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In their fifth annual “Game Changers” survey, Metropolis Magazine sought to uncover the visionaries who have the potential to make waves in design and architecture. Profiling six of design’s ”foremost forward-looking talents,” the list includes Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, the filmmaking duo whose “Living Architectures” series takes a sideways glance at some of the world’s most celebrated buildings; Amy Mielke and Caitlin Gucker-Kanter Taylor, whose work as Water Pore Partnership topped BIG and The Living for Holcim’s North America Award; and finally Aggregate, a collaborative of architecture historians who are rethinking the way we do architecture theory. For the full list and profiles of all those featured on it, head on over to Metropolis Magazine.
In memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden, the Deborah J. Norden Fund is calling for proposals from students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies for awards up to $5000 in travel and study grants. A program of The Architectural League of New York, participants must submit a maximum three-page proposal, which succinctly describes the objectives of the grant request and how it will contribute to the applicant’s intellectual and creative development. The deadline for submissions is April 16, 2015. For more information, please visit here.
Construction has commenced on Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ 61-story condominium tower in Boston’s historic Back Bay. The $700 million development will be the tallest residential building in the city, and the tallest tower to rise since the 1976 John Hancock Tower, also designed by Pei Cobb Freed.
“The project allows us to consider once again how a tall building, together with the open space it frames, can respond creatively to the need for growth while showing appropriate respect for its historic urban setting,” says Henry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
Update: Last week, Hadid and the New York Review of Books agreed to a settlement agreement, with Hadid accepting the apology of the New York Review of Books and, in conjunction with the settlement, donating an undisclosed sum of money to a labor rights charity. You can read the full joint statement at the end of this article.
For those that follow the ins and outs of architectural criticism, it will have been hard to miss the news this week that Zaha Hadid is suing the New York Review of Books, claiming that the critical broadside launched by Martin Fuller against Hadid in his review of Rowan Moore’s book Why We Build was not only defamatory but also unrepresentative of the content of the book. Hadid’s lawyers demanded a retraction of the review, which they claimed had caused Hadid “severe emotional and physical distress.”
Hadid’s lawsuit did manage to elicit an apology from Filler, but probably not the one she was hoping for: Filler posted a retraction admitting that his review confused the number of deaths involved in all construction in Qatar in 2012-13 (almost 1,000) with the number of deaths on Hadid’s own Al Wakrah stadium (exactly zero). However, much of Filler’s comments criticizing Hadid’s cold attitude to conditions for immigrant workers in Qatar remain unaddressed.
Throughout the week, a number of other critics took this opportunity to pile more criticism on Hadid, unanimously agreeing that the lawsuit was a bad idea. Read on after the break to see the six reasons they gave explaining why.
“Every work of art is an interpretation of the world, of what you are thinking; a realization of your perception which creates and attempts a different world. In the end, a work of art is merely an offering to art.”
Mexican-Spanish architect Félix Candela (Jan 27, 1910-Dec 7, 1997) was known for redefining the role of the architect in relation to structural problems, and played a crucial role in the development of new structural forms of concrete. His famous experimentation with concrete gave rise to projects like the Los Manantiales restaurant in the Xochimilco area of Mexico City and the Cosmic Rays Pavilion for the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Learn more about Candela after the break.
This week, Robert A.M. Stern Architects released applications for its third annual Travel Fellowship. The $10,000 grant is given to an architecture student in the penultimate year of their Master’s degree study. The recipient must be attending one of 18 U.S. and Canadian schools, and show “insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.” The prize money will be used to support travel and research based on Robert A.M. Stern’s own philosophy of reinventing traditional architecture. Check your eligibility and apply for the RAMSA Travel Fellowship here!
The lost spaces competition is a call for ideas to reframe how underused spaces in Calgary might be used. The aim is to address a particular challenge of public space – what to do with seemingly remnant pieces of public property. The challenge: what opportunities do lost spaces afford?
A “lost space” is any space that remains under-utilized within our urban environment. They might be leftover pieces, a ghost of the planning past. Lost spaces are part of the public realm, rarely designed to function with both social and environmental benefit to the city. You may consider a lost space as a passageway, a roundabout, space between two buildings, a highway shoulder, or tenants of the city’s history and memory. We’d like to ask you to dream, take risks and stretch what we think is possible. Submissions are due March 30, 2015. More about the competition, here.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected 14 recipients for the 2015 AIA Young Architects Award. This award, now in its 22nd year, honors young architects – licensed 10 years or fewer regardless of their age - who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers. All recipients will be presented the award at the AIA 2015 National Convention and Design Exposition in Atlanta. View them all, after the break.
We announced earlier this month that the LEGO® Architecture series will now include the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC! Thanks to LEGO® Architecture, two of our US readers now have the chance to win their very own set.
Official Rules: To participate, let us know what existing LEGO® Architecture set is your favorite. All you have to do is become a registered user at ArchDaily and leave us your answer in the comments below. Two winners will be chosen at random from entries received between Monday, January 26th and Sunday, February 1st at 11:59 EST. Anyone in the United States is welcome to participate. One entry per person. ArchDaily will enforce verification and remove duplicated ones before choosing the winner.
Critic, curator and educator Aaron Betsky has been announced the new dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Betsky will assume his role immediately, taking over responsibilities regarding the School’s academic programs, personnel, students, finances, and character, as well as relations with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s broader programs.
“I am honored and humbled to have the opportunity to continue the work that for so long made Taliesin into a workshop for reinventing American architecture,” said Betsky. “I look forward to continuing its traditions and making the School into the best experimental school of architecture in the country.”
Once again, Chinese company WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co has expanded the capabilities of 3D printing. After constructing ten houses in under twenty-four hours last year, now they are back with both the world’s tallest 3D printed building – a five-story apartment block – and a 1,100 square meter mansion with internal and external decoration to boot.
On display in Suzhou Industrial Park in Jiangsu province, the two buildings represent new frontiers for 3D printed construction, finally demonstrating its potential for creating more traditional building typologies and therefore its suitability for use by mainstream developers.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that a new exhibition exploring the Scottish designer and artist’s celebrated, but difficult, career is to open next month in London. Mackintosh Architecture will be the first exhibition solely devoted to his architecture, offering the opportunity to view over sixty original drawings, watercolours and perspectives spanning the entirety of his working life. Seen together, they “reveal the evolution of his style from his early apprenticeship to his later projects as an individual architect and designer.” Drawings on display will also show his collaboration with the accomplished artist and designer Margaret Macdonald, his wife.
“At some point, we all forgot that we belong to each other.” These powerful words helped land Samantha, an M.Arch. student at the University of Detroit Mercy and Fellow in the Challenge Detroit Urban Revitalization Program, the ninth annual WIA EP (Emerging Professional) Inspiration Award. Praising Samantha for her work behind the “Belong Here” guerrilla art campaign, the award was given to the student for demonstrating a “great capacity for leadership, an unwavering passion for the profession of architecture, and a willingness to contribute to society.” Learn more about the award, here.
In the US, most people drive alone to work. This isn’t surprising, considering car culture has been a staple of American life since the end of World War II. However, with the potential of high speed rails making way in California and the push for public transit in many other states, it will be interesting to see how this map may (or may not) change over the next decade.
Coinciding with their tenth anniversary of the Royal Danish Opera, Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled plans for a new Chinese Opera house in Yuhang. The project, sited in “the middle of a lake, on display to the entire city,” will serve as the centerpiece of an expansive new cultural district north of Hangzhou. It’s design, described by Henning Larsen to be more “playful” than the Copenhagen Opera, will feature a unique geometric facade and sloping roof, backdropped by a waterfront recreational park.
The practice of architecture has always been intertwined with the study of physics, both in structure and aesthetics. As the nuances of physics become better understood, architecture has the opportunity to grow and change, such as in Herzog and de Meuron’s particle physics-based designs. In the interest of nurturing the relationship between these two fields, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Department of Arts of the Federal Chancellery of Austria are teaming up to offer the Accelerate@CERN Austria award. Read on to learn more.
Commissioned by the Tianjin Urban Planning Bureau, Holm Architecture Office (HAO) and Archiland International (AI) have unveiled their competition proposal for the Bolong 3D Movie Museum and Mediatek in Tianjin.
Envisioned as part of a new media park slated for construction in the city, the building’s design is playful and contemporary, offering visitors a “series of unique spatial experiences.” Learn more about the project and view selected images from the proposal after the break.
Irish Competition Searches for Conceptual Interpretations of WB Yeats Poem: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
In collaboration with The Model, Hazelwood Demesne Ltd, and Sligo City Council, the Institute of Technology Sligo has launched “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” an international architecture competition inspired by Yeats’ eponymous poem of 1892. Part of Yeats2015, the competition prompts practitioners to propose an intervention for the Irish island of Innisfree, combining “Yeats’ poetic vision and contemporary architectural ideas.” Work may be submitted individually or as part of a team, and must be received by March 12. The winning design will be constructed on the island before June 13, in time for what would have been Yeats’ 150th birthday. See more information about the competition and download the project brief here.


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LE BAIN: What does Billy bring to the fashion magazine game?
KHALYM SCHELL: I like to describe Billy Magazine as an art show in print. We approach each issue with a specific theme and select photographers and artists to interpret and contribute to this theme. Billy also has an artful approach to fashion layout. With our free form layout, each story blends into the other. We aim to seamlessly overlap fashion editorial, portraits, and documentary and found photography.
I’m such a fan of print and love of all types of magazines, so the goal was to pull all of the elements and content I enjoy in those publications into one print experience.
You said the first issue features “emotionally charged fashion stories.” Could you illustrate this with a couple of pictures from the magazine?
The first issue’s theme is "pivot," which inspired fashion stories and curated personal work that was esoteric, deeply meaningful, and nostalgic to photographers. I particularly connect to Jason Rodgers' fashion editorial of Bronx twin models Jan Carlos and Hector and all of Rafael Rios' personal work placed throughout the issue. They really remind me of my childhood growing up in New York.
"Our goal was to make anyone who saw it feel FOMO."
While working on the theme of "pivot," what did you learn that could be used to capture bigger issues? 2016 is a pivotal year.
I hope 2016 becomes a pivotal year. Right now, I think "cyclical" is a better word to describe our current state of affairs with the reoccurring race, feminist, and gender issues that should be long gone but are now back again.
Where can we find Billy, and what’s coming next?
We're launching our first few issues with Casa Magazines in the West Village. As a lover of magazines, it was important for me to have our launch reception there because it’s one of the last-standing magazine stores. After that, you can find our magazine in most specialty shops and for sale on our website. We’re also working on our next issue and updating our site to include monthly digital concepts.
To finish on a party note, you’ve been commissioned to design the Select Summer Fridays’ 2016 artworks. How did you approach it?
I’ve been going to Select Summer Fridays since the party started and even DJ'd the party when it was smaller. It’s one of my favorite parties. You can’t top the view from the roof, and the music and people are so chill. So when I was asked to do the creative direction this season, I wanted to translate the exact vibe of the roof into the design. Our goal was to make anyone who saw it feel FOMO. So I worked with photographer Lorenzo Fariello who captured cool roof scenes, and I edited them with dreamy filters in Le Bain’s rooftop colors.
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Launch of an Atlas rocket carrying an Agena unmanned docking target for the Gemini 11 mission. Gemini 11, carrying astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon, was also launched on 12 September 1966. They made a direct ascent to the docking rendezvous with the already orbiting Agena, making contact on their first revolution. The spacecraft remained docked for over 40 orbits. Gemini 11 re- entered safely with its crew on 9 September, whilst the Agena target burnt up after its orbit decayed on 30 December 1966.
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The search for local clues in the case of five American Muslims from D.C. area recently arrested in Pakistan continues.
Ramy Zamzam, one of the men arrested in Pakistan, lived in the Murraygate Village apartment complex with his parents and younger brother.
Matilda Antwi says she lives directly above the Zamzams: she says Ramy always seemed polite. "He's very quiet, he don't say much," says Antwi. "I know he goes to school, but I have never said a word to him," Antwi says.
The local chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America is just a few miles away. It's where Zamzam and the four other young men reportedly prayed each day.
The local chapter is headquartered at a converted residence. The tan-brick building was locked today as worshipers arrived for midday prayers.
This afternoon, ICNA's leaders posted a statement on the group's website, saying in part: "Extremism has no place in Islam," and "We stand beside local and federal law enforcement and hope that this matter is resolved very soon."
The Islamic Circle of North America was established in 1968.

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Summary (via the author's website): "Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself."
Review: So, I pegged the profession of the killer from early on. And to be honest, I don't know how I felt about the romance. On the one hand, I love it. I'm all about the lovey-dovey stuff -- just as much as the "and then he looked at me twice" stuff, which, come to think of it, might be what was lacking for me.
In summary, it was a good book; well-written, interesting, fairly clever. And, THANK GOODNESS, she showed instead of telling, which, as aforementioned, has been driving me nuts lately.
Goodreads Shelves: fluffy, is-this-a-kissing-book

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Destiny 2 Forsaken: Voice of Riven Final Boss
Cinematic Boss Fight of the final battle in Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion. During this fight be very careful not to stand out in the open often.
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Let me just say right off the bat I love this fight. Voice of Riven is by far the most challenging boss encounter in a Destiny campaign. It is a fitting conclusion to Forsaken.
You won’t be fighting scorn here, this is a Taken Chimera after-all. There is nothing new in the way of enemies. Hobgoblins will snipe you from high platforms all over the room. Centurions will try and blast you into walls with their shields. The main annoyance in this fight is that Riven will send you to the ascendant realm to fight tougher Taken generals.
This happens several times throughout the fight as you whittle down its health pool. Inside and outside of the ascendant realm you will have to deal with dark damage fields all over the room.
Standing in one will do high dot (damage over time) damage and leave you incredibly vulnerable to the various ranged attackers and Riven itself.
Voice of Riven will become invulnerable to all attacks when it gains a green shield around itself. You will have to take out several small taken blights to lower the shield.
These are completely RNG based and can spread out anywhere in the arena. You will only have to deal with this mechanic when you aren’t in the ascendant realm.
There are various platform pathways you will need to climb if your aim is lacking. I prefer to take a sword with me into this encounter as the ability to go into 3rd person at times can prove invaluable.
While this is a challenging and somewhat frustrating boss fight, there is one solace for you here. Assuming you die at certain points in the encounter the game will save your progress. Unless you get shoved out to orbit somehow you can always pick up the fight at these checkpoints.
I kinda wish this feature could shut off though and I’m hoping it’s restricted in a harder heroic version of the mission.
Many add groups can overwhelm you here and some supers are unusable against the boss. While I can attack with my Void blade-dance attacks, likely I’d get one or two hits before falling down. That would be a waste so if you don’t have a super with air capabilities focus on adds when pinned down.
Remember the weakest Taken grunts have that frustrating self-replication ability to clone themselves. So make sure you have taken them all out before feeling safe in any area.
The adds won’t ever stop coming. It can become a bit disorienting to be dealing with adds in every direction, but make sure to focus the Voice of Riven down.
After the Voice of Riven sends you to the ascendant realm about three times you should be nearing the end of the fight. In the video I finish this encounter early by abusing my Titan’s missile super. Usually it will protect itself one more time with a shield and you will have to destroy a large amount of blights.
After dealing with the final force-field focus the boss down and enjoy the highly climactic ending. Who said Bungie can’t tell a good story… I did, yeah I was one of those people. At this point I believe my faith in them has finally been restored. I can’t wait to see what we will have to face next in Forsaken. Till then be safe, Guardian.
The Voice of Riven appears to be a horrific amalgamation of Fallen Servitor components and living flesh. In place of the central “eye” of a Servitor is a gaping maw, lined with rows of fangs. The exterior of the creature is covered with numerous translucent tentacles reminiscent of the appearance of the Taken.
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UMBC will be making its first appearance at the America East swimming championships this weekend at the University of Maine, but Brad Green and Astrid Sperling will be far from timid new kids on the block.
Instead, Green and Sperling will stroll proudly with their teammates into the Wallace Pool area, enjoying their status as a legitimate threat to win the league championship.
"I like being hunted," said Green, who will lead the Retrievers men's bid to win a seventh straight conference title after taking six consecutive Eastern College Athletic Conference championships.
"If we go out and do the times we're supposed to, we'll win," said Green, who specializes in the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke and is a part of three school record-breaking relay teams.
The UMBC men's only loss this season was by one point (122-121) to Navy, a setback they have used to drive them to a program-record 12 wins.
Sperling and the Retrievers women also swam to a program-best 12 victories (12-1) this season. East Carolina handed the UMBC women their only loss, 134-109.
"It has been a great feeling to go into meets as the favorite," said Sperling, who holds school records in the 100 back and 200 back. "Our team is definitely better because of the new freshmen, and now we can have a little mental edge going into a meet because of our record."
Sperling, like Green a senior, also has school records as part of the 200 and 400 medley relay teams.
Although the UMBC women's team is a strong contender in the America East meet that opened yesterday and continues until tomorrow, they have to share the spotlight with New Hampshire and Northeastern as threats to take home the first-place trophy.
"New Hampshire is strong in distances and Northeastern is strong in sprints," said UMBC men's and women's coach Chad Cradock. "We have to hope we can find a way to grab enough points to win while those two schools negate each other."
The UMBC women have captured the Northeast Conference title four of the past five years.
Cradock said he has seven swimmers and divers capable of qualifying for the NCAA Division I championships, including Green, Sperling, Jon Gdowik (3-meter diving), Gene Szabo (200 butterfly), Lindsay Prather (200 breaststroke), Holly Wittsack (200 butterfly), and Agnieszka Stanislawska (200 freestyle).
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Tee Trotter's dominance of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Week award has now reached the extraordinary stages, as the Maryland-Eastern Shore senior guard has racked up three straight.
Trotter's latest three-game binge had him averaging 23.1 points and carrying the Hawks to two victories.
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Salisbury's 2003 NCAA Division III field hockey national championship team will be honored at the State House in Annapolis Monday at 8 a.m.
Coppin State senior center Leisel Harry averaged 28.5 points and 15.5 rebounds while shooting 56.4 percent from the field in two games last week, earning MEAC women's Player of the Week honors.
Leonard Trevino, the only head basketball coach in the 14-year history of Goucher's men's program, picked up the 200th victory of his career last Saturday with a 73-70 victory over Salisbury.
Harford Community College sophomore guard Jason Peterson is averaging 22 points, 12.3 rebounds, four assists and four blocks in addition to shooting 62 percent from the field and 34 percent from three-point range.
The Goucher doubles team of freshmen Andrew Danos and David Sands is ranked No. 12 in the first Atlantic South Region's rankings of the year.
Goucher showed an 8 1/2 -game improvement in women's soccer last fall, going from 0-16-2 in 2002 to 8-7-4 in 2003. Only one other Division III women's school, Nebraska Wesleyan, had a more dramatic turnaround (nine games).
Loyola College women's soccer coach Joe Mallia has just returned from a second straight stint as goalkeepers coach for the Under-21 U.S. women's national team.


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C&C Generals was a bastardization of the C&C name, surpassed only in bastardization by Renegade. Generals should have been released completely unrelated to the C&C franchise. It was a good enough game, but it was not C&C.What happened with C&C:Generals then? That was USA, China, etc.
C&C Generals is the best one so far. The newest (Not this one in this thread ) one is not worth the CD its burnt on.

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There are plenty of tricks you can use to squeak a little more range out of your existing equipment. If your networking gear is old, If you run your old router as a wifi extender, you’re
I tried looking for a way I can use the TP-link router as Range Extender because surely there are ways you can use your old router as a Range Extender, there is a bit of tweak that you need to do by following a tutorial on the internet. I am sure this is how you found this article in the first place :-). May 11, 2020 · It is not recommended to use more than two WiFi extenders on your router. You might get some WiFi routers that have the ability to support more than two WiFi Extenders but their cost is not worthy enough to use WiFi extenders with them and in the same cost, you can get a WiFi booster for you or you can get another router to be placed instead of a WiFi extender. Just like cellular towers, WiFi Network Extenders use a “wire” or cable as the means of communicating back to the router or source. Actiontec’s WiFi Network Extenders then use that “huge pipe” or “Internet Autobahn” to create a second or third WiFi boosted network. A Range Extender, WiFi Booster or WiFi Extender is a device that repeats the wireless signal from your router to expand its coverage. It functions as a bridge, capturing the WiFi from your router and rebroadcasting it to areas where the WiFi is weak or nonexistent, improving the performance of your home Wifi. Jun 12, 2020 · Most dual-band extenders use both radio bands to transmit data to and from the router, which means devices connecting to the extender are competing for bandwidth with the router.
I have a router that can be used as a range extender, but it needs to be plugged into the modem no matter what I use it for. Does your Jetpack have an Ethernet plug? That's a good way to figure out if you could even plug in an extender. Next would be figuring out if it's compatible.
The Quick Start Guide and User Manual state that using the (optional) WPS Synch option then the Extender will assign the "-Ext" to the 2.4G & "Ext-5G" to the 5G network names. The user can manually configure the same SSID's as their router. While a little more advanced, if your home or business is already wired for network connections with Ethernet or CAT5 outlets, you can use a range extender in Access Point Mode to create new WiFi access right there. Just switch the range extender to Access Point Mode and connect with an Ethernet cable.
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When Deco works with an existing router, it is suggested to turn off the router's Wi-Fi network and use Deco's Wi-Fi network instead to minimize the wireless interference. Q2: Can I connect Deco wirelessly to an existing router to extend my existing Wi-Fi network? Deco doesn't support Repeater mode, only Router and Access Point modes are available. May 24, 2020 · The extender will also never be as fast or reliable as a good connection to your primary router—the same conditions that make your primary router sketchy can affect the connection between the


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Halimah Abdullah, CNN – June 4, 2014
The path to the presidency is especially challenging for Republican women and it contrasts sharply with Democrats who – as buzz grows around Hillary Clinton – may be poised to nominate the first female presidential candidate of either major party.
Pew Research Center – May 19, 2014
As the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape, Washington experience has become less of a potential asset for those seeking the White House.
Gabriel Debenedetti, Reuters – May 15, 2014
Most Americans have a favorable view of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and think she will win the 2016 presidential election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.
Liz Kreutz, ABC News – May 7, 2014
Hillary says we should “crack the glass ceiling” and elect a woman President.
Byron York, Washington Examiner – April 24, 2014
Warren is repeating previous statements that she will not run for president in 2016. But her denials aren’t really denials, and her party’s unique presidential circumstances give Warren plenty of room to run.
Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post – April 22, 2014
With the release of her memoir, political insiders are wondering, will Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) run for president? If she does, Warren poses the biggest threat to expected Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times – April 22, 2014
Never has there been so much rising female talent in the Democratic Party, with a record 20 women in the Senate, 16 of them Democrats.
Jackie Kucinich, Washington Post – April 16, 2014
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), fresh off a barn-burner of a speech in New Hampshire this weekend, is also the latest Republican who’s name is being floated as a contender for the top of the GOP ticket in 2016 – whether she likes it or not.
Scott Conroy, Real Clear Politics – April 11, 2014
Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn will consider running for president in 2016 — if she sees an opportunity to do so, an aide to the 7th District Republican told RealClearPolitics.
Jay Newton-Small, TIME – March 11, 2014
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tells TIME she’ll consider running “someday,” but says Hillary Clinton will be “our first woman president.”


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15 Jan A mother writes to inquire about how exactly to help her 10-year-old child, whom is stressing a great deal about “bad ideas.”
Often these ideas are bad because they’re mean: A household friend is “fat” or “wrinkly.” They generally are intimate: She imagines a classmate naked. Or violent: She believes she would like to destroy her mom. They will have the one thing in typical: she seems a need to confess all those ideas to her mother, who wonders what’s taking place.
It’s a situation we hear a great deal: a young child is abruptly hopeless to confess thoughts that are disturbing. A 9-year-old noticed his teacher’s cleavage, and seems accountable about any of it. As their dad writes: “The more he attempts to get a handle on the ideas, the greater amount of they come.” He worries out loud that there is something amiss with him, and wants reassurance that he’s okay. Again and again.
Young ones could possibly get extremely upset about these ideas, though needless to say only some of them feel compelled to share with you these with their parents. But once they are doing, the constant confession and needs for reassurance may be stressful for moms and dads, too.
How come children be worried about “bad thoughts” and have the have to confess them? And exactly what can you will do being a moms and dad to greatly help them?
So what performs this thought state about me personally?
Jerry Bubrick, a medical psychologist during the Child Mind Institute, reminds us that individuals think, as these kids do, are bad that we all have random thoughts. We may think, Wow, that has been unkind, or strange, or improper! then we dismiss them. We don’t show them, or work we quickly forget about them on them, and.
In comparison, Dr. Bubrick claims, kids could possibly get upset when these ordinarily thoughts that are fleeting “stuck” and they’re struggling to dismiss them and move ahead. In the place of acknowledging thoughts that are bad meaningless, the youngsters hold themselves in charge of them.
“These children are placing value on by by themselves in line with the ideas they’re having,” Dr. Bubrick explains. In having that thought so they think, There must be something wrong with me. Or, i have to be a terrible individual if I’m having that idea.”
Dr. Bubrick calls it “over-responsibility of idea”—kids literally keeping by themselves in charge of their ideas, in the place of permitting them to get. “And that’s why kids feel compelled to confess. They’re parents that are asking reassurance, for the moms and dad to state, ‘Yeah, that’s fine. Don’t worry he adds about it. “That calms that worry: Okay, I’m maybe not a negative individual.”
How come some ideas have stuck?
Ideas tend to be driven by psychological states, Dr. Bubrick records. For instance, “when I’m more likely to have delighted ideas, when I’m scared I’m more prone to have frightening ideas. When I’m to own ideas about food.” We can all relate to imagining bad things happening to the person who’s standing in our way when we get frustrated or angry.
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But the majority of us don’t become alarmed or self-critical predicated on our thoughts alone—what issues will be the actions we simply simply take. Becoming fixated on “stuck” ideas may be a symptom of anxiety, whether or not it is just an anxious personality or an anxiety disorder that is full-blown.
Exactly What children think about “bad” is dependent upon the tradition and just just what they’ve been taught. In religious families, for example, children be concerned about “bad thoughts” they think might offend Jesus. Intimate ideas aren’t infrequently unsettling to guys, specially before puberty makes talk of sex common amongst their teenage peers. Concerns about planning to murder folks are interestingly typical in small children. Rachel Busman, a medical psychologist at the kid Mind Institute, managed one 10-year-old woman whom felt she necessary to take a seat on her arms because she had ideas about strangling somebody.
Children whom feel compelled to confess and request reassurance are frequently not as much as 12, Dr. Bubrick notes. “Older children will not tell moms and dads exactly exactly exactly what they’re reasoning, i might imagine, since the ideas are darker or scarier. They’re more sexualized, or they’re more violent.”
Just how can we assist kids handle ‘bad thoughts’?
The target is straightforward: to aid children observe that their thoughts are simply ideas.
“Just it’s a good or a bad thought—doesn’t make it true,” Dr. Bubrick explains because you have a thought—whether. “A bad idea doesn’t cause you to a negative person—It simply means you’re having that idea. ”
That’s the message clinicians utilize if they treat children with anxiety problems utilizing intellectual behavioral treatment. Young ones are taught to determine their thoughts that are obsessive separate from themselves—as a “bully within the brain,” as Dr. Bubrick sets it. “When thoughts have stuck inside our head, they form of bully us into thinking they’re more crucial than they’ve been,” adds Dr. Busman.
“Seeking reassurance is ways to alleviate the stress or anxiety,” she says. “And it really works, for the minute.” However the only method to stop the period to getting stuck on intrusive ideas and requesting reassurance is to learn how to tolerate the distress without confessing, and discover that the anxiety will diminish.
If bad ideas actually become a challenge for a child—if they carry on, when they result great anguish or interfere because of the child’s functioning, it might be mail order wives an indication of an underlying panic attacks that deserves professional assistance.


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Hljómskálakvintettinn ("The Music Pavillion Quintet") is an Icelandic brass quintet, here playing a variety of well known Christmas tunes, Icelandic and international alike, starting off with "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and, of course, ending with "Silent Night".
The quintet's members are:
Ásgeir H. Steingrímsson: trumpet
Sveinn Þ. Birgisson: trumpet
Þorkell Jóelsson: horn
Oddur Björnsson: trombone
Bjarni Guðmundsson: tuba
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Image: The QCS EH100 front-loading steam sterilizer (Photo courtesy of Priorclave).
Priorclave Ltd. (London, UK), a manufacturer of laboratory autoclaves and research grade sterilizers, highlighted its smallest steam sterilizer, the QCS EH100, at MEDLAB Middle East 2018. MEDLAB, the world’s largest attended laboratory and IVD exhibition and conference, held in Dubai, UAE, from February 5-8, 2018, also offered Priorclave the opportunity to showcase its full product range, including benchtop, top and front loading free-standing, double-door, stackable and power-door autoclaves.
Priorclave’s energy efficient autoclave are available a comprehensive range of front and top loading designs and a choice of formats - benchtop, double-door, stackable and powerdoor and chamber sizes from 40 to more than 850 liters as standard. In addition to more than 60 standard laboratory autoclaves, including front and top loading designs, the company also manufactures autoclaves to match specific requirements.
Visitors at Priorclave’s stand at MEDLAB Middle East 2018 had the opportunity examine first-hand the superior build quality of the QCS EH100, its 100 liter front loading laboratory autoclave. The QCS EH100 has a larger chamber diameter for increased versatility and sterilization of both small and taller than usual items. It also features the TACTROL controller that gives one-touch control, allowing for easy adjustment of sterilizing temperature and time for simple cycles to fully featured multi-program operation and with printed records. For a busy working environment, automating the sterilizing process along with features to assist in autoclave management, TACTROL enables other tasks to be undertaken secure in the knowledge that the sterilization is proceeding safely and efficiently.
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Meet Bridget, the Carson Scholar Fund’s Newest Staff Member
Bridget has recently joined the Carson Scholars Fund staff as the Graphic Designer and Scholarship Coordinator. She is hitting the ground running designing numerous projects and assisting with the 2022 scholarship season.
Bridget graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Towson University’s Graphic Design department in May 2020. She has spent the last three years working in the social media and marketing world and is ready to help with Carson Scholars Fund’s online presence. Bridget also graduated from The Pennsylvania School of Pastry Arts in 2016. She continues to do freelance design as well as make custom cakes and desserts for people.
In her free time, Bridget likes to spend as much time with her family as possible. Together they do game nights and weekly trivia. Bridget also loves to take her niece and nephew out to explore the world. Any chance to share her love for art with the kids and get them excited about things outside of the digital world is fantastic.


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WaCharTi(Wayal3z Charity Party).A party to raise funds for the orphans while also bringing people from all walks of life together to have fun and network.
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TR: Mt. Bancroft East Ridge 7/11/2009
I tried to motivate people to join me but failed... which is a shame because this was one of the best, easy access, semi-technical climb I've done! I woke up early and headed up to Mt. Bancroft (13,250') near St. Mary's Glacier to climb the East Ridge route, which is short but sweet scramble with a mandatory 70ft rappel and a very short, 30ft pitch of 5.2 climbing, plus lots of class 3 scrambling and a spot or two of class 4 on very solid rock (as alpine rock goes, anyway!). Great weather combined with excellent views and a fun 4wd road to access and virtually no other people on the peak made for a excellent Colorado Saturday morning.
Early morning scenery along the 4wd road. The road was still gated about 3/4-1 mi below Loch Lomond, so there was a bit of extra hiking involved.
More roadside beauty.
This is the snowdrift that, apparently, justifies keeping the road closed.
Early sun on Loch Lomond (not a natural lake).
The west end of Loch Lomond.
A closer look at the waterfall dropping into the lake from the basin between James Peak and Mt. Bancroft.
Lake Caroline from the base of Bancroft's east face. I climbed the rocky ridge on the right.
Looking out over the bench below Lake Caroline towards Denver.
Cool ice features on Lake Caroline, far below.
Loch Lomond, Steuart Lake, and Reynolds Lake. There appears to be a trail that leads up here from Loch Lomond, which I would think would be a beautiful easy hike (there is another lake not visible in this photo as well).
Ice Lake at the base of James Peak's south face. Apparently, despite the sunny exposure, Bancroft's east ridge shades this area enough to hold snow a long time.
Self portrait on the summit.
A panorama from the Grays/Torreys area to the SW to St. Mary's area in the NE.
James Peak to the N and Parry Peak to the W.
Looking down on Lake Caroline and the ridge I climbed.
This random face just south of Bancroft looks to hold a couple excellent N facing couloirs, if they hold snow.
Mt Bancroft. Ascent route follows ridge on the right, descent follows the gentle ridge on the left.
A really fun route, very close to Denver. I'll be back to repeat this one for sure.


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MOM Brands knew their Mini-Spooners SKU was popular with shoppers. But when the cereal maker decided to extend the popular multigrain cereal into a standalone master brand, they created flavor combinations entirely new to the category. MOM Brands came to Kick for Spooners packaging that would deliver “shelf kicker” results alongside Post and Kelloggs.
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KOLKATA: 3D is passe; 7D is the latest technique to woo movie buffs. And the city will soon enjoy the mind-boggling experience at the country's first 7D theatre that is coming up at City Centre, New Town.
Combining the magic of 3D cinema with physical effects like wind, lightning, rain, snow, fog and smoke in synchronization with the film, 7D movies offer an emotional experience that can be overwhelming. The auditorium with a modest capacity of 24 seats will primarily showcase animation films that will combine a number of special and simulated effects.
The specially-designed, penumatic-operated seats will shake and jolt the audiences in sync with the developments in the movie, explained Dilip Raghani, the director of Aditya Entertainment Ventures, which is setting up the theatre. "If there is a rain scene, a water sprinkler attached to the seat will provide that effect. Again, if there is a storm build-up in the movie, strobes in the theatre will recreate the effect of lightning. Cold smoke will recreate a fog; there will be snowflake and bubble effects, too. In some movies, different fragrances can be released in opportune moments to make movie-viewing a complete sensory experience," Raghani said.
According to Raghani, two shows of 15 to 20 minutes' duration will be held every hour with 12 to 14 screenings a day. However, as the seats will actually cause the viewer to jerk or shudder, pregnant women and heart patients will not be allowed in.
The Rs 1.5 crore theatre was scheduled to open on September 19. But the launch date has been pushed back as Bidhannagar police is yet to issue the fire licence.
"Officers of Bidhannagar commissionerate inspected the theatre on Saturday. We are confident of getting the clearance at the earliest and have rescheduled the launch to September 29," said consultant Sunil Bhalotia.
Currently Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore have 4-D theatres. Only select theatres in theme and amusement parks in Thailand, Mexico, Hong Kong and South Korea offer the 7D experience.
Though 'Avatar' was one of the 10 films that have received the treatment starting with 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', the theatre plans to showcase short-duration animations designed to enable the audience to enjoy the entire range of special effects in a short time.


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Preparation can help lessen the chances of this result when taking a kid mountain biking.
Richmonders can consider themselves lucky to be surrounded by some of the best mountain biking trails in Virginia. As cycling in RVA continues to grow in popularity, it’s the perfect time to round up the family, pull out the bikes, and start exploring the network of amazing trails in our regional backyard. The local parks offer opportunities for even the youngest cyclists to begin honing their single track skills. Mountain biking provides riders with many opportunities to improve their technical ability. Skills such as balancing, braking, shifting, climbing, descending, choosing the best line and getting over or through obstacles will all come into play on the trails. Not only will your young riding partners have a blast learning this adventurous sport, they will emerge from the trail with improved bike handling skills for any type of riding.
GETTING STARTED: To get started on trails with the kids, be sure they are on a geared mountain bike that suits their size and they are wearing a properly fitted helmet. Cyclists fresh off their training wheels will need to gain leg strength for trail riding.
WHERE TO GO: Trails such as the Flats section of Poor Farm Park in Hanover County provide a great area for building strength. As its unofficial name implies, this section is flat but rooty and offers the young novice great opportunities to practice sighting ahead, riding off seat with pedals parallel, and navigating curvy single track, all while building strength and endurance.
Deep Run Park in Henrico also offers a great area for beginners. Inn the front area of the park, you’ll find single-track descents, which, in the opposite direction, offer a nice challenge for climbing and the opportunity to master shifting. The park also boasts a set of V-ditches ranging from the most modest pitch to a steeper, more adventurous V-ditch. These offer an opportunity to practice the hips-back descending position and quick, back-to-front weight transfers needed to successfully navigate this type of terrain. The V-ditches are a guaranteed kid pleaser! Other areas in the park offer opportunities for practicing creek crossings, log obstacles, rock gardens and tougher hill climbs.
Who knows, your kid might have the talent to do this. Credit: Va. Interscholastic Cycling Association
Belle Isle, in the heart of downtown Richmond, offers a fantastic skills park where young and old alike can practice a variety of techniques needed for tackling the downtown trail system. Here, you’ll find rock gardens; short, steep ascents and descents; log obstacles; rock obstacles; and the two pump tracks, which every kid (and kid at heart) will love. Outside of the skills park, along the eastern side of Belle Isle, you will find the Lost trail. This flat trail provides skill-building opportunities and off-road adventure for young riders. For more experienced kids, the top of Belle Isle provides a fun challenge and an opportunity to use the skills they’ve acquired down at the skills park. An ascent up the fire road in the middle of Belle Isle will definitely provide practice in the areas of shifting and climbing. Turning left at the top leads to single track that will include short, steep ascents, descents, root beds, and log obstacles. This short loop finishes with a long descent of twists and turns over cobblestones where descending and braking competence are crucial. A challenging exit requires braking, turning and balancing skills as you make a hard left turn and find yourself back down at the skills park. Once a young rider feels comfortable on this trail, they will be ready for the main attraction…the adventures that Buttermilk, Forest Hill and North Bank trails have to offer.
The skills park on Belle Isle is a great place for kids to learn basic MTB skills. Credit: Greg Rollins
Pocohontas State Park in Chesterfield County is a mountain biking treasure you should place on your “MTB to do” list. Offering miles and miles of trails, Pocohontas Park was recently awarded a grant to help it become part of the official Richmond Regional Ride Center, approved by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA). Currently there are only eleven IMBA Ride Centers in the world. The grant will improve existing trails and help build many more miles of trails with the goal being to provide something for riders of all skill levels. The mountain bike trails at Pocohontas currently are rated Green, Blue and Red. The Green trail is the easiest and is great for building strength and endurance for the young kiddos. The Blue Trail requires moderate technical skills, as riders will encounter climbs, drops, log crossings or rocky areas. Red trails are designated for experienced riders, offering obstacles such as skinnies, jumps, and other technical riding. The miles of double track fire roads at Pocohontas are great for enjoying ride time together and building strength and endurance for all skill levels.
Mountain biking is an exciting sport that can bond a family through mud and adventure! By starting with the proper equipment and the appropriate trail level, young riders will gain experience and confidence that will allow them to enjoy the multitude of trails that help make RVA the great cycling town we love!


Robert Randolph is evidently shooting for the stars — and maybe even the heavens.
Asked to describe his upcoming CD, slated for June release, Randolph says the disc “is really going to surprise a lot of people — it’s going to be a lot better than the last one.”
Yikes. That will take some doing, since Randolph’s 2003 studio debut, Unclassified, was one of the most joyous, celebratory, rockin’-est records of the last few years. The music on that disc was built on a gospel foundation — Randolph spent his teen years playing “sacred steel” guitar in the House of God Church — but it also drew on Sly Stone rocking-soul, Hendrixian guitar freakouts and the slap-happy, deep-funk grooves of Parliament-Funkadelic.
And even though Randolph and his group, the Family Band, are steeped in established, rock-ribbed genres, they mix these influences in a way that’s been rarely heard before. What’s wholly unique about Randolph’s music is that he plays an instrument — pedal-steel guitar — typically associated with country and Hawaiian music. On some tunes, he plays the less countrified and gnarlier lap-steel — and, on occasion, even the iconic solid-body electric axe.
Unclassified caused such a stir that, this time around, everyone had a suggestion for the virtuosic player. Carlos Santana, Steven Tyler, Dave Matthews, Rob Thomas and Eric Clapton all called up with ideas.
Clapton actually plays on one tune — a cover of “Jesus is Just Alright.” Since Randolph had a strict “churchy” upbringing, and was rarely exposed to secular music until the last several years, he refers to it as “the Doobie Brothers tune.” (The Doobies had the hit with the song in ’72, but it was actually recorded by the Byrds a few years before that — a version well worth checking out.)
Daniel Lanois also played on and produced two of the new songs. “He’s had a big hand in the recording process, helping it all come together and working with Mark Batson [who produced the rest of the record],” says Randolph during a recent phone interview from the road. He confirms that the Lanois-produced tunes do, in fact, evoke the sort of humid, Southern Gothic atmospherics that shimmered through other Lanois-produced discs like the Neville Brothers’ Yellow Moon, Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball.
“But the songs Daniel produced are also really soulful, and one tune, ‘Shake,’ is a funky-shuffle kind of thing,” he goes on.
Asked to elaborate on what makes the upcoming disc so much “better” than the stellar Unclassified, Randolph remarks that “We’ve really evolved, not just as a band, but also as singers and songwriters. The last record, we went in to the studio and came up with it really quick in just three weeks. But this time we decided we should take more time to really capture what it is we do. If you look at all the great records, by bands like U2 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, they take their time, and craft them so that they [sound] just right.”
Hmm … many roots-rock fans might argue that they prefer the lean, fiery spontaneity of a session like Unclassified to U2’s sometimes-bombastic arena rock, or to the Chilis’ often-pro-forma punk-funk. But that’s probably another conversation …
As much as Randolph’s music evokes previous generations of guitar heroes and soul rockers — everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone to the Allman Brothers and Ry Cooder — he says those artists weren’t even on his radar when he was first learning to play the steel guitar: He didn’t get turned on to most of them until after he moved out of his parents’ house.
“Around the house, we only listened to gospel. I never heard of Jimi Hendrix until about five years ago. So it’s just in the last few years that I’ve been getting into all this great music from outside of the church. Like, a lot of people say my steel playing reminds them of Duane Allman’s slide guitar, but I never heard of Duane until a few years ago, either. But now, I really love his music.”
Randolph does have an explanation for the funk-soul connection, though. “A couple of years ago, I discovered Sly Stone, and I could hear where his music was coming from, because he grew up with church music, too. A lot of soul music started with gospel, you know.”
Randolph began playing the “sacred steel” guitar as a teenager in Orange, N.J. His father was a deacon and his mother was a minister in the House of God Church there. The sacred-steel tradition in that church goes back to the 1930s, when the steel guitar was first used as a substitute for more expensive organs.
Although he was raised with the strict discipline that most “preachers’ kids” know too well, Randolph began mixing it up with a rougher crowd in his public high school, not long after his parents divorced. So it would have been easy to go the other way. It was music, and especially the steel guitar, that kept him grounded and gave him a purpose — something to keep him off the streets, where some of his old pals entered gangs and eventually ended up in “the system,” as they say on Law & Order.
“Preachers’ kids are the worst,” says Randolph with a laugh. “You grow up with all this strict upbringing, but then you get to school, and start hanging with friends who don’t go to church. And then when you get to college, you’re exposed to things that you’ve always been cut off from, and you just go wild.”
Robert Randolph & The Family Band appear at the Orange Peel (101 Biltmore Ave.) Friday, April 14. 8 p.m. $25. 225-5851.


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Since Friday July 19, I’ve done my best to stop drinking coffee (all caffeine really because 99% of my caffeine is consumed in black gold form) by about noon. The first few days I strayed till 1 pm or so but since then it’s been finished by around 11:30 am.
No real change in sleep (which was the experiment) BUT it really is only one part of the equation (snoring, heat, beer all add up on the other side). No real change in mood either.
So why am I posting do you ask? Because I knew I was only going to be consuming a much smaller amount of coffee than before I figured I was going to be sure it was GOOD coffee, and not just the free unlimited stuff I have access to at work.
Sparkplug Coffee gets delivered to the house. I have used my french press every freaking day for the last couple of weeks and have enjoyed my coffee so much. I will probably never cut coffee out completely – I enjoy it too much – but I am actually enjoying it more when it isn’t so much the “quantity” of the stuff but the “quality.” Who’d a thunk it?
The most recent limited edition was called Mad Bastard. They describe it as a “blend of premium Arabica beans from Colombia and Brazil.” It’s a medium roast and tasty! I can’t wait to see what the next blend will be!
I grew up with sports around the house – my father is from Malta and soccer was a big deal. Somehow or other he fell in love with curling on TV so that’s long been a family favourite too.
Then my older brother started playing hockey and I spent a lot of time goofing around in rinks during practises and games. My brother played american football, hockey and curled in high school and then fell in love with golf. I wasn’t very sporty myself but I tried my hand at field hockey in school and I did end up on the ice, in front of a net, eventually. (My current goal is to get back there!) I did play a little bit of soccer – again, mostly right in front of the net, but I never really knew what I was doing.
And soccer is my dad’s one true love and so I’m going to see what I can learn this year – and hopefully have some of it rub off on The Mighty Q as well.
And there we have it – we all joined the local supporters club for my dad’s favourite team:
As I learn stuff, I’ll share it here. There will be history, there will be rules, there will be silly trivia I am sure. Mostly from a keeper’s perspective because that’s my bias. And definitely pro-Spurs (And Toronto FC too!) 😉
If you have a favourite source for soccer info definitely share that!
In February I stumbled across this page on the Library’s website: 2019 Reading Challenge. I thought it sounded like so much fun! It would definitely make me choose some books I probably wouldn’t otherwise have picked. Or at least pay attention to who writes the books, where the book (and the author) are from etc.
So of course, it’s me, I made a spreadsheet. Some books can easily go into different categories! For example – one of the advance challenge categories is “a book from The List: Great Reads for Youth”. So I scrolled through the list. And stumbled across this:
Yep – that’s Robin‘s name on that book 🙂 So it obviously goes in the Great Reads for Youth category but it could also go into the “a book by a LGBTQ+ author” or “a book by a Canadian award winning author.” Also if there was a “book written by a family member” that would work too lol
Most recently I finished Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams for the “a book that’s related to the periodic table of elements” advanced category. And yes, I am almost always this literal 😉
I learned an awful lot and I like how Aldersey-Williams comes across as a very smart, very friendly person just sharing his own little obsession with the world.
I loved reading the very elementary (hahaha) explanation behind the choice of gold, silver and lead chests in the Merchant of Venice – something I’m sure I just glossed over in high school. Oh and I enjoyed learning new words (hoicks for example) and loved the description of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay as “a gaunt, severe-looking man whose chief glory was his florid moustache.” My dad’s mustache is awesome so I had to go look up Demarçay’s!
There are lots of references to movies, to cars, to art, to architecture and so on. In fact, I was drawn so much to a passage on artists’ colours and the art supply store L. Cornelissen & Son that I went and looked it up – it still exists in London and Q has agreed that we should go check it out when we visit in August! You can do a tour online here. How cool is that?


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Yip and Jail's Nuthouse
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Nobody can remember what the target audience of Yip and Jail's Nuthouse is. It at one time had an awesome slide, but Disney lawyers had it removed to reduce their paperwork load.
- Because it is so popular, it is best to enjoy this attraction second thing in the evening.
- After waiting for this attraction, thwart something more demanding.
- If you are at the park with youngsters or immature adults, you may want to check out the exit-convenient character interaction garden.
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BEIJING – China says nine suspects were killed and another captured in a police action in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.
The official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief report that Friday's action took place in Hotan prefecture in the southern part of the vast region. It described those killed and captured as "terror suspects" but gave no other details.
That followed the murder on Wednesday of a leading pro-government Muslim cleric in the western Xinjiang city of Kashgar. On Monday, the government said militants armed with knives and axes killed or injured dozens of people in Shache county near Kashgar.
Xinjiang has experienced rising violence in recent months pitting the authorities against militants from the region's native Muslim Turkic Uighur ethnic group.


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- Fan Freedom Affiliate Alludes to Massive Price Fixing in the Secondary Ticket Market: Titans Caught Manipulating Ticket Sales
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High Spirits, Higher Heels ‘Kinky Boots,’ the Harvey Fierstein-Cyndi Lauper Musical
Summary by Dayna Stein, TicketNews:
There's a new musical that premiered on Broadway this past week. "Kinky Boots", draws inspiration from the 2005 movie of the same name. Directed by Jerry Mitchell, the musical premiered this past Thursday and will continue to run at the Al Hirschfeld Theater in New York. The main character of the play, Charlie Price, inherits an unsuccessful shoe factory when his father passes away. To make the factory a success once again, Charlie markets the business to a previously untapped market-- drag queens. The show has a running time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, Clinton.
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Thirty-six-year-old Tyshekka Collier of South Carolina got herself arrested when she entered her teenage son’s school determined to discipline her troublemaking child but ended up slapping the wrong kid.
WTLX News reported the story that Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies gave to them. Tyshekka walked into Fairforest Middle School this week to pick up her son. She stormed into the principal’s office and spotted a young boy sitting on the couch with his head down. Tyshekka proceeded to slap the child, but she soon realized her mistake and apologized to the boy. The boy was actually waiting to be picked up by his mother because he was sick.
Even after slapping the wrong boy, Tyshekka went ahead and started slapping her real son upside the head and knocking him to the ground. She beat her son for getting into trouble at the school.
The principal, Ty Dawkins, was forced to call the police after witnessing the entire incident.
Tyshekka was charged with disturbing a school, plus two counts of third-degree assault and battery. She was later released from jail for making her $3,000 bond. Her three other children are now in protective custody.
Shelly Williams, mother of the son who was mistakenly slapped, felt that her son and Tyshekka’s son looked nothing alike:
I know my child don’t look like her child. I know her child ain’t the same size as my child, so what was her problem?
A news story by Fox Carolina can be seen above.
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WOCHA: Spring Break Brings Life Changing Work & Lessons Learned | April 2020
Newsletter April 2020
WOCHA: Spring Break Brings Life Changing Work & Lessons Learned
More than a dozen members of Women of Color, Honor and Ambition (WOCHA) took part in Alternative Spring Break programming that took some from West Virginia to New Orleans, Louisiana. Thirteen students spent their time away from the RIT campus getting some hands on learning through a variety of service projects. They learned about critical challenges in the communities they visited and made connections working with local leaders. Take a look at the programs listed below:
Preservation of Protected Lands in St. Marks, FL.
WOCHA students did a lot of work maintaining some of the trails at the 68,000 acre St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, one of the oldest in the U.S. They learned about federal policy that covers protected lands.
Housing Rehabilitation and Social Justice in Selma, AL.
How many people can say they’ve helped build a house? Students traveled to Selma to work with the Blackbelt & Central Alabama Housing Authority to build homes. The organization hopes to complete 25 houses every year. It was established more than two decades ago, to provide housing rehabilitation services to people in Selma. WOCHA students also had a chance to learn more about the history of Selma and its role in the civil rights movement.
Sustainable Communities and Wetland Conservation in New Orleans, LA
In New Orleans, students got some hands on experience in the gulf coast region learning of ways to sustain America’s wetlands.
Food Justice in the Rustbelt in Wheeling
In Wheeling, West Virginia, WOCHA students worked with a group called Grow Ohio Valley to help find ways to improve health, provide economic opportunities and a better environment for people.
WOCHA is a one year leadership building program open to all women in their second through fifth years of study at RIT.


Energy Conservation Week Highlights University Sustainable Practices
(May 15, 2009 —Thunder Bay, ON)
Lakehead University is gearing up to participate in Ontario’s Energy Conservation Week, which takes place May 19 – 22, 2009. A variety of events are designed to raise awareness and encourage University Community members to continue or adopt sustainable practices. Individuals may drop off used batteries for free and responsible recycling on campus, win a compact fluorescent light bulb, and purchase food from a local supplier at the Main Cafeteria, as well as participate in a variety of other events.
Lakehead is committed to sustainability, and has eliminated more than 7,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions this year, as a result of its major Facility Renewal Project at the Thunder Bay Campus. Completed in 2008, the project not only reduced greenhouse gas emissions but also electricity consumption by 23% per year, and saved the University $4.1M in operating costs.
Several other projects and initiatives in the works, including the use of Styrofoam-free packaging by Food Services, and a recycling program that diverts substantial amounts of metal, glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, scrap metal, oil, batteries, paint cartridges, cell phones, and e-waste from landfill sites.
Hugh Briggs, Director of Physical Plant, says, “The commitment to environmental sustainability is ongoing; the changes we have implemented, and continue to implement, are long-term changes that are designed to make operations as cost-efficient and energy-efficient as possible. We have already begun to experience the benefits from several of these changes, and future generations will continue to benefit from the improvements that we’re implementing now.”
Briggs says, “Lakehead University’s Sustainability Committee continues to examine areas where improvements to current practices may be realized. We encourage everyone to participate in Ontario’s Energy Conservation Week, as substantial changes are best made with a concerted effort from the entire community.”
For more information about Lakehead’s sustainability initiatives, visit http://sustainability.lakeheadu.ca/. For more information about Lakehead University – Orillia Campus, visit http://orillia.lakeheadu.ca/yourbrightfuture/
Media: Hugh Briggs is available for media interviews. For more information contact Lisa Pelot, Communications Officer, at 343-8177, or firstname.lastname@example.org
Lakehead is a comprehensive university with a reputation for innovative programs and cutting-edge research. With a main campus located in Thunder Bay, Ontario and a campus in Orillia, Ontario, Lakehead has over 7,900 students and 2,250 faculty and staff, and is home to the west campus of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. In 2006, Research Infosource Inc. named Lakehead University Canada's Research University of the Year in the undergraduate category. For more information on Lakehead University, visit www.lakeheadu.ca
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Sweetening Ethanol, Sugar Mix
One of Brazil’s largest sugar producers processes its cane crop for consumable sugar and fuel ethanol, while co-generating electric power for internal use and sale to the grid. With fuel markets at current heights, the company’s challenge is to increase its throughput capacity and alcohol yield to meet the world’s rising demands for ethanol without significant new capital investment. (Given the highly competitive nature of ethanol production in Brazil, the company asked not to be named.)
The biggest incentive for industry expansion is the elevated price for sugar in export markets and the development of flex-fuel car engine technology where alcohol can be used alone or mixed with gasoline in any proportion. Currently in Brazil, 90% of new cars sold have flex-fuel engines and ethanol accounts for about 20% of the vehicle fuel supply. Gasoline in Brazil is typically sold with a blend of 20% ethanol and 80% gasoline, but flex-fuel engines can use a blend of 0% to 100% of either fuel.
Most of Brazil’s ethanol is made from sugar through a yeast-driven fermentation process and distillation. This process requires less energy overall than corn-based ethanol produced in the U.S. As a result, Brazilian ethanol creates 8.2 times more energy than was used to produce it, compared to 1.5 times for comparable corn-based fuel.
Sugarcane is harvested manually or mechanically and shipped to several hundred distilleries around the country in specially-built trucks. The distilleries are typically owned and run by big farms or farm consortia located near the producing fields, mostly in São Paulo state.
At the mill, sugarcane is roller-pressed to extract the juice, leaving behind a fibrous residue called bagasse. The juice is then fermented with yeast, breaking down sucrose into CO 2 and ethanol, which is distilled yielding hydrated ethanol. Burning bagasse produces heat for distillation and drying, and even electricity for use by the plant itself or to be sold to utilities.
While the business strategy for most sugar producers is to build additional new mills to satisfy growth, this company is very interested in keeping a high level of technology in its current mills to increase existing asset efficiencies. The company believes that improving process automation will reduce downtime while improving quality, consistency, and profitability. Management also wants to be able to track the genealogy of its product from raw materials through scheduled execution of batch processes, as well as monitor and analyze batch efficiencies and variation.
One of the most effective ways for companies to keep costs low is to monitor and tightly control overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Therefore, the company’s road to enhanced automation started with a pilot of GE Fanuc’s Proficy Plant Applications efficiency module at one site where sugar cane is received and pressed.
This module provides a comprehensive view of key factors including equipment downtime, quantity, and event sequences. When properly applied, it can provide detailed, real-time reporting to support increased production throughput using the same equipment, people, and materials.
The pilot was started at one plant as a test prior to making a decision on when and how to implement at two other sites. As the May-to-November growing and processing season progressed, the new system helped control problematic downtime which raised overall production. Consequently, the pilot quickly expanded to three sites based on those initial results.
As the number of system deployments expanded, so did the implementation depth. Proficy Plant Applications batch execution module was added to the fermentation operation area. This utility helps manage recipes following ISA S88 guidelines to protect intellectual property. The S88 standard defines a common set of models and terminology that describe and define batch manufacturing systems.
In addition to the Plant Applications modules, the company has installed Proficy Portal and Proficy Historian, encompassing 10,000 tags and 30 clients. The expanded system also includes Proficy HMI/SCADA Cimplicity, PACSystems controllers, Series 90-30 PLCs, and Genius blocks are also part of the automation system. Proficy’s open architecture allows these products to interface with the company’s existing ERP systems as needed.
The project has been implemented by a team from system integrator STI Canada and STI do Brasil in several phases. The first phase replaced some management reports and the Quality/Lab features of the existing MES solution with targeted benefits that include controlled downtime and quality control.
Control system migration
Before the company started the pilot, the operating control platform was a custom-developed solution that had been in place for about four years. Management had been disappointed that it did not provide the data speed and availability required, so they decided to look for another MES.
As company managers began to compile a list of business requirements, several quickly emerged as critically important and moved to the top. All agreed that avoiding unplanned downtime was most critical. The plant runs 24/7, and an interruption of even 30 minutes will show up as a significant difference in monthly production. Drilling deeper into performance data, it was clear that the grinder was the area where most downtime problems began. Here the cane is ground and the juice extracted. From there the juice can be used as a feedstock for finished sugar or ethanol.
Deciding how much goes into each process depends on current market conditions for the finished product. Price volatility isn’t usually drastic enough to drive daily or even weekly changes, but production schedulers can change allocations two or three times per production season. Because the company generates income from both processes, it has greater options than competitors who produce only ethanol. The new control system helps support this flexibility, facilitating changes as required to create the most profitable balance.
Ethanol can be very profitable. Sugar is currently the most efficient and cost-effective feedstock for large-scale commercial ethanol production and Brazil has the largest sugar cane crop in the world. With growing global demand, Brazil’s producers have invested heavily in innovative technologies to lower the cost of production. As recently as 1980, it cost producers more than $2.50 to make a gallon of ethanol. Now, thanks to technology improvements, a gallon costs just $0.75, and the search for process improvements should find ways to drive the cost still lower.
But this story isn’t just about ethanol. There are alternatives available on the sugar side as well. Different grades of sugar can be obtained from the same raw material, each with its own market price. Today, the process finishes by mixing all of the grades together in one batch that is then sold based on the percentage of different qualities.
Engineers are working on ways to use the Plant Applications platform to control the production process in a way that will allow separation of the finished product into different silos according to the different grades, which will ultimately allow schedulers to produce specific grades based on market demand.
A significant piece of the automation puzzle involves the laboratory portion of the process. At present, most ethanol producers simply keep lab results in spreadsheets as part of a manual quality control program. If a batch tests poorly, it needs to be reprocessed consuming additional production time and cost.
However, after implementing Proficy Plant applications, the company can link production parameters with quality measurements. This increases efficiency and effectiveness of the process, reducing rework.
As the world tries to reduce its dependence on oil, renewable fuels like ethanol are becoming increasingly critical. Commercial success will depend on maintaining efficiency and competitive price levels.
|Brandon Henning is global food and beverage industry manager, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. Reach him at email@example.com .|


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Nigerian serial hit-maker, Tekno is out with a brand new single titled, “Enjoy“ produced by Blaise Beatz.
TREBDING: DJ Casablanca – Best Of Erigga
The new song “Enjoy“ arrived shortly after his previous record and visual for “Puttin” released last month.
“Enjoy” is off his forthcoming album titled “Old Romance” scheduled to be released in December.
Finally, the new song was mixed and mastered by renowned sound engineer, Mixx Monsta.
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17 books to read if you love The Hunger Games, including reads from Marissa Meyer and Sarah J. Maas.
Divergent by Veronica Roth: Essay & project ideas | Novel Novice
This NaNoWriMo outline is your 30-day cheatsheet! The research for these scenes is based on the common structural elements of Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games.
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The mind of a writer is fantastic and creative, it's amazing what can be accomplished. still a pretty big change though..
The Hunger Games, Book 1- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/1407109081
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'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins. I found my fictional boyfriend in this book. finnickiloveyou.♥
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Can you smoke in casinos in Louisiana?
The smoking ban also includes all bars and nightclubs in Shreveport as well. The state law in place in Louisiana prohibits smoking in most public places and workplaces, but it does not include bars and casinos.
Are casinos in Louisiana smoke free?
SHREVEPORT, La. — Bars, casinos, and other gambling facilities will be smoke-free as of Sunday. This comes after the Smoke-Free Air Act was passed in 2020. During summer Shreveport City Council meetings, a repeal to take casinos out of the act was presented.
Can you smoke in Lake Charles casinos?
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – Now that Shreveport has passed its Comprehensive Smoke-Free Policy Tuesday, Lake Charles is the last major city in the state that allows smoking in bars and casinos.
Can you smoke in casinos in New Orleans?
Yes it does, but it is outside. over a year ago. New Orleans passed a non-smoking ordinance several years ago and all public facilities including the casino, nightclubs, etc. … Most of the casino is smoking, with a section that is exclusively Non Smoking.
Can you smoke in Margaritaville Louisiana?
There are no designated Non-Smoking areas…. however the ventilation system is superior.
Can you smoke in public in New Orleans?
FACTS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEW ORLEANS ORDINANCE
The New Orleans smoke-free ordinance (New Orleans City Code Chapter 66, Article II), effective April 22, 2015, prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places of employment, including all bars and gaming facilities.
Can Covid travel through cigarette smoke?
Experts say both cigarette and e-cigarette smoke can transport the novel coronavirus, which travels from person to person on microscopic droplets of water vapor exhaled from the lungs.
Do Vegas casinos allow smoking?
Some casinos have banned smoking at table games, but most Las Vegas properties allow it. Like New Jersey, Nevada casinos have seen high gaming win numbers since fully reopening. Most analysts have attributed that to pent-up demand for entertainment and that smoking has nothing to do with it.
Can you smoke in MGM Grand casino?
Rooms and suites are non-smoking. … We have designated smoking areas throughout the casino, bars, and other areas (but use of marijuana is prohibited in both smoking and non-smoking areas).
Can you smoke at the Golden Nugget?
Golden Nugget: Although the majority of Golden Nuggets rooms do not allow smoking, there are a limited number of smoking rooms available in their Carson Tower. … To reserve, guests will want to check the “Smoking Requested” box after selecting their dates and room type when booking to indicate their preference here.
Is Coushatta casino smoke free?
This is one of the oldest casinos in Louisiana. The casino has recently added the 7 Clans hotel and “dream pool”, to update its casino and bring more people in. … The hotel is beautiful and smoke free.