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It’s a premiere: the prize-giving gala of the Medical App Awards will be held on 12 January 2016 in the course of the “Connected Health” convention in Kiel. Taking place in its seventh year, the two-day congress will be organised by Schleswig-Holstein’s Ministry of Economics. The event be attended experts from the healthcare industry from all over Germany, using it as a platform for information and exchange, for networking and future visions. 2016’s motto will be “promote benefit – close gaps creativity is the future.”.
A Fast Trend
The idea for the assessment of medical apps by an interdisciplinary jury and to honour the best application with an award is a brainchild of Life Science Nord working group “Medical Apps”. Particularly in the medical field, the digital trend is evolving rapidly. “In the market, apps are increasingly launched. Especially in the medical field, quality is a high priority”, says Matthias Steffen, head of the Life Science Nord working group “Medical Apps”.
Developers and seller of medical apps are invited to submit their application by 13 November 2015. Especially apps that facilitate the everyday medicine for clinics, healthcare institutions, physicians, patients, caregivers or family members are in demand. Apps that are not yet fully realised may apply for the award with a presentation. The apps will be judged by an interdisciplinary jury (www.medical-app-award.de/jury) in regard to target group oriented presentation of information, ease of use and protection of data. Furthermore, the jury will observe the winning apps over the next three years to gain insight of how to individual apps perform in the market.
Digital Health in Focus
“We are pleased that we can integrate the Medical App Award into the “Networked Health’ convention”, says Dr Hinrich Habeck, managing director of Life Science Nord GmbH. “This allows us to once again strengthen the importance of digitisation in the health sector, and its importance for the future development of the sector.”


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Stringit & Strumit create and sell unique, one of a kind, cigar box ukuleles. Custom designed with bespoke decoration, these cigar box ukuleles can be played both acoustically or plugged in to an amp and played as an electric ukulele.
The perfect electric travel ukulele, hand crafted from upcycled cedar wood cigar boxes. The original cigar box is strengthened, then taken through a detailed sanding process and oiled to produce the unique finish.
Available in both tenor and concert ukulele size, with various decorated corners, binding and soundholes – these cigar box ukuleles can be customised to make the perfect gift.
The studio which is found at the end of a cobbled lane in Hove (East Sussex – UK), is open by appointment only. Please get in touch if you would like to arrange a visit to discuss a ukulele build.

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Give or take $10 million. General Motors CEO Mary Barra will be earning a salary and stock options that total about $14.4 million this year, as opposed to earlier numbers that showed the company's first female CEO was making half of her predecessor's compensation. Dan Akerson, who retired in January, earned about $9 million as CEO last year. On Monday, GM released full figures "to correct misperceptions created by comparisons that used only a portion of Barra's overall compensation."
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Not a great deal is heard of the bass recorder. It is the hidden family member, the lowest voice in the woodwind recorder consort; the serious, elder statesman, providing the unobtrusive but rock-solid foundation, while the descant recorder grabs the spotlight with its more brilliant and nimble sound. The recorder was barely used in the Classical and Romantic periods, but enjoyed a renaissance in the early music revival of the 20th century and in music education.
Recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley has turned conventional recorder techniques upside down with her recent album Bass Instincts released on the Move label, and taken the bass recorder into exciting new territory innovating novel sounds from abrasive to mellow and lingering to punctuated. Crossley takes her instrument exploring up and down the diatonic, chromatic and pentatonic scales. With her cutting-edge collaborations she pushes the instrument beyond its conventions.
My research tells me that intrinsic to the bass recorder is a significant delay between tonguing it and the emerging sound – a lag that is not a feature of smaller recorders. The player therefore has to anticipate the tempo and blow slightly ahead of its ensemble partners to avoid losing the beat. Also, the size and shape of the bass recorder make it harder to maintain a sweet and even tone through its range. Achieving this requires skill and experience.
Bass Instincts is a collection of 7 compositions for bass recorder by female Australian composers. On the disc, Crossley is joined by percussionist Joshua Hill. The opening track is Sylvan, a three-movement piece for bass recorder and percussion by Holly Harrison. The bass recorder riffs and wails its way through, first taking up a jazzy duet with the hand drums, then creating a vivid contrast between the short and rhythmic sounds of the marimba and the longer, meandering lines of the recorder.
Fiona Hill’s Lost in the Darkness for bass recorder and live electronics introduces the spoken word and other vocalisations in its depiction in sound of a poem by an asylum seeker, Maryem. Critical to this piece, as the composer explains, is that the “electronic aspect of this work” enables the listener to hear the “often inaudible sounds which enhance the micro-detail of the instrument.”
Alhekulyele by Anne Boyd is for bass recorder and wind chimes. The title is the Indigenous name for Mount Gillen in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and the piece is a tribute to Arrernte woman Olive Pink (1884 – 1975) who lived there and created a garden on the banks of the River Todd. Wordless chanting accompanies the instruments with the recorder reincarnated as a didgeridoo.
A multi-tracked bass quartet provides the sustained backing for the exquisite and plaintive Inhaltations by Alice Chance, a dance inspired by contrasts, its title a conflation of ‘inhale’ and ‘exaltations.’
Lisa Cheney’s solo for bass recorder Before You is an intensely personal response to parenthood; Amanda Cole uses the pentatonic scale as the basis for her Vibration Meditation for bass recorder and microtonally tuned electronics which “explores vibrations through tuning and timbre.”
Electronics are also the partner of the bass recorder in Jessica Wells’ The Clock, a lively and entertaining multi-metric piece which plays on the idea of time, alternating a joyful cacophony of sounds with the ticking of time-pieces and a lyrical central section.
With Bass Instincts Alicia Crossley showcases the rich possibilities of the bass recorder as a solo instrument. She has taken this medieval instrument hewn from natural materials combined it with the aesthetics of the 21st century and catapulted it into the future.
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Sir Alex Dismisses Mancini's Claim Man U Are Lucky to Have a 12-Point Lead
Sir Alex Ferguson has dismissed claims by Roberto Mancini that Manchester United were "lucky" to have a 12-point advantage at the top of the Premier League.
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Allen Company's Breakthrough Clean Technologies Pistol cleaning kits offer indispensable advantages to firearm owners. These kits include specialized tools and solvents tailored for meticulous maintenance, ensuring peak performance and longevity of pistols. Regular cleaning prevents corrosion, residue buildup, and potential malfunctions, enhancing safety and reliability. The convenience of a comprehensive kit simplifies the cleaning process, saving time and effort. Proper maintenance also preserves accuracy, ensuring consistent shooting results. Ultimately, investing in a pistol cleaning kit guarantees optimal firearm functionality, safety, and sustained value.


India can be acknowledged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world and real estate has emerged as one of the most appealing investment areas for domestic as well as foreign investors.
This high growth curve in the real estate sector owes some credit to a booming economy and liberalized foreign direct investment (FDI) regime in the real estate sector. Until now, only non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) were permitted to invest in the housing and the real estate sectors. Foreign investors other than NRIs were allowed to invest only in the development of integrated townships and settlements either through a wholly owned subsidiary or through a joint venture company in India along with a local partner.
The FDI policy allows up to 100% investment under automatic route in townships, housing, built-up infrastructure, and construction-development projects. Since the liberal policy was adopted by the government, real estate has become a lucrative field for international players to make 100% investments. The development of special economic zones (SEZ) in India has further favoured the growth of the Indian real estate market. The market is thus moving towards maturity offering a wide scope for local and international realtors.
Through Press Note No 2 of 2005, the government allowed FDI up to 100% under the automatic route in townships, housing, built-up infrastructure and construction-development projects (which include housing, commercial premises, hotels, resorts, hospitals, educational institutions, recreational facilities, city and regional level infrastructure). FDI is permitted subject to the following guidelines:
- The minimum area to be developed will be 10 hectares for serviced housing plots, 50,000 sq m in construction-development projects, or one of the two for combination projects;
- Minimum capitalization of US$10 million for wholly owned subsidiaries and US$5 million for joint ventures with Indian partners with the funds required in the country within six months of the start of business;
- The original investment cannot to be repatriated within three years from completion of the minimum capitalization, without prior approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board;
- At least 50% of the project has to be developed within five years from the date of obtaining all statutory clearances;
- Undeveloped plots cannot be sold until provision of the requisite infrastructure and acquisition of the completion certificate from the concerned local body or service agency;
- The project has to conform to the norms and standards, including land use requirements and provision of community amenities and common facilities, as laid down in the applicable building control regulations, by-laws, rules, and other regulations of the state government or municipal or local body concerned.
Apart from the well-acknowledged need for foreign investments in this sector because of the sheer demand, the FDI route in the sector has attracted foreign investors interest because of the virtual ban on infusion of funds by other modes.
Use of external commercial borrowings (ECBs) and foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) for raising funds for investment into real estate has been completely banned. Even under the FDI scheme, issue of ADRs and GDRs for investment into real estate has been banned.
In a move that would align the practices in the Indian real estate sector with global practices, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) announced on 28 December 2007 the draft Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2008, dealing with the set up and operation of a real estate investment trust (REIT) in India. The REITs Regulations, once approved, are expected to be in effect in India soon.
The importance of foreign investment into real estate development may not be disputed.
The ever increasing demand for housing, commercial space, townships and infrastructure in India may be timely catered to only if foreign investment into this sector is allowed. Foreign participation will also bring in quality and professionalism in the manner in which real estate development takes place.
The central government has recognised this and amended the regulations from time to time to make it convenient for foreign entry into this sector.
FDI assumes a greater role among the various possible routes for foreign participation in this sector because first, investment through FDI not only makes the foreign investor invest in the sector but also makes the foreign entity participate and monitor the way in which the foreign funds are used and, second, the bans in effect on certain routes like ECBs/FCCBs/ADRs/GDRs makes the FDI scheme the best possible route for foreign investors looking to this sector of the Indian economy.
Gautam Khaitan is a partner at OP Khaitan & Co. He works mainly on corporate and commercial matters and has considerable experience over a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions.
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“I must keep my eyes opened, that sneaky little cat must be near!”. So looks like this big cat has got its guards down.
A cat trying to suprise its friend.. but then.. well you have to watch the video yourself. So cute.
This little kitten demos how to do kitty yoga.
A cute kitten trying to play water and catch fish and dragonfly from an ipad.
I’m guessing the owner of this cat was telling her love-life story… boring as hell.
The music for this clip is perfect.
That face… was it scared? confused? concerned? You decide.
Find the hidden kitty before the time hits 18 seconds when it is revealed.

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Date: July 1, 1938
Creator: Harris, Thomas A. & Recant, Isidore G.
Description: An investigation was made in the NACA 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel of a large-chord wing model with a duct to house a simulated radiator suitable for a liquid-cooled engine. The duct was expanded to reduce the radiator losses, and the installation of the duct and radiator was made entirely within the wing to reduce form and interference drag. The tests were made using a two-dimensional flow set-up with a full-span duct and radiator. Section aerodynamic characteristics of the basic airfoil are given and also curves showing the characteristics of the various duct-radiator combinations. An expression for efficiency, the primary criterion of merit of any duct, and the effect of the several design parameters of the duct-radiator arrangement are discussed. The problem of throttling is considered and a discussion of the power required for cooling is included. It was found that radiators could be mounted in the wing and efficiently pass enough air for cooling with duct outlets located at any point from 0.25c to 0.70c from the wing leading edge on the upper surface. The duct-inlet position was found to be critical and, for maximum efficiency, had to be at the stagnation point of the airfoil and to change ...
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Helping others helps you too. From a young age, we are being told to be generous. Share your toy, share your food, donate to others, and be kind to people. The message of “you reap what you sow” is always the point of teaching, even after we grow up, the message seems to have been implanted in us.
Here are some benefits of being generous:
Generosity helps in making friends, try it on. It impacts your social life and people are more likely to return a favor when you need it.
Instant motivation boost
Do you ever donate to others? How does that feel? Good? You get to feel motivated to do more because it feels good.
Imagine a person that keeps receiving and never giving out, wouldn’t that person be overwhelmed? Generous people, on the other hand, give out and they tend to be calmer.
Willing to work hard
Generous people tend to have a sense of purpose. A purpose that helps them work hard knowing others need their help.
If you “give and take” all the time, not being particular anal of every single detail. Chances are you have a better relationship with people.
Satisfactigenerouson in life
Being highly generous reported they are satisfied in life. They are grateful for everything and the ability to give out, which makes it better.
When you are happy, your outlook looks stunning too. Simply because you believe what you do, matters!
People who give normally seem like they always get luckier or blessing. The blessing may just appear out of nowhere and out of expectation.

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Melissa McCarthy is involved in more super-powered action than in her own film, Thunder
Force. She will also appear in next year’s Thor: Love And Thunder, joining an already star-studded cast including Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, Matt Damon and Sam Neill. McCarthy is reportedly appearing in a comic play within the film, starring as the Goddess of Death, Hela, opposite Neill as Odin. Her own husband, Ben Falcone, also appears to have a role in the play. It came after McCarthy and Falcone made a video on Instagram, jokingly appealing to appear in the movie. Thor: Love And Thunder is currently being shot in Australia.

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Solid-liquid flows span a large parameter space, with dimensionless coordinates such as Stokes numbers, the solids volume fraction, the density ratio between the phases, and Reynolds numbers (e.g. associated with the continuous phase flow). We are interested in systems with appreciable inertia effects—i.e. non-zero Stokes and Reynolds numbers—having density ratios of the order of one and solids volume fractions of at least 0.1. In such flows, direct numerical simulations are desired to reveal the relevant interactions. The resolution required for DNS limits the size of the systems that we are able to simulate to the meso-scale. In this paper, examples of direct simulations based on the lattice-Boltzmann method of dense solid-liquid flows are presented, along with suggestions as to how to use their results at the macro-scale.
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|Journal||Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design|
|Publication status||Published - 2018|


The Republican Party has recaptured the House of Representatives from the Democrats and expanded their voice in the Senate in mid-term elections on Tuesday, delivering a stunning rebuke to President Barack Obama just two years after he won the White House.
A Republican resurgence, propelled by deep economic worries and a forceful opposition to the Democratic agenda of health care and government spending, delivered defeats to House Democrats from the Northeast to the South and across the Midwest. They won at least 59 seats from the Democrats.
However, the Republican Party fell short of their ambitious target of the 10 seats needed to win the Senate, which would have given them total control of U.S. Congress.
The Democrats keep a narrow lead in the Senate, which will give the party considerable leverage against what is expected to be a barrage of Republican legislation from the House designed to unpick President Barack Obama’s achievements in his first two years.
Democratic Leader Senator Harry Reid of Nevada narrowly prevailed and his party hung onto control by winning hard-fought contests in California, Delaware, Connecticut and West Virginia.
But in the House, early in the evening the Republicans celebrated as Tea Party favourites Marco Rubio and Rand Paul won in Florida and Kentucky respectively. Two candidates who were initially shunned by the establishment but beloved by the Tea Party movement.
Rand Paul achieved the historic feat of becoming the first member of the anti-tax, small-government Tea Party member to win a Senate seat. In his victory speech, he proclaimed that “tonight there is a Tea Party tidal wave and we are sending a message of fiscal sanity, limited constitutional government and balanced budgets.”
Marco Rubio delivered a warning to the Republican leadership in Washington that the party had to learn from the mistakes made after it last won a majority in 1994, when it abandoned the principles of balanced budgets and small government.
“We make a grave mistake if we believe tonight these results will somehow embrace the Republican Party. What they are is a second chance. A second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be, not so long ago,” he said.
Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, who is positioned to become the next speaker of the House said: “The American people’s voice was heard at the ballot box. And we have real work to do, and this is not the time for celebration.”
The president called Mr. Boehner shortly after midnight to offer his congratulations and to talk about the way forward as Washington prepares for divided government.
The most expensive midterm election campaign in the nation’s history, fueled by a raft of contributions from outside interest groups and millions in donations to candidates in both parties, played out across a wide battleground that stretched from Alaska to Maine.
The Republican tide swept into statehouse races, too, with Democrats poised to lose the majority of governorships, particularly those in key presidential swing states, like Ohio, where Gov. Ted Strickland was defeated.
Republicans did not achieve a perfect evening, losing races in several states they had once hoped to win, including the Senate contests in Delaware and Connecticut, because some candidates supported by the Tea Party movement knocked out establishment candidates to win their nominations. But they did score notable victories in some tight races, like Pat Toomey’s Senate run in Pennsylvania.
In the House, Republicans found victories in most corners of the country, including five seats in Pennsylvania, five in Ohio, at least three in Florida, Illinois and Virginia and two in Georgia. Democrats braced for the prospect of historic defeats, more than the 39 seats the Republicans needed to win control. Republicans reached their majority by taking seats east of the Mississippi even before late results flowed in from farther West.
Throughout the evening, in race after race, Republican challengers defeated Democratic incumbents, despite being at significant fund-raising disadvantages. Republican-oriented independent groups invariably came to the rescue, helping level of the playing field, including in Florida’s 24th Congressional District, in which Sandy Adams defeated Representative Suzanne Kosmas; Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, where Mr. Boucher, a 14-term incumbent, lost to Morgan Griffith; and Texas’s 17th Congressional District, in which Mr. Edwards, who was seeking his 11th term, succumbed to Bill Flores.
Democrats argued that the Republican triumph was far from complete, particularly in the Senate, pointing to the preservation of Mr. Reid and other races. In Delaware, Chris Coons defeated Christine O’Donnell, whose candidacy became a symbol of the unorthodox political candidates swept onto the ballot in Republican primary contests. In West Virginia, Gov. Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, triumphed over an insurgent Republican rival to fill the seat held for a half-century by Senator Robert C. Byrd. And in California, Senator Barbara Boxer overcame a vigorous challenge from Carly Fiorina, a Republican.
But Democrats conceded that their plans to increase voter turnout did not meet expectations, party strategists said, and extraordinary efforts that Mr. Obama made in the final days of the campaign appeared to have borne little fruit.
The president flew to Charlottesville, Va., on Friday evening, for instance, in hopes of rallying Democrats to support Representative Tom Perriello, a freshman who supported every piece of the administration’s agenda, but he was defeated despite the president’s appeals to Democrats in a state that he carried two years ago.
In governors’ races, Republicans won several contests in the nation’s middle. They held onto governorships in Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota, and had seized seats now occupied by Democrats in Tennessee, Michigan and Kansas. Sam Brownback, a United States Senator and Republican, easily took the Kansas post that Mark Parkinson, a former Republican turned Democrat, is leaving behind.
Though Democrats, who before the election held 26 governors’ seats compared to 24 for the Republicans, were expected to face losses, there were also bright spots. In New York, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo easily defeated the Republican, Carl P. Paladino, even as Republicans were expected to pick up seats in the state legislature and the congressional delegation. In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick won a second term.
As the election results rolled in, with Republicans picking up victories shortly after polls closed in states across the South, East and the Midwest, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and other party leaders made urgent appeals through television interviews that there was still time for voters in other states to cast their ballots. [via NYTimes, BBC, Guardian (UK) and USA Today]


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The error %CRYPTO-4-PKT_REPLAY_ERR: decrypt: replay check failed connection
means that packet got discarded due to anti-replay check. It means that you are having out-of-order packets. This could
cause packet retransmission.
There are 3 possible triggering conditions for this error to occur and they are outlined here:
1. The IPSec encrypted packets are forwarded out of order by the encrypting router. This is typically a result of QoS configuration on the encrypting router.
2. The IPSec packets received by the decrypting router are out of order due to packet reordering at an intermediate device (ISP issue, and the most common).
3. The received IPSec packet is fragmented and requires reassembly before authentication verification and decryption. Since the reassembly process is taking place at the process
level, it's possible that by the time the large packet is reassembled, 64 smaller packets have already been processed by the
crypto engine, thus causing the large packet to miss the anti-replay window.
Now to avoid these error messages we need to increase the window size or disable anti-replay check in case the packets are arriving out of order. In case of fragmentation it will be
better to avoid fragmentation by using lower mtu value or fragmentation before encryption.
The easiest way to try and solve this issue is by disabling authentication on phase II. This means to get rid of the modifier 'esp-sha-hmac' or 'esp-md5-hmac' configured on the
transform set. This will need to be done also on the remote peer involved in this tunnel. Take in mind that this won't affect the encryption of the traffic, it will only instruct the router not to check that the trafficis arriving in the correct order.
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Sponsored by the Mary Pickford Foundation, this Designmatters studio teamed up ArtCenter students with high schoolers from the Ramona Gardens public housing development to create an art-filled event at Alvarez Park that would celebrate and connect the Boyle Heights community with its cultural and natural surroundings through projects that explore self-expression and ideas of environmental justice.
Collaborating with Legacy LA, a community-based nonprofit focused on youth development, the studio provided students with hands-on experience as they engaged in behind-the-scenes planning and execution to produce a socially engaged art event/project to their neighborhood. Additionally, students had opportunities to work side-by-side with representatives from North East Trees and Outward Bound Adventures on their cumulative project.
A continuation from previous Socially Engaged Art studios that connected ArtCenter students with developmentally disabled artists as well as underserved artists, this Designmatters studio focused on engaging ArtCenter students through a collaborative large-scale public art project with high schoolers from Ramona Gardens housing development who participate in the after-school programs at the nonprofit Legacy LA facility.
ArtCenter students teamed with the East Los Angeles youth for dialogue, participation, and action as they imagined, designed and created a community event at nearby Alvarez Park. Throughout the hands-on design process, they learned the intricacies of collaboration and proper planning; student teams ideated and executed real-world concepts that resonated with residents and inspired the neighborhood. At the afternoon celebration, student teams showcased various art installations and nature-themed interactions that engaged the local community.
“So often, it’s easy to create art in a bubble, in a studio by yourself at a private school. The only true factor is what I bring to the table. It’s just my concept. But when you are in a socially engaged practice, like what we are doing here, we are trying to leave a lasting impact within the community. It can be a complicated endeavor, but today makes everything worth it.”
– Rueben Torrres, Student, ArtCenter
Founded in 2007, Legacy LA reaches out to youth living in Ramona Gardens and the surrounding neighborhoods by offering positive activities and alternatives to gangs and violence that has deeply affected this East Los Angeles community.
Through its ongoing programs and projects, including a leadership partnership with the LAPD as well as an afterschool mentoring and academic support, Legacy LA provides young people with the tools to transform their lives and their communities. Youth are engaged in social justice, community issues and organizing along with environmental justice and improving relations between youth and law enforcement.
“The collaboration between the Legacy LA and ArtCenter students was great exposure for both groups. The Legacy LA youth were introduced to areas of environmental design, fine art, and other options that may be available to them at ArtCenter – this is something that would never have occurred to them. This studio is just the start of something really groundbreaking for everyone. I’m excited to see what this space can be transformed into.”
– Joseph Laskin, Projects and Development Manager for North East Trees
For the studio kickoff, ArtCenter students delved into the work of Legacy LA, the history of Ramona Gardens, and the scope of the collaborative project they would undertake.
To get a first-hand experience of the neighborhood, students traveled to Ramona Gardens for a walk-through of nearby Alvarez Park and Ascot Park Nursery. These valuable experiences encouraged students to examine, with an investigative lens, the unique aesthetic qualities of these Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Students considered the recent and longtime history of the area, honing in on Ramona Gardens, which started as a public housing development project in the 1940s. Since its inception, the community has seen its share of cultural representation from Jewish residents of the past to its now predominate Latino population. Beginning in the 1970s, residents have witnessed a dramatic increase in gang violence, illegal drug activity and police tension not to mention deaths and murders. Students were encouraged to continue to research the background of Ramona Gardens searching for additional questions and insights that could be artistically utilized for the event.
At the next class, ArtCenter students met their collaborative counterparts on location at Legacy LA where they learned more about the work of the nonprofit, their successes and challenges along with their goals for the project event that aimed at improving the quality of life of community members. With the stakeholder influence of North East Trees and Outward Bound, the studio encourages projects that would nurture stewardship for the Earth through an appreciation for native plant species and reclaim neglected spaces.
Students were introduced and, through a series of group exercises, learned more about each other. These group dynamic “get-to-know-you” experiences paved the way for the student teams to feel more comfortable and connected with each other. All participants discussed general concepts for the event; with ArtCenter students shared initial ideas for possible micro-businesses (selling native plants, map kiosks, podcasts, etc.).
Before meeting again with Legacy LA high schoolers, ArtCenter students had a deep examination into the nature of Socially Engaged Art, learning how individuals are altering, updating and pushing the art form into new territories. Students examined the works supported by the Socially Engaged Art Programs, including of A Blade of Grass, Creative Time and Open Engagement, immersing themselves into the specific details of how art expression is produced and manifested as well as the role of artist in this socio/political time and location.
Additionally, ArtCenter students analyzed the fine details of project budgeting and how to effectively use finite funds for maximum impact. Organizational skills were also examined as guidelines for how to properly and smoothly run art-centric events.
After presenting rough proposal ideas and budget breakdowns, ArtCenter students broke into teams with high school counterparts who shared similar interests. Teams divided up the work load, realized which aspects of their project needed additional research, charted the necessary next steps and assigned tasks for all members. Teams discussed the creative and technical characteristics of their project. Teams also considered possible collaborations, and how they could engage with the studio stakeholders, especially North East Trees and Outward Bound.
In addition to their own research, student teams as a whole observed culture and art in public places via field trips to Watts Tower and Community Center as well as the Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College. Both groups also watched videos about the life and work of the writer urban activists Jane Jacobs and Ron Finley. This research offered students a deeper sense of how art can be presented to reflect social issues and engage viewers for action.
There were also workshop opportunities that focused on gardening, and the construction of two raised garden beds, one to be placed around the Legacy LA offices. Another workshop on screen printing gave the students hands-on experiences with that specific art form.
Throughout the course of the studio, ArtCenter students were encouraged to actively engage their high school teammates and to co-create with them, understanding the dynamics and skills of collaboration.
At mid-term, student teams presented their concepts for the afternoon event, itemizing out the smallest details as much as possible. To support their overall concept, they offered construction diagrams, materials list and cost breakdowns and tools needed to produce item. Students showed a working budget that would include a list of supplies and possible purchases; teams discussed the ethics of utilizing funds for non-direct purchases, questioning a range of issues such as if funds should cover transportation or applied to coffee and snacks during the execution phase.
Some teams projected possible problems that could arise during the production as well as in the day of project execution. Here was a chance to solve problems before they became a surprising unmanageable incident.
Student teams presented pros and cons of certain aspects of their preparation thinking – (e.g., is it cheaper to buy the kit or make it ourselves? Do we hire professionals to fabricate? How do you equitably divide the artwork?). They outlined their proposed process, charting each action step from start until the day of event and set-up/break down. They sketched out the location in the park where their art installation would be set-up, noting proximity to other exhibits and the natural landscape of the park.
Finally, many teams discussed option for their art projects after the event, offering ways these pieces be used in alternate ways in other public places.
Teams discussed additions that could be brought into their concept, keeping in mind the overall concept of the event was to celebrate and share the history, natural landscape and cultural community of the Ramona Gardens neighborhood.
As the event day grew closer, teams continued to prep their project and re-adjusting their to-do lists. Posters and other communications were also created to alert and invite the community to the free event.
“At first nobody [from Legacy LA] said they were interested in art. One person described putting objects together and decorating for fun for friends’ parties. But that is art; that is aesthetic and installation. As the studio went on, it turns out they are all into art. They are interested in gentrification, in ecology and how to uplift the green spaces around them because that will increase their quality of life. And those ideas ended up being a tool to get them into art. That became their way to express themselves.”
– Olga Koumoundouros, Faculty, ArtCenter
At “Viva La Loma,” residents of Ramona Gardens and the surrounding neighborhood congregated at Alvarez Park (commonly known as La Loma Park), a long strip of green space that is hidden from the street. Among the trees and steep hills that border the park, participants were welcomed to the celebration with a DJ playing upbeat music on the basketball court.
Volunteers at a welcome booth gathered names and email addresses in exchange for tickets to use for a free dinner and as a raffle ticket for the gardening box. Children raced around the park, couples wandered from booth to booth, neighborhood dogs trotted the landscape and families chatted with one another on the warm spring day. The relaxed mood set the tone for the event that kicked-off with short speeches from stakeholders and leaders as well as comments from both Legacy LA and ArtCenter students. The rest of the late afternoon/early evening was spent enjoying the park, experiencing art and connecting with neighbors.
Constructed at the gardening workshop, one elevated wooden garden box was on display at the event alongside potting soil and other garden hand tools. At the end of the event, this prize was raffled off to a resident from the ticket they received at the welcome booth. Tomato seedlings, easily transportable in hand-folded biodegradable newspaper containers, were handed out to residents to encourage them to grow their own food. A short how-to manual was also distributed.
Residents were each invited to create two indigo tie-dye flags, one which would be taken home and one left fluttering in the park with other creations. Indigo is one of the oldest dyes known and a number of cultures employ it in their crafts and art. Residents used rubber bands to wrap around the folded piece of fabric and then soak the pieces in a bucket of dye. When done, the flags were drying on nearby large sheets of plastic.
Sharing stories of Ramona Gardens, audio podcasts captured the memories from old-timers as well as the hopes and dreams of youth who live in and around the housing development. At the event, residents were encouraged to stop and share their own personal reflections.
To build on the foundation and relationships created at this studio, the Pickford Foundation has plans to support a future extension of the studio in Fall 2019.
“I do not live at Ramona Gardens, but I have lots of friends here. It’s a place to come and have fun and feel like a family. Where I live, I don’t have a lot of fun. But here is a community where you can make friends, engage with everyone, and talk to someone about a problem. Today was about bringing the community together for a peaceful, fun day at the park.”
– Sandra Flores, Legacy LA Youth
“There is such a need for these big bonding experiences. This is what builds community, builds trust and keeps us engaged and allows for sustainable movements to continue.”
– Jacquelyne Rodriguez, Legacy LA


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The men had worn high-visibility jackets when they forced their way into the home in Breakspear Road in the terrifying ordeal that left the victim shaken for months.
During the trio's sentencing on Friday (November 4), Isleworth Crown Court heard the victim slept with her bedroom light left on for months and said the crime is something she will never forget.
On January 22 this year, the three men drove to the house at around 1pm and forced their way into the victim's home, the court heard.
The prosecuting barrister, Tyrone Silcott, said: “For months after the incident she kept her bedroom lights on every night due to fear.
“She was scared someone would come back for revenge because she reported them.
“When someone knocks the door she has issues opening the front door.
“She blames herself. If she hadn't opened the door none of this would have happened.”
Daniel O'Brien, 30, of Webb's Road, Hayes, Roy Salisbury, 31, of no fixed abode and Charles O'Leary, 30, of Hesa Road, Hayes , were all sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court during a hearing where their crime was described as "awful" and "callous".
O'Brien was sentenced to nine years in prison, Salisbury was jailed for nine years and four months, and O'Leary was sentenced to eight years and eight months.
'This was a grave offence'
During his sentencing speech, Judge Curtis Raleigh said: “It’s quite clear this was a well prepared plan.
“You had the weapon, you had the cable ties. You were wearing high-vis jackets.
“You had a great deal of information about this place and about the people who were there.
"This was a grave offence."
The judge also read from the son's victim statement, saying “Her son said he was extremely agitated and anxious.
“[He is] plagued with a feeling of fear.”
Threatened the victim and hit her son
The three men entered the house at around 1pm and once inside O'Brien pushed the woman into the lounge and bound her hands and ankles with cables ties.
“CCTV and the stills show at approximately 1.10pm the the defendants walking to the home of the victims," Mr Silcott said.
“They had their hoods pulled up. They had on high-vis jackets and it was very difficult to see their faces.”
“The victim heard the knock at the door. She could see two figures through the front door and thought it might be a parcel delivery.”
Salisbury and O'Leary went immediately to the first floor of the house after they forced their way into the home, where the victim's son had left his room when he heard his mother scream.
The two offenders bound the son and demanded to know where cash and jewellery was kept.
Salisbury struck the son in the face with a weapon – a dumbbell the men had brought with them – and in the foot, causing a cut.
After the two men threatened to hurt the the mother, her son told them where cash was kept.
One offender asked the son “Where is the safe? Where is the gold?” the court heard.
Escaped with £30k
The whole ordeal lasted 15 to 20 minutes and the three offenders fled the house with more than £30,000 worth of cash and jewellery.
After the men had fled, the victim, still tied up, jumped to the front door to lock it and was able to call the police.
The court heard each of the three offenders had a history of previous convictions – Salisbury had been convicted 13 times for 28 offences, O'Brien 13 convictions for 19 offences, and O'Leary seven convictions for 12 offences.
Each of the three offenders pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary earlier this year.
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President Barack Obama and his House Republican adversaries feuded over how to best create jobs in the weakened U.S. economy Saturday, with Obama demanding Congress pass his $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP countering with a call for less government red tape.
Both efforts face little chance of success as all-or-nothing proposals in the divided legislature.
The Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, has yet to take up Obama's legislation.
The president has been mounting a steady public campaign on behalf of his bill, casting Congress — and Republicans in particular — as obstacles. With a populist flair, Obama has been barnstorming across the country to prod Congress, so far to no avail.
"It is time for Congress to get its act together and pass this jobs bill so I can sign it into law," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday.
In the Republican address, Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., made a pitch for legislation in the House that would reduce regulatory requirements on businesses. He cited rules affecting cement plants and restrictions on institutional boilers as examples of government overreaching.
"For years, excessive regulations have been a source of frustration for businesses trying to stay afloat," he said.
"President Obama, who has said he's willing to consider stopping excessive regulations, should call on the Democrat-led Senate to follow the House in passing these jobs bills," he said.
Obama's public approval ratings have held steady in the low 40 percent, but the public's assessment of his handling of the economy has been significantly lower. Obama has been trying to deflect responsibility to congressional Republicans, who together with congressional Democrats fare much worse than the president.
Obama's proposal would cut payroll taxes for workers and for businesses, lengthen jobless benefits, spend on public works projects and pay local and state governments to keep teachers, police and firefighters on the job. He has proposed paying for the legislation with targeted tax increases — limits on deductions taken by wealthier taxpayers, closing corporate loopholes and ending oil and gas subsidies.
Republicans have said some of his proposals, such as the payroll tax cuts, are worth considering. But they object to spending proposals and flatly reject raising taxes to pay for them. Even some Senate Democrats have balked at the taxes Obama would raise.
There are 51 Democrats in the Senate and two independents who typically vote with them; there are 47 Republicans. But it usually takes 60 votes to overcome procedural roadblocks and pass legislation. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate and an Obama ally, told a radio interviewer this week that there were not 60 votes in the Senate now for Obama's bill. "We can work on it," Durbin said. "We should."
In the radio address, Obama said: "Some Republicans in Congress have said that they agree with certain parts of this jobs bill. If so, it's time for them to tell me what those proposals are."
Obama referred to letters he receives from across the country, from a Georgia teenager to an unemployed Oregon couple, urging Congress to pass the legislation.
"If anyone watching feels the same way, don't be shy about letting your congressman know," he said. "It is time for the politics to end."


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The bomb, hidden in a motorcycle, was detonated by remote control as the bus was passing through Mastung district, 50 km south of the provincial capital of Quetta.
Officials confirmed the death of two people.
State-run television reported that nearly 50 people, including women and children, were injured.
The condition of seven of the injured was critical, doctors at a local hospital said.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and those in a critical condition were later shifted to Quetta.
Police said that the intended target of the bombing might have been a bus with Shia pilgrims that passed the area minutes before the explosion.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Balochistan has witnessed a string of sectarian attacks that targeted the minority Shia community.
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The New Party invited the anchor of Record and Itatiaia, journalist Eduardo Costa, to be a candidate for vice governor on the ticket of governor Romeu Zema, in the October 2022 elections. State of Mines on Monday morning (20/06).
Through social networks, Eduardo said he was surprised by the invitation, but did not reject the proposal. According to him, political conversations and other understandings still need to be made to assess whether he will run or not.
Eduardo Costa stated that he was already preparing to take a break from his career as a journalist because he understood that he had already completed his cycle in the profession.
“It was just an invitation. At first I said I’ll think about it. I will think hard and evaluate. I am 66 years old and 45 years of journalism. If I’m healthy and I have the opportunity to help a citizen who, in my opinion, is fixing the state, I am willing to take up the challenge. But at the moment, I am as confused as you who were taken by surprise,” he said.
Eduardo also said that he will no longer comment on the matter until he makes the decision and asked for the understanding of his followers.
“If I accept the proposal, I will justify my choice to all of you,” he said.


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At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, physician wellness is important. Given our size and distributed geography, there are a number of initiatives within departments as well as newer initiatives to reach the entire medical staff. For example, on February 14, 2018, two of our doctor's organized the "Be Well" day – a wellness cart that toured the hospital wards and clinics, delivering messages of support and highlighting the importance of conversations about wellbeing.
In addition, we recognize that physician engagement and peer support within the hospital requires a physical space where we can get together so we have piloted a mobile "Pop Up Lounge" to facilitate informal meeting spaces where we can meet old and new colleagues. Our next "Pop Up" event will include a local physician speaker sharing his experiences about important work in places of conflict and war. We are looking forward to this inaugural event as we launch what we hope will be a series of Sunnybrook Wellness Speakers events and Pop-up Lounges.
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Cybersecurity issues are once again dominating headlines around the world. There are allegations that Russian hackers interfered with the recent U.S. president elections and a massive data breach at Yahoo! Inc. led to data being extracted from over a billion user accounts.
Therefore, investor interest in the sector has soared. In order to make sense of the recent developments, S&P Global Market Intelligence spoke to Ian Mann, CEO of U.K.-based cybersecurity firm ECSC Group. The company recently listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Should anyone trust Yahoo with their data at this point?
Ian Mann: That is a difficult question to answer because on one level there is a damage to trust when companies experience breaches. But equally, when we carry out breach responses, issues are often very quickly resolved. So an organization can be in a much better state within a short period of time. So you would hope that when organizations do have breaches, they would learn lessons from it and actually invest in their systems.
Why have we seen so many high-profile breaches this year?
There is a general increase year over year. I would not say this year has seen a massive spike. What tends to happen now is that breaches are reported in the public domain and that is partly because of the ease of sharing information. It is quite difficult for organizations now to keep breaches a secret because of the proliferation of social media and the culture of information sharing.
Are companies doing enough to secure their data?
I think the constant stream of breaches show they are not doing enough. The [U.K.] government has been quite proactive about offering guidance and advice to companies but there is still a significant gap. There are still a lot of companies that are not managing their security well enough, hence the increase in breaches.
There is a strong investor interest in cybersecurity. How do you explain that?
It is becoming clear that cybersecurity breaches are becoming more common. Additionally, the level of impact they have on organizations mean cybersecurity has become a board-level issue. It is no longer just an IT issue. When there is a security breach it is the CEO who has to answer and the reputational damage can often be significant.
Has legislation managed to keep up with the level of cyber threat?
There is some new legislation coming through in the next two years, which will drastically increase the fines associated with a security breach. Currently in Britain, the maximum fine for a company is half a million pounds. The General Data Protection Regulation will move that to 4% of turnover. More important, the GDPR imposes the legal requirement to report breaches and we think that is a far more significant development than increasing the fines.
We have been helping people respond to hacks for 20 years and the total number of those incidents that ever reach the public domain is actually less than half a dozen. So in essence, the vast majority of breaches are either undetected or if they are detected, they are not reported externally. This makes the legal requirement to report breaches the most significant provision in the GDPR.
But will Britain fall under the scope of the GDPR post-Brexit?
Yes, it will. We are currently still in the European Union so therefore, legally, we have to implement GDPR within the next two years. The U.K. Information Commissioner has said that we will implement the GDPR by May 2018. That will be approximately a year before Brexit. The Information Commissioner has quite rightly said it does not mean a future government won’t revise the legislation once Britain has formally left the EU, but the GDPR is really only bringing the EU into line with existing laws in, for example, Japan, who have had a similar law for about 20 years. Various U.S. states also have similar laws.
What are the cost implications of major cyber breaches?
On the larger scale, the costs could be very significant for a player the size of Yahoo because it could change the price that is agreed in its acquisitions negotiations with Verizon. For other organizations, it can certainly have a reputational impact and put pressure on share price, as well as the fines. But also, typically when breaches do happen, they highlight the significant weaknesses in how people are managing security. This should lead to conversations about where to make investments in sorting out your IT system. So if you look at reports from the information commissioner’s office, usually the conclusion is the breached organization was being very lax and not investing enough in security.
On an individual level, how can web users protect themselves beyond setting more complicated passwords?
It is a real challenge for individuals as they are being asked to do more and more online in their day-to-day lives. The focus of many manufacturers is often getting a product to market as soon as possible, meaning security can sometimes be neglected. Ideally individuals should use different devices for different activities. You really shouldn’t use the same device for browsing the web or using online services, for instance, as you would for managing your investments or monetary affairs. Separating those two is a good idea. However, for most people that would mean buying multiple devices. This is reasonable for high-net-worth individuals that can afford that, but is less of a useful proposition for the average person on the street.


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Corvallis, OR. -- The Beavers swept the Oregon Ducks Saturday. Now they hope to continue that trend and channel the momentum by sweeping the Trojans and Bruins on the road this weekend.
Last time Oregon State met USC and UCLA, the Beavers put together two back-to-back winning performances in Gill Coliseum.
“Those are two teams that we beat here but they are going to want their revenge,” said Oregon State forward Tres Tinkle. “So we just have to be confident and poised going in there knowing they are going to bring everything they have. And we have to match it.”
Oregon State (16-8, 8-4) has its best conference record through 12 games since the 1989-90 team started 11-1. But according to head coach Wayne Tinkle, the Beavers have not played an entire 40 minutes of quality basketball yet.
“We’ve had stretches of games where we’ve been really dominant offensively and defensively,” said Wayne Tinkle. “But in terms of playing a full game? Let’s hope that’s in front of us.”
OSU plays UCLA Thursday night at 8:00.
- Oregon State keeps focus on Los Angeles schools, not Pac-12 Tournament (2/19/19)
- Oregon Advances to Pac-12 Tournament Championship
- Oregon Women's Basketball Wins Pac-12 Tournament
- Oregon State falls 72-59 to the Trojans in Los Angeles
- Oregon Cruises in Pac-12 Quarterfinal
- Web Extra: Dana Altman on Pac-12 Tournament
- Beavers Fall to Arizona State in Pac-12 Tournament
- Oregon State has more to prove in the Pac-12 Tournament (3/12/19)
- Beavers Fall To Bruins In Los Angeles
- Web Extra: Lexi Bando on Pac-12 Tournament Prep (2/28/18)


There's something JoJo wants everyone to know right away about "How to Touch a Girl," the next single from her sophomore LP, The High Road.
"It's not the way it sounds," the 15-year-old pop star said during a break from shooting the video. "It's kind of about how to win a girl over and the things you can do to get to her heart."
"How to Touch a Girl" is the first single the singer had a hand in writing, so when it came time to put it to film, she stayed heavily involved. "I'm very hands-on," JoJo said. "I cast everyone in my videos, I work closely with my stylist and my makeup and hair and I just make sure that everything is as I want it. Sometimes I don't know what I want, but I do know what I don't want, so if someone proposes an idea to me, I will say, 'No, let's do it this way' or 'This makes me uncomfortable.' "
For "How to Touch a Girl," JoJo decided to tell the story of the song, but not through herself. "We hired another couple so we could narrate the story through them," she explained. "I'm performing, and there are a lot of different vignettes and a lot of beautiful lighting techniques that we're using. We hired a band, and there's a performance shot and a lot of interactions and it all ties in at the end with my performances and the couple. And at the end, my guy comes."
Now that the video is finished, JoJo plans to spend much of December playing holiday radio festivals — in September, she told MTV News she'd put together her first band for those gigs (see "JoJo Assembles First Band, Plans To Hit The High Road This Winter"). She's also got a little celebrating to do on December 20, her 16th birthday. "I'll probably just stay home," JoJo said. "Really, what is most important to me is being with my family and friends, so if I get that, then that would be great. And if I get a car, that's just an added bonus."
JoJo's already thinking about her third album, although the sometime actress, seen this year in "RV" and "Aquamarine," plans to make a movie or two in between. "I don't know what yet, because I am focused on the music right now, but I am reading some scripts and there are some really cool ones out there," she said. "I love doing it, and it just keeps your face out there."


Academy rewards! Sportsmail's guide to the top-flight teams with the most players who have come thro
Finally, some good news for West Ham fans. The Hammers' famous academy, which nurtured the likes of Joe Cole and Frank Lampard, is alive and well. Gianfranco Zola fielded six home-grown players against Liverpool at the weekend - two more than any other Barclays Premier League team. West Ham may have lost 3-0, but the club has captured the market for identifying future stars in London - no other side from the capital fielded more than one former academy player. The north-west is the other hotbed of home-grown talent. The Manchester derby saw eight players who came through the youth systems of City and United.Here is Sportsmail's guide to the one-club players in action at the weekend. WEST HAM (6) James Tomkins Mark Noble Junior Stanislas Jack Collison Freddie Sears Josh Payne MANCHESTER CITY (4) Nedum Onuoha Micah Richards Stephen Ireland Ched Evans MANCHESTER UNITED (4) Ryan Giggs Jonny Evans Darren Fletcher Paul Scholes ASTON VILLA (2) Gabriel Agbonlahor Gareth Barry EVERTON (2) Jack Rodwell Leon Osman LIVERPOOL (2) Steven Gerrard Jamie Carragher ARSENAL (1) Kieran Gibbs CHELSEA (1) John Terry SUNDERLAND (1) Grant Leadbitter TOTTENHAM (1) Ledley King STOKE (1) Andy Wilkinson WIGAN (0) BLACKBURN (0) FULHAM (0) WEST BROM (0) BOLTON (0) PORTSMOUTH (0) HULL CITY (0) Grounds for concern?
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Texas Tech takes first place at Houston Livestock Show Wool Judging
Texas Tech University's wool judging team successfully finished its season with a decisive victory on Tuesday (March 13) at the Houston Livestock Show's Intercollegiate Wool Judging Contest. Tech's red team finished first and posted a total score of 2,201 points; 24 points ahead of its nearest competitor.
The Red Raider's black team scored 2,163 points, and finished third overall. The team won the placing and reasons divisions and finished third in the grading division. Other top finishers included Angelo State University, Colorado State University and Texas A&M University who finished second, fourth and fifth overall, respectively.
"We had a successful year with some narrow defeats," said Aaron Jennings, the team's coach and a graduate student in Tech's Department of Animal and Food Sciences. "Winning Houston was a true testament to this team's talent and work ethic. I fully expect these students to continue to have great success in the Texas Tech judging program."
Individually, five of the top-ten individuals were from Texas Tech. Colton Coker, a freshman from Roby, placed second. He was followed closely by teammate Ward Kerr, a freshman from Mertzon, who placed third. Kassandra Ognoskie, a freshman from Orting, Wash., placed seventh; Tayler Green, a freshman from Ropesville, placed ninth; and Austin Langemeier, a freshman from Marion, placed tenth.
Other team members included:
- Brittany Blum, a freshman from Howe
- Kylan Carson, a freshman from Olton
- Tyler Neuman, a freshman from Hondo
- Bailey Joe Pennington, a freshman from Sonora
- Marlynke Vanderlei, a freshman from Amherst
- Rex West, a freshman from Paris
- Christy Woerner, a freshman from Fredericksburg
- William Wunderlich, a freshman from Fredericksburg
- Lukas Ziegler, a freshman from New Windsor, Md.
The team was coached by Jennings and Brittany Thompson, an undergraduate student in the department. This was the final contest for the team comprising all freshman students. Previously, the team competed at the National Western in Denver, Colo., where it was narrowly defeated and finished third overall. The team earned second-place honors at the San Antonio Stock Show's competition in February.
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Set sail for a new world.
00:00 – The Adventurous Ones
02:00 – Goodbye
02:35 – Calm Waters
04:45 – Storm on the Horizon
05:20 – Riding the High Tides
07:02 – Drifting
07:35 – The Glorious New Land
Fantasy, Instrumental, Story, Adventure, Sound Track, Epic, New Age, Orchestral,
Celtic, New Age, Progressive Rock, Sound Track.
Composed in October 2004
Roland XP60 (Synth)
Emu ESI4000T (Sampler)
Korg Karma (Synth)
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 (DAW)
This track wasn’t mastered until April 2019, this means the release on Spotify under Winter Bynes Records is the original, studio recording version. The mastered version is available via Bandcamp, and will be released on all platforms including Spotify at a later date, funds permitting.
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Martin ‘Slammy’ Kilner, 2006
What can I say about this tune?
The pick of 2004 and 2005 for me, in many many ways and unless something staggering as this is released in 2006, then this will be my pick of this year too!.
I commented quite early on about the wonder of this tune, however I declined to review at that time…. Now, after over a year of ear orgasms, I can finally say what I feel about this track…
It warms me from the insides, all the way through my body… the sound is amazingly full and vibrant.
There are quite a few chapters to this tale of discovery, and each one is different, telling a wonderful story from setting out to sail, to beautiful nights under stars (at least that’s where ‘calm waters’ takes me too!) , to ravaging storms, to finally finding the promised land….
Despite the different tempos and styles, the entire piece fits together seamlessly, and each telling its part amazingly well.
Riding the high tide is totally fantastic – and at first I really didn’t appreciate this part as much as I do now…
Melodically (is that a word?) this piece is perhaps the high point of the track – no coincidences that its also in the central section of the track…
The thing is – with such a high powered part right in the middle like that, how could the tune continue to keep the listener interested after it was over?
Simple, the accordion piece that follows is as glorious as it is interesting, and keeps a genuine full 100% interest in the tune….
I just can’t get enough of each of the different parts….
Coupled together with a low-key, yet ‘victorious’ ending, which winds down the whole adventure perfectly.
Musically, there is something here for everyone. There are techno-like parts at the start, with dreamy romantic music following, which is undoubtedly ‘cute’.
Following that there is some rock opera that finishes on a synthlead high…. then folk music, and a neat orchestral ending. Its startling how it all works together. It does though, and fantastically well.
Technically, all I can say is the mixing is awesome, the sound quality is fantastic, and that Redheat really knows his way around his synths/samplers and stuff.
Brilliant stuff, one that I will keep forever in my collection.
Elendar Silvermoon, 2007
I’ve reviewed another one of your pieces, and I am impressed yet again. I love the mix of synths and orchestra in this piece. The section with guitar at around 5:30 reminds me alot of Jim Steinman’s work. The instrument around 7:40 makes me feel like I’m in the heart of a city somewhere in Europe (or a similar fantasy land). The overall feel of the music brings the listener to a different place, which is a key aspect I look for in this type of music.
Overall, I love the structure. The arrangement is excellent and none of the parts get repetitive, another very impressive piece of music. You definitely have the skills to go far with your music. I can hear this going into a video game soundtrack.
This IS serious work, really. Fully agree with slammin vinyl (Martin Kilnet). Mike Oldfield came to my mind (05.20, hehe) after I listened this piece, not to compare, or anything, but it is so much a complex and lots of theme piece with quick theme changes, as some of his older works.
Fully melodic instrumental piece with excellent sounding, I wonder with what you composed this. (Edit: now I know, thanks.)
What I liked
Full of melodic parts in lots of music style from easy listening to symphonic, soundtrack, ambientish, still it is one in all.
It is a nice travel in time and emotions, from modern to old music, with some celtic (am I wrong?) traditional melodies. The piece is composed with high care, all instruments sound nice and clean. It is mixed properly.
Technically it is nicely done.
What I would do differently
Nothing. At least nothing came to my mind when I listened.
Overall? A must to listen to this.
I don’t remember when I heard last time a complex but very nice piece like this.
Going to have to reinforce the 9.5 on this one mate. This really is a fantastic track, one of the best I’ve heard in a long, long time. The word that comes to mind is epic. You tell quite a story in 11 minutes.
The sound quality is just amazing, the composition is amazingly professional, the arrangement is near flawless, the musicianship is great. I’m going to do something unusual for this review because my normal comments would be pretty much worthless here (as there’s nothing to fix), so here goes my chronological review.
The tune begins with some really nice percussion with some backing pads. Some filter sweeps support until the flute melody comes in along with the rest of the backgrounds for this section, which sounds a bit bassy to my ears. I’m a big fan of trebley mixes though, so maybe that’s just me.
The electronic break is really nice, good transitions. Like the synth sample you use here, and the introduction of the strings is just killer. I need to get this hardware you’re using.
After the nice flute break we are introduced into a new section by a SICK guitar riff. Once again I need this hardware.
Very dreamy section with the voice melody up next. The pluck sound supporting the lead is nicely done. Once again we here the phenomenal flute sample playing a very nursery-rhyme-esque theme.
Almost to 5 minutes, and trouble appears to be brewing here. Things take a turn for the minor, but the lonely flute plays on. Some great string riffs open up a new section here. And oh no! Rock percussion and church bells! What’s this, an amazing rock battle segment. The mix is a bit cluttered it seems, but fantastic arrangement.
The new section is introduced by a guitar-like synth with a very moving melody. And then an unexpected turn, an accordian starts to play us a very celtic theme, supported by nice deep percussion and strings. I must say, this is my favorite portion of the song.
These are some of the most amazing melodies I’ve heard in ages. I just can’t get over that accordion sound either, it sounds like you’ve hired a German master to come play for you
This is definitely the most powerful section of the piece emotionally as well, sounds just like a bustling town. Really, really quality stuff here.
The outro is well done, we hear the now-familiar flute, supported by a great sounding guitar and soaring strings. The harp and strings sound really lush together, and this ending leaves us on just the right note
This is a HIGHLY recommended download, you won’t be disappointed. The skills and resources that went into this piece are incredible, I can’t commend you highly enough my friend. But keep an eye on your hardware, I’m definitely coming to rob you one day.


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Collections of this sort are generally aimed at public libraries
or beginning collectors ó persons who have heard and liked some Ravel
and would like to hear more, but donít know what to buy, and are seduced
by a low price. And they could surely do a lot worse than to buy this
collection. All the performances are first rate and the sound is very
good. But for the serious collector who already has all this music in
his or her own choice of the very best performances, there is little here
For those who like myself are devotees of the work
of Charles Munch, this version of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
was a surprise to me; I didnít know it existed, and it is a fine performance
worthy of the master. Of course one would also want to have the Fritz
Reiner/Chicago SO version (that performance on RCA may be the reason
they never recorded Munch doing this music) and us old guys would never
be without Pedro de Freitas Branco and the Champs Elysées Theatre
Orchestra on a 1951 monophonic Westminster LP (That stupendous Ducretet-Thomson
master tape is apparently now owned by EMI and so far as I know has
never made it to CD).
Michael Tilson Thomasís Ma Mère LíOye
is inferior to the Munch/Boston SO version on RCA/BMG. Thomasís performance
sounds "self conscious," and I guess what I mean by that is
that the conductor doesnít seem to know the music well enough to feel
completely confident. And, compared to the Munch recording the instrumental
balances are not as precise nor is the sound as clean although I believe
the Thomas recording is actually newer. The notes to this issue do not
give recording dates.
Entremontís piano performances are thoughtful, colourful,
and dramatic, but lack only that final bit of grace, polish and delicacy
that Vlado Perlemuter and some others bring to this music. Same with
the String Quartet; very well played but lacking only the final
touch of dash and lightness.
What a pity Sony didnít include here Leonard Bernsteinís
recording of the Concerto in g, one of the conductor/pianistís
most distinguished recordings and my choice for the best recording of
this work ever made ó and hence still only available singly and at full
The Pavane receives an excellent performance
with just the right measure of detachment from George Szell. It is useful
to be reminded that Ravel did NOT title this piece "Pavane pour
une Princesse Morte." Playing it as though it were a Kindertotenlied
misses one point of the music. Itís a joke, son, at least partially.
"Defunct Infanta" in the title sounds just as silly in French
as it does in English and like the "Alborada del Gracioso"
it is to be taken with a touch of Rimbaud and Satie ó a word game, best
not translated. Great Ravel performances always have a touch of detachment
and irony, and these titles are supposed to guide the performer in the
Now that Iíve said that, we come to what may be the
one exception in Ravelís oeuvre: Rapsodie Espagnole. Here the
romance can be piled on, the quiet parts very, very mysterious and the
exciting parts pedal to the floor. Bernstein on EMI does a terrific
job with this work, but so does Ormandy and nearly everybody else because
it offers no problems to the conductor.
Boléro was another of Ravelís musical
jokes, an essay in changing tone colours over an unchanging cyclically
repeated phrase. Toscanini started the fashion of accelerating it, infuriating
Ravel but laying the foundation for the workís present popularity. Ormandy
does a great job here following the composerís original tempo intentions.
Again, us old guys will never be without Branco and the Champs Elysées
Theatre Orchestra, and thereís also a good one with Hermann Scherchen
on Millennium Classics/Wesminster which also uses all the correct original
Ravelís extremely rich orchestral and piano sound has
tended to drive the envelope in recording technology. These recordings,
most of which are old enough to have voted for President Clinton, lack
a little in transparency, display restricted transient response and
some harshness in the upper register. Audiophiles will find their favourite
Ravel among more recent all-digital recordings.