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Marlins manager Don Mattingly had a gloomy postgame report Monday, with the biggest blow being a broken thumb for infielder Miguel Rojas.
MIAMI — Navigating the second inning has been a painful exercise for Miami Marlins starter Adam Conley the last two times he has pitched at Marlins Park.
The eight runs the erratic left-hander gave up to the Pirates with two outs in the second (nine runs overall) on April 28 was the low point of his career.
What happened with two outs in the second inning Monday may have stung worse. Giving up a three-run double to the opposing pitcher sent another Conley start veering into a ditch on the way to a 9-4 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Carlos Martinez, a .179 career hitter and 0-for-11 this season, turned on a first-pitch fastball from Conley and drove it into the left-field corner. He wouldn't have gotten to bat had Conley finished off the No. 8 hitter, Magneuris Sierra (.167 average beginning the night).
With two on base and two out in the second, Conley got ahead 0-2 on Sierra, who swung and missed badly at the first two offerings. But after two balls evened the count, Conley left a juicy changeup over the plate and Sierra lined it to right for a single to load the bases.
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Not only did Martinez quickly clear them, two innings later he showed the double wasn't a fluke by lining another run-scoring hit to left. The four RBI by Martinez were half as many as he had in his career when the night began.
"Yeah, I have to be able to get him out there," Conley said. "Twice I threw him fastballs away. Looking back now, of course, in hindsight it's probably the best shot he's got at hitting. So I've got to get in there on him or throw him a breaking ball or something different.
"I know he can swing it a little bit. He's a great athlete. The guy throws it 100. I just had to be better there and I think one time I shook to it. I just have to be better there. I have to be able to put that guy away."
Conley didn't make it out of the fourth as Matt Carpenter's two-run triple sent him packing. The Cardinals added another parting shot with Carpenter scoring on Jedd Gyorko's double off Brian Ellington.
That left Conley on the hook for seven runs in 3 2/3 innings. In his past three starts, the lefty has allowed 21 runs (18 earned) in 10 2/3 innings, an ERA of 15.19.
"I wish I knew enough about pitching mechanics to be able to talk mechanically, but I don't," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. "Obviously, the results weren't there tonight. It just seemed like a lot of balls [were] flat up in the zone. No real bite to the breaking ball. He just couldn't get the ball where the wanted to."
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Marcell Ozuna's two home runs and three RBI and Giancarlo Stanton's fourth homer in three games weren't nearly enough for the Marlins to compensate for Conley's shortcomings.
There was concern when Ozuna grabbed his right hamstring after lining out to right in the ninth and limping off. He said after the game it just felt tight and he was hopeful of being able to play Tuesday.
Marlins embarrassment didn't end with Conley's departure. The next time Martinez came to the plate, against Ellington, a wild pitch advanced runners to second and third. Both scored when Martinez hit a bouncer to second and the throw home eluded J.T. Realmuto for an error on the Marlins catcher.
It was the second error of the inning, which began with Derek Dietrich booting Aledmys Diaz's grounder to third. Dietrich will be getting most starts at third with Martin Prado (hamstring strain) on the disabled list, Mattingly said before the game.
The previous inning ended when Dietrich was thrown out at second attempting to stretch a single into extra bases. It took a replay review lasting 2:36 to uphold the out call. The replay showed Dietrich getting his foot on the base ahead of the tag, but it was unclear if he stayed on the bag – the ruling was simply that the call stood.
Dietrich also figured in an early exit by Mattingly after being called out on strikes to end the second. Mattingly came out between innings and argued vigorously with plate umpire Hunter Wendlestedt about the third-strike fastball, which appeared outside on FoxTrax.
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Mattingly may have had another motive in trying to wake up his club, which was showing little life while falling into the early hole. If so, it proved futile as once again the Marlins failed to gain traction following a strong performance (Sunday's 7-0 win at New York).
"It's just not worth talking about," Mattingly said about his second ejection of the season. "It's just never a winning situation for me or our team, really. It's not even worth going into."
The Marlins haven't won two consecutive games since April 22-23, and have followed each of their past four wins with defeats.
The biggest Marlins moment Monday was eye-opener as Ozuna's first homer soared 433 feet, one of the longest hit to center field at Marlins Park by anyone not named Giancarlo Stanton. The second one, to left field, was Ozuna's 11th as he briefly took over the team lead from Stanton, who matched it with a homer to center in the ninth.
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The two-homer game was the third of Ozuna's career and second this season (April 11 vs. Atlanta).
It remains to be seen whether Conley will remain in the starting rotation. Mattingly said before the game that Conley needs to command his fastball to have success, particularly in throwing inside to right-handers. Conley hit Yadier Molina with one such pitch in, and walked three in addition to allowing six hits while throwing 84 pitches (52 strikes).
"It's something we've been talking about with him," Mattingly said of Conley's struggled. "We talked about it earlier in the year with him, in spring training. He's had some good outings and rough outings."
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Part of Global Health Policy Center's initiative on how the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are influencing activities, practices, and strategies in the area of global health diplomacy.
Health diplomacy has always been at the forefront of China's engagement with other parts of the world. Over the past fifty years, China's approach to global health considerations has undergone major changes. The Chinese leadership's recent recognition of engagement on global health helps build the country's global image as a contributor to global welfare. Meanwhile, as China's demand for long-term, reliable access to natural resources in Africa and Latin America to sustain its rapid economic growth at home continues to increase, Beijing perceives health diplomacy as a convenient instrument to achieve its economic goals.
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Cameron Wood started out as farmland and was later a large hunting preserve owned by the Belks, one of Charlotte's most prestigious families. Eventually, the family wanted to use the land to build a shopping center, but they preferred a place closer to the center of town. They eventually traded the property with the Harris family who sold it to a real estate development company. The neighborhood's first homes began being constructed in 1986. The neighborhood was completed 14 years later in 2000. Today, it is one of the largest planned communities in Mecklenburg County.
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Easy Ashi Garami for Everyone
By Fanatics Authors, March 29, 2018
According to the old proverb, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. The meaning behind this old saying is that all we need is to take that first step and we can begin any journey, no matter how long and daunting.
If you've been training BJJ for any length of time and you've not gotten into the sometimes nefarious looking world of lower body submissions, the first time you dip your toe (see what I did there?) into the water can be a frightening day. Gone are the simple days of pure jiu jitsu when all a practitioner needed to know was the difference between closed guard and basic open guard. If you really knew your stuff, maybe you can do some half guard every now and again.
Entering the land of lower body submission requires you to begin understanding a new language, filled with terms like ashi garami, honey hole, 411, and inside sankaku. It can be more than a little overwhelming. But what we forget is that any new technique, any new concept can seem extremely daunting at first. The first time we are taught a standard arm lock from closed guard, our brains are reacting very similarly to the first time we sit down and try to understand a leg lock.
We must start simply and we must break things down into smaller bits, or smaller steps. The journey of a thousand leg locks begins with understanding one concept. The concept we would like to start with today is ashi garami which simply means "leg entanglement" and is one of the best places to start our journey towards becoming leg lock aces.
Ashi garami is a position where one of the opponent's legs has been isolated and trapped on the outside of the offensive players legs. One of the attacker's legs is entwined behind and over the top of the thigh with the foot placed in the opponent's hip joint. The other leg is pinched with the knees driving together while the hook on that leg is most commonly hooked onto the other leg to prevent it's mobility.
Let's look at some simple ashi garami entries from legendary grappling and MMA competitor and coach Ricardo Almeida, who also happens to be the instructor of Tom Deblass, Frankie Edgar, and many others.
For Almeida, a huge fundamental and concept of understanding the ashi garami position is knowing how to use it defensively to keep your feet safe against attack. The number one rule of thumb in the leg game is that the one with both of the feet on the inside of the opponent's legs is the safest from leg attack.
Entries into positions are oftentimes the most important thing to understand. Completing a technique is one challenge, but putting ourselves and our opponent's body into the proper position from which to execute the technique is a fundamental and concept that cannot be ignored.
Almeida demonstrates several techniques with the ultimate goal of 'unbalancing' the opponent. By unbalancing his opponent, he forces a reaction in the opponent. That reaction is to prevent the unbalancing and in each of these cases, involves the opponent stepping a leg up creating space for Ricardo to enter into ashi garami.
Ashi garami is also known as single leg X guard and from this position, there are not only a number of leg locks available, but also many sweeps like the single leg X and the extremely effective "taking out the trash sweep."
In the first instance, he utilizes a butterfly guard entry, securing an under hook and using the butterfly hook to unbalance the opponent and force him to step up. In the second instance, he utilizes a simply arm drag to unbalance the opponent.
So with a little effort and taking that first proverbial step of learning the basic ashi garami position and a few simple entries, you can begin making that journey to a thousand leg locks. And until your leg locks get where they need to be you will have sweeps available to you and absolute worse case, you'll understand better how to keep your own feet safe from the other leg lock aces in your path.
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On the edge of the city, a transformation
By Tim Logan Globe Staff,July 3, 2016, 5:43 p.m.
An ice arena (front left), office building (right), and New Balance world headquarters (rear) will anchor the Boston Landing complex in Brighton.Craig F. Walker
First it was a rail yard. Then small factories. And now this nondescript stretch of Brighton is aiming to become a new hub for the economy of modern-day Boston, home to 5,000 white-collar jobs within a few years.
That's what New Balance Shoe Co. is seeking at Boston Landing, the 15-acre campus the athletic shoe manufacturer is building around its new headquarters overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Among the seven buildings New Balance is putting up over the next few years are three — with nearly 650,000 square feet of office space among them — geared toward tech, life science, and other companies that want to be near downtown Boston but not quite in the heart of it.
Boston Landing is one of several big real estate developments underway that will transform long-quiet neighborhoods along the outer ring of the city into centers of commerce.
The office building (right) and ice arena viewed from a parking garage at the Boston Landing complex in Brighton.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
Somewhere between bustling high-rise and placid office park, the new centers are pitching themselves as offering urban feel and access without the congestion of downtown — or the prices.
And whether at Assembly Row in Somerville or the Arsenal complex in Watertown, around Harvard University's growing campus in Allston or rehabbed buildings in Charlestown and Fenway, these projects are bringing major employers to places that were once a sort of economic no-man's land between downtown and Route 128.
"It's going to make the city feel bigger," said Brendan Carroll, a veteran market researcher at Encompass Real Estate. "Instead of going from downtown to this no-place zone for a while and then hitting Waltham, I think it'll make for a very contiguous experience."
Nearly 40 percent of the office construction underway in Greater Boston is in neighborhoods along or just beyond the outer borders of Boston, according to Encompass, a real estate advisory firm. And much of that construction is large, multibuilding complexes like Boston Landing.
In 2011, the development arm of New Balance bought a swath of underused warehouses just east of its old headquarters on Guest Street. The footwear firm has been based in Brighton for decades, but it saw an opportunity in its backyard to do more.
First, New Balance built its new headquarters building, five stories of sleek glass along the Mass. Pike, and moved in last fall. It's nearly finished with a second building next door, which will have a practice facility for the Boston Bruins and upper-floor offices marketed to tech and life science companies. One of the other two office buildings will include a new practice facility for the Boston Celtics. The rest of the build-out includes a hotel, apartment building, and a vast track-and-field center.
The mix of activities, from office workers to residents to sports fans, should guarantee Boston Landing is buzzing with activity all week long, said Jim Halliday, managing director at NB Development Group, a division of New Balance.
"We expect it will be a seven-day-a-week kind of place," he said. "And we think Boston Landing will become a gateway from the western suburbs."
In that sense these projects reflect a sort of return to the Boston of the first half of the 20th century, when streetcar suburbs flourished as commercial hubs of their own. But then highway expansion pushed commuters, and jobs for them, further out into the suburbs. Route 128 boomed, and then Interstate 495.
Salvucci Masonry workers worked on steps at Boston Landing.Craig F. Walker
The pendulum has since swung back: Many workers, particularly younger ones, want to live and work in the city and their employers have followed suit.
But they face high real estate costs and tight markets in hot spots such as Kendall Square and the Seaport District; and many employers still have lots of workers accustomed to driving in from the suburbs, making other parts of downtown, with its pricey parking, a tough sell.
The inner ring can be a convenient compromise for both workers and companies, said Robert Fitzgerald, an office broker at CBRE, a major real estate firm.
"Usually these sites are more affordable" than downtown locations, Fitzgerald said. "Typically they have parking. And they have a level of public transit you can't get on 128."
That last factor is important enough that some builders are adding train stations to their developments.
New Balance's headquarters anchor the 17-acre development.Craig F. Walker
The giant Assembly Row project in Somerville, where Partners Healthcare is moving 4,200 employees into a new building, includes a new Orange Line stop that was a big draw for the company, said Partners spokesman Ron Copp. New Balance is paying for a commuter rail station at Boston Landing, and Halliday said he expects it will be well-used by commuters both from the suburbs and downtown.
"For economic development to work at this site, it made sense to add another mode of transportation," he said.
Other locations farther from rail lines are making do with shuttle service. The Arsenal on the Charles campus in Watertown, where athenahealth has more than 2,000 workers, offers shuttles to Harvard Square. Boylston Properties is planning a major re-do of the Arsenal Mall and is building a 180,000-square-foot office building across Arsenal Street.
Boylston Properties principal Bill McQuillan noted the location is under the radar even though it borders Boston, Cambridge, and Newton.
"Watertown isn't exactly Timbuktu," McQuillan said. "It's got proximity to all the things that matter."
The prospect of cheaper land, close in, has also drawn many housing developers to these so-called "outer-urban" areas, especially near the T. Within a 1-mile radius of Boston Landing in Brighton and Watertown, there are at least 12 apartment and condo projects in the works, with more than 2,200 new units combined.
All the new jobs nearby will help fill those apartments, said Bruce Percelay, chairman of the Mount Vernon Co., which is planning a 132-unit apartment building at 530 Western Ave. in Brighton. But the emergence of Brighton and Allston as a new business hub has Percelay thinking his next project over there won't be apartments, but offices.
"That'll be our next move," he said. "Office. Life science. We've been talking with some companies in Kendall Square about potentially moving over here."
Tim Logan can be reached at tim.logan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @bytimlogan.


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Following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura on the 14th November, as we all know, Kaikoura and its supporting infrastructure were left in a severely damaged state. The entire South Island has moved approximately 5m closer to the North Island and national roads have been closed for an unknown amount of time. To remedy this as fast as possible, the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) was required to mobilise available heavy machinery to deliver infrastructure services as soon as possible. NCTIR is an alliance created to restore access to the coastal road and rail corridor north and south of Kaikoura. It is made up of the NZ Transport Agency, KiwiRail, Downer, Fulton Hogan, Heb Construction and Higgins.
Heavy machinery was mobilised from around the country, and with the help of BVT, existing components for a number of machines were modified where necessary to suit the task at hand. To ensure that the steel work would not break and the design would meet today's stringent certification standards, BVT were engaged to provide Finite Element Analysis (FEA) services. This allowed rapid iterations of the design concept and fabrication over a two week period. NCTIR contractors worked closely with BVT to meet the timelines, the result being that NCTIR was able to provide all of the machinery required to get the job done with minimal disruptions.
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Size 21 x 28cm, 64 pages, 238 colour pictures of which 10 are Bolivian scenery, a map of the Sulco area in Bolivia, cultivation tips chapter, classification chapter, indexes of photos of this and the recent German book on Sulcos.
For anyone interested in this very variable group of plants, this is valuable illustrated documentation of the appearance of many plants grown under field collection numbers. The modern 'lumped' species concept has unfortunately become a poor tool for horticultural collectors to label their plants which has left the collectors number method as the method of choice, albeit one that results in hard to remember tags for the plants.


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Q: Provide sass variables definitions on command-line Is there a standard, or simple, way to define sass variables on the command line, or pass them from the environment? What I am doing is trying to create to different CSS files from a single SCSS source file. Each output file will be specialized for a certain target device and included from the HTML page with media queries.
Update: It looks like this may not be enough. The @if syntax doesn't actually allow conditional sass blocks, only conditional CSS blocks. This means even if I can define a variable it wouldn't allow me to do different processing in the file. Any ideas?

A: Use SASS custom functions. A complete working example below.
styles.sass:
$primary_color: getenv("SASS_VAR_PRIMARY_COLOR", white)

body
    background: $primary_color

sass_functions.rb:
module Sass::Script::Functions
    def getenv(name, default)
        assert_type name, :String
        value = ENV.fetch(name.value, nil)
        if not value
            return default
        end
        begin
            Sass::Script::Parser.parse(value, 0, 0)
        rescue
            Sass::Script::String.new(value)
        end
    end
end

Command line:
SASS_VAR_PRIMARY_COLOR='#123456' sass -r ./sass_functions.rb styles.sass styles.css

If you use Compass, you may put module Sass::Script::Functions directly into config.rb and compile the styles with:
SASS_VAR_PRIMARY_COLOR='#123456' sass --compass styles.sass styles.css

A: The facility I needed is simply not in SASS. Even if you could define variables on the command-line the "if" facility is insufficient to actually do conditional blocks in the style sheet.
Instead I've resorted to the old stand-by of M4. I simply preprocess the SASS with M4, doing command-line options and full conditional blocks.

A: I couldn't find a way to specify sass variables from the command line but you can mimic this behaviour by creating multiple specialized SCSS files that import a base SCSS file.
For example:
// base_style.scss
@debug "* Format = #{$format} *";
@if $format == 1
{
  $body-font-family: "Palatino" !global;
}
@else if $format == 2
{
  $body-font-family: "Arial" !global;
}
@else
{
  @warn "Undefined format";
}
body
{
  font-family: $body-font-family;
}

// style_1.scss
$format: 1;
@import "base_style.scss";

// style_2.scss
$format: 2;
@import "base_style.scss";

Then from the command line:
sass style_1.scss style_1.css
sass style_2.scss style_2.css

Note that you can also specify the rules for different target media in one single (S)CSS file with distinct media queries in it. In this case, you only need one source file.

A: I'm pretty sure I understand what you're saying. Sometimes it's good to group things together in a .scss file that would end up in conditional stylesheets so you can find them easier.
At the moment there's still not the ability to compile a sass stylesheet in to separate stylesheets without grouping all your conditional rules in to a partial.
However, using Paul Irish's suggestion to conditionally add a class name to the html tag: http://paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>    <html class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>    <html class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]>    <html class="ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <html class=""> <!--<![endif]-->

You could do something like this:
.something {
    regular rules...

    .ie8 & {
         conditional rules...
    }
}

That way you can still have organization as well as conditional styling. I hope this helps!

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Tesla Semi News
Tesla, Nikola Focus on Germany
Nikola's New Facility in Germany
With the opening of a factory to produce Nikola Tre electric heavy-duty vehicles last week, the cooperation between Italy-based global commercial truck maker Iveco and U.S.-based manufacturer of zero-emission trucks Nikola has entered a new stage.
The joint venture partners stated that production of the Nikola Tre electric heavy-duty vehicles will commence by the end of the year at the plant in Ulm, Germany. In 2022, the first Nikola Tre vehicles will be delivered to a small group of buyers in the United States.
In addition to that battery-electric vehicle (BEV) production model, the Nikola Tre fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) prototype, which is set to commence production in Ulm by the end of 2023, was also on show to the public.
The Ulm plant, which covers 50,000 square metres (nearly 60,000 square yards) and has a final assembly process optimised for "electric-born" automobiles, spans 50,000 square metres (nearly 60,000 square yards).
The production line is currently estimated to be capable of producing roughly 1,000 units per shift per year, with gradual ramp-up expected in the coming years.
The new site, as well as the entire first phase of industrialisation, represents a joint investment by Iveco and Nikola, with a total of 160 suppliers expected to be involved in the process from start to finish, according to the manufacturers.
The Nikola Tre is built on the Iveco S-WAY cabover truck platform, with an electric axle co-designed and manufactured by FPT Industrial.
It includes Nikola's breakthrough electric and fuel cell technology, as well as Bosch-supplied critical components.
Over the past couple of years, Nikola and Tesla have been known rivals in the EV semi space. Nikola sued Tesla alleging that the Tesla Semi was a rip-off of Nikola's own truck design. Tesla responded to the lawsuit accusing Nikola of basing its first Nikola One truck on a 2010 concept by designer Adriano Mudri. Mudri is now the design director for Rimac, a Croatian carmaker. This case is still ongoing.
Tesla's German Giga Fest
Tesla is requesting a COVID-19 waiver for a "Giga-Fest" at its massive factory near Berlin, which is currently under development. Up to 9,000 people are expected to attend the event to learn more about Tesla's plans for the 5.8 billion euro ($6.9 billion) plant that would produce Tesla cars for European consumers.
Tesla started construction on the factory in Grunheide in December 2019, although it has yet to receive formal approval for the location.
The business wants to organise an event on Oct. 9 to show off the plant as it is being built. Elon Musk, the company's Technoking, announced his attendance to the event if it goes ahead. Musk has stated that the first automobiles will be built at the plant in October or shortly thereafter.
Tesla has asked for permission to have 9,000 people on-site, above the 5,000-person maximum set by pandemic laws.
The day will include a "behind the scenes" factory tour and the chance to ride in a Model Y, the automobile that will be made on-site if the plant is permitted, according to a website put up to register for the event.
Tesla's Big Rig Delay
The launch of Tesla's electric big rig has been pushed back to 2022, citing "low availability of battery cells and worldwide supply chain constraints." The business also stated that it is deferring the project in order to concentrate resources on the construction of two new plants in Berlin and Austin.
The concept of a battery-powered vehicle has piqued the interest of retailers and shippers looking to save money on fuelling and maintenance. Several major corporations have made bookings for the Semi, including Pepsi, Walmart, Anheuser-Busch, UPS, and FedEx.
A base vehicle is expected to cost $US150,000, with a longer-range model starting at $US180,000. The fee of a reservation is $US20,000.
Back to Tesla Semi News
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Tesla Semi Production Full-On
Tesla Semi Truck Deliveries In Action
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Southeastern Conference Championship Game participants Georgia and Auburn claimed six of the SEC's seven individual football awards as voted on by the league's head coaches, it was announced Wednesday.
Auburn's Kerryon Johnson was named SEC Offensive Player of the Year, while Georgia's Roquan Smith was named Defensive Player of the Year. Auburn's Daniel Carlson was voted Special Teams Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, Georgia's Jake Fromm was voted SEC Freshman of the Year and LSU's Danny Etling was selected as Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Auburn's Braden Smith was named winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy, while Georgia coach Kirby Smart was named SEC Coach of the Year.
Johnson was the SEC's leading rusher with 1,320 yards despite missing two games due to injury. He also led the league with 19 touchdowns and has 23 receptions on the season. Johnson has moved up to 12th on Auburn's all-time career rushing list with 2,423 yards.
Smith is Georgia's leading tackler for the second consecutive season with 113 stops. He has tallied 10.5 tackles for loss and a team-best 5.5 sacks, a pair of fumble recoveries and a forced fumble. Smith earned MVP honors in the SEC Championship Game last Saturday.
Carlson is the first SEC player to garner multiple Special Teams Player of the Year honors. Earlier this season he set the SEC career scoring record, which now stands at 471 points. Carlson has converted 195 consecutive PAT attempts, an SEC record, and his 195 PATs made ranks third in SEC history.
Fromm is 11-1 as a starter for the Bulldogs and has thrown for 2,173 yards and 21 touchdowns. He is third in the SEC in passing efficiency (168.2) and earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors three times this season.
Etling graduated in May of 2017 with a 3.72 grade point average and a degree in Mass Communications. He was elected Vice Chair of the SEC Football Leadership Council and is a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree. Etling has thrown for 2,234 yards and 14 touchdowns this season.
Smith started all 13 games this season for Auburn and has helped pave the way for a rushing attack that is averaging 228.2 yards per game. He was a Midseason All-America selection and was named SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week following the Tigers' win at Texas A&M.
Smart led Georgia to its 13th SEC title and the No. 3 seed in the College Football Playoff. Smart has guided the Bulldogs to a 12-1 record this season, and he has accumulated 20 wins in his two seasons in Athens.


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About Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a geographically landlocked country in Southern Asia. The Central Asian Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan lie along its northern border, Iran lies to the west, Pakistan to its east, and China at its easternmost Hindu Kush mountainous peak along the Wakhan corridor. The Hindu Kush mountains, the westernmost part of the Himalayan range, dominates the rugged terrain and runs across the country from east to west. The Pamir Mountain, extend from the West of Afghanistan into Tajikistan, China, and Kashmir. High passes are found in both of these mountain ranges and they form a strategically important network for traders, invaders and fighters.
The most famous historical passes were the Khyber Pass and the Kotal-e Lataband pass, both leading from Kabul to Pakistan, and the Kotel-e Salang pass, linking Kabul to northern Afghanistan. The climate is extremely harsh with bitter cold winters and blazing hot summers. The region also lies on a major tectonic fault line and thus is prone to many earthquakes. In summary, it is a challenging environment for its inhabitants as well as the countless invading foreign armies who have failed to subjugate the country.
251,825 sq miles
(slightly smaller than Texas)
32,738,376 (July 2008 est.)
CAPITAL: Kabul with approx population 2 million
Other major cities are Ghazni, Jalalabad, Herat, Kandahar, and Mazar-e Sharif.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Natural gas, petroleum, coal, cooper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones Land use: Arable land 12% Permanent pastures 46% Forests and woodland 3% Other 39%. Agricultural products: opium, wheat, fruits, nuts, wool, mutton, sheepskins, lambskins.
INDUSTRIES: small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, cement, handwoven carpets, natural gas, coal, cooper.
Afghanistan's geographic position has made it one of the trading and migration crossroads of Central Asia. Communities with separate religions, languages, and ethnic backgrounds have lived side by side for generations. Afghanistan has seen Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian kingdoms flourishing in its territory in past centuries and it still remains a country of dynamic diversity. It is a country divided into many tribal and ethnic groups. One aspect of life which unites almost all Afghanis, however, is the religion of Islam. Although there are sectarian differences, and variations in the practice of the religion, Afghanis are virtually all Muslims.
An estimated 80%of the population is Sunni Muslim while 19% is Shia Muslim.
Ethnic groups are Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, and Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baluch2%, Nuristani and Kizibash 4%.
Pashtun: largest ethnic group, mostly farmers and Sunni Muslims Tajik: live mostly in the northeast, second largest ethnic group, mostly Sunni Muslims Hazara: live in the Hindu Kush mountains, primarily Shiite Muslims Uzbek: live mostly along the northern border, mostly Sunni Muslims.
Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian) are Afghanistan's official languages. Dari is spoken by over 50% of the population and Pashto is spoken throughout Kabul and eastern and southern Afghanistan. Many Afghans are multi-lingual. Tajik and Turkic languages are spoken widely in the north. Smaller groups throughout the country also speak more than 70 other languages and numerous dialects.
The Constitution of Afghanistan provides for the presidential and parliamentary elections. President Hamid Karzai earned the majority of votes during the Presidential election of 2004 and has since worked to lay the foundation of a democracy in his 5 year term with the possibility for one additional term. In 2005, the Parliamentary elections were held for the Wolesi and Meshrano Jirgas, comprising the upper and lower houses of Parliament for which each Parliamentariam would serve a 5 year term. Afghanistan is a country of councils; the Loya Jirga (Grand Council) and local shuras have been contributing, for centuries, to the political landscape of Afghanistan. Afghans are thus accustomed to working through these councils towards building consensus. The parliament consists of two chambers: the Wolesi Jirga (The Lower House) and the Meshrano Jirga (the Senate); as well as Provincial Councils; District Councils; Village Councils; and Municipal Councils and elected mayors.
The Constitution mandates that two women be elected from each of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, to the lower House of Parliament (wolesi jirga). This means that at least sixty-eight of the 249 (or 27%) of lower house seats must be occupied by women, placing the Afghan legislature in the top 20 when it comes to the worldwide comparison and considerably higher than the United States or the United Kingdom which have 15% and 18%, respectively. The Senate (meshrano jirga) consists of 102 members. Senators are elected appointments and indirect elections. Two thirds are elected. The President selects the remaining one third for a period of five years. Appointees by the president shall include two representatives of the disabled, and two representatives from the kuchis or nomads and 17 women.
Persia reestablished control in the 6th century only to lose it briefly during the Arab invasions in the 7th century which introduced Islam in the region. The establishment of the Islamic Ghaznavid dynasty(962-1140) began the process of uniting the Afghan tribes and converting them to Islam. This dynasty, which flourished for two centuries, produced a number of Afghan heroes. The exploits of Mahmud of Ghazni, who invaded and conquered parts of India, as well as the intellectual writings of the great scientist, Ibn Sina (Avicena), are still talked about in present day Afghanistan. The Ghaznavid dynasty was destroyed in the 12th century by the Ghorids from Central Afghanistan, whose brief conquest was ended by the 1219 invasion by Genghis Khan's Mongol armies. In addition to leveling a number of cities which resisted his armies, Genghis destroyed the ancient Karez (underground) irrigation systems, thus turning fertile land into permanent deserts. The countryside has never recovered from this destruction.
The collapse of the Mongol empire early in the 14th century, allowed descendants of the Ghorids to reassert control in Afghanistan and in 1370 Timour-i-lang (Tamerlane) came to power and began invasions of India and surrounding territories. Tamerlane's empire in turn was destroyed by Babur, who founded the Mughal dynasty and seized control of Kabul in 1504. The ruler, Emperor Babur, had his capital in Kabul in 1512 bringing Afghanistan to the heights of power but as the Mughals extended their dynasty into India, Afghanistan went from being the center of the empire to merely a peripheral part of it. As in the previous dynasties, the Mughals experienced a series of uprising and revolts by tribal Afghans. These revolts produced several national heroes such as Bayazid Roshan, an Afghan intellectual who in the middle of the 16th century led the revolt against the Moghuls and was martyred, and the warrior-poet, Khushhal Khan Khattak who led a revolt against the Mughals in the mid 17th century. The Persian Safavid dynasty ruled Western Afghanistan and parts of the Southwest in the 17th century and 18th centuries, although their control was always tenuous and revolts frequent; at one point, in the early 18th century, they were kicked out of Kandahar and the Afghans invaded Persia!
EMERGENCE AS A STATE
The creation of modern Afghanistan began with the assassination of Nadir Shah (a Persian) who ruled much of Afghanistan and Persia, and the rise of an Afghan army under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Abdali who proclaimed the Durrani dynasty and established a united Afghan State beginning in 1747. The Durrani Empire was a larger state that included modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of eastern Iran and western India. It was a monarchy rule from 1747 until 1823 by Ahmed Shah Durrani and his descendants. They were from the Sadozai line of the Abdali or Durrani group, making them the second Pashtun rulers from Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was under the leadership of Ahmad Shah that the nation of Afghanistan began to take shape following centuries of fragmentation and exploitation. Ahmad Shah conquered large areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, creating the largest Muslim empire of the late 18th century. The descendants of Ahmad Shah continued to expand and rule although they faced continuous revolts from various tribes as well as invasions from Persia and eventual chaos and anarchy.
Throughout the 19th century Afghans fought against British forces. In 1826, Dost Muhammad became the emir (king) at a time when Great Britain and Russia were struggling for control of Central Asia. The British didn't want Dost Muhammad to remain ruler of Afghanistan, preferring a weaker leader whom they could control. The British attempt to dethrone Dost Muhammad led to the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842). While the campaign was initially a military success for the British, the Afghans were successful in returning Dost Muhammad to the throne. The Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1879) stemmed from disagreements about the borders of Afghanistan. Faced with an overwhelming British force, the Afghans signed the Treaty of Gandamak in 1879. According to the terms of the treaty, Afghanistan surrendered virtually all control of their foreign affairs.
In 1880, Abdur Rahman Khan assumed the Afghan throne. During his two decades of rule, he attempted to modernize Afghanistan by weakening the tribalism that was inherent in Afghan society. The twenty-one year reign of Abdur Rahman Khan was an important period for the consolidation of a modern state marked by efforts to modernize and establish control of the kingdom. The borders of Afghanistan were established in 1893 through negotiations with the British and provincial governments emerged, taking the place of clan rule.
In 1919, Afghanistan gained independence from British occupying forces. From 1919-1973 Afghanistan modernized and built extensive infrastructure with the assistance of the international community. This period of relative stability ended in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown while away in Europe.
In 1978 and 1979, a number of coups brought to power a communist government that drifted increasingly toward the USSR, ending with a Soviet puppet government in Kabul led by Babrak Kamal. In addition to the significant upheaval within government circles, popular opposition to government reforms led to the rise of an indigenous Afghan resistance group called the mujahadeen . In order to combat this guerrilla insurgency, the Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan; this signaled the beginning of the Afghanistan War (1979 – 1989). The Soviets made little progress in breaking the will of the mujahadeen fighters. With the help of the United States, Afghans successfully resisted the occupation. On February 15, 1989 the last Soviet soldier retreated across Afghanistan's northern border. As hostilities ceased, more than a million Afghans lay dead and 6.2 million people, over half the world's refugee population, had fled the country.
The Soviet withdrawal in 1989 weakened the communist government of President Najibullah, leading to his ousting in April 1992. An interim president was installed and replaced two months later by Burhanuddin Rabbani, a founder of the country's Islamic political movement, backed by the popular commander Ahmad Shah Masoud. The government remained unstable and unable to form a national consensus amongst its various factions. This instability was exploited by a group called the Taliban ('talib' means 'religious student' or 'seeker of knowledge') who adhered to a austere fundamentalist interpretation of Islam which they imposed on Afghanistan. With the assistance of foreign governments, organizations, and resources, the Taliban seized Kandahar and in September 1998 entered Kabul. By the year 2000, the Taliban controlled about 90% of the country. Their application of a repressive religious fundamentalism eradicated much of Afghanistan's economic and social progress and their anti-education, anti-female, anti cultural and anti-modern policies pushed the country further into chaos and the destruction of the country's 5000 year old cultural heritage. Showing little interest in trying to govern and rebuild Afghanistan, they instead played host to the radical Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
On September 11, 2001, an Al Qaeda terrorist assault against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted the United States to order the arrest of the group's leader, Osama bin Laden. When the Taliban refused to hand bin Laden over, the U.S. launched attacks against Afghanistan in October, 2001 and gave support to the rival Northern Alliance which had been formed by General Ahmad Shah Masoud. Within months the Taliban regime collapsed, and Afghanistan reverted back to a situation in which local warlords wielded much of the power. In 2002, Hamid Karzai was appointed as the new president of Afghanistan. Present rebuilding efforts are hampered by ethnic and tribal divisiveness, by the large number of refugees, a resurgence of Taliban and terrorist activity, and the destroyed infrastructure.
Afghanistan has a rich and long cultural heritage. Its location on the old Silk Route between China and the Middle East, linking the civilizations of Iran, India and China, means its cultural life has been subject to many influences.
Afghanistan offers a magical voyage into the realm of the mysticism of poetry. One of the world's most renowned poets, Jalalaluddin Rumi Balkhi (1207-1273),known as the household name Rumi, springs from Balkh, in north-eastern Afghanistan, which has also produced the famous Rabia Balkhi, a poetess who is said to be a legendary martyr of love. Abdul Rahman Momand would become one of the greatest poets in the history of the Pashto literature. Widely admired in Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, religious scholars searched for the meaning of life in his mystical poems that captured the Pashtun cultural essence. National and political leaders used his poetry for independent uprisings . Due to his popularity, Afghans gave him the honorable name "Baba" (Grand father of the nation). Hakim Sana'i was one of the most significant poets in the history of Islamic mysticism and was one of the mystical mathnavi writers of Persia. The proper name of Sana'i of Ghazni was Abul Majd bin Majdud bin Adam. Sana'i was born in the province of Ghazni in southern Afghanistan. Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami the last of the great classic poets of Persia, was born at Jam, near Herat, the western province of Afghanistan in 1414. He was welcomed everywhere as a marvel of brilliancy and himself wrote that he never found a master who knew more than he. In his Alexandrian Book Of Wisdom, Jami shows that the Sufi esoteric transmission link of the Asian Khajagan ('Masters') was the same as that used by Western mystical writers. He cites as teachers in the Sufi transmission such names as Plato, Hippocrates, Pythagoras and Hermes Trismegistos.
JEWELRY AND RUGS
Afghanistan is a country studded by jewels such as the Timur Ruby Necklace of Badakhshan, tapestries and artifacts that date back to the 2nd century A.D. and people of varying origins. The Imperial State Crown, is beautifully adorned with the Black Prince's ruby which was mined in Badakhshan province. But the country is not only famous for its rubies, in fact the beautiful and historic Panjshir Valley is rich with some of the most stunning emeralds the world over.
Afghan rugs are among the most renowned in the legacy of art in Afghanistan. These rugs depict deep hues, intricate details and human devotion poured into these fine creations, as is illustrated in the most recent trend of Afghan war rugs.
There is a plethora of evidence that is illustrative of Afghanistan's rich heritage. Ancient and modern architecture in Afghanistan combines elements from Iran, India, and Byzantium. Mosques, fortresses and minarets reveal the artistic glory of past empires. The best sites to view architectural masterpieces are Herat, Bamiyan, Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh, Ghazni; however, architectural sites are spread throughout the country.
Herat, the pearl of Khurasan is the cultural heart of Afghanistan where dramatic plays and exquisite mosaic art have earned its people an unparalleled reverence for aesthetic beauty as is illustrated by the marvel of the towering mosque in Herat, Masjid Jama with its intricate ceramic tile designs. Mazar-e Sharif (lit. Tomb of the Exalted) in northern Afghanistan is considered by Afghan Shia Muslims to be the final resting place of fourth caliph 'Ali bin Abi Talib (d. 661 A.H.). Legend contends that the caliph's body was moved from Najaf to a secret tomb near Balkh. Seljuk sultan Sanjar erected a shrine on this site in 1136, which was probably destroyed in Mongol invasion of 1220. Timurid sultan Husain Baiqara (1469-1506) built the present shrine (Blue Mosque of Hazrat Ali) in 1480-81, furthering to the town's development into a large urban center. The shrine was restored extensively in the mid-twentieth century and draws pilgrims throughout the year.
Intense efforts are currently being made to preserve Afghanistan's many historical sites. The Aga Khan Development Network's Trust for Culture initiatives have focused on conserving and restoring Afghanistan's cultural heritage while concomitantly stimulating local economic development and improving the quality of life of the people inhabiting the surrounding neighborhoods. AKDN is restoring the Mausoleum of Timur Shah, regarded as the founder of Modern Afghanistan, as well as the historic gardens at the burial site of Bagh-e-Babur who was the founder of the Mughal Empire. AKDN Trust for Culture has also undertaken the restoration in historic neighborhoods of Asheqan wa Arefan in the Old City of Kabul as well as Bar Durrani in the Old City of Herat.
The Kabul Museum is also undergoing extensive renovation. The museum, which once housed the most comprehensive record of Central Asian history, was bombed numerous times throughout the nineties, causing extensive damage to the collection. Despite efforts by the United Nations and devoted museum staff to protect the remaining collection, thousands of antiquities were plundered for the illegal antiquities trade. Today, many of these items are being recovered, as efforts to restore and preserve Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage continue.< Tragically, some of Afghanistan's greatest cultural treasures, such as the Bamiyan giant Buddha statues, were destroyed by the repressive Taliban regime. The unforgettable now-faceless Buddha statues are located in Bamiyan where so many Americans would travel to visit especially in the 1960s. In 2003, in the wake of the Taliban destruction, UNESCO declared Bamiyan a World Heritage Site.
Afghanistan is home to a variety of regional music characteristic of the ethnic groups inhabiting the different parts of the country, though there are many similarities between them. These various ethnicities have close relationships with the music of adjacent countries: Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Pashtun regional music is of particular importance, forming the basis of radio popular music style. The national instrument is the Rubab, a short-necked lute with sympathetic strings. Long-necked lutes such as Tanbur, Dutar and Dambura are widespread and favored by the Uzbeks and Tajiks, as are bowed lutes like the Sarinda, Sarang and Ghaichak. There are, however, very few instrument types which are exclusive to Afghanistan, the Tanbur and 14 stringed Herati Dutar being two exceptions. Women's domestic music is of great importance. There are genres of song accompanied by the Daireh (frame drum), and the drum is also used to play rhythms for dancing. Another wide spread kind of music is that for sor-na ad dohol (shawm and double-headed frame drum) which has an important role in village wedding festivities for staging processions and for group.
And for fun- Buzkashi is a game that dates back into Afghan antiquity. The name Buzkashi, literally translated means "goat killing" and it was derived from hunting mountain goats by champions on horseback. The coalition troops protecting Afghanistan have mastered this sport! Another activity that is enjoyed by millions of Afghan children is kite-running, which involves competing teams that build and "fight" kites for large audiences. Afghans also play a wide variety of sports familiar to Americans, such as soccer and basketball.
In sum, Afghanistan encapsulates a space filled with beauty, sweetness and serenity where one feels the atmosphere of a civilization that is reclaiming its timeless search for peace in a geographic oasis nestled in song, prose and beauty.
Afghanistan World Foundation (AWF) is a U.S. based 501(c)3 registered public charity.
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The place of the Restored Boat of Jesus is situated on the riff of the Sea of Galilee, we are close to other places: the Church of the Beatitudes or the White Synagogue in Capernaum. The team of 360HolyPlaces™ filmed for you this place in Virtual Reality.
The remains of the boat of the Jesus boat believed to that of a typical fisherman's boat from the centuries. Covered with mud that has helped in its preservation, the boat is found to be the holy and sacred place. Jesus was born in the city of Bethlehem and grew up in Nazareth where it was near the Sea of Galilee, and since the river Jordan had a source from the sea, there was plenty of oxygen in the water and thus led to more fish. This made Jesus a fisherman which he also taught his disciples how to be good fishermen. Having been discovered in the 90s, the boat has been preserved as it is believed to have been used by Jesus and also presumed that it was the place where Apostles Peter and Andrew were working on the said boat when God called them.
It is built in the typical ancient Mediterranean 'shell- based' construction, employing pegged mortise-and-tenon joints to edge-join the planking. iron nails hold the frames to the hull. Numerous repairs, the reuse of timbers and a multiplicity of wood types (12) evident in the hull, suggest that this vessel had a long work life and an owner of meager means. based on several criteria, the Galilee Boat is firmly dated to the first centuries BCE -CEo An analyses of crew sizes, suggests that this is the type of boat referred to in the Gospels, in use among Jesus' Disciples, as well as that used by the Jews against the Romans in the nautical Battle of Migdal in CE 67. This humble vessel is thus, a remarkable porthole into the past providing a clearer view of the Galilean seafaring that forms the backdrop to both Jesus' ministry and the Battle of Migdal. In February 2000, fourteen years after its excavation, the boat moved to its permanent home, in a new wing of the Galilee's Miracles Centre, which is devoted to the story of man in the Galilee.


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ACrimsonSlacks::ACrimsonSlacks(const FObjectInitializer& ObjectInitializer)
	: Super(ObjectInitializer)
{
	// Get Assets, References Obtained Via Right Click in Editor
	static ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<UTexture2D> LargeIconObject(TEXT("Texture2D'/Game/Blueprints/Widgets/UI-Images/Icons_Gear/ArmorIcon_CrimsonSlacks.ArmorIcon_CrimsonSlacks'"));
	static ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<UTexture2D> SmallIconObject(TEXT("Texture2D'/Game/Blueprints/Widgets/UI-Images/Icons_Gear/ArmorIcon_CrimsonSlacks-small.ArmorIcon_CrimsonSlacks-small'"));
	static ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<USkeletalMesh> ArmorMeshObject(TEXT("SkeletalMesh'/Game/EtherealParty/Morgan/Clothes/CrimsonArmor/CrimsonSlacks/CrimsonSlacks.CrimsonSlacks'"));

	// Set Default Objects
	LargeIcon = LargeIconObject.Object;
	SmallIcon = SmallIconObject.Object;

	SK_ArmorMesh = ArmorMeshObject.Object;
	ArmorMesh = ObjectInitializer.CreateDefaultSubobject<USkeletalMeshComponent>(this, TEXT("ArmorMesh"));
	ArmorMesh->SetSkeletalMesh(SK_ArmorMesh);
	ArmorMesh->SetupAttachment(RootComponent);
	UCommonLibrary::SetupSKComponentsWithCollision(ArmorMesh);

	// Set Default Values
	Name = EMasterGearList::GL_CrimsonSlacks;
	NameText = LOCTEXT("CrimsonSlacksName", "Crimson Slacks");
	Type = EMasterGearTypes::GT_Legs;
	TypeText = LOCTEXT("CrimsonSlacksType", "Legs");
	Description = "Armor of Ethereal Regents.";
	Price = 50000;
	MPCost = 0;
	ATK = 15;
	DEF = 10;
	SPD = 15;
	HP = 150;
	MP = 75;
	SpecialEffectText = LOCTEXT("CrimsonSlacksSpecialEffect", "Increases Movement Speed.");
}

// Called when the game starts or when spawned
void ACrimsonSlacks::BeginPlay()
{
	Super::BeginPlay();

	// Bind this function to the event dispatcher for Bind Gear
	OnBindGear.AddDynamic(this, &ACrimsonSlacks::DoSpecialEffect);
	OnRemoveGear.AddDynamic(this, &ACrimsonSlacks::RemoveSpecialEffect);
}

// Custom code for Special Effect
void ACrimsonSlacks::DoSpecialEffect()
{
	OwnerReference->HasFastPants = true;
	OwnerReference->SetMovementSpeed();  // set the player's movement speed
}

// Custom code for Special Effect
void ACrimsonSlacks::RemoveSpecialEffect()
{
	OwnerReference->HasFastPants = false;
	OwnerReference->SetMovementSpeed();  // set the player's movement speed
}
#undef LOCTEXT_NAMESPACE


Wendy Meadows is an emerging author of cozy mysteries. She lives in The Granite State with her husband, two teenage sons, two cats and lovable Labradoodle. When she isn't working on her stories she likes to tend to her flower garden, boss her husband around, relax with adult coloring and play video games with her family. If there isn't any chocolate in the house, she drops everything to run to the nearest store. A girl can never have enough chocolate.