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The timing and overall nature of the photograph left fans reeling.
"I thought the royal baby was born," one wrote, with another adding "Omggeee I about had a fit. Thought the new baby was born #stillwaiting".
Royal watchers were subject to another major false alarm on Friday when an ambulance was spotted parked on the edge of Prince Harry and Meghan's estate. Sources soon confirmed that the emergency vehicle was not there for the Duchess, and, rather, was just picking up food for students in a training program.
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Atmosphere Strength alternative for superfly?
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Hello Poser fans
Does anybody has an idea how I can get the "Atmosphere Strength" effect for a light source in superfly. This effect does only work in firefly.
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Firefly and Superfly use different ways of doing this.
Check out this thread, some great tips in it on Superfly Volume for atmosphere and a link to a rendo thread on it as well.
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There is also this thread flash lights etc
shvrdavid last edited by shvrdavid
@amethystpendant Thanks, was just looking for that one as well. guess I better tag them, lol
Edit, both threads are now tagged :)
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Thank you very much. It seems the only way to get a light beam effect is with a cone object?
I tried with a cube and cycles volume. I get atmosphere but no light beam effect like I get it in firefly with atmosphere strength.
joker last edited by joker
no light beam effect with cycles scattervolume in superfly
shvrdavid last edited by
You have to be very careful with the lighting in Superfly and the atmosphere, and it may require 2 different renders that are layered on top of each other like you can set up Blender to do automatically. That's part of Blender, not Cycles
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Thank you I'll blender it with MangaStudio :-)


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Two Mershon Affiliates Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Last week the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 228 new members, including some of the world's most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders.
Among them were two Mershon faculty affiliates: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and professor of sociology, and Geoffrey Parker, Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History.
"I am particularly thrilled by this honor because I'm one of three Ohio State University members in the Class of 2017 -- all of them from the College of Arts and Sciences," Parker said.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing — and opportunities available to — the nation and the world.
Members contribute to Academy publications and studies in science, engineering, and technology policy; global security and international affairs; the humanities, arts, and education; and American institutions and the public good.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 7, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass.
Janet Box-Steffensmeier
Janet Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, Distinguished University Scholar, and affiliated faculty member with Translational Data Analytics.
Box-Steffensmeier's work focuses on political methodology and American politics. She is one of the top political methodologists working on event history, time series analysis and network modeling and is known for incorporating heterogeneity into analyses of political dynamics. Temporal change and dynamics are a driving theme throughout her substantive and methodological work. She has made lasting contributions to our understanding of the evolution of political behavior and political institutions through the development of new methods, data and theory. Her work has extensive support from the National Science Foundation.
Box-Steffensmeier was an inaugural fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. She has twice received the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association. She received the Political Methodology Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2016 from the Political Methodology Society. In that same year, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research honored her with the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences.
Box-Steffensmeier is the current vice president for APSA, and she previously served as the treasurer. She was also the president of the Political Methodology Society and Midwest Political Science Association. She has been an associate editor of both Political Analysis and American Journal of Political Science.
Box-Steffensmeier founded the Visions in Methodology conference, funded by NSF, to support women who study political methodology by providing opportunities for scholarly progress and professional mentoring. Ohio State hosted the first VIM meeting in 2008. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research is named for her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in this field. In 2013, Box-Steffensmeier was recognized for Outstanding Professional Achievement for Scholarship and Mentorship by the Women's Caucus for the Midwest Political Science Association.
The Ohio State University recognized Box-Steffensmeier with the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2012 and Undergraduate Mentor Award in 2009. The Department of Political Science honored her in 2013 with a Distinguished Teaching Award.
Box-Steffensmeier graduated magna cum laude from Coe College and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, University of Texas, in 1993. She joined the faculty in the Department of Political Science in 1993. In 2013, she was appointed faculty representative to the Ohio State Board of Trustees. In 2014, she was appointed divisional dean for the social and behavioral sciences for the College of Arts and Sciences. She sits on the Mershon Center's Oversight Committee.
Geoffrey Parker
Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, Distinguished University Professor, and affiliate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Parker, considered one of his generation's most influential historians, is no stranger in the arena of the world's top awards and honors, most notably the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences' Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in 2012 (Nobel Prize equivalent for historians) and, in 2016, elected corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy of Science and Letters, created in 1783 by Royal Charter for "the advancement of learning and useful knowledge." Additionally, he is a fellow of several other European Academies.
A consummate and prolific scholar, Parker has authored, edited or co-edited 39 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, focusing on the social, political and military history of Europe between 1500 and 1650, with special reference to Spain and its empire. He is the author of several seminal books in the area — notably The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. Published by Cambridge University Press in 1988, it won two major book prizes.
In 2013, Yale University Press published Global Crisis: War, Climate, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, concerning the climatically induced crisis that created acute political, economic, intellectual and social upheaval all around the globe, causing the premature death of around one-third of the human population. The book was funded by two grants from the Mershon Center and inspired, in part, by the hope that it would help inform the current debate on the consequences for human society of sudden climatic change. In 2014, the Society for Military History awarded Global Crisis its "best book" prize, and the British Academy awarded it a medal that recognizes "a landmark academic achievement in any of the disciplines supported by the Academy, which has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study." Yale will publish an abridged and updated edition in July 2017.
In 2014, Yale University Press published Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II, which has received numerous accolades. It includes much previously unknown material from a cache of 3,000 documents written by or to Philip that Parker discovered and cataloged in the library of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City.
Additionally, he has delivered hundreds of lectures around the world and given countless television and radio interviews in North America and Europe. He was principal consultant to the 2015 BBC mini-series Armada: 12 Days to Save England and also appeared in each episode.
Parker teaches courses on the Reformation, European history and military history at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and he received an Ohio State Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. He has directed several doctoral theses to completion.
Parker studied history at Christ's College, Cambridge University, where he received a B.A., Ph.D., and Litt.D. He then taught at the Universities of Cambridge and St Andrews in Great Britain and Yale before joining Ohio State's Department of History in 1997. He returned to St Andrews as a Carnegie Centennial Professor during the 2016 academic year. Currently, he is completing his biography of the Emperor Charles V (1500-58), a project for which the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a senior fellowship in 2014-15.
Academy membership
Members of the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences include winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the Wolf Prize; MacArthur Fellows; Fields Medalists; Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts recipients; and Academy Award, Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winners.
Besides Box-Steffensmeier and Parker, the third Ohio State faculty member elected to the academy this year was Russell H. Fazio, Harold E. Burtt Professor of Psychology. These three bring the total membership from Ohio State in the academy to 18.
Social scientists in the new class include psychologist Michael Tomasello, a widely cited scholar of comparative studies of humans and great apes; economist Marc Melitz, who developed a new approach to the analysis of international trade; attorney William Lee, a leading thinker and lawyer in the field of intellectual property; and cultural anthropologist Caroline Brettell, whose research focuses on international migration, specifically the issues of gender and personal narrative in the study of the migrant experience.
In the humanities and arts, new members include: philosopher Jonathan Lear, known for his work on Aristotle's logical theory; historian Naomi Oreskes, who studies scientific debate and climate change; award-winning actress Carol Burnett; linguist John Rickford, who examines the history and structure of creole languages; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, who writes about the lives of women of African descent; and John Guy, curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Academy membership encompasses more than 4,600 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members, and reflects the full range of disciplines and professions: mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business, government, public affairs, and the arts. Among the academy's fellows are more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.


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There are two booklets available to assist couples who are planning to get married in St Edward's Church Windsor.
The first is called "INFORMATION FOR MARRIAGES" and gives details of the various Civil and Church Requirements that need to be fulfilled before a marriage can take place. It also gives various suggestions for readings during the service.
The second is called "Planning your ORDER of SERVICE"
It should be emphasised that the first thing that you should do is contact the Parish Office and ensure that your required date is available. Several Weddings are already booked for six months ahead.
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I said I was not ready to do it. I don't judge those who do, I just know how life is with a two year old..... They do not let you live anything down. Once you start something, you have to be ready to fight it in the future and I just wasn't sure I was ready for that! I still do not know that I am. And my toddler is PERSISTENT!
However, today I caved in. I took Cilla to Chuck E. Cheese with some of the other kids in our playgroup. It was her first trip and it was a huge hit. She has actually been talking about it for a while. She noticed the mouse on the building a couple of months ago and I told her it was Chuck E. Cheese. So, she mentions it every time we drive by, but until today she has never known what was inside. And this is where the never live it down part comes in. I am sure every time we drive by now, she will want to go. But, we do not get everything we want in life, right?! I guess it is a teachable moment!
{Chuck and Cilla}
{Hannah and Cilla}
{All Smiles}
With all the rain we are having, we needed to get out and do something fun! Success!


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Staying Away From Toxic People Is An Important Element Of Self-Care
Staying away from toxic people and situations is an extremely important element of self-care. Coming into contact with people who treat others negatively and even cruelly, often the best response is simply to get out of harm's way.
Among the key delivery systems for toxicity are projections which are usually given in the form of "You are . . ."
How aware are you of projections – either giving them or receiving them? We learn projecting at an early age; and the effects can be debilitating. Taking care of yourself means watching for and refusing to accept projections.
Think. Is there anyone in your life who projects toxic thoughts onto you? Projecting is not the same as expressing feelings, although the two seem almost identical. When projecting, one is asserting what is true for another; and, if done in a damaging way, the results can be very difficult to deal with.


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Greentea wrote:SWM, you are correct. I just got the comic. It is a story that has never appeared before either in a full novel or in one of the anthologies, set between OBS and HotQ.
Well, we've known for months that these would be new, never-seen-before stories. The question is whether they are considered part of Honorverse canon after they are published. Phalanx is concerned that they might not be canon--that the new comics will create a separate canon that is not part of the existing Honorverse.


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MLS Cup Analysis
Thoughts on MLS Cup 2017
There was a lot to take away from Saturday's MLS Cup where Toronto overwhelmed the Seattle Sounders for a 2-0 win. ASN's Brian Sciaretta gives his thoughts on the game
BY Brian Sciaretta PostedThe 2017 Major League Soccer season is now in the history books and Toronto FC is the deserved champions after winning the Supporters' Shield in the regular season and dominating the Seattle Sounders 2-0 in MLS Cup to complete perhaps the finest season in the history of the league.
December 09, 2017
December 09, 2017
From the opening whistle Toronto controlled the game and completely overwhelmed Seattle. The 2-0 scoreline was completely flattering to the guests and the only reason why the game wasn't a laugher was Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei who turned in a first-rate performance.
But this Toronto team will go down as one of the best assembled teams that the league has ever seen. General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko and head coach Greg Vanney put together a roster that had no flaws. It spent a lot of money on designated players Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, and Sebastian Giovinco and all three turned in great seasons.
Beyond the designated players, there was also a lot of depth and quality. Victor Vazquez was one of the best midfielders in the league this year. Marky Delgado and goalkeeper Alex Bono are young and just entering their prime years but already played like seasoned veterans. Justin Morrow, Drew Moor, and Steve Beitashour were a solid and experienced backline.
Essentially, whenever this team was healthy it was far superior to any other team and Vanney had it playing to its potential.
Here are my thoughts on the game
Vazquez and Bradley controlled the game
Sebastian Giovinco and Jozy Altidore run Toronto FC's attack but this game was won in the midfield. Seattle's Ozzie Alonso was ruled out of the final with knee issues and the Sounders desperately missed him. Toronto simply overwhelmed Gustav Svennson and Cristian Roldan. As a result, Will Bruin, Clint Dempsey, Victor Rodriguez and Nicolas Lodeiro were completely invisible.
The primary reason for this dominance were flawless performances from Michael Bradley and Victor Vazquez.
Michael Bradley has received harsh treatment from American fans following the U.S. national team's failure to qualify for the World Cup. But he has found a home in Toronto and his performance in MLS Cup was one of the best in league history. He completed 65 out of 71 passes, his five tackles was the highest among all players and he also had four interceptions and six clearances.
Meanwhile Victor Vazquez was top-notch in playing dangerous passes into the attack to create multiple scoring chances. Seattle simply had no answer for his skill vision.
Giovinco and Altidore are a tough attack to stop but with a midfield that controls the game, Toronto is an overwhelming favorite in any game in this league.
Delgado and Frei deserve USMNT debuts
From an international perspective, Sefan Frei and Marco Delgado were the big winners in this game. With January camp starting in exactly one month under caretaker manager Dave Sarachan, the event will likely take the tone of talent identification as there are no meaningful games to prepare for.
Delgado, 22, made a strong case for his first ever U.S. national team callup. MLS Cup was his 30th start of the season and he has improved a lot in 2017 playing alongside of some of the best players in the league.
There is no doubt that central midfield is one of the most crowded positions among the next generation of American players. But beyond Weston McKennie, Jonathan Gonzalez, and Tyler Adams there is still room on a 23 player roster. MLS Cup will give him a platform to perhaps move past other players like Cristian Roldan who struggled for Seattle.
Meanwhile Stefan Frei, 31, is not young but is a highly competent goalkeeper that plays well in big games. Having only acquired his U.S. citizenship in 2017, he hasn't been available to the U.S. team until recently. Of course the U.S. team needs younger goalkeepers like Zack Steffen and Ethan Horvath to step up but having an older keeper in the mix is still a not a bad option.
What can Toronto do the Champions League?
As one of the best and most talented teams in league history, it will be interesting to see how Toronto does in the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League. Of course and MLS team has never won the tournament but Toronto will bring more talent and expectations when the quarterfinals get underway in February.
The timing of the knockout stages has always placed MLS teams at a huge disadvantage given that it takes place in preseason compared with Liga MX clubs which are in midseason form. But eventually MLS teams will have to find a way to overcome this and Toronto should have loftier expectations to contend for the Champions League crown.
Atmosphere was electric
The atmosphere in Toronto was about as intense as the league has ever seen. Toronto is a city that takes is sports seriously but the Maple Leafs, the Raptors, and the Blue Jays have not produced silverware in ages. The same can be said for most other Canadian cities.
But the crowd in Toronto came across great on television and it gave Toronto FC a true home-field advantage.
When Toronto came into the league, it drew well but the team's constant failure to make the playoffs eventually chased fans away. But an aggressive plan to make the team competitive has now created one of the best atmospheres in North America and one that rivals intense European experiences.
Ranking Toronto's achievement
So is this 2017 Toronto FC team the best team in MLS history? There is always a risk to making that judgement immediately after the final game but Toronto will have a great case. The Supporters Shield with the most ever points, Canadian Championship, and MLS Cup is an impressive resume.
The LA Galaxy teams which featured David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane, and Omar Gonzalez are generally at the top of most people's list as the best-ever MLS teams. But this Toronto team had tremendous depth and very few weaknesses.
MLS teams now have bigger budgets, more competition from a bigger league, and more ways to build rosters. There is less natural parity and assembling a top league takes skill and vision. So for Toronto to dominate the way it did in 2017 was groundbreaking.


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A great combination that blends the restriction of a built house with the freedom of the outdoor environment enables this house to be the perfect choice for tourists that want to rest and surf on the coastal water.
The residence made by NiHu Arquitectos is located in Plata Guiones, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on a former rice plantation. The flat characteristics of the surrounding geography allow for the exterior landscape and views to be framed and introduced as works of art in the interior design of the house.
The interior and exterior spaces blend perfectly. The house is divided into two blocks that offset from one another, enabling the separation between private and social spaces.
The amazing patio is formed by the blocks that come together and also features a long pool with a relaxation space aside.
For the surf passionate, there are storage racks for surfboards in the living room, storage tables for equipment in the bar area and therefore the user is not limited to being outside for those activities.
The interior design was thoroughly studied, from the exterior shell to the window system mechanisms, trying to be as honest as possible about the materials utilized.
In the exterior, the concrete allows for the structure to be easily read and understood.


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Can you believe that it is almost October?! How does that even happen?! I cannot believe how fast time is flying for me. So crazy.
And October 1st commemorates the 6 month anniversary of Zoey and Reece. I cannot believe that it has already been that long! And that I haven't said anything about it yet! I'm rectifying that mistake today.
Commence the wedding post of Zoey and Reece!
All picture credits go to the absolutely wonderful and amazing Alyson Wilson who, unfortunately, is not taking pictures anymore until her cute little babies grow up some! :( We miss her!!
It was a beautiful day for a wedding! The weather was perfect, blue skies, no wind, mild temperatures. So amazing.
Zoey was a bundle of nerves! I kept telling her, this is the fun part! You don't have to do anything now but enjoy the experience. Just keep breathing!
We had a lot of family and friends make it the the wedding, which makes the day even more special. I appreciated the efforts that were made to be there for her special day! Especially from the Bown side of the family! That was a long way to come! We love the Bown family!
Just a little lesson in how to say Zoey's last name..... It is like Brown with out the "r". You can do it people. That's what I keep telling myself too as I'm always saying like "bone". Sorry Reece's family!!!
I just love Clark. I was so happy to see him and Kathy at the temple with us that day!
This is Reece's cousin Vivie. And she is the sweetest.
Terry and I were fighting that day so this kiss...... totally faked. I've said over and over that if Terry and I ever got divorced, it would be caused by our kids' weddings. Seriously. But we are just down to Tessa and I've made it perfectly clear that her siblings/in laws get to do her reception/wedding. I think they can do that for me...... ;)
Aren't these two cute? I couldn't have done this wedding without Megan's help! She was awesome!
Grateful that AJ and Alex made it up also! They were troopers to come and help set up for the reception as well!
I loved the bouquet Zoey picked out! She bought this one off of Etsy. The flowers are actually made of wood. It was beautiful and sturdy!
Zoey made a beautiful bride! The dress looked stunning on her and I was so glad of the little touches that we had to go with it. Like...
His and her vans. (We somehow didn't get a picture of her blinged out, high heel shoes! Probably because she didn't wear them long because they were killing her feet!)
And she also had some nice touches for him....
Reece loves him some Captain America......
Aren't they just too cute!
I think that I had the most fun putting together Zoey's reception. I loved how all of them turned out, but I think Zoey's was more in tune with my style as well. Just homey comfort stuff....
Cookies and milk, picnic style foods, brownies. Just plain stuff. Except for...
... the cupcakes! Anyone that knows Zoey, knows that she loves all the baking "war" shows; Cupcake Wars, Cake Wars, Cake Boss, she loves them all as my DVR can attest. So it seemed only natural that we would have cupcakes at her reception instead of a cake. At first, I was going to hire that out, but as I started researching prices and especially prices of specialty cupcake flavors, I knew that I wasn't going to spend that amount of money on something I could do myself. So we started baking cupcakes and trying it out. I ended up making five different flavors, all of which I loved so much.
My favorite though has to be the banana cupcake with Nutella frosting. I'm a sucker for anything with banana and chocolate. Yum.
I did give up making these favor cookies, since there was no way I would be able to make them as good or as cute as Randee Pingel did them for us. They were adorable and I loved seeing people take them home!
We made this wall from pallets and it was the perfect backdrop for our line. Really simple as well!
Table decorations....
Totally Zoey's idea! So awesome! Loved being able to show off her engagement pictures, again taken by Alyson!
There were so many, many fun touches to this reception, I could go on for a whole other post! But my time for writing is over, and my work awaits. Suffice to say, I loved Zoey's wedding and reception, but I loved even more that she has found someone that loves her, loves our family, and is worthy to be sealed to her in the temple for eternity. That is what I'm most happy and grateful for.


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April 1, 1991
JAMES HENNESSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,v.COASTAL EAGLE POINT OIL COMPANY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
Judges Brody, Gruccio and D'annunzio.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: D'annunzio, J.A.D.
Argued December 18, 1990
This opinion addresses random urine testing by a private sector employer to detect the illicit use of drugs.
Plaintiff, James Hennessey, was an at-will employee of defendant, Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (Coastal). As part of its drug interdiction program, Coastal subjected Hennessey to a random urine test on June 9, 1986. The test revealed Hennessey's use of marijuana and diazepam. Marijuana is a Schedule I controlled dangerous substance and diazepam is a Schedule IV substance. N.J.S.A. 24:21-5e.(10); N.J.A.C. 8:65-10.4(b)2. The possession or use of those substances are criminal offenses under New Jersey statutes. N.J.S.A. 24:21-20a and b, (current version at N.J.S.A. 2C:35- 10a and b (1987)). Although diazepam is the active ingredient in a frequently prescribed tranquilizer (Valium), Hennessey does not contend that he used diazepam pursuant to a valid prescription.
Coastal discharged Hennessey, who then commenced this action for wrongful discharge. Plaintiff's six count amended complaint alleged a variety of legal theories to support his allegation that Coastal wrongfully discharged him. The parties stipulated damages in the amount of $100,000 and cross- moved for summary judgment on liability. The trial court entered judgment in plaintiff's favor under count one which alleged a discharge "contrary to a clear mandate of public policy of the State of New Jersey." See Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., 84 N.J. 58, 417 A.2d 505 (1980). Coastal appeals from the judgment, and we now reverse.
Before we discuss the legal issues, some background information will be helpful to understand the context in which this dispute arose.
Coastal operates an oil refinery which it acquired from Texaco in May, 1985. Coastal's facility is located on 1,000 acres and it includes an 800 acre tank farm with 120 storage tanks. The largest tank has a capacity of 21,000,000 gallons. The facility operates 24 hours per day with 330 employees, producing 4,800,000 gallons of refined product each day. The refinery produces gasoline, jet fuel, high octane aviation fuel, kerosene, heating oils, benzene, cumene, butane and propane gas. All of the products are combustible and some are highly toxic.
The refining process requires the application of high temperatures, sometimes reaching 1,300 degrees fahrenheit, and pressures up to 500 pounds per square inch. Catalysts such as sulfuric acid are used, and hydrogen gas is a major by-product.
Crude oil is delivered to Coastal by tanker or pipeline. It is transported to a processing unit or to a tank for storage. After completion of the refining process, the end product is transported to a storage tank and eventually piped to a dock or a railroad or truck loading facility, where the product is loaded for shipment out of the refinery.
Hennessey had been a Texaco employee who retained his job when Coastal acquired the refinery in May, 1985. He was employed in the Movement and Storage Division as a lead pumper in the tank farm. Two paragraphs from the affidavit of James Myers, a Coastal executive, explain the function of a lead pumper:
Beneath the position of lead pumper in the organizational chart of the Tank Farm are the positions of gaugers. The gaugers are responsible for blending gasoline in the tanks, placing the proper amounts of butane, lead, anti-knock and dye in the tanks; unloading lead tank cars into a special tank; and being in charge of the propane tanks and the sales tanks in the sales department. A gauger also gauges the tank to measure the volume of product in the bank and the rate of inflow or outflow of product and opens and closes the valves that control the flow of product through the Tank Farm. The gaugers are directed in their work duties by the lead pumper.
The lead pumper at the Coastal refinery works in the control room in the Tank Farm where in front of him are two telephones, one radio and a console board registering the condition of the valves (e.g., what valves are open) and the nature of many of the line-ups throughout the Tank Farm. From the control room, the lead pumper directs the work activities of the gaugers, who do very little without the lead pumper's direction. At the beginning of his shift, the lead pumper receives orders and instructions on what products are to be pumped and what volumes are to be pumped during the course of his shift. The lead pumper must heavily rely on the accuracy of those instructions, just as the lead pumper must heavily rely on his orders and instructions, which are largely based on the preceding lead pumper's work and records. If the volume levels given to a lead pumper are not expressed in gauge levels, the lead pumper must first make accurate calculations to convert the volume and figures into gauge levels that can then be conveyed to and used by the gauger at the Tank Farm. The lead pumper must then interpret and understand all of his orders in order to be able to convey them properly to the gaugers.
When Coastal acquired the refinery in May 1985, it retained the Texaco work- force, but subjected the employees to physical examinations, including urinalysis. Hennessey's urine test at this time was negative for evidence of drug use. However, the 1985 urine testing revealed that 19% of the work force used drugs. According to the affidavit of Michael J. Hoey, Coastal's Manager of Employee Relations, the drug users were "given a stern warning by Coastal that any form of drug use or impairment at work would not be tolerated."
As a result of the 1985 drug test results, Coastal adopted and disseminated to all employees a written policy titled "Company Policy On Alcohol, Drugs And Controlled Substances." A memorandum dated June 21, 1985, accompanied the written policy. A copy of the policy is attached to this opinion as appendix A. It includes a directive that any employee using a drug or medication "known or advertised as possibly affecting or impairing judgment, coordination, or other senses or which may adversely affect the ability to perform work in a safe and productive manner must notify his or her supervisor or other management official prior to starting work...."
The policy also warned employees that any employee "may at any time be required to give a urine or blood sample in order to determine compliance with the policy."
The accompanying memorandum informed the employees "that any violations of this policy may lead to immediate termination," but that employees who voluntarily admitted to a drug problem would be assisted in their efforts at rehabilitation. A copy of the memorandum is attached to this opinion as appendix B.
According to Hoey, Coastal discovered evidence of on-the-job marijuana usage in January, 1986. As a result, Coastal implemented a program of random urine testing in the spring of 1986. Each week, Coastal tested five employees selected randomly by the plant nurse. To deter the submission "of fake or adulterated samples ... an observer is present in the lavatory and observes from the rear while a sample is submitted, with the observer instructed ... not to look at any of the employees' genitalia or private parts." The sample is tested solely for evidence of drugs, initially through an Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique (EMIT) test. A positive EMIT is confirmed by a gas chromatography mass spectrometry test. See In re Carberry, 114 N.J. 574, 579-580, 556 A.2d 314 (1989), for a discussion of those tests. In the present case, the parties stipulated that the test of Hennessey's urine yielded an accurate result.
The trial court relied on the prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, found in Article I, paragraph 7 of the New Jersey Constitution, as the source of the public policy which it found that Coastal had violated. The court also relied on Fraternal Order of Police v. City of Newark, 216 N.J.Super. 461, 524 A.2d 430 (App.Div.1987), in which another panel of this court invalidated a Newark Police Department directive mandating urine testing for all members of the department's narcotics bureau upon transfer into the bureau and at least twice a year while assigned to the bureau. In Fraternal Order of Police, the panel held that in the absence of individualized suspicion, urine testing is an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the New Jersey constitution. Id. at 477, 524 A.2d 430. See also Allen v. Passaic Cty., 219 N.J.Super. 352, 530 A.2d 371 (Law Div.1986). But cf. Local 194A v. Burlington County Bridge Comm'n., 240 N.J.Super. 9, 572 A.2d 204 (App.Div.) (urine testing of public employees in the absence of individualized suspicion does not violate ...
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Those hopes were dashed last November, causing Sarepta share to plummet 64%, and then revived in April when Sarepta announced that the FDA had agreed to accept a New Drug Application after all, although approval is still far from certain.
The new data released this morning track the 12 boys in the eteplirsen study for 144 weeks. One of the very impressive things about some earlier results presented by Sarepta was that boys with Duchenne, which causes muscles to stop working and eventually results in death, seemed to improve. But at this point in the study we're not talking about a reversal but a much slower decline.
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For the six patients who received either of two doses of eteplirsen from the outset of the trial, the maximum score on the six minute walk test has decreased by 32.2 meters; for the four who started on a placebo and were switched to eteplirsen later, that figure is a decrease of 107.4 meters. This difference of 75.1 meters is highly statistically significant. The results are similar if mean or minimum scores on the test are used.
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Sarepta's press release quotes Jerry Mendell, director of the Centers for Gene Therapy and Muscular Dystrophy at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the study's lead investigator, saying: "The long-term clinical data for eteplirsen showing a slowing in the decline of walking ability in a population now on average 12 years old are very encouraging, particularly when compared with the growing body of DMD natural history data which clearly show that similarly aged patients typically experience an increasingly rapid decline in walking ability and lose ambulation in their early teen years."
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Do these new data really change things much, compared to the data 24 weeks ago when the distance walked by patients who started on eteplirsen declined 13.9 meters and those who started later declined 78.8 meters? Not really, says Eric P. Hoffman, Professor and Chairman, Department of Integrative Biology, George Washington University. He is also founder of a company that is developing drugs for muscular dystrophy. He still wants to see more increases in dystrophin, the missing protein eteplirsen is supposed to lead the body to produce, in these boys. Pulmonary function data can be hard to read because they are "all over the place." Garabedian told me that it would not be true to say that all the boys had increases in pulmonary function.
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"What everyone's concerned with is that while that's probably great for these companies, it's sort of punting the pressure downstream to insurers and national health agencies," says Hoffman, "Because are they going to pay for these effect sizes?"
Sarepta is in an odd predicament when it comes to investor expectations for approval, too. The best situation for the company would be if the FDA lowered the bar for approval far enough to let Sarepta's eteplirsen through without approving the similar drug from Prosensa, which was studied in a larger randomized trial that failed to meet its primary endpoint. Sarepta is also apparently blocked from selling eteplirsen in Europe by patents held by Prosensa.
The most important questions, though, are whether the drug works and whether the full dataset will really give regulators at the FDA enough confidence to approve it. And that's difficult to say. Sarepta shares are down 10% this morning and are only about $1.50 above where they were before the company announced it was going to file with the FDA again. I still tend to think Sarepta's data show promise in a very serious disease.
Sarepta shared its data with me last night on the condition that I not publish anything until it had released the study results publicly.
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Description: Papers of Donald Holt (1932- ) (B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956), Director of the Agriculture Experiment Station (1983- ), containing correspondence concerning the Agriculture Experiment Station, the American Society of Agronomy, the Agricultural Satellite Corporation, North Central Association of Experiment Station Directors, and other review boards and committees relating to sustainable agriculture, the Potash and Phosphate Institute, and the relationship of technology to extension service.


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Incoming S.F. supervisor Jane Kim has grand goals
Jane Kim's black belt in tae kwon do, a martial art emphasizing strength, discipline and self-defense, may come in handy in her new job as San Francisco supervisor in the sometimes bare-knuckles environment of City Hall politics.
Kim, a Boalt Hall-trained attorney practicing civil rights law, will take over the District Six seat representing the South of Market, Tenderloin and North Mission areas on Jan. 8.
She already has shown she can hold her own during her four-year tenure on the San Francisco Board of Education, the last year as president.
There, she earned a reputation not as an ideologue cemented in her left-leaning political roots but as someone willing to work with her more conservative colleagues to forge compromises - even if, in the end, the divisions remained.
There have been plenty of issues confronting the city's public schools: the school assignment process, the student discipline policy and whether the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program belongs in San Francisco schools.
Kim opposed the JROTC and favors alternatives to suspending and expelling students for bad behavior. The new school assignment system, supported by Kim, gives some preference for families hoping to enroll their children in neighborhood schools.
"She doesn't just pooh-pooh every idea that doesn't come out of her camp," said Hydra Mendoza, a school board colleague who described herself as a moderate and Kim as a progressive. "She's open to listening to ideas, but also will challenge me, wanting to know how I came to my position."
Kim has said her legislative priorities at City Hall will include building more affordable housing, improving pedestrian safety, beefing up the city's community policing program, combatting the bedbug epidemic, making it easier to open small businesses, and revitalizing blighted areas by offering businesses incentives to move into vacant storefronts.
She also supports efforts to generate more revenue for the city and backs hiking the city's parking lot tax and imposing a new fee on downtown business interests to help fund Muni service. She said the idea of enacting a local income tax is worth exploring.
Born and raised in Manhattan, Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrants who came to the United States in 1971, six years before her birth.
She grew up speaking Korean and English at home. At 14, she started serious training in the Korean martial art tae kwon do, a pursuit that, she said, made her stronger and more confident.
A single, 33-year-old electric bass player, she rents a condo near Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue in a hard-to-define neighborhood that falls between Hayes Valley, the South of Market and the Mission. She owns a car and also gets around town on Muni and on foot.
Kim got her political start through community organizing. When she was a teenager, she worked at the Coalition on Homelessness in New York City. She moved west to attend Stanford University, where she majored in political science and Asian American studies, settled in San Francisco 13 years ago and was admitted to the State Bar last year.
She landed a job with the politically connected Chinatown Community Development Center, focusing on tenant rights, affordable housing, public safety, alleyway improvements and youth leadership training.
Kim helped organize the now defunct San Francisco People's Organization, a coalition of more than three dozen left-leaning groups that emerged as an offshoot of then-Supervisor Matt Gonzalez's unsuccessful run for mayor in 2003. She lost her first race for school board in 2004. She ran again two years later and finished first.
Like Gonzalez, Kim was a member of the Green Party. She registered as a Democrat after Barack Obama was elected president.
She is a close ally of Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, a former roommate who is deft at straddling the board's left and centrist flanks.
"I think you'll see Jane as a supervisor who will bridge divides," Chiu said.
Kim did not get the heavyweight endorsements of the left-leaning Bay Guardian nor the Democratic County Central Committee, which backed Debra Walker in the District Six race. Supervisor Chris Daly, who is termed out as District Six supervisor after serving as a torch-bearer for the left during his decade in office, didn't endorse Kim either.
Still, she built a winning campaign on her years as a community organizer, harnessing hundreds of volunteers and reaching the district's different constituencies with multilingual campaign materials and events tailored to various ethnic communities.
She was at ease in diverse settings and courted the broad spectrum of the district's residents, from the moneyed condo owners in South Beach to the single-room occupancy hotel tenants in the Tenderloin. She promises to have an open door to all her constituents.
"One advantage that I have," Kim said, "is that I get to come into office fairly independent."
New supes
The Chronicle has highlighted each of the incoming members of the Board of Supervisors who will be sworn in on Jan. 8.
Tuesday: District 10, Malia Cohen
Wednesday: District Two, Mark Farrell
Thursday: District Eight, Scott Wiener


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Couple of quick things before I get into my next blog:
One: Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and read my blog on perseverence—I really appreciated all the wonderful comments!
Two: Lesson learned: never type your blog while online, especially if your browser is as mercurial as mine and suddenly closes for no apparent reason. You are doomed to start again from scratch, as I have been several times now. Pop those thoughts into a document then copy and paste into the blog.
And now a Story and a Recipe:
Many years ago—geez, I'm old enough to write that?—I worked with another occupational therapist who once commented, "Joanna, you have a story about everything!" She was right; I still do, but isn't that what makes me a writer?
So it goes that I have a story about my absolute favorite chicken recipe, this amazingly simple, incredibly delicious, very elegant dish; perfect for special occasions yet easy enough to make during the week and even better the next day! Feel free to make ahead, store in a covered glass baking dish and reheat before company comes!
When I was a girl I lived down the block from a family-owned, Italian butcher/grocer/deli. As soon as I was old enough to cross the street, my mom had me there almost daily, picking up little things she needed. Sometimes, she'd send me without money and I'd sign a receipt; she'd pay for those items on Saturday, when she made her weekly visits and bought our meats for the following week. Three brothers owned that store, and over the years, I'd established a pretty decent rapport with at least two of them.
By the time I was in my late teens/early twenties, the owners offered a hot deli bar. One of the brothers gave me a sample of this to-die-for-chicken breast made with rosemary and wine, so I asked for the recipe. He got really annoyed when I pushed for it, told me he paid to have it, and that I had no business asking. Good thing the little Italian lady who did the cooking motioned to me when said owner wasn't looking or I would have ended up in a rather caustic exchange of words. She slipped me her phone number and gave me the recipe on the sly.
Long story short: I must have written that recipe down on two pieces of paper because at some point, I had only a list of ingredients and no directions on how to put them together. I even tried flubbing it a few times, but the dish never tasted the same as when Angelina (not her real name) made it. Of course, I'd lost her phone number too.
Somewhere between five and ten years ago, I was sitting in my doctor's waiting room, waiting for a routine physical. An elderly woman and developmentally disabled man entered together. After a while she looked at me, nodded and finally told me I seemed familiar. I shook my head, and though I recognized the man from church, I'd never connected him as her son. She shook her head in the way someone who's had her hardships does and started talking about where she went to church, etc. Then she told me she used to cook at my old butcher/grocer/deli before the place was sold and eventually went out of business. (It is now a custom motorcycle shop, go figure.)
I nearly jumped out of my chair. "Oh, my gosh! You're the lady who used to make the chicken!" I immediately knocked on the receptionist's window, secured pen and paper and begged her for the rest of the recipe. (Yes, it's at my official website. Look below for the link.)
Thoughts for the day: Expect the unexpected. Be open. Smile and say hello. You'll be surprised at who crosses your path, and why, when or how any given person will impact your life.
Here's the link: www.joannaaislinn.com/Recipes.html
Try it! Let me know if it's as awesome as I say!


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Bev Robitai currently works as a writer, book coach, and freelance photographer while travelling in New Zealand and Ontario in Canada. It's an itinerant lifestyle of year-round summer involving boats and motorhomes and a ski chalet. She writes mostly light crime fiction, sometimes based in the theatre and sometimes straying into post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Her novel Murder in the Second Row was launched in June 2010 in a historic theatre that was also used as the setting for Body on the Stage. A decade of backstage experience gave her the raw material for both books.
A stand-alone novel Eye for an Eye is the tale of a quest for justice, inspired by the actions of a real-life conman whose trail of victims made the author angry enough to imagine retribution - in some very inventive ways...
The Sunstrike novels are set in a post-apocalyptic present day world when a major solar storm has wiped out all electrical technology. They are optimistic survival adventures following normal people learning and adapting to difficult new circumstances.


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The pictures for the Active Citizens Awards are up! We previously blogged that one of our long standing volunteers had been nominated for this and won. Volunteer Centre Southwark have now uploaded (a whopping 138 photos!) them onto flickr. The evening's performances were themed around Black History Month. Here are just a few of our favourites.
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This week's From The Vault was unanimously agreed to be a necessity.
Mariah Carey's roof raising rendition of 'Joy To The World' is our festive selection.
A popular Christmas carol, 'Joy' was included in Mariah's seasonal album 'Merry Christmas.' Her take on the track was self-arranged alongside former partner in rhyme Walter Afanasieff and stands as one of the LP's standout jams.
Mimi's unparalleled ability to raise the roof makes it a true tour de force, and with her Christmas shine intensifying through time, it should continue to spread the festive spirit in every home for more decades to come.
We joyfully salute Mariah, especially during this season. Her latest releases may have left the masses unmoved, but we're glad that at least once a year (at the very least), people are reminded of her other-worldly talent.
Salute to the Queen of Christmas and wishing all of you an amazing holiday.


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Today, the Michigan State Quarter Coin remembers the first of many patents for the refrigerator car on November 26, 1867.
From the Insulation of Railway Equipment by the Union Fibre Co., published in 1912:
Historical Sketch of the Refrigerator Car
Four hundred and eighty-seven patents on refrigerator cars have been issued by the United States Patent office and probably twice as many applications for patents have been allowed to die neglected.
From this it is apparent that the improvement of the equipment for transporting fruit and other perishable food-stuffs has had the serious attention of many capable men.
Most of these men have endeavored to make radical, impractical, and complicated changes in the refrigerator car, some installing wonderful machines, many of them having no regard for expense, most of them forgetting the principles which, in our present age at least, restrict to narrow limits the possible changes.
Such changes only, are permitted as will improve the car and yet will not greatly advance the cost, nor complicate the handling of the lading or the car itself.
In the first place the car must conform as nearly as possible to the size, shape and design of an ordinary freight car. A railroad cannot alter its roadbed, bridges and tunnels to accommodate a new device no matter how praiseworthy.
Second, the cheapest, simplest, easiest manipulated, and most practical agency for refrigeration is ice, and hence the car must resemble in general principles an ice box or refrigerator.
Third, the devices for carrying the ice must be so placed in the car as to permit the maximum lading space.
Fourth, each car must be a unit. A car may be cut out of a train for a dozen reasons, and must necessarily be held at destination until unloaded.
Since these principles seem to be essential they should be kept in mind in a survey of the different steps in the development of, the refrigerator car in the United States, because the car used in the United States by most of the important railways, is by general consent considered the best of its kind.
There are three general systems which are or have been prominent, one in which the ice is placed in a tank or tanks suspended from the roof/panel the cool air is precipitated upon the contents below in various ways; another in which the ice is placed in one or both ends of the car, and the air within kept in circulation by a fan or other mechanical device; a third, which is now nearly universal, has ice tanks at each end of the car and the air circulation is obtained naturally, because of the relative density of cold air and warm air, and the displacements which occur when one is properly acted upon by the other.
A fourth type, which seems to have been eclipsed, admits fresh air from outside the car, cools it, uses and expels it again.
This introduction of fresh air from the outside has many drawbacks.
Since the air is warm, it not only melts large quantities of ice, but carries countless germs and other deleterious organisms which find nutritious soil on the surface of the perishable goods.
The Beginning of Refrigerator Cars
In this fourth type was the first American refrigerator car for which a patent was issued to J. B. Sutherland of Detroit, November 26, 1867.
This car had ice chests in each end. The air from the outside was admitted at the top, passed down through the ice chamber, and was discharged near the floor into the loading space to reduce the temperature.
The car was constructed with double walls, roof and floor for insulation.
The air inlets at one end operated as outlets, depending on the moving direction of the car.
What might be called the first successful refrigerator car was patented by Wm. Davis, also of Detroit, on June 16 and September 15, 1868. This car had an air space for insulation entirely around the top, floor, sides and ends.
To assist this insulating effect, there was placed two layers of hair insulation against the inner air space wall, and this was covered with an interior wooden shell.
The ice tanks were placed along the sides of the car, and extended from the top of the car to within three inches of the floor. They were 4.5 inches wide at the top and tapered to two inches wide at the bottom.
They communicated at the top with funnel openings, and at the bottom drip pipes carried away the water resulting from melted ice. Through the funnel openings on top were put in broken ice and salt.
Many patents for supposed improvements to the refrigerator car were granted immediately after the foregoing; most of them so complicated as to prohibit their use, hence of no importance to the present discussion.
The device of having V-shaped ice receptacles mentioned above in Davis' car was altered by Tunstall of St. Louis, September, 1872, so that one V-shaped receptacle ran through the center of the car from end to end.
This was filled at the top and had vertical drips at each end.
Some of the patents issued in this earlier period are of great interest as curiosities, some of the cars being of the most complicated construction.
One in particular has a zig-zag system of terra cotta or tile pipes running through the roof, walls, and floor of the car.
These pipes were embedded in a layer of clay located between the outer shell of boards and the inner lining.
Through the pipes water was to be circulated.
Between the pipes and the interior of the car a thick layer of charcoal was to be packed in an additional lining, this charcoal to take up the unpleasant odors from the goods in transit.
Then besides the layer of charcoal a layer of saw-dust in another additional lining was to take up the dampness and protect the interior of the car from moisture.
Several of the patents contemplated the use of so much machinery that a practical railroad man would be extremely puzzled to ascertain where the designer intended to carry his cargo.
The Michigan State Quarter Coin shows with an image of men putting ice in a refrigerator car, circa 1939.


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The following research fields represent some excellence sectors at the University of Rome Tor Vergata:
- Study of genomic risk in complex and multifactorial diseases, with particular reference to cardiovascular and gastro-intestinal diseases. As far as these research fields are concerned, a recent discovery by a research team of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" must be named: a new and important experimental therapy for Crohn's disease, i.e. a chronic, disabling bowel disease;
- ICT (development of 5th-generation telcom nets, i.e. 5G);
- Computer security, ICT and precision medicine;
- Sustainable development, renewable energies. Considering overarching research projects for technologies linked to energy production and storage, a relevant example is photovoltaic cell development: it deals with 4th-generation cells operating with far higher efficiency when compared to traditional solar panels.
- Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics.


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A suburban Philadelphia high school football coach has resigned after three senior football players reportedly sexually assaulted a freshman during a hazing the team called "No Gay Thursday."
Longtime Conestoga High School head football coach John Vogan issued his resignation Thursday and made it effective immediately after three 17-year-old students faced charges stemming from an October 2015 incident in which the three seniors are accused of holding down a 14-year-old boy and sodomizing him with a broom handle, the Associated Press reports.
Although prosecutors say they have no evidence to show that the coaching staff at the Berwyn, Pa., school was aware of the incident or a hazing culture, school district officials noted that the locker room had "an insufficient adult presence," which created an environment where hazing could occur, AP reports. The school has also relieved the varsity and junior varsity football staff of their coaching duties.
Read more at the Associated Press.


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Dear Mr Toy Manufacturer,
Or can I just call you Capitalist Bastard CB for short? Ta. I assume that you are male, as no woman who does 99% of the present wrapping of the world would be so fucking stupid as to allow toys to be shaped as they are.
Balls I can cope with. I have even managed to wrap a bike. My wrapping skillz are world renown. But how the fuck am I supposed to wrap this thing neatly?
I mean REALLY CB, what were you smoking when you approved the shape of this thing? And what about this:
And this:
And while I am at it, why on Gods green earth do you wrap the toys in impenetrable plastic and then not include the freaking batteries? I have to either demolish the packaging and make the kids think that Santa got the gift from the reject bin of Kmart to get the fucking batteries in or on 2 hours sleep and with a hangover that would kill a goat (from the iced eggnog…. mmmm eggnog) wrestle with the packaging whilst my kid jumps from foot to foot begging me to hurry the fuck up. By the time I have finished they have lost interest and eating the contents of their stocking while I am distracted and will not eat the turkey that
took me 6 fucking hours to cook I lovingly baked.
I am thanking sweet Jesus that my girls are no longer into Barbies and the like, cause those fuckers are held down with shit loads of plastic ties, pieces of string and other paraphernalia meant to make parents rue the day they said 'Yeah, lets forget the condom tonight' or 'I think I took my pill, oh what the heck' or 'roll over' or whathaveyou.
Now CB, you know we will never let your profits fall cause your wonderful subliminal advertising has us wrestling each other in the toy store aisles for the last whatever-the-fuck-is-the-ultimate-toy-that-year or ringing around the world, or even whinging on our blogs trying to find our child the perfect gift that will be gathering dust by mid January, but I am pleading with you to please please make the bastards easier to wrap? Those of us with OCD tendencies want the tree to look all Martha Stewart before our
tiny terrorists little angels demolish it before our sleep deprived eyes. And things that have taken hours to wrap end up looking like the dog has mauled them and make our little perfect housewife eyes twitch and have us reaching for the wine to dull the pain.
I honestly think for the amount of cash we bring your way you could keep us in mind before you approve the need-scissors-machete-every-freaking-screwdriver-and-blowtorch-to-open packaging for your wonderful must have toys.
Oh, and don't outsource to China. Lead is not part of my kids diet.
Could you pass on a message to the asshats that make 'clear' tape? Tell 'em that the stuff is not freaking clear at all and if they need a lesson on what is 'clear' means just give me a call and after I have finished ripping them a new arsehole I will read them the dictionary definition.
Choke on a turkey bone and DIE yours sincerely,
Rocking in the corner with a bottle of wine Mummy.


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"Metropolitan Hunting Season", illo for PLANSPONSOR Europe about job hunting. It is one of the jobs that I had most fun with. Thanks for the great assignment SooJin!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Featured in Carne Magazine
Few of my works are featured in Carne Magazine issue #5 together with many other awesome artists! Download the issue here.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
New Illo for AI5000
New illo for AI5000 electronic magazine about "Outsourcing".
Click here to read the article and see other amazing illustrations done by Chris Buzelli, Yuko Shimizu, John Hersey, Charlie Immer, Adam McCauley, Chang Park, Gramham Smith, Steve Wacksman, Kyler T. Webster...
Thanks again to the legendary AD SooJin Buzelli, who loves illos and knows well that illustrators give their best work when they are given the most creative freedom.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
New Illo for Family Circle Magazine
New illustration for an article in Family Circle magazine about parents bartering for their kid's good behavior with Internet time". Thank you AD Karmen Lizzul for allowing me to put the minimal internet/computer symbols in the illo!
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Labels: Family Circle, illustrations
Monday, September 6, 2010
Free i-phone or i-pad wallpaper
Happy labor day!
Click here for free i-phone or i-pad wallpaper by me.
Click here for free i-phone or i-pad wallpaper by me.
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