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wordpress | stay tuned, guys, gobbledegok is MAKING AN IMPACT. a blogspot blog called fringed hibiscus (what’s in a name?) have copied our “womwomwomwomwom…etc.” entry and cited it as gobbledegok. yeah. | 2019-04-25T08:47:35Z | https://gobbledegok.wordpress.com/tag/hibiscus/ | Sports | Reference | 0.628676 |
si | Ann Yonemura with contributions by et al. Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection. Seattle and Washington. cat. 325, p. 346. | 2019-04-21T08:26:21Z | https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/S2004.3.297/ | Sports | Arts | 0.890597 |
utexas | The most comprehensive information for admissions can be found at the BE A LONGHORN website http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/. The links below will take you directly to specific admission information based on the time of admission you are seeking.
Click on the link above for Graduate Admissions information. | 2019-04-23T12:42:53Z | https://ph.utexas.edu/prospective-undergraduate-students/admissions | Sports | Reference | 0.331141 |
dickinson | Smaller copper medal featuring West College on obverse with Susanna Wesley and son John on reverse; larger copper medal featuring John Wesley and inscriptions, both produced for centennial of the Methodist Church in 1866.
Larger silver medal featuring John Wesley and inscriptions, produced for centennial of the Methodist Church in 1866.
Five silver medallions housed in small round cases, which were produced for the Methodist Church in 1866 by Warner & Sons.
Thirty six silver medals all featuring West College on obverse with Susanna Wesley and son John Wesley on reverse. Produced for the centennial of the Methodist Church in 1866. | 2019-04-20T01:00:03Z | http://archivesdev.dickinson.edu/artifacts-decade/1860-1869 | Sports | Reference | 0.08227 |
timesunion | Here’s a story about something that apparently happens from time to time — an error in one’s public sector pension calculation. The victim here is a retired teacher, who gets her pension from the state Teachers Retirement System.
“Because of the many variables that are often involved in verifying service and salary details with a retiree’s former employer(s), finalizing the retirement benefit amount can take some time,” said Tania Lopez a spokeswoman for the state Comptrollers office. | 2019-04-24T00:06:50Z | https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/286434/pension-calculation-errors-are-costly/ | Sports | News | 0.536298 |
noaa | "This project evolved from joint effort and John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program awards to the Cape Cod Stranding Network, Inc. (CCSN) and the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Program (VAQS) where the authors proposed to develop a human interaction training program for the Northeast Region Stranding Network in the United States. At the time of the awards, there was no finalized national human interaction data sheet and the project transformed to include development of a data sheet, data sheet instructions, and a training program. Upon completion of the regional work, the authors proposed to the national stranding coordinator, Dr. Janet Whaley, to provide the training to all stranding networks in the United States"--Preface.
Serious Injury Technical Workshop (2007 : Seattle, Wash.), sponsor. | 2019-04-25T00:31:49Z | https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/4429 | Sports | Science | 0.670047 |
ussoccer | On Nov. 20, U.S. Soccer announced the five nominees for 2018 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year. This year's nominees are midfielders Julie Ertz and Lindsey Horan; and forwards Tobin Heath, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. In the fourth edition of our “Making the Case” series to highlight each of the candidates, we feature Alex Morgan.
After closing out 2017 on a goal scoring roll, Alex Morgan continued her stellar form in 2018 to finish the year with 18 goals in 19 games – while picking up three assists – for a total of 25 goals in her last 26 games dating back to Aug, 3, 2017. Her 18 goals this year were by far a team-leading mark and were also the second most she has scored in a calendar year in her WNT career. She finished the year with 98 career goals.
Morgan averaged almost a goal a game in 2018 while scoring against nine different countries. She tallied in the first game of the year against Denmark, and also scored against Mexico, China PR, Japan, Brazil, T&T, Jamaica, Canada and Scotland.
She had six multiple-goal games, including a hat trick against Japan in the Tournament of Nations, and moved to third place all-time in U.S. history in multiple-goal games, tied with Michelle Akers (26), and behind only Abby Wambach (45) and Mia Hamm (38).
She won the Golden Boot as the top scorer in the Concacaf World Cup qualifying tournament, pounding in seven goals over the five matches. Her two goals in the semifinal win against Jamaica helped send the USA to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France and she bagged a clinching goal in the championship game against Canada.
For the Orlando Pride in the NWSL, she played in 1,500 minutes over 19 games and had five goals and two assists. | 2019-04-18T12:42:40Z | https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2018/11/28/22/40/20181129-feat-wnt-making-the-case-alex-morgan-2018-female-player-of-the-year | Sports | Sports | 0.824118 |
wordpress | Stanley, C. F. (2005). The Charles F. Stanley life principles Bible: New King James Version. Nashville, TN: Nelson Bibles. | 2019-04-21T07:14:07Z | https://truth4freedom.wordpress.com/bible-promise-index/ | Sports | Reference | 0.31793 |
myfootygrounds | The Firs Hotel is a family managed hotel perfect for both business and leisure visits, centrally located in the popular Hitchin market town in Hertfordshire. We offer comfortable accommodations, warm and homely feel, and a helpful and friendly staff. Found about 38 miles north of central London, our property is also a 15-minute drive to Luton and Luton Airport. The 27 en suite bedrooms have flat screen televisions, tea- and coffee-making facilities, hairdryers and free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel. The hotel has some ground floor bedrooms and one room has disabled facilities. Each morning, sample the array of breakfast items served, including a hot English breakfast cooked to order. At our licensed bar, you can have a chat or watch TV whilst enjoying drinks and draught beers. The hotel has a large free car park for added convenience. Situated 10 minutes on foot from Firs Hotel, the town centre of Hitchin features several shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes. Whilst in town, you can spend time at North Hertfordshire Museum, stop by the St Mary's Church or shop at the Hitchin Market.
Its traditional setting and Italian charm provide an ambiance which cannot be found elsewhere - a Hitchin fine-dining gem! If you want a special place for a romantic meal, or to celebrate a special occasion, then La Bella Vita is simply perfect. The delicious menu is heavily influenced by the owner's Venetian roots, using only the very best fresh ingredients. Giorgio and his team will go out of their way to ensure that you have an Italian meal to remember, and you are sure to become one of La Bella Vita's many regulars. In addition to being Hitchin's number one fine-dining Restaurant, La Bella Vita also offers something very special in accommodation. La Bella Vita Hotel has 20 recently refurbished en suite rooms , all finished to a very high standard. These offer Italian elegance combined with modern comforts. Ideal for a business stay in Hitchin, or for a romantic Hitchin break, La Bella Vita's Hotel provides guests with luxury at a very affordable price. Also please note that last order for the restaurant is 9.30pm and that the Bar is open until 11.30.
The Broadway also caters for a wide variety of Functions. Our dedicated Functions manager can organise all your private parties, from small, intimate gatherings to larger celebrations of life. We can provide private dining for smaller parties of up to 35 guests in our Norton Lounge. This also includes conferences, private dining, parties and Weddings. We hold a Civil Wedding license for couples who wish to make their vows in our elegant Ballroom. You will have a dedicated Wedding planner to help you every step of the way to planning your big day. We have an in-house sound system in the Ballroom for Civil Ceremonies and background music. We can also provide the services of our Resident DJ for Weddings and Private Functions (you are welcome to arrange your own DJ or live band if you prefer). We have a stage, disco lighting and large dance floor to create a lively party atmosphere. Our Team at the Broadway try hard to understand the needs of all our guests and make their experiences with us memorable for all the right reasons. We have an ambition to be the first choice of Letchworth for eating, drinking and sleeping, we believe we are achieving this. If it's a nice lunch you're looking for, or a delicious dinner be sure to try our succulent carvery, which runs every day through out the week. Our buffet breakfast is the perfect way to kick start your day. It is served in the restaurant from 7am to 10.30am, Monday to Friday and 8am - 10.30am Saturday and Sunday.
Welcome to the Red Lion, Offley. The Red Lion is a traditional village pub in Great Offley, Hertfordshire providing quality accommodation but no cooked breakfast (cereal, tea/coffee and orange juice provided in each room). At our inn, you can find a traditional restaurant, cosy atmosphere, a fine selection of real ales, garden overlooking beautiful countryside and above all, a warm and friendly welcome. As well as a fantastic pub and restaurant, we provide good value accommodations in the form of five en suite bedrooms within easy reach of Luton International Airport. We offer free parking and free Wi-Fi in public areas. Within a 20-minute drive from the inn, you can admire the stately mansions and beautiful grounds of Wrest Park and Knebworth House. You can also travel 35 minutes by car to reach the Woburn Safari Park. If you are looking for excellent value bed and breakfast accommodation within easy reach of Luton airport (15 minutes by car) and walking in the Chilterns, you need look no further than the Red Lion at Offley.
Set in its own spacious grounds in the pretty Hertfordshire village of Great Offley, Offley Place is a 17th century country house with all the charm you would expect in this pretty English village. Our property is reputed to be named after Offa, King of Mercia who had his built palace here, and features interiors to complement the architecture of the original house. With 16 individually designed rooms, the hotel offers classical, elegant and refined accommodation for the discerning visitor. We have room sizes and styles to suit everyone. All of the rooms are appointed with TV and tea- and coffee-making facilities. For those celebrating special occassions or just wanting a touch of luxury, you can book a stay in our superior suites, which comes with four-poster or sleigh beds and scenic views over the grounds. Free Wi-Fi in all areas is provided. Today, Offley Place is an ideal spot for a relaxing break, conference or a special occasion with private dining rooms bookable for exclusivity. Our Spencer restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner, serving classical British dishes with a modern twist. Our Salusbury lounge is the perfect location to take morning coffee or afternoon tea. Whether it's winter or summer, our conservatory is the perfect setting to overlook our grounds. From Offley Place, you can drive 20 minutes to the South Beds Golf Club. The city of Luton and London Luton Airport are six miles away. We believe your stay should be unforgettable, so relax in your hotel room and soak up the amazing parkland views.
The newly refurbished Live and Let Live Pub, Restaurant and B&B is located at the foot of Pegsdon Hills on the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Borders. Come and enjoy fine fresh food, cooked daily by our team of experienced chefs using locally sourced ingredients. Completely refurbished with a country and wildlife theme, our restaurant and bar have stunning views overlooking Pegsdon Hills. The pub is a free house serving fine ales and an extensive list of world wines. Our Bed and Breakfast Accommodation has also been renovated and redesigned with new bathrooms, showers, furnishings, fixtures and fittings. Stay at our warm and friendly Bed and Breakfast, leave your car with us and we will provide a complimentary shuttle service to, and from, Luton Airport. Share our passion for everything countryside and soak up the winter season by our wood burner in our cosy pub and restaurant. New refurbished en-suite rooms; either twin or double. We are happy to provide a cot (with or without linen) and several of our rooms are large enough to accommodate an extra bed for family rooms if required. The breakfast selection consists of a range of cereals, toast, continental or full English breakfast, plus tea and coffee. The full English consists of sausage, eggs, bacon, black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast. The rooms are very well-appointed to suit business or leisure guests and weddings etc with new beds and an en-suite shower room. There is a hospitality tray located in each room with coffee and a selection of teas. Our rooms boast flat screen 32” televisions with Freeview channels. We also provide free WiFi access which is also available in the bar and restaurant. There are plenty of books and magazines, plus a range of leaflets and information about the local and surrounding areas. Inside the restaurant we have a wonderful bar area adjoining the dining vicinity with the pleasure of our beautiful, open, wood burning fires, for your comfort and pleasure.
Set in its own private grounds of 20 acres within the rolling Chiltern Hills, Lodge Farm House is conveniently situated only two miles from Luton Airport and Luton Airport Parkway station, which has direct links into London in 30 minutes. The historic market town of Hitchin is just three miles away. The rooms are beautifully equipped with TV, DVD (access to our DVD library), free wireless broadband access and tea & coffee making facilities. We use locally sourced produce and our own fresh farm eggs to provide a Full English or Continental Breakfast which can be taken either on the Terrace, in your room or in the Dining Room. Alongside our B&B facilities, we can also accommodate dogs within our home which is separate from the guest accommodation. Being fully licensed and insured, we can extend this service whilst you’re away on holiday, giving you peace of mind that your family pet is being well looked after. We also run a successful livery yard and can provide stabling for your horse should you wish to come and explore the beautiful off road hacking available directly from our yard. Lodge Farm House is ideal for both business and pleasure, whether you are looking for a rural retreat for a relaxing break or somewhere convenient to stay before a flight, we can assure you of a wonderful stay. Secure parking is available for guests Short & Long Term Airport parking available We do not accept dogs.
Hotel Cromwell Stevenage was long ago converted from a farmhouse which was once home to John Thurloe, secretary to Oliver Cromwell. This beautiful hotel is newly refurbished for 2017 and boasts beautiful decor that perfectly complements the character still in evidence from its former times. Nestled in the heart of the old town and perfectly located, it offers a fitting base for both business and leisure travellers seeking unforgettable hotel accommodation in Stevenage. Hotel Cromwell Stevenage is conveniently located close to the A1 if you are driving into Stevenage, and central London is quickly reached from Stevenage Station, which is only a 15 minute walk from the hotel. There is a regular service to London Kings Cross with a journey time of just 27 minutes. Cromwell Hotel Stevenage offers 77 beautifully refurbished bedrooms with stunning bathrooms, all include flat screen TV’s with Freeview, free WiFi , tea & coffee making facilities, hairdryer and 24hr room service. We do allow dogs here at the Cromwell Hotel, they must however be pre-booked. | 2019-04-25T22:54:41Z | http://myfootygrounds.co.uk/StadiumHotels.asp?team=Hitchin%20Town&Stadium=Top%20Field&lat=51.954603314589&lng=-0.284239053726 | Sports | Recreation | 0.618196 |
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Its working fine for me and my friends. Strange!!! | 2019-04-19T16:51:51Z | https://nehahira.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/floursack_jump_animation/ | Sports | Arts | 0.615342 |
nsw | Ian Tyrrell’s River Dreams is a powerful story of the fortunes of the Cooks River in south-west Sydney. It traces the complex physical, social, cultural and economic interactions between the river, its valley and human beings. We see the rise and fall of a Victorian rural gentry who desired an Arcadian landscape, the slow suburbanisation of the locality from the 1850s and creeping industrialisation. Their impacts were disastrous.
The Cooks River became legendary as one of Australia’s most polluted and punished places. While parts of it have been repaired, it is now under threat from a new wave of suburbanisation, this time high-rise. In tracing the river’s constant ‘renovation’ — for better or for worse — Tyrrell’s book is both provocative and evocative. He draws creatively on traditional sources. And we are introduced to the ever-changing smells and sounds of the place over time. | 2019-04-26T08:23:05Z | https://legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library/awards/nsw-premiers-history-awards/nsw-community-and-regional-history-prize/river | Sports | Arts | 0.725536 |
csusm | The American Indian Studies Department at California State University San Marcos is dedicated to serving the needs of its Tribal Nations through place-based learning. As such our commitment to working with neighboring tribal communities is evident in CSUSM’s track record in implementing its Tribal Initiative to provide access to higher education and support for AIAN students in their journey through college. You can read more about history of the American Indian Studies Department, the work of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center, and the Tribal Initiative in the State of the American Indian and Alaska Native Education in California Report (2016).
There are 110 federally recognized tribes in the State of California, which is home to the second highest number of people identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native outside of Oklahoma. Furthermore, California ranked highest in the 2010 Census for all census respondents who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone or in combination with another race. There are 35 tribal nations within CSUSM’s service region. San Diego County alone is home to the most federally recognized American Indian tribes than any other county in the contiguous US with 18 Indian reservations and 17 tribal governments presiding over 4% of the county’s land base. | 2019-04-22T00:43:51Z | https://www.csusm.edu/ais/community.html | Sports | Reference | 0.365965 |
wordpress | Covetous of the entire meal but particularly drooling over the bean and onion fritter – it looks succulently yummy!
The fritters were delicious! It was a tie between the fritters and the pasta for favorite course.
Yea! This place is only 20 minutes from my Brother-in-law’s place which is a culinary wasteland. Thanks!!
You should get in touch with them! They do these dinners pretty regularly and a great people!
We are looking forward to the time when you and Scott get back to Concord and the Markham Community Garden. We now have a newsletter with recipes and gardening advice!
Thanks, Karen! I can’t tell you how much we miss the garden and all of our fellow gardeners. I’m always recommending the African Blue Basil that you showed us. I imagine the whole garden is looking nice this time of year?
That, my friend, is funny! On the flip side, I just read an article about stuff so painstakingly hand crafted in small batches that it’s practically made out of cobwebs and moon beams: http://nymag.com/news/features/artisanal-brooklyn-2012-4/.
That sounded like an amazing dining experience. The berries with limocello and ricotta look amazing!! Will you be making cheese? because I know some very willing (although not expert) taste testers!!
Sounds like an absolutely heavenly friend date and dinner! | 2019-04-19T06:34:47Z | https://cognitiveleeks.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/2230/?shared=email&msg=fail | Sports | News | 0.890553 |
latimes | Claudine Dombrowski tells of having her wrists broken, being hit on the head with a crowbar, getting chipped teeth and, at one point, needing 24 stitches to close a wound. Even when she left her boyfriend, she says, the abuse didn't stop. Ultimately, she says, she was left on total disability.
“I called the police, I did all the right things, I ended up in court, and on a good day, it got reduced from domestic violence to disorderly conduct,” Dombrowski, a Topeka, Kansas, resident and now an advocate for abuse survivors, told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
So Dombrowski was outraged when misdemeanor domestic abuse — already an insult, she thinks, for not being equal to an assault charge — went unpunished for a month in Topeka after a local funding dispute turned into a circular firing squad that caught battered women in the center.
The county didn’t want to pay for prosecuting misdemeanor domestic battery; the prosecutor didn’t want to take the cases without more resources; and the city didn’t want to pay for handling the cases either.
Meanwhile, as many as 30 abuse suspects went free before the city of Topeka, in a legal maneuver, forced Shawnee County prosecutor Chad Taylor to resume prosecution of the cases — by dramatically pulling its own domestic abuse law from the books. The state has its own law, which the prosecutor would need to enforce.
Times have been tough for local governments. The economic buck stops with them because they don’t get to run on debt the way the federal government does, and some of the collapses have been spectacular.
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, threw up the white flag this week and declared bankruptcy after a failed $300 million incinerator project capsized the city’s budget. The city manager for moribund Vallejo, Calif., has one assistant; she has to lock the door when she leaves, because there’s no one else in the office.
But for women, the symptoms of the municipal budget crisis are especially stunning in the sleepy prairie metropolis of Topeka. There, the symbolic decriminalization of domestic violence has thrown a spotlight on a chronically underreported issue in a state where women’s advocates are used to fighting uphill battles.
“We live in Kansas, where we are used to taking a lot of punches on the chin,” said Kari Ann Rinker, state coordinator for Kansas NOW, which recently saw the state legislature try to defund Planned Parenthood.
But beyond the familiar battlefronts over abortion, domestic violence hits especially close to home. In 2008, Jana Mackey, a 25-year-old Kansas NOW lobbyist who volunteered to aid victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, was found slain in an ex-boyfriend’s home.
The past month has been treacherous for domestic abuse survivors in Topeka, according to Becky Dickinson, program director for the Topeka YWCA Center for Safety and Empowerment, which she said saw an increase in the number of women needing help.
In an abuse situation, Dickinson said, abusers are often the most dangerous after they’ve been arrested. They come home looking for revenge. Needless to say, Dickinson said, “victims were concerned” about the budget spat.
Dickinson said that in 2010, the Topeka YWCA helped 1,305 county residents with services and counseling for domestic and sexual violence, assisted with 586 protection orders, housed 190 women and children in a shelter, and received nearly 2,000 calls to its crisis hotline.
Those numbers are likely low. Domestic violence often goes unreported. So it’s a dark irony that Topeka’s new time in the international limelight comes during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “Now Topeka is known as the domestic violence capital of the world,” Kansas NOW’s Rinker said.
Whether the county prosecutor’s announcement that it is resuming prosecutions will fix the problem remains to be seen; the prosecutor’s office is expected to lay off almost a fifth of its staff by the end of the year, which could impact the prosecution of domestic violence cases that the office just resumed prosecuting.
Corn maze nightmare 2011: Who is really at fault for 911 call? | 2019-04-18T21:51:47Z | https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/domestic-violence-topeka-kansas.html | Sports | Home | 0.596782 |
accringtonstanley | Young footballers from across Lancashire, including members of Accrington Stanley’s academy, have been enjoying a visit from Real Betis youth staff this week.
Players who will be in the U7-U15 age groups for the 2018/19 season (currently Year 2 to Year 9) are taking part in the week-long camp, with football drills led by the Betis academy coaching staff and supported by senior coaching staff from the Stanley academy.
The sessions are taking place at Accrington & Rossendale College and it’s not just the youngsters who are learning, with both clubs benefiting from the exchange of ideas.
Ash Hoskin, Head of Recruitment at Stanley’s academy, has been delighted with how the week has gone so far.
“It’s been terrific, absolutely fantastic,” he said. “There’s been some great ideas from the Spanish lads, our coaches have mixed with them very well and the kids have taken on what they’ve been saying.
“It’s different in terms of looking at the way they do things and the kids have bought into it.
Real Betis academy’s Methodology Coordinator, Alberto Martin, says the camp is beneficial for everybody involved.
“It’s a good opportunity for Accrington Stanley and Real Betis to work together in the same way and to try to share the methodology between the different coaches,” the Spaniard said. “It’s a good way to improve the level of the coaches and the players as well.
Martin feels that the week-long camp has other benefits that will help improve the coaching even further.
“The language is important too, because we can improve the level of our English,” he continued.
“We try to teach the players some Spanish words too and the Accrington coaches have spoken a little bit of the language too.
The Spaniard has even been pleased with the English weather this week, but he admits this is for professional reasons rather than personal ones.
He said: “This time of year in Seville it’s around 45-48 degrees, it’s very different.
Youngsters Sam, Kieran and Noel have had fun taking part in the sessions and feel the week has been very beneficial to their development as players.
“It’s a great experience because you learn how they play in Spain and we can adapt it into our game and they’ve learned how Accrington play too,” Kieran continued.
The academy camp continues on Thursday before concluding on Friday afternoon.
Words and photos by Euan Holden. | 2019-04-26T05:43:07Z | https://accringtonstanley.co.uk/2018/08/academy-camp-with-real-betis-2/ | Sports | Kids | 0.592067 |
rottentomatoes | Most often "Mortem" just lacks bite, and the dedicated leads seem at times a little slight for the staging of a struggle at eternity's edge.
Atlan films it with such black-and-white brio that complaints that none of its depths really to warrant your plumbing seem beside the point.
This initially bewitching throwback to the French New Wave and Cocteau turns into a turgid and frequently laughable pseudo-philosophical locked-room argument between a woman and her soul.
Watching Mortem, I was reminded that the noir genre is a rich depository of minor pleasures.
There are no featured reviews for Mortem at this time. | 2019-04-25T23:52:06Z | https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mortem | Sports | Reference | 0.411672 |
thewsga | Women's Amateur, Mid-Amateur, Senior Amateur and Super Senior Amateur Championships are run concurrently.
Location: Sudden Valley Golf & Country Club, Bellingham, Wash.
Eligibility: Entries are open to amateur female golfers who: (a) are members in good standing of a WSGA member club; and (b) have an active GHIN number and USGA Handicap Index, issued by a WSGA member club, not exceeding 16.4 at the time of entry.
Format: 54-hole Individual Stroke Play (gross only). In the event of a tie for the gross championship, the winner will be decided immediately by a hole-by-hole playoff. The Women's Amateur and Women's Mid-Amateur Championships will be run concurrently. Each championship will play from a separate set of tees.
Field Limit: The field will be comprised of the first 48 amateur and 24 mid-amateur women to submit an entry application. Since both Championships are conducted concurrently, the WSGA reserves the right to modify the field limits to achieve a full field of 72 players.
Cart Fee: Carts are not permitted in the Amateur Championship. Spectator carts are not permitted.
Entry Includes: Three rounds of championship play, one hosted practice round, warm up range balls, tee prize, lunch following second round play and Kusak crystal awards for top finishers.
WSGA Performance Points: Awarded to Champion (100 pts.), Runner-up (75 pts.), Top-5 (50 pts), Top-10 (25 pts.), Top-15 (15 pts.), and Top-20 (5 pts.) finishers.
Champions earn an exemption into the 11th Annual WSGA Champion of Champions being played at The Home Course in DuPont, WA in April of 2020.
Champion earns an exemption into the 27th WSGA Women's Amateur Championship to be played in June of 2020.
Champion earns an exemption into the 119th PNGA Women's Amateur Championship to be played in July of 2020. | 2019-04-23T12:55:26Z | https://thewsga.org/championships-home/wsga-championship-schedule/wsga-womens-amateur-championship/ | Sports | Sports | 0.931055 |
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Gibbs, Robert M., Swaim, Paul L., and Teixeira, Ruy, editors. (1998). Rural Education and Training in the New Economy: the Myth of the Rural Skills Gap. Ames,IA: Iowa State University Press.
Adams, Marilyn Jager, Foorman, Barbara R, et al. (1997). Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. Baltimore, MD : Paul H. Brookes.
Eldridge, Deborah B. (1997). Teacher Talk: Multicultural Lesson Plans for the Elementary Classroom. Needham Heights, MA : Allyn & Bacon.
Moschonas, Andreas. (1998). Education and Training in the European Union. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Kolodny, Annette. (1998). Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Griss, Susan. (1998). Minds in Motion: A Kinesthetic Approach to Teaching Elementary Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
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Flippo, Rona F. (1999). What do the experts say? Helping children learn to read. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. | 2019-04-22T06:42:15Z | http://edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER/issue/view/6 | Sports | Computers | 0.185012 |
cnn | The Trump administration is about to start letting states require many Medicaid recipients to work for their benefits.
But millions of Americans in the health care safety net program already have jobs.
Some 60% of working age, non-disabled Medicaid enrollees are working, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That's about 15 million people.
Plus, nearly eight in 10 recipients live in families with at least one worker.
It's more common for Medicaid enrollees to hold jobs if they live in states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. Some 31 states, plus the District of Columbia, broadened their Medicaid programs to include adults earning up to roughly $16,600 a year.
Just over one-fifth of Medicaid enrollees who hold part-time jobs cited economic factors, such as the inability to find full-time positions and weak business conditions, as the reason they aren't working more. More than a quarter of part-timers said they are in school or have family obligations.
Some 65% of men on Medicaid are working, while 56% of women are employed. Enrollees who live in the South are less likely to hold jobs than those in other regions, though the rates were similar in rural and urban areas nationwide.
Not surprisingly, the more education a recipient has, the more likely they are to be employed. About half of those who didn't finish high school have jobs, but nearly 70% of those with at least a bachelor's degree do.
Medicaid recipients commonly work in agriculture, construction, leisure and hospitality and retail -- some 40% of enrollees are in these industries. About one-fifth work in the health services or education fields. Many of these sectors often don't offer employees health insurance. Also, part-time workers usually don't qualify for workplace benefits.
When it comes to those who aren't employed, most cite illness or family obligations as the reason why.
Many people can have physical or mental health problems -- such as arthritis or asthma -- that don't meet the criteria for federal disability programs, but still interfere with their ability to work, Kaiser said.
The Trump administration has signaled that it will allow states to impose work requirements on working-age, non-disabled adults. The Obama administration repeatedly rejected states' requests to do so, saying it wasn't consistent with Medicaid's purpose to provide access to medical care.
At least nine states have submitted waivers to require these enrollees to participate in some type of community engagement, such as working, volunteering, going to school or entering a job training program, in order to qualify for benefits. | 2019-04-21T18:44:19Z | https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/10/news/economy/medicaid-work-requirement/index.html | Sports | Shopping | 0.136489 |
vanderbilt | Mar. 23, 2018—Vanderbilt University is among the sponsors of a March 27 neighborhood forum at Belmont United Methodist Church concerning Nashville's proposed transit plan and upcoming referendum.
Sep. 16, 2015—Two candidates with close ties to Vanderbilt University were elected to office within the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County on Sept. 10.
Aug. 19, 2015—The general runoff election for Nashville and Davidson County is set for Thursday, Sept. 10. Early voting runs Aug. 21 through Aug. 26 at the Howard Office Building, 700 2nd Ave. S., then from Aug. 27 through Sept. 5 at all regular early voting locations.
Aug. 11, 2015—Vanderbilt and three other Nashville organizations will join forces Aug. 20 to host a forum for the 10 at-large runoff candidates vying for five open seats on the Metro Council.
Aug. 6, 2015—Registered voters in Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County will go to the polls today to elect the next mayor, vice-mayor and members of the Metro Council. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Apr. 22, 2014—Vanderbilt head football coach Derek Mason was honored by the Metro Council April 15 with the reading of a resolution welcoming him to Nashville. | 2019-04-20T18:19:43Z | https://news.vanderbilt.edu/tag/metro-council/ | Sports | Sports | 0.6897 |
oregonstate | What are the common design patterns for normal and diseased cells?
Difference between normal and diseased cells, and how to ontologically represent the transformation from a normal cell to diseased cell?
How to represent additional information (e.g., gene markers) in ontology?
Chair: Sivaram Arabandi, MD, ONTOPRO LLC. | 2019-04-26T06:19:42Z | http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/program | Sports | Health | 0.635263 |
chapman | Although they all share a common degree, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law alumni they are more than just lawyers. They are entrepreneurs, Presidential Management Fellows, partners and shareholders at major law firms, in-house counsels for multinational corporations, judicial clerks, accountants, auditors, public interest workers, human rights defenders, mediators and much more.
Chapman alumni rise to the world's challenges and make an impact in their communities. These are just some of their stories.
Hon. Timothy Weiner (LL.M. ’10) wants Fowler School of Law students to keep an open mind and learn as much as possible about the area of law in which they’re interested.
Diana Day (JD '07) leveraged her background as a UCLA athlete and connections she made at the Fowler School of Law to launch a career with sports agencies while still a 3L. A decade later, Forbes estimated she played a role in landing $22.5 million in 2017 commissions.
Ryan Chavez Appointed CFO of Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc.
After practicing corporate law at various law firms, Ryan Chavez (JD '09) was appointed as chief financial officer and general counsel of Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company pioneering the field of regenerative medicine, including therapies to help patients heal from spinal cord injuries and battle cancer.
Leslie Ivie (JD '08) founded Restoration Law Center, which provides low- or no-cost services for nonprofits and individuals in 2015, and has since been recognized by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for her work.
Jack Anderson (JD '15) found himself in a unique place as the only first-year associate at Blizzard Entertainment after parlaying a hard-earned externship into a full-time position.
Antoinette Balta (JD ’06, LL.M. ’11) was named to the Orange County Register's list for her work as co-founder of Santa Ana's Veterans Legal Institute. | 2019-04-21T08:57:32Z | https://www.chapman.edu/law/about/law-profiles/index.aspx | Sports | Business | 0.687769 |
chicagotribune | Entertainer Wayne Newton is bringing his new show to the Stardust Events Center at Blue Chip Casino, Hotel and Spa in Michigan City for one performance Nov. 16.
The last time entertainer Wayne Newton performed at Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, it was nearly two decades ago, and long before the property added its $130 million hotel and events center stage complex in 2009.
Still owned and operated by Boyd Gaming, which launched the casino and hotel operations in 1997, Newton recalls his previous performance at Blue Chip was in the original ballroom space in the pavilion.
“I’m excited to come back and bring a new show for audiences, and especially pleased to be performing in the theater space they’ve named as the Stardust Events Center,” said Newton, during a telephone interview this month from his home in Las Vegas.
Opened in 1958, after 48 years the Stardust closed in 2006 with Newton’s pals Steve Lawrence and wife Eydie Gorme as the final star names to take bows and bid farewell.
“I’ve seen so many changes throughout the years in Las Vegas and I have so many wonderful memories, it’s the reason I wanted to bring this new show to Michigan City to share both my memories and my music with audiences,” Newton said.
Titled “Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal,” the singer unveiled the show in May 2016 at Bally’s Las Vegas, where it still has a standing engagement booked in the Bally’s Window Showroom. He’s bringing the show for one performance Nov. 16 to Blue Chip’s 1,200-seat Stardust Events Center in Michigan City.
The show, which Newton says was the idea of the late Robin Leach of TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” fame, is a retrospective of Newton’s 50-plus year in show business. He sings some of his biggest song hits, such as “Donke Schoen,” plays a variety of musical instruments, narrates favorite clips shown on a large screen from his treasure trove of film and television appearances, and answers questions from the audiences. He also delivers amazing stories about the legends he’s worked with throughout the decades, including Elvis Presley, Liberace, Bobby Darin, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason, among others.
“This is a show like nothing I’ve ever done before and audiences love it,” Newton said.
Newton’s career as a performer began at age 6, when he learned to play the piano while living in Arizona with his family as an ideal locale for a boy who had to fight severe asthma. By age 9, he said he was already signed with a Las Vegas agent and began calling the Fremont Street casinos of early Vegas his second home in the late 1950s.
In 1965, at age 23, he was already becoming a household name when he appeared as a guest star on Lucille Ball’s popular series “The Lucy Show,” playing a farm boy with an amazing singing voice who is discovered by Ball’s character and her bank boss Mr. Mooney.
It was while he was acting opposite of Ball that he says the legendary comedian gave him some of the best advice of his career.
“The executives at CBS saw such high ratings when I appeared on this episode of Lucy’s show, playing this boy singer from a farm surrounded by all these cows and chickens, they wanted to give me my own series produced by Lucy’s Desilu production company,” Newton recalled.
Newton said Ball uttered the name of actor and singer Jim Nabors, which prompted Newton to reply, “Gomer Pyle,” referencing Nabors’ popular character of the CBS series of the same name.
“And Lucy was right with her advice,” Newton said. | 2019-04-22T15:06:46Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/lifestyles/ct-ptb-ent-wayne-newton-1116-story.html | Sports | Arts | 0.736888 |
uwaterloo | Rubric? - "In commemoratione Maria post Nativitatem Dominum"?
Folio: 056r - Feast: De BMV post Pent.
Folio: 056r - Feast: De BMV Nat. | 2019-04-25T03:07:28Z | http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/chant/557073 | Sports | Reference | 0.167586 |
livejournal | Nice, even breaths, Aragorn. It is so easy. No need to scare your men. Taking a long, steady breath, Aragorn shifted upon Roheryn and then let the air out again. It didn’t help, though. His mind was still a flaming inferno of rage. Even the nagging fear on the back of his mind did nothing to ease his anger. He knew he should have been worrying – and by the holy grace of Valar he was! – but his worry turned into hatred swifter than the armies of Mordor fell after Sauron’s destruction.
When Gimli had raced into his study to tell this latest news, Aragorn had first thought it as a joke made by the Dwarf’s poor sense of humour. But one look to Gimli’s eyes had convinced him that the other was indeed not joking. Legolas was in mortal danger.
Around their King, the Men of Gondor rode towards south with all their speed. No man dared to approach Aragorn, and so King Elessar was able to dwell in his own thoughts. Gimli, who was seated behind him was quiet, no doubt sorting out his own thoughts. The restless movement upon the shaft of the Dwarf’s axe told something of the course of his mind.
Legolas had never liked of the feeling of being restrained. He loathed being unable to do anything. But at the moment, he felt like a small leaf in the wind, being tossed to a direction and then to another, unable to choose his course.
Shifting, Legolas tried to find a more comfortable position on the hard floor of the room. At least he suspected it was a room. As he was blindfolded, he couldn’t see. But his senses had scanned the area since he had regained consciousness, and he was now somewhat aware of his surroundings. A faint sound of voices came from the outside, but he couldn’t make out most of them.
Groaning in frustration, Legolas rolled to his side almost violently, his body fighting against its restrains. But whoever had bound him had known well the stamina of Elves, and finally Legolas collapsed to the floor, panting softly.
Oh yes, he would wait. He had no other choice.
After a moment – which Legolas counted to be a few hours – a sound of opening door came to Legolas’ sensitive ears. A breath of fresh air flowed to the room and a light of the sun reached Legolas’ bound eyes. He was now able to hear many voices, smelling the familiar scent of Men’s village.
Rough hands pulled Legolas up, yanking him along ruthlessly. The Elf was able to tell exactly when he was taken out from wherever he had been held in: not because he felt the warmth of the sun upon his skin, or because of the touch of the wind, but because the voices of the people around him turned from spoken words into excited shouts.
Legolas frowned, not actually liking the feeling of not knowing what was happening around him. And being carried along like a broken toy... Oh well, I have an eternity to heal my wounded pride. If I live that long, that is, he added somewhat sarcastically.
With a final jerk at his bound hands, Legolas was heaved up onto some kind of a mound and pushed back against something hard. Several pairs of hands held him in place as the ropes were cut. That did not stop Legolas from trying to pry himself loose, but soon his hands were forced back and tied again, and his legs were also fastened into the same object. A pole of some kind, Legolas thoughts, running his fingers over the wood that he was now bound into. There was still movement around him, and a moment later he felt a hand yank the blindfold down to his neck - none too gently to Legolas’ liking.
The Elf blinked, the late rays of the sun blinding him momentarily. But his Elven senses adapted quickly and he looked around, shock swiftly filling his mind. He was in some kind of a village, surrounded by tens of people, most of them men wearing rather unpleasant expressions. Glancing down, Legolas noticed that his “mound” was actually a pile of dry wood.
Legolas felt like laughing, the insanity of this all taking its toll. If he wouldn’t have known better, he would have thought that these people were going to burn him alive like the witches of old time. Which proved to be exactly what they were planning to do. Many Men were already lighting torches, looking at the pyre eagerly.
Shadowy memories ran through Legolas’ mind as he ordered his thoughts, desperate to find the answer. Then he finally caught an image of dark riders hunting him. Nazgûls. But what shocked him most was not one of the Ringhwrights. The rider that had joined the others later on the hunt... He puzzled Legolas. It had been too easy for him to bring Legolas down. Too easy for him to catch him. And yet he had done it.
“Do you have something to say for yourself before the punishment will be set? If yes, speak now!” the speaking man yelled, and Legolas pushed back his erratic thoughts.
“If something must be indeed said, I tell you, great Men of Gondor, that this is foolishness, and that you do this against your King’s will!” Legolas almost shouted, frustration rising in him.
There were murmurs among the Men, but the speaker only shook his head and then took a torch from one of his fellows, taking a step towards the pyre.
Rafél cursed bitterly yet again, his eyes searching the ground. It seemed that his senses were completely failing him, for he had not been able to find Legolas after a whole night’s search. It was as if the Prince had completely vanished from the face of Arda. After Morchaint’s rather wild return to their makeshift camp, Rafél had deemed that something was wrong, and he was getting more sure about it with each passing moment.
Turning Lúmen around again he let out another string of Sindarin curses. Morchaint neighed some distance away from him, ears flattened. It seemed that both horses understood something was seriously wrong.
The riders indeed came to a sudden halt when they noticed Rafél standing on their road where the Elf had placed himself to wait. One of the riders came forward, and Rafél couldn’t help but look skywards, sending a quick thanks to Manwë. Then he looked at the arrivals again, bowing his head slightly. “King Elessar,” he saluted.
“To be honest, I do not,” Rafél answered between gritted teeth. It did not do much good to his pride to admit his fault to another – especially to a Dwarf that happened to be his Prince’s closest friend.
Rafél nodded, guiding his horse alongside with Aragorn’s as they rode on again. Morchaint snorted, sprinting forward to run on the side of the group.
“Now, would you tell me what you know of Legolas,” Rafél questioned, and Gimli sighed deeply, glancing at Rafél carefully.
“You will not like this,” the Dwarf finally murmured.
Legolas couldn’t help but to flinch back when the torch came nearer. He was running out of both time and ideas, but he was not willing to die just yet. But these Men seemed to be adamant of their decision, and it left Legolas with very few chances.
“You are making a huge mistake! Your Lord does not permit this!” he shouted in despair, but to deaf ears it seemed. The cheers from the crowd grew louder, drowning out his voice. Cursing bitterly under his breath, Legolas watched helplessly as the flame came to touch with the first branches, a faint smell of burning tree assaulting his nostrils.
Just as the Man prepared to drop the torch, a whistle of an arrow reached Legolas’ ears and the torch flew from the Man’s hand, an Elven arrow embedded both itself and the torch deeply to the pole, only an inch from Legolas’ skin.
Snatching his hand back startled, the Man whirled around, the rage on his face soon vanishing and making way for fear. The other men also turned to look at the direction of their leader’s gaze, a dead silence falling upon the clearing.
Legolas let out a relieved sigh, relaxing in his bonds. His eyes met Rafél’s when the other Elf lowered his bow, but all attention was soon given to Aragorn as the King of Gondor raged forward, Roheryn shifting nervously under the furious motions on his back.
For once, none of the Gondorians shouted anything of murderers. All listened in striken silence, looking as if they expected their King to draw his mighty sword and send them all to the world beyond life.
No Man stepped to stop Rafél as the Elf rode forward, dismounting when he reached Legolas. The Prince welcomed his guardian with a vain smile, his ears partially listening Aragorn as the Man continued to lecture his people, anger and frustration plain in his voice.
“What on Arda were you thinking?” Rafél began his own account, and Legolas couldn’t suppress a sigh that escaped his lips.
“You think I did this on purpose?” the Prince asked, glancing at Rafél as the other drew a small knife from his belt and cut the ropes binding Legolas’ hands.
“I cannot imagine as to how otherwise you got yourself into this situation,” Rafél muttered, his tone telling that it was not only Legolas he was lecturing: the guardian himself had made a mistake while letting Legolas go riding alone. It was not a mistake he was about to repeat.
Legolas blinked, wondering how he had been able to forget the reason of his current situation. As if drawn by an unseen force, his eyes moved over the crowd, stopping when they reached a cloaked figure on the other side of the clearing. Time seemed to stop as Legolas’ eyes met those of the other, though the stranger’s eyes were hidden in the shadows of his hood.
“Legolas?” Rafél asked with a frown, his hand firmly upon Legolas’ shoulder. Legolas shook his head, glancing swiftly at Rafél and then back to the crowd – only to find that the figure was gone. On his side, Rafél was getting nervous, and Legolas calmed the older Elf with a small pat.
Rafél’s frown didn’t lessen a slightest as his eyes also scanned the people milling around them, but he saw nothing alarming.
The moment of uneasy silence was broken when a short, stout form pushed itself through the crowd, muttered curses filling the air. “Ah, here you are, finally,” Gimli exclaimed when he spotted Legolas. “Such a trouble you have caused us – again.” Even if there was a remark in the Dwarf’s words, the harshness in them was softened by the look in his eyes.
“Oh trust me, my Prince Legolas, it is,” another voice added and Faramir rode in.
Legolas raised one graceful eyebrow but didn’t comment, looking instead back at Rafél who nodded. With a light movement, Legolas mounted Lúmen, waiting Rafél to do likewise, seating himself before Legolas. Faramir pulled Gimli to the back of his own horse, and together they rode back through the crowd, reaching Aragorn a few moments later.
“Save your breath, my friend,” Legolas said back, his voice low enough so it would not reach the Men around them. “I am well, and you have given your opinion to your Men. Now let us be on our way, if you are done here. I at least have little interest to stay here.” Rafél let out a delicate snort at that comment, but he said nothing.
Aragorn looked at his companions around him and then reluctantly nodded. With a final, hard look at the villagers, the King said his final words. “I hope that no news of actions like this reach my ears from now on.” With that, Aragorn turned his horse, riding out of the village with his company close behind. The other Men stood silent, not daring to move before they were sure that King Elessar was indeed gone.
Once they were outside the small town, Aragorn lessened his pace a slightest, waiting the others to catch up with him. He felt better now when he had finally been able to somehow get rid of his anger. There was still bitterness and hatred in him, yes, but now that Legolas was safe and with them, he felt as if the world was actually beginning to smile at him again.
“He is very tame...” Legolas muttered, though he looked very amused.
A shadow darkened Legolas’ face and he looked away, Morchaint shifting under him carefully, feeling his rider’s distress. Gimli also halted his assault, realising that he actually hadn’t heard yet what had befallen to the loyal Rohan horse. Most likely something because Legolas was now riding this new beast.
“Maybe we will ride together when you... learn to know Morchaint better?” Legolas turned back, asking with a tentative, careful voice.
Gimli merely muttered something, indicating clearly that he was going to stay where he was. Faramir glanced at Legolas, answering to the Elf’s sudden, bright smile.
Giving out a soft sigh, Legolas guided his mount next to the King’s, his mind sorting out things he would tell – and which he would not. He could not tell everything, he knew – not before he was sure of all the facts himself. Aragorn would be furious when he would finally hear he had not been told everything, but it could not be helped. The King of Gondor had currently enough trouble on his own. | 2019-04-25T18:42:59Z | https://del-rion.livejournal.com/35533.html | Sports | News | 0.186756 |
typepad | Hiring productive Sales Reps is super-important for every company’s financial success. As Henry Ford said, “No one has a job until someone sells something. ”Unfortunately, sales rep applicants often use their sales skills to connive their way into jobs on which they end up failing or doing poorly.
Fortunately, pre-employment tests plus other four other applicant assessment methods increase your odds you hire highly productive sales reps.
Intelligence pre-employment test scores depend on what level of intelligence is required for the sales rep job in each company. For instance, some companies’ best sales reps require high-level intelligence. In those companies, their successful sales reps get high scores on intelligence tests, e.g., Problem-Solving, Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Grammar, and Handling Small Details. For example, the best sales reps in one particular famous high-tech company get such high intelligence test scores. They need high-level intelligence to sell their products and services.
However, pre-employment intelligence test scores in other companies can be more average. In fact, my research continually finds that in most companies, the best sales reps typically get average intelligence test scores. That is the level of brainpower required to succeed in sales in most companies.
In addition to pre-employment tests, you should use four other sales rep evaluation methods.
First, does applicant’s work history indicate applicant will feel enthused about selling your company’s products. Did the applicant’s work history show examples of interest in selling your company’s products or services?
Second, do in-depth job interview that resembles a polite interrogation. Each interview should last approximately two hours. Do not get charmed by applicants who use their “Sales Training 101” skills on you! Instead, ask hard-hitting interview questions to assess sales talents, such as persistence, work ethic, desire for high earnings, diplomacy, honesty, and handling resistance and work difficulties.
Third, do a sales role-play. You play a prospective buyer, while the applicant plays a sales rep. Tell the applicant try to sell you something. Use this role-play to assess or evaluate the job applicant on crucial sales skills, such as developing rapport, uncovering prospect’s needs, presenting solutions, handling objections, asking for the order, and following-up.
Fourth, do a realistic job observation. Have the sales rep applicant tag along with one of your sales reps for one-half day. Then, the sales applicant can see how much they may like or dislike your company’s sales job. Also, the sales rep the applicant accompanies will give you insights into the applicant’s possible strengths and weaknesses in your company’s sales environment.
Use pre-employment tests, work history evaluation, in-depth job interviews, sales role-play, and realistic job observation to assess and evaluate sales rep applicants. If an applicant does well in all five assessment methods, then offer the person a job. However, if the applicant rates poorly in any of these five evaluation methods, then (a) take a match, (b) burn that applicant’s resume, and (c) find better sales rep applicants.
Many companies proudly show their list of core competencies to anyone who will look. However, the core or key competencies listed often have no connection to reality.
Using pre-employment test research in many companies, I discovered the actual core competencies of companies often differ from their stated key competencies.
When a company wants to use pre-employment tests, especially personality tests and intelligence or cognitive tests, the best first step is benchmarking. Specifically, the company can test superstar employees in each job. Pre-employment test scores of the superstars become the benchmark test scores for that job in that company.
For example, let’s say a company wants to use pre-employment tests to test applicants for Sales Rep job. To benchmark, the company’s best Sales Reps take the test. Then, their typical test scores become the benchmark scores for the company’s Sales Reps. Job applicants who get the same pre-employment test scores as the company’s best Sales Reps deserve further consideration and, perhaps, hiring. But job applicants who get test scores different than the superstars probably may be dropped from consideration.
You notice such pre-employment test scores are very different than the stated core competencies of Creativity, Flexibility, and Learning or Quest for Knowledge.
That means some core competencies are nothing more than wishful thinking done by managers who want to create lofty key competencies lists. Given a choice, would you choose a list (A) nice-sounding, lofty competencies that have no basis in reality or (B) research-based reality of skills the company’s best, superstar employees actually possess and use to succeed on-the-job?
You certainly would choose option B.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT YOUR COMPANY’S CORE COMPETENCIES LIST?
Put it to the test, literally and figuratively. Take pre-employment tests and test your superstar employees in each job. Use personality tests and intelligence tests or cognitive ability tests. Statistically see benchmark pre-employment tests scores of your best-of-the-best employees.
Then, use the pre-employment test benchmark scores as a basis to list true, research-based core competencies needed to help your company grow and prosper.
Surveys of executives reveal that many companies fall short of their profit objectives due to “people problems.” Research for my Absolutely Fabulous Organizational Change book found these “people problems” fall into two “r” categories: rebellion and resistance.
Rebellion is akin to teenagers defying authority figures, fir instance, rebelling against leaders who institute change.
Resistance includes employees flinging roadblocks in the way of the organizational change. Examples include employees slowing down their work pace, badmouthing the change behind leaders’ backs, making spiteful comments about the leaders, and slashing productivity.
Why did my statement attract media attention? Because I summarized the emotionally charged sting of betrayal everyone has felt for various reasons. Employees showing difficulty handling change often feel betrayed. They get used to everything at work being done in a certain way. But all of a sudden, if a company (or spouse or lover) changes how it acts, the person feels a huge sense of loss, distrust, and betrayal.
* Communicate 500 Times” -- continually repeating Excell’s strategy to employees.
Every manager in my workshop remained silent for a few moments. Then, they all burst out laughing. Reason: They recognized the wisdom of what they heard. Some rebellious and resistant employees simply need to be de-employed. After all, a company’s purpose is to prosper -- not to run a counseling center for rebellious employees.
Importantly, a fantastic way to avoid employee problems in times of change is to not hire employees who could become problem employees! As I always ask in my workshops and speeches on Hire the Best -- & Avoid the Rest™, “What’s the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to have productive and dependable employees?” My answer: “Hire people who are productive and dependable human beings!!” Superior hiring methods often include evaluating applicants using customized tests and interviews.
Many of my ideas will draw on my speeches to many human resources associations -- plus insights on how to apply my 6-step HR Profit Center model from my best-selling HR book entitled, "Turning Your Human Resources Department into a Profit Center(tm)." | 2019-04-23T04:02:42Z | https://drmercer.typepad.com/dr_mercers_human_resource/organizational_development_change/ | Sports | Business | 0.914221 |
reuters | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s highest court on Wednesday scuttled government plans for a refugee swap with Malaysia in a major policy setback for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, already trailing badly in opinion polls and facing defeat at the next election.
The two countries signed a deal in July aimed at deterring Asian asylum-seekers from sailing to Australia. Under the deal, Australia would send up to 800 newly arrived asylum seekers to Malaysia where their refugee claims would be assessed. In return, Australia would accept more refugees from Malaysia.
“It’s a slap in the face for the Gillard government, it’s a huge setback for the Malaysian solution,” said Marianne Dickie, an expert on migration law at Australian National University.
Gillard’s minority Labour government, which must fight an election by late 2013, struck the Malaysian deal to fight perceptions that she was soft on asylum seekers. A tough stance on boat people has helped swing election results in recent years.
But lawyers for two asylum seekers asked the High Court to declare the people swap illegal, because Malaysia had no legal guarantee to protect the rights of asylum seekers.
The court agreed and ruled that Canberra could not ensure protection for asylum seekers sent to Malaysia.
Australia is a signatory to the U.N. convention on refugees but Malaysia is not. The convention, agreed in 1951, spells out the international legal protection and rights refugees are entitled to from states that have signed it.
Critics say Malaysia’s refusal to ratify the U.N. convention has led to mistreatment including caning and denial of basic rights for the 93,600 refugees in the country, who come from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They were actually petrified about being sent to Malaysia and they are extremely relieved,” said David Manne, a lawyer acting for the two asylum seekers, adding they were worried about being harmed in the Southeast Asian nation.
Australia already has tougher immigration rules than many developed countries, particularly in Europe, despite the relatively low number of asylum-seeker arrivals.
Most asylum seekers in Australia are held in detention centres, with those arriving by boat sent to remote locations dotted around the country and on Christmas Island, an Indian Ocean territory.
Australia accepts around 14,000 people under its refugee and humanitarian intake each year.
The government had said the Malaysia deal would discourage asylum seekers from trying to get to Australia on creaky fishing boats and Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said the court’s decision was a big blow.
“Let’s make no bones about it. Today’s decision by the High Court is a profoundly disappointing one,” he said.
But he said the government was inclined to honour its deal to accept 4,000 refugees from Malaysia, and remained committed to a regional approach to fight people smuggling.
Australia, a nation of about 23 million people, receives up to a few thousand asylum-seekers by boat each year, but the arrivals stir intense political debate over border security.
In 2001, then conservative Prime Minister John Howard won voter support for his decision to use the military to prevent entry into Australian waters of a ship which had rescued asylum seekers from a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean.
Howard’s government had appeared to be heading for electoral oblivion ahead of that incident, but he went on to win a general election three months later.
“What we have seen today in the High Court is yet another recognition of yet another policy failure by this incompetent government,” said opposition spokesman Scott Morrison.
The Labour government, which has a one-seat majority in parliament with the backing of Green and independent MPs, has also come under pressure over a scandal involving a government MP accused of using a union credit card to pay prostitutes.
Former Labour politician Graham Richardson, now a political commentator, said the government needed to look at other possible offshore locations for processing asylum seekers.
“I think Malaysia is just dead,” he said.
Australia has already begun negotiations with Papua New Guinea to re-open the mothballed Manus Island immigration detention centre, which closed down in 2004.
Wednesday’s High Court ruling means Australia might also need to re-open a detention centre on the remote Pacific islands nation of Nauru.
Both the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres were used by the former conservative government under its controversial Pacific Solution, where asylum seekers who arrived by boat were sent to other countries to have their refugee claims processed.
“Amnesty International is delighted that the High Court has prevented this outrageous, politically motivated scheme from going ahead,” said refugee spokesman Dr Graham Thom.
Malaysian rights group SUARAM said Canberra should stop looking to other countries to deal with its asylum-seeker problem.
“This is outsourcing a responsibility that belongs to Australia,” said SUARAM’s Andika Abdul Wahab. | 2019-04-18T14:37:40Z | https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-australia-malaysia/australias-high-court-rejects-malaysian-asylum-seeker-deal-idUKTRE77U0OD20110831 | Sports | News | 0.087064 |
indiatimes | This was supposed to be a fight between two Olympians. However, the contest for Jaipur Rural Lok Sabha seat is turning out to be quite a different one. Hit ground zero and you soon realise that it is a tussle between a ‘kissan ki beti’and a fiery ‘fauji’.
BJP wishes to avenge the allegation of 'Hindu or saffron terror' levelled by Digvijaya Singh in the wake of 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings and 2008 Malegaon blasts at the national level by defeating him. | 2019-04-21T11:12:18Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/saffron | Sports | News | 0.370322 |
wordpress | Then the week of the sleepover approached. I subtlety reminded Lily about it, and she seemed in good spirits for it! She was bought a new sleeping bag thanks to grandma, (luckily in her apparently new favourite colour purple) and we tried it out at home to make sure she fit in it as it was a junior one – the reviews were totally mixed on what age it would fit, and Lily isn’t exactly short. So that was great fun! And then today, I’d popped to the library to print off the “check list” and we both got everything ready together, with Lily ticking off the list as we got it all packed!
We then had big cuddles and a few tears through the conversation, but I wanted to make it perfectly clear that I would be there as soon as they were finished, and that she would have a great time, even if she couldn’t see it right then. She cheered up after this and off we went to the sleepover.
Once we arrived, Lily was, understandably a little clingy, but I left her with a smile on her face and I sincerely hope I don’t receive a phone call at 2am asking for her to be picked up. But I am ready and waiting should the call come through. I know it’s going to be a brilliant experience for Lily, and it’s just going to help her build upon her character and give her confidence – not only in herself but in knowing that she is perfectly capable of enjoying herself without a family member being in the picture and becoming confident in being independent. This is what I love about clubs and groups, and in Beavers this sleepover will be many of the children’s first nights away from family, just like Lily, and I’m sure I’m not the only parent who’s had these talks and reassurances to their kids tonight.
So there we have it! To be continued in part 2 when it’s all over. ((Psst, you can read the verdict here!) – Oh, and we bought her the uniform. Doesn’t she look good?!
How did you cope with your child’s first night away?
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fc-zenit | The blue-white-sky blues will face the Norwegian side on 23rd and 30th August.
Molde finished second in Norway's top league and in the third qualifying round of the Europa League, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team beat Scotlands Hibs 3-0 on aggregate. (0-0, 3-0).
Zenit have played teams from Norway six times in the past, winning five and drawing one.
Information on the sale of tickets for the game will be published shortly. | 2019-04-24T00:27:34Z | https://en.fc-zenit.ru/news/2018-08-17-zenit-vstretitsya-v-sleduyushchem-raunde-ligi-evropy-uefa-s-molde.htm | Sports | Sports | 0.539172 |
wordpress | I really have a love/hate relationship with these kind of books. It’s a book on horror films, so of course I’m going to add it to the library. But when a book comes out with a title like this, it is always open for debate, since everyone’s opinions are going to be different, even if just a little bit. Maybe you can’t believe that they would have included a certain title in their Top Ten? Or maybe that they even left out a film that you think should have been included.
On the flipside though, that is the beauty of these type of books. It leads to discussions. Sure, some times they might be a little heated, but discussions none the less! There are times when volumes like this could even shed some light on a title that either you didn’t know about over the years, or that maybe you had always planned to see it but forgot about it. Now is your chance. These are also great little checklists to go through and make sure that you’ve seen all the films listed, or maybe there’s a few that you want to re-visit. And who knows, maybe you might learn a little information about one of your favorite movies that you didn’t know.
Granted, I’m saying all of this without even seeing a copy, but I am familiar with some of the authors’ names and I have faith in what they would be putting out. Once I do get a copy and read through it, you can bet there will be a review up here! But in the meantime, you can order your own copy from the publisher BearManor Media through their website HERE. You can get either a hardcover edition for $35 or a softcover for $25. At 350 pages, it does sound like it is a pretty decent size book that I’m sure will give you a few hours of entertainment. | 2019-04-20T16:26:56Z | https://kitleyskrypt.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/101-scariest-movies-ever-made/ | Sports | Reference | 0.142461 |
nipissingu | First posted July 2, 2001. Revised January 16, 2003.
Ye valiant men of all degrees, give ear unto my lay.
As lions brave, did battle give to Bretons three times ten.
And warriors hoar recount it then to children on the knee.
Only envious knaves and faitours treat such ditties with despite.
Of the Combat of the Thirty � that most memorable fight!
Pity to have on those who fought, sith most of them are dust.
But his death, as ye shall hear anon, proved a loss and not a gain.
Nor any peaceful citizen the English mote despoil.
Who Daggeworth�s treat broke straightway, and ravaged all the land.
�Now by Saint Thomas!� Pembroke swore, �avenged shall Daggeworth be!
Small mercy did he show to those within his power who fell.
Who groaned, unpitied unrelieved, �neath Pembroke�s cruel yoke.
Full many a captive they beheld lamenting dolefully.
Together linked by twos and threes � torment on every side.
Thus haughtily the mail-clad throng bespoke the Baron good.
The helpless captive to maltreat is shame to chivalry.
Whom shall you find your vines to dress � who will your granaries fill?
For till our conquest be assured, these things shall never cease.
Question thereon there must be none. Now, mark well what I say.
From Pontorson to Nantes � from Nantes to Saint Mahé.
Not half a foot, Sir Robert, shall you advance that way.
And those who loudest prate do least, as I�ve been taught.
By mortal combat in the field on some appointed day.
Whereat he turned him to his Knights, laughing disdainfully.
His knightly word to use thereat no base superchery.
Laetare Sunday � when good men with gifts the altar store.
The Vigil of Laetare �twas, � and would ye know the year?
Fifty to Three Hundred add, and ye shall have it clear.
That those who fight for truth and right, He have within His care!
Such as the lance and battle-axe, and dagger best can use.
Proud Pembroke and his chosen men like bears and wolves to hack.
From Bourgoigne to the Switzer�s land, from Milan to Plaisance.
With one accord they made reply � �Thirty with you shall go.
What weighty blows, and well applied, a Breton arm can deal.
Next Guy de Rochefort, Saint-Yvon, and good Yves Charruel.
Caron de Bosdegas be mine, with Robin Raguenel.
My life upon each of ye �gainst Pembroke will fight well.
Guillaume de Montauban, I wot, my quest will not refuse?
Olivier, uncle to the last, and you, De Fontenay?
With Hughes Capus-le-Sage, sans question, I must have.
Whose valiant sire to fight the Turk hath sailed across the sea.
Du Parc, Mellon, and De la Marche, � ye all must come with me.
And for success upon their arms right fervently did pray.
That for Bretaigne the coming fight triumphantly may end!
Haughty Sir Robert Pembroke chose his comrades for the fray.
With Richard de la Lande � three better might not be.
Hervé de Lexualen came next, Walton and Bélifort.
Its weight was five and twenty pounds � yes, twenty-five and more!
Esquires the hardiest to find, and thus his choice he made.
Hérouart and Boutet d�Aspremont, the stoutest of them all.
All these he took, and lastly chose Hucheton de Clamaban.
Each blow lopped off a head or limb, or pierced right to the heart.
But he who holds the foremost place is resolute Croquart.
De Gannelon and Helichon, Vitart and Mélipart.
Brabanters four and Germans six; � and thus the list is told.
And armed with falchion, lance and sword, war-axe and dagger keen.
Thirty to match them, it would seem, could not be found on earth.
To death were doomed, and all Bretaigne to Dinan they would have!
The mighty Ruler of Events a rightful cause to aid!
Of the Combat and the great feats of arms done thereat.
They knelt them down, and took the cup, and ate the sacred bread.
�Be of stout heart, and valiantly these Englishmen withstand.
Mine own right-noble kinswoman � great love for us shall bear.
Of thirty fearless combatants, unto the field did hie.
Midway it lies �twixt Josselin and the Castle of Ploërmel.
Known as the Mid-Way Oak � long may that mark remain!
Doth prophesy, upon this day, a signal victory.
For of the host of Beaumanoir few shall survive the day.
In his name, shall to Edward good, our sovran lord, be ta�en.
Things to a different issue far shall surely yet be brought.
E�en as the words fell from his lips De Beaumanoir was seen.
And from the King of Saint-Denis, like license thou shalt gain.
Back from this field, where we have come to fight, without a blow.
He would adjourn the combat, sirs. Speak! Will you have it so?
Ready prepared we are to fight, and by Saint-Honoré!
With Pembroke and his fellowship we mean to fight to-day.
Dispute the title of the land with the Duke Debonair.
�Hear what my brave companions say � thy offer they do spurn.
Which thou has proffered Charles de Blois, through me and mine to-day.
And, when too late, thy rashness great full bitterly thou�lt rue.
That I unto this field have brought the flower of Brittany.
Thy fellowship I hold as cheap, and will have mastery.
�Upon them! � strike these Bretons sown, and put them to the sword!
Impatient were the sixty all from words to come to blows.
Yves Charruel is prisoner ta�en, Mellon is stricken dead.
By blow from Bélifort�s rude mawle is wounded grievously.
The Bretons have the worst. � Saints, to their succour fly!
Caron de Bosdegas, senseless, is on the ground.
Ere that should be, full many a shield and hawberk should be tried!
And all who came within its range he quickly overthrew.
And lion hearts, on either side, the combatants displayed.
And for a while repose they took, whereof all stood in need.
And, thus refreshed, the deadly strife they recommenced straightway.
And splintered spear and battered helms bestrew the bloodstained ground.
Thus twenty-five alone are left. Christ Jesus lend them aid!
Knighthood besought from Beaumanoir upon his bended knee.
Thy valiant sire, Budes de La Roche, -- who at Stamboul did fight.
Swear -- and may Mary Mother be gracious unto thee!
Thy gory head I�ll send this night as a bauble to my mie.
A noble knight like Beaumanoir thy mistress sport to make.
Right to the brain the steel did pierce as after did appear.
And smote him with his spear so hard, that down he fell stark dead.
�Ho Beaumanoir!� Du Bois cried out, �behold thy haughty foe.
What sore mischance befallen hath their boastful chief, I ween.
When brave Croquart, the Almayn, thus to animate them strives.
�Too true it is -- alack! too true -- no longer Pembroke lives.
Have played him false, since they could not forewarn him of his death.
Do as I counsel ye, brave sirs, and ye have nought to fear.
And all who venture on attack, ye so shall maim or slay.
And Tristan, who was hurt full sore, -- as erstwhile I did tell.
But Pembroke being slain, ye wot, they from parole were free.
Burning for vengeance on their foes, vowing they all should die.
Still furiously as heretofore, the conflict rages on.
And their broad shields in cantels fly, while blood their harness smears.
Whose strength and prowess doubtful make the issue of the fight.
Seeing the English stand aloof, would closely them assail.
Of weighty blows on helm and shield for o�er the wide moor rang.
Geoffrey Poulard in death doth sleep, and near him lies Dardaine.
E�en Beaumanoir himself is hurt. -- Be pity on them ta�en!
Or not a man on either side shall ere draw sword again.
With streams of blood from gaping wounds blusheth the trampled ground.
And the combatants are bathed in sweat beneath his burning rays.
And being faint and sore athirst, for water he did cry.
The Baron good forgot his thirst, and joined the fray again.
Like iron wall, immovable, the English band is seen.
Gigantic Bélifort also, armed with his dire martel.
Had not Saint Michael lent him aid he must have felt dismay.
Essayed by cheerful look and speech his stout heart to recall.
That the bravest and the best are left of all your company.
With De La Marche abide as yet, and Olivier Arrel.
De Rochefort he doth yonder stand -- you may note his pennoncel.
Incessantly the welkin rings with the great blows they strike.
The English phalanx firmly withstands the fury of the shock.
Seeing how matters stand with them, doth from the press retire.
That if a charger he can get, he will the English rout.
And a great iron-headed spear he took within his fist.
Yet toward the English rode he not, but semblance made to fly.
�Whither so fast, De Montauban? -- what art thou, friend, about?
Is it by flying from the fold that thou thy foes wouldst rout?
And wheeling round with lightning speed dashed towards the English ranks.
And other three he trampled down, as quickly he returned.
Into disorder threw them all, and their high courage shook.
Each Breton knight, as pleased him then, a captive straightway took.
�Now is the time! -- strike, Barons brave! Montjoie and victory!
Strike all of ye with double force, and conquest ye shall have.
Christ Jesus in his clemency avert from you all ill!
But still the conflict is not o�er, but rages fiercely on.
And on this memorable day hath palm of valour won.
For some are captives on parole, and others have been slain.
And so is giant Bélifort, despite his bravery.
Who came that day in company with Pembroke to the fight.
With more to Josselin now are ta�en by Beaumanoir�s command.
and sung in ditties of our old Armoric chivalry.
Full many a dame of beauty bright shall it serve to recreate.
Of Arthur and Olivier, Roland and Charlemagne.
Of this Combat of the Thirty, which, I ween, was without peer.
Great was the Battle, doubt it not, and great the change it wrought.
Who Brittany, before that day, to subjugate had thought.
Compassion find from pitying Heaven upon the Judgment Day!
That to their souls at that dread hour his grace He may accord!
Three Hundred and Fifty, on the Saturday before Laetare Jerusalem.
Date of the combat: The new year began in spring or on Easter in many medieval jurisdictions.
First Fytte, stanza III. Name of the English commander: Ainsworth doesn�t explain where he got the name �Sir Robert Pembroke.� The various manuscripts give a variety of names, including �Bembro� and �Brandebourc.� One account says he was a German.
Second Fytte, stanza IX: �Pembroke�s� [a]mié[e] is his lady love. In the first version I said, "In the original, Beaumanoir does not make the corresponding threat to send Pembroke�s head to his lady." I am now of the opinion that Ainsworth's translation may be right; the language is difficult and ambiguous.
Second Fytte, stanza XVI: jouvencel = youth.
Second Fytte, stanza XVII: I can�t see in the French any justification for the idea that the battle continued after Montauban's bloodthirsty words.
Second Fytte, stanza XIX: �Armoric chivalry.� Brittany was part of an old region called Armorica.
Three hundred, a thousand. The original poet speaks of three hundred, Ainsworth added the thousand. Ainsworth seems closer to being right.
Jonathon Sumption, The Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (Philadelphia, 1999), pp. 33-4. | 2019-04-25T22:33:58Z | http://faculty.nipissingu.ca/muhlberger/CHRONIQU/texts/ainswort.htm | Sports | Arts | 0.163129 |
wordpress | Current state of Sylmar Disruption. Still more to come.
This entry was posted in Pieces and tagged art in progress, california, contemporary art, mfa, painting, painting on paper, ren adams, ren adams art, sylmar disruption, tv theory, Works in progress on August 14, 2015 by plasticpumpkin.
Besides being the semester mid-point, my 3rd-semester mid-term coincided with major changes in the final direction of my thesis project, The Cascade – Moments in the Televisual Desert. I plotted several distinct pieces that need to be completed before January and determined the final format and physical considerations of the last part of the triad: the interactive.
So, in addition to continued conceptual investigation, I grappled with medium, technique and materials in a direct way–clearing the “limitless possibilities” that were effectively making part of the project freeze, Hamlet-style, from too many options.
The three-part, interdisciplinary installation will include painting and video, which were already decided, but the possible format of the video, plus the final direction of the third element–the interactive R/W component, were still up in the air.
The interactive component had so many potentialities it became limiting instead of liberating. I had built and cross-referenced output format lists, based on suggestions and investigations, which implied the third component could take nearly any form–from interactive fiction to downloadable apps–digital images on paper to responsive environments. I had also started down all of those avenues, experimenting without critically tying each output back to my concept.
I did some conceptual housekeeping, sweeping away techniques that did not directly communicate my concept and its ties to televisual experience (output formats like websites, phone apps and Processing referenced digitality flavored by the Internet, speaking less about the nature of television and more about the broader computerized spectrum of 21st century communication). Instead I zeroed in on a form of stereoscopy for the third component, which ties in to memory theory and physical interactivity, while referencing televisual memory on several levels. I’ll do a big reveal later in the semester, but it feels good to weed the garden of endless mediums! The interactive has become stereoscopic. If the stereoscopy does not hold up to more rigorous critique, there are several other formats that can be revisited.
The video display has been narrowed down from a wild list of on-site projections, digital photo frames, and room-filling environmental shifts to a single monitor or system of multiple monitors which play the videos with out-loud audio on the main display. During the last residency I found viewers were split 50/50 on reception of the videos on a large scale or more intimate size. The larger scale referenced the black box of cinema and filmic language. The smaller scale referenced television. While it would be interesting to construct an enter-able televisual space, with multiple projections in a darkened room, I found that referencing television via the televisual screen makes the most sense, especially the more I’ve dug in to the differences between television theory and cinematic theory. The black box of cinema expects the viewer to sit down and focus on the language of film, much like the novel, which restrains, constrains and uses its own cultivated language–characters and locations are fully rendered in a lengthier window of time than your average television episode, yet it has a much shorter expanse in which to develop virtual relationships than a 24-episode tv season. It’s more complex than this, but in a nutshell, cinema is over-arching, encompassing. Television is episodic, fleeting, but builds a dynamic mosaic for interpretation. We engage with tv on different days, in different moods–but film is meant to be consumed in one shot, one specific length.
Television is a “white box” medium which co-exists in our personal, social and lived-in spaces. We don’t turn the lights down (unless we’re watching a filmic experience on television) to engage with it. Instead, TV occupies a light, lively room. We may pass in front of the box, doing chores, talking, temporarily engaging the screen, getting wrapped up in bursts of sound, snippets of dialogue… it is a medium of oral tradition, of mosaic image-memory, of fragmentary, flowing storytelling. It occupies more hours with us in our physical geographies, in our relationship to friends and family in location-situated space.
Showing the videos on a television-referent monitor as wormholes into time, space, memory, landscape, histopry and television makes sense. Even those who prefer to view television via Netflix or Hulu on computers or mobile devices engage with the media intimately, yet with an odd sense of passive control, small and close. In the white box of the gallery space, it makes sense. With lights on, the rest of the installation lit and occupying pass-through space… it makes sense!
My decision was influenced by discussions with fellow students, faculty, advisors, my mentors–and by viewing a variety of video art projections and installations in person, gauging my response to the physical display, as well as the response of other visitors.
I’d still like to experiment with an all-tv room, or with projections on scrims, but in my gut I know tv will show tv.
I’ve also narrowed the way further. The sheer amount of material that was filmed in Los Angeles County between 1965 and1989 is staggering. I had initially limited the pool of resources to television, rather than the thousands of hours of cinematic references to the same geographic considerations, because I knew it would be overwhelming. I also knew the inclusion of film would change the dynamic (and personality) of the language I would be investigating and the forms the project could take. Thus, I had to leave Soledad Canyon gems like Duel (1971) off the table.
These early decisions remain in place. However, the pool of available television is itself a massive, decade-spanning archive. I fielded hours of television time, watching, hunting, scouring, sampling, barely melting that formidable iceberg tip. As I mentioned in an earlier post, my reasons for choosing certain programs are systematic and (hopefully) logical. Even with the guidelines I set for myself, the archive was still too big and expanding too quickly (nearly everyone at the last two residencies has suggested additional programming, additional genres), so I drew the line. I’m not adding any more programs, as tempting as it is (and even as I constantly remember more episodes and programs filmed in these locations!).
I’m finding the ground much more fertile when my ever-expansive view returns home, focused and narrowed on the final stretch.
1.) They had to be filmed in Los Angeles County during the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s (the heyday of LA County as the seat of American television filming).
2.) They had to be programs I had originally watched in their first (or partial first) run, or in syndication during those same decades (in-context viewing).
4.) They had to be dramas (I excised sitcoms, cowboy serials and other programs early on, as the language is quite different–though I can see returning to investigate these genres in the future).
5.) They had to be programs I had actually enjoyed watching, or felt some obsessive compulsion to engage with. This is why, for example, Airwolf isn’t on the list. I frankly didn’t like it. This is important for the earnest angle, which leaves sarcastic critique at the door.
6.) I had to be a distilled, representative array, including highly recognizable works paired with obscure memory-traces (a la Douglas Gordon, Renee Green).
For the second half of the semester, I’m planning to complete the rest of the video set, which magnifies various tropes and locations, including Ambush, Airplane (Rental), Car Chase, Auto Accident, Secret Air Base, Sniper, Desert Fire, and Military Action – (titles not final). I’ll be working my way through these with my palette of clips and ideas, though some may carry over to next semester. Plus, I’m working on new digital stills (see the two this post) and I intend to finish the next 2-3 paintings in the series.
This entry was posted in Pieces and tagged abstraction, aib, aib mfa, AIB mfa program, art in progress, art institute of boston, art school, art studio, art theory, contemporary art, desert, digital art, history, lesley university, los angeles county, making art, ren adams, ren adams art, the cascade, Works in progress on September 24, 2014 by plasticpumpkin. | 2019-04-21T06:29:58Z | https://renadamsmfa.wordpress.com/tag/works-in-progress/ | Sports | Computers | 0.185999 |
reuters | BOSTON/CHICAGO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc Thursday said some 56 million payment cards were likely compromised in a cyberattack at its stores, suggesting the hacking attack at the home improvement chain was larger than last year’s unprecedented breach at Target Corp.
Home Depot, in providing the first clues to how much the breach would cost, said that so far it has estimated costs of $62 million. But it indicated that costs could reach much higher.
It will take months to determine the full scope of the fraud, which affected Home Depot stores in both the United States and Canada and ran from April to September.
Retailer Target incurred costs of $148 million in its second fiscal quarter related to its breach. Target hackers stole at least 40 million payment card numbers and 70 million other pieces of customer data.
Home Depot said that criminals used unique, custom-built software that had not been seen in previous attacks and was designed to evade detection in its most complete account of what had happened since it first disclosed the breach on Sept. 8.
The company said that the hackers’ method of entry has been closed off, the malware eliminated from its network, and that it had rolled out “enhanced encryption of payment data” to all U.S. stores.
“We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and anxiety this has caused and want to reassure them that they will not be liable for fraudulent charges,” Chief Executive Frank Blake said in a statement.
Of the estimated cost so far of $62 million, which covers such items as credit monitoring, increased call center staffing, and legal and professional services, Home Depot said it believes that $27 million of the amount will be paid for by insurers.
But the company said it has not yet estimated the impact of “probable losses” related to the possible need to reimburse banks for fraud and card replacement, as well as covering costs of lawsuits and government investigations.
“Those costs may have a material adverse effect on The Home Depot’s financial results in the fourth quarter and/or future periods,” the company said in its statement.
Wesley McGrew, an expert of retail breaches who is an assistant research professor at the department of computer science at Mississippi State University, said that Home Depot is going to be expected to bear the costs related to fraud and payment card replacement.
Banks typically seek to get retailers to cover those costs if there are any indications of shortcomings in their security.
Criminals have frequently used software that evades detection, but retailers are expected to closely monitor their networks using tools that are designed to uncover signs of a crime in progress, McGrew said.
“It’s hard to feel sorry for them when there are things they could have done to improve the security of these transactions,” McGrew said.
Hitesh Sheth, chief executive of Vectra Networks, a cybersecurity firm in San Jose, California, said Home Depot’s breach exposes a weakness, noting that the company said hackers used unique, custom-built malware.
That “essentially means the technology they are using is only designed to detect malware that has already been used in a previous attack, and that is symptomatic of the retail industry,” Sheth said.
For its fiscal year ending in February, Home Depot revised its earnings estimate to $4.54 per share from $4.52. In addition to the cost related to the breach, it said the estimate includes a pre-tax gain of about $100 million on the sale of 3.6 million common shares of HD Supply stock. | 2019-04-24T12:33:48Z | https://www.reuters.com/article/home-depot-dataprotection/update-2-home-depot-breach-bigger-than-target-at-56-mln-cards-idUSL3N0RJ5VJ20140918 | Sports | Business | 0.846223 |
ksl | SALT LAKE CITY — It's a brotherhood no one chose to join: being a former prisoner of war.
About two dozen of Utah's former POWs were honored Friday for their service and sacrifice as part of National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. Most of the surviving POWs fought in World War II, but a handful survived torture, starvation, and solitary confinement in Korea and Vietnam.
There are 50 surviving former POWs in Utah. That's down from 80 just three years ago. Seven passed away in the past year.
Jay C. Hess of Farmington was among those honored. He flew more than 30 combat missions as an Air Force fighter pilot in Vietnam. He was shot down in August 1967 near the Chinese-North Vietnamese border. When he ejected from his plane, Hess hit the ground hard and was knocked unconscious as panels in his parachute were blown out.
He was captured and thrown into the "Hanoi Hilton" POW prison.
"(They would) tie your hands and arms behind your back and rotate them over your head and tie it to your feet in front," he said. It caused nerve damage, and it took six months to a year to recover from that kind of torture.
His faith helped him endure the harsh treatment. "You dream that you'll come home someday to that land you cherish," he said.
He kept that dream alive every day as he endured torture and starvation over 2,029 days: more than five years.
"I feel like I was a born-again American with a greater appreciation," he said. He has a greater appreciation for freedom, family and military friends.
He said he also got a lot of support from the other POWs. “They were helping you, you were helping them,” he said.
After he came home, he taught ROTC for 22 years at Clearfield High School. Hess said there are plans in the works for a 40th reunion with other Vietnam POWs next year.
April 9 is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. It was April 9, 1942, when starving and exhausted U.S. forces at Bataan in the Philippines surrendered to the invading Japanese during World War II. Seventy-five thousand American and Filipino troops were forced to march 70 miles to a POW camp — an infamous trek that became known as the "Bataan Death March." More than 600 American soldiers died from maltreatment and murder; the rest faced years of brutal captivity.
While appreciating their freedom, some of former POWs at Friday’s ceremony had their thoughts on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho — the only current U.S. prisoner of war.
The 26-year-old was taken prisoner in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009, and is being held by the Haqqani network, a Pakistani-based group with ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Bergdahl grew up a few miles south of the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho. He was a member of the 4th Brigade Combat Team in the 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska, at the time he was taken prisoner.
In a video his captors posted on YouTube in late February, Bowe said, “It’s very unnerving to be prisoner.” He appeared scared, upset and eager to come home.
According to recent reports, Bergdahl escaped in December only to be recaptured.
Several groups across the country have filed several petitions demanding Bergdahl's release.
Former POWs hope he will make it out alive. “The will to hang on, and never, never give up is built in us,” Hess said. | 2019-04-24T13:16:55Z | https://www.ksl.com/article/19983079/former-utah-pows-honored-for-service-and-sacrifice | Sports | Reference | 0.348453 |
wordpress | If you are planning for a weekend getaway or a trip to royal Rajasthan – Narlai is the right place of which you might not be aware of.
Narlai is a small village surrounded by the oldest Aravalli range in Pali district, Rajasthan. It lies in between Udaipur and Jodhpur. Narlai is a perfect holiday destination to enjoy and experience a Rajasthani village life with the best equestrian Marwari horses and its splendid folk tales. This 17th century village gives a perception of the rural Rajasthan and the visit to this small hamlet would surely leave you spellbound.
Although Narlai is a small village, there are many places one could visit. Narlai is well known for its old temples, step wells and marble archways. The most famous of all Jain temples is Adinath Jain Temple which is situated at the main entrance of the village. There are other Jain temples which have historical importance and are also known for their archaeological structures and ancient scripts. A 15 day festival on Holi every year is a significant feature at the Ai Mata Ka Mandir, which is a popular temple among the Hindus.
Narlai has other significant places like Ghoradara Dam, which is situated at a distance of approximately 3 km. As Narlai lies between Jodhpur and Udaipur, the district of Pali has a small town of Ranakpur, which has the Surya Narayan Temple as its main tourist attraction.
So if you are ready to experience the real rural Rajasthan and want to bask in its beauty, Narlai is the right place to taste the true flavor of Rajasthan and relish its hospitality. | 2019-04-21T17:10:09Z | https://rajasthantourismbuzz.wordpress.com/tag/ai-mata-ka-mandir/ | Sports | Recreation | 0.963989 |
uidaho | See Mont Royal in Montréal and visit Québec City — North America’s only walled city. Experience the wildlife of Saguenay, discover the beaches and trails of Sept-Îles and stroll the historic waterfront of Halifax. See the Reversing Falls in Saint John and take in the sweeping vistas of Bar Harbor. Walk through the Victorian neighborhoods of Portland and see the Vanderbilt houses in Newport. | 2019-04-22T14:16:29Z | https://www.uidaho.edu/alumni/get-involved/travel/2020/seaside-harbors | Sports | Recreation | 0.958671 |
wordpress | Book of the Month | Live. Laugh. Read.
Book of the Month is a meme where I list all of the books that I have read this month and nominate my favorite.
March’s Book of the Month is….
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski! I have just finished reading this and it is absolutely fantastic! Be sure to check out my review and keep an eye out for my thoughts on the second book, The Winner’s Crime.
Book of the Month is when I list all the books I’ve read this month and pick my favourite. I’d love for you to pitch in your thoughts on the books and my pick! Just comment below :).
I fell in love with this book! It was beautifully written, with amazing characters and a great plot.
I must admit, Legend and Half-Blood came very close second!
Up until now practically everything that I’ve posted on here I’ve also got on my Goodreads account. However, this is something new that I’m trying out.
… Delirium by Lauren Oliver!
I loved this book. It brought forth great concepts and ideas; it was very thought-provoking; brilliantly written; had great character development; made me fall in love with the characters; made me laugh; made me cry; and made me realise just how much I take for granted. – It was just a beautiful story! Not to mention, it left on a HUGE cliff hanger which, as much as I hate them, I love them too. | 2019-04-21T18:50:56Z | https://joysofbookworms99.wordpress.com/tag/book-of-the-month/ | Sports | Reference | 0.505877 |
maltafootball | St. Andrews found no difficulty in beating neighbours Pembroke Athleta 6-0 at the Hibernans Stadium to make sure of retaining Premier League status.
On the other hand, Pembroke remain anchored at the bottom of the table as they suffered the eighth consecutive defeat.
The Saints welcomed back Bong Won Che while goalkeeper Dean Sciberras was preferred to Jake Galea with Godwin Mckay also starting on the bench. Pembroke, on the other hand, had three changes as Adrian Borg, Daniane Jawad and Go Nagaoka replacing Filippo Scozzese, Tyron Fenech and Raphael Kooh Sohna.
St. Andrews managed to take the lead on the 18th minute when Tonci Radovnikovic brought Kyrian Nwoko down inside the area; referee Stefan Pace ordered a penalty and sent off the Croatian defender and from the penalty spot, Ivan Edgardo Paz ended at the back of the net after the ball hit the foot of the post and the goalkeeper.
One minute from the end of the first half, Dale Camilleri doubled the score with a well-placed shot from just outside the area which gave goalkeeper Roppas no chance.
Two minutes in the second half, the Saints scored the third goal thanks to Joseph Farrugia who slotted the ball from close range past the Pembroke custodian following an assist from the left by Aidan Friggieri.
Dale Camilleri went close to adding another on the 61st minute with a low shot from outside the area hitting the foot of the upright.
However three minutes later, Aidan Friggieri scored a fourth goal, slotting the ball past Roppas following an assist by Kastrevec.
Five minutes from time, Bong Won Che made it 5-0 as he headed the ball home off an Ivan Paz freekick.
But it was not over yet as St. Andrews scored a sixth goal on the 90th minute thanks to substitute Jacob Walker who rounded a defender before hitting low past Roppas following a pass by Friggieri.
ST. ANDREWS Dean Sciberras, Bong Won Che, Karlo Kesinovic, Michael Johnson (46′ Felix Okon Udoh), Enmy Pena Beltre (54′ Godwin Mckay), Dale Camilleri, Joseph Farrugia, Aidan Friggieri, Ivan Edgardo Paz, Ziga Kastrevec (73′ Jacob Walker), Kyrian Nwoko.
Subs not used: Jake Galea, Ryan Darmanin, Liam Grech, Daniel Brandle.
PEMBROKE Argyrs Roppas, Daren Falzon, Miguel Attard, Stevan Racic, Adrian Borg (65′ Tyron Fenech), Zoran Levnaic (72′ Zachary Grech), Daniane Jawad, Go Nagaoka (89′ James Mifsud), Tonci Radovnikovic, Sunday Eboh, Iralkis Roppas.
Subs not used: Matthew Calleja Cremona, Craig Abdilla, Neil Grech, Matthew Buhagiar.
Meanwhile at the National Stadium, Sliema Wanderers scored twice in the final fourteen minutes to beat Hamrun Spartans 2-0.
The Spartans have now gone ten matches without a win and are still third from bottom.
The Wanderers had three changes from their last outing as Ryan Spiteri, John Mintoff and Frank Temile replaced Wisdom Salomon, Peter Xuereb and the suspended Jean Paul Farrugia. Hamrun also had three changes as Igor Misan was suspended while Saturday Nanapere and Jorge Mesqueu Neto started on the bench with Luis Vergara Rodrigues, Siraj Arab Eddin and Mathieu Manset all being named in the starting line-up.
The Spartans were unlucky not to take the lead with Leandro Motta freekick hitting the upright on the 27th minute.
On the 63rd, it was Sliema’s turn to hit the woodwork with Stefano Bianciardi’s header from close range following a corner by Denni.
The Wanderers finally managed to break the deadlock on the 76th minute thanks to Matias Muchardi whose shot from outside the area hit the upright before the ball ended at the back of the net.
Sliema doubled the score on the 90th minute thanks to Riccardo Correa Duarte who tapped the ball home from close range following a cross from the right by Denni.
SLIEMA Giuseppe Sarao, Alex Muscat, Jonathan Pearson, Denni Rocha dos Santos, Mark Scerri (79′ Wisdom Salomon), Matias Muchardi, Stefano Bianciardi, Ricardo Correa Duarte, Ryan Spiteri, John Mintoff (73′ Peter Xuereb), Frank Temile (89′ Luca Brincat).
Subs not used: Miguel Bonnici, Luca Martinelli, Gabriel Aquilina, Michele Sansone.
HAMRUN David Cassar, Luis Vergara Rodrigues, Manolito Micallef, Karl Micallef, Siraj Arab Eddin (60′ Massimiliano Giusti), Luke Grech, Mathieu Manset (72′ Saturday Nanapere), Leandro Motta dos Santos (51′ Brandon Diego Paiber), Jake Grech, Sergio Raphael dos Anjos, Luke Sciberras.
Subs not used: Matthew Farrugia, Jorge Mesqueu Neto, Glenn Azzopardi, Jeremy Busuttil. | 2019-04-25T15:43:22Z | http://www.maltafootball.com/2017/04/09/st-andrews-cruise-past-hapless-pembroke/ | Sports | Sports | 0.806686 |
fiu | This past weekend, FIU Law served as the host site for the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations and Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Bar Association Regional Meeting. We are grateful to the Miami Dade-based Caribbean Bar Association and the Greater Miami Convention & Bureau. Because of their support, FIU Law students were able to network with leaders from the Commonwealth Lawyers Association as well as other members of the bench and bar. | 2019-04-25T18:01:38Z | https://law.fiu.edu/fiu-law-hosts-occba-oecs-regional-meeting/ | Sports | Society | 0.304812 |
washingtonpost | Try one of these satiating soups for a filling winter meal.
• Fight infections such as colds and flu.
If you really don’t want to make your own, high-quality bone broths can be purchased at The Little Red Fox in Northwest (www.littleredfoxdc.com) and through the delivery service Washington’s Green Grocer (www.washingtonsgreengrocer.com).
Seidenberg is co-founder of Nourish Schools, a D.C.-based nutrition education company.
Have a question for Ellie Krieger is a healthful eating columnist? Her next chat is Dec. 5 at 1 p.m. Submit your questions now and join us live.
What is the ‘best’ milk to drink?
How safe is your microwave? | 2019-04-19T11:19:46Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/bone-broth-winters-new-miracle-drink/2014/12/01/640169c2-69bf-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html | Sports | Shopping | 0.456011 |
wordpress | Breakfast | Move your Assets!
This Thanksgiving, we encourage you to give thanks to your health, your greatest asset in life.
Below, find six ways you can be mindful of that, and create a healthier, happier Thanksgiving for you and your waistline.
Start off strong by fitting in an a.m. stretch session when you wake up. This will leave you feeling relaxed, yet energized for the day ahead. Then follow it up with a healthy breakfast. Skipping this meal to save calories for later in the day can end up leading to an even higher intake overall, since hunger often results in overcompensation at the main meal. Try adding sliced bananas, cinnamon, walnuts, and a slight drizzle of honey to a bowl of plain, low fat Greek yogurt. Six ounces of Greek yogurt contains around 15 grams of protein, which will not only fill you up but also help keep you feeling satisfied until later in the day.
You’ve put in the hard work. You’ve sweated it out. And likely it was all tough at first. Now that you’ve lost weight, the last thing you’d want to do is pack it back on. So instead, let’s talk about how to keep it off.
80% of those who lose weight gain it right back. We want youto be a part of that other 20%, and we’ve got some tips to make that lifelong goal a little easier.
Follow these 5 rules to help keep that energy going up, and that weight off, forever!
Quick Breakfasts to Rev you up for a Happy and Healthy Day!
Getting your food to look this pretty takes more time. On weekends, challenge yourself to get creative!
Your mother wasn’t lying to you: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A hearty breakfast gives you energy so you can start the day right. It also kick starts your metabolism for the rest of the day, so your body is prepared to digest any food you put into it. Without breakfast, your body feels starved and your metabolism slows down to conserve energy. For those dieters who feel that they are “saving calories” by skipping an AM meal, this tactic has been proven to backfire. After not eating over night, you need some nourishment. Forgoing breakfast will cause you to become famished by lunchtime, often resulting in an afternoon binge fest. | 2019-04-18T13:09:33Z | https://lifevesthealthblog.wordpress.com/tag/breakfast/ | Sports | Health | 0.188978 |
wordpress | Ugh, ditto for the random electric shocks and relentless cramps 🙄 Menopause truly is the gift that keeps on giving – and it truly doesn’t need to bother, my body gives me plenty of ‘daily gifts’ as it is.
So yesterday, I was absolutely determined I was going to get out for a potter. I so miss walking, and can’t believe from this sorry place I’m in now that I once was a girl who – as a Guide Dog Instructor – used to walk around 12 miles a day whilst training my dogs. But I digress. I took a very gentle walk of around 1.5 miles with a friend, and it was lovely. Not too strenuous and I managed fine.
However, a while after returning I started getting cramps in any part of my toes, feet or calf muscles that I used. This seems to be turning into yet another new normal for me. Sigh. But, for some reason I had the urge to try drinking some coke (who knows why – it’s not something I drink really), and lo and behold the cramps stopped on the spot!
Anyhow, thought it was worth a mention in case it wasnt just a coincidence and it works for you too? | 2019-04-20T07:24:51Z | https://mastcellblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/05/neuropathic/ | Sports | Recreation | 0.909481 |
wordpress | Page 2 – Mitch Muenster on Xamarin, Microsoft, & other tech/software I can get my hands on.
So things im working on getting out.
I finished my 80th Xamarin Uni class this evening and it made me think about some things… I have 2 instructors a lot and I have some habits that I am taking away from them or things I noticed.
1. You are surprised when you take a Xamarin U class with Glenn Stephens or Kym Phillpotts and there are less then 3 flash quizzes in the class.
2. You find your self speaking in a Australian accent when talking about Xamarin or saying your name.
3. Your phone tells you the weather in Celsius while living in the US, in case you end up talking about it.
4. You prefer taking classes that are during the work day in Australia.
6. You have more Go To Training emails reminding you class is about to start then actual class emails.
7. You know how to move the Go To Training Timer box.
8. You have become a better C# programmer because of F# classes.
Life with Asperger’s is not always the easy life, in today’s world there are many roadblocks set against a person, and even more so for those with autism. But Today that has been lessened a little bit as I have passed my Xamarin Certification Exam After starting from scratch this past month in the world of C#, Mobile development, and Xamarin. This has made me stop and reflect on this past month.
When you go thought and think about life, we are going though things in a rush, completing tasks, going to meetings, and other activities that at their core are constantly changing the state of a Boolean. We can get so focused on our self’s that we forget to keep things in prospective. We set goals, dream big and start small. As I have spent the past month furiously learning everything I can from Xamarin University to prepare myself for the certification test and expand my understanding about the Xamarin universe that I lost sight of what was actually unfolding around me.
Only until now when I am about to take my certification test, studied my notes, filled out and rechecked the study guide I made for myself did I start to realize what was being passed to me. They were not just words spoken because the job requires it. This information was being passed to me as a Master craftsman passes on the knowledge to an apprentice.
This past month has been a month of learning, a month of sleepless nights, a month of loss and gain, and a month that has truly shaped me to be a better person and Xamarin developer, in ways I cannot yet begin to understand, I know that my life has been changed by the amazing team working at Xamarin University and I know that I have been changed for good.
Author Mitch MuensterPosted on July 28, 2015 Categories XamarinTags xamarin certification, xamarin university, xamarnLeave a comment on Certification Exam Passed! | 2019-04-23T05:55:03Z | https://mitchmuenster.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Sports | Computers | 0.948647 |
brooklynpaper | Nothing’s right, I’m Zorn: John Zorn celebrates the 30th anniversary of his composition “Cobra” at Roulette on Nov. 29.
Thirty years ago, John Zorn found a way to control chaos.
In 1984, the celebrated jazz saxophonist and composer introduced the world to a new composition called “Cobra” at a performance at Roulette, then located at a loft space in Tribeca.
For the show, a group of musicians — including guitarist Bill Frisell, turntablist Christian Marclay, and trombone player Jim Staley — were given visual instructions by Zorn via printed cards, hand gestures, and even the movement of his baseball cap to play little snippets of improvised solos. The result was a funny and fast-paced cacophony.
In the three decades since its premiere, ‘Cobra’ has never been written down, but it has been performed by groups of various shapes and sizes all over the world. Because the work is improvised, every performance is different, though the system of cards and gestures remains the same.
Now “Cobra” is returning home. On Nov. 29, at Roulette’s new location in Boerum Hill, Zorn will lead an anniversary edition of the piece with an all-star ensemble of experimental musicians and jazz players that includes Medeski Martin & Wood organist John Medeski, bassist Trevor Dunn, and cellist Erik Friedlander.
The show also furthers Zorn’s commitment to the new Roulette location, which he helped christen in 2011 with a series of concerts that culminated in a much-publicized set with performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson and her husband, the late Lou Reed.
What is less known is what Zorn plans to do with ‘Cobra’ beyond Saturday’s show. Staley guessed that the score might finally be officially published, but all he could say for sure was that like a performance of work itself, we should expect the unexpected.
John Zorn’s “Cobra” at Roulette [509 Atlantic Ave. between Third Avenue and Nevins Street in Boerum Hill, (212) 219–8242, www.roulette.org]. Nov. 29 at 8 pm. $35, $30 members and seniors. | 2019-04-20T02:02:15Z | https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/48/24-john-zorn-cobra-roulette-2014-11-28-bk_37_48.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.302952 |
duke | You do not have any of your devices and need to access a site that is Multi-factor Authentication(MFA) protected.
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colorado | The situation called for strong measures.
He walked off ten steps from the old tree and began to dig.
The box was buried fifteen steps from the corner of the garage.
The treasure map's form of measurements were in steps.
His ankle hurt more with each step.
Taking those five steps took all of his courage.
He took ten minutes to walk those five steps.
He paused on the bottom step.
The staircase had 15 spiraling steps.
It is only a step to the drugstore.
We moved only a step from the ice cream store.
He heard steps on the porch.
Fido began barking when he heard steps in the driveway.
Most of the piece was written in whole steps.
The police made casts of the footprint in the mud.
The animal's dusty steps could be seen all over the cars.
The step became unstable after the shipwreck.
He taught them the waltz step. | 2019-04-22T07:13:04Z | http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/step-n.html | Sports | Reference | 0.284237 |
spokesmanreview | SPOKANE, Wash. – Gonzaga men’s basketball head coach Mark Few announced his squad’s 13-game non-conference schedule for the upcoming season on Wednesday.
The non-conference slate is loaded with perennial powers in Arizona and UCLA and a pair of true road games at Washington State and SMU. In the span of two weeks to open the season, the Zags will play in the annual Armed Forces Classic in Okinawa, Japan, come home for a pair and then hit the Caribbean for the Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas.
All-told, Gonzaga’s full schedule will include at least five matchups with teams that made the NCAA Tournament last season, and a potential for a sixth with a possible Battle 4 Atlantis matchup with Texas. Of the five remaining matchups, two are with West Coast Conference foe BYU, and the remaining three are with Arizona, UCLA and SMU. Those three teams combined to win five games in the NCAA Tournament last season.
Of the teams on Gonzaga’s non-conference schedule, all but one finished with at least a .500 record. That leaves at least nine games against .500 or better, and possibly as many as 11 depending on the results of GU’s Battle 4 Atlantis games. Of those initial nine, five teams won at least 20 games in 2015.
After an exhibition at home against Eastern Oregon on Nov. 7, GU’s trip to Japan will officially open the regular season in the Armed Forces Classic at the United States Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler against Pittsburgh Nov. 13 on ESPN at 4 p.m.
Gonzaga will return to the McCarthey Athletic Center for the regular season home opener against Northern Arizona on Nov. 18. The game will renew an old Big Sky Conference rivalry, with the last meeting between the teams coming in 1979.
GU hosts Mount St. Mary’s on Nov. 21 as part of the Battle 4 Atlantis before departing for the Bahamas to compete in the B4A’s eight-team tournament. The Zags will be joined by Texas, Texas A&M, Michigan, Syracuse, UConn, Washington and Charlotte. Tournament play will run Nov. 25-27 in Atlantis’ Imperial Arena and the Zags will take on Washington in the first round on ESPN.
Upon returning to the States, Gonzaga will make the short trek to Washington State to face the Cougars on Dec. 2. Last season, GU defeated WSU 81-66 at Spokane Arena behind 20-point efforts from returning big men Przemek Karnowski (22) and Kyle Wiltjer (21).
After that, the Zags will be back at McCarthey for the next four games, including visiting Pac-12 opponents Arizona and UCLA in the second part of a pair of home-and-home series. Gonzaga, who’ll face UA on Dec. 5 on ESPN at 12:15 p.m., fell 66-63 in overtime to the Wildcats in Tucson last season. One week later, the Bruins will travel to Spokane looking to avenge a pair of Zag wins last season. That game is slated for Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. GU beat UCLA 87-74 in Los Angeles and 74-62 in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament in Houston, Texas. Both teams will be making their first trip to Gonzaga.
Those games will be sandwiched around a home contest with Montana on December 8. The Zags and Grizzlies last played in 2008 with GU taking a 77-54 win at home to give them nine straight wins in the all-time series.
Gonzaga will wrap up the home portion of its non-conference schedule with Saint Martin’s on December 14th before hitting the road to Seattle for the annual Battle in Seattle. GU will host Tennessee in this season’s BIS at KeyArena on Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. on ESPNU. Last season, Gonzaga won its fourth straight Battle in Seattle, beating Cal Poly 68-59 in front of a crowd of 11,741.
The remaining non-conference game on the schedule is a road trip to Dallas, Texas, to face SMU on Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 during a break in West Coast Conference play. Gonzaga hosted the Mustangs last season in a top-25 matchup, and came away with an impressive 72-56 victory.
Gonzaga is coming off a school-record 35-3 season accompanied by a record 22-game win streak, WCC regular season and tournament titles, and a trip to the Elite Eight. The Zags return leading scorer Kyle Wiltjer, leading rebounder Domantas Sabonis and two-year starter Przemek Karnowski. All three were All-WCC performers, with Wiltjer earning multiple All-America honors.
For more information on tickets for the Battle in Seattle, Battle 4 Atlantis or other away games, visit www.GoZags.com/tickets or call (509) 313-6000.
May have missed this, but I just noticed UW plays Texas in China four days after Zags play in Okinawa. The Huskies and Longhorns should suffer more jet lag than Zags.
We've been over this. We're talking the "Never leave home Huskies" - they are obviously just playing an exhibition in Chinatown, it's a misprint, obviously.
Must have missed that whole page with posts by SLOZag and yourself. Oops!
Don't believe him, Steel. Dixie has been banned from all reputable boards. | 2019-04-23T12:12:11Z | http://guboards.spokesmanreview.com/archive/index.php/t-54578.html?s=bf7778245fbc8101f237eeac2a9d0109 | Sports | Sports | 0.510162 |
alc | The June Buchanan School would like to recognize the winners of this year’s school Spelling Bee. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades competed within their classes, and the winner from each grade level then competed in the school-wide Bee. 6th grade winner Trey Moore, 7th grade winner Hunter Hylton, and 8th grade winner Taylor Thornsberry all proved themselves to be very knowledgeable in spelling. In the end, Taylor Thornsberry was named the JBS Spelling Bee Champion. Taylor will represent JBS at the Knott County Spelling Bee to be held Friday, February 18 at Knott County Central High School. JBS would like to wish Taylor luck in this upcoming competition! | 2019-04-26T14:04:28Z | https://www.alc.edu/2011/02/jbs-spelling-bee/ | Sports | Kids | 0.659911 |
ducksnorts | I was going to talk about Ben Davis, but that turned into a full-blown article. Funny the things that can happen when you wake up at 4:30 and have time to do actual research.
Looks like I’m not the only one who doesn’t like ESPN’s new center field camera angle.
Turns out David Bacani was just getting started when I had to return to work. He knocked another homer, as Fullerton cruised to an 11-2 victory that knocked Tulane out of the tournament.
Ryan Klesko is hitting a weak .190/.238/.311 against lefties this year but he sure had a nice at-bat against A’s southpaw Mike Magnante last night. After falling behind, Klesko worked the count to 2-and-2 before drilling a Magnante offering into the second deck in right field. Unfortunately the ball ended up just foul. Klesko then hit a lazy fly ball to Terrance Long on the eighth pitch of the at-bat.
For the record, Klesko is hitting a ridiculous .340/.451/.724 against righties.
I also got to see Brian Lawrence pitch. While I still think the folks over at Baseball Prospectus are way too enthusiastic about this guy, I understand why they like him. His pitches have good late movement, and he can spot them pretty well. But righthanders with fastballs that top out at 86 MPH have to continually prove themselves in order to get and keep a job at the big-league level. If he gets a legitimate shot at a rotation spot, Lawrence could probably follow in the footsteps of Bobby Jones and Brian Tollberg, or maybe even Rick Reed. But with so many other options in the system, it remains to be seen whether he’ll get that opportunity with the Padres.
Speaking of the Padres system, talk of moving Xavier Nady to second base won’t die. He’s currently playing first at Lake Elsinore (where he’s hitting .310/.385/.539 after a slow start) to protect his elbow from an injury sustained in the Arizona Fall League.
We just got another dog this weekend, so I’ve taken to going home for lunch to check up on him and our other dog. Which also means I’m getting to watch some of the College World Series.
This afternoon I got to see a couple innings of the Tulane-Cal State Fullerton game. I saw Padres first-round pick Jake Gautreau bat. Good balance, good patience, nice approach to the ball. He hit a sharp grounder up the middle that looked like a base hit, but Fullerton second baseman David Bacani came out of nowhere to make a spectacular diving stop and turn it into an inning-ending double play.
In the bottom half of the inning Gautreau made a fine play of his own, sprawling for a bunt that was popped up into foul territory off third base. Bacani continued his heroics later in the inning, smacking a three-run homer that put Fullerton up, 6-0. Bacani is a senior, and I don’t believe he was drafted, but he made an impression on me when I saw him play back in 1999, and I still think he could do something at the next level if given the chance.
One other thing I have to mention is ESPN’s new center field camera angle. I’m all for innovation but only when it actually improves on what’s currently in place. It’s not as annoying as listening to Ray Knight (what is?) but one of the things I like to watch in the pitcher-batter matchup is how the ball breaks as it moves toward home plate. That’s easy enough to do with the camera low over the center field fence looking from right behind the pitcher into the catchers mitt, but good luck with this new angle. The only advantage I can see to what ESPN is doing now is that it’s easier to tell whether a pitch is inside, over the plate, or outside. That’s nice in limited quantities (watch the Cubs on WGN for a good example of how to use this technique properly) but it gets old pretty quickly. It’s disorienting to try and track the ball from that angle. Or maybe it’s just me.
Okay, enough of my whining. I’m starting to sound like Andy Rooney. Oh well, at least I don’t sound like Ray Knight.
In baseball circles, we often hear about the “five-tool prospect.” The traditional five tools judged by scouts in evaluating a player are the ability to hit, power, speed, fielding skill, and throwing arm. Symobolically, if we think of each of these tools as points on a star, then a player who possesses all five tools should be a star. There are other important factors, of course, such as strike-zone judgment, dedication, coachability, etc., but a player who has all five tools generally has quite a head start over players who are less talented.
Any discussion of five-tool prospects today begins with Patterson. The left-handed hitter has drawn favorable comparisons to big leaguers Ray Lankford and Kenny Lofton. In his pro debut, in the Midwest League, Patterson hit.320/.358/592 (BA/OBP/SLG) as one of the younger players in the league. An excellent defender in center field and with speed to burn (33 steals in 42 tries), Patterson’s one area of weakness right now is strike-zone judgment (25 BBs/85 Ks in 475 ABs). A reluctance to draw walks can stall a player’s development at higher levels; however, there are exceptions — Vladimir Guerrero was one, and I suspect Patterson will be another. Patterson also had an explosive Arizona Fall League campaign, all the more impressive because he was playing against much older and more experienced players, and could see action with the big club as early as this season.
The kid from Taiwan simply dominated the California League in his first exposure to North American baseball, hitting .316/.404/.580. Chen drew 75 walks in 510 at bats, a good sign, and was 31 for 36 in stolen base attempts. A solid defensive corner outfielder, Chen draws raves for his work ethic. He does strike out a bit much (129) but with his all-around offensive package, the Dodgers should be willing to live with that. In a system largely devoid of prospects at the higher levels, Chen could advance very quickly and projects to be a Tim Salmon type hitter down the line.
I kept going back and forth between Chen and Nuñez as the #2 guy behind Patterson. Both carved up Cal League pitchers last year, and although Chen is closer to the big leagues, the younger Nuñez might have a higher ceiling. The switch-hitter batted .273/.378/.492 at High Desert in 1999. And although his home park was especially conducive to offense, any 19-year-old who puts up numbers like that at High-A ball demands attention. Nuñez has an advanced knowledge of the strike zone (86 BBs/122 Ks in 488 ABs) for such a young player and has outstanding speed, stealing 40 bases in 53 tries. Acquired by Florida as the player to be named later in the Matt Mantei deal, Nuñez has as much upside as anybody currently in professional baseball.
There is another very important factor in the success of a young player: the ability to stay healthy. There is no questioning Escobar’s talent but he has been plagued by injuries throughout his brief career. After a breakout season in 1998 (.310/.393/.584 in 416 ABs, with 54 BBs, 133 Ks, and 49 steals in 56 attempts in the SAL), the young flychaser played just 3 games last year due to first a stress fracture in his back and then a torn labrum in his left (non-throwing) shoulder. Escobar draws comparisons to a young Eric Davis or Andruw Jones. If he can overcome his injury problems, the sky is the limit.
The first player taken in the 1999 First-Year Player Draft, Hamilton adjusted to wooden bats very nicely, hitting .347/.378/.593 in 236 Rookie League at bats before tailing off to .194/.213/.236 in 72 at bats in the short-season Class-A New York-Penn League. As with Patterson, he could stand to control the strike zone a bit more (14 BBs/57 Ks combined last season). There’s a lot of work to be done here, but that’s to be expected of a kid just out of high school. Hamilton should be an impact player at the big-league level by 2003.
Although Melian hasn’t exactly been the brilliant star everyone expected when the Yanks signed him out of Venezuela at age 16, he has exceptional athletic ability and has held his own as one of the younger players in his league since coming to North America. Melian, who just turned 20, hit .283/.358/.413 in the tough Florida State League. His plate discipline is decent but not great (49 BBs/98 Ks in 467 ABs) and he is not an outstanding basestealer (11 in 19 tries) but the tools are definitely there. Melian also had a standout winter in the Venezuelan League, which bodes well for the future. Still very young, it’s just a matter of time before this kid starts putting up big numbers. With talent coming out their ears at every level in the organization, the Yankees will not rush Melian. Don’t expect him to make an impact before 2002.
All jokes about “being a gamer” aside, Bradley is a serious prospect with serious tools. Often compared to a young Rondell White, the switch-hitting Bradley batted .329/.391/.526 in 346 Eastern League at bats. He doesn’t draw a lot of walks (33) but doesn’t strike out much (61), either. And although he only stole 14 bases in 24 attempts last year, Bradley has the ability to be a force on the basepaths as well. The kid out of Poly High in Long Beach, CA, also had a terrific Arizona Fall League campaign, further solidifying his status as a top prospect. Bradley’s biggest problem to this point has been himself, as a few unfortunate on-field altercations have given him something of a bad reputation. Even if we chalk those up to youthful exuberance, once a player acquires a certain reputation, it can be very difficult for him to overcome. But if the talent is there — and it definitely is in Bradley’s case — eventually the player will succeed.
The lone member of the top 10 who isn’t an outfielder, Werth displays an unusual array of talents for a catcher. Frequently compared to Craig Biggio and Jason Kendall because of his athletic prowess, Werth hit .305/.403/.394 in 236 Carolina League at bats before posting a .273/.364/.355 line in Double-A. He controls the strike zone (54 BBs/63 Ks in 387 at bats, combined) and has very good speed (23 for 27 in stolen bases, combined). At 6’6″, he doesn’t look much like a catcher; a move to another position is possible, but wherever Werth ends up, he should be a good one.
Not to be confused with the Marlins’ righthander of the same name, this Fernandez hit .282/.320/.458 in the California League. The left-handed hitter is very much a work-in-progress, as shown by his 21 walks and 83 strikeouts in 426 at bats. On the positive side, Fernandez doesn’t turn 19 until May and he already has a season of High-A ball under his belt. Not many guys can say that. The Mariners should bring him along slowly, letting him experience success at each level, one at a time. If they are patient with Fernandez, and if he develops as expected, the Mariners could have a superstar on their hands.
This last spot was the toughest to fill. There were several worthy candidates — Minnesota’s B.J. Garbe and San Diego’s Vince Faison immediately spring to mind as two who just missed the cut — but I went with Freeman because he’s further along in his development and with a future in Coors Field, his offensive upside is that much higher. Freeman is a former prep football star who is still a diamond in the rough when it comes to baseball. In the SAL last year, he hit .274/.336/.423 over 485 ABs. His plate discipline is atrocious (39 BBs/132 Ks) for a guy who hasn’t yet put up big-time power numbers, but Freeman does just about everything else very well. How long it takes Freeman to figure out the strike zone will determine how long it takes him to arrive in Denver. Once he’s there, anything is possible.
We first examined the California Fall League (CFL) back in November, just after the completion of its inaugural season. My emphasis at that time was primarily on visual scouting, i.e., how guys I saw play looked out on the field. This time around, we’ll take a closer look at players who put up the big numbers.
The CFL, like the more visible Arizona Fall League, exists solely as a place for top prospects to hone their skills in the “off-season.” Unfortunately, due to poor attendance and insufficient funding from Major League Baseball, it’s looking like the CFL will be on hiatus next season. Why such a fine league isn’t being subsidised by folks who should have significant interest in seeing it succeed is anybody’s guess.
But enough business. Let’s see who did what this year.
San Francisco catcher Giuseppe Chiaramonte, aside from having one of the more interesting names in organized baseball, features some nice offensive skills, which he displayed this winter, to the tune of .307/.396/.511 (BA/OBP/SLG — this format will be used throughout). He drew 13 walks in 88 at bats and struck out only 18 times. Fellow Giants farmhand Doug Clark, a lefty-swinging right fielder, hit a cool .333/.442/.527 in 129 at bats. He drew 24 walks against 19 strikeouts and stole 7 bases in 10 tries. Milwaukee shortstop Chris Rowan showed excellent pop for a middle infielder but needs to control the strike zone if he’s to succeed at higher levels. Rowan batted .267/.310/.552 in 105 at bats. The good news is that over half his hits were for extra bases; the bad news is that he walked just 6 times while striking out 38. Mets outfielder Robert Stratton flashed some serious power when he was able to make contact. Stratton hit .233/.322/.488 in 129 at bats. He drew 16 walks but struck out an alarming 54 times. On the bright side, 18 of his 30 hits went for extra bases. Fellow Met Ty Wigginton hit .269/.347/.500 in 130 at bats. Nearly half his hits were of the extra base variety, and the young second baseman walked 17 times versus 26 strikeouts.
On the mound, righthanders Bryan Hebson and Mark Mangum excelled. Hebson, a 24-year-old Montreal farmhand who split 1999 between two Class-A teams, posted a solid 2.30 ERA over 27.1 innings, walking 8 and fanning 26. Opponents hit .242 against him. Mangum, another Expo prospect, finished with a brilliant 1.24 ERA in 29 innings. His strikeout-to-walk ratio was just so-so, at 16-to-6, but he held the opposition to a staggering .139 batting average.
The team as a whole hit .292/.392/.449, so there were some pretty gawdy individual totals. Catcher Lee Evans hit .324/.392/.507 in 71 at bats. The Pittsburgh prospect drew 8 walks against 20 strikeouts. Seattle second baseman Harvey Hargrove batted .342/.413/.468, with 14 walks and 26 strikeouts in 111 at bats. Another backstop, Detroit’s Brandon Inge, abused league pitchers to the tune of .407/.518/.860, with 20 walks and 23 strikeouts in 86 at bats. Well over half his hits were for extra bases and he managed to steal 6 bases (though he was caught 5 times). Colorado outfielder Juan Pierre had a fine season, batting .371/.457/.464 in 140 at bats. Pierre showed excellent top-of-the-order skills, walking 22 times against an impressive 6 strikeouts and stealing 27 bases in 34 attempts. Minnesota second baseman Mike Ryan hit .322/.439/.494 in 87 at bats. The left-handed hitter drew 19 walks and 15 strikeouts, and was successful in 7 of 8 stolen base attempts. Pittsburgh jack-of-all-trades Rico Washington hit .296/.444/.417 in 115 at bats. The lefty with the sweet swing had just 12 extra base hits (no homers) but displayed impressive patience at the plate, walking 32 times and fanning 27.
Southpaw Chris Cervantes posted a 3.90 ERA over 27.2 innings. The Arizona farmhand walked 5 batters and struck out 33, and opponents hit .289 against him. Righthander Sean Heams finished at 2.79 in 19.1 innings. A product of the Tigers organization, Heams walked 17 but struck out 23, while holding batters to a .209 batting average. Another Detroit prospect, righthander Kris Keller, fashioned a 3.57 ERA, with 4 walks and 16 strikeouts in 17.2 innings. The league hit .288 against Keller. Minnesota righthander Kyle Lohse, obtained in the Rick Aguilera deal, finished with a lofty 6.09 ERA but posted some nice peripheral numbers, including a 38-to-10 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a respectable .273 opponent batting average. Colorado’s Justin Miller posted a 3.78 ERA in 33.1 innings. More impressive were the righthanders incredible 54 whiffs against just 14 bases on balls. He held opponents to a .254 batting average. Finally, Steve Sparks (no, not the Angels’ knuckleballer), a righthander in the Pirates chain, tailored a 3.13 ERA over 31.2 innings, walking 16 and fanning 29, while holding the opposition to a .256 batting average.
Jay Gibbons, a first baseman in the Toronto system, hit .323/.403/.500 in 124 at bats. The left-handed hitter walked 18 times against 19 strikeouts. The Indians’ Jon Hamilton batted .340/.405/.528 over 106 at bats. Hamilton, an outfielder, drew 12 walks and fanned 26 times. Yankee outfielder Marcus Thames hit .361/.398/.602 in 108 at bats. He didn’t walk much (7) but didn’t strike out much (12) either. Toronto shortstop Mike Young finished at .295/.413/.561 in 139 at bats. Over 40% of his hits were for extra bases, and he drew plenty of walks (26), though 29 whiffs is a tad high.
On the hill, the Padres’ Jason Middlebrook, a former Stanford standout coming back from an injury-plagued 1999, showed signs of returning to form, with a 4.14 ERA in 37 innings. The righthander struck out 38 and walked just 11, while limiting opponents to a .262 batting average. Doug Sessions, a reliever in the Astros organization, posted a brilliant 1.06 ERA over 17 innings, walking 5 and striking out 24. The league hit just .180 against the righthander. The Devil Rays’ Matt White worked 22.2 innings, finishing with a 2.78 ERA. He walked 10, struck out 21, and held the opposition to a .159 batting average. Southpaw Scott Wiggins, a Yankee farmhand, fashioned a 2.33 ERA, with 20 walks and 40 strikeouts in 38.2 innings. The league hit just .218 against him.
Cincinnati’s Ben Broussard had a terrific winter after completing his first professional season, hitting .387/.497/.757 in 111 at bats. The converted first baseman saw nearly half his hits go for extra bases, while walking 27 times against 24 strikeouts. Another Reds prospect, outfielder Dewayne Wise (since taken by Toronto in the Rule V draft), hit .295/.377/.484 in 122 at bats. The left-handed hitter drew 15 walks, struck out 24 times, and stole 6 bases in 8 attempts. Atlanta first baseman A.J. Zapp batted .277/.355/.446 over 148 at bats. He walked 17 times but struck out an alarming 45.
The Rangers’ Joaquin Benoit posted a 4.41 ERA, with 21 walks and 32 strikeouts in 34.2 innings. The league hit .269 against the young righthander. Benoit doesn’t turn 21 until July. Southpaw Adrian Burnside, then with the Reds, but since taken by the Dodgers in the Rule V draft, posted a high 6.10 ERA in 31 innings but had interesting peripheral numbers, walking 19, striking out 43, and limiting the opposition to a .217 batting average. Guys who do that don’t usually end up with a 6.10 ERA. Cincinnati lefthander Lance Davis finished with a fine 2.52 ERA over 35.2 innings. He walked 13, struck out 23, and held opponents to a .252 batting average. Brett Haring, yet another lefthander in the Reds system, posted a 3.74 ERA, with 8 walks and 24 strikeouts in 33.2 innings. The league hit .262 against Haring. Florida righthander Gary Knotts worked 37 innings, with a 4.38 ERA, 13 walks and 32 strikeouts. He limited opponents to a .269 batting average. Lefty James Manias spun a 3.47 ERA over 23.1 innings. The Cincinnati farmhand walked 5, struck out 34, and was hit at a .273 clip.
That’s all for the CFL. Let’s hope the powers-that-be can get their heads together and figure out a way to make this important league work.
The Arizona Fall League (AFL) works a little differently from the other Winter Leagues. It’s actually subsidised by Major League Baseball with the purpose of serving as a league where the best prospects can further work on their game against better competition. Statistics in this league are often misleading, as often an organization will send a player to the AFL to work on one particular aspect of his game, e.g., hitting breaking balls or learning a new position in the field. With that caveat in mind, let’s take a look at who shined in the AFL this year.
Minnesota third baseman Mike Cuddyer didn’t put up spectacular numbers, but as one of the younger players in the league, he certainly held his own, hitting .250/.382/.375 (BA/OBP/SLG–this format will be used throughout). And although he struck out too much (28 times in 128 at bats), he drew 26 walks, which is very encouraging. Angels’ second baseman Trent Durrington hit .315/.423/.363 in 124 at bats. He walked 22 times and struck out 20. He also stole 15 bases but was caught 9 times. If this improved plate discipline is for real, with very little competition for the job in Anaheim, Durrington could be useful at the top of the order. (Late note: the Angels just signed former Athletics second baseman Scott Spiezio.) Colorado outfielder Jody Gerut hit .180/.313/.351 in 111 at bats. While that .180 batting average is nothing to write home about, 40% of his hits went for extra bases and 21 walks versus 18 strikeouts is a good sign. All in all, not a bad season for a kid without any Double-A experience. Fellow Rockie Ben Petrick hit .280/.389/.360, with 13 walks and 18 strikeouts in 75 at bats. He still needs to work on his defense a bit before taking over as the everyday catcher.
The team ERA was 6.00, so there weren’t too many guys with good numbers here. Two notable exceptions were righthanders Matt Kinney and Scott Linebrink, of the Twins and Giants, respectively. Kinney posted a 3.19 ERA over 31 innings. He walked 18 and struck out 33, and opponents hit just .239 against him. Linebrink, who missed most of the regular season due to injury, fashioned a 3.68 ERA in 36.3 innings. Opponents did hit .310 against him (they hit .307 against the team as a whole), but he allowed no home runs and had a fine strikeout-to-walk ratio of 30-to-9.
Outfielder Chad Alexander, taken in the Rule V draft by the Mariners out of the Houston organization, had a terrific AFL season. He hit .369/.435/.537 in 149 at bats, with 19 walks and 23 strikeouts. Houston farmhand Keith Ginter batted .306/.433/.459 in 85 at bats. The 24-year-old second baseman drew 16 walks and struck out 14 times. Milwaukee’s Chad Green showed surprising power but still insufficient on-base skills for a leadoff hitter. He hit .291/.342/.475 in 141 at bats, with just 12 walks and 24 strikeouts. Green also stole 6 bases in 7 attempts. Another Brewer outfielder, Buck Jacobsen, hit .329/.400/.624 in 85 at bats, with 8 walks and 21 strikeouts. Highly touted Braves prospect George Lombard, coming off a disappointing regular season, hit .302/.386/.619, with 18 walks and a whopping 38 strikeouts in just 126 at bats. Lombard was successful on 10 of 12 stolen base attempts. Cleveland’s slugging first baseman Danny Peoples hit .336/.408/.536 in 110 at bats. Peoples, stuck behind Jim Thome and Richie Sexson, drew 13 walks while striking out 26 times.
Not much pitching here, either (6.03 team ERA). Cleveland righthander Jamie Brown worked 35.2 ERA, posting a high 5.55 ERA and .285 opponent batting average. On the positive side, he walked just 5 while striking out 32. Braves southpaw Damian Moss, bothered by injuries the past couple years, sported a 4.22 ERA over 32 innings. Opposing batters hit just .254 against him. Moss issued too many (20) walks and not enough (19) strikeouts.
White Sox outfielder McKay Christensen hit .362/.424/.492 in 130 at bats. He walked 12 times and struck out 19, and swiped 10 bags in 16 tries. Christensen is a terrific defender but he’s not young and he doesn’t walk enough to bat near the top of the order; he’s probably a fourth outfielder at best. The good news for Pat Cline is that he hit .286/.362/.512 in 84 at bats, with more than half his hits going for extra bases. The bad news is that with Yamid Haad and Steve Lomasney on the team, he spent most of his time at DH, which Cline’s parent club, the Cubs, uses only a handful of times a year. The Rangers’ Mike Lamb hit .343/.393/.556 in 99 at bats. The switch-hitter walked just 9 times but struck out only 8; with the free-agent defection of Todd Zeile, Lamb looks to be the favorite to land the third base job in Arlington this spring. The aforementioned Lomasney, a Boston farmhand, put up a solid .284/.382/.580 effort over 88 at bats. While he struck out too much (31 times, versus just 8 walks), nearly half of his hits were of the extra-base variety, and he also stole 6 bases in 8 attempts. Cubs megaprospect Corey Patterson, the youngest player in the league, more than held his own in the AFL. Playing against competition consistently 3-4 years older than him, Patterson hit .368/.408/.581 in 117 at bats. He drew just 7 walks against 33 strikeouts, and stole 8 bases in 9 tries. While his patience at the plate needs work, this is simply an outstanding showing for someone who had never even faced High-A pitching.
White Sox righthander Lorenzo Barcelo, coming back from injuries, posted a high 5.19 ERA over 26 innings but opponents hit just .248 against him. Barcelo walked just 5 while striking out 20. Texas lefthander Doug Davis, who spent the greater portion of 1999 riding the Arlington/Oklahoma City shuttle, managed a fine 2.25 ERA in 36 innings. The opposition batted .261 against him, and he walked 15 while striking out 32. Boston righthander Sun Kim baffled opponents, holding them to a paltry .171 batting average. Kim’s 2.27 ERA and 31-to-7 strikeout-to-walk ratio over 31.2 innings were also impressive.
San Diego first baseman Ryan Balfe hit .371/.432/.568, with 14 walks and 32 strikeouts in 132 at bats. The switch-hitter figures to spend 2000 at Triple-A Las Vegas. Phillies prospect Pat Burrell went to the AFL to work out in the outfield. By all accounts he acquitted himself nicely in the field; he also kept hitting, to the tune of .296/.386/.548, with 18 walks and 33 strikeouts in 135 at bats. Forty-five percent of his hits went for extra bases. San Diego infielder David Newhan hit .284/.361/.532, with 10 walks and 30 strikeouts in 109 at bats. The left-handed hitting Newhan has excellent power for a middle infielder and should compete for a spot on the Padres’ bench this spring. Dodgers second baseman Adam Riggs hit .316/.368/.537 in 136 at bats, with 12 walks and 35 strikeouts. He also stole 8 bases in 9 attempts. Toronto’s wunderkind outfielder Vernon Wells batted .259/.333/.504 in 139 at bats. He walked 15 times, against 25 strikeouts, and well over half his hits were of the extra-base variety. Wells also was successful on all 6 of his stolen base attempts.
Seattle southpaw extraordinaire Ryan Anderson dominated the AFL, posting a 2.91 ERA over 34 innings. Opponents batted just .228 against him, and he walked 9 while striking out 29. Righthander Adam Eaton, acquired by the Padres in the Andy Ashby deal this off-season, finished up with a 4.78 ERA in 32 innings. Eaton held opponents to a .248 batting average; he walked 10 and struck out 24. Toronto righthander Gary Glover compiled a 2.70 ERA, with 13 walks and 26 strikeouts in 26.2 innings. Opponents hit a miniscule .168 against him. San Diego lefty Kevin Walker worked 21.1 innings, posting a fine 2.11 ERA. He walked 7 and struck out 19, and opponents batted .280 against him.
Montreal outfield prospect Milton Bradley had a fine AFL campaign, finishing at .352/.426/.556, with 14 walks and just 12 strikeouts in 108 at bats. The switch-hitting centerfielder stole 7 bases in 10 attempts. Bradley will have to overcome the perception that he is a troublemaker, but the talent is definitely there. Royals farmhand Dermal “Dee” Brown hit .324/.403/.519, with 12 walks and 22 strikeouts in 108 at bats. The lefty-swinging Brown will seek to land a spot in the crowded Kansas City outfield this spring but more likely will spend some time at Triple-A improving his glovework. Sean McNally is a bit old (27) for a prospect, but his 36 homers at Double-A last year cannot be ignored. The first baseman, a member of the Royals organization, hit .361/.462/.580, with 20 walks and 38 strikeouts in 119 at bats this winter. Oakland’s Adam Piatt has the misfortune of being stuck behind Eric Chavez at the hot corner. But if he keeps hitting, he’ll force his way into a big-league lineup somehow. He hit .308/.414/.481 in 104 at bats. Piatt walked 20 times, against 18 strikeouts, and nearly half his hits went for extra bases.
Rightander Jeff Austin, a former first-round pick of the Royals, posted a 4.06 ERA over 31 innings. He was hit pretty hard (.336 Opp BA) but maintained a solid strikeout-to-walk ratio of 21-to-8. Cincinnati hurler Rob Bell, acquired from the Braves a year ago in the Denny Neagle trade, finished with a 4.76 ERA in 34 innings. Opponents hit just .242 against the righthander, and he struck out 34 batters while walking just 8; a solid showing from a guy coming back from injury. Kansas City righthander Chad Durbin posted a fine 0.75 ERA (only 2 of his 8 runs allowed were earned) in 24 innings. He held the opposition to a .221 batting average and struck out 26 against 7 walks. Montreal righthanders Jim Serrano and Scott Strickland put up good numbers in the AFL. Serrano finished with a 2.31 ERA in 23.1 innings. Opponents hit .189 against him, and he walked 10 while striking out 23. Strickland, who saw some time with the big club in 1999, fashioned a 3.47 ERA over 23.1 innings. His .188 batting average against and 30-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio were outstanding. Jake Westbrook, recently dealt to the Yankees in the Hideki Irabu trade, posted a 3.10 ERA in 29 innings, with 8 walks and 20 strikeouts. Opponents hit .280 against the young righthander.
Arizona outfielder Jack Cust continued his habit of abusing opposing pitchers despite once again being one of the younger players in his league. He finished at .267/.436/.542 in 120 at bats, with a nice 34 walks and a not-so-nice 45 strikeouts. There are questions about the defensive abilities of Detroit catcher Robert Fick but there’s no doubt he is a big-league hitter; the sweet-swinging lefty batted .302/.457/.594 over 96 at bats. Over half his hits were of the extra-base variety, and his 24 walks against 18 strikeouts is outstanding. He also stole 10 bases in 12 attempts. Eric Munson is another in the mold of Fick. Just months after being drafted out of USC, Munson moved to first base, where he played in the AFL. He hit .292/.338/.477, with 9 walks and 25 strikeouts in 130 at bats. Very impressive for a kid with so little pro experience. Baltimore’s Calvin Pickering must be wondering what he has to do to get anyone’s attention. The bulky first baseman hit .322/.450/.433, with 19 walks and 25 strikeouts in 90 at bats. Detroit outfielder Chris Wakeland hit .356/.439/.533 in 135 at bats. The lefy-swinging Wakeland walked 19 times, against 35 strikeouts. He also stole 7 bases in 9 attempts.
Florida righthander Jason Grilli, acquired this past summer in the Livan Hernandez deal, showed mixed results after a disappointing regular season. Grilli fashioned a 4.63 ERA but held opponents to a .241 batting average. The 26 walks were way too many for 35 innings but he also struck out 34. Arizona righthander John Patterson finished with a 4.09 ERA over 33 innings; batters hit .254 against Patterson, who walked 11 while fanning 25. Brad Penny, acquired from the Diamondbacks in the Matt Mantei trade, dominated the league’s hitters to the tune of a 1.64 ERA over 33 innings. The righthander was hit at a .236 clip, and walked 13 while striking out 36. The Mets’ Grant Roberts also put up solid numbers, finishing at 2.43, with 7 walks and 35 strikeouts in 29.2 innings. The league hit just .228 against him. Arizona righthander Jeremy Ward, drafted this past June out of Cal State Long Beach, did just fine in the AFL. He posted a stellar 1.62 ERA over 16.2 innings, limiting hitters to a .197 batting average. Ward walked 7 and fanned 14.
The so-called “Winter Leagues” feature an odd mix of bright young prospects honing their skills, former prospects hoping to get their careers back on track, and veterans just playing out the string. In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the prospects and former prospects and see who’s on their way up. In recent years you could have found prospects such as Carlos Beltran and Ted Lilly, up-and-comers such as Edgardo Alfonzo and Jose Vidro, and guys just looking for a shot such as Benny Agbayani and Erubiel Durazo in these leagues.
This week let’s check out the Mexican Pacific League, which just finished its regular season.
Detroit outfielder Karim Garcia tore the cover off the ball, hitting .336/.380/.656 (BA/OBP/SLG — this format will be used throughout). He still didn’t draw many walks (9 in 128 at bats) but he didn’t strike out much, either (19). Former big leaguer Benji Gil hit .341/.406/.560 in 91 at bats. He has no plate discipline, but good pop for a middle infielder, and he’s still only 27 so anything’s possible. Former White Sox prospect and current Twins hopeful Mario Valdez had a fine winter south of the border, hitting .340/.434/.599. In 147 at bats, he walked 22 times and struck out 31. Forty percent of Valdez’ hits went for extra bases.
On the mound, former big leaguer Reggie Harris dominated the league’s hitters, who batted a pitiful .120 against him. Over 29.2 innings, he posted a 1.52 ERA, striking out 46 against 14 walks. Padres farmhand Rodrigo Lopez enjoyed another fine winter in Mexico. With an ERA of 3.45 in 57.1 innings, Lopez was stingy with the hits (45), although his control could use improvement (35 walks, against just 42 strikeouts).
Jalal Leach and Brad Seitzer put up some nice numbers this winter, again. These guys are way too long in the tooth the be considered prospects, but wouldn’t kill a big-league club as the last guy off the bench. Leach hit .284/.330/.460 in 250 at bats, with 18 walks and 45 strikeouts. He also stole 16 bases in 21 attempts. Seitzer, the younger brother of former big-league infielder Kevin Seitzer, hit .305/.381/.467 in 197 at bats, with 22 walks and 43 strikeouts. Outfielder Roberto Mendez and catcher Noe Munoz are also worth mentioning. I don’t know how old they are or whether they are affiliated with any big-league club, but they put up good numbers in Mexico. Mendez hit .248/.358/.416 in 202 at bats; the 35 walks versus 31 strikeouts is encouraging. In 198 at bats, Munoz hit .273/.353/.414, with 25 walks and 26 strikeouts. These numbers aren’t overwhelming, but it should be noted that the team as a whole hit .246/.325/.369, so perhaps there are park factors at work.
Southpaw Gilberto Gonzalez fashioned a fine 2.90 ERA over 87 innings. Opponents hit just .214 against him, and while he walked a few too many (45), he also struck out his share (82). As with Mendez and Munoz, I don’t know anything else about Gonzalez, but those numbers are certainly noteworthy.
Some real good hitters over here. Juan Canizalez hit .336/.398/.525, with 24 walks against 31 strikeouts in 244 at bats. Again, I know nothing about him other than he tore up the Mexican Pacific League. Cleveland outfielder Jacob Cruz had a solid winter, batting .302/.402/.453, with 26 walks and 25 strikeouts in 159 at bats. With Kenny Lofton expected to miss a big chunk of the 2000 campaign, Cruz is a good bet to get some playing time with the Indians. And of course Erubiel Durazo abused pitchers once again, to the tune of .360/.467/.627 in 150 at bats. He also walked more than he struck out. Yet another unknown, second baseman Miguel Flores, hit .321/.392/.466 in 277 at bats, with a solid 33-to-34 walk-to-strikeout ratio. He stole 12 bases in 15 attempts. Third baseman Bryant Nelson, of the Cubs organization, hit .295/.396/.472 in 176 at bats. He drew 30 walks and struck out just 20 times. The switch-hitter’s pro record is a bit spotty, but he did have a decent 1999 at Double-A West Tenn, at age 25.
Baltimore righthander Javier de la Hoya is too old (30) to be considered a prospect but put together a solid effort this winter. He posted a 3.69 ERA, with 24 walks and 60 strikeouts in 63.1 innings. Opponents hit just .251 against him. Former Pirates righthander Elmer Dessens finished with a cool 3.44 ERA in 49.2 innings. He walked 17 and struck out 38, and the opposition batted .243 against him. The Diamondbacks’ Nelson Figueroa sported a 2.66 ERA, with an outstanding 58-to-20 strikeout-to-walks ratio over 67.2 innings. The 26-year-old righthander acquired from the Mets in the summer of 1998 isn’t a high-ceiling prospect but could have a big-league career. Ageless lefties Angel Moreno and Fernando Valenzuela also pitched for the Hermosillo club.
Former prospect Brent Cookson had his way with pitchers, in limited playing time, hitting a robust .318/.408/.682 in just 66 at bats. Thirteen of his 21 hits went for extra bases. Time is running out for the 30-year-old right-handed slugger. Minor league vet Kevin Grijak hit .262/.328/.493, with 21 walks and 27 strikeouts in 229 at bats. Last seen in the Dodgers organization, the 29-year-old Grijak is another, like Cookson, who could prove useful on a big-league bench. The Cubs’ Eric Hinske didn’t put up big numbers south of the border, but he’s a 22-year-old with just 15 at bats above Class-A ball, so that’s not surprising. The lefty-swinging Hinske can play first or third base, and patrolled the outfield in Mexico this winter. After hitting 28 doubles and 19 homers in the pitcher-friendly Florida State League in 1999, with good plate discipline, he held his own in Mexico. Hinske hit .243/.353/.335 in 173 at bats, with 28 walks and 33 strikeouts. He also stole 10 bases in 11 tries. Brad Tyler is another in the mold of Cookson and Grijak. He hit .253/.348/.430 in 249 at bats, with 37 walks and 46 strikeouts.
Righthander Miguel del Toro and southpaw Daniel Garibay once again had fine seasons. Del Toro, who pitched briefly for the Giants in 1999, posted a 3.34 ERA over 32.1 innings, with 20 walks and 30 strikeouts. He held opponents to a .222 batting average. In 100.1 innings, Garibay, recently signed by the Chicago Cubs, had a 2.51 ERA, with a fine strikeout-to-walk ratio of 86-to-26. The league hit just .233 against him. Tampa Bay righthander Pablo Ortega notched a 3.08 ERA in 76 innings, while limiting opponents to a .234 batting average; on the downside he walked 44 but struck out just 42.
Third baseman George Arias tore up the league again, batting .276/.395/.654, with 29 walks and 38 strikeouts in 156 at bats. Just 28 years old, he still has a chance at a career but he’d better make his move soon. San Diego outfielder Mike Darr hit .308/.395/.479, with 24 walks and 42 strikeouts in 169 at bats. With the departure of Reggie Sanders to the Braves, Darr figures to get material playing time with the big club in 2000. Australian Aaron Guiel hit .286/.424/.482, with 25 walks and 21 walks in 112 at bats. The 27-year-old outfielder/first baseman is a marginal prospect in the Padres organization. Yet another San Diego farmhand, outfielder Chris Prieto, batted .289/.395/.421 in 242 at bats, with 38 walks against 29 strikeouts. He swiped 23 bases and was caught only 4 times.
Righthander Alonzo Beltran is the best of the moundsmen, having compiled a 3.22 ERA over 72.2 innings. The 28-year-old, who spent 1999 in the Pirates organization, walked 37 and struck out 56, while limiting the opposition to a .246 batting average.
Outfielder Jayson Bass, a power/speed guy in the Mariners chain, hit .251/.324/.484 over 214 at bats. He also stolen 11 bases in 14 tries. Over 40% of his hits were of the extra-base variety, but his strikeout-to-walk ratio of 57/22 leaves a little to be desired. San Francisco farmhand Jay Canizaro batted .281/.327/.406 in 96 at bats. He struck out three times as often as he walked, and as a 26-year-old stuck behind Jeff Kent, time is not on his side. But he has been highly regarded in the past, and middle infielders who hit 26 homers (even if it’s the PCL) don’t grow on trees, so you never know. The good news for Padres outfielder Ethan Faggett is that he got on base this winter, to the tune of .265/.374/.447 (including 21 walks versus 31 strikeouts in 132 at bats), which is what he needs to do if he’s to take advantage of the one great tool he has — speed; the bad news is, he broke even in 12 in stolen base attempts, which doesn’t get it done. Minor league mainstays J.R. Phillips, Ryan Thompson, and Ernie Young all played here, hoping for one more chance at glory. Phillips hit .302/.384/.640 in 139 at bats, with 18 walks and 29 strikeouts; Thompson hit .248/.319/.424 in 125 at bats; Young hit .249/.332/.525 in 177 at bats. Both Thompson and Young finished with strikeout-to-walk ratios of 2.5-to-1 or worse.
There’s not much in the way of pitching here. Venerable southpaws Teddy Higuera and Ed Vosberg are still kicking around. Vosberg, as a starter, dominated the league with a 1.33 ERA in 47.1 innings. But he’s 38 years old, and Higuera’s probably even older, so don’t get too excited.
Former indy league legend and current Boston farmhand Morgan Burkhart put together another monster season, hitting .315/.461/.591 in 232 at bats, with 56 walks and 58 strikeouts. The 28-year-old Burkhart could pull a Benny Agbayani this season and make a positive contribution off the Red Sox bench at some point. Virgil Chevalier, another in the Boston chain, hit .287/.341/.434 over 272 at bats, with 21 walks against 32 strikeouts. At age 26, he’s a bit old to be a prospect, but he could show up on a big-league bench someday. Charles “Gator” McBride, a former Braves prospect, hit .331/.383/.490 in 239 at bats, with 21 walks and 39 strikeouts. Now 26, time is running out for McBride. Yet another guy I’ve never heard of, Mauricio Zazueta, put up intriguing numbers. Zazueta, a second baseman hit .280/.336/.414 in 239 at bats, with 20 walks and 49 strikeouts. Poor plate discipline, but nice pop for a middle infielder.
The one pitcher worth mentioning is righthander Aaron Quiroz. I couldn’t find anything on him, but he posted a solid 3.19 ERA in 59.1 innings, with a respectable 42-to-18 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
The best performances here came from veterans such as Mattias Carrillo, John Cotton, Hensley Meulens, and Lee Tinsley. Carrillo, a Mexican League legend, hit .311/.367/.508 in 254 at bats. Cotton, a corner infielder last seen in the Colorado organization, hit .273/.351/.519, with 25 walks and a whopping 66 strikeouts in 231 at bats. At age 29, he’s not really a prospect, but if he gets his foot in the door, anything’s possible at Coors Field. Meulens and Tinsley, former big leaguers, hit .299/.357/.544 and .330/.384/.534 in 204 and 103 at bats, respectively.
Good pitching was hard to find in Obregon this winter. One who pitched fairly well was righthander Alfredo Garcia, who posted a fine 3.38 ERA over 77.1 innings. Opponents hit .268 against him, and he walked 31 while fanning 45. I don’t know how old he is or whether he is affiliated with any big-league club, but he put up decent numbers this winter.
Here are the results of the 1999 Rule V draft, along with analysis of the players selected during the major league phase of the draft and how they might fit into their new team’s plans. Ages are as of July 1, 2000. Bear in mind that many of these players will be returned to their former organizations before the season starts. Although there have been some high-profile players that had nice careers after being selected in the Rule V draft — Roberto Clemente, George Bell, Bobby Bonilla, Bip Roberts, Matt Mantei, to name just a few — many more slip back into obscurity, unnoticed by the masses. For more information on the Rule V draft, visit the Baseball America web site.
Minnesota Twins: Jared Camp, RHP (drafted from Cleveland Indians). Camp features mid- to high-90s heat but has been plagued by control problems throughout his pro career. Made stops last season at three different levels, dominating the Carolina League before pitching inconsistently at Double- and Triple-A. Traded shortly after being drafted, the 25-year-old Camp stands a good chance to stick with the Marlins, who are desperate for pitching help and who have had good success turning hard throwers into relief aces in the past (Trevor Hoffman, Robb Nen, and former Rule V draftee Mantei). This could turn out to be a great pickup.
Florida Marlins: Johan Santana, LHP (Houston Astros). Santana, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, spent 1999 in the Midwest League. He put up some decent numbers at Michigan, but it’s a long way from the Midwest League to the Show. Traded to the Twins, Santana looks like a longshot to stick with the big club.
Kansas City Royals: Damian Rolls, 3B (Los Angeles Dodgers). Rolls, a former first-round pick (1996) of the Dodgers, has been a huge disappointment as a pro. At age 22, he finally showed signs of life in the Florida State League last year. Having never played above A-ball, and stuck behind Joe Randa, Rolls is unlikely to land a job with his hometown team.
Tampa Bay Devil Rays: Chad Ogea, RHP (Detroit Tigers). Probably the highest profile selection in the draft, at least in terms of big league experience, Ogea played his first five seasons in Cleveland before moving to Philadelphia, where he posted uninspiring numbers in 1999. The 29-year-old Ogea, whose worst enemies are the gopher ball and the DL, figures to get a very long look at a rotation job for Tampa Bay, mainly due to a severe lack of competition.
Montreal Expos: Marty McLeary, RHP (Boston Red Sox). Boston’s 10th round selection in 1997, McCleary has never pitched higher than Class A. Following two nondescript seasons, in 1999 he performed very well in the SAL before getting pounded in a late-season trial in the Florida State League. The 25-year-old Ohio product, a converted catcher, throws hard but is very raw as a pitcher. Felipe Alou has a pretty good track record with young hurlers; McCleary doesn’t strike me as a good candidate for a big league job at this point but anything is possible.
Detroit Tigers: Mark Johnson, RHP (New York Yankees). Johnson, a 1996 first-round pick (Astros), spent most of last season at Double-A Norwich, where he posted a respectable ERA but struggled with his control, which is dangerous for a guy without overpowering stuff. The University of Hawaii alum stands a good chance to win a job as a fifth starter/long reliever with the pitching-starved Tigers.
Anaheim Angels: Derrick Turnbow, RHP (Philadelphia Phillies). Turnbow, a 1997 fifth-round pick out of a Tennessee high school, spent 1999 in the SAL, where he put together a very solid season. The 21-year-old will try to crack the Anaheim staff as a long reliever.
San Diego Padres: Kory DeHaan, OF (Pittsburgh Pirates). DeHaan, age 23, split 1999 between the Carolina League (where he was an All-Star) and the Eastern League. The Iowa native displayed a good batting eye and gaps power at Lynchburg before being promoted to Altoona, which proved to be more of a challenge. A lefty-swinging center fielder whose skills draw comparisons to Steve Finley and Andy Van Slyke, this 1997 seventh-round pick of the Pirates will go to spring training to compete for a spot with the big club as a pinch-runner/defensive replacement.
Milwaukee Brewers: Matt Williams, LHP (New York Yankees). Not to be confused with the third baseman of the same name, this Matt Williams, a fourth-round pick of the Indians in 1992, pitched well at Double- and Triple-A in 1999. Although he hasn’t been considered a prospect for some time, the 29-year-old Williams has plenty of minor league experience and a live arm; he’s got a good chance to help fill the situational lefty void left by the recent trade of Mike Myers.
Seattle Mariners: Chad Alexander, OF (Houston Astros). The 26-year-old Alexander, a 1995 third-round pick out of Texas A&M, split 1999 between Double- and Triple-A. He’s a toolsy player who hasn’t developed as expected. His strong defense gives him a good shot at sticking with the big club. He certainly can’t be any worse than Brian Hunter.
Toronto Blue Jays: DeWayne Wise, OF (Cincinnati Reds). Wise, the Reds’ 1997 fifth-round pick out of a South Carolina high school, runs well and is a very good defender. The 21-year-old left-handed hitter showed improved power and strike-zone judgment in his second tour of duty in the Midwest League. There’s a lot of upside here, but there’s also a lot of work to be done, preferably at the minor league level. Looks like an extreme longshot to make the team.
Oakland Athletics: Bo Porter, OF (Chicago Cubs). Pros: hits, hits for power, draws walks, runs well, can play center field. Cons: Porter is 27 years old. He’s too old to be a prospect, but this guy could contribute in Oakland as a fourth or fifth outfielder. A very shrewd pickup.
Pittsburgh Pirates: Brian Smith, RHP (Toronto Blue Jays). A 27-year-old reliever with decent but not great numbers in the minors, Smith stands as good a chance as anyone to land a job at the back end of the Bucs’ pitching staff. A 27th-round pick in 1994 out of the University of North Carolina, Smith features a plus fastball and slider. The Pirates won big in the Rule V last year, with the acquisition of lefty Scott Sauerbeck (Mets), so maybe lightning will strike twice.
San Francisco Giants: David Maurer, LHP (San Diego Padres). Maurer, the Padres’ 11th round pick in 1997, has put up solid numbers ever since turning pro, striking out more than a batter an inning, allowing less than a hit an inning, and keeping his strikeout to walk ratio at better than 2 to 1. Strictly a reliever in the minors, this Oklahoma State product, who spent all of 1999 at Double-A, could give San Francisco some quality innings out of the bullpen.
Cincinnati Reds: Adrian Burnside, LHP (Los Angeles Dodgers). Burnside, a native of Australia, hadn’t had much success in North America prior to 1999, when he put together a fine season in the California League. Just 22 years old, as a southpaw he has an outside shot to land a job in the bigs next year.
New York Mets: Jim Mann, RHP (Toronto Blue Jays). Mann spent most of 1999 at Triple-A Syracuse, where he worked out of the bullpen. The 25-year-old was stingy with the hits but showed spotty control. Right now he looks like the 11th man on a staff, at best.
Tampa Bay Devil Rays: Chris Reitsma, RHP (Boston Red Sox). The 22-year-old Reitsma returned from a severe arm injury and pitched in the Florida State League last year, with mixed results. The downside is that he put up poor numbers in a pitcher-friendly league. The upside is that he managed to make 19 starts. A first-round pick of the BoSox in 1996, out of an Alberta, Canada, high school, if Reitsma is healthy, he’s got a pretty high ceiling. The last thing he needs right now is infrequent appearances out of a big league bullpen. Despite the Devil Rays’ pitching woes, I have a hard time imagining Reitsma making the club.
Last time, we reviewed some of the hitters I’d seen in college. Now we turn to the pitchers. As with the hitters, unfortunately there were a couple of top young prospects I missed when they came to town, most notably Jeremy Ward and Barry Zito, so I won’t be talking about them. But enough of that; let’s take a look at a few of the good young pitchers I did see and check out how they did in 1999.
Stephen Bess: I don’t remember much about Bess except that he looked like he threw pretty hard. He had a very nice debut at two Class-A leagues. Also played some outfield in college.
Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl: Southpaw hurler with a live arm. Good slider is murder against lefties. Kurtz-Nicholl got his pro career off to a good start at short-season Spokane. He could move up quickly and eventually end up in the Royals’ bullpen as a situational lefty. Like Bess, he saw some time in the outfield at Rice.
Brad Pautz: My recollection of Pautz is about the same as that of Bess. Hard-throwing righthander. I believe he was used in relief at Minnesota but I’m not entirely sure about that. Pautz had a solid debut at Batavia.
Adam Pettyjohn: I actually didn’t see Pettyjohn pitch but I included him anyway. I don’t know anything about his repertoire but I do know that the Colorado Rockies had expressed interest in him during trade talks with the Tigers. His strikeout rate dropped after a promotion to Double-A but was still pretty decent. Good control is a plus. Pettyjohn threw a lot of innings, which is a bit of a concern in light of the fact that Fresno State has been known to work its pitchers pretty hard.
Mario Ramos: Ramos is a smallish southpaw built in the Ron Guidry/Jim Parque mold. He has a smooth, compact delivery. A decent fastball is set up by a nasty overhand curve. He throws strikes and works both sides of the plate. When I saw Ramos pitch, he occassionally left his fastball up, especially as the game progressed. Ranked the 39th best college prospect coming into 1999, according to Baseball America, Ramos “isn’t overpowering, [but makes] up for it with an advanced understanding of pitching.” Fellow southpaws Mark Mulder and Barry Zito get the headlines but Ramos should be a fine prospect in his own right.
Jeff Weaver: Weaver skyrocketed to the big leagues and got off to a terrific start with Detroit before the league caught up with him and hung some ugly numbers on him. When I saw Weaver in college, two things immediately struck me about him: first, he was murder on righties but southpaws abused him; and second, he threw 136 pitches. Weaver is a fine prospect but I do worry about his college workload, and he needs to find a pitch to counteract lefties; otherwise opposing managers will continue to stack their lineups–nearly 60% of the big league hitters he faced as a rookie batted from the left side. It’s hard to say what effect his initial exposure to the Show will have on Weaver–hopefully he’ll be able to learn from it and bounce back strong. Personally, I’d like to see him at Toledo in 2000, where he can refine his off-speed stuff and experience extended success above Double-A. Weaver’s got a real good arm but he needs to learn a few more tricks to consistently get hitters out at the highest level. | 2019-04-23T00:54:55Z | http://ducksnorts.com/blog/page/309 | Sports | Sports | 0.954107 |
cornell | A group of six CRP faculty received one of the inaugural Engaged Curriculum Grants from Engaged Cornell. Awarded to 18 projects across campus, the Engaged Curriculum Grants total $930,299, and support work that places community-engaged learning at the heart of the Cornell student experience. The CRP team received a $60,000 Advancement Grant, a grant awarded to faculty working to advance "existing community-engaged courses that articulate a clear goal for further development of their program."
The CRP team includes faculty members Jeffrey Chusid, John Forester, George Frantz, Neema Kudva, Jennifer Minner, and Stephan Schmidt; Victoria Beard was also instrumental in drafting the grant application. The project brings together faculty to share experiences and best practices, improve educational outcomes, and publish results with a goal of "improving the department's practice of engaged pedagogy and research." The core team of faculty members will share their work both within the department, and with the larger campus community as well.
The workshops included in the grant range in location from Africa to Ithaca. Kudva is leading the Nilgiris Field Learning Center partnership in India, Schmidt will bring students to Tanzania in a Spatial Analysis in Development Workshop, Chusid will engage students in a Building Materials Conservation class in locations in the Northeast U.S., Frantz's work will be in the Hudson River Valley in support of the Hudson River estuary program, and Minner's land use workshop will involve M.R.P. students in phase two of the City of Ithaca's comprehensive planning process. Forester will lead a series of workshops to help faculty publish findings from the research, and also oversee regular discussions on the refinement of community engaged learning assessment methods.
"CRP has a long history of engaged learning, stretching back to the 1980s," says Susan Christopherson, professor and department chair. "We are one of only a few departments at Cornell to offer students multiple opportunities to combine theory and practice through community engagement. This grant will help us better coordinate the efforts of our workshop courses, and create greater access to our shared knowledge of what these experiences offer students."
Formed in 2014, Engaged Cornell aims to support the work of faculty who directly integrate community engagement in the curriculum. Through its grants, Engaged Cornell supports the creation of new community-engaged courses, research, and internship opportunities, as well as the further development and curricular integration of current community-engaged teaching and research initiatives. | 2019-04-23T18:39:01Z | https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/crp-receives-engaged-cornell-advancement-grant | Sports | News | 0.224734 |
albirex | Albirex Niigata Singapore アルビレックス新潟シンガポール 公式サイト » Announcement of Yamakoshi’s release.
Albirex Niigata Singapore アルビレックス新潟シンガポール 公式サイト > news > Announcement of Yamakoshi’s release.
Yasuhiro Yamakoshi has been released from the club.
Thank you for your warm support to the club.
Please be informed that Yasuhiro Yamakoshi (Jersey no.9) has been released from the club.
We thank Yamakoshi for his contribution to Albirex Niigata FC (S) and wish him all the best for his future endeavours.
[Comment from Yamakoshi]I was so pleased to be supported by everyone last year.
I was happy that I could play for Albirex Niigata FC (Singapore).
I had a very good experience in one year.
Please continue to support Albirex. | 2019-04-25T01:46:11Z | http://www.albirex.com.sg/archives/8949/ | Sports | News | 0.544507 |
wordpress | Journal or book – does it matter anymore? | What's next?
as this is something that has increasingly had me wondering. This has been prompted in part by a discussion on twitter yesterday about whether as undergraduate students ourselves we ever used the library or contacted a librarian (most of us said no) and partly as a result of a discussion at MPOW about what the journal subscription model may look like in the future. I think both of these discussions are worthy of further investigation and thinking in their own right at another time.
So, back to the point of this post. As stated in the tweet, I was crowd sourcing, looking for some ideas, possible arguments for and against this position & trying to gauge the mood of my potential audience before putting this post out there.
If students (& by this I am referring mostly to the average UG student, who make up the bulk of the student population at most universities) are given a list of readings or citations to look up, then yes, it’s helpful if they can tell the difference between a journal & a monograph. It certainly makes our job in reference much easier if they know that.
Let me explain further. At MPOW, we put a great deal of energy into helping academics generate stable links to our online resources. These links can placed into the Learning Management System (LMS) usually Blackboard or Moodle, and they route students via the library proxy server to land them at their article, e-book, digitized chapter or AV resource without the student having to navigate any of the path along the way – other than to authenticate themselves as our students at some point if they are off campus. So increasingly, students are not being given a list of readings or citations to look for and often their further reading from the subject can occur as a direct hyperlink provided in the document they were originally sent to read.
In my experience, the academics generally like these links and while it’s a slightly complex process to generate them it’s usually a one-off investment of their time. While some are concerned about what they see as the loss of student research skills, the feedback from most is that they want the students to read, absorb & synthesize the material. Many feel that unless it’s made easy for the students, they will just not bother reading it. I have also had academics tell me that the time spent generating these links pays off in terms of less time spent further down the semester track answering emails & phone calls from students who can’t find the citation from a list.
Even when academics attach the hyperlink to an actual citation, aren’t students still just going to click & not notice the context? Many e-records include a copy & paste ‘how to cite this’ – and while I understand that this may not meet the requirements of a particular referencing style, it still means students don’t really need to have context to create a citation for the information they have just used. It might look wrong and the student may lose a few marks for not following instructions, but let’s face it, an academic can still find & check the source document even if it’s formatted in Harvard when they really wanted Chicago or APA.
On the other side of this argument, supporting our academics is my role – and if this link generation makes their lives easier & enables them to help students focus on the skills of critically evaluating the content then isn’t that a good thing? Is this actually a similar argument to the print vs e? Is content king rather than the container?
Increasingly, the publishing gap between monographs & journals is closing. Traditionally journals are more agile, more reflective of current practice, published faster and peer reviewed journals are seen as more authoritative. The different publishing models, rise of open access publishing and the increase in academic blogging are all pushing the boundaries of the traditional model. I’m in no way suggesting we stop helping students understand how to evaluate their sources, I’m just wondering if the model for that is coming to its use-by date. Is the issue of format in publishing becoming irrelevant in that evaluation?
The obvious elephant in the room here is the serious researcher, whether post-grad or academic, as context is bound to be more appropriate or relevant to them, but they are not really who this is about. I think there’s a lot more to say on this topic and some others that float around it in a more or less connected way. Another time perhaps.
Food for thought, definitely. Thanks for sharing. I’d certainly like to work in a university at some stage, your thoughts, ideas and observations provide a valuable insight.
This exactly the point I came acroiss in my reading this week. I like your reflection on “research skills” remember the days, only a generation ago, when there was no “online”. Students had to choose books from a library, and these books were selected by a . . . librarian. By selecting resources for the students to read you are allowing them more time to synthesise and absorb. | 2019-04-18T11:05:26Z | https://familylibrarian.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/journal-or-book-does-it-matter-anymore/ | Sports | Reference | 0.981494 |
livejournal | Bob Crow should be ashamed of damage he and his ilk have done to the union movement. By abusing thier positions of power those self deluded neo-Marxists, have diverted attention from what unions are all about. Protecting thier members from abuse.
I've copied a post I've before to show what I mean. (see above). The problem is that the games industry has not been unionised. To the non-union member the cost of hiring a lawer to prosecute a company for breaches of law is prohibitively expensive. Companies learn that the worst an employee can do is leave. If they can make more money from breaking the law than it costs to replace you, then bad employers thrive, good ones perish.
I think about unions in the same way I think about house insurance. I pay a small monthly premium, in return I am insured against my employer breaking the law. This what unions are really about. | 2019-04-23T11:01:02Z | https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html?thread=517394 | Sports | Games | 0.41597 |
wikidot | Game Plan Beat the game! Want to help out too. Currently trying to beat world 2-2. | 2019-04-21T06:46:01Z | http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/psn:d1amond456 | Sports | Games | 0.98862 |
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Types of Emergency Notices: Notices will be limited to such things as emergency building concerns, severe weather alerts, intruders, potential pandemics, and matters causing or likely to cause widespread anxiety. | 2019-04-24T00:09:38Z | https://my.brevard.edu/ICS/Offices/Campus_Life/Campus_Security/ | Sports | Health | 0.325429 |
sfgate | Subtle transitions are the easiest to accomplish in an open floor plan.
An open floor plan creates ample space, but it can seem featureless when it has a monochromatic paint scheme. Using more than one color, however, presents the question of where to best transition from one color to another. The answer depends on several factors, including the layout, the furniture and existing features like floors, woodwork, windows and doors. Even with an open floor plan, there are usually several natural transition points.
One way to keep the space integrated without painting it the same color throughout is to use different shades of the same tone. Another way is to choose colors that are close to each other on the color wheel, which is a tool for color selection. Since neither of these schemes are dramatic, you won't have as much difficulty transitioning as you do when you have more color contrast. Colors that vary greatly with respect to each other create separate visual spaces, and the transitions between them attract the eye unless they are part of some architectural feature or they make sense in some thematic way.
The floor plan may be open, but the spaces within it are discrete and usually defined by such features as archways, variations in floor level or floor covering and changes in room dimension. Each of these features offers a natural transition place. Archways are the easiest to use, because they interrupt the sightline so definitely that a color change seems almost an afterthought. A change in wall color may look obvious at the juncture of two different floors if the wall is straight, but it makes more sense if the wall changes direction at the juncture.
It's a good strategy to make use of architectural features for color transitions. Ceiling beams, large windows, built-in shelves and mantels are a few of these. If a ceiling beam marks the transition from one room to another, utilize it by changing the ceiling color, but keep the walls the same. If a feature, such as a large window, doesn't span the entire wall, look for another line nearby, and make the transition an asymmetrical one. You can also use a feature, like a bookcase, to provide the color you need to add interest to a monochromatic wall.
When you use more than one wall color in an open floor plan, painting all the trim the same color creates unity while still allowing you to subdivide the space. When you're working with analogous colors, use the lightest one for the trim and the darkest one to highlight. Natural wood trim, on the other hand, works well with contrasting colors, as long as the wood shows some of those colors. If you're painting the trim and using contrasting colors on the walls, it's probably a good idea to neutralize the trim by painting it off-white or gray in order to keep things from becoming overwhelming.
Deziel, Chris. "How to Transition Paint Colors in an Open Floor Plan." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/transition-paint-colors-open-floor-plan-58344.html. Accessed 25 April 2019. | 2019-04-26T14:34:01Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/transition-paint-colors-open-floor-plan-58344.html | Sports | Reference | 0.114589 |
salon | WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Researchers from the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking for clues to the identity of a 200-year-old shipwreck lying just off the Rhode Island coast.
The two recreational divers who found the wreck are confident that the ship is the USS Revenge, commanded by navy hero Oliver Hazard Perry. The Revenge sank in 1811 after striking a reef.
Researchers are using a torpedo-shaped robot to survey the wreck. They hope to use the data to locate artifacts that could confirm the ship's identity.
Rhode Island native Perry was cleared of responsibility for the loss of the Revenge. But his career stalled until he was sent to the Great Lakes, where he commanded U.S. forces to victory over the British navy in the War of 1812. | 2019-04-19T12:53:30Z | https://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/researchers_probe_200_year_old_shipwreck_off_ri_2/ | Sports | Recreation | 0.587924 |
latimes | Nothing says "satisfying comfort food" quite like 1.2 million Scoville units (that's the heat of 400 jalapeno peppers combined), right? No? Well, according to chef Geeta Bansal at Clay Oven in Irvine, this kind of heat is definitely on the menu. She's serving a dish featuring the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion chile.
Some, including Clay Oven, call it "the world's hottest chile pepper," a tiny red ball of fury, featuring a bumpy texture and a telltale tail. Unfortunately (or perhaps not), the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion is not the hottest pepper, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It was dethroned in December 2013 and replaced by the Carolina Reaper, which can reach a whopping 2.2 million units on the Scoville scale.
Regardless, Clay Oven's lamb dish featuring the scorching chile, called the Shiv, is sure to pack a punch and test the guts of diners. Shiv is a reference to the name of the Hindu god of creation and destruction known for performing a fiery Tandav dance. I predict diners at Clay Oven will perform a fiery dance of their own after trying the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
Diners who successfully finish the entire plate will receive a certificate of congratulations and a chance to win Clay Oven's Thanksgiving tandoori turkey. Whether that chance is worth the pain remains to be seen, but a person who can stomach a chile of this Scoville magnitude should definitely earn some serious bragging rights.
According to Bansal, the dish is not just about the heat.
"When combined with the other ingredients, the Shiv features a wide spectrum of flavors like salty, sweet, spicy, piquant and astringent," Bansal said in a statement.
The Shiv is available at Clay Oven through Sept. 30, for those who dare. | 2019-04-20T19:45:42Z | https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-worlds-hottest-chile-at-clay-oven-20140724-story.html | Sports | Reference | 0.355864 |
twohundredpercent | So… it transpires that England weren’t rubbish after all, just in an impossibly difficult group. Mexico sit proudly in the Under-20s World Cup semi-final line-up and Argentina should have been alongside them. The apologies of a nation are due to Brian Eastick and his team. Details of Mexico’s elimination of tournament hosts Colombia were impossible to find without possession of Eurosport HD among your package of cable channels, as the match was the only one not to feature on ‘ordinary’ British Eurosport. This was a bizarre scheduling decision, almost as much of a surprise as Colombia’s defeat… and Nigeria’s… and Spain’s. But at least Sunday night/Monday morning’s quarter-finals also halted the tournament’s drift into general mediocrity.
Portugal’s unfeasibly dramatic shoot-out win over La Albiceleste was a case in point. Whereas, for example, Spain’s group win over Ecuador allied technical brilliance with watchable goalmouth activity, this quarter-final lacked the latter to a soporific degree. Two hours of dreck (even the Fifa website, not noted for telling it like it is, admitted it was “a dull evening in Cartagena”) were partially redeemed, however, by the best shoot-out I’ve ever witnessed. Portugal’s selection of spot-kick heroes/villains had already caught the eye as they attempted a 120th-minute introduction of substitute and David Luiz-twin Tiago Ferriera (rumours that Tiago beat Luiz himself in a David Luiz-lookalike contest last year cannot entirely be discounted).
Unusually, there wasn’t a fourth official looking for a moment of glory as Tiago waited by the touchline while 120 minutes became 121 minutes. However, and Fifa will deny this of course, New Zealand referee Peter O’Leary saw the situation midway through the complex semaphore routine which accompanies a Fifa final whistle and added just enough time for Tiago to take the field. Handy, that. Such was Portugal’s urgency over this substitution that it was a surprise not to see Tiago stride up to take the first penalty…or the second… or the third… Indeed, with Argentina 3-1 up in the shoot-out and two kicks to take, Tiago was long odds-against taking a kick at all. Then Argentina fell apart. Rodrigo Battaglia was booked for reasons not clear to TV viewers…or Battaglia himself to judge by the look of genuine surprise on his face. This meant he would miss the semi-final, which Argentina looked sure to be in at the time, until, for a few fatal moments, they turned into Cameroon (see last article).
Tiago was spot-kicker number six which, given the efforts of Danilo (“a big old roof inspector”, in the world of analyst Gary O’Reilly) and Roderick, was something of an indictment. Yet he did his job before Argentina’s Nicolas Tagliafico comprehensively did not. This sparked Portuguese celebrations including dribbling over the nearest TV cameras, a kicking for the nearest advertising board (Visa will be grateful, sort of) and captain Nuno Reis giving the crowd the finger with enough gusto and frequency to threaten to put his shoulder out. It’s a wonder the officious O’Leary didn’t book him. Colombia’s dismal defeat, in High Definition only, was the only one which didn’t require extra-time or “kicks from the penalty mark,” to give spot-kicks their full title. The goalkeepers couldn’t be separated, Mexico’s Jose Rodriguez and Colombia’s Cristian Bonilla each letting one eminently saveable shot out of their grasp. But the difference was El Tri substitute Edson Rivera who, Fifa’s website quite magnificently suggested, “bagged a brace,” – a phrase only used in football match reports and never since any of this tournament’s players were born.
France/Nigeria was, for 49 minutes, the stereotypical game that “needs a goal”, which made it surprising that analyst Brian Hamilton hadn’t made the suggestion at least six times before half-time. Evidence that games which “need a goal” benefit from a goal is patchy at best. But Alexandre Lacazette’s opener for France transformed another technically superb bore into “the game of the tournament”, according to commentator Wayne Boyce, who’d clearly seen too much of England and/or Korea DPR for the good of his perspective. Lacazette’s role as an “impact sub” has become one of the established facts of the tournament since he made his first “impact” against Colombia – missing an open goal which would have drawn France level at 2-2 in a match they lost 4-1. Here, he had been brought on earlier than expected after an injury to Arsenal’s impressive striker Gilles Sunu (Arsene Wenger will be pleased) but had made no impact until the 50th minute. Then he found himself played onside by Nigeria’s dozy defender Emmanuel Anyanwu, whose attempts at pushing up for offside were three yards behind the rest of the back four and amounted to little more than a dancefloor shuffle at about the same time as Lacazette’s shot arrowed towards the corner of the net.
This set up the fascinating scenario of Nigeria deploying their pace and power a la Wimbledon, circa 1985 – with all the quality of Wimbledon circa 2000 – and being picked off on the break with almost clockwork regularity. That the score remained 1-0 until seventeen seconds from the end may baffle scientists for years to come. France’s forwards hit Nigerian keeper Dami Paul with the same almost clockwork regularity, which was no mean feat given that Paul was either the only goalkeeper capable of moonlighting as a garden gnome or was permanently in the distance. The substitution of tournament star Ahmed Musa in the last minute suggested that coach John Obuh’s Colombian hat was cutting off his brain’s oxygen supply.
But on 92 minutes 47 seconds replacement Maduabuchi Ejike was where his nation needed him to be, forcing extra-time – something for neutrals to relish rather than dread, for a change. Obuh’s other last-ditch substitution, Afro-of-the-tournament Sami Emanuel, seemed less well-advised as he contrived some imaginative ways to squander good Nigeria positions early in the extra half-hour. Thus reprieved, France led again when Gueida Fofana’s sensational lob showed Paul to be diminutive rather than distant. And when Lacazette briefly became the tournament’s top scorer moments later, Les Bleuets were almost home. They hadn’t figured on Emanuel producing a moment of wing wizardry with nine minutes left…but then again, who had? Indeed, the referee’s assistant was too shocked to flag scorer Ejike offside, despite his goalbound effort nearly serving as a goal-line clearance.
The best match was left to last, however, with Spain and Brazil serving up the sort of encounter so relentlessly hyped since the pairing became apparent. The contrast in styles was between Spain’s familiar high-tempo, short-passing game and a Brazilian side for whom ‘languid’ was a philosophy of life. This appeared to satisfy everyone until, after 34 minutes, Brazil had the temerity to take the lead. This upset Eurosport’s Tim Caple some way beyond reason – as if he’d recalled a particularly unsavoury incident from a holiday in Sao Paolo, thereby releasing years of pent-up anti-Brazilian emotions in one verbal flood.
He sounded personally insulted at full-time when the “hugely disappointing” Brazilians had the nerve to receive some standard muscle-massaging before extra-time. “They can’t be tired,” he ruled. And late in extra-time, after Brazil substitute Negueba (“the player the game had been waiting for”, apparently) came close, Caple insisted Brazil “showed some imagination there but they’ve waited 110 minutes to do it.” All of which was grossly unfair, both on Brazil’s genuine contribution to a fine match and on the Spanish, whose skill and industry, personified by Sergio Canales and Chelsea-bound Oriol Romeu respectively, kept Brazil on the back foot for so long.
For all that Brazil were getting a raw deal from a Eurosport studio, Spain should have won and would have won but for an almost flawless goalkeeping display from Brazil’s Gabriel – nearly producing the save of the tournament/century from Alvaro Vasquez’s close-range drive for Spain’s second goal. Gabriel’s display made Brazil warm favourites for the penalty shoot-out, in which he duly made the two key saves in Brazil’s 4-2 win. Fortunately, Caple didn’t accuse Brazil of having played for penalties otherwise my telly might have been a goner.
Spain are a loss to the semi-finals, no doubt, as are Nigeria. Neither semi – Brazil/Mexico or France/Portugal – quite sets the juices flowing like, say, Spain/Colombia. As such, they are rather representative of a tournament which hasn’t yet made it to the promised heights. “It hasn’t been that disappointing, that often,” noted Caple. And you sort of knew what he meant. My money is on Brazil and France victories. So, given that I got all four quarter-final predictions wrong, the very best of luck to Mexico and Portugal in next Saturday’s final.
So…it transpires that England weren’t rubbish after all, just in an impossibly difficult group. Mexico sit proudly in the Under-20s World Cup semi-final line-up and Argentina should have been alongside them. The apologies of a nation are due to Brian Eastick and his team.
Details of Mexico’s elimination of tournament hosts Colombia were impossible to find without possession of Eurosport HD among your package of cable channels, as the match was the only one not to feature on ‘ordinary’ British Eurosport.
This was a bizarre scheduling decision, almost as much of a surprise as Colombia’s defeat…and Nigeria’s…and Spain’s. But at least Sunday night/Monday morning’s quarter-finals also halted the tournament’s drift into general mediocrity.
Portugal’s unfeasibly dramatic shoot-out win over La Albiceleste was a case in point. Whereas, for example, Spain’s group win over Ecuador allied technical brilliance with watchable goalmouth activity, this quarter-final lacked the latter to a soporific degree.
Two hours of dreck (even the Fifa website, not noted for telling it like it is, admitted it was “a dull evening in Cartagena”) were partially redeemed, however, by the best shoot-out I’ve ever witnessed.
Portugal’s selection of spot-kick heroes/villains had already caught the eye as they attempted a 120th-minute introduction of substitute and David Luiz-twin Tiago Ferriera (rumours that Tiago beat Luiz himself in a David Luiz-lookalike contest last year cannot entirely be discounted).
Unusually, there wasn’t a fourth official looking for a moment of glory as Tiago waited by the touchline while 120 minutes became 121 minutes. However, and Fifa will deny this of course, New Zealand referee Peter O’Leary saw the situation midway through the complex semaphore routine which accompanies a Fifa final whistle and added just enough time for Tiago to take the field. Handy, that.
Such was Portugal’s urgency over this substitution that it was a surprise not to see Tiago stride up to take the first penalty…or the second…or the third… Indeed, with Argentina 3-1 up in the shoot-out and two kicks to take, Tiago was long odds-against taking a kick at all.
Then Argentina fell apart. Rodrigo Battaglia was booked for reasons not clear to TV viewers…or Battaglia himself to judge by the look of genuine surprise on his face. This meant he would miss the semi-final, which Argentina looked sure to be in at the time, until, for a few fatal moments, they turned into Cameroon (see last article).
This sparked Portuguese celebrations including dribbling over the nearest TV cameras, a kicking for the nearest advertising board (Visa will be grateful, sort of) and captain Nuno Reis giving the crowd the finger with enough gusto and frequency to threaten to put his shoulder out. It’s a wonder the officious O’Leary didn’t book him.
Colombia’s dismal defeat, in High Definition only, was the only one which didn’t require extra-time or “kicks from the penalty mark,” to give spot-kicks their full title. The goalkeepers couldn’t be separated, Mexico’s Jose Rodriguez and Colombia’s Cristian Bonilla each letting one eminently saveable shot out of their grasp.
But the difference was El Tri substitute Edson Rivera who, Fifa’s website quite magnificently suggested, “bagged a brace,” – a phrase only used in football match reports and never since any of this tournament’s players were born.
France/Nigeria was, for 49 minutes, the stereotypical game that “needs a goal”, which made it surprising that analyst Brian Hamilton hadn’t made the suggestion at least six times before half-time.
Evidence that games which “need a goal” benefit from a goal is patchy at best. But Alexandre Lacazette’s opener for France transformed another technically superb bore into “the game of the tournament”, according to commentator Wayne Boyce, who’d clearly seen too much of England and/or Korea DPR for the good of his perspective.
Lacazette’s role as an “impact sub” has become one of the established facts of the tournament since he made his first “impact” against Colombia – missing an open goal which would have drawn France level at 2-2 in a match they lost 4-1.
Here, he had been brought on earlier than expected after an injury to Arsenal’s impressive striker Gilles Sunu (Arsene Wenger will be pleased) but had made no impact until the 50th minute.
Then he found himself played onside by Nigeria’s dozy defender Emmanuel Anyanwu, whose attempts at pushing up for offside were three yards behind the rest of the back four and amounted to little more than a dancefloor shuffle at about the same time as Lacazette’s shot arrowed towards the corner of the net.
This set up the fascinating scenario of Nigeria deploying their pace and power a la Wimbledon, circa 1985 – with all the quality of Wimbledon circa 2000 – and being picked off on the break with almost clockwork regularity.
That the score remained 1-0 until seventeen seconds from the end may baffle scientists for years to come. France’s forwards hit Nigerian keeper Dami Paul with the same almost clockwork regularity, which was no mean feat given that Paul was either the only goalkeeper capable of moonlighting as a garden gnome or was permanently in the distance.
The substitution of tournament star Ahmed Musa in the last minute suggested that coach John Obuh’s Colombian hat was cutting off his brain’s oxygen supply. But on 92 minutes 47 seconds replacement Maduabuchi Ejike was where his nation needed him to be, forcing extra-time – something for neutrals to relish rather than dread, for a change.
Obuh’s other last-ditch substitution, Afro-of-the-tournament Sami Emanuel, seemed less well-advised as he contrived some imaginative ways to squander good Nigeria positions early in the extra half-hour.
Thus reprieved, France led again when Gueida Fofana’s sensational lob showed Paul to be diminutive rather than distant. And when Lacazette briefly became the tournament’s top scorer moments later, Les Bleuets were almost home.
They hadn’t figured on Emanuel producing a moment of wing wizardry with nine minutes left…but then again, who had? Indeed, the referee’s assistant was too shocked to flag scorer Ejike offside, despite his goalbound effort nearly serving as a goal-line clearance.
The best match was left to last, however, with Spain and Brazil serving up the sort of encounter so relentlessly hyped since the pairing became apparent. The contrast in styles was between Spain’s familiar high-tempo, short-passing game and a Brazilian side for whom ‘languid’ was a philosophy of life.
This appeared to satisfy everyone until, after 34 minutes, Brazil had the temerity to take the lead. This upset Eurosport’s Tim Caple some way beyond reason – as if he’d recalled a particularly unsavoury incident from a holiday in Sao Paolo, thereby releasing years of pent-up anti-Brazilian emotions in one verbal flood.
With the benefit of hindsight, there had been a hint of what was to follow when Caple described Brazil’s progress to the quarter-finals as “crushing everything in their path”, lending a ferocity to Brazil’s performances which simply hadn’t existed.
And as the match continued without a Spain winner in sight, Caple’s language became more and more disapproving of A Selecao. “Are Brazil going to spark into life?” he asked, after Spain’s profligate tree-trunk Rodrigo finally levelled what had been a terrific match to that point.
He sounded personally insulted at full-time when the “hugely disappointing” Brazilians had the nerve to receive some standard muscle-massaging before extra-time. “They can’t be tired,” he ruled.
All of which was grossly unfair, both on Brazil’s genuine contribution to a fine match and on the Spanish, whose skill and industry, personified by Sergio Canales and Chelsea-bound Oriol Romeu respectively, kept Brazil on the back foot for so long.
For all that Brazil were getting a raw deal from a Eurosport studio, Spain should have won and would have won but for an almost flawless goalkeeping display from Brazil’s Gabriel – nearly producing the save of the tournament/century from Alvaro Vasquez’s close-range drive for Spain’s second goal.
Gabriel’s display made Brazil warm favourites for the penalty shoot-out, in which he duly made the two key saves in Brazil’s 4-2 win. Fortunately, Caple didn’t accuse Brazil of having played for penalties otherwise my telly might have been a goner.
Spain are a loss to the semi-finals, no doubt, as are Nigeria. Neither semi – Brazil/Mexico or France/Portugal – quite sets the juices flowing like, say, Spain/Colombia. As such, they are rather representative of a tournament which hasn’t yet made it to the promised heights. “It hasn’t been that disappointing, that often,” noted Caple. And you sort of knew what he meant.
My money is on Brazil and France victories. So, given that I got all four quarter-final predictions wrong, the very best of luck to Mexico and Portugal in next Saturday’s final. | 2019-04-24T23:59:19Z | http://twohundredpercent.net/the-under-20-world-cup-no-quarter-given/ | Sports | Sports | 0.949201 |
newschoolers | Armada cruiser jacket.black and purple. size small.(sorry, iknow its little) 9/10 condition.used one season. no rips or stains.great condition. Sell or Trade. offer up. i think about $75 is reasonable. very flexable! | 2019-04-26T15:49:15Z | https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/698172/Armada-cruiser-jacket | Sports | Shopping | 0.75162 |
wordpress | “To really know God means that we see what He wants to be in relationship to us and then, more and more in the experiences of daily life, let Him be that to us–count on Him to be that.
I have found Psalm 31 to be very helpful in this. In verse 2 David prays, “Be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me”. Then in verse 3 he says, “Since you are my rock and my fortress….” At first I thought this sounded like double-talk: Be to me a rock because You are my rock. Then I realized that David is saying, ‘I have chosen You to be my rock: now be that for me in my situation right now. Be to me now what You are.‘ Isn’t that great?
My Abba-Father–my Daddy who couldn’t love me more than You already do. I love, love, LOVE being Your daughter!
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
I, Paula recall and mull over in my mind the reason I can have the peace of such a solid hope and expectation. It comes straight from God’s Hand and is based on His character and attributes. It is because of the Lord’s mercy, kindness, and His great love that I am not consumed and I can have confidence and courage. His tender compassions never let me down, not ever. The Lord’s unfailing love, faithfulness, and mercy forevermore continue. They are brand new and fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. Great and abundant are Your stability and faithfulness, Lord! I continually remind myself that the Lord is my portion, my share, my inheritance therefore I will hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.
195. Seeing the excitement of Joy and Hannah with their fun classes of the mission school: art, photography, and P.E.
196. Listening to and pondering the beautiful truths on the Scripture Meditations CD that Sonia gave me: such encouragement!
199. Praise you Lord for the truth of Lam 3:21-24: fresh mercies every day, Your compassion, faithfulness, unfailing love that will never let me go. I will hope and wait expectedly on YOU!
203. Rhoda passing along the 4 “Moments with Jesus” books to me: I can hardly wait to read them!
God is SHOWERING me with good gifts and holding me close with His loving presence and care! THANK YOU Father! Thank You friends and family and dear folks I haven’t even met in person for being His Hands and Feet and Mouthpiece!
“He brought me here. It is by His will I am in this strait place. In that I will rest.
He will keep me here in His love and give me grace in this trial to behave as His child.
He will make the trial a blessing, teaching me the lessons He intends me to learn and working in me the grace He means to bestow.
But God Himself, my God.
8Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One).
There are many things I have held as precious and dear, such as being in excellent health; free of cancer, disease, and pain, and my personal belief system of the best way to achieve that through prevention using natural resources. I assumed I would happily and healthfully live to a ripe old age and forgot to count many, many blessings and took them for granted until they were taken away from me. I am learning day by day, that compared to knowing Jesus Christ my Savior, all these are totally insignificant. The very most important thing in all of life is to Know and love Him more and more as He really is.
191. The truth that each and every loss I experience is truest gain, because day by day, He fills the place of all He takes away, plus more. Hooray for Phil 3:8!
183. Chemo #4 out of planned 6 went smoothly yesterday. 2/3rds done, 1/3 more to go on this part!
189. Feels great to be back on track of my norm of no junk in my diet again and doing the things I can do to take the best care of myself that I can in the circumstances God has allowed ON PURPOSE.
The “Christian Life” is Jesus; the Life of Christ. It’s His life in me…not me striving or trying to act more like Jesus. It’s me YIELDING to Him. “Christ in me” is the Christian life.
It is the “not knowing” that causes fear, doubt, faltering, stress. We fret, “Where will this end up?” The truth is, we do know the final, ultimate outcome and it is WONDERFUL!
People fail but God does not. Police can become corupt, preachers can plunge to depths of depravity, marriage commitments can be broken, people mess up. God never messes up.
Life is flying by, Eternity racing upon us.
174. Back to eating just nourishing, health promoting foods. It feels very good to do what I can do to take great care of myself. Thank You Lord for helping me overcome temptation to eat junk that just tears my body down. I will continually turn to the Lord–my Rock, my stronghold, my deliverer for all my comfort, not chocolate or sugar or anything else but Him.
175. Great time Hannah and I had giving away 10 little floral bouquets from our garden last night to neighbors. It’s so much fun to share our flowers!
176. A washer and drier that work well.
177. I know ahead of time what the final, ultimate outcome of my life is going to be: Eternity with Christ. That is cause for rejoicing! What I am going through now is all temporary.
178. Thank You Father for chemo dose #4 tomorrow, August 22, 2011. Please use it for good–please answer my prayers exceedingly abundantly above all I could ask or think. Thank You in advance for walking with me through all this, that Your grace is sufficient. I praise You for how you are weakening the cancer cells and removing them in masses out of my body and how You are strengthening all the healthy cells, making them thrive and flourish, enabling them to “take the hit”. I don’t know how this works, Lord. I say these things by faith because I know You can do it, just not sure that that’s what Your doing. Help my unbelief, Lord. Please fill me with faith.
179. I will not fail, God is ALWAYS victorious. When Jesus died on the Cross–so did I–my sin was nailed right up there with Him. When He rose again, I did too–raised to new life in Christ. When my Father sees me, He sees His Son. All my sin has been paid in full, my sin debt completely covered by my Savior.
180. Sue loaning me this “Always True” CD series. It is a blessing to think about His exceedingly great and precious promises.
181. Joy has taken over my responsibility to cut John and Nicholas’ hair and is doing an excellent job: she’s my cheerful, “right hand gal’ in so many ways.
182. I am thankful for good friends.
God’s hand is on the thermostat, His gauge is on the depth of water. I don’t know what I can handle but He does. His goal is to change and mature me and bring honor to Himself. I can take more than I think I can–He is the One providing me with the strength I need.
13 No temptation (another word is “trial”) has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
His mercies are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. He will always make a way of escape at just the right time. He gives encouragement to persevere, gives wisdom to do His will, He can pull me out of the fire/out of the flood waters at just the right time.
God’s promises are activated by faith.
1. Some think God is watching like a resentful parent. He is not.
He knows the things that are hard for me. God wants me walking in victory and has all the resources for me to do that. No condemnation in Christ Jesus.
3. He is not like a crabby church lady sitting in the balcony, critical eye and wagging finger at kids she is watching below, cranky, never happy with anybody.
He lifted me out of the pit of despair,out of the mud and the mire.He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
The goodness of God leads me to repentance. He redeemed me, set me free. He can not love me more than He already does–I am loved with an everlasting, perfect love.
Searching for people to bless. He is especially focused upon and attentive to His own.
9 For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
171. God is watching me as a loving Daddy watching the apple of His eye–focused on me with eyes of compassion, plenteous in mercy, rejoicing over me with singing, gracious, tenderhearted and I have the joy and privilege of being His beloved daughter. Nothing I am going through escapes His attention. He knows everything about everything. Nothing is too hard for Him. He can do anything. He has promised me that he will work all things together for good in Romans 8:28.
172. Isaiah 43:2 Even though this passage has a different context and was not written to the church, I can glean the heart of God toward me too. His eye is on the thermostat of this fiery trial. Even though it feels very hot at times, I am not going to get burned up. His eye is on the gauge of the depth of water in this flood. The water is not going to go over my head. I am not drowning even though it feels like waves are crashing over me at times. He will help me catch my breath, tread water, and float on my back and rest when the water is too deep to walk through. He will not give me more than I can bear. He will show me a way of escape when I am tempted to sin, when I feel like giving up, when things feel too hard. At some point God will say “That’s enough” and this trial will end–maybe on earth, maybe in Heaven. He can completely heal me in a snap anytime He wants to, however He wants to. He will provide every bit of the strength I need to persevere and walk in His victory while He wants me on this earth, then after that He is going to take me Home to Heaven in His perfect time. I already know the end of the story and my future is bright no matter what happens.
173.From Isaiah 43:4 : “You are precious in my eyes, honored, and I love you.” He feels like that about every one of His kids, me included. I am loved with an everlasting, perfect love and am so grateful to be His.
-Chemo #4 out of 6 is Monday, 8/22. It’s not that the infusion part is so hard when it is happening, it’s the afterwards part that I dread. I don’t know if it is the fluid shift from the steroids along with added IV fluids, the chemo itself, or what but the squeezed, tourniquet sensation in my arm gets worse with the chemo treatments. The pain, along with the chemo side effects, hit hardest the first week after chemo. Thank You Father for chemo. Please use it to kill off all the cancer cells and please protect all the healthy cells. Please take away the pain in Your timing and give me strength to endure it as long as you allow it.
– Please pray that He would flood my heart with His joy, peace, strength, courage, grace, and accomplish all He wants to do in my life. I have been thinking a lot lately about that article by Piper, “Don’t Waste Your Cancer” posted in this blog as my first entry (It’s archived in January on the website http://jpoliver.com/wordpress/archives/date/2011/01 ) Please pray that I won’t waste the cancer, that I will walk closely with Him, and that He will lift all discouragement.
–I have decided that I would like to be a much more positive, optimistic, joyful person and kick every despairing thought out the door of my mind to the dumpster where it belongs. While it is true that I am fighting an especially fast, aggressive type of cancer and some people do die because of it despite treatment, many people have survived it and it certainly is not too hard for God to heal me. I’m not just some statistic, I’m the daughter of the Creator of the Universe and I am going to live just as long as He says so–no more, no less. My hope is in the Lord, not the treatment that He may or may not use. I am asking the Lord to transform my thinking, renew my mind in His Word, that I will dwell on His truths. If it’s His will to heal me of this cancer, I’m going to be healed. Since I don’t know what that will is,I am going to live like I am living, not like I’m dying. The truth is, as His child, He has a victorious, abundant life for me right now, a day at a time. Because of Jesus Christ, I have every reason in the world to have a great life, no matter what I am going through. Can you pray that God will do this work in my heart and mind, that He will teach me to have a positive, optimistic, joyful, hopeful attitude? I do not want to be a miserable person, allowing despairing, depressing thoughts to swallow me up–those kinds of thoughts call my name sometimes, especially when I am hurting and feeling lousy after the chemo but truthfully it can hit at any time. I want to walk as a victorious child of God, an overcomer. That’s who I am in Christ!
–I would appreciate prayer for my weight and that I would walk with the Lord in doing the things I can do to take good care of myself. I’ve struggled with being over weight for years despite mostly healthy eating (intermittent mess-ups with overeating) and my attempts to take excellent care of myself. I got down to my goal weight range in May when I was doing the alternative cancer treatment, having 13 organic juices/day, doing coffee enemas, eating a very strict diet. Right now there is a combination of being on steroids and other drugs that are known to cause weight gain (the literature says “normal means to maintain or lose weight are ineffective on this drug”. Not fair, not fair! I mistakenly thought all cancer patients got skinny but some get fat). Right now I can’t exercise like I am used to and have been feeling rather disillusioned about how I still got cancer despite all the measures I took to avoid it. Chemical menopause because of the drugs are making my hormones go crazy, I have a messed-up thyroid gland which makes my metabolism very sluggish. I’ve gone from about 7-8 years of usually being on a very strict eating plan (either all or high raw vegan to lately eating whatever I feel like eating which includes junk I haven’t allowed myself for years and years. All those put together are not a good combo. Anyway, along with some major physical changes like the loss of my left breast, my head of hair and most of my eyebrows falling out from chemo, continual pain, bloating and edema from the drugs, now the weight has also been piling back on and I am very uncomfortable. I have been “feeling ugly” lately. It’s not that I think of myself as having been so good looking before cancer but cancer is such a robber of even what you do have on the outside like even stealing thinning, straggly, greying hair. My wigs are prettier than my own hair but I like my own hair better because it was mine and it wasn’t hot and itchy. The truth is God and my husband and children and friends love me no matter what I look like. Father, please make me beautiful on the inside where it counts. Please help me to take good care of myself and do the best I can on the outside too, in a way that is not vain and is pleasing to You. Please transform me and give me YOUR perspective, your point of view on this life you have for me. In Christ, my “self image” has nothing to do with what I look like.
Today is day #1 for me of getting back on track: back to eating just foods which build my body up, not tearing it down. I feel better not eating junk. I am asking God for wisdom and self control with my eating, exercise, and to have HIS balance in making healthy lifestyle choices. I am confessing my sin of gluttony to the Lord and know it is wrong to try and fill up voids and futilely try to relieve stress with food, using it like a drug really. I want to be in close fellowship with the Lord and walk with Him in every area and not walk in the flesh. Many things are out of my control right now but what I choose to put in my mouth or not put in my mouth IS in my control and I can do that again, with His help. For years I faithfully exercised about 1 to 1 1/2 hours per day almost every day (and loved doing that and being fit and active). I haven’t been up to doing that since January because of my health and treatments but I have been doing a small amount of walking, swimming, and biking as I’ve been able. I can add to that as I get my strength back and get stronger and healthier. The truth is, food is not my comfort…chocolate and sugar and processed junk is not my comfort. I will not run to them like an idol when I am stressed. Jesus is my comfort. HE is my refuge and strength and fortress, my deliverer. Because of the drugs my weight may not respond to normal means to lose and maintain a healthy weight for a long time. Plans are for me to be on IV Herceptin for a year and 5 years of hormone blockers after that which can all also cause weight gain. I wish that wasn’t so but it is and I might as well make the best of it and do my part. I am going to do the right thing and leave the results to God. I will let go of all excuses. I will do my best with the things I can control and let go of the rest. My position and value are “in Christ”, not what I look like.
I am sharing this here because this is a weak area for me and I would appreciate prayer.
Thank you for praying. Thank you for your friendship and your encouragement and uplifting words in the comments on the blog and in emails and in person. I appreciate you guys very much.
Promise #3: I will not despair, God is ALWAYS good.
28We are assured and know that [[a]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
3. Settled/or the enemy telling us it’s a settled matter. “It’s all over”.
Everything God does in my life is for my good. EVERY one of His “no’s” is a MERCY.
A.W. Tozer got a “degree” in suffering.
153. God is always good to me. He showers me with compassion and tender mercy.
155. I do see and will continue to see His goodness while I am alive and in the land of the living.
156. The way things are going does not need to make sense to me. I will not despair, God is ALWAYS good, loving, kind, faithful, and right in all He does and allows.
169. I will not despair over the cancer, over the pain, over the treatment I wish I didn’t need to be doing,.. over anything else. This is all temporary stuff, all “momentary and light afflictions” with an eternal purpose and some of the hardest things I am going through are really special blessings from God. I just don’t always recognize the beautiful gifts He has for me because I get fooled for awhile by the way the “presents are wrapped”.
170. All the “exceedingly great and precious promises” in the Bible, the “diamonds in mountains of gold”, that are God’s treasures for me personally. How very rich and blessed I am in Christ!
HIS WAY is the safest, fastest, smoothest road to the best possible destination. (My conclusion: when I let my flesh rule /want my way instead of His, it causes needless detours, u turns, etc.) God sees every detail of my situation and I can trust Him.
God invented truth. He IS truth.
Doubt is the soil fears grows in and is the cause of emotional roller coaster rides.
God WANTS me to test His promises, put my full weight on them. God invites me to test Him and see if He is faithful. If I will do what is right and honor God I can walk by faith, wait on Him, wait on Him to work.
142. I will not doubt or be afraid because God is in total control. God will help me to be brave and strong in Him.
145. I will “taste” and see that He is good. Every day. ALWAYS and no matter what. Oh the joys of those who take refuge in Him!
148. God invites me to check out all His promises, test them out for myself, see that they are true. God never lies. He is never mistaken.
150. My hope in Christ is the sure and steadfast anchor of my soul. It is firm, secure, and I can count on God NEVER to fail me, NEVER to leave me, NEVER to forsake me.
151. God still is in control when things aren’t going the way I think I want them to be going. His timing is different than mine and His timing is always on time.
152. I, Paula, will choose to lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with ALL my heart and mind and not rely on my own insight or understanding. In all my ways I will know, recognize, and acknowledge Him and He will direct and make straight and plain all my paths. | 2019-04-21T01:22:59Z | https://pilgrimspathwayblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/ | Sports | Recreation | 0.243484 |
gillinghamfootballclub | Gillingham FC proudly becomes the first Football League Club to support The White Ribbon Campaign.
White Ribbon is a charity that encourages organisations and individuals to promote anti-violence against women and girls. The campaign recruits men to act as an Ambassador to promote anti-violence and make a positive influence on men in the community by saying ‘no’ to domestic abuse.
Gillingham FC Chairman Paul Scally and Manager Justin Edinburgh have made the historic step as the first Chairman and First Team Manager from the Football League to sign up to become Ambassadors for White Ribbon.
Saturday's game is dedicated to raising awareness of the cause they are both championing.
Gillingham FC is proud to work in conjunction with Medway Council who have recently achieved the White Ribbon Award – pledging their commitment against domestic abuse. An Action Plan was developed via Medway’s Community Safety Partnership setting out their goals in campaigning about domestic abuse.
• Each year around 2.1 million people suffer Domestic abuse in some form, including emotional, mental, physical, sexual and financial abuse.
• Last year there were 887,000 police recorded incidents in England and Wales.
• In Medway, there are over 5,000 police recorded incidents of domestic abuse a year.
Chairman Paul Scally admitted he was shocked when he heard the figures propelling White Ribbon’s work.
Partner agencies in Medway including the Council and Police are committed to providing support, to give victims the confidence to report and to hold perpetrators to account. Medway’s Community Safety Partnership have domestic abuse as a priority to encourage further reporting and supporting victims and their children to a life free from violence.
Together with the Kent & Medway Domestic Abuse Strategy Group they have developed a website, dedicated to offer support and guidance, www.domesticabuseservices.org not only for victims but for perpetrators, young people and professionals.
Gillingham Ladies will also be in attendance on Saturday afternoon helping fundraise for White Ribbon. All money raised from their bucket collection will support the Medway Domestic Abuse Forum which is raising money to support victims in crisis to leave abusive men. | 2019-04-21T22:09:15Z | https://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/news/2015/october/gills-support-white-ribbon/ | Sports | Sports | 0.506453 |
umich | This 90-minute workshop will help you differentiate how you use social media personally versus professionally, and the best way to build your brand online. From this session you will learn the 5 C's of social, discover free tools, uncover key influencers, and walk away with a plan to refine your digital presence.
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This 90-minute workshop discussion will explore some of the fundamental questions entrepreneurs encounter when considering launching a new business. How do we go about forming the company? Do we have partners? How do we split up equity? Do we set up a board of directors? An advisory board? How? What happens when investors come in?
A key precept in user centered design is to continually get feedback from your users. A common technique used to do this is user testing, which involves asking users to complete a series of tasks using your product and observing them while they do so. | 2019-04-19T06:58:22Z | http://zli.umich.edu/event-calendar/2017-03 | Sports | Business | 0.583247 |
nationalgeographic | Built more than 4,000 years ago, Stonehenge is still giving up its secrets, with a new underground map revealing a set of monuments below the structure that had never been seen before.
Underground images show a large complex of monuments and buildings used in rituals dating back thousands of years.
An astonishing complex of ancient monuments, buildings, and barrows has lain hidden and unsuspected beneath the Stonehenge area for thousands of years. Scientists discovered the site using sophisticated techniques to see underground, announcing the finds this week.
Among the discoveries announced Wednesday are 17 ritual monuments, including the remains of a massive "house of the dead," hundreds of burial mounds, and evidence of a possible processional route around Stonehenge itself.
There's also evidence of a nearby mile-long "superhenge" at Durrington Walls that was once flanked by as many as 60 gigantic stone or timber columns, some of which may still lie under the soil.
The discoveries result from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project, a four-year effort to create a high-resolution, 3-D underground map of the landscape surrounding Stonehenge.
The project team, led by researchers from the U.K.'s University of Birmingham and Austria's Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, mapped the area down to a depth of about ten feet (three meters) using ground-penetrating radar, high-resolution magnetometers, and other state-of-the-art remote-sensing equipment.
In all, nearly 3,000 acres have been excavated virtually, making this the largest and most ambitious project of its kind ever undertaken anywhere in the world.
"Nobody had any idea this was here," says lead scientist Vince Gaffney, professor of landscape archaeology at the University of Birmingham. "Instead of a monument in isolation, we find that Stonehenge was part of a rich monumental landscape."
Many of the 17 newly discovered monuments appear to be shrine-like structures. The small circular constructions, contemporaneous with Stonehenge's busiest period, are placed around the main stone ring and form a sort of Neolithic analogue to the Via Dolorosa, held to be the path Jesus walked to crucifixion, Gaffney suggests.
"What we could be witnessing here is the birth of the idea of ceremonial procession, or a liturgy," he says.
"Stonehenge is where archaeology got its start," says Nicola Snashall, an archaeologist from England's National Trust, which looks after the monument.
"Antiquarians like John Aubrey and Inigo Jones began digging here in the 17th century to try to unlock its secrets—some of the world's very first archaeological excavations."
With no written records to fall back on, the mysterious stone structure has spawned countless theories involving Celts, Druids, Romans, and even the King Arthur legend. Its original shape has been a matter of great debate, including whether it was built as a semicircle, as seen today, or a full circle of stones.
This past summer, a chance dry spell revealed patches in the soil that marked where stones once stood. But nobody suspected the incredible wealth of ruins that lay hidden beneath the soil.
High-tech remote sensing and underground mapping is changing not only what is known about Stonehenge, but also the way archaeology is done.
"Technology is opening doors for archaeology we could only dream about 15 years ago," says Gaffney, who compared the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project with a 3-D underground mapping project he undertook at the ancient British-Roman settlement of Wroxeter in the late 1990s.
"Back then, it took us four years to map 78 hectares, with about 2.5 million data points," he recalls. "With this latest survey at Stonehenge, we were doing that much in a week, [finding] new types of monument that had never been seen by archaeologists.
"All of this information has been placed within a single digital map, which will guide how Stonehenge and its landscape are studied in the future." | 2019-04-19T12:24:17Z | https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140911-stonehenge-map-underground-monument-radar/ | Sports | Arts | 0.267242 |
startribune | In her new book, NPR critic Maureen Corrigan takes apart Fitzgerald's masterpiece and finds it nearly perfect.
You probably know Maureen Corrigan's voice, if not her face. The sensible-sounding book critic on NPR's "Fresh Air" has reviewed a lot of books over the years, but only one fully has her heart: "The Great Gatsby," a novel that left her cold the first time she read it but which she now calls "a literary miracle."
Corrigan's new book, "So We Read On," takes its title from the lyrical, memorable last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. In her book, she examines Fitzgerald's themes, language and biography — and makes a strong case that "The Great Gatsby" is the Great American Novel.
She will be at Macalester College on Tuesday for a free event sponsored by Common Good Books. Here, she talks about how Fitzgerald's masterpiece bombed when it first came out, what readers usually get wrong about the book, and settles the debate: Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
Q: You call "Gatsby" the "one great American novel we think we've read but probably haven't." What do you mean?
A: We usually read "Gatsby" in high school when we're too young to understand the regret and sense of loss that pervades the novel. Every character in "Gatsby" is stretching out his or her arms for someone or something eternally out of reach.
Gatsby stretches out his arms for Daisy (symbolized by that much-discussed green light at the end of her dock). Nick is reaching for his friend Gatsby, who's dead at the beginning of this retrospective novel; Myrtle is reaching for Tom; Wilson is reaching for Myrtle, and on and on.
I think, as high school readers, we tend to be less alert to all this frustrated yearning and, instead, focus on the giddy exuberance of Gatsby's parties and the obsessiveness of Gatsby's love for Daisy.
We read the novel as a tragic romance rather than as a profound commentary on the slippery promises that America extends to its citizen-dreamers.
Q: Idol worship, longing, the elusiveness of dreams — are those the elements that make Gatsby a peculiarly American novel?
A: Absolutely — it's both our most American and un-American novel at once. The novel is ultimately pessimistic about Gatsby's attempt to break free of the past, but it celebrates the doomed beauty of trying. Fitzgerald's plot suggests that the American dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.
Q: You've read "The Great Gatsby" 50 times? You also teach and review books for NPR and the Washington Post. How do you have time to read any book more than once?
A: Well, "The Great Gatsby" is short, after all! I try to get up early — 5 a.m., sometimes 4 a.m. — to have that golden time of uninterrupted reading. I love what I do and most people can't say that about their jobs. I frequently think about my mother's mother, who was a Polish immigrant and cleaned houses and offices day and night for most of her working life. I'm lucky that I get to read for a living.
Q: Are there other books that have captivated you in this way? Other books you reread?
A: Oh, I reread a lot of books. Many of the novels I love to reread are the 19th-century British classics: "Jane Eyre," "Pride and Prejudice," "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations," "Bleak House." I've never read any other novel, though, anywhere close to the number of times I've read "The Great Gatsby."
Q: Why do you suppose the book didn't take off when it was first published? And why did it later?
A: Fitzgerald thought that the fact that "The Great Gatsby" lacked sympathetic female characters hurt its reception, since (then as now) women drive the fiction market.
I think "Gatsby" was a hard sell in 1925 because, to be blunt, it's a very weird novel that breaks almost all of the rules of good fiction writing: It "tells" rather than shows. It's neither a plot-driven nor a character-driven story; rather, it's that oddest of fictional creations — a voice-driven narrative. Nick's voice is what pulls us readers in.
It came back after Fitzgerald's death in 1940 partly because of the vigorous efforts of his literary friends who helped readers appreciate the poetry of Fitzgerald's language and his nuanced verdict on the American dream.
Q: What things about this book do most people get wrong?
A: The elemental mistake is to think that "The Great Gatsby" simply revels in the wretched excess of the 1920s and all that jazz. The films compound that mistake with their focus on over-the-top costumes and glittering cars and home furnishings.
Fitzgerald liked the high life, but he also read Marx with enthusiasm. He envied the ease of the rich, but he also had a healthy contempt for their world.
Q: What did you learn when you looked at Fitzgerald's own copy of "Gatsby" at the Princeton library?
A: I learned that Fitzgerald was even more of an obsessive rewriter than I already knew! That copy is filled with penciled-in changes of words or names. Even though the novel was already published, Fitzgerald was preparing for a second edition of Gatsby and still tweaking it!
Where: Weyerhaeuser Chapel, Macalester College, St. Paul. Sponsored by Common Good Books and Fitzgerald in St. Paul.
Q: We are Minnesotans. Throw us a bone: Could Fitzgerald have written Gatsby if he hadn't grown up in St. Paul?
A: You may want to bar me from the state, but I think so — maybe. Certainly his years on Summit Avenue gave Fitzgerald the perfect landscape to stoke his anxious attitudes about social class. (Fitzgerald and his parents rented houses on Summit Avenue, but never quite "belonged," economically or socially, with the class of people whose beautiful mansions, even today, grace the neighborhood.) I think, though, there are other such landscapes that foster this insider-outsider self-consciousness in sensitive people.
By the way, I'm really looking forward to walking around in Fitzgerald's footsteps on Summit Avenue.
Q: And I think I know the answer to this, but … Fitzgerald or Hemingway?
A: No contest: Fitzgerald, hands down. "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" are superb, but "The Great Gatsby" is a literary miracle.
Plus, Fitzgerald was a much more loyal friend than Hemingway. Fitzgerald was sometimes a mean drunk, but Hemingway didn't need to be drunk to be mean. He was threatened by Fitzgerald's great gifts and tried to undermine Fitzgerald's confidence.
In biographical accounts of their friendship, Hemingway often comes off as a swaggering Tom Buchanan to Fitzgerald's romantic Gatsby. | 2019-04-24T21:00:35Z | http://www.startribune.com/maureen-corrigan-explains-why-great-gatsby-is-a-literary-miracle/277242971/ | Sports | Reference | 0.231143 |
flickr | A call to come together and express the concerns of our community, the Brisbane Pride Festival Rally is about sending a message – we’re here, we’re queer and we have a voice.
The Rally informs and educates, inflames and inspires. But it is about more than just politics – it’s a chance to both learn and honour our past while celebrating our future. | 2019-04-24T12:38:01Z | https://www.flickr.com/photos/q-news/sets/72157672973843992/ | Sports | Society | 0.474736 |
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network topology, both scenarios present the same behavior (exponential).
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iol | The draw for the 2018 Nedbank Cup took place on Thursday night.
JOHANNESBURG – Kaizer Chiefs face a trip down to the coast to play relatively unknown entity Tornado FC, while Orlando Pirates head north to the Limpopo Province for a showdown with Black Leopards in the opening round of the 2018/ 19 Nedbank Cup.
For the most part, the 16 Premiership clubs were handed a kind draw - there will only four all-top-flight ties, with the pick of the bunch the match between Cape Town City and SuperSport United, which will take place in the Mother City.
Orlando Pirates have a potentially tricky game as well – the Buccaneers will take on the unpredictable Black Leopards, who can never be discounted in front of their partisan supporters in Thohoyandou.
Mamelodi Sundowns are away to Chippa United, while AmaZulu will clash with Highlands Park in Durban.
Kaizer Chiefs will be optimistic about their chances of making the last 16 after they were paired with Eastern Cape Second Division outfit Tornado FC, who will play hosts.
Defending champions Free State Stars will host National First Division (NFD) team Richards Bay FC, while last season’s beaten finalists Maritzburg United are away to another NFD side, Witbank Spurs.
The Nedbank Cup last-32 comprises the 16 top-flight clubs, who receive automatic entry into the competition, as well as eight NFD sides and a further eight teams from the lower ranks, all of whom have had to go through a qualification process to make the final cut.
Tjakastad Junior Shepherds (Mpumalanga), The Magic (Cape Town), Umvoti (KZN Midlands), NC Professionals (Northern Cape) and Tornado FC (Mdantsane, East Londom) will be some of the unknown teams in the competition hoping to pull off a giant-killing act if the chance arises.
"One of the reasons we love football is because it enables young people from all walks of life – be it from the most rural and poverty stricken areas – to dream big," Premier Soccer League (PSL) acting Chief Executive Mato Madlala said.
"The Nedbank Cup has been a practical vehicle for those dreams to come through. We have seen this with many clubs including Baroka FC who first made a name for themselves in this competition. Now they are a household name.
"We have more appetite for these stories because we truly believe in the power of football to change lives. Together with Nedbank, we look forward to what 2019 has in store for us. May all the clubs and players, mainly form those amateur structures, grab this opportunity and make use of it."
The dates and venues are still to be announced by the PSL. The competition traditionally starts in early February. | 2019-04-26T03:12:02Z | https://www.iol.co.za/sport/soccer/psl/kaizer-chiefs-to-play-eastern-cape-rookies-in-nedbank-cup-opener-18504684 | Sports | Society | 0.098415 |
chicagotribune | This image provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows Pacific and Atlantic meridional sections showing upper-ocean warming for the past six decades (1955-2011). Red colors indicate a warming (positive) anomaly and blue colors indicate a cooling (negative) anomaly. The amount of global-warming triggered heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a new study showed.
The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday showed.
To put that in perspective, if you exploded one atomic bomb the size of the one that dropped on Hiroshima every second for a year, the total energy released would be 2 zettajoules. So since 1997, Earth's oceans have absorbed man-made heat energy equivalent to a Hiroshima-style bomb being exploded every second for 75 straight years. | 2019-04-23T08:07:29Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-ocean-heat-study-20160118-story.html | Sports | Science | 0.894694 |
unimelb | Debbie is a highly experienced projects and finance lawyer, particularly in the Middle East where she has worked for over 12 years. Her clients include national oil companies and government organisations, including Oman Oil Company and the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport, sponsors such as Mediclinic Middle East and the Saudi Port Development Company and major project finance banks. In addition, she has led several community initiatives in the Region including working with local universities. | 2019-04-26T13:51:26Z | https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/debbie-barbour | Sports | Business | 0.983807 |
nba | The NBA G League and game officials postponed tonight’s game vs. Grand Rapids prior to tip-off, due to a leak in the roof at the Portland Expo.
The game will be made up at a future date, yet to be determined. Any tickets purchased for tonight’s game will be honored at the make-up date.
The Maine Red Claws apologize for any inconvenience tonight’s postponement may have caused. | 2019-04-24T14:36:21Z | https://maine.gleague.nba.com/news/game-ppd-012419/ | Sports | Sports | 0.639893 |
umbc | This full-day conference will focus on the unique needs of international students in their job search process in the United States. Topics will include H-1b and permanent resident statuses, negotiating for these statuses with potential employers, advice on getting the most out of your job search, and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from experts, students, and employers to make sure they are fully prepared to meet their career goals in the United States.
AN RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. Please RSVP via UMBCworks under Events- Workshops. | 2019-04-19T06:36:20Z | https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/events/50010 | Sports | Business | 0.915745 |
ucdavis | Stacy Fahrenthold is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration; displacement/refugees; border studies; and diasporas within and from the region. She is affiliated with the Middle East / South Asia Studies Program, the Migration Research Cluster, and the Human Rights Studies Program. Prior to arriving at UC Davis in 2018, she taught in the California State University system (Stanislaus and Fresno campuses).
Professor Fahrenthold's research into Arab migration emphasizes the diaspora’s impact on modern Syrian and Lebanese politics in the twentieth century. Her first book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925, was published with Oxford University Press in 2019. It explores the war work of Arab activists in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, and reveals the repercussions of diasporic activism for nationality laws and repatriation regimes in the post-Ottoman Middle East. The book was recently featured on the Ottoman History Podcast.
Professor Fahrenthold is currently at work on a new project on Syrian labor migration. Her larger research foci include migration, displacement, and diaspora in the Middle East; Syria, Lebanon, and the Ottoman eastern Mediterranean; working class and labor histories; ethnic and religious minorities; and World War I.
Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (Oxford University Press, 2019).
“An archaeology of rare books in Arab Atlantic history,” Journal of American Ethnic History 37, no. 3 (Spring 2018): 77-83.
“Former Ottomans in the Ranks: pro-Entente Military Recruitment Among Syrians in the Americas, 1916–1918.” Journal of Global History 11, no. 1 (March 2016): 88-112.
“Sound Minds in Sound Bodies: Transnational Philanthropy and Patriotic Masculinity in al-Nadi al-Homsi and Syrian Brazil, 1920–1932.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46, no. 2 (May 2014): 259-283.
“Transnational Modes and Media: the Syrian Press in the Mahjar and Emigrant Activism during World War I.” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 1, no. 1 (February 2013): 32-57.
Bans and Border Walls (HIS 102x, Winter 2019): In the contemporary discourse on migration, it feels peculiarly seamless to discuss “bans and border walls” in a single breath. However, the global preoccupation with travel restriction and border security must not be taken as an inevitability. States arrive at bans and walls as preferred means of migration control as a result of making specific assumptions about migrants as “threats” to national sovereignty. This course is an intensive reading seminar tracing the history of this global preoccupation with borders, bans, and walls, and with border control in the 20th/21st centuries. Students will read pioneering work in border studies, documentary regimes, and the securitization of migration policies.
Global Migration History (HIS 110w, Spring 2019): Migrant stories are too often pushed to the side, marginalized in a historical tradition focused on narrating histories of place. Yet if there is one global history, it is the history of human mobility and migration. How do mobile people (migrants, workers, nomads, and refugees) navigate in a world with multiplying borders? This course is an introduction to global migration history from 1800 to the present. It examines labor migration systems; border governance; undocumented migration; partition, displacement, and refugee regimes; and race, gender, and class in migration law. Students will engage major concepts in humanistic migration theory, read and interpret documents from the period, and hone skills in writing about migration from a systems-based perspective.
History of the Modern Middle East from 1914 (HIS 193b, Spring 2019): The Middle East from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Themes include the legacy of imperialism, cultural renaissance, the World Wars, nationalism, Palestine/Israel, Islamic revival, gender, revolutionary movements, politics of oil and war, cultural modernism, exile and diaspora. | 2019-04-18T17:06:06Z | https://history.ucdavis.edu/people/sfahren | Sports | Reference | 0.415891 |
wordpress | When I checked it in the then-current Bartlett’s Quotations I learned it was a common expression during the Spanish Civil War, and attributed to a radio propagandist on the Republican side. It’s likely FDR and his research aides knew that.
Checking that one out, I found a reference to Mexico’s revolutionary Zapata, whose work was likely familiar to the Spanish Republicans.
That’s as far as I took it 20 years ago. Can we get a better attribution, or find Zapata’s likely inspiration, if there is one?
N.B.: Looked for a photo of FDR at Oxford, but quickly discovered he was nowhere near England on June 19, 1941 — hadn’t thought he would be with the Battle of Britain not really over. Found references to Watson’s delivering of the speech at Harvard, but little else. Good people at the FDR Library’s Pare Lorentz Center confirm that FDR was at the White House the entire day. There’s a story there, about the awarding of the degree.
Update 2017: It was not George Washington.
Especially in 2017, would you do us the favor of saying in comments how you got to this article? Thank you.
Rick’s Cafe Americain existed only in fiction, an invention of Murray Burnett and his playwright partner Joan Alison. Casablanca was a rendezvous for people engages in some secret negotiations related to the war, however. | 2019-04-25T22:34:52Z | https://timpanogos.wordpress.com/tag/fdr/ | Sports | Reference | 0.535552 |
missouri | Some students called it “snowpocalypse.” Others called it “snowmageddon.” Hyperbolic handles aside, a blizzard of historic proportions shut down most of the MU campus for three days starting at 4 p.m. Jan. 31 through Feb. 3, 2011. Sanborn Field, Mizzou’s Agriculture Experiment Station, reported 14.5 inches of snowfall on campus, and Columbia Regional Airport checked in at 17.5. The storm cancelled classes, a rare event at MU. Previous weather-related closures have occurred in 1949, 1978, 1995, 1998 and 2006.
“The snowfall totals were very consistent across Boone County, and it was one of the top three snowfalls in the past 30 years at Sanborn,” says Randy Miles, associate professor of soil sciences.
For those who ventured out, the MU Student Center and the Student Recreation Complex stayed open for entertainment and exercise. | 2019-04-24T13:53:10Z | http://mizzoumagarchives.missouri.edu/2011-Spring/columns/snow/index.php | Sports | Recreation | 0.768232 |
soton | Interview with Patrick Dresch - C.M.A.
Patrick completed his MA at the CMA in 2008. Since then, he has worked for one of the foremost cultural resource management firms in the UK as a marine geophysicist. In the following interview, Patrick discusses his time at the CMA and his professional life since.
I was born in Oxford in the UK and grew up there for the most part, although I did also live in the USA for a while. I did my BA at Kenyon College in Ohio (USA) majoring in anthropology which included archaeology, and minoring in religious studies.
After my BA I worked as a field archaeologist for a few years doing commercial archaeology in the UK. I thoroughly enjoyed the work but realised that my future prospects were rather limited and thought that an MA would help me shape my career within the field. After a drawn out period of wondering what to do I finally decided maritime archaeology was the path I wanted to take.
It all came down to the reputation of the CMA. While working as a field archaeologist I had met a few people who had done the maritime archaeology MA and they all had good things to say about it. I also compared the course descriptions of various departments but choosing Southampton seemed like the best option.
What have you been doing since completing your MA?
I finished my MA in 2008 just as the economy was taking a downturn and lots of archaeologists, particularly field archaeologists, were being made unemployed. Looking back on it I was very lucky to retrain when I did. After handing in my dissertation I found myself unemployed for a while and tried to keep busy by presenting material from my dissertation at conferences. After that my first paid archaeology job after studying maritime archaeology was doing survey work in the middle of the desert in Abu Dhabi. I broke into commercial marine work by getting an English Heritage Professional Placement in Conservation. This was a one year training position based at Wessex Archaeology and focused on survey work and the use of marine geophysics. This placement led on to a job as a marine geophysicist with Wessex Archaeology and I’ve been with them ever since.
How did your time at the CMA prepare you for your career in maritime archaeology?
The MA is a one year course and there is no way you can become an expert in the field in that time frame. What it does do is to make you aware of the depth of the field and the sort of questions people are asking. It is then up to the individual to find what they are interested in and pursue it further. The MA made me aware of many different aspects of maritime archaeology that I had not previously been aware of and helped me focus the questions I needed to ask to learn more.
All aspects of archaeology interest me to a greater or lesser degree never mind just maritime archaeology. I think it’s important to be aware of different areas of study because it allows you to mix and match, to a certain degree, to ask more interesting questions. At the moment my work focuses on interpreting marine geophysical data in a commercial setting. This means that I deal with data from all over the country which may inform the archaeological record from any period ranging from the Palaeolithic to the 20th century. My MA dissertation had a much more anthropological focus and looked at the development of Afro-Caribbean maritime culture, something I still study in my spare time.
Do you have a favourite moment of the programme?
There were lots of great excursions and field trips. The Roskilde trip is frequently mentioned as a highlight and rightfully so. I also thoroughly enjoyed taking the opportunity to study conservation at the Mary Rose Trust. One of my favourite moments though was during a field study in Lilstock as part of the geoarchaeology class when I got to climb into a muddy test pit to record a section, something I had been missing from field archaeology.
My first piece of advice is that when deciding what to focus on do something you enjoy, particularly for your dissertation. Every one in the department has their own research interests and there’s no one right topic to study. Archaeology isn’t something people generally pursue for the money so if you’re not enjoying it you should probably find something else to do.
My second piece of advice is that diving is not the be all and end all of maritime archaeology. If you’re worried about studying the subject and don’t dive there are plenty of other interesting aspects of the field. On the other hand, if you’re completely obsessed with diving, remember to try different things since they may be fun and useful in the future. I enjoy diving but the use of divers in commercial archaeology is very limited and more and more work is focused on survey and marine geophysics. This advice can be expanded to archaeology in general in that you should always be willing to learn new skills. | 2019-04-24T00:40:25Z | http://cma.soton.ac.uk/who-we-are/what-students-think/interview-with-patrick-dresch/ | Sports | Arts | 0.370546 |
wordpress | “The Master”, 2012, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. – Yes, I see a connection to Coleridge!
Most modern Hollywood cinema, even gritty, artistic, grown-up movies like those Paul Thomas Anderson likes to make, usually rehash old and common tropes. And in The Master, after delving deep into the psyche of an amoral villain in There Will Be Blood, we meet what apparently is his take on the motif of Ahasver.
How much Coleridgian concept is in this story about a traumatized seaman that restlessly wanders the world in search of some sense in life? – I am not going to speculate, but the proximities to certain tropes that not only belong to the Wandering Jew, but also to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, are definitely there.
Granted, the emphasis on the story lies, like in There Will Be Blood, on people’s hypocrisy, with the conventiently drastic imagery that sexual amorality provides. But there’s the wanderer trope, and the maritime connection, and a few key quotes here and there that suggest a – probably completely unwanted – proximity to the classical text. | 2019-04-22T22:03:07Z | https://samueltaylorcoleridge.wordpress.com/tag/paul-thomas-anderson/ | Sports | Arts | 0.976077 |
nasa | This artist's impression Mars' Gale Crater depicts a cross section through the mountain in the middle of the crater, from a viewpoint looking toward the southeast.
The Atlas V payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft rises above the floor of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover documented itself in the context of its work site, an area called "Rocknest Wind Drift," on the 84th Martian day, or sol, of its mission (Oct. 31, 2012).
This diagram and the one at PIA16916 illustrate how the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover detects hydrogen in the ground beneath the rover.
This is an artist's concept showing a meteor shower in the skies above the Curiosity rover. | 2019-04-23T06:30:18Z | https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/4906/curiositys-rocknest-workplace/ | Sports | Science | 0.636349 |
duke | During the past decade, patient safety issues during care transitions have gained greater attention at both the local and national level. Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adverse drug events (ADEs) caused by an incomplete understanding of changes in complex drug regimens can be an important factor contributing to readmission rates. This paper describes the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists in ensuring optimal outcomes from drug therapy during care transitions. Barriers to effective care transitions, including inadequate communication, poor care coordination, and the lack of one clinician ultimately responsible for these transitions, are discussed. This paper also identifies specific patient populations at high risk of ADEs during care transitions. Several national initiatives and newer care transition models are discussed, including multi- and interdisciplinary programs with pharmacists as key members. Among their potential roles, pharmacists should participate on medical rounds where available, perform medication reconciliation and admission drug histories, apply their knowledge of drug therapy to anticipate and resolve problems during transitions, communicate changes in drug regimens between providers and care settings, assess the appropriateness and patient understanding of drug regimens, promote adherence, and assess health literacy. In addition, this paper identifies barriers and ongoing challenges limiting greater involvement of pharmacists from different practice settings during care transitions. Professional degree programs and residency training programs should increase their emphasis on pharmacists' roles, especially as part of interdisciplinary teams, in improving patient safety during care transitions in diverse practice settings. This paper also recommends that Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) standards include specific language regarding the exposure of students to issues regarding care transitions and that students have several opportunities to practice the skills needed for effective care transitions. Moreover, reimbursement mechanisms that permit greater pharmacist involvement in providing medication assistance to patients going through care transitions should be explored. Although health information technology offers the potential for safer care transitions, pharmacists' use of information technology must be integrated into the national initiatives for pharmacists to be effectively involved in care transitions. This paper concludes with a discussion about the importance of recognizing and addressing health literacy issues to promote patient empowerment during and after care transitions. | 2019-04-19T00:46:20Z | https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub757410 | Sports | Health | 0.859206 |
buffalonews | Age 96, August 21, 2011, beloved wife of the late Robert C. House; mother of Roberta (Roger) Lowry, Nancy (Jonathan) Moulton, Donald (Shela) and David (Patricia) House; also survived by 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends Tuesday 7-9 PM at the F.E. BROWN SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6575 E. Quaker St., Orchard Park. Services, Wednesday 10:30 AM in The Orchard Park Community Church, 7451 Orchard Park Rd. 14127. Friends invited. Memorials to the church or charity of choice. | 2019-04-22T20:47:52Z | https://buffalonews.com/2011/08/22/margaret-brackett-house/ | Sports | News | 0.438453 |
wordpress | In a previous post, I indicated two particularities of the link between institutional trust and corruption in post-communist countries.
I would like now to mention a third one. It is more general and, though not a direct cause of corruption, it could be part of the self-reinforcing mechanism on which corruption thrives: the problem of simultaneity.
As Elster et al (1998) have shown, transition countries with unconsolidated democracies must focus their efforts on three simultaneous tasks: building their economy, building functional democratic institutions and solving their national identity problems (ethnic conflicts, rights to minorities, etc).
– For many high-impact environmental projects carried out by private investors, experts elaborating the reports are employed directly by the investors themselves, because environmental authorities lack either the prerogatives, or the funds to do so. This has raised suspicions about the neutrality of these assessments, as well as about the division of responsibilities between the government and private companies.
– EU environmental law is excessively transposed into domestic law by regulations which can be easily amended by administrative procedures (resolutions, emergency ordinances etc). One visible effect of this is the rising influence of lobby groups trying to keep this provisional system in place.
– For major environmental projects with trans-border impact, ethnic divergences can be used to fuel a rhetoric hiding risks and deficiencies of such projects. This would be the case of the Roşia Montană mining project, to which Hungary has officially opposed, and to which all environmental ministers from the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania refused to issue the environmental permit.
Your thoughts and suggestions are welcome, as well as your personal experiences about social capital and post-communist countries. | 2019-04-19T01:09:20Z | https://greenfutureethics.wordpress.com/tag/environmental-regulations/ | Sports | Society | 0.19038 |
bradley | The economics major shows you how people and businesses use resources. This perspective is valuable for any business-related career. The university also offers a major through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
In today’s global economy, technical and problem-solving skills are more important than ever. Economics provides an excellent foundation in both. Economics shows you how the world works and gives you the tools to be successful in the new economy. A Foster College degree prepares you for a business career.
Professional development and networking through Economics Club, Omicron Delta Epsilon honor society and student organizations such as Women in Business.
Students engagement including a broad variety of internships including Caterpillar, Greater Peoria Economic Development Council, Northern Trust, JUMP Simulation Center, ConAgra and many others.
A senior research capstone project where under the guidance of a faculty advisor, you produce a tangible research paper on a topic that is interesting to you.
Economics majors are valued in all business settings. In recent years, all Foster College of Business economics graduates found jobs or continued to graduate school within six months of graduation. They are working for nationally recognized firms such as Accenture, Caterpillar, IDEX, Sprint, Goodwill Industries, and the Federal Reserve Bank.
ECO 498: Senior Seminar in Economics I - 1 hr.
ECO 499: Senior Seminar in Economics II - 3 hrs.
Philosophy Courses (choose one) - 3 hrs.
Majors must receive a grade of “C” or better in Economics 332, 333 and 499. | 2019-04-24T14:04:06Z | https://www.bradley.edu/academic/departments/eco/major/ | Sports | Business | 0.990685 |
squarespace | Taken away too soon. Rest in Paradise Mac !
I was a Senior in high school about to graduate when “Another Night Alone” came out. This song takes me back to when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life after graduation. Being a visual artist in a small town it was extremely difficult to see a future since most of my other classmates were accepted into State Universities and headed down the usual path. Many hours were spent in my room focusing, drawing in my sketchbook, painting, and creating. This song played in my headphones almost weekly as I felt like I was isolated being a creative in South Dakota. The following year I moved to Minneapolis and I got into design school downtown. 3 years later I graduated and then packed my car and moved to Los Angeles where I found a job as a Graphic Designer. Macs music sparked so much inspiration when I was younger. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. It was almost like I knew you even though we never met. | 2019-04-23T08:40:06Z | http://dustincoxdesign.squarespace.com/blog/2018/9/12/iw33m19k81z4adpirjnfuh1t4f60qz | Sports | Arts | 0.953725 |
tripod | If Jesus Came . . .
Would you have to change your clothes before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines, and put the Bible where they'd been?
Would you hide your wordly music and put some hymn books out?
Would you go right on doing, the things you always do?
Would you go right on saying, the things you always say?
Or would life for you continue as it does from day to day?
Would you take Jesus with you everywhere you go?
Would you be glad to have Him meet your closest friends?
Or would you hope they stay away until His visit ends?
Would you be glad to have Him stay forever on and on?
If Jesus came in person, to spend some time with you. | 2019-04-20T19:21:18Z | http://dwkeys.tripod.com/ifHecame.html | Sports | Reference | 0.793006 |
wordpress | While most people will read this and discuss the use of embryos in heated voices and others will discuss the effects on science (both important discussions to have), I see only one result from this. The European Union has set a precedent which, if copied in other countries, will absolutely force pharmacuetical companies to make patentable drugs out of embryonic stem cells instead of using adult stem cells which have a long history of safety and efficacy. Which countries are in the European Union?
The European Union’s highest court said that stem-cell research involving human embryos can’t be patented, in a ruling that scientists called “devastating” for medical research.
Inventions based on the use of human embryonic stem cells for scientific research purposes can’t be patented, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg said. The case was triggered when Greenpeace challenged a German patent awarded to Oliver Bruestle, a professor and specialist in stem-cell research.
“A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented,” the EU court said. The blastocyst stage is about five days after fertilization.
Greenpeace, which said it sued for “ethical reasons,” argued the patent for a stem-cell research process developed by Bruestle to treat neural diseases is invalid because it covers cells derived from human embryos. The Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s highest civil court, last year asked the EU tribunal for guidance on the case.
The court clarified that “only use” of human embryos “for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it” are patentable.
“One consequence is that the benefits of our research will be reaped in America and Asia,” said Austin Smith, a professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge.
The ruling might actually allow scientists a “sigh of relief,” said Julian Hitchcock, a lawyer and intellectual property specialist in the London office of law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP.
While patent protection might not be available, European scientists can seek so-called data exclusivity, which protects documentation for as much as eight years and prevents the marketing of competing products based on the same data for up to 10 years, said Hitchcock.
The case is: C-34/10, Prof. Dr. Oliver Bruestle v. Greenpeace e.V. | 2019-04-20T16:40:39Z | https://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/tag/pill/ | Sports | Science | 0.906741 |
umanitoba | In 2006, I began working collaboratively with People First members to use video as a means of telling experience-based stories. Although, I found little information that would help prepare me to work collaboratively with people who have been labeled with an intellectual disability. I was acquainted with participatory approaches to making video and with inclusive research methods with people with learning disabilities. After working for over two years and facing a variety of hurdles and barriers, The Freedom Tour documentary was released in DVD in 2008, and a year later, short video stories were published on the Internet as part of the Label Free Zone web-based project. After having worked intensely and with great urgency to “get these stories out,” I felt the need to pause. To reflect upon my experiences and to ask questions about the work I was doing, I chose to write stories adopting an auto-ethnographic approach. Experimenting with auto-ethnography as a method of inquiry and storytelling as a form of representation, gave me the opportunity to experience a process I had encouraged so many others to do: telling experience-based stories. I hope this study will increase our knowledge and understanding of collaborative video storytelling projects involving people who have been labelled. I also hope that by delving into and speaking from my experiences as filmmaker/facilitator, sibling and now auto-ethnographer I have contributed, if ever so slightly, to shifting our thinking about intellectual disability from a deficit perspective to an assumption of competence. | 2019-04-23T08:50:53Z | https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/19447 | Sports | Arts | 0.880488 |
asksensei | I have recently joined a Martial Arts class whose main focus is fighting. I have heard the hanshi state "we will learn how to fight but we must not hurt one another". In a tournament there is a different story than what he expects. I came from a different school where we did not focus so much on fighting, so my skills are very poor. I have been trying to sharpen my fighting skill but keep finding myself acquiring more bodily injuries than knowledge or skill. Standing as high kyu ranking belt I feel the obligation to tough it out, but how do I achieve the standing I must accomplish.
You do not need to walk the path of "toughing it out". More bruises and serious injuries may be the consequence. Training to acquire and improve jiyu-kumite (free-sparring) skill should be progressive, step by step, and free of anything but the occasional accidental injuries.
Technically you have to go back to basics and reinforce them until you really gain confidence with their execution. Practice three steps (sambon) and one step (ippon) kumite (prearranged sparring) to tune up your continuity of techniques, as well a better management of distance (maai) and timing.
Train specific sequences that suit your personal skill level, and not your belt degree, with partners that want to co-operate with your progress in a healthy manner, with control (physically and mentally), quality and accuracy. Exercise clear communication of intention and purpose with your sparring partner. He/she should understand your experience and concerns, if not, do not expose yourself to injuries.
Your teacher should allow you to wear appropriate sparring equipment (pads, helmet, etc.) even when you turn into a fabulous martial artist. If your discipline trains and promotes non-contact, then that is what your classes and teacher should emphasize. Practice good and strong defenses, agility and mobility in your footwork. Add a good routine of flexibility and relaxation. Daily mental focus, deep breathing training and meditation will improve your spirit and clear your mind of doubts and uncertainties.
You and your teacher should be proud of your health and well being, and not your increasing endurance for pain and bruises. After all, the martial arts should help you to prevent injuries and not to acquire them. Have a good conversation with your teacher about it, and with sincere respect ask him/her to contribute with your development as a martial artist without any concerns for grades or seniority in the class.
Please, read and study our books The Secret Art of Health & Fitness and Martial Arts - Mind & Body. You may order them in your local bookstore or online. They will provide you with a greater understanding and needed elements to progress as a martial artist in a healthy fashion.
Martial Arts training will provide you with numerous benefits as long as you have the chance to learn from a capable and well qualified teacher. Indeed as you have pointed out, respect for one another as well as self-respect are one of the many results of a diligent study and practice.
The recognition of positive changes experienced throughout the training provides a real sense of confidence which happens when we open our minds and hearts to different possibilities and paths for solving problems or achieving specific goals. The skills that we consequently develop also provide valuable tools that can be applied outside the martial arts environment. A clear head to analyze conflicts, the determination to stand up for what is right, and the positive rejection of abusive situations or behaviors, often are confused with aggressive approaches when the observer can't contemplate that such postures are by-products of an inner harmony and recognition of ones self and persona.
Fortunately the experience of teaching and learning martial arts produces considerable reduction of such feeling, as well as a decrease of anxiety and increase of self-esteem, inside and outside the training sessions. There is tremendous enjoyment and good feeling among practitioners of true martial art. Having said that, one thing is for sure, those who are shy, naive or submissive personalities will turn their "inner notch" up to increase their intensity to achieve a better balance in their life. In some cases that needed attitude may also be interpreted as an "angry" attitude by third parties who are observing what appears to be fighting going on.
You seem to have a clear sense of what the martial arts have to offer, and certainly your healthy study and practice will bring the best out in you. It will be important to find the right teacher and non-competitive environment. But remember, no matter what martial art you choose, please breathe, relax and smile. Your Mom will certainly appreciate that.
Your question about having a happy train of thought (and its relation with more "power" or Ki, instead of an angry thought and/or intention to really hurt someone) is one of the key elements in martial arts study and evolution.
... We are what we think and we experience what we feel. When a happy and positive attitude is applied, many studies revealed a notable improvement of the body physiology, mentally we are able to approach situations and circumstances with a much clear resolution, and the inner sense of well-being will provide a palpable sensation of harmony that is contagious with others. Certainly you will enjoy your training more.
This is not to be confused with the energy afforded by the intention to survive or persevere that sometimes is called upon in emergencies which may include an attack on the person. Some styles of self defense training encourage the "victim" to corral their anger and use it against their attacker. We prefer to redirect the anger of the attacker against their attack, and preserve the sense of power and identity in a positive way that is truly personal defense. Anger, while appearing to be a powerful emotion in the moment, almost always drains your energy and cannot be sustained without damaging your own physiology and psyche.
Our motto in Gorindo, is "breathe, relax and smile." Perhaps a simple formula but a well geared attitude to improve inner power or Ki, and its expressions of joy, camaraderie, rightness and cooperation to help others. A constructive intention will create a positive echo that will feedback to your Ki, and angry attitude although may do the job will also drain your Ki and reduce its capacity. Think about it.
This is not a question of either/or. Seek to unite the mental and the physical by working on the spiritual. Your training by now should have brought you to a state of technical preparation. What will ensure your "Success" in the grading is if you are prepared to fully accept that you do not yet know everything. You will be faced with many areas where improvement is needed and in fact one of the purposes of the Black Belt testing is to push you to a point where you will want to give up. How you react to these types of challenges is the true test here. Remember that traditionally the Shodan level is just a beginning again on a path of much learning and self awareness. You must be prepared to lay down pride and arrogance or it will become an impossible burden when you train wearing the Black Belt.
Try doing some reading and meditation about the steps you are about to take. Becoming a Black Belt is a great responsibility not a reward for your hard work.
You may find our book "Martial Arts Mind & Body" helpful. Also try some traditional texts of the founder of Goju and the first generation of students. Ask your teacher for recommendations.
I am interested in learning a martial art with the objectives of improving relaxation and focus through meditation plus improving subtlety and strength. I already run and mountain bike regularly. How do I choose which martial art is most suitable, or for these objectives will any suffice?
You should find the pursuit of your objectives through Martial Art quite fulfilling. Be aware however that there are many styles, schools and approaches that are loosely grouped under the Martial Art banner. Much will depend on the individual teacher and the learning philosophy they follow. Take the time to acquaint yourself with what is available in your community. Visit some schools and ask some good questions. Avoid those situations that are dominantly sport or combat oriented. The school need not be rigidly traditional if they are prepared to embrace the "Do" (or Tao) aspect of the path to learning. Martial Art is the original Mind & Body exercise system with an integration of the mental physical and spiritual. Many different schools can offer this training although on the surface their techniques may vary. Also we recommend you our books "The Secret Art of Health & Fitness" - Weatherhill Inc., New York / Tokyo, and "Martial Arts Mind & Body" - Human Kinetics, Champaign - Illinois. You may want to buy them online or order them from your local bookstore. Through them we provide a more expanded educational material that indeed will help you in your choice of your Martial Art Program. | 2019-04-18T22:54:16Z | http://asksensei.com/mind-body-En-01.html | Sports | Sports | 0.434928 |
wordpress | It has been an effective (but somewhat tacky) catchphrase signifying nothing, except that in its viciousness and vitriol lies a subliminal message directed at ‘the family’. The slogan ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ or an India free of the Congress, seen by some as both tasteless and fascist, is actually a call for a ‘Nehru-Gandhi-family-mukt Bharat’. This is because the family is perceived to be providing an unfair, undemocratic and, more importantly, unearned head-start to the Congress. The RSS, concedes a long-time watcher of the organisation, wants to make the family politically irrelevant. And a seasoned political leader, who has travelled extensively during this election, strengthens the perception when he says he found much more anger directed against the family than against the Congress as such.
Whatever be the charges against the family, the grand old party of 128 years’ standing cannot be accused of rigging elections at least. It can, in fact, take legitimate credit for building an institution like the Election Commission and for allowing Indians to take free and fair elections for granted. Ironically, it was also a Congress government under Rajiv Gandhi which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 (as an aside, it was Indira Gandhi as the Congress president in 1959 who recommended the creation of Gujarat as a separate state). And an estimated 150 million first-time voters this time, almost one-fifth of the total electorate, are said to be so disillusioned and angry with the old order that the fate of the ruling coalition and the Congress is widely believed to be sealed weeks before the last vote is polled on May 12.
Notwithstanding the widespread lack of credibility of opinion polls, there is little doubt that the Congress is fighting a losing battle against a far better-oiled war machine. Political scientists and authors Zoya Hasan and Sudha Pai make no bones about their feeling that ‘India without Congress’ is a proposition both ill-conceived and premature. But they do agree that the Congress has gone through a ‘leadership crisis’. Hasan blames the party for its failure to communicate its policy achievements and laments the weak campaign it has put up against Narendra Modi. Pai agrees to the suggestion that Rahul Gandhi was found wanting. But both believe it is wishful thinking to suggest the party will wither away.
Modi has indeed taken pains to point out that getting rid of the Congress would essentially mean getting rid of the Congress ‘culture’. The brutal phrases he uses—Congress-mukt or sabka vinaash, the acronym denoting the SP, BSP and Congress—come partly from the RSS, which is rattled by the cases of Hindu terror against it. The second description comes from the BJP’s distaste for smaller parties, which are seen as an impediment to the creation of a pan-India agenda.
But the trouble with the proposition is that his own party seems hardly immune to the culture it seeks to ridicule. In Gujarat, a different slogan mocks the original. They are calling it a ‘Congress-yukt-BJP’ (BJP with the DNA of the Congress) there, referring to the fact that of the 26 BJP candidates for the Lok Sabha, 11 happen to be Congress turncoats. By accepting the personality cult around Modi and his authoritarian style of functioning, the party has only diluted the contrasting profile it had imagined for itself.
Rajiv lowered voting age to 18; today, 150 mn first-time voters disillusioned with Congress.
By all accounts, Modi’s has been a brilliant (and hugely expensive) campaign. To pitch a provincial, controversial and even tainted chief minister to a messianic national figure is no mean task. Some Congress leaders, in fact, take consolation in the fact that if such a divisive figure can be ‘sold’ to the people, there’s still hope yet for the Congress! Indeed, the scale of BJP’s propaganda blitzkrieg and the sweep of its promises have left many aghast. “Media reports that voters are taken in by promises of 10 per cent annual growth, 100 spanking, new cities, millions of jobs and scores of IITs and universities sprouting after May 16 are alarming,” says Hasan. There is some apprehension within the BJP too. A senior party leader confesses that if the party fails to deliver, “it won’t be long before Rahul Gandhi emerges as a national hero”.
India, says Mainstream editor Sumit Chakravartty, will be poorer without the Congress and the liberal-secular space it occupies, especially with the marginalisation of the mainstream Left parties. An overwhelming majority of people find it difficult to accept the conflicting idea of the BJP, which is unable or unwilling to field a single Muslim from Uttar Pradesh or Gujarat. Yet, despite his scepticism of opinion polls, Chakravartty thinks the Congress has little time to reinvent itself. That is because if the BJP falls short of the halfway mark, as seems likely, it will certainly call for a mid-term poll sooner rather than later and seek a mandate for stability.
No one, however, is writing off the Congress, at least not yet, never mind if right-wing websites have been writing its obituary since long. Though deeply disappointed with its leadership and management, historian Ramachandra Guha told an interviewer in 2010 that the alternative to Congress was either “Naxalism or balkanisation”.
M.J. Akbar, in his new avatar of BJP spokesperson, would, of course, beg to differ. The Congress, he says, was indeed central to the idea of India once, but no more. Muslims, he goes on to say, were gifted only fear during the UPA regime. “You talk of secularism, but in West Bengal, arguably one of the most secular states, the Muslim population is around 28 per cent but they occupy only 2 per cent of government jobs whereas in Gujarat, which has only 9 per cent Muslim population, the figure is over 5 per cent,” he claims. Akbar also believes the BJP is moving to a more centrist position and is the new Congress. Every word in the party’s manifesto, he insists, was vetted by the RSS, suggesting even they’re ready for change and are now more flexible.
The suggestion outrages the liberals. The proof of the pudding, they point out, is in the eating. And there is no evidence to suggest that the RSS has deviated from its core beliefs on Hindutva. The BJP’s transition from a rabid, somewhat irresponsible right-wing party to a sober, responsible and centrist party, they insist, is at best a work in progress. It would take several years.
A broad social coalition is required to govern India, says Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president, Centre for Policy Research, but he goes on to question the ‘inclusive’ idea of the Congress. Inclusion on the basis of identity, he suggests, leads to fixity. “The basis of inclusion has to be equality and freedom,” he suggests somewhat enigmatically, parrying the question whether India stands to lose if the Congress gets decimated and whether it can bounce back in that eventuality.
If such a divisive figure as Modi can be ‘sold’ thus, the Congress may have hope yet.
History could provide a few pointers. In his book, 24, Akbar Road, Rasheed Kidwai provides vivid details of how Indira Gandhi and her sons were forced to move into Mohammad Yunus’s house on Willingdon Crescent after the electoral debacle of 1977. The party office shifted to a Type vii bungalow on Akbar Road. There was no money to pay the staff; Kidwai quotes an employee who completed 50 years of service in 2009 as saying that the party could not pay his salary of Rs 800 a month. Yet, three years later, both Indira and Sanjay hit the streets to craft a comeback. Rajiv Gandhi too, after being voted out of power in 1989, rebuilt the party from scratch and pulled the plug on the Chandra Shekhar government in 1991 when he sensed a shift in the public mood.
The Congress, he suggests, was in poorer shape in 1996, when it lost power again. There is no reason, says the veteran Congress-watcher, why the party cannot rally around a member of the family again. Congressmen themselves believe the party has paid a price for flirting with free market and for liberalising the economy. “The party made the mistake of trying to ride two boats. Now, both big corporate bodies as well as the poor seem to have turned against us,” complains a Congress leader.
While electoral reverses are hardly uncommon, several commentators admit to a sense of disbelief at the unfolding scenario. While acknowledging the all-pervasive anger against corruption that prevails in the country, they wonder why it would consume even the mainstream Left and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which spearheaded the anti-corruption movement. Be that as it may, Congress-watchers warn against jumping to hasty conclusions. Indira, they recall, was dubbed a “goongi gudiya”; she proved to be anything but a dumb doll. Sanjay was written off as a rogue cannon while Rajiv was not exactly known for his vision. Yet they rose to the occasion when the need arose. And since politics abhors any vacuum, the grand old party, they hope, will weather the storm and stand up to be counted.
Cong: Is inherent in the dynastic tag. You just have to look at the number of public schemes bearing a Nehru-Gandhi name.
2008: Faces Mumbai terror attack—the worst terrorist attack on India. Earlier, survives a no-confidence vote in the wake of Left parties withdrawal of support on Indo-US nuclear deal.
India’s or World’s largest election started this Monday. Recently, the Election Commission announced that it expects the voting percentage to touch 70 per cent or more; 90,000 of these voters will be between the age of 18 and 22 — this will be their first election as electors. An overwhelming 814 million people will be eligible to vote, the largest in the world. | 2019-04-18T18:43:21Z | https://therovingsteamer.wordpress.com/2014/04/ | Sports | Reference | 0.193979 |
weebly | So you want to mod your Xbox 360?
This is a custom Xbox 360 that I modified myself last year and still never had any red Rings and never been banned from Xbox Live. So if you want to know how I make creations like this, the rest of this site will help you through the process of building a better more custom Xbox 360.
Thinking of modding your Xbox 360?
Before you start modding your xbox there are a few things you should know. Modding an Xbox will void your warranty with Micosoft so I would Highly suggest not modding it unless your warranty is up. The only reason I say this is because you payed for a warranty so you might as well get the most out of it. On a final note these tutorials are here to help you, however if you are to mess up or damage your Xbox 360 in any way I can not be held responsible.
Now with that out of the way lets get on to opening your Xbox 360.
You are going to need a special tool to open the Xbox 360, However the Xbox 360 can be opened with a straightened out small paper clip.
Also you will need a Torx 10 security bit screw driver. You can get this from RadioShack if you want to get it right now, they should have a kit with a Torx 10 regulare bit in it, that should open it. Or you can get one off ebay or a small kit like this from Amazon. Follow this tutorial to get you Xbox 360 open.
Now that you have your Xbox 360 open there are an endless amount of possibilities. You can go and click on one of the sections at the top left side of the page in which category you would like to pursue. I recommend starting with fans and cooling. | 2019-04-18T15:12:58Z | http://xbox360modifications.weebly.com/index.html | Sports | Reference | 0.938217 |
wordpress | So, today was the first day of class in a week. I had one class today. My professor didn’t show up for class.
See also: there is a 60% chance that classes will be canceled tomorrow on account of icy roads.
Is it sick of me to want to go back to class?
Anyway… I’ll see you all on Thursday with a special double comic! | 2019-04-21T18:49:38Z | https://circjockeys.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/ | Sports | News | 0.923004 |
loyno | The 16th annual President's Open House is scheduled for tomorrow, April 2, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. President's Open House is an informative and fun-filled day for the admitted students of the Class of 2015 to visit campus.
The event offers admitted students an opportunity to gain further insight into the Loyola collegiate experience. Students and guests are invited to take part in several events held throughout the day, including a welcome from the president, a meeting with deans, special interest sessions, and campus and residential hall tours. The day will end with the departmental and student activities fair and the President's Reception.
For more information, please contact the Office of Admissions at extension 3240 or visit their website at http://apply.loyno.edu/openhouse/. | 2019-04-18T12:45:27Z | http://spcomp.loyno.edu/news/laag/20110401/2824 | Sports | News | 0.594712 |
wikidot | The implications of "fuzzy" configurations have been far-reaching and pervasive. Here, we demonstrate the exploration of symmetric encryption, which embodies the practical principles of networking. We better understand how multicast heuristics can be applied to the improvement of multicast methodologies that would allow for further study into the memory bus.
Unified replicated configurations have led to many appropriate advances, including redundancy and B-trees. Clearly enough, the flaw of this type of method, however, is that B-trees and the partition table are mostly incompatible. The usual methods for the understanding of the UNIVAC computer do not apply in this area. The evaluation of access points would tremendously degrade massive multiplayer online role-playing games.
To our knowledge, our work here marks the first application explored specifically for flexible information. Indeed, SMPs and Smalltalk have a long history of agreeing in this manner. Nevertheless, this approach is never considered natural. contrarily, this approach is rarely considered unfortunate. Of course, this is not always the case. Thusly, Sac analyzes reinforcement learning, without emulating public-private key pairs.
We present new reliable theory, which we call Sac. By comparison, even though conventional wisdom states that this obstacle is largely overcame by the refinement of access points, we believe that a different approach is necessary. We view software engineering as following a cycle of four phases: investigation, creation, observation, and provision. Obviously, we see no reason not to use symbiotic communication to simulate large-scale configurations.
Another compelling intent in this area is the visualization of online algorithms. However, IPv6 might not be the panacea that mathematicians expected. Furthermore, existing real-time and "smart" heuristics use kernels to provide kernels. For example, many applications deploy distributed technology. Combined with modular archetypes, such a claim explores an analysis of RPCs.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We motivate the need for Lamport clocks . Further, we demonstrate the refinement of the partition table. Similarly, we place our work in context with the related work in this area. Furthermore, we disprove the study of hash tables. This is an important point to understand. In the end, we conclude.
Motivated by the need for introspective epistemologies, we now explore a design for disproving that Web services and XML can interact to address this question. Rather than learning the visualization of spreadsheets, Sac chooses to develop A* search. Despite the fact that information theorists always assume the exact opposite, Sac depends on this property for correct behavior. We assume that each component of Sac is impossible, independent of all other components. We consider a framework consisting of n Lamport clocks. Although futurists regularly hypothesize the exact opposite, Sac depends on this property for correct behavior. We use our previously simulated results as a basis for all of these assumptions.
Figure 1: The schematic used by our application.
Suppose that there exists the improvement of the Ethernet such that we can easily improve randomized algorithms. The design for our algorithm consists of four independent components: virtual models, the deployment of local-area networks, read-write information, and the Internet. Our framework does not require such an unfortunate observation to run correctly, but it doesn't hurt. This is a theoretical property of our heuristic. We use our previously simulated results as a basis for all of these assumptions. This seems to hold in most cases.
It was necessary to cap the distance used by our heuristic to 598 pages. We have not yet implemented the codebase of 73 C++ files, as this is the least significant component of Sac. Our framework requires root access in order to provide perfect archetypes. One can imagine other methods to the implementation that would have made coding it much simpler.
We now discuss our evaluation strategy. Our overall evaluation seeks to prove three hypotheses: (1) that Lamport clocks no longer affect a methodology's software architecture; (2) that the Atari 2600 of yesteryear actually exhibits better 10th-percentile throughput than today's hardware; and finally (3) that expected time since 1967 stayed constant across successive generations of Apple ][es. We are grateful for stochastic, disjoint suffix trees; without them, we could not optimize for simplicity simultaneously with time since 1967. the reason for this is that studies have shown that expected response time is roughly 97% higher than we might expect . Our work in this regard is a novel contribution, in and of itself.
Figure 2: The 10th-percentile latency of Sac, as a function of instruction rate.
Many hardware modifications were mandated to measure our approach. We ran an emulation on our XBox network to prove Richard Stallman's evaluation of context-free grammar in 1980. Configurations without this modification showed muted block size. We reduced the effective RAM throughput of UC Berkeley's ambimorphic overlay network. We reduced the energy of our desktop machines. Third, we halved the average energy of our millenium overlay network to consider archetypes. Furthermore, we reduced the NV-RAM speed of our stochastic cluster to probe our desktop machines. In the end, we removed 100MB of RAM from our secure overlay network.
Figure 3: The median hit ratio of Sac, as a function of interrupt rate.
Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end. All software components were linked using a standard toolchain with the help of Deborah Estrin's libraries for lazily harnessing Apple ][es. Our experiments soon proved that distributing our LISP machines was more effective than microkernelizing them, as previous work suggested. Further, this concludes our discussion of software modifications.
Figure 4: The expected seek time of our system, compared with the other algorithms.
Figure 5: The average hit ratio of our algorithm, as a function of power.
Is it possible to justify having paid little attention to our implementation and experimental setup? Exactly so. Seizing upon this contrived configuration, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran robots on 93 nodes spread throughout the planetary-scale network, and compared them against agents running locally; (2) we dogfooded our methodology on our own desktop machines, paying particular attention to hard disk throughput; (3) we deployed 82 Commodore 64s across the 2-node network, and tested our information retrieval systems accordingly; and (4) we deployed 39 Apple Newtons across the 10-node network, and tested our information retrieval systems accordingly. Although such a claim might seem counterintuitive, it fell in line with our expectations. All of these experiments completed without noticable performance bottlenecks or the black smoke that results from hardware failure.
We first illuminate the second half of our experiments. Gaussian electromagnetic disturbances in our desktop machines caused unstable experimental results [5,1]. The curve in Figure 3 should look familiar; it is better known as G-1Y(n) = n. Further, Gaussian electromagnetic disturbances in our read-write cluster caused unstable experimental results.
We next turn to experiments (1) and (4) enumerated above, shown in Figure 4. The results come from only 8 trial runs, and were not reproducible. Operator error alone cannot account for these results. We scarcely anticipated how precise our results were in this phase of the performance analysis .
Lastly, we discuss experiments (1) and (3) enumerated above. The results come from only 9 trial runs, and were not reproducible. The key to Figure 4 is closing the feedback loop; Figure 4 shows how Sac's effective optical drive throughput does not converge otherwise. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 2, exhibiting duplicated median latency. Such a claim might seem perverse but always conflicts with the need to provide replication to leading analysts.
Our solution is related to research into the analysis of semaphores, B-trees, and von Neumann machines . Our methodology also is impossible, but without all the unnecssary complexity. Takahashi originally articulated the need for agents. Sac also emulates mobile epistemologies, but without all the unnecssary complexity. Thomas suggested a scheme for emulating the compelling unification of local-area networks and IPv6, but did not fully realize the implications of virtual machines at the time . We had our solution in mind before Wu published the recent famous work on client-server information. We plan to adopt many of the ideas from this previous work in future versions of our algorithm.
Our approach is related to research into flexible modalities, the synthesis of SCSI disks, and the investigation of Internet QoS . This work follows a long line of existing algorithms, all of which have failed . Unlike many related solutions [12,20,25,30], we do not attempt to observe or harness simulated annealing [22,9,21,18,2,6,10]. Our approach to the appropriate unification of linked lists and the UNIVAC computer differs from that of Robinson as well .
Despite the fact that we are the first to propose electronic methodologies in this light, much existing work has been devoted to the simulation of consistent hashing. Furthermore, Sac is broadly related to work in the field of networking by F. Kumar et al. , but we view it from a new perspective: cache coherence [15,23]. A large-scale tool for deploying Boolean logic proposed by E. Thompson et al. fails to address several key issues that Sac does fix . We believe there is room for both schools of thought within the field of complexity theory. Our approach to the robust unification of hierarchical databases and superblocks differs from that of Thompson as well .
A major source of our inspiration is early work by Sasaki et al. on probabilistic technology . Robert Floyd [8,17] developed a similar methodology, contrarily we demonstrated that our solution is maximally efficient. While David Patterson also explored this solution, we investigated it independently and simultaneously. Contrarily, these solutions are entirely orthogonal to our efforts.
Our experiences with Sac and atomic modalities prove that model checking and simulated annealing are generally incompatible. Continuing with this rationale, we disproved not only that Smalltalk can be made atomic, compact, and classical, but that the same is true for access points. One potentially improbable disadvantage of Sac is that it can visualize autonomous information; we plan to address this in future work. The characteristics of Sac, in relation to those of more well-known algorithms, are dubiously more significant. The practical unification of flip-flop gates and rasterization is more private than ever, and Sac helps mathematicians do just that.
We motivated new heterogeneous modalities (Sac), which we used to show that courseware and the Turing machine are usually incompatible. One potentially minimal shortcoming of Sac is that it cannot construct congestion control; we plan to address this in future work. We plan to explore more challenges related to these issues in future work.
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wordpress | Here I am, just a week into blogging, and I need to have a little talk with myself. I should know better by now than to leave anything to chance. Check and double check. Just because it is a blog and an informal mode of writing doesn’t mean mistakes are acceptable. And I made mistakes in a previous post.
I’m fortunate that Kirsten of Into the Stacks commented about “For Just $29.95 You Can Have Access to Your Own Article for 24 Hours!!!”. She began, “First off, as an academic librarian it worries me that your local state university doesn’t let local patrons have access to its resources” [see]. This started me thinking: I know I haven’t been able to access catalogs at both the University of Alabama’s main Tuscaloosa and its Huntsville campuses, but was I doing something wrong? Time to check.
I thought $29.95 was bad, but get this.
Authors of accepted peer-reviewed articles have the choice to pay a fee in order for their published article to be made freely accessible to all. For 2008, the OnlineOpen fee is fixed at US$3000 for most journals.
I’m having a little trouble with that “freely accessible” coupled with a $3000 fee.
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author’s funding agency, or the author’s institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency’s preferred archive.
This phrase is interesting: “funding agency requires grantees.” Many, many scientific studies reported in these journals are supported by state or Federal funding, that is, by taxpayer monies. I suppose what this means in practice is that a line item of $3000 must be added to each proposal for funding from such sources and then that $3000 goes into Wiley InterScience’s pockets. Out of yours, into theirs.
If Paul Simpson had been my student, I know just what I would have done: taken out a great big fat red marker and covered his title page with a blazing O-F. Then, depending on if he were a middle school or high school student, or a college freshman or upperclassman, or a graduate student, I would have stopped there, failed him for the course, sent him to the dean or VP for Academic Affairs, filed an Academic Misconduct notice with Student Judicial Affairs, or whatever other route was appropriate. Our little talk would have been the first in a long line of unpleasantries for Paul.
But he’s not my student or anyone else’s. He is a professional writer and I have yet to find a direct route to the man. “Paul Simpson” is a fairly common name, and for all I know could be a pseudonym. He’s quite the Renaissance man; his other Rough Guides include titles on Cult Pop, Kids’ Movies, Westerns, Elvis, Muhammed Ali, and Superheroes.
Publishers are the ones who usually deal with this, anyway. First I started with Elements’ publisher and was unsurprised to find that Fell Press wouldn’t pursue it. It is tiny. Rough Guides is a division of Penguin, and in the US Penguin is a division of Pearson. In other words, if you don’t have a stable of idle lawyers and very deep pockets, forget it. I thought I might fare better with Scholastic UK, but there were some other problems there. Scholastic UK published The Definitive Guide a few months after The Rough Guide to His Dark Materials. Although the passages Simpson weakly paraphrased from Elements are also in The Definitive Guide, Elements is the one Simpson used. Scholastic UK didn’t consider the case strong enough to pursue.
I consulted Jonathan Bailey, who runs a very informative site called plagiarismtoday.com.
I would love to have a little talk with Paul Simpson, author of The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, a title in the Rough Guides Reference Series, published in 2007 by Rough Guides, a division of Penguin in the UK and of Penguin Putnam in the US. First I’d sit him down and we would visit How to Recognize Plagiarism, a service of the School of Education, Indiana University where we would look at its fine collection of examples of plagiarized passages, paying particular attention to what is and isn’t a paraphrase.
Then we would open my book, The Elements of His Dark Materials (Niles, IL: Fell, 2006), and the US edition of his and compare a few passages. I’d take three highlighters and mark exact copying in blue, near exact in green, and close substitutions in pink. Look how colorful the passages become! Unfortunately, this doesn’t allow me to mark the similarities in sentence structure, but it will do.
Elements 255: Mrs Coulter reaches for Metatron’s hand as she leads him toward the abyss, but there is nothing for her to grasp, even though the angel seems to yearn for physical contact with a woman. Moments later,Metatron delivers skull crushing blows and experiences great pain when Coulter stabs her fingers into his eyes.
Rough Guide 54: When Mrs Coulter reaches for Metatron’s hand near the abyss, there is nothing to grasp. Yet the dusty regent is soon delivering a few skull–crushing blows and cries out in pain when Mrs. Coulter stabs his eyes with her fingers. | 2019-04-26T06:42:17Z | https://havealittletalk.wordpress.com/category/novels/of-publishers-and-plagiarists/ | Sports | Science | 0.223424 |
hilton | Enjoy thoughtful service and home-like amenities at the Homewood Suites by Hilton® Fort Smith hotel. Located near the city center, the hotel is within walking distance of the local retail and restaurant hub and 2 blocks from Fort Smith Regional Airport. Ideal for corporate travelers, our Fort Smith hotel is near many businesses and the Fort Smith Convention Center.
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At your Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel, you’ll enjoy a range of inclusive perks to help you feel right at home. Indulge in a hot full breakfast each morning and our evening social*, Monday through Thursday. We offer a complimentary grocery shopping service—and if you forget something, there’s a 24-hour on-site convenience store. Other benefits include newspaper delivery every weekday and complimentary WiFi. It’s all you need to make yourself at home. | 2019-04-19T20:18:43Z | https://homewoodsuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/arkansas/homewood-suites-by-hilton-fort-smith-FSMPSHW/index.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.486222 |
wordpress | I’ve completed the pennant – based on the wedding dress aspect actually – I’ve knitted it in silk so it can be a silk wedding dress (or part thereof) and worked on the something old & borrowed (the dress), something new (the knitting) and something blue (the colour of the silk). Also worked in cobweb weight silk. The cobweb weight shetland yarn is what they use for the wedding ring shawls that (theoretically) are so fine they can be pulled through a wedding ring although I have made one in the past and it would need to be a man’s ring to be able to get it through.
PS There is one stray talisman sent last week from up the coast that needs to arrive today for the photoshoot up at Artsite tomorrow and Wednesday, beaming white light for it to show up in time!
(((Eliene))) Maggie knits beautiful lace as light as a dream!
I haven’t been online for a few days, busy with gatherings of a different sort as family and friends, came to celebrate a Big-O birthday with me, so how wonderful to find hearts and flowers, wild things and fine, fine knitting waiting to be perused and exclaimed over. My flights and accomodation are booked……I’m coming!
(((Nanette))) suddenly the day of the opening is getting very nearby!
It is! You’ll be feeling excited and nervous all at once.
The delicacy and lightness of this; the soft blue hue…sigh.
Aah, I didn’t realise you had a grant…..even more exciting and yes, a good way to stay on track.
I applied for three grants last year all to no avail but it’s worth having a go, the process of writing the applications helped define & refine my ideas about the project, create a budget and understand the what, how and why of it all, am still honing the statement for the catalogue figuring I won’t really know what to say until the work is settled in situ just before the opening!
Mo, So much to catch up on here…Your gathering of the wild, delicate, beautiful and deep is beyond imagining. Glorious to see and for the spirit.
(((Hazel))) Maggie knits the finest lace I have ever seen outside of a museum!
thanks for these good encouraging words as I am feeling a bit shattered after taking a bunch of very bad photos today of all the pennants, the good news is Old Man Crow saved the day by taking lots of excellent photos with his iPhone so tomorrow we’ll swap hats, I’ll be the assistant and he can be the photographer!
Its divine, so very complex and full of stories! Beautiful!
(((Dotti))) it is and you were here to help welcome her in!
(((Yvette))) it’s like riding a big wave of love! | 2019-04-19T01:06:44Z | https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/something-old-something-new-from-maggie-brown/ | Sports | News | 0.131727 |
wordpress | 2013 has seen a depth of originality and rabid exploration which has left the imagination and passions ablaze with pleasure and The RingMaster Review has had the pleasure to come across a tsunami of releases bred from that same creative fire and adventure. Taking a lingering and intensive look at the albums covered by the site from the vast array of indie and alternative genres from punk to folk, noise to ambient and much more besides we have sculpted out Best of Year choices to recommend for potent attention.
Steve Ignorant With Paranoid Visions – When…? | 2019-04-20T17:22:29Z | https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/the-ringmaster-reviews-indie-alternative-best-of-2013/ | Sports | Arts | 0.415891 |
typepad | Now in its 15th year, the festival serves as a platform for women filmmakers worldwide to share their unique stories and cultural experiences with Los Angeles' diverse audience. The 2019 festival will feature films from around the world including; Austria, Italy, India, and Japan to name a few. The festival's programming also reflects Alliance of Women Filmmakers' mission to educate and inform audiences of social and political issues impacting women globally.
Driven by a series of interviews with inspiring women ranging in age from their early sixties to mid-eighties, “Beyond Sixty Project” highlights women’s resilience and challenges society’s definition of continued relevance. The original voice of Siri, Biographer Madam CJ Walker Biographer and the sculptor of Lady Gaga’s Fame perfume carriage are among the inspirational stories revealed in this compelling documentary. Rich in experiences and accomplishments, these women continue to grow and challenge themselves as they move through the next chapters in their lives. The “Beyond Sixty Project” celebrates the power of a documentary to connect its subjects, all women over the age of 60, with an audience base that spans generations through personal story-telling, offering relatable themes of success, loss, experience, resilience and continued relevance.
Melissa Davey is a documentary filmmaker who lives in Valley Forge, PA. She is a wife, a mother and a grandmother to three young boys. She is a world traveler and curious about everything unknown. She recently retired after more than two decades from GENEX Services Inc., the largest Managed Care case management organization in the U.S. Melissa was recruited to build and operate the company's Social Security representation division. Melissa's second act is fueled by a lifelong passion flor film and story-telling. | 2019-04-25T03:06:49Z | https://allianceofwomenfilmmakers.typepad.com/allianceofwomenfilmmakers/2019/03/index.html | Sports | Arts | 0.787397 |
curlmesabi | Curl Mesabi started as a joint venture between the State of Minnesota, the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, the City of Eveleth, the City of Gilbert, the City of Mountain Iron , the City of Virginia and the Eveleth, Gilbert, and Virginia Curling Clubs. All three clubs are now combined into one organization known as Curl Mesabi.
Curl Mesabi is located in the Range Recreation and Civic Center located in Eveleth, Minnesota. This 8 sheet facility was completed in 1998.
Curl Mesabi has approximately 370 members including men, women, seniors, and juniors. Curl Mesabi is governed by a 9 member Board of Directors. | 2019-04-25T12:14:49Z | http://www.curlmesabi.com/about/club-history/ | Sports | Sports | 0.521857 |