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Pictures of Edd, Tom, Matt and Tord by ScaredyAsh006, used with permission.
- Adorkable: With the exeption of Tord, they where all like this at some time (Edd is the prime example, Tom was before he Took a Level in Jerkass, and Matt has recently been shown these traits, like in Hide and Seek, and Fun Dead).
- Aerith and Bob: Edd, Matt and Tom are all very common names in the Anglosphere, but "Tord" is likely to sound much more unusual and exotic to English-speakers' ears. Subverted in that it's actually a very common name in his native Norway.
- Author Avatar: The main characters are based off of Edd and his friends; TomSka, Matt and Tord.
- As Himself: Up to Edd's death this was the case, and then it got complicated. When stepping down as the showrunner and Tom the character's VA Ridgewell made it clear that the characters at that point are separate entities from the actors.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: While it isn't hard to tell them apart in the first place, they all have differently-colored hoodies to further tell them apart. Edd wears green, Tom wears blue, Matt wears purple (though he also is usually seen wearing a green overcoat) and Tord wears red.
- Flat Character: All four of them were more or less indistinguishable from one another, but they eventually became more defined around the time Tord left.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Edd is the Optimist, Matt is the Realist, Tom is the Cynic, Tord was the Apathetic.
- Improbable Weapon User: When it comes to brawl, they'll grab whatever is close to them. Sometimes it's a shotgun, sometimes it's a mop.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: They are never seen working. Edd is implied to be an artist, (like his real life counterpart) but is rarely seen drawing anything.
- Pungeon Master: Edd takes the cake, but Matt and Tom also drop a pun every once in a while.
- True Companions: They live in one house and usually treat each other with respect. Emphasis on usually.
The unofficial leader of the quartet/trio who wears a green hoodie, an optimistic artist fond of cola, bacon and puns.Voiced by: Edd Gould (2004-2012), Tim Hautekiet (2012-present)
- Adorkable: Can be like this.
- Berserk Button: Don't take the last can of coke.... unless you like a shotgun to the face.
- Character Outlives Actor: Sadly.
- Curtains Match the Window: Has brown eyes in a few fanarts.
- Driven to Suicide: Twice. Once in "This World of Edd" and then again in "WTFuture" (see Future Edd's bio for details). Both times played for laughs. Both times are less funny now.
- A Day in the Limelight: Edd's Tales of Boredom.
- Future Me Scares Me: See Future Edd's bio for details.
- Morality Pet: To Tord. "Christmas Special 2005" reveals that Tord would have become a megalomaniacal communist without Edd's influence. And "The End" reveals that after Tord left his company, that's exactly what happened.
- The Nth Doctor: The VA change is explained by Edd getting accidentally zapped by a voice changer gun in "Space Face".
- Pungeon Master: Usually the first one to throw out a dumb pun when the situation calls for it.
- Sanity Ball: Passed between him and Tom.
- Temporarily a Villain: In Tord's Adventure. Until the end.
- Token Good Teammate: Much kinder than his friends. As long as you don't steal the last can of coke.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cola, bacon or bacon cola.
The sarcastic bitter eyeless alcoholic in a blue hoodie. Resident Jerkass and voice of reason, whenever Edd doesn't fulfill that role.Voiced by: Tom Ridgewell
- The Alcoholic: Sent to rehab once because of it.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Chooses to be Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by his own stake gatling gun than let Vampire Matt bite him in Matt Sucks.Matt: Now that's just not fair.
- Beyond the Impossible: How he was born. His mom's a bowling ball and his dad's a pineapple.
- Big "NO!": After Edd attacks Future Edd with Tom's bass guitar. Pictured to the right.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: Used to have one.
- Berserk Button: Christmas, Diet Smirnoff, eye-related puns, destroying his guitar.
- Butt Monkey: Usually was the punching bag of the gang in the earlier shorts, and was dealt the most physical abuse of the four; not quite as much from 2009 onward. When Tord comes back he's whipped back into this role and hates every second of it.
- Catchphrase: "Kitten Shopping!"
- Companion Cube:
- His hair, Steve.
- Also his shoe, named Shoe. How creative.
- And his bass guitar, Susan.
- A Day in the Limelight: Tom's Tales of Awesome/Brilliance/Crazy.
- Deadpan Snarker: Very bitter and sarcastic.
- Eyeless Face: Just empty eye sockets.
- The Grinch: Probably related to being a Jehovah's Witness.
- Hollywood Jehovah's Witness: Subverted. It's offhandendly mentioned twice, but never appears again. He's never seen walking door-to-door with pamphlets.
- Jerkass: He becomes this in later episodes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Has his moments. For example he takes a laser beam to the eyes to save Santa in Zanta Claws II. As revealed in WTFuture, it gave him cancer. Or when he saved the world from Tord.
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: "Holy X on a Y!"
- Sanity Ball: Passed between him and Edd.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: He leaves the house at the end of "The End Part One" when Edd lets Tord move into Tom's room.
- Temporarily a Villain: In "Zanta Claws III".
- Token Evil Teammate: Has less moral restraints than the others, especially after Tord left the show.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Is more of a jerk mid-2009 onwards.
- With Friends Like These...: He and Tord never got on well. And they still don't come "The End".
The square-chinned ginger, he wears a purple hoodie and green overcoat. Vain and dumb, though the latter trait was absent in earlier episodes.Voiced by Matt Hargreaves
- Adorkable: In the Legacy Era onwards, but showed spays of this in previous episodes. This is likely because he Took a Level in Kindness.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: All he needs is a fishbowl on his head.
- Butt Monkey: Shows shades of this.
- Demonic Possession: Was possessed at the start of Hammer and Fail 2 and in Trick or Threat.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Despite being as dumb as rocks in later episodes, Matt will sometimes offer intelligent solutions to problems. This is shown particularly in Hammer and Fail 2 and Zanta Claws 2.
- Catchphrase: "Not the face!" and "Indubitably".
- Flanderization: The character's stupidity and narcissism went up after 2010, which was common before, although had become his main character trait. Justified in The End as him taking a memory eraser gun to the face.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Mostly because of his ego.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful
- Laughably Evil: Whenever he is Temporarily a Villain, such as in Matt Sucks.
- Narcissist: He loves himself a little too much.
- Not Himself: He's been zombified, turned into a vampire and possessed twice over the course of the show.
- Plot Allergy: To dogs. And explosions. And seafood.
- Redhead In Green: When wearing his overcoat.
- Screw Yourself: He made an amateur porn movie called "Matt-On-Matt Action".
- Too Dumb to Live: When playing hide & go seek he hid in the fridge, and appeared to be freezing to death and hallucinating living food.
- Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth: His annoying personality made the demon quickly vacate.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: From mid-2010 onwards.
- Took a Level in Kindness: From 2013 onwards
- Seemingly explained in "The End: Part 1" as him taking a memory eraser gun to the face.
- Temporarily a Villain:
- Of the Zombeh Attack Trilogy, excluding Zombeh Nation.
- He is also bitten by a vampire in Matt Sucks, and attempts to do the same to Edd and Tom.
- He's also possessed by Kate at the beginning of Trick or Threat.
Tord/The Red Leader
Tord was the fourth main character in the show. A Norwegian trigger-happy gun nut wearing a red hoodie, he was Put on a Bus after the episode "Moving Targets", because Tord the real person wanted to start his own career (this didn't go well).Voiced by: Tord Larsson (2005-2008), Dad L'Abbe (Zombeh Attack 1), Jamie Spicer-Lewis (The End)
- Affably Evil: While he isn't evil (or he at least doesn't show it until "The End"), he is violent.
- Badass Longcoat: Sported a black one in earlier episodes and wears a blue military coat in his wanted poster.
- Berserk Button: In "The End (Part 2)", Tord decks Matt so hard in the face that he goes flying across the room over almost pressing a button. He probably would have gone further had Edd not stepped in to calm him down.
- Big Bad: He's this for The End, and possibly the whole of Eddsworld since WTFuture (maybe even before them), being the most dangerous threat the gang faces.
- Back for the Finale: Or at least, that of the Eddsworld Legacy-produced episodes - he returns in the "The End" two-parter.
- The Bus Came Back: In a handful of comics and episodes (such as "Fun Dead" and "PowerEdd", he shows up as a background cameo, and may be the "Red Leader" who Future Tom calls in "WTFuture". He finally returns in a major role in The End.
- The Cameo: After his departure he's been referenced in most episodes.
- Evil Former Friend: When he returns in "The End", he intends to retrieve a giant robot and kill his old friends. This is assuming he wasn't Evil All Along.
- Face–Heel Turn: It's implied he joined the "Enemy Army" after Moving Targets. But he could have just been Evil All Along.
- False Friend: He's shown to be this for Edd and Matt in "The End".
- Final Boss: He is the final antagonist of the original era of Eddsworld.
- Gun Nut: Has an unhealthy obsession with guns and firepower. And even giant robots.
- He's Back: He's back with the gang in "The End", but he's back for bad intentions.
- Humongous Mecha: He has one in "The End". He reunited with the gang solely to reclaim it, and he intends to Take Over the World with it.
- Misplaced Accent: Subverted in that Tord's original actor played him with a typical Norwegian accent. However, his new voice actor in The End plays it with a slight Russian accent.
- Norse by Norsewest: Averted. He isn't portrayed as a stereotypical Scandinavian: he's ginger-ish, average looking, and pretty damn violent.
- Odd Name Out: Edd, Matt and Tom are all very common names in the Anglosphere, but "Tord" is likely to sound much more unusual and exotic to English-speakers' ears. Subverted in that it's actually a very common name in his native Norway.
- Put on a Bus: He drives off at the start of "25 ft. Under the Seat".
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Tord's main color scheme is a red hoodie and black pants, he is the most violent of the four, and he is revealed to be overtly evil in The End.
- Satanic Archetype: When he returns in The End, his hair spikes have been made more prominent, giving him the appearance of having demonic horns, and his red color scheme gives him a rather demonic look. Fits well with his new attitude.
- Take Over the World: We find out in The End that he has a giant robot hidden inside Edd's house built to do this.
- Token Evil Teammate: More so than Tom. Paintball with real guns, anyone? Come The End, he's outright villainous.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Tord wasn't exactly nice to begin with, but The End has him deliberately coerce Tom into leaving while he takes his place, plotting to Take Over the World with a Humongous Mecha. Then again, it's implied he was always this way. (Or at least since after "Moving Targets.)
- Trigger Happy: Oh, that's scratching the surface...
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's in "The End" is the least spoilery thing about him in it.
- With Friends Like These...: He didn't get on well with Tom. And when he returns, we find out he still doesn't.
Zanta ClawsEvil zombie Santa Claus, appearing in three Christmas Specials.Voiced by Joshua Tomar
- Back from the Dead: To destroy Christmas.
- Bad Santa: Duh.
- Enemy Mine: Briefly teams up with Edd, Matt and Santa to stop Tom in Zanta Claws III.
- The Grinch: The reason he hates Christmas is because he died and Santa took his place.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Well, he's a Zombie Santa Claus.
PaulA Dutch guy with large eyebrows and a lot of jobs.Voiced by Paul ter Voorde
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- New Job as the Plot Demands: An army guy, a power plant worker, an astronaut, a co-pilot, etc.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He, along with Patryk, are indirectly responsible for a zombeh apocalypse happening during Fun Dead.
- Smoking Is Cool: Always seen with a cigarette.
- Stopped Caring: "That's just the sound of NO ONE CARING!"
- Those Two Bad Guys: With Patryk, as of The End.
Future EddFuture version of Edd, coming back in time to kill himself and not witness Cola being outlawed.Voiced by Edd Gould.
- Badass Baritone/Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is lower than his present counterpart's.
- Badass Beard: Doubles as Beard of Sorrow.
- Badass Longcoat
- Driven to Suicide: After Coca-Cola was outlawed, he tries to commit suicide by killing his past self. It's played for laughs.
- Exty Years from Now
- Frickin' Laser Beams: His Weapon of Choice.
- I Hate Past Me: Wants him dead. See Edd's bio for details.
- High Collar of Doom: Sports an overcoat with a popped collar.
- Me's a Crowd: Brings Edd's past lives with him to form his "Army of MEEEEEeeeees".
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cola. It being outlawed drove him to paradoxical suicide. Bacon's still around, though.
Christopher Bingbong/Evil Director ManA director who clones the main four in Spares.Voiced by Chris "Bing" Bingham
- Affably Evil: Amazingly.
- Heel–Face Turn: After the clone massacre.
- Me's a Crowd: Clones the main cast so his film is successful.
- No Name Given: It ''is'', it's in the credits of his film.
- The Cameo: Shows up again in Zanta Claws III working for Zanta. Credited as "Evil Director Man".
- Tuckerization: Named - sort of - after his voice actor.
LarryEvil Director's assistant in Spares.Voiced by Edd Gould.
- Beleaguered Assistant
- Deadpan Snarker
- Only Sane Man: He's the only staff member that isn't a moron.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Briefly snaps at the end of Spares when the crew throws away Tom in favor of a second Matt.Larry: How do you morons even BREATHE?!
- What the Hell, Hero?: See Surrounded by Idiots.
Commander Bai's CrewAliens who abducted the trio to use Matt's vanity to fuel their ship.Commander Bai voiced by Jamie Spicer-LewisPilot voiced by Eddie Bowley
- Aliens Speaking English
- Big Bad: Of The Movie.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: One of the aliens has one, drawn exactly as Paul's.
- Area 51: Has a sign saying "Sector 51".
- Face–Heel Turn: After the gang trashes their ship.
- Too Dumb to Live: Bai tries to dump the crew in the garbage disposal and out into space, but ends dumping himself and his mates instead. It's related to their vanity. Lampshaded by Tom seconds later:
Legacy DonatorsPeople who donated enough money during the Eddsworld Kickstarter campaign.Katey "Red" Harding note voiced by Jenny BinghamPatryk the Co-Pilot voiced by Patryk Dudulewicz
- Author Avatar: Of sorts. Katey Harding drew a few guest comics.
- As Himself: Subverted, Katey for technical reasons is voiced by Jenny Bingham, Tom's then-girlfriend. Played straight with Patryk.
- Butt Monkey: All of them suffered some horrible fates: got zombehfied, got left on another planet, burnt by a jet engine, crashed a plane or dated Matt. Patryk does survive the plane crash, though.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Patryk, along with Paul, causes the zombie apocalypse.
- Those Two Bad Guys: Patryk, with Paul.
Eduardo/Numero Uno, Mark and JonThe gang's neighbors and rivals.Eduardo voiced by: Chris O'Neill (2010-2011) and Brock Baker (2014 onwards)Jon voiced by: Eddie BowleyMark voiced by: Ben Rudman.
- Adorkable: Jon.
- Affably Evil: Jon. He's probably the only one who doesn't outright despise Edd and the others.
- Big Bad: Eduardo serves as the villain of PowerEdd.
- Black Bead Eyes: Jon; being the counterpart for Tom.
- Butt Monkey: Jon is always being pushed around by Eduardo.
- Disproportionate Retribution: In Power Edd, it's revealed the reason Eduardo hates Edd so much is because in Kindergarten, Edd beat Eduardo in a drawing competition and Edd made fun of him for being in second place. Yes, that is the reason. Even Edd acknowledges this is a dumb reason and states his drawing sucked anyway. Admittedly Eduardo was bullied pretty hard for getting second place.
- Enemy Mine: In Hammer and Fail 2. Even if it didn't last very long.
- Evil Counterpart: To the gang, though they aren't evil per say.
- Flat Character: Mark and Jon don't really get much development. Jon was a bit more of a character than Mark.
- Go Out with a Smile: Jon dies making a joke in "The End (Part 2)".Eduardo: Say something, you idiot!Jon: (weakly) S-something. Hehe-heh-heheheh...
- Jerkass: Eduardo is the most prominent of the trio. But Mark appears to be one as well, and Jon just follows the other two.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- In a way. When Edd is attacked by a Mutant Tom, Eduardo comes to his rescue, proclaiming, "Nobody hurts my neighbor but ''me!''
- He's genuinely saddened by Jon dying in "The End (Part 2)".
- Killed Off for Real: Jon dies thanks to a missile from Tord's Humongous Mecha in "The End (Part 2)".
- Minion with an F in Evil: Jon constantly fails at bugging the gang.
- The Rival: Well, naaaaaaw...
- Say My Name:Edd: Eduardoooooo..... (folk guitar sting)
- Stupid Evil: Jon
- Token Good Teammate: Averted, as Tord left before getting an Evil Counterpart. Double Averted as Jon qualifies.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Diet Coke for Eduardo, in contrast to Edd and Regular Coke. A mixed up between Cola shipments is what re-ignited the rivalry, according to Hammer and Fail.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never learn what happens to Eduardo and Mark after "The End Part 2"'s Humongous Mecha battle.
Sgt. "Hilary" HilarsonA senior drill instructor in the British Army. Taught Edd and the gang when they enlisted in Moving Targets.Voiced by Josh Tomar
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- Expy: Of Sgt. Hartman.
- Jerkass: Beats up Edd on two different occasions.
- The Neidermeyer: And likely inspired by the Trope Namer from Animal House, as well as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, to boot.
- No Indoor Voice:Hilarson: I don't wanna see you stop scrubbing this floor, until I can see MY FACE IN IT!
- So Proud of You: Kind of. He admits that he's proud of the gang after 94 seconds (in real time) of training.
LaurelA woman who helps the gang make a movie in the episode "Movie Makers"Voiced By: Laurel Deering
- The Cameo: A younger version of her is seen in the flashback in "Power Edd
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: She wears a grey hoodie.
- Killed Off for Real: She was murdered by Shoe.
- Sixth Ranger: In "Movie Makers", and apparently she's a failed attempt to be replacement for Tord.
- Women Are Wiser: She's shown questioning the gang's tactic's a few times.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: She likely dies it.


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|Ben, reading with some friends, April 2012|
As part of his Kindergarten homework, Ben is supposed to read out loud for at least 15 minutes after school every day. Luckily, this has not been a struggle -- he loves to read, and can often be found with a book or two, even when it's not homework time. We own a few "easy readers", and always bring several home whenever we visit the library, too. I thought I'd share some of the books that Ben's read to me recently. Some of these are actually marketed as books for beginning readers. Others are not, but they use simple language. All of them are also great stories for parents and others to read aloud to those who aren't reading on their own yet.
Snug House, Bug House, written by Susan Schade and illustrated by Jon Buller, 1994... A group of bugs find a tennis ball and turn it into a cozy home for all of them. Short phrases and rhymes make this a fun book for all ages.
Moongame, written and illustrated by Frank Asch, 1984... When Bear learns to play hide-and-seek, he decides to play the game with the moon. Asch uses simple words and sentences to tell this gentle story. This used to be one of my daughter Emmalie's favorite books, and she would beg to hear it again and again at bedtime!
Cars Galore, written by Peter Stein and illustrated by Bob Staake, 2011... Ben found this book at the library, and couldn't wait to read it! With its rhythmic verse and whimsical illustrations, this is an entertaining book for everyone -- but especially for vehicle enthusiasts like Ben.
Go to Bed, Monster!, written by Natasha Wing and illustrated by Sylvie Kantorovitz, 2007... Lucy does not want to go to bed -- she wants to draw. But when she creates Monster with her crayons, all he wants to do is play. When Lucy finally gets tired, she must figure out a way to get Monster to go to bed. Ben and I both loved this silly, imaginative book!
Sir Small and the Dragonfly, written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by John O'Brien, 1988... In the land of Pee Wee, no one is taller than a toothpick. When Lady Teena is captured by a dragonfly, the brave Sir Small and his trusty ant ride off to find and rescue her. I remember hearing this book for the first time many years ago, when Emmalie was learning to read. I found it to be a funny, clever story back then, and it still makes me smile today.
The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss, 1957... The Cat in the Hat knows all kinds of fun games to play when it's cold and wet outside. Unfortunately, his games -- and his friends Thing One and Thing Two -- create a huge mess in the house... and Mother will be home soon. I had a copy of this book when I was a little girl, and I loved reading it with my parents. Filled with Dr. Seuss' distinctive rhymes and zaniness, this book is truly a classic!
The rest of these are short chapter books:
Frog and Toad Are Friends, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, 1970... Frog and Toad are the best of friends, and they do everything together, from swimming to telling stories to searching for lost buttons. Lobel created a series of books about these two that also includes Frog and Toad Together (1972), Frog and Toad All Year (1976), and Days With Frog and Toad (1979). Each one is a delightful, humorous tale of friendship that will resonate with children and adults alike.
Houndsley and Catina, written by James Howe and illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, 2007... The first in a series of four books about this dog and cat pair, this chapter book begins with Catina wanting to become a famous writer. The only problem is, the book she wrote is terrible. Meanwhile, her friend Houndsley loves to cook and enters a cooking contest. In the end, the two realize that friendship is more important -- and more fulfilling -- than being famous. We haven't read the other volumes in the series yet, but Ben and I really enjoyed the light comedy and cute illustrations in this one.
Poppleton and Friends, written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Mark Teague, 1998... Through a sequence of silly events, Poppleton the pig, Hudson the mouse, and Cherry Sue the llama learn that friends are the secret to a long, happy life. When we checked this out from the library, I didn't realize that it was the second book in a series of eight. We haven't read the others yet, but plan to look for them next time!
What are some of your favorite "easy readers"? Ben and I would love suggestions for new books to try!

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Timberwolves are shining bright
- Dan Brood
- The Times - Sports
Track: Tualatin, which has high hopes, turns in strong marks at dual meet
FOREST GROVE - Sunshine brings warmth.
But it can also provide promise, optimism and some inspired performances.
That sure seemed to be the case for the Tualatin High School track and field teams.
The Timberwolves turned in some strong marks in their Pacific Conference dual meet opener with Forest Grove held under sunny skies April 2 at Forest Grove High School.
'The weather is pretty nice today,' Tualatin junior Anthony Cook said after running to victory in the 110-meter high hurdles. 'That helps a lot. It was the best weather we've had so far, and I felt fast today.'
Despite Cook's win in the high hurdles, the Tualatin boys fell 85-60 to the Vikings. The talented Timberwolf girls team opened league by running to a 91½-53½ win over Forest Grove.
'The sun made it a lot better today,' said Tualatin freshman Meghan Brohoski, who helped the Timberwolves score the team win. 'This is a lot of fun.'
Brohoski and the rest of the strong group of Tualatin sprinters showed their early-season speed in the victory at Forest Grove.
'We've got some pretty fast girls,' Brohoski said. 'We're going to be competitive in the sprints.'
Brohoski teamed with sophomore Tyler Morrison, senior Sarah Price and junior Melissa Arndorfer to win the 4 x 100 relay in a time of 52.94 seconds.
Brohoski also scored a come-from-behind win in the 200 with a mark of 27.91.
'I accelerated right at the corner,' said Brohoski, who also placed second in the 100 in 13.45. 'It was my first time in the 200. I love it now.'
Senior Amanda Chambers and sophomore Emily Wheeler each had a pair of individual wins for the Tualatin girls.
Chambers won the shot put with a mark of 32 feet, 8 inches and she had a winning toss of 100-0 in the discus.
Wheeler ran to victory in the 800 in 2:40.30 and she had a winning time of 5:04.48 in the 1,500.
Also on the track, Arndorfer won the 400 in 1:04.56 and senior Kelsey Stilson triumphed in the 3,000 in 10:52.14.
The Tualatin girls also had first-place finishes in both hurdles events.
Sophomore Corinne Wilcox won the 100 high hurdles in 19.30 and sophomore Julie Arndorfer won the 300 low hurdles in 53.49.
Senior Alexandra Johnson had a winning throw of 88-4 in the javelin and junior Alexa Stevens cleared 4-10 to win the high jump.
On the boys' side, Cook edged teammate Terrance Lowery, a Tualatin sophomore, to win the 110 high hurdles in a season-best time of 16.43.
'I was determined to beat him,' Cook said with a smile. 'I'm pretty happy with my time. I had a slow start to the season, but I'm going to train all the way through and I want to peak at district.'
Tualatin senior Dennis Ranck had a pair of victories in the throwing events. Ranck won the shot put with a mark of 54-4 and he had a winning toss of 150-0 in the discus.
Also for the Wolves, the team of sophomore Sean Acosta, junior Phil Pauly, senior Andrew Patton and freshman Taylor Altringer won the 4 x 100 relay in 44.49.
On Friday, the Tualatin teams competed in the Laker Classic, held at Lake Oswego High School.
The Timberwolf boys had a pair of individual wins at the invitational. Junior Kevin Oliver ran to victory in the 3,000 in 9:29.31 and Patton triumphed in the 300 intermediate hurdles in 40.33. Ranck was second in the shot put with a mark of 54-1½ and he was second in the discus with a throw of 143-9.
The Tualatin girls also had a pair of victories. Chambers won the shot put with a mark of 35-7 and Wheeler had a winning time of 10:45.25 in the 3,000.
The Timberwolf teams were scheduled to host Canby in a league dual meet on Wednesday.
Results of the meet weren't available when the Times went to press.
Tualatin will be back in action this upcoming Wednesday when it hosts Newberg in a league dual meet starting at 3:45 p.m. at Tualatin High School.
The Tualatin track teams, with a lot of competitors and a lot of young talent, have high hopes for the 2008 season.
On the boys side, the Wolves will be led by Ranck, who was a Class 6A state meet placer in both the shot put and discus last year.
Other top throwers include sophomore Jered Richter in all three events and sophomore Sean Acosta in the shot put.
The Wolves look strong in the hurdles events with Patton, Cook and Lowery.
Patton is also among a strong group of sprinters, which include Pauly, Altringer and Acosta.
The distance corps includes Oliver, Bubba Plunkett, Cole Brown, Matt Yarbrough and Mike Williams.
In the jumps and pole vault Tualatin will have Pauly, Jon Skogland, Ryan Darling, Jon Erickson, Brad Schuetz and Lowery.
We are working on filling some holes and adding depth to some events,' Tualatin coach Paul Zitzelsberger said of the boys team. 'I still have to go with Canby as the league favorite. Forest Grove and Tigard have some quality athletes as well. It will depend on which team fills the holes the best. We do have a number of big meet points.'
The Tualatin girls feature a strong group of distance runners in Wheeler, Stilson, Devon Frazier, Elizabeth Vogeltanz and Anna Bosley.
The sprinters include Brohoski, Price, Morrison, Melissa Arndorfer, Jessie Barry and Mikaela Anderson.
Lauren Kleven, Wilcox and Julie Arndorfer will compete in the hurdles. The throwers include Chambers, Johnson and Wilcox.
Stevens, Kelly Millager and Brohoski will compete in the jumps while Kate Skogland, Stephanie Tate and Laura D'Ambrosio will pole vault.
'We are looking to fill events to add depth to our line up. We have a lot of young athletes wanting to step up,' Zitzelsberger said. 'Tigard looks to have the most depth and are the early season favorites. Canby's numbers are down, but they still have a number of quality athletes. We hope to challenge at district.'


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2022 BC Athletics Championship Jamboree
The BC Athletics Championship Jamboree for U16, U18, U20, and Senior athletes will take place in Kamloops at Hillside Stadium from July 8 to 10, 2022. This is the championship meet for each of these age groups and will include para-athletes as well as able-bodied athletes competing for medals in events for their age groups.
It is expected to be a warm time in Kamloops during the weekend, and preparations are well underway to ensure that this is a well-run, safe event for participating athletes, coaches, officials, and spectators. There is no fee for admission, but many of these athletes are working to make standards for further National level competitions.
Entries are coming in. The early deadline for entry into events is Sunday, June 26 at 11:59 pm, PDT. After this time, late entry can still be made for a greater fee, if there is in the events. The late entry deadline is Sunday, July 3 at 11:59 pm PDT. After that, no further entries will be accepted.
Please download and carefully read the following pieces of information:
- Meet Information Package
- Tentative Track Schedule – May 10, 2022
- Tentative Field Schedule – May 9, 2022
Please check back here for the final schedules on Wednesday, July 8.
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A variety of spaceborne and airborne instruments have been applied to spatio-angularly sample and image atmospheric radiance. These imaging architectures, however, have a spatial resolution of several Km/ pixel, an angular resolution of approximately 7 angles per view, and their orbit requires several days to return to the same terrestrial spot. Furthermore, spaceborne instruments are extremely expensive and unscalable. Other systems for providing 3D mapping of cloud-tops include satellite-based MISR which may take minutes to capture multiple viewpoints of a region, during which the clouds may move.
The technology includes a system for wide-scale light-field imaging to sense the sky.
It comprises of: (i) a network of multiple terrestrial cameras positioned at multiple known locations, where each camera comprises a wide-angle lens directed towards the sky and configured to capture one or more images. (ii) A processor configured to operate a wired or wireless communications infrastructure for transmitting the captured images. (iii) A server configured to receive the wirelessly transmitted images and jointly process the received images, thereby producing a wide- scale light field image of the sky.
- The redundancy provided by the network comprising consistent units may ensure proper alignment performance, eliminating dead regions , and offer operational robustness over long periods
- Spectra of incoming light rays may be measured by positioning a diffraction grating in a field of view of at least one of the cameras
Applications and Opportunities
- Such a light-field system may be used to create a 3D map over time of the Earth’s atmosphere for various applications such as:
- Analyzing cloud cover
- Bird migration patterns
- Aviation meteorology
- Aerosol tomography


Android 9.0 (Pie) is currently the big deal in the entire Android ecosystem. While OEMs have largely adopted Android 8.0 (Oreo), few of them still launches smartphone running the already aged Android 7.0 (Nougat). As for Infinix mobility, the last Infinix Phones launched with Android 7.0 (Nougat) was the Infinix Hot 5 and the Hot 5 Lite.
Most recent Infinix Smartphone are powered by Android 8.1 (Oreo) out of the box. But what is even more interesting is the fact that Infinix mobility is already set to push some of it older smartphones running Android 8.0 (Oreo) to Android 9.0 (Pie).
But why should this news excite you? I mean, what feature does Android 9.0 (Pie) has, worth upgrading to? Here are ten awesome features of Android 9.0
Top Ten Features of Android 9.0 (Pie)
- Dark Mode for AMOLED screens
- New updates to the Messaging and Notifications
- Notch Support or Cut-out support is now available
- Performance enhancements for Kotlin based apps
- Enhanced Auto-fill with machine learning
- Strict permissions for apps as well as apps that are idle
- Support for Multiple Camera API (Dual, triple camera support now available)
- The Screen Shot capability now available in the Power-Off menu and New icons for the Settings menu
- New HEIF Image compression and improved Video Codecs for HDR VP9 Video profile 2
- Neural network API implementation is now also supported for AI assistants and apps that use machine learning
RELATED READING: Infinix Note 5 Now Receiving Android 9.0 (Pie) with Google November Security Patches
Interesting isn’t it? Well, if you own an Infinix smartphone, please don’t get too excited yet, as it it not all Infinix Phones that will taste Android 9.0 (Pie). Read through the list of Infinix Smartphone to officially get Android 9.0 (Pie)
List of Infinix Smartphone to Get Android 9.0 (Pie)
- The Infinix Hot S3
- Infinix Hot S3X
- Infinix Smart 2, Smart 2 Pro and the Infinix Smart HD.
- Infinix Hot 6
- Infinix Hot 6 Pro
- Infinix Note 5
- Infinix Note 5 Pro
- Infinix Note 5 Stylus
- Infinix Zero 6
- Infinix Zero 5
- Infinix Note 4
- Infinix Note 4 Pro
RELATED READING: Infinix Smart 2 Officially Get Android 9.0 Pie in India, Other Regions to Follow Soon
In all, there are about 11 smartphones in the list above. These are the Infinix smartphones to officially get Android 9.0 (Pie). But if your device 8s not in the list, we’ll, just give us the name of your device using the comment section below incase we come come across any Android 9.0 custom ROM for your Infinix Phones.


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This is my mother’s chicken ‘n rice recipe that has been in my family as long as I can remember. My mother had a wicker basket that fit the 9X13 pan perfectly and I remember passing the heavy basket down the line on many Sundays. Her recipe calls for “nestling some tomato wedges into the rice” right after you take it out of the oven. It’s not something I usually do, but I might have to start that just for tradition’s sake.
Chicken 'n Rice
- chicken pieces with bone in and skin on (my kids prefer chicken breasts, which I cut in half using a large sharp knife. Three large breasts cut into six pieces will fill the pan)
- 1 cup flour
- salt and pepper
- 2 – 4 T butter
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 4 & 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 1 & 1/2 cups white rice
- chopped green pepper & chopped parsley (optional)
- tomato wedges (optional).
- Preheat oven to 425ºF
- Put butter in a 9 x 13 pan and place pan in oven only long enough to melt the butter
- While the butter is melting, cut any overly large chicken pieces in half
- Sprinkle all the chicken with salt and pepper
- Place the flour in a plastic or paper bag and toss the chicken pieces in the bag until lightly covered in flour
- Remove the pan from the oven and place the chicken skin side down. Bake for 25 minutes
- Remove the pan and reduce the heat to 350ºF
- Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Add onions, broth, rice and peppers & parsley (if using)
- Place the chicken on top of the rice, skin side up
- Bake for 45-50 minutes until the rice has absorbed all the liquid (you may need a little additional liquid if it absorbs all of it too fast). Decorate the dish with tomato wedges (if using) by nestling the pieces into the rice. Serve immediately.
- There are other options for what you might add to the flour mixture: 1 tsp. garlic powder, 1 tsp. onion powder, or herbs such as rosemary and thyme
- My mother’s recipe calls for decorating with tomato quarters. Good idea to add some variety in taste, nutrients and color although I’ve never done it myself
- As I said up top — short prep time but about 90 minutes baking time, so plan ahead
- If you’re in a real hurry, you can put the butter in without melting it first, or slice it thinly first and it will melt very quickly
- I’ve always used chicken breasts, but thighs, legs, or a cut up chicken work well (I remember chicken drumsticks from those childhood Sundays)
- Another variation of my mother’s is to add parsley and chopped green pepper to the rice mixture, and any other vegetables; since this comes from the 60s, that means frozen peas and carrots. Let me know if you try any variations and how it turns out.
Full credit to my mother. Many years ago she clipped it from a newspaper, but I’m sure that clipping is long gone, and I know she no longer needs the recipe to cook this meal.
June 7, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Going to try this… can you use jasmine or brown Rice instead? Suz
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June 7, 2017 at 10:20 pm
Yes! You can use jasmine for sure because it has the same cooking time. If you want to try brown rice, I’d probably use a quick cooking variety that takes less time than cooking white rice (15 minutes vs. 20) but I’ve never tried it. Let me know how it goes!

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UNL will hold a “Red Memorial” to celebrate the lives of students who died during the current academic year. The service is 9 p.m. April 10 at Broyhill Fountain on the Nebraska Union Memorial Plaza.
The group memorial is a first for UNL, which has held individual services for campus in the past. Matt Hecker, dean of students, said annual memorial services for students who have died are commonplace at other universities.
The Red Memorial was spurred by a conversation with parents, Hecker said.
“We felt that it would be meaningful for the university to recognize (the students’) passing,” Hecker said. “This event is not meant to take the place of funerals or memorial services. It’s designed to be a short, but meaningful celebration of the lives of these seven students.”
Students who will be remembered are Carly Cannon, Cooper Flanagan, Evan Heyen, Keaton Klein, Chase Miller, Zachary Miller, Clayton Real and Amir Vafa.
The memorial service is non-denominational and will include a brief introduction; reading of the students’ names; a song by a UNL choral group; a brief meditation by Adam White, a pastor at UNL’s Lutheran Center; a balloon release; and lighting of Broyhill Fountain.
The memorial service is free and open to the public.
For more information on the Red Memorial, contact the Dean of Students office at 402-472-2021.

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Carly Rae Jepsen bio, Age, Networth - check out in detail
Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen was born on November 21, 1985 in Mission, British Columbia.
She is of Scottish, English, and Danish ancestry.
In 2007, Jepsen's high school theatre instructor persuaded her to participate in Canadian Idol auditions.
She sang Sweet Talker an original song, at the audition.
She placed third in the tournament, which she thought was the best result in hindsight.
In June 2008, Jepsen debuted with a cover of Sunshine on My Shoulder by John Denver.
In the summer of 2011, Jepsen collaborated with Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart, and Tavish Crow to create songs for her second album.
Her estimated net worth is $10 million.

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Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex, has canceled the construction of a new park in Progreso.
The new park was slated to be built on the western end of the boardwalk, facing the beach and carousel.
Park facilities would have included showers, games for children and easy access to the ocean.
The project had been part of an 80-million-peso plan to improve infrastructure and living conditions in the port city.
Authorities have said that they hope to be able to build the park somewhere else but have not found an alternate location.
Pemex has not specified why it took the decision, but it is likely that they will be needing the space for an infrastructure project of their own.
Construction crews have already begun to remove materials and existing construction from the area.
The port of Progreso is one of the largest in Mexico, and the most important commercial port in the Yucatán.
Progreso’s port has undergone several expansions and currently reaches over 6.5 kilometers into the Gulf of Mexico. The port can be seen from space and is by some estimates the longest of its kind in the world.


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You know the feeling. You’re already late for an appointment, and you’ve been driving around the block for ages, looking for a place to park. When you spot one, you find it is reserved for residents of that block.
In Venice, people use their canals as we use our streets, and they are seeking a mooring spot, rather than a parking spot. In his excellent blog, Sig Nonloso explains the increasing difficulty of people with boats to reserve an ormeggi (mooring place).
I had never given a thought to this increasingly difficult aspect of living in Venice, I just admired the boats.

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Carlos Moedas says quotas should be set ‘at some point’ for more women to advance into the top ranks of universities and labs
Europe should embrace quotas in science “at some point” to address the slow progress towards gender equality in the senior ranks of universities and labs, EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas said on Tuesday.
“I think that we have hit a point of no return,” Moedas told a meeting in the European Parliament. “At some point we should have quotas for management positions in universities and science labs.”
The commissioner did not suggest any legislative proposal was in the works, though the EU is separately pushing for a 40 per cent quota for women on company boards. Previous attempts by the EU’s executive to set this goal have been blocked by member states.
Moedas said Commission targets for more women in expert groups and evaluation panels for Horizon 2020, the EU’s research programme, are being met.
But for some advocates, the time has come to stop waiting for things to change on their own. Although women are better qualified, with more and more doing doctorates, they remain notably scarce at the highest levels of the scientific establishment.
Despite making up almost half of all PhD graduates in the EU, only 20 per cent of the heads of higher education institutions in Europe are women, according to Commission figures. Within the EU-28, women make up 28 per cent of scientific and administrative board members and only 22 per cent of board leaders.
Moedas said it had taken a “long time personally to know how I feel” about quotas, but he is now of a similar opinion to the director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde.
Lagarde recently said she has “massively changed” her mind on quotas. “For years I thought that gender quotas were offensive. But they’re a necessity, they make a difference,” she said.


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Attention Members: The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has just released new information about the 20-21 assessments and is offering a Fall testing window in addition to the Spring testing window (click here for letter). We know you will have many questions about this information, so we have anticipated some of your questions and have provided our best guess to them. You can review the questions and answers by listening to the recorded webinar (click here for webinar) or read about them in our Anticipated Frequently Asked Questions (click here for FAQs).
Please remember this is still a moving target and things could change if the federal government were to offer a waiver for the assessments. As you digest this information and contemplate the implications it has for your school or district, please send us any lingering questions you have so we can try to obtain answers from PDE.
Dr. Paul Healey, Executive Director


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With Marques Ivory graduating, it seemed clear the Coty Blanchard would be the Gamecocks starting quarterback next season.
And he will be. If he decides to return.
Jacksonville State head coach Jack Crowe told the Anniston Star that he’s preparing as if the two-sport star won’t return.
“I don’t think we can really measure Coty, the percentage of Coty coming back,” Crowe told The Star. “I think some time in June we’re going to know, and if he comes back he’s the starting quarterback, but prudently I have to assume he’s not coming back … with every desire and hope that he will.”
Blanchard is a two sport star for Jacksonville State, the other being baseball, where there is some talk of Blanchard being a “modest draft pick” this coming summer. (He was drafted after his senior year of high school) That’s why we won’t know until next summer.
But even if Blanchard is drafted, technically he could continue to play football. There’s no rule against it, but I would be willing to be which ever team drafts him might have something to say about it.
Blanchard isn’t attending fall practice with the Gamecocks, and likely won’t attend spring practice, according to the Star.
Blanchard was a .335 batter his freshman year, and started in all 57 games. His sophomore season, he became the full time starter on the football field with Ivory being injured, and his number fell off on the diamond, hitting just .230.
Without Blanchard, Steven Coates becomes the likely starter. Freshman Jayce Barber and redshirt freshman Eli Jenkins would round out the depth chart.
If Blanchard does return, Crowe suggested three quarterbacks could play in the Gamecocks season opener.


The new journey of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the new development of digital empowerment - "China Digital Architecture Summit 2021 Zhejiang Digital Summit" will be held in Hangzhou International Expo Center from September 26th to 27th, 2021. Fangshi Technology is very honored to participate in this summit. At the summit, Fangshi Technology led the "Digital Construction Robot" to the scene.
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Belize Tropical Weather Outlook: April 30, 2017
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Belize NMS Forecast
6:00 AM in Belize, April 30, 2017
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico during the next 5 days.
We have come to the official end of the 2016 hurricane season. The season turned out above average activity as fifteen named storms formed, of which seven became hurricanes, and three reached major hurricane status. That is category three, four or five on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale. The strongest was Matthew which reached a peak intensity of 160mph, while heavy rainfall affected the country late during the season as Hurricane Otto crossed the Central American mainland. Earl, a category one hurricane crosed the country on August 3rd with-out any loss of life, but left a trail of destruction in the Agriculture and Tourism industry.
Tropical Atlantic Wide Infrared Satellite Image:
USA National Weather Service Forecast
April 30, 2017
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
No tropical disturbances.
Tropical Weather Discussion
The 6-hour forecast: a cold front from 29.5n93w to 21n98w.
S of 24n W of front: NW to N winds 25 to 35 knots and sea heights
reaching 8 feet. Please read the latest National Hurricane Center
High Seas Forecast under AWIPS/WMO headers miahsfat2/fznt02 knhc,
for more details.
Please refer to the Meteo-France High Seas Forecast, that is
listed on the website: www.Meteofrance.Com/previsions-meteo-
marine/bulletin/ grandlarge/metarea2. The outlook, for the 24
hours that follow the forecast that is valid until 01/1200 UTC,
consists of: the persistence or threat of a SW near gale or severe
gale in Irving. The threat of N or NE near gale or gale in Agadir.
...The Caribbean Sea...
Upper level NW wind flow is moving across Cuba, toward an upper
level trough, whose cyclonic wind flow spans the Caribbean Sea
from 70w eastward. Upper level anticyclonic wind flow covers the
SW corner of the Caribbean Sea.
A middle level-to-upper level 22n70w cyclonic circulation center
is spreading broad cyclonic wind flow across the area from 75w
eastward. Convective precipitation: widely scattered to scattered
moderate from 14n in the Caribbean Sea to 23n in the Atlantic
Ocean between 56w and 72w. Rainshowers are possible, elsewhere,
from 17n to 20n between 72w and 82w.
Upper level cyclonic wind flow covers the Atlantic Ocean and the
Caribbean Sea from 30n southward between 60w and 80w. Convective
precipitation: rainshowers are possible in the Atlantic Ocean from
23n northward between 60w and 70w.
24-hour rainfall totals that are listed for the period that ended
at 30/0000 UTC...according to The Pan American temperature and
precipitation tables...miatptpan/sxca01 knhc...are 0.50 in
Climate Prediction Center’s Central America Hazards Outlook
Weather Underground Caribbean Forecast
Will return in June, 2017
48 Hour Forecast – Favorable Environmental Conditions For Tropical Development
Infrared Satellite in Belize City
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Officially Starts June 1
4/22/2017 2:09:58 PM
This product is scheduled to resume on a daily basis on June 1, 2017. However, if additional early 2017 season tropical development is expected this product will be updated until the tropical feature has died.
120 Hour Forecast – Favorable Environmental Conditions For Tropical Development
The Western Caribbean Will Be An Area To Watch For Possible Tropical Development Between May 8th & May 15th
Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather Services
April 27, 2017
Western Caribbean Tropical Development Is Possible Between May 8th & May 15th: The long range operational GFS model and GFS ensemble model guidance continues to hint at possible tropical development sometime between May 8th and May 15th.
The weather pattern that could produce tropical development in the western Caribbean will include a strong cold front that pushes southeastward across the entire southeastern United States, all of the Gulf of Mexico and the northern Caribbean late next week and next weekend (May 4th to May 6th). As this front lifts out, it could either leave behind a piece of energy in the western Caribbean or lift a piece of energy northward from the eastern Pacific into the western Caribbean during the week of May 8th. This area of disturbed weather could find favorable environmental conditions to try and develop into a tropical depression or tropical storm in the western Caribbean between May 8th and May 15th.
Right now, only the GFS model and its ensemble members are forecasting tropical development in the western Caribbean. You should take the GFS model with a grain of salt as it has a bias towards forecasting erroneous tropical cyclones in the western Caribbean and we could very well be seeing the same thing here. One thing that is somewhat noteworthy is that the GFS ensemble guidance initially forecasts low pressure to develop in the eastern Pacific between May 8th and May 11th, but then forecasts this system to be pulled northward across Central America into the western Caribbean by about May 13th.
The Canadian model guidance is forecasting eastern Pacific tropical cyclone development during the weekend of May 6th and 7th and this could end up occurring instead. Finally, the European model guidance is also hinting at tropical development in the eastern Pacific around May 7th and 8th.
My Thoughts Are That I still think that the overall weather pattern could turn favorable for at least a marked increase in storminess and possibly tropical development in the western Caribbean starting next weekend with this stormy weather pattern in the western Caribbean continuing through the week of May 8th to May 13th.
At this point, I still think that there is a 5 to 10 percent chance that we will see tropical development in the western Caribbean between May 8th and May 15th. There seems to be a higher chance for eastern Pacific tropical development over western Caribbean tropical development. Also, as I already mentioned, we could very well see initial development in the eastern Pacific from May 8th to May 11th that ends up crossing over Central America into the western Caribbean by May 12th to May 15th.
Should we see consistency and support in the weather data that points to western Caribbean tropical development during that May 8th to May 15th time frame, then the tropical development chances would need to be increased.
Finally, signals from the very long range CFS model guidance seems to point to the possibility of tropical activity in the Caribbean at the very end of May or the very beginning of June. So, if we don’t see any sort of tropical activity during the May 8th to May 15th period, then there could be another chance for some sort of tropical development in the Caribbean by the end of May and the beginning of June.
I will be monitoring the risk for tropical development in the western Caribbean closely and will continue to have updates for you. Our next update will likely be issued on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Short, Early Life of Tropical Storm Arlene
Jeff Masters, Category 6
April 21, 2017, 7:22 AM
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got off to a premature start on Thursday, April 20, with the formation of Tropical Storm Arlene. Originally designated a subtropical depression by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Wednesday, Arlene was reclassified as a tropical depression on Thursday, and its top sustained winds reached 40 knots (45 mph) at 5:00 pm EDT Thursday, enough to qualify it as Tropical Storm Arlene.
Top winds in Arlene were increased to 50 mph on Thursday night, based on partial data from Arlene’s periphery gathered by the ASCAT scatterometer. Subsequent ASCAT data on Friday morning from Arlene’s center suggested that the storm might no longer have a closed center of circulation, so Arlene is likely to be declassified as a tropical cyclone on Friday, although winds at some distance from the core may still be above tropical storm strength. Update: NHC issued its final advisory on dissipating Arlene at 11 am EDT Friday.
Arlene’s circulation was evident days ago as a large non-tropical gyre drifting across the remote Eastern Atlantic, including a small center with some eye-like characteristics. Sea surface temperatures beneath the circulation were only about 20°C (68°F), far below the standard minimum of 26°C (79°F) for tropical development. However, the upper atmosphere was cold enough to support the formation of showers and thunderstorms, and the broad upward motion gradually enabled the system to develop a warm core, thus triggering the shift from subtropical to tropical status. Arlene began to move northwest and west on Thursday as the circulation was gradually captured by an approaching midlatitude trough.
How unusual is Arlene?
Arlene is a rarity, as Jeff Masters noted in a post on Wednesday. Getting a tropical or subtropical depression in the Atlantic in April is about a once-per-decade event, and a tropical storm in April is even more unusual. The NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks website shows that only four April tropical or subtropical depressions are known to have formed in in the Atlantic prior to Arlene, although many such systems would have gone undetected prior to the advent of routine satellite monitoring in the 1970s. Only two of the four April systems on record became named tropical storms: Arlene (2017) and Tropical Storm Ana (2003). An unnamed April subtropical storm in 1992 also achieved tropical storm-force winds, and two other April tropical depressions formed in 1981 and 1973.
Arlene is also the northernmost of the few tropical storms that have developed this early in any season on record, as reported by weather.com. Tropical activity hits a climatological minimum in the North Atlantic during late winter and early spring, as sea surface temperatures reach their lowest points of the year and strong wind shear often prevails. The only tropical cyclones on record in the Atlantic that made it beyond depression strength during February and March are a system on February 2-3, 1952, that moved across South Florida as a tropical storm, and an unnamed hurricane that struck the U.S. Virgin Islands at Category 2 strength on March 6-9, 1908. Because Ana and Arlene both followed a gap of more than six weeks between tropical-storm-strength systems, one might consider them roughly tied as the earliest tropical storms on record, although most records are oriented toward calendar years rather than the climatology of the hurricane season itself.
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Plans for 41 homes on Ottery’s former factory site win town’s backing
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Developer’s ‘brave’ vision to regenerate area
A ‘brave’ vision for the long-awaited regeneration of Ottery’s derelict factory site has won the backing of the town council.
Plans for a 33-home development of the now-demolished factory - and eight houses on land opposite - were praised for allowing parking for existing Victoria Terrace residents, as well as new occupants.
Now under the ownership of Acorn Property Group, the development of the Mill Street site has been plagued with delays and is currently a frequent target for vandals.
Speaking at an Ottery Town Council planning meeting last week, mayor Glyn Dobson said: “I think people just want to see something done there.”
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Designs proposed for the road-side properties will be in keeping with existing houses in the vicinity, while the river-facing apartments will have a more modern, ‘wharf style’ appearance.
Councillor Paul Bartlett described it as a ‘brave’ design overall.
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The application includes provision of 91 parking spaces – 78 for new homes, one visitor space and 12 allocated for the use of Victoria Terrace residents - who have historically parked on some of the land.
Cllr Ian Holmes explained the developer is proposing to offer the 12 additional spaces to East Devon District Council initially – with the option to charge for parking. If they are not wanted by the authority, the town council will have the option to take them on and, finally, they could be offered directly to householders.
Cllr Paul Carter said: “They are looking out for residents we already have in Victoria Terrace. The layout is encouraging. It might be brave, but we should encourage that – we want to be Ottery up and coming.”
Cllr Roger Giles questioned whether the parking provision is adequate for the number of homes proposed.
Members unanimously voted to support the plans.
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Jules Saved Me
“I Think I Want To Be As Beautiful As The Ocean”
Strong, feminine, and majestic like the ocean, Jules is one of my favourite fictional characters ever. Jules Vaughn is a dynamic character that embraces fluidity and breaks free from stodgy conventions. Trans representation in Media has been rather one dimensional, focusing merely on physical transition observed from a cisgendered perspective. It was refreshing to see a trans character with so much of depth and complexity. Jules is a trans teenager who likes to experiment with vivid makeup and ride her bike but she also struggles with self expression and erratic platonic and romantic relationships. Her character is far from perfect but is raw and saves young adults who are trying really hard to understand and express themselves.
“I Feel Like I’ve Framed My Entire Womanhood Around Men.”
Being a woman is a lot of things. For me, being a woman is being fluid, real, and kind. Jules inspired me to not pander to the male gaze. We are all trying hard to be something of our own. Something that is independent of stereotypes and prejudice. It is not uncommon to grow up as a woman or someone who identifies with womanhood and feeling coerced into falling into the trap of requiring incessant male validation. Being a woman is not about pandering to the patriarchy. Being a woman is about being anything you please to be. It was so stifling to grow up as a woman trying to be something the men in my life wanted me to be. I was aching to be myself, to be a lesbian with so many conventional boundaries to shake and plenty of love to give.
For Jules, being a woman is like being like an ocean: Fierce and Feminine. For me, It’s to be Honest and Fluid, like Jules.
“At Least For Me, Being Trans Is Spiritual.”
Jules reminds me of a rather cliché but true statement. Our power lies in the things that make us different. Not conforming to the gender binary and heterosexuality makes me feel like an outsider sometimes but what younger me didn’t know was that I won’t be the only Outsider and than the Outsider’s Club is extraordinarily amazing. Jules comparing being trans to being spiritual attaches a special meaning to fluidity. It gives me a power that is ineffable but astonishingly real. Being trans has little to do with how people see you and so much to do with how you see yourself grow.
I am not exaggerating when I say that Jules saved me. I am unlearning all the ways that being a woman hurts and learning the way it feels right. My womanhood and fluidity belongs solely to me. Jules saved me because she taught me how to be a woman in all the right ways.

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Mikhail Aleshin to remain in hospital after Fontana IndyCar crash
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Mikhail Aleshin's condition has been upgraded to stable following his huge IndyCar practice crash at Fontana on Friday.
Aleshin suffered fractured ribs, a broken collarbone, concussion and chest injuries in the accident, and will remain at Loma Linda University Medical Centre while he recuperates from a procedure for the injury to his chest.
Schmidt Peterson Motorsport will not replace the Russian for Saturday night's season-finale; the team opting instead to focus on its remaining car for Simon Pagenaud, who remains in mathematical contention for the championship.
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“What this plan will do is make the insurance you have work better for you. . . . And here’s what you need to know: I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits—either now or in the future. Period.”
So spoke President Barack Obama in his August address to Congress, for the first time laying out specific goals for health care reform. To try to persuade the American people to support his health reform agenda, the president made two simple promises: first, his plan would benefit everyone who already had health insurance; second, his plan would not add to the nation’s yawning budget deficit. Both claims were essentially false; examining them offers economic lessons for reform.
The administration’s plan would impose mandates to ensure that employers provide coverage for their employees, to ensure that individuals obtain coverage, and to ensure the form this coverage must take. Those mandates would remove the freedom to choose one’s health insurance plan because the government, in its effort to correct perceived inequities, would dictate which health care services must be covered and which health care providers must be used.
The proposed unprecedented intrusion of government into private markets would have adverse effects on people with insurance in both the short and the long run.
The mandates would lead to large increases in the cost of health insurance for everyone. Research studies have shown that as people become insured, especially under a health plan that offers broad coverage and low copayments, they consume more health care services. The best estimates indicate that each newly insured person approximately doubles his or her health spending.
With 30 million to 40 million newly insured people under the administration’s plan, aggregate health care demand would increase significantly. But when demand expands, prices increase. We estimate that the higher demand would increase health insurance premiums for the typical family plan by about 10 percent. Because an employer-sponsored family insurance plan cost $12,680 in 2008, this would translate into an increase of about $1,200 in the typical annual premium.
The mandates would also have adverse additional longer-run consequences. According to provisions in both House and Senate bills, mandated plans must have low copayments and provide coverage of health care services that is at least equal in scope to a typical, current employer-sponsored plan. But those are the very flaws responsible for high and rising health care costs, flaws that stem directly from the misguided tax exclusion for and the extensive state regulation of health insurance. By locking in those flaws, the mandates would inhibit precisely the innovation needed to reform U.S. health care. Ultimately, as government seeks to rein in costs, it will curtail access to health care services by erecting barriers between patient and health care provider.
The current House and Senate bills would also break the president’s second promise: not to add to the deficit. In part because the health insurance that the administration’s plan would force people to buy is expensive, the plan proposes to give individuals large financial subsidies to offset the cost, at least partially. The entitlement-based subsidy, combined with the proposed Medicaid expansion, would add between $700 billon and $1.2 trillion to federal spending over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The new entitlements would come on top of existing federal health care entitlements that the government has been able to neither control nor finance.
A portion of the additional spending would be financed by savings from the existing federal health care programs. But, thus far, the alleged savings would come mainly from cutting future Medicare payment rates. If history is any guide, the savings won’t materialize.
For the past twenty-five years, Congress has repeatedly “cut” payment rates, yet Medicare’s expenditures have continued to outstrip its dedicated revenues. New taxes have been required, but revenues still can’t keep up with expenses. Recall that in the early 1990s Congress removed the cap on Medicare’s taxable wage base. Today, the Medicare board of trustees projects that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be bankrupt in eight years.
More important, cutting payment rates is not reform. Ultimately, such price controls would lower the quality of health care and reduce the supply of health services, just as price controls have cut quality and supply in every market in which they have been tried. Congress’s near-exclusive reliance on such cuts is a clear demonstration that the federal government has no idea how to reform its current insolvent health care programs, much less how to properly design a new one.
Reform will be partly financed by higher taxes. The House bill proposes to raise the highest personal income tax rate by 5.4 percentage points on top of the Obama administration’s plan to raise the top rate by an additional 4.6 percentage points next year. The combined 10-point increase raises the top income tax rate to 45 percent—an economic growth-destroying level not seen since the early 1980s. Senator Max Baucus proposes, instead, to tax some health insurance premiums.
In neither bill do higher taxes finance the proposed additional spending. Should the Medicare savings fail to materialize, as we believe they will, the spending in either bill will add more than $100 billion per year in perpetuity to the already soaring national debt.
Returning to President Obama’s address: “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.” But shaping needs a plan that is well thought out. To move forward, the country must have two separate debates. The first should center on how to improve current health insurance arrangements to rein in the epidemic of health spending that too often fails to provide good value for money.
The second debate should center on additional steps to improve access to health care for those who cannot afford it. This debate, however, must be separated from the issue of insurance coverage. Many currently insured Americans no doubt would be willing to pay some additional amount if extending health insurance coverage could improve the health of the uninsured.
The hard reality is that there exists little evidence that it does. Helen Levy and David Meltzer, in a 2008 review of research in the Annual Review of Public Health, summarize the overwhelming conclusion of academic research: “The central question of how health insurance affects health, for whom it matters, and how much, remains largely unanswered at the level of detail needed to inform policy decisions.” We must experiment with alternatives, such as further expansions of community health clinics, special assistance for the chronically ill, and other programs that might not supply traditional services but could have a big impact on people’s health.
Comprehensive, low-deductible, low-copayment insurance has brought us to where we are today. The administration’s plan to expand and lock in this flawed paradigm will ultimately defeat the goal of making health services more affordable for everyone. Fortunately, there are other options, including policies that encourage more cost-conscious health care choices, greater competition among health insurers, and reduced practice of defensive medicine.
President Obama claims to support these ideas, but the plan he outlined is not consistent with these claims and neither is the Senate Finance Committee bill. The American people should demand a second opinion.


Gal Ek Nukte Wich Mukdi Ae – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Kalaam/Poetry ,ﺍﺭﺩﻭ urdu , ﭙﻨﺠﺎﺑﻰ Punjabi
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is known for a variety of Sufi Music genres, including Qawwali, Arfana Kalam, Naat, Noha, Hamd. He also released several albums on Kalam of Bulleh Shah. The single Gal Ek Nukte Wich Mukdi Ae below is from his album Nusrat Fateh Ali sings Bulleh Shah.
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Men’s season fizzles out in South Queensferry
Dundee’s men let their season fizzle out with a disappointing result against City of Edinburgh ll in South Queensferry last Saturday. With a make-shift side and the minimum number of players, this League 1 play-off game was to help decide second place in the table. The home side had a good start with a run of points to lead 4/0 and then 7/3. Dundee’s system was creaking as the young Edinburgh side used their serving advantage to great effect. Dundee were relying on Boris Prodanov and he delivered some big scores to help pull his side closer. Several mishit shots from the home side let Dundee close to 18/20. Dave Bonnar and Barry Millar both scored points with service ‘aces’ and the scores were tied at 22/22. The home side stopped Prodanov with a net block but two errors gave Dundee set point at 24/23. As the set was reaching a climax, both sets of players became nervous and mistakes were to the fore. Boris won 2 points then lost 2 as the score see-sawed. Edinburgh had set point at 26/25, Dundee had it at 27/26 and 28/27 but the home side took the set 30/28 with a scoring net block to signal wild celebrations!
Dundee then started the second set forcing the Edinburgh side into a series of errors, giving Dundee an 8/4 lead. Big Boris Prodanov scored 5 points, 3 from service ‘aces’, to give Dundee an 18/16 lead. The tables were turned as Edinburgh replied with their service points to lead 23/21. A quick side out point brought Dundee closer but again an error was crucial as the home side took the second set 25/22.
The victory in their nostrils, the young home side stormed into a 15/9 lead. The Dundee attack responded with scores from Mark Donnachie and Lewis Crockart. Oz Dowie, Barry Millar and Boris Prodanov all helped with scoring net blocks to close the score to 3 points but as both sides traded points, it was the home side that crossed the finishing line, 25/20 to secure second top spot.
This final game gave Dundee an unexpected third place finish after a poor start to the season but disappointment missing out on the promotion play-off place to move to the Premier League.


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Diana King is a reggae fusion singer-songwriter who specifically performed a mixture and fusion of R&B, reggae and dancehall. She was born to an Indo-Jamaican mother and an Afro Jamaican father.
After making an appearance on The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 song "Respect," from his album Ready to Die, she signed a recording contract with Sony Music. King's first single "Shy Guy", co-written and produced by Andy Marvel, from her debut album Tougher Than Love, became a hit, reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and being certified gold by the RIAA in the U.S.; the single also hit #2 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as reaching #1 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart, going on to sell nearly five million singles worldwide. The song made the soundtrack to the 1995 film, Bad Boys. "Shy Guy" was also ranked by the Japanese radio station J-Wave as the number-one song of 1995.
Her unique style of blending her native Reggae and Jamaican dialect with R&B, Soul, Dance and Pop, has made her a standout artist since the release of her first hit "Shy Guy." Diana has always believed in staying true to herself, as an artist and as a person. Her songs take you on a musical journey and shows her versatility and her new music they truly live up to what her fans have grown to love and expect from her, only this time it's all her. A strong brew of genres seasoned with Reggae. To date Diana King has sold over 6 million albums worldwide and has a loyal fan-base that spans the globe.
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