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Our eldest son, Joshua turned nine years old and he wanted to celebrate with a cowboy party! I was quite thrilled with this idea because it's such a fun theme that even our youngest daughter could enjoy because she is a huge fan of the cowboy TV show, Sherrif Calley. It's also a great idea to have a cowboy party before Joshua outgrows playing cowboys and crooks! I can hardly believe that my son is nine already!
I didn't have any party budget to speak of this party was mostly DIY. My children are not fussed about elaborate parties because all they really want is a chance to get spoiled and to spend an afternoon having a huge play date with all their friends!
I love getting them involved in the party prep beforehand as this is such a bonding time for our family and it makes the birthday child feel special to see everyone pitching in.
My ah-ha moment
The highlight of my day was the morning before our guests arrived. I had one of my "mom moments" looking around the party room at how each one of the four of us were busy with our own tasks getting everything ready. I am so proud of my family. Even little Alexandra was busy at the food table folding the cutlery in napkins and filling chip bowls. Even my husband admitted afterwards that it was fun with everyone being involved and helping out to create this special day of celebration for Joshua!
Cowboy Party Invitations
I found a nice little cowboy invitation here that I edited in Microsoft Word. I printed them all on my home printer and then pasted it on red card stock to give it a pop of colour. Lastly, I had a meter of twine in my craft supply which I used to tie around the scroll. It came out great and Josh enjoyed handing them out to his friends at school.
Cowboy Food
I'm not a fan of serving loads of sugary snacks, not even at birthday parties so we got a bit creative and brainstormed ideas for cowboy food.
The party started at midday so a lunch table made sense. We served the cowboys and cowgirls some good old fashioned slightly curried baked beans (my husband makes this really well), fried sausages and mini pancakes in the aluminium trays I use for baking and freezing. This actually worked out perfectly as serving dishes because they were disposable and because cowboys ate out of aluminium plates anyway!
I also made some other snacks (a little bit of sugar didn't hurt) like bowls of chips, donuts (Joshua's favorite treat) and various colours of jelly that I had set inside orange peels! This was a huge hit with the kids!
Party Decor
We hung bunches of blown up blue balloons (Joshua's favorite color) all around our party room and some red bunting. The kids thought my DIY cactus centerpiece was hilarious! You kept hearing "Is that a PICKLE??" in disbelief! This was another project that we all helped with on the evening before the party. It doesn't really look like the ones on Pinterest but we all enjoyed making it!
Party Favors
To cut down on cost and sugar, I didn't do any party packs this time. Instead I bought a selection of rifles and pistols for the party for them to play with as my kids don't really have any guns. I also had a selection of various adhesive mustaches that each had their own title like "The Casanova", "The Rogue", "The Scoundrel", etc. so the kids had fun choosing their own.
I also asked the guests to bring any hats or rifles they had at home and made sure they each got a gold or silver sheriff's badge.
Alexandra had the cutest set of pink pistols and a pink sheriff's badge. She kept telling me to put my hands up and then shooting me anyway. I'd have to faint to the ground erry'time!
Cowboys & Crooks
I worried about the entertainment for the party because I had planned a game of "Snakes in my Boots" but had trouble finding any bags of rubber snakes which was very strange as I usually see them everywhere. Go figure!
Fortunately the kids were not fussed, Joshua organized a game of cowboys and crooks which pretty much lasted for the whole afternoon. I love the fact that at this age they pretty much entertain themselves! Alexandra had two of her classmates there and the three girls did what little girls do. They pushed around a wagon filled with teddies and books and everytime I saw them they were covered in glitter.
The boys ran around playing cowboys and crooks, played basketball and even kicked around a soccer ball. We are very blessed to live in THE most amazing complex (all our visitors have said it looks like a holiday resort – not bragging!) so they had free reign and plenty of space to run around.
All in all, an amazing day was had by all as we celebrating big in true cowboy style. Yeehaa!
Photos: Eloise Petersen – THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone for the amazing gifts and for spending the day with us!


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I wrote about photo website BigHugeLabs in my weekly computer column but I decided to archive that section of the article here.
I thought I'd share an interesting photo website with you. It's called BigHugeLabs and offers myriads of different photo-related services. These include turning photos into a number of different things including a magazine cover, a motivational poster, a pop art poster, a mosaic, a jigsaw puzzle, an ID card, or any one of a number of other options.
You can upload photos directly from your computer or from the photo sharing site Flickr, and you can have many hours of fun creating your masterpieces.
BigHugeLabs offers you the opportunity of having these printed and posted to you, but this is of fairly limited appeal to us South African consumers, given the cost of international postage.
Where it scores, however, is that it allows you to download the file of the project that you create. If you use the free service, you can only download low-res files, suitable for putting on the web or e-mailing but, if you pay, you can download high-resolution files which would be entirely suitable for printing at a local photo lab.
There are a number of payment options ranging from $100 for your lifetime to $25 for a year, $10 for a month, or $5 for a week. Even if you don't pay however, I still feel that you can have plenty of creative fun at the BigHugeLabs website.


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Studio Premium Apartments are ideal for couples travelling together. Fully furnished with essential amenities, this will be your home away from home.
These apartments are located along River Valley Road, in the Robertson Quay area which is a upscale residential neighbourhood popular with expatriates. With Fort Canning MRT Station just a short 5 minutes' walk away, this location is ideal for travelers looking for a quiet home without compromising on accessibility.
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Kindly note that the sample photos are taken in some of our actual apartments. The actual apartment allocated may differ from the photos, depending on availability.


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On July 28, 2015 Google is denying access to all unverified Google+ pages. Here's a summary straight from Google:
"Dear photographers and agencies,
In the past few months, you may have seen some changes in the look of Google+ pages that have been associated with Google My Business (GMB) accounts. These changes, including how we treat business pages without owners, are part of Google's ongoing effort to simplify people's experience with our tools. We are constantly working to provide only valuable and rich content to our users.
On July 28th, Google will begin shutting down those GMB–associated Google+ pages that have not been associated with user accounts and are also not verified. You may find that some of your Business View tours also sit on such pages, but note that after their removal of unverified Google+ pages, the Business View tours will still remain available on Google Maps and Google Search."
Here's a quick snapshot of small changes Google has recently been making:
- Google Maps no longer links directly to Google+ pages
- Local search ahs been removed from Google+
- Any unverified Google+ pages do not have a link under the search result
There is a suspicion in the SEO community that there will no longer be a separate business page to manage. Instead, the Google+ pages will morph into Google Maps and the Knowledge graph. It looks like they are not deleting any business virtual tours which are converting to Google Maps and Knowledge Graph. This may make it easier and possible to edit directly in Google versus a separate page so customers never actually leave Google to find information on your business. This also may clear up the issue of duplicates. A possible downside could be that there is no more access to incorrect NAP (name, address, phone number) data. It won't be as transparent anymore if Google has multiple old addresses and business names. It looks like this is a complete deep clean out to separate Google+ from Google Local once and for all.
Note: Any hospitality, food, or entertainment industries have a google testing program to book right on google, called the local finder. It is basically a better version of the old carousel results. The difference between Google Maps and Google Local Finder is that you get 20 results on the map and the search bar brings you back to the main Google page. There is still a ton of kinks that Google is working out, even as basic as general contact info in the results. Once you click on a result, you can see the knowledge graph and information so you don't actually have to click on the Google+ page for more detail. This could be the last step to separate local from Plus.


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Asian demand for light crude oil grades and record US gas exports to Mexico are in the sights of S&P Global Platts editors this week. Plus, European gas price trends and the prospects for German power plant fuel switching.
1. Asian crude buying helps widen spread between light and heavy grades
What's happening? Asia was quick to respond to the growing uncertainty over Arab Light and Arab Extra Light crude supplies following the September 14 attacks on core Saudi oil facilities, with Southeast Asian refiners among the first group of buyers to secure alternative light oil cargoes from the spot market. The apparent shortage in supply of light Saudi crude to Asian refiners has boosted demand for distillate-rich grades in the global spot market. As a result, the outright price spread between Murban crude and Iraq's heavy sour Basrah Heavy staged a sharp rebound this week, settling at $4.60/b Friday, Platts data showed, having touched a record low of $2.35/b on August 19.
What's next? The rise in Asian buying activity potentially sets the tone for light/heavy sour crude price spreads to widen in the short run – how long exactly depends on how fast Aramco can fully restore production from the damage. In addition, the spread between the official selling price of Arab Extra Light and Arab Heavy could widen in the coming months if Chinese end-users continue to face a shortage of lighter-end Saudi term crude supply, according to multiple refinery and trade sources surveyed by Platts.
2. US exports record gas volumes to Mexico as pipeline availability rises
What's happening? US natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico climbed to a record high last week propelled by the recent addition of new transmission capacity on the 2.6 Bcf/d Sur de Texas-Tuxpan marine pipeline. However, the record 6 Bcf/d export figure came not from an increase in exports on Sur de Texas, but rather from a recovery in transmission volumes on other southbound pipelines. The recent growth in US export volumes to Mexico has bolstered South Texas gas prices and could be a contributing factor behind the recent rise in cash prices at the US benchmark Henry Hub. In the week since the start of commercial service on the pipeline, spot market prices were up as much as 20 cents/MMBtu compared to prior 30-day averages.
What's next? With recent maintenance- and commissioning-related declines on the NET Mexico and Nueva Era pipelines coming to an end, US exports to Mexico could remain around 5.8 Bcf/d to 6 Bcf/d or potentially move even higher in the days and weeks ahead. As export volumes continue to grow, gas prices in South Texas and at the Henry Hub could be expected to remain around current levels or possibly gain additional momentum.
3. Full stocks, LNG outlook weigh on European gas curve
What's happening? European prompt gas prices remain at historically low levels of around just Eur10/MWh given a well-supplied market, with storage facilities filled to almost 100% capacity and LNG expected to come to Europe in ever bigger quantities through the fourth quarter.
What's next? Winter 19 prices are also trending downward – though they are still trading at a healthy premium to prompt prices – and are now at parity with prices for Summer 20. A mild start to winter in Europe, forecast last week by The Weather Company, could see the contract move closer to the prompt and bring down Summer 20 with it if storages remain well stocked.
4. German lignite, coal plant profitability poised to recover this winter
What's happening? Cheap gas and rising CO2 prices have pushed German coal- and lignite-fired power generation down the merit order this summer. Year to date coal/lignite generation is down 26%, while that for gas-fired generation is up 67%. Combined conventional generation, meanwhile, is down 13% on year as wind and solar continue to grow.
What's next? The thermal merit order is due to switch into the fourth quarter of 2019 and Q1 2020, with German lignite plant firmly back in the money, and hard coal plant increasingly so as the quarter matures. Gas is not as cheap on the curve as the market prices in a breakdown in Russia-Ukraine gas contract talks, as well as winter heating demand.
Reporting by Philip Vahn, J. Robinson, Stuart Elliott and Henry Edwardes-Evans


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When it comes to the best WhatsApp mod, there is no better app other than GBWhatsapp. To be very honest, this app is amazing and it is getting better day by day.
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When last we left the valiant Paladins of Netflix's Voltron Legendary Defender, they had won a decisive victory but at great personal cost. (You can get caught up on the show's Season 2 finale here since I'll be avoiding spoilers.) Now, the first trailer for Season 3 of the excellent animated series shows how the team is planning to pick up the pieces and reassemble the team, which they must do in short order if they have any hope to form the mighty Voltron.
Season 3 has been confirmed as a 7-episode run that will premiere August 4th, but fans won't have long to wait for the follow-up: Season 4 will hit Netflix this October. And for more animation news out of this weekend's Comic-Con, be sure to keep track of this regularly updated round-up here!
Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't caught up with Netflix's Voltron Legendary Defender yet, because here's the Season 3 trailer!
The success of Zarkon's defeat comes at a price: Shiro has vanished. With the ascension of the mysterious Prince Lotor and without a pilot for the black lion, the team must somehow find the strength to keep fighting. But how can they defend the universe without Voltron? Find out when all-new episodes of DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender come to Netflix, August 4.
Attendees to the Voltron panel were rewarded with a screening of the Season 3 premiere, "Changing of the Guard." Executive producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery were joined by cast members Bex Taylor-Klaus and Tyler Labine, Pidge and Hunk respectively. A.J. LoCascio (Dawn of the Croods) joins the cast as Lotor, the villainous prince.
Here's a look at what the cast and crew had to say:
"There's loss on both sides. The Galra are dealing with reconstructing their team, and so is Voltron." – @JDS_247
— Voltron (@Voltron) July 20, 2017
"Pidge has more avenues to explore this season, which I'm excited about." – @IBexWeBex #Voltron
— Voltron (@Voltron) July 20, 2017
"Hunk in this episode showed his prowess as a fighter." – @JDS_247 #Voltron
— Voltron (@Voltron) July 20, 2017
"Zarkon is, for all intents and purposes, an evil dude. But Lotor has a completely different approach than Zarkon." – @JDS_247 #Voltron
— Voltron (@Voltron) July 20, 2017
All panel attendees are receiving an SDCC-exclusive poster & a copy of "The Rise of Voltron," a new chapter book from @simonschuster! pic.twitter.com/Wp9RMRyW6d
— Voltron (@Voltron) July 20, 2017


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The Holocaust was not about 4 million or 5 million people dead. It was the fact that such large millions were brutally exterminated, just because they did not satisfy weird ideas of cultural supremacy.
The Holocaust was not about gas chambers or concentration camps. It was about whole families torn apart for no fault of their own. Fathers from daughters, mothers from sons, brothers from sisters, entire families just shattered. Babies wrenched from their mothers arms, old men considered unfit and thrown from balconies, young women and men worked to death in sub human conditions.
An entire generation destroyed to satisfy the whims of a megalomaniac. The Holocaust was not about Jews or Gypsies or Poles or Communists. It was the fact, that human beings were reduced to a state, where they had to live like animals, fighting for survival. The Holocaust is the single biggest disgrace in human history. And no amount of denials or fabricated evidence can erase this biggest stain on our conscience.
And one of the best novels to deal with this is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young girl published in 1952 ( the Dutch version came in 1947 ). Anne Frank was like any normal girl, she loved playing around, had friends, dreamed of a Prince Charming . Just like any normal girl of those times, but she was a Jew , and that was a big crime in Nazi Germany . Her father Otto Frank , had long ago migrated from Germany , to the more safer climate of Holland in 1934 , when anti Semitic demonstrations broke out there. He started his own business in Amsterdam , and the family led a comparatively happy and peaceful life there. Anne and her sister Margot , were good students at school also.
Till the Nazi army, attacked Holland in 1940. Holland was one of the few places in Europe , which had a more liberal climate, and that was anathema to Hitler . The ill equipped Dutch army was no match for the professional Nazi army, and soon the country came under the Nazi jackboots. And like in most other countries under Nazi rule, they started to come out with blatantly discriminatory rules. The mandatory wearing of the yellow badge , segregating the Jews into ghettoes, decreeing that they could attend only Jewish schools.
The first part of the diary covers the period between June,1942 and December, 1942 . Most of the early entries center around her life, her family, her school, her dates, much like a typical school girl of 13 years. But she also lists some of the more restrictive rules that the Nazis placed on them. For eg the compulsory wearing of the yellow star and her relocating to a Jewish school. During July, 1942, her elder sister Margot was ordered by the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, basically a Nazi front organization in Amsterdam , which dealt with forcible deportation of the Jews . This is what makes the family go into hiding from the Nazis. They hid an annexe in their office building, in fact walking all the way, as Jews were forbidden to use public transport.
And they hid there for most of the time, till they were captured. This is the most critical part of the diary. Basically it covers 2 periods Dec,1943 to April,1944 and from April 17,1944 to August 1,1944 when she and her family were betrayed and arrested by the Gestapo . Most of the diary is addressed to her fictional friend, Kitty, and begins with the line "My Dear Kitty". This is where she describes about how it is to live under constant fear, her feelings, her beliefs, her ambitions, and those topics she felt could not be discussed with any one. She also writes of God, and human nature. And her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.
As a book, Anne Frank's Diary , hits you in full force. How would you feel living under a constant fear, that one fine day, your entire life could be gone? Today we lead a comfortable life, and often get irritated over minor things. But what of this young girl, who finds her dream breaking away? Who dies every day to live another day? Anne Frank's diary is at once depressing and yet uplifting. You feel depressed by the fact, that such a lovely young girl, finds her life being shattered. Yet at the same time you are inspired by her courage to face life as it comes.
She does not go into self pity, she faces death with a tremendous sense of equanimity. The horrors of facism when seen through the eyes of a young girl, hit you brutally in the face. You keep asking yourself why.
What crime did this girl commit, that her life was cut short so brutally. What crime was commited by so many families like hers, that they had to live with the trauma for their entire life? What made humans so inhuman to another human, that they would willingly destroy entire families? Why was such a megalomaniac man, allowed to get away with his crimes?
Yes the Allies won the war, and Hitler himself commited suicide, but at the cost of millions of lives. Millions of innocent lives snuffed out, families destroyed, cities reduced to rubble.There is a scene from the movie, The Pianist . An old Jewish woman, is carrying some meager food. A hungry Jewish man, assaults her, and as the food falls down, he frantically, laps it up, trying to stuff as much.
The old woman sobs as her meager rations are also lost. That is what the Holocaust did, reducing human beings to animals fighting for survival. And tragically we have not learnt any lesson from this. Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Kashmir the names change but the story remains the same. Of a brute majority, supressing the minority, just because they happen to be of a different stock. We don't understand the fact that bigotry and racial hatred, ultimately destroy us. The whole of Germany had to face a heavy price, for Hitler's Aryan supremacy. In that sense Anne Frank's Diary is a novel, that needs to be read, by every human being, to understand the futility of fascism.


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His name was Ralph Baer. He created the Odyssey, released in 1972. He actually created one called "The Box" in the late 1960s, which was essentially the same machine as the Odyssey, but it wasn't widely released until he licensed it out to Magnavox in 1972 and the name was changed.
The Odyssey 2 came out in the late '70s, and was a competitor to Atari for awhile.
One of my friends in the '70s had an Odyssey 2, and we played it all the time, especially before my parents bought me an Atari.


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Ministry of Textile and Jute Job Circular & Result 2019
Ministry of Textiles and Jute job circular 2019. Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation Job Circular 2019. Bangladesh Jute Research Institute Job Circular 2019. BJMC Exam Result 2019. BJMC Exam Date 2019. Jute Ministry Job Circular 2019. Textile Ministry Job Circular 2019. Employee will be recruited for Head Office & Zonal Office. More than 65 post vacant for recruitment. Bangladeshi Citizens are requested to apply by filled up following sample application. Textiles and Jute Ministry Job application last date September 16, 2019. Applicants have to submit their Jute Ministry Job Application within dead line.
Textile & Jute Ministry Job Requirements:
Applicants age not over 30 years as on 19/3/2019
Application have to made like sample application
Application fee Tk. 300/=
4 Years honors will be consider as 3 years honors and Masters
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Time Keeper post 100
Office Assistant cum Computer Typist post 170
Examiner post 35
Office Assistant post 40
Fireman post 30
Security Guard post 175
BJMC Exam & Result:
Eligible applicants will get admit card by mail. To get admit card, they to provide envelop & stamp with application. Written test and VIVA exam will be held for selection purpose. Jute and Textile exam date & routine will publish later. Download Jute and Textile Application form online.
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SUNRISE, Fla. — New York Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson faces a slew of charges in Florida, including threatening a police officer's family and saying he would rape the officer's wife.
A Sunrise police report shows the 24-year-old Anderson was stopped early Friday in a sport utility vehicle after it ran two red lights and was swerving while travelling about 105 mph (170 kph) in a 45 mph zone.
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Jets WR Anderson arrested in Florida on slew of charges Back to video
After he was stopped, police say he made the threats and then boasted about how much money he has. Jail records show Anderson faces nine charges, including threatening harm to a public servant, resisting arrest and traffic violations.
The records don't list an attorney for Anderson.
"This is a pending legal matter and we will have no further comments," the Jets said in a statement.
The NFL is also aware of the situation and league spokesman Brian McCarthy said "we will be looking into this matter."
This is the latest legal trouble for Anderson, a 2011 graduate of South Plantation High School. He was arrested in May and charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice after sparring with officials who asked him to leave a Miami music festival. Anderson's next scheduled court date for that incident is on March 19.


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William Newsom III, a former California judge and environmental advocate and the father of California's governor-elect, Gavin Newsom, died on Wednesday at his home in San Francisco. He was 84.
His death, less than a month before his son is scheduled to be sworn in as California's 40th governor, was announced by Nathan Click, a spokesman for Gavin Newsom, who did not specify the cause.
Judge Newsom was appointed to the Placer County Superior Court in 1975, and to the State Court of Appeals in 1978, by Gov. Jerry Brown, who was serving the first of his four terms at the time. (Governor Brown originally served from 1975 to 1983. He was elected again in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.)
Judge Newsom retired in 1995.
A staunch advocate of environmental protection, Judge Newsom served on the boards of the Sierra Club Foundation and the Environmental Defense Fund. Carl Pope, a former executive director of the Sierra Club, said Judge Newsom had occasionally been restricted in his environmental advocacy while serving as a judge.
During his run for governor, Gavin Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco, spoke of his memories of camping and backpacking along California's rivers with his father. He also said his father had helped shape his views on drug policy and racial justice. When Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, was sworn in as mayor in 2004, his father administered the oath of office.
On the court of appeals, Judge Newsom ruled on a diverse array of cases, including the right of privacy for H.I.V.-positive health care patients and the liability of the San Francisco 49ers over a player's crippling knee injury. In one prominent case, he ruled that the Bohemian Club, a prestigious men's club that counted Ronald Reagan as a member, could not enforce a ban on hiring women.
Judge Newsom was a close friend of the oil magnate Gordon Getty and helped manage his finances. During Gavin Newsom's campaign, critics painted him as a son of wealth and privilege because of his connections to the Getty family.
In addition to his son, Judge Newsom is survived by a daughter, Hilary Newsom Callan. His marriage to Tessa Menzies ended in divorce.


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What a great way to end a day of polling booths and large white forms. A meal with friends, old and new, a few drinks topped off by an absolutely wonderful movie filled with fantastic music.
I don't think I was alone singing along with each song played. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, uplifting and incredibly sad.
Thank you to everyone who assisted on the night, and a special thank you to Annette and Paul Fisher who were paramount in the success of the evening. Catering for 40 odd people is never easy, and our new lessee Amidia was very lucky to have their guidance and expertise.
A Sad Farewell to a Lovely Lady
It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to one of our members. Trudy James passed away suddenly late Friday evening leaving behind her husband Larrie James, and their three children, Brant, Brooke and Kelly.
Many of you met Trudy as she attended most of our movie nights. She was a bright and bubbly petite lady. Trudy was a great friend to me and she will be sadly missed by so many in our local community.
She was an active member of the Lions Club, running the chip or steak van, doing the Chocolate Wheel at the Pub or performing any other duties they allocated to her. She volunteered at the library and sold the raffle tickets at the Club on Friday nights.
Trudy only lived in town for just over two and half years, but she certainly made an impact.
May you Rest in Peace Trudy.


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2000 Guineas Preview – Saturday 4th May
Last updated: May 2, 2019 by Leon Marshal
The new flat season hits top gear this weekend with the Guineas Festival at Newmarket. Saturday's feature race is the £500,000 Group 1 2000 Guineas over a mile. This race has been won by many famous in turf history including Nijinsky (1970), Brigadier Gerard (1971), Dancing Brave (1986) and Frankel (2011). Leading Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien has dominated the race in recent times with a record nine victories including 12 months' ago with Saxon Warrior.
O'Brien duo top 2000 Guineas market
The withdrawal of top two-year-old and ante-post favourite Too Darn Hot has left the race looking wide open this year. Aidan O'Brien will be doubly represented with Magna Grecia and Ten Sovereigns.
Magna Grecia was beaten a neck by Persian King here in the Autumn Stakes before scraping home by a head in the Futurity Trophy at Doncaster. In both races he gave the impression that he would be more effective over further than a mile this season.
The debate with the unbeaten Ten Sovereigns is whether he will stay a mile. The son of No Nay Never won all three starts as a two-year-old, culminating in a half a length victory over Jash in the six furlong Middle Park Stakes. It is interesting that his future entries include the five furlong King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The Craven Stakes form is represented by Skardu, a neck winner over Momkin last month. The form of that race is difficult to assess but it did not look like a particularly strong renewal. Momkin had been beaten at odds-on at Ffos Las last season and started at 28-1 in the Craven. Set Piece and Royal Marine, third and fourth in that race, need to find improvement to feature here. Set Piece briefly looked threatening before his effort petered out but he looks a nice colt in the making.
Madhmoon was also beaten at odds-on last time out when second to Never No More at Leopardstown. Kevin Prendergast's colt ran as though the step back up to a mile on better ground would be in his favour.
Dettori switches to Advertise at Newmarket
Frankie Dettori had hoped to be riding Too Darn Hot but will now partner Advertise, beaten nearly three lengths by that horse in the Dewhurst Stakes. Martyn Meade's son of Showcasing was a tough and consistent juvenile. His only other defeat came against Calyx in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The Greenham Stakes winner Mohaather is another key absentee due to injury. The form of the Newbury race is represented by runner-up Great Scot and third-placed Urban Icon. Great Scot took a long time to hit top gear that day while Urban Icon travelled into the race smoothly before tiring in the closing stages. Richard Hannon has been particularly keen on the prospects of Urban Icon and he could be a lively outsider.
Godolphin have supplemented narrow Deauville winner Al Hilalee, trained by Charlie Appleby. The bare form does not look good enough but this may not be a vintage year. Shine So Bright impressed when making all to win the European Free Handicap at Newmarket over seven furlongs. He ran quite freely but was going away from his rivals in the closing stages.
John Gosden may have withdrawn Too Darn Hot and Calyx but is still represented by Kick On and Azano. Kick On just held Walkinthesand in the Listed Feilden Stakes but this looks a much tougher contest. Azano was never in contention when beaten nearly six lengths by Shine So Bright and looks up against it.
Betting Tips
Ten Sovereigns @5-1 Bet365
Urban Icon @25-1
Shine So Bright @33-1
Each-way 1/5 odds, 1,2,3,4
The 2000 Guineas is due off at 3.35 at Newmarket on Saturday 4th May and will be televised live on ITV.


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Australia's first action of the tournament came against Fiji at the Sapporo Dome on Saturday and they eventually came out on top 39-21. For an hour Fiji had threatened a surprise win but the Wallabies finished the stronger to come back from 14-12 down at half time and 21-12 in arrears early in the second half. Australia scored 4 of their 6 tries in the final 24 minutes of the match to secure a bonus point win and leave Fiji empty handed. Latu scored 2 of the Wallabies tries with Hooper, Hodge, Kerevi and Koroibete also crossing.
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Listener response?
I just sent in a typically miscellaneous show in which I managed to call Claudio Monteverdi Giueseppe Monteverdi instead, and mistranslated a French album title. Oh well.
But I do wonder, assuming anyone out there is listening at all, what sort of listener response there might be to the largely jazz/classical music mix I've been putting together. That mix reflects my own tastes as a listener—as does the lesser admixture of world music, which would be larger if I were more knowledgeable—but it also reflects the contents of most of the conversations I've had with jazz musicians in the last few years. Most often, when I ask someone what they're listening to—I won't name names, but you'd know them if I did—I'm more likely to hear about classical music than jazz. Any jazz or just taintradio listeners having the same experience, or at least the same predilections?
In the course of my clarinet show, Updoc #5, I mentioned getting seriously into classical music in response to reading Robert Stone's novel A Hall of Mirrors back when it came out and I was 21 years old: I thought that if anyone as hip as Stone was into Mozart to the degree he was, there must be something to it, so I set out from the nearer shores of Bartok and Stravinsky to try to understand the whole tradition, even if where I lived had more to do with Trane and other jazz giants of that time.
My yen for classical music was redoubled when, working as a jazz critic in the late seventies, I had a pressing need to listen to music of which I was not professionally required to come up with an opinion, and even occasionally a judgment—although I wrote mostly as an enthusiast, and seldom even reviewed albums I disliked, and only then when the musicians were financially secure enough not to be adversely affected, if that might be possible. These days I listen to at least as much classical music as jazz, and for reasons of pure pleasure, though as it happens, listening to the jazz programming on taintradio, which has been pretty terrific, has got me swinging back the other way.
So anyway: I'd be grateful for listener response to what I've been putting on the e-air, and shucks, I'll be sad if no one writes.
Best regards::::::::::Rafi Zabor
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Just my 2 cents on this, from what I've been reading classical has been going through quite a resurgence in popularity in the last few years and one of the most popular stations – nationally and internationally – on the air and on the web, is WCPE out of Wake Forest NC, a classical station. The reasons are fairly obvious, the music is timeless, it transcends all fads and trends and it is the pinnacle of man and instrument at their creative zenith, it just doesn't get any better than that. I appreciate hearing your spin on the classical front as do many others, and don't worry – we'll be hearing from them very soon, great topic!
Well, there are all kinds of pinnacles. My favorite segué was the first one on my first show, straight from 15 minutes of Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter and Roy McCurdy burning their way through 52nd Street Theme into Furtwangler's wartime recording of Beethoven's Coriolan Overture with the Berlin Philharmonic. Seemed perfectly suitable to me, genius being genius wherever it shows up.
I'd also be interested to hear from listeners how much or little setup of classical pieces they might want or need. I've varied it, taken some things for granted and others not. I don't want to run a music-appreciation class but don't want to leave listeners in the dark either, if the music is completely unfamiliar.
It depends on the music and how much time I've got. Recently I did what was basically a Ravel/Debussy-in-relation-to-Miles/Gil/Bill show, and said little because I wanted to get a lot of music in. It worked, I think, because the relationship is so self-evident that the music can say it all; though on the other hand I could have gotten into the revival and importation of modal harmony, particular chord voicings, anecdotal material, etc.
I'll take pointers from listeners if they have any.
One thing your "mix" did was possibly influence MY last show which features a considerable about of classical keyboard performances, particularly several pieces based on the minuet form that Ravel wrote for the piano and some Scarlatti and Bach Keyboard Sonatas (but on piano and not harpsichord which you will NEVER, along with Diana Krall and Jane Monheit, hear on "Cruisin' With Abdul."


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16 tips for Sonos users
Learn how to get the most out of your wireless speakers
New to Sonos? Congrats on a wise purchase. Had it for a while? I'll bet there are a few useful features you haven't tried yet. Here are 16 tips that will help you enjoy your Sonos gear to the fullest. We'll start with user tips and then wrap things up with some system building ideas.
User tips
1. Get better sound with Trueplay
Do you use Sonos with an iOS® device? Great news: you can optimize the sound of your Sonos speakers.
The Sonos app's Trueplay feature uses the mic built into your device to measure how the sound reflects off walls and furnishings. It then adjusts the speaker's audio settings for the best sound in your room.
The portable Sonos Move has its own version of Trueplay built in. Auto Trueplay doesn't require a smartphone to measure sound reflections. The Move has built-in microphones that automatically monitor the room's acoustics and make constant adjustments to optimize the sound, based on what's playing and where the speaker is located.
2. Get into voice control
The Sonos control app is very user-friendly. But voice control makes Sonos even friendlier.
Select Sonos speakers come with both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice control built in. You can control all of your Sonos speakers from a single voice-controlled speaker like the Sonos One.
Once you have it all set up, you can say, "Alexa, play Tom Petty," or "Hey, Google, play Tom Petty." How cool is that? Of course, you can also use voice control to change the volume, skip tracks, pause, and so on.
3. Wake up and go to sleep with Sonos
Bedside alarm clocks are so last century. Use Sonos to wake up to your music of choice. Set it to gently wake you with a classical piece through the Sonos One speaker on your nightstand. Or wake up the whole house with something a little more energetic playing in every bedroom.
You can also use your bedroom speaker to help you fall asleep. Create a "sleep time" playlist of soothing music or nature sounds that will help you drift off. Program a sleep timer to turn the sound off after you've fallen asleep.
One more thing: You'll want to turn off the status lights on your bedroom speakers. In the Sonos app, go to Room Settings, then select your Bedroom and turn off the White Indicator Light.
4. Learn the Play/Pause button tricks
The play/pause button does a lot more than meets the eye. Playing just one speaker? Press once to pause. Press again to pick up where you left off.
If you're playing music in multiple rooms, press and hold to silence only that speaker. Press and hold to group an inactive speaker with the other active ones.
Press twice or swipe across the button (from left to right between the touch controls) to skip a track. Swipe from right to left to skip back to the previous track.
5. Make playlists from multiple music services
The Sonos app lets you search for songs across every music service linked to your account, as well as your personal digital collection.
Build playlists from multiple services and sources. Cue up one song from Spotify and then add another from an album stored on your computer, and another that you bought from iTunes®.
6. Play tunes to your Sonos system directly from Spotify
If you're a Spotify® Premium subscriber, you can play tunes through Sonos gear directly from the Spotify app. Pull up your playlists, saved albums, and more. Then select which Sonos speakers you want to play your music through — they'll show up under "available devices" right in the Spotify app.
7. Stream your vinyl
Want to spin some records and hear them all over your house? Connect your turntable (with phono preamp) to the AUX input on a Sonos Five speaker, Sonos Port, or Sonos Amp. Any of these devices will digitize the analog signal and send it to any Sonos product.
The AUX input on the Sonos Five is a stereo mini jack. You'll probably need an RCA-to-mini adapter to connect your turntable.
8. Stream TV sound throughout your home
Ever crank up your TV sound so you can hear the game's play-by-play in the kitchen while you're getting snacks?
Sonos sound bars solve that problem by letting you stream TV sound to other Sonos gear. Keep up with every play on your Sonos One speaker in the kitchen, instead of blasting the volume in your TV room.
9. Give your wireless performance a Boost
Does your Wi-Fi network have limited range? Does it get bogged down when multiple wireless devices compete for the available bandwidth? Then you may need the Sonos Boost. It creates a discrete wireless network that improves the wireless range and performance of your Sonos players.
System-building tips
10. Pair two speakers for stereo sound
Have a single Sonos speaker? Consider adding a second one in the same room.
Pair two Sonos Five, or Sonos One or Sonos One SL speakers. The speakers will automatically separate the right and left channels, so you hear true stereo sound.
11. Add a Sonos Sub to pump up the bass
Like your bass extra bold? Add a Sonos Sub.
Team this sleek powered subwoofer with a Sonos One, Sonos One SL, Sonos Five, Sonos sound bar or a system that features a Port music player.
12. Listen outside
Sonos offers two ways to enjoy sound outdoors. The first is with their portable Sonos Move speaker. As long as the Move is within range of your home's Wi-Fi, you can set it up as another speaker to send music to. If the Move is out of range, you can still stream music to it from your smartphone via Bluetooth.
You can also use a Sonos Amp to power a pair of most any stereo speakers, including those designed to live outdoors. Sonos by Sonance Architectural outdoor speakers are specifically optimized for the Sonos Amp, but any outdoor speakers will work.
13. Play Sonos through your ceiling or in-wall speakers
Here's another great use for the Amp. Use it to power in-ceiling or in-wall speakers.
Maybe you bought a home that has ceiling speakers, but no music system to feed them. You'll need a Sonos Amp for each set of speakers. Or you could use one or more Sonos Port players and a multi-channel amplifier. Learn how by reading our article on how to use Sonos with ceiling speakers and outdoor speakers.
14. Upgrade your old stereo system
Happy with your existing stereo, but wish it could join your Sonos system? That's what the Sonos Port is for. Plug it into an aux input, and you'll breathe new life into your old stereo receiver.
15. Improve your TV sound
Looking for a speaker that does music and TV sound equally well? Take a look at the Sonos soundbars.
16. Surround sound, the Sonos way
A Sonos sound bar can reproduce the left, right, and center channels of a surround soundtrack.
Add two Sonos One, Sonos One SL, or Sonos Five speakers for the rear surround channels. (You could also use a Sonos Amp with a set of third-party surround speakers.)
The wireless Sonos SUB, gives you the final ingredient of a powerful, space-saving 5.1-channel surround sound system.
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Reader comments (5 responses)
Please share your thoughts below.
NESTOR PEREA from Chicago
Posted on 3/30/2020
Can a Playbar be used as rear left/right surround speakers? I have a Playbar collecting dust and am wondering if this would enhance or detract from the existing TV Playbar.
Jeremy Ortega from Chantilly
Posted on 10/19/2019
Sonos also has an outdoor speaker now so you'll want to get rid of the comment in #12 about not having an outdoor speaker!
Mike Dembski from washington
Posted on 4/11/2019
Now you can also play Amazon and Apple directly thru Sonos as well as many other options. You can also use AirPlay to play music from your computer to Sonos if you have any of the newer speakers that also have Alexa built in. Spotify is far from the only choice anymore. You also create a playlist of music from different sources. The Sonos Amp also has a preamp output for you own subwoofer.
Douglas C Borchard from Cambridge
Posted on 5/31/2018
I think the last point about surround sound requiring a wired connection to a router is out of date. I have a sonos surround setup without a wired connection, and it works perfectly.
Jim Tomarchio from Hopewell, NJ
Posted on 7/20/2017
Great information! I have Sonos speakers in every room of my home to create an easy to set up whole house music system. Several of the tips you gave I had never heard of. I just tried the mute button trick, and it really works! To be able to quickly mute just a single speaker from the entire group is great. Especially when everyone else in the house is listening to music on the system! When I get a phone call and I need to be able to hear and speak to the other person on the line, it is now easy for me to just mute the speaker in the room I am in, versus trying to shut down all the speakers, or finding a quiet place in the house, which is no small task when you have speakers in every room! Thanks for the tips!!


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Prisma is very cool, but it's still a bit limited on its own. What if need to manipulate the data before sending it to the database, like checking for authentication, or we need to do something with a library specific to Node.js?
In this 2-part series, we're going to be linking a basic Prisma API to a Node.js server and going over some techniques for accessing our generated queries and resolvers and have more freedom and control over our requests. If you're not interested in understanding how the setup works, you can copy the boilerplate from this repo.
Previously we covered how to create a basic Prisma API using Postgres and Heroku. I will be assuming that you already have Docker and a basic Prisma container setup with your database of choice.
- graphql-yoga to allow us to setup a Node.js GraphQL server.
- prisma-bindings will give us access to all the goodies Prisma has in store for us.
- graphql-cli gives us some utilities for compiling our Prisma resources into something that prisma-bindings can use.
- nodemon, if you don't have it installed already, for reloading our server on save.
To keep things inclusive I will be using Prepros for my compiling, but if you would like something a bit cleaner I recommend using Babel.
$ npm install graphql-yoga prisma-bindings graphql-cli
$ npm install nodemon -g
File Structure
By the end our file structure should look something like the following. Since I'm using Propros instead of Babel there will be some
dist files that I'll be referencing whenever I import or run anything.
* prisma 📂
* generated.graphql
* datamodel.graphql
* docker-compose.yml
* prisma.yml
* src 📂
* index-dist.js
* index.js
* prisma-dist.js
* prisma.js
* .graphqlconfig
* package.json
* schema.graphql
Server Setup
Let's start with setting up our server in Node.js.
import { GraphQLServer, PubSub } from 'graphql-yoga'
const server = new GraphQLServer({
typeDefs: './schema.graphql',
resolvers: {},
server.start(() => console.log('server running'))
"dependencies": {
"graphql-cli": "^3.0.14",
"prisma-binding": "2.1.1",
"graphql-yoga": "^1.16.7"
"name": "Prisma Example",
"version": "1.0.0",
"main": "index.js",
"devDependencies": {},
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"start": "nodemon --ext js,graphql src/index-dist.js"
Now it'll just complain because we don't have anything in our schema, so let's just add a
User type as a placeholder.
type User {
id: ID!
name: String!
Over at
localhost:4000 you should be able to get GraphQL playground started, meanwhile Node.js will be whining about not having any queries, since we haven't set any up yet, it can just be ignored for now.
Connecting to Prisma
To use Prisma we need a way for our Node server to access what Prisma generates for us. with
graphql-cli we can generate a new file that
prisma-bindings will be able to work with.
First we need to set up a configuration file that will tell the
graphql-cli where to put our generated schema and what endpoint we're using for our Prisma container. Which should either be your Docker IP Address or 4466.
"projects": {
"prisma": {
"schemaPath": "src/generated.graphql",
"extensions": {
"endpoints": {
"default": "YOUR_ENDPOINT"
Once we have our configuration setup we can use the
graphql-cli to compile our new schema. Let's make a script to use
get-schema on our prisma folder.
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"get-schema": "graphql get-schema -p prisma",
"start": "nodemon --ext js,graphql src/index-dist.js"
$ npm run get-schema
You should now have a new
generated.graphql file in your
prisma directory.
Now we can use
prisma-bindings to connect to our generated schema and our endpoint and give us a variable where we can access all of our queries and resolvers on.
import { Prisma } from 'prisma-binding'
const prisma = new Prisma({
typeDefs: 'src/generated/prisma.graphql',
endpoint: 'YOUR_ENDPOINT'
export default prisma
import { GraphQLServer } from 'graphql-yoga'
import prisma from './prisma-dist'
const server = new GraphQLServer({
typeDefs: './schema.graphql',
resolvers: {},
context: { prisma }
server.start(() => console.log('server running'))
Getting rid of errors
And if all has gone well the terminal should only be yelling at you
Error: Query root type must be provided. To get it to stop complaining we can just add an empty schema and resolvers that we pass to our server.
const Query = {}
const Mutation = {}
const Subscription = {}
module.exports = {
Let's just comment-out mutations and subscriptions until we're ready for them.
import { GraphQLServer } from 'graphql-yoga'
import prisma from './prisma-dist'
import { Query, Mutation, Subscription } from './resolvers'
const server = new GraphQLServer({
typeDefs: './schema.graphql',
resolvers: {
// Mutation,
// Subscription
context: { prisma }
server.start(() => console.log('server running'))
type Query {
users: [User!]!
# type Mutation {}
# type Subscription {}
type User {
id: ID!
name: String!
Closing Thoughts
This may seem like a lot of unnecessary boilerplate work when compared to how simple setting up a plain GraphQL server was, but I promise that in part 2 you'll understand how much Prisma will save you in creating any GraphQL backend service.


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Though not a member of the Green Party I knew you needed help and was an observer for 6 days or wards in The City of Milwaukee and the final day for Village of West Allis, Ward 9. Director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission ran a tight ship as some tabulators working for the commission were citizens with no experience. Others were poll workers. I watched 46 wards recounted for their election night results and 16 wards recounted or absentee ballots. As the City of Milwaukee had 3 early/absentee voting sites, all absentee ballots were totaled fo the first time at Central Counting on election night and their ballots bagged separately with separate precinct reports. The process for the City was to verify all the election day ballots first, which was completed Monday morning 12/5/25 at about 10:00am. We then spent the rest of that day and subsequent days completing the absentees, and the City was completed Wednesday, 12/7/16. From all the wards I observed, there were very few problems, the most egregious being not being able to find an original ballot that was reconstructed. As the voter had been given a ballot of the wrong ward at the clerks office, we are assuming the original was included in the material for the wrong ward. All these types of discrepancies are being reconciled, matching ballots to envelopes. I do not know how this reconciliation is going.For the Village of West Allis, all the tabulators were poll workers, and the poll workers were recounting the poll site they ran election day, not doing someone else's site. The County ran the retabulation differently than the City. For the City, once a ward was completed, it was taken by a city official to the ESS DS 850 machines, where 5 trained people ran the ballots and produced a report, and resealed them. For the County, once a ward was tabulated, the team followed the ballots to the machine where they watched the ballots being run, waited for the report and them resealed them. This process REALLY slowed down the process as teams were lined up waiting for their reports to be run. West Allis has the same number of wards as teams, so they jsut waited. But if there had been another municipality to count, it would have been delayed until all wards were run. This could have meant waiting up to two hours. Yesterday at lunch a Democratic observer reported to the Greens that the team she was watching did not seem to be taking their task seriously. For example, they said something like " We know we had 6 reconstructed ballots, so we don't need to look at them again and make sure information was correctly transferred" As only the Greens can verbally object, she reported this and I believe a Green went after lunch with her to make sure all ballots were reviewed. All in all, the County did really well from what I observed, I know others found problems.
Gail, Milwaukee County
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Ireland 1 (K Shimmins) Malaysia 4 (R Rahim 3, T Tajuddin)
With just a few days of acclimitisation time and a 30 degree swing in temperature, perhaps a slow start was to be predicted as the first three quarters of Ireland's maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Cup proved a tough outing.
A hat-trick from Razie Rahim and a tap-in from Tengku Tajuddin could have been augmented further but for a string of top saves from Jamie Carr and one off the line from Johnny Bell.
A semblance of Irish ability was shown in the final quarter – capped by Kirk Shimmins' wonderful hit – and limited the damage ahead of Sunday's date with Olympic gold medalists Argentina.
Craig Fulton's side did win a corner in the first 15 seconds with Shane O'Donoghue's drag charged down. Malaysia, with their trademark hard-running counter game, soon found their stride, using midfield turnovers to propel them forward.
Rahim was the first to cut loose, reading a spin in midfield to nick the ball and he raced forward 40-metres and got enough lift on his shot on the run to lift over the sliding Carr.
On nine minutes, Marhan Jalil wriggled out of some tackles and got the ball across. An unceremonious Irish push on the near post created plenty of scope for a stroke to be given – or a call for a Malaysian foot – but the ball fell to Tajuddin to finish off. A long video review said no need to change the outcome.
Carr kept out a corner late in the quarter and then made three saves in quick succession in the second quarter but Rahim did rip in a 24th minute corner for 3-0 at half-time.
Into the second half, Bell batted away at the left post from a third corner, Carr booted away another while another set-piece went into the net off Paul Gleghorne's back but was annulled for danger.
Rahim, though, completed his hat-trick on the 44 minute mark with a low push down the stick-side. That came while Ireland were down to nine men as a mistake in trying to sub on a player during a corner, seeing Chris Cargo join Matthew Bell in the bin.
The call from Craig Fulton in the third quarter huddle was to keep plugging away – "two goals and shut the back door" – and they did rally. A first shot for 36 minutes arrived with ten minutes left before Shimmins got Ireland on the board, chipping and charging before shooting early off his right foot in mid-air.
Three incomplete corners came in the last five minutes with Othman Hafizuddin staying strong while the returning Eugene Magee miscued his switch-flick.
Ireland next face Argentina on Sunday with the game available to watch on the FIH Youtube channel for €0.99.
Ireland: J Carr, J Bell, M Bell, C Cargo, A Sothern, E Magee, S O'Donoghue, M Robson, P Gleghorne, S Loughrey, S Cole
Subs: S O'Connor, K Shimmins, S Murray, J McKee, J Dale, L Cole
Malaysia: H Abd Rahman, M Jalil, Fitri Saari, Faizal Saari, N Noor, R Rahim, F Jali, A Hassan, T Tajuddin, A Nik Rozemi, N Jazlan,
Subs: O Hafizuddin, N Sumantri, J van Huizen, S Syed Cholan, F Ashari, A Hasan, S Saabah


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Two male dead bodies have been recovered by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Greater Noida's Shah Beri town, where two under-development structures fallen on Tuesday.
NDRF Commandant, PK Srivastava stated, "Two male dead bodies have been recuperated. Four NDRF groups and pooch squad are available on the spot, odds of any casualty being alive are meager. Tasks will proceed until the point that all casualties are saved."
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced this city's new poet laureate, Luis J. Rodriguez, on Thursday at downtown L.A.'s Central Library.
Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East L.A. During the event, he gave an emotional reading from his "Love Letter to Los Angeles."
"I loved L.A. when I slept in abandoned cars alongside the concrete river and during all-night movie showings in downtown art deco theatres. The city beckoned as I tried to escape the prison-like grip of its shallowness, sun-soaked image, suburban quiet, all disarming, hiding the murderous heart that beats at its center."
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When I committed to this internship, I was excited for a multitude of reasons. Being that I am from Darien, I loved how my commute was just a short drive down i95 and I didn't have to deal with taking a train into the city. I was also pleased that The Brand Gallery was such a small firm, because I figured it would guarantee me greater responsibility and participation as a summer associate. And finally, I knew marketing was a practical skill, so I hoped that this internship would aid me in developing a marketing and branding expertise that could help me land a job in the future. While this internship exposed me to some new material and several out-of-office experiences that I did enjoy, I can't honestly say that all of my expectations were met.
What I didn't know going into this internship is that a small firm doesn't necessarily yield me more opportunity for learning and participation. The tradeoff with being a small firm is that there aren't as many projects running as there would be in a larger firm – an obvious fact, but I initially didn't understand the relationship between this reality and the level of my learning and involvement. The Brand Gallery wasn't bureaucratic at all, making it easy for me to talk with Phil, Iain, Allison, or anyone else who happened to be in the office on a given day. However, I think this internship taught me that for my first post-grad job, I'd like to experience a bigger firm where there are new things coming in the door regularly and I have the opportunity to dip my hands into more than one bowl, should I choose to do so. Since this isn't a training program or an internship with training built in, I didn't have the opportunity to obtain the necessary marketing knowledge to contribute to the ongoing Brand Gallery projects in a hands-on way. While following the ANC, Greenwich Town Party, Real Clear Politics and Sinclair Broadcasting work showed me how formal presentations are made and how rebranding initiatives are delivered, it still left me hungry for more.
An internship isn't supposed to be glamorous – something I've always known and understood – but when I was promised I would be busy every day, I hoped that that promise would be fulfilled with intensive work. I spent a lot of my days here taking care of Sally, Phil's adorable dog who became my companion here in Greenwich, and writing blog posts. Given that these were my main tasks, along with some organizational responsibilities around the office and on the computer and the occasional research or conference call opportunity, it left for empty time, and I was disappointed about that. This internship provided an opportunity to develop certain writing skills, because I was blogging every day. Each article was based on whatever it was that I found interesting and relevant to marketing and branding. I love Sally as much as anyone and I enjoyed having the flexibility of choosing what to blog about, but I came here to get a strong grasp of marketing and branding. In hindsight, maybe I could have made a stronger initiative to learn more about the industry, but I do wish that this internship included some sort of "training" element to teach me fundamental marketing and branding skills.
While my time in office may not have been as intensive in the way I had hoped, there were several out of office experiences that exposed me to new professional paths I would have otherwise not seen. Earlier on in the internship, I traveled into the city with the two Greenwich High School interns to volunteer at AICP Week. As a volunteer we were able to check out the virtual reality installments and at the end of each day, we were fortunate enough to be able to attend the awards shows and after parties. Then, about halfway through the internship, I attended a Red Carter Swimwear photo shoot here in Greenwich. As an avid swimwear buyer it was interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes before I would normally hit "buy" online. I was also able to spend time with their VP of sales who was so helpful and welcomed any questions I had. I kept in touch with her after the photo shoot and I was able to put together a presentation of what went on behind the scenes. And, finally, in the last week of my internship, I toured Blue Sky Studios. The office was unlike anything I had seen before, and it definitely opened my eyes to how creative one's workspace, and work in general, can be.
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Steelers' issues much deeper than they say
PITTSBURGH — Art Rooney II spent a good part of last week evading questions about the suddenly tumultuous Steelers.
He's his father's son, so he comes by that skill naturally. It was further sharpened when he studied law and learned that expansive candor is rarely a conduit to anything good.
So he spoke in the most vague terms about a team that needs to have a big offseason after a lousy end to the real season.
The Steelers have more holes than they have draft picks. They've known for a while that they need help at linebacker (both inside and outside) and cornerback.
But thanks to Le'Veon Bell's season-long holdout and Antonio Brown's bizarre late-season mutiny, they've also sprung significant leaks on offense.
They need a running back to complement James Conner. They need a legitimate receiving threat so that defenses can't just load up against JuJu Smith-Schuster and dare James Washington and Eli Rogers to make plays.
Some depth on the offensive line would help, too, as free agent issues loom.
The Steelers generally don't shop the free agent market, but they may not have a choice this time. The AFC North is changing. Baltimore won the division by a half game, and the Cleveland Browns (yes, the Cleveland Browns) may no longer be the punching bag they've been for more than a decade.
Now is the time for Rooney to sit down with Mike Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert and demand more substantial answers than the ones he was giving the media last week.
Solid legacy
No doubt you'll hear discussions about Tom Brady's legacy during today's AFC championship game.
Here's his legacy: He made enough money to fill two warehouses, and he married a super model.
It's been a wonderful life and will remain so, no matter whether the New England Patriots win today or not.
Signing off
Bob Costas wrapped up more than 40 years at NBC last week with negotiations that ended his last contract with the network.
He and NBC, once synonymous, are no longer much of a fit. NBC doesn't have baseball. It does have the NFL, but Costas has distanced himself from the league as the long-term health risks of pro football have become known.
He no longer wants the massive workload of hosting the Olympics coverage. So it's a clean break by mutual consent, which doesn't often happen in the broadcasting business.
With the help of some hair coloring, Costas may still look like an intern, but he's actually due to turn 67 in March.
Straight arrow
This comes to mind as the Antonio Brown circus continues to unfold:
Sidney Crosby first arrived in Pittsburgh as an 18-year old in 2005. In all the time he's been here, he's yet to have one public misstep or done anything to embarrass himself or his team.
Like Brown, Crosby was handed a pile of money and plenty of attention at a young age. Unlike Brown, he's been able to manage things in a responsible manner.
He's never been accused of throwing furniture off a balcony or driving at more than 100 miles per hour down a busy highway during the day, and he's never skipped a practice or meeting because he just didn't feel like going.
It's not just a hockey vs. football thing, either. A long time ago, young Pierre Larouche was such a handful for the Penguins that he ultimately forced them to give him away in a trade.
Pretty amazing, eh?
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If you've ever worked as a freelancer, you have at least once found yourself in a situation when deadlines overwhelm you. Write five articles before the end of the week for journal A, 10 blog posts for website B, edit another five articles for newspaper C, and so on. You don't know what to start with, because there is so much to be done. This feeling of helplessness can be very discouraging; most often, you can do all the work on time, but confusion caused by the amounts of piled up work and the subsequent slight panic can make you feel like you're in big trouble.
I've talked to people—some of my friends—and asked them how they manage deadline catastrophes. As I thought, they replied that usually they try to multitask in order to complete more assignments. Also, most of them admitted it is rather stressful; not only do they have to keep different tasks in mind at one time, but they also have no sense of control over the amounts of work. Although they do a lot of work in general, they can't see any significant progress in each of the directions they work in.
As for myself, I have long ago figured out that focusing on one task at a time leads to the best results. Whenever I have a deadline rush, I make sure to:
- determine how much time I have to complete each of the tasks and decide what should be done in the first turn
- among the high priority tasks, I select homogeneous ones, and combine them in "clusters"
- throw myself at the clusters and work on them until they're done
This way, I focus only on what is the most important at the moment, and do not spread my attention and effort on tasks that are different in nature and require different approaches and extra time. This method also gives me the sensation of control, because I know what I am doing, how much of it I am doing, and how much is left after I finish.
Anne Lamott, a brilliant author, has a book titled "Bird by Bird." The title is a perfect guide on how to deal with enormous loads of work: task by task—one task at a time.
So, the next time you're in trouble, try concentrating on one task instead of trying to multitask.


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Underdog Butler Bulldogs Fall To Duke Blue Devils
Underdog Butler Bulldogs Fall To Duke Blue Devils
The Blue Devils are the NCAA basketball champions. They held on to beat Butler 61-59 Monday night for their first national title since 2001. The Bulldogs had a chance to win, but Gordon Hayward's final-second half-court shot hit the front of the rim and failed to fall in.
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Tiger Woods is preparing for his return to the Masters. It's his first major tournament since he was engulfed in revelations about his personal life. He told reporters his goal is the same as always.
Mr. TIGER WOODS (Professional Golfer): Nothing has changed, Salty. I'm trying to go out there and win this thing.
MONTAGNE: And we'll hear more from Woods in a moment. First, we'll report on two basketball teams that tried to go out there and win.
INSKEEP: Last night's NCAA championship game cries out for one more reference to the movie "Hoosiers." It's not the scene with the dramatic, last-second victory, which was shot in a gymnasium at Butler University. It's the scene where Dennis Hopper, playing a former basketball player, remembers his last-second shot that got away.
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Mr. Dennis hopper (Actor): (As Wilbur Shooter Flatch) Sectionals of '33, one point down. Five, four, three, two, one, let her fly. In and out. Yeah, well, I was fouled.
INSKEEP: In and out. Last night, Butler University, the real-life underdogs, just missed a couple of last-second shots. So it's a moment of triumph for Duke University, which captured the title 61 to 59.
NPR's Mike Pesca is here to talk about the game.
And Mike, you told us yesterday Butler was going to try to slow down the game. That final score would suggest they did.
MIKE PESCA: They did. Two points. It was the first time a Butler opponent scored over 60 - just barely over 60, but thats what it took to win. This was a close game the whole way. No team led by more than six points throughout the entire game. And in the last 13 seconds, Butler was inbounding the ball under their own basket, down by two.
Their best player, Gordon Hayward, he got a pretty good shot at the basket - it didnt go in. Foul, couple of foul shots later, and then on the very last play, Hayward, with less than four seconds left, took a couple of big dribbles, threw the ball up on what looked a prayer. But you could tell that it's the kind of shot that he's practiced many times - and it just missed by inches.
And so that may be why we'll come to think of Gordon Hayward and compare him to the lovable town drunk in need of redemption, as in "Hoosiers," as opposed to the guy who actually won the national championship.
INSKEEP: He'll still go on to a great basketball career, people think. But Duke, of course, is still in the midst of a great run with yet another championship.
PESCA: This was not one of the great Duke teams. This was their fourth national championship. In terms of the talent on the team, you're not going to get a lot of guys who will be playing a lot of years in the NBA. What this was, was a very well-coached Duke team.
All through the year, Duke's three main scorers were just that - the Kyle Singler and John Scheyer, Nolan Smith - they had all had good shooting games. The extra factor was Brian Zoubek, the 7-foot-1 center who came into Duke as a highly regarded player, but then he broke a foot. And then he broke a foot again. And he went from being a highly regarded high school player to being the guy who you say about him, oh, he had injuries - he never really reached his potential.
Except halfway through the season, he started to get a little healthier and Coach Mike Krzyzewski said to him, you're going to be our starting player now. Everyone who knows basketball said without him, Duke couldnt have done it. And he was a key factor in his team winning a championship.
INSKEEP: So Mike Krzyzewski was the coach who brought his team to victory. What about Brad Stevens of Butler - can he keep his team near the top of the NCAA?
PESCA: Right now, Butler could go in two directions. So if the question is, wow, Butler came so close. Does this mean that this was the one shot and in 20 years, you know, we'll have a reunion and maybe the one or two guys who played in the NBA will say, yeah, I remember our college days. And everyone else will, you know, have gone on to - their lives.
Or will Butler become a little powerhouse? And what it comes down to is, is Brad Stevens going to use this Butler job as a launching pad? He's a young guy, so is he going to want to go to a Big 10 school? Or is he going to say, we're going to create something right here in Indianapolis, and people will come to fear us.
The other thing it could do - even if Butler itself doesnt become the school that keeps going back to the tournament again and again, it's a mark in the ground that this can be done. So they might not have shocked the world, but I think they shocked the system of college basketball a little bit. And we're going to see more schools that are obscure and small and dont get the great high school recruits, making a big run in the tournament.
INSKEEP: That's NPR's Mike Pesca, talking about the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, won last night by Duke 61-59.
Mike, thanks very much.
PESCA: You're welcome.
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SAWEA workshops promote economic development in rural communities
A final workshop in a series hosted by the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) brought together key representatives of the three constituencies concerned with economic development under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).
Parties included economic development directors of projectcompanies, community trustees and employees of community trusts.
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Each of these groups focus on the implementation of distinct facets of local economic development in rural communities adjacent to wind farms in the Northern, Eastern and Western Cape.
"SAWEA has hosted this series of workshops to improve collective understanding of the purpose, challenges and opportunities associated with community trusts. As the industry association for wind power in South Africa, SAWEA is concerned with both the socioeconomic and operational contributions of the national utility-scale renewable procurement programme," said SAWEA CEO Brenda Martin.
Participants used the opportunity to improve their mutual understanding of the policy basis for economic development under the REIPPPP and to lay a foundation for increased effectiveness of trusts across provinces.
Representing each of the three provinces, which now boast the highest volume of renewable-energy utility power plants in South Africa, participants recognised the value of improved collective knowledge to ensure more effective, engaged community trusts.
Additionally, improved collective knowledge will enable the three constituencies to drive improved effectiveness of implementation in compliance with existing renewable energy programme rules, and to recommend adjustments to future rules.
"The workshops have been well-attended and provided participants with the immediate opportunity to hear the perspectives of their counterparts, as well as to express their own views. Several new relationships of cooperation across provinces and interests have been initiated and networks of practice have been expanded," commented Martin.
The national renewables programme seeks to ensure that independent power producers (IPPs) include minimum shareholding for community trusts. This ownership structure has been built into the IPP business framework and goes beyond typical corporate social initiative efforts to bridge a number of socioeconomic interests.
"Such public–private partnerships have an important role to play in strengthening local communities," Martin said.
One of the objectives of the workshop was to develop a deeper understanding of the experiences of community trustees and community trust conveners. The latter are administrators employed by trusts.
The workshop concluded with recommendations to industry, community trusts and to government.
"SAWEA will work with industry to take its workshop recommendations forward as part of its three-year businessplan to 2020 and will also work with community trusts to take recommendations to government," noted Martin.
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