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In this video we can see the talk with Minister Gagan Thapa. Here he talks about PM KP OLi and his work toward the development of the nation. Gagan Thapa is Nepali Congress politician. He is former Minister for Health and Population of Nepal. He is also a current member of Legislature Parliament of Nepal, and a member of the Central Working Committee of the Nepali Congress Party. He is specially known for his oratory and is popular with the youth.
Guide of the month: January 2018
Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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Easy Tips for Sewing a Pants Hem
Here's what usually happens when you shop for trousers. You think you've found the perfect pair, you enter the dressing room, and you discover they are either too short or too long.
It's challenging to find pants that are the right length, and private and in-store tailors may charge anywhere from $5 to $20 or more to hem a pair of pants. So it's handy and cost-effective to learn the art of sewing clothes, particularly when it comes to pants hems.
Luckily this task is fairly simple to do. Here are some tips for how to sew a pants hem.
Gather your supplies
Here are the items you'll need for sewing clothes in general: a steam iron and ironing board, a few straight pins, a ruler, and a needle and thread. (Try to match the thread to the background color of the pants, if possible.)
Plug in your iron and switch to the highest heat setting allowable for the fabric of your pants. Check the fabric-care label inside your garment.
Try on the trousers
Before you begin to sew, put on the shoes you plan to wear with your trousers, then try on the pants. Ask a friend to place a straight pin (aiming horizontally) where the pants meet the top of your shoes. Adjust a bit longer or shorter, depending on the style you wish to attain.
Turn the pants inside out
Before you hem your pants, you will need to work from the inside of each leg. Turn the trousers inside out, with the right sides facing together inside each leg.
Measure carefully
Take each pant leg and roll them up to the desired length, using your ironing board as a work surface. Use a ruler to measure the new hem allowance, all the way around each pant leg, pinning as you go. Press the pant leg neatly, easing the hem allowance, if necessary (especially with flared-leg pants).
Place the pants flat on your ironing board and press them together to make sure both pant legs are the same length.
Trim pants hems, if needed
Check out your new hem. If you have turned up more than 2 inches of fabric, you can carefully trim off a bit from each pant leg. After doing so, turn your hem allowance up again and repress it flat. (For children's clothing, you may wish to leave the large hem allowance. That way you can lengthen the pants again after your child grows a bit more!)
Hide the rough edges
To eliminate any rough edges in your hems, tuck under a small seam allowance (about 1/8 to ¼ inches), all the way around each pant leg. Press the entire hem area of each pant leg firmly.
Stitch your pants hems
There are two options for stitching your pants hems: You can use a sewing machine, particularly if your machine has a blind-stitch option, or you can sew by hand. Narrow hems, such as those found in skinny jeans, are usually best stitched by hand as these are difficult to maneuver with a sewing machine. Also, the hems of flared pants often require a bit of easing and adjustment, which you can do more simply by hand.
If you sew your pants hems by hand, you will likely use a basic blanket stitch. Thread your needle for double-strength. Begin at the inseam (the seam between the legs of the pants) and sew all the way around to the same spot.
If you are a steady sewer, you can topstitch jeans and ultra-casual sportswear. Select a straight stitch and sew all the way around the hem allowance.
After sewing your pants hem, be sure to remove all straight pins and iron once more before wearing.
Sewing clothes will not only save you money, but it provides you a creative outlet as well. Learning how to sew pants hems means you can walk into any clothing store and choose any trousers you like, knowing you can make sure they fit correctly.
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Have you heard of sciatica A lot of people complain about nerve pain down the back of their leg. Usually the cause is within the lower back or pelvis. I'm going to give you 2 stretches today for the sciatic nerve. It is the largest nerve in the body. It runs down the back of the leg and splits into two behind the knee. It runs the whole way to the foot. It can cause shooting pain, numbness, tingling, dead leg feeling or the feeling that your leg is falling asleep.
The first exercise is this. It is called flossing. We are going to sit up nice and straight here. What you are going to do is straighten the affected leg or the leg with pain. Stretch that leg out and look up at the same time. As you are doing this, if you are doing it right and you are doing it on the painful leg, it could actually make the symptoms travel down your leg. That is ok. You are putting a stretch on the nerve. We are going to hold that 5 seconds. Then bend your knee and look down. 5 second hold.
Here. 5 second hold, 10 times each way. This is called flossing. The next exercise is called a slump stretch. Same idea here, as you are doing this exercise, you could experience increased symptoms down the leg and that is ok. Outside of the flossing or this exercise, no other exercise should increase the pain travelling down the leg. Everything else should actually decrease the pain in the leg and you will experience more pain in your lower back. What we do is this Feet against the wall, knees straight, fingers interlocked behind the head. Then you are going to.
Top 3 Exercises for Sciatica and Pinched Nerve
Slump forward. So bring your elbows in. There you go. This should cause pretty sharp symptoms down the back of your leg. It is called the slump stretch and it is ok to feel increased pain down the back of the leg. We hold this for 30 seconds and we do 3 of them in the clinic. Now if that is too difficult, if that is too advanced, here is what you can do Place your arms behind you and sit up and arch your back. What you want to try to do is if that is too much for you, if that is too intense, you can place your arms.
Behind your back and simply arch your back. Rock your pelvis forward. That will do the same exact thing but it is a little less intense than interlocking your fingers behind your neck and leaning forward. This is a little more basic. So you can modify. The same idea though 30 seconds, 3 times. If you can at least get yourself to sit up straight with the legs straight, feet flat against the wall, you are in good shape. The third exercise you should do for sciatica or symptoms running down your leg is this.
Realize that with symptoms travelling down your leg, often there isnt a problem within the leg. The problem is within the lower back or the pelvis. The sciatic nerve, the nerve roots where it originates is in your lower back. If you are getting pressure on the nerve roots there either from disc degeneration, from a herniated disc or, as is also common, a problem within the pelvis and the sacroiliac joint. If you have a problem there that is putting increased pressure on the nerve, that is what creates the symptoms in your leg.
You can think about it like this if you have a long garden hose and there is water running through it and you pinch one end, obviously at the other end you are going to have less water flow. Same idea in your body. If you pinch that sciatic nerve, that is what creates the symptoms. That is what changes what you are feeling down your leg. The solution isn't to continually address the problems in your leg. Or to put heat on your leg or ice on your leg. The solution is to relieve the pressure on the other end of the.


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. - Patrick Nyarko doesn't seem to be the gloating type.
Even though the Fire's Ghanaian winger had more than a few Americans (including one World Cup veteran inBrian McBride) at his disposal, the classy Nyarko declined to brag to any of his American teammates about Ghana's 2-1, Round of 16 victory over the United States.
"I remained calm for the buildup to the game and I still remain calm," Nyarko said on Sunday. "All of the Americans [on the Fire] were pretty much good sports, they came to me, congratulated me and I was extremely happy with the win."
Nyarko, who correctly predicted the final score of the US vs Ghana match last Thursday, said he thought his countrymen did very well to advance past the Americans.
"I thought we were defending very well," Nyarko said. "The guys did extremely well to pull it off. The U.S. is an extremely tough team, especially when they're down, but we were able to scrape a win and hopefully we can jump another step and go to semifinal."
Ghana will have to get past Uruguay if they're to become the first African team to ever advance beyond the quarterfinal stage. The Black Stars will take on the South American side on Friday and they'll need another strong defensive effort to stop Uruguay's dangerous forward duo of Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez.
"Obviously Uruguay is very, very tough team," Nyarko said. "I've seen them play top teams and they've done well so it's not going to be an easy game but hey, as they kept saying in the buildup to the US game, Ghana is really unpredictable. I mean against Australia [facing a 10 men] we did nothing and then we kept the ball so well against the US. We never know. It's a very winnable game; it's Uruguay not Argentina. Even though we respect them, we feel we can go ahead and beat them."


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saulot wrote:The one thing in quake port that I miss much is lack of background music from cd/mp3/wav by Nine Inch Nails (the best sountrack from the series, maybe Quake III was good too (by FLA), but not that much).
mikro wrote:jury wrote:Pity that this quake and Duke ports dont have network option.
Aaaah, right. I must force myself some day to re-enable it. I've had quite nice excuse, I've had no network cards, then I got two ethernats, then I burned one of them, then I've got EtherNEC... and since then, no progress. Hmm, maybe I'll try to take a look this week, why not.
jury wrote:Just in case if you have forgotten again. Please force yourself harder :D :D :D :D
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jury wrote:mikro wrote:jury wrote:Just in case if you have forgotten again. Please force yourself harder
I suppose you were whole year a good boy since your wish came to true...
mikro wrote:I need to test two real machines (this is what matters, right?) and then it's time for release.
mikro wrote:Btw, while on topic, how important is for you to have QuakeWorld stuff ported? For me it's another hassle (I must take all changes from regular Quake and back-port it into QW client, esp. assembler stuff) but if I see there's massive demand for it...
Dal wrote:I must be missing an obvious step here.
I have downloaded the Quake executable and demo from Mikro's site and unpacked it all into a directory on a TOS partition. If I launch the TTP from TOS (FireTOS or 'stock' TOS), I see a brief message flash up on the screen and I'm dumped back to the desktop and the CPU is frozen completely. If I launch from Mint, it all seems to fire up properly, however the graphics are corrupt so I cannot make out what's on the screen.
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When you receive your new spa pack, all those parts will seem intimidating, but it's actually very simple to install. The most important thing to remember is to first shut off the main power to the spa and turn off the breaker before touching any of your spa's electrical components.
In addition, make sure that you hand-tighten the entire spa pack before gluing any of the pieces. Once you glue them, it can't be undone. If something is in the wrong place or fitted backwards, that will cause a big problem.
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Everybody fell in love with the sweet Vikings and their pet dragons in the Dreamworks movie How To Train Your Dragon. And now the movie has launched its own TV show. Check out the first ever trailers for the new series, stuffed with all sorts of new dragon breeds.
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¥180 for a beer is super cheap in Japan! Ferraris and Lamborghinis are not. Sorry about the constant neck footage. It's been a long day.
What you missed last night
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Exclusive: Jakey G & Isabel Lucas
The McJakey campaign was born after Rachel McAdams and Jake Gyllenhaal presented together at the Oscars. Unfortunately there will be no McJakey. Not yet. Because it looks like Jakey is tied up with someone else.
Jake is currently shooting a movie in Montreal called Source Code. Last night he was spotted at Garde Manger and I'm told exclusively that he was "all cuddled up" with Isabel Lucas. She's the actress from Transformers 2. The one who was with Shia LaBeouf on the night he f-cked up his hand in that accident even though she was supposedly dating Adrian Grenier at the time. She is gorgeous.
Jakey was wearing a white shirt over jeans, apparently even hotter in real life. When he wasn't wrapped around her, he was trying to get Isabel to dance with him. She seemed shy. And he didn't seem to be missing Reese at all. Or, for that matter, Rachel.
Interestingly and awkwardly enough, Kirsten Dunst, who is also in Montreal working on a different movie, was also there with a girlfriend sitting on the opposite side of the venue. She spent a lot of time on the phone in the bathroom.
Thanks MB!
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Computer Tricks: Arrange Photos in a Grid
If you've been eyeing the gorgeous hybrid layouts in Creating Keepsakes and have thought, "I wish I knew how to do that!," then I've got a great solution for you! All this year I'll be covering the basics of Photoshop Elements as I use it most often to make my layouts.
This month we're starting with the most fundamental use of Photoshop Elements—arranging photos in a printable grid. Imagine how long this configuration would take if you cut each photo by hand. I'll show you how to make this photo collage in minutes. Plus, I'll help you achieve your resolution to learn Photoshop Elements this year.
Rock Star by Jessica Sprague. Supplies Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0; Printer: Epson R1900; Photo paper: Premium Photo Paper (Semi-Gloss), Epson; Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Letter rub-ons: Making Memories; Letter stickers: American Crafts; Chipboard star: BasicGrey; Punches: EK Success (corner rounder) and Stampin' Up! (star); Glitter and ink: Ranger Industries; Date tag: Creative Imaginations; Date stamp: Technique Tuesday; Digital patterned paper: Benjamin's Laundry Line by Jen Wilson and Dirty Shirt by Kim Christensen; Font: Century Gothic.
I added a circle shape to the template design to create a cool focal point on an otherwise rectangular photo block. The best part about this template is that you can get up to 8 photos on a single page! Simply print your photo block onto letter-sized photo paper, adhere it to your layout, add a few embellishments and you're done!
Learn how to add photos to a multiphoto template in Photoshop Elements by checking out my online tutorial here.
Download this cool template, free! Use it as you create a ready-to-print 8 1/2" x 11" page of photos, like Amy Martin and Cindy Tobey did!
The Rail by Amy Martin. Supplies Software: Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, Corel; Digital paper: Cherry Crush Kit by Kasia Designs; Digital journaling tag: Title + Journal Blocks No. 01 by Ali Edwards; Digital stitching: Triple Dipped Stitches by Chere Edwards; Digital buttons: Michelle Godin, Karah Fredricks and Natalie Braxton; Digital title letters: Game Time by Lori Barnhurst; Fonts: Pea Breathe Easy and Susie's Hand.
Variation: Finish it as an 8 1/2" x 11" page
Like Paula, Amy used the circle space to hold her page title and journaling. She used the remaining spaces to hold photos and added a background design to the template before printing.
Comments Amy, "I didn't alter the original template at all for this layout. I simply filled in the blanks. Sometimes it's just as easy to take inspiration and not modify it to complicate it. In this case, there were enough photos to make the layout interesting enough without adding much by way of embellishments."
Winter Delicacy by Cindy Tobey. Supplies Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0; Digital paper: Christmas Fancy Paper by Dianne Rigdon; Digital elements: Prima Hybrid (frame and journaling doodle); Thrift Chic Element Pack by Kim Christensen; Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned paper, chipboard swirl, ribbon and flower: Prima; Brads: Doodlebug Design (glitter white) and Queen & Co. (white); Letter stickers: American Crafts; Colored pencil: Newell Rubbermaid; Paint: Heidi Swapp for Advantus (blue) and Pebbles Inc. (white); Pen: Sakura; Thread: Gutermann; Font: Century Schoolbook; Other: Buttons.
Variation: Stretch it out across a two-page spread
If you like to scrapbook with the 8 1/2" x 11" format but want a little additional space for your title and embellishments, consider Cindy's spin on this template. "I used the template horizontally at 100% size," explains Cindy. "I placed it on a two-page spread so that the photo block spans across both pages."
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I lived in New York once, and then left, and then moved back and lived there again. That should tell you something about my feelings for New York.
That said, I lived in Northern California once, and then left, and then moved back, and I am now here to stay. That should also tell you something about my feelings for New York.
That said, my missus and I have maintained our subscriptions to The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Meaning, I read Eric Asimov.
Because, as the great and wise Tom Hill says, he has original thoughts. And because, as I say, his heart and his palate are in the right place.
So when Eric wants to talk Zinfandel, I want to listen.
Particularly because Eric doesn't normally much like Zinfandel.
Fortunately, it turns out he likes ours.
It was an odd quest Mr. Asimov recently set out on; a search for Zinfandels evidencing restraint.
Zinfandels that exhibited freshness, energy, and balance.
Fish in a barrel, or Nessie in the Loch?
They searched, they selected, they tasted. The results?
You could say we were mildly disappointed by our tasting. Certainly, lower alcohol levels by themselves are no guarantee that a wine will be lively and energetic. Yet we hope that more zinfandel producers will embrace the notion that wines can be both agile and intense rather than aiming simply for blockbuster power.
Ok, sounds like it didn't go very well, right?
Not so!
They did indeed find the wines they were hoping for, just not a great many of them. But the ones they did love, they really loved. And they weren't even surprised to be loving them. Dig this:
Our No. 1 wine was no surprise. For decades, Ridge has been making great zinfandels from its old-vine vineyards in Sonoma County, and the 2010 from Lytton Springs in Dry Creek Valley was yet another. It was hefty enough at 14.4 percent but beautifully structured, nuanced and refreshing.
I knew I admired Eric for a reason!
In all seriousness, I do indeed admire what he's done here, because he is raising vital questions relevant not just to the world of wine, but to the world in general. Inadvertently perhaps, but he is raising them just the same.
What he is really doing, is asking us to face our definition of power.
What is power?
As a species, we're pretty feeble in many ways. We cannot fly like birds fly. We cannot "breathe" under water as fish can. Our eyes are weak, and we cannot see in the dark. Our ears are weak, and we cannot hear long distances or wide pitches. We cannot hibernate like bears, nor run as fast as cheetahs. Our skin is fragile; it protects us from neither heat nor sun. We do not live as long as turtles.
What we can do, or should I say, what we do have, is brains. Big brains, with big thoughts in them. And by virtue of our brains, we have achieved a unique sort of power in the world.
But what is important, what is so very important to remember, is the origin of this singular power. It is not a power rooted in physical strength. It is not a power rooted in size, or velocity, or scale. It is not a power of oppression, or violence. It is a power of nuance, and complexity. It is a power of responsivity; compensational in nature, conciliatory in spirit. It is a power of compromise, humility, and respect.
It is a power of observation, a power born from the act of seeing the world, and striving to find a place in it. It is an integrative power.
Misused, it becomes all the things it is, in fact, not. It becomes violent. It becomes oppressive. It becomes ugly. It becomes destructive. Eventually, it ceases even to be power. It becomes merely a weapon.
There is power in a haiku. There is violence in a gun.
Drink freshness, energy, and balance.
Drink haiku.
Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment.
(Yosa Buson, translated by Robert Hass)
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James A. Yoder, Chair, is Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). A biological oceanographer, Dr. Yoder is well known in the oceanographic research community, having served as a researcher, professor and more recently as Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC from 2001 to 2004. He has worked at NASA headquarters and has been a member of numerous national and international committees and panels on oceanographic research. In particular, he was chair of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group. James Yoder received a B.A. degree in botany from DePauw University in 1970, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He joined the staff at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Georgia in 1978, and from 1986 to 1988 was a visiting senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working as a program manager in the ocean branch at NASA headquarters. He joined the faculty at the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) at URI in 1989 and was promoted to professor in 1992. He was named Associate Dean of Oceanography at GSO in 1993 and served in that capacity until 1998, with responsibilities for curriculum planning and delivery, admissions, recruitment, and graduate student affairs. Dr. Yoder has served on NRC committees and currently is a member of the Ocean Studies Board.
Dr. Jorge L. Sarmiento
Princeton University
Dr. Jorge L. Sarmiento is the George J. Magee Professor of Geosciences and Geological Engineering at Princeton University. He obtained his PhD at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University in 1978, and then served as a post-doc at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA in Princeton before joining the Princeton University faculty in 1980. He has published widely on the global carbon cycle, on the use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation, and on the impact of climate change on ocean biology and biogeochemistry. He has participated in the scientific planning and execution of many of the large-scale multi-institutional and international oceanographic biogeochemical and tracer programs of the last three decades. He was Director of Princeton's Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program from 1980 to 1990 and 2006 to the present, and is Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. He has served on the editorial board of multiple journals and as editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Shubha Sathyendranath is a senior scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University (Canada). She served as Executive Director of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) till 2008 and continues to be involved in POGO currently, focussing on its capacity building efforts. She is an expert in marine optics and has several years of experience working on ocean-colour algorithm development and applications, and has published extensively in this field. She earned a doctorate in Optical Oceanography from the Universit� Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1981. Dr. Sathyendranath is a former member of the National Academies' Committee on International Capacity Building for the Protection and Sustainable Use of Oceans and Coasts.
Dr. Carl F. Schueler
Raytheon Company [Retired]
Carl Schueler retired as chief scientist of Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) in Dec 2006, and was an industry remote sensing and electro-optics consultant until joining Orbital Sciences Corporation in July 2008 to support satellite remote-sensing. Since the early 1980?s he led numerous sensor studies and proposals resulting in polar and geosynchronous Earth observation and planetary exploration instruments. He managed SBRS?s mid-1990?s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 6 and Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) studies leading to Raytheon participation in the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). As Technical Director from 1996 to 2002, he led design of the Visible Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the key NPOESS atmosphere, land, and ocean sensor. From 2001 to 2006 he was Technical Director of Raytheon?s Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) for NASA?s Glory mission. Dr. Schueler is a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS). He serves on two Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) remote sensing program committees and on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Systems Technical Committee (SSTC). He received the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB in 1980 as a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has published over 70 technical papers on remote sensing and instrument design, and has served on five NRC committees, including the Decadal Study Weather Panel.
Dr. David Antoine
Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche
David Antoine is a CNRS senior research scientist at the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing group of the Laboratoire d'Oc�anographie de Villefranche in France. He received a doctorate degree in oceanography from the Universit� Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1995. His research interests include marine optics, bio-optics, radiative transfer and applications, ocean color remote sensing including atmospheric corrections, modeling of oceanic primary production from satellite ocean color. He was involved in the definition, preparation and implementation of the European Space Agency (ESA) ENVISAT-MERIS ocean color satellite mission. He has served as chair (2007-2009) of the ocean group of the French space agency (CNES) scientific committee. He now serves as chair of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group, and is a member of the ESA? Earth Science Advisory Committee.
Dr. Cara Wilson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Cara Wilson is a research oceanographer for the Environmental Research Division at NOAA?s Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Her research interests are in using satellite data to examine bio-physical coupling in the surface ocean, specifically she is interested in the determining the biological and physical causes of the large chlorophyll blooms that often develop in late summer time in the oligotrophic Pacific near 30�N. Dr. Wilson earned a B.SC in oceanography from the University of Michigan in 1989 and a PhD in oceanography from Oregon State University in 1997. Prior to joining NOAA in 2002 she worked at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Wilson has been a member of NOAA?s Satellite R&O (Research and Operations) task team, the Coastal Ocean Applications and Science Team (COAST), and NOAA?s OCPOP (Ocean Color Product Oversight Panel). She?s the PI of the west coast node of NOAA?s CoastWatch program and the chair of NOAA?s ad hoc group on ocean color.
Dr. Robert H. Evans, Jr
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Robert Evans is a research professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS). Dr. Evans is a faculty member of the RSMAS Remote Sensing Group (RSG); an interdisciplinary research group engaged in research and graduate instruction in the techniques of satellite oceanography and their application to problems in physical, biological and chemical oceanography. Dr. Evans? focus of research is to develop quantitative methods that permit timely access to satellite remote-sensing observations of transient events in the ocean, using imaging infrared sensors and multi-spectral infrared and color scanner observations. He continues evolutionary development of processing and analysis capabilities with the goal being generation of long-term time series of oceanic mesoscale variability.
Dr. Curtis Mobley
Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
Curtis Mobley is the Vice President for Science and a Senior Scientist at Sequoia Scientific, Inc. Dr. Mobley has a background in physics and meteorology, but most of his career has been devoted to research in radiative transfer theory applied to problems in optical oceanography. He created the widely-used Hydrolight computer program and wrote the textbook Light and Water: Radiative Transfer in Natural Waters. Early in his career, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and has held both regular (at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab) and senior (at the Jet Propulsion Lab) National Research Council Resident Research Associateships. He was an oceanographer with the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean during the 1980s. From 1989-1991, he was the Program Manager of the Ocean Optics (now Environmental Optics) program at the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Mobley has been an associate professor of physics at Pacific Lutheran University, and is now an Affiliate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington.
Dr. Carlos E. Del Castillo
Johns Hopkins University
Carlos Del Castillo is a member of the Senior Professional Staff with the Space Department of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the William S. Parsons Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Del Castillo started his career at the University of Puerto Rico studying the effects of oil pollution in tropical marine environments. Later, at the University of South Florida, his interest in organic carbon biogeochemistry and the carbon cycle lead him to the use of remote sensing to study biogeochemical and physical processes in the oceans through a combination of remote sensing, and field and laboratory experiments. While working at NASA as a researcher, Dr. Del Castillo also served as Project Manager at Stennis Space Center, MS, and as a Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters. Dr. Del Castillo served in several inter-agency working groups, chaired NASA and NSF workshops, and is now a member of NASA?s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Management and Operations working Group. Dr. Del Castillo has several well-cited publications (over 70 citations), co-edited a book on the application of remote sensing techniques, and is a frequent reviewer for technical journals. He received a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Marine Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez, and his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of South Florida.
Dr. David A. Siegel
University of California, Berkeley
David A. Siegel is a Professor of Marine Science in the Geography Department and Director of the Institute for Computational Earth System Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He joined the UCSB faculty in 1990 after a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Siegel is an interdisciplinary marine scientist. His research focuses on the assessment and functioning of aquatic ecosystems using the tools of an applied physicist: namely radiative transfer and fluid mechanics. He has published over 100 refereed works in satellite ocean color remote sensing, marine bio-optics, and the coupling of ecological and ocean physical processes from basin- to micro-scales with application in problems ranging from biogeochemical cycles, plankton ecology and fisheries oceanography. Dr. Siegel is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Siegel is a member of the Earth Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Committee and has been a member of several NASA Earth Science research teams including Science Working Groups for the Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystem (ACE) and Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HypsIRI) decadal survey missions. Dr. Siegel received his undergraduate degrees from the University of California, San Diego in 1982 and his doctoral degree from the University of Southern California in 1988.


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Alton High Class of 1973 will celebrate its 45th Reunion the weekend of September 28 & 29, 2018.
Festivities begin Friday evening with the AHS Homecoming Football game and an informal mixer at Tony's Downtown Alton.
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text: RBNY Academy Update: September 30 | Another unbeaten weekend for Academy Tweet © HARRISON, N.J. (September 30, 2015) – On Saturday Sept. 26, all age groups of the Red Bulls Academy, with the exception of the U-13s, were in action in what was another unbeaten weekend for the Academy. The Red Bulls U-18, U-16 and U-14 age groups hit the road and took on FC Delco in Pennsylvania, while the U-12s welcomed Oakwood SC to the Red Bulls Training Facility. New York Red Bulls U-18 (0) vs. FC Delco (0) CONSHOHOCKEN, PA (September 26, 2015) – Both the New York Red Bulls U-18s and FC Delco emerged with a point from a goalless draw at the Proving Grounds, 0-0. In the first half, Noah Powder nearly opened the scoring when a nice combination play put him through, but his shot went wide of the goal. Next, Mason Toye went close, but his header from Jared Gilbey's cross also went wide of the target. The Red Bulls midfield would dominate play in the second half and had long spells of possession in Delco's half, but the struggles to find the net continued. Pierre Reedy almost broke the deadlock, getting on the end of a low-driven cross from Powder, only to see the Delco goalkeeper make the close range save to deny the opportunity. Mason Deeds and Kyle Perno were both solid in defense and denied FC Delco's counter-attacking play, while goalkeeper Sam Ilin was called upon in the second half to parry a diving header in the late stages of the game to preserve his second shutout in two games. "Frustrating not to have found the breakthrough goal even though I felt we deserved one, but it's difficult to play teams with such a defensive agenda," Callum Johnson said. Man of the Match: Callum Johnson Lineup: Sam Ilin, Sean Teixeira, Mason Deeds, Kyle Perno, Kevin O'Toole, Jared Gilbey, Callum Johnson, Jeanpaul Marin (Ryan Mingachos, 60'), Barry Sharifi (Rodrigo D'Andrea, 77') Mason Toye (Pierre Reedy, 60'), Noah Powder Subs not used: Cristian Martinez, Kazu Shigenoba, Zach Ryan New York Red Bulls U-16 (0) vs. FC Delco (0) CONSHOHOCKEN, PA (September 26, 2015) – The New York Red Bulls U-16s played out a scoreless draw last weekend against FC Delco, 0-0. The Red Bull U-16s outshot Delco 12-0, but had to settle for a goalless draw. New York was unable to finish its chances against their defensive minded opponents. Lineup: Matt Goodman, Chris Gloster, Deandre Golding, Nick Shimbeno (Evan Peters, 41'), Ben Bograd (Carlos Alvarado, 41'), Kazu Shinegozu, Ben Mines, Giuseppe Margiotello (Vince Borden, 60'), Zach Ryan, Jack Valderabanno (Chris Bermudez, 65'), Omir Fernandez New York Red Bulls U-14 (6) vs. FC Delco (1) CONSHOHOCKEN, PA (September 26, 2015) – The New York Red Bulls U-14s got off to a fast start and opened the scoring 26 seconds into the match. Kejiel Watt scored his first of the game when he volleyed home from six-yards out after receiving a cross from Man of the Match Scotty Taylor. Despite the early goal, the Red Bulls could not build on their lead in the first half as FC Delco defended deep. The second half saw the New York start as they did in the first half. Within a span of 90 seconds, the Red Bulls made the score 3-0. In the 41st minute, Taylor scored his first of the game after receiving a pass from substitute Dylan Sullivan. Watt then scored his second of the game and team leading 9th goal of the season in the 42nd minute. Samory Powder delivered a cross in behind the Delco back line which Watt ran onto and headed into the corner of the goal from 12-yards out. "At half-time we were not happy that we did not build on our dominance in possession," Scotty Taylor said. "Dylan came into the game and had a great impact immediately. Our front line was able to get behind their back line more in the second half and that is one thing we wanted to improve on." Taylor then doubled his tally in the 62nd minute with the goal of the game. A neat interchange of passes from Amadeo Chopru-tate and Sullivan at the top of the penalty box put Taylor in behind the Delco back line and he placed his shot into the lower left corner of the goal. Against the run of play, FC Delco pulled a goal back in the 65th minute, but the U-14's responded quickly as Taylor completed the hat-trick in the 68th minute thanks to another assist from Sullivan. The scoring was completed in the 74th minute when defender Samory Powder, for the second consecutive week, blasted a shot into the upper corner from 30-yards out past the helpless FC Delco goalkeeper. Defender Sean Ryan filled in as a goalkeeper for the game as the U-14s were missing three regular goalkeepers: Alex Bobocea (U.S. U-14 National Team Camp), Matt Goodman (called up to Red Bulls U-16) and Liam Bertrand (injury). Man of the Match: Scotty Taylor Lineup: Sean Ryan, Leo Hecht (Jordon May 50'), Lucas Santos (Sean Joo, 50'), Jonathan Ned, Jayden Reid (Samory Powder, 41'), Amadeo Chopru-tate, Nick Gencarelli (Danny Jara, 50'), Aziel Jackson (Michael McDougald, 57'), Alex Quezada (Dylan Sullivan, 41'), Kejiel Watt (Sal Pliego, 57'), Scotty Taylor. Scoring Summary: NY: Kejiel Watt (8) (Scotty Taylor, 4) 1' NY: Scotty Taylor (3) (Dylan Sullivan, 2) 41' NY: Kejiel Watt (9) (Samory Powder, 1) 42' NY: Scotty Taylor (4) (Dylan Sullivan, 3) 62' FC DELCO 65' NY: Scotty Taylor (5) (Dylan Sullivan, 4) 68' NY: Samory Powder (2) (Amadeo Chopru-tate, 1) 74' New York Red Bulls U-12 - Blue (4) vs. Oakwood SC - Blue (4) WHIPPANY, N.J. (September 26, 2015) – The New York Red Bulls U-12 Blue played Oakwood SC Blue at home at the Red Bull Training Facility on Saturday. The Red Bulls started the game strong, going up 3-0 by the end of the first half with some efficient counter attacking play. In the second half the visiting side began to chip away at the Red Bulls lead. Their comeback started with an early goal just two minutes into the second half. The Red Bulls continued to push forward, but turnovers and pressure from Oakwood led to two more goals to tie the game at 3-3. The Red Bulls took the lead from the penalty spot to make it 4-3, but the lead was short lived and Oakwood found the back of the net just a few minutes before full time. Scoring Summary: NY: Leo Guarino (Adam Havens) 2' NY: Jack Krongold 6' NY: Adam Havens (Derek Rivera) 18' Oakwood SC 37' Oakwood SC 45' Oakwood SC 48' NY: Cristien Merritt (PK) 61' Oakwood SC 53' New York Red Bulls U-12 - White (6) vs. Oakwood SC - White (2) WHIPPANY, N.J. (September 26, 2015) – The New York Red Bulls U-12 White went three games unbeaten with a 6-2 victory against Oakwood SC. The Red Bulls scored just two minutes from the opening whistle with a long-range strike to beat the Oakwood keeper. The Red Bulls continued to dominate the first half, managing to score four more goals to end the half with a 5-0 lead. In the second half Oakwood amped up the pressure, creating numerous turnovers and got two goals back before Red Bulls forward Dion Ahmetaj added the final goal of the game for the Red Bulls. Scoring Summary: NY: Carmelo Carbone 2' NY: Joshua Virgil (Dion Ahmetaj) 15' NY: Paolo Primavera (Curt Calov) 24' NY: Joshwin Jennings 28' NY: Cooper Cassidy (Joshwin Jennings) 32' Oakwood SC 41' Oakwood SC 44' NY: Dion Ahmetaj 50' Back to news


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World Championship Event This Saturday, LIVE on SHOWTIME
From The Masonic Temple Theatre In Detroit
"I've got love for the whole Midwest, and Detroit has embraced me with so much love. Detroit is a great city and the Midwest has produced nothing but a lot of legendary champions. It is great to be here in Detroit and Mayweather Promotions is happy to be here putting on this fight.
"It is going to be a great fight this Saturday night on SHOWTIME. I am telling everyone right now, if they don't have SHOWTIME already, they have to go out and get it. You can't miss Floyd Mayweather or Mayweather Promotions fighters who are fortunate to be fighting on this network. For the next 30 months I will give you excitement. You can believe that.
"I promised Ishe a title fight and I lived up to my side of the bargain. Now he has to go out there, perform and get the job done. It's great to showcase J'Leon Love too, a local Detroit fighter who now trains out of the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas. He is a very exciting fighter and I am looking forward to seeing him fight too.
"Ishe Smith is not a walk in the park for K9 Bundradge. Ishe Smith is not Cory Spinks and he [Bundrage] needs to understand that. K9 is world champion and I give him credit for being in this fight, but he is going in against a great fighter in Ishe Smith and I think Ishe and Mayweather Promotions will prevail Saturday night.
"Saturday night is going to be a great night for Mayweather Promotions, so tune in this Saturday. It's SHOWTIME coming to you live from the Motor City.
"Emanuel Steward was an icon in the sport of boxing and a legendary trainer. He is truly missed. I actually work with J'Leon Love on a daily basis, so I feel like I am getting my experience as a trainer too.
"I am happy to be the face of boxing and give the fans the excitement they are looking for. It is all about hard work and dedication. I do that every time I prepare for a fight and Mayweather Promotions' goal is to do that too.
"My career is not over yet. I have done it my whole life and I have always worked hard to be the best. That was my goal from the very beginning. To have my name mentioned with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Tommy Hearns, so many legendary champions that paved the way for me, I am appreciative.
"I get motivated just by watching the young fighters, going to the boxing matches and watching these young guys come up. Even though it is hard for me to go out to a boxing match, as it does get a little crazy when I show up, I have been doing it lately and being around the sport. Watching the fights is exciting and helps me stay motivated.
"SHOWTIME and CBS, I've got to take my hat off to them. They did a tremendous job and I am happy to be a part of this family. It's not just SHOWTIME. It's CBS too. I have to give everyone their just due and credit. They are partners, came together and gave me a great deal and one I couldn't refuse. I couldn't ask for a better deal.
"I am comfortable in this new relationship and my team is happy too. It's like a new marriage and I feel good about it. I will be ready to go May 4, Cinco de Mayo. It's going to MayDay and May-Per-View.
"Robert Guerrero is a champion. For this guy to be mentioned with some of the top fighters in today's time, he must have done something right or correct in his career. This is a guy who I know I can't overlook; I have to push myself to the limit. I have to dedicate myself and I have to do what it takes to stay at the top.
"Guerrero is a very aggressive fighter. I am starting to train. As a matter of fact, this week I was out on the basketball court with some young kids working on my cardio. I have to build my cardio up to fight Guerrero. I will not overlook him. I don't overlook anyone. I know that everyone who fights me is gunning for me, so I have to be ready for what they are ready to give me.
"I am absolutely excited about fighting more. It's about staying active and that means a lot more of me. Before my career ends, that's what I am going to give the fans-a whole lot more of me. It's SHOWTIME baby!
"I am a veteran in the sport. I have been in the sport of boxing for 17 years and I am still doing record-breaking numbers. Boxing isn't going anywhere as long as Floyd Mayweather is here. The sport is here to stay.
"People don't understand that I just didn't wake up overnight and become pound-for-pound champion. My legacy is not based on any one fight and if that was the case, I didn't need to fight 43 fights. I'll continue to strive for the best no matter who it is that I'm fighting.
"I don't think people give me the credit that I'm due for dealing with the drug issues in our sport. I'm the pioneer when it comes to making sure fighters have an equal playing field when we fight. We need to take random blood and urine tests to make our sport fair and safe.
"I am really happy right now. SHOWTIME let's do it."
"We at SHOWTIME are extremely happy to be back here in Detroit – it's our first time back since 2010 when we featured Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham. Detroit is a city rich in boxing history, for my money probably the deepest in boxing tradition of any city in the U.S. I'd also like to acknowledge Thomas Hearns, one of the legends of the sport, and also a dear friend who you can't really talk boxing or say anything about Detroit boxing without mentioning, Emmanuel Steward.
"At SHOWTIME we like to do big things, we like to make history. We're proud to be the first championship boxing event at the Masonic Temple Theatre. Those of you who watch our shows know that last year we had the first boxing event ever at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
"As you all know this event is being co-promoted by Mayweather Promotions and Floyd Mayweather. As you also know, Mr. Mayweather has been in the news this week as the result of a little announcement he made about a deal with SHOWTIME and CBS, which we are very, very proud of. We look forward to a very long relationship.
"Today we're here because of a different deal, a deal that didn't quite get as much attention, a deal that was done several months ago when we scheduled this event. It was Floyd's wish to come to Detroit and bring a high-quality fight card here. So I'd like to acknowledge Floyd and Leonard for doing just that.
"In our main event we have two of the most successful fighters ever to come out of 'The Contender.' Two action fighters who have fan-friendly styles. K9 Bundrage is a really dangerous fighter with proven knokcout power and he'll be fighting Ishe Smith, a veteran who has faced and beaten some of the best fighters in the world. I think this will be an action fight, something you will not want to miss whether you're in the arena or at home.
"In our opener we'll be seeing, once again, J'Leon Love. J'Leon is fast becoming one of our SHOWTIME guys. We featured him earlier this year, he's a very entertaining fighter with an outstanding amateur background, and I think he's one of the future stars of the sport. At SHOWTIME we match our fighters tough, we like challenges, we like entertaining fights, and that's why we asked Derrick Findley to be the opponent here. I guarantee that will be an entertaining fight."
DETROIT (Feb. 21, 2013) – Undefeated Eight-Time World Champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather joined Cornelius Bundrage, Ishe Smith, J'Leon Love and Derrick Findley on Thursday at the final press conference for Saturday's SHOWTIME event from the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit, Mich., which his company, Mayweather Promotions, will co-promote with Golden Boy Promotions.
In the main event, IBF Junior Middleweight World Champion Cornelius "K9" Bundrage will defend his title against challenger Ishe "Sugar Shay" Smith, live on SHOWTIME® (9:00 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast). In the SHOWTIME co-feature, undefeated middleweight contender J'Leon Love (14-0, 8 KO's) of Detroit will risk his perfect record against veteran Derrick "Superman" Findley (20-8, 13 KO's) of Gary, Ind. in a 10-round fight.
Mayweather, already the highest paid athlete in the world (Forbes, 2012), also discussed the groundbreaking contract he recently inked with Showtime Networks Inc. and its parent company, CBS Corporation. The deal, a unique revenue-sharing arrangement between SHOWTIME PPV and Mayweather, will enable him to fight up to six times over a period of 30 months, with the first mega-event taking place on May 4, 2013 when Mayweather will fight Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero.
Here's what the participants had to say on Thursday:
"This cat right here [Smith], the last time he came to Detroit, he was scared to death. I could see a fear in him. He went home and started Tweeting. He's a Facebook gangster and now he comes back to my city with The Money Team and all of a sudden he's hard. I bark outside the ring, but I bite inside the ring. They can't fight for him. I'll give him the business and hopefully his boss [Floyd Mayweather] will step up.
"K9 is in the house. The dog is coming. I'm just excited. I'm fighting Ishe Smith, so I'm not worried about The Money Team. I'm not worried about Floyd. We have to do battle. Ishe, you're not leaving here with that belt. The only think you're going to have is that Twitter belt.
"He's a pillow puncher. He's going down. The only person I fear is God. Him [Smith], I'll put him down. The thing is, 39-years-old for me is like 21 because I didn't have an amateur career. I'm coming with everything. It's going down. May the best man win."
"I want to thank SHOWTIME. It's been over 10 years now since my first fight on SHOWTIME and to think that my first world title shot is coming on SHOWTIME is unbelievable. It's an unbelievable feeling to be on network TV so many times, even when some of the times I knew I was going to be on the 'B' side, they always had my back. It's 10-plus years of a great relationship and it's only fitting that this first world title shot to try to become the first-ever Vegas born champion is on this network.
"What can I say about Eddie Mustafa. I hadn't fought in 18 months and I didn't know if I even wanted to fight anymore. He told me to come to the gym. He would call me and make sure I was OK. I grew up fatherless so he was like a father-figure.
"This crowd here is full of K9 supporters and that's great. If you guys came to Vegas, it would be full of Ishe Smith supporters. This isn't football, this isn't basketball. You can't yell at a quarterback and have him hear you. It's just me and him in the ring. He has to fight and I have to fight too. The one thing about it is he's going to get touched. I've had almost 30 pro fights and I've never been down, never stopped. Bottom line is, it's one-on-one. We're going to strictly box hard. I'm coming to fight and I'm taking that title back to Vegas. That's the way it's going to be.
"It's like my boy Chico (Diego Corrales) used to always tell me, it's a war of attrition. You have to go out on your back. I'd rather go out on my back than leave without that title. He can question everything about me, but come Saturday night we're going to see who's the real champion."
"I need to thank Floyd for everything he's done for me. I've had a lot of different promoters in my 13 years as a professional and no one has treated me the way he does. I did communicate with him when he was incarcerated and I carry this letter that he wrote me whenever I fight. He said, 'You are a champion. Thank you for helping me get ready for the most important fights of my career – Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley. Have that same attitude when you spar and that same determination and no one can stop you. I'm proud of you. Always continue to think about your family when you're training and push yourself to the limit.' That's just half of what he wrote me. At the end he said, 'I promise I'm going to get you a world championship fight when I get out of jail.' So we went 18 months without a fight and in less than a year we are fighting for a world championship. I don't see how anybody can say anything bad about Floyd Mayweather or Mayweather Promotions. I'm not going to do any of that damn barking. I don't need to do that. This Saturday it's going to be a good show, it's going to be a good fight."
"I'm a Detroit native. I love Detroit. This is where I'm from. This is where I caused trouble, did good, did bad. Detroit runs in my blood. I'm going to come out Saturday and do what we do best and that's fight and put on a good show. We want to put on more shows out here in Detroit, so this is the time to show that we're ready for whatever. We're ready for Derrick Findley, whatever he comes with. He's going to rush, do whatever he has to do, so we'll be ready for it.
"I come from the dog house. This is where we put all our hard work in. We're in Vegas putting in the work, running, doing everything we have to do. We have the best trainers and there's nothing we're not ready for. We train hard. It's another day and we're going to put on a good performance."
"I just want to thank J'Leon and Floyd Mayweather for giving me this opportunity. I'm used to going into the lion's den; I'm used to fighting guys in their backyards, but that stuff doesn't matter to me. I just got to give it everything I got in the ring. Take advantage of the opportunity and get the win in his hometown. I'll definitely be ready and I can't wait until Saturday."
Bundrage vs. Smith, a 12-round fight for Bundrage's IBF Junior Middleweight World Championship, will take place Saturday, February 23 at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. The event is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, sponsored by Corona and MGM Grand Detroit and will be televised live on SHOWTIME beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). The co-main event will be a 10-round middleweight bout between Detroit's undefeated rising star J'Leon Love and Derrick Findley of Gary, Indiana.
Tickets priced at $200, $125, $100, $75, $50 and $25, plus applicable taxes, fees and services charges are on sale now and are available for purchase at the Masonic Temple box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations or by calling 800-745-3000.
For more information, visit www.goldenboypromotions.com, www.mayweatherpromotions.com and www.themasonic.com, follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing, www.twitter.com/MayweatherPromo, www.twitter.com/K9Boxing, www.twitter.com/IsheSugarShay, www.twitter.com/JLeonLove, www.twitter.com/BadouJack, www.twitter.com/LuisCubaArias, www.twitter.com/TerrellGausha, www.twitter.com/stevegeffrard, www.twitter.com/SHOsports, follow the conversation using #BundrageSmith become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoldenBoyBoxing or www.facebook.com/SHOsports.


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After a cold morning jumping into Lake Michigan for Chicago's Polar Plunge, Lady Gaga and her fiancé Taylor Kinney heated things up at the Chicago Blackhawks game Sunday.
The celebrity couple was featured on the "kiss cam" at the United Center during the late afternoon game and they did not shy away from the moment.
Footage released by the team showed Gaga excitedly leaning in to kiss Kinney, who stars on NBC's hit show "Chicago Fire." The stadium quickly erupted in applause.
Both Gaga and Kinney were earlier spotted on the city's lakefront taking the 2016 Polar Plunge for the second year in a row. The pair even repeated their iconic piggyback exit from the water.
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Appliance Maker Follows a Trusted Quick-Die-Change Recipe
In 2007, the 30,000-sq.-ft. pressroom at the Sub-Zero and Wolf manufacturing plant in Fitchburg, WI, nearly doubled in production capacity. Welcomed that year: three Williams, White & Co. hydraulic presses (a 400-ton model and two 600-ton models), and a 600-ton Minster mechanical press with coil-feed line. It added the presses to support new-product introductions and to bring inhouse previously outsourced stamping work. "Those pressroom investments really strengthened our core competency in stamping and tool and die work," says Jeff Soule, fabrication supervisor for the manufacturing facility.
All of the new presses came outfitted with the same die-load/unload and clamping quick-die-change (QDC) equipment originally specified on the firm's existing hydraulic presses (300-, 600- and 900-ton models). QDC-system components, all Hilma equipment from Carr Lane Roemheld: hydraulically operated rollblocks; spring-return ledge clamps on the front side of each press; and hollow-cylinder-type T-slot clamps on the press backsides and upper slides. The hollow-piston cylinder clamps, according to Hilma literature, are designed to clamp dies on subplates with U-slots. With single-acting spring return, the cylinder's spherical washer adjusts to irregular clamping surfaces.
"Hydraulic die clamping provides the safe yet quick die changes we strive for," says maintenance superintendent Mark Long." "We don't have to worry whether or not the clamps are torqued appropriately, as we would with mechanically actuated clamps. Any chance for operator error is eliminated. We just have to program the required setpoints for the pressure on each clamp, and the press control monitors the hydraulic system to ensure we get the pressure we need.
"And, when we change dies," continues Long, "proximity sensors at each clamp location sense whether the clamps are in their home positions. The system prevents a die from being opened until every clamp is ready, so we don't open the die with one clamp still activated."
Expanded Die Storage Welcomes a Slew of New Dies
When the 450,000-sq.-ft. Fitchburg plant opened in 2000, a value-stream-mapping exercise called for surrounding the centralized 300,000-sq.-ft. assembly lines with 150,000 sq. ft. of fabrication and stamping operations. Material flows from the outside in.
"We recently expanded the die rack by 27 slots, to a total of 106 slots," says manufacturing engineer Pete Rounds, "to accommodate part production for our newly launched line of refrigeration and cooking appliances."
In addition to that main die rack, the shop maintains six smaller die-staging racks closer to the presses. During a press run, the operator can call for the next die in his queue and have it prestaged in one of these racks. The Atlas cart then can move the previous die from the press to the staging rack, pull the next die from the rack, and move it to the press.
Numerous Die Changes
Presses are scheduled to run relatively small batches of parts—a week's worth of parts inventory for the appliance assembly lines. Part volume per die setup ranges from 100 to 500 stampings, or a run in the press of as little as a couple of hours to a couple of shifts. Cosmetic parts (stainless-steel panels, for example) run at slower stroke rates, and therefore stay in the press longer.
Die changes take 45 to 60 min., says Long. That time includes completing a die inspection, looking for any wear that would require a trip to the toolroom for preventive maintenance (PM).
"Our operators follow a one-page PM inspection checklist at the end of every run," Long says. "When that's completed, a technician from the toolroom comes to the press and also performs a 5-min. die inspection, before we finally release the die back to the storage rack. Or, if maintenance is needed, the operator generates a work order and the die moves to the toolroom. The goal is to ensure that the dies are ready to go when we need them."Along with developing a die-PM checklist to "engineer" the die-change process, Long adds that "we also performed a Kaizen-like event to 'engineer' our die-change routine. We developed a complete list of tasks to be completed with each die change, assigned a time period to complete each task, and then divvied up the tasks among the press operators to balance the load." MF
See also: Atlas Technologies Inc., HILMA Div. of Carr Lane Roemheld, Nidec Press & Automation
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TEE TALK: Tyler is a top performer for the Golden Eagles who is constantly striving to better his game...capable of shooting very low scores...his overall abiliites will keep him close to the top of the leaderboard and will help lead the team in every tournament...one of the top junior players in the region during his high school career...always does what is asked of him...shows great leadership and is one of the most experienced players within this group of guys.
In 2011-12: Tyler played in four of Tech's five fall tournaments, totaling 11 rounds of golf...carded two top 10 finishes, tying for third out of 74 golfers with a 67-73-69=209 at the Murray State Invitational and finishing fourth out of 80 competitors with a 71-68-75=214 at the Skyhawk Classic, both in October...shot a career-low round of 67 in the first round of the Murray State Invitational...tied for the best average on the team at 72.5, improving on his 2010-11 average by more than a stroke.
In 2010-11: Competing in nine tournaments, Tyler scored a low round of 68 for the season, which was also his career-best, which was carded at the Grover Page Classic on March 14th in the first round...best finish was 2nd place at the Grover Page Classic, where he shot 68-73-71=212 to finish four-under par..season total of 24 rounds in tourney play..averaged 73.8 for the year.
In 2009-10: Redshirted to rehab an
In 2008-09: Tyler qualified for six tournaments, and posted an average of 76.4 strokes over his 17 rounds of competition...shot two sub par rounds on the year...low round of 70 came at the Murray State Invitational where he shot 73-74-70--217 and finished 21st...best finish was a tie for 20th and came at the Grub Mart-Young Oil Intercollegiate with a score total of 148 over two rounds
In 2007-08: As a true freshman, Tyler played in
six of Tech's nine tournaments, and posted a stroke average of
76.7...had three Top 20 finishes...low round of 73 came in the
second round of the Murray State Invitational in October...tied for
15th place in his first college action, the Showdown in the Valley,
where he shot 77-78-74--229...tied for 17th with a 223 total, his
low score for 54-hole event, at the Murray State
Invitational...placed in a tie for 15th at the Pizza Hut
Invitational in February.
HIGH SCHOOL: A two-sport standout at Jackson County High School, Tyler was the starting point guard on the basketball team and played No. 1 position on the golf team for four years...played his high school golf three seasons for coach Lakelan Barham and one year for coach Gary Flynn...co-captain of the basketball team...school record for lowest average of 35.0 strokes in his senior year...also career record with 36.2 stoke average...helped JCHS team win district and region titles as a junior before a seventh place finish at TSSAA state tourney...led Blue Devils to region championship as a senior and fourth place in state tournament...three-time all-state selection, receiving first-team honors twice and second-team once...three-time all-Mid State...won the 2005 Tennessean Metro Parks Schooldays Tournament...four-time team MVP...played in state tournament all four years, finishing 29th as a freshman, fifth as a sophomore, and third in final two seasons.
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PureDWTS Season 18, Week 7 – POLL: Who's Got the Edge in the Team Dances?
My first team dance post was getting a bit lengthy…so I decided to carry on the discussion here 🙂 I thought I'd take a look at several factors that may affect the outcome of the team dances – things that may affect scores and overall success on each of the teams. Join me, won't you? 🙂 And be sure to vote in the poll at the bottom!
Just as a reminder, the teams are:
Team Loca: Meryl & Maks, Danica & Val, Amy & Derek, Candace & Mark
Team Vida: Charlie & Sharna, James & Peta, NeNe & Tony
Pro Team Dance Experience:
Derek: 10 wins, 0 ties, 0 losses; average team dance score: 27.65
Mark: 2 wins, 2 losses, 1 tie; average team dance score: 24.6
Peta: 2 wins, 2 losses, 0 ties; average team dance score: 27
Maks: 2 wins, 3 losses, 1 tie; average team dance score: 25.5
Sharna: 1 win, 0 losses, 0 ties; average team dance score: 25
Tony: 1 win, 3 losses, 0 ties; average team dance score: 25.38
Val: 0 wins, 3 losses, 0 ties; average team dance score: 25.33
The writing is kinda on the wall with this one – Derek wins team dances, so he's a real asset if he's on your team. Peta may not have as many wins, but the teams she's been on have pulled in high enough scores that her average team dance score is pretty high. Mark's average team dance score may be a bit artificially low – it was hard to account for the 4th judges' score in season 12, so I just removed it – that ended up throwing things off a bit.
Who's got the edge: Team Loca
Number of couples:
Team Loca: 4 couples
Team Vida: 3 couples
We only have two precedents for this one – season 9 and season 14, and there are pros and cons for both. In season 9, Team Paso had 4 couples and Team Tango had 3; Team Tango beat Team Paso by 4 points, with Louis citing that having fewer couples was easier because there were "fewer egos" and it's easier to get a smaller number of couples in synch. In season 14, Team Tango had 4 couples while Team Paso had 3 – Team Tango beat Team Paso by 1 point, and Derek said that having more couples allowed them to "create more cool patterns on the floor". From what I've heard from Deep Throat so far, both teams are looking great – but it seems like Team Vida might be having an easier time with the synchronized group sections.
Who's got the edge: Team Vida
Dance Style:
This gets a bit tricky, as the team dances are freestyles once more and obviously, none of the current celebs have any experience with the freestyle yet. So which pros have experience with the freestyle?
Derek: 7 individual freestyles; 2 team freestyles
Mark: 5 individual freestyles; 0 team freestyles
Maks: 4 individual freestyles; 1 team freestyle
Tony: 3 individual freestyles; 2 team freestyles
Val: 2 individual freestyles; 2 team freestyles
Peta: 1 individual freestyle; 2 team freestyles
Sharna: 0 individual freestyles; 0 team freestyles
Even if they haven't necessarily WON with every single freestyle they've done, I think it's good for every pro to at least have some experience with the freestyle – and Team Loca has Team Vida beat in that respect.
Who's got the edge: Team Loca
Team Loca: "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
Team Vida: "The Cup of Life (La Copa de la Vida)" by Ricky Martin
This one is rather subjective, as it's just a matter of opinion who got the "better" song. "Livin' La Vida Loca" has been used once before, as Kendra & Louis' samba in season 12; "The Cup of Life" has been used twice before – once as Melissa & Tony's salsa in season 8, once as Maria & Derek's salsa in season 14. Both songs are conducive to both a samba and a salsa beat; there are also certain sections of each that might work with paso doble & cha-cha. Personally, I think all of Ricky Martin's stuff kinda starts to sound the same after awhile – so I don't really think either one is better than the other.
Who's got the edge: TIE
Average individual score:
Team Loca: 25.63
Team Vida: 25.11
This is kinda reaching, but since everyone on the same team gets the same score, it might be worthwhile to look at what their average individual score is as a team. Not a vast difference between them – I would not be surprised if whoever won this team dance won it by only 1 point.
Who's got the edge: Slight edge to Team Loca…but not by much
COURT'S OVERALL THOUGHTS: On paper, everything seems to be stacked in Team Loca's favor: they've got great choreographers, great dancers, and are getting along well. Apparently Val is even refreshed at how good it feels to work as a team 🙂 But I just can't shake the feeling that Team Loca is being set up to lose – seems like a lot of emphasis is being placed on the fact that Derek has NEVER lost, and according to our sources, Team Vida is looking really good. We're also at the point in the season where any potential dark horses (namely James, and to a lesser degree, Charlie) could have a bit of a growth arc and surge into the lead. Gotta love storyboarding. If they aren't deliberately setting Team Loca up to lose, I would imagine the teams are going to be very, very close in score.
So what are your thoughts? Who do you think has the edge…and who do you think will actually end up winning?


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life lately has been pretty good. it really took me a while to settle back in here at home after being in Germany for 6 weeks but things are finally starting to go back to normal. after being gone for so long i inevitably start comparing and complaining about how things are here at home. a lot.
in the end i remind myself that both places have their good and bad sides and that no matter where i live i'd miss something.
so i guess what i am trying to say is that we are back to our regular routine and enjoying the rest of our summer. j is back to work and traveling a lot. logan is in love with our dogs and walking. we are now in the "walking while carrying the most possible amount of toys" phase. food and sleep are still his biggest passions which is totally fine with me. who doesn't have a thing for food and sleep?
kisses are still far and few in between (from the little guy that is). dada is his favorite word, he laughs in my face when i ask him to say mama. every day i am in awe of this little person, his smarts and personality.
i've been cooking a lot and getting my creative juices flowing. i started doing pilates again and it feels amazing. most days i feel balanced but then i put pressure on myself to do more. the dogs crave attention but i can't give them much and it makes me feel horrible. i have a constant fear to disappoint, that i should be making money and providing for this family in some way.
i'm sure i'm not the only mom asking herself these questions and wondering if what we do is ever enough? putting careers on hold to raise kids, moving to new places and leaving everything behind, dreaming and wondering if those dreams will ever become a reality.
for me it's always been one giant leap of faith, just going with my gut feeling and hoping that things will turn out ok. i don't know when i became such a worry wart?
ok, wow don't really know where all of that came from! i really just wanted to write a little update on what we've been up to lately...
on a more cheerful note, we'll be meeting j on his current road trip in cincinnati this weekend and we can't wait to explore the city while we're there. last time i went on a cincinnati road trip logan was just a tiny little poppy seed. any of you from the cincinnati are and have any recommendations for what to do and where to eat?


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DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM TESTING AND DESIGN USING PHYSICAL SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS by Brent McCleary A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Brent McCleary
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The Real ADHD Symptoms in Adults
When discussing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults, it is important to remember that symptoms exhibit themselves differently in children and adults. The disorder typically manifests itself more subtly in adults, making diagnosis and treatment relatively rare. One marker of ADHD in adults, however, is the widely accepted understanding that it cannot develop in adults.
Researchers now know that approximately 60% of children with ADHD will carry their symptoms into adulthood. In the United States, fully 4% of the adult population, some 8 million people, suffer to some extent from the symptoms of ADHD. Of those who do continue to have symptoms into adulthood, approximately half will be significantly troubled by them. Unfortunately, many children with ADHD are not diagnosed. When symptoms appear in previously undiagnosed adults, they can be bewildered and perplexed by their own actions and moods, often blaming themselves for their perceived inadequacies and limitations.
The causes of ADHD are not well understood. Current research suggests that both genes and environmental issues, such as alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy, each have their role to play. Mention ADHD in children and the image that most frequently comes to mind is that of the hyperactive kid bouncing off the walls. As the child reaches adulthood, that type of behavior subsides a bit. It is replaced, however, by other, more difficult to discern symptoms. The young adult is faced with new obligations and responsibilities. Life makes new demands, requiring a juggling act to keep all the balls in the air. This is difficult for everyone. We all feel overwhelmed from time to time, but someone with adult ADHD finds it challenging most of the time, and frequently impossible.
ADHD symptoms in adults are generally divided into three categories – distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Distractibility is defined as the inability to focus on a project or task for a significant amount of time. Impulsivity is defined as the inability to control immediate reactions. Hyperactivity is defined as fidgeting and restlessness, and an inability to sit still.
Distractibility is generally thought to be the least bothersome of the three broad categories of symptoms, at least outwardly. Adults who suffer from them, however, can find them quite disruptive. Those who exhibit symptoms in this category may:
• find it challenging to focus on everyday tasks
• find completely irrelevant sights and sounds distracting
• careen from one task to another and are bored easily
• lack focus, leading to lack of attention to detail
• are chronically late
• lack organizational skills
• find it difficult or troublesome to begin or finish tasks
• forget deadlines, appointments and commitments frequently
• procrastinate
• misplace or lose things, such as keys, constantly
• struggle to complete even simple projects
• fail to reasonably estimate the time necessary to complete a project
Impulsivity issues can be quite troubling for an adult with ADHD. They frequently have difficulty maintaining control over their comments, reactions, and behavior. They'll typically act or speak without thinking. They'll react without considering the consequences of their actions. Such behavior can lead them into risky situations. At work, they'll rush into a project without reading the directions, often leading to errors and only partial completion of the task.
Emotional issues can also arise from impulsivity. Adults with impulsivity issues may find it difficult to control emotions. Feelings of anger and frustration are often a particular challenge for the adult with ADHD.
Those adults who manifest symptoms in this category may:
• behave inappropriately in social situations
• be addicted or have addictive tendencies
• rush into situations without giving any thought to the consequences
• often have poor self-control
• make comments, even when rude or questionable
• interrupt or talk over someone else
• be moody and irritable
• be unable to handle criticism
• have explosive bouts of anger which are quickly forgotten
• have low self-esteem
• lack motivation
• be unable to deal with frustration
• have a sense of underachievement
Hyperactivity in adults may express itself in ways similar to its appearance in children. The adult may be in perpetual motion, overly energetic and constantly on the move. However, as mentioned above, the symptoms are usually more subtle in adults. People who exhibit symptoms of hyperactivity may:
• feel inwardly restless and agitated
• be risk takers
• bore easily
• fidget constantly
• have a need for excitement
• talk far too much
Symptoms of hyperactivity occur far less in adults than they do in children. It is important to note, however, that adults who have one or more symptoms of impulsivity or distractibility may still have ADHD, even if they are not hyperactive. Unlike its role in childhood ADHD, where it appears to be a frequent indicator, it is not necessary to be hyperactive to suffer from adult ADHD.