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Saturday, February 4. 2017
Week 4 Bacon, Pajamas, Partying, and Robots
Happy Ice Cream for Breakfast/Pajama/Breakfast for Dinner Day!
We celebrate this day every year by piling in early in our PJs with buckets of ice cream, then bring in all our frying pans, waffle makers, and skillets to make breakfast for dinner. We have waffles, bacon, sausage, more bacon, pancakes, some more bacon, scrambled eggs, and everything in between as we fill the science hallway with the smell of bacon (which usually doesn't go away for a couple days and really confuses all of the students when they come back to school on Monday). Some years we blow a fuse or two, but hopefully that won't happen tonight!
In between all this eating and partying, we've been hard at work on our robot. We have started working on the final assembly (at last!). We actually build two identical robots every year, because the one we use for competition is sealed away in a plastic bag after the 6 weeks end. Our second one we use to let our drive team practice with before our competitions. And if something breaks on it or just doesn't work well, we will have a chance to figure out how to fix it and improve it once we get to competition.
Members of our mechanical team have been working on adding bumpers to the drivebase, assembling the mechanism to hold the gear, creating the conveyor intake, and have disassembled the prototype shooter and are re-using some of the components in our final design.
You can see some pictures of our shooter below. The lefts shows two pictures of our wooden prototype, complete with motors and wiring, and the right shows the CAD model for our final shooter assembly. As you can see, we actually did decide to go through with the shooter design where it shoots three balls at a time.
Our programmers have been working on the code for our controls, autonomous mode, and shooter (as well as indulging in the occasional Butterfinger, of course).
Our electrical team has been doing some work on the control panels for the drivebase and shooter while they wait for more components to be assembled so they can add on all of the electrical components (including, hopefully, some pretty sweet LEDs!).
Between electrical and programming, there still isn't a lot of work for them do. All of the mechanical students are rushing to finish making and assembling the parts on our robot so that programming and electrical will have enough time to do their thing before Rochester Rally on Sunday, February 19th, from 10AM to 4PM in the East Gym at Penfield High School. This event allows teams to test out their robot designs and lets their drivers practice before competition. It's free and open to the public, so we hope to see you guys there!
As of today, we have finished up all of our CAD and shop drawings so we can fabricate the rest of the components of our robot. The shop drawings help us dimension and keep track of each of the parts. Some of the parts, like the one in the drawing below (which is for a rail on our shooter mechanism), are sent off to our main sponsor, Harris, who fabricates some of our more complex parts.
As always, make sure to check out this week's vlog to see our students and robot in action!
17 days until Stop Build Day!
-Student Blogger Katie and Ace Reporter Justin
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Saturday, January 28. 2017
Week 3 Finalizing Designs and Starting Assembly
We hit a little snag during Week 3 since it was mid-term week, so many of our students were M.I.A. to study for their exams. The school is still gracious enough to let us use their facilities for our build sessions, but nevertheless we are still behind schedule. We still need to finish our detailed-design drawings and prototypes, which is something we hope to have done by the end of this weekend.
We have, however, been making decent progress with our drivebase and prototypes.
Students finished assembling the drivebase a few days ago, so it ended up looking like this:
It was spray-painted (black because it is a non-moving mechanism) and the wheels, gears, and motors were attached to it. Meanwhile, the electrical students created the electrical panel and then worked with the mechanical students to mount and wire it to the drivebase. Some kids tested it out last night, and all of the gears meshed and it drove!
Our programming students programmed the electrical panel and are currently doing their thing with the controls and our autonomous mode, which is the 15 second period at the beginning of each match where the robot operates using pre-programmed instructions. Right now the program has the robot drive past the base line, which scores 5 points, and then deliver a gear to the airship, which gives us points when we start one or more of the rotors. In between working on those programs, some of the new students are receiving more training before the large majority of programming starts later in the build season.
We have been going back and forth a lot with our shooter design (which is evident when you look at the multitude of prototypes we've created and reworked over and over again). At first, we wanted it to be able to shoot several fuel at a slightly staggered rate. Then, we decided to only try and shoot one fuel at a time and added a guide rail to increase it's accuracy. But now, we've decided to go back to our initial idea and try and shoot three fuel at the same time, with the added guide rails. A group of mechanical students assembled the initial design using wood just to get a visual of how big it will be. Right now the motors are being attached and will be tested later on before we begin either assembling the final design, or create yet another prototype (although, fingers crossed, this really does seem like the final design).
On the left you can see the frame the shooter will be in. The top right shows the three different guide rails that will go onto the shooter, and the bottom right shows the preliminary CAD model of the shooter with those rails.
Other students are creating a CAD for the final assemblies of the drivebase, shooter, and gear holding mechanism. Below, you can see what we have so far for the CAD model of the final robot assembly:
And remember that whole discussion going on about whether or not to use treads or buckets in our intake system and we ultimately decided on the bucket system?
Yea, that discussion. Well, here is the inside scoop on how we came to that decision, directly from a primary source:
It was a scene straight out of "Hamilton." Three mentors and two students, who had been arguing for a week about the design of the conveyor system, entered a room and didn't emerge until a final design had been decided. This was the third major redesign, and it will be the final, whether or not it really works.
We try to make decisions as democratically as possible, with nearly the whole team voting. However, we've found that these votes usually leave many people unsatisfied, take much longer than necessary, and don't give enough weight to the people who are actually going to make the subsystem. For this decision, we had a small group of people talk through all the details and make a final decision. I was lucky enough to be in the room when it happened.
Only 24 days until Stop Build Day!
Don't forget to check out our vlog channel and watch our Week 3 vlog!
-Student Blogger Katie & Ace Reporter Justin
("Hamilton" discourse by Student Essayist Hannah)
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Saturday, January 21. 2017
Week 2 Testing and CADing
With Week 2 coming to a close, we have decided on which mechanisms we are going to use on our robot, and are finishing up our CAD (computer-aided design) drawings and have started creating the technical drawings. We decided to use the dimensions for a low bot, meaning our maximum dimensions could be 36 in. by 40 in. by 24 in. tall.
Our strategy team has been locked in heated debate about what we should prioritize for scoring points. Right now, they seem to be in agreement that scoring fuel (those green wiffle balls) and delivering gears are equally important in regards to points. Our drive team believes that scoring points by climbing the rope should be prioritized last since it will take a lot of time and effort during a match, but it will still be worth it to integrate our climbing mechanism into the robot.
We've actually updated our climbing mechanism a bit to look more like this:
It has tabs on it now so it will be able to catch the loop on the end of the rope more easily. We've been doing lots of testing on it, and it seems to be working fairly well.
We have also come to a major decision on our shooter. There was a debate as to whether we should use a conveyor system or a series of small buckets to carry the fuel from the intake to the shooter. We eventually decided on using the bucket shooter system because even if one of the buckets broke, the rest of the shooter will still work. Whereas with the conveyor system, if one tread broke then the whole shooter would be unusable, and it would also require more sensors. If one or more of those sensors broke, then it would require a lot more electrical and programming work to fix it. Here is one of the drawings that shows how this system will work:
Right now there is lots of work going on in the shop as prototypes are being tested and reworked before the final CAD drawings are made. Each mechanism on the robot, such as the intake, shooter, and climber, have a sub-team of students and one or mentor assigned to them. The mentors supervise the students in the shop to ensure their safety, and provide them with guidance and support in their work and designs. But ultimately, it's up to the students to design, build, and assemble the robot.
For more updates, be sure to check out our vlog channel or tune into the live stream of our workshop during build hours!
33 days until Stop Build Day!
-Student Blogger Katie and Ace Reporter Justin
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Thursday, January 12. 2017
Week 1 Strategy & Prototypes
We are definitely making progress! We prioritized what strategies we want to approach with our robot design, and if you're curious then here they are in priority order:
#1: Be able to drive (obviously) and be able to press the button on the hopper (which are boxes on the edge of the field) that releases the green fuel balls onto the field.
#2: Store about 20 fuel balls, gather fuel from the field, score fuel into the high goal of the boiler from the Key (check out the picture below for reference as to where that is), and pick up a gear from the driver station and deliver it to the airship.
#3: Gather fuel from the driver station.
#4: Climb the rope.
#5: Score high goals from by the airship.
#6: Lowest on the list, score fuel into the low goal of the boiler from the Key
Students split up into groups earlier this weekend based developing the prototypes before presenting to the team about them on Sunday night. We don't normally meet on Mondays or Fridays until the end of build season, but yesterday the mechanical students and mentors held a special Monday meeting to work on the prototypes more.
Let's check them out!
(Please keep in mind that these are only prototypes, and that we may not use these ideas in our final robot)
Prototype #1: High Shooter
The wheels on the high shooter spin at high speeds to shoot the fuel into the high goal of the boiler, which is a little over 8 feet high. It's designed to shoot several fuel at the same time, but the shots will be slightly staggered so that they don't hit each other in mid-air. It sounds simple, but so far we have had problems getting the wheels to spin fast enough to shoot the fuel to the height we need.
Prototype #2: Climbing Mechanism
Our climber is a tube with small metal bars sticking out from it. To help us climb, it will start spinning, catch a loop that we are putting on the bottom of our rope, and twist the rope around itself while simultaneously pulling the robot up.
Prototype #3: Gear Mechanism
This prototype acts as a 'pocket' to hold the gears while transporting them, and is able to push the gear onto the peg that carries it up onto the airship. The mechanism is made of mostly lexan and has two doors controlled by pneumatics so that it can leave the gear on the peg and drive away.
Prototype #4: Intake System & Drivebase
"The Chicken Plucker", our intake system, spins pieces of pneumatic tubing that catch the fuel balls that are scattered across the field, and brings them into the robot.
It is mounted in a prototype of our drivebase, the style of which has been hotly debated over for the last couple of days. On Wednesday night, we finally settled on a West Coast style of drivebase, which has wheels on the outside of the frame (unlike the drivebase pictured above) which are directly driven by the transmission. Since the wheels aren't taking up space on the inside of our frame, this leaves us more room to work with on the inside of our robot.
This year there are two different volumes our robot could be: either 36 in. x 40 in. x 24 in. tall or 30 in. x 32 in. x 36 in. tall, and it can weigh up to 120 lbs. We will decide which volume to use once we finalize the mechanisms we are using for the shooter, intake, etc. But for now, our CADers have created some initial designs so we can start planning out where everything will fit in the robot:
Someday, it will hopefully look more like this:
This was our CAD model from 2015. Fun fact! For safety reasons (and 'cuz it looks really cool), we spray paint moving parts red, and non-moving parts black.
Tonight we are making some serious decisions on our final robot design, including what prototype designs we're going with and which size of robot we will be using. We will report back sometime this weekend with all of our plans.
40 days until Stop Build Day!
-Student Blogger Katie
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Sunday, January 8. 2017
Day 2 of Build Season
Today is the second day of build season. I'm pretty sure the only reason that you could get dozens of high school students up early on a weekend is for robots! Even though it's a blizzard out and the roads are absolutely horrendous, many mentors and even more students slogged their way through the snow to make it here today.
We spent yesterday reviewing the game manual and then split off into groups to postulate and share different strategies. The students and mentors then all regrouped and shared out their strategies and we began prioritizing which ones we want to base our robot design on. After dinner, students broke off into groups with mentors to begin creating some prototype designs.
And now, as the wind and the snow whip around outside the school windows, we are gathered (more like barricaded) in the tech wing to continue our work. This morning, we finished up our initial designs and we are now discussing the pros and cons of each one. Hopefully, by the end of the day, we will at least narrow our choices down to one or two designs and continue prototyping on our work shop.
Meanwhile, some of the mentors and alumni are (very) hard at work building and painting a copy of the field in the wood shop for us to use while we prototype and build our robot, and to use during our local scrimmage towards the end of Build Season: Rochester Rally XIII! This year's Rally is on Sunday, February 19th, and it is free and open to the public!
For the rest of the week, we will finalize our designs and prototype them, and hopefully begin working on our final build.
Happy day after Kickoff!
-Student Blogger Katie
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City Communications Manager Jason Wright was kind enough to respond to our inquiry about the logo change.
"It's part of a larger branding initiative requested by City Council, as prescribed in the 2012-2015 Strategic Plan (specifically, portions of the Build Relationships, Structure Economic Growth and Provide Responsible and Responsive Government strategies)" shared Mr. Wright.
He went on to relay that council has been working on the change off and on over months of open discussion in work sessions.
In regards to costs, he states "It's a soft launch to minimize cost over time" and that the actual design was "no cost...all work was done in house. " Finally, it was confirmed that the font was meant to "invoke a fence (our signature architectural item) without being too overt. "
So what do you think? Was this change needed? If so, was it wise to spend these monies at this time? Is it important that the city still include a horse as part of it's brand? Have your say in the comments section below.

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Well, this is great. As long as Boom! keeps releasing Roger Langridge Muppet Show comics in four-issue chunks, I'll get to mention Langridge in my blog four times a year, with each new first issue. Everybody wins!
I'm certain most of the Muppet fans among you have been following this series since it started, but if you've missed out, Langridge has been writing and drawing a mad little series set in the confines of the Muppet Theatre. Each issue is effectively one night's performance, with recurring appearances of "Pigs in Space" and the other skits, running commentary by Statler and Waldorf (who are on consistently fine form), and unbridled chaos backstage. This time, the mayhem is going to continue for a four-part arc, as Rizzo the Rat gets his crew involved in a project to dig up backstage to find a lost treasure. Meanwhile, both Kermit and Animal are undergoing strange new personality quirks. Kermit's new laid-back leather-n-shades look doesn't seem to have too heavy an impact on things, but Animal, now a well-dressed vegetarian who communicates in notecards and cannot keep time to save his life, is really bringing down the Electric Mayhem's sound, man. What the heck is going on?
If ever a comic I've told you about is a no-brainer, it's this one. You've got one of comics' most consistently entertaining creators telling hilarious tales of TV's best creations. It's so darn good you don't even miss the celebrity guest stars. Recommended for absolutely everybody!


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This was my second visit to Alo as I wanted to try out the chef's table tasting menu for $120 plus wine pairing. What can I say, Alo is still by far my favourite restaurant in Toronto! For sure I will go back for a third time, either for the regular tasting ($90), or to try out the bar menu. Although the chef's tasting was excellent, however for me, it was a bit too much food and towards to end I definitely felt like I over-ate.
Trying to make reservations was still challenging, but I assure you, it is well-worth the effort!
For my first time dining experience at Alo, please click here.
Domaine Baud Cremant du Jura / Cornish Hen ~ Crisp and fresh cremant comparible to champagne; cornish hen served in a pâté style, along with a morel mushroom.
2014 Tiberio Pecorino / Sashimi ~ Quite enjoyed the aromatic Pecorino with long minerality finish; perhaps I am a traditionalist so I preferred sashimi being served with wasabi instead of other sauces.
2014 Aphros Loureiro / Sashimi ~ This wine was served last time when I had the regular tasting menu. However I remember liking it better before, possibly because it was from a different vintage; delicious trio of scallop, sea urchin (uni) and dungeness crab.
2015 Bellenos Gamay Noir Rosé / A5 Wagyu Beef Tartare ~ This rosé by famed winemaker / négociant Nicolas Potel's Domaine de Bellene was fruit-forward with strawberry and floral notes. Unfortunately I am just not too fond of rosé wines; the fatty steak tartare was my favourite dish. With fresh ingredients, minimal effort and seasoning are required to come up with a perfect dish!
Gonzalez Byass 'Cristina' Sherry / Pain au Lait / Bee pollen milk dish ~ This trio was matched quite nicely as all shared creamy and nutty notes.
2015 Claude Riffault Sancerre / English Peas ~ Both the wine and shaved ice were refreshing, much needed at this point as I was starting to get full.
2014 Punset Dolcetto d'Alba / Saskatchewan Chanterelles ~ Though I was hoping for a nice Burgundy to go with the dish, this Dolcetto d'Alba will suffice (had the wine last time and enjoyed it).
2014 Castello di Verduno Basadone, Piedmont, made with the Pelaverga grape which I've never heard of. Strawberry flavours along with black peppery notes, this was an interesting wine and I learned something new again! Australian Black Truffle steak – just the steak alone was delicious with its even marbling. I did not dip it in the truffle sauce.
2014 Enderle et Molle "Liason" Pinot Noir, Germany / St. Canut Rack of Pork ~ Typically I find more dark fruit flavours in Germany Pinots in comparison to their Burgundy counterpart, but this was a smooth and well-balanced exception. The pork skin was crispy; pork meat tender and juicy.
2013 Lapeyre "La Magendia" Jurançon / Sake (ice cream) / Dark Chocolate ~ I wasn't feeling this pairing. The Jurançon made with Petit Manseng was more towards stone-fruit profile so it did not match well with the dark chocolate which was bitter-sweet.
2015 La Stoppa Malvasia "Dolce Frizzante" / Ontario Strawberries / Canelé / Brown Butter Gateau ~ Although the Malvasia wasn't too bad for the strawberries, somehow I felt like my night was incomplete without anything to go with the canelé (a tawny or oloroso would be nice!)
Again, another good night at Alo, with the only disappointment being dessert pairings. Hopefully my next venture at their bar will be soon enough.


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Bungie and Activision have yet to confirm the same though.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 08th, Jun. 2014 Under News
An interesting pop-up ad on GamesRadar, which linked to the Great Awaitness PS4 page, has indicated that Bungie's Destiny will be receiving its beta access on PS3 and PS4 four days of ahead of the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Yes, that's pretty much all you get for pre-ordering the PS3 or PS4 features.
The ad was removed later on but a Reddit user captured a screenshot for the same – which you can see above – but there's no official confirmation that it could be true. Until Bungie or Activision confirm the same, we'll be sceptical for the time being – especially since it's hard to believe that PlayStation users will receive such shabby perks.
Destiny will be releasing on September 9th for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It will be available for pre-loading on the PS3 and PS4, which allows you to download it before the game's midnight launch and then play it as soon as the game is live.
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Driving down the West Coast.
The only way you can see the West Coast of the South Island is by road. One state highway stretches down the west of the island between the coast and the Southern alps. It is mile after mile of stunning coastline even in the rain and clouds. Before we drove inland to Arthurs Pass we stopped at the Pancake Rocks to stretch our legs and see what we could of the view with all the clouds. As much as the clouds and then the rain made it hard to see far into the distance I found there is something beautiful about the ocean in that light. It turns a milky green-grey colour. We spent that night at the DOC Goldsborough campsite about thirty minutes south of Greymouth, in a secluded camp spot only a couple of miles from the main highway. This has to be one of my favourite camp spots on our whole trip it felt like we were camping in the rain forest, and because the camp was quite spread out you felt like you were the only ones there.
The following couple of days were spent in Arthurs Pass, camping (Klondyke Corner DOC campsite), relaxing, drawing, playing boules/pentaque, and doing a couple short hikes. On our way out of the valley we did the Devils Punchbowl hike, which despite being mostly steps wasn't too challenging and was a great way to get moving the morning before a long drive back to the coast.
New Zealand is definitely the country that has made me love being out in nature more than ever before, even the more popular scenic areas feel secluded and away from everything except the natural environment. Including when your campsite is next to a state highway or there are several camper vans parked up next to you.
Then we headed back out onto the coastal highway briefly stopping in Greymouth for coffee or in my case a chai latte, some camp supplies and a much needed shower.
We spent the night at McDonald Creek Camp, where we experienced the fewest amount of sandflies since Tasman. This was a huge relief, after several days of being bitten regardless of how much bug spray was applied.
The next day was filled up with hiking and viewing glaciers. If you have driven down the West Coast then you know how incredible both Franz Joseph and Fox Glacier are to see. But it is also scary how quickly they have receded in recent years, due to that way we are currently treating our planet. That night was the last we spent on the West Coast before heading east inland to Wanaka and Hawea lakes, due to a huge amount of rain we stopped at a motor lodge in Haast and ate a huge portion of chips each at the local pub/restaurant deciding to continue the drive inland the next day when we were better rested, fed and showered.
Hopefully the next instalment of this South Island Series will be up within the next week, but no promises as I have just moved to Montreal.


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October 5 –– ShoutHouse performs at Resonator Festival @ National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) 10pm
October 27 –– Naeemah Z Maddox at the Dither Extravanganza! @ 17 Frost Theater of the Arts (Brooklyn, NY)
November 8 –– Naeemah Z. Maddox / Infinien / Upholstery @ Johnny Brendas (Philadelphia, PA)
November 15 –– ShoutHouse "Terminals" project @ Footlight (Queens, NY)
November 16 –– new solo performance @ Muchmore's (Brooklyn, NY)
November 22 –– LCollective plays Madison Brookshire at Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh, PA)
January 19, 2020 –– Piano+ #19. Premiere of new mallet percussion/keyboard work. Along w music by Lucie Vítková and Florencia Sgandurra. Performance by LCollective. @ spectrum (Brooklyn, NY)
April 17, 2020 –– ShoutHouse @ Cathedral Arts (Jersey City, NJ)
August 19 –– a glassy ruckus // alexdgoldberg // Naeemah Z. Maddox // stepnačić.gidron @ H0l0 (1090 Wyckoff, Queens) 6-9:30pm, $10
July 29 –– no power #1 . all unamplified and otherwise unplugged sets. performing original arrangements of early music on glockenspiel, vibraphone bars, and percussion @ Caffeine Underground (447 Central Ave, Brooklyn, NY) set at 9pm
June 7 –– "Cityscapes" released on New Amsterdam Records.
June 4 –– "Cityscapes" album release show at (le) Poisson Rouge 7:30 ShoutHouse with Grand Kid and Akinyemi
April 17 –– Tiff Ortiz Trio at Rockwood Music Hall
April 15 –– Madison Berkshire retrospective at Microscope Gallery performing on suspended vibraphone bars with LCollective
April 12 –– ShoutHouse at Brooklyn Commons "Performing Arts Mosaic" in Bushwick (8PM)
April 5 –– Tiff Ortiz at C'mon Everdybody
March 22 –– ShoutHouse at Rockwood Music Hall, stage 2, 7PM
March 4 –– Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg House Show, 7PM
March 3 –– Piano+ #13. Ensemble pieces at Areté Gallery (67 West St #103, Brooklyn) 8PM
February 13 –– Tiff Ortiz at Rockwood Music Hall, stage 1, 9PM
February 6, 2019 –– ShoutHouse presents a workshop at The Juilliard School (Morse Recital Hall, 2pm)
January 19, 2019 –– Piano+ #12 at spectrum (Brooklyn, NY) "Piano+ Keyboards." Performing piano and keyboards on works by Doug Farrand and Matt Lau.
January 11, 2019 –– Tiff Ortiz @ Elsewhere, zone 1 (Brooklyn, NY)
December 15, 2018 –– LCollective Winter Solstice Concert @ The HUUB (35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ)
October 23, 2018 –– ShoutHouse presented by Carnegie Hill Concerts at Church of Advent Hope. New vocal version of module 2 featuring Lynnesha Crump and Nuri Hazzard.
October 17, 2018 –– Piano+ #10 @ spectrum (Brooklyn, NY) "Piano+ Visuals." New 30′ long scroll performed by Teodora Stepančić (piano), Jesse Greenberg (glockenspiel), Evelyn Emile (unfurling scroll), and Assaf Gidron (scroll-spool).
LCollective mini-tour:
September 22, 2018 — LCollective at The Huub in Orange, NJ
September 16, 2018 — Standing Waves #15: Lecture and Concert Series with Teodora Stepančić at MIT Press Bookstore in Boston, MA
September 14, 2018 — LCollective at 159 Sutton Gallery in Providence, RI
August 31, 2018 — Tiff Ortiz album release show at C'mon Everybody
August 11, 2018 — ShoutHouse at the Shrine
August 9, 2018 — Juilliard School Presents ShoutHouse at Cocktails at Cooper Hewitt
June 29, 2018 — New works with LCollective as part of Piano+ #8 @ spectrum
June 22, 2018 — Premiere of "Module 2" with ShoutHouse at Shapeshifter Lab (Brooklyn, NY)
June 4, 2018 — Premiere of "recercare," duet for violin and bowed glockenspiel, with Megan Atchley, for Variousound Sessions at Pine Box Rock Shop (Brooklyn, NY)
May 6, 2018 — Piano+ #7 guest glockenspiel for Teodora Stepančić's performance of Larry Polansky's B'midbar, with Assaf Gidron (keyboards), Douglas Farrand (melodica, trumpet), and Matt Lau (bass).
April 13, 2018 — Piano+ #6 Performing a version of A la recherche de rhythmu perdu by Luc Ferrari, for piano, bongos, and tape, with Teodora Stepančić, in her piano+ series at spectrum (Brooklyn, NY)
March 29, 2018 — ShoutHouse at The Shrine (Harlem, NY)
March 23, 2018 — Performing works by Maya Verlaak, Assaf Gidron, Gabriela Areal, and Laurence Crane as part of Shared Space Ensemble, at Mise-en place (Brooklyn, NY)
December 12, 2017 — glockenspiel and piano, for Milos Raickovich's "Water Tones" and a new work by Teodora Stepančić @ ShapeShifter Lab
October 6, 2017 — ShoutHouse presents CrossCurrents 2 @ ShapeShifter Lab (8PM). Performance of Ancient Tools featuring rapper Akinyemi and choreography/dance by Quilan Arnold (excerpt), and premiere of new arrangement of a piece by Maassai.
October 8, 2017 — CISUM Percussion workshop, composer fellow. premiere of "six little spiels" for two glockenspiels at Scholes St. Studio (7PM)
May 18, 2017 – Brackish #8: glockenspiel, on improv set w Quilan Arnold (dance) and Sasha Zamler-Carhart (vocals), 7:30pm at St. Lydias
April 7, 2017 – ShoutHouse at WNYC/WQXR's The Greene Space, as part of 44 Charlton.
March 10, 2017 – ShoutHouse at Bitter End, premiering my piece, "Ancient Tools"
February 1, 2017 – ZCRG trio at DiMenna Center, for Composers Now festival
December 9, 2016 – ZCRG trio, featuring dancers Ngo Thanh Phuong and Danang Pamungkas, 7PM at Central Booking gallery
November 17, 2016 – Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg at Cornelia St. Cafe, as part of Voices of Poetry, 6pm
November 5, 2016 – Performing percussion as part of the Music for Contemplation series, at Church of the Annunciation (Williamsburg)
October 18, 2016 – ShoutHouse at Church of the Advent Hope
September 26, 2016 – Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg joins Charlie Rauh at his solo set at Rockwood Music Hall, 8pm
September 9, 2016 – ShoutHouse CrossCurrent at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 8pm. New versions of escher's friend and undulations featuring new collaborations with rappers Nuri Hazzard and spiritchild, and dancers Quilan Arnold, Taylor LaBruzzo, TJ Jacobs, and Zach Gonder.
Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg Summer 2016 Tour:
August 25 – at L'an Vert (Liège, Belgium) with Xavier Dubois and Vincent Tholomé (Kaapshjlmurslis)
August 23 – in Lyon, with JL Prades
August 18 – in Le Puy (Auvergne, France)
August 16 – in Blassac (Auvergne, France)
August 10 – at Festival Les Troubadours chantent l'art roman, in Villelongue (Languedoc, France)
August 6 – at Festival Les Troubadours chantent l'art roman, in Brissac (Languedoc, France)
June 26, 2016 – ShoutHouse at Harlem Arts Festival (Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, Mt. Morris Park North West, 5:30pm)
June 21, 2016 – ShoutHouse at Make Music NY – 119th and Frederick Douglass Blvd
June 19, 2016 – VideoTextGraphicVerbal Scores – 3pm @ Spectrum, with Teodora Stepnacic, Assaf Gidron, Sasha Zamler-Carhart, and Charlie Rauh.
April 30, 2016 – Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg @ Schole's Street Studio
April 24, 2016 – ShoutHouse premiering my piece, 'escher's friend' @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2
March 11, 2016 – ShoutHouse performs new works at the Bitter End, featuring a premiere by Alex Burtzos and my new arrangement of Nuri Hazzard's 'Can't Sleep'.
March 4, 2016 – Trio with Sasha Zamler-Carhart and Charlie Rauh, improvisations on texts by Neruda, Dante, Mallarmé, Vestdijk, Romanos, Jaufre Rudel, and Bernart de Ventadorn at Spectrum, 7 PM
February 12, 2016 – 2 new duets with James Logue, for vibraphone, glockenspiel, guitar, electronics, and keyboards @ Scholes Street Studio, 8PM
December 10, 2015 – ShoutHouse plays at Rockwood, stage 2. Featuring premieres by Jennifer Bellor and Aaron Ewing (9pm)
November 12, 2015 – ShoutHouse plays/discusses our work as a part of Manhattan School of Music's (MSM) Composer's Forum.
October 15, 2015 – ShoutHouse's season opener at the cell. Featuring a premiere of mine: "Something like an afternoon" featuring Jai Issa, Mikaela Bennett and Megan Atchley and the rest of the group (8pm)
July 24, and August 2, 2015 – DarkFest at the Tank, improvising on glockenspiel as part of Jacques Boudreau's structured improv piece, "Heterophony Games" (6pm)
June 11, 2015 – Little Shaman plays Rockwood (11pm)
May 29, 2015 – ShoutHouse CityScapes, including the 2nd performance of a new duet, "Weaving a Forest," for vibraphone and glockenspiel, featuring Aaron Ewing and myself (9pm)
May 8, 2015 – Little Shaman plays Nola Darling
April 26, 2015 – "Revisions" – I will be an inaugural composer to be featured on a new music series at the Tank in midtown. Premiering two new duets, followed by a discussion led by composer Jacques Boudreau @ the Tank (3pm)
March 11, 2015 – ShoutHouse album release show; performance of revised "Hands Shaking in a Mirror" @ DiMenna Center (7:30pm)
February 7, 2015 – Mahagonny Ensemble premieres Miracle of the Sun, as part of ModFest at Vassar College @ Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY (8pm)
February 7, 2015 – I will lead an open rehearsal with Mahagonny Ensemble in preparation of the world premiere of Miracle of the Sun, a new two-movement work for chamber orchestra @ Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY (11am)
October 29, 2014 – ShoutHouse premieres "undulations," my newest full-group piece, @ Shapeshifter Lab (9:30pm)


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Kahiltna Placer Project
Claims – Grant Lake Corporation owns and is selling or leasing 1,000 acres of contiguous state mining claims never mined along the Kahiltna River approximately 31 miles from the intersection of Petersville Road and Oilwell Road in the Yentna Mining District. The claims are located about 100 miles north by northwest of Anchorage Alaska. Substantial gold discoveries, exploration, and small production has been completed close to and on the claims.
Exploration & Sampling Bulk samples of up to 100 cubic yards (cy) each were taken from the ancient river channel running the length of the 3 mile long claim group. Ten samples were processed and evaluated using a small wash plant. Results indicate that consistent gold distribution at .016 oz. au/cy throughout the claim group warrants commercial placer mine development. The projects consists of two separate sites, each with average pay depths of 10′. Monazite-2B is 360 acres, it has 200 acres of mineable area=3.2 million cy. PGE is 640 acres, it also has 200 acres of mineable area=3.2 million cy. The Monazite and PGE sites each have inferred reserves of $66.56M based on .016 oz au/cy, and gold at $1,300 oz. Economically recoverable amounts of platinum and gem stones can be produced as a by product of placer gold operations.
Application for Permits to Mine in Alaska (APMA) has been submitted for the 2018 season. Grant Lake filed Kahiltna Project APMA No: A185607, with COE JD, on December 8, 2018, to begin road repairs, complete demolition of old structures on the claim group, remove old fuel tanks and miscellaneous non-mining related items and perform new trench sampling and analysis on all 16 claims. With our APMA filed, we can begin reclamation, road repairs and trenching as soon as the ground dries out.
The company has filed its Matanuska-Susitna Borough (MSB) Right-of-Way Construction Permit Application. It was a prerequisite before our licensed surveyors can complete the as-built survey of the existing access trail, needed to secure the Construction Permit and commence new road construction. If the company can raise equity capital quickly enough to exploit the situation fully management believes the lessees should begin mining in June 2019.
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Published: 26/09/2013
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 287g
Dodger is a tosher – a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London.
Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't.
But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him.
And Dodger's tale of skulduggery, dark plans and even darker deeds begins . . .
Imprint: Corgi Childrens
Published: 26/09/2013
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 287g
"Here, once again, is the mark of a great writer . . . we are captivated by ingenious word-building on every page . . . As Dodger's triumphant path ultimately brings him honour from the very highest rank of society, we cannot help but cheer not only for his success, but also for the success of this ebullient, funny and delightful novel."
"Dodger feels fresh, vibrant and full of energy, a triumph that should be celebrated as yet another glorious gift from Narrativia."
"[A] superb novel . . . full of eccentric characters and carefully detailed London scenes, the tale embodies both Dickens's love for the common man and a fierce desire for social justice."
"It's a masterwork from a treasure and hero of a writer, and it will delight you."


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She was a petite perfectionist in an age of muscular athletes. She possessed a backhand from heaven and shot-making abilities second to no other female tennis player. She was the person who ended the Williams sisters' dominance in such stunning fashion and then went on to usurp their role.
Justine Henin. Always number one. Thanks for the beautiful moments. And good luck.
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Beverly Norton
Senior Vice President
Beverly has been involved in the commercial general contracting business in the Southeast for 20 years. She has completed over 40 automotive facilities in addition to retail shopping centers, school renovations, mid-rise office buildings, and parking decks. She is a foodie and jazz fanatic who often entertains her friends at home. She and her husband John seek opportunities for adventure travel whenever possible, but most weekends, they are on some wild quest with their two children.
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US Congress is set to pass a defense budget for fiscal 2018 (October 2017 through September 2018) of $696 billion.
Meanwhile the defense spending for 2017 over in Russia (spending for 2018 won't be set until late 2017) is 2.84 trillion rubles, which at today's exchange rates amounts to just under $48 billion.
In other words, for Russia $696 billion would represent enough money to fund its military for fourteen years and six months.
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During shutdown, local people suffer real consequences
As the partial government shutdown reaches toward its one-month mark, the impacts of the dispute in Washington, D.C., are being felt everywhere, including here in Washington County.
No matter what side of the standoff you fall on — whether you support President Donald Trump's long-touted border wall along the Mexican border, or Democrats' hard stance against it — there's little doubt that it isn't Trump or Speaker Nancy Pelosi who are struggling right now. It's the men and women in our communities who work for, or deal with, the federal government.
Right now, the shutdown shows little sign of ending. We hope that changes — soon.
Read our Jan. 15, 2019, story on how the government shutdown is affecting Washington County.
For many, a shutdown is a minor inconvenience, if it's noticed at all. But it's important to remember that the people impacted by the shutdown live and work right here in Washington County.
For one local example, look no further than Hillsboro Airport. As the second-busiest airport in the state, planes and helicopters take off from Hillsboro all day and night, but the shutdown is making things there difficult.
Much has been written in the past few weeks in The Oregonian and nationwide about workers with the Transportation Safety Administration, who are working without pay at Portland International Airport and commercial airports across the country. Hillsboro, thankfully, doesn't have TSA agents stationed there, but the airport's air traffic controllers are at work today, forced to put in a day's labor without pay as they ensure that planes continue to soar over Washington County. Customs and Border Protection officers — who are also staffed at Hillsboro Airport — are also working without pay.
Here's a fun fact: Hillsboro is home to the Federal Aviation Administration's field safety district office, the only one of its kind in the state. The regional office is in charge of overseeing nearly all aviation operations in Oregon, including enforcing rules and safety standards. Without them on the job, there's no one to do enforce those rules. Without them, trainees at Hillsboro Aero Academy can't take the tests they need to receive their pilot's licenses, which impacts one of the largest flight schools in the country.
And it's not just local airports feeling the crunch.
The shutdown could mean impacts for local wineries and breweries, since employees at the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau aren't working. Without approval from government workers, many craft breweries and wineries here in Washington County aren't able to bottle or sell any new labels, which could impact their business. Any new startup wineries or breweries can't open their doors without federal approval, either, which could spell disaster for businesses just getting started.
The attorneys at the federal courthouse in Portland are forced to work without pay, representing a government that doesn't believe they need to be paid for the privilege. Local offices of the Internal Revenue Service are closed; that might not bother you too much, but it doesn't mean you won't have to pay your taxes this year — just that a backlog of work is building up, while thousands of IRS employees aren't getting paid. Thousands of agents and intelligence analysts with the FBI are furloughed, too, taking people charged with protecting our national security off the job.
Visitors to Crater Lake must ski or snowshoe the seven miles from Highway 62 into the park, thanks to the shutdown. Crater Lake's website gives visitors this chilling reminder: "Visit at your own risk."
Native American tribes across the country, many of which rely on federal money, are also struggling as roads go unplowed, food services grind to a halt and police officers go unpaid. Thankfully, The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has managed to weather the storm, but tribal leaders warned this week that the shutdown could impact their planned election in February, when members will decide whether to allow non-tribal siblings who have brothers and sisters in the tribe the ability to enroll. If Trump's threats are true and the shutdown lasts into February, there won't be any Bureau of Indian Affairs employees to run the election, which would need to be rescheduled.
As Democrats and the president continue to argue, local organizations are stepping up to help. The Oregon Food Bank is working to get food to people who are struggling during the shutdown. They have an office in Washington County, a stone's throw from Hillsboro city limits. SNAP benefits — formerly known as food stamps — and funding for Women, Infant and Children clinics are stable through February, according to the state. WIC provides food, breastfeeding support and healthcare referrals to families free of charge.
God forbid the shutdown last into February, but this is already the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and with the president proudly proclaiming the shutdown could last "months or years," it's important that people be prepared for the long haul.
Just how people do that is unclear. Furloughed employees — and those forced to work without pay — have little options when it comes to paying rent and keeping food on the table, other than to seek employment elsewhere.
The U.S. Coast Guard posted on one of its websites advising military servicemembers to host garage sales and "become secret shoppers" to help with the rent (that "helpful" suggestion has since been deleted). The Office of Personnel Management — which handles the government's human resources, retirement benefits and other services for federal employees — suggested in late December that federal workers impacted by the shutdown should barter services with their landlords, offering to paint or do carpentry work in exchange for lowering rent payments.
Both of these ideas have drawn the ire of social media, and for good reason. The men and women impacted by this fiasco aren't responsible for the problem, but they're caught in the middle. People will be evicted because of this, made homeless because the president would rather engage in a staring contest over a stupid wall than sign legislation backed by members of both parties to keep thousands of men and women working.
We don't want to make this editorial all about the Trump administration — although we don't support the president's plans for the wall, which would do little to stop the real problem with illegal immigration, namely people who enter the United States legally but overstay their visa. Instead, we want the spotlight of this shutdown fixed squarely on the men and women across Oregon who are impacted by this.
Politics is often described as a game, but this game has real and serious consequences for the men and women who do the day-to-day work keeping this country running.
Let's not forget that.
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Published: 15 November 2011
Region: USA & Worldwide
By Fitri Adi Anugrah and Pedja Urosevic
"It's tiresomely obvious, but not made clear at all in this work that Al Qaeda is a terrorist group, and the fact that although members of that terrorist group are almost always Muslims, does not make all Muslims part of it. Frank Miller has fallen into the trap of smearing the whole Muslim community in his enthusiasm to point the finger at terrorists."
The comic book is a powerful medium that can educate, entertain or inspire or, with equal force, it can enrage and irritate.
Published: 4 October 2011
Country: Indonesia
By Fitri Adi Anugrah
Social media provide easily accessible tools for people to spread information to a wider audience, but they can do damage when their messages are hateful. That's why it is important for the Indonesian public to confront the problem of hate speech in the social media in Indonesia.
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Kana Adachi, Kana Hanazawa Perform Theme Songs for Layton Mystery Tanteisha Anime
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This year's April issue of Shogakukan's Ciao magazine announced the new theme song artists for Layton Mystery Tanteisha Katori no Nazotoki File (Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Kat's Mystery-Solving Files), the television anime inspired by the Professor Layton game franchise, on Friday. Kana Adachi will perform the opening theme song "Change!" and Kana Hanazawa, who is also voicing the character Katrielle, will perform the ending theme song "Daijōbu."
The magazine also announced that the manga adaptation (pictured right) will begin with a 131-page chapter in the May issue, which ships on April 3. Hori Oritoka will draw the manga.
The anime will premiere on April 8 and air every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on Fuji TV and other channels.
The anime will be based on Level 5's Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy game that focuses on Katrielle "Kat" Layton, daughter of Professor Hershel Layton.
Like the game, the anime will be set in London and follow Katrielle as she solves mysteries with her talking dog Sherl. The first episode's story centers on Simon Wright, an Englishman with a wife and two daughters, and who has moved in with his family to their recently purchased house. But when his wife and daughters disappear, he turns to the Layton Mystery Detective Agency for help.
Juurouta Kosugi will voice Sherl (replacing Kōji Yakusho), Kyousuke Ikeda will voice Noah Montoir (replacing Kentarō Sakaguchi), and Youhei Tadano will voice Darjeeling Aspoirot (replacing Hajime Inoue). Singer and actor Tsubasa Imai will voice Simon in a guest role in the show's first episode.
Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino (creative producer for Yo-kai Watch, Time Bokan 24) is the creative director, and he is also credited with the original concept and series composition. Susumu Mitsunaka (Haikyu!!, Cuticle Detective Inaba) is directing the series at Liden Films (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Terraformars). Yoko Takada (key animation for The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance, Inuyasha) is designing the characters based on Takuzō Nagano's original designs.
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Like everyone else, I'm heir to the prejudices of my culture. So even though I know firsthand that teaching is a profession, on some level I see it as an act of self-sacrifice, as a hard path undertaken for the greater good.
This might not sound like a prejudice. Not a damaging one, anyway. It paints a generous portrait of teaching as noble and virtuous—a useful antidote to the too-common caricature of educators as lazy, union-fed bureaucrats. This ethic of "the greater good," in fact, helped draw many of us into the profession. What we lack in salary and prestige, we make up for in civic-mindedness, in moral conviction, in feeling we've taken a high road through our professional life.
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I don't handle stress well. Have a good laugh at that, because it was a joke. No no, in reality it's much, much worse than "not well". I react to stress the way I imagine an infant would react if he were being charged by a pack of flaming rhinos who wouldn't halt until he solved a Rubik's cube. I go through my own Kubler-Ross series of emotional processing.
They're certainly not going to continue running at me. Surely they'll tire or get distracted or have a sudden hankering for a cheeseburger.
How are they still running?! Don't they realize they're on fire?!
God damnit, I got the green, but then to get the blue, I have to ruin the green. Who came up with this hell toy, anyway?
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Michele Bachmann suggested that the gay community is bullying Americans and politicians. You can read the full article and hear the clip for yourself here. This is my response.
Dear Michele Bachmann,
I would like to provide you with a definition of a word that, for all your legal experience, you seem not to comprehend. The word "bully" has become a buzzword, a convenient way for adults who are losing an argument to shut down the conversation. When your back is against the wall, you call someone a "bully" and if they don't allow you to gracefully exit the argument you get to say, "SEE! They ARE a bully."
Except, that's incorrect. "Bully" is defined variously as "a person who uses superior strength or power to harm, intimidate or influence those who are weaker."
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"Sorry, I got here first."
I'm an expert on modern decor. What, were you expecting me to say, "I'm no expert on modern decor? Why would I say that? Short of picking your nose and eating it, I don't think there's a faster way to get people to stop listening to you than by starting a declarative sentence with "I'm no expert, but…" That's why I prefer to lie and say I'm an expert about every single topic of conversation. For example, at the ballet last week I turned to Wife and said, "I'm an expert on post-impressionist interpretive dance. This performance stinks." Therefore, seeing as I am an expert on modern decor, you have no choice but to listen to me when I say the wave of the high-end furniture future is…trash cans. How do I know this? I have engineered a fool-proof system that can determine whether any…
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One of the pioneering manga authors of the last century has been serialized in America fairly sporadically. In the last two years a lot of his big-books have come out, and while I wouldn't rank this one in my top half it's still pretty cool.
This is from Tezuka's middle-period (roughly) and mixes both his characteristic slap-stick routine with his more sophisticated humanist touches. It's the story of a young boy who has his limbs sacrificed to demon Gods and must learn to live without limbs. Sound kooky? It's firmly rooted in the more horror-oriented aspects of 60's manga. In this first volume he hunts around the Japanese countryside for demons who, once killed, will restore his 48 limbs one at at time.
The boy, Hyakkimaru, also gains a sidekick in the form of Dororo (a childish pronunciation of the word thief). Dororo is a young bandit who joins forces with Hyakkimaru in hopes of capturing a rare sword. As the two venture through the land they decide to share their childhood stories (Hyakkimaru is an orphan with prosthetic body parts, Dororo is the child of a noble bandit). They also kill a few demons, including a sword-demon and a shape-shifter, to get back some of Hyakkimaru's limbs. That informs the plot pretty well. There's some backstories set up, but mostly it seems like it'll be the story (hopefully not too much of a tower-quest) of a young man regaining his body and discovering a sense of self in a world of demons and monsters.
As a piece of art there's not thing really wrong with Dororo per-se, but it has certain tendencies I don't favor. For instance, the tendency towards slap-stick is higher here than in his later work, and the artwork is closer to messy and frantic than the more thoroughly drawn later epics. I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre (though there's some Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu I enjoy) so I'm probably not the ideal fan. That said, I have to love Tezuka's tendency to insert himself into the art and make contemporary references (to cyborg manga, for instance) as they keep things light and fresh. They can also make things feel a little too light (again, why I don't care for his slapstick) but the stylish mix of humanity and Japanese folk-creatures is pretty sweet. The handful of page-length panels are also lovely, proving Tezuka could pull off sophisticated work (and here it's monsters – especially cool) long before his auteur works.
Finally, I think this makes an interesting statement about disability, Japanese identity, and robots. One, that you have a boy composed of parts (cheekily, Tezuka references it with his own dialogue) who is both shunned by his peers and manages to overcome his own limitations with equally useful and powerful abilities of his own. He is, almost to a tee, the definition of an empowered hero and the mix of technology (here the limitations of a medical doctor) that would later become the assembled robot/cyborg. Yes, the ultimate goal is for him to return to his body, but it's the unique powers and skills he attains through his harsh childhood that allow him to vanquish his demons and regain his humanity. And in a post-war setting, with images of cannibalism and war-torn villages just a short two decades after WW2, I think this is a keen reminder of the war-stained psychology very much in effect at the time. It's not always my cup of tea, but here renowned master Osamu Tezuka leaves his yearning, human mark on the land of ghouls.


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Yesterday (Oct. 10), pollster Datafolha released an opinion survey showing that Brazilian presidential hopeful Jair Bolsonaro, of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), has 49 percent of intended votes, while Fernando Haddad, of the Workers' Party (PT), has 35 percent. Undecided electors and voters who said they would cast a blank ballot add up to eight percent. Six percent did know know or refused to answer.
Considering valid votes only (blank, null, and undecided left out), the gap between Bolsonaro (58 percent) and Haddad (42 percent) is 16 percentage points.
This is the first Datafolha poll for the second round of the vote. The survey heard 3,235 people across 227 municipalities. As was the case with polls before the first round of elections, the margin of error is plus or minus two points, with the confidence margin at 95 percent.
Sixty-three percent of voters were reported to have made up their mind about whom they were going to vote for "at least a month before" the election. Ten percent say they did so 15 days in advance, eight percent a week earlier, six percent the day before, and 12 percent on the very day the vote was held.


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Podgorica – Podgorica airport was proclaimed by the Intern atonal association of airports for the best airport in Europe in the category of up to million of passengers in a year.
On a XVII yearly held session of International association of airports which was held two days ago in Zurich, beside the airport in Podgorica recognitions also got the airports in Turin in the category from million to five million of passengers during the year, Birmingham in the category from five millions to ten millions of passengers, Copenhagen from ten to twenty-five millions of passengers and for over twenty – five millions of passengers the recognition went to the airport in Zurich.
– We are honored with this recognition, the most prestigious reward in the airline branch, which has been given at the suggestion of the jury, made of the representatives of high positioned personalities from airline branch, air companies. Alliances of airline companies, neutral personalities from airline branch from other continents, as well as from the representatives of other firms and associations, which have cooperation with all airports in the world – said the director of Airports of Montenegro Milovan Djurickovic.
He said that that recognition does not have commercial character for which one needs to lob.
– That is a recognition, which was given by people who are expert in that field, because of which I am particularly glad. At the same time that is a recognition which obliges us to continue to develop and to modernize the airports in Podgorica and Tivat. Airport in Podgorica was given the reward because of the exquisite progress in all segments of business, and which has been made in the shortest possible period – said Djurickovic.
He announced that they will continue to develop and promote the infrastructure and other segments on airports in Podgorica and Tivat and that until May next year they will invest 6 millions of euros in those facilities.


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If you're frantically scrambling to get your side in order before tonight's lockout then you're definitely part of the TEAM!
The TEAM is practically set, now we need to find a C / VC loophole for the beginning of the season. No offence to Sam Docherty but I haven't included him in the poll below. Since there are no other Rich/Carl players involved then we can vote till Friday. So who would you like to see leading the TEAM out there this week?
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Manny Pacquiao is not trying to be like Oscar De La Hoya.
"I am just doing what I can do, do the best that I can do," said Pacquiao, who Saturday will take on Ricky Hatton in the junior welterweight main event at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. "I don't want to compare myself to other people. What I am trying to do is giving happiness and enjoyment to the people."
But the comparisons to De La Hoya, at least from a popularity standpoint, are on the table. De La Hoya set every major pay-per-view record. He sold the most buys – 2.45 million – for one event when he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May 2007. De La Hoya – who recently retired – also has sold the most overall buys with 14.1 million and has generated the most pay-per-
view revenue at $696 million.
Now, as HBO analyst Larry Merchant said, "One of the interesting things here is that everybody measures what De La Hoya did, but he's a phenomenon that is not liable to be repeated any time soon."
Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) indeed has a long way to go. In seven HBO pay-per-view fights, he has generated 3,250,000 buys and $160 million. Of course, he has been fighting on pay-per-view for a much shorter period of time than did De La Hoya.
But Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, doesn't seem too concerned about whether Pacquiao can get close to or surpass those numbers. His main focus is to help Pacquiao realize his full pay-per-view potential, and more important, make him the most revered fighter of modern times.
"He's gotta keep fighting the way he's fighting and I've gotta keep exposing him to more and more people, showing them the kind of person he is," Arum said. "It's a combination of things. We know where we are going, I know the person I am dealing with.
"I believe I know what appeals to the public and I know what aspects of Manny's life and his psyche can be brought up to cement that appeal. So, that's my job and his job is to continue being the person that he is and to perform at the high level that he has been in the ring."
Arum said it's also trainer Freddie Roach's job to make sure Pacquiao stays mentally and physically sharp.
"Everybody has his own job," Arum said. "It's not just one thing that one person does for all that to happen. Everybody is working to make this guy the biggest icon in boxing, maybe of our time."
Even bigger than De La Hoya, who captured the attention of the boxing world when he won the gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Games not quite two years after his mother, Cecilia, died of cancer.
"Is that a definite?" Arum said. "No, it's not a definite. But I really believe that will happen because I believe Manny is a more exciting fighter than Oscar style-wise and I believe that his story is much more compelling and I think the reach of his story is more worldwide."
Pacquiao is the guy who as a kid bought donuts for a nickel and sold them for a dime on the streets of General Santos City, Philippines, because his family was dirt poor. Each dime went to his mother.
Pacquiao also is the man who these days gives away much of the millions he makes for each fight to the downtrodden in the city in which he grew up.
CNN International did a piece on Pacquiao that will air tonight on an episode of CNN Talk Asia.
"They never did that with Oscar or any other fighter," Arum said.
Arum said he has it on good authority that when Time Magazine releases its 100 World's Most Influential People today, Pacquiao will be fairly high on the list.
Arum said even during the height of De La Hoya's popularity, "He would never have been considered."
Keep in mind it was Arum – at least from a promotional standpoint – who had the biggest hand in developing De La Hoya's popularity. Arum promoted De La Hoya for approximately the first two-thirds of his career.
But Richard Schaefer, CEO of De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions, isn't so sure Pacquiao is, at least in this realm, another De La Hoya.
"I don't think it's fair to compare Manny to Oscar," Schaefer said. "Oscar won the gold medal in the Olympics, he had the GQ looks, he was fluent in English and Spanish and he was the darling of Madison Avenue with his endorsement deals. It's not Manny's fault."
Schaefer said that yes, Pacquiao is an exciting fighter, pound-for-pound the best. But from the standpoint of overall popularity that might translate into mega pay-per-view buys, "He is no Oscar De La Hoya."
The numbers would seem to bear out what Schaefer is saying. Before Pacquiao helped sell 1.25 million buys for his eighth-round technical knockout victory over De La Hoya in December, Pacquiao's biggest pay-per-view night had been 400,000 for his second fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in March 2008.
And there is a language barrier. Pacquiao is fluent in Tagalog, but not in English. Yet he insists on doing all of his interviews in English. His answers are therefore short and lacking pizazz.
"They will get more colorful," Arum said. "He has to speak impeccable English if he is to become president of the Philippines."
Arum was serious. Pacquiao already ran for Congress in his homeland, but lost. However, the victory over De La Hoya seems to have boosted his global popularity. What's rather incredible is that Pacquiao even appears to be more popular in the Philippines than he was before dispatching De La Hoya.
And that hardly seemed possible because he was already a national hero.
"I do feel different now than before I fought Oscar," Pacquiao said.
"There is a big difference in my popularity now and I think that was because Oscar was popular, too."
It's no surprise to hear Pacquiao speak in humble tones. It also is not astonishing to hear how thrilled he is about giving his people something to shout about.
"The people were amazing when I came back to the Philippines (after beating De La Hoya)," Pacquiao said. "They were all happy and I can't explain to you their feelings, but I am sure they are happy."
It's that attitude that has Arum thinking Pacquiao will be a more beloved boxer than De La Hoya or anyone else.
"That's what I think will have a tremendous impact, when people realize that that is Manny," Arum said. "I think people are warmed by it."


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When it comes to bottled water, to be sure there is no shortage of brands to choose from. Selecting the one that is right for you can often be a matter of trial and error. The truth is that most bottled water brands are pretty much the same at the core. After all, water is water, it's just two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The differences between various bottled water brands are in reality little more than a matter of process usually. There are some brands, however, that truly are different both in terms of the water itself and in the way they run their company's operation. One of those brands is Waiakea Water.
So what is it that makes Waiakea Water so much different? First, it starts with, well, the water. The water that Waiakea Water bottles truly is different, so much so that it can only be found one place on earth, slopes of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. One of the rainiest places on earth, the region that surrounds the volcano gets rainfall on average of 360 out of 365 days a year. The water flows down through the soil to a natural aquifer, from which it is circulated through the volcanic rock constantly due to the thermal currents of the volcano. When Waiakea is ready to bottle they pump the water up through 14,000 feet of porous rock which naturally purifies it and at the same time increases its pH and embodies it with minerals. It is considered to be among the purest water on the planet and the health benefits of it being consumed regularly by humans have been recorded and are evident in the fact that people in the region tend to be healthier and live longer.
The amazing water isn't the only thing that makes Waiakea Water so different. The company, on the whole, is run with a decidedly different type of mentality than your average bottled water distributor. From using revolutionary bottles that are 100% better for the environment, to sustainable sourcing, to responsible corporate practices and fair trade employment and partner policies, and of course all of the charitable work that the company undertakes, including helping with the recent Kilauea disaster, Waiakea Water is committed to not only being the best bottled water in the marketplace, but to also being the best company they can be in all regards.
Next time you are in the beverage aisle of your favorite retailer and you are trying to decide which bottled water to try, why not pick up a bottle of Waiakea Water and see for yourself the difference in quality, taste, and purity that comes when a company cares more about doing it right than doing it big.


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OPIC Board of Directors Convenes for Quarterly Meeting
March 19, 2015
WASHINGTON – The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government's Development Finance Institution, today held a regularly-scheduled quarterly meeting of the agency's Board of Directors.
The meeting included an agency update from Elizabeth Littlefield, OPIC's President and CEO, an overview report on OPIC's portfolio, and discussion on upcoming projects due to be considered later this year.
The agenda also included further details regarding OPIC's contribution to Vice President Biden's Caribbean Energy Security Initiative, which entails increased OPIC focus on clean energy projects in the Caribbean. This effort is already being fulfilled by OPIC's recent financing of Jamaica's largest private-sector wind energy facility.
In addition, the Board paid tribute to former OPIC board member and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and to departing OPIC Corporate Secretary Connie Downs, who is retiring from OPIC after more than twenty years of service. The next scheduled meeting for OPIC's Board of Directors is in June.
OPIC is the U.S. Government's development finance institution. It mobilizes private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so, advances U.S. foreign policy. Because OPIC works with the U.S. private sector, it helps U.S. businesses gain footholds in emerging markets, catalyzing revenues, jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad. OPIC achieves its mission by providing investors with financing, guarantees, political risk insurance, and support for private equity investment funds.
Established as an agency of the U.S. Government in 1971, OPIC operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost to American taxpayers. OPIC services are available for new and expanding business enterprises in more than 150 countries worldwide. To date, OPIC has supported more than $200 billion of investment in over 4,000 projects, generated an estimated $76 billion in U.S. exports and supported more than 278,000 American jobs.


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10-Man Arsenal Hold Spurs, City Humiliate Villa
• Chelsea, Soton Draw, As Everton
Ten-man Arsenal came from behind to draw 2-2 at Tottenham as the two north London clubs handed the Barclays Premier League title impetus to Leicester.
Aaron Ramsey opened the scoring for the visitors with a flick but, after Francis Coquelin saw red for the Gunners, Toby Alderweireld and Harry Kane turned the game around inside two minutes.
Arsenal, who lost from a winning position against Swansea on Wednesday, kept plugging away and levelled through Alexis Sanchez's first league goal since October.
Chelsea continued their recovery under Guus Hiddink, but were held to a 1-1 home draw by Stoke.
Bertrand Traore fired the hosts into the lead on 39 minutes, but just when it seemed the Blues were closing out another victory, Mame Biram Diouf headed in an equaliser with five minutes left.
City hit Villa with two goals early in the second half through Yaya Toure on 48 minutes and Sergio Aguero quickly scored another just two minutes later before the Argentine forward added a third on the hour mark.
Raheem Sterling made it 4-0 after 66 minutes, with Agero also hitting the woodwork from the penalty spot on 73 minutes.
Sunderland looked to have boosted their own survival hopes with a late strike from Jermain Defoe (84) at Southampton.
However the Saints, who had Jose Fonte sent off on 79 minutes, snatched a 1-1 draw in stoppage-time through Virgil van Dijk.
West Ham came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Everton, who had midfielder Kevin Mirallas sent off in the first half.
Romelu Lukaku scored on 13 minutes, but Everton were soon reduced to 10 men when Mirallas was sent off on 34 minutes for a second caution.
Aaron Lennon scored a fine individual goal on 56 minutes to seemingly put the hosts in control, before Lukaku had a 71st-minute penalty saved.
At the other end of the table, Bournemouth increased the pressure on Newcastle manager Steve McClaren with a 3-1 win at St James's Park.
The Cherries, who have moved clear of the relegation zone, took the lead on 28 minutes when Josh King's cross was deflected into his own net by Newcastle defender Steven Taylor.
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All the sudden, your normal day is turned upside down, you are sitting in the dark, your computer screen just went blank and every appliance is now unusable. Losing power is a serious event that can not only put your life on hold, but affect different things like appliances, electronics, and food. This article explains what to do before the power goes out, and what to do when the power is out.
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September marks National Preparedness Month, with this years focus being on floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and power outages. And while the first three can be truly devastating, the fourth can happen to anyone. Learn what you need to do to plan for a power outage, especially during the most likely time during the dead of winter. [Read more…]


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Recipe: Lentil Soup (Gluten-Free)
"This is a very easy fat-free lentil soup that just about cooks itself. Only one pot is needed, so cleanup is easy."
3 cups of dried lentils
7 cups water
2 tsp. salt
6 to 8 medium cloves garlic, crushed
2 cups chopped onion
2-3 stalks celery, chopped
2-3 carrots, sliced or diced
1/2 to 1 tsp. basil
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/2 tsp. oregano
lots of freshly ground pepper
1 large can of tomatoes (this is a KJ cheat step)
red wine vinegar to drizzle on top
(Note: I skipped the vinegar as vinegar is acidic; try lemon juice for a less acidic option if you're following an alkaline based diet).
1. Place lentils, water, and salt in a kettle. Bring to boil, lower heat to the slowest possible simmer, and cook quietly, partially covered, for 20 to 30 minutes.
2. Add vegetables (except tomatoes) , herbs, and black pepper. Partially cover, and let simmer peacefully another 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Chop the tomatoes in the can and then add tomatoes (and liquid). Let the soup cook for at least 5 minutes more.
4. Serve hot, with a drizzle of vinegar on top of each steaming bowl.
Modified slightly from The Moosewood Cookbook, New Revised Edition.


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Where can I find patches for OpenOffice.org?
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OpenOffice.org is still an **in progress** project. Updated versions are released on a regular basis. You can find new versions, updates, and patches in the download section of the OpenOffice.org web site.
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Glenna Earle Speaks: Not much to report today, Tuesday, except the scores and standings to this point in the ISA in High River.
I guess everyone has heard that Canada is leading in 3 of the 4 groups in the first round robin. Still Rounds 7-10 to play before we shall know who is in what position and who will play for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Have a few pictures of the line-up waiting for the lunch doors to open. Our lunches thus far have been superb. They have outdone themselves in presenting something for everyone.
This venue is a wonderful facility with many activities going on at the same time. It would be so nice if we all had a similar situation in which to play shuffleboard.
Tonight the ISA directors meeting is taking place.
It will soon be announced where the team event will be held in 2020! It is rumoured to be Australia. Stay tuned! Glenna. 2018 07 17. Click on any pic to expand.


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There was a time when I was truly committed to finding out a reason for my life. As many of us who cannot be convinced by the idea that we are born, work hard at school, enter university, get a job, procreate and die, I felt a constant dissatisfaction coming directly from my spirit which simply said "hang on, this cannot be all".
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By Wale Ibrahim, Lokoja
Worried by the recent prounancement that Kogi is set to set up Cattle Colonies in the state, the people of Kogi-East cutting across nine local government councils of the State have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, saying they rejected Fulani Cattle Colony in Igala land.
In a letter singed by the President of the Igala Project, Mr. Atayi Babs, and the Secretary General, Mallam Musa Haruna which a copy was made available to journalists in Lokoja yesterday stated that they vehement opposed the move.
According to the petition, it was predicated on the fact that it will eventually lead to breakdown of law and order with killings and wanton destruction of property, "as our people, who are largely farmers, are not prepared to host Fulani herdsmen or cattle colony masters in our land."
The petition read in parts, "Our position is further reinforced by the multiple acts of war and mayhem being unleashed daily, on our innocent farmers and hapless law-abiding citizens, in their villages, homes and farm lands, by rampaging Fulani herdsmen.
"Mr. President, between June 2015 and December 2017, Igala land has witnessed several incidences of killings as a result of herdsmen violence in several areas including Ebeje where 8 people were killed and farms set ablaze, Agbada/Agojeju where 19 people were slaughtered, Edede – 2 persons were killed, 6 people killed in Oganenigu, 3 people killed in Ojapata, 5 people killed in Ojuwo Anawo. All these happened in Dekina Local Government Area.
"The story is not different in Ofu local government area at Ojuwo Omachi and Akpagidigbo where the incessant attacks of herdsmen have claimed the lives of over 20 persons.
"In Abejukolo and Bagana in Omala Local Government Area, the reign of terror resonates loudly, so much that our people no longer move freely, to and from their farm lands, because of the fear of killings, maiming and rape, with some villages like Ebakume wholly sacked and entire farm produce granaries/silos completely burnt.
"Despite the brazen nature of the aforementioned acts of criminality by these would-be occupants of the so-called cattle colony, none of them has been arrested or made to account for these crimes, as these heavily armed cattle herders terrorise our land, flaunting their prowess in the handling of AK 47 rifles and double barrel guns.
"Dear Mr President, our opposition to this move and the hasty approval given by the Kogi State Governor is further reinforced by the inescapable fact that under your Presidency, murderous Fulani herdsmen have enjoyed subtle protection and favouritism to the extent that these herdsmen, who now treat Nigeria as a conquered territory, will eventually go beyond the purview of the so-called colony to destroy farmlands, maim and kill under the slightest provocation.
"In view of the above and many more, we the undersigned concerned people of Kogi-East, Kogi State, North-Central, Nigeria state as follows:
"We do not want cattle colony or grazing reserve in our landWe reject any attempt to convert or transfer the ownership of ancestral lands in Igala land to cattle colony master or owners who operate by killing people, destroying communities wholesale, and destroying farmlands while enjoying government protection from counter attack, arrest or prosecution. We reject attempts to turn Igala land into the next killing field of marauding Fulani herdsmen."


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It's the day after Christmas and already I'm looking forward to the new year. I got a brand new journal for Christmas, and I can't wait to start writing in it. But more than that I'm anticipating a healthier, active and productive new year filled a better quality of life. It's as if when the clocks strikes midnight I'll be reborn with a fresh new start, but just like when a new birthday comes we don't feel any different than we did the day before.
So I bring myself back to the now, and in that moment of conscious thinking I realize I have 6 more days of living to do before the new year even begins. It was as if I was wishing my days away, and what guarantee do any of us have that we'll be here from one day to the next. No-one wants to think of that, but it sure does give me a wake-up call. So I've decided to live within the hope that this day has to offer, and I have to say it feels good to be alive even with the limitations I have right now. I can find things to do that make my day feel worthwhile. All it takes is a bit of conscious effort to create the mindfulness I need. It reminds me of the same kind of mindfulness I need as I practice walking right, heal to toe, Connie. Heal to toe, so that knee bends with your walk. Life is full of many things to do right now, work, practice, play and fun. It's up to us to make the best of it. John Lennon couldn't have said it more clear for me today, "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."


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Getting ready to move out west. Anyone with inside info know of a pilot position that may be opening up in the next 30-90 days.
10k + hours but I don't want to go the EMS route
Based on your 10,000 hours, I assume you have plenty of experience. However, what is it? Military? Civil? 135 time? What type of 135 time? Utility? HEC? Fire? Multi? How much turbine? The list goes on.
I don't want to degrade you as I am sure you are well qualified. But, I know a couple of guys in Hawaii with over 25,000 hours. It's all tour time, day, vfr, non instrument. So.....sometimes it's not about the flight time, but the experience.
I used that as an example. Some small operators don't require an instrument rating, but most do. However, except for your annual evaluation, you never fly practice instrument approaches. And that approach is a IIMC recovery. Also, no night flights. Ever. So, day, vfr only.
do we really need to answer that question for you?
Investigate you out? Test you out? Must be... cause they can't fly. Concentrating on everything but flying skills. YOUR NOT FIRED, you just ain't hired.
airwest located at Glendale airport, phoenix. They do all sorts of work. Small outfit, good people. Usually always looking for capable and qualified folks.
Good luck