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Storrow Drive
Storrow Drive, officially James Jackson Storrow Memorial Drive, is a major crosstown parkway in Boston, Massachusetts, running east–west along the southern bank of the Charles River.[2] It is restricted to cars; trucks and buses are not permitted on it. Boston drivers use the route for quick access to downtown locations.[2]
|James Jackson Storrow Drive
David G. Mugar Way
|Maintained by
|Massachusetts DCR
|1.98 mi (3.19 km)
|West end
|Soldiers Field Road in Fenway–Kenmore
| Route 2A in Back Bay
Route 28 in Back Bay
|East end
|I‑93 / US 1 / Route 3 / Route 28 in West End
The parkway is named for James J. Storrow, an investment banker who led a campaign to create the Charles River Basin and preserve and improve the riverbanks as a public park. He had never advocated a parkway beside the river, and his widow publicly opposed it.[3]
Route descriptionEdit
The segment between the interchange with Route 28 near Copley Square and Leverett Circle, the road is officially David G. Mugar Way (formerly Embankment Road), although still signed as Storrow Drive. The entirety of this segment is concurrent with Route 28. To the west, Storrow Drive ends and becomes Soldiers Field Road at its partial junction with the Boston University Bridge (Route 2). In between, westbound Storrow Drive has a junction with the Harvard Bridge (Route 2A, Massachusetts Avenue).
Both Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road are maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and are part of the parkway system interconnecting the Emerald Necklace in Boston and Brookline. Together with Memorial Drive and the Cambridge Parkway, Storrow Drive is also part of the Charles River Basin Historic District (listed in the National Register of Historic Places). Prior to 1989, Storrow Drive also carried the U.S. Route 1 designation; US 1 is now routed concurrently with Interstate 93 through the O'Neill Tunnel.
Traffic issuesEdit
The road is notorious for speeding and aggressive driving because police enforcement along the road is difficult without a breakdown lane. Radio traffic reports have warned motorists about "ponding" on Storrow Drive, which occurs when snow and frozen ground prevent water from draining properly into storm drains.[4] The underpasses also commonly flood during heavy rains, sometimes stalling low-riding cars.[5] Additional problems include narrow lanes and very limited visibility on short entrance ramps.
Concert parkingEdit
During some summer night concerts at the Hatch Shell, many drivers park their cars in the outbound lanes of Storrow Drive. The free concerts and fireworks displays attract 200,000 people, and many take advantage of the free parking.[2]
Low clearanceEdit
There is an abundance of signs giving road clearance height[citation needed]. Despite the signs, a truck or other large vehicle will periodically get wedged under a bridge, which causes traffic to back up for several miles. In one incident a truck full of scissors became stuck and spilled its cargo, causing more than 30 cars to get flat tires.[2] There is a 10 foot (3.0 m) height limit for the entire parkway.[6] Local media has taken to referring to these kinds of accidents as a truck being "Storrowed".[7]
Pedestrian crossingsEdit
Because Storrow Drive is a high-speed limited-access road, pedestrian access is prevented by a series of perimeter fences. To connect the Charles River Esplanade (a popular park and recreational area along the south bank of the river) to adjacent Boston neighborhoods, a number of pedestrian overpasses have been constructed. Listed in order from downstream to upstream, they are:[8][9]
- Blossom Street bridge (near Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Frances Appleton Bridge (at Cambridge Street, next to Longfellow Bridge)
- Arthur Fiedler Bridge (connecting to the Hatch Memorial Shell near Arlington Street)
- Dartmouth Street bridge
- Fairfield Street bridge
- Harvard Bridge (at Massachusetts Avenue)
- Silber Way bridge
- Boston University Marsh Chapel bridge
- Boston University Bridge
Between 1958 and 1971, Storrow Drive was designated Massachusetts Routes C1 and C9.[10]
Early oppositionEdit
James Storrow had been instrumental in earlier projects along the Charles River, in particular the Charles River Dam. Additions to the Charles River Esplanade had been made during the 1930s only by omitting an important part of the project, a proposed highway from the Longfellow Bridge to the Cottage Farm (Boston University) Bridge, which had provoked tremendous protest.[11] After Helen Storrow, the wife of the now deceased James Storrow, supported a group opposed to the highway, it was dropped;[11] part of the funding was to have come from a million-dollar gift from her.[12] Soon after Helen Storrow's death in 1944, a new proposal for the construction of the highway was pushed through the Massachusetts Legislature. In spite of still strong opposition, and through some dubious parliamentary procedures, the bill approving construction of the highway and naming it after James Storrow was passed in 1949.[13]
Construction took place in the years 1950–1951. As part of the attempt to preserve park land, any land used by the highway had to be replaced by reclaiming new land along the shoreline.[14] Storrow Drive was officially opened in a ribbon cutting ceremony by Governor Paul A. Dever on June 15, 1951.[1]
An on-ramp leading from southbound Massachusetts Avenue to eastbound Storrow Drive was constructed but later removed, leaving an island of greenspace between the inbound and outbound carriageways.[5] Overpasses to Fenway via Charlesgate and in the vicinity of Massachusetts General Hospital were completed a few years later; the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge was completed in 1953.[5] In 1960, high-pressure air from a sewage tunnel under construction caused a geyser-like eruption and damaged the roadway near the BU bridge.[5] The pedestrian overpass near the Longfellow Bridge was constructed in 1962.[5] A "Reverse Curve" sign near downtown was vandalized to say "Reverse the Curse", a reference to the Curse of the Bambino; the sign was removed after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
The Storrow Drive Tunnel, through which Storrow Drive runs along the Esplanade just north of Clarendon, Berkeley and Arlington Streets, has been deteriorating since it was built in 1951. By mid-2007, the Department of Conservation and Recreation determined that repairing the tunnel may be impossible because it was not waterproofed when it was built, and damage in the intervening years has been significant. Consequently the tunnel may have to be rebuilt at a cost upward of $200 million, a project that would require closing critical sections of Storrow Drive to traffic.[15]
Despite the chaos this project would cause to drivers, it also could present an opportunity for the city to improve the area. For example, former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino proposed covering Storrow Drive near the pedestrian Arthur Fiedler Bridge, replacing the old overpass with a wide, ground-level park space that would better connect the green space of Boston's Public Garden with the Esplanade.[16]
Other plans for the road propose closing it to traffic on Sunday mornings in the summer, much as is done across the river on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. This would create a recreational area for walking, biking and roller blading on weekends, though this has been criticized as unnecessary due to the presence of the nearby Esplanade paths and the existing Memorial Drive road closure. Regardless, Storrow Drive east of Massachusetts Avenue is usually closed to traffic and open to pedestrians and cyclists during the Independence Day (July 4) celebration at the Esplanade.
Exit listEdit
Mileposts continue east from Soldiers Field Road. The entire route is in Boston, Suffolk County. All exits are unnumbered.
|Soldiers Field Road west – Newton, Watertown
|Continuation beyond University Road
|University Road – Brookline
|Eastbound exit and entrance; serves Boston University; to US 20
|Back Bay
|Kenmore Square, Fenway
|Access via Charlesgate; former alignment of US 1
|Route 2A west – Cambridge, Arlington
|Westbound exit only
|Route 28 south – Copley Square, Back Bay
|Route 28 continues south; Storrow Drive becomes David G. Mugar Way
|Downtown Boston
|Eastbound exit only
|Beacon Hill
|Route 3 north – Government Center, Kendall Square, Cambridge
|Route 3 continues north
|West End
|I‑93 north / US 1 north – Tobin Bridge, Concord, NH
|Eastbound exit only (via tunnel)
|Route 28 north (O'Brien Highway) / Martha Road – Cambridge, Stoneham, North Station
|Route 28 continues north via Charles River Dam Road
|I‑93 / US 1 / Route 3 south – Tobin Bridge, Concord, NH, Quincy, Logan Airport
|Leverett Circle; Routes 3 continues south; northbound exit via Leverett Connector; exit 26 on I-93 / US 1
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
See alsoEdit
- Memorial Drive, on the opposite side of the river in Cambridge
- Charles River Bike Path
- Charles River Reservation
- List of crossings of the Charles River
- ^ a b "Massachusetts Road Opened". The New York Times. 1951-06-16. Sports section, Page 13. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
- ^ a b c d Gershkoff, Ira; Richard Trachtman (2004). The Boston Driver's Handbook: Wild in the Streets: The Almost Post Big Dig Edition (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 0-306-81326-2. OCLC 53970660.
- ^ Berg, FASLA, Shary Page (June 23, 2009). "Charles River Esplanade Study Report" (PDF). Boston Landmarks Commission: 33. Retrieved 2015-05-07.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Amsterdam, Dick; Nancy Parsons (2000). Morsels from the Better Mousetrap: Tips, Tricks and Tales About Corporate Communications for Small Businesses. Xlibris Corporation. p. 143. ISBN 0-7388-1674-4. OCLC 0738816744.[self-published source]
- ^ a b c d e Has Boston outsmarted Storrowing?
- ^ Cambridge, MA policy order resolution, February 11, 2013.
- ^ Universal Hub
- ^ Cherubino, Penny; Cherubino, Ed (June 29, 2010). "How to Get to the Esplanade from Boston". Boston Zest. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ^ "Getting to the Park". The Esplanade Association. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ^ "1938 Map of Boston". WCVB / MassDOT. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 206. ISBN 0-262-19494-5. OCLC 470179960.
- ^ "Fight begins on $4,855,000 Basin Project", Boston Evening Transcript, March 6, 1929.
- ^ "Embankment Road approved by House in stormy session", The Boston Globe, April 29, 1949.
- ^ Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1949, Chap. 262
- ^ "Storrow Tunnel may need replacing". The Boston Globe. 2007-07-24. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ "New vision over Storrow Drive". The Boston Globe. 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ Google (November 23, 2014). "Soldiers Field Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ Google (November 23, 2014). "Storrow Drive and David G. Mugar Way" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved November 23, 2014.


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As directed in its enabling resolution C095 approved by the 77th General Convention in 2012, the Task Force to Reimagine the Episcopal Church (TREC) will convene a churchwide meeting on October 2 at 7:30 pm Eastern time. The purpose of the meeting is "to receive responses to the proposed recommendations to be brought forward to the 78th General Convention."
The meeting will be webcast live from Washington National Cathedral. Although the meeting will be open to the entire church, TREC encourages attendance from each diocese: a bishop, a lay deputy, a clerical deputy, and one person under the age of 35. The webcast can be seen from the TREC website www.reimaginetec.org.
There is no fee to attend in person or to watch the live webcast. However, registration for in-person attendance is requested; register here. Registration is not required but is encouraged for viewing the webcast.
The planned format will be short concise presentations followed by substantive question and comment periods. Questions, concerns and comments will be taken from the live audience in addition to email and twitter. Questions can be emailed here firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter here @ReimagineTEC.
TREC plans to draw from the comments, concerns and questions raised during this event to influence and fine-tune proposals currently under consideration during its final meeting immediately following the churchwide gathering on October 3 and 4.
TREC's final report to General Convention is due by November 30 for the 78th General Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in July 2015.
For more information or to register, see http://reimaginetec.org/churchwidemeeting/.

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Long Hammock Pillow - Echo Sangria
Product Description
The Long Hammock Pillow from Hatteras Hammock is made from solution-dyed all-weather Sunbrella fabric sandwiching a thick center of recycled polyester fiberfill made from recycled bottles. With hook-and-loop straps to easily attach to hammock spreaders. Can also be used as an outdoor sofa or lounge chair pillow.
Additional Information
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|Sangria / Red
|Special Features
|Outdoor Safe
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...or just curious, here is the link to the live telecast of our World Championship show in Louisville, KY. The show runs through Saturday evening and has morning (starting at 10:30 EST) and evening classes (18:30 EST)
Just go to this link, scroll down just a bit and hit the Play icon :
Thursday, August 22, 2013
...and If You Are New to American Saddlebreds...
Posted by Julie at 9:09 AM
Labels: Horse Shows and Events
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Fantastic, can't wait to see the 5 gaited stake. Thank yo so much. Ann
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text: For this week's show, I had Dr.MaD who came by to drop a few exclusives, so I had to be a little more selective with my tracks selection. I realized that I haven't played one of my favourite 45's : Proh Mic – Right On Time , released on Cherries Records. It's the perfect "feel good", dance-floor modern-boogie funk track; intoxicating bassline, contagious rhythm, and the vocals are on point. Read more. PROH MIC - RIGHT ON TIME (VIA MUSIC IS MY SANCTUARY) December 01, 2015 by Walla Peno


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Why do I love books?
Off the top of my head: Books are our entertainers, our companions and our teachers. They are time machines and magic portals. Through reading books, we learn about others even as we learn about ourselves... but enough from me. Here's what some other people have to say:
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
–Neil Gaiman
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
–Vera Nazarian
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
–Author Unknown
So voilà my reading list (still evolving) for 2015*:
*Titles in Bold have been read.
A) autobiography/biographies/memoirs
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou*
- The Glass Castle: a Memoir - Jeannette Walls (Megan S rec)
- Heart in the right place a memoir - Carolyn Jordan (Mom rec)
B) Chinese book/Books About China
- 西游记
- ( 弟子规?)
- Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos (Logan K rec)
C) French
- Le Petit Prince
- Quatrevingt-treize" ("Nienety-three") by Victor Hugo.(Jérémie's recommendation)
D) historical/philosophy/Learn something
- Examined lives - James Miller
- The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Patrick G rec)
- Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell translation (Steven B rec)
- Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry (Lee W rec)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (David M rec)
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militraiztion of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko. (JP W rec: It's a really good book I recommened everone read it's informative, especially considering recent high profile police cases.)
E) industry specific (education/psychology)
- find education/psychology related papers.
F) Fiction
(children's, YA, adult you name it -as long as it's good writing. Go crazy wild child;))
- The Rosie Project - Graeme C. Simsion (Sarah's Rec)
- The Girl from the Well - Rin Chupeco
- Paper Towns - John Green
- An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
- The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (Sue S rec)
- 1984 (reread) - George Orwell
- Dark Materials trilogy (reread) (Philip Pullman)
- Holes (reread) - Louis Sacher
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (Justin Y rec)
- Number Nine Dream - David Mitchell (Justin Y rec)
- Let the Great World Spin - Collum McCann (Justin Y rec)
- Fall of Giants - Ken Follett (if you like historical fiction) (Megan S rec)
- Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver (Anthony S rec)
- Mutant Message Down Under - Marlo Morgan (Anthony S rec)
- The Martian - Andy Weir (science fiction at its best!) (Dave C rec)
- Sylvia or Who is the Goat by Edward Albee. (Yangyang G Rec: One of my favorite plays by one of my favorite playwrights.)
- 10:04 by Ben Lerner (Sanjeev S. Rec: A great new novelist!)


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Letters to the Editor
Higher Medicaid payment is needed for dental care
As Dr. Kyle Hackney wrote in The Olympian recently, reimbursement rates make it difficult for dentists to treat Medicaid patients. Washington's Medicaid adult dental reimbursement rates are among the lowest in the country, only about a quarter (28.7%) of private insurance rates. That makes it difficult for lower income patients to access dental care.
It's not feasible to raise Medicaid dental rates across-the-board this year. However, the Legislature is considering a proposal to improve access for some of the neediest Medicaid patients – people with diabetes and pregnant women – by increasing reimbursement rates for dental providers. As a physician, I have seen firsthand the impact of oral health on patient's overall health. For people with diabetes, oral disease can lead to serious complications. Research has shown that treating oral disease in diabetic patients results in fewer hospitalizations and significantly lower health care costs.
It's also especially important for pregnant women to get dental care – and not just for their own health. Periodontal (gum) disease in pregnant women is associated with preterm birth and low birth weight infants. Additionally, dental treatment during pregnancy can improve babies' oral health by helping moms avoid passing cavity-causing bacteria on to their infants. The proposed legislative action would produce a strong return on investment by improving overall health and lowering medical care costs by increasing access to care for the patients who need it most.
Jessica Van Fleet-Green, MD


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Ordinarily, you'd be at the right spot, but we've recently launched a brand new community website... For the community, by the community.
Yay... Take Me to the Community!
Welcome to the DNN Community Forums, your preferred source of online community support for all things related to DNN.In order to participate you must be a registered DNNizen
I am having a strange problem.
I wrote a module initially using DNN v06.02.09 (Telerik v2012.2.724.35) and it worked great. I unfortunately am forced to upgrade to a newer DNN version because of a bug found in this particular version of Telerick's RADScheduler (which effects the month of November only). So...now I am running DNN 07.00.06 (Telerik v2013.1.403.40). [Note: I also tested this with the most recent DNN v7.04.01 (Telerik v????) and confirmed the same behavior described below]
Previously when I clicked on a button inside the RADGrid and the ItemCommand event fires I was able to obtain the value of each cell in the row that the button was activated in. The same exact code running in DNN v7.x now returns " " for every single cell in the row. It's like the new Telerik version doesn't bind the data to the GridDataItem (e.Item) within the ItemCommand event like it used to.
What am I missing? How do I get the selected row's data like I had before?
Michael TobischDNN★MVP
Thank for the info, however that doesn't help me at all. I understand DNN is looking to move away from Telerik, fine, but it is still available to us. I am having a problem with the controls that I need a resolution to because I am under a time constraint and need to get this application functioning quickly. Telling me to look into alternative is great as a long term goal for a future upgrade. However I need a resolution to this particular issue to get my application working again.
P.S. We are able to get our own Telerik license and update the DNN installation with it? I thought we were stuck with the version of Telerik that was compiled with the framework?
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For the next three weeks, thousands of golfers from around the country will put their daily lives on hold to pursue their dreams of winning USGA amateur championships. Here are nine things you need to know about the month ahead:
30th U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur, Sept. 10-15, The Kahkwa Club, Erie, Pa.
1.) Defending champion Lauren Greenlief, who defeated Margaret Shirley, 2 and 1, at Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant, La., will defend her title at The Kahkwa Club, which has hosted two previous USGA championships, the 1971 U.S. Women's Open (won by JoAnne Gunderson Carner) and the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur (won by Jane Park).
2.) Greenlief will be among four U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur champions in the field. She will be joined by 2009 champion Martha Leach, 2013 champion Julia Potter and Meghan Stasi, who won in 2006-07, 2010 and 2012. A win by Stasi would push her past Ellen Port, the only other four-time champion (1995-96, 2000, 2011)


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Following on from the previous article regarding development on the Green Belt, the end of last week Andy Burnham, the Great Manchester Mayor made an announcement regarding brownfield redevelopment to breathe new life into local towns around Greater Manchester.
We have seen initiatives like this in the past, pre-recession there was a lot of development - both commercial and residential - on brownfield land, but the costs associated with these schemes left some developers looking at alternative sites.
There has also been a move for more development, certainly residential development in the countryside and commercial development on sites where the infrastructure is in place to deal with progressive businesses and growth.
The success of any development comes down to need and how the development fulfils that need. Without the corresponding infrastructure being in place people may look elsewhere to fulfil their needs.
Greater connectivity across the region is needed first and foremost, this then in turn will help breathe new life into these town centres.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has vowed to use the full extent of the region's devolved powers to work with the public and private sectors in regenerating its town centres. Launching the new Greater Manchester Town Centre Challenge in Bury on Friday, 17 November 2017, Burnham claimed that the project would breathe life into Greater Manchester's towns, repurposing them as residential and leisure areas. "It's part of refocusing the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework from something that is too developer-led to looking at our towns and about brownfield including residential, and through that breathing new life into our towns," he said. "We need to build a new future for those towns through higher density mixed and affordable housing, with local retail and leisure facilities and supported by transport and digital connectivity."


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The Lottery
I play the lottery once in a while with hopes of being the sole winner of a large jackpot. I just checked my numbers this morning and today's ticket is not a winner. Once in a while, I would ask my husband "So what will we do with all that money when we win the lottery?". We have fun day dreaming. First we agreed we wouldn't tell anyone and just start paying off our parent's mortgages, give our siblings a few hundred thousand each, give a million each to our children, pay our bills, travel and set up a trust fund. I would definitely put a few millions into my non-profit so I wouldn't have to look for grants and just live off the interest with what's left. That's how we'd spend it if we won more than $50 million after taxes. If we win a smaller amount, then the numbers we've allocated to where we'd like to spend it would change.
It's nice to dream and although the chances of getting hit by lightning is greater, it's still nice to imagine every now and then. One thing I do not want is for it to change my values and principles. What would you do if you won $50 million after taxes lump sum?
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First and foremost… I'd panic. I know I wouldn't have the stereotypical "crack open the champagne" kind of reaction. Being made a multi-millionaire overnight, that's not the kind of thing that can be absorbed without so much as a twitch.
Once I'd finished panicking, I'd figure out what sum of money would guarantee me financial security, even if I lived to be 110. And then I'd put that sum away and leave it alone. The only reason for touching that would be if I'd been an idiot and blown the rest of the winnings. Then I'd pay off my mortgage.
Fun things? The things I'd like to do more of are gaming and travelling. So no more waiting for the latest PlayStation or a newly released game to come down in price and more holidays. But I wouldn't be able to have as many holidays as I want, as I'd have to continue working. I'd end up crawling up the walls if I had nothing to do but sit and count my money.
Things for other people… I'd want to help my friends and family whenever they needed it. That's a fine line to walk, as I'd never want to take away anyone's dignity. But I'd always be willing to help. And I'd love to buy up all the empty shops in the town – that's most of them – and rent them out to small start-ups. No-one can afford to stay in our high street and it's only because the council's being greedy. My town could be so much if someone was willing to invest in it. And if I won the Lottery, I'd be more than willing.
March 7, 2012 at 8:01 am
HI! I don't play the lottery so I have no chances of winning, but if I did I would pay of our mortgage and travel.
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Our Engagement Pictures
*Totally image heavy post and I don't even care* Back in October Nick and I did one of my favorite wedding things so far: taking engagement photos! I think I'll probably say every wedding-related thing is my favorite thing. While there have been stressful bits here and there overall I am just so excited by everything. Since I've been pinning to a wedding board for more than 3 years prior to actually being engaged I think it's safe to say I am ready and willing to plan this big day with my love.
Now back to the engagement photo shoot: Nick and I met our fabulous photographers, Mary and Roy, in Philadelphia because, where else? Philly is such a big part of our love story that I couldn't imagine taking pictures anywhere but there. We chose to take our pictures in the Society Hill section of the city because it always feels so quintessentially Philly: brick row homes, wrought iron fences, cozy and secluded boxwood gardens. It's the Philadelphia of your history books. We had the added benefit of it being October with golden tipped trees and dusty leaf piles. Seriously, I have to let the perfect photos speak for themselves.


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Development of semiconducting polymers nanoparticles for photothermal therapy
Ng, Ghim Hwee
Date of Issue2017
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Optical nano agents have been studied intensively and numerous therapeutic agents were developed in the past few decades for effective precision medicine. In this report, SPNs (near-infrared absorbing semiconducting polymer PCPDTBT with difunctional block copolymer surfactant F127) were synthesized by nanoprecipitation, and were used to analyze their photothermal imaging capability to treat in-vitro 4T1 tumour cells. The PCPDTBT- F127 SPNs had an average diameter of 26.65 ± 0.22 nm and for UV-Vis absorption, there were 2 absorptions peaks at 409 nm and 666 nm respectively. Confocal imaging showed PCPDTBT-F127 SPNs were able to enter 4T1 cells and it was mainly located in the lysosome. The SPNs possess great photostability, showed good biocompatibility and effective therapeutic results of killing 4T1 cells. Future work should be conducted in vivo, such as on mice subject, to prove PCPDTBT-F127 SPNs is a potential candidate for cancer therapeutic applications.
Final Year Project (FYP)
Nanyang Technological University


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"Stolen Truck"
The young goober came running into the store and said to his buddy, "Jake, somebody just stole your pickup truck from the parking lot!"
Jake replied, "Did you see who it was?"
The young man answered, "I couldn't tell, but I got the license number."
One Liner
I used to be indecisive … I think.
Thought for the day
"Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ's law" Galatians 6:2
What is Christ's law? Love God and love your neighbor.


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Corporate news: QLT/Forsight Newco acquisition & that new punctal plug technology
This is not directly related to dry eye but this emerging technology about a punctal plug drug delivery system is kind of intriguing (as well as worrying, frankly). Stay tuned on this one.
QLT hits 52-low on eye deal - October 9, 2007
QLT hits 52-low on eye deal - October 9, 2007
As the first clinical candidate utilizing this cutting edge platform technology, it will target glaucoma, by replacing eye drops, dry eye, allergies and postoperative care. The company expects the products to represent a $6 billion market.


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Woolworths - Risk Reward Becomes More Compelling/
Last month, Evidente published an open letter to the Woolworths CEO, Grant O'Brien, suggesting that a lack of corporate focus had contributed to the company's poor recent performance. The rollout of Masters stores since 2011 had been a significant drag on the group's performance, with the company having little choice but to push out the timing of break-even expectations from what in hindsight was an unrealistically aggressive timetable.
The slowdown in sales growth of Australian Food & Liquor segment evident in the past year suggests that the expansion into home improvement has distracted management from its core supermarket business and taken up a disproportionate amount of management time and effort. Woolworths has effectively bucked the recent trend towards corporate focus; the demerger wave of recent years amounts to corporate Australia waving the white flag on corporate diversification and acknowledging that focussed firms typically produce superior returns to their shareholders.
In an encouraging sign at the investor strategy day in early May, Mr O'Brien announced that Woolworths would re-allocate capital away from the under-performing Masters and Big W businesses towards supermarkets, including for store refurbishment. Whether this represents a harbinger of an exit from these businesses remains to be seen. In what amounted to a mea culpa, Mr O'Brien admitted that in seeking to preserve high margins, the supermarkets division had effectively sacrificed sales growth and customer loyalty, and flagged a shift in strategy designed to neutralise the community perception of Coles' price leadership.
Despite my ongoing concerns about the ability for the senior executives to effectively manage a number of disparate and under-performing businesses in the near term, particularly Big W and home improvement, the following set of charts suggest that at current levels, analysts and investors have become unduly pessimistic about the company's prospects.
First, multiple contraction - rather than earnings contraction - has accounted for the lion's share of the stock's underperformance in the past year. The 12mth forward earnings multiple has declined to 14x from 17.5x (see top panel of the chart below). The bottom panel confirms that a continued deterioration of the company's incremental ROE coincided with the roll-out of the Masters stores which commenced in 2011, coinciding with the start of Mr O'Brien's tenure as CEO.
Second, the stock is now trading at 14x 12mth forward earnings, which is a discount to the ASX200 (16x). This represents the first time Woolworths has traded at a discount (see chart).
Third, Woolworths is trading at a discount to its global food & grocery peers based on profitability adjusted price to book ratios. Valuation theory says that there ought to be a positive and linear relationship between a stock's expected ROE and its P/B ratio, and the positive regression line in the chart below confirms this. After having traded typically at or above the regression line in recent years, Woolworths is now trading at a 10% discount based on this metric.
As analysts have downgraded its ROE outlook, the stock has undergone a material de-rating, particularly in the past year. The chart below highlights the extent of the de-rating, and shows that if the stock's profitability adjusted P/B ratio was in line with its peers, it would be trading on a book multiple of 3.8x.
Fourth, when benchmarked against the stocks in the ASX100, Woolworths also offers compelling value. Its profitability adjusted P/B ratio is more than 20% below the regression line (see chart). A closer inspection of valuation theory suggests that this discount is unlikely to persist. The perpetuity earnings discount model says that a stock's P/B ratio is equal to its future expected ROE multiplied by the reciprocal of k - g (expected stock return minus future expected growth in EPS). The CAPM dictates that the only source of variation across stocks' expected returns is in a stock's beta; high beta stocks ought to trade at a discount, other things being equal. So a stock's book multiple might remain below the regression line in equilibrium if has a higher beta than its peers and/or lower EPS growth expectations.
Woolworths' risk and growth characteristics suggest that it should not remain below the regression line for an extended period. The lion's share of the company's revenues are generated in segments that are considered to be defensive, and most analysts use betas of less than 1 when constructing their discount cash flow valuations. So controlling for expected future growth, Woolworths ought to trade on a premium based on profitability adjusted P/B ratios.
Moreover, long-term consensus expectations suggest that sell-side analysts have become too pessimistic about the stock's future growth prospects. The long term growth forecast for the stock has fallen to only 2%, well below the median estimate (see chart). Over the sweep of the past five decades, household spending on food & liquor has broadly tracked growth in the economy of around 5.5%. Concerns around management quality and the long-term viability of home improvement are valid but in my view, do not justify the stock trading at a discount to its large cap peers.
Fifth, parallels between Tesco and Woolworths are exaggerated. The collapse in Tesco's share price in 2014 owes much to the lack of transparency of its financial accounts following an accounting scandal. Moreover, prior to the scandal, the stock was priced for perfection, trading at a large premium to its global peers on a profitability adjusted price to book ratio (see chart). As discussed above, Woolworths is trading well below the regression line at present.
An excessive pessimism
I continue to have concerns around the long-term viability of the Masters stores in their current format, the fact that the composition senior management appears to be in a state of flux thanks to a number of recent departures, and remain sceptical of the purported synergies between running a supermarkets business and a being big box hardware retailer. But in my view, the share price is already impounding excessive pessimism. At these levels, investors should neutralise their underweight bet in the stock and use any renewed price weakness to start building an overweight position.


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Passing League:
Tier 1 - 50k - Pro Pack
Tier 2 - 100k - 6 Trophy Pack
Tier 3 - 200k - 1 Elite Trophy
Tier 4 - 250k - Premium Pack
Tier 5 - 500k - Legendary Pack
Tier 6 - 750k - Elite QB Pack
Tier 7 - 1m - LA Jerry Rice
Rushing League:
Tier 1 - 25K - Pro Pack
Tier 2 - 50k - 6 Trophy Pack
Tier 3 - 100k - 1 Elite Trophy
Tier 4 - 200k - Premium Pack
Tier 5 - 300k - Legendary Pack
Tier 6 - 500k - Elite Offensive Line Pack
Tier 7 - 750k - LA Emmitt Smith
Tier 1 - 100 wins - Pro Pack
Tier 2 - 200 wins - 6 Trophy Pack
Tier 3 - 500 wins - 1 Elite Trophy
Tier 4 - 750 wins - Premium Pack
Tier 5 - 1000 wins - Legendary Pack
Tier 6 - 1500 wins - Elite PR Pack
Tier 7 - 2500 wins - LA Devin Hester
If you have question about, there is a some answers for you, according to UpAndAMac forum member on Muthead forum.
What are League Achievements?
League Achievements are a set of goals attained by working with your league to hit the specific combined goals for Rushing Yards, Passing Yards and Season Wins.
What yardage counts toward League Achievements?
Seasons, Head-to-Head (both Regular and Friends), League Tournaments (LvL) and League Championships all give you yardage toward the rushing and passing achievements. Be aware, there seems to be a delay before the yardages update for all of these except for Seasons.
Can I change leagues and keep the yardage and win totals accumulated with my original league?
No. The totals stay with each specific league. Your totals will be that of whichever league you are currently in. Everyone in that league will have the same totals.
Can I earn the same reward with multiple leagues?
No. Each reward for each achievement is only able to be earned once.
Can I earn the Tier 7 rewards anywhere else?
It is believed that these can also be pulled from Pro Packs or from completing personal achievements which give a "Base Elite Player"
Why are the Tier 7 reward players not on the Auction House?
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POLAND — Freeport came out of the gates swinging, with an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Adam Ulrickson for a touchdown just a dozen seconds into the game. After getting shutout in last week by Mountain Valley, it looked like it might be more of the same for Poland.
First-year head coach Spencer Emerson knew that sooner or later his Knights would find the end zone, and on Friday they did six times as they defeated Freeport 43-12.
"You run stuff all week and in the preseason you have success, and then last week we got in the red zone three times and couldn't score," Emerson said. "It was like when you shake up a bottle of soda and you get a little pressure and all the sudden it pops and all the soda comes running out and we put up 43 points."
In the Knights' first drive, Tyler Tucci ran roughshod over Freeport's defense for 62 total yards, including a six-yard touchdown, his first of two on the day to go along with 113 total yards on the ground, to take a 7-6 lead.
"I had to step up and give it my all," Tucci said. "The offensive line played great, they gave me a hole and we just pounded it right down the middle."
Freeport returned the favor on its first drive, running the triple-option all over the field for 52 yards, capped by a 13-yard touchdown pass from Anthony Panciocco to Aidan Michaud for a 12-7 lead.
Poland was prepared for the run-heavy offense that the Falcons run, and Emerson kept the defensive game plan simple. It paid off as Freeport accumulated only 108 yards of total offense.
"We were disciplined all week," Emerson said. "We didn't get too fancy upfront, we didn't do too many blitzes or stunts, we just slanted to strength and played base."
The Knights' resilience was evident throughout. When the Knights were forced to punt, their defense, led by Gawain Tibbetts and Tucci, started to force some quick drives and give the Poland offense more tries at the end zone.
Trailing 12-7, Poland started a drive in the middle of the second quarter on Freeport's 29. Downing threw a pass to Isaiah Hill 17 yards for a touchdown. Hill had struggled most of the half with a couple of drops, but his touchdown gave the Knights a 14-12 lead with 6:44 left in the half.
"Isaiah is a good player," Downing said. "He has his moments, but the kid is a rock. In two years he's going to be one of the best players in the state."
On Poland's following drive, Tucci scored once more, this time from just two yards away. The touchdown, set up by two 22-yard passes by Downing, gave Poland a 21-12 lead at the half.
"I'll tell you what, we have a senior in Tyler Tucci who has the biggest heart I've ever seen in a player, and I'm glad we could reward him with some yards and a touchdown," Emerson said.
In the second half the Knights shut out Freeport while scoring 22 more points. The opening drive for Poland was spearheaded by three passes from Downing totaling 51 yards, and finished with a three-yard touchdown run by Joe Ringuette, his first of two scores.
Poland scored on its next two drives to put away the Falcons. For Emerson, the explosion of offense was a perfect way to close the door on the Week 1 loss.
"I think it was just what the doctor ordered for this program," Emerson said. "The kids battled. … We have 11 guys that just care, there was a lot of grit, and I wasn't calling anything fancy. The players played unbelievable and they made it easy on me."
Caden Benedict led Freeport with 46 yards rushing, followed by Hunter Demers with 29.
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