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Disney California Adventure Park
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Fine/Signature Dining, Unique/Themed Dining
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Guests ages 21 and older may purchase two (2) alcoholic beverages per valid photo ID at the following Disneyland Resort and Operating Participant locations:
Introducing a Golden-Era movie palace where food is the star—savour premiere cuisine in a romantic retro backdrop.
Feast on innovative fare featuring eclectic Southern California flavours and fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Sit back, relax and discover the bold, seasonal cuisine of Chef Andrew Sutton— Culinary Director of Signature Restaurants Napa Rose, Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge and 21 Royal—as well as Chef de Cuisine, Alex Flores.
Begin your epicurean experience with a memorable opening scene. The selection of starters includes tantalizing small plates sure to whet your appetite. For a mid-day "matinée," sample some of the same entrées featured at dinner or choose one of our lunch-only favourites.
Dinner offers a touch of drama, with dishes that take centre stage. Entrées range from expertly prepared poultry, fish and beef specialties to vegetable-focused offerings. Pint-sized palates are sure to say "bravo" to dishes specially prepared for discerning young gourmands. An array of indulgent desserts include a sampling of sweet sensations that provide the ultimate finale.
Because Carthay Circle Restaurant's menu is inspired by the finest fresh ingredients, dishes change throughout the year to celebrate California's incredible bounty. View the menu to discover what's currently being served.
All menu items are subject to change without notice.
Carthay Circle Restaurant occupies the second floor of a detailed reproduction of the iconic Carthay Circle Theatre. The original Carthay Circle Theatre, built in 1926, played a significant role in the life of Walt Disney. His first feature-length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, premiered there in 1937 and, in 1941, groundbreaking stereophonic Fantasound was installed in the theatre for the West Coast premiere of Disney's Fantasia.
Carthay Circle Restaurant's decor reflects the romance and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, including references to the accomplishments of Walt Disney and his original animators. See Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Courvoisier cels—the only animated art ever to hang in Walt Disney's home—and charming pastoral scenes from the movie painted on the vaulted ceiling of the main dining room. Seating is also available on 2 open-air terraces for dining with a view.
Make a grand entrance at the Carthay Circle Theatre via the stylish lobby lounge and sip on artfully crafted cocktails.
You'll find the dimly lit, elegantly appointed Carthay Circle Lounge on the first floor, serving swanky signature cocktails, craft beer, California wines, seltzer sodas and a full bar. For a libation unlike any other, try the Carthay Martini, made with Hendrick's gin and blue cheese-stuffed truffle olives, all kept perfectly chilled with an ice sphere made from locally sourced purified water. Ask to see how it's made and prepare to be astonished!
Each of the handcrafted cocktails at the Carthay Circle Lounge is served in unique glassware with ices designed to complement the drink in question. Walt's drink of choice, the Scotch Mist, is also on the menu.
The lounge serves small plates that are so inspired you may want an encore. View the lounge menu to see which savoury bites and sweet delights are currently offered.
Prepare for an unforgettable evening—complete with 3-course, prix fixe dining and a reserved spot in the World of Color preferred viewing area!
Dine on a feast fit for royalty before enjoying priority seating for the musical sensation Frozen – Live at the Hyperion!
Advance reservations for dining at Carthay Circle Restaurant are highly recommended. For booking, please check availability and make your reservations online, or call (714) 781-DINE or (714) 781-3463 up to 60 days prior to your visit. Reservations can also be made in person on a limited basis, subject to availability.
Guests under 18 years of age must have parent or guardian permission to call.
Book tables at popular restaurants or appointments for magical boutique transformations more easily with access to reservations just for hotel Guests.
Find dining, shopping and entertainment with a nostalgic twist—at Disney California Adventure Park!


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"I feel 100% better since I quit smoking"
"Not smoking makes me feel great!" Often you will hear an ex-smoker excitedly express this statement when first quitting cigarettes. What is amazing is when you think back to the days when the very same smoker would blatantly proclaim that his smoking never caused him any difficulty. He functioned perfectly normal for someone his age.
It is impossible for any smoker to accurately judge just how much impairment his smoking is causing. Not until he stops will he actually recognize the full degree of improvements possible by quitting smoking.olve it. But, to an impartial observer, two specific problems become quite obvious.
The statement that not smoking makes the ex-smoker feel great is very misleading. Not smoking doesn't make people feel great. It actually only makes them feel normal.
If a person who never smoked a day in his life decides one morning not to have a cigarette, he will not feel any better or worse than the morning before. But if a person wakes up every day and smokes a cigarette, followed by 20, 40, 60 or more before going back to bed, he will feel the effects of nicotine dependence.
He never feels normal. His life consists of a chronic withdrawal state, only alleviated by lighting one cigarette every 20 to 30 minutes.
While smoking at these intervals keeps the suffering of withdrawal down to a minimum, it does so at a cost. It impairs his breathing, circulation, elevates his carbon monoxide levels, wipes out his cilia, robs him of his strength and endurance, and greatly increases his risks of deadly diseases like cancer.
All this will cost him hundreds of dollars a year, make him appear socially ostracized, and even viewed by family and friends as weak or unintelligent.
It is no wonder that once he quits smoking he feels so much better. But it is important for the ex-smoker to realize that he feels so much better because smoking made him feel so bad.
For once a smoker quits, he often forgets just how rotten life was as a smoker. He forgets the bad cigarettes, the cough, the aches and pains, the dirty looks, the inconveniences, and most importantly, the addiction. He forgets what life was truly like as a smoker.
Unfortunately, he doesn't forget everything. One thought often remains, lingering for years and even decades -- the thought of the best cigarette he ever smoked.
It may be a cigarette he smoked 20 years earlier, but it is the one he remembers above all others. Without keeping an accurate perspective of what life was really like with cigarettes, the thought of the best cigarette often leads to an attempt to recapture the bliss by taking a puff. What follows is an unexpected and worse, an unwanted relapse to a full-fledge addiction.
To stay off cigarettes, some people look at smoking in an artificially negative light. They think of the worst condition smoking may or may not really cause them. Don't look at cigarettes this way. But on the same note, don't look at cigarettes in an artificially positive light either.
Don't think of smoking as being inhaling one or two delightful cigarettes a day just when you feel like it. You couldn't do that before and you will never do it that way again.
Rather, look at smoking as it actually was. It was expensive, inconvenient, and sociably unacceptable on a daily basis. It controlled you totally. It was costing you your health and had the full potential of one day costing your life. See cigarettes for what they were. If you remember your life as a smoker it will be easy to NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
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Thursday's Atlantian heraldic walking tour results: 1. Atenveldt 2. Ravenstreet 3. East's Applique Walls 4. House Drachenstein-Heraldic Canopy 5. Atlantia-Walls & "Stained Glass" windows.
For Sale
14 ft. Yurt for sale. Set up $500 or Best Offer Moritu Camp as is.
2-Story Pavillion - Frame-and-Cavas portable structure, excellent condition, flat packs on a trailer for easy transport and storage. Fully functional 2nd story. Available end of Pennsic. Come to Mystic Mail, Booth #188 for full details.
Agate Burnishers - bone ivory & horn handles - hand carved - also dog tooth and carnelian. Guild of Limners #24.
ANALOG / IF / GALAXY MAGS 1996-2005 mostly complete $250/best offer. See Master John at The Stavechurch
ATTENTION WOAD WARRIORS! Feeling a little blue? I have the real thing! Genuine woad imported from Scotland. $4 Limited supply, buy early. Guild of Limners #24.
BAD GARB I and BAD GARB II - Now AVAILABLE From Claus the Toymaker- How do you know you are not in them unless you read them?
Benefit the Chirurgeons-- buy an original Pennsic XXXVII T-shirt. $10. Available from Claus of Burzee, #24 Merchants Row.
Civil War Tent 10x12 $200 Blood Moon Clan corner lot near Solar Showers ask for Hillary in Camp w/onion dome.
Evil Abra has a new garb annex! Do you like flax, winter sun and cut loose? Check out our back room garb. Someone has to dress the peasants! Garb, pants, skirts, dresses & shirts in silk, linen and cotton. Very comfy and most are $5 to $20! Mention this ad for an extra 10% off! Visit The Gypsy Caravan, #107 Street of Gold! Open 'til 11:00 pm nightly!
Uniquely You dressmaker forms- the only one that corsets properly. Available on site space 26.
Evil Abra says, "Check your silver prices!" We bought last year when silver was $7 an ounce, folk who restocked before Penssic paid much more- guess whose prices are going to rock!!! Mention this ad for an extra 10% off any purchase of $100 or more! (Bring friends & shop together for the discount!) Visit The Gypsy Caravan, #107 Street of Gold, open 'til 11:00 pm nightly.
Evil Abra says, "You can do research at home - read something fun at Pennsic!" See our vast selection of novels, magickal books & fun subjects. All the books are buy 2
Fine linen Norse Aprons, Viking tunics, and embroidered coats at The Hooded Hare. Hop over to our new space: #164, Fleet Street
For Sale - Bad garb, bad garb, What'cha gonna do? What'ca gonna do when the punchline's you?- Claus the Toymaker.
For Sale Don't be seen with ugly children...make them wear a mask made by Claus the Toymaker.
For Sale - Glass muller & burnishers from England, also Mitchell nibs, vellum, parchment, and hand bound leather books- The Guild of Limners, #24
Evil Abra has budget amber! Amber rings from $9.95, amber bracelets from $9.95, amber necklaces from $14.95, amber pendants from $9.95, amber earrings from $7.00! Check out our 1/2 price amber boards! Buy $100 worth & get an extra 10% off if you mention this ad! Visit the Gypsy Caravan, #107 Street of Gold, open 'til 11:00 pm nightly!
For Sale Ink-Oakgall, walnut hull, also gallo-tannic ink, absolutely perfectly opaque. $4 per bottle Guild of Limners #24.
For Sale THE GUILD OF LIMNERS in the little white house on Mechants Row sells ink, quill pens, books, pigments, various colors, madder, woad, all kinds of paint and tools necessary for scribes and artists.
For Sale: Tipman Boss handsticher leather sewing machine. No electric needed! Retailed @ $1500 plus accessories. No longer being manufactured. $750 as is condition inqure Dancing Pig #18 Bow St.
For Sale Vellum - - opaline vellum (sheepskin) direct from England. Finest Quality sale price $25 per sheet. Lovely Dutch sheepskin parchment whole skins $125 can be cut smaller. The Guild of Limners #24, across from the barn.
Going home sale. See what new and used pavillions we have left. Pack your gear in a sturdy but beautiful trunk. Think about renting a period pavillion for next Pennsic. 12ft yurt Singing Horse design $900, 18x20 Panther new $1300 site #3
GOING OUT 4 BUSINESS SALE. Did you see my ad in the Pennsic Handbook? Camp furniture, iron work, horse tails, beautiful speckled cow hides. 18x20 Panther new $1300 14ft yurt singing horse design complete with Floor $1400 OBO. Come browse and BS (Be Satisfied). The Crossing #3 get 1 free all war! Most are 1/2 off cover price as well! visit the Gypsy Caravan, #107 Street of Gold, open 'til 11:00 pm nightly.
Evil Abra's empire has expanded! New items include sale book selection, the garb annex & 1/2 price clearance corner! Visit the Gypsy Caravan, #107, Street of Gold. Open 'til 11 pm nightly!
Going out of business sale at Castle Furnishings! Deep discounts! Everything at least 20% off. Many items 90% off. Some store fixtures available SPC 63
Handmade slat bed for sale. Based on Gokstad bed. $400 OBO. Robin House Gallowglass Camp, N03, Corner of St. Lawrence and Sedalia Way.
Is this YOU? Free pics from past wars. Space 26
Mischief, murder & mayhem- is your kingdom involved? See the on-going saga in the diorama. Space 26.
For Sale SCA Road Signs- "Fighter Practice Area", "Danger Viking Territory" and many others, some new and very silly. Claus the Toymaker, #24
New heads! Heads tightened! richspiritdrums.com
Pavilion 4 sale 18X18 6Ft. walls 2 Yrs old Paid 2400 asking 1800 natural* extra ropes ask at Tgertoggs#32 Street of Dreams behind the barn *(color)
Pavilion for sale: 20x15 green & gold. $1200 Sleepy Unicorn, Street of Gold. Containers included
"Pennsic for Dummies" by Claus the Toymaker - scurrilous, toungue-in-cheek fun, everythingyou need to know to complete your Pennsic experience.
Period Pavilions(tm) available on site for rent/sale. Rent rebates toward later purchase. Space 26.
You!Sew on our machines. We have thread. Space 26.
Yurt for sale. E01 Middle of Dragon Trace. Car died again. Ask for Pente (Wookie) camp Infinity 8-)
Bad Garb Old Maid card game- Yes we have 'em!- from Claus the Toymaker (Who else?)
STEEL HOOP BONING - 1/2" xl2y $13.95 Dragon's Magic #25
An idea for next year. Could we have a drop off at the end of war for non perishables to go to a local shelter?
CLEAN, DRY, cardboard paper boxes. Pick up at the Pennsic Independent on Friday or Saturday. FREE!!!
Costumes by Loren has comfortable cool cotton! Tunics, kaftans and cloaks in Celtic knotwork designs. Different sales every day! 166 Fleet Street
DRAGON BROCADES, 20% off at Dragon's Magic #25
Drumsmith Richard Barony of Fenix 541-778-2540
EXCELLENT QUALITY 100% wools & wool coating at Dragon's Magic #25
For Sale Good Gentles......How much have you spent on your armor? How much have you spent on your garb? How much have you spent on your children? This has been a public service announcemnt from Claus of Burzee Toymaker.
Go see Auntie Arwen at #185 and ask if she is drinking WATER. From Kirsten at Fabric Dragon in #106.
Gold medal-winning squid seeks endorsement opportunities. Leave a note for Squirty at the lakeside by the flushies. That's right...just a little closer now
GOT LUMBER? Don't throw it in the dumpster, donate it! I'm building my kids a treehouse. Please call 814-720-9018 for pickup. Thanks -Thyri
Hoobah FOSCADH for FIGHTING in ALL 37 PENNSIC WARS
Silk veiling 3.5mm, 5mm silk/cotton DRAGON'S MAGIC #25
The Ladies' Tea would like to thank all the musicians, dancers, and ladies for an amazing Monday night. We look forward to seeing all of you next year same time for a Midsummer's Night Dream celebration!- The Black Pearl
THREAD COUNTERS, 8x-10x metal & glass booth #25
To Gunther and the Furballs: bedtime just isn't the same without you. Be home soon with lots o' booty. Nicolaa
SAILMAKERS NEEDLES. 2", 3 1/2", 4 1/2"! Dragon's Magic #25
TO THE 2 WOMEN who came to my shop on Thursday and bought 12 yds of purple silk - I found the tag. Please come back for the money I owe you! Dragon's Magic
Who do Kings answer to? Their Queens!
FINE ENGLISH NEEDLES, Sold singly. Dragon's Magic #25
Wurm- will you come home w me? I love you- Tristan
Yes, I'm Still Here! And my brick-and-mortar fabric store is still in Tunkhannock, PA. The housing market decided to get weird right after War last year so I couldn't make the move I wanted to make. I've consoled myself by buying more luscious wool, linen, and silk...which, of course, I brought for your shopping pleasure, along with corset stays, needles, pins, cheese cloth, etc. (Space 25)
Lost & Found
Be a true Scadian-Turn in the pewter astrolabe I wore every war since P20 Reward - L&F or 631-786-6025
Lost: A&S project. Handwoven linen napkin lost Tuesday between E-01 and Your Inner Vagabond. Please return to Camp Budgardr in W-09. Reward.
Lost cell phone Palm One, large keyboard silver grey, large screen it is needed for business geneous reward will be given when found. Please contact The Pennsic Independent office.
Lost red cell phone bring to lost & found pls
Wanted Park-o-meter lost last year walked away from r/s reward talk to Og.
Baron Gugliemo Bardicci extends his artsan Jubal to provide his beautious WOAD bodyart to Pennsic, located at the Guild of Limners (booth 24).
Helewyse-it was Baronwars 1, you forgot my name, I never saw your face(but my pillow remembers) congratulations on making Baroness! Signed "Big Boy" from Darkyard
A definite sign of the apocalypse-Kibitz has vanished! Griz is trying his best but is just not as follicly endowed and won't wear those goofy pants. We miss you and hope all goes better. The PI Staff.
BARONESS Katrina Macaolish. Thank you for the return of my headband. Truly grateful. Lady Muzafar
Donnehadh DubhGlas and Marian O'Neall have a new Scadian! Welcome Elizabeth Diane Thompson
Fernando: You go home now. You use up all the fun! L.
Let all know that the kindest, most thoughtful people are Scadians. Grateful thanks to whoever turned my wallet into lost and found. Lady Svea the Shortsighted.
To the beautiful red headed lady I saw on the battlefield. Would like to get to know you. Come to Silverhorde camp E01 ask for Wolfy.
To the man w/g dark hair & blue paw tattoo @ Runestone Hill showers prev Tues: I was so entranced I couldn't speak (and was underdressed from the shower cleanout when they kicked us to the steps.) I wish I had had the courage to smile @ you. ~Gwenyvere of Nox Draconsis (the girl in the towel & shift)-
Ulfr Hlnn Svarti Juzki and Charity Morgan- Oh how we missed you, your smiles and laughter (though a bottle of your mead made it). We pray you will overcome all obstacles and share next year's war with your many friends.


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A Michigan man has been arrested and charged with felony drug trafficking after more than two dozen concertgoers became ill after ingesting THC-laced candies at a northeast Ohio rap festival.
The Richland County Sheriff's Office was holding 28-year-old Matthew Lee Gross, of Ypsilanti, in jail Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the OhioHealth hospital in Mansfield said 24 attendees of the EST 2016 festival at Ohio Dreams sports camp in Butler were treated with an overdose antidote Saturday after ingesting the candy packets. THC is the psychoactive compound found in marijuana.
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Regional drug task force commander Lt. Joe Petrycki disagreed with characterizing people's reactions as overdoses. He said no one lost consciousness.
The festival was dubbed "The Last Weekend on Earth." Butler is about 60 miles northeast of Columbus.


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We're finally able to talk about this. It's been shrouded in secrecy within the agency for over a year now.
Wieden + Kennedy London have teamed up with The Kaiser Chiefs, B-Unique and and Fiction Records (a division of Universal Music UK) to create a whole new way of releasing an album.
Everybody gets their own bespoke album that they are then allowed to sell on.
Fans can pick 10 songs out of 20, design their artwork and download their album.
We give them their own web page, banner ads for their blog, posters and social media tools to advertise their album. For every album they sell they get a pound.
If you don't want to make your own album then you can browse and listen to other people's and just pick one of them.
The plan was hatched by our creative Oli Beale and lead singer Ricky Wilson in a fish & chip shop, while on holiday in Cornwall together. The conversation snowballed into a bigger and bigger idea and we've had a full-scale team working on this here for months now.
Nothing like this has ever been done before. The financial model has required fundamental changes to the way royalty payments work that couldn't have been done without the might of Universal Music UK behind it.
It's been an incredibly exciting meeting of minds. We've learnt a lot of things:
1. Never show a band a Powerpoint deck. "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M LOOKING AT HERE!"
2. Look after the hardcore fans of bands.
3. Use the band as creative directors. They are brilliant.
4. Being a band manager is an insane job that doesn't allow for sleep. Respect.
5. Record labels and Ad Agencies are very different places but full of very similar people. I think we all learnt loads from each other.
Who knows what stories this will throw up in the next few weeks?
Will somebody make a fortune selling an album?
Will other bands make their own versions of the album?
Which tracks will emerge as the favourites?
Pop back soon to find out.
Make one yourself here: Take a look here: http://www.kaiserchiefs.com/


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Airbus this year is facing crucial decisions that will determine the shape of its widebody product line and could have a lasting impact on engine manufacturers. Changes could include an earlier-than-expected return of Pratt & Whitney as an independent player in the long-haul aircraft market.
The European manufacturer is facing increasingly pressing questions about all its long-haul aircraft: It will have to decide whether to reengine the A330, how to improve the A380 and where it is taking the A350 family. At the same time, R&D budgets are being reduced to more sustainable levels now that A350 efforts have peaked. "You have to look at the big picture. We are not going to keep investing at the same level," says executive vice president of programs Tom Williams.
Airbus's choices will affect the fate of other programs. The company is wary of having to work through two major modification programs at the same time. An upgraded A330 could also cannibalize the A350-800. The most pressing issue is whether to reengine the A330. "We have to make the A330 decision this year," Williams makes clear. He believes the life of the current A330 can be extended to about 2018 at today's rate of 10 aircraft per month. Airbus's backlog of 255 aircraft would fill production capacity until 2016, and given continuing demand it is confident it can extend production by about two more years until a major upgrade would arrive.
Initiatives to make the current aircraft more attractive in the short term include the new 242-ton version that extends range further and will be available from around mid-2015 as well as the new regional variant. While the increased maximum-takeoff-weight (MTOW) version will enter service with Delta Air Lines next year, the A330 Regional is mainly geared toward the domestic market in China.
Making a reengined A330 available by 2018 or 2019 would require 2-3 years of upfront development work. Williams says "the business case is more difficult than the A320neo." Because the expected number of aircraft is much smaller, the return on investment has to be achieved more quickly. "We would also be launching into a crowded space," he points out, referring to the Boeing 787 and, to a degree, the A350.
Williams also says that within the scope of A330 operations not all missions would lend themselves for reengining. Ultra-longhaul transpacific flights are likely to remain the domain of the A350 or Boeing 787s and 777s, while the A330 would benefit from more engine efficiency in medium- and long-haul operations of up to 12 hr. On the other end of the spectrum, as with the A320neo or Boeing 737 MAX, the benefit of more efficiency below a certain threshold becomes more limited because the cruise portion of the flight is so short. The proposed A330neo would be a heavier aircraft and that would potentially penalize short-haul operations—the market segment Airbus has been pushing into recently to capture a larger share of Chinese domestic services. Airline industry sources believe the reengined A330 could reach an average fuel burn advantage of 8% over the existing model. "There are some complicated trade-offs to consider," Williams says.
While engine choice would be ideal from a sales perspective, Williams is pushing internally for an exclusivity deal. "Having two different engines may be difficult to justify, you always have to keep non-recurring costs in mind," he points out. Changes to pylons and nacelles would have to be designed twice, and separate certification programs would add to costs, too. But if Airbus decides to go ahead with the proposal, it opens the door for what could become a serious reshuffling in the engine market. This may not only affect the A330, but ultimately also the A380, which Emirates also wants to be reengined.
Williams does not see a common new engine for the A330 and A380 as the optimal solution. Concerns include the sizing of the core and overall architecture, as well as weight. "It really does not make much sense," he believes. He says Pratt & Whitney "is very interested" to offer a geared turbofan engine, while Rolls-Royce and General Electric (GE) could offer bleed versions of the Trent 1000 and the GEnx-1B, respectively.
Pratt's surprise appearance as a potential A330neo engine provider offers the intriguing possibility of a shake-up in today's big fan business—effectively a duopoly between GE and Rolls. With slim prospects for the development of any other all-new widebody this decade, the A330neo and reengined A380 could offer Pratt its only opportunity to evolve the PW1000G GTF into a higher-thrust family of engines for twin-aisle applications.
Pratt has made no secret of its desire to more than double the power of the current A320neo version of the GTF to thrust levels of 70,000 lb. and more, as required for initial twin applications. "The architecture is compelling because we are not just pushing the limits of temperature and performance—we took a step change architecturally and that is what Tom Williams sees," says Dave Brantner, president of Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines. However, he declines to discuss specifics about various higher-thrust GTF concepts. "Under various non-disclosure agreements we are discussing a lot of things," he adds. The development of the current PW1000G family remains the company's main priority. "We are focused on delivering what we have promised to our customers and that includes Airbus. Our limitations are resources and time and we certainly are not going to take our eyes off the ball."
The PW1000G family is in development for five new narrowbody programs including Bombardier's CSeries, the A320neo, Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), Irkut MS-21,and Embraer's E2Jets. "We have 30 engines on test and have accumulated 7,600 hours, 17,000 cycles and 850 flight-test hours so far," Brantner says. The PW1500G version is powering initial CSeries test aircraft, the first flight-test PW1200G engines are under assembly for the MRJ, and preparations are underway for a final flying testbed campaign for the PW1100G before shipment of the first A320neo shipset to Airbus later this summer.
Plans for growing the GTF include raising the gear ratio from its 3:1 to higher levels up to 3.5-4.0, as well as increasing both bypass and pressure ratio. Compared to the neo engine's 12:1 bypass and approximately 50:1 pressure ratio, Pratt says, next-generation GTF studies have focused on bypass ratios of up to 15:1 and compressor pressure ratios closer to 60:1. The engine maker also plans to introduce more advanced technologies into the core to boost thermal efficiency, which would dovetail with the propulsion efficiency gains.
Even if the proposed Pratt option for the A330neo cannot be simply rolled over to the A380, it is suggested that development could be viable if the twin jet deal was sole-source. With the company over the hump on most major development spending for the first GTF generation, Pratt may be in a better position to consider launching a follow-on engine effort, particularly if an A330neo win provides the platform for a follow-on A380 engine.
Aside from technical considerations, a potential complication on the A380 is linked to Pratt's involvement in the Engine Alliance with GE, which provides the existing GP7200. Senior sources within Pratt say that while legal implications of competing separately for a follow-on A380 remain unclear, the earlier dissolution of the relationship with Rolls over the changed structure of the IAE V2500 partnership could provide a model for disengagement.
Airbus is warming to the idea of new engines for the A380, too. Timing heavily depends on the A330 decision, because Airbus would not like to tackle both programs concurrently. Emirates is pushing for new A380 engines. It placed a follow-up order for 50 aircraft last year, which will come in two batches. The order has not been tied to the engine decision, but industry sources say Emirates would like to get the second half of the order—due after 2020—with new powerplants. Shorter term, finding denser seat configurations is key. Williams sees potential for 40 more economy seats in an 11-abreast main deck configuration.
Williams says he does not want to "get sucked into doing a new wing" as part of the revamp. For the A380 in fact, there could be an argument for making the wing smaller because the current one was designed with a stretched aircraft in mind.


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Senior Vincent Asante (Bronx, N.Y./High School for the Arts Imagination and Inquiry) finished third in the 60-meter dash, pacing the Brandeis indoor men's track and field team at the Dartmouth Relays in Hanover, N.H., yesterday. The men tied with Middlebury College for ninth place overall at the meet, including fourth in Division III.
Asante cruised to seventh in preliminaries in the event, qualifying for the finals with a time of 7.12 seconds. The reigning UAA 55-meter champion cranked it up a notch in the final round, finishing in a blistering 6.98 seconds. The time was good for third overall in the event, second among Division III competitors. Asante qualified for the New England Division III Championships, the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association Championships and the ECAC Championships, and also earned UAA Athlete of the Week Honors. His time was the eighth fastest in Division III so far this year, less than .05 seconds off of the second best mark.
Rookie Omar Scruggs (Tampa, Fla./Berkeley Prep) had the Judges' next best individual result, grabbing 15th in the 400 meter with a time of 52.73 seconds. Senior Mohamed Sidique (Harlem, N.Y./St. Raymond H.S. for Boys) placed 28th in the event 55.02 seconds, while rookie Jeremy Wilson's (Elizabeth, N.J./Elizabeth) time of 55.55 was good for 32nd. Sophomore Trevor Tuplin (Weymouth, Mass./Weymouth) and rookie Josh Romanowicz (Peru, N.Y./Peru Central) finished 38th and 44th, respectively.
Sophomore Grady Ward (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex) broke 4:30 in the mile, placing 17th with a time of 4:29.95. Rookie Matt Doran (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) and sophomore Liban Aiden (Brockton, Mass./Brockton) also ran the mile, placing in 45th and 63rd, respectively.
Rookie Quentin Hoey (Watertown, Conn./Watertown) rounded out the Brandeis competitors, finishing 30th in the 3000 with a time of 9:10.94.
The Judges fielded a pair of relay teams at the meet as well. The 4x200 squad consisting of Sidique, Wilson, Tuplin and Asante finished 14th with a time of 1:36.74. Sidique, Wilson, Tuplin and Scruggs ran the 4x400 in 3:43.05, good for 16th.
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Omaha police officers said two people are being questioned in connection with a report of a carjacking Monday.
According to police, Trevor Cowicson, 18, Samuel Schultz, 16, and Reid Halabi, 17, called 911 shortly before 3 p.m. to report that their car had been taken at gunpoint. They told officers that two young men took the car near the Washington Branch Library at 28th Street and Ames Avenue.
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At least 1.8 million sensitive documents went missing across the NHS in just 12 months, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Health records have been dumped in bins, unsecured laptops have gone missing, and private health records have been posted onto the internet, among the data calamaties.
The Information Commissioner's Office is currently demanding new powers to conduct compulsory audits at hospitals and other health bodies.
Figures from reports of Data Protection Act breaches filed by the ICO over 12 months from July 2011 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, show that 1,779,597 records were reported lost in 16 major incidents involving NHS bodies.
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Fatty acids are essential macromolecular cellular constituents serving critical structural and energetic roles. Synthesis of fatty acids endogenously (known as de novo lipogenesis, or DNL, Fig. 1) is traditionally thought to serve the purpose of converting excess carbohydrates into lipids for storage, because lipid is much more energy-dense than carbohydrate and is therefore a more efficient storage form. It is increasingly clear that fatty acids and their derivatives are also important signaling molecules that affect many fundamental physiologic processes. DNL may produce lipid species with bioactivities distinct from those of lipids derived predominantly from the diet (1). Therefore, there is growing interest in the physiological role of DNL in normal biology and in disease states such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The two central enzymes of DNL, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, use acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA derived from glucose or other carbon precursors to generate palmitate (Fig. 1). While palmitate may have detrimental effects, including enhancing production of proinflammatory cytokines and reactive oxygen species, other fatty acids have beneficial effects on metabolism, the immune system and cardiac function. For example, omega-3 fatty acids, though not synthesized endogenously, are used therapeutically to prevent complications of lipotoxicity in multiple tissues. Palmitate synthesized by DNL as well as dietary lipids can be modified by endogenous elongase and desaturase enzymes to produce multiple lipid species (Fig. 1). Many elongase and desaturase enzymes are coordinately regulated with other DNL enzymes (2). Thus, depending on the complement of enzymes in a specific tissue, the pattern of fatty acids produced by DNL may vary, and distinct fatty acids have very different biological properties.
In animals and humans, fatty acids are predominantly stored in adipose tissue as triglyceride. Most fatty acids in adipose tissue are obtained from dietary fat. Evolutionarily, the ability to store lipid conferred an advantage, because organisms that efficiently stored energy survived when food was scarce. Now, this propensity for storage contributes to the growing obesity epidemic and its associated comorbidities. Interestingly, when surplus food is available, excess carbohydrate generally is oxidized rather than converted to fatty acids by DNL (3). The oxidation of excess dietary carbohydrate in preference to dietary fat is energetically efficient (i.e., it consumes less ATP per gram of lipid stored) but may exacerbate the propensity for obesity when food is plentiful. In conjunction with increased carbohydrate oxidation during high-carbohydrate/high-fat feeding, conversion of carbohydrate to fatty acids is decreased by downregulation of DNL in adipose tissue (4). Understanding the cellular mechanisms by which high-fat intake downregulates DNL in adipose tissue could provide new insights into the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes.
The absence of a simple correlation between carbohydrate ingestion and the quantity of DNL in humans supports the concept that DNL may serve physiological functions aside from its role in the macronutrient energy economy. While most cells perform DNL, liver cells and adipocytes are particularly well adapted. DNL in liver has detrimental effects, including elevating serum triglycerides and increasing intrahepatic lipid (steatosis), leading to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis (Fig. 2) (5). In addition, elevated hepatic DNL strongly correlates with insulin resistance (6). In contrast, increased lipogenic enzyme expression in adipose tissue is associated with enhanced insulin sensitivity in humans (Fig. 2) independent of obesity (7).
DNL is driven by two master transcriptional regulators that are widely expressed – Sterol Response Element Binding Protein 1c and Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein. Both regulate expression of key lipogenic genes, such as fatty-acid synthase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and ATP-citrate lyase (Fig. 1) (5). Insulin stimulates SREBP1c expression in the liver, and this is pronounced in hyperinsulinemic states such as Type 2 diabetes. In contrast, glucose and other carbohydrates regulate ChREBP activity. Expression of both DNL transcriptional regulators is elevated in liver in insulin-resistant states such as obesity. Knockdown of ChREBP in the livers of genetically obese ob/ob mice markedly improves insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis (8). In contrast, induction of ChREBP in adipocytes confers insulin sensitivity (4). Data suggest that adipose ChREBP may be involved in regulating whole-body insulin action and that ChREBP-driven DNL in adipocytes has beneficial metabolic effects (4) unlike the adverse effects of increased DNL in liver cells. SREBP1c appears to be a dominant regulator of DNL in liver but not adipose tissue, because SREBP1c knockout reduces hepatic but not adipose DNL enzyme expression (9). Hence, ChREBP is the dominant regulator of DNL in adipose tissue (4).
Investigation of the molecular mechanisms regulating DNL in liver and adipose tissue also supports the view that adipose DNL, unlike hepatic DNL, may be metabolically beneficial. Liver-specific deletion of SCAP, a protein required for cleavage of SREBP1c to its active form, reduces hepatic DNL (10). This is accompanied by a compensatory four-fold increase in adipose DNL associated with improved fasting glycemia, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. In addition, genetically deleting adipose tissue lipid chaperones aP2 and mal1 increases adipose DNL and renders mice resistant to diet-induced obesity, fatty liver disease, insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes (1). The improved metabolic phenotype has been attributed to insulin-sensitizing properties of palmitoleate, a potentially beneficial fatty-acid species produced at increased rates as a result of increased adipose DNL (1). These genetic studies causally link increased adipose DNL with beneficial effects on whole-body metabolism.
Additional recent observations support the possibility that adipose DNL may serve unanticipated beneficial physiological functions. Calorie restriction prolongs life span in numerous mammalian species and delays the development of aging-associated diseases such as diabetes and atherosclerosis (11). The mechanism is unknown. From an efficiency perspective, one might expect calorie restriction to reduce DNL, which is a wasteful energetic process. However, the opposite is observed. Calorie-restricted mice demonstrate a four-fold increase in adipose tissue DNL (12). It is not known whether this mediates the therapeutic effects of calorie restriction. But it is highly plausible that it mediates favorable metabolic effects, because enhanced DNL in adipose tissue confers improved glucose homeostasis (4).
Thus, growing evidence suggests that increasing adipose tissue DNL may provide beneficial health effects in contrast with the effects of DNL in liver tissue. Strategies to enhance DNL specifically in adipose tissue and to identify and administer salutary bioactive lipids may provide new therapies for metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
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Excerpt: Pretty is What Changes by Jessica Queller
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The follow is an excerpt from Pretty is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny by Jessica Queller. Read Rebecca Paoletti's interview with Queller.
"I'd fallen down the rabbit hole and decks of cards were talking. As if the logic and rules of my universe had suddenly changed. And in fact, they had."
September, 2004
Glorious California light poured through the sunroof as I made the left turn, pulled up to the gate, smiled, and flashed my badge. Joe the security guard winked and bellowed, "Morning, Jess." The gate rose, and off I drove, the whole of the Warner Brothers lot spread before me. This routine never failed to give me a thrill.
When I was a little girl, my mother used to tell me I looked like Natalie Wood. At first I didn't know who she was, so my mom rented Rebel Without a Cause and Westside Story on Betamax and brought them home. Natalie Wood was so pretty – did my mother really think I looked like her? I watched the films over and over, straining to see a resemblance. My mother fixed this mythical and misguided ideal in my head: I was supposed to look like a starlet. I'd put on a white nightgown and sing "Tonight" into the mirror, assessing myself critically. Even at ten, I knew I fell short of Natalie Wood's beauty, but I certainly wasn't going to point this out to my mother.
My mother's projections were informed by the fact that she did look like a movie star. As a child, I'd curl up on the bathroom floor every morning and watch as she got ready for work. My mother would sit at her mirrored vanity table, carefully applying false eyelashes (a glamorous look from the 1960s that she continued well into the 1970s). She'd tell me how important it was for a woman to have a career, but, she added, a woman also had to be beautiful. "All girls are pretty when they're young," she'd say. "Once they grow up it's another story. Luckily you and your sister have my genes."
Now, more than twenty years later, I was working on the Warner Brothers lot where my beloved Natalie Wood had filmed Rebel Without a Cause. I acted blasé in front of my peers, but privately I found this astounding.
Though I'd wound up in Hollywood, I didn't work on the side of the camera my mother had destined for me – I was a writer on the hit television series The Gilmore Girls. It took me a couple of decades to shed the notion that I was expected to measure up to movie stars. I'd finally achieved the balance and perspective to feel whole just as I was. But I'd never lose the capacity to be dazzled by Hollywood legends.
I drove past the steel suspension bridge, a perfect facsimile of an El train platform, where the doctors of ER bundled up against imagined Chicago cold, past the façade of a speakeasy covered in fake snow, and then I hit the jackpot: George Clooney and Don Cheadleplaying a game of one-on-one at a net-less hoop.
I made a right onto a street with a sign that read Welcome to Warner Village. Neat rows of clapboard houses with emerald lawns and big shady trees lined each side of the street. To all appearances, it was a suburban neighborhood in New England. In reality, the exterior of the houses were used as a location for filming, while the interiors were divided into writers' offices. The Gilmore Girls occupied two houses in the center of the lane.
I swung into my parking space and spotted some writers from another show indulging in the fantasy of our neighborhood by playing stickball up the street. As I cut the engine, my friend and fellow Gilmore Girls writer, Rebecca, sped into the parking space in front of mine. We stumbled out of our cars like upscale bag ladies – teetering on high heels, wearing dramatic sun hats and shades, weighted down with bags of scripts, notebooks, laptops. We saw our own crazy image reflected in the other and broke into laughter. Individually, we were able to maintain the semblance of being adult professionals; together, we regressed into a pair of mischievous twelve-year-olds playing dress-up.
Rebecca was twenty-nine, tall and striking with long, pale blond hair; she had the carriage and confidence of a young Kate Hepburn and a Harvard pedigree to back it up. I was thirty-four, brunette, more of the girl next door. There was no need to appear jaded to Rebecca. Our chemistry allowed us to be our most vulnerable, true selves. We also shared clothes and lipsticks and finished each other's sentences. Though we mocked ourselves for our excesses, we usually had far too much fun together to care.
"Did you get my message?" she asked.
"I've been trying to call you from the road…"
"I've been trying to call you from the road…"
"What did you say?" I asked.
"That I'm late and I need you to cover for me."
"You're not late," I said, glancing at the time on my cell phone. "It's 9:30."
"I am late and so are you – we're gathering this morning at –"
"Nine! With Lorelai pitches. I forgot."
"I made up some pitches on the freeway while spilling my coffee and nearly crashing into one of those little VW bugs with the stupid bud vase."
"Was there a bud in it?"
"A plastic rose." Rebecca started walking and I fell in beside her. "If you're going to buy a car with a built-in bud vase you should at least make the effort to stick a live piece of greenery in it. This is California – pull something off a tree."
"Look," I said, pointing to our boss' parking space, "Amy's car's not here yet."
"Oh, good," she sighed. "I need to call the dog-walker to take Nina to the vet."
"What's wrong with Nina?"
"She ate a box of doughnuts."
"What's the plan for tonight?"
"8:30 reservation at the Edendale."
A softball rolled by our feet and one of the writers trotted over to retrieve it. He was a Harvard guy who'd been on the Lampoon with Rebecca. As they chatted, I walked up the porch steps and headed to my office.
The writers' PA, a boy of about twenty, greeted me with a bright hello and eagerly imparted the day's news: our boss was running late and we wouldn't be gathering in the writers' room until ten. I thanked him for the update. He smiled shyly and I caught a sudden glimpse of myself through his eyes. To this kid who was paid next to nothing to answer the phones and make the coffee runs – all for the chance to be in the proximity of those who were creating television – my life probably looked charmed. Of course it had only been a few years since I was scrambling to pay my rent and chasing a literary agent to his tennis lesson, imploring him to read my work. Now I breezed in every morning, a young woman with a high-powered, high-paying job writing for a popular TV show. But I was far more battle-worn than I appeared; I had recently experienced profound loss, and the interior of my life was not anywhere as neat as the façade. That said, there was no denying that I had been showered with great good fortune.
I tossed my bags on the sofa in my office, dropped into the desk chair and checked my email while going over a "to do" list scrawled on a lined yellow notepad. Send rent check, buy shower gift for CM, call medical lab. I wrote a check to my landlady while dialing the number for the lab.
"Westside Medical."
"Is this Mary?" I asked.
"Yes it is."
"My name is Jessica Queller, I spoke to you yesterday. I'm trying to reach Dr. Williams."
"I took a blood test at your lab two months ago and I've been trying to obtain the results."
"What did you say your name was?"
"Jessica Queller. Q-u-e-l-l-e-r."
"Did you say you've called previously for the results?"
"Yes, Mary. I called yesterday, I called last week, I called the week before that."
"I found your file. That particular test is sent out to be performed by a different lab, miss. I'm afraid I don't know whether we've received the results yet."
"When I spoke to you yesterday, Mary, you said you were holding the envelope with my results in your hand. And you said that only the doctor was permitted to open it."
"I see. Would you hold please?"
I cradled the receiver as cheesy music played through the phone. I hadn't bothered to meet the doctor when I went in for the test — a lab technician had taken my blood – so my name wouldn't hold any meaning for him. Still, I found it rude that he wasn't taking my calls. As one elevator song seeped into the next, I etched the yellow notepad with black ink, my frustration growing. Just as I was about to hang up and dial again, a man, his voice gruff and harried, came on the line.
"Who is this?"
"Jessica Queller. Are you Dr. Williams?"
"I've been trying to get you on the phone for weeks to obtain the results of a BRCA test I took in July."
"Who are you? Why did you take this test?"
I did not hide my irritation.
"My mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer eleven months ago. My cousin, Dr. Alan Heilpern – your colleague — scheduled the appointment for me. I gave blood at your lab. I've left messages at your office repeatedly without the courtesy of a return phone call, and I can't understand why I've been unable to obtain the results."
"You tested positive for the BRCA-1 mutation," he said.
I tried to comprehend this statement. My immediate reaction was that the word "positive" sounded like a good thing, something positive. It took a few moments for my brain to process the fact that testing positive for a genetic mutation could not mean anything good.
"Positive is bad, right?"
"How bad?"
"Statistically, you have up to an eighty-five or ninety-percent chance of getting breast cancer."
I sat in shocked silence. It was as if this doctor was speaking in Swahili and expecting me to understand him. As if I'd fallen down the rabbit hole and decks of cards were talking. As if the logic and rules of my universe had suddenly changed. And in fact, they had.
The doctor's voice barked in my ear, "It's a very good thing you took this test."
Though I was reeling and couldn't grasp the meaning of the doctor's words, I knew instinctually that something momentous had occurred. I knew that his statement held some truth that would reveal itself in the months to come. And I knew on a gut level that this truth would change the course of my life.
Excerpted with permission from Pretty is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny (Spiegel & Grau).
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Aston Hotels & Resorts Expands Its Collection of Waikiki Hotels, Adding Hotel Renew by Aston
Honolulu, Hawaii (PRWEB) June 18, 2013
Aston Hotels & Resorts is expanding its collection of eight Waikiki properties with its first designer boutique hotel: Hotel Renew by Aston.
Today, Aston Hotels & Resorts takes over operations of Hotel Renew in the heart of Waikiki, just steps from the ocean at 129 Paoakalani Avenue. Rebranded as Hotel Renew by Aston, the property offers a luxurious getaway feel and tranquil atmosphere. It has 72 rooms with ocean, mountain or city views, artfully designed by acclaimed San Francisco designer Jiun Ho to incorporate natural elements such as sand-blasted oak woods, cool limestone and a palette of monochromatic colors.
With an emphasis on personalized service, guests are greeted with cold-scented towels and chilled beverages at check in. The hotelâs numerous amenities include: Wireless Internet, beach gear, PlayStation 3 Blu-ray consoles with unlimited movies and games, morning coffee and tea service, and a weekly cocktail mixer. As part of this enhanced amenity package, guests will have convenient access to a full-service fitness facility, a Hawaiian-influenced boutique spa, and two resort pools. The nonsmoking hotel also features an extensive recycling program and eco-friendly bathroom products.
âThe addition of Hotel Renew solidifies Astonâs position as a leader in hotel operations in Waikiki, as we always strive to offer the widest range of hotels and condominium resorts,â said Kelvin Bloom, president of Aston Hotels & Resorts. âAdding a luxury boutique hotel to the Aston collection of hotels and resorts allows us to serve guests looking for an intimate getaway with all of the shopping, dining and activity conveniences of Waikiki at their doorstep. We are excited to enhance this hotel with Astonâs 65 years of hospitality experience.â
Since the designer boutique hotel opened in 2008, Hotel Renew has consistently placed at the top of national and statewide travel rankings, named among the top five haute hotels in Honolulu by Haute Living magazine, as well as one of Hawaiiâs best boutique hotels as selected by readers of Hawaii magazine. In 2010, travel deal publisher Shermanâs Travel awarded Hotel Renew a Smart Luxury Award for leaving travelers with that rare and satisfying feeling of money, time and energy well spent, and The New York Times described it as an oasis where friendliness reigns.
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At the center of it all, yet a world away from ordinary, Hotel Renew by Aston is a one-of-a-kind property that offers sophisticated serenity throughout its 72 freshly designed rooms. Situated at the center of Waikikiâs vibrant shopping and dining area, the boutique hotel is a retreat that promotes wellness and rejuvenation with natural elements reflecting the beauty of Hawaii. Enjoy the personalized service and special amenities offered by the hotelâs intimate surroundings, and step into modern tranquility at Hotel Renew by Aston. For more information or reservations, visit http://www.hotelrenew.com or AstonHotels.com or call toll free 866-774-2924 or property direct at 888-HTLRNEW.
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC volleyball team rallied from two sets down to force a decisive fifth set, but Delaware held on to the defeat the Retrievers, Friday afternoon at Loyola (Md.) University's Reitz Arena on the opening day of the Radisson Cross Keys Greyhound Challenge. The Blue Hens defeated the Retrievers, 3-2, in five sets (25-17, 25-19, 17-25, 29-31, 15-12).
"The girls gave a tremendous effort, but came up a bit short," said head coach Ian Blanchard. "I am encouraged by our competitiveness and the mistakes we made are correctable."
Sophomore middle Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech) led the way for UMBC (1-4) with a season-high 16 kills while senior hitter Ali Goc (Oshawa, Ontario/R.S. McLaughlin) added 13 winners and sophomore hitter Sherelle Walker (New Fredom, Pa./Susquehannock) chipped in 11 put-aways.
Freshman libero Casey Griffith (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion) once again paced the Retriever backline, scooping up a career-best 25 digs in the losing effort. Goc earned her first double-double of the year with 18 digs.
"We dug a hole for ourselves early in the match, not from a lack of effort or intensity, but more from a lack of execution," Blanchard said. "As we mature as a team we will improve our execution."
Katie Hillman led all hitters with 28 kills and notched a double-double by registering 11 digs. Katie Hank (11), Megan Blunden (10), and Chandler Bryant (10) were also in double figures for kills for Delaware (1-3) who earned its first win of the season.
The Blue Hens outhit the Retrievers .184-.155 in the match and picked up one more dig (85-84), but UMBC denied one more block than UD (14.5-13.5).
Delaware looked poised to cruise to an easy victory in the opening set, winning the first eight points, courtesy of four Retriever hitting errors. UMBC recovered, though, and chipped away at the lead, cutting the margin to three at 13-10 on a kill by Mlemchukwu. Delaware did not let the Retrievers get any closer, however, and won the final four points for a 25-17 opening frame win.
The Blue Hens carried the momentum into the second period, turning an early 2-2 tie into a 10-4 lead. UD's advantage grew to eight on two occasions, the second one at 22-14, before UMBC ran off four straight to trim the lead to 22-18. Delaware held off the late charge though, to take a two sets to none lead by winning the set 25-19.
UMBC would not go away and put up a fight in the third as the teams went back-and-forth in the early going. After Delaware knotted the set at 6-6, the Retrievers won eight of the next ten points, the last on a kill from Goc. UMBC built the lead to a set-high nine points at 23-14, and then closed it out to force a fourth set on an ace from junior Hannah Schmidt (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales).
In the fourth, the Retrievers continued their run from the previous set gaining a 4-1 lead on a kill by Walker. Delaware's quick rally leveled the set at 6-6 and the teams could barely separate themselves the rest of the way. The Hens five-point run to gain a 20-15 lead looked to prove decisive, but UMBC staved off six match points and eventually gained their own set point at 28-27 on a setting error. The Retrievers were held at bay, however, until back-to-back Mlemchukwu kills gave the Black and Gold a 31-29 win and sent the match to a decisive fifth set.
The even play continued in the early going of the fifth set and sophomore Kristin Cooper (Davidsonville, Md./South River) pulled UMBC even with Delaware at 7-7. Four out of the next five points went to the Blue Hens, though, and they held on for the victory by closing out the match with a 15-12 win.
UMBC returns to Reitz Arena on Saturday for a doubleheader to close out the weekend. The Retrievers take on tournament host Loyola (Md.) at 2:00 p.m. and then face LaSalle at 4:30 p.m.
- Delaware has now won four straight meetings between the teams and leads the all-time series 26-8.
- Goc's 13 kills are her most since tallying 15 against Hartford on Oct. 10, 2010.
- Griffith's 25 digs are the most by a Retriever in a single match since Ali Loynachan scooped up 28 at New Hampshire on Oct. 28, 2012.
- This was UMBC's first five-set match of the season. Last season, the Retrievers were 1-6 in matches that went the distance.


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Are Chrissy Teigen and John Legend having a little boy or a little girl?
The pregnant supermodel revealed the gender of their bundle of joy in passing on Instagram.
Teigen praised her new Vogue magazine cover, which was shot in her native Thailand. In the caption, she shared that the couple are going to have a baby girl.
"So proud and honored to have shot the cover of Vogue Thailand! Special to me for so many reasons...one being I am SO PROUD to be Thai, so excited to have shot a Vogue cover (a dream, of course)," she wrote in the caption, "annnnd a couple minutes after this shot, John and I learned we were having our little baby girl!"
"Chrissy is feeling great!" a source close to the supermodel told E! News exclusively back in November of Teigen's pregnancy, adding, "John is being really supportive during Chrissy's pregnancy. It's so cool for [them] to see her belly grow."
The insider continued, "Chrissy is taking good care of herself and making sure everything is going well with the baby. She has been cooking for the holiday season! John and Chrissy will be with their families for the holidays. It's a really happy time for them."
The Sports Illustrated cover girl announced her pregnancy in October, taking to Instagram to write, "John and I are so happy to announce that we are pregnant :) As many of you know, we've been trying to have a baby for a while now. It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family."
And although there are some obvious nerves, Chrissy can't wait for this new journey. "Chrissy can't wait to be a mom. She is a little nervous but she knows that they will be great parents," the source noted. "It's a huge blessing for them both. John will definitely be making a few baby songs."
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Bike Week raffle raising money for Boys & Girls Club
MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) � A motorcycle business in New Hampshire is commemorating the 90th anniversary of Motorcycle Week in Laconia by starting a campaign to raise $30,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of the Lakes Region.
Laconia Harley-Davidson is raffling off a customized 2013 Street Glide motorcycle to support the organization. The bike has hand-spun gold leaf by pinstripe artist Russ Mowry of Candia.
A total of 3,000 tickets will be available and can be purchased for $10 each at the business, the Boys & Girls Club, and White Mountain Harley-Davidson.
In the last four years, Laconia Harley-Davidson has raised $125,000 in support of New Hampshire nonprofits.
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Fonterra buddies appear to be sticking around to protect incoming chairman from brewing backlash
Is Fonterra's Sir Henry van der Heyden staying on past his use-by date as the dairy co-operative's chairman to protect chairman-elect John Wilson from a boardroom coup?
That question was doing the rounds even before Fonterra confirmed on September 27 that van der Heyden would not step down from the board as expected this December when he hands over the chairmanship to John Wilson at the co-op's AGM.
Van der Heyden will instead stay on for an unspecified period - expected to be much less than the December 2013 period when his term as an elected board member runs out - to ostensibly "provide continuity around the board table" until after Trading among Farmers (Taf) is up and running.
The industry insiders had pointed to two motivations that might galvanise van der Heyden to stay on beyond this December. First, that van der Heyden, who has steered the company for nigh on 10 years, was not prepared to face up to the fact he had reached his use-by date.
The second, that van der Heyden really wanted to stay on the board to ensure his successor did not face a boardroom coup if the farmer shareholders elected new directors who were not from the camp that supported John Wilson as their new chairman.
A smooth transition to the Taf is important. It is designed to provide permanent capital so the $19 billion company is not subject to redemption risk. Already international interest is high in the plan to offer the public NZX-listed units in farmer-owned shares.
But the brute reality is the Fonterra board's decision to protect Wilson's leadership has also influenced the decision by both van der Heyden and independent commercial director Ralph Waters to stay on after the AGM. Getting the Taf bedded down is basically an executive and not a governance role. And in any event Wilson is well-qualified to lead this given the fact that he headed the board's capital restructuring effort as chair of the capital structure committee.
A backlash has clearly been brewing on three fronts. Not all dairy farmer shareholders are enamoured of the board's decision to elect Wilson as their new chairman over fellow farmer director Colin Armer. The $8 million golden handshake to former Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier also galls. Some industry players believe Ferrier simply rode the "white gold rush" as demand surged from big Asian markets such as China for safe New Zealand milk powder to make products like infant formula.
Then there is the fact that Fonterra has been out-gunned on the milk payout by a small NZ dairy company, Tatua.
Dairy farmer politics are rugged and ruthless. But it would appear it will take a great deal of persuasion to get farmer shareholders to look past the three big niggles and concentrate on the pending debut of the Taf and the ability it will give Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings to lead the company through its strategy refresh, in which the extent of ambition and the pace of its delivery are dependent on the ability to access new capital.
There are three farmer director positions up for grabs in December.
Wilson is standing for re-election. The number of votes he gets will be an early indication of his real support in the wider farmer shareholder base. Director and academic Nicola Shadbolt is also up for re-election. The third vacancy has been caused by the exit of Armer, who lost out on the chairmanship after the independent commercial directors swung their support behind Wilson. Jacqueline Rowarth, a Waikato academic, has tossed her hat in the ring. Other names will emerge next week.
Van der Heyden and the independent directors who supported Wilson are said not to have been so admiring of Armer's presentation skills. That's something which is of importance not only when it comes to fronting a vociferous group of farmer shareholders but also in maintaining market confidence with investors who will be injecting capital into the company. Wilson was thought to be better at this.
Armer's supporters believed he had a stronger commercial focus (pointing to his $200 million dairy empire) and a desire to push the company faster up the value chain, along with the claim that he had more respect from farmer shareholders and was more ambitious for Fonterra than Wilson.
The suspicion that Wilson is "Henry's man" (he was effectively blooded during the capital restructuring process when he fronted up with van der Heyden and Spierings to farmer meetings) has also been cited by the Armer camp.
The September 27 announcement confirming van der Heyden would stay on as a farmer-elected director was instructive. Wilson said van der Heyden would stay on for the first part of the year. Waters would also extend his tenure "for up to six months" beyond the December AGM.
Wilson played up the need for continuity as the co-op moved ahead with the Taf. "As a result both Henry and Ralph have agreed to stay on until after Taf is up and running. They will provide valuable guidance during this period. Their involvement is in the best interests of the co-operative and the board has thanked them both for being flexible."
Wilson said Waters' extended appointment would need to be ratified by farmer shareholders at the AGM. The process to identify a new appointed director was already under way.
"Sir Henry would remain on as part of his normal farmer-elected term which runs to the annual meeting in 2013," said Wilson. "However, neither Henry nor I think it will be necessary for him to stay this long. He has made other professional and personal commitments that he is keen to pursue as soon as possible."
The lack of certainty over the departure dates of van der Heyden and Waters makes Wilson's position look weak.
The board has other strong independent directors such as David Jackson, Sir Ralph Norris and John Waller who should be able to give commercial ballast.
Wilson has also been on the Fonterra board since 2003 - so he is hardly a neophyte.
A confident incoming chairman would quickly set firm departure dates. Anything otherwise makes it look as though Wilson needs Waters and van der Heyden to make up numbers around the table to strengthen his position.


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Rain Card
For those of you who don't know what Extravaganza is-it's the best creative part of Close to My Heart Convention.
Its were you see the newest products from close to my heart in the most creative ways, taught by the consultants to the consultants.
Being a CTMH Consultant is one of the best things that happened in my life, and going to the annual convention rates top on my list.
This is one of my items I sent off with my application.
I printed off the sentiment on my computer using CTMH font and add the Color ready Alphabet stickers to finish off the "rain".
It may be hard to tell, I also add a very thin layer of Liquid glass to the boots and umbrella to give them a shinny finish. I used Caboodle paper, and added a little black ink and rub-ons.
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Black ink
Sorbet marker
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foam squares
So, as I wait (not very patiently, I might add) for news from Close to My Heart. I could really uses some happy thoughts and good juju sent my way!!
14 comments:
- Carla said...
Great card!!
Good luck . . . hope you win - I`d love to take a class from you!!!
- March 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Sparkle said...
Such a darling card!
- March 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Alanna said...
Your card is fabulous. I love all the details and how you used the polka dot stickers.
- March 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Terrie in AZ said...
I'm voting for you....Wait, do I get to vote? I hope I get to see your class at convention
- March 3, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- Cupcake Stamper said...
Beautiful card! So bright and cheery!! Good luck with extravaganza!!!
- March 4, 2010 at 4:56 AM
- Jeanne said...
Aaron, this is a terrific card! I love the colors and that sentiment, wow! I will most certainly think good thoughts for you that you get selected for Extravaganza. But, even if somehow you don't, I truly hope you don't take it to mean you aren't good enough, or whatever. Your work is fabulous!
- March 4, 2010 at 6:13 AM
- Sheila H said...
Your card is so cute - best of luck to you!
- March 4, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- Vicki Wizniuk said...
Fab card! Wishing you lots of luck!
- March 4, 2010 at 7:52 AM
- Erin Mixon-ctmh consultant said...
Such a GREAT card!! Good luck! :)
- March 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Amy said...
Wow this card is adorable! I absolultly love it. good luck
- March 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM
- Stephanie said...
Good Luck! You deserve to win!!!! I LOVE your designs, always have!
- March 4, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- Sharli said...
A fabulous card Aaron! I love this stamp set and you've "done it good!"
- March 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Mamasooz said...
Your rain card is darling.
- March 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Jennifer said...
Great card!! I sent in my submission also on Monday the 1st and am also not so patiently waiting for a reply!
I wish you luck in being chosen to teach! If I were choosing the teachers, I would SO pick you!!!
Who knows, maybe we will both be teaching!! Will look for you at Extravaganza in July.......
- March 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM


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