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Tasting will toast wines of Tuscany
Tour the vineyards of Tuscany simply by driving to Ala Moana Center for a benefit wine tasting, 6 to 7:30 p.m. June 25th at Morton's The Steakhouse.
"A Toast to Tuscany" will feature the "Super Tuscan" wines of Banfi Vintners, to benefit CORE-WISH, a partner of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. CORE-WISH supports employees in the hospitality industry who have children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Selections will include Banfi's Centine Rose, Centine, Castello Cum Laude and Castello Summus. Appetizers will be served, including Chicken Goujonettes, Miniature Prime Cheeseburgers, Colossal Shrimp Alexander and Italian cheeses. Cost is $45. Call 949-1300.
Dinner pairs beer with 5 courses
The Willows presents a five-course Summer Beer Dinner showcasing Belgian ales, American craft-brewed summer ales and Kauai beers with a tropical flair, at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Chef Jay Matsukawa's menu: Day Boat Scallop and Ahi Ceviche (with Troubadour Blonde Ale), Crispy Saffron Shrimp with Hearts of Palm Salad (Bieken Honey Ale), Masago Arare Crusted "Chicken Katsu" (Sierra Nevada Summerfest), Grilled Duck Breast with Roasted Corn and Fennel Relish (Keoki Tropical Tan) and Chilled Mango Panna Cotta & Mango Ginger Bread Pudding (Keoki Golden Mango).
Cost is $60; $55 for members of the Willows' Beer Club. Call 952-9200.
Chef Jay Matsukawa and beer expert Andy Baker will host a beer dinner Thursday.
Maui resort picks new executive chef
Craig Erickson has been named executive chef at Napili Kai Beach Resort on Maui.
Erickson, a Chicago native, most recently served as chef at Lahaina Store Grille & Oyster Bar. He has also served as corporate executive chef for 23 Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants, headquartered in Las Vegas.
Brasserie Du Vin:
"Big Napa Flavors," 6:30 p.m. tomorrow features Cliff Lede Chardonnay, Duckhorn "Paraduxx," Peter Paul Merlot and Louis M. Martini Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, with a three-course menu by chef Scott Nelson. Cost is $70. Call 545-1115.
David Paul's Lahaina Grill: Josh Bergstrom hosts a Winemaker's Dinner, June 26, featuring Bergstrom Winery's riesling, pinot gris and three pinot noirs, paired with a five-course pre-fixe menu. Seatings from 6 to 9 p.m. Cost is $76; $126 for 3-ounce wine pairings; $176 for 6-ounce wine pairings. Call 667-5117.


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First things first: I’ve missed you a lot. There, I said it. I tried to avoid telling you, but after you said it to me last night, so softly, so sincerely, how can I not admit it? I’ve missed you badly these last few weeks.
I’ve been (successfully) distracting myself. There’s so many other things I need to deal with, so it wasn’t too hard to avoid thinking of you.
Except that I dream about you. A lot. I wake up in the middle of the night, whimpering your name, tears in the corners of my eyes.
Denying that I was am in pain works pretty well most days. Still, at night, when I’m stuck in the commute on the way home, it hits me: that I may never get to hold you again, or fall asleep on your lap with you stroking my hair, or get a good night kiss on the forehead. Then I can’t quite catch my breath for a while.
Pretending not to care was idiotic on my part. One does not simply stop thinking about you. For how many months did we spend together? On and off, on and off—my friends don’t even believe me anymore when I say it’s over. To be honest, I don’t believe it myself sometimes.
All I can think about right now is how we parted last night. A kiss, an embrace, a searching look in our eyes as though trying to find something we’ve lost. We were waiting for the other to say those three precious words, so obviously on the tips of our tongues, and your words came tumbling out in a rush, just as I turned to go. I paused for a fraction of a second before saying it back, unsure.
How do I end this letter, anyway? I don’t know, because I don’t even know where we stand. If there is even still a “we”.
So I’ll end this letter with the only thing I know for sure:
I love you.

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Sources: Floyd, Rays could have deal in place by weekend
By Jerry Crasnick
Updated: December 12, 2007, 3:49 PM ET
The Tampa Bay Rays are in serious discussions with free-agent outfielder Cliff Floyd and could have an agreement in place by the weekend, baseball sources told ESPN.com.
The Rays have been looking for a bat in right field since sending Delmon Young to Minnesota two weeks ago in a multiplayer trade that brought pitcher Matt Garza to Tampa.
Floyd, 35, is a .279 hitter with 222 career home runs in 15 seasons with Montreal, Florida, Boston, the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs. Last year he hit .284 with nine homers in 108 games for the Cubs.
Floyd has had numerous injury problems, and the agreement won't be complete until he passes a physical. But a source said that's not expected to hold up the deal.
The Rays expect Floyd to log at-bats at designated hitter against right-handed pitching and share time in right field with Jonny Gomes in 2008. Rocco Baldelli could also be in the mix if he's healthy.
Jerry Crasnick covers Major League Baseball for ESPN.com.

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Rotating liquid pump shafts that are originally sealed with soft packings mostly use contacting face seals, also known as mechanical seals. Typical rotational speeds are roughly between 1,000 and 3,600 revolutions per minute (rpm). In turbomachinery—such as compressors and expanders—the rotational speeds are higher and mechanical seals would not immediately appear to be an option, due to greater rubbing speeds along with a lack of liquid cooling and lubrication. Nevertheless, from the late 1970s when they were first marketed, noncontacting mechanical seals, known as dry gas seals in cartridge form, have been used in most gas turbomachinery.
The first, and still the bulk, of these dry gas seal applications are through-shaft or beam machines where the shaft, carrying multiple closed impellers, is supported at each end, also known as “between-bearings” compressors.
Shaft speeds range from near 20,000 rpm down to under 3,000 rpm for the biggest machines. The latter have shaft sizes up to 350 millimeters (mm), approximately 13 3/4 inches diameter.
Smaller, between-bearing machines run at higher speeds. The fastest machines are single-ended or overhung shaft types with open impellers in individual casings, typically referred to as integrally geared compressors (see Image 1). Such machines vary from single-stage to multiple-stage designs with several compressor casings driven by more than one shaft, usually off a central bull gear wheel. They are used in refineries and chemical plants for a range of processes from simple fuel gas requirements to complex multipressure applications. There is presently a growth area in the compression of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a difficult-to-seal critical fluid.
For many reasons, as far as the shaft seal is concerned, the established between-bearing compressor applications may be seen as straightforward compared to those for overhung machines. The typical layout of a dry gas seal stage is as shown in Image 2.
Once the seal is pressurized, a thin fluid film of the sealed gas separates the stationary primary ring and rotating mating ring. The gap between the faces is typically 2 to 4 micrometer (µm) thick, but depends on the pressure, speed of the application and nature of the gas. This thin film must continue to separate the faces during significant axial movements of the shaft. Fortunately, the fluid dynamics involved are advantageous. As the gap tries to close, the fluid film becomes stiffer and increasingly resistant to the faces coming into contact.
There are two important implications associated with using a gas film seal in this way. First, there is some leakage to be considered, but this is small (measured in single or tens of standard-liters/minute) because of the small gap.
Second, because contamination is the most common cause of seal failure, the inboard area must be supplied with conditioned process gas, or an alternative, to ensure the seal is operating on clean dry gas. For the same reason, it is necessary to avoid contaminating the seal with liquid lubricant from the bearing adjacent to the seal. A separation seal is usually provided. These range from a simple labyrinth to a number of contacting or noncontacting devices, usually of a double gas-buffered design.
Dry gas seals are supplied in cartridge form, most commonly in a tandem arrangement with the inboard stage followed by an outboard stage. A double, back-to-back, inert gas buffered arrangement is sometimes used. It is possible to have a single-stage seal. This is most commonly the case in high-speed, overhung machines where space for the seals is limited.
With a single or unbuffered seal, careful thought must be given to the nature and destination of the leakage. A separation device may help.
Although there is a wide range of parameters, a typical between-the-bearings compressor may have a shaft size of 120 mm (4 3/4 inches) diameter and a rotational working speed of around 12,000 rpm. This gives a passing speed at the seal faces of about 100 meters per second (m/s) on a shaft supported at both ends and driven through a coupling with a degree of flexibility.
The rotor dynamics in turbomachinery are usually monitored by measuring the radial vibrations outboard of the shaft support bearings. Gas seals can withstand most normal levels of vibration in a turbo compressor, including brief transients into surge at levels acceptable to the compressor.
The noncontacting face seal is intrinsically tolerant of radial vibration, as the faces separated by a film of gas can easily slide eccentrically against each other. The seal does not provide much damping force to, and absorbs little energy from, such movements.
The stability of the seal under the axial component of any vibration is maintained by the stiffness of the fluid film and the responsiveness incorporated into the seal design. The shaft seal assembly must take up any relative axial movement between the rotor and the casing of the compressor.
Between-the-bearing machines usually have a thrust bearing at one end of the shaft. This means that, at the thrust-bearing end of the machine, the amount of sudden axial movement is limited in the seal (typically around 0.1 mm to 0.2 mm in operation).
The overhung compressor presents opportunities to create more arduous modes of vibration than a beam machine. The higher speed machines are now rotating at between 30,000 rpm to 60,000 rpm with a small diameter shaft supported only on one side of the seal and driven directly from a large bull gear. The bearing is adjacent to the bull gear and the mass of the compressor impeller carried at the unsupported end of the shaft. A wide range of resonances may be generated. There are additional excitations from various passing frequencies of the impeller vanes and the gear drive in close proximity to the seal.
In integrally geared compressors, the axial thrust in the directly driven shaft is often taken on thrust collars bearing against the bull gear. This can lead to axial modes of vibration that may be detrimental to the gas seal. Swashing in the thrust collars will lead to small synchronous axial vibrations, but significant oscillations are more likely to come from the bull gear at subsynchronous frequencies.
Dry gas seals operated within integrally geared compressors can often have design enhancements specifically to combat some of the idiosyncrasies of the application. The seal face passing speeds on high-speed machines can
be in excess of 160 m/s. This, with the small diameters, leads to large centrifugal loadings.
The selection of secondary sealing elements, such as O-rings and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-based seals, is constrained by the pressure and temperature ranges of the application and chemical compatibility requirements. In high-speed applications, also consider how the sealing element reacts to centrifugal forces.
Flexible polymer U-ring seals are energized by a combination of the sealed pressure and an integral spring. In applications where test regimes require a combination of low-pressure and high-speed running, the sealing element’s spring force may be insufficient to ensure adequate contact loads between sealing surfaces. Therefore, bespoke polymer seal designs can be used to address such issues.
Finite element analysis techniques predict the effects of high-rotational forces, pressure and temperature effects, which can allow the designer to accommodate such requirements. Focus is often on sealing elements such as those between the shaft and main sleeve or behind the mating ring.
Adverse effects on the seals can be attributed to torsional vibrations within the shaft. These may be generated by unevenness in the gear drive, but also from the variable speed inverter controls in electric drives, or variable frequency drives (VFDs), which may not produce a completely smooth signal.
The rotating sleeve assembly should have drive features, such as keys and lugs, to ensure all parts rotate as one. A component, like the stationary primary ring, should have antirotation features interlocking with metal components. Areas of intercomponent engagement can be damaged by vibrational hammering and fretting.
Another focus of design is the balance diameter polymer seal. Although not subject to rotational forces, it should be free to slide and accommodate the axial movements of the rotor, whatever the seal’s state of pressurization. As a direct result of the means in which the thrusts on the pinion shafts of integrally geared compressors are managed, the seal should be able to cope with constant axial deviations. In some instances, the total accumulated distance travelled by the balance diameter seal can be thousands of kilometers over a typical five-year installation life.
The material combination, contact loads and environment of operation are key considerations when designing these sealing elements. A combination of tribological performance and robust design can ensure integrity over the life of the seal.
Next Month: Offset and reducer expansion joints considerations
We invite your suggestions for article topics as well as questions on sealing issues so we can better respond to the needs of the industry. Please direct your suggestions and questions to firstname.lastname@example.org.


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80’s Gold Aviator Eyeglasses$92.00
Gold polished metal mod vintage mens aviator eyeglasses. These frames are a nice Polished gold which is a little less shiny than plain metal and gives a somewhat airbrushed feel to them. New old stock, never worn frames from the 1980's.
Double bridge, flexible temple arms - nice if you have a wide face - the temples bend outward if u need the room.
These 1980's thick gold metal aviator eyeglasses are a nice hard metal - not flimsy! A shiny gold with nose pads. There are fake plastic temporary lenses for this frame with manufacturer inscription so they are awaiting your prescription.
56 16 140 by eye Q Optical
Just under 2 1/8" - Horizontal width of each lens at the widest portion
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TEMPLE ARM LENGTH
5 1/2" - Measurement if the arm was straight
For every pair of eye or sunglasses purchased we will make a matching donation to the Lions Club that distributes glasses to an abundance of needy organizations.
This item is sold from a vintage boutique in Charlottesville, VA.

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Finding hotel accommodation in large cites is typically not a problem - there are enough places to stay, from modern five-star hotels to old ugly guesthouses that have not been refurbished since USSR has fallen apart. The prices are unfortunately not that cheap as can be found in South Asia, you will probably never find anything below $10 per night.
Russian countryside is not a particularly hotel-overloaded zone. In the medium-sized towns you're likely to find just one or two guesthouses and in smaller towns and villages there will be nearly nothing at all. Exceptions are holiday destinations - like ski resorts in the Caucasus, fishing camps in Karelia, recreation centers in the Altai and so on. The problem is that you rarely come across right place just when you suddenly need one in the evening - you have to know and plan beforehand.
The situation is more favorable in the Central Asia - people here used to travel a lot and to stay along their routes. You should be able to find at least a basic place to stay almost everywhere (tea houses are the best spots to ask for). In many places, especially in Tajikistan, it is a custom to stay in private houses and most people in remote villages will be invariably pleased to invite you as a rare guest and to offer you the best food they have.

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Taksin Maharat National Park Travel Guide
Taksin Maharat National Park is named after an ancient king. It’s found in Mae Sot, close to Lang Sang National Park, so the two are usually visited together.
Thanon Thongchai Mountain divides Mae Sot from Tak, inching just barely above the rugged mountains and forests that characterize the area. The park’s most famous attraction, an enormous krabak tree, is the largest of its kind in Thailand. It stands 164 feet tall and measures 53 feet around its base. The tree is found three miles from the visitors’ center.
The other major attraction is Saphan Hin, a natural stone bridge that stretches between two cliffs. At 100 feet long and more than 80 feet wide, it’s impressive to see. Given the size of the natural bridge, the relatively modest stream gurgling below is a little anticlimactic. The bridge is further out from the visitors’ center and makes for a nice picnic destination.
Getting There & Away
Follow Route 105 from Tak (toward Mae Sot) and follow the signposts to the park. The last mile or two before the park entrance takes drivers on a secondary road. The airport in Tak may have flights to Bangkok, but service is infrequent. It’s a better bet to fly to Phitsanulok and travel onward from there.


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We are an importer in Brazil since 1995. Our main clients are Sugar Mills, Resales, Food, Wood& Paper, Concrete& Cement, Agriculture Industries, Oil companies and many other. Our specialty is to attend our client with all his needs. We built our business on tradition and honesty. And are leader in the Top of Mind in Ribeirao Preto and it's region - Brazil's richest agriculture site. We are interested in exports too. So send us an e-mail or give us a call and we will try to satisfy your industrial supply needs.
Contact person:Bryan Caulkins
Street address: Presidente Castelo Branco # 2479

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A father of two who was gardening while at home during the coronavirus lockdown has unearthed what is believed to car from the 1950s – buried under his lawn.
John Brayshaw, 40, dug up the mysterious motor in his back garden in the Spen Valley and it was still mostly intact, with its engine, doors and registration plate.
John, who bought the house in Heckmondwike six months ago, was digging post panels to start decking his garden when he found the car, which was buried on its side in a 7ft x 10ft hole.
He believes the car is a 1955/56 Ford Popular 103e based on the style of the dashboard and the steering wheel.
John said he has no idea why it would be buried in the middle of his garden – but it has been suggested to him the car could have a military link.
He said: “It’s really weird. It’s not something you find every day – it is literally in the middle of my garden.
“It’s one of those things that you literally have to see it to believe it.
“I was like ‘what on earth is this?’
“I thought it was an old air raid shelter at first, then I saw the roof and I thought ‘who’d bury the roof of a car?’
“Then I kept digging at saw the door, the steering wheel and realised it was a full car complete with the registration plate.
“The only thing that was missing was the wheels.
“I’ve been told that at the end of world war two there was an influx of people that used to work for the Secret Service.
“It has also been suggested to me that the colour of the car is known as ‘RAF grey’.
“The house has got a full cellar, which is under a trap door.
“I can’t find a trace of the registration pate anywhere and there seems to be no record of the car available, which is weird as well.”
The Ford Popular, often called the Ford Pop, was built in England between 1953 and 1962. When launched, it was Britain’s lowest priced car.
John, a contracts manager had planned to lay the decking over the Bank Holiday weekend, but due to being put on Furlough leave he decided to start the work early.
He said: “I had all the materials ready and I needed to do something to put my brain back into action. I was just sat in the house watching the news and it was frying my brain.
“So I thought let’s start this decking, I never for a second thought I’d find anything like this.
“I was digging post panels for my decking and I hit something hard, so I started doing some digging around it.
“I’d say the hole it is in 7ft deep, 10ft long and 5ft wide.


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Disney renames annual ‘Rainbow Disney’ clothing line to ‘Disney Pride’ collection
Story at a glance The Walt Disney Company this week announced the launch of its 2022 “Disney Pride Collection,” a shift from previous years when the company referred to the annual collection as the…
Disney labels rainbow merchandise 'Pride Collection' for the first time: 'This is how it's done!'
Disney has sold merchandise aimed at the LGBTQ+ community since 2018. The "Pride Collection" boosts that public support amid a conservative backlash.
Disney Launches LGBTQ ‘Pride Collection’ Clothing Line For Kids, Promises To Donate Profits To LGBTQ Organizations
Disney launched a new LGBTQ “pride collection” clothing line for children on Monday, including several rainbow-colored t-shirts. “The Disney Pride Collection was created by LGBTQIA+ employees and allies at The Walt Disney Company and is a reflection of their incredible contributions and place at the heart of the company,” Disney said in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with our LGBTQIA+ community everywhere.”In the same announcement, Disney …


A prominent diamond mining company in Botswana required to replace their dated mining solutions with new technologically advanced products that will improve their machine efficiency. Festo provided the remedy in the form of a complete technical solution which reduced the customer’s workload and increased productivity. Festo has been offering secure and reliable products that have been tried and tested to withstand the harsh mining environment for over 50 years.
New and innovative solutions are regularly introduced in the industry. To remain competitive, companies need to always ensure that their products are up to date in order to obtain peak performance. The company required new customised Solenoid Valve Junction Box (SVJB) for process valve control. The commencement of the project saw extended discussions between the Festo Official Partner, Fluiconnecto and the customer from 2018 to 2019. After a plant visit to finalise the customer requirements and specifications, an order was placed for 75 customised stainless steel SVJB Control Cabinets.
Festo offers products and expert support for both mining operations and manufacturer machines. In this instance, Festo was able to supply the company with 75 specialised control cabinets through their trusted Official Partner. These control cabinets were designed and built to protect products, taking into account the specific mining industry requirements. The design was also influenced by local conditions such as the environment, weather and climate. Components namely; Air preparation, VTSA Valve Terminal (8x 5/2-way) with hot swap, terminal CPX module and drip cover were integrated into the control cabinets as required. The operationally tested system was delivered to the mining company ready-to-install directly to where it will be used.
The sturdy, highly adaptable and modular design of the VTSA makes it very popular in various industry segments that prefer standardised products and high flow rates yet also require high flexibility and modularity. The combination of five valve sizes on one valve terminal is unique and a first at Festo. Their easy to integrate VTSA is fully compliant with ISO 15407-2, and ISO 5599-2. It can be used in harsh environments: the sturdy metal housing, completely sealed valves, as well as the ducted exhaust air and pilot air, protect against failure in fine dust environments making it a good choice for the mining industry. What makes this product ideal for the project is the hot-swap function integrated into it. With these functions, engineers do not have to switch off the machine and stop production to fix a fault; the hot-swap allows the machine to continue working without interruptions while machine users replace the faulty parts.
The Festo VTSA is integrated with the terminal CPX, which can be used with all conventional Fieldbus systems or Ethernet. The electric, open and direct terminal CPX has the perfect platform for electrical peripherals. With their terminal, customers can integrate pneumatic and electrical control chains easily, quickly, flexibly and seamlessly into all automation concepts and company-specific standards and into Industry 4.0 as well. The terminal CPX contains everything that makes Festo stand out: competency, security and efficiency, which are also critical factors in the mining industry.
Dust particles in compressed air reduce the service life and functionality of components and systems as they cause deposits and mechanical friction, (e.g. between the cylinder wall and piston seal). They also impair productivity and energy efficiency. Air preparation filter regulators, on the other hand, significantly increase the process and product reliability. It is essential for the smooth functioning of pneumatic components and process reliability in production processes. The right level of compressed air purity, a sufficient amount of compressed air and a suitable level of pressure for the mining applications are vital factors that need to be taken into consideration before selecting a filter regulator. For this application, the filter regulator series MSB4, MS6 LFR and MS6-LWS were used. These filter regulators have high flow rates and are energy efficient. The MS4 series was installed directly in the control cabinet to protect the VTSA valves internal pilot ports from blocking. The MS6 units were mounted outside the cabinet for ease of access, servicing, protection of the main components from particles and water.
Throughout the years, Festo has become one of the most trusted automation solutions provider in the mining industry; for this reason, we were entrusted with this project worth over R5 million. The leaders in automation provided the company with the latest technology products, accurate delivery and local support through our trusted and trained official partner Fluiconnecto. Thanks to Festo, the customer now has increased machine efficiency and experiences fewer machine downtimes.


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A former Goldman Sachs executive—one credited as an architect of the 2008 banking bailout—said Tuesday that the country's largest financial
institutions are "still too big to fail and continue to pose a significant, ongoing risk to our economy."
In his first speech delivered as the newly appointed president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, Neel Kashkari "came out swinging," Business
He likened the risk posed by big banks to that of a nuclear reactor, noting: "The cost to society of letting a reactor melt down is
"Enough time has passed that we better understand the causes of the crisis, and yet it is still fresh in our memories," Kashkari said at the
Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C. "Now is the right time for Congress to consider going further than Dodd-Frank with bold,
transformational solutions to solve this problem once and for all."
To that end, Kashkari continued, "the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is launching a major initiative to develop an actionable plan to end
[too-big-to-fail, or TBTF], and we will deliver our plan to the public by the end of the year. Ultimately Congress must decide whether such a
transformational restructuring of our financial system is justified in order to mitigate the ongoing risks posed by large banks."
Among the solutions he floated: "breaking up large banks into smaller, less connected, less important entities" and "turning large banks into
public utilities by forcing them to hold so much capital that they virtually can't fail (with regulation akin to that of a nuclear power plant)."
Read more at Disinfo.com


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As a core team member on the “Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean” initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Project Coordinator will support activities related to open educational resources (OER) for instructors, students, and information professionals engaging with Caribbean collections. This year-round (12 month), time-limited position will undertake responsibility for managing a collaborative, international program to develop, evaluate, and disseminate freely available instructional materials for higher education in Caribbean Studies. Additionally, the position will oversee the creation and translation of guides documenting recommended practice and resources on topics relevant to dLOC Partners, such as digitization, conservation, copyright, etc. Working with educators and practitioners across disciplines, this position will ensure that expert work is transformed into published materials that are usable and maintainable moving forward.
As a member of the Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department, the dLOC Project Coordinator joins a team whose functional responsibility spans many core areas and that is intentionally designed to create, sustain, and foster productive partnerships for shared goals.
The library encourages staff participation in reaching management decisions and consequently the dLOC Coordinator will serve on various committees and teams. To support all colleagues, students and faculty, and foster excellence in a diverse and collaborative society, the Coordinator will bring culturally rich lived experiences to work with individuals of diverse backgrounds, experiences, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientation, and perspectives. The dLOC Coordinator will pursue professional development opportunities, including research, publication, and professional service activities.
Teaching Resource Development
· Collaborates with multi-institutional, international group of contributors to identify, develop, review, and share educational materials for higher education students in Caribbean Studies.
· Responds to inquiries from OER contributors, including basic information on copyright, accessibility, and technology.
· Engages potential OER contributors or users by facilitating live and recorded information sessions.
· Coordinates and directly undertakes publication and outreach to enhance awareness and access to contributed OER.
· Actively engages in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and keeps abreast of work in the field that demonstrates the role of OER in inclusive and international learning environments.
Stipend Program Administration
· Manages stipends program to facilitate creation of open educational resources (OER), including coordination with program advisory committee.
· Disseminates calls for proposals and other outreach materials to promote awareness of funding opportunities.
· Coordinates application, review, and award processes.
· Assesses program milestones and progress on an annual basis.
Program Guide Development
· Coordinates with internal experts and dLOC community members to identify topics of interest to partners such as copyright, collections metadata, preservation, digital exhibits, etc.
· Acts as primary guide series editor and coordinates digital and print publication of guides.
· Collaborates with department colleagues to disseminate published guides to partners.
· Coordinates and directly undertakes translation in English and one or more of Spanish, French, Haitian Kreyòl, or another relevant language for educational resources, guides, and other materials.
· Contributes to assessment and reporting activities relevant to the project grant.
· Coordinates with project team members and other units as needed to process stipends and honoraria for external partners.
· Participates in other departmental activities, including public service and special projects as assigned.
· Participates in staff development opportunities as needed.
We value a range of experience and perspectives. Applicants are encouraged to communicate in their application materials and subsequent interview conversations how their work and other experiences satisfy the following qualifications in ways that may not be obvious.
Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization and four years of related library experience; or a master’s degree in Library or Information Science or some other directly relevant area
• Master’s degree in directly relevant area
• Demonstrated professional level proficiency in written and spoken English and one or more of French, Spanish, Haitian Kreyòl, or another relevant language
• Demonstrated knowledge of Caribbean histories and cultures, informed by work, academic, and/or lived experience
• Experience in one or more areas of open education, instructional design, web publishing, or digital humanities
• Basic working knowledge of copyright and accessibility
• Record of including individuals of diverse backgrounds, experiences, races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientation, and perspectives in research, teaching, service, and other work
• Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with international and US partners, faculty, students, administrators, and the general public
• Initiative, flexibility, and the ability to adapt and work creatively in a complex, rapidly changing academic environment
• Experience teaching or training in online environments
DIGITAL PARTNERSHIPS & STRATEGIES
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John McCain constantly has been trying to destroy the Republicans, and President Trump has had it enough. Someone who is supposed to be on his side is spreading hate. That way Rex Tillerson who has been by the President side in this mess, decided to send message to all Republicans who are against Trump trying to ruin him. So he made an example out of John McCain.
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THE coronavirus pandemic continues to upturn the entertainment industry as many cultural and arts events get cancelled in an effort to decrease infections from events that may be classified as super-spreaders events.
The Cape Town Jazz Festival is no exception.
Producers espAfrika announced that the 2021 edition of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival would be cancelled, due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic that has seen an increase in infections in South Africa, where the jazz festival is hosted.
This announcement was made amidst the country’s President Ramaphosa’s heartfelt plea for the country to be extra cautious with the oncoming second wave.
The festival’s producers also announced that the event held traditionally annually in March would be pushed back to 2022. “We were optimistic that we would be able to host the festival again in 2021”, stated festival director, Billy Domingo.
“Sadly, we find ourselves in the midst of a dreaded second wave of Covid-19 infections, the impact of which, by all will be felt deep into 2021. It is for this reason that we have decided to postpone the festival to 2022.
“We trust that our valued sponsors, corporate clients and festinos will stand with us in caution and solidarity to play our part in minimizing the spread of this virus”.
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is a cultural-magnet event for South Africa, with over 37 000 local and international attending the coastal event annually.
In an effort to keep the love of jazz alive, Domingo announced that espAfrika has been working hard to develop an online take of the jazz festival, that will take place in 2021, creating a new online series of intimate jazz experiences called JazzFix – which kicks off in the first half of next year.
“While the road to CTIJF 2022 will be a long one, it won’t be without the joy and nostalgia jazz music brings”, Domingo said.
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Norris J. Lacy and James J. Wilhelm (eds.) The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation (Routledge, 2013)
by R. A. Davis
Part 1: ‘…he was not Arthur’“It is difficult to believe it was all the invention of a Welsh writer.”
– Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples
To live in Wales, or to be in any way Welsh, is to dwell in a landscape of contradictions. For example, Welsh poet and scholar Tony Conran (1931-2013) translated historical Welsh poetry into English but was allegedly unable to conduct everyday conversation in modern Welsh. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000), the Nobel-nominated Welsh poet and nationalist became fluent in Welsh in adulthood but maintained English as the only language of his poetry. Remote from colloquial Welsh discourse, Conran gave readers of English access to the poetic inheritance of Welsh. Thomas could protest and persuade in Welsh, but contributed to the nation’s poetry in English. In this way, literary identities seldom align neatly with their national analogues. Observe Britain’s other “Celtic” nation today and the “ambivalent, charged and complex” relationship between literature and nationality. It is from the literature of Wales and the earliest writings in its language that we derive the origin of an ancient and enduring contradiction which continues to trouble national and literary imaginations. The name of this contradiction is Arthur.
After twenty years as the standard Arthurian reader, the publication of a third edition of James J. Wilhelm’s The Romance of Arthur, co-edited by Norris J. Lacy, offers an opportunity to examine a modern readership’s encounter with original Arthurian sources. Focussing on the earliest transmission of Arthurian elements, this review concentrates on half of the anthology’s twenty-two chapters.
Modern historians and pseudo-historians alike have struggled to establish the historicity, or historical possibility, of a king or nobleman of post-Roman Britain bearing the name Arthur. The lack of any conclusive document or artefact to prove the literary figure true existence has left a vacuum, inhaling fourteen centuries of mythology and modern conjecture. To take a colourful example from the late nineteenth century: in the survey Arthurian Localities John Stuart-Glennie located his Arthur in southern Scotland and northern England, the Hen Ogledd (Old North) of Welsh tradition. His conclusion exemplifies Romanticism’s glorious project to reconcile progress and poetry:
as […] the old Greek legends, made an Iliad and an Odyssey of by Homer, furnished the poets of the great age of Greece with forms of their immortal dramas; so, I believe, will the Pre-mediaeval Celtic legends, as they have been prepared for us by the poetic romancers of the Mediaeval Age, be found to present the most varied and easily adaptable material for the European poets who will dare unreservedly to accept Science.
During the twentieth century, despite advancements in archaeology, “Science” has only fed the appetite for romance, to the point of crisis. The most dubious milestone in the misdirection of Arthurian scholarship might be John Morris’s The Age of Arthur (1973), an extreme example of a tendency to overstate historical evidence. It is a candidate for “one of the greatest historical hoaxes ever perpetrated.” While The Age of Arthur remains in print, the same cannot be said of its scholarly contemporary, Leslie Alcock’s Arthur’s Britain (1971). Alcock led excavations at so-called Cadbury Castle as head of the “Camelot Research Committee.” In a revised preface to a later edition of Arthur’s Britain he solemnly retracted the thesis derived from the Cadbury-Camelot archaeology. Responding to the same criticism aimed at Morris, Alcock states:
[…] the new verbal critiques go far beyond the rather timid scepticism which I had expressed occasionally. Consequently, they have largely undermined the case which I had advanced for the historic Arthur: indeed, some scholars would claim that they have destroyed that case completely.
An admission of intellectual misadventure is a testament to academic discipline, a force to which many published “histories” of Arthur have never been subjected. Take for example 1999’s Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms, republished in 2012, by the Scottish broadcaster Alistair Moffat. Early in its pages, Moffat (a graduate of St Andrews, in Medieval History) politely excuses himself from all responsibility to rigour: “I care nothing for academic reputation, the conventional wisdom or the weight of opinion. These researches are founded on common sense and sufficient erudition.” This self-exemption is even more troubling when we consider how these non-fiction works of Arthuriana are marketed. Compare two recent book jackets: Moffat’s credulous Lost Kingdoms and Guy Halsall’s sceptical synthesis Worlds of Arthur (2013). Both books bear cover images of a ghostly sword-hilt floating before a murky landscape. Remarkably, The Romance of Arthur also adopts the sword motif, against a field of chivalric kitsch. Let us hope that academically-inclined readers discern history from fantasy by interrogating content. Undermining this hope is the tendency among certain academics to allow their boyhood fantasies (note: all the Arthurian fantasists pertinent to this review are male) to play freely at the cliff edge of doubt. Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History, does not miss the chance to perch his own Arthur on Dumbarton Rock in the “Alt Clud” chapter of his recent Vanished Kingdoms. Flights of pseudo-historical fancy are not benign. Attempts to affix the historical Arthur to a geographical locale are inherently personal, and certainly political. This is the intellectual climate into which The Romance of Arthur is republished.
The material most relevant to the claims of Arthur-seekers is found in the first chapter of the anthology, “Arthur in the Latin Chronicles,” in which Wilhelm provides a summary of the possible point of origin of the legend of Arthur. A notable feature of the early material is the absence of Arthur in name. Sixth century British cleric Gildas gives names to other figures in his De excidio et conquestu Britanniae (On The Downfall and Conquest of Britain) but does not name Arthur. In describing the fifth century conflict he refers to one Ambrosius Aurelianus, inheritor of Roman status, leading the Britons against the Saxons. The name is first given to a British war leader by a Welshman, Nennius, in the Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons), a text compiled three centuries after the time of Gildas or the supposed age of Arthur. The centuries lying between Gildas’ outlining of the role and the naming of the character as we know it provide the perfect plot hole to be filled. In the intervening period, the Britons who had formed the cultural majority of the island during the Roman period would gradually obtain the English designation “Welsh” and eventually appear to become a cultural minority in the history of Britain. Yet it is the Welsh sources which are the first layers of material to fill the fertile gap between Gildas and Nennius. These are drawn together by John K. Bollard in the anthology’s second chapter.
The earliest occurrence of “arthur” in all of literature survives (uncapitalized) in copied manuscripts made in the thirteenth century, of two versions of a poem written as early as the seventh century. Y Gododdin is a war elegy. Three hundred Britons fought against a larger, supposedly Anglo-Saxon, force. Only one or three of the warriors survived, including the poet himself. Even assuming the part of the text referring to Arthur was part of the original composition (it appears in only one of the two versions) and the author was in fact one of those warriors, he refers to “arthur” only as an abstract ideal, a measure for one of the fallen warriors of the Gododdin force:
He fed black ravens […] on the wall
of a fortress, though he was not Arthur
Among the powerful in battle,
in the van, an alder shield-wall – Gwawrddur.
(Y Gododdin, 1241-1244 )
This translation, offered by John K. Bollard in the anthology, is more restrained than a popular version by A. O. H. Jarman, which interprets the phrase “ceni bei ef arthur” as “he was no Arthur”  inclining the reader further towards the comparison. No competing interpretation has been widely advanced for this line of poetry, upon which the character of a literary tradition seems to pivot.
Also in the Welsh tradition, the anthologists begin to identify the names later adapted to populate Llys Arthur (Arthur’s Court). Gwalchmai will become Gawain, Bedwyr, Bedivere; Gwenhwyfar, Guinevere. Like the first occurrence of Arthur’s name, these pronouns appear next to abstract detail in list-like poems and elegies, rather than in narratives. It is tempting, though anachronistic, to imbue the first sight of a name with all its later literary connotations.
It quickly becomes unclear which culture is responsible for the specific additions to the jumble of names and attributes. The Trioedd Ynys Prydain (Triads of the Island of Britain) surviving from the thirteenth century, contain reference to “Lanslod Lac,” a charming Welsh phoneticism of Chrétien de Troyes’s hero Lancelot du Lac. Here a feature has been borrowed (or borrowed-back) into the Welsh literature from a source which appropriated the tradition.
The anthology contains, in its entirety, the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, the oldest complete narrative in history to contain Arthur as a character. Recorded in the eleventh century, the tale is something like a courtly pantomime. As in the other Welsh material, lists of names (such as “The catalog of Arthur’s companions”) are a major feature, comically convoluted and alliterated, as though their tongue-twisting recitation before an audience would provide as much entertainment as the tale itself:
[…] and Ffflewdwr the Flamelord, and Rhuawn the Strong son of Dorath, and Bradwen so of Prince Moren, and Prince Moren himself, and Dalldaf son of Cimin Cof, and the son of Alun of Dyfed, and the son of Saidi, and the son of Gwryon, and Uchdryd Protector in Battle, and Cynwas Cwryfagyl, and Gwrhyr Rich-in-Cattle, and Isberyr Cat-claw, and Gallgoid Gofynynad, and Duach and Brathnach and Nerthach, sons of Gwawrddur Cyrfach – from the uplands of Hell did these men come.
This is a tiny fraction of the “catalog,” a rhythmical and breathless sequence. It is possible that portions of the list were recited by alternating voices in a competitive scenario. However it was delivered, the humour is still palpable, the tale seems to satirise the same courtly and genealogical tradition it celebrates.
The bulk of the tale (also known as How Culhwch Won Olwen) is also full of challenge and response. Culhwch, a nobleman (though his name means “pigsty”), applies to Arthur’s court to help him win the daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief Giant. Arthur assigns Bedwyr and Kei to the quest. Ysbaddaden charges Culhwch with forty impossible tasks to obtain certain anoethau (wonders) which are required in order to groom the giant for the wedding feast. The hero assures his foe each time: “It’s easy for me to manage that, though you think it’s not easy.” Before the giant counters: “Though you manage that, there’s something you won’t get […]” for a total of forty iterations. Mercifully, half the feats go unreported before Culhwch and company return to shave the giant: “the flesh and skin to the bone, and the two ears completely.” The giant’s last words before decapitation tell Culhwch he could not have won Olwen without Arthur’s help. Arthur therefore functions solely as the commanding officer and manager, the originator of power. In this Welsh context he occupies a defined role, but without a discernable character.
Part 2: Grooming Giants
A far more recognisable Arthur emerges in the anthology’s fourth chapter in excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth century Historia Regum Britannie (History of the Kings of Britain). Using what might be taken for a novelistic device, Geoffrey claims to be translating a rare and ancient book written in the British language (that is, Welsh). He certainly knew Welsh folklore; a notable giant-killing/shaving sequence suggests a direct link to (or from) Culhwch and Olwen. The Arthurian chapters excerpted here show a sophisticated narrative in clear episodes, covering the same period described by Gildas. Features of Geoffrey’s style include material and faith-based magic, blow-by-blow martial violence, and some restrained humour. Paying tribute to the list-reciters of the older tradition but lacking their stamina, Geoffrey curtails the familiar roll-call of nobles with, “and many others whose names it is too tiring to enumerate.” Geoffrey’s Arthur is the King Arthur we know; not just a leader but a moral action hero. He wields Caliburn (Excalibur), is married to and betrayed by Guinevere, mortally wounded by Mordred and carried to the Isle of Avalon. Also entering the literature here is Merlin, based on the Welsh prophet figure Myrddin, renamed to avoid the unfortunate connotation in Norman French of the Latinization Merdinus. Merlin has no direct interaction with Arthur, but it is his very own futuristic Polyjuice Potion which allows Uther Pendragon to conceive Arthur while satisfying his lust for a fellow nobleman’s wife
In claiming to reveal the truth about a tract of obscure British history, Geoffrey of Monmouth is not at all unlike the modern pseudo-historians. Certain details suggest keen research embellished with fantasy, all delivered in the name of “history.” As the anthology notes, Geoffrey wrote for Norman patrons, conquerors of Britain mining British history for an identity. This is not the Arthur of resistance but the Arthur of empire. Geoffrey’s History gave us Shakespeare’s ancient British kings Cymbeline and Lear. It also gave us Merlin’s prophecy of the return of British rule, which helped launch Wales’s Tudor dynasty.
By the early twelfth century Arthur already belonged to an international literature. Geoffrey completed his Historia around 1138. Its translation into French was undertaken by Master Wace, also the author of Roman de Brut, a history of Britain, and “the first full account of the Arthurian story in a vernacular language; Old North French.” Though substantively a paraphrasing of Geoffrey’s Historia, the Roman contains literature’s first sight of the Round Table, emblematic of the enduring peace of his Kingship:
There sat his vassals, all in royalty and equality;
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Though, evidently some nobles were more equal than others:
No man was considered courtly […] who did not come and stay for a while with Arthur in equality, and who did not have the clothing, trappings, and the armor of the sort that those who served at Arthur’s court had.
Even in its earliest incarnation the Round Table was as much a device of exclusion as inclusion. Indeed, foreign kings “feared and trembled that he would conquer the whole world […]” – scholars employ the term pax arthuriana with some supposed measure of irony.
Part 3: “rex quondam rexque futurus”
The wealth of material presented in the anthology carries us eventually to the familiar works Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Le Morte Darthur. In tracking a single theme across a rough millennium from 500 to 1500AD, the collection captures the ranging spirit of the European imagination between classical and modern worlds. How the name given to an anonymous British hero became the heading for a diversely appropriated and yet unified corpus of writing is a story worth the understanding, not least because its ancient tradition has weathered modernity.
The pseudo-historical quest for “the real King Arthur” continues, adapting to the agenda of each new researcher. Meanwhile, the fictional Arthur adapts to the demands of any audience, a legend continually recast in realistic and fantastic form (with or without dragons). We can also readily witness another, more diffuse, adaptation of Arthur’s world, that disputed Late Antique north-western Europe of legend, in the physical and magical parameters of “dark age“ or “medieval-“ fantasy, from J.R.R. Tolkien to G.R.R. Martin.
In the genre of historical fiction, history’s consumption of Arthurian fantasy becomes a story in itself, one of negotiated reality. In Hilary Mantel’s Tudor-era political epic Wolf Hall (2009) Thomas Cromwell’s son, reading in 1530, summarises Malory’s classic from the previous century:
Our king takes his descent from Arthur. He was never really dead but waited in the forest biding his time, or possibly in a lake. He is several centuries old. Merlin is a wizard. He comes later. You will see. There are twenty-one chapters. If it keeps on raining I will read them all. Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Later, having made an appeal to King Henry’s family mythology, Cromwell responds:
Gregory, those Merlin stories you read – we are going to write some more.
Far from the fantasy genre, we have here a realistic fiction based on history, set at the outset of modernity, in which Arthurian fantasy is used to shape the political reality.
Milan Kundera writes of the modern novel (and by extension the modern era) in terms of “the depreciated legacy of Cervantes.” At the dawn of modernity, reader-adventurer Don Quixote carries medieval ideals into a landscape which has forgotten them. In the diffuse appropriation of Arthuriana, the modern fantasists reverse Don Quixote’s journey. Not as Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee took the nineteenth century back to the sixth to compare their relative brutalities, but much as Walter Scott (one target of Twain’s satire) composed a tale of chivalry fit for the reader-adventurer. Scott’s Ivanhoe (1820), the first medieval historical novel in English, would have charmed Don Quexana. Indulging in fantasies of the medieval, the errant reader risks the fate of the deluded knight of la Mancha, ever destined to superimpose the medieval image on the landscape of the real.
To return to the learned misadventures of Lesley Alcock, the “common sense” of Alistair Moffat and the alleged hoax of John Morris; these are the twentieth century Quixotes who absorbed Arthurian fantasy and rode out in search of Camelot. The failure in their readings is to mistake this literature for treasure maps, when the literature itself is the treasure.
anoeth bit bet y Arthur
“[…] hard to find in this world, a grave for Arthur”; words from Englynion y Beddau (The Stanzas of the Graves) from the ninth or tenth century, found in the anthology’s second chapter. Arthur is a restless entity. John Bollard translates that “troublesome” Welsh word anoeth as “a thing difficult to find or obtain; a wonder.” We wonder at Arthur’s uncertain end. As we began with Welsh contradictions, so let us conclude: perhaps never having lived, Arthur cannot truly be said to have ever died. Diffused across borders, Arthur cannot be contained in any single landscape, perhaps least of all the land which christened him, be that Britain or Wales. Arthur survives in poetry and prose, is buried in writing. That is no resting place.
- Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume 1: The Birth of Britain (London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956) p.46
- Scott Hames (ed.), Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence (Edinburgh: Word Power Books, 2012), p. 10
- John S. Stuart-Glennie, Arthurian Localities: Their Historical Origin, Chief Country, and Fingalian Relations (Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1869), p.124
- Guy Halsall, Worlds of Arthur (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p.8
- Christopher Snyder, ‘Arthurian Origins’ in Lacy, N. J. (ed.) A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2006), p.8
- Leslie Alcock, Arthur’s Britain (London: Penguin, 1987) p. xvii
- Alistair Moffat, Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2012), p.3
- Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (London: Allen Lane, 2011), p.54
- Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman (ed.), Y Gododdin. Britain’s Oldest Heroic Poem. The Welsh Classics vol. 3. (Llandysul, Gomer 1988), p.64
- Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel (London: Faber & Faber, 2005), p.20


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On a night when Aaron Henry stuffed the stat sheet on the offensive side of the ball with 20 points, it was his hard work on the defensive side of the ball that stood out in his mind and in the mind of his head coach. Not only did Henry pull down eight rebounds (seven on the defensive end), but he blocked four shots and got two steals; there was a contagious defensive intensity which spread throughout the team.
During the postgame press conference, Henry kept coming back to what he thought was the key — holding everyone on the team (including himself) accountable. If he said it once, he said it a hundred times. The accountability he continually referred to during his portion of the press conference — regardless of what question he was asked — was the hard work that he puts in in the gym and the hard work he expects from his teammates.
“I’m always going to put my head down and go to work,” said Henry. “I can only control what I can control. I’m a guy that I’m always going to go back to the gym. I’m never going to be complacent. I try to hold everyone accountable.”
And now it has paid dividends on the court for two Spartan victories in a row — at Nebraska last week and tonight against Rutgers in East Lansing.
At the podium, Henry continued to point to the fact that his sole focus is on bettering himself. He said he’s just trying to make winning plays, whether that happens on offense or on defense.
“It’s not just one thing,” said Henry. “I try to be a complete player. Doing everything as I feel like I can. Progress on both ends of the court — that’s what we strive for every day.”
MSU head coach Tom Izzo sees it happening as well.
“Henry is playing at a whole ‘nother level,” said Izzo. “The last two games, he’s been unbelievable on the defense. He got into some people, he knocked some balls loose. He’s doing the things he needs to do to become a great player.”
Izzo focused on Henry’s consistency and pointed to the fact that he’s in the gym more and he’s growing up. Izzo is a big fan of the process of becoming a complete basketball player. Trust the process, he says.
“Everybody needs someone to be so good, so quick,” said Izzo, complaining about the hurry-up nature of college basketball these days. “It takes guys time. We’re such a fast twitch society — I think he’s growing up, he’s maturing, he’s starting to understand, he’s starting to trust people. Defensively — he’s starting to act like a captain.”
The praise was flowing so heavily to Henry, that Izzo had to stop himself, albeit it jokingly.
“If I give him too much more credit, I’m going to regret it, so I’m going to cut it,” said Izzo. “But that’s what’s supposed to happen.”
While Henry set the tone, his teammates were right there with him in the win over Rutgers.
“Tonight, we played Michigan State basketball,” said Izzo. “I thought we took the fight to them a little bit, which was important. To beat a team like that, the way we did, will give us a boost — something we can build on. We’ll keep improving.”
Izzo said that the Spartans put together one of their better defensive performances in the last couple years against the Scarlet Knights.
“It was the best of the year because it was against a quality team,” said Izzo. “It was a team win and it was needed — to win the game the way Michigan State wins games.”
That “way” was led tonight by Henry, who is really starting to step into the role that those closest to him knew he was always capable of. Once upon a time, it took outside forces to motivate Henry — we all remember the infamous verbal encouragement he received from his coach during a timeout in an NCAA tournament game awhile back. Now he’s the one motivating himself — and Izzo says that that is going to help push this team further.
“Since the day he came here, his father, myself, the other coaches...you gotta push him,” Izzo said. “But now he’s self-motivated and that’s the difference between good and great. That’s the maturity. That’s the growth.”


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Regardless of the option you use, check sure your device is Netflix-compatible. Also that your Netflix account is active before attempting to watch. Overall, it’s simple to enjoy the enormous library of Netflix movies and TV series on your TV using a little amount of setup and study.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has once again insisted the club are "totally in control" of the future of wantaway striker Luis Suarez.
The Uruguayan's desire to leave Merseyside this summer has been clear from various interviews he has given over the last few weeks, but Liverpool have emphasised they do not intend to sell the player and rejected an offer - understood to be Â£30million - for him from Arsenal.
Rodgers, who has stuck by the striker through some controversial moments, insists he is not worried the issue will drag on and interfere with his pre-season plans.
"I don't want to set a deadline or put a date on it but this is not something that will run too long," he told the Liverpool Echo. "We are totally in control of the situation. It is one where we don't have to sell. He has got three years left on his contract.
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Suitors told to stump up £40M to sign Luis Suarez - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With Liverpool laughing off Arsenal’s previous bid of £25M to procure Luis Suarez’ signature, the word from his representatives is the Uruguayan will cost £40M this summer.
Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Real Madrid have been keen to sign the 26-year old, but have yet to make an...
Brendan Rodgers has insisted Liverpool are under no pressure to sell Luis Suarez despite the striker making it known that he is looking to leave the club in search of Champions League football.
After initially trying to push for a move to Real Madrid, Suarez has been linked by the latest live football commentary with a number of English clubs and the subject of an unsuccessful £30...
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has vowed to keep Luis Suarez at Anfield despite interest from Arsenal in the striker.
Arsene Wenger reportedly had a bid of £30million plus adds-on rejected by the Liverpool board and Rodgers is determined to hold onto one of his prize assets.
Skipper Steven Gerrard signed a two-year contract extension on Monday and Rodgers inists Suarez will...
Luis Suarez is ready to tell Liverpool that he wants to join Arsenal, writes John Cross in Nagoya.
Liverpool are bracing themselves for Suarez to ask them to let him go when the Uruguayan striker flies from Montevideo to the club's training base in Melbourne this weekend.
Arsenal are growing increasingly hopeful they can do the deal and are likely to go back with an improved...
LUIS SUAREZ’S camp are praying Real Madrid or Arsenal will pay £40million for him to end any disputes over his contract clause.
The Liverpool striker’s agent Pere Guardiola, brother of Bayern boss Pep, believes that figure will trigger a release clause and get Suarez his move.
Yet Kop bosses are claiming it means only they are duty-bound to consider offers but are under no...
Luis Suarez will stay with Liverpool FC “unless something drastic happens” says manager Brendan Rodgers.
However, the Liverpool FC boss also stressed no player is bigger than the club.
Although Luis Suarez’s desire to leave Liverpool FC this summer has seemed clear from various interviews he has given over the last few weeks, the Merseyside outfit have emphasised they do...
Spanish giants Real are prepared to offer Liverpool £20million plus Argie striker Gonzalo Higuain for Luis Suarez.
Arsene Wenger’s Gunners have been chasing both Suarez and Higuain but could now lose out on their transfer targets.
Arsenal were confident of landing Liverpool’s sought-after front man for £40million.
This was despite having a £35m offer rejected and Kop boss...
We are just one month away from seeing if the NBC Sports Group and their parent company NBC Universal have guessed right about soccer. The network paided out an estimated $250 million dollars for the rights to the Premier League This week the network debuted their plans on what soccer fans can look for starting on August 17th when the league gets underway. Coverage begins...
Chelsea and Arsenal to battle it out for three world class strikers - originally posted on Soccerlens.comIt seems like cross town rivals Chelsea and Arsenal will battle each other out in the summer transfer window, as both the London clubs are in a tug-of-war for three quality strikers – Luis Suarez, Gonzalo Higuain and Wayne Rooney.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting everyday life, seniors in Quincy have found ways to keep in touch.
Seniors from the Quincy Senior Center have been connecting throughout the duration of the pandemic through regular telephone calls and in-person visits while maintaining social distancing, said Stacia Soukup, Director of the Quincy Senior Center.
People 61 years and older currently make up 228 of total cases of COVID-19 in Grant County as of Aug. 24. This age range has the lowest number of infected individuals.
“I have been very impressed with how strong our senior citizens have been throughout the entire ordeal. They continue to set good examples of what it looks like to practice perseverance, hope, community service, love and compassion in the face of rough unchartered waters,” Soukup said.
No decision has been made yet as to when the senior center will open to in-person dining and activities, but Soukup anticipates it will be sometime next year.
The senior center plans to continue to offer take-out and delivery meals even after the center reopens for in-person dining, but Soukup and many other seniors are looking forward to being able to eat, exercise and socialize in person.


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Issue Date of Recruitment Notification: September 09, 2019
End Date of the Application Form: October 15, 2019
Name of the Recruitment Department: RRC Western Railway
Name of Post: Senior Clerk Cum Typist
Total No. of Post: 99 Posts
Education Requirement: Refer to the official website
Pay Scale: Not Disclosed
Job Type: Central Govt. Railway Job
Job Location: Across India
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The former England and Liverpool striker joined the Australian club as a free agent in September.
He did play as a late substitute on November 20th against Adelaide United, but decided himself not to play against Western United on Friday.
The club's owner, Tony Sage, says that Sturridge told his manager that he was struggling with cramp after a four-hour flight to the game.
"Look, a lot of consultation goes ahead, and when I saw the team sheet I made the call to sound out why (Sturridge was left off)," Sage said on SEN.
"After a talk between the two – the player and the coach – he didn't feel he could contribute.
"Richie (Richard Garcia) said it in the post-match, he's not used to a four-hour flight to a game. He's just not used to it."

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SINGAPORE - There were 3,101 new Covid-19 cases recorded in Singapore as at noon on Wednesday (Feb 2), with 2,919 local and 182 imported infections, the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported in its daily update.
The total number hospitalised stood at 819, an increase of 63 compared with Tuesday.
Of these, 74 patients required oxygen support and 12 were in the intensive care unit.
One more patient died from Covid-19, although MOH did not provide further details in its daily update.
There was a decrease in community cases, with 2,919 cases reported on Wednesday, 3,201 less than on Tuesday.
Nearly 59 per cent of these cases were detected by antigen rapid tests. This means they displayed no symptoms or their symptoms were mild.
The remaining 1,194 cases were detected through polymerase chain reaction tests.
There were 182 imported cases - all travellers entering Singapore.
The weekly infection growth rate stood at 1.41 on Wednesday, a dip from the 1.64 reported the previous day.
The rate refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week, over the week before. A rate of more than one shows that the number of new weekly Covid-19 cases is increasing.
The total number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Singapore now stands at 362,176, with 859 deaths.
About 92 per cent of Singapore's eligible population have completed the full vaccination regimen, and 58 per cent of the total population have received a vaccine booster shot.