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Wawrinka-Dimitrov Leads Five Must-See First-Rounders At The US Open
Get the popcorn ready. There are plenty of must-see first-round matches at the US Open.
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[8] Grigor Dimitrov vs. Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
Yes, again. Just two months after Dimitrov and Wawrinka clashed in the opening round at The Championships, the stars will meet again in the match to watch in the first round of the US Open. And this time, somehow, there might be even more anticipation.
Wawrinka, on the comeback from two left knee surgeries last year, beat Dimitrov at Wimbledon on his least favourite surface. And while the Swiss is No. 101 in the ATP Rankings, the 2016 US Open champion is playing at a much higher level than that. Wawrinka won a combined five matches at the Rogers Cup and the Western & Southern Open, all against opponents currently inside the Top 40, with his two losses coming in tight defeats against Rafael Nadal in Toronto and Roger Federer in Cincinnati.
Dimitrov, the reigning Nitto ATP Finals champion, has himself shown progress during this hard-court swing, reaching his first quarter-final since April in Canada and pushing eventual winner Djokovic in a three-set Cincinnati loss. The Bulgarian will be eager to avenge his loss from SW19 in New York, which would extend his FedEx ATP Head2Head series lead against Wawrinka to 5-3.
It will be interesting to see who will be able to control points in Flushing Meadows. Dimitrov is at his best when he is serving well and using his athleticism to take the ball early and move into net. But Wawrinka, who is moving closer to his best tennis, can hit groundstrokes with anyone in the world, especially with his impressive one-handed backhand. The winner will face a qualifier in the second round.
[1] Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs. David Ferrer (ESP)
Could this be good-bye for Ferrer, who is playing his 16th (consecutive) and final US Open? The Spaniard will look to pull off a stunning upset against World No. 1 Nadal, who leads their rivalry 24-6.
While Nadal has dominated the former World No. 3 over the years, the compatriots are even on hard courts, each winning four of their meetings. And interestingly enough, Ferrer has won both of their Grand Slam matches on the surface, including a clash at the 2007 US Open.
Nadal is in far better form, though, fresh off his victory at the Rogers Cup. Ferrer, who spent 13 consecutive years in the Top 50 of the ATP Rankings until he fell out of the group in July, is now down to No. 148. The 36-year-old is 9-17 at tour-level this campaign.
But against Nadal, expect Ferrer to summon everything he has at a tournament where he has enjoyed plenty of success, including trips to the semi-finals in 2007 and 2012. Ferrer will need to not only chase down all of Nadal's aggressive shots, as has become the Valencia-resident's trademark over the years, but he will also need to take it to the top seed if he hopes to keep Nadal from gaining a rhythm.
[31] Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs. Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
Do you know where these two left-handed Spaniards last met? If you guessed the 2017 US Open, you're right. Lopez, who was ironically the No. 31 seed at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center a year ago, swept by Verdasco in four sets before falling to Federer in the third round.
Both players will be especially hungry at the year's final Grand Slam, as they earned a total of one match win at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in Toronto and Cincinnati. It is Verdasco's 16th consecutive US Open and Lopez's record 67th straight major main draw appearance.
But this matchup is not only interesting based on their history, but their styles. Verdasco has long been one of the most dangerous baseliners in the world, and he is facing an opponent who comes to net as much as possible. Verdasco is likely to try to control his service games with his serve and a big forehand, while Lopez will serve and volley to pressure the 34-year-old.
Neither guy shies away from the doubles court, either, meaning that fans are almost guaranteed to see some sensational play at the net. Whoever prevails will face former World No. 1 Andy Murray or Aussie James Duckworth.
[29] Adrian Mannarino (FRA) vs. Frances Tiafoe (USA)
Who could forget #NextGenATP American Tiafoe's effort in the first round of the 2017 US Open, pushing Federer to five sets as he tried to send the Swiss out in the opening round of a Grand Slam for the first time since Roland Garros in 2003? Tiafoe showed his propensity for the big moment, and he'll have another shot against No. 29 seed Mannarino.
The Frenchman beat his 20-year-old opponent the last time they met, which was at the 2016 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. But Tiafoe is a different player now than he was two years ago, playing the best tennis of his life. The American claimed his first ATP World Tour title earlier this year at the Delray Beach Open, and at World No. 42 he is within four spots of his career-best ATP Ranking.
But Mannarino has proven a difficult matchup for many players with his flat groundstrokes off both wings. The 30-year-old will try to keep Tiafoe from gaining any rhythm, while the American will use his athleticism and explosiveness to dictate play in front of his home crowd. The victor will face #NextGenATP Alex de Minaur or Japanese Taro Daniel.
[27] Karen Khachanov (RUS) vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
Few players are in as good of form as Khachanov, who used his massive hitting from the baseline to reach the semi-finals of a Masters 1000 event for the first time in Toronto. The Russian, who qualified for the Next Gen ATP Finals last year, has captured two ATP World Tour titles, including one earlier this season in Marseille. But his opponent, Ramos-Vinolas, has reached a final at the elite level, doing so last year on clay in Monte-Carlo.
This is a rematch of a first-round clash from Cincinnati, which Khachanov won in three sets. The 22-year-old leads the Spaniard 3-1 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series, and all four of their meetings have come in three sets. Khachanov beat Ramos-Vinolas to claim his first tour-level trophy two years ago in Chengdu.
The 6'6" right-hander will try to dominate with his power from the baseline, while the left-handed Ramos-Vinolas will attempt to set himself up in points with his slice serve, and use angles with his forehand to open up the court. Whoever gets through this match could be on a collision course with top-seeded Nadal in the third round. They'll face Luxembourg's Gilles Muller or a qualifier in the second round.
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I have to tell you something. I am completely pea- green with envy over Martha K.'s recipe collection. Not only did she send us this really easy and really good submission for the Glistening and Jiggly Contest, but she also sent us this recipe for a really good lamb cake. And all of these wonderful recipes came out of her mother's recipe box!
I have another confession. I have made her lamb cake recipe several times already for non-lamb cake things, such as my niece's first birthday and some cookies and cream cupcakes. They were amazing, and I am pretty sure this recipe is also one that is going to get made at our house quite often.
Dear Ruth, Here is my recipe for the Jello Contest. This recipe came from my mother's box, as well. There is also a similar cake she used to make that used Jello Pudding mix instead of Jello Gelatin.
How can you not love this recipe??
The best use of lemon gelatin in the ENTIRE contest?
That would be a big check!
The only thing not quite perfect about this recipe was that I baked it in the wrong pan. I thought it would be cute as a bundt, but my regular bundt pan was dirty so I used my smaller one. It was far, far too small and when the cake was baked it ended up looking a bit like it was tottering on a little pedestal. AND it got a little browned. But those were both my errors. So, learn from my mistakes, people! This cake will double in size, so make sure to use the right-sized pan!
Also, I forgot to prick the cake with a toothpick, so my glaze sort of ran off my cake. Once again, my bad. It would have probably been better if I would have just made this cake in a 13×9 pan. In my defense, I was tired. Also, I made about 25 other gelatin dishes before this. Also, I wanted to eat it right away.
A close-up, so you can see the cake texture.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a smile!
Super lemon-y. Dense, but also light. Moist. Not too shabby.
This cake was even more surprising because other people who tasted this cake couldn't even tell it was from a box! It's true. They were shocked when I told them. The glaze especially got high praise, which was wonderful because the stuff was SO EASY to make!
A cake the girls bought at the local bakery! A real layer of lemon jell-o over cake and lemon custard. Topped with cake!
Check it out, Martha, your recipe is trendy! Congratulations on the win and thanks for sending this recipe in! Keep the submissions from your mom's recipe collection coming. They are wonderful!
Mix all of the above ingredients, except glaze ingredients, for four minutes.
Bake in a well-greased pan for 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
When done, pierce top with toothpick. Pour glaze over the top.
Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme Cake Mix is good.
Use fresh squeezed lemon juice!
Such a strange and wonderful experience to see a smile like that.
I haven't made this yet but I know it will be delicious. I've made something similar in the past but not lemom. Lemon happens to be my favorite flavor next to chocolate. Thank you for posting the printable recipe. It will fit perfectlly into my recipe box. Now I can't wait to make this cake!!
So nice to see a smile. I'm a fan of anything lemony. I know I'd be smiling, too. May just have to try this out some time soon.
A lady at work brings something similar to this to all potlucks, it is SO YUMMY!
You know, Mike's Dad is just crazy-nuts for lemon anything, I might just make this for him one of these days!
Yes! Make it! It is really good!!!
Wow, you can even tell in the picture that it is a nice and moist cake. Looks so good!
Yes! I am making this tonight! Looks delicious.
That looks so good! I have a recipe for a lemon pound cake with a glaze like that. But it is so complicated I rarely make it- maybe this one can substitute from now on.
I really wish I had some lemon jello in the house. This looks lovely! I want to make it now.
I have this in the oven right now! My bundt pan was AWOL, I FINALLY found it today. I knew it had to be around here somewhere 🙂 Cannot wait to try this!
That is my grandma's lemon cake recipe! I grew up on this cake. It made me love anything sweet and lemon. Ours was written on a index card and the card was very dirty and stained, i.e. much-used and loved!
I totally, completely LOVED this cake. I also totally screwed up while making it but it still came out delicious! I was not paying complete attention when I read the instructions and ended up just tossing the dry jello straight into my cake batter before realizing I was supposed to dissolve it in water. I decided to go ahead and just pour the water in after and see what happened. I also realized I didn't have any vegetable oil to speak of, so I ended up using 3/4 cup of melted butter instead. The cake was still so fluffy and delicious even though I wrecked the instructions! I'm ashamed to admit I ate all but 3 slices of it over a week's time.
Immediately when I remove it from the oven? Or after it cools?
You add the glaze while it is still warm! Hope you like the cake!
Loved it. Very moist. I took it on a visit to my sister's the next afternoon and between the between the 5 adults and 3 children it was gone before the night was over.
The recipe seems very adaptable to other flavor combos, too. So right now in the oven is my experiment substituting chocolate cake mix and orange jello plus orange zest (for extra orange kick and since I have to juice oranges for the glaze, anyway). Wish me luck!
Did the experiment turn out?? I would love to know!
Yes, it was good but the chocolate was more "powerful" than the orange flavor. And the orange juice glaze turned out thinner than the lemon. When I do it again I will use more orange zest in the cake and less orange juice in the glaze..
My mother made this a few hours ago and she could NOT get it out of the pan she has used for ~35 years, even though she greased it with PAM until it was GLISTENING. I think that, since we don't silicone pans like what you happened to have on hand, or springform pans like you use for sponge or cheese cake, we're going to try the black magic tomato chocolate cake. We saw metal pans in those pictures.
However, Dad and I will have to make it because Mom can't deal with anything that smells disgusting.
The Black Magic Chocolate Cake was delicious. Because we used a different brand of tomato soup, the batter didn't stink. It was so shiny and the slices were impossibly smooth.
For Brian – an idea for a raspberry glaze. Use some frozen raspberries. Doesn't matter, healthy flash-frozen just-the-berries kind or steeped in syrup glommy but oh-so-good comes in a metal rimmed box kind.
Simmer raspberries [add a little water to the just the berries]. Smush it through a sieve to get out the seeds. Use the liquid goodness for your glaze. Freeze the rest. In an ice cube tray to add to a smoothie or as is to thaw and use as another dessert topping. My sister makes this every year for me as a topping to her lemon cheesecake. I've been known to eat the frozen left-overs with cool whip, or angel food cake, and yes, I admit it. As is. Raspberries Rock.
Hi this sounds great but I'm puzzled. Is it a 4 serving size lemon jello or a six serving size lemon jello?
This is my husband's favorite cake – a recipe since the '60s that his mom made for him…it's his birthday cake every year. It really is good.
this cake i just made today and everyone tried it from Mac to his mom and sisters and 3 year old nephew well…cake is gone.
Nice! Glad everyone liked it!
Do you think you could put a few frozen blueberries in the batter?
In a hurry and baked in a 9 x13 pan and served as squares. I zest the lemons I am juicing and add to the glaze too. Very good.
We have made this cake most of my life and still love it. Great with tea–hot or iced.
I LOVE this cake. I have also made it with lemon cake mix and lime jello. It's yummy too.


Year after year, in survey after survey, the most popular New Year's resolutions relate to diet, exercise and weight loss. It's probably no coincidence that we make these resolutions after the damage is done, at the end of holidays.
Resolving to turn the ship around is a healthy response to the feeling of waking up fat, hungover and generally disgusted with oneself. But it would make a lot more sense to make our diet-related resolutions before we come unglued. Losing weight is a lot harder than avoiding weight gain, and chances of success are higher.
So, now is the time to craft a plan, so you can arrive at the holiday battlefields prepared with some belly defense strategies that will work. You want to enjoy yourself, obviously. You even want to stuff your face. And with the right set of holiday resolutions you can.
Here are some tips to help you navigate the treacherous temptations of the holiday food table. And if you are happy with the effectiveness of these holiday resolutions, you may want to re-up on January 1.
1. Treat your stomach space like the most valuable of real estate, like Victorians treated virginity. Don't just give it away to the first tray of hors d'oeuvres that floats by. It's easy to surrender to gluttony and slip into eating mode, filling your belly with whatever is within arm's reach. Just don't. If there is nothing good to eat then don't eat. Take a breather. Something more worthy of your belly will be around soon enough.
2. Wait until lunchtime to eat breakfast, especially the day after a pig out. Some people worry that skipping breakfast leads to more eating later the day to compensate, which can supposedly cause weight gain. But the most recent evidence (not to mention the anecdotal experiences of vocal breakfast skippers) suggests that response is rare. In any case, during the holidays you know you were already going to eat more later in the day, so skipping breakfast to compensate in advance for the gluttony to come just makes sense. You won't starve, and after the gluttony it sometimes feels like a relief to not eat, allowing your belly to sort itself out and get some rest.
4. Pre-party with green plant fiber. I'm old enough to remember the t-shirts that advised "Arrive Stoned." While that resolution involves a different plant, its wisdom applies to the holiday party. If you show up with a contented belly buzz, you won't be that guy crowding the food table. You will be prepared to control yourself, better able to adhere to the first resolution.
Arriving at a lavish buffet with green fiber in your belly has other benefits too. It's a good digestive aid that will help move along all the custard puffs, pumpkin pie and cookies. A bowl or two of the following massaged kale salad will put a good base layer in your belly, taking the edge off your hunger. The recent e. coli outbreak is certainly a good reason to avoid romaine, but kale has a lot more to offer anyway. If you are looking to maximize fiber per forkful, or just prefer the chewy flavor of a mustard family plant to the crispy water of lettuce, the reasons to make this salad are many.
But be warned, like many salads, this one isn't low on calories. But the calories come from fat, which like fiber sates the belly and takes the edge off of hunger. Calories from salad are better than calories from cake.
In this recipe, you use your hands to knead salt and lime juice into the kale leaves. This action breaks the cell walls, leaving the kale soft, pliable, and easier to eat than unmassaged kale. The effect of massage is similar to that of coking. The kale even shrinks under massage, as it does when cooked. My kale of choice is the long and narrow-leafed Lacinato kale, AKA Dino kale, black kale, and Tuscan kale. Curly green kale is a good second choice.
Place the kale, lime and salt in a large mixing bowl. Squeeze handfuls of kale as hard as you can, over and over, for about a minute. Add the rest of the ingredients, toss together and serve. Alternatively, reserve the shredded orange roots as a garnish on top.


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The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications is a book by Christopher Brand, a psychologist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. It was published by John Wiley & Sons in the United Kingdom in March 1996. The book was "depublished" by the publishing house on April 17, which cited "deep ethical beliefs" in its decision to remove the book from circulation; it is generally agreed that material in the book that covered racial issues in intelligence testing was responsible for the withdrawal. Wiley argued that after "inflammatory statements" Brand had made elsewhere, it was possible to "infer some of the same repugnant views from the text".

According to economist Edward M. Miller, "While Wiley has not been specific as to just what views that were trying to prevent the dissemination of, one presumes they have to do with racial differences in intelligence and the implications for economics and educational policy."

In a different review, H.J. Eysenck (Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1996) wrote concerning the decision by Wiley:

the publishers have withdrawn the book, following an unprecedented public onslaught on it by reviewers in many national newspapers who clearly have never read, and would have great difficulties in understanding it, and have no intention in providing a fair account of its contents. They concentrated their fire on the few pages dealing with racial issues, calling into question the scientific knowledge and competence of the author, in spite of the fact that nothing he had to say went beyond what the recent report of the task force set up by A.P.A. acknowledged to be fact. In this total disregard of what the book was actually about, the press followed its own precedent in dealing with The Bell Curve, where also it concentrated on a small part of the book, disregarded the past, and misrepresented what Herrnstein and Murray actually said.

While Eysenck chose to highlight connections between Brand's book and that of Herrnstein and Murray, an editorial in New Scientist took issue with the comparison and criticized both Brand's research and Wiley's decision:

It is a very different book from the Bell Curve ... Brand's book traverses every step of the chain of logic needed to see IQ as critical for social and educational policy: that there is something measurable called general intelligence ("g"), that differences in "g" are strongly influenced by genetic factors (although Brand allows for environmental factors, he estimates that about 45 per cent of the variation in intelligence is due to "narrow" genetic factors), and that "g" is an accurate predictor of success in life. Along that chain there are far too many shaky steps for his thesis to be acceptable to many scientists, whether it is in the way IQ heritability is measured or the very debatable link between IQ and success.

The text of the book has been released as an electronic download by Philippe Gouillou.

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Educational psychology books
Books about human intelligence
Race and intelligence controversy
1996 non-fiction books
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Most women I know are concerned with two things: health and relationships. By virtue of being human it seems health and relationships are what we crave most. But neither arrives without effort, and may I suggest they need not be distinct and separate pursuits?
When I first met my husband, I had a complex about going out and exercising because I felt vulnerable and on display. Sexual harassment from strange men happened all too often and made me feel unsafe during runs. I liked yoga and dance classes and always felt comfortable there, but I couldn't afford them on a regular basis.
My husband, Rickard, is a natural runner and has finished several marathons including an Ironman competition–which is a competition where people swim 2.4 miles, then bike 112 miles, then run a full marathon–all in one miserable day.
Rickard wanted to share his love for exercise with me, but I was very reluctant to join him. After a lot of prying I was able to explain my hang-ups toward public exercise. He encouraged me and argued that if we were to work out together I would feel completely safe and nobody would bother me with him by my side. So we started to work out together and he was right.
I did feel safe with him, but Rickard was in dramatically better shape than I was. He could run circles around me and do three times as many reps of any specific exercise we tried together. That gave me anxiety. I felt weak not being able to keep up and I felt guilty for holding him back. He sensed the anxiety and initiated an honest conversation about it.
We agreed to try to find ways of exercising together that were more compatible. We scoured YouTube looking for couples' exercises that looked fun and compelling. To our surprise, there was practically nothing out there that worked for us. All the partner moves had several flaws: They didn't account for fitness level disparity, or they required equipment, or they required extreme body types like Arnold Schwarzenegger types lifting up tiny girlfriends). That's when we were inspired to make up our own moves. We decided to call our collection "Happy Couple Workout".
Since then, we've gotten married, had a baby, and I feel and look healthier than I ever did pre-pregnancy. An added bonus? Working out together became built in quality time and an opportunity to make each other feel loved.
Gary Chapman wrote a book called The Five Love Languages, and in it he talks about your "love tank" and how it regularly needs to be filled. Positive touch and a need for quality time together were two of the five love languages that spoke to Rickard and I the most. But between our busy schedules, a tight budget, and the frustrations of living in a small one-bedroom apartment with a baby, its easy to let our relationship start running on fumes.
We learned quickly that working out as a couple kept our love tanks full. We get our oxytocin kick from touch and exercise, and rarely feel starved for affection. Rickard and I do what we can because more than anything we want to be there for our daughter. Mother and father, husband and wife; we want her to take comfort in knowing that we will never leave each other behind—not even when it comes to fitness.
Alana and her husband have cultivate 24 unique exercises for couples on a 40 minute workout DVD called Happy Couple Workout.


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Paris "A" List: Notre Dame
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Napoleon had plans to demolish Norte Dame cathedral shortly after 1804 when he took the royal crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself emperor in the shadow of the great church. The general felt the ediface a monstrosity, built over six centuries at the hands of numerous architects. But author Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) later proclaimed the church a "symphony of stone" and his sentiments won the day. Numerous touches have been added in the nearly two centuries since Hugo's days, mainly under the direction of 19C genius Eugene Violet le Duc, including the 300-foot-high steeple and the three portals of the entrance (west) facade.
With myriad integrated details inside and out, Notre Dame indeed contains the notes and overall bombast of a great musical work. Entrance to the cathedral is free, although a fee is charged to climb the 230-foot north tower to the belfry and walk among the gargoyles. In the parvis (plaza) in front is Point Zero, a bronze star imbedded in flagstone, from which all distances in France are measured. The site of Notre Dame on Ile de la Cite was also the location for the stronghold of the Parisii, the tribe of boatmen dating from around 300 BC, who were displaced by Julius Caesar and the Romans in 54 BC. In recent years, remnants from the Roman's 3C city of Lutetia (as they called Paris) were discovered 200 feet below ground in the parvis. The parking lot has become a museum, Crypte Archelologique, just one of the bonus attractions that surround the cathedral. See page 38 of No Worries Paris for more photos and info.
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Swanson's brace lifts
DGN over Plainfield South
Visitors fall behind but recover quickly in 2-1 win
By Derek Wolff
PLAINFIELD -- Held scoreless and winless for major stretches of the second half of the season, Plainfield South's desperation earned what looked like a golden goal from the combination of Taylor Metcalf and Jocelyn Esquivel in the 52nd minute of a scoreless contest with visiting Downers Grove North.
Amid gray skies and a constant torrent of rain, it was as if the clouds had burst when Metcalf's ball found the back of the net against a defense that had previously surrendered just three goals in the 13 games this season.
Unfortunately for the Cougars, the proverbial thunder rolled back in 2 minutes later when Downers Grove North sophomore midfielder Abby Swanson used the give-and-go passing game into an equalizer.
Swanson, Chicagoland Soccer's MVP of the Match, worked the right side of the field before driving inside the six, beating Cougars goalkeeper Nicole Trenholm to the near post.
"I think we just had a lot of energy coming back, being down 1-0 our intensity went up even more, and it's nice to be able to respond like that," Swanson said. "I had an extra little burst in me to try to get the equalizer early in the half and try to create a level playing field for the rest of the game to get us back into it a little bit."
With the score now level, the Trojans (9-4-1) began peppering Trenholm's net. Junior back Kelly Doro nearly put Downers Grove North up in the 60th minute, curling a strike in from the edge of the 18 that Trenholm punched away from the top left corner.
One minute later, junior midfielder Simone Gardner took a low shot that nearly slipped through Trenholm's wet fingers. She fumbled it but recovered it inches from the goal line.
In the 64th minute, the Plainfield South wouldn't be as lucky.
Swanson took a ball just north of half field, made a move around a defender and found open space. She unleashed a shot from about 25 yards that bested Trenholm to give the Trojans the game-winning goal in a 2-1 decision.
The weather certainly played into her decision to shoot, Swanson said.
"With the rain and stuff, it's going to be tougher on the goalkeeper. So I figured, 'Why not?'", Swanson said. "I just wanted to see what happened, and you have to take your chances. It's not going to go in if you don't take the shot so that one went in and went our way."
The Trojans kept pushing for a two goal lead and nearly had one in the 68th minute when substitute forward Haley Reynolds rang one off the crossbar on a right-footed shot inside the 6.
Plainfield South's offense didn't generate too much electricity during the match, largely due to the Cougars hesitation to shoot when in open space and making unnecessary passes.
"At times it seems like we're dribbling when we need to be passing and passing when we need to dribble," said Cougars coach Dave Brown. "Just decision-making on the field needs to be a little quicker to make sound decisions, and we'll start to generate chances."
The chances favored Downers Grove North more than the Cougars in a scoreless first half punctuated by missed opportunities.
Trojans coach Robert Calder was pleased with his side's resolve after giving up the goal early in the second half and said that there are two ways a team can respond in the wake of falling behind.
"I thought we played pretty well in the first half, pretty well to start the second half and then we had that lapse," Calder said. "I am glad that we bounced back.
"I thought we were playing well enough to bounce back, and we know the importance of the five minutes after a goal, whether it's our goal or their goal. We have to maintain the pressure or counter right away. It's kind of an emotional time for everybody, and you're not really thinking straight. So it was good to get that right away and level the playing field."
The Trojans had not given up a goal since a 1-0 loss to Hinsdale Central on April 19, making the relative speed of Swanson's equalizer that much more imperative to the win over Plainfield South.
"It was nice," Calder said. "We haven't been down much, so it was nice to see them bounce back so quick. We've given up one to a couple teams and the rest have been zeros. It was nice to see when we got the chances today it finally started paying off."
Sophomore back Carissa Mysilwiec said the Trojans' defense drove their offense and that playing well in the back and limiting the Cougars chances enabled them to find their footing heading the other way.
"I think just the energy and intensity behind it, because you don't like losing and defense is sort of how we play our game," Mysilwiec said. "We're not used to being down very much, and we enjoy having the defense behind us being mentally strong. So when we do get behind, we find that motivation to get back in the game."
Plainfield South is stuck in a rut and a 7-game losing streak after its 5-1-0 start. An offensive drought, that has seen only the goal against Downers Grove North in the last six games, can be partially attributed to injuries to several of the team's top players and not finishing chances.
Another factor is the recent competition, which has included no. 8 Plainfield North and well-regarded programs Oswego, Wheaton Academy and Downers Grove North.
"The talent level is there," Brown said. "We have the players and with great chances, we showed that early in the year where we were scoring goals all over the place. It's just finding that confidence for them and putting more chances away."
Starting line-ups
Downers Grove North
GK Grace Stevenson
D Elizabeth Hodonicky
D Alyse Dutcher
D Kelly Doro
D Carissa Mysilwiec
M Simone Gardner
M Delaney Forst
M Olivia Bull+
M Abby Swanson
F Carlia Nehls
F Emily Redpath
Plainfield South
GK Nicole Trenholm
D Madison Ourada
D Isabel Conrath
D Samantha Harkness
D Ciara Coneset
M Angela Corcoran
M Shelby Bishop
M Nelly Escamill
M Lindsey Bond
M Miranda Nirchi
F Taylor Metcalf
MVP of the Match: Abby Swanson, MF, Downers Grove North
Officials: Greg Ozoltman, Jose Gonzalez


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Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1994 – 1995, Theatre Royal, Bath.
Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company 10th July 1990 (press night) – 3rd March 1991, Tour.
Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company 1st December 1989 (press night), Ambassadors Theatre, London.
Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company 1st March 1989 (press night), Ambassadors Theatre, London.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1986 – 1987, Ambassadors Theatre, London.
Biography 1985 – 1986, Greenwich Theatre, London.
Performer, Unpersons, Royal Shakespeare Company 18th January 1984 (press night), Pit, London.
Bentham / Conspirator / Magistrate, Softcops, Royal Shakespeare Company 10th January 1984 (press night), Pit, London.
Freddie, Good, Royal Shakespeare Company 13th October 1982 (press night) – 13th February 1983, Tour.
Freddie, Good, Royal Shakespeare Company 19th September 1982 (press night), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Freddie, Good, Royal Shakespeare Company 20th April – 7th August 1982, Aldwych Theatre, London.
Sir William Ross, Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company 10th November 1981 (press night), Aldwych Theatre, London.
Constable / Hilary / Porter's Backer, The Fool, Royal Shakespeare Company 24th September 1981 (press night), Warehouse, London.
Freddie, Good, Royal Shakespeare Company 9th September 1981 (press night), Warehouse, London.
Forest Lord, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company 22nd July 1981 (press night), Aldwych Theatre, London.
Diomedes, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company 6th July 1981 (press night), Aldwych Theatre, London.
Forest Lord, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company 4th May 1981 (press night), Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Forest Lord, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company 31st March 1981 (press night), Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Constable / Hilary / Porter's Backer, The Fool, Royal Shakespeare Company 11th March 1981 (press night), Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Diagoras, The Maid's Tragedy, Royal Shakespeare Company 24th February 1981 (press night), Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Sir William Ross, Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company 3rd November 1980 (press night), Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hilary; Constable / Porter's Backer, The Fool, Royal Shakespeare Company 3rd July 1980 (press night), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Diagoras, The Maid's Tragedy, Royal Shakespeare Company 14th May 1980 (press night), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Forest Lord, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company 3rd April 1980 (press night), Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Young Vic 4th August 1975 – 13th March 1976, Criterion Theatre, London.
As You Like It, Dolphin Theatre Co. started 29th May 1975, Shaw Theatre, London.
Dreyfusard brother, Grand Manoeuvres 29th November 1974 – 1975, Old Vic, London.
Grant, The Freeway 27th September 1974 – 1975, Old Vic, London.
Equus 1973 – 1974, Old Vic, London.
John the Baptist/Judas, Godspell, H M Tennent Ltd 1972 – 27th May 1973, Bristol Hippodrome, Pavillion Theatre, Bournemouth, and other locations.
T/O Soldier; Third Watchman, Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre at the Young Vic started 1st October 1971, Young Vic, London.


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Plukenetieae is a tribe of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 3 subtribes and 14 genera. Tribe Plukenetieae (Benth.) Hutch. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) is a diverse pantropical lineage of ca. 17 genera and 350 species of twining vines and lianas, scandent to erect perennial herbs and subshrubs, and rarely shrubs and small trees.

See also
Taxonomy of the Euphorbiaceae

References

Euphorbiaceae tribes


Always Grey in Winter is a very complex story of feuding werecat families. The story starts out strong, in the middle of the action. The book is very imaginative, full of suspense and action. The writing is very good, it just pulls you right in and the dialog is on point - it makes the story very realistic.
However, there are a lot of characters and lots going on. At times I had trouble keeping up with who is who and what is going on.


…and we are ready. As we are sure many of you (like us) plan your meal around your wine and not your wine around your meal, we would like to take a quick second to help put you into that wine moment they call Thanksgiving.
First of all, Thanksgiving is a long day no matter which way you braise it. So it is highly recommended to start the day off right with some bubbles. Toast your partner in crime. You know, the one who will be sharing kitchen time with you all day. The real party is in the kitchen, and bubbles should always kick off a party. Our recommendation this year is bubbles from Limoux, France. The monks at St. Hilaire were the first to develop sparkling wine, and had been making it for about 150 years before the region of Champagne started to take off. We recommend you try either Saint Hilaire Blanquette de Limoux or Faire La Fette Cremant de Limoux.
After 10am rolls around and the kitchen is starting to look like a place the dog is going to want to hang out in for the rest of the day, take a look at moving into still wines. It's time to look at a a light wine with a refreshing quality. One that will hold up to the oven and the stove top cranking out high levels of BTUs. Time for a Sauvignon Blanc. And why not thank the region of Sancerre by drinking an elegant example of SB? We recommend you try either Domaine Serge Laport "Les Boursicottes" Sancerre or Eric Montintin Sancerre.
As the afternoon is welcomed in, filling your home with a hunger inducing bouquet of root vegetables, herbs, and a turkey cooking to crispy perfection, you can start to feel that everything is coming together. Enjoy the moment while you can, and pop open a red wine to will pair with that moment. We recommend a nice Pinot Noir. Perhaps a Dominio IV from Wilamette Valley, OR, or an Anthill Farms Sonoma Coast PN.
Voilà! The meal is ready – time to sit, eat, and drink with family and friends. Brotte Condrieau and Finca Museum Numerus Claususwill be on our table this year.
These are just our selections. Remember wine is of the moment and a part of the moment. Enjoy whatever wine you choose and the occasion you will be sharing this Thanksgiving!
We'd love to help make your next event special! Whether it's delivering beautiful wine and refreshing beer to your door, or curating large and small tasting events with delicious food pairings, we've got you covered. Let's talk party!
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Bienvenidos Novembre! Inspired by a quick trip to Spain in October, we knew we needed to share some of our adventures with our wine club members – via Spanish wines, of course. And what a deal we got on these amazing selections. If you were to purchase these two selections at regular retail, you'd pay nearly $60!
So what do we know about Spanish wines? Well let's begin with the culture. That culture includes wine drinking. We won't throw stats at you that show how many liters on average a person living in Spain consumes, but we will tell you that anywhere you go in Spain (restaurant, tapas joint, pinchos cafe, coffee shop, church, etc.), there's likely to be at least two red options and one white option available for purchase by the glass. Red wines are consistently a Rioja or a Ribera del Duero. The white wine option lends a bit more variety, but more often than not you are offered an Albariño.
Wine Fact Break: Spain (much like the rest of Europe) is broken into geographical areas of control/quality. These areas are called Denominacion de Origen, or D.O. for the wine geeks. In order for a winery to put a specific D.O. (aka regional marketing stamp) on its label, it has to produce specific varietals grown within the designated region.
Wine Tip Break: If you are unsure of the red varietal you are drinking from Spain, just guess Tempranillo!
OK, back to the "wine culture" of Spain, or just straight up life. So a priest and a rabbi walk into a tapas bar in Spain… And that literally happens every day, no joke! People of all cultures congregate into tapas or pinchos bars every day in Spain. This is where you meet for a late lunch or early dinner and have a conversation with someone while standing up, drinking a glass of wine and sharing a tapa. Each location specializes in a certain tapa – one might focus on making the most delicious mushrooms in garlic sauce, while another offers the best prawns, and another is killing it with their amazing potatoes. After you engage your palate at one location, you walk for a couple of minutes to anther location and repeat. Pretty amazing, right?
From an area in Spain that boasts one of the richest cultures of Carnival comes an Albariño that is perfect for any festive occasion. This Albariño comes from the Rías Baixas area in what is known as Galicia, Spain. This region is directly north of Portugal and hugs the NW coast of Spain. The grape is said to have taken up residence in Spain sometime around the 12th century. The wine is named after the feudal knight Don Pedro, who had a hand in establishing the Galicia area in NW Spain and Northern Portugal. There remains debate over whether or not Don Pedro was actually Christopher Columbus. Could the folklore be true?!
WHOA…score! This selection offers a perfect blend of Garnacha, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Syrah. Bodegas Care comes from the Spanish D.O. of Cariñena. This region was referred to as "Care" by the Romans, thus the inspiration for the name Bodegas Care. The philosophy of the winery is to mold ancient culture and wine practice with modern responsibility. Some of the vineyard sourcing utilizes vines that were planted before the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). All estate grown, with the label representing the history of the region through a modern face of wine making. Hang on to your hats with this wine. We cleared out ALL the remaining inventory in the US and had to wait for shipments to arrive from both the East and West Coasts – but we got it! This wine may never be available stateside again due to lower yields from its vineyard's older vines and smaller bottle production.
Thanks for the shout-out, PHOENIX Magazine!
1. You are guaranteed your wine club selections if pick up occurs within three months of release.
2. After three months and before sixth months of release, you are welcome to pick up the selections if they are still available. If not, you will be issued a $25 store credit to spend as you please.
3. Selections not picked up within six months of release will be forfeited without refund.
Special arrangements can be made but must be communicated and agreed upon by Hidden Track Bottle Shop.
Obviously the first option is the only ideal option – the retail value of your club wines is far more than the $25 you pay, and we want you to enjoy them!
Feel free to give us a call or send an email with any questions. Otherwise, see you soon for Nov's pickup! Cheers!


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Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship Still Matters Today
So many of our relationships are accidental. Here?s how to develop friendships that matter.
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Aristotle is widely regarded one of the most brilliant and prolific among the Western philosophers. It?s impossible to say how much he wrote, but the fraction of his work still around today is stunning in scope. Every field, from astronomy and physics to ethics and economics, has been influenced by his thinking. For more than 2,000 years, he?s remained one of the most widely read and quoted thinkers in history.
While Aristotle?s impact can still be felt in many disciplines, one of his most enduring observations relates to friendship. He saw friendship as one of the true joys of life, and felt that a life well-lived must include truly meaningful, lasting friendships. In his words:
In poverty as well as in other misfortunes, people suppose that friends are their only refuge. And friendship is a help to the young, in saving them from error, just as it is also to the old, with a view to the care they require and their diminished capacity for action stemming from their weakness; it is a help also to those in their prime in performing noble actions, for ?two going together? are better able to think and to act.
The accidental friendships
Aristotle outlined two common kinds of friendships that are more accidental than intentional. We often fall into these kinds of friendships without realizing it.
The first is a friendship of utility. In this relationship, two parties are not in it for affection. Rather, they?re in it for the benefit each receives from the other. These relationships are temporary: whenever the benefit ends, so does the relationship. Aristotle observed that these relationships of utility were most common among older people.
Think of a business or work relationship, for example. You may enjoy the time you spend together, but once the situation changes, so does the nature of your connection.
Aristotle?s second kind of accidental friendship is based in pleasure. This kind of relationship, he found, was more common among younger people. Think of your college friends or people who play in the same sports league. Their relationship is grounded in the emotion they feel at a given time or during a certain activity.
These friendships are often the most short-lived relationships of our lives. And that?s fine, as long as the two parties gain enjoyment through a mutual interest in something external. But these friendships inevitably end when either person?s tastes or preferences change. Many young people go through phases in what they enjoy. Quite often, their friends change along the way.
Most friendships fall into these two accidental categories, and while Aristotle didn?t necessarily see them as bad, he did feel their lack in depth limited their quality. It?s fine, and even necessary, to have accidental friendships ? but there?s far more out there.
The friendship of the good
Aristotle?s final form of friendship seems to be the most preferable. Rather than utility or pleasure, this kind of relationship is based on a mutual appreciation of the virtues the other person holds dear. In this kind of friendship, the people themselves and the qualities they represent provide the incentive for the two parties to be in each other?s lives.
Friendships of virtue take time and trust to build. They depend on mutual growth.
Rather than being short-lived, such a relationship endures over time, and there?s generally a base level of goodness required in each person for it to exist in the first place.
People who lack empathy and the ability to care for others seldom develop these kinds of relationships because their preference tends toward pleasure or utility. What?s more, friendships of virtue take time and trust to build. They depend on mutual growth.
We?re much more likely to connect at this level with someone when we?ve seen them at their worst and watched them grow ? or if we?ve endured mutual hardship with them.
Beyond their depth and intimacy, the beauty of these relationships is in how they include the rewards of the other two types. They?re beneficial and pleasurable. When you respect a person and care for them, you gain joy from spending time with them. If they?re a good enough person to warrant such a relationship to begin with, there?s utility there, too. They help maintain your mental and emotional health.
These relationships require time and intention, but when they blossom, they do so with trust, admiration, and awe. They bring with them some of the sweeter joys that life has to offer.
Aristotle?s legacy
There?s a good reason Aristotle?s work continues to be read some 2,000 years after his death. Not everything he wrote is relevant today, of course, and many of his assumptions have been argued against. He taught us to examine the world empirically, and he inspired generations of thinkers and philosophers to consider the role and value of ethics in the everyday conduct of our lives, including our relationships.
Life is too short for shallow friendships.
While he saw the value in accidental friendships based on pleasure and utility, he felt that their impermanence diminished their potential. They lacked depth and a solid foundation.
Instead, he argued for the cultivation of virtuous friendships built with intention and based on a mutual appreciation of character and goodness. He knew these friendships could only be strengthened over time ? and if they did thrive, they?d last for life.
We are, and we live through, the people we spend time with. The bonds we forge with those close to us directly shape the quality of our lives. Life is too short for shallow friendships.
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With the RTM-K15 history and segmented memory option, the RTM bench oscilloscope allows you to analyse longer signal sequences than is possible with any other instrument in this class.
Staff from the MCS head office in St Asaph are taking part in a feature in the local newspaper the Daily Post all this week.
Part three of our new occasional series around 'fundamental measurement techniques' takes a look at the basics of signal generation.


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Q: Is this Express + HTTPS spdy + socket.io server correctly initialized? I've been working on a project a while and I'm not sure that my https is correctly mounted since I'm not fully aware of the sentences that are invoked in the code, could someone bring some light into this?
const express = require('express')
const spdy = require('spdy')
const cors = require('cors')
const fs = require('fs')

const app = express()

const serverCertificates = {
  key: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/cfg/cert/localhost-private.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/cfg/cert/localhost-cert.pem')
}

const corsOptions = {
  cors: {
    origin: "https://localhost:3200",
    transports: ['websocket'],
    upgrade: false
  }
}

Up to here is just require, mounting express on app and declaring some server options
After the classic app.use statements comes the trouble, I need to run HTTPS and Socket.io in the same server, and the only role that express is doing is serving statics directories
app.use(express.json())
app.use(cors())
app.use('/', express.static('./public'))
app.get('/favico.ico', (req, res) => res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/favico.ico'))

let server = spdy.createServer(serverCertificates, app)
let io = app.io = require('socket.io')(server, corsOptions)
io.attach(server)

server.listen(3200, (error) => {
  if (error) {
    return process.exit(1)
  } else {
    console.log('Escuchando en *:' + PORT)
  }
})

server.on('error', err => console.log(err))

Now I'm not using express routing as an API because the communication with client is done by Express.IO but eventually the project must contain a database that would be handled by express.
The question is "am I doing the right things here? is there a better way of mounting this type of server?"
Thanks in advance

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New BlackBerrys Leak Online Ahead of Launch
By Ian Paul
PCWorld	 Apr 26, 2010 5:38 am PDT
Rumors about two new BlackBerry devices, the Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G, leaked online early Monday just hours before the new devices were believed to debut. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was expected to unveil the new handsets during the company's keynote address at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida. It appears, however, the financial Website The Street has beat RIM to the punch with a limited report on new specs for the two new devices.
Despite the leak, the new handsets come as no surprise, since both the BlackBerry 9650 and Pearl 3G have been making the rounds on gadget rumor blogs for several months. Then, on Sunday, Al Sacco from CIO.com (a sister publication of PCWorld) released a photo via Twitpcic of a Sprint advertisement from the WES 2010 promo notebook that included the Bold 9650.
Here's the specs we know so far:
The successor to the BlackBerry Tour 9630, the Bold 9650 will reportedly have a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and will come with quad-band GSM and dual-band CDMA/EV-DO capability. The new handset is also said to have a high-resolution screen, but there's no word on what the actual display specs might be.
BlackBerry Pearl 3G
Like the Bold 9650, the Pearl 3G will also come with a 3.2-megapixel camera and a high-resolution screen, but the Pearl 3G will be exclusively a quad-band GSM phone with no CDMA capabilities–typical of most Pearl devices. The Pearl 3G will also have slightly better Wi-Fi connectivity than the Bold, using the newer 802.11n standard as well as backwards compatibility with b and g networks.
Both devices will use the new Blackberry trackpad in place of the old trackball.
As mentioned above, it appears the Bold 9650 will launch with Sprint in the United States, but there's no word on a U.S. carrier for the Pearl 3G. Pricing details and availability were not released.
The Street's report contradicts Bold 9650 rumors from earlier this month from the blog Crackberry, which claimed the Bold 9650 would be launching on Verizon on May 27. Another popular Bold 9650 rumor said Sprint would be getting a version of the device without a camera, but it's not clear if that rumor will be proven false or not.
RIM is famous for its inability to keep its upcoming device's locked down, as photos and screenshots of products in development frequently leak online. Earlier this month, Boy Genius Report posted purported screenshots of the next iteration of the Blackberry OS and a new flip phone called the Blackberry 9670.
Connect with Ian on Twitter (@ianpaul).


Black Tourmaline, specifically, deflects negative energies instead of absorbing them. It helps form a shield that immunizes one against the effects of harmful physical or psychic influences.
Tourmaline can also be used to neutralize one's own negative energies, i.e. anger, resentment, jealousy, insecurity, etc.


Yes indeed. I raise a virtual glass of champagne westward.
Yet, I dread this could be an issue that derails the general election into a mudslinging match and just might force social conservatives to come out to vote for the last favorable soundbite. A bad week in Iraq and this issue could make the last months of the election sheer torture and an embarrassing spectacle, with no gains for the bread and buttr issues and deeper debates on foreign policy, energy, and the environment.
How long until SCOTUS reacts? How long until the US military feels the love?
Three cheers for California, the second most progressive state in the Union!
Baltimoron's concerns are of course worries for me too, but it's got to be very hard for most people not to be touched (some in spite of themselves) by the sight of many of these ceremonies. It's got to be really hard to look at those 80 year-old lesbians finally getting a chance to marry and feel deeply threatened. And the experience of Massachusetts strongly suggests that states that allow gay marriage don't slide into the ocean or anything.
Obama's appeal to federalism ought to help too.


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The Electrification Movement Will Keep Trainspotters Jumping
Opibus Introduces The First Locally Designed & Developed Electric Bus In Kenya
Do Electric Trains Dream Of Autonomous Mobility? Yes, They Do.
CHAdeMO Shows It Is Still A Relevant Fast Charging Protocol
Good old CHAdeMO. CHAdeMO fast charging has been powering electric vehicles since 2009. I remember my first charging experience with one of the first LEAFs — charging with a hefty cable and pouring the electricity into the car in just 40 minutes. It was a revolution and instantaneously made long EV drives a possibility.
Nicolas Zart
CHAdeMO Protocol Shows Upgrade Roadmap to 400 kW Fast Charging
CHAdeMO History & Development
CHAdeMO was here first, but was challenged by heavy hitters before long. Years later, it is still alive and kicking. Not to be left behind by massive increases in the CCS fast charging standard, the CHAdeMO group indicates its new protocol, CHAdeMO 2.0, can handle up to 400kW.
CHAdeMO EV fast charging
CHAdeMO 1.0 was originally published in 2012, and version 1.2 meant a higher max charging rate of up to 200kW at 400A x 500V. That was in March 2017, and even though no electric cars can get up to that 200kW rate yet, the EV industry has been talking about 350kW as the future of charging. So, CHAdeMO 2.0 allows for that plus a bit. The 400kW rate would make high-voltage charging up to 1kV possible using liquid-cooled cables and a CHAdeMO plug or pantograph.
The best part is that backward compatibility has been ensured with the plug, allowing it to feed both current EVs and upcoming ones with higher-power charging capability.
What does CHAdeMO mean? Usually, we leave this tidbit of information for last, but the name reveals a lot about the original idea. CHAdeMO is a play on words in Japanese for "Time for a quick cup of tea!" — or something that conveys the same idea.
Nissan and partners could see that fast charging was needed for many in the first generation of EV adoption. Now, the company and its colleagues seem to clearly understand that superfast/ultrafast charging is needed Nissan was one of the first companies to offer free charging and was soon followed by others. Today, we have 5 standards, and counting. They are all competing for viability when they should be focused solely on interoperability and give the consumer a reason to buy electric.
CHAdeMO EV fast charging adapter for a Tesla vehicle.
CHAdeMO's Secretary General, Dave Yoshida, explains how the new CHAdeMO standard has further uses and aims to provide a solid option for more vehicle classes that need a stronger charge:
"The publication of the new version of the protocol is part of our broader efforts to expand the CHAdeMO protocol to a wider variety of vehicles, including trucks and buses. With the CAN-based communication, it will be a relatively simple but reliable option to charge large commercial vehicles and other industrial applications. Combining these vehicles with the V2X technology, for which CHAdeMO is the only enabler today amongst the major international charging standards with readily available products in the market, fleet owners would benefit from an even larger set of options to rethink the TCO (total cost of ownership) of their vehicles, as these vehicles can not only charge but discharge electricity and support the Grid."
The German Competition Says No To CHAdeMO, Launches CCS
CCS EV fast charging
CHAdeMO was the original EV fast charging standard, and then CCS was the challenger. You might recall the infamous video tape standard wars of the 1980s that forced an inferior VHS standard instead of the far superior Betamax. Ultimately, Sony had more advertising money and "won" the VHS war to safeguard our memories, now heavily degraded. A normal society would vow to never reiterate this nonsense, but the CD wars confirmed the cultural amnesia and were followed by the DVD standard war on top of the various international TV standards. To drive the point home, how about the most grotesque standard of them all? That would be the infamous Universal Serial Bus, or USB, plug that comes with at least 6 different variations despite being a so-called universal standard? HDMI, anyone?
Back in the jungle, the CCS fast-charging protocol came new in 2011 and decided it could do better than the de facto CHAdeMO standard already used by thousands of early EV adopters. It was improved by including the standardized Level 2 plug, the SAE J 1772, into the fast charging nozzle — that saved having to have two completely separate ports.
However, those who supported that early effort were early EV doubters, unsurprisingly. Because this lack of unity further slowed the fast pace of EV adoptions, which automakers want until they can figure out how to make money on those darn electric cars.
https://youtu.be/GSDWEiY0Few
CHAdeMO Is Here To Stay
History has shown over and over that those easily avoidable business wars always leave the consumer to foot the bill. It also slows down the adoption of newer and cleaner technologies against everyone's best interest.
Today, we have CHAdeMO, CCS, Tesla's fast charging system, and China's very own as well. More likely than not, they will all stick around, limiting fast charging options for all EV drivers compared to what could have been possible and raising costs. My, what an entangled web we weave!
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Nicolas was born and raised around classic cars of the 1920s, but it wasn't until he drove an AC Propulsion eBox and a Tesla Roadster that the light went on. Ever since he has produced green mobility content on various CleanTech outlets since 2007 and found his home on CleanTechnica. He grew up in an international environment and his communication passion led to cover electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, test drives, podcasts, shoot pictures, and film for various international outlets in print and online. Nicolas offers an in-depth look at the e-mobility world through interviews and the many contacts he has forged in those industries. His favorite taglines are: "There are more solutions than obstacles." and "Yesterday's Future Now"
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Q: '90s movie where two prisoners are being transported during an alien invasion I can't remember the name of this movie where they are transporting two prisoners. They are driving and turn on country music and pick up some people off the side of the road. The van rolls over and they get out and go into a cave with aliens in it. The two officers die in the cave, the rest of the people escape. In the movie, an alien invasion is happening in the city.

A: This could well be a very low budget sci-fi film from 1998 called Alien Species.
A humorous review is available here, which bears full witness to the film's cheesiness, but a more measured summary from IMDB describes the plot as:

A fleet of UFOs is circling the Earth and a top scientist races to
discover their true intentions for the planet. When the UFOs begin an
attack on Earth, the scientist finds himself thrown in with a sheriff
and his deputies transporting some prisoners to jail. The unlikely
group is forced to seek shelter from the attack in a nearby cave, not
knowing how significant the location is to the alien's plans.

The sheriff and deputies are indeed escorting two prisoners, and they all take shelter in a cave. Unfortunately the cave is where the aliens are harvesting the humans they capture during the invasion, wrapping the bodies in cocoons. The rest of the film concludes essentially as described in the question.


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CBS News December 6, 2020, 9:31 AM
Artist Titus Kaphar on depicting loss and finding purpose
Artist Titus Kaphar on depicting loss and fin... 05:36
The highly-anticipated show by one of the country's hottest artists was finally going up at New York's Gagosian Gallery after a six-month delay due to the Coronavirus.
But as the world kept turning, Titus Kaphar kept painting.
Correspondent Rita Braver asked, "You are doing this in the midst of all of the Black Lives Matter movement. But this is really something that you have been paying attention to for a long time."
"Most definitely," said Kaphar. "The project's reflecting things that have been happening in our community for generations."
The paintings in this series depict Black mothers, but in many of the works Kaphar has deliberately removed their children.
Paintings by Titus Kaphar depict African American women and their missing children. CBS News
Kaphar said, "I think the paintings do speak to those different kinds of disappearance that happens to young Black children, that is the violence against them by police, that is being poisoned by the water in our communities, Flint, that is natural disasters that the country hasn't come up and really completely finished resolving and repairing yet."
In June, after the killing of George Floyd, one of his works appeared on the cover of Time, which also published an essay by Kaphar.
Braver asked, "What's been the response to the painting that was on the cover, and also to the essay?"
"The only one that really matters to me is the response I got from a particular mother whose son had died, who said, 'You know, I've been looking for a symbol that represented the loss of my son. And I didn't find it 'til I saw this cover," he said.
Kaphar's work has long tackled under-representation of minorities in Western art through plays on classic paintings.
Here he superimposes a Black Jesus on a 19th-century French work:
"Jesus Noir" (2020), from the exhibition "The Evidence of Things Unseen." © Titus Kaphar
"I wanted it to feel like an add-on," he said. "I didn't want it to feel as though it was always meant to be."
"A lot of collectors want to own your work," said Braver. "You just got, I think it was two years ago, a MacArthur 'Genius Grant.'"
"Those are true statements," he smiled.
"You almost seem disappointed by all this?"
"No, I'm not!" he laughed.
But Kaphar prefers to focus on the beginning of his story: A kid who grew up in a struggling family in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he graduated high school with a nearly failing grade point average. Then, he met a young woman (now his wife) who challenged him to make something of himself.
"Do you think she just saw something in you, that she knew that you could really become someone?" Braver asked.
"I just wanted to date!" Kaphar replied.
But he went to junior college, where he discovered art history, and soon started painting. Eventually, he got a Masters at the Yale School of Art in New Haven. He and his family now live nearby.
And Kaphar is paying it forward. In a gritty New Haven neighborhood, he convinced a list of private and public donors (including the Ford Foundation) to join him in co-founding NXTHVN, a kind of play on New Haven. "The idea has always been that wherever we go will become the new haven for artists," Kaphar said.
Now in its second year, the program funds fellowships for emerging artists as well as curators and high school apprentices.
An artist's studio at NXTHVN. CBS News
Kaphar's friend, businessman Jason Price, helps him run the operation: "It's a way to impact this community, and the people that are in this community. And being a Black man, having that sort of impact is important."
Braver asked, Kaphar, "As you were coming up, did you ever have access to this kind of opportunity?"
"No, nothing like this existed in the neighborhood I grew up in," he replied. "I haven't really seen anything quite like this."
And many of us haven't seen anything quite like Kaphar's work – pieces like George Washington covered in a shredded copy of his own slave ledger.
Left: "Behind the Myth of Benevolence" (2014), oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Right: "Shadows of Liberty" (2016). Oil and rusted nails on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery. Paintings © Titus Kaphar
Kaphar said it's meant to open a conversation: "We are all nuanced and complex. We all have good and evil in us. And that is what's happening inside of this painting for me."
And in all the art he creates, Titus Kaphar said, the meaning is truly in the mind of the beholder:
"If I want something for those people who are viewing this work, it's that they would have a personal experience with it. I don't know that it's reasonable to hope for anything more."
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Safely Navigating Digital Transformation
Digital transformation requires not just changes in technology but rethinking organizational structure, leadership, workplace culture and work itself.
Laura Putre | Jun 17, 2019
Everyone's heard the trope of the manufacturing worker who resists change and—sometimes with good reason—sees technology as a threat. But Dale Mark has a different story to tell about workers and technology from the front lines of a plant floor in Marengo, Illinois. Mark is vice president of operations for UniCarriers, a forklift manufacturer that has been incrementally introducing automation and digital technology into its operations over the past 15 years.
"When we were first installing robots or building automation, there were some people that really embraced it," Mark says. "Other people were skeptical. And today I think there's more of a sense that people crave the technology."
He mentions one of many tiny affirmations: Plant leadership recently introduced a pilot project to manage employees' continuous improvement suggestions on an app. There was no hand-wringing, no harping that the old way was better. Instead, he says, "the response was almost like, 'What have you been waiting for!?'" Marks says it makes sense, as smartphones have become increasingly a part of people's daily lives.
Likewise, when Irene Petrick and Faith McCreary, a pair of Intel researchers, embarked on a study of manufacturers' challenges around digital transformation, to their surprise they heard little about technological hurdles. Instead, organizational problems prevailed.
Through a multimedia diary app where they could share stories of their work and the technologies they encountered, the overwhelming under-age-40 batch of respondents told of IT and OT clashes, departments like purchasing and operations running in their own lanes rather than collaborating, and a hesitancy from leaders to share data that could help workers do their jobs better.
"Workers want to be involved early, they think they should be involved early, and believe they have a lot to contribute from a knowledge perspective about the processes," says Petrick.
It's the leaders who are more hesitant around technology, Petrick says, as digital transformation has evolved into something much bigger than investing in a piece of automation equipment to rachet up a particularly plodding task. Work is changing, artificial intelligence is opening up possibilities and hierarchies are flattening as information-sharing across roles becomes the difference between understanding your customer or process and being snuffed out by a competitor.
"Workers interacting with the manufacturing processes themselves are hungry for change and know they have to do things differently in the future to remain competitive," Petrick says. "Senior leaders seem to be a little more risk-averse, and middle managers are all over the board."
That apprehension stems not from the technology itself, but from the broad cultural and organizational changes it brings.
Digital-savvy manufacturers and people who study them say that involving your people early in digital strategy, investing in training, rethinking and reassigning jobs as tasks, finding your technology champions, and looking for new opportunities are important parts of the equation.
Involve Your People Early
People must be integral to a digital strategy from the beginning, big or small, say Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau, authors of Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work. And the authors don't mean people in the sense of "How many people can we substitute robots for?"
"It's very easy to get locked into saying, 'Give me back 20% of the labor cost because the robots are doing 20% of the work," says Boudreau. "It doesn't work that way."
Petrick advocates involving engineers, supervisors, tradespeople and line workers with expertise in their areas in "meaningful engagement forums" in the early stages of digital strategizing. Not an annual townhall meeting, but open dialogues "where people come prepared to talk about the environment they work in, the machines they work with, the insights they have and how they've worked with those machines for a long time."
Mike Mikula, chief engineer for Ford's Advanced Manufacturing Center, says that when designing applied technology for the factory, his team will bring in both hourly and salaried people "very early in the process" so they can talk about their challenges, share their expertise of the process and contribute ideas for improvement. This not only improves the end result; it empowers team members who will be using the technology, giving them a voice and a stake in its success.
For instance, when Mikula was a Ford area manager, he oversaw the automation of a particularly cumbersome-to-human-operators gear machine at the Van Dyke transmission plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, that was slowing up the line.
"The cycle time of the line was very short, with people working very diligently at a very high speed," he recalls. "Many people would have a hard time executing the task in the time that was allowed." His engineering team consulted with skilled tradespeople and team leaders on the floor "to ideate around what we could do to help people execute the meshing of the gears in the time we had allotted." Mikula's team took those ideas and worked with different suppliers to come up with solutions, then did a design review with the same hourly workers "to agree on concepts to pursue to production and keep them engaged through the development of the production process. It required a significant amount of creative thinking, and we really did get valued input from everybody."
Rethink Work
Jesuthasan and Boudreau advise that leaders stop using the term jobs and instead break down work into tasks—often, tasks that are unsafe or physically difficult for humans to perform—and then determine which tasks are practical for robots to take over and which ones people can shift to and grow into, developing new proficiencies and ways of looking at the operation that increase productivity and open new opportunities for growth. After that, it's just a matter of looking at which traditional skills translate best into which new roles.
Maybe it's middle managers spending more time on coaching their team and becoming more savvy in interpreting data instead of devoting their days to allocating work and monitoring and tracking people, which automation can take over at the granular level. Maybe it's automating welding processes, then training welders to run a new CNC machining center.
Invest in Training
Fifteen years ago, UniCarriers began adding automation and digital technology to its operations, bringing in CNC machining and robotic welding. That was the beginning of a digital strategy that has brought automation to painting processes, lights-out laser cutting and a new ERP system to connect with data collection.
"We didn't have it all figured out," Mark said. It was the company's first step on the road to the "fairly well-defined factory 4.0 roadmap" it has today, "where we're constantly looking at technologies and where we think they apply and where we can implement them in the future."
Retraining workers for data-driven jobs is a big part of that strategy, and Mark says it's a key reason the company's workforce has not contracted with automation—instead, it's actually grown considerably. Training is a combination of in-house (including apprenticeships) through suppliers and a partnership with a local community college.
A retrained welder now rotates between operating robotic welding cells and the CNC machining center. What the new job lacks in hands-on work, it makes up for in higher thinking and less wear and tear and repetition, Mark believes.
The former welder "is more well-versed and can have more flexibility, which I think you know many individuals like," says Mark. "Also, doing manual welding full-time is strenuous work," so the job becomes more ergonomic. "The individuals like that and they recognize that."
UniCarriers' digital strategy also had provisions for retraining for "a new level of support that was more technically skilled maybe than the typical operator, but didn't require a degreed engineer"—a maintenance technician who could program robots and laser cutting machines. "That was an area that we really had to develop internally," says Mark.
The redeployment of its talent has opened up opportunity for UniCarriers to bring more manufacturing in-house. When the company started its automation journey, it was building forklift frames but outsourced the components for the masts—the vertical lifting mechanism on the front of the forklift.
"There were very large pieces of rail that have to be processed prior to welding, and we had previously had that work done on the outside by a supplier," says Mark.
The engineering team studied that process, and determined the company could cut costs and reduce inventory by doing the work in-house. They were right, and the company soon began looking for other ways to insource. The Marengo plant now assembles its internal-combustion forklift engines and transmissions in-house as well. (UniCarriers already owned the engine technology and purchased the transmission supplier a few years ago.)
Intel's Faith McCreary, left, and Irene Petrick.
"We made that investment and then we trained our employees to run those machines, and now we're making tight tolerance machine castings that go into transmissions for forklifts day in and day out," Mark says. The forklift business is very competitive, he adds.
Becoming more vertically integrated allows UniCarriers to control the cost, quality and delivery, and gain an edge on the competition.
The workforce is organically a part of that strategy and change, says Mark. "When we're looking to develop a new application or a new process, we always involve the shop-floor employees and supervisors early on because they're the experts," he says. "And we draw from their knowledge to understand how we can make the process better and learn where we might have problems today and how we can eliminate those troubles in the future."
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We lost actor and comedian, Robin Williams, way too soon. His movies and comedy continue to remind us how talented he was and how great he made everyone feel.
He had some wise words, too. If you take a look through some of the best Robin Williams quotes you'll notice his signature charm and humor in everything he says. If you need an inspirational push, you'll find it here. If you just want your day to feel a little brighter, he'll do just that.
Take a look at some of the best Robin Williams quotes and maybe your day will get that much better.
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it".
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world".
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone".
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"What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong".
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