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Match Report: Watford 0-0 Bournemouth
By Kevin Affleck
Quique Sánchez Flores launched his first spell in charge with three straight draws. He has repeated the trick here now he has his feet under the table to firmly establish a foundation, but the only trouble this time is the Hornets are now ten games in, over a quarter of the way through the season, and wins are the currency the team needs to be trading in.
There was no lack of ambition in trying to beat Bournemouth here in a typical high-octane encounter with the Cherries – eight yellow cards were testament to that – and certainly no lack of effort. This wasn't a bore draw and a smattering of boos at full-time were a touch harsh.
Everyone is just feeling the frustration that a team with this sort of talent, this sort of depth, somehow remains without a win. Three points, in any size of shape, should, by law of averages, arrive soon, perhaps in the most unlikely of places, and instead of a season that peters out, we might just be in for a thrilling one. It could be strap-yourself-in time.
At least Sánchez Flores has sorted the defence out – that's now one goal in three games after 12 in his first three – and when the goals start coming, and they should once Troy Deeney gets back to full fitness and provides a spearhead, the team know it might only take one goal to win a game. It's not all doom and gloom. The team aren't leaking goals or getting rolled over every week. However marginal, the gradual signs of improvement are there. It's just we are behind the eight ball and playing catch up.
The Hornets came racing out of the traps and could have been ahead inside a minute. Daryl Janmaat nipped in front of Arnaut Danjuma in a classic piece of high pressing, sparking a move down the right that resulted in Gerard Deulofeu whipping a teasing centre across that fell into the path of Abdoulaye Doucouré. The Frenchman was ever so slightly off balance and couldn't keep his shot down, but it was a hugely promising start.
Tom Cleverley was at the heart of everything the Hornets did well early on, setting the tone from midfield, so it was a blow when he limped off after nine minutes. He had just made a perfectly executed tackle on Joshua King in the middle of midfield, too.
The loss of Cleverley, particularly his energy, resulted in a period of adjustment and allowed Bournemouth to, slowly but surely, establish a foothold in the game. They got into their stride and hit the bar with a thumping header from Steve Cook, forced Ben Foster into flying low saves to deny Philip Billing, Diego Rico and then the save of the match to deny Danjuma at the far post. It was one out of the very top drawer, classic Foster. The Vicarage Road crowd loved it. They knew how important that save could turn out to be.
Sánchez Flores knew his side would feed off less possession and they did their best to make the 41 per cent they had in the first period count on the counterattack, particularly down the right through Janmaat and Deulofeu. They prompted and probed, twisted and turned but the ball just wouldn't drop for Deulofeu, Roberto Pereyra or Doucouré in the middle of the area. It was helter-skelter stuff towards the end of the half and both teams probably needed half-time to catch their breath.
Whatever was said to Deulofeu during the break did the trick as he was at it in the first three minutes, at his corkscrewing best. He did Steve Cook like a kipper, twisting him one way, turning him another before attempting delicately chip one over Ramsdale. The idea was right, the execution was neat but Ramsdale pulled off a sprawling save.
Sánchez Flores sensed the game was there for the taking and made a surprisingly early attacking change, bringing on Andre Gray for Nathaniel Chalobah and asking Doucouré to sit deeper. It was a bold move by the Spaniard. The switch allowed Pereyra to get on the ball more centrally and slightly deeper and there was a period when he ran the show, dictating the game at his pace.
Tempers flared briefly in what was a full-blooded game following a challenge by Callum Wilson and it needed some cool heads to restore order and a bit of composure. Will Hughes is one of the team's more cooler customers and he rose above a bit of scrappy, fractious play to almost find the bottom corner with one left-footed effort from distance. Ramsdale, though, pulled off a fine low save to his left and turned the ball away for a corner. Hughes couldn't believe he hadn't scored. Neither could Sánchez Flores who turned to his bench in utter despair.
There was a free-kick from Deulofeu that flashed across the face near the end while Harry Wilson, on as a sub, almost curled a free-kick past a helpless Foster, but that was about it really and a game that promised so much, one everyone had pinned their hopes on winning, fizzled out. There was a bit of despair in the stands at the final whistle, and understandably so in some quarters, but keep the faith. There is still a long way to go and many twists and turns to come. Hold onto your hats.
HORNETS: Foster (GK); Kabasele, Dawson, Cathcart; Janmaat, Chalobah (Gray 58), Cleverley (Hughes 10), Doucouré, Masina (Foulquier 73); Pereyra, Deulofeu
Subs not used: Gomes (GK), Prödl, Mariappa, Quina

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New manufacturer+retailer of mid-century modern furniture —
made to order
Several weeks ago I started noticing ads for Joybird Furniture appearing on the blog… the ads looked intriguing… so I finally took a look at Joybird's products. I liked what I saw and read, and a few minutes later I was on the phone talking with one of the company's four co-founders. I was impressed — I count nine reasons why:
(1) The furniture is good-looking. For example, my favorite sofa (this week) is the Worthy design, shown in orange at the top of this page. I love the Dick van Dyke Show lines and ooooh, that tufting. I bet a lot of folks will also like the atomic-looking Fitzgerald sofa (in aqua, above). There are sleek lined-desks… and wall units that look to be channeling Cado and Royal Systems and Barzilay….
(2) Prices seem fair. "My" Worthy sofa — which was on sale recently — came in at under $1,500 (on sale). Yes: You may be able to find vintage furniture at better prices. But re: sofas particularly, while the frames can be amazing, reupholstering a vintage sofa can get very expensive, very fast — if you can even find someone to do a quality job.
Related to pricing, I learned a term that I had never heard before: Joybird Furniture is among a new breed of 'manutailers'. That is: They are both the manufacturer and the retailer. Sounds like this eliminates the middleman markup, allowing for lower prices. And, this business model should help Joybird stay very close to needs and wants of today's customers.
(3) Shipping is free.
(4) Two-pound foam — I asked about the quality of the sofas, worried that a relatively inexpensive price point would mean… lesser quality. The company said that it uses kiln-dried hardwoods for the frames, which sounds like it is pretty standard in the industry. What really sets their sofas apart versus some other similar competitors today, they claimed, is that that Joybird uses two-pound foam for their cushions — which is not so common industry-wide, he said. I googled the foam-weight issue a bit, and sure enough, it seems that foam quality can make a significant difference in how sofa cushions wear. I checked with another company that I've featured before — Younger Furniture, which has lovely mid-century style designs and is Made in the USA story, and Marilyn Spell told me, "Our standard is 2.0 high resiliency and our 'Y Lux' [an upgrade] is 2.5 high resiliency."
Note, however: I am not an expert on how to assess sofa quality and certainly not company-vs.-company; we are not Consumer Reports here. I put this foam-weight issue on the list because the company called it out; sounds like this is definitely a factor to further research and add to your checklist if you are in the market comparison shopping and want to assess 'value' issues. To be sure, I've heard complaints about failing cushions on inexpensive sofas before….
- If you are looking for a mid mod sofa, see our story 216 affordable mid-century modern sofas — but note, there are several companies also mentioned in the comments not included on our list — and we now need to add Joybird.
(5) 8/6/2017 Update on this one: Not so sure it's available any more. Made-to-order sizing; check with Joybird — Joybird told me that they Furniture carry no inventory. It makes all its products to order. The company also offers customers the option to adjust their furniture sizes up, down, sideways — whatever. Want a sofa that's six inches longer… or three inches shorter… or 2 inches deeper or how about different legs? Joybird can do it for you. They will also let you send your own upholstery fabric. I was told that lead times are four weeks for all orders, but that timing can vary depending on volume.
(6) Made in North America — Update Sept. 2015: The mass of the company's production is in Tijuana, Mexico; they told me they also do some framing about five miles away in San Diego. They are also looking at starting up a manufacturing location in Canada. I have eliminated any text in this story that previously suggested "Made in the USA" since the mass of their production is in Mexico.
(7) Clever customer service — Joybird will email you a photo of your furniture piece at each key step during its manufacturing progress. For a sofa, for example, there is a seven-stage manufacturing process — so you'll get seven photos along the way.
(8) Great website — Nice website, easy to navigate. Nicely done, Joybird tech team, I like it!
(9) Efficient communication — Well, this is very anecdotal, but when I first contacted Joybird — via their online chat — the service was surprise-and-delight excellent. Chat-box Hank was right there… Hank found me the right person to talk to right away… and they picked up their phone. In today's phone-tree-push-a-button-get-disconnected-frustrating world, this certainly made a nice impression on me. A repeat interaction was equally efficient.
I like the look of these products and the 'manu-tailer' business model. I will keep my fingers crossed that it's all a big success — good for Joybird, and good for we mid-century modern and -modest enthusiasts and decorators, too!
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Any plans to offer the Justice pieces separately? I have been hunting high and low for shelving like that but, alas, don't have room for all three pieces.
– We can build you just one or two sections of the Justice. You would need to call in to place that order since we would need to adjust the price for you.
I've GOT to have a spare wall somewhere to put one of those wall units on……….
+ 1 for a rocking chair . . .
For anyone following Thrive v. Joybird after noticing the similarity between their products and websites, there is literally a lawsuit between them.
Joybird's founding management is made up of former Thrive employees, who left to start their own company in late 2013. Thrive is accusing them of using company time to plan the new venture (it launched pretty early in 2014), as well as stealing designs and other IP infringement.
Personally, I strongly sympathize with the argument that you can't steal something that is itself an homage to a specific vintage design, and you can't copyright a business model. I do admit to being a little irked at how similar the design/layout of Joybird's website is to Thrive's, however.
Of note, Thrive was an independent company until 2010, when it was acquired by a larger film. This may (and I'm just wildly speculating here) have lead to the eventual splintering of high-level staff.
Keep in mind that this all comes from a Press Release published by Thrive announcing the lawsuit, so the story is thin on details, but things appear more than a little sketchy on both sides.
For we consumers, however, the only thing that matters is design, quality, and service. After spending the last few days comparing the two company's offerings and policies, I tend to agree with the majority in this comment thread that Joybird (even with it's slightly higher prices) is the way to go.
My husband and I bought a bed last year from THRIVE and wouldn't hesitate to do so again. It is so sturdy, it doesn't move or squeak when you get into it. In addition, they have an excellent return policy. You may return your piece for any reason within 7 days and shipping is on them. You may return within a year if you pay for shipping. We ordered a bed during one of their sales and the longer you were willing to wait the more of a discount you got. It was supposed to ship in 12 weeks but it shipped in 8. We were thrilled.
We ordered the Eastwood loveseat and chair. Should look very nice on the new hardwood floors we installed ourselves.
I love the lines of Eastwood! I just ordered a Hughes sofa on Labor Day – so excited.
I am considering buying the Hughes. A year in, how has the couch held up?
Can anyone who has bought and received a Joybrid chair or sofa/sectional comment on the comfort? Thank you!
I bought a Calhoun sofa about six months ago and still looks brand new. I was nervous to buy without trying but it's the most comfy couch ever. I'm a photographer and have it in my boston studio. It's in a few photos on my Instagram account heatherparkerphotography
Its not stiff like a lot of modern stuff I tried but the cushions haven't sagged either so I am happy.
One of my photo clients also ended up buying one in a custom size. Feel free to look me up online and shoot me an email if you are wondering about the couch. If you are near boston and can prove to me that you're not sketchy I'll let you try it out! 🙂
Thanks for the response Heather and the offer to test it out. I am philly though. You said you have it in an office, do you lounge on it much? This would be the main couch in my LR, lots of lounging and tv watching. Thanks!
My studio is a live/work space as I'm a photographer. Where I live is a loft and my living room and office are the same. 🙂 I sit on the sofa every day and also lay down and read just about every night. I've also fallen asleep on it more times than I should admit to. I've had guests stay over and while I offered for them to sleep on my bed noting that I'd take the couch, they declined and slept on the couch, waking up full of compliments. If I had more space, I'd buy more. I saw a photo on either their instagram or twitter of one of their couches in leather that is to die for. I want it badly. I'm sure that soon enough, I'll find a reason to need a side chair that will work nicely with the couch. When I was shopping for furniture, I looked a lot at CB2 since they have a place to try out in person near my other home in Chicago. I remember liking some of their designs but CB2's couches weren't comfy at all, either too firm or awkwardly deep with short backs. My profession work a lot with architects and interior designers photographing both residences and hotel properties and have the opportunity to check out a LOT of new furniture in person. So far nothing has compared to my own couch, even the fancy $4k pieces that are in spaces I get to photograph.
I've yet to find a furniture retailer that manufactures their own pieces and is as transparent about everything as Joybird is. I was one of their early customers and while I had some frustrations with their early-on shipping process, they've got things going super smoothly now.
My thoughts before ordering were that if its not comfy, I can send it back. I was so frustrated with local retailers having cheesy designs, IKEA being too cheaply made, and so many of the internet mid-century knock-off distributors selling absolute crap product. I took the plunge and couldn't be happier with how comfy it is.
My sofa should arrive soon – it took me 2 years before finally decided to take a leap of faith and order it! I would be happy to post my opinion on the comfort for you Rachael. I have been impressed with the level of customer service.
Please let me know how it is!
I had a Hopson chair in production when this article came out and I am truly happy with the chair's quality and comfort. Everyone comments on how comfortable and swanky it is when they come over. Last week I saw a horrible, poorly made mod-century wanna be at Home Goods for almost what I paid for my beautiful, quality made in USA chair. I wish I needed more furniture.
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Written by Mathew Naismith
I was once again watching a movie that came out in 1999 called Dogma with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino and Salma Hayek playing the major parts in this movie. I wasn't wrapped in all the scenes but in all I think it's a good movie. Towards the end of the movie God, who is a woman, tries to do a handstand but falls over. Now to a lot of people this is ridiculous, God wouldn't fail in such a simple endeavour plus it made God look ridiculous, God wouldn't want to be seen as looking silly in anyway. I'm not absolutely sure of this and I will try and point out why.
Is the source, God's consciousness, egotistically driven in anyway? To me this God's consciousness isn't egotistical so would it matter to this consciousness, in any form it takes, if it failed and looked silly in anyway? To answer this we need to ask another question, what part of us doesn't want to look silly or inadequate? The ego of course, but this conscious source isn't controlled by an ego so I don't think this kind of conscious source would care to be seen looking silly and inadequate in anyway and in fact it most often does.
Highly intelligent people are usually astute within their thoughts and actions, they certainly don't want to be seen looking silly and especially inadequate in anyway, to them this is a sign of some kind of unintelligence. What is more aware and wise than this God's consciousness? Nothing, so in our way of thinking, this conscious source would have to be astute within it's thoughts and actions, so God looking silly and inadequate in this movie isn't a true depiction of this conscious source, I beg to differ on this!!
What are we all apart of? We are all a part of this consciousness so how often do we look silly and inadequate expressing such consciousness? You could state that a highly intelligent person doesn't look silly or inadequate but isn't expressing the ego in such destructive ways silly and inadequate? We have more highly intelligent people running the world than ever before, is the world any less destructive? Actually it has become more destructive, wouldn't this not look silly and inadequate to a much more aware and wiser consciousness like to the source of all creation?
We look silly and inadequate in many ways, is God's consciousness worried about looking silly and inadequate? Well actually yes, when it's highly destructive within it's silliness and inadequacy it's a worry. The point is, is failing to do a handstand destructive in anyway? The answer is no, anything not destructive isn't a worry to this conscious source. How do I know that this conscious source is worried? We are a part of this conscious source, we are this God, are we worried about our destructive egotistical ways collectively? We are certainly becoming concerned so God's consciousness is also concerned as it's truly one consciousness, one source……well to me anyway.
The point is it's OK to look silly and inadequate and even to fail at our endeavours as long as it's not destructive to others and ourselves. Egotistically it's destructive to look silly and inadequate in anyway, to an egotistical person this is destructive but to someone like me, being highly egotistical is destructive and yes it looks silly to me to be so expressive of such destructive egotism. The moral of the story is, is failing to do handstands and looking silly within this failure for such an aware and wise consciousness destructive? God's consciousness obviously doesn't care if it looks silly or inadequate, we are proof of that, but it does care if it's going to be continually destructive within this silliness and inadequacy?
I utterly love the depiction of God trying and failing to do a handstand in this movie, it depicts that such an intelligent, aware and wise consciousness doesn't have to abide by any of the rules of egotism and neither do we.


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CHENEY, Wash. (AP) Venky Jois had 20 points, 13 rebounds and five assists to lead Eastern Washington to a 76-65 win over Portland State Monday night.
Parker Kelly scored 17 points - going 5 for 8 from 3-point range - while Martin Seiferth had 13 points and Kevin Winford scored 12 as the Eagles (5-15, 3-7 Big Sky) ended a four-game losing streak.
Eastern Washington never trailed in the game. Its biggest lead was 15 points early in the second half,
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The Forecaster: Windham rallies to end Portland's title reign
Windham upsets Portland in Semifinals
What a battle between #1 Portland and #4 Windham in the Class AA North semifinals! You'll want to have your sound all the way up as we relive some of the best plays and the exciting radio calls from the 4th quarter as the Eagles would go on to take down the two-time defending champions, sending the top-seeded Bulldogs home early by a final of 55-53. Amazing finish! They'll face Edward Little on Friday night at the Cross Insurance Arena, live on Maine's Big Z 92.7 and worldwide at MBRRadio.com! #mesports #Tourney18 #MPAGoldBall
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Portland junior Pedro Fonseca and Windham senior Nazari Henderson go to the court to fight for a loose ball during the teams' Class AA North semifinal Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles ended the Bulldogs' two-year title reign, 55-53.
Jason Gendron photos.
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Windham 55 Portland 53
W- Gilman 10-3-25, Curtis 6-2-19, Hutchinson 2-0-4, Wing 2-0-4, Coffin 1-1-3
P- Moss 8-5-22, Bellew 7-3-17, Foley 2-0-5, Yugu 2-0-5, Fonseca 2-0-4
W (7) Curtis 5, Gilman 2
P (3) Foley, Moss, Yugu 1
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PORTLAND—The Eagles have landed.
And ascended.
And two-time defending state champion Portland is still shaking its head, wondering how this one got away.
For the past five seasons, the Bulldogs have been close to unbeatable everywhere, especially at the Cross Insurance Arena, where they celebrated state titles in 2014 and 2016, but Tuesday afternoon, in absolutely shocking fashion, Portland met its match in a gallant and talented Windham squad and for the first time in the three-year history of the AA classification, someone other than the Bulldogs will raise the Gold Ball.
Top-ranked Portland threatened to make quick work of the fourth-seeded Eagles when it raced to a 13-2 lead behind the heroics of senior standout Terion Moss and the inside dominance of junior post presence Trey Bellew.
But unlike most of the Bulldogs' foes, Windham didn't buckle and behind its dynamic senior tandem of Nick Curtis and Mike Gilman, it rallied within three and only trailed by five, 17-12, after one quarter.
In the second period, Portland went back up by nine, but again the Eagles came back and when Curtis set up junior Andrew Wing for a layup in the final minute, the Bulldogs' lead was a mere two points, 26-24, at the break.
Portland tried again to shake Windham in the third quarter, going up by 10 points, 37-27, on a layup from senior Manny Yugu, but again, the Eagles refused to fold and after drawing back within one on a layup from Gilman, they were only down 43-40 when the fourth quarter began.
There, Windham pulled even on an old-fashioned three-point play from Gilman with 4:31 to go, but Moss put back his own miss, then hit two free throws before a Bellew layup made it 51-45 with just 2:29 to go.
The Eagles saved their best for last, however, and stole the game and the show.
After a Curtis 3 was answered by two Moss free throws, Curtis hit a 3 and with 30.4 seconds on the clock, a Gilman 3 gave Windham its first lead, 54-53.
After a Portland miss, Curtis added a free throw, but the Bulldogs had one final chance to tie or win and got a good look, as senior Griffin Foley popped open for a 3-pointer up top, but the shot was off target, the Eagles got the rebound and held on for the 55-53 victory.
Gilman had a game-high 25 points, Curtis added 19 and Windham improved to 15-5, advanced to meet No. 2 Edward Little (16-4) in the Class AA North Final Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Portland and in the process, ended another superb Bulldogs' season at 18-2.
"The guys are just confident," said Eagles coach Chad Pulkinnen. "We knew we were just as good as them, if not better, if we played a good game. We think we're the best team in this tournament. Portland's the bar for everybody. They've separated themselves from everybody, but our guys were ready to go."
Home away from home
Portland came to the Cross Insurance Arena, the erstwhile Cumberland County Civic Center, Tuesday having not lost there since the 2013 Western A semifinals against South Portland.
The Bulldogs were the gold standard again this winter, losing just once, by three points at Scarborough, and as the top seed in Class AA North, they advanced with a decisive 83-37 quarterfinal round victory over Lewiston (see sidebar, below, for previous results).
Windham was highly touted coming into the season and despite some early struggles, the Eagles wound up 13-5 and fourth in the region and in the quarterfinals, they downed No. 5 Bangor, 78-62, to move on.
On Dec. 13, Portland beat the host Eagles, 61-44. The teams had met just once before in the tournament, a 57-50 Bulldogs' victory in the 2015 Western A quarterfinals.
Tuesday, Windham turned the tables and busted the bracket.
Portland needed all of three seconds to take the lead, as Bellew won the opening tip to junior Pedro Fonseca, who raced in for a layup.
Moss added an old-fashioned three-point play (leaner, foul and free throw) and after Windham got on the board on a driving layup from Gilman, Moss answered with an NBA-range 3, Bellew blocked a shot at one end and Yugu hit a 3 at the other and with 3:28 remaining in the first quarter, Bellew hit a leaner in the lane to make it 13-2.
The Eagles bounced back, as Curtis hit a 3, senior Cory Hutchison made a layup in transition and Curtis hit a long 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 13-10.
After Bellew ended the 8-0 run with a leaner, Gilman made two foul shots.
Windham had a chance to draw even, but Curtis' 3 hit the back iron and as time expired, Moss drove down and banked home a finger roll for a 17-12 advantage after eight minutes.
Moss led the way with eight points, while the Eagles were paced by Curtis with six.
In the second period, Portland maintained the lead.
Bellew started the frame with a three-point play, then added a foul shot, but Gilman sank a long 3.
After Moss made a layup after a steal, Windham got a layup from Gilman (off a pass from Curtis after a steal), a free throw from Gilman and a bank shot in traffic from Gilman to make it 23-20.
After Gilman missed a 3 that could have tied it, Moss drove for a layup.
In the final minute, Gilman scored on a putback for the Eagles and after Bellew hit a free throw, Curtis set up junior Andrew Wing for a layup, cutting Portland's lead to 26-24 at halftime.
In the first half, Moss led the Bulldogs with 12 points and Bellew added nine, but the Bulldogs couldn't hit their accustomed shots from the outside.
The Eagles were paced by 13 points from Gilman and nine from Curtis in the first 16 minutes.
In the third quarter, Portland threatened to pull away, but Windham wouldn't let it.
Bellew started the second half with a putback and after Curtis was whistled for his fourth foul with 6:35 to go in the period, but stayed on the floor, Bellew added a hook shot and Foley scored a putback to make it 32-24.
Curtis countered with a 3, but in transition, Yugu fed Foley for a 3 and on the fastbreak, Moss set up Yugu for a layup and a 37-27 advantage with 4:36 left in the frame.
Senior Hunter Coffin started to turn momentum with a three-point play and after Moss hit a leaner, Wing scored on a putback and Curtis drove for a layup to cut the deficit to four.
Fonseca answered with a putback, but Curtis fed Hutchison for a layup, Curtis threw a gorgeous pass to Gilman for a layup and with 1:23 on the clock, Gilman drove the baseline and made a layup to cut the deficit to one.
After Curtis missed a 3 which could have put the Eagles on top, Moss fed Bellew for a layup just before the horn and Portland took a 43-40 advantage to the final stanza.
Just 29 seconds into the fourth period, Hutchison threw a pass under the basket to a leaping Gilman, who managed to control his body and make a layup to cut the deficit to a single point.
Moss answered by banking home an off-balanced shot, but with 4:31 to play, after a steal, Gilman made a layup while being fouled and he added the and-one to tie it, 45-45.
Moss, as he's done countless times in his career, then came up huge, putting back his own miss and after Wing missed a 3, Moss was fouled and hit both attempts.
With 2:29 to play, Moss fed Bellew for a layup and a six-point lead, but 16 seconds later, a Curtis 3 made it a one-possession contest again, 51-48.
Again, Moss hit two free throws with 1:54 remaining, but nine seconds later, Curtis got through a screen and buried another 3 to make it 53-51.
After Moss was called for a charge, Windham had a chance to tie or take the lead, but Foley stole a pass.
Moss had a chance to extend the lead with 39.4 seconds on the clock, but his front end of a one-and-one went in-and-out and the Eagles came down and took the lead when senior Nazari Henderson found Gilman in the corner and Gilman buried the 3 for Windham's first advantage, 54-53.
"Coach just called a great play," said Gilman. "I had two great screens set for me. I was open and I knocked it down. I was confident it was going in."
"That's a play we run every day in practice to get him free," Pulkinnen said. "He played an unbelievable game."
At the other end, Foley missed a 3 and Henderson got the rebound.
Curtis was fouled with 14.5 seconds to go. He hit the first attempt, then missed the second and that gave Portland one final chance.
Yugu inbounded the ball to Moss who came into the frontcourt. Before he could make a move to the basket, however, Foley flashed open up top and took a pass and attempted a 3, but it was just off target.
"There were two options, drive for the two, or kick for the 3," Portland coach Joe Russo said.
The Eagles grabbed the rebound, avoided a foul and at 4:57 p.m., celebrated the biggest win in their history, 55-53.
"It's the best thing that's happened in my high school career," said Gilman. "We haven't done anything like this in a long time. It was nervewracking at the end. They got a shot, but they didn't knock it down. We played good defense and walked away with a win. We had to stay in it mentally and keep grinding."
"This means everything for us," Pulkinnen said. "The amount of pride we have and work they guys have put in. The community was here supporting us. The seven seniors have taken the program to another level. I have nothing but joy for those guys."
Windham got a game-high 25 points from Gilman.
Curtis added 19 points, seven assists and four rebounds and never despite playing almost the entire second half with four fouls, never picked up his fifth.
"Our best chance is with (Nick) on the court," said Pulkinnen. "I felt he'd be smart."
Hutchinson added four points and seven rebounds, Wing had four points and Coffin finished with three.
Windham had 12 turnovers and made 6 of 11 foul shots.
Windham beat Edward Little in the regular season meeting, 69-54, Dec. 22 at home. The Class AA North Final promises to be a doozy.
"It's going to be a great regional championship," Russo said. "EL looked good, maybe invincible-good and Windham played terrific tonight. They were very enthusiastic. They were into it tonight. Those teams will do a good job representing the North. It'll be a heck of a game."
"We have to work hard in practice and do everything we can do to get better before playing them Friday," Gilman said.
"(Edward Little's) very athletic," Pulkinnen said. "They get up and down the court. They have good shooters. We'll have to play our best game against them. They're playing at a high level and we have to match that."
Picking up the pieces
Portland was led by Moss' 22 points in his swan song. The Mr. Maine Basketball favorite also had eight rebounds, three assists and two steals.
"Moss is an unbelievable player," Pulkinnen said. "You can't slow him down. You try to make his shots tough and slow down his co-workers. We didn't want (junior Simon) Chadbourne to go off. Not allowing him to get comfortable was key."
Bellew had a terrific game with 17 points and eight rebounds.
"We got the ball into Trey early to dominate inside," Russo said. "He had a great game. I usually use my bench, but he did such a good job that I couldn't take him out."
Foley (five rebounds) and Yugu (four rebounds, three steals) each bowed out with five points, while Fonseca (nine rebounds) added four.
The Bulldogs had a 36-25 rebounding advantage, but made just 8 of 15 free throws and turned the ball over 11 times.
"Usually the shortcoming comes from the other team's best player coming through or us not executing and we didn't execute on offense and they have two really good players and they both came through at the end," Russo said.
"Usually I toss and turn and scratch my head for two or three days, but I'm OK with this game. Our shortcomings showed and I'm kind of relieved, to be honest. It's been a grind. If it was meant to be for us to win, we would have won."
The Bulldogs have to part with a senior class which includes the sensational Moss, Foley, Yugu, Lino Ben, Quinn Clarke and Ben Fisher. That graduating class posted a four-year record of 76-8, won three regional and two state titles.
"At halftime, we didn't really talk Xs and Os," Russo said. "It was more about who wanted it more. I said, 'Before you leave the locker room, you guys are already winners.' They brought so much success to this program for four years. This game won't define us by any stretch of the imagination. We haven't lost many games. It had to end at some point. "


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1. Re: Date picker resetlei.chen.0 Jan 9, 2019 11:26 PM (in response to Radhika Kotla)
Hello Padhika,
I'm not sure if this works in your use case, but a solution could be like this.
For the specific patient, use parameter filters in tabcmd like this,
Automating PDF Exports with Filters Using Tabcmd
Also refer to How View URLs Are Structured - Tableau
If the client hopes to pick up the date range, just simply try dos command to prompt for date input.
Such as,
set /P input_start="Please input the start date (YYYY-MM-DD):"
set /P input_end="Please input the end date (YYYY-MM-DD):"
Then use %input_start% and %input_end% in tabcmd export
2. Re: Date picker resetRadhika Kotla Jan 11, 2019 10:32 AM (in response to lei.chen.0)
Thanks for the response Lei,
Is there any way of resetting the date on the server itself? because we are trying to do it on the server but the date filter values are not resetting though the the dashboard date axis is resetting when we change the filter.
3. Re: Date picker resetRadhika Kotla Jan 14, 2019 8:54 AM (in response to Radhika Kotla)
Hi Lei,
The one you suggested for date range does not cut our needs since it asks for each subject to enter the date range.
but in my case tabcmd should generate all the PDF's for all the patients at once with out any interruption. and even tabcmd PDF printing also not working in our case because if the patient information has scroll bar in the view instead of printing it in the next page it is cutting off the data. now we are stuck with tabcmd PDF generation as well. It would be great if any one can help me with this issue.


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Dear Member,
Welcome to the final edition of the Institute of Consulting newsletter for 2016.
Firstly I wanted to just share with you our disappointment at not being able to update you with the positive news from Privy Council for the Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC). You will read in the update below that we continue to explore all possible avenues in order to progress this.
However in more exciting news, we are delighted that the IC's chosen entry for this year's Constantinus International Awards 2016, the Beech Centre, walked away with the Silver medal at the ceremony which took place in Toronto on 20 October 2016. The full write up appears below but I'm sure you will join me in congratulating all at the Beech Centre for their achievement.
This edition also includes feedback directly from our colleagues at the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI), on both the Constantinus Awards event as well as the CMC Annual Congress which also took place in Toronto this October.
Finally I am delighted to announce that we will shortly be launching a refreshed IC website. The web address will not be changing so do continue to visit www.iconsulting.org.uk.
We thank you for your continued support for the IC and welcome any feedback you may have. Please contact us via email@example.com.
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CMI and Institute of Consulting member The Beech Centre for People, Performance and Organisational Development won silver at the prestigious Constantinus International Global Management Consultancy awards in Toronto in October.
Beech were nominated for the awards by IC as a result of their work with The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) in London over the last three years. The RHN is a ground breaking medical charity working to improve the lives of people with severe brain injury. Beech worked with the RHN to effect a fundamental change in the way they cared for their patients. This resulted in higher quality care to extremely vulnerable patients, while streamlining the operating efficiency of the organisation and making savings of many times the investment. Huge congratulations to The Beech Centre!
Updates can be found here.
IC members, Jeremy Webster (ICMCI Board member) and Nick Warn (IC Delegate to ICMCI), attended the annual meeting and consultancy conference, hosted by CMC-Canada in early October.
The highlights can be seen here.
As communicated in previous newsletters,' Chartered Management Consultant' has not yet received formal approval from the Privy Council, such that it can be incorporated into our Bye-laws and we can move into the implementation phase. We are confident that we are close to gaining approval but we await that final step. We will continue to keep you informed.
In the meantime, discussions are ongoing – within the Board of Trustees, IC Advisory Committee, and with the Management Consultancies Association, our potential partner for ChMC – so that we are ready to move ahead as and when we gain Privy Council approval. As previously indicated, ChMC has to work not only for the IC member community, principally sole practitioners and smaller consultancies; but also for the larger firms. Development of a compelling proposition for these audiences is critical to success. Current activities include scenario planning, market research activity, discussions with representatives from firms that are members of MCA – to secure tangible evidence on the appetite for ChMC in practice, and propensity for consultants and firms to invest in it.
So, the current hiatus with the Privy Council is frustrating, but the time is being put to good use in terms of sizing up the market, talking with key players, and discussing potential partnership arrangements with MCA.
We will keep members informed of developments.
On the 21 September 2016, the CMI Northern Ireland Board held its biennial awards event "Success Through Creativity" held at Belfast Harbour Commissioners offices in Belfast on Wednesday 21st September 2016 was a great success. With upwards of ninety people attending and a selection of first class speakers the event was highly praised by all those guests who attended.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness presented the All Ireland Consultant Business Award to Moya Doherty Chairman of RTE. The speakers included David Gavaghan CBI NI, Marie Campbell Youth Action NI, Dr Martin Naughton KBE, Chairman Glen Dimplex and Simon Bowen, CMI Director Member Engagement.
Ms Doherty in receiving the award said," I am honoured to be receiving the All Ireland Consultant Business Award and am indebted to the Chartered Management Institute for my nomination".
The All Ireland Consultant Business Award has been running since 2007. This years theme, "Success Through Creativity" celebrates the link between creativity and good quality leadership. The event concluded with a buffet lunch and networking.
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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
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MIAMI – A hurricane watch has been issued for the coasts of Texas and Mexico in the Gulf as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches.
The hurricane watch issued Monday covers the area from Rio San Fernando, Mexico, northward to Baffin Bay in Texas.
Hermine's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 50 mph (85 kph). Additional strengthening is expected and the storm could approach hurricane strength before making landfall.
Hermine is located about 205 miles (325 kilometers) south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, and is moving north-northwest near 13 mph (20 kph).
Heavy rain is predicted with northeastern Mexico into south Texas getting 4 to 8 inches with as much as a foot in some places. It could cause flash floods and mudslides.


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"While all the training and skills we gain and the new friendships we make in SAR are great," Mark Moeller says, "nothing is as moving as helping to bring closure, good or bad, to the life-changing events of those we serve."
Because he was interested in rescue operations, years ago Mark joined CERT through the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District. Seeking more ongoing activity, in 2008 he joined SAR.
For this Detroit-to-East Coast-to-California transplant, CoCo SAR has provided a "meaningful diversion" from his 25-plus-year career in management in the field of computing services.
He says SAR has provided him with excellent training and, in turn, he's used his knowledge and skills in a variety of ways, from Hasty Squad, Type I, and USAR, to map creation, trailering, and ATVs. He also credits SAR with making him more effective at his day job and more alert in general.
Mark and his wife, Sandi, enjoy tooling around on their Vespas. They are the parents of three boys and a yellow lab, all of whom keep them busy in everything from pulling the trailer for the San Ramon High marching band, to leading Boy Scout troops. Mark has enlisted his youngest son to join him in hiding for the SAR dogs, which he says is a real bonding opportunity.
These words of a 9/11 first responder stick with him: "Remember your best friends: time, distance, and shielding." That notwithstanding, his favorite piece of SAR wisdom comes from the team's Coordinator, Rick Kovar: "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it."
Mark says SAR searches have helped him realize what a difference each of us can make in someone's life. He is reminded, he says, "how the small things we sometimes sweat need to be let go of in order to live our lives to the fullest."


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As the debate continues over the revisions to DSM-IV, Zimmerman, the director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, says he and his colleagues recognize that the syndrome descriptions in DSM-IV are imperfect representations of an underlying condition. He suggests the DSM criteria should be conceptualized as a type of test for the etiologically defined illnesses (i.e. illnesses that are assigned a cause as determined through medical diagnosis).
Bipolar disorder is a symptom-based diagnosis, for which a diagnostic test does not exist. "In the absence of that test, clinicians must use the diagnostic criteria to identify the presence of the disease," he says. "Accordingly, as with any other diagnostic test, diagnoses based on DSM-IV criteria produce some false positive and some false negative results. In this context, I consider the controversy over whether the diagnostic threshold for bipolar disorder should be lowered."
"If we accept the proposition that DSM-IV criteria are imperfect in identifying bipolar illness, we must conceptualize these criteria as a type of test for bipolar illness that produces both false positives and false negatives," he says. "Shifting the diagnostic boundary downward, to be sure, will have many negative impacts upon patients, including inaccurate diagnoses and inappropriate treatment, not to mention the increased use of unnecessary medications."
For his research, he reviewed four longitudinal studies of the prognostic significance of sub-threshold bipolar disorder. He explains that while sub-threshold bipolarity is a risk factor for the emergence of the disease, the majority of individuals with sub-threshold bipolarity do not develop a future manic or hypomanic episode that is a hallmark of true bipolar disorder.
Zimmerman looked at various sides of the argument in lowering the diagnostic threshold including detecting bipolar disorder in depressed patients, diagnostic uncertainty, and unrecognized and over-diagnosed bipolar disorder. While he recognizes that the goal of lowering the criteria is to better diagnose this disorder, Zimmerman says, "The question is not whether diagnostic error exists, but rather which type of error predominates, and how much will shifting the diagnostic threshold impact the number of each of these diagnostic errors. Also important to consider are the clinical consequences of each type of error, and which error is more difficult to undo after it has been made."
At the end of his analysis Zimmerman indicates that there are four reasons for not broadening the criteria and strongly recommends against doing so because:
- The results of the longitudinal studies suggest that lowering the diagnostic threshold for bipolar disorder will result in a greater increase in false positives than true positives;
- There are no controlled studies demonstrating efficacy of mood stabilizers in treating sub-threshold bipolar disorder;
- If a false negative diagnosis occurs and bipolar disorder is under-diagnosed, diagnosis and treatment can be changed when a manic or hypomanic episode emerges; and
- If bipolar disorders is overdiagnosed and patients are inappropriately prescribed a mood stabilizer, the absence of a future manic/hypomanic episode would incorrectly be considered evidence of the efficacy of the treatment, and unnecessary medications that might cause medically significant side effects would not be discontinued.


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February 28, 2014
By: Eric Reinhardt
Source: Central New York Business Journal
MARCY — Construction crews have completed the steel structure ahead of schedule in the construction of the $125 million computer-chip commercialization center (Quad-C). The office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today acknowledged it in a news release as a "key" moment in the first phase of Cuomo's $1.5 billion Nano Utica initiative.
The State University of New York College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY CNSE) and the SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) are spearheading the effort.
Nano Utica is the public-private partnership that Cuomo announced last October that's intended to bring more than 1,500 jobs to the region.
It's also meant to "further define New York as the global leader in nanotechnology-based research and development," Cuomo's office said in the news release.
"Not only will this project create over a thousand new high-skilled, high-paying jobs, but it marks New York's emergence as a world leader in the nanotechnology sector. Quad-C will be the catalyst for nanotechnology innovation, education, and economic development in New York. The project is ahead of schedule and exciting things lay ahead," Cuomo said in the news release.
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy presided over the ceremony in Marcy.
"With great thanks to Gov. Cuomo's strategic vision for growth, the past three years have proven to be enormous for the nanotechnology industry in many regions of the state. The latest announcement here today in Utica, that construction on the Quad-C facility is ahead of schedule, helps to ensure the continued development and utilization of everything that the Mohawk Valley has to offer," Duffy said in the news release.
Crews will complete construction on Quad-C by the end of 2014, Cuomo's office said.
The 253,000-square-foot facility will include 56,000 square feet of Class 1 capable clean-room space stacked on two levels.
An annual operating budget of over $500 million will support 1,500 high-tech jobs and the establishment of academic programs and cutting-edge workforce training opportunities.
The Quad-C is an "integral" part of Cuomo's Nano Utica initiative, featuring six global technology companies that will invest $1.5 billion to create a regional hub for nanotechnology-based innovation, education, and economic development, the governor's office said.
Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Inc. (ANSI), Albany–based SEMATECH, Germany–based Atotech, along with SEMATECH and CNSE partner companies, which include Armonk, N.Y.–based IBM Corp., Fremont, Calif.–based Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX), and Tokyo Electron, Ltd., are leading the consortium that will create Nano Utica, the governor's office said.


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- "From the day you were born, and took your first breath... I've been beside you. Be not afraid, fear not the name of.... the reaper."
- ― Reaper (Assassination Classroom)
Power to possess a shadow which kills anything that comes in contact with it. Variation of Death Inducement.
Also Called
- Deadly Shadow
- Fatal Shadow
- Killing Shadow
- Lethal Shadow
- Shadow of Death
User possesses a shadow that can kill anyone and possibly even destroy any thing caught within it. The form of death that this shadow can cause can range from a slow death to an outright cessation of existence.
- Users of Immortality may be immune.
- Shadow must touch the target.
- May be constantly active.
- Those with Resurrection could undo the damage if they are not wiped from existence.
- The shadow must be formed by a light source in order for the power to be in effect.
Known Users
- The Black Obelisk (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
- Lady of Pain (Planescape)
- He-Who-Made-Dark (SCP Foundation); while sealed
- SCP-1739 (SCP Foundation)
- Li Yunmu (Shadow Hack)
- Chester Ray Banton (The X Files)
- Abaddon (Torchwood)
- Emperor Crow species (Toriko)
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El Paso, 10 AM
92-degrees in the shade of the patio
Me: This morning's New York Times has an article about this phenomenon of people making life lists, these lists enumerating dozens of goals they wanna accomplish within their lifetime. There are websites dedicated to it, and books. There's a book called 1,000 Things To Do Before You Die.
Buck: Are you recording this? Is that tape recorder on?
Me: Yeah.
Buck: Who's gonna hear this? You're not gonna start podcasting me are you?
Me: Maybe, but not today. That's a long way off. So no, nobody's gonna hear this tape. I'm gonna transcribe it and post it on the Internet. Anyway. I was reading about these life lists and I wondered if you have any mental life lists in your head. Y'know, stuff you want to do in your lifetime?
Buck: Will you destroy this tape afterwards?
Me: Yeah, it's gonna burst into flames like on Mission Impossible. What about these lists? They're very popular, and I wanna know if you have one. Do you have stuff you wanna do before you die?
Buck: I've always wanted to perform brain surgery.
Me: You know you can watch brain surgery online now.
Buck: I don't like seeing it.
Me: What will you do if you ever get the opportunity to perform one?
Buck: I'll probably turn away a lot.
Me: I feel like Bennett Serf. (lights cigarette) What else is on this list of yours? You bring up Ireland a lot.
Buck: Yeah. It's probably the most American European country I could go to and feel comfortable.
Me: So you do want to go there?
Buck: I'd like to go, yeah. It's high on the list.
Me: What if we get there and you still can't understand anybody?
Buck: That's only your problem.
Me: What?!
Buck: It's always your problem.
Me: So you feel that you will definitely be able to understand the people there and I won't?
Buck: Yes. In the same way you say nobody understands you in El Paso. Have you noticed how I always have to interpret for you? I feel like Garrett Morris for you.
Me: (sighs) Jesus. What else is on your mental list, because I know you don't really make physical lists.
Buck: No, making lists is one of the things I don't do. If I did, I wouldn't be able to find it. You know how that works.
Me: Oh, I can find my lists, I just don't bother to read them. I never look at them again, even if they're in my pocket. Which is how I came home from the store without coffee yesterday.
Buck: The only time I make lists is when I go to Home Depot or Lowe's. That way I have a successful trip. There's nothing worse than coming back and not getting a certain hinge you need, or whatever.
Me: Hey, how come when I make these detailed lists for the grocery store and you sneak off to the grocery store without even telling me you're leaving the house, you only glance at my list beforehand? You never take my list with you, and then you only bring back items that were not from my list and act like you've done me a big favor. You're all, Oh Wendell, I got you Pepto Bismal, and it's the real stuff, not the store brand –
Buck: That's because I don't approve of your lists. (laughs)
Me: Why?
Buck: Why should I? I don't have to. Just because you write something down doesn't mean it's law.
Me: (sighs with disgust)
Buck: (in falsetto voice meant to be mine) Two boxes Evelyn's Mint Tea, the boxes are so beautiful, even if I never drink it . . . Chickpeas. I read a recipe for chickpea ice cream somewhere and I really want to make it –
Me: It's true, I would do something like that.
Buck: And your grocery lists never include what we need, they're like fantasy shopping lists. They never include toilet paper, or paper towels, soap –
Me: I had coffee on my list yesterday, the list I didn't look at.
Buck: You shouldn't even have to put coffee on your list! Because you know you can't live without it. That's like a junkie having to make a list to buy heroin. (laughs) Do you think a junkie says, 'Hmm, I must remember to score some smack. I better write that down so I don't forget. S-M-A-
Me: (laughs) Yeah, I guess you're right.
Buck: But I always fill your Christmas list, to a t.
Me: That's true, you do. And that's the most important list I make. I don't hold back on my Christmas list anymore, because I know you'll fill it no matter how outrageous it is. I used to hold back and put only –
Buck: You never held back.
Me: Whatever. Let's get back to you. What else is on your life list?
Buck: You're not gonna let this go, are you. Unlike yours, my list is very shallow. It has stuff like getting an Ohlin shock for my bike. That's my type of list.
Me: So you're not really planning ahead, planning the big picture?
Buck: Planning has never worked for me. I abandoned that notion at age 20. At 20 I had a plan, and that got crushed [because of his motorcycle accident]. I heard a cosmic 'Oh yeah?' and that was it.
Me: Yeah, I guess that would do it.
Buck: Most of my lists involve taking you somewhere to see what I've already seen, like taking you up the California coast, that type of thing. I want to go to Ireland, basically, to see you fight with all the Irish people. (laughs)
Me: That's true, I probably will be getting into a lot of fights.
Buck: Probably? (laughs)
Me: Well at least I won't be getting you involved in physical fist fights. I'm not a brawler. I'm not above shoving someone, but I'm not a brawler.
Buck: No, you're not. But in the same vein, if I have a problem with somebody, which is always valid, you turn into their defender. You become their lawyer.
Me: I do like to play devil's advocate.
Buck: That's the understatement of the year.


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text: drm 144 Posted October 6, 2019 30 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said: Whilst I don't disagree at all with the overall point you're making, I think it is fair to point out that Blackmagic do actually show it in a numerous scenarios in their marketing that would fit into that sort of use, at least in the way they are representing the cameras being used by the operators. Although the detail in the equipment used section for each scenarios belies those illustrations, which is a bit misleading as well. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/workflow While the P4K/P6K *could* be used in the situations they show in those ads, I am not sure that I would chose the P4K/P6K cameras for those settings. As I have said many times, I love the P4K & P6K cameras and the options they provide. But, in a rapidly moving run/gun situation, I have found them challenging to work with. The one-touch AF is slow (at best) and the battery life is poor (unless you use an external NP or v-mount). Perhaps your @BTM_Pix AF solution will help in this area. If I have time to set up and can use sticks, give me the P4K/P6K every time. If I have to go handheld or move fast, I generally take something else (GH5/GH5s, etc.). 1 tonysss reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I have had the opportunity of comparing the N9 and Lumia 800 side by side, while the tiles made the Lumia stand out but beyond that everything seemed to go awry. My brother who had bought a Lumia 800 mainly due to device envy was filled with buyer's remorse as he was unable to perform simple tasks like Bluetooth transfers that he was accustomed to from his symbian days. The need for Zune for copying songs and videos into his beautiful phone and the lack of USB Mass Storage, sent him scrambling back to his BlackBerry 9900 and the Lumia 800 back to it's box. This case kind of mirrors the frustrations of many Nokia fans who have have been accustomed to not having these limitations. Well you might say that Windows Phone 8 solves this problem, well it might but do you really think that any of them would want to pick up another Lumia device again?. Even the Maemo 5 (N900) didn't have these issues. Yet someone at Espoo felt that Maemo6 or Meego wasn't ready for primetime and that Windows Phone 7 was, which led to the now infamous burning platform memo and the abandonment of Nokia's road map for Windows phone. Nokia's roadmap was supposed to bring in meego as the OS of choice for their High end devices and symbian for the whole range, which would gradually would be phased out. This singular decision saw Nokia's smartphone market share plummet from over 30% back in 2010 to 5.1% at the end of 2012.
Some of the arguments for choosing Windows Phone over the Meego/Symbian roadmap was the lack of an ecosystem. Well today The Windows Marketplace still lags well behind Android and iOS in sheer number of apps and even popular apps and games like instagram, asphalt 7, Temple Run2 still haven't made their way into the marketplace. Even Facebook doesn't have an app for the windows phone (the current app is built by Microsoft). The Window Phone ecosystem was suppose to make it easier for one to access music with its integration with Xbox but yet Nokia has to build apps like Nokia Music for their devices something that they wouldn't need to do if the Xbox Music integration worked well as it should. So this questions the rational behind the decision by the CEO Stephen Elop to join this deficient platform and make it Nokia's sole option. Methinks it was a result of clear myopia as he didn't have a background on the working in the mobile phone industry. His American market first approach has all but killed Nokia off.
The executives at BlackBerry chose to launch their devices in the markets they were strongest at (Canada, UK, Middle East and Africa) clearly following an age long tradition of one playing to his strength. In doing this they took advantage of brand loyalty and word of mouth since the buyers would show off their new devices to their family and friends, who may be converted. And in keeping most of the functionally of their previous OS they would be able to keep their old customers happy enough to continue using BlackBerry devices in the future.
I believe Nokia should have taken a similar route by continuing with their roadmap as the maemo6 or meego devices had similar functionality to the Symbian devices. Which would help users switching from Symbian to Meego get accustomed to their new devices in the shortest amount of time. The deficiency of apps could have been easily rectified with a Dalvik runtime (and since Meego and Android are Linux derivatives, the Dalvik runtime could be made to run better so that android apps would run like if it was a native app), giving incentives to developers to build the popular apps or even build some of these apps like instagram, Facebook, twitter (heck BlackBerry builds the Facebook, twitter apps).
One might say that Nokia has killed the brand off and people would not respond to it anymore. Well, their is still the Asha Full Touch OS (you guys call a smartphone, now make it one). We have been treated to the swipe gestures, well it's nice and a good start but needs to be better. Why not strap in the Linux core from maemo 6 with QT support to make use of the Symbian apps available, and the Dalvik runtime in addition to the Java runtime (Samsung Galaxy line all run java apps) and Most importantly Multitasking. The Asha OS was meant to help Nokia retain its share of the cellphone market, but it can not do that if remains deficient when compared to Android devices of the same price. These android devices from manufacturers like Techno, Hauwei all have multitasking, decent RAM and a sizeable catalog of apps to choose from. While Nokia chooses to give buyers devices with 1GHz processors and 64MB RAM and no multitasking.
To me Nokia needs to do the following to get back into the market
- Bring back maemo and call it Asha if you like
- Make the New Asha OS compatible with QT, Android and Java apps
- Make the Asha device more appealing target the mid-range and downwards(4 inch screens, 5MP cameras, 512MB RAM, 1GHz processors is a good start)
- Retain features like USB Mass storage, USB OTG, and others
- Price it aggressively the price of the current Lumia 602 is a good start or even the Asha 311


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The Duffy Lake Road was fine, no construction line-ups, no snow, spectacular views, and even a rainbow.
I stopped to look at Seton Lake near the end of the Duffy Lake Road; this lake connects to Anderson Lake at its far western end, and D'Arcy is at the south end of Anderson.
On my first day on the road I got as far as Valemount on Highway 5, just before the Yellowhead Highway.
Just before Valemount I stopped for gas and the attendant there eyeballed the stickers on my windshield. One is my Nova Scotia safety sticker, the other is my Toronto parking sticker.
He recognized Toronto City Hall on the parking sticker and asked if I worked for the City of Toronto.
I said, No but I used to live there.
He said that he used to live in Ontario too, in Kingston. He liked Toronto he said, he felt safe there.
He said he'd walked the streets of Toronto at night---he rhymed off a few---and he never felt unsafe there. Vancouver, he shook his head, is a different story. Downtown Eastside...
I agreed with him.
He said, You know, Toronto is multicultural, but Vancouver is,
...is just mean. The people are just mean.
Hmmm, haven't heard that one before, I wondered what his experience was. It's a beautiful city set in a fabulous landscape, but some parts of that city are very hard.
He wished me a good trip.
The next day I drove through Robson Provincial Park and Jasper National Park on the Yellowhead.
The boundary between the two parks is also the border between British Columbia and Alberta.
I think Jasper is way more interesting than Banff National Park just south of it, but not nearly as famous. I saw lots more wildlife in Jasper Park than I did on my trip through Banff on the way to Vancouver in August. But that may have had something to do with all the road construction going on then.
I saw mostly elk and mountain goats, hanging out close to the road. In Jasper Park, the valley between the mountains is relatively broad so you can get wonderful views of the mountains without craning your neck upward. There are broad swaths of grass along the highway and I think that attracts the elk and goats in the fall, they appeared to be fattening up for the winter. On one occasion the cars slowed to almost a halt, passing by a couple of nonchalant mountain goats on the shoulder. They seem unafraid of vehicles, or of the people that emerge from them with cameras in hand. And they are huge, easily as big as large deer, almost as big as the elk. And fat.
I stopped in the town of Jasper just to see it, and also to deposit a cheque that Sam gave me in exchange for cash to hold him over till the next time he got near a bank machine.
The next town on the highway after Jasper Park was Hinton. Passing through Hinton brought back memories. It is the gateway to the Rockies on the Yellowhead, it is also the CN train station where the Mounties used to come on board westward headed passenger trains to remove the drunks. For all I know they still do, but it's been a long time since I travelled on that train.
In 1969 I headed west on the train with my boyfriend, for the grand price of $50 for a one-way ticket from Toronto to Vancouver. That got you a seat in coach class for the 3-4 day trip. They were bench seats, if you were lucky you snagged two facing benches so you could sleep more or less lying down. Everyone smoked and many drank. The air was pretty gross by the time you got to Vancouver.
The drinkers got their come-uppance in Hinton, the worst of the lot being removed by the aforementioned Mounties. I am not sure why they did that in Hinton, maybe it's OK to be drunk in the north woods and across the prairies, but not in the mountains. Or maybe it took that long for them to become obnoxious enough for the train people to be fed up with them.
And that is pretty much all I know about Hinton.
In a rest stop somewhere after that an old dog was wandering around. There were a lot of vehicles there, but after a few minutes most of the vehicles were gone and the old dog was still there. An older fellow in a car gave the dog scraps and asked me if it was my dog. I said No, and we looked at each other and the one other truck still at the rest stop. The fellow in that truck didn't own the dog either. The truck driver tried to read the dog's collar, but the dog growled at him. The old man phoned somebody to report the stray dog.
Aside from growling at the truck driver, the dog seemed friendly. If I wasn't planning to spend the night at a friend's place I would seriously have considered picking him up. He let me look at his collar but there was no tag. I hope whoever the old man called came to get the dog.
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New London mayor, Boris Johnson has decided to put the tube on the wagon! Newly elected mayor of London wants prohibition on the public transportation system.
The Lord No Longer High mayor is seeking to roll back the liberal excesses of Red Ken Livingstone's permissive unrule.
"Red Ken was against polluting the air but he let the tube be terrorized by marauding polluted drunkards!": offered Boris in explanation of his keg-busting reforms.
Bob Crowe, union leader for the transportation workers cast doubt over what he called an overly hasty plan. Crowe oddly asked for Johnson to appear Superman-like with his underwear over his trousers to enforce the new subway sobriety. Johnson stated his uncomfortableness with the union official's attention to his underoos, super or not.


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Nickelodeon is premiering its first ever hour long animated Christmas special this Friday and we talked to the movie's stars. Judah Friedlander, Sasheer Zamata, and Bobby Moynihan star in Albert, the story of a tiny fir tree named Albert (voiced by Moynihan) who dreams of being a famous Christmas tree in the big city. Zamata and Friedlander are the voices of his best friends- a palm tree named Maisie and a weed named Gene, who hit the road with Albert as he follows his calling. In true Christmas movie fashion, Albert will learn the true meaning of Christmas along the way. We talked with Judah, Sasheer and Bobby about the special, and found out that all three stars have very different favorite kids specials. Judah and Bobby had favorite holiday specials, and Sasheer had another animated movie that was a year round obsession for her.
Moynihan, who has provided voice work for some major animated movies and of course is one of the current stars of Saturday Night Live said his favorite was, and still is Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. First released in 1978 and later re-released on VHS in the late 80's, the special was packed with songs and favorite characters. "For me- that was the movie," Bobby said. "I believe the plot of it was, Big Bird gets locked on the roof by accident for Christmas so he thinks he's going to miss Christmas. They all are doing their Christmas things like going to get the tree. There's a weird scene where they're all ice skating together. It was huge at the time because it was like the Muppets ice skating. They had people in costumes and it was 'oh my gosh they're ice skating!' And Oscar got accidentally thrown through a wall and down a flight of stairs." Bobby remembered freaking out and spending an afternoon crying because he was worried Oscar was hurt. "I waited till Monday morning until I saw him on regular Sesame Street to think 'great, he's okay.' I was super into that movie." And it must still hold up because he admits to still watching it around the holidays. "My sister has kids now so I'm forcing it on them."
Judah admitted he never heard of the Sesame Street Christmas special, but is planning to check it out, and said he had a love for the traditional specials that ran every year when he was growing up. "We used to watch a lot of them," he said. "I'm older, so we didn't have VHS or anything, so you watched it when it came on TV, and you got ready for it and that was it. And you really paid attention." His favorites? Charlie Brown, and the original Rudolph. "Love that one. Love those," he said. So when the opportunity to be in a Christmas special that could become a new tradition for kids, he loved it. "I was like this is pretty cool." Friedlander who is perhaps best known as 30 Rock's Frank Rossitano is also an illustrator, and put out his own book of illustrations, says he used to make his own animated short movies in high school, so he has a real appreciation for animation.
Sasheer, who is also an SNL cast member, didn't choose a Christmas special as her favorite, but said as a kid she was obsessed with The Brave Little Toaster. "I watched it over and over and over again and this movie reminds me of that," she said. "Just a bunch of inanimate objects bouncing around all of the time, and going on wild adventures. I think there were multiple versions- they may have done a Christmas movie. But it's just a fun story of triumph and trying to band together as a team."
All three stars have done voicework before, and talked about finding the personalities of their characters. Bobby and Sasheer found the voices for their characters mostly from drawings. "Just that huge smile, I found myself doing this- always arms outstretched cause it just always looked like he's really psyched to be alive," Moynihan said, gesturing towards the movie poster. Bobby is voicing a few different cartoons right now and confessed that the most difficult part of voicework, is trying to remember all the different voices- especially when the characters are active. "'Okay, so now we just need you running?' So I try my hardest to make every character sound different, but all of them either fall or run and sound..they're all exactly the same."
Sasheer gave her character, "Maisie" a sunny disposition and a cheery attitude. "Palm trees are always in sunny places," she said. "Just looking at the facial expression that was already drawn on this tree, I tried to imagine what this being would sound like. I feel like she has wild eyes so, I tried to incorporate that in the voice." Zamata has done voice work before, but this is her first animated movie. "It's very exciting to play a character and fleshing out a story."
Judah said he was able to put himself into the mindset of a weed to come up with Gene's personality. "Weeds are survivors," he said."They're unappreciated and they're always under attack. The gardeners are trying to get rid of weeds, so weeds have to use a lot of ingenuity to move around for safety."
Additional cast members include: Rob Riggle as a prickly cactus, Cheri Oteri as the TV news correspondent, and John DiMaggio (Adventure Time) as Donny. Albert is directed by Max Lang (The Gruffalo), executive produced by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi (The Adventures of Pete & Pete) and written by Will and Aaron Eisenberg (The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery) and Joe Stillman (Shrek).
Albert premieres on Nickelodeon this Friday, December 9, at 7:00pm.