playing through that?
It was weird — I was moving slow. I had a knee brace at first but then I took it off, but I was still moving slow and I wasn't 100 percent until the last game.
What do you remember about the championship game?
I remember everything. I remember from the first shot to the last shot.
The experience was crazy — it was the biggest crowd I ever played in front of and the longest court I ever played on. The intensity of the game was just at the highest level.
How about when it was over?
My first feeling was, it's over. We're not going to get another chance. This is my senior year. We couldn't do anything about it.
Do you have a favorite play from this year?
I don't really have a favorite play, but I know in one playoff game I hit eight 3s. It wasn't a play, but I was hot the whole game.
Can you feel when you're on like that during a game?
A little bit, but it's just like when you catch it, just let it go. That's how I was feeling. Just catch the ball and shoot it.
The up-tempo pace you guys play can look fun. Is it?
Not when you're tired. It's not fun when you're tired, but when you're stealing the ball and getting dunks and alley-oops, it helps. It's fun when you're not letting the other team score. When you're getting steals, you're not tired. Until a timeout or something, then you realize you're tired. But that's just how we play.
You're going to Oregon — what made that school the right fit?
They have a lot of seniors leaving so the spots for me to come in and play are open. And I like the coaches and the environment.
What about being so far from home?
It's just like if you're from Houston, you get drafted out of high school and you have to go play for the Utah Jazz. You have to make some changes and you have to get used to it.
Damyean Dotson
Sr., G/F, Yates
Dotson, who signed with Oregon, led the Lions to their third state tournament in four years and was the team's top scorer in both games.
Aaron Harrison
Jr., G, Travis
Harrison was named the District 23-5A Most Valuable Player, averaging nearly 19 points a game.
Andrew Harrison
Jr., G, Travis
Harrison led Travis to 36 wins this year and scored a team-high 23 points in the Class 5A final.
Cameron Ridley
Sr., P, Bush
The talented Ridley is heading to UT after a season in which he led Bush to the regional quarterfinals.
Rasheed Sulaimon
Sr., G, Strake Jesuit
One of two area McDonald's All-Americans, the Duke signee led the Crusaders to their second District 19-5A championship in a row.
Terry Allen
Sr., P, Manvel
Evan Cooper
Sr., G, College Park
Danuel House
Sr., P, Hightower
L.J. Rose
Sr., G, Westbury Christian
Clyde Santee
Sr., G, Yates
Mitchell Badillo
Sr., G, Cypress Falls
Josh Gray
Sr., G, Wheatley
Derrick Griffin
Jr., P, Terry
Christian Sanders
Sr., G, St. Thomas
Justise Winslow
So., G, St. John's


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The report also concludes that some homes on the nearby Tobique First Nation may also require relocation at a cost of about $700,000.
The March 23 flood forced the evacuation of 500 of the village's 1,780 residents and resulted in about $25 million damage.
In April, the provincial government tasked a group representing Perth-Andover, the Tobique First Nation, NB Power and the provincial government to examine what caused the flood and what could be done to help prevent similar floods in the future.
The 16-page report that was released Friday says the flood resulted from an early and rapid rise in the flow of the river, and was beyond human control.
"The risk to Perth-Andover and Tobique First Nation is relatively high with a flooding event occurring about every five years over the past decade," the report states.
It goes on to say New Brunswick has been experiencing weather conditions in recent years that contribute to the early break-up and movement of ice, which in turn results in ice jams and flooding.
"Thus it is reasonable to consider relocation of the most seriously affected residences (those that experienced main floor damage) and to consider flood proofing other affected properties."
While some residents pointed to NB Power dams as a cause for the flood, the report says dam operations are not a significant contributing factor to ice jam formation. The report says NB Power followed all guidelines in its operation of dams in the area and tried three times, unsuccessfully, to clear an ice jam.
The report also says road improvements should be made to improve access to the village and surrounding communities during a flood, including a new bridge across the St. John River that would cost at least $20 million.
"A new bridge and approaches constructed above the historical high water mark would ensure continuity of access between Tobique First Nation, Perth, and Andover and beyond during flood conditions, with obvious benefits to the health and safety of the local population."
The report also calls on the provincial government to improve monitoring and forecasting of water levels, ice break-up and possible ice jams.
Perth-Andover Mayor Terry Ritchie is calling on the government to respond to the report within 10 days.
Deputy Mayor Rick Beaulieu said the people of the community need the government to take prompt action.
"We believe there's time this fall to move some people out of danger, so we're hoping a decision can be made as soon as possible so that we can use this fall's construction time," he said Friday.
He said emotions are still running high and residents don't want to face the prospect of their homes flooding again in the spring.
Ryan Donaghy, a spokesman for the Department of Environment and Local Government, would not put a deadline on when the government would respond.
"This is one step towards their response," he said. "Government asked for this study by the end of August. They've received it and decisions will be made going forward."


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I speculate that those girls who do throw like a girl still throw like a toddler, whereas boys (and girls who play softball regularly) grow out of it and use a more efficient motion of the arm.
But I'd never heard of kicking like a girl. Apparently it's real. Some researchers hooked up a couple of dozen male and female college soccer players with electrodes, reflective markers, and video cameras everywhere, and they found that
They found that male players activate the hip flexors (inside of the hip) in their kicking leg and the hip abductors (outside of the hip) in their supporting leg more than females.
In the kicking leg, men generated almost four times as much hip flexor activation as females (123 percent in males compared to 34 percent in females).
In the supporting leg, males generated more than twice as much gluteus medius activation (124 percent in males compared with 55 percent in females) and vastus medialis activation (139 percent in males compared with 69 percent in females).By itself, this is just a moderately interesting difference between the sexes, but it's also true that women suffer many more injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than men do. The authors suggest that the greater use of hip flexors and abductors by men may protect them against injury to the ACL.
It seems to me, not being an athlete myself nor associated with any, that this should be a coachable thing. If girls are using different muscles to kick with than boys, then they are somehow swinging their legs differently, and that should be teachable.


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Albatross Diving Club has been in Reading for forty years. We are proud of our local history and the success of our divers at Junior International, National, Regional and Local competitions. We work hard to spot local diving talent and are especially proud that Albatross nurtured the early talent of Chris Mears, current GB Senior Dive Team Member and 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist.
Albatross is now based at a brand new facility
The Abbey School Reading
Divers also benefit from dry training at a dedicated dry training facility
Rivermead Leisure Centre Reading
Albatross divers won gold at every level of National competition in 2017
British Diving National Junior Elites Gold Medallist James West
British Diving / Swim England National Talent Games Gold medallist Lauren Saunders
Swim England National Age Groups Gold Medallists Charlotte West & Finlay Cook
Swim England National Skills Gold Medallist Alfie Cook
Quick Facts
- Albatross Diving Club was founded in 1978 by Anne Green Jessel, our current Club President
- We have approximately 30 competitive squad members and around 40 more members involved in learn to dive and adult diving
- Our squad divers are aged from 5 years and train up to 5 times a week
- All coaches are fully qualified (Swim England L1/L2 QFC) with some having additional qualifications in lifesaving gymnastics, trampolines & rig work
- We take our commitment to child safety extremely seriously. All adult coaches are DBS checked and have attended workshops on safeguarding & protecting children in sport. The club has been awarded Swim Mark accreditation from Swim England
- Many divers know Albatross through attending our novice interclub competition. This highly popular event attracts over 150 divers from clubs across the country to Reading each summer


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Author Notes: this recipe comes from having once had a jar of apricot preserves my summer house and thinking that it rarely got used. —lgoler
Serves: 4
cup Nonfat plan yogurt
cup apricot preserves
tablespoons whole grain dijon mustard
- Whisk to combine the yogurt, apricot preserves and mustard in a large bowl.
- Combine the sauce with the swordfish steaks in the same bowl, coating both sides of each steak with the sauce. Cover and let sit in the refrigerator for one hour or longer.
- To cook, fire grill at medium setting or pre-heat oven to 375.
- Place steaks directly on an oiled grill (or baking pan if cooking in oven) and cook each side for approximately 5-6 minutes depending on the thickness of the steaks.
- Serve with a thyme or mint spring as garnish.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Swordfish Recipe
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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- Current Status
- In Season
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- runtime
- 86 minutes
- Limited Release Date
- 11/07/08
- performer
- Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien
- director
- Mark Herman
- distributor
- Miramax
- author
- Mark Herman
- Genre
- Drama
We gave it a D-
Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is 8 years old in 1940s Berlin when his daddy (David Thewlis) moves Mama (Vera Farmiga) and the kids closer to work. Small detail: Dad is a Nazi officer who runs a concentration camp. Gaping at a strange nearby "farm," the inquisitive lad befriends a boy on the other side of the barbed wire who is much like Bruno — except, you know, Jewish and slated for extinction. As a Holocaust-for-kids fable, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares. D?


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The Pharmacy Department provides a supply, dispensing and clinical pharmacy service for hospital inpatients, wards and departments located in the Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Wairoa Health and Central Hawke's Bay Health Centre (located in Waipukurau) as well as other District Health Boards.
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Clinical pharmacy is about managing the patient's medication therapy in order to maximise effective treatment outcomes and minimise adverse effects. Pharmacists achieve this in a number of ways:
- Advising on drug selection, dose, route and treatment duration
- Monitoring for drug interactions and incompatibilities between prescribed medicines
- Overseeing therapeutic drug monitoring for selected agents
- Advising on patient adherence (issues affecting how well patients take their medicines)
- Reporting suspected adverse drug reactions
- Advising on how a patient's medical condition/s may affect response to a specific drug therapy
Pharmacists are also involved in the discharge process, including counselling patients on the correct use of their prescribed medication. Pharmacists are assigned regular wards enabling them to build relationships with other health professionals on the patient care team, and spend most of their day there. However they are rotated through the specialty groups, providing plenty of variation.
The department also provides support for clinical drug trials. Staff are involved in preparing and reviewing clinical guidelines and supporting implementation of the Hospital Medicines List (HML) and are active on a number of committees involved in the day to day running of the hospital including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Infection Control and Palliative Care Committees. The Team Leader-Clinical oversees the Clinical Pharmacy service.
Medicines Information
Clinical pharmacists answer queries on medicines therapy for medical, nursing and allied health professionals as well as the general public. Staff also give lectures and some participate in the provision of training programmes for other staff. The Team Leader-Clinical oversees the Medicines Information service.
The dispensary supplies prescribed medicines to hospital inpatients from medication charts faxed from the wards. Charts are screened for appropriate prescribing, legality and supply issues, keyed through the Pharmacy computer system, packed, labelled, checked and distributed to the wards. An imprest supply system operates on the wards and clinical areas. Frequently used medicines are supplied by the dispensary according to an imprest list and replenished at regular intervals by pharmacy technicians or the pharmacy orderly. A limited range of prescriptions are dispensed for outpatients where these are not subsidised through community pharmacies (community funded medicines may be dispensed from local community pharmacies). The dispensary also supplies medication for patients in the Home IV service. The Dispensary Co-ordinator oversees dispensary operations.


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Light & comfortable apartm. for rent Lugano Centre
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This color photo was taken in 1996 about the time of the College's centennial of the first class being admitted in 1896. Hence, it is known as the "Centennial Faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine".
Submission of publications is voluntary. Send citations, pdf files for inclusion, and requests for information to Reference Services, Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library at email@example.com or call 607-253-3510.
A more complete database of citations and abstracts (if available) of College faculty publications from 2000 to date is also accessible at http://www.refworks.com/refshare?site=010271135918800000/RWWS1A1494977/078611229112724000
Recent Submissions
Developmental Immunotoxicity, Perinatal Programming, and Noncommunicable Diseases: Focus on Human Studies (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-01-23)Developmental immunotoxicity (DIT) is a term given to encompass the environmentally induced disruption of normal immune development resulting in adverse outcomes. A myriad of chemical, physical, and psychological factors ...
Natural childbirth and breastfeeding as preventive measures of immune-microbiome dysbiosis and misregulated inflammation (Journal of Ancient Diseases & Preventive Remedies, 2013-06-03)Much of the prior century was spent applying the latest emerging technologies toward managing pregnancy, childbirth, and infant development. The idea was that each change was significantly improving the health of our children ...
The Completed Self: An Immunological View of the Human-Microbiome Superorganism and Risk of Chronic Diseases (MDPI, 2012-10-25)In this review, we discuss an immunological-driven sign termed the Completed Self, which is related to a holistic determination of health vs. disease. This sign (human plus commensal microbiota) forms the human superorganism. ...
Energy Medicine and the Path to Globally-Sustainable Health (Cornell University, 2013-03-04)This paper provides key points regarding the significance of energy medicine, a category of complementary and alternative medicine, to a global healthcare approach that is accessible, inclusive, individually-tailored, ...
Breaking patterns of environmentally influenced disease for health risk reduction: immune perspectives (U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010-08)BACKGROUND: Diseases rarely, if ever, occur in isolation. Instead, most represent part of a more complex web or "pattern" of conditions that are connected via underlying biological mechanisms and processes, emerge across ...


text: August 10, 2006 - 11.30 GMTSamsung announces that it has developed a 3" LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital cameras. Digital camera makers use an international standard for cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that operates at 30Hz. As this standard is incompatible with LCDs, which normally run at 60Hz, manufacturers had to either compress the images or manipulate the signal. You may wonder though why a modern device like a digital camera uses an interface out of the early days of television...More


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As you work with Excel, you might discover yourself repeating many actions and commands. For example, every time you create a new worksheet, you might immediately enter a series of titles (such as months) across one row or format a set of numbers using the currency style.
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text: Emily is one of my prettiest and sweetest girls. She represents spring because of her freshly looking face and beautiful tender eyes. She takes a walk in a park if the weather is very sunny and warm. She enjoys the sun and loves the singing of the birds. Well, who doesn't? See her below.


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I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my god, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my god, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from
Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
That never even ever really even is any end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of it's tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Oh my God and oh my cat
I told my dad what I need
Well I don't want to have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said he said he said he said
"where we're going I'm dead."
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There may be a problem with the new nvidia driver...
Just wanted to put a heads up, I came on today to look over a few bsod posts. 3 of 4 seem to be problems caused by the latest nvidia update.
I may be jumping the gun, but you may want to skip this one if it doesn't solve a particular problem you are suffering from.
...like I said it could just be a coincidence, it wouldn't be the first time nvidia or ATI for that matter released a borked driver though.
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|10 Mar 2011
Which driver are you referring to? I believe the current official release is 266.66 and I had no issues with that and right now i'm running 267.26(beta aka 267.24) and its been solid also.
I know 270.32 has also been floating around now also but that's a dev beta so issues would be expected.
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|10 Mar 2011
As I said may be jumping the gun but I saw several of them back to back in the process of checking threads this morning.
I told them all to driver sweep and reinstall, and haven't heard back from any, so it may just be a problem with the new driver installing properly.
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Our core service offers tailored one-to-one sessions in professionally equipped music studios with music industry mentors for musicians, singers, MC's, and producers who are using mental health services. Activities include songwriting and composition, instrumental and vocal coaching, beatmaking, production, recording, and performance skills.
We also provide a range of group-based activities ranging from a community choir to a weekly drop-in with open mic, studio sessions, football, gardening, snooker, table tennis, art, and complimentary therapies.
Our activities provide a structured pathway to mainstream music opportunities for musicians, singers, MC's, and producers who are using mental health services.
We support all skills levels from beginners with little or no musical experience to people with extensive professional backgrounds in the music industry. Our step-by-step referral pathway includes an assessment of individual interests and aspirations and a taster session in the studio with one of our musician producers. Our creative collaborative approach promotes recovery from mental health problems and encourages progression to new life opportunities.
We also offer taster sessions, bespoke projects and one-off events for other organisations and service providers in the community, Please contact us for more information.
What's included:
- Tailored one-to-one studio sessions
- Professionally equipped writing, production and recording studios
- Specially trained music industry mentors
- Develop skills in music technology, sound recording, songwriting, composition, arrangement, vocal technique, performance skills
- Culturally relevant music styles including hip hop, soul, rock, reggae, grime, jazz, folk, drum'n'bass, dubstep, and anything inbetween!
- Concerts and events at mainstream festivals and venues
- Weekly drop-in with football, open mic, cafe, art, table tennis, gardening, snooker, social media workshop and other pro-social activities
- Pre-start assessment and taster session, ongoing contact with Care Coordinator and mental health services throughout engagement
- Signposting to additional support with health and wellbeing
- Progression to continuing education, volunteering opportunities, work experience and employment
To be eligible you must be using mental health services and referred by a Care Coordinator. Click here for details about our referral process or contact us for more information.


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MORRISTOWN – MSG Varsity will be airing the Frozen Flashback, a hockey game 21 years in the making, Monday, April 5 at 8 p.m. on MSG Varsity, Cablevision's iO TV (Channel 14).
The teams from Delbarton School of Morristown and St. Joseph's School of Montvale, have reassembled to take the ice to finally play the New Jersey State Ice Hockey Championship game that was cancelled in 1989 due to a measles outbreak. The teams will now play for charity as they face-off at the Mennen Arena in Morristown, the site where the championship game was to be held in 1989.
"MSG Varsity is thrilled to exclusively air this historic hockey match-up," said Michael Larder, Senior Vice President & Executive Producer, MSG Varsity. "Back in 1989, high school sports games were not being televised – so how cool that these players now get the chance to end this long running debate on television, while giving back to the local community – it's a win for everyone."
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The producers at Seek First Productions have the experience necessary to execute any type of production. Whether branded entertainment, corporate commercial, web series, show pilot, animation, music video, or any other project.
We specialize in 'from-the-ground-up' production. With minimal up front information we can put together an entire production campaign from concept to delivery.
How does this work?
1) We start with an initial consultation. This could be a phone call, a few emails shot back and forth, or even a lunch. We want to get to know you and your business. What are your customers/clients like? How do things typically work in you industry? What exactly are you hoping to do with your production? Ultimately, we want to use our skills and resources to serve your needs as best as possible.
2) Our creative spark gets ignited. If you don't have a script prepared when you come to us, that's alright! We love working with our clients to come up with creative stories and branding ideas. We'll work hard to present multiple ideas to you, and once one is approved we will go to work crafting that idea into a script. If your project is an animation, we will provide a storyboard before moving forward.
3) We bring the concept to life. Production length depends on the scope of the project, but we have a knack for fast turnarounds. After setting shoot dates, budgets, and procuring the right talent and locations, we will work tirelessly to ensure beautiful cinematography and performances are capture for your project. If your project is an animation, you will receive concept art before moving forward on production.
4) A timeline is born. Editors at Seek First Productions are highly skilled with an array of software including Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Boujou, and Soundbooth. We have the perfect workflow for large serial projects such as TV shows, as well as smaller-scale projects such as marketing videos.
A rough cut will be delivered before finishing touches are added. This is to ensure your project is completed in a timely manner, so we aren't going back to make enormous changes. We like to keep our clients up-to-date on their projects and bring them in on every stage of production.
5) We deliver. Our company can deliver in the right format for your purposes on any medium you choose.
As a bonus, we offer clients the ability to market their products through our distribution channels - social media, websites, blogs, etc.


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MWC 2017: Announcements from the Big Brands
Mobile World Congress is the world's largest electronics show that gets kicked off, every year in Barcelona. It was slated to happen from Feb 27 to March 2 of this year. Most of the technology giants who manufacture mobile devices usually participate in the event, with announcements made for the various devices. We generally come to know of some of the announcements regarding the high-profile handsets, setting aside a range of speculations before the event gets started. We will also try to give a list of what was new from…Read More


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Washtenaw County could soon get a major boost to its economy.
The county has applied for a nearly one million dollar federal grant to convert the old GM Powertrain plant in Ypsilanti Township into a research & development facility for connected and automated vehicles.
County Administrator Verna McDaniel says if the grant is approved, it could lead to creation of 7,800 research and skilled trade jobs.
McDaniel says the county should know one way or the other in the next two to three weeks.


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The City of DeKalb has contracted with Waste Management for refuse and recycling collection within the City of DeKalb. Curbside collection is billed through your City of DeKalb water billing.
Contact Waste Management at 800-796-9696 for questions or problems with garbage and recycling collection. Please do not set out refuse and recycling earlier than 6:00 a.m. on the day prior to collection. Remove containers no later than midnight on the day of collection.
Contact Waste Management at 800-796-9696 for questions or problems with garbage and recycling collection. Please do not set out refuse and recycling earlier than 6:00 a.m. on the day prior to collection. Remove containers no later than midnight on the day of collection.
Scheduled Collection Days
Waste Management collects refuse and recycling in the City of DeKalb Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Check for your scheduled collection here: Collection Day Map
The following holidays will delay collection one day:
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas.
If any of the above holidays falls on a weekend, they will be observed on the following Monday, thus delaying service by one day that week.
Landscape Waste
Yard waste is collected by Waste Management on regularly scheduled collection days seasonally from April 1 through the end of November. Landscape waste must be placed in approved biodegradable landscape waste bags or open garbage cans not larger than 32 gallon capacity. Brush must be cut to 4 foot lengths and bundled with twine or string, not to exceed 50 pounds.
Landscape Drop Off Sites
Landscape Waste Drop-off Sites-Landscape drop off containers are in place at the following locations April 1st through November 30th:
- Fire Station #2 - 1154 South 7th Street
- City Garden Plots, west of Fire Station #3 950 W. Dresser Road
- The southeast corner of North 7th Street and Oak Street
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- Dumping of any refuse (including yard waste) on the ground
- Dumping by professional landscape contractors
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Electronic Recycling
Electronics were banned from landfills in 2012. Electronic Recycling is offered in DeKalb on the first Saturday of each month. For more information: Recycling Electronics
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Would you like to be rewarded for taking care of the environment? Join the Recyclebank program and receive rewards for simply doing what you already do! Click here to learn how to join the Recyclebank program and collect your rewards.
Hazardous Waste Disposal
The DeKalb County Health Department sponsors collection events for difficult-to-dispose of wastes. For more information: DeKalb County Health Department


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Mosston School is a state school, situated on the North Western boundary of Wanganui adjacent to the suburb of Springvale. We are a friendly family school in a semi-rural setting. The country atmosphere of our school is maintained by regular inter-school fixtures held with nearby country schools. Mosston School delivers quality education to year 0-6 students.
We listen closely to our school community and incorporate the values of our community in our curriculum planning. Although most of our families reside in the neighbouring suburb of Springvale, we also enrol pupils from the wider community, but we are subject to a Ministry of Education Enrolment Scheme. This means we are obliged to give first preference of enrolment to children living within our zone. The school roll usually ranges to a maximum of 160 children with our optimal number being 155.
We operate 7 classrooms, which are often composite classes covering 2 year groups. We have excellent facilities and access to more in the immediate vicinity of the school. A wide range of sporting and cultural activities are available to children because of our close proximity to the main centre. We join with a cluster of 6 other primary schools in our area for many mutually beneficial activities such as sports and leadership training.
We are happy to show prospective families through our school. Just call us on 06 3455432 to arrange a time.
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The School of Law prides itself on being a leader in innovation and was recently recognized as one of the 15 most innovative law schools by National Jurist magazine and one of the 25 most innovative law schools by preLaw magazine. We realize that legal education is changing, and we are committed to providing a comprehensive program that meets the needs of our diverse student body. We offer unique course and practical skills options as well as a range of enrollment options to help engage our students to become practice-ready attorneys. This commitment also extends to the technology you'll see around the Law School, including our recently remodeled technology classroom.
Courses and Programs
While the Law School offers a range of innovative courses and programs, the magazines selected UMKC because of its Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation (ENVC) course and its Solo and Small Firm Initiative.
The ENVC course is a unique blend of classroom teaching, clinical and experiential learning, and competition that helps students develop an appreciation for the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship. The course involves students working in teams and using real-world projects to examine the economic, legal, marketing, and operational mechanisms that help to develop business plans for workable venture ideas. The ENVC course culminates with participation in the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge, where course participants are given the opportunity to pitch their business plans before a panel of judges which includes entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, educators, researchers and attorneys. This year, we plan to add a mini-term course on social enterprises, leading to possible involvement in the Levit Social Entrepreneurship Challenge.
The Law School's Solo and Small Firm Initiative program is designed to help students prepare for a career of entrepreneurial lawyering by providing key skills, knowledge and professional capabilities. Students learn about both practicing law and running a law practice. The innovative Entrepreneurial Lawyering: Solo and Small Firm Practice summer course provides instruction in running a law practice and brings the students to the Missouri Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference, where they attend sessions and have the opportunity to network with nearly 1000 lawyers. Taking this education a step further, the Law School opened the Solo and Small Firm Incubator, which offers affordable office space and an office assistant, along with experienced mentor attorneys and guidance in managing a legal practice.
Admissions Opportunities
The UMKC School of Law offers a wide range of other unique programs like the Six-Year Law Scholars Program, the LSAT Prep Course, Spring Start, and Summer Start, which allow students to get ahead and complete degrees in a shorter amount of time than would otherwise be possible. The School is even working on a program that will allow first-year students to acquire live-client experience.
The Six-Year Law Scholars Program offers students the opportunity to complete their final 30 hours of undergraduate coursework in the School of Law during their first year of law school. When a Six-Year Law Scholar has obtained the remaining credit hours in the School of Law to complete the 120 credit hour requirement for the undergraduate degree, the student will be awarded an undergraduate degree from the College of Arts & Sciences, while simultaneously working toward a Juris Doctor post-graduate degree. This effectively allows students to receive both their B.A. or B.L.A. and J.D. degrees in six years instead of seven.
The LSAT Prep Course is a unique opportunity offered through a partnership between the School of Law and Get Smarter Prep that prepares students for the upcoming LSAT. The six-week course is designed to cover the LSAT sections and writing sample. Get Smarter Prep developed the materials, and UMKC provides the location and an introductory session about the law school application and admissions process from admissions professionals and UMKC faculty.
Leon E. Bloch Law Library
The Leon E. Bloch Law Library at UMKC was recently featured in an article in the AALL Spectrum highlighting the recent renovations the library has made to further support technology and research for students in the 6,525-square-foot space. Through contributions made by Tom and Vina Hyde, the Courtney Turner Trust and others, the library now offers direct access to students right across from the large classrooms and provides a wide range of technological advancements.
The new Courtney Turner Trust Collaborative Technology Classroom, or simply the tech classroom, utilizes several new technologies that allow students to work in a group setting more effectively. The classroom is host to six 46-inch monitors used to share presentations, eight Apple Mac minis running Tidebreak's ClassSpot and TeamSpot software, a ceiling-mounted ELMO projector, a Crestron touch-screen control panel, and a Dell computer for a traditional classroom experience. A unique laptop clinic was also constructed to repair and diagnose computer problems for students while they focus on their studies.
The library is also host to three new Bookeye Scanners, which utilize several new technologies to digitize print material. The scanners are capable of converting print material into several output formats including image formats, a searchable pdf format, rich text format, and even MP3 format, which converts the text of a print document into an audio file. This kind of technology is crucial for students to have access to as research material continually moves into the digital sphere.
These are just a few examples of ways that the UMKC School of Law is constantly innovating to offer new technologies to the students who call it home. We truly are leading the way in preparing tomorrow's lawyers and leaders today.


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"Working with Shelley on the Gold Dust Mentoring scheme has been an absolute privilege. Shelley is so wise and insightful, not only about the craft of writing great fiction, but also about what a reader expects from a novel … [she] is truly inspirational." Catherine Taylor Burden, Gold Dust, January 2018
"Shelley's feedback was a perfect combination of encouragement and keen-eyed remarks when my work did not live up to its potential. Her consideration and flexibility made it possible for me to manage this high-quality creative writing programme alongside my working life. I am proud to have had Shelley as my mentor and to have been part of the Gold Dust scheme." Gabor Holch, Gold Dust (based in Shanghai, mentored by Skype), February 2017
"I feel as if I have been at university, with my own private tutor to guide, encourage, and inform me. In Shelley I found a friend, a tutor, a guide – everything I was looking for in a mentor." Nina Davies, Gold Dust, January 2017
"I feel truly privileged to have had my life-changing writing mentorship with Shelley Weiner. What makes her exceptional mentor is her sensitive yet thought-provoking style, and her generous and empowering ability to unleash potential."
Julieta Timane, Gold Dust, August 2016
"Under Shelley's perceptive, sharp eye I wrote, dismantled and rebuilt my story. As a mentor she instilled confidence in myself and in my abilities. She was a quiet, calm force and her constructive criticism allowed the creative process to develop. Now the mentoring has ended, I want to start with Shelley all over again. She is amazing — a star."
Sarah Jhirad, Gold Dust, June 2016
"I am hugely grateful to Shelley for believing in me and in my story. Her mentoring of me helped me shape my memoir. When I faltered and lost confidence she helped me get back on track. As a result I have a way forward, a theme, a structure and can now write dialogue which I had never done before! I highly recommend Shelley as a mentor to guide, challenge and support you in your writing."
Anni Townend, Gold Dust, May 2016
" Shelley turned on so many light bulbs for me over the year we worked together that I've finally been able to make my way to those two magical words… The End. With her help I feel like I might be getting closer to a work of fiction I can be proud of. I've come out of our conversations richer, more confident, and most importantly, a better writer."
Vanessa Blackledge, Gold Dust, January 2016
"My year with Shelley as my mentor has been an amazing journey. She has shown me how to produce an engaging novel by considering the whole structure, both of plot and characters. Shelley expects her students to work as hard as she herself works. I would recommend others to take this marvellous chance to realise their potential with her as their mentor."
Mary Major, Gold Dust, February 2015
"I marvel at how much I have received from Shelley Weiner's mentoring and how my confidence has grown. Her sensitive guidance has transformed my ability to write – both on a technical level and in the mysterious way she has elicited my voice and given me confidence in it. I feel as though I have been on an MA in creative writing. She has been an exciting and uplifting teacher because she has drawn out of me what is heartfelt and alive, and encouraged me to trust it. What she has taught me has changed me for ever."
Helena Partridge, Gold Dust, February 2015
"Each session with Shelley left me with much to consider. She was patient and encouraging and her comments and suggestions have been revealing and instructive. I am grateful for all the time and energy she spent constructively critiquing my work and assisting me."
Jocelyn Watson, Gold Dust, September 2014
"Shelley was lovely – helpful, focused and very encouraging, lots of useful tips and tools. … A truly fantastic course providing me with precisely the tools I was after to help get my idea out of my mind and onto the page. … Shelley was perceptive and helpful as well as being an excellent teacher….Loved the writing course – really thoroughly enjoyable."
Skyros Writers' Lab participants.
"I have just had my last mentoring session with Shelley, and I want you to know how delighted I am with the whole experience. I had an idea for a story but no experience of writing a novel. Because of her patience and expertise, I will now actually finish my novel, and she has given me enough confidence in my writing to submit it, when finished, to professional scrutiny. I would happily recommend her to any other wannabe novelist."
Laurence Myers, Gold Dust, 2014
"Our Skype sessions worked extremely well because they allowed me to remain highly focused. I had considered trying for an MA in Creative Writing but went for mentoring instead – and from the start I knew I had made the right choice. Shelley helped me to find and fully explore my protagonist's voice, and my own voice as a writer. Her mentoring has enabled me to build my confidence as a writer. I now feel competent to tackle that magical final draft, though I'll really miss our sessions."
Mya Roberts, Gold Dust, 2014


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Breast awareness group paints breasts for cause
Fort Lauderdale photographer and art gallery owner Michael Colanero started a paint breast cancer awareness effort, teaming up with body paint artists Keegan Hitchcock and Luci Ungerbuehler to create the images, and many more. The models are all breast cancer survivors, he said, whose bodies are painted. Colanero photographs them, adding artistic touches to the photos afterward for the Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project (BCABPP). They and the cancer survivors, some of whom are local, are upset that Facebook has taken down some of the photos as violations of the nudity/pornography rules.
Photos by Michael Colanero
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Delhi and Agra are just 253 Km apart and the journey will take almost3-4 hours whether you travel by rail or by road. The travel experience from Delhi to Agra goes extremely smooth and hassle free if you travel trough Wingo Cab services. Agra is a famous tourist destination for tourists all over the world. These tourists travel to India especially to see the beauty and elegance of Taj Mahal that is situated in Agra.
The Delhi Agra Jaipur tour is also known as the golden triangle journey. Traveling through Delhi to Jaipur one way taxi service you will get to spot numerous beautifully designed hotels and restaurants on the roadside. The journey will bestow you a good time with family and friends. You can start the journey from the country capital, Delhi to your second destination Agra, you can use various transport services like the taxis, or buses, or trains that fit your budget. Moving forward to your third and final destination that is Jaipur, you will see the versatility in food, culture, and the Rajasthani tradition that is world famous.
On the whole trip from Delhi to Jaipur; you will experience the most valuable and authentic heritage of the three most beautiful places in India that you will cherish for your lifetime.


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FTSE 100 hits record as pound hit by Barnier comments
London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed at a record high on Thursday, rising 0.3% to 7,556.24.
The rise of 22.43 points in the benchmark index took it above the previous high of 7,547.63, reached on 26 May this year.
However, the pound fell back after the EU's chief negotiator said talks over Brexit were making little progress.
Michel Barnier said there was still "deadlock" over the so-called divorce bill, which he said was "disturbing".
Sterling dropped in reaction to the news, with the pound down 0.39% against the dollar at $1.3173. It also fell 0.23% against the euro to €1.1122.
The index often benefits from a fall in sterling, as a weaker currency increases the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.
"The UK stock market continues its winning streak despite concerns over economic performance and the unfolding Brexit process," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"The question is whether the market's strong run means it's fit to burst."
Sky was one of the biggest risers in the FTSE 100, up 1.4%, after the broadcaster reported a big rise in new customers.
Popular TV series such as Game of Thrones helped it to add 160,000 new customers in the first quarter of its financial year, up 51% on a year earlier.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Just Eat jumped 6.5% after the online takeaway ordering firm's takeover bid for rival Hungryhouse was given provisional clearance.
The Competition and Markets Authority said the tie-up was "unlikely to result in competition concerns".
It said the industry was "evolving rapidly", with companies such as Deliveroo, Ubereats and Amazon all now entering the market.